#first three protags just chillin

[shitpostingkats]

There's a lot of old unfinished works on my phone, and it just occurred to me that I want them archived somewhere! Have two years of old sketches, designs, and paintings! Remember not to judge yourself just by the drawings you finish, your skill is also equally built on all those abandoned projects sitting in your gallery somewhere <3

[asteraws]

Christmas in Wyndon!!!

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

Sumire and Ryuji from persona 5!

Hi volt! Sorry this took a while! Under a cut cause it’s gonna be a little long.

And for context for the rest of my followers, send me a character and I’ll talk about them!

Ryuji first! Because it’s the boy!

do I like them: Like him? Like him??? I adore the boy! That’s my boy! 

5 good qualities: 1) Okay I know a lot of people put it in the negative qualities, but his anger. It consistently comes from a place of compassion, of seeing people being treated less than they deserve! I love a good example of righteous fury and Ryuji has it in spades. Plus, for me at least, it’s relatable. 2) That said, even if it’s (in my humble onion) good anger, it can get ahead of him/out of hand, and he recognizes that. And when it goes too far, he apologizes! He knows, admittedly often in retrospect, when he’s gone too far and needs to make up for it. And then he does! 3) Loyal, kind of to a fault. He’s ride or die for the protag from day one to endgame, even if you take the options to be an asshole to him and throw him under the bus for the entire game. He’s still looking out for the track team even though they don’t want anything to do with him. He deserves better. 4) He loves his mama. 5) That smile. Enough said.

3 bad qualities: 1) Always putting himself down. He’s fantastic and needs his confidence back. No, honey, you do not deserve to be beat up by your ex-teammates from track. I’m gonna beat them up right back, and then the people who let you think this way, starting with Atlus. 2) Protag can’t romance him. It’s not his fault though. 3) Poor boy got slapped with the Token Perv designation. (There is a pattern here to his bad qualities that are more about Atlus than the character himself.)

favourite episode/etc: I love his awakening (granted, I love all the awakenings) but probably my favorite thing is when he just. Invites you to go fishing on his birthday? Without actually telling you that’s what day it is? He just decides that what he wants for his birthday is to spend the day with his best friend just chillin’??? But doesn’t wanna pressure you? He’s! A good! Boy!

otp: Akiryu, pegoryu, whatever you wanna call it. Skull and Joker are soulmates and that’s that on that.

brotp: Ryuji&Ann and Ryuji&Futaba are my favorites, but just in general he deserves all the friendships.

ot3 ot4: Ryuji/Akira/Makoto/Haru. I could go on at length about why I adore the potential dynamic here. But I won’t on this post. Feel free to ask me about it sometime though. Buuut it’ll probably take me a while to answer, fair warning.

notp: Honestly, as long as it isn’t something Overtly Gross (cause 16), I don’t really have a notp for him. He’s full of love that needs to be shared.

best quote: Listen, we all love the “bein’ free” and “my place is next to you” quotes, so those go without saying. Instead, consider: “My whole life I thought I was banned from watching R-rated movies because my mom told me it stands for no-Ryuji.”

head canon: Shit, normally I have a few dozen headcanons rattling around in my brain at a time, but today I got nothin’ that I can dredge up and put to paper (metaphorically) so instead, uh, this song always makes me think of him.

And Sumi!

do I like them: I really do, partly out of spite for the part of the fandom that doesn’t like her, mostly out of genuine enjoyment for the character.

5 good qualities: 1) I’ll say it flat out, I respect her saying that the Phantom Thieves aren’t a permanent solution to society’s problems and that while they’re doing good work for those with no other options, society as a whole would stagnate for relying on them and not facing their own problems head-on. Because she’s absolutely right (as seen in the 12/24 Bad Ending), regardless of the particular irony of her circumstances when she said it. 2) Her overall growth from depression and self-deprecation to unflinching determination is super admirable and tbh kinda resonated with me. 3) Again, respect for turning down the Phantom Thieves to focus on herself. I like an ally character who won’t immediately bend over backwards for a player character, it keeps things interesting. 4) Impressively sneaky. Very important for a Phantom Thief, even if she isn’t officially one until almost the end. Tailed them in Sae’s palace without tipping them off on the 18th, eavesdropped on the conversation with Lavenza and just turned up in Maruki��s palace like it was no big deal, she’s fuckin’ impressive. 5) Who doesn’t love a good cook?

