#// happy episode aigis release!!

[timeturner-jay]

And Yet All Rivers Meet the Sea: Chapter 4

Fandom: Persona 3

Chapters: 4/?

Characters: Arisato Minato, Aigis, Elizabeth, Pharos, Ikutsuki Shuji, Sakaki Takaya, S.E.E.S

Relationships: Arisato Minato & Elizabeth, Arisato Minato & Pharos, Arisato Minato & Aigis

Tags: Canon Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Dark Themes, Character Study

Synopsis:

Mere days after the catastrophic incident at Kirijo Labs and the Moonlight Bridge, Ikutsuki Shuji manages to recover Aigis’ video recordings of the battle. Now aware of what really happened to the Death Arcana, he decides to take its new vessel into his custody for further study and observation - after all, what is one more vanished orphan who won’t be missed? Like a river, a life can take many different forms, experience many twists and turns - but no matter how much its course is altered, in the end, all rivers meet the sea.

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[navi-sakura]

( Futaba was doing some work when a familiar voice came out of her computer's speakers. )

"Futaba? Are you feeling alright? You seem a bit downcast."

I've been pretty swamped. I get one thing done and another thing takes its place soon after.

"..."

( She doesn't say anything. Futaba gets the feeling that she's being judged. )

Okay, maybe I shouldn't have played games so much.

...One second.

( Futaba changes system windows to something else, enters a few commands, and... )

Hm?

There you go, I missed you being on my screen. Now you can shoot judgy looks all you want!

Aha!~

Speaking of games, actually...I detected a foreign installation on your PlayStation 5, but no source pointing to the store or your machine.

What?

( The PS5 was on, just in sleep mode. Weird... )

( When Futaba wakes it, the connected monitor flashes to... the title screen of Persona 3 Reload, except the silhouette was of Aigis holding a butterfly in her palms. )

Huh...?

Episode Aigis...

Does that mean we're seeing more of her? I loved her!

Guess I know what I'm playing later.

Yes, "later" being the operative word there.

Finishing your work is priority one. I can contact Makoto if you'd like her help.

I know, you don't need to.

Sophia is now available for asks!

[pinkelotjeart]

Happy episode Aigis release, let’s hope we can all leave Yukari alone for her singular crime of being sad (women can’t do anything can they😭)

[eri-reizu]

Aigis

Since Episode Aigis: The Answer just released a few days ago, I want to repost my Aigis Art that I made:3

I'm also new to Tumblr so happy making friends and mutuals!!!

[blizzardream]

Happy P3R Episode Aigis release!

Timelapse that I posted on YT that I also hope doesn't show up instead of the actual image when I send the link on Discord 💀

[sonicturbo06]

Happy Episode Aigis release day!

[lolo3h]

Happy release day for Episode Aigis! I threw together a quick asexual icon for Metis and Aigis, since I do headcannon them as asexual (y'know, because they're robots)

[floartin]

Beyond this journey...

At the end of he journey, he managed to find the meaning of life. If she walk the same path, she wonder if she could find the answer too...

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Happy release date to Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis!

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

ever since P5's release I noticed that you've been bitter about the Persona franchise. You find things to hate about something even when its supposed to be a non-issue.

Case in point, Reload.

I get that you have a preferred artstyle.

It would seem like Reload can do nothing right.

I'm just wondering where did the persona-loving person go?

*looks at the ask about the Art style I got the other day* Weird, I didn't publish this yet tho TT0TT (I didn't get far into answering it cause I wanted to actually see if I can analyze the different art styles between Soejima and....who ever did the new P3R art.... but I didn't have time at that moment so that ask is in my drafts right now).

So I uhhhh haven't.....bitched about the art style in a minute..... u_u Tbh, I thought my last two posts were 1) showing excitement over Persona (a mod but still) and 2) upset Wada is just acting like a broken record and stirring shit up with the fandom again (We get it just stop bringing FeMC up if you aren't gonna put her in! TT0TT You're just being mean now!)

