Mementos

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Introduction

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*Note: I may add more and/or edit this post later, along with updating the image I put together above or changing it entirely.
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Welcome to my second island’s journal! I’m hoping to keep track of my progress decorating this island in my journal, and post my designs and other projects in it as well. My goal is to decorate this island like some locations in Persona 5 Royal. On my main island, I did some HHP designs based on Persona 5, but I never considered designing my island entirely on the game until I came across this dream address.

About my Island: I picked southern hemisphere since my other island is in the northern hemisphere and I wanted to have an island that was experiencing a different season.

About the Island Rep: Instead of naming my rep after my username/gaming name or Persona 5’s protagonist’s manga or anime name, I went with one of the names I sometimes pick for him. Morgana called him Frizzy Hair a few times in the beginning, so I always thought it was funny to have his name be just that.

Spoiler: Persona 5 Dialogue

Ideas and Plans
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I don’t really have any clear ideas yet; I know I want my island look as good as the dream address that I found, but have my own touch to it. I was considering making everything in Memento’s (as in the area Persona 5) colors (red and black) and designing some areas like the palaces, but seeing how much room the castle set took up in my Unreal Estate entry, I think this idea probably wouldn’t work well. I might consider a looser interpretation of the locations in the game too. One thing I’d like to have room to add some places that Akechi hung out with Joker at like Penguin Sniper and Jazz Jin. Also, I’d like something to represent Maruki and/or his palace; I’m considering making him eventually as another resident on my island.

Rules
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When I first started thinking about having a second island, I thought it might be fun to try to set some rules for myself to play this island a little differently from how I play my main island. Here are my ideas right now (in no particular order):

• No or little time traveling after the tutorial. If TTing is allowed, allow only a day forward or back at a time).​
  • It’s okay to TT a few hours backward if I didn’t get time to play until night (since I want to have some daytime screenshots and not just at night).​
• No donations of bells from my main island.​
• No trading for portraits; all portraits owned have to be earned. I can give extra pictures that I’ve earned to my main island though.​
• No trading for flowers.​
• No using amiibo cards to invite villagers except Sanrio villagers.​
• Limit how many NMTs I use each time I go island hopping for a villager. Maybe limit it to 10 tickets max?​

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Table of Contents
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*Note: More categories might be added later; the Persona 5 Map (credit to: splattermon on deviantArt for putting it together) is a placeholder image. All categories and sub-categories are subject to change.​

• Introduction​
  • Map Development​
  • Let’s Skip This Tutorial​
    • Day 1: Welcome to Your New Island!​
    • Days 2-3: Ultra Broke Island Life - Let the Grind for Bells Begin!​
    • Day 4: A Pact is Made​
    • Day 5: Happy Halloween!​
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  • Wanted: Phantom Thieves & Allies​
    • Island Hopping​
      • FrizzyHair’s First Island Hopping Adventure: 10/31/24​
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    • Campsite Visitors​
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• Confidants​
  • Current Villagers​
  • Former Villagers​
  • Residents​
• Locations​
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• Daily Life​
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• Designs​
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Mementos Map Development
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Original Map (Selected October 24, 2024)

The tents for FrizzyHair, Drift and Cherry have been placed.

 

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Let’s Skip This Tutorial
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I was initially not going to take any tutorial screenshots since everyone knows the tutorial by now and the dialogue scenes with Tom Nook, but since I know that I’ll regret not taking any to show the beginning stages of this island and also the tutorial gives some good screenshot opportunities, I’ve decided that I will to post some that I take throughout the tutorial.

*Note: I haven’t been able to play at all with the Halloween event going on, so, except for day 1, when I write day 2+, it will refer not to how many days since I created my island, but instead, the days of playing, at least until I think of a better way to organize these posts.

Day 1: Welcome to Your New Island!​

October 24

After a couple days of resetting, I finally was satisfied with at least one of my starters. I was hoping to get Frobert again as a starter since I had him on the island on my old switch lite, but I was just as happy about meeting Drift since he is another frog that I’ve been interested in for a long time. I was not happy about Cherry though; I don’t care much for her design.

This line here always makes me pause because his idea of comfort and safety does not apparently match my idea or rather, FrizzyHair’s idea.

But the game sure makes it look like our character is happy about the tent in the end lol.

When I talked to her, I felt like I could grow to like her more. Her catchphrase though…I need to change it because I hate it lol.

Drift’s catchphrase on the other hand is really cute.

I wonder what he’d do if he got all lazy villagers and no human for his deserted island package. Shifty raccoon…

Since I’ll be designing areas based on various locations in P5R, I picked Mementos for its name rather than naming it Yongen-jaya (a residential district in the game where the protagonist lives for the duration of the game) or Shibuya.

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Let’s Skip This Tutorial

Days 2-3: Ultra Broke Island Life - Let the Grind for Bells Begin!
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October 27

It’s time for us both to get to the grind, Drift since Mom forgot to remind me to bring some Bells or what Bells even are since the dialogue choices that I got when talking to Tom seemed to imply that I didn’t know what Bells were .

It was raining so I was able to catch plenty of snails. I donated one to Tom, to give to Blathers and the rest I sold.

I talked to Cherry once before I resumed the Nook Mile grind.

Thanks, Cherry! How about changing that catchphrase of yours?

I did some evening fishing and was able to donate the last samples that Tom needed for Blathers.

I picked a random spot for Blathers’ tent for now; I’ll move it later when I flatten the island.

On my way to Tom’s tent, after getting the last Nook Miles that I needed by chopping wood, I encountered my first tarantula. It caught me completely by surprise; I didn’t see it at all.

