#junpei salt

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

whaddya mean by ya don't trust junpei? is it the whole jealousy thing again?

(Keep in mind I still haven't seen all of P3R so I dunno how much he's changed in that regard, or if they changed later scenes.....but so far.....it's not that much. Anyway general P3 spoilers under the cut.)

It's more than that, but let's look at the jealousy thing for right now since you brought it up. It's not that he's jealous.......it's what his jealousy LEADS him to do. They made him be a lot friendlier.......but I.........still don't like him. (he whines more in the early game too which is annoying so......good job atlus, you made him more annoying! :D)

His SL on the FeMC had a much better arc than the link eps so far (I'm not at Oct 4th yet so he's had like....2?) But the issue is he acts the exact same as if I didn't have an SL/wasn't as close to him.

The fact he'll act like a doucher regardless if I'm friendly/friends with him or not really just......makes him a bad friend.

Back to his jealousy. His jealousy isn't that he's JUST a dick to the MC. But it puts us in danger. At BEST he's just mean to us and makes us feel like shit. At worse he runs off without thinking and puts us in danger countless of times.

During a Full Moon mission he abandons my leadership, splits us up (which weakens us in general), and then almost gets himself killed.

THEN at his calmest, he does something I don't think the PT do (at least knowingly) and that is LEAK INFORMATION TO THE FUCKING ENEMY TO THEIR FUCKING FACE.

He knows there's Strega, and he's not airing on the side of caution AT ALL. He's a liability. We shoulda cut him when we had the chance, fuck his power, he's going to get us killed. (Yukari breaches the same trust trying to poke the Kirijou Group bear, we don't know how shady the rest of the group is and yet she goes snooping in ways that can get us all in trouble TT0TT so yeah she's not off the hook).

This also doesn't account for the special kind of betrayal that this entails for the FeMC (or P3R!MC if you do the link eps). Because we're their friends and they just go behind our back and fuck us. They undermine our leadership and blindside us.

I know it's a thing to say "SEES are more like coworkers/teammates than friends (at first)" (cause it's true, PQ1 has a literal B plot about it, they don't become "friends" until later) but fuck.....Junpei/Yukari barely act as teammates the way they are trying to sabotage the team half the time. TT0TT

Then there's the girl element. As a girl, he's really fucking creepy. I know the drama CD he states "oh I'm doing this to keep the peace" but no. That's contradictory to some of his creepier statements. 1 on 1 convos with the male MC shows he is def a creeper. He's not just playing it up to the girls can just rally against him. (also really fucking weird he thinks "oh the girls need someone to team up on" like??? no we don't???? wtf ew. It just sounds like he has a scolding fetish TT0TT and literally if you do it all the time it.....starts to seem like it's just something you like to do rather than 'oh I'm just saying things" like???? Sorry if you do it often enough people will just think that's just YOU rather than a "lie.")

There's also the fucking hot spring scene (looking at OG/FES/3P only). Like he still has a girlfriend as of 11/19 (maybe going through rough patch), shit doesn't hit the fan for him until 11/22. But it's heavily implied he and Ryoji decided enter and stay in the hot spring until the change happened. The reason? Obvie to peep on some girls, why else? (it's why the narrative still punishes him and Ryo even if you escape the girls). He does that while he has a GIRLFRIEND (run Chidori you deserve better TT0TT). And if his motives were the same on FeMC side, then he did that knowing he may violate his friend.

He also tells creepy things to Ken and....god I hate him. Yukari is right about him, he is a poster boy for sexual harassment. He is the worst of all the pervs. (tho P4G didn't help the P4 team >_>). I think there's a good reason the movie changed this scene.....

Basically he untrustworthy. He's too wishy washy to rely on. I wouldn't ever want to hang out with him.

[nevermoredragon-main]

I am divorcing myself from canon actually. Junpei is alive and he and Yuuji and Megumi are in a deep threesome right now. They’re going to get married on Halloween.

[frost-felon]

The timeskips issue has never been a recent one. The pitfalls of the numerous timeskips in the beginning of the story (Yuji being enrolled in JJH and picking up Nobara in June -> July's suicide mission + meeting the upperclassmen & Kyoto Kids -> August seemingly being skipped outright -> Junpei Arc in September¹, and pretty much everything before Shibuya needing to happen in September or October) have affected the character and relationship growth since the get-go.

