Changes in the Story

Several changes were made from Persona 5 to Divergence. These ranged from game mechanics to entire storylines.

Game Mechanics
Several game mechanics had to be tweaked or even replaced in order to RP.

Battle Mechanics
In Persona 5, there is a turn-based battle system. In the RP, battles are done with trivia. The corresponding tutorial channel on the Discord server says:"Fighting Fighting will be simulated with trivia questions. Your party will have 100 HP, and each enemy has their own set HP dependent on their canon relevance to the game. You will be given a question and three or four multiple choice options (see Weaknesses). If you get the answer correct, you will deal a default of 20 damage to the enemy. If you get it wrong, you will take 20 damage instead. You have certain 'lifelines' with you depending on who is in your party. Each party member has a unique 'Skill Support' move that can be used once per battle.""Weaknesses In the canon game, every element has a weakness and a strength. This will still be used in the trivia by determining how many multiple choice answers you can choose from. For example, Wind is strong against Electric. If your enemy is Electric, and you have Wind in your party (either by Morgana or by Sayuri), you will have three answers to choose from. If you do not have Wind in your party, there will be four answers to choose from. Mathematically, you have a higher chance of guessing correctly when there are less answers to choose from.""Items In the canon game, enemies drop items for you to use, as well as EXP. These aren't very useful, so instead they will have a chance to drop Fuse Chances. When you go to Fuse a Persona, you will need a Fuse Chance to do so. These can be obtained by fighting enemies. See the Fusion Guide that I'll make in a minute. You can, however, get one Healing Item in the RP by using the coffee maker. In canon, it restores SP. It will be a healing item here.""Turns During Battle, this will be the order of events: 1. You receive a question. 2. You may choose to use a Special Skill or use an item. This phase can be skipped. 3. You attempt to answer the question. 4. The damage is dealt.""Obtaining Personas Jasper has the ability to obtain new Personas through the Talk option. If you choose to Talk instead of Battle, you can go through a series of questions similar to the game. The question's correct answer is based on the Shadow's 'Personality Preference', just like in the canon game. In the game, you are given the Personality Preference of a Shadow. In the RP, you must either guess or use a relevant Skill Support from a party member. You can Mercy a Shadow on a success. You’ll be able to Mercy all of its kind from then on. If you’ve already Mercy’d a Shadow, Negotiation happens instead.""Being Defeated If you are defeated by an enemy, you will have two options: Go to the previous Safe Room, or do an Alternate Task. If you choose the Safe Room, you will have to restart from that point. If you choose the Alternate Task, the story progresses with a side quest. If the Alternate Task is failed, you will be forced back to the Safe Room.""Switching Party Members Like in the game, this can only be done prior to Palace entry and in Safe Rooms.""Quick Heal You can do a Quick Heal three times per Palace."

Third Eye
Another change is the use of Third Eye. In the canon game, Third Eye allows the main character to see how strong an enemy is compared to team level, and allows hidden items to be found. In the RP, Third Eye reveals the type of enemy about to be encountered and how much HP it has.

Gun Enemies Are Weak To Gun
In the canon game, Gun is an entire element type. In the RP, Gun is a pre-battle option that takes HP off an enemy (10 for regular enemies and 20 to enemies weak to gun in canon). Using the Gun requires a Silver Bullet in the inventory. These bullets can only be dropped by one-shotted enemies and enemies whose gun weakness was exploited pre-battle.

Item Drops
In the canon game, defeating an enemy drops items and money. Most items would be useless in a text RP, so the enemies instead may drop Fusion Chances, which are required to fuse Personas.

Plot Changes
There are several plot changes, and even more will occur as the game progresses. This list is incomplete as a result.

Main Character Backstory
In the canon game, the main character is sent to live with Sojiro following a a wrongful legal battle after saving a girl from sexual assault. In the game, the perpetrator is a wealthy and important figure who uses his social power to turn the main character into the victim. In the RP, the main character Sayuri is sent to live with Sojiro after her biological family die in a house fire. Zephyr has stated that she plans on having a Palace for Sayuri, though she has not revealed what her plans are exactly.

Kamoshida's Palace
In the canon game, the first Palace belongs to volleyball coach Suguru Kamoshida, who is known for physically assaulting his volleyball team and for sexually assaulting some of the female students, including Ann Takamaki. He also drives one character to attempt suicide. His Palace is based after lust and has several allusions to his character's personality, including half-naked girls, statues of breasts and bottoms, a torture chamber as a training hall, and books praising the sexualization of women.

During the planning phase, however, Hina stated her discomfort at the sexual assault aspect as a whole. To retain Kamoshida as an enemy but to comply with Hina's comfort, Zephyr decided that in Divergence, Kamoshida would be a sexist misogynist instead of an abusive pedophile. She changed a lot of dialogue and several rooms and puzzles in the Palace. Though she kept the castle element, she ditched the sexual portion of the Palace and instead opted for a gender hierarchy. In the training room, the girls are serving the boys. The half-naked women are replaced with maids scrubbing the floors. The inappropriate statues became giant bulging arm muscles. The puzzle with the books became a metaphor for gender roles in society, wth the books replaced by items that are often considered gender-specific.

Goro Akechi
This portion of the story has not been unlocked yet, but it's gonna be a wild one. HAHAHAHAHA but here's his Confidant