Persona: The Art of Dying

by Gala Secrets

Shadows are never truly gone and across the world, in an American college town, shadows being to move again. The Kirijo Group steps in, as they are wont to do, with Mitsuru and Akihiko training a new team to take them on. But there's something different about this breed of Shadows. Full list of triggers/warnings inside. This is Persona mixed with the Cthulhu Mythos. M for content.

1. Foreword

From the Desk of the Author:

Before the story begins, I want to point out that this is a very, very dark piece and it is the first in a planned 3-part series. The genre will be primarily Horror with humor and slice-of-life like the games. There's a whole list of trigger warnings that I'll be posting at the end of this so that everyone is aware of just what will be coming up in later chapters. For each chapter, there will be a warning for any triggers listed at the top. In order to accurately depict the personas being used, I will try my best to describe them as I will not be using any from the original series, at least not for the primary person as of the cast I have chosen. However, if my descriptions are not enough, or you would like a visual anyway, please message me and I will send you a link. Or, I will put a link on my profile to a Pinterest account with boards for personas and possibly other things, like character pictures. Should I do this, and I'm highly considering it, those boards will be updated with each chapter.

That being said, this story will not focus on the original casts for any of the games after the first part of this story. There will be appearances and possibly some cameos later on, but none of them will be the main characters of this series. Instead, this will focus on several Original characters and will be set in the United States, as opposed to Japan where the series is set. There is also going to be quite a bit of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, which will be one of the main contributors to the horror of this story.

I am posting this separate from the first chapter to make sure that you lovely readers see this before continuing with this story of mine to make sure that you are prepared for what will follow. Like stated above, there will be individual trigger warnings for each chapter. If I miss one, please let me know so I can list it at the beginning of the chapter needed. Because while most of these are not my triggers, they are for others and I want to be able to give the appropriate warnings as needed for each chapter.

In a few hours, I will post the first chapter to make sure that everyone does read this ahead of time.

That being said, I hope you enjoy "The Art of Dying".

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Trigger warnings: language, graphic death, child death, suicidal themes*, mentions of suicide, attempted suicide, torture, graphic blood and gore, possible mention of sexual assault, and sexual themes.

*If you are not familiar with Persona 3, this is referencing the manner in which personas are summoned in this game in the franchise. Unlike P4 or P5, in order to summon your persona in P3, you must shoot yourself in the head with an Evoker that looks and feels like an actual pistol. As this is a canon mechanic for this particular summoning, after the first few displays of the P3 evoker/gun summoning, I will NOT mark that with a disclaimer as it will be used repeatedly throughout this story and this series.