#azathoth persona

[glassrednoshozo]

yapping session. just wanted to draw em together

[adam-sadmon]

So I was thinking about Maruki (as I do 23 hours and 48 minutes a day, leaving 10 minutes for existential dread and 2 for sleep) and I was reminded of that Robert Caro quote (shout out to Lindsay Ellis' Game of Thrones videos), 'Power doesn't always corrupt, but it always reveals', to paraphrase, the idea that there are such people who are incorruptible and those we believe in power who've let it control them didn't need much corrupting to begin with.

I think about all the people who've wronged Maruki like the robbers, the guy who pulled all funding from Maruki's research etc. And how the very notion of revenge never even occurred to him, he had god-like power to rewrite their lives but, because Maruki was always a good person going about his quest wrong, he didn't let the power get to him because therr was nothing there to get.

[violetstrations]

[ID: a fully rendered digital comic featuring various characters from persona 5 royal narrated by Azathoth. Panel 1 & 2: A birds-eye view of Takuto Maruki visiting Rumi in a hospital. Azazoth says "I have a deep fondness for human desires. When they fulfil their desires," the statement finishes in the next panel, "then I, too, feel a great sense of fulfilment." with a close-up shot of Maruki placing his fist near to Rumi's, both grasping one of Azazoth's tendrils. A third tendril lies in between their hands as if to separate them. 3: A speech bubble against a black background shouts "But there are far too many limitations on my ability to do that here!!" 4 & 5: Sumire Yoshizawa ties up her hair with a ribbon as it says "Once a wish is granted, it vanishes." During a scene where Goro Akechi and Joker happily hang out in the Jazz Jin, it says "Or by fulfilling the desires of one person," above Joker, then "it becomes impossible to fulfil the desires of another." above Akechi. 6: Azathoth's skeleton glows inside Maruki's silhouette, as well as the tendrils wrapping around his arms. During this, it says "That's why I want to swallow the entire world. If I can do that, then within me," 7: It finishes, "I can fulfil your desires for all eternity." End ID]

Azathoth's stake.

or: I redrew a page from dunmeshi and set it in the third semester. sorry the low quality I have no idea what happened here 😭

og page below. MAJOR dungeon meshi spoilers if you wanna avoid that

[ID: a page from the dungeon meshi manga narrated by The Winged Lion.

Panel 1: A panel showing a person looking at a bookshelf, a person caressing their skin, and a person preaching to a crowd. The Winged Lion says "I have a deep fondness for human desires. When they fulfill (sic) their desires, then I, too, feel a sense of fulfillment (sic). I want to grant the desires of every human in the entire world."

2: He shouts "But there are far too many limitations on my ability to do that here!!l

3 & 4: Over Thistle's unconscious form, he says "Once someone's wish is granted, then it vanishes..." Over Mithrun holding his partner's cheek in front of a heartbroken witness, he finishes "Or by fulfilling (sic) the desires of one person... It becomes impossible to fulfill (sic) the desires of another."

5: The Winged Lion mimics the motion of eating something between his fingers as he says "That's why I want to swallow the entire world. If I can do that, then within me... I can fulfill (sic) your desires for all eternity."

End ID]

[blacksoulkid]

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[snowbrews]

just a scratch.

[rhymebeat]

[leelreallylikespersona]

Made IM icons for Yaldabaoth and Azathoth specifically so I could make this:

Wasn't sure where to put Joker so he's in a transparent png void. Also why he's in a group chat with two gods I don't know

Nefarious OOC Azathoth alt:

[xeverlee]

ngl nyarlathotep is my favorite persona antagonist

spoilers below the cut for all mainline persona games! (including p2!)

why? because he actively girlboss gatekeep gaslight’s literally everyone (specifically jun, more on him later-), he is the shadow of everyone’s souls, and almost every other persona villain basically comes from nyarly to some extent (except for nyx, who is probably on the same or a greater power level than nyarly, considering that nyarly (and phil) came from nyx, because she created the collective unconsciousness)

shit this is turning into another p2/p3 post again isn’t it. shit. let me atleast rant about jun real quick.

jun (Joker) is easily my favorite human antagonist. he’s just been manipulated so much and ifjdjdkfhdkdk when nyarly pretended to be jun’s father- jun didn’t have anyone. except his father who miraculously returned from the dead. of course he would latch onto the one and only parental figure in his life and believe everything he’s been told.

also really fuckin good fic by VampireBadger, it’s one of my favorite p2 fics: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50072407

fuckit. i’m going off the rails now. i will die on this hill but in terms of power levels, here’s my tier list on persona antags:

nyx. (the reason nyx got “defeated” was bc p3mc sealed away EREBUS)

nyarlathotep. (every other god antagonist came from nyarly.)

azathoth. (in h.p. lovecraftian mythos, azathoth is literally nyarly’s dad, but in my tier list rn he’s lower bc he got demoted to maruki’s persona 💀💀)

yaldabaoth?? (surprisingly! the fact that he was able to fuckin imprison IGOR in the velvet room is pretty impressive, but other than that he’s a massive bitch)

Erebus. (literally just depression. that’s it. erebus kinda had to rely on getting to nyx to actually start The Fall)

Izanami. (the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog- in all seriousness, izanami was prob the weakest in mainline persona games.)

not adding the spin-off antags but ye

[cassiopeias-art]

How do you do Persona Royal fandom

[texeoghea]

royal should have ended like this btw

[crimescrimson]

Satanael Defeats The God Of Control in Persona 5 Royal (2019)

[lavengoop]

//P5R Spoilers

Almost perfect✨🐙🧃

[adam-sadmon]

So a minor thing but I've always liked Maruki's treasure being a torch. I think it's a great malleable metaphor that's whatever the beholder wants it to be.

To the weak and the helpless it's a guiding light in the dark, a means out of the blackness of despair and into the golden light of Maruki's paradise.

I think Maruki thinks of it almost in the classical sense you see in a lot of the heavenly/Grecian art, the aesthetic of which comes up a bit in the second half of his palace. In this instance it's almost Promethean, his is the fire of enlightenment he gifts to the masses, though his idea of spiritual enlightenment, ironically, is ignorance.

[kazeillustrations]

Day 7: Alternate Universe

“Would you rather I take that for you? You’re all friends, right?”

I love the complexities of the false ending. There’s a lot of debate as to whether it’s a “good” ending or a “bad” ending, but one thing’s certain—it’s an alternate universe that undermines all of the struggles the heroes went through.

[blacksoulkid]

Hey guys something is wrong with my priest

[hotcuppacocoa]

if I had a nickel for every reality warping doctor with a Persona who was based on Lovecraftian gods I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice