TRAIT
CW: Self-Harm, Manipulated Self-Harm, Wild Animal Death, Teeth/Mouth Trauma, Accidental Cannibalism
AU where Persona users have animal features.
Traits, consisting of ears, tail, teeth, and wings, come in the night of an awakening, and is a general pain in the ass. Bloody, teeth rapidly falling out and coming back in just as fast, headaches, the whole misery. They also come with instincts, toned down and easily suppressable... except for Teddie (though how much of that was the Traits and how much of it was Just Teddie Literally Being A Bear is debatable). Most notably, if an animal is a carnivore, the Persona User craves raw meat.
They often hunt at night for wild animals since it's cheaper than constantly buying meat from Junes, and they can't risk getting caught shoplifting. Teddie gave tips on how to hunt, despite never needing or being capable to do so himself. Since he was out of the TV World before Naoto's awakening, he was able to go along with her and show a more in-depth tutorial on hunting. Teddie does not start with the traits, despite the others thinking he would have.
YU NARUKAMI
TRAITS: Light gray cat ears & tail, sharp teeth
Worried over Nanako and Dojima finding out about his eating of small animals, though currently Nanako just finds everyone's animal features really adorable. He can see in the dark, and his tail'll fluff up when angry + he hisses. And purrs. Yosuke freaked out the first time Yu started purring while hanging out with him.
YOSUKE HANAMURA
TRAITS: Light brown floppy dog ears and tail, sharp teeth
Hates his ears but at least he can hide them in his hair. His tail not so much. Yosuke's tail wags when he's happy or excited, and it is the BANE of his existence. Growls if annoyed, barks at squirrels. Has tried hosing down Teddie numerous times as the bear hoards "snacks" (dead animals) in his suit and he smells so bad as a result. "Saki-senpai would never love someone like me."
CHIE SATONAKA
TRAITS: Light brown kangaroo ears and tail
No more meat... sad... she has tried and gotten sick over it. Often threatens to kick others with "kangaroo strength" which isn't a empty threat. Despite only having the ears and tail of a kangaroo, her kicks are way more powerful.
YUKIKO AMAGI
TRAITS: Light black small bird wings and tail, still has teeth
Yukiko's wings only function in the TV World. They stay small no matter if she's using them or not. Due to this, she's a very poor flier, though tries to get practice in when she can.
KANJI TATSUMI
TRAITS: Light blonde wolf ears and tail, sharp teeth
Home pierced his ears and tail as soon as he could. While he knows how to hunt, he probably does so the least out of the IT, prefering instead to buy meat from Junes when he can or recieve other's hunted animals - he can't really bring himself to hunt cute animals.
RISE KUJIKAWA
TRAITS: Light brown lop rabbit ears and tail, buck teeth
Rise's ears perk/hover upwards when using her Persona. She also wears her hair in a simple ponytail and tends to drape her ears over her shoulders.
TEDDIE HANAMURA
TRAITS: Blue bear ears and tail, sharp teeth. Bearsuit is obviously unaffected by the traits (other than it having sharp teeth).
Due to Teddie's fabricated body and the fact he's really a Shadow, the traits kind of severly fuck him up - causing him to go into a animalistic feral state where he ended up eating Morooka. The guilt haunts him for the rest of the game (as well as during the events of Q), though he's gotten through it (aka he's suppressing it like the truth that he's a Shadow) for Arena and DAN. The guilt caused him to go feral again around Naoto's joining, clawing up his throat, causing it to be bandaged up. Others don't really question the blood since they don't know that's what it is (it's blue, after all). Also, his bearsuit's zipper leaks (red) blood. Oddly, Teddie is strictly a carnivore - Naoto believes it's due to the Morooka incident.
NAOTO SHIROGANE
TRAITS: Dark blue fox ears, light blue tail with darker blue band and light tip
Naoto's ears are pinned down by her hat, but they are still visible.
TOHRU ADACHI
TRAITS: Light black weasel ears and tail
Cut off his traits to not raise suspicion (though apparently no one cares considering the IT are running around just fine), also manipulated Namatame to do the same once he realized that Namatame had the traits as well, and he didn't want any connection to him so there wouldn't be a risk of Namatame being caught. Claimed to have had a bad head injury when he took off time to recover from the trait-related injuries - they come back when he's possessed.
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FULL MOON TEDDIE
CW: Body/Facial Horror, Accidental Murder
Rather than Shadows becoming aggressive when the fog lifts, they become aggressive on a Full Moon. Due to Teddie being affected by this, he knows he’s a Shadow from the start, but still has his identity issues due to wanting to know how and why he was able to make himself so different from a typical Shadow, and later, why he was able to leave the TV when he doesn't have a Persona.
Teddie ends up killing anyone who comes into the TV World on a Full Moon after they’re trapped by their Shadow, as his want to remove anyone who is tossed in is twisted in his feral form, causing him to attack. He’s able to suppress the aggression though he has a harder and harder time doing so as the Full Moon approaches, causing him to be snappy and impatient with the group, and depending on how close it is to the deadline, he makes violent threats against them.
He refuses to let them enter at all on a Full Moon, whether it be during day or night, as he can’t suppress his violent urges, and is worried that he’d kill anyone who comes in.
Teddie decides to create a human body in order to blend in, and to try and leave the TV World behind, thinking it could potentially be a way to stop him from being affected by the Full Moon (he's capable of doing so because the rules regarding Shadows is a little different here, of course - Teddie being able to develop his human self is a extent of his already existent ability to make himself different from other Shadows. Him being able to leave the TV World after getting a human body is due to simply being so far from what a Shadow is that he isn't bound by their rules regarding leaving and entering the TV World).
Unfortunately, it failed, and he’s still affected. Luckily, he managed to leave Yosuke’s house before he was fully gone (Yosuke still took him in despite Teddie’s repeated attempts to stop him), though he ended up killing a security guard who caught him trespassing in Junes (as he was trying to go back to the TV World in order to prevent himself from attacking people).
He also killed Mayumi and Saki, and is very guilt ridden about it, but the others promise that they don’t hold it against him, and whoever threw them in the TV will be found and will answer for the crimes and using him as a tool for murder.
Rather than getting a Persona from defeating his Shadow, it fused with him, though it wasn’t apparent or noticeable until the first Full Moon after he created his human body, which he made prior to the deadline to rescue Rise. Here, his human body and bearsuit fused together, giving him a permanent mash-up of the two. Due to his bearsuit also being fused with his Shadow, his eyes are missing, and he has a big hole in his face, though he usually has the hole bandaged up.
His body is hollow, with a zipper on the neck, meaning his head is easily popped off without much issue. He’s also filled to the chest with a thick, black sludge, essentially the material Shadows are made out of. Despite being fused with his Shadow, it has no bearing (haha) on his ability to enter and exit the TV World.
Due to being fused with his Shadow instead of gaining a Persona from him, Teddie gains his Shadow’s moveset, capable of doing things like Nihil Hand. This also causes him to have spirals of Nihilism, but he tends to keep himself alone until it passes.
It doesn't take long for him to fall into belief that he is truly irredeemable.
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BEAR TRIPLETS
CW: Ursine Is Still Very Nihilistic And Cub Is At Large Risk Of Actually Killing Someone
Very silly AU where Shadow Teddie and General Teddie become their own people, named Ursine (She/Her) and Cub (Any). AU lore can be found on their Toyhouse page, which is linked under "Doodles."
Small note, since Teddie lacks a Persona here, his eyes lack pupils.
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PSYCHIC AU
CW: None
Somewhat inspired by Psychonauts, in the sense that the IT + Adachi are psychic with the powers you learn in PN and it takes place at a summer camp (not a psychic summer camp. just a summer camp).
The IT all attend a summer camp that’s being hosted by the school. Morooka is a counselor as is Adachi. Mayumi died prior to this camp starting and that’s why Adachi is there (instead of the camp just being canceled). Several Social Links are here too since it's for all three years, so Naoki, Kou, Daisuke, and Ai are all wandering about the woods. Saki is there too but she ends up dying not long into the camp. Adachi manages to somehow convince Morooka to not cancel the camp (they end up burying Saki somewhere in the woods), and Morooka probably doesn’t die since Mitsuo isn’t here at the camp. I can't tell if that's worse or better than him dying.
The IT are psychic, the camp itself isn't, the IT are just all conveniently psychic. Some of them knew from a young age and hid it, others found out not long before camp started. Adachi is also psychic, he most likely used telekinesis or something to murder Mayumi and Saki so there’d be no trace of him killing them (he didn’t use his confusion power because he wasn't aware of it until after Saki’s death). Yu has a PSI-Door (don’t know who he stole that off of, maybe Adachi dropped it and Yu didn’t know it was his so kept it?) and uses it to reverse Adachi’s confusion bombs on the campers.
The Mental Worlds = The TV Dungeons, the hub world/general TV World is the Collective Unconscious, but it looks a bit different than it does in game (it's not like a brain and a bunch of doors its like a platform with a bunch of different pathways leading from it). Yu and Yosuke encounter the CU during a strange dream/accidental projecting into it and meet Teddie. Teddie just kind of “guards” the CU, looking pretty much like he does in canon (side note, everyone looks like they do in canon, just instead of wearing Yasogami uniforms they wear camp shirts and shorts. When Teddie comes to the real world they steal spare clothes for him). Teddie doesn’t need a PSI-Portal to enter people's minds, he can just Do That, and it kind of scares the others. I don’t know what all he can do besides that and a few other things, but I think it would be funny if he was just “new power as the plot demands” because he got laser-beamed in the head with psitanium/silly (as well as being an actual resident of the mind).