3 bad qualities: 1) Not her fault, but the big gap in the story between maxing her confidant early on in the game and then not being really relevant at all until 3rd semester save for a couple of “hey remember she’s still around” cutscenes leaves her feeling really isolated from the rest of the game. It’s more an issue of the writing not making an effort to connect her to the rest of the group/story at large. (I have my issues with Persona 4 Golden, but the New Girl confidant was at least better linked to the rest of the team during her social link.) 2) Girl I get the depression aspect, but why did you think Kasumi wouldn’t have mourned your death beyond, “well now I’m gonna keep working at this goal for both of us”??? (I know, I know, she is grieving, but a lot less that we see her do as Sumire, and again, the depressive spiral that made her take off like that anyways, but still.) 3) Another complaint more at the writing team than at the character herself, but I do wish that the protag could have been a little more of a smartass to her like he can to the rest of the team. “Are you going to the park cleanup too?” “Nah, I’m wearing my school gym clothes for fun.” Y’know, harmless sass like that. She suffers from a little bit of “Here’s The New Waifu, Now Love Her” writing. 4) Atlus, please give me a Confidant item that gives me those sweet, sweet perks back in NG+.

favourite episode/etc: Her second/real awakening during the third semester. Partly because by the time we got to Makoto’s awakening, the tearing-off-the-mask moment was more of a “okay you’ve seen this part, on to The Reveal” and that was disappointing because I liked how visceral and cathartic the first three were, and boy did hers fuckin’ deliver on that. It was fantastic.

otp: I’m a sucker for Sumitaba. Although Harusumi snuck up on me recently.

brotp: Ann&Sumire and Yusuke&Sumire, but again just give her all the friends. And then a couple more just for good measure.

ot3: Sumire/Enough Food To Fuel The Growing Athlete/Writing That Doesn’t Food Shame Her

notp: Again, as long as it’s not an Overtly Nasty, You Need Jesus ship (saw one person ship her and maruki and just. Yikes.), I don’t really have a notp for her. That said, my first playthrough was more “that’s my little sister” than a character I wanted to romance, so shusumi took a little bit of a brain adjustment.

best quote: “I am myself! I’ll never forget that again!” Fuck yeah, girl, heal from that trauma!

head canon: Haru and the Yoshizawa twins were friends as very little kids in the same beginner ballet class.

[pendulumprince]

It is I, ready to be devastated by this, episode 20

Okay, so after that crAZY FLASHBACK THAT MADE ME RELIVE EPISODE 19

So we’ve got Playmaker at 500 LP and a 2500 ATK monster

And Akira at 1100 LP and a 3500 ATK monster

Akira’s got all these crazy traps and spells protecting his monster

Playmaker has a trap and that lone facedown

HE DEMANDS TO KNOW WHO MASTERMINDED THE PROJECT

“I can’t tell you. What’s the point? It’ll only increase your hatred, turning you into the devil of revenge.”

Is that… is that foreshadowing.

Ai pops up out of that duel disk

“Playmaker, you two are on parallel tracks.”

“Seems so.”

“OUR OPINIONS MATCH FOR THE FIRST TIME. I’m touched!” ahhhh my precious AI son, he just wants to be Playmaker’s pal (foR SOME REASON)

Akira vows to stop Playmaker

“The goddess of victory is on my side” lmao wanna bet my dude

AKIRA TAKES HIS TURN

GOES IN TO ATTACK FIREWALL

GG thinks over Akira’s strategy

How Playmaker’s gonna lose if this attack connects

AI IS SCREAMING

PLAYMAKER TELLS HI TO CHILL OUT

HE PLAYS A QUICKPLAY SPELL

HE BANISHES FIREWALL AND ADDS ANOTHER MONSTER TO HIS HAND

BANISHES A TRAP??

AND IT ENDS THE BATTLE PHASE

AKIRA IS SO. MAD.

AND NEXT TURN, FIREWALL CAN ATTACK AKIRA DIRECTLY

BUT AKIRA’S GOT THAT SWEET, SWEET MONSTER EFFECT

HE SUMMONS A TOKEN

HIS ACE GOES UP TO 4000 ATK

Now, Ai just thinks that’s fuckin hilarious

Since he can attack directly next turn

BUT AKIRA KNOWS THAT

HE ACTIVATES A FIELD SPELL

A… GLOWING PINK DISK IS FLYING AROUND THE FIELD??