I love the tenderness and consoling conviction from Yuji in this scene, but at this point, he's only known Nanami for a few days, and been 'dead' for somewhere between a month and a month and a week or two. So he'd really only known Megumi for like, a month, tops. He'd known Nobara for maybe a couple of weeks. It's unclear how long he'd known Ijichi for, but on-and-off through July, probably...most of these times are guesses, and due to the timeskips, I can't be sure how well or how little Yuji got to known all of these people during the times he could have. Gojo, his longest relationship out of the five he was thinking of, tends to get infrequent and small references to what he did or didn't teach Yuji at various times. There's another moment shortly before this page where Yuji thinks back to a scene we never saw², wherein Gojo apparently taught Yuji how to fight Shikigami users ("When fighting Shikigami Users...go for the User themselves.") But ultimately, the audience hasn't been able to spend more than a few moments' times to get an understanding of Yuji's attachments and his faith in the people he relies on. Nanami gets the most here (Junpei Arc, Chapter 26) since this was the arc he was introduced in, and has been closely mentoring Yuji, but as mentioned, this entire arc takes place in a small timeframe. As a result, the believability of these relationships can easily be called into question, and this scene didn't hit me as hard as it should have.

Culling Games has a similar issue with believability in character dynamics and pacing, largely caused by the frequent timeskips forcing arcs immediately after Shibuya to cram as much as they can into short timeframes. Junpei Arc can get away with this more due to its early placement in the story, but the cracks had been visible well into this arc and even beforehand.

In a very twisted way, the post-unsealing timeskip, from mid-November (somewhere around/after November 16th; EDIT, it's November 19th³) to December 24th, is not particularly unique, though it is one of the largest timeskips (that I can positively identify through information in the manga's pages), possibly only behind the mid-July (?) to September skip. I've mentioned it before, though, that JJK simply could not handle another timeskip of a similar magnitude (or one exceeding, perhaps, a week). This mainly comes down to the bloating of the cast and status quo changes in the Perfect Preparation Arc, the Culling Games Arc, and the aftermath of 212 through 221.

I really wish I could have appreciated his scene more, since it's lovely and well-executed in-of-itself. But since it relies on the preceding groundwork, the shaky foundation undermines an otherwise knockout scene.

¹I am here in my reread, so I'm a little fuzzy on any timeskips after this point.

²Using flashbacks to show the audience new scenes can be effective, but this method gets overused in JJK to fill in gaps caused by not devoting enough time to character-building and cast downtime.

³GUESS WHO FORGOT ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT PANELS IN 221 EXPLICITLY CLARIFYING THE DATE? Blegh, I'll have to be more careful when I eventually fully reread--I have only gone through most 146+ chapters once. Anyways, the panels:

This also means that the full extent of the timeskip ran between 34 and 35 days, depending on if you're counting December 24th or not (this is not counting November 19th itself).

[bryngmemoney]

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🪡Chapter Thirty: Sleepover

“Should we get butter or sea salt?” Megumi asked you, looking at the shelf in front of you. You looked up from your messages, being faced with both options. “One of each?”

“I like salted better.”

“Does everyone else like salted?” you turned to look at him, seeing him shrug before grabbing both boxes and putting them in the cart. Folding his arms he placed them on top of the cart’s handle, beginning to push it forward.

You followed beside him, “I’m excited to see your acting skills by the way.” You nudged his shoulder with yours, causing him to huff out a breath.

“Don’t expect too much,” he mumbled. “C’mon Megs have some confidence!” Your enthusiasm made him a smile.

“Do we have everything?” he asked, deciding to change the topic. You looked at your phone in hand, going back through Yuji’s messages, you had gotten the popcorn, the fruit, sodas, chips, but you were missing the spray. “Yeah, but Yuji wanted febreeze too.”

“Why?”

“Don’t tell him I snitched, but he burnt the popcorn, which is why he also asked us to stop and get more.”

“Of course he did.”

Megumi hid his face in between your shoulder and neck for about the fifth time in last twenty minutes, mumbling something about not wanting to see himself. You just laughed at his reactions, running your hand through his hair. You leaned both of you against the armrest of the couch, readjusting your plate of snacks in your lap. “Megu you can’t just hide away for the whole movie,” you whispered, trying not to disturb the other three who were currently very invested in their work.

He didn’t give you a verbal response, instead just moving his head to be able to see the screen again.

“I think you’re really great in this,” you told him, having your hand rest on his neck.

“Aw, are you feeling shy Megumi?” Yuji interrupted from the other side of the couch. You looked towards him, only to see Megumi kick him, earning an ‘oomph’ out of his friend.

“Megumi don’t be mean.”

“It’s late you know,” Megumi spoke up. He put a bowl on the dish rack, drying his hands with a towel, then turning to face you. You sat at the kitchen counter, folding the game board up and placing it back in the box. After putting everything away on the box you checked the time on your phone, 1:47 am.

“Wasn’t planning on making you drive anyway,” you placed the phone down. Watching Megumi pick up the board games off the kitchen counter and carry them back to the cabinet they were originally stored in.

“So you planned on staying the night?”

