#i wanna replay the entire persona series lmfao

[lokiarsene]

doing this on anon because i'm a weenie. consider: Goro's ultimate persona being Helel, like how Akira's is Satanael.

(hi, anon!) ohhh my god

oh my god I love the hell (heh) out of this idea. And not to take Hifumi’s S-Link’s ultimate Persona away from her or nothin’, let’s just play with this idea a bit more -

The fridge brilliance of this is great as well, anon, because as I’ve said in the past, some of the angels you fight on your way up to the final boss sound an awful lot like Akechi in the Japanese language track. Now, I’m not saying they’re the same VA–I can’t confirm atm that they are, and I’m not sure Atlus would actually reuse the same VA for that (and I’ve yet to play through the game in English to see if the dubbing maintained that)–but the fact that they do sound alike at all is… interesting to me. Because these angels, which any SMT/Persona veteran would recognize, are arguably good guys, right? I mean, they’re angels… but they’re opposing you… That cognitive dissonance alone is fascinating even without throwing the VA bit in there.

But to go back to your ask: Who else perfectly encompasses that confusingly brilliant complexity, of light and dark, rebellion and freedom in one? Helel.

AKA

Lucifer.

Helel - “A fallen angel in Judeo-Christian lore whose name signifies "Morning Star”. Primarily known for defying God, but also worshiped as a bringer of light to mankind.“ (Persona 4 description)

And here’s Lucifer/Helel’s Persona wikia page.

A fun thing to look at is Helelucifer’s line from Persona 2 Eternal Punishment: “You want power that defies the heavens…? Then go, and embrace sin and hatred… And I, Lucifer, shall embrace you…“ This definitely puts me in mind of Akechi’s alliance with Shido and his plans to get revenge on him. And “defying the heavens” is something Akechi never got a chance to actually do, because the deck was stacked so surely and brutally against him from the start.

Which is why I demand Philemon poke his ass into P5 DLC and go “NAH FUCK THIS, TIME FOR A DO OVER.” But that’s someone else’s meta and I can’t take credit for it.

And to sum it up: Helel as Akechi’s ultimate Persona as the “light” to Satanael’s “dark” is just  👌👌👌

I may come back to this to add more thoughts because I’m a bit scattered atm, so.. fair warning!