IT CREATES THIS WEIRD PATTERN AROUND PLAYMAKER

AW DAMN

AW SHIT

WITH THIS CARD

IF HE HAS AT LEAST THREE TINDANGLES ON THE FIELD

PLAYMAKER CAN’T ATTACK

MY DUDE

ARE YOU SERIOUS

AND??

DURING THE STANDBY PHASE HE CAN MOVE HIS MONSTERS ONTO PLAYMAKER’S SIDE OF THE FIELD?? UM.

OKAY SO IF HE DOES THAT HE CAN FILL UP ALL HIS LINKS AND DEAL 4500 IN DAMAGE TO PLAYMAKER

GG THINKS AKIRA’S GONNA WIN FOR SURE

LOL BUT IS HE THE PROTAG, THOUGH

“Aw… sorry to bother you, but I need to pack up for my move.” AI NO.

SHOICHI IS TIGHT

KITA IS HAPPY?? HE DOESN’T WANT PLAYMAKER TO GET THE DATA

NAH, HE WANTS IT

HE WANTS TO USE IT AS BLACKMAIL AGAINST THE BOSSES

SO HE’LL GET AN EVEN HIGHER PROMOTION??

LMAOOOOO KITA DO YOU KNOW HOW CRAY THAT IS

THAT PLAN IS 500% NOT GOING TO WORK YOU FOOLISH FOOL

“ZAIZEN, FIGHT HARD FOR MY PROMOTION!”

O K A Y !

Playmaker tells Akira this duel is for justice

But he knows that, that’s why he doesn’t want Playmaker to get the info

“I’ll solve this incident and hold the people responsible.”

“No, you don’t know anything!”

PLAYMAKER CLAIMS TO BE THE ONE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE

“I DON’T TRUST ANYTHING BUT MY OWN JUSTICE”

PLAYMAKER TAKES HIS TURN

FIREWALL COMES BACK ONTO THE FIELD

HE SUMMONS ANOTHER MONSTER

AW DAMN PLAYMAKER’S THEME IS PLAYING?? HE’S GONNA WIN THIS TURN LOL

HE SPECIAL SUMMONS A 2000 DEF MONSTER

LINK SUMMONS WITH IT

BRINGS OUT LINK SPIDER AT 1000 ATK

ACTIVATES IT’S EFFECT

SPECIAL SUMMONS a 1500 ATK MONSTER

LINK SUMMONS AGAIN

BRINGS OUT A 1500 ATK MONSTER

AND NOW, ANOTHER

“No matter how many you summon, it’s pointless! As long as Euler’s Circuit envelops the field, you can’t attack!”

AI POPS UP OUT OF NOWHERE

“WE KNOW THAT! But we justr wanted to show off before we lose—-!” I’m screaming.

PLAYMAKER IGNORES THEM, CONTINUES

LINK SUMMONS FOR A THIRD TIME

SUMMONS A 1000 ATK MONSTER

AND PUTS IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF AKIRA’S ACE

GIVING IT IT’S THIRD LINK

UM????

Akira straight up thinks he made a mistake lol

No, actually

He thinks Playmaker’s “choosing self destruction” omg

SO HE ACTIVATES HIS TRAP CARD

HE DESTROYS ALL THE MONSTERS LINKED TO HIS ACE (INCLUDING PLAYMAKER’S)

AND REVVS UP TO DEAL 4500 LP IN DAMAGE TO PLAYMAKER

*SCREAM*

THE ATTACK? CONNECTS???

GG AND BLUE ANGEL ARE STUNNED

“Playmaker’s revenge is over…”

"Are you sure?"

“Ta da~! We’re fine!"

BECAUSE THAT MONSTER HE HOOKED AKIRA’S ACE UP WITH

MAKES EFFECT DAMAGE 0

GOOD SHIT GOOD SHIT

HE LITERALLY TRICKED AKIRA

AI IS SO HAP

“WE DID IT, PLAYMAKER! SEE THAT? HE WAS FOOLED BY MY EXCELLENT ACTING!”

“… due to your horrible acting, he almost realized what I was up to.”

