#I want nyarlysweep too

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Okay. Persona 2 fandom isn't that big, so let ME tell EVERYONE how utterly, deliberately awful Nyarlathotep is. Yes, he is awful beyond his fathership, but as a father he basically went "fuck this one kid in particular". Let's go through it, shall we?

MAJOR PERSONA 2: INNOCENT SIN SPOILERS AHEAD

ftr this is take three because I apparently can't really explain all of Nyarlathotep's dad crimes in under seven paragraphs. So without further ado: The Dad Crimes of Nyarlathotep, bulletpoint edition

Set up Jun's birth dad to kill himself for a conspiracy theory (important later)

Then usurped the role of Jun's Dad (started doing this before the guy even died actually)

Debatably set up the tragedy that broke up Jun's friend group

Ten years of gaslighting, brainwashing, and isolating Jun

Tampering with Jun's memory until he hated his former friends and sought revenge for the murder of Maya, who isn't even dead

Setting up the reality-warping rumors that Jun used to become a clown with a savior complex named Joker

Slowly draining Jun's humanity away more and more as the rumors about Joker change everything he wants and is trying to do

Providing Joker the conspiracy theory that brings back Hitler (+1 mecha army, jetpack, and sunglasses) but supposedly raises humanity to a higher state of existence free from suffering (but will also destroy the world)

Transforming Jun into a fucked up clown-angel-thing once he wants to stop

Forcing Jun to keep fighting, prisoner in his own body, even as he's begging to stop

Stripping Jun of all his power and leaving him to die once he's no longer useful

Turns out he was cosplaying Hitler this whole time, not really a Dad Crime but worthy of note

Bringing Jun's biological parents back from the dead, crucifying and immolating them in front of Jun, just to be cruel

Limbs Made Of Dads

Telling Jun and company none of what they did mattered but the spear in Maya's chest sure does

Because that was the last step in the prophecy to end the world that he got Jun-as-Joker to do the rest of

Now Earth is destroyed, nobody was spared from suffering, and Jun's good intentions led everyone straight to hell

Nyarlathotep just fucks off at the end instead of getting any comeuppance whatsoever, you have to play a whole 'nother game to do that

Sinking a canon gay ship (Jun and Tatsuya are boyfriends but can never be together because they have to erase their bond for a timeline that didn't go to shit)

yes persona 2 is a fever dream and you all need to vote Nyarlathotep right now

Bad dad propaganda!!!