#[akechi voice] that is bullshit the best thing you guys can do for each other is Cut Those Fucking Ties!!!!!!!
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arledrone Ā· 3 months ago
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p5 suou au microwaving in my head thinking about shiho's parents' change of heart eventually lead to katsuya and maya taking her in. hmm. oh i could be so unhinged about this. akechi has shit to Say about this and none of the Phantom Thieves are going to enjoy it because they always strive for the ideal outcome and. well. akechi does not. and i think too much peace so suddenly with her parents would just leave Shiho on edge after so long under their scrutiny anyway.
#p5 suou au#like. imagine living with the same two parents that threw you under the bus#just because they had a forced change of heart#you still vividly remember how they've hurt and wronged you#they've apologised and expressed remorse and Everything#so now everything is meant to be all hunky dory and whatever#[akechi voice] that is bullshit the best thing you guys can do for each other is Cut Those Fucking Ties!!!!!!!#idk i just think of the mementos quest where you help futaba's online friend#when her parents are basically sex trafficking her or whatever?#and idc how much a change of heart someone could have#sometimes it's best to just leave it at that and then Never Fucking Engage With Them Again#the obligation to is ultimately dissolved#and in Shiho's case? yeah. yeah i just think something like that happening and being the real result of her parents change of heart.#i have a lot of thoughts on this#mostly bc i think the dynamic between shiho and akechi could be very interesting.#something something ''do you actually want to bother wasting your time with family that already betrayed you''#''do you think haru here is cordial with me because she wants to be no it's because it's an occupational hazard now''#''could you all cut the hallmark movie shit. holy fuck.''#they already ruined their relationship with shiho and#if shiho isn't AWARE of the thieves doing this for her the change of heart would be disconcerting anyway and she'd STILL be on her toes#around them!!! tell me she wouldn't!!!#not to mention katsuya and maya would be out for their blood anyway#i do also think ryuji would have a thing or two to say about this#given his own shitty dad#dude would NOT want him back in his life just because he made amends or whatever#get that boku no academia endeavour shit outta hereeeeee
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ellenripleysbelieveitornot Ā· 4 years ago
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What about an Akechi/Joker role swap AU where Akechi is still the detective prince and Joker is still the Shujin delinquent, but the major difference is that Morgana never lost his memories and found Akechi before he approached Shido with his metaverse assassination plot?
Like, imagine Akechi, bitter and jaded, who has just awakened Loki and felt the terrifying and thrilling rush of the berserk power. He's formed a plan to get back at his piece of shit father, even managed to set up a meeting, which he had to set up months in advance, and on the day he's going to present Shido with info on the metaverse, he winds up arriving a few minutes late, because even though he intended to be early, he was accosted by a talking cat (he's been in the metaverse, so he can hear him) on the way over, and in the whole wtf-ery of the moment, lost track of time. Shido, being Shido, refuses to see him and will not reschedule because he doesn't like having his time wasted.
Pissed off, Akechi leaves to find Morgana still waiting for him outside. So he doesn't look like an idiot yelling at a cat on the street, he brings Morgana back to his shitty apartment, where Morgana explains why he had found Akechi and whats up. He doesn't know about Yaldobaoth taking Igor's place, he just knows there's two champions, and Akechi was the one he found first, so he must be Igor's chosen champion. (It is my theory that it doesn't actually matter who was Igor's and Yaldobaoth's champions, it was more about the choices they each made and where they ended up.)Ā 
Akechi has no interest in saving the world, but he knows that if he wants to get back at Shido, he needs to become someone of consequence, so he agrees to undergo Morgana's training, since Morgana clearly knows more about the metaverse than he does, and he can use it to solve cold cases, earning him a place as the Detective Prince. He changes a few hearts, to pacify Morgana, too. It takes a couple years, but during his senior year in high school, he makes it, earning himself the cooperation of the police and the spotlight of the public eye. He's getting so close to making Shido notice him that he can practically taste it. Also, whatā€™s thisĀ ā€˜velvet roomā€™ he keeps dreaming about?
