#Persona 2: Innocent Sin

[kaetor]

Tatsuya the biking bi king with the bi flag?

everyone give it up for sword bisexuals

[nathilustra]

finally got my favorite brush to work on clip studio paint and decided to doodle a Jun to celebrate the ocasion

[kumakuma-circus]

i added unbreakable tie to my persona playlist the other day and this is basically my thought everytime i listen to it.

[sweetchcolate]

p3 to p5 velvet room: only the chosen one, the wild card, may enter the velvet room

p1, p2 is/ep velvet room: yeah yeah whatever, you played the persona game? get in.

[narrators-journal]

Yandere!Tatsuya headcanons

Got a bit of yanderes on the brain after the Ryusui revisiting, so! The man of the hour gets a bit of a ramble lol. I hope this is coherent, and I hope you all enjoy!

INNOCENT SIN

Yandere!Tatsuya in the context of innocent sin would not be an overt yandere.

You likely wouldn’t heavily notice that you’re on his radar.

Tatsuya would be more like a stalker in innocent sin. Quiet, covert, but always watching you.

Violence-wise, he’s probably one of the least dangerous yanderes in innocent sin. He wouldn’t even be very aggressive to the people he’s jealous of, like lovers or friends.

But! While he’s not likely to maul you or a loved one of yours, he will watch you.

He will also sabotage any partner’s machines. Not likely to the extent of murder, but to the point of fear and paranoia, yes.

Outside of that though, he’s painfully awkward.

That’s why he’s more of a watcher. He’s not likely to kidnap you because he’s pretty shy and uncertain with romance. But, that doesn’t keep him from being a bit of a romantic.

Once he awakens his persona though, kidnap becomes a bit more of a risk.

He’d try to protect you from the masked circle and the joker, it’s well-intentioned, but loose on the consent aspect.

ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

Innocent Sin’s Tatsuya is not very yandere-leaning. It’s Eternal punishment’s Tatsuya that you need to be careful of.

By the time of Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya is a changed man.

Verging into a delusional level of paranoia, with Nova Keiser’s time ability on hand, having already fought god and won once, and potential hints towards the future from Apollo, Tatsuya quickly becomes a yandere you should fear.

By EP, Tatsuya is very okay with kidnapping a darling and hiding them away.

Granted, you would have to give him a reason to be too violent towards you still, but the question of escape goes off of the table.

You wouldn’t be able to run, you wouldn’t be able to fight him, you would be thoroughly stuck.

But, on the bright side, when you aren’t fighting or rejecting him, Tatsuya is still a very loving, awkward, endearing sort of yandere.

He wants a normal, safe life. He’s had enough fighting and anxiety and adventure, he’d want to just settle down and be happy with his darling. So, he wouldn’t be an ass to you unless he felt there was a need.

That being said, it wouldn’t be an easy life with him.

After so much heartache and pain thanks to Nyarlethotep and Philemon, Tatsuya would want to do nothing but hide his darling from the gods as best he could. So, you wouldn’t be allowed to really leave, have friends, work, or do much of anything at a minimum of without him. But, in all honesty, you wouldn’t do anything like that at all.

You’d be absolutely doted on! But also heavily guarded and sheltered away from the outside. You will wish for innocent sin’s Tatsuya as a yandere.

[alopias-pelagicus]

[fancypantsrecords]

Atlus Sound Team - Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Persona 2: Eternal Punishment | iam8bit | 2022 | Purple + Orange

[secondtryatablog]

Oof, a lil rusty on such rendered works...but! I'm proud of this lil girlie <3 I hope you enjoy her too!

[unearthlytwilight]

playing persona 2: innocent sin (aka the first one) again after yeeeeears. just cleared Sevens:

- I appreciate that there's not a "whoa, the supernatural is real??" sequence. the Joker Game is well-known and everyone has Personas already. the game just jumps into the action. I love that.

- fuck Eikichi's dad

- I forgot that Personas actually reacted to things in this game. I think they should have kept that as an in-universe boss warning thing.

- hilarious that Hanya's wish was "be popular, also have hair". works even if you haven't played P1

- I like how you fight other asshole Persona users in this game. I think the last time that happened was Takaya & Jin in 3 (also Kasumi/Sophia in P5R/S, but a) brainwashed b) not a real fight)

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Yosuke Hanamura's romance route

persona 4 has got this friendship/romance mechanic called "social links" which is basically just 10 events that you can choose to gradually level up for each sociable character in the game where you raise your relationships with said characters, which gives you various in-game boosts. most of the women in the game are able to be romanced. however, there is cut dialogue which implies that at some point, one of the male characters was meant to be a romance option as well! yosuke hanamura, the main character's best friend, has cut dialogue for his social link rank 10 event which is voiced (VOICED!! IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE!! WHILE PEOPLE HAVE DENIED THIS SINCE THE ENGLISH VOICE LINES HAVE HIM SAYING "I LIKE YOU," IN THE JAPANESE VOICE LINES, HE IS EXPLICITLY CONFESSING TO YOU I'M PRETTY SURE!!) that implies that there was at some point going to be an option to romance him. it's assumed that this was cut somewhere later in development due to the lines being voice acted, though i believe that the reason this was cut has not been confirmed yet (though, seeing as how persona 4 was made in the 2000s....... you can probably just guess why lol)

there were unreleased voice lines that showed what was supposed to be a gay route for Persona 4 (there ARE Japanese lines for this as well, and the way in which the "I like you" part is said is the Japanese version of confessing to someone you have a crush on) and a lot of fans do agree that the protagonist is best paired with Yosuke for character development purposes, but it was probably scrapped because of homophobia 😭

Exactly what it says. Was likely scrapped because Atlus are COWARDS who didn't wanna give us the gay romance we deserved. It would have been so cute though I'm forever pissed it was scrapped...

