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• Time Marches Forward by toomanyunfinishedfics

  Fandoms: Persona 5  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  24 Dec 2019

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji
  • Kurusu Akira/Sakamoto Ryuji
  • Amamiya Ren/Sakamoto Ryuji
  • Persona 5 Protagonist
  • Kurusu Akira
  • Sakamoto Ryuji
  • Morgana (Persona 5)
  • Takamaki Ann
  • Kitagawa Yusuke
  • Niijima Makoto
  • Sakura Futaba
  • Okumura Haru
  • Akechi Goro
  • Spoilers
  • New Game Plus
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Okay last time I made Akira suffer
  • so now it's time to give him the happy end he deserves
  • There's going to be brief appearances of other characters here and there
  • Probably not much though since I'm only capable of writing Akira and Ryuji
  • The story is going to hop skip and jump through the entire game
  • Update: Hey remember when I thought this was going to be just a few snippets
  • And remember when I said there was only going to be brief appearances from other characters
  • yeah me too
  • Underage Drinking
  • for one part in chapter 9 in case that bothers anyone
  • AnnShiho (background)
  • MakoHaru (background)
  • Yutaba (background)
  • AkeShu (one-sided)
  • Descriptions of past deaths
  • implied suicidal thoughts
  • (Both of those warnings are for chapter 16)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Anxiety
  • Why am I just adding these tags now
  • Akira's been an anxious mess throughout this whole fic lmao oops
  • For good reason though
  • And solitary confinement didn't exactly help whoops
  • not P5R compliant
  • Adding that tag now that the fic is officially complete
  • Just to avoid confusion before P5R comes out in the west lol

  Summary

  Just as it had one hundred times past, time keeps ticking towards the day that will determine whether or not Akira can finally break free of his fate. This time, however, Akira has a new symbol of hope by his side--with a smile that could outshine the sun and a heart that was big enough to take in all of Akira with room to spare. Perhaps this time, he would finally….
  (Sequel to Only A Matter Of Time)

  Series

  • Part 2 of New Game+

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  175,630

  Chapters:

  20/20

  Comments:

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