#Zenkichi aesthetic

[epitomees]

~ Zenkichi Hasegawa’s Tags ~ 

More will be added as needed. 

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Monsters and Magic: The Phantom Thieves, Part 2

Eldritch!Futaba and Dhampir!Haru

Witch!Akechi and Fae!Sumire

Werewolf!Zenkichi and ???!Sophia

[smolstarthief]

So I went mad with power and made a couple more aesthetic boards so enjoy! BeFunky link: Collage Maker: BeFunky - Create Photo Collages Online

AkeSumi board:

Hermit!Maruki from my own Arcana Swap AU: A shut-in researcher since a traumatic incident in college with Shibusawa occasionally stopping by to help him stay fed. His Persona is "Weishaupt" and is based on the founder of the Illuminati.

Justice!Zenkichi from the same AU: A celebrity Detective/Inspector who hides a dark secret. False Persona is Valjean and true Persona is Fenrir from Norse Mythology.

[brokenhardies]

Madoka ‘Luna’ Mishina (made in this dollmaker)

A student of Kosei High’s music department and the eldest daughter of Eikichi Mishina. While appearing aloof and stoic on the outside, Madoka is a very caring, charming and confident young lady, with a strong sense of justice. She’s only recently moved to Shibuya from Sumaru City, and feels like an outsider because of that.

During the Phantom Thieves investigation into Madarame, Madoka is dragged along for the ride, awakening when she witnesses her friend Yusuke Kitagawa’s cognitive portrait and realizing that his teacher saw her friend as an object rather than a person.

Her Persona is Della Rose, an Old West outlaw and member of the infamous Wild Bunch gang. Della Rose uses a combination of curse & bless skills, with an emphasis on critical based skills - learning physical moves with a high chance of critical - as well as learning both dekaja and dekunda.

Her codename, Luna, comes from the crescent shaped hair clip that she wears in her hair, as well as the fact that the moon is associated with the night, when Phantom Thieves typically strike. She wields a buckler shield as her melee weapon and a portable light machine gun as her ranged weapon.

[kingofdinosaurs]

anyway now for something completely different: it feels like fucked up that we don't know what arcana ernesto is. like can atlus PLEASE let me know what tarot card they assigned che guevara. also toshiro by extension. I'm interested!!! tell meeeeee!!!

[akirathief]

Tag dump #4: i keep forgetting to make very specific tags and losing some other ones so here's a few on an actual post i can find later

[gavalaa]

Sketches of all my redone designs for my Phantom Thieves from my AU, Icarus! Lots of info down below on the cut, so if you want to know more about the details and inspiration, feel free to keep reading!

This includes Akechi’s design for his Princely/Robin Hood attire, BEFORE his Icarus attire you might have seen from my other posts! Check out the Icarus AU tag for more info! Icarus has a main focus on Akechi and his relationship to the thieves, but the AU is actually an entire rewrite with new designs, 3rd semester and epilogue/strikers/tactica stories, hence Zenkichi and Sophia’s inclusion.

Read below for individual info:

I decided to include more motifs towards their persona’s and general vibes; and also just my own personal touches haha.

AKIRA - Not much has changed, I really like his design overall. I raised his boots to be like Arsene’s and changed his neck area.

MORGANA - I hate the OG pill shaped head, his new design is based heavily on the shape of Palico’s from Monster Hunter. Added a little more nod to Zorro/His persona motifs and also just made him cuter! Little hamburger headed cat.

RYUJI - I made him a little bulkier and gave some more weight to his outfit overall. I gave him heavier boots and a slightly buffer build to relate back more to his sporty style.

ANN - honestly was never too big on her latex outfit, I wanted to call back to a personal favorite female lead; Christine Daae, and used one of the versions of her Don Juan costume as inspiration. I remember seeing Phantom live and in many stage versions of her character, the Don Juan scene was a pure moment of female control, and she was truly working the Phantom and controlling every movement on the stage. Her presence is commanding, and I thought it was a very fitting tribute to Ann’s character as feminine strength. (I’m absolutely not referring to the movie iteration of Daae btw.)

YUSUKE - I referred to some historical art and legend of Goemon to add more elements of design to his outfit. When I color them, I want to add some really strong pops of color to his clothing to really drive the aesthetics and artistry home.