SO AKIRA’S ACE GOES DOWN TO 3000 ATK

THE FIELD SPELL PREVENTING PLAYMAKER FROM ATTACKING GOES AWAY

HE BRINGS BACK THAT 1000 ATK MONSTER FROM BEFORE

THE ONE WHO FUCKED UP AKIRA’S SHIT

HE ACTIVATES FIREWALL’S EFFECT

HE RETURNS TINDANGLE HOUND AND ANGEL TO AKIRA’S HAND??

THIS BRINGS AKIRA’S ACE DOWN TO 0

AND

HE GOES IN TO ATTACK IT WITH FIREWALL

BLUE ANGEL… STARTS RUNNING??

SHE TRIED TO TAKE THE HIT FOR AKIRA BUT HE  SHIELDED HER FROM IT

HE PASSES OUT??

Okay nah he’s fine

GG congratulates Playmaker on his win

“No one may be able to erase his fire for revenge anymore.”

Playmaker saunters up to the lot of them

He wants his motherfucking data

“Ai, eat as much as you want.”

“Playmaker, what did you just say? Did you say my name?”

“Hurry up."

SO AI BECOMES A TENTACLE MONSTER AND GOES TO TOWN ON THAT DATA

Playmaker walks away

“Zaizen, stay away from The Incident and from me” lmao

Akira asks Playmaker why he didn’t just have Firewall attack him directly

And that’s because Tindangle Hound and Angel "protect each other.”

Damn, even Playmaker saw that plain-as-day symbolism

“You two shouldn’t be resting in the graveyard. My revenge shouldn’t drag you into the darkness. You two should walk where there’s light."

EMBARRASSED BY HIS OWN MUSHY SPEECH, PLAYMAKER RUNS OFF

Lmaoo okay dude

“Everyone, bye bAi! Get it?” Ai get your adorable ass out of here

They skate off

GG logs out, too. “Be nice to each other!”

Akira’s mad at himself for not being able to stop/help/whatever Playmaker

But Blue Angel tells him it’s cool

“At the very least, I now understand how you feel.” ;_;

But she also tells him Playmaker’s gonna do what he wants regardless of what happens

She’s right, that boy doesn’t give a fuck

BACK IN THE REAL WORLD

KITA IS TIIIIIGHT

“ZAIZEN, YOU’RE WORTHLESS. HOW COULD YOU ALLOW PLAYMAKER TO STEAL OUR COMPANY’S DATA?!”

Boy knows he’s about to lose his job lol

“NO ONE MUST FIND OUT. NO ONE! NO ONE AT ALL! AND NO ONE MUST ASK!”

He’s screaming this.

He’s screaming it, and there are two employees right outside the door who can hear everything he’s saying

Well, have fun in the mailroom, Kita~!

Meanwhile, Ema’s on her bike

“I wonder who’ll buy this data at a high price?”

… OH YEAH. SHE STILL HAS A COPY OF IT

YEAH YOU GO GIRL

Okay back in the hotdog truck

Yusaku’s back

BREATHLESS AND EXHAUSTED

Shoichi asks if he’s okay, and

TELLS AI HE DID A GOOD JOB

THE LIL GOOBER IS SO HAPPY

So noW they’re gonna analyze Ai’s "private parts" again. Because of course they are.

Yusaku tells him to be quiet or the speaker’s going off

Shoichi takes a look at the data

AND

IT’S KOGAMI

HIS FIRST NAME IS KIYOSHI

HE "PLANNED AND EXECUTED THE HANOI PROJECT"

AH HA

HA HA HA HA

OH HE’S DEAD.

KOGAMI IS DEAD.

And he’s…

A researcher at SOL Tech.

So apparently Kogami “caused The Incident alone"

So the Chess Piece Bosses… weren’t in on it? Interesting.

They found out due to a whistleblower

Ai suggests maybe Akira was involved??

DON’T GO PLANTING THAT IDEA INTO THEIR HEADS

I’M NOT READY TO LOSE MY BOOSHIE SON YET

HE IS YOUNG AND FULL OF PROMISE

Okay but Shoichi tells him that’s not possible, since Akira was 16 at the time and not involved with SOL yet

Um wait

WAIT

SHOICHI AND YUSAKU STUMBLE UPON SOMETHING… SHOCKING??

APPERENTLY, SEVEN YEARS AGO

KOGAMI DIED.