Not long after meeting Teddie, Saki is suddenly killed, and after a small funeral service, the camp goes on. Rather than the IT being kidnapped and thrown into a TV, they are put into a state that nears unconsciousness (though they're still there enough to give consent to mind-entering), and can only be snapped out of this by a person entering their mind and resolving the conflict or whatever. It's something Adachi can do (it’s some sort of PSI-Power he has, perhaps a personally altered dangerous version of the confusion power?), and if they're not snapped out of it before a certain point, they just fall completely unconscious and can’t be woken up.
Chie initially stays by Yukiko's side when it occurs to her, but she overhears Yosuke and Yu talk about the PSI Portal and asks to come with them once they get Yukiko's permission. This is when Chie meets Teddie. After Yukiko it’s Kanji, then Rise, Teddie somehow comes to the real world, then Naoto. Since Teddie has the ability to enter minds without the need of a PSI Portal, he just realizes it works both ways and uses it to dip out of the CU. He’s also gained a human body, as well as clothes. He doesn’t initially have access to many PSI Powers until he wanders off day one of being in the human world and encounters a Bit Too Much Psitanium. Whoops!
There are a few things Teddie’s capable of doing prior to this incident – such as teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis, and mind reading. The rest of the powers are unlocked by the psitanium. Despite Junes not being a Thing here (I mean within the plot, it obviously still exists) Yosuke still basically takes Teddie in, letting him stay in the empty bunk above his own in his cabin and being the one who supervises him the most. Naoto is still suspicious of them, since everyone who was snapped out of their confusion induced state becomes a part of Yu’s friend group, but quickly figures its not them because it doesn’t makes sense (though she’s still quite confused on where the hell Teddie came from)
Teddie is a censor that became his own person and managed to leave the original mind he came from, and started hanging around the CU (especially since becoming his own person meant the censors from said mind kicked him out). He has his identity crises, but figures out who and what he is over the course of the game.
Dojima comes to visit around the end of the camp (he is not aware of what's happening because of Adachi intentionally making it so), where he and Nanako come to do some camp activities with Yu and his friends. Adachi uh. well. Because Nanako is so young, Yu and Teddie cannot enter her mind and therefore reverse the confusion effect that Adachi put on her, and so she falls into a coma-state. Camp is going great [thumbs up emoji] one teenager died and we all witnessed a six year old go into a coma.
When the IT finds out it was Adachi who kept confusion bombing people (because he was bored with the camp), they nearly kill him. They all nearly just use their PSI Powers on him and are only stopped because they can't risk getting in trouble for killing him. Besides, he needs to be alive so he can pay for what he did to Nanako, Saki, and Mayumi. Teddie has his breakdown alone with Nanako, which manages to remove the confusion effect on her (censors the damn confusion bomb like fuck you/silly).
Since he was originally a censor and is now no longer welcomed in his original mind (he doesn’t even remember who that was), Teddie isn't welcome in any mind. No matter where he goes, unless it's the real world or the CU, the censors will attempt to kick him out.
Yu most likely used his PSI to pass the time when his parents were out late, Yosuke tends to use telekinesis for work. Chie doesn’t really use hers much as she’s more focused on physical stuff. Yukiko once used pyrokinesis for cooking and nearly caught the kitchen on fire. Kanji raises plants as well as his sewing and drawing habits because of his herbaphony allowing him to connect to them on a deeper level than most people. Rise’s powers aren't really useful in the idol business but it's great to keep in touch with the others. Teddie can use his to communicate with the IT before he leaves the CU, which was... a jumpscare the first time he did it. Naoto’s marksmanship = firearm, she tries to not rely too heavily on her PSI during investigations, but it does help out
NOTE: Everyone has PSI-Punch/Astral Projection/Shield
YU NARUKAMI
YOSUKE HANAMURA
CHIE SATONAKA
YUKIKO AMAGI
KANJI TATSUMI
RISE KUJIKAWA
TEDDIE HANAMURA
NAOTO SHIROGANE
TOHRU ADACHI
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CHIMERA KEN AU
CW: Child/Animal Harm, the Chimera appearance in question is similar to Tucker’s Chimera from FMA
On October 4, Ken brings Shinjiro alone to confront him, and everything goes the same as canon up until Shinjiro shields Ken from getting shot. Rather than dying after S.E.E.S. arrives, they take longer to get there, and so Shinjiro is dead by the time they do. Anyway, Shinjiro dies atop Ken as his blood smears onto the kid’s hands. Takaya then kicks Shinjiro’s corpse off Ken and shoots him, in a spot that wouldn’t be instantly fatal but still pretty bad. Then S.E.E.S. shows up, so Takaya leaves. They realize Shinjiro’s dead, Ken’s been shot and is bleeding out, and that if they don’t do something now he will also die.
