#goro aqueuechi

[uwukechi]

Goro: Would you please not Ryuji this into a situation worse than it already is?

Ryuji: Hang on, did you just use my name as a verb?

[chigasakism]

Earlier I saw Omi-san carrying a hamster, so I asked if I could pet it but it was actually a muffin so I'm on my way to jump off a cliff now.

Muku, probably

[uwukechi]

Attic Trash ♡

my esteemed rival,

[uwukechi]

Futaba: why are your tongues purple

Ren: we had slushies! I had a blue one

Goro: I had a red one.

Futaba: oh

Futaba: ...

Futaba: oH

Sumi: ?

Sumi: Senpai, did you have each other's slushies?

[uwukechi]

Ren: Okay so. in the palace all the straight people are gonna assume we're one of them. So we'll be like secret gay agents

Haru: Lesbianage!

Ann: bi spy!!

Yusuke: it is an ace case.

Futaba: pan w a plan heheheh

Goro:

Goro: [sighs]

Goro: Secret gaygents.

[uwukechi]

Joker, internally: Don't let your little crush screw this up, don't let your little crush screw this up, don't--

Joker: Nice job, Crow! Baton pass to me!

Crow, high-fiving Joker: On it, Jo-

Joker, interlacing their fingers: I love you

[uwukechi]

#meta #yea unpopular opinion but i also think about this a lot.... #and like most of the social links are focused on akira helping whichever friend with their problems #rather than focusing on their relationship as friends #he's constantly running ragged doing so many favors for so many people #and i feel like as a group they leave basically everything up to akira to handle on his own #i feel like none of his friends ever really ask how he's doing #especially with them knowing what he's been through #(aside from maybe morgana??) #like none of them seemed to care much about how risky the interrogation room plan was #or how much physical and psychological torture he would have to endure even if the plan was successful... #they're all just like woo hoo! we did that plan! #even tho they didn't really do very much... and then akira has to stay home from school and pretend to be dead... #idk i think the group dynamics and character interactions is one of p5's weakest points... #im sorry these tags are so messy;; #im just emo about akira and i wish he had friends who cared about him..

via @soft-shuake​

About some recent twitter discourse.... no one is saying that Akechi is a better friend to Ren than the PT because they all abandoned Ren in term 3, but a lot of us do think that the PT are pretty self centred for the majority of the game and are honestly not good friends to him.

A key argument against this that’s brought up is ‘but they freed him from juvie!!!’ Which one, if they’re only willing to help him out in that one extreme case that’s not a sign of friendship and the way they talk about it makes it sound like they feel they owe him which.... also isn’t friendship. And two, they didn’t. Ohya and Sae were the two instrumental figures in this:

The PT and some of the other confidants simply collected good character evidence which is hearsay evidence and hearsay evidence is almost never accepted in court. We as the player know he didn’t do it and know he’s a good guy, but the fact that he was a nice guy doesn’t change the fact the court believes he assaulted someone.

So they try to help him out once but don’t manage to even impact it that much (Sae does mention that the story got a lot of traction in the public eye and he got a lot of support but again- just because people think you’re a good guy doesn’t mean you should be excused for the crime you committed).

I’ve also seen the example of the interrogation room, that they helped him there but that wasn’t exactly altruistic either. The police already suspected them all and they knew if everyone thought their leader was dead they’d probably close the case against them. And even if they don’t... they decide to send in the guy who has obvious trauma with regards to getting arrested to go through with the plan where he risks his life and gets arrested???

Moreover, when he does come back yeah they’re happy, but even after seeing how bruised up he is not once do they ask him if he’s doing okay? They just joke about it like ‘wow we sent our leader in and he really tricked Akechi! Haha I mean he got roughed up but he pulled off the plan!’. Hell you can even have Ren say he has amnesia because of how many drugs were injected into him and that doesn’t raise any flags for them??

Otherwise throughout the game Ren is always solving their problems without expecting anything in return, always giving them gifts but not receiving anything in return (yeah, he gets chocolate on Valentine’s Day but it’s either from someone he’s dating or Ryuji’s pity chocolate that he already got from his mum in the first place, unlike Ren who spends actual time and money getting gifts for them).

Yes they’re his friends, yes obviously unlike Akechi they didn’t try to shoot him but that’s a pretty low bar for ‘friendship’. They can be his friends but be pretty awful at showing it. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

[uwukechi]

Google said shuake canon

[uwukechi]

Ren: Time sensitive question how flirt boy

Futaba: throw rocks at he

Ryuji: hot dogs!

Goro: Kill him.

[uwukechi]

Sumi: Are you in love with Ren?

Goro: ...No.

Sumi: Then why do you keep writing R+G in hearts everywhere?

Goro: It stands for revenge and greatness.

[uwukechi]

If my crush were to attempt to assassinate me, I would simply not die.

Amamiya Ren

[uwukechi]

Yusuke: ryuji, what is a thot?

Ryuji: it means a like thoughtful person i think

[Later, at Leblanc]

Futaba: got you like 5 boxes of jagariko

Yusuke: thank you, futaba, you're such a thot!

Futaba: JKGHKSLFJHGSKLDF YUSUKE OMFG

[uwukechi]

You can tell who the Akira and who the Goro is with any pair by looking at their gloves. The Akira of the duo will wear the fingerless gloves while the Goro wears full gloves.

[uwukechi]

This. This is the personality that we need more of in the game. 

Joker wants to give Ryuji the codename "Tomato".

Then wants to call Ann "Ketchup".

Ryuji suggested "Beni Shoga"(it's ginger pffft)for Ann.

Joker: "Here are my teammates, Tomato and Ketchup."

[uwukechi]

soft canon shuake tidbits I really like

Goro is taller than Akiren if only by a little

Goro canonically compares his infiltration strategy to romance

Goro talks to Akiren about how “he feels as though they were fated” so many times it’s uncanny

the CLASSIC “Honey, I’m home!”

“You’re the thesis to my antithesis” yes sweetie he’s your other half we know

even their first Persona skills mirror each other; Arsene is weak to bless and strong against curse and Robin Hood is strong to bless and weak against curse but BOTH can perform the other skill

their outfits,,, match and also contrast. Akiren’s main colours are black and red and Goro’s are red and white. Both have red, both have their commonalities, but also contrast each other perfectly. 

when you think of masks, you think of Akiren. When you think of gloves, you think of Goro. But in the Metaverse, it’s Akiren’s gloves that are red and Goro’s mask that is red, utilising the colour they have in common to highlight each other’s representative object. 

^ Also mirrored when you realise that Goro’s gloves in reality are black, Akiren’s theme colour, and Akiren’s mask is white, Goro’s theme colour. 

They were chosen and made to be pitted against each other but Goro still chooses to give his life up for Akiren AND turn himself in to the police by the end, defying his fate in itself for Akiren and his own freedom

[uwukechi]

Goro Akechi wears Featherman Band-Aids