#ill write him a better and more justified canon with proper exposition

[nemirutami]

Saaayyy do you hate akechi? I read your last comment and kinda thought~ Though it's alright if u do, it's up to u, just wondering (Ps I love your drawings, keep up the good work👍)

I’ll level with you, I have a lot of opinions about Akechi, and I’m gonna be brutally honest.Canon did Akechi soooo poorly and it irks me because I completed a game right prior to P5 that did this exact plotline so much better and managed to convince me the villain was remorseful for his actions without hamfisting a bullshit tragic backstory at the very end without buildup. Akechi didn’t deserve my sympathy in canon just because opsie whopsie i had a bad lifey :c! isn’t an excuse to straight up merder like 2 people from the PT’s crew and countless others. Ryuji’s reaction to Akechi’s fall was the only sensible one. “He was manipulated :c” Yeah no he had a plan in mind, he just used his plan to manipulate Shido, so that doesn’t paint him as just a victim, it means he knew his place and he intended to use the abuser- he approached Shido first after all iirc. He just lost the manipulation war.

That being said, at the very start of the game, I caught the pancake-line, recognized the silhouette in Okumura’s palace, and saw his two-faced bitchness reveal itself when he called Makoto useless, and all-the-while, he played the role of “good boy uwu everyone love him, he a celebrity” and I hated it so much. Because he wasn’t like that to me. It was so transparent, and I was upset at the fact no one else seemed to notice when it was just blatantly there in plain view? Nothing he did showed me that he had intelligence. 

So, seeing everyone else treat him as smart when he fucked up hearing morgana’s voice, never even THOUGHT a person as shitty as Shido would get RID OF HIM just like everyone else he’s gotten rid of that had ties to the election, and never goddamn janked futaba’s hand away from his phone that probably holds a lot of slimy contacts and evidence against his innocence? Nevermind, he could have kept the phone, but why does he casually have deadass crime-related conversations on that fucking phone when anyone could just pASS DOWN THE HALLWAY? God he was written like an idiot.. what were you all HIGH and didn’t NOTICE? 

I know he was supposed to be portrayed as “oooo poor baby everyone hates him online now” but none of that goddamn hate was real since they staged the entire PT site to bot views and votes? So all the negativity towards him was fake and he fucking knew it and acted like a wounded little baby it was so shit to watch because I could feel how fake it was. The reason I didn’t complete P5 right away and had to have a 6 month haitus from the game is literally only because Akechi was going to be the center of attention if I progressed plot, and I didn’t want to deal with fake niceties with this asshole. Didn’t wanna pretend he’s CUTE AND SHIT when he’s standing next to 2 PT members wHOSE PARENTS HE FUCKING WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR HIS FUCKED UP AGENDA. No thanks. Keep uwubaby to yourselves. 

As a side-note. The very moment Akechi revealed his BS and broke facade? And started embracing his role as a goddamn psycho? I loved it? I loved it because I felt like the mask was finally removed and I could embrace his character for what said character was actually supposed to do. The very moment he revealed himself as a shitlord and EVERYONE was aware and started treating him just as a shitlord I was like. Yes. YES. NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE. I actually found myself smiling a lot when he was talking because I actually felt like - finally, he’s being genuine for once. And as much as I hated the first half of the game for how stupid he was written, I loved how fucked up he was at the end.

Except for… the part where he acts like he was remorseful.Yeah, that part I don’t believe. Which was sad. I finally started enjoying his role and then he acts like “Maybe in a different world, we would have been friends…” maybe in a different world you’d have a palm tree for a nose I don’t give a fuck Akechi- in this world, you’re a piece of shit. I loved his end (deserved) but god the way it was excecuted just had more bad writing all over it. I could tell 2 people were playing tug of war with Akechi’s role and it was just not pretty at all. Especially the weird ass “Shido my daddy” line, I just started laughing abruptly like “Oh, oh worm, this is where we’re going with this? Ok.” but i loved his fight, I just hated all the friendship garbo inbetween and that the fact his fall was left ambiguous so we never know for sure. Tbh that isn’t much of a problem bc it leaves room for good fanfiction and can set up a sequel but I don’t feel like P5 needs a sequel or update. It… just needs a rewrite lmao.

This is TNT I’m an explosive and welcome to my burst of opinions thanks for having a blast.