“Well when Yuji announced sleepover I just thought so, yeah,” you replied, looking over to the living room where Nobara took up the large couch, Junpei and Yuji wrapped in blankets and pillows on different parts of the floor.

“Okay, but im not sleeping in the floor.” You gave Megumi a light laugh, already having expected that.

“You don’t have to either,” he mumbled, finally making his way next to you on the kitchen island. “What do you mean?” He just looked at you, hoping you couldn’t tell how he was feeling kind of nervous. “Just, I wouldn’t mind if you wanted to share a bed.”

“Do you snore?” you joked.

“Fine sleep on the floor.”

“Megumi wait, I was joking!” You followed him after he had walked away from your spots in the kitchen.

“Sh, you’ll wake them up,” he whispered, although you highly doubt they would as they didn’t even seem to acknowledge the movement and sound of you guys. “Just c’mon, i’m tired,” he grumbled.

Yuji was the first to wake up, rising from his spot on the floor. His original plan was to go and get food from the kitchen, as even seconds into being awake he was already feeling hungry. However he was distracted when he saw Megumi’s room door open, catching a glimpse of his friend basically draped over you.

Author’s Note: guys we have 4 more chapters & and an epilogue left 😦😦😦

also completely unrelated but guess who finally passed the drivers test (it’s me, bryn, i did it)

but yea tysm for the support guys <33 this has been rlly fun!!! i’ll try my best to make these last few chapters bangers

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[hecksupremechips]

Take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt since I wouldn’t say snake was really written to be A Gay Character but regardless the way snake’s gender and overall personality is portrayed is probably one of the best depictions of gay men I’ve ever seen. He’s very pretty, dressed in expensive clothes reminiscent of a prince, with beautiful wavy hair and an air of poise and sophistication. He’s the smartest person in the room and he KNOWS this and he will not hesitate to be a condescending prick. He’s delicate and funny and charming. He has no fear or hesitation about suggesting he and Junpei share a bed or referencing gay sex. All these things tend to make a character the butt of jokes or at the very least regarded as lesser than the other characters but with snake hes the most admired one here. He’s very capable and is in fact so capable he literally needed to be removed temporarily from the situation so that the others could solve the mystery on their own. He’s absolutely fearless, doesn’t care about pissing off Aoi or getting shot multiple times by Ace. He’s fucking strong as hell and is able to survive being shot multiple times and have enough strength to dig his claws into Ace and force them to burn to death together. Everyone loses their shit without him and he’s the key to escape. He’s cool as hell and he fucks severely

[el-255]

I’m not sure if this has been said before but I find it very interesting how differently the writers of persona handled Junpei’s character in comparison to Ryuji’s. With the role of the mc’s best friend and mostly comic relief, I find the two of them to be the most similar personality wise compared to either of them with Yosuke so this analysis will only be discussing the parallels and differences in the way the story handles Junpei and Ryuji respectively.

To me, Junpei is handled pretty sensitively by the writers (not as much as he could be or should be, but still a lot more than most would expect given his trope); he’s given a lot of character with the introduction of Chidori and we see how he grows to like her as he gets to know her. I’ll admit it’s been a while since I played 3 so take this with a grain of salt but from what I recall, his and Chidori’s relationship gets quite a bit of screen time and development in the main story in a way that gives us a different perspective of how Junpei normally operates around the other members of SEES. With Chidori, he isn’t the class clown or the idiot of SEES, he’s simply a teenage boy who falls for a teenage girl. To me, there’s not much more humanising than that. After her presumed death, Junpei loses it and sinks into a depression, and when he finds out she’s alive, albeit her memory lost, he does his best to help her recover and grapples with the moral implications of her regaining her memory. (I think at least one can’t really remember).

This relationship is important to the story and gives us another, much more sympathetic view of Junpei’s character who, up to this point in the game, had mostly been kept in a box marked “comic relief pervert”. You root for Junpei and Chidori’s relationship because it is clearly shown how much Junpei adores her and not once after he meets her does he stray from this love for her.

It’s not only Chidori’s character that makes Junpei’s character more sensitive either, I find that his general personality and relationships with other characters to be handled better as well.

We have his friendship with Yukari (aka Yuka-tan) which I’ll begin by saying also isn’t perfect, Junpei oftentimes falls into the perverted trope so many of the male characters fall into (such is life with Atlus) and he definitely makes comments towards her that most friends wouldn’t and yeah that isn’t good, but I think Yukari gives it back just as much as Junpei dishes it out and never takes him too seriously. I get the impression that that’s just how their friendship works, it’s a constant push and pull, a give and take between them, they both take every opportunity they get to tease each other mercilessly and it works. It doesn’t feel one sided in the way that Ryuji’s interactions with other members of the phantom thieves tend to feel but I’ll get more into that later. His friendship with Yukari may not be the most noteworthy part of his character, but it’s something I think deserves a bit of credit all things considered.