MAKOTO - Another totally redid outfit, I opted to give her a design which relates back to Popess Joan, and also Anat. I gave her a clawed hand on her right side and an uncovered hand on her left as both a nod to Anat’s hand raised in iconography of her from art history, but also to show the duality of Anat’s title as both a goddess of war, and of love. It also relates to the mythology of Joan and her nature as both a leader and a martyr. I changed her mask to a Venetian Commedia mask as well.

FUTABA - ok. I’ll be honest. I never liked her skin-tight outfit, it just doesn’t match her personality at all. Also, the high tech Egyptian feel never really sold me. I totally understand the tomb thing, but I truthfully think a dungeon/palace which was more like… tech/nerd themed would have been much more “futaba” the inspiration for this new outfit relates back to her persona, the Necromomicon, as well as her nerdy personality, and her affiliation as Alibaba (Ali Baba.) I wanted to go more lovecraftian, long sleeves and patterning designed to look more like lovecraftian tendrils, and big baggy pants and her classic shoes to match. The patterning on her undershirt will resemble a rib cage, both as a reference to her deathly “tomb” iconography, but also to Lovecraftian and Necronomicon lore. I think she matches the description of a nerdy, techie DND dungeon master more than the initial outfit, so that’s the route I took personally.

HARU - relating back to some fashions from 17th c France, where Milady’s story (the three musketeers) takes place, I kept her design relatively similar. I just gave her a little more iconography relating to the three musketeers and that general timeframe.

AKECHI - in his pre-Icarus outfit, I’ve given him a princely sort of outfit befitting of his two faced nature, and edited it to relate to Robin Hood a little more. I tried to keep it sleek and just generally very concealing and layered.

SUMIRE - i gave her some iconography relating back to one of her personas, who is an inference to Freya. I also included some more nods to classic Cinderella, with fantasy gown elements. Overall, relatively similar.

ZENKICHI - again, relatively similar, I really like his outfit. I just opened up the face some to show more personality and spiced up the outfit generally to keep it matching. honestly, les mis/Valjean was a hard one, but I also think his character could be heavily related back to Edmond Dante (Monte Cristo.) so I gave some nods to that as well.

SOPHIA - I turned her into a FINGIE!!!! I made her whole dress as a nod to her persona/to pandora’s tiles around her/the pillars. I wanted to make her small and almost unnatural since she’s an AI, and I thought having a little guy on the team would add some more variation.

[feldsparite]

pokemon au on my mind rn and i'm unsure if type: null should go to sophia or zenkichi

leaning towards sophie for the whole “artificial being abandoned by its creator” thing and also sophie being a prototype god/ null being based off arceus....

but null's general aesthetic+ physical attacker+ type gimmick fits zenkichi better. the mentions of null going berserk and the whole element of controlling that fury via the mask fits him better too...

[symphonic-scream]

hi hello sorry if ur nyquill has kicked in and i missed the jump BUT i have some age swap au questions - what's everyone's persona? elemental affinities? weapons? does iwai still sell them (even tho he's a member of the party) or does someone else do that?

Coming at you the morning after! I libed.

For the personas? I'm. Yeah I don't got much. I know the names would have to be Very Important, so I'm. Gonna take some time with that, but I have everyone's team roles?

Sojiro is of course, the wild card. But his original persona (my insert name for now has been Heracles, but. That's being changed) used Bless.

Next up is Chariot Sae! Her element is Ice! She's a bruiser for sure, having a line of physical attacks and a few spells to lower enemy defense. Low magic, super high physical. Her weapons are longer sticks, she. Has a hockey player aesthetic. Cause she is one-

As for Lovers Chihaya, I've given her wind. She's a wind girly in my opinion. She's got high magic stats cause she has their curing moves, the heals, etc

They. Should have a Magician. I. Just don't have one picked. Sorry folks

Then it's Emperor Munehisa. His element is fire. He's another bruiser type, does heavy damage. Debuffs enemies a bit y'know?

WOOOO and give it up for Priestess Toranosuke! Psi, he's a psi guy. A party buffer and healer, he's a great asset to the team!

And. Well. Hermit Tae is the Navi.

