#hanabros tho hngggggg ty for the question the yosuke teddie dynamic is so impt to me

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I would gladly read an essay about how Teddie and Yosuke compliment and are parallels of each other!! (I just love reading essays about P4 analysis let's be honest)

Ooooh okay oh god let's see if I can be coherent about this

So I think for me one of the big parallels about Teddie and Yosuke is really in the way they interact or communicate with others, and I think Teddie tends to imitate Yosuke but also in a way that also exaggerates Yosuke's traits, for better or for worse.

For example the way Yosuke hits on people especially earlier on - I feel like it starts to taper off a bit as the game continues, and especially after Teddie joins the team. I'm kind of of the attitude that Teddie doesn't really know what he's talking about, so he's just kind of innocently mimicking what Yosuke says or reads in his books, and whether that's Yosuke overcompensating with performance to hide his queerness or him just being a hot blooded teenage boy with a lot of influence from other dumb hot blooded teenage boys from his hometown, I think that him seeing Teddie with that behaviour makes him 1. Reflect more on himself and realise that that's actually quite unpleasant 2. Take responsibility as Teddie's older brother to "teach" him properly. And I actually think that's super cute, so even though I roll my eyes whenever Teddie makes a comment like that I'm also like. This is a reflection of Teddie's status as Yosuke's younger brother and just being very impressionable as younger brothers are when they have an older sibling they look up to.

It's also in the behaviour that Teddie has in Yosuke's house

I thought this was so funny because when Yosuke was at Yu's house the first time he sort of barged in and started investigating Yu's futon for Yu's dirty mags, so it's really similar behaviour??

But I also think Teddie takes after Yosuke in all his best ways as well. Look at how Teddie expresses worry for others even though he struggles with his words, just like Yosuke - when Yosuke was upset and Teddie asks him if he had a tummy ache, because he understands that Yosuke is in pain but doesn't know best how to ask after him. It reminds me a lot of that scene in p4au where Yosuke tried to assuage a worried Chie by teasing her with a distraction by pinching her nose (and it works!?)

Like. I think yosuke has definitely gotten better with it over time in being the reliable one that the IT trusts and look to for emotional support, but he was way clumsier before. And I think the point is not so much that they're bad with it, but that neither of them let it stop them from trying to express their concern for their friends anyway even though they don't know how to tackle it head on, and I love that so much.

Ultimately I think Teddie really brings out the best in Yosuke by making him more responsible? And idk I think a lot about this comment from Yosuke a lot

And I think with Teddie especially, it really shows, especially with how Teddie really does listen to him or look up to him. I love that Yosuke didn't really need to take Teddie home at the get go, but no one else knew what to do with him so Yosuke just stepped up. Teddie talks about how he crawls into Yosuke's bed for cuddles and Yosuke complains a lot about how much he hates it but he's also SO SOFT FOR TEDDIE and it makes me weak ngl, so idk, I think with the way Yosuke deflects a lot of makes me think he lets Teddie do whatever as long as it doesn't inconvenience other people. And the way Yosuke takes charge of Teddie in trying to teach him. Him giving Teddie a phone so he can stay in touch with everyone else. This is not a parallel anymore but THEM....