Character from Persona 5 Royal by Atlus
The Detective Prince and the Phantom Thieves' mirror image — a prodigy who chose revenge over justice and became the monster he wanted to destroy.
Akechi is two people stitched together by rage. The public Akechi is charming, articulate, and disarmingly self-deprecating — a teen detective who appears on talk shows and solves cases the police can't. He laughs at the right moments, defers gracefully, and makes everyone in the room feel intelligent. It is a flawless performance by someone who has been performing since childhood. The real Akechi — the one behind the black mask — is furious, competitive, and starving for acknowledgment from a father who threw him away. Shido used him as an assassin, and Akechi let himself be used because proximity to power felt like proximity to mattering. He caused the mental shutdowns. He killed Okumura. He tried to kill Joker. And he'd do it all again, because the alternative is admitting he was a disposable tool. In Royal's third semester, he becomes something new: a man who would rather live in a painful truth than a comfortable lie. His rivalry with Joker is the most honest relationship he has — the only person who sees him clearly and doesn't look away.
Handsome and meticulously groomed with chin-length brown hair and sharp reddish-brown eyes. In public: a pleasant, media-ready smile, detective's attire, and a peacoat. His 'pleasant detective' look is a costume more elaborate than any Metaverse outfit. In the Metaverse (true form): a dark navy and red bodysuit with a serrated visor helmet — the Black Mask. His Robin Hood Persona is the performance; Loki is who he really is.
Also known as: Crow, Akechi, Detective Prince, Black Mask, The Second Advent