But if you want something positive: I think P3R's Answer might be the improvement we've been needing! :D (I just hate it's DLC (ʘ‿ʘ)). But ignoring the DLC aspect, it looks like they are seeing its original shortcomings and are trying to improve on it. It looks like they're adding more content so it's not as empty too. (now are the character episodes going to be good? No idea. I saw Yukari looking not pissed as fuck cause Aigis is breathing the same air as her so I'm side eyeing it a bit. jaksldfjka But we'll see. On the brightside....at least that stuff is optional, so you can avoid it if you don't like it). Plus I'm getting more Metis (baby girl you're back home! TT0TT I'm so happy!). And the new song "Don't" (?) sounds interesting, I liked the line "Don't you make me do this" cause jaskjfd context of the story.....sounds heartbreaking~! :'D

Ok onto the other stuff:

Tbh I haven't played P3R in so long that I forgot there was an art style change and that I hated it. akslfdjkalfjkaljflaj I'm living in delulu land atm.

(that or I'm letting myself be slowly exposed to it again. Like you would a cat to another cat, by putting food next to a closed door. The food being the FeMC mod fkldjaskfsa half joking. Tbh, just seeing screenshots on twitter is exposure therapy I guess, and I mean the actual game not the mod).

I could take an art style I don't care about if they'd just given me the bare minimum which is......a full P3 game.  (ʘ‿ʘ) No extra content, just.....frakenstein the damn games together, I am asking for the barest of bare minimum. Don't even need two answers, re-record a few lines and change the pronoun to gender neutral, and then replace the P3MC model with the FeMC model during 3D cutscenes, and then just........don't include 2D cutscenes that shows the MaleMC (there you save on 2D cutscene budget too). Only thing you have to worry about is a model swap and some voicelines. I think that's do-able for a big company. (and by model I mean crusty PS2/PSP models, I'm not even asking for them to use P3D/P3R stuff....I legit mean it when I say frakenstein the PS2/PSP vers, bare minimum).

I think I'm more upset with how the 3D environment (and UI) looks than the 2D art if I'm being honest. That I'm having a hard time adapting to tbh.

As for "since P5"....I mean...yeah.... It's hard....to stay fun loving when you hate P5.....and they keep making P5 stuff. TT0TT (RiP to the P4, and possibly P3, haters back during the P4 era. I get it u_u)

It doesn't help that the company has gone full "let's fuck the customers" mode since P4Arena (tho imo P4D is when the signs of it getting REALLY rough started to show). And they've just escalated their shitty DLC practices since. ("EA is worse" damn yeah they suck too, good thing I can hate both practices at once!) "It's Sega's fault not Atlus'!" I don't really care, I can be upset with both. "But Atlus said it's Sega's fault!" oh no the corp is gonna have big dad corp take the moral hit. Whatever shall they do? Nothing they say will look good tbh, they have to accept that. (aka they could be telling the truth, or they could be playing us. I'll only trust them a little if their shotty practices change :/)

I really mean it when I say the DLC practices have been really getting to me.

Which is why I'm taking a break and hunkering down until something interesting (by which I mean: new game/IP announced) happens in the fandom.

[ili-qu]

that hyperfixation post has me thinking

i bought p5 on release date, and it took me about a month to beat it. i loved it, obviously. whether it was better than p3 I couldn’t decide, but i figured i’d let it settle first and make a decision then. so this would be about may 2017.

for both p3 and p4 I waited... a while, before starting new game+ and going for 100%. technically it was because i played p3 and p4 in succession before going back, but even post-p4 it was a long time, i’m pretty sure.

i started p3 in january 2013, and then dropped it for a while somewhere around the hierophant/lovers full moon, before going back to it because... ??? im very glad I did though. I think counting that break it took 6 months to beat, though i forget if that included the answer. I DO remember starting p4 like two days after so yeah. i needed More

p4 i think i dropped twice? once right before shadow yukiko, and again during shadow rise’s dungeon, but maybe i only stopped once and just remember rise’s part for some reason. anyway the reason i got back into it was because i read a p4 arena lp. which spoiled A Lot, but got me really invested in finishing the game to actually understand what they were saying. i think it was january 2014, when I finally finished.