Then Morgana finds Kamoshidaā€™s palace and is likeĀ ā€˜heyo, you thought changing hearts in the metaverse was cool, check this shit outā€™ and Akechi is admittedly intrigued , so he takes a look. He sees the inside of Kamoshidaā€™s heart and is appropriately disgusted and says to Morgana, ā€˜hey we should totally kill this guyā€™s shadow.ā€™ Morganaā€™s likeĀ ā€˜why is your first suggestion always murder, we donā€™t know what would happen if we killed his shadow, Igor wasnā€™t very clear about that bit, we should try stealing the treasure insteadā€™ and Morgana has been useful (and itā€™s been really nice to have the company these past two years, though he wonā€™t admit that) so Akechi agreesĀ ā€˜fine, weā€™ll steal the treasure, but if that doesnā€™t work, then Iā€™m killing his shadow.ā€™
And thatā€™s when Ryuji and Ann make an appearance (ā€™ohmigawd, goro, be more careful with that damn app, i s2g.ā€™) Ryujiā€™s mom apparently thinks Akechi is pretty neat and watches all his interviews, so Ryuji knows who he is and is delighted to find out that the lame-ass detective his mom has talked about is actually a grumpy badass in the metaverse, with this shadow that has some kind of insane power, and hey, he helped them bring down Kamoshida (alive,) so maybe he is actually pretty cool, even though sometimes he spaces out and talks about evil twins and some longed-nose dude. He decides then and there that heā€™s going to be Akechiā€™s best friend, since he apparently has none, and Ann is all too happy to join in for the ride, and all of Goroā€™s protests have fallen on deaf ears, and they know about the whole detective prince thing being a facade, so he might as well indulge them for now.Ā 
TheĀ ā€˜Phantom Thievesā€™ (a name that makes Goro want to roll his eyes whenever he hears it, and why is everyone calling him ā€˜leader?ā€™) gain fame and change hearts, gaining new members such as this weird-ass artist dude who fights with ice, and oh, god, one Nijima is bad enough, donā€™t tell me thereā€™s two! and she uses nukes, wtf?!
Around this time, he also meets Shujinā€™s delinquent, enigmatic transfer student whose talk of hope and justice never quite seem to reflect in his stormy grey eyes, and he and Goro are clearly birds of a feather in a way, he can tell, thereā€™s just something about him, and he thinks this guy might actually be his best friend, but donā€™t tell Ryuji that, heā€™d never hear the end of it.
Akechi learns the truth behind Akiraā€™s arrest and Shidoā€™s involvement and he is disgusted to find that he genuinely wants to help this guy, and he canā€™t do that if Shidoā€™s dead, maybe he doesnā€™t want his revenge as badly as he thought??? Oh, ew, I have feelings that arenā€™t anger and itā€™s all my friendsā€™ fault, I canā€™t just leave them and go off to get revenge, theyā€™d literally die without me, those lovable idiots. Also, when Ryuji saw his home, he pretty much insisted he stay with him instead, and Ryujiā€™s mom reminds him of the good times he had with his own mother, and he honestly doesnā€™t think he has the strength to disappoint her like that. So, he decides to change Shidoā€™s heart, but he knows that thereā€™s no way that this little group of miscreants is strong enough to take on the fucked up bullshit that heā€™s seen in Shidoā€™s heart, so letā€™s hit pause on that for now.
Shido had Wakaba killed via completely non-supernatural ways and stole her research, same as before, so Futaba still has a palace. He found out Akira worked at Leblanc a while ago and started dropping by, and then somehow Ryuji found out about it, and now all the Phantom Thieves know, so much for a peaceful place to get away, but he actually doesnā€™t mind that much, and Akira lets Akechi keep an eye on the shop when there are no customers so he can go out and do errands and Boss doesnā€™t mind, so theyā€™ve ended up hanging out there as a group from time to time and talking Phantom Thief business, so Futaba knows who they are, and asks for their help.
Okumuraā€™s palace pretty much goes the same, Okumura dies somehow, are we responsible, why does murder actually make me feel kinda bad, stupid friends and their stupid good influence.Ā 
Goro attends the Shujin student fair as guest speaker, whoa, the class president being friends with Akechi does have its perks, doesnā€™t it? Akira finds them all there together and approaches them, tells them he saw them go into the metaverse, awakened his own persona, and saw a guy in a black mask kill Okumuraā€™s shadow, hey why donā€™t I join you, you probably need all the help you can get, whoā€™s heart are we stealing next, how about Sae, she knows my probabtion officer and has been giving me hell, plus I already checked, she definitely has a palace.
They agree, and oh, hey, Akira can hear Morgana talk now, but WAIT A MINUTE?! Didnā€™t he hear Morgana talk before when he told Goro that Leblanc didnā€™t sell sushi, even though Goro hadnā€™t asked for any?