He matures so much over the game and generally becomes more serious and methodical as the story progresses but in a way that is still undeniably Junpei. That’s a difficult feat to accomplish when dealing with certain characters and I think Atlus does well to make these changes happen in a pretty organic way.

Junpei isn’t a perfect character, he has his flaws and shortcomings, but out of all the bro characters from 3-5, I think that the writers of 3 deserve more merit for handling Junpei’s character arc in a way that actually feels like he’s grown by the end of the game.

I could not say the same for Ryuji.

I will preface this by saying that I love Ryuji, I think he’s a neat little guy and I think the writers did him so dirty in 5 when they clearly had the capacity to do so much more as we’ve seen already with Junpei.

Ryuji is filled to the brim of wasted potential as a character, his backstory is only barely brushed on with a few throwaway comments about his dad being abusive towards him and his mother, his abuse by Kamoshida who literally breaks his leg is barely brought up after Kamoshida’s arc, and the trauma he suffers from is never the focus of the story compared to how other characters like Yusuke, Futaba, and Ann’s are. Of course, trauma isn’t a competition and all the party members in 5 have dealt with awful shit but the point is that all of them rightfully get the opportunity to be angry about it at some point in the main story or in their social links, Ryuji doesn’t. Ryuji instead gets beat up by pretty much the entire cast of 5, is constantly belittled by the party members, and is basically treated like shit and the butt of the joke throughout the entire game.

I don’t think I even need to bring up that scene because I know everyone feels the same way about it, but I will because it’s a necessary part of this analysis. That scene haunts me, not only is it the unfunniest thing that’s played for jokes I’ve ever seen in a game, but it’s quite possibly the biggest controversy I know of in the persona fandom.

The implications of a teenage boy who was abused by his father and his teacher thinking he’s found a safe haven in the phantom thieves because they all know how shitty adults can be and yeah they insult him but they’d never actually purposefully try and hurt him, right? Only to find that they would hurt him and pretty severely after he risked his life to save theirs because they’re his best friends and he loves them is horrendous and incredibly insensitive to everyone out there who has dealt with similar circumstances. The joke he plays isn’t funny, but I take it as Ryuji trying to lighten the mood the only way he knows how and even if he was insensitive to Ann and the rest of the team who are mourning him, he does not deserve to get beaten to a pulp by the very people he almost killed himself to rescue. They don’t even fucking apologise to him, it’s all just brushed under the rug and never so much as brought up again !!!

The scene didn’t need to make the cut at all, especially with the rerelease in royal, but it did and it’s honestly astonishing that with all the backlash it received, that they didn’t just cut it entirely. And if they really had to keep the scene in the game, let him be angry about it. Let Ryuji go off at the team for beating him up after he saves all of their lives. Let Ryuji tell Joker that he expected more from him as his best friend. Let the team have to jump through hoops to gain Ryuji’s forgiveness because it’s what he deserves.

Not only this, but in comparison to Junpei, Ryuji doesn’t get as much growth in his character arc. Throughout the game, Ryuji largely stays the same which honestly isn’t really an issue, not everyone has to change dramatically and drastically to be a compelling character, but he doesn’t change at all. Honestly, from the start to the end of 5, I could barely tell you a difference between the Ryuji we see. Like I said, I don’t need a drastic change, it doesn’t suit some characters, but Ryuji isn’t given any sort of growth by the writers and any he is given feels forced because he genuinely isn’t given any of the spotlight outside of Kamoshida’s arc unlike with Junpei.

It makes me angry because like I said, the writing was already there with Junpei, they had the capacity to write Ryuji in the same sympathetic way they did with him but they chose not to !! They chose to leave Ryuji as a character who you have no choice but to take at face value because he’s not given any more than that.

In conclusion: the writers dropped the ball with Ryuji and I’m mad about it, Junpei is a good character and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees, and Yosuke is Yosuke and I mourn his cut romance route every day.

[adachimoe]

MAN, A WATERMELON

Watermelon is associated with summer. And as Kanji says, the gang has been so busy with the murder mystery stuff that he hasn't even gotten to eat one yet. People also play a watermelon pinata game, which Nanako thinks you'll be able to do until Dojima crushes her dreams. You might have seen that in other media by now - even in P3R, Junpei tries to get Ken to do it too lol.

But fruit there can get pricey. Non-banana fruit just isn't a big import. Here's a graph showing fruit imports - only 99 tons of watermelon was imported to Japan during the year P4 came out compared to some 1.1mil tons of bananas. And fruit is grown domestically, but there isn't a ton of farm space for this. Plus fruit is given as a gift, so farmers might weed out the less pretty looking fruit. Overall, this makes fruit cost more than what you might be used to. When I was there in 2023, a decent sized watermelon was around 3000-3500 yen, and it was still tiny compared to the giant watermelons we have in America that are cut into basket shapes to serve fruit during 4th of July.