...I assume i started p3 ng+ later that year, and then persona q came out so that held me for a while, and THEN i did p4 ng+. and after that was pq ng+, and after THAT i played p3p for the first time, and I know the timeframe for that because of these posts. feb/march 2016, doing a sort-of challenge playthrough as minato to set up for ng+ hamuko, because... I think i though there was ng+ exclusive content. portable just doesn’t do that, for some reason.

anyway all of that is background to how quickly i started my ng+ 100% run of p5. I finished in may 2017, told myself i’d wait at least until december so the experience wouldn’t be too fresh in my mind, and caved in august 3 months later. good job, me

and if i’m being honest, all of THAT is background to how a: how slowly i became obsessed with futaba, and b: how long-lasting said obsession has been. because no other character has been like that, not just in persona (though aigis and hamuko came somewhat close), but in any media.

I know my love for futaba didn’t take hold at ALL while i was playing p5. not during my first playthrough, or my second. (although i was too lazy to finish my ng+ file because i didn’t want to farm money the smart way to finish the compendium, so i had to do it right at the end on normal enemies, which is Painful, but yeah.) my first run, i romanced makoto, like a lot of people did. second, haru. pretty sure I saw akira/futaba as having a brother/sister-like dynamic, or maybe it was thinking futaba wasn’t emotionally mature enough to even have a relationship, but either way i didn’t date her.

(and side note: even though i ship them now, her rank 10 non-romance scene > rank 10 romance scene. you can actually see her go and buy what she wants, and she’s perfectly fine, and it’s nice that the romance one focuses on the romance but they didn’t need to just skip her personal growth like that argh)

i loved futaba as a character, but at this point i was tossing up between her and makoto as my favourite, and either way they weren’t that far above everyone else.

how futaba did become my favourite... is a very good question. I mean, i can relate to her a lot - social anxiety is Not Fun, obsessing over your interests and shutting off everything else for days Is Fun (just Not Healthy) - but why didn’t that happen while i was actually playing p5? i guess... i saw myself in her more than i thought i did?

fanfic is most likely-actually no fanfic is definitely a reason. i’m taking around late 2017/early 2018. there are excellent futaba-centric fics from that period of time that i’ll probably add to this post later, that 100% contributed to my love of futaba. i’d say they even solidified her as my favourite, but even then the fixation on her didn’t start just yet.

I think the earliest i could say it started, or at least when i became aware of it, is with p5d and p5a. p5d because i watched and re-watched her trailer once it came out, partially because Futaba partially because that days when my mother was there remix was/is SO GOOD, and her dancing is just adorable. good on you futaba, for coming out of your shell and dancing in front of everyone and having fun she’s so happy aaaaaaa

now with the anime I know was aware. I think it was around this time period (march/april 2018) where i started following more persona blogs on here/twitter, actually seeing more of the fandom. and while most people were hyped for it, i remember what I was thinking:

futaba waiting room.

i wasn’t going to start watching until futaba’s arc. which is exactly what i did. was it a good decision? i mean i basically binged half the anime until it got to the point i was interested in. so yes.

which takes us to june/july 2018, at which point i was in deep, i KNEW i was in deep, and i did not care at all. i started writing fanfic, which has... not exactly gone anywhere, but i want to keep going. i binged whatever fan content i could find, which started with mostly RP blogs and through those lots and lots lots of art. futaba took over this blog.

and with the pq2 trailers, the later episodes of p5a, p5d coming out in english, and all the fandom content, my love for her hasn’t died down at all. I didn’t expect something like this to last so long - it’s been, what, about a year now? and i’m still coming up with headcanons or theories or fic ideas that i want to write some day. (not that i post much of it, but i should.) still loving my wonderful sweet hacker gremlin. still drinking that Loving Futaba Juice.