They hack Akiraā€™s phone, learn that Shido (Akechi recognizes that voice) will have thugs waiting to capture them when they leave the palace. They plan around it, pull the metaverse switch and manage to sneak a heavily drugged Akechi out of the warehouse Shido stashed him in by traveling through the metaverse. Shidoā€™s lackeyā€™s have written a fake suicide letter from the leader of the Phantom thieves, and the chief of police, under Shidoā€™s orders, delivers a statement confirming its authenticity, and look the plan succeeded. All they need to do know is take down Shido.
Things are going great, until they get to the engine room, where Joker, having realized what happened, is waiting for them. Joker, who lost everything after he transferred, who discovered the metaverse completely alone, who didnā€™t mean to kill that guyā€™s shadow, but he attacked him first, and Shido had somehow known, had been keeping an eye on him, had him convicted for a crime that he didnā€™t commit in the hopes that he would break because he needed an agent in the metaverse, and so far heā€™s had no luck. Joker, who had nothing left to lose and had accepted the only hand that had reached out for him.
They fight, and when it looks like things are going badly for Joker, he pulls out... a second persona?!?! At least, it looks like a persona, but something about it is off. it looks familiar somehow. And then Akira asks if they knew it was possible to fuse personas and Akechi realizes what heā€™s looking at. These arenā€™t the clean executions that Caroline and Justine perform, these are personas that have been ripped apart and haphazardly thrown back together with no thought to form or elegance, look, thereā€™s a Yaksiniā€™s arm, and that bit right there clearly used to belong to a Rangda, and I think that piece might have belonged to a Seiryu, and Akechi should stop listing personas now because Ann thinks sheā€™s going to be sick.
They keep fighting. Joker canā€™t understand the difference in power between them. After all, arenā€™t they the same? Unloved, unwanted, soldiers pitted against each other by some bullshit higher power?
When Joker shoots the bulkhead door closed and Futaba reports that sheā€™s lost Jokerā€™s reading, Akechi vows then and there that heā€™s going to kill Shido after all. And he almost does. He stands there, with his gun pressed to the head of the shadow of his father, his friends canā€™t blame him, and even Morgana knows better than to try and stop him. But he doesnā€™t. He remembers Akiraā€™s madness there at the end, and wonders what he would have become of him if it werenā€™t for Ryuji, who somewhere along the way, heā€™d realized heā€™d stopped tolerating and started actually liking. Ann, who shared his woes about being in the public eye and swapped tips with him about how to handle the press. Yusuke, who, although he was still completely bizarre to him, appreciated the beauty in life and didnā€™t tease Goro for his taste in Grandpa clothes. Makoto, who knew the importance of hard work and who, between herself and her sister, had caused Goro to pick up some healthier coping mechanisms. Futaba, who made fun of him for his food blog, but liked the same nerd bullshit that he did and would bombard him with memes until his day somehow became a little less shittier. Haru, who dreamed of starting her own business and actually cared about Goroā€™s opinions, and could threaten someone with a smile in a way that even Goro was jealous of. And Morganna, who had reminded him what it was like to not be lonely, and demanded more sushi than he could afford, but always made sure Goro ate his fill, instead of getting so focused on his work that he forgot.
Akechi guesses that he must have turned soft somewhere during the past several months, but after seeing what happened to Akira, he canā€™t help but be grateful, knowing with certainty that if things had turned out differently, that would have been him. Hey, Morgana, you know that world-saving bs you talked about two years ago? Letā€™s leave this piece of shit here to rot and focus our attention on that instead.
And you guys know the rest.
Or, at least, thatā€™s how I thought it would go. Feel free to share your thoughts. :)
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luucarii Ā· 7 years ago
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Persona 5 Ramblings
this shit is long. like really long.
and I sound like a crazed fangirl so....
MAJOR SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. IM TALKING ABOUT LIKE ALMOST EVERYTHING BUD!!!
also, i curse way too much in this... apologies in advanceĀ 
also, happy fatherā€™s day even though this has nothing to do with it :)
THIS IS ALL BACKGROUND ON ME BEFORE I GOT THE GAME SKIP TO THE NEXT BOLD PART IF YOU WANT TO HEAR MY OPINION ON THE GAME ITSELF.
