LE MEURTIER; AN ASSASSIN'S TALE (AU)

[covenantal]

Yosuke gets a contract to assassinate Yu.

What happens?

An AU where Yosuke has a much darker secret than just resentment, and what happens as a result.

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INFORMATION + NOTES

[covenantal]

Just to have it all in one place. To be added to if we need it!

Ok so we already know it's canon that Yosuke's preferred weapon is knives, so he can stick with that. He moves to Inaba because his parents get transferred to manage the Junes there. What if there were an ulterior motive? What if his family has yakuza connections, or IS yakuza, and the store is just a front? Yosuke's been brought up in the family business same as in canon, but what if his parents fucked something up with their yakuza connections and got banished to the boonies as a result, and are on their last chance or Bad Shit happens? Plus, if they prove themselves worthy at their enterprise (maybe Junes is a front for money laundering) they get to move back to the city.

So Yosuke is under pressure not just as the Junes kid, but to help his family prove they're worthy of being welcomed back into the fold. Yakuza connections decide to test the family's willingness by giving Yosuke, young as he is, a job to do, to prove the whole family's ruthlessness...

Yu's parents never have a job stated in canon that I know of. So maybe they're Interpol, and the yakuza want their son done away with in order to scare them out of the law enforcement business. They know Yu is getting sent to Inaba for a while and decide to strike when he's most vulnerable.

Everything else is the same... but the year Yu is there also deals with Yosuke grappling with his orders. Things with his shadow would have to go differently, though, unless I rolled with Yu knowing Yosuke's family was yakuza... I could do that. The assassination order could come in AFTER that first shadow fight, so that truth isn't revealed to Yu... and then he, the son of Interpol agents, has to grapple with his best friend being from a criminal family, while Yosuke deals not only with Yu being a law enforcement kid, but Yosuke's assassination target.

So there's a current underneath proceedings the entire year as they all try to solve the serial murders (Yosuke's ulterior motive for helping is that all the press attention on Inaba could lead to autoroutes looking at his family's store too closely) and as things come to a head with the case, Yosuke faces more pressure from his parents to perform and has to make a choice...

if I make it shippy (WHICH I PROBABLY WILL) he also has to deal with developing feelings for his target and oh boy. This got fun.

The rest of the investigation team can get in on it too. Naoto figures Yosuke out and confronts him at some point. Teddie, living with the Hanamuras, realizes all is not right. Chie confides in Yukiko that as the year goes on Yosuke seems increasingly erratic, like something's really wrong...

WELP. This sure did happen to me.

FIRST DUNGEON: Teddie isn't present for the meeting of the Shadow and the subsequent fight, though may turn up for Yosuke's acceptance of the Shadow after the danger of his learning anything too destructive has passed?