Empress Ichiko is nuke. She's, explosive lmao. Enemy debuffs, heavy nuke damage, she's a kicker for sure.

And then. The Royal party members.

Zenkichi is our Sumire here, so he'd be third semester only. Also, bless. At this point Sojiro would have enough firepower to be using Almighty anyways so. Yeah

And. Takuto.

He's Curse right from the start. He's bumbling and all that but he deals a lot of curse damage. Self buffs, all that

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Sorry that I don't have much for the weapons this is still a work in progress

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Munehisa Iwai does not provide the weapons! That's a role for the Hanged Man. Makoto.

She went down a different path here. Ex military, trying to stay on good behavior to keep custody of her younger sister. She runs a little military co-op in Shibuya, where she sells "models" to Sojiro and his team

That's those

[specterthief]

maruki pls!

Sexuality Headcanon: i pretty much see him as straight but the right author could definitely sell me on him being bi and just closeted in the "really REALLY supportive 'ally'" way but yeah generally what i've got for him in canon is "definitely likes women" Gender Headcanon: cis guy A ship I have with said character: i don't really ship him with anyone romantically tbh. he'd definitely need to do some serious work on himself to have a healthy romantic relationship and even on the horror side i don't really see that kind of chemistry with him and anyone. i've seen some maruki/takemi art and i dig the aesthetic but he doesn't deserve a goth gf A BROTP I have with said character: can you call something a brotp if you find it interesting in a horrible trainwreck kind of way the same way you can with calling something a ship generally? because whatever he has going on with joker and sumi in that case A NOTP I have with said character: i don't care for maruki/zenkichi. i don't have any kind of serious objection to it i just don't like zenkichi and what content there is for it all seems pretty removed from canon in a way that doesn't really appeal to me A random headcanon: he really wanted to have kids once he and rumi were married and he was bringing in enough money from his work, though subconsciously he was always kind of thinking of the idea of children in a very... hannibal-y "the idea of shaping a life is fascinating" way rather than a real understanding of what parenting would entail. with her gone he's totally written off the idea and would joke to anyone who ever asked him that he can't even take care of plants, let alone a human being, but he would mourn the opportunity if he ever let himself be normal about his own grief for one second General Opinion over said character: he is terrible and fascinating and i am deeply obsessed with him. the intersection of being a genuinely horrifying villain responsible for some of the biggest nightmare fuel in the game while also being the quintessential Just Some Guy who is also an absolute cringefail loser is just so perfect. guy of all time, progenitor of all my brain worms, i have listened to gentle madman on loop for several hours straight on multiple different occasions

[epitomees]

~ Takuto Maruki’s Tags ~

More will be added as necessary. 

[felldragxn]

((Okay, so P3R and P5T.

Reload: It looks really pretty. Like, aesthetically gorgeous, no doubt. I've wanted a remake of P3 for a long time... unfortunately, with the details we currently have, it is not a remake for me. It has aspects of FES and P3P, while leaving out major parts of them (The Answer, which is canon, and FeMC, which I presume by extension could also mean her social links, but uh they need to cut the Ken one even if she gets her day in the sun bc holy shit lmfao-

Anyway, I wanted a remake that would be a marriage of all the big parts of each version. People say "good riddance The Answer sucks"? This was their chance to make it better, and instead they're leaving it out despite the fact it sets up everything for Elizabeth outside of P3. I'm a little worried they're gong to make a version 2 of the remake to add those parts... If they make it DLC, I might be interested, but idk. As it is now, I'm going to pass on it.

Tactica: I'm a little sad knowing it'll have day 1 DLC because lmfao just put it in the game at that point, but I am interested enough in the base idea of it to give it a shot. I have faith in some of the spinoffs, and if this leans toward the Q series with different gameplay, I'm down. I hope Zenkichi is in it as at least DLC eventually i love dorky team uncle...))