So this scene is... it's summer, watermelon is on typical summer to-do checklists, but the fruit itself can be expensive, and a neighbor offered one.

As for Kanji...

Looks to me like he is meant to be shaking salt on there. Last I heard it is not normal to carry a salt shaker around with you lol. But you did tell all of your friends to come over to eat a watermelon, so the guy came prepared to eat a watermelon. He's a professional. (Though you can buy salt tablets and salt candies to put in drinks and other things to help with hydration during the summer. That's ki-kind of like carrying salt around.)

[sweetmoonlight7]

“No words appear to me in the aftermath

Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears

Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness”

-Bigger Than The Whole Sky, Taylor Swift

jjk microfic | word count: 243 | spoilers for the manga

It is important to surround yourself with people, so you do not die alone.

Yuji’s grandfather had told him this before dying.

At first it seemed almost like a blessing. Something that had allowed him to save Fushiguro, meet Kugisaki, and help save people.

But now?

Now all he has managed to do is kill and hurt people.

He couldn’t save Junpei, Nanami, or Kugisaki.

Even worse he has managed to be the reason why so many awful curses had resurfaced.

Everything he has done since getting to Jujutsu High has hurt and put more people in danger.

And now the one person who he had been able to save. The reason why he started this in the first place, doesn’t have the will to fight anymore. Fushiguro doesn’t want to keep going.

You can’t save someone who isn’t ready to be saved….but Yuji can’t just let him go. He can’t accept that Fushiguro has given up.

Fushiguro, he had a bright future. He was so much bigger than this, he should have more time than this.

He has a lot to think about and a lot to regret but Fushiguros life cannot be added to his list of failures. He has to help him, even if that is not what he wants.

It’s the least he can do after causing so much pain and suffering.

Hopefully he just needs time.

When he is ready Yuji will be there for him.

[aliensupersyn]

Chapter 256 Fight Choreography PbP

A play by play of the fight this chapter.

Maki fights Sukuna in melee while Yuji and Choso prepare to trap Sukuna with a nearby rail. Choso seems to kick the rail up, then without exchanging words, Yuji understands the play and catches it, aiming for Sukuna while he dodges Maki's stabs at him.

Yuji pins Sukuna while Choso prepares piercing blood at point blank range. Sukuna blitzed them both! He basically flies up and out of the way.

Within the time it took for Sukuna to escape Yuji and Choso, Maki has already circled around and snuck Sukuna. He catches her blade again but she pressures him, so he then sends slashes all around without movement (like he did against Kusakabe recently, but as his webbed attack).

Maki and Sukuna fight midair at an extreme speed after Sukuna's slashes destroyed the ground. Sukuna breaks the deadlock with a third black flash.

Sukuna tries to finish the job this time by adding dismantles to his attack against Maki, who was still stunned after the black flash. Maki recognizes that Sukuna's strength has begun to return. In the last panel, you can see Choso prepare his blood as Sukuna sends slashes to Maki.

Choso uses the time Sukuna took to send those slashes to make a counter attack! Yet, Sukuna reacts extremely fast, sending extra dismantles towards Choso as a distraction, then he moves faster than his own attack. He catches Choso by the back of the shirt.

Sukuna throws Choso into the wall and black flashes him!

Choso uses the blood from both his stomach and that which he spit up from his mouth to encase Sukuna's arm. Yuji catches up to Choso's position and takes the opening to attack!

Choso hands over converged blood* to Yuji, that he will later use for his piercing blood.

Yuji attempts to knee Sukuna, repeating the attack from the Yuta battle, and Sukuna catches him yet again. Yuji grabs onto Sukuna, forcibly bending him and preparing to attack.

Yuji nearly misses, but sets up Choso to possibly poison Sukuna, which may come into play later.

Sukuna uses dismantles to get Yuji off of him, but Yuji begins to prepare his own attack, mirroring Sukuna's black flash punch from earlier in the chapter.

Yuji finally lands a black flash after Larue distracted Sukuna for a prolonged period, similar to Todo in Shibuya at the end of the Mahito fight.

Notes:

I may make this a regular thing.

This post will be updated if I missed something. Please let me know.

Would converged blood be the correct phrasing for this?

I want to point out that Sukuna uses dismantles to parry Maki's blade. He can apparently still create small dismantles with his severed arms. Though, Sukuna may be using his right arm to send slashes.

