#it is the WORST

[vashtijoy]

Well, Akechi believes that it was. He tells us outright:

Akechi 母も、俺を生んだせいで不幸になって 死んだ。『生まれる事を望まれなかった子供』って訳さ。 haha mo, ore o unda sei de, fukou ni natte shinda. “umareru koto o nozomarenakatta kodomo” tte wake sa My mother’s life turned for the worse after she had me… and died. I was a cursed child for her, too. [lit. And, because I was born, my mother fell into misfortune/adversity and died. Because [I was] “a child she never wanted to be born”, you see.]

"cursed child", for fuck's sake. I will go to my grave pissed about that one. Akechi is saying outright here that a. her despair and death were a direct consequence of his birth, and b. that his own mother never wanted him, and that HE KNOWS THAT.

It may not be true. It may be a distortion of what he perceived. But he believes it.

Akechi is somebody who, to the best of his belief, was never wanted by anybody until he met Shido. Not even by his own mother.

I feel like when people emphasize Akechi's murders, they often act like his motivation only boils down to "daddy issues" or they really make light of the impacts societal discrimination can have on a person. "But Futaba didn't end up like Akechi," I've seen people say, but the thing is, Akechi is meant to show the worst case scenario. Someone without anyone left to uplift him, to ground him, and to give him a reason to be better. He lost his mother at a very young age, endured the foster system, never finding a new forever home, and at his absolute lowest point, was granted power he didn't understand with no one to guide him, and wanted to get close to Shido to one day backstab him and give him a taste of his own medicine. The murders came later, when Shido "instructed him." And given the way Shido yells at Akechi about what happens to people who cross him, and given what he did to Futaba (the men in suits), his cleaner, and how many people he had on his side, on top of Sojiro making it very clear how cutthroat Shido was to his enemies... Akechi was screwed no matter what. His face, his name, all of it could be used to ruin him in the real world. Alone, he would not have been enough to go through Shido's Palace, given how much trouble the Phantom Thieves had as a group. Plus, y'know, this:

Something so many people ignore when they talk about Akechi and his murders and ignore everything else the narrative tries to say about him.

What P5 tries to say about Akechi is so important to its core themes. That, if Akechi hadn't been a victim of so much injustice, he might have never gone to such lengths. That doesn't undo the damage he's done, but it's so important to understanding why the game approaches him with sympathy rather than writing him off as pure evil. Because it didn't have to be this way. If he had just met Joker sooner, if he had just had somebody. Akechi represents what can happen to vulnerable children who are failed by systems meant to uphold justice and other ideals, and how those who have nothing, who have only ever been hurt, are far more likely to lash out in turn.

[adaines-furious-feast]

The person that decided primary school children should "learn" the goddamn recorder had never met a child in their life

[nostalgia-tblr]

i rly hate that "thoschei" seems to have stuck as the shipname :(

[grim-has-issues]

Music association is a bitch, dude

How am I supposed to have a serious conversation with my mother in a restaurant if I am actively having a trauma response to hearing ‘Out of Touch’??!??

[curiosity-killed]

also attempted to make myself practice on a grid before remembering that i hate drawing on a grid more than almost any other way of drawing

[ALT ID: An unfinished portrait of a woman with pale skin and dark hair wearing a golden dress and looking off camera.]

[dreamfilleddonuts]

tamaki for 11, 17!

11. Driving Headcanon - I dont think we ever saw him drive in the anime or manga, but someone always drove him? I dont see that changing. If he did, I see him being a very anxious driver.

17. Technology Headcanon - Oh I absolutely see him as someone who would constantly buy kitchen appliances smarter than he is because "Its supposed to be better!" while Haruhi is just giving him a LOOK, because she didnt come home from a tough day of being a lawyer to have an argument with the dishwasher. Who is currently winning, btw.

[aleniksimmer]

Zag:

Me:

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Problems when summoning vehicles deserves a series all its own. At least Mitch didn't see what happened to Scorp's bike.

Note: please ignore the 6th street gear, as I was just testing the mesh refits required to fit that lovely nose. I probably fat fingered the call vehicle button anyway lol

[nessa007]

me sitting on my bed for 30 minutes trying to physically and mentally prepare myself to change my bed’s duvet cover

[haethyre-art]

drew this a long while ago but it is still so relatable

[cinnamonsugarteethtwists]

i am once again...., fizzarollbi

[piratedllama]

Seeing ads filmed like tik toks on platforms that are not tik tok is part of why ppl hate tik tok so much

[belboed]

based on real events between me and my sister

[fandoms-spamdom]

Not to be a hater but I hate push-ups. I hate hate hate pushups

[arcticmist0324]

Just every bastion of historical knowledge, let me in.

Especially when they tell me they don’t have things they SHOULD have.

Look, I just want to know if the man I believe to be my great-grandfather really did shit and if I ever come in contact with a Time Machine, do I need to go back and seek vengeance for my Grandma and Great-Grandma.

I should be allowed into every museum's archives actually