#i need ryoji and sees bestieships...

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some p3 designs + bit of spoilery rambling below (ryoji is down here)

so right now the basic idea for this au is that instead of persona existing separately from their users, they + the shadows that are born from them sort of merge together into a single form, which is what the transformations are. psychologically speaking the ideas are the same - shadows are the true selves, personas are the masks, etc - but they're more literal in the sense that they're all connected to a single person's psyche. there's a lot more interpersonal conflicts regarding the original stories since transformations can carry over in the real world, which means there's a stronger emphasis on friendship and bonds to carry people through their struggles (because otherwise people are turning into furries in broad daylight left and right lmao)

in comes This Fucking Guy

im still not entirely sure what im doing with him, but im toying with the idea of ryoji's proper transformation process being a more gradual thing. the design above is the initial transformation spurred on by the moonlight bridge incident, but across each midnight hour from december 2 to new years it becomes more and more like the nyx avatar design i havent fully planned out yet

ive always been a bit saddened by how p3 doesn't really go in depth with ryoji's relationships with the other SEES members which i hope to rectify here, putting an emphasis on each of them because his memories become fuzzy as his humanity starts to fade away bit by bit all while he desperately keeps trying to remember them all. he stops going to school and disappears entirely after he explains the fall but SEES can find him wandering around during the midnight hour trying to cling to some semblance of rationality, which translates in his mind to begging someone to kill him before he fully turns into nyx's avatar