Okay, so Iā€™ve mentioned vaguely how Persona 5 is my first encounter with the Persona series. Iā€™d heard bits and pieces about the series but I never really understood the concept of Persona until maybe mid April of this year. I was on spring break from school and I donā€™t remember how exactly how I stumbled across it but i found this playthrough of Persona 5 on youtube and I was mildly interested. So I clicked on it, and into the emotional rollercoaster that is this game i went.
At the time, there was only about 11 episodes of the play through (each around an hour long) so I binged watched each episode ending up with me staying up past 2 am. I was just so invested. The opening drew me in the minute the camera showed off that smug little bastard Jokerā€™s smirk over the casino (Iā€™ll get into why I love this kid and the rest of the cast later). I was confused since I was going into Persona 5 with no knowledge of the whole concept of Personas at all. I was kinda just like ā€œwow this looks badass. What is he doing? Oh my god, this game is so pretty.ā€
I ended up skipping around once I got tired of waiting for a new episode and watched this long ass livestream. I got to about Okumuraā€™s Palace before there was nothing left for me to watch but the boss battles uploaded, which did spoil me a little bit and got me a bit confused but I was so interested that I honestly didnā€™t care. I was so surprised at Niijimaā€™s Palace and her boss battle as a whole and was like ā€œSHIT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME!!!! OH MY GOD EVERYTHINGS BACKā€
From there, I skipped straight to the traitor - aka Akechiā€™s battle - and can I just say, I was not surprised that he had a Persona but I was surprised that he betrayed the group considering all the story shit I skipped. Shidoā€™s fight was fairly interesting to me but again, I skipped a bunch of story shit so I was really just rooting for the Phantom Thieves because this was THE ASSHOLE WHO GAVE MY POOR LITTLE AKIRA A CRIMINAL RECORD.
Skipped a bunch of shit again and onto the fight with Yaldobaoth. At this point I was drawing a lot of similarities to Xenoblade Chronicles, fighting a God for freedom and then THEY PULLED THE WHOLE BELIEF THINGY (which they did at the end of Okami as well) AT THE END WITH MISHIMA AND THE REST OF TOKYO BELIEVING IN THE THIEVES AND I WAS SOBBING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH AT 2 AM.
And after that, I made it a point that one day Iā€™d play this game for myself. And it was maybe a few days after that I finally got the game.
Now at the time (and still now) I didnā€™t own a PS4 and was forced to use my brotherā€™s when he was at work. Adding to the fact that school was beginning to start up again, I had at most maybe 6 hours to play a day if homework didnā€™t take up all my time. So what mightā€™ve taken me a few weeks to beat took me almost 2 months to beat because of timing.Ā 
BUT OH WELL, I HAD THE GAME, I PLAYED THE GAME, I LOVED THE GAME AND NOW IM GOING TO SQUEAL LIKE A FANGIRL OVER EVERY ASPECT OF THIS GAME THAT I ADORED.
GAMEPLAY
Okay, so Iā€™ve played my fair share of JRPGs and Persona 5 was a nice familiarity. All the dungeon crawling, the fighting, turn-base combat, yaā€™ll get it.
BUT UM THESE DUNGEONS (Palaces if you would) ARE FREAKING GORGEOUS, HELL THE GAME ITSELF IS GORGEOUS.
Each Palace and their respective Shadow ruler has their own design, personality and each are based on the seven deadly sins which (after finishing FullMetal Alchemist a few months earlier) I thought was clever and interesting.
Kamoshidaā€™s castle was a nice balance of a first dungeon and ā€œhey weā€™re not gonna hold your hand, this is fairly simply kill some Shadows, find the infiltration route and donā€™t get kicked out.ā€ ALSO RYUJI AND ANNā€™S AWAKENINGS. JUST THAT. INCREDIBLE.
Madarameā€™s museum had a little bit more difficulty but was still fairly easy. The security bars kinda gave me a little anxiety considering I was still getting used to all the controls (I had just finished an Xbox One game before playing this so my buttons were mixed up) and the little painting guessing game was a bit dumb considering each Sayuri looked EXACTLY THE SAME TO ME (except the color swapped ones) ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING YUSUKE WAS THERE AND COULD HAVE EASILY TOLD US BUT NO HE WANTED TO TEST AKIRAā€™S ART SKILL. ARE YOU APART OF THE PHANTOM THIEVES OR NOT YUSUKE??????????
but i digressā€¦
Kaneshiroā€™s bank was fun but GOD SEND THOSE FREAKING SECURITY CAMERAS AND THOSE SHADOW DOGS TO HELL OH MY GOD I HATED THOSE. See my thing is, Iā€™m not exactly a stealthy person. Which is why I love hiding because you can sneak up on Shadows and ambush them easily. I hate raising security level and those damn dogs were so annoying and just ugh. Those dogs are honestly one of the few grips I have with the game. Also, MAKOTO IS THE ACTUAL QUEEN.
