#lesbian shuake realness

[bongwalter10]

fem shuake yuri for lesbian friday

[lesbiamano]

ok ik his bday ended for most but not for me! HAPPY BDAY GORB AKECHI!!

[funnythey]

FEM SHUAKE 🔛🔝

a letter i couldn't send

[nicastamatis]

no one is allowed to make utena references w men

(sees last rb)

nvm

[icespur]

So gay/Lesbian marriage is not legalized in Japan yet, but they aren't completely opposed to LGBT couples

There's tons of discussion on why Atlus should allow gay romance in the Persona games. I agree. I saw one saying the implementation of a gay romance in Persona 5 could even fit in with the "rebelling against society" themes.

Akeshu/ShuAke scenario I imagine where they decide to get married but since it's not legalized in Japan they just go "🤷‍♀️, Okay, then, if we can't get hitched in the real world, we're doing it in the cognitive world."

Or short version: AKESHU METAVERSE WEDDING OUT OF PURE SPITE FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S LAWS.

Morgana thinks this is a reckless idea, "Did you two forget how dangerous the Metaverse is? What, do you think the Shadows will just obediently attend and sit in the audience? Not to mention how long this is going to take, I hope you're okay with a speed run wedding if you don't want to run into the Reaper."

They ain't listening! Well, Goro might rethink some things since he is pretty logical (for the most part). Joker though gives zero effs, yeah, that's nice Mona, but we literally don't have many options, WE ARE TYING THE KNOT AND WE ARE DOING IT HERE!

We are crashing the depths of Mementos and saying our vows before the Holy Grail, Yaldabaoth can be the Preacher, we are doing this, NO 👏 IS NOT 👏 AN OPTION 👏.

[iguanasplit]

WIP: list of P5 AUs

Crown the Pawn: Your ol classic Roleswap Shuake AU but Akechi remembers. goro has to use loki via bluetooth on joker to trigger call of chaos, make him go pyschotic so it maybe unlocks his memory back so they can do shit right. joker isnt very happy with the role he has to play.

Heart of Depth / The Mightiest of Seas (Pirates AU): Ren was a captain at some point and Goro was a pawn for shidos fleet. (its complicated)

Superconduct (Pacific RIM AU): Ren an ex-pilot works on makeshifts jeagers with futaba. Akechi practices solo piloting patrolling and ravaging illegal