Having Akira in the game from start to finish made me REALLY HAPPY ARCHER but also a lot of his frustrations I also felt for him asflkjh especially the point with everybody's power levels, there's a point about rewarding active players with stronger personas but there's also just the fact that Akira would naturally know how things work and how to train, versus Kido who is scared of Shadows and avoids the dungeons, and I sort of hard to fudge the reason for her Persona strength by giving Nekogami Growth 3 and say that he was basically sharing in other people's wins. Having everybody's Persona levels grow together as the game progressed might have been the better choice, looking back, since it's sort of like in the games where you take a lower leveled party member and train with a strong group and they catch up easily, with the amount of experience scaling to their level. I'M SORRY IF THIS WAS REALLY FRUSTRATING FOR YOU ARCHER every time Akira expressed his frustration over this I felt bad for him too ):

The nature of Pokemon largely takes care of that, thank god...

Also yes, OOC discussion plurks >>>>>>>>>> IC team meetings adsflkj