Futabaā€™s temple was by far the longest one for me in terms of gameplay hours (in game time took me about 2-3 days) but it was still fun nonetheless and Iā€™m glad Futaba (who is one of my favorite female characters) got some closure on her story with her mother and was able to rise above that. Iā€™m a sucker for tragic backstories when their well executed. (i still to this day do not know how to pronounce her Personaā€¦)
Okumuraā€™s spaceship was my favorite aesthetically because Iā€™ve always been interested in space and the stars and the little puzzle at the end with the space pockets was a nice bit of challenging and flying through Metaverse space. ALSO HARU HAS FLUFFY FLUFF HAIR AND HAS MY SECOND FAVORITE PHANTOM THIEF OUTFITĀ 
hmm, i wonder who has my favorite Phantom Thief outfit... Joker... Itā€™s Joker... god damn those red gloves
Niijimaā€™s casino, which OH MY GOD WERE BACK TO THE BEGINNING AND AKECHIā€™S WITH US AHH, and WHIMS OF FATE IS BEST PALACE THEME.
It was my favorite palace, no questions asked.
Shidoā€™s ship was another long one but finally getting revenge on this dick was incredible. Also, AKECHI AND RYUJI PLAYING WITH MY FEELINGS.
Mementos was a good idea as a whole but the way it was executed everything just sort of blended together for me and there were only a few requests that stood out to me. The music was bland (one of the blandest on the soundtrack, especially compared to the other Palace themes casually mentions Whims of Fates again) and during the late floors of Mementos, everything got so dark and it was really hard to see.
CHARACTERS
expect this to be me screaming a lot.
Akira Kurusu (Protagonist)
okay, um, i love this boy. like a lot. LIKE I WOULD DIE FOR HIM.
For a silent protagonist this guy sure has a lot of character. The rare times he speaks in cutscenes, specifically the ones where heā€™s Joker, he has this sort of cocky arrogance yet when heā€™s little Akira in his Shujin uniform heā€™s a quiet little curious boy. Heā€™s incredible under pressure, like thereā€™s only a few things that make him crack and his dialogue options are priceless.
I especially love Joker because Iā€™m an honest to god mess when it comes to smug bastards and I have an unhealthy love for those crimson gloves of his.
But honestly he doesnā€™t deserve half the shit he gets in game. Besides the whole ā€œgameā€ set up by Yaldobaoth, he was sent away from his family and presumedly the friends he had back in his hometown all because of his probation, literally no one treats him with any sort of respect when he gets to Shibuya. Sojiro reminds him countless times the first what 3-4 months that heā€™ll be kicked out if he breaks his probation which (besides doing all that illegal shit as Phantom Thieves) he honestly just goes to school (a place where he gets even more shit from teachers and students), hangs out a little after and comes straight home. I know Akiraā€™s been established to have a bad reputation because of his record but donā€™t these people have eyes??? Canā€™t they see that heā€™s obviously not a bad guy based on what heā€™s doing in school and not getting involved with the police??? Sojiro's exempt from this because he at least grows to like having Akira around and trusts him enough to go out at night, work in the store alone and lock up from him when he leaves.
AKIRA IS A GOOD BOY WHO DIDNā€™T DESERVE ALL THE SHIT GIVEN TO HIM
Also, Xander Mobus did a good ass job with his voice
Ryuji Sakamoto
see this post that basically sums up my feelings on this boy.
Also, Max Mittelman.
Ann Takamaki
CAN I JUST SAY ANN IS ONE OF THE BESTEST FRIENDS IVE EVER SEEN???????
Like she went through all that shit with Kamoshida, the harassment, possibly rape, all for freaking Shihoā€™s sake. Justā€¦ wow. Thatā€™s some freaking loyalty there. Shiho's the closest friend she has at Shujin (at least before the events of the game) and God knows how long she went along with Kamoshidaā€™s bullshit all for Shiho. I mean I may sound a bit repetitive but holy shit that just amazes Ā me. SHE. ENDURED. SEXUAL. HARASSMENT. ALL. FOR. HER. BEST. FRIEND. And the minute she watched Shihoā€™s suicide attempt that was it. Any last bit of restraint she had left broke and she went full on at Kamoshida all for revenge for her best friend. My god.
