Okay I just want to get one thing straight, most x readers I've seen had Reader-chan get her persona (if they give her one) at the same time as Ren or in Kamoshida's palace. Now I get it, they are the protag in the fic and some of you guys want to have your powers soon.

But I feel like that moment for Ren is too special. And I already have planned for Reader-chan's awakening to happen after Kamoshida's palace, since there's already three awakenings in there. But here's something to get your hopes up. You will find out about the metaverse before the awakening, and I mean way before.

I also edited the last chapter a little bit with a line of dialog about Reader-chan's 'presence'.

With that said, please enjoy the chapter!

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(Y/n)'s POV

I open my eyes to find myself surrounded by people, all just passing by me. Some bump into me, turn their heads, and go back to walking. The look on their faces say that they don't see me, even if I'm right in front of them. I tilt my head up to see the sky and some tall buildings in a dull gray, even the people were dull in color.

Why is it that this is how I feel when I look at my life? Always just another face in the crowd that no one notices, heck I don't even have friends cause no one seems to see me.

Then a sudden feeling of being watched washed over me. I turn to see a bright light from the crowd, it's a ways away but something in me told me to head towards it. I start walking, not caring that I bumped into the dull people around me. As I move to the light it seems to never get closer, but I keep going. I started to run, a voice telling me to not give up, to keep going. As I keep going I notice that the dullness of the world around me grow in color, that alone made me want to run faster. Desperate to get to the light.

After what felt like hours, I seem to be getting closer to the light. The color keeps getting brighter, like life is being brought back to the world around me. I never noticed at first, but as I kept on getting closer, more and more people seem to look at me as I ran. It's like I'm not invisible anymore, like I can be myself and have people notice. I eventually seem to reach the light, I rest my hands on my knees from exhaustion that suddenly hit me. I lift my head up to see the world around me full of life and color. I look ahead to see nine figures in a clearing of the crowd. I couldn't see who they were because as soon as I saw them my eyes began to close, feeling myself fall to the ground.

"Ow!" I groan in pain as I sit up, I seemed to have fallen from my bed in my sleep. I grab my phone from my nearby nightstand to check the time. "Looks like I have enough time to get ready." I say as I stand up to do my morning routine. As I put my uniform on, I tried to remember the dream I had. All I could remember was the feeling of trying to reach for something in desperation.

"Morning Dad." I said as I walked to the kitchen, seeing my father on his phone at the counter. His eyes widened and he looked around until he saw me.

He relaxed once he knew it was me and replied. "Morning Sweetheart, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at school?"

"School doesn't start until an hour and a half." He raises an eyebrow.

"Then why haven't I seen you at this time in the morning before?" It was my turn to raise an eyebrow at him.

"What do you mean? I've always been here at this time, I've always said good morning to you." His expression soften and nodded before going back to his phone.

"I gotta go, bye Sweetie. " He walks towards me to kiss my forehead. "Take an umbrella on your way to school." He says before heading out the door. I sigh and decided to just have toast for breakfast and head to school early.

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I sigh as I hear fellow students whisper about the latest accident that was connected to the mental shutdowns while sitting on the train. The more I hear about these things the more I'm glad that I'm invisible, that way I won't be likely to victim to it. People haven't said anything, but it's obvious that something is making these things happen. They can't happen out of nowhere for no reason.

I suddenly tense up, the feeling of being watched has washed over. I look around to see the transfer student standing near the door of the train. He was looking at me, he tried his best to wave when he saw I was looking back at him. I try to relax and wave back, he ended up squeezing pass the stuffed area between us to stand in front of me.

"Morning (L/n)-chan." He greets, having a small smile on his face.

I smile back. "Morning Amamiya-kun." We ended up talking about random thing on while waiting for our stop, mostly him asking about the city and me answering them. Once we got to our stop we both got off and walked together to school. On the way I could feel some students looking at Amamiya-kun. It must be because he's holding his umbrella a bit higher than normal since I forgot to grab my umbrella from my seat, I was too focused on our conversation. "Sorry."

"No worries." We continued on walking, as we walked pass two girls walking I could hear them talking about this girl named Takamaki. I've heard rumors but I either never believed them or is not surprised if true. Like about her dating Kamoshida, what with how low our age of consent is I don't doubt it. We finally reached the school and walked to our separate shoe lockers. Then walking together to our classroom.

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I walk out of class giggling, remembering how one of my classmates got hit in the head by chalk that Ushimaru-sensei threw because they weren't paying attention in class. As I walked down the hall I could hear fellow students whisper, probably about Amamiya-kun. I keep walking until I accidentally bump into someone's back, I let out a quick apology then realized it was Amamiya-kun. He was standing in place, I looked from behind him to see that he was looking at Takamaki-san and Kamoshida-sensei talking. When the two walked off in different directions I decided to tap his arm.

"Hey Amamiya-kun." I say, "want to walk home together?" I don't know why, but I want to be around him more. It's probably because he's the first one to notice and walk up to me, to start a conversation with me. No one really has noticed talked to me unless I miraculously got their attention somehow.

"Sure." After changing back to our normal shoes we walked to the gate until someone walked up to us. It was Sakamoto.

"Yo." He says, Amamiya-kun stopped to look at him.

"What's up?"

"I wanna talk about that castle from yesterday." Sakamoto said. I raise an eyebrow, castle? His eyes move to meet mine, his expression changing to a confused one. "Who's she?"

"I'm (L/n) (Y/n), I'm in Amamiya-kun's class." I greeted. His confused expression stayed for a few seconds until he looked back at Amamiya-kun. "Anyway, you were talking about a castle?"

"Just forget it." He crosses his arms. "I'm gonna need to borrow him for today."

"Why? Surely I can come along, right?" This time both males look at me.

"Absolutely not." Sakamoto says.

"Huh?"

"It's complicated." Amamiya-kun explains. "Maybe we can walk tomorrow." I frown, but just agree anyway and walked away from the two. As I walked away from the two, I felt weird. Like what I was doing was the right thing to do, that I should just keep just walking past them. But then a thought crossed my mind.

'But then I would just go back to being invisible again. Forgotten in this rotten dull world.'

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"What are they doing?" I ask myself as I follow Sakamoto and Amamiya-kun. When I was walking to the station I noticed the two walking back to school, with my curiosity getting me and decided to see what they were up to. I was hiding in an alley way near by, I was able to hide there when they went to walk the same path they had walked more than two times.

"Is it smaller than we think it is?" Sakamoto asks, good thing everyone else left so I could hear them better. "What do you think?"

"Try checking your phone." Amamiya-kun answers.

"I already did that. I didn't see anything like it around here-" Sakamoto then suddenly stood up from where he was leaning against. "Huh? Phone." He then looks at Amamiya-kun. "Hey, that reminds me. Didn't you have a navigation app thingy on, back then?"

"Navigation app?" Amamiya-kun asks.

"I dunno if it was or not, but I heard stuff that sounded like one comin' from your phone." Sakamoto explains while kicking the ground a bit. "Y'know, didn't it sat stuff like "returned to the real world" or something like that?"

'A navigation app? "returned to the real world"? What is he talking about?' I thought as I processed the conversation I was listening.

"Lemme see your phone for a bit." Amamiya-kun took his phone out of his pocket then Sakamoto took it out as soon as he saw it. I tried not to giggle at how Amamiya-kun stayed frozen for a second. "What's this eyeball lookin' thing?"

"Cute logo, huh?" Amamiya-kun jokes, I smile a little at it.

"That's not how I'd describe it. What a weird app." Sakamoto then looks down at the phone. I couldn't see what he was doing on it from my view. "Oh wait, this is it!" He then shows the phone screen to Amamiya-kun. "I knew it! It is a navigation app! There's even your search history!"

"Oh man, I'm such a genius!" He praises himself. "Let's try usin' it."

"I dunno about this." Amamiya-kun says in a slight worried tone.

"Why? All we're doin' is startin' an app." I could hear the phone saying something and Sakamoto cheering before my head started to hurt. I looked to see the school changing, like warping, before it turned into a castle.

'What the hell!?'

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Finally! Okay so I have something to ask of you guys.

I already have the Persona made up, it's not really based on rebellion like the cannon characters' are. More on how Reader-chan is The Forbidden. And I first already had an idea on her thief design and name...

Until I found out Titania was already a persona.....fuck!

I was gonna call her that because of her design being bright and pastel, and her mask looking like a butterfly. Something to make her stand out, the opposite on how she used to be.

So I ask of you, can you guys please help me? I really need something that fits that, something to make Reader-chan pop out. Like something bright.

Maybe saying what inspired her persona would help? I looked up many different things and haven't found a persona based on these. Here's how I thought the lore thingy would go.

'A love child of a demon and an angel. She was something that was forbidden. Gaining power of both, she was sealed away in hopes of her to never awaken.'

I was mostly inspired by Bayonetta, my lovely BaeBay. So it would be huge help if you suggest some Phantom names, I'll do a redesign of her outfit based on the name.

I first thought of Keiko, but that's just a name.

Anyway, sorry for the long author notes at the end (and I guess beginning).

With that said,

SEEYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: I already have an idea! But thank you for those who suggested great ideas!

Also if some of your are wondering about the chapter title, yeah I didn't know what else to call it