#kind of refers to alloplatonics and such too

[cepheusgalaxy]

[ID: A donut chart titled "in the main wips". The first element of the graph, "abled characters", is in blue and takes 45% of the chart. The second element, "disabled characters", is in red and takes 55% of it. /end ID.]

was listing everybody's disabilities and thought this would be neat to do

bonus:

[ID: Another donut chart, titled "in the three main wips", with two items. The first one, blue, is labelled "aspec characters" and takes 35% of the graph, and the second once, red, is labelled "allo+ characters", and takes 65% of the graph. /end ID.]

You guys don't realize how funny this is to me (i'm neurotypical + ablebodied and aspec)

[neon-lights-stardust-nights]

Tell me about your first playthrough (or watch through) of persona 5

Oh god, Persona 5 was weird.

I played it maybe up until Futaba's palace. I grappled with the idea of health as a currency to perform attacks, and then got really good at the battle system way quicker than I expected. So, I abandoned the game to binge what came before!

I played Nocturne, I played a fan translation of the first SMT, I started a play through of P2 fan translated on the PS1... And then I remembered somewhere while playing Persona 3!

I never beat Persona 5.

I struggled an awful lot on Kamoshida my first play through. 3 days of on again, off again attempts. I came back though with even more experience and honed skills than I came in, and honestly? It felt too easy. I started a second play through on the hardest difficulty: I still couldn't really cut my teeth on it. It felt like (by quitting for a while to find out about all this stuff everyone else said was harder) I had sharpened my claws a little too much.

It didn't help I am not easily invested in social sims. I will only really talk to characters that strike a chord with me, and disregard basically everyone else. You can't date guys in Persona 5, so I just spent Valentine's with Ryuji. I maxed out Yusuke, I maxed out Ryuji, I talked to a few of the adults like Sojiro... I came around a little on Haru, but she's like a daughter to me. So I never pursued the romance route.

I guess that's being aplatonic though. I am disinterested in all but the relationships I have a better frame of reference for, with few exceptions. Higurashi actually kind of sold me on the idea friendship isn't just something alloplatonic people made up, and that frame of reference has been helpful to my DND character (since he is, demonstrably, alloplatonic.)

Oh and I fucking hate Morgana. Congratulations Persona 5: you made me hate a cat. No other media managed before. Hats off to you, only Persona has managed to make characters annoying enough that they even grate my nerves. (Chie and Teddy also go up there from Persona 4. Do not ask me about Persona 4 unless you want to hear how much I hate it, please and thank.)

First playthrough, I'm in Kamoshida's palace, I was like... Awww, he's not that bad! By fucking Futaba's palace I was just like ON GOD SHUT UP OR I WILL TURN YOU INTO A LARGELY UNETHICAL COAT.

Oh and Maruki wasn't a thing yet, because Royal didn't exist.

I don't talk about it much, but my main F/O and dream date was Yusuke. Still... Def would date him if the game let me, and I wasn't playing Royal (thus, Maruki isn't an option.)

Oh and the game lets you fuck your teacher, so while I didn't do it, my step dad and I giggled like middle schoolers over it on his first play through instead.

I also really hated Akechi for like 80% of my play through. And then somewhere in that last 20%, he became a kismesis to fill my Persona 5 black quadrant. I really ought to give him a tag and write some of him and Maruki soon...

Also don't ask me what separates bad hate from sexy hate, I am not even 110% on it myself. All I know is that Akechi and Varre fill me with the most gleeful malice, but Morgana makes me want to commit atrocities out of like. Bad rage.