The Doctor Is In - Hifumi (Patreon)

Hello!

Here is November's story, a brand-new chapter of The Doctor Is In! This time, I decided to include our favorite Shogi master, Hifumi! I know there's a lot of people who don't care for Hifumi or think she's boring, but I always had a soft spot for her. I liked her story and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to her and going through her social link. However, it wasn't until I saw Hifumi's section of the Persona 5 Valentine's Day OVA, and I laid eyes on this art of her, I realized, OMG, Hifumi is SEXY <3<3<3 I mean, LOOK AT HER!!!

Ever since then, I've had a newfound love and appreciation for Hifumi. I still like characters like Makoto, Takemi, and probably even Kawakami more, but Hifumi is an under appreciated favorite of mine. Thus, after writing chapters for some of my favs, I knew I wanted to write a chapter revolving around Hifumi. Again, I think she is pretty underrated so I thought writing a chapter about her of all characters would be quite the fun surprise. Adding the Persona 3 characters and establishing that this fic will expand beyond Persona 5 itself was a priority for me, so ended up writing Yukari's chapter first, but including Hifumi was definitely the next priority!

On top of my own personal feelings towards Hifumi, I felt that she served as a perfect target for Sonya. While incredibly sexy and beautiful, Hifumi is also timid and less confident. I don't know about you, but I definitely view her as someone who Sonya would set her sights on. Sonya would see that she is a girl with incredible potential, who would fully live up to that potential with some much needed "help".  Again, I just think Sonya would think she would be a PERFECT addition to her slaves.

And yeah, writing for Hifumi was a lot of fun! I enjoy reading stories when the main heroine foolishly accepts a bet or wager with the villainess, and through playing that out, they end up falling right into the villainess' hands. And since Hifumi is very talented at shogi, I thought that this would be the perfect time to get my chance at writing that kind of fic! To see exactly how I did my own spin on it, you'll have to read it ;) I don't want to spoil too much haha.

There's essentially two parts of this fic, and both were just as fun to write for different reasons. Though, my favorite part is probably near the end of the induction once Sonya begins to increase her advances. You'll see what I mean ;) I hope you all have a fun time reading that part

Something that served as a challenge to me is that I had a lot of focus on eyes this chapter, even more so than usual, or at least that's how it felt while writing it. I was also trying to test my writing muscles with the induction scene here, as, similar to Yukari's chapter, I felt that this was one of my most in-depth inductions yet, so the biggest challenge this chapter was going so in-depth on those things while also trying to keep it interesting the entire way through. I guess it will be up to you all if I succeeded or not hahaha.

Again, similar to Yukari, this chapter was a long time coming for me, and I hopefully did Hifumi justice because as a very underrated character, she deserves it. Please let me know what you all think! I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you, and I'll talk to you all soon! Have a great rest of your weekend!