AH HA HA HA HA NO HE DIDN’T

But then, this dude wanted to play god so who knows

Mmm… okay. Back at Rev’s place

His dad, presumably Kogami, is there in that hospital bed

And in… Link Vrains? Is that where this is

Okay those are Rev’s fancy shoes, it’s recognize them anywhere

He’s looking at some shit with his pops

“This power… a new fight is beginning…”

“Yes. When this seed bears Hanoi’s fruit, that’s the end of Link Vrains—no, the whole network world. To achieve this long-cherished desire, I resurrected from the dead.”

HE HAS THIS FLOWING CUBE IN HIS HAND, AND

HE DROPS IS DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR

OH NO. WHAT IS IT. FUCK.

PREVIEW TIME!

Yusaku’s chillin by the hotdog truck

Ai and Roboppy are handing out, flirting with each other like a couple of bastards

And Rev’s still hanging out in Link Vrains

That’s it!

[raguna-blade]

Bored, and reading a bit of persona wiki stuff bout Nyarkylumps and Phil. Been a spell since either of them made a major play in the series, in a direct overt sense, so it’s kind of weird that the big good and bads of the series kinda took a back seat.

So my thought, based on loose understandings of the the first three (P1,2IS and 2EP) is that the reason they haven’t really shown back up yet, is kinda two fold.

1, they totally have, just in relatively lesser forms. Nyar is supposed to be all the evils of mankind right? In basically every persona game since, that’s what you’ve been fighting. Or rather, a Singular Evil of mankind, some negative aspect of them pumped up to 11 that is still, rather understandably, completely apocalyptic still. Philemon in turn sends 1(One) single Wildcard user with velvet room after them, cause fairs fair, gotta stick to the rules and all.

2, loose understanding strikes again, but didn’t nyar get punted back into the collective unconscious full stop? Like coming back from that’s hard. Probably a good thing no kind of jail break attempts have occurred whatsoever since then right. This would also kinda explain why in universe at least the parties haven’t had a mass of wild card types anymore. That level of shenaniganery would probably by default have to call for some all the worlds evils given so far each given protag more or less can snap at least one or two lesser evils like a kit kat by the end. Though, now that i wonder about it, this makes the velvet room attendants even weirder. Like the general vibe i’m getting is that the velvet room is some kind of actualizer for the collective unconscious right? Take the hidden and make it seen and all that. Igor, Big Neutral that he is, (I mean he treads good sure, but by rights he’s also not gonna step in beyond what help he already gives. I’d be zero percent surprised if he ALSO helped out a quote unquote evil wild card type.) more or less seems to be like...Well, actually seems to straight up be the levers and guide to it all (and given the way it’s framed in games 3-5, straight up helps the hero’s get in touch with the good and bad of themselves) so he’s more or less taking up a guide role, see the ways you can be good or evil, can give in or succeed. But then what the hell are the attendants? They’re referred to those who govern power right? If i’m remembering. And they’re also, each and everyone of them, stupidly powerful. But not in the ways that the protagonists are? It’s a singular power kind of deal. Not to mention they rock the shadow eyes. I half wonder if they’re supposed to be like, a portion of the Protag’s shadow that get’s split off (which has some interesting implications given the trend so far is universally the opposite gender as their guest, along with some romantic feelings/crushes/deep affection going on there, pretty much always)

If their relationship with their guests are that direct (not necessarily a shadow but)..oh.

Are they supposed to be Anima/Animus? Doing a quick wiki walk, that actually makes a kind of sense. They’re supposed to be, effectively, active guides and forms of the unconscious. Which, basically is what they are. A kin of shadows basically, one that is rational and thinking and full and not just an uninhibited mass of thoughts. Getting in touch with your opposite gendered one (technically both are possessed, but for jungian theory apparently getting in touch with the one opposite is the key since they have aspects that the other gender wouldn’t have.) results in a fuller stronger you. Which aligns with their social links which involve making very specific persona’s with specific abilities, basically coming to a closer cleaner stronger understanding of your myriad selves that exist within you, to get a better view of the real you. Of course, if they’re related to the Protags like that, it raises weird questions of chronology given that Margaret is the oldest but of the 4 is the second one active, but then they also seem to canonically exist outside of time in some respects so if they are directly tied to their guests in that way, it wouldn’t really matter cause lol timenanigans. Though, it could simply be a case of literally waiting for the right person, which would track too. They existed in the C.U. just chillin and suddenly, BAM.