[b66clematis]

those 2 P5 spinoffs (and its old men faceoff), pt 3: "what strikers can learn from tactica (spoiler: it's writing)"

last part of this series of writings between strikers VS tactica. see part 1 about which i like more here, and part 2 on between zenkichi and toshiro here. this one will be long though, and i don't intend to cut it again into 2 parts, as this series is long already.

now, while i did end up liking strikers more by overall, upon playing tactica, something btiters me about strikers. something that made me think of "damn man, strikers kinda sucked here badly, not gonna lie".

the first one is minor and not will be the focus here, but still gripped me: the UI. i liked how tactica has its a more distinguishable identity to their UI aesthetic. strikers meanwhile, feels really trying to follow what the base game has. my least favorite thing is the metaverse animation transition. the one strikers had is like a bad knock-off of the base game (the circles should have different weight and size!!!), it made me wish that strikers would just do a totally new animation, like what tactica did with its lava-bubbly effect. it's not mementos' metaverse anymore, anyway. even maruki's metaverse has its own effect.

the second, and my main point here, is the writing. the first thing that bugged me is, of course, how tactica's plot structure is not a P5 basegame rehash. even the first boss, which people thought is going to be "a sexual assaulter because they're pink skinned and has revealing/suggesstive outfit", doesn't feel like a kamoshida rehash. alice is definitely better and have a very different motive to harrass the powerless, but i always thought her BDSM-related writing always feel forced, as if they just want to make her pattern reminiscent of kamoshida. marie's real life counterpart at least isn't shown to be that kind of "horrible dominant" woman to toshiro. she's more like okumura with only a sprinkle of alice, if anything. which, hey, at least it breaks the mold more than what alice did.

although, i personally still loved with what we got for strikers. i think their approach, while fell in some aspects, also feels like "what can we appraoch differently, or maybe improve from the base game?". i just wish that they... maybe, avoid the 7 deadly sins pattern? make the first boss not another pink sexual assaulter? i think they can tread P5's water less. they already have a good concept by making the bosses sympathetic and using that as the game's angle, so i think they can be bolder in making their own story beats.

the second point of the second point (LOL) here is... i think there's a jarring quality between how koei tecmo and atlus writes the base game's characters (i don't know who are the writers for tactica - i think i read somewhere that at least one of them is outsourced, but at least it's picked and the game is mainly made by atlus themselves, so i assume more control). the two characters that i find to glow up the most from strikers to tactica are lavenza and futaba.

for lavenza... man, strikers lavenza is SO BORING. she's literally doing nothing but to guide you. and it doesn't help that she's guiding you with vague wordings, which kind of irks me. she's just there. i'm also irritated at how they wrote joker to always keep secret about talking to lavenza in the velvet room in strikers, when the entire party member already knew about the velvet room, igor, and lavenza in the base game! and i think, he should have introduced lavenza to sophia and zenkichi too.

in tactica, at least you see her having a bit more fun by trying to keep up with human lingo, remodifying her velvet room, and.. trains. i like trains [gets crashed by a train]. and joker doesn't gatekeep the velvet room from the team. erina and toshiro are also permitted to the velvet room (although to be fair, the plot kind of forces them to, otherwise there's no way they'll reach salmael). although in terms of lavenza's character, i can probably forgive them due to the lack of materials during strikers' development. you didn't get much time with lavenza, and you only get more of that in royal's 3rd semester expansion (which, she also gets to be silly there). probably the strikers writers are also as confused on what to do with her.

now, for futaba... wow. i think she really becomes BETTER here. i don't get people who whined how annoying futaba is for speaking in geeky references, beause like... she does the same in the base game, come on. she likened the real life like a game. her geeky lingo does not flanderize her at all, she's been like that since her arc in the base game. in strikers, i think she's the one that gets the least treatment (there's also another one, but we'll talk about it in the end).

she got her moment during the capture of the phantom thieves in kyoto jail and having to get zenkichi to them safely, but i thought 1) it was too brief, and 2) her talk pre-zenkichi's awakening about her mother feels... tacked. it's as if the writers go "oh shoot, we forget futaba's mother also died by a politican via car crash, quick put it in". i suppose it's due to how the writing have conditioned that each arc will be meant for a character, and while kyoto arc is about zenkichi, akane's circumstance made us think that this arc is about makoto, because the sapporo-okinawa trip mini arc looks it's dedicated for her. she also talks on a similar amount to zenkichi here. i think this could be fixed if futaba talks a bit more about it during the sapporo-okinawa trip mini arc. besides, i found her suddenly talking about her mother to zenkichi is weird, because we have never seen futaba saying anything about her mother. unless zenkichi does some detective work behind the camera (which seems to be the case, as zenkichi just connects like that), zenkichi won't know that futaba's mother died from car crashed planned by the government.