Maybe fucked up Dark Hour abilities, maybe it’s something Aigis can do for whatever reason, (likely going to a result of the chairman if I can think of a good reason why he'd cause this) but Ken and Koromaru end up fused together into a human/dog chimera. Since they’re both about the same size (especially in Reload), they end up a 50/50 of each other.
It’s mainly Ken, he can speak (with a somewhat distorted voice) and walk around on two legs, but he has balance issues and therefore prefers walking on all fours. They also have hands and can still grab things, and bark at squirrels and when annoyed. It appears that they lack a evoker collar, but it wasn't removed prior to fusion, and such, it's internally fused to them and it's so uncomfortable. They also have a bullet wound on their left shoulder area.
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REAPER TEDDIE AU
CW: None
Rather than being a Resident Of The TV World, Teddie is one of the many Grim Reapers spread around the world. Specifically, he's a five year old Reaper employeed to Inaba. Initally only being referred to as "Reaper," Yosuke quickly names him Teddie when the two get into a conversation with Nanako. Liking the name, Teddie starts going by it in general, and stops wearing his red cloak all the time, instead wearing overalls. He dons the name Reaper and the cloak again when reaping.
Teddie is usually invisible to everyone, but Persona users can bypass this, as discovered when Yosuke started talking to him when they were on their way to rescue Yukiko. After Teddie confronted him, he began living at the house, later making himself visible to everyone when Yosuke tells his parents about Teddie, despite the fact that Reapers aren't supposed to do that... or bond with humans.
Teddie can sense when someone is going to be reaped soon, even if it's via the TV World (this makes him feel more ill than a regular reap), but of course can't do anything about it but reap the person when their time comes. The only reason he could tell the others about future TV World victims is because that is another world - Reaper laws don't really apply there. He could sense Nanako's future fate, but kept ignoring it because she's so young - surely he has to be sensing it wrong.
Of course, he wasn't, and has to reap Nanako while she's in the hospital, informing Dojima about it and the fact he's a Reaper before doing so. Afterwards, he decides to try something that is not allowed for Reapers - reviving a person. Nanako's back, but she's less peppy and cheery, she knows she died (due to her young age she doesn't quite realize what happened though), and she can see Teddie whether or not he wants her too. Dojima also recalls that he saw Teddie the night his wife died.
Teddie was also affected by Nanako's revival - namely, he's missing his eyes. He can still see, yes, but people don't want to look him in the face anymore, so he is paying his price. The Investigation Team and Nanako don't seem to mind much, though he'll likely have to tell his parents the truth because there's really no other way to give a explaination for what happened.
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GHOST NAOTO SUB AU (REAPER TEDDIE)
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The deadline for Naoto comes and goes, and the Investigation Team fails to save her. Teddie refuses to reap her as well, so her ghost begins to haunt the party, but most commonly Teddie since he's the only one who can see her. He's heavily suppressing how distraught he is despite not really getting to know Naoto that well until after her death, and keeps stealing her hat to wear. The others do not know they are being haunted or that Naoto was never reaped.
The longer Naoto goes without being reaped, the more fucked up her ghost becomes, becoming foggy, loosing her legs, etc. The worst of it so far is her eyes vanishing and constantly pouring pitch black sludge, which can make contact with Teddie, but nothing else. Naoto also starts acting not like herself, and is begging Teddie to just let go and reap her. Teddie still won't.
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INDIGO PARK AU
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YU NARUKAMI
The player character. Looks the same as in canon, just in his casual wear. Came to the abandoned park on a school dare.
YOSUKE HANAMURA
Mollie Macaw. A light brown dog mascot with a orange neckerchief. Often portrayed as Teddie's brother despite their different species. The mascot of a large, maze-like play area. Beheaded.
YUKIKO AMAGI
Finnley. A black bird with a bright red headband. Portrayed as shy and nervous. The mascot of a forest themed learning center.
TEDDIE HANAMURA
Rambley. Looks the same as he does in canon, just a bit more cartoony and less like a mascot costume. He still has the zipper on his neck, for whatever reason. Will not shut up and 100% infodumps about his friends to Yu constantly. Views Yosuke as his brother, Yukiko as his friend, and isn't trustful of Naoto. Mascot of the whole park.
NAOTO SHIROGANE
Lloyd. Portrayed as more closed off. Mascot of a small detective-corner.
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