As noted by u/Asian_Persuasion_1, Sukuna may have been preparing to slam Yuji into the ground before Yuji prevented it by grabbing his neck.

u/k-tax noted that as Choso prepped Supernova, Sukuna may have been preparing to fire even more dismantles at Maki.

u/RicoNancy pointed out that Sukuna has already been shown to be immune to Junpei's poison, so Choso's blood may not work. Though, take this with a grain of salt.

[recreatusamor]

Junpei Iori has appeared! What to do?

Admire

Kiss cheek

Propose

Kneel down

"Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Finally some appreciation for da man!"

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Ryoji Mochizuki has appeared! What to do?

Run away

Worship

Throw salt

Hug

"Why would someone throw salt at me? That sounds mean."

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Me: *approaches the mic* Me: What if..... Chronicles of the AvatarxMPGIS? 👀👀👀👀👀

[nevermoredragon-main]

character ask game, i just ask all of itafushijun? lol

In short: I care them(which is why i am hugging and squeezing all of them). Then below me is the longer version

Yuuji

I love Yuji so much. I want only good things for him. I love his pink hair and his smile and how he looks like he could give me the best hug ever if he was real. Also just love his arc of killing curses. Silly little goofball turning into a terrifying badass is a character trope I am fond of. I am very fatigued by all of the bad things that have happened to him and am glad things are finally starting to turn around for him in canon. I hope it stays that way even though I plan on ignoring canon in favor of imagining itafushijun fluff

Megumi

Gonna be real here, I watched jjk in dub the first time I watched it because Robbie Daymond is Megumi's English va. And it just added to the experience of seeing and hearing Megumi laugh gleefully at the end of season one. I love cocky murderous bastards. (That's also why he's silly to me... such a little goofball as he murders curses and then gets picked on by his friends playfully). Also I really personally just love his current emotional despair arc that he needs to be pulled out of. Whether he finds the emotional strength to do it himself or needs Yuji to pull him out(a combination of both preferably). I just want him to get hugged after all this and also therapy. (Therapy for all of them actually)

Junpei

Ok I will say with Junpei I am not the only one who is correct about him. In fact there are some really nice blogs about him that have really good analysis on him that are probably better reads on him than mine. (There are also other jjk fans that are very wrong about him but I'm not getting into that barrel of salt)

But yeah I project onto him a lot just due to the fact that he is very neurodivergent and I dream all the time about my silly little AUs where he is alive and well and has two awesome boyfriends. I've always felt sad that he died so soon because I feel like Gege accidentally created the most interesting character ever who had the potential for a really interesting character arc of self discovery and learning to open up to others and let them in and accept himself and grow, and then just... killed him for shock value and to subvert tropes (tbh there is value in trope subversion but there is also a reason tropes are popular in the first place if you ask me). (Next part starts off as a Junpei focused thing and then starts to spiral lol.)

And I think that's part of the reason why I like itafushijun so much. Like, Yuji is the safe friend who he knows he can trust because Yuji *saved him* in this alternate universe in my head. And Yuji is also again just the bestest boy who helps him grow to start building connections again. And then Megumi is new to him and keeps his distance and acts kind of mean sometimes. But they're classmates and Megumi is not a bully. Just has a bit of a cold shoulder, which Junpei can relate too, and just over time develop an unbreakable bond. And Megumi and Junpei both see the same thing in Yuji. The best of humanity.

And I just could go on and on about the possibilities and potential these three had for a while but I won't.

[flyfish1999]

For the character thing P3PHeroine?

thanks elle-p !!!!!!!!!! good luck with my character too ^_^)/ !! i feel like i totally don't talk about her (or tbh anyone outside of ryoji ...) as much as i should .. ! im gonna work to change that \o/ ! starting here :]c putting this one under a cut because it actually got suuuper long ^_^;; whoops !

favourite thing about them: she exists !!!!!!!!!!!! and she's so cool . she's like, devastatingly cool . both in her concept and just .. herself .... move over chad narukami losers !!!!!!!!!! especially in her exclusive links, her kindness and kick-ass-ness and depth comes out in full force and i love her so much for it. i know i'm a ryominahead, but i miss her everyday !!!!!!!!

least favourite thing about them: not her fault AT ALL . but aside from how underrepresented she is, i am still a firm believer that she should've received her own ryoji ... it's so sad, because i absolutely adore how they open up to each other, but i've talked to others before about how ryoji in her story as seemingly HER mirror just feels wrong, like he's transplanted from another place (which he literally is .. he's created in minato's image). i would've loved to see how her ryoji could've been more specifically shaped and changed by her quirks + her approach to her trauma

favourite line: "but, when i first saw him... he didn't feel at all like a stranger to me." "i can't explain it well, but it was almost like nostalgia.... or some kind of closeness." "i'm him, and he's me...?" it's criminal that q2 left it at this.