i actually think that futaba may do this due to her inability to communicate properly to others, so she may be holding off from saying things that... who knows how the other party will react. makoto thought explaining that she also went through a similar thing to akane would comfort her, but turns out it triggers akane a little bit, instead (due to lacking context of the case's behind the scenes). however, tactica gets this and still does the job right.

to recall kingdom 2, we got a geist on toshiro's mother, how she died, and how toshiro was blamed for her death. futaba definitely wanted to say something when she sees this memory. she talks about it, but she ends up holding it off. you get the intention that she wants to say something, but she couldn't. she looks frustated and has something to say. i think futaba has this moment too in strikers - she teared up when she heard akane's story during the study session with makoto. but she says nothing at all, so it comes off like she's just touched by it. she doesn't try to say anything to akane nor zenkichi.

and later on in kingdom 3, when toshiro finally unlocks all of his traumatic past and ends up thinking that he's a horrible person who doesn't deserve to be saved, futaba's emotion bottled up. it's full, and it has to be spilled. so she did - she slapped toshiro. with anger. she's done with holding it off and seeing toshiro falling down this easily. and what's great from this moment isn't just about how it shows the writers know what to do with futaba - it also has a good build up. it's not just a brief moment of "this character relates to the current plot". it's one done in a long run. it's so good that i have to put the snippet here.

these two really made me think that, goddamn. no matter how good is your third-party writer, the ones hired by atlus themselves and worked with the actual atlus writers will always get the characters better. like, koei tecmo did a good job in expanding characters that they intend to focus on to give them more spotlight, but the expense was a bit too much. the ones who don't get any are really left out. it kind of comes off as if the writers only know futaba the most for being a geeky girl, when IMO she has one of the most emotional arc in the base game. i also liked how all the characters got a roughly similar amount of spotlight in tactica, but i think this is just about preferences on how they approach the character focus. once again, strikers focuses more on giving spotlight for characters that are less-hyped by the fans, and they did it well. tactica just picks a more balanced approach by dunking all the kids' traumas to one old man. so yeah. i really wish for the next game, at least to have a more direct or strict overseeing from atlus.

now, the only issue both games have is... i think both games kind of forget that ryuji has an abusive dad, i think? surprised that ryuji still talks more about his school's bad enviroment more than his own family. this glaringly happens in strikers though, in which... i don't know man, i think ryuji should spat out his words more for konoe's dad. that guy literally murdered his own wife, man. but that F-word moment really saved him from falling into the same trap futaba has - although, that also only happens in the EN localization, who are familiar with that running joke. who knows what will happen, if we got a localization that are not familiar with it. i hope atlus gives him more spotlight too, at least for the international fans (i get that he's not popular in japan, and i think it's understandable. not a big issue to me). here's to hoping!

[floaties-for-arsene]

hahahahahahah....have some of my hasemaru headcanons i swear i have genuine reasons for these 😳

[starlight-phantom]

This moodboard is for HaseMaru (Zenkichi Hasegawa X Takuto Maruki) from Persona 5 Scramble and Persona 5 Royal.

[cherubchoirs]

Hoping they give Wolf actual characteristics of real wolves. It has so much potential for hilarity and cuteness. I’m in love with the idea of a Zenkichi that’s timid and risk adverse unless someone is threatening his kids or his ability to provide for them.(Which definitely supports the idea that Akane is a catalyst for his awakening.)

omggg yes actually playing into the “papa wolf” trope as a play on his codename would be great! honestly i’m glad that team animal got another member like,,,,it’s so sad that ann and yusuke lost goro,,,,the animal pts need to stick together and now wolf can join their group. BUT ANYWAY i’m really interested too in what his character is going to be like, esp his “mask” vs his “true” self...and i like the idea of it being that he’s sort of avoidant in the real world, but in the metaverse he’s a very protective figure, of both the thieves (bc GOD give them an adult that actually does something proactive to protect them) and especially of his own daughter. it would really suit the name “wolf”