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floweryfandomnerd · 1 year ago

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@akechi-stole-my-heart with the great addition in the tags <3 your analysis is so good

Has anyone else noticed that Akechi is literally the combination of the Phantom Thieves' personal stories? Like he has basically lived through their trauma collectively.

Examples I guess:

Ren: Wild Card, manipulated by god(s) in a game, wronged by the justice system and society

Ryuji: Raised by a poor single mom, forced to endure hardships for her sake, abused by those in power

Ann: social outcast for her birth status, struggles in the entertainment industry

Yusuke: Lost his mother at a young age, placed into an abusive foster home, father figure used him and manipulated him

Makoto: High expectations, no tolerance for failure from those above her, wears a mask over her true self in order to be more "socially acceptable", constantly considered a burden to those who have to care for her

Futaba: blamed for her mother's death, lives with the guilt of her mother's death

Haru: Cartoonishly evil capitalist father

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #passing the peer review with flying colours #Honestly though all this is what makes me so insane about Akechi!!#And also kinda sad when people hate him whilst loving the rest of the phantom thieves #Like he's ALL of them and that's the point!!#He might only be rivals and one side of the same coin with Akira #but he's a foil to all the thieves #in that he went through all their traumas and struggled with all their flaws and no one ever reached a hand out to help him #Not even any of the thieves up until it's already too late in the engine room extend a hand and by then he doesn't get a chance to accept it #anyway he makes me sad and it's amazing how much atlus managed to pack into his character

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