brOTP: junpei and hamuko is especially special to me ... more so than minato and junpei really . they bounce off of each other so well, + the extended/enhanced arc where junpei is kind of misogynistic to her alongside the leader jealousy and how that develops is so cool T_T

OTP: HAMUAIGIS 4EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aigis im so sorry yr girlfriend is still in the vault . can you imagine femc the answer . would destroy my soul .

nOTP: her + junpei . .. maybe im a little hater but the GAME doesnt even let you do it lmao ...! it means a lot to me that they're best friends . other than that, i'd say she fits cutely with nearly everyone else just like minato does !

random headcanon: okay lets be real . am i stupid ? where does her mp3 player attach ? it just kind of hangs out in midair while minato obviously hangs it on a lanyard . i like to think she's a bit more crafty with it !!! clipping it onto the zipper of her uniform or her scarf or keeping it on a wristband etc ^_^

unpopular opinion: gwa ........... i should just own this i think, even if people disagree !! in my opinion ... femc is supplementary content. and that means you should not be playing her route as your first experience in persona 3. just like how i believe you shouldn't read the manga or watch the movies before playing the game. you need to play the male route first. the way she presents the game's themes through her character and modified story is designed to be in direct opposition and contract with minato's route, and enhances both routes to that effect and can totally change your experience when viewing your previous playthrough of the male route and your current route as her through the lens she teaches the player. in a sad sort of way, i am kind of happy reload hasn't enforced this idea that femc is just one of two ways to experience p3 . this isn't a character select .. she's more like a perfect ng+ to me .

song i associate them with: back to the lighthearted stuff ! cop car by mitski ^_^ easiest answer so far !

favourite picture of them: either this [below], the cover of persona compilation II, or either of the persona music live/tour 2009 and 2010 artworks ! i'm a shin apologist though, so take that with a grain of salt ;] i really love how she's shown in opposition with narukami here, how he's looking straight at her but she's not meeting his eye . i would really love to see these two together more !

[momentomori24]

Ok, so I finished the 'Incinerator' Ending and... I have no words. What in the world did I just witness.

Did this game really just bring back Snake just to kill him again--for real this time too. I guess he went out in a blaze of glory while dragging his sister's murderer down with him but crap, he deserved so much better. Rip the to siblings in this route, this one was brutal. No rip for you, Ace. Rest in ashes instead.

Seven is the man and I apologise for doubting him at any point ever. I was super reluctant to trust him despite the fact that he literally hadn’t done anything and was mostly helpful through this mess, but this made me chuck all that out the window. I've not been having a good record of the characters I give my trust actually being as trustworthy as I wanted them to be, but I think Seven's in the clear. I was so sure at the beginning that he'd be the more selfish character who'd dismiss the more weaker of the cast as burdens due to his superior strength or something, but nah, he's really just a great guy. I'll be rooting for him until stated otherwise.

Ok, where the hell is Santa? At first I thought that we'd find both him and June dead somewhere because the killer from the Sub ending (if that isn't Ace), but we just find her lying in the chapel with no Santa in sight. Why? She's completely unscathed too. So I think we can rule out Santa as a killer because he had a prime victim and didn't take it. I guess there'd be no motive since they can't proceed regardless, but if killing everyone was the goal he could've started with her and he didn't so I'll clear him of suspicion on that one. What I won't clear him of is suspicion in general because why is June just lying here in the open when he was supposed to be with her? Junoei basically checked everywhere and found nobody, so what's up with that?

And where did June's body go? Did Santa nab her while Junpei wasn't paying attention? Did Zero? Who is Zero anyway? Lotus and Seven are together up stairs and everyone else is dead. June was also on death's door while Zero and Junpei were talking. And that's the weirdest part-- they were actually talking.

It wasn't pre-recorded or automatic or anything, he was actually responding to Junpei's words. We aren't the only people in this game: we found 2 corpses of people we haven't met. Who's to say there aren't more that are actually alive? While I'm not entirely sold on the idea that Zero's one of us, if he is, does this mean it's Santa? It can't be Junpei because he's in the chapel, so if anyone it has to be him, right? Zero has started to look like the better person between him and Ace with his letter and we know Santa probably has a motive if his sister was really a part of that game, but I still feel a bit off about it. It feels obvious, like a red-herring. So I'll hesitantly say he's probably not Zero. Take it with a grain of salt tho; when it comes to favs, I tend to be delulu.

So June will die regardless in the end, am I right? She wasn't killed this path but still seemed to be knocking on death's door. I m assuming her illness is actually a lot more worse than she made it seem and it will do her in before she gets the chance to leave this place. That's... actually extremely sad. I really hope we find out more about what's happening with her. Not only because it's important, but because she's also a fav and I actually want to escape with her so bad.