I was hoping to find the tarantula on my way back to the tent again so I could catch it, but it was gone.

After paying off the Nook Miles, I asked for the upgrade into a house since I wanted to have storage space as soon as possible.

October 28

Originally I was thinking of not worrying about completing the museum for my second island since I still have to complete it on my main island, but I think I’ll give it more thought as I continue playing.

I got my tent upgraded to a house. I’m really happy that I got some storage space now. I’m hoping to get this loan paid off soon so I can have a bit more. The tree in front of my house is bothering me a little but I don’t have the diys for the standard tools. I’m probably just going to leave it there since I’ll be moving my house eventually anyways.

I was asked to gather materials for the shop on this day, so I spent most of the time that I played gathering materials.

Hi Drift! Drift is so adorable running up to me beaming like this .

Thanks for the iron nuggets! After Drift gave me the nuggets, I chopped wood until I got a stack of each type.

All I need now are the remaining iron nuggets.

I went fishing for a little bit and I found a visitor on the beach.

Hi Gulliver! I’m FrizzyHair.

You just said I had a big head, so, I don’t know…

I was actually considering not talking to him since this week and last week I kept trying to get his furniture on my main island. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t sick of digging up his communicator parts or diving for it lol.

I decided to help him and pretend to forget his comment about the size of my head.

I’m hoping that he gives me a piece of furniture and not clothing since both he and Gullivarr have been giving me mostly clothing on my main island.

 

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Let’s Skip This Tutorial

Day 4: A Pact is Made
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The first thing that I did when I got into the game was check my mail. Gulliver sent me a hat. I must be cursed to get anything but furniture from him lol.

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In today’s announcement, Tom mentioned that the Nooklings were selling candy.

Where is the candy?

Not much happened today. I hit rocks for more iron nuggets; I’m short by about four, I think. I’ll wait until tomorrow to get them.

I decided to pay Drift a visit in his upgraded house.

Note to self to bring a cushion to sit on next time (if we could use them inside villagers’ homes that is) lol. I wish that as you progress through the game, that their house interior changed with it (naturally I mean and not through HHP or gifting them items).

I love how proud he looks; so cute .

I wonder if there is a story behind that . I never heard of anyone ripping a hole in their home while doing jumping jacks lol, Animal Crossing or not.

I stopped by Cherry’s house too and paid her a visit.

Hi Cherry! That catchphrase really needs to go.

The wallpaper doesn’t go with her aesthetic at all. I didn’t tell her that of course . If I decide to keep her or maybe even if I don’t plan on keeping her, I’ll definitely have to redesign her home (and Drift’s too) though I’ll have to use my main island to brainstorm ideas and then send the items that I’ll need for my catalogue.

I had my main island’s rep come over and drop over some items and thus, a pact has been made since I’ll be dropping off items and picking up extra materials or other things for myself from time-to-time that I may need or for my tbt store.

I like coming up with funny outfits for my main island’s rep lol.

I think the Hermit tarot represents me the best of all the major arcana, at least from what I read and understand (I’m not knowledgable about tarot cards at all, though I do have a book that I have a read a bit from), which is why I chose it over the other arcanas. You can read up on the major arcanas’ meanings here.

In Persona 5, each arcana was “represented” by only one character. For the purpose of my journal only, I’ll kinda have two confidants of the hermit arcana since I have plans of having villagers represent some of the confidants, mostly the members of the Phantom Thieves. Then again, my other island rep doesn’t live on this island so technically I’ll only have one.

I updated my passport photo after the visit. FrizzyHair now has frizzy hair lol.

I’ll redo this again as I get more filters and unlock more things.

After my main island rep left, I joined Drift on the bench by Tom’s tent. I had turned off the game for a bit after the visit and when I came back in the game, both Drift and Cherry had left their houses and were outside. Thanks for the cute photo, Drift .

I donated a few things to Blathers including two butterflies. Blathers is so cute ; I have a phobia of bugs so he definitely has my sympathy . I just need to donate one more thing and then his tent will be upgraded to a building.

 

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Let’s Skip This Tutorial

Day 5: Happy Halloween!
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Wanted: Phantom Thieves & Allies
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*Note: I may update or change both of the pictures here.

I put this together as a way to try to plan out the villagers that I have on my island—temporary and permanent. I’m not sure what villagers yet to put for the Judgment, Hierophant arcana and Moon; for the Consultant, I’m considering making Maruki as a resident and also maybe Iwai, though I’ve put a couple villagers for the Hanged Man arcana that I thought could represent him in the event I go for a temporary representation of him.

Vesta represents no particular arcana though she could represent maybe The World. I picked her because her face makes me think of shadows in the game and I think she’d fit well with the theme. I was thinking that Frita could represent the Big Bang Burger mascot; she would not represent any arcana either.

I’m in no hurry to get the villagers in the first image. Ideally, I’d want them when I’m closer to finishing my island since I want to cycle through villagers. The villagers in the first two rows have a higher priority since they’ll be representing the characters that were either in the Phantom Thieves or working directly alongside them at some point in the game.

This is something to help me when I go villager hunting, though I may not stick to this list. I just wanted to try to organize what I’m considering into some sort of visual that I can look back at later. This list does not reflect how I’d rank them on a regular tier list. Some of the villagers, I’d normally not be interested in but I’ve become more interested in trying out for this island at the very least.

Island Hopping​

• FrizzyHair’s First Island Hopping Adventure: 10/31/24​
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Campsite Visitors​

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Island Hopping

FrizzyHair’s First Island Hopping Adventure: 10/31/24
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