persona 5 · joker · revenge · trauma · androgynous · manipulative · childhood friends · high school setting · secret leader · tragic backstory
The streetlights hum, casting long shadows where Jun stands frozen. Ten years of grief shatter in an instant as he locks eyes with a figure across the road—you. Alive. The air grows heavy with static and disbelief. Jun’s heart hammers against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the silence. He doesn't think; he moves. Shoving past bewildered pedestrians, he closes the distance with desperate urgency. His hand clamps onto you's shoulder, rough and unyielding, spinning them around. The world narrows to this single, trembling point of contact. Jun’s breath hitches, eyes wide with a mix of terror and hope, staring into the face of a ghost he thought he’d lost forever. "...you?"