[ebbing-terror]

Junpei was just so irritable today. Tsk. The curse draped his arm around the boy's shoulders, as if there to console him. Perhaps not the one who should be doing such, considering most of Junpei's woes were wholly because of Mahito.

The hint couldn't be taken that the kid should bugger off and leave the two adults to their day out. Unfortunately, as much as he adored Lynn, she was so set on him tagging along. Sigh.

Now there was this added baggage of gloom and he was so tired of Lynn giving the kid all the attention. It was unfair. "Hey, Junpei~ cheer up. You're alive." It wasn't perhaps the best advice to give, especially coming from the curse that ruined his life. But just between them he added, "In another life, you're dead. Smile that you're living this one, okay?" With a hard pat to the back, Mahito sauntered away to catch up with Lynn.

His shoulders jolted but they were forced back down under the weight of Mahito's arm. The gesture was a friendly one but they both knew there was nothing nice behind it. Junpei was sick to his stomach, nauseated and so damn tense. He swallowed. At least Mahito's hand wasn't on him...

It wasn't like this was fun for him either...Mahito took every opportunity to mock, ridicule and abuse him and when Lynn tried to make it better the cycle repeated itself, worsened by Mahito's jealousy.

But He should just lighten up, right? Of course he should. He had no right to be upset at the mistreatment, exhausted from all the bullshit he had to deal with, expected to be content to just sit back and be kept away from his only friend.

Alive

he said, as if it were a treat and not something scrounged up from a festering dumpster and forced down his throat. This was something he should be greatful for? What a joke. Mahito was just prattling on with useless, empty and insulting advice as usual....But then his tone shifted...Those last words plunging a knife into his gut.

. . .

That...didn't make sense...But there was this deep, ineffable feeling....

...It was true....

Why was he so jumpy when Mahito touched him? Why was he so viscerally afraid of those hands? Why did he...Almost know what it felt like....To be twisted and molded into a monster....? To have his soul pulled and played with, warped out of shape?...And to die because of it...?

The pat knocked a gasp out of Junpei, stopping him right where he was.

He touched him. Fuck, Mahito's hand touched him.

Th-thmp....Th-thmp...

. . .

. . .

. . .

Th-thmp..

Junpei sighed like he had nearly drowned, his shoulders dropping. Nothing happened...Not this time...Not in this life...Not yet...

His hand was shaking when it came to push his bangs back into place, lifting his head to see Lynn waving back to him.

Wasn't the sun brighter? Didn't the air feel splendid? Wasn't the noise and ruckus of the city the sweetest song he ever heard? Wasn't it such a blessing to spend another day with his friend, even if Mahito was there?

Maybe Mahito was right, maybe whatever nonsense about 'being dead in another life' had some truth to it, a metaphor, maybe? Junpei stopped trying to make sense of the curses logic a long time ago...

"Could you walk any slower?! Come on, we're getting hamburgers!!!" Lynn yelled down the pavement.

Maybe Mahito could've killed him right then but that wasn't special. Anyone could die at any time from anything. Mahito was just a constant reminder of that.

Nothing like a heavy dose of fear to get appreciation pumping.

Junpei's hands slid into his pockets, quickening his pace until he was close-but not too close- to Lynn.

"Hamburgers again, huh?" Junpei wasn't complaining, he was just happy to be able to eat them with her.

"Well, yhea. They're my favorite! But they're not like the ones back home!" The girl proclaimed, snug against Mahito.

"I'll have to take you both there one day~! And we'll eat real hamburgers!!!"

Junpei smiled, Lynn's rant about salt and grease diming in his ears, happy to see her happy.

He'd love to be alive for that...Even if the food clogged his arteries...Even if Mahito was there.

[adachimoe]

Persona 3 Reload x Wendy's First Kitchen

Atlus announced a collab between P3 Reload and Japanese Wendy's.

The key artwork.

(lol the year is wrong)

Special P3 Reload salt and lemon flavored fries with a branded box. You can get the fries alone, or there's a special set that's medium P3R fries and an A4 size clear file of a random SEES member (shown on the bottom).

The other food is the Wilduck Burger Style P3R Collab Burger, Sanada's Cheese and Ketchup Nuggets, Mitsuru's Spicy Bacon Arrabbiata Pasta, Yukari's Strawberry Milk Float, Junpei's Blue Float, and Aigis's Lemon Mango Tapioca. Ordering something from the collab menu gets you a coaster of a random character (shown on the bottom row).

You can also buy merchandise. Top left is buttons (random), bottom left is acrylic stands (random), top right is an acrylic burger pick (choice), bottom right is a package of die cut stickers.

I reaaaaaly doubt we'll get anything like this in the west. Persona 5 Tactica did get a collab at American Gyu-Katsu locations, though...

"Do you want to eat Akihiko's cheesy nuggets" sounds really dirty ngl.