We know it was programmed it. Yosuke is the only male character with dialogue flags, meaning you can fail his social link. The only other characters with these flags are the female love interests. Yosuke also has recorded, in both English and Japanese, final confession lines, something unique to max rank romance social links. This means it was likely scrapped very late in development. As the game also covers (badly) gender and sexuality, we can hypothesize that Yosuke's character arc was supposed to be overcoming internalized homophobia. Instead he just kinda stays "jokingly" homophobic and never grows past it.

The player would have been able to enter a romantic relationship with the character Yosuke Hanamura— text and voice lines for this option still exist within the game, and can be activated via modding. They even have proper translations, and the English versions of the lines are voiced as well, implying that the cut was made rather far into development. While this is a sad loss in its own right, it also has devastating implications in regards to the original state of other pieces of LGBT+ representation which may have also been scrapped and/or heavily modified to appear. For example, Kanji’s attraction to men and Naoto’s gender situation were both downplayed and/or walked back in the final version of the game, but it’s highly likely that Yukiko’s arc was originally intended to include more bisexual overtones, and arguments can be made for Rise’s arc being meant to center on the struggle to come to some sort of terms with her own sexuality and presentation in an industry that keeps such a tight hold on those aspects of its workers lives.

throughout the entirety of persona 4 (+golden), yosuke is portrayed to be the best friend of the protag, but also extremely homophobic towards another male character who was hinted at being gay (before atlus fucked that narrative up too). his social link hints at him having a crush on the protag, and he was intended to have a romantic route just like the female characters, but that was cut (not sure why). the whole game is about embracing the truth, including your hidden sides that you are ashamed to show to others, and having yosuke come to terms with his repressed homosexuality (& realizing that he has internalized homophobia) would have fit perfectly within that theme, but atlus said fuck that shit and cut that entire romance out. the cut dialogue can easily be found on youtube. the thing with this being cut out is that without the romance and coming to terms with his homosexuality, the only thing left of yosuke is being very homophobic. no one condems yosuke for what he says to the other male character, and it is never addressed beyond mere gags or jokes. it's horrible to sit through and honestly it was such a missed opportunity. it's such an issue that people have made a mod implementing a romantic route for yosuke just because of this. every day i mourn thinking of what could have been

This game explores many queer themes, but lacks any explicit queer relationships. The fact that file scrapers and modders discovered an unused voice line for one of the male characters that implies a romance option for him was cut from the final game makes queer fans feel let down, regardless of how groundbreaking the other queer plot points were at the time of release. It's speculated that it was cut because devs or localizers thought that it would be too much queer content in one game, and that it would affect sales and create too much controversy. I, however, believe that anyone who manages to get through the mandatory gay sauna dungeon would have had no stones to throw about an optional mlm romance.

The first party member in Persona 4, Yosuke Hanamura, was originally going to be a viable romantic partner once the player got far enough into his Social Link. This was removed rather late in development, as voiced lines for a scene where he and the protagonist begin dating were recorded in both Japanese and English. To this day, Persona 2: Innocent Sin remains the only Persona game where the protagonist can enter a gay relationship with another boy.

In this game you can choose to romance several people. There is cut voiced dialogue for a romance route for Yosuke, the main character's best friend, but in the final game he is not a romanceable character. Some are of the opinion that taking out the romance option for Yosuke removes the complexity from his character.

article: https://gamerant.com/persona-4-golden-mod-yosuke-romance/

Devil Joker boss fight

In Persona 2, an important story/game mechanic is that rumors are becoming reality in the setting. You would have been able to spread a rumor that Joker, the leader of the Masked Circle cult, was an angelic or demonic figure, and that would have determined the corresponding boss fight when you reached a key point in the game. The ability to spread that rumor was never implemented (probably due to time constraints? or maybe because Devil Joker ripping himself in half was determined to be Too Much), and so the citizens of the city default to Joker being "as beautiful as an angel", leading to the Angel Joker boss fight instead.

recreation of the boss fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uz24UqZfYk Angel Joker for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPtkrsvI20&t=1227s

[kaetor]

happy birthday to my favorite doomed hero <3

[kumakuma-circus]

my persona playlist is stacked. 😎

and burning men's soul is also there-

[sweetchcolate]

femc fans: once again, we have been abandoned by atlus

p1/p2 fans: welcome to the club

[megaten-and-other-polls]

Megaten Funny Little Guy Tournament: Preliminary Match 17

[lesbian-empress-nero]

Eros, chilling one day: Man, y'know what would be funny?

Eros, aiming a bow at me:

Me, watching gameplay of Persona 2: Innocent Sin for the first time, blissfully unaware: Haha Eikichi is so silly-- BUWGGHHHHG GAHGH FHHHFHGGH GAH HAGCKJ GGHHHH