Onto her confidant ranks, Ann is just a charismatic bundle of joy who just wants to make people happy. Yeah she butted heads with that girl (forgot her nameā€¦) and did fall down a little in terms of confidence but Akira and Shiho helped her through it and brought her back on her path of what she wants to doā€¦ Just ugh, I love Ann so much.
Yusuke Kitagawa
Yusukeā€™s a fan favorite and for good reason.
His backstory about how Madarame took him in after his mom died and overlooked his painting which led to the later plagiarism is an interesting one and I love how the Sayuri, the only thing left to connect him to his mother, is an important factor that leads to his realization of ā€œoh shit this guyā€™s a dick who watched my mom die without helping her and he used me for money and fame.ā€
As a character though, Yusukeā€™s freaking weird. But i love him because of it. He has his formal tongue but that formal tongue casually overlooks any weird shit that comes out of his mouth. He doesnā€™t give any flying fucks about what people think of him and he speaks his mind like thereā€™s no tomorrow. I still crack up at the nude painting scene with him and Ann because his mix of awkwardness and passion to paint a nice ass picture is just incredible. Also, another thing. Heā€™s. So. Damn. Passionate. Like he ties art into everything, even fighting Shadows and heā€™s always looking for new ideas for paintings.
Also, Matt Mercer
Makoto Niijima
MAKOTO IS QUEEN.
Sheā€™s not my favorite female, that role goes to Futaba but sheā€™s definitely number 2.
I genuinely have a love for the Niijima sisters because they complement each other so well. Saeā€™s the head of the house who also works tirelessly just to support her younger sister and itā€™s clear to see why Makoto would feel useless. Sheā€™s a high school student and as a student you really canā€™t do much thatā€™ll pay the bills and keep food on the table unless you have a job which Makotoā€™s student council president and (iā€™m assuming) is in everything so itā€™d probably be hard as is to get a job and be of some sort of use to her sister. Then Kaneshiro comes around threatening her and Thieves and her sister and she just doesnā€™t want to feel useless anymore. She wants to do something after being forced to sit back and watch other people be counted on. And just, ugh, her awakening is by far my favorite out of all of them just because of everything behind it and just MAKOTO IS AMAZING, CASE CLOSED.
Also, Cherami Leigh.
Futaba Sakura
By far my favorite female as I feel our personalities are pretty damn similar. Besides her being a hacker and me not knowing anything about possibly illegal things like that, I relate to Futaba as sheā€™s an introvert. She and I value our alone time and (although for different reasons) like being shut in. Now Iā€™m not going to say Futaba and I share the same backstory because my God Iā€™m honestly baffled how this girl went through years in solitude after her motherā€™s death thinking it was her fault. For one, she WATCHED HER MOTHER DIE IN FRONT OF HER. HOLY SHIT HOW DID THIS GIRL MANAGE TO FUNCTION WITH THAT MENTAL IMAGE IMPRINTED IN HER BRAIN???? AND THEN FOR YEARS ON END SHE LOCKED HERSELF UP AWAY FROM THE WORLD AND BEGAN HAVING ACTUAL PHYSICAL AND VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS AND IF IT WASNT FOR THE PHANTOM THIEVES SHE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE ENDED UP KILLING HERSELF AND I DONT WANT TO THINK OF A WORLD WITHOUT THIS ADORABLE LITTLE OTAKU.
also, i really ship her and Yusuke Inari
Haru Okumura
For one, Haru is freaking adorable, I mean look at her. She has the short little fluffy fluff hair and her voice is so light and feathery and polite and WHY DOES SHE COME SO LATE IN THE DAMN GAME????
I was lucky enough to manage to finish her confidant before the end of the game but when her confidant first opened up to me (getting rank 5 Proficiency was a bitch) at that point I was planning on not doing her confidant at all, I was just planning on getting Baton Pass and ditching her because I didnā€™t think Iā€™d finish it. I did (at the cost of not finishing Makotoā€™s, still extremely disappointed on that) and I have to say Haruā€™s confidant was by far my favorite one out of the ones I maxed out.
Her whole thing is now that her fatherā€™s dead, sheā€™s basically the one inheriting everything from Okumura Foods and she never really understood anything to begin with and she thinks everyone whoā€™s trying to help her is just doing it for their own self-gain. Ā Okumura Foods, at this point, is attempting to rise back up after all the shit her father put the company through and all the current bad reputation it has. Haruā€™s never had a chance in her life to make things for herself. Sheā€™s always been told what to do and has been very obedient (even agreeing to marry a literal dickhead all for her fatherā€™s company) and suddenly sheā€™s given all control and doesnā€™t know what to do with it. All these happy smiling faces offering their help just seem like people attempting to take advantage of her incompetence. Akira helps her through it like the amazing boy that he is and Haru ends up finally being able to speak her mind about the company and what SHE wants to do. She gives the company up to someone who she believes is trustworthy and decides that sheā€™ll one day open a small little cafe like Leblanc in the future after college. And honestly, just her overcoming her distrust and her previous shell of being obedient to rising up and making her own decisions it makes me so happy and proud to see her grow and change and just UGGH I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS DAMN CAST.
Morgana
This cat, literally this cat. HE BELONGS WITH AKIRA AND THE REST OF THE THIEVES NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.
Loud-mouthed, a little bit arrogant, Morgana is just an amazing character in general for me. I know Ryujiā€™s technically supposed to be the comic relief (and he does fulfill this role, donā€™t get me wrong) but I feel Morgana takes this spot too, especially the two bickering like an old married couple. I know some people hate on Morgana because of how he treats Ryuji and the amount of ā€œgo to bedā€ memes on Tumblr but all around Morgana is just a cat who was just looking for a place to call home. He was just looking for people to accept him.
And a part of me honestly hopes if thereā€™s an add on for this game in the future, Morgana gets a human form because Iā€™d love to see that.
Also, please tell me Iā€™m not the only one who still mixes up Morganaā€™s gender. I still sometimes call him a her just out of habit because I canā€™t hear Cassandra Lee Morris as anything but a girl.
Also, Cassandra Lee Morris.
Goro Akechi
OKAY SO CONTROVERSY??? MAYBE??
I LIKE AKECHI
NO FUCK THAT
I LOVE AKECHI
LIKE HONEST TO GOD THIS BOY DESERVED BETTER.
Donā€™t misunderstand, I know he killed people. I know he caused all those shutdowns and was planning on killing the Thieves and eventually Shido himself (which now begs the question, say he did kill Shido, what next?)
Iā€™m not denying anything he did. And yes, his backstory (although extremely saddening) does not justify his actions. He knew what he was doing and he still did it.
Akechi took the wrong path in his life. If anything you can sort of compare his story to Futabaā€™s in the sense that they both lost family members and were left with nothing. In Futabaā€™s case however, she still had people trying to help her. She had Sojiro who took her in after her uncle was abusing her or something and she had the Thieves who literally changed her heart and made her see the truth.
Akechi had absolutely nobody.
His mom died (suicide if I remember correctly), he was thrown into foster care, his own father (seriously, fuck Shido. Not just because of how he was with Akechi but everything in this damn game) didnā€™t even knew he existed. He had no acknowledgement, no affection, nothing. He was forced to make do with what little scraps he could find and make a life for himself.
Again, donā€™t misunderstand me. I know he killed people and his backstory does not justify his actions because he knew what he was doing was wrong. Iā€™m just saying maybe if he had someone, anyone who was there to help him out, to pull him out of his misery he most likely would have been a different person. He wouldnā€™t have had his revenge for Shido be his only reason for living and he wouldnā€™t have gone out the way he did. Itā€™s hard not to feel bad for him. Heā€™s been alone all his damn life and all this guy really wanted was a friend, some teammates, people who wanted him around. I just wish Akechi had gotten a way to repent. I hate the fact that he died. One because we lost a good character and two because I genuinely believe that he wanted to change at the end. Akira changed him. The Thieves changed him. I wish he had gotten an ending where he could own up to his mistakes and be able to make up for lost time.
Justā€¦ ugh.
Iā€™m apart of the ā€œAkechi deserved betterā€ group.
And I also ship Akeshu really really really hard.
Also, Robbie Daymond was freaking fantastic.
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THIS IS LONG ENOUGH SO LET ME SUM IT UP IN A SENTENCE.
PERSONA 5 IS AMAZING, I LOVED IT.
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