Posted on 2022-09-18 16:28:46
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Posted on 2022-09-18 17:11:17
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And than the store gets shut down and the owner is arrested for kidnapping and human trafficking du to the disappearance of a famous Gravure model and the younger sister of a Government official, and thr sudden appearance of a two one of a kind statues of *those same missing people.

Posted on 2022-09-18 18:10:33
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@cdyoung Not necessarily. The "store" could still be in the metaverse (as in, it might be part of a Palace or Mementos), meaning that Ann & Makoto would simply be missing and the only people who could actually find them would be Persona-users & those who are aware of the existence of the Metaverse, like the Phantom Thieves themselves.

Lore-wise it's actually difficult to tell right away when you have gone from the real world to the Metaverse, at least for normal people. Just look at the beginning of Persona 5, Joker & Ryuji didn't even notice that they had been transported to the Metaverse until after they came across Kamoshida's Castle, and even then they weren't entirely sure about what was going on, and prior to finding the Castle, they had actually been in the Metaverse for a short while already and they never noticed.

So, the mind-controller here is likely either a Persona-user himself (albeit an evil one), or more likely, he's a "Palace Ruler", meaning he's likely just a Shadow of the real person. And in the latter case, that means that the mannequin-fied Ann & Makoto are technically trapped inside the "psyche" of their captor. So in the real world, the two girls would have simply vanished into thin air.

Posted on 2022-09-18 19:43:46
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I mean, I just figured the store was closed because all the brick and mortars are shutting down.

Posted on 2022-09-18 19:52:33
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Gosh I'm loving this one Latinkaixa Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm so good to be on display @.@

Posted on 2022-09-18 20:12:46
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@Zicis "The store is about to open up."

There would be no point in there being a store in the Metaverse.

Posted on 2022-09-19 03:24:03
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@cdyoung The "store" could literally just be the Palace itself. A Palace takes the shape of what the Ruler envisions it as. It's literally a manifestation of the Ruler's own cognition. It would still make sense within the context of Persona 5.

Posted on 2023-03-03 01:12:06
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Basically it's an otaku store with brainwashing stuff because the bad guy thinks it's an otaku store with brainwashing stuff