May 2021
Shadow Haru for all your character development needs. She’s a porcelain doll (like the kind from old music boxes). I really wish they had gone more into how some characters were in codependent relationships with the palaces that were destroyed.
(Like a shadow version of Ann going on about how she’s being a martyr or a prisoner while everyone in the palace was treating her like a princess. Or a shadow version of Yusuke acting as a museum curator and defending Madarame.)
In this UA, Shadow!Haru would be very stiff and helpless. Her lines would resemble a pull-string doll, repeating the same few obedient fraises over and over again regardless of context.
It’s all based off an idea I had of the metaverse being the main setting, while the ‘real’ world is used to show the consequences of the main cast’s actions.
I really like the idea of the “Phantom Thieves” being the fully realized personas after the Shadow has had enough of being trapped within the palace. Being a Phantom Thief would be more about running amok in the metaverse instead of staying in the assigned rolls that would benefit their 'real’ selves. There would also be a huge emphasis about how it was forbidden for them to do anything that could impact the real world, especially if their 'real’ selves weren’t ready to act on these impulses themselves.
The masks and the code names would matter since they’d have to hid who their 'real’ self was in order to avoid consequences of interacting with people they “shouldn’t know”. Ryugi knowing who Ann and the Protag are irl and accidently slipping would be a running gag.
The music notes in the background were my attempt at including “Pursuing My True Self”
