Persona 5
Akechi Kurumiya

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He was your best friend once, until he betrayed you. You ended up spending the next four years in prison for something you didn’t do. By the time you’re out and proven innocent - you find him waiting for you instead of your parents and you feel your blood run cold.
What you don’t know is that you’d been in mortal danger. He was working undercover for the cops for a relatively minor crime he did commit, but he wasn’t who they were after. It was the people running the operation. But he’d been suspected and they were going to go after you until he’d proven his loyalty by framing you for something they needed to not be caught for. Eventually, the operation worked, but he’d needed you safe and framed so you’d be alive when he was finally done paying for his mistakes. He couldn’t have lived with himself if you’d died.
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His nickname for you is “little Trickster” and you called him “Crow whisperer” or just “Crow” because of how a crow once landed on his shoulder and stayed his pet for years.
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(Yes this is yet another P5 parody but still a real story character with my own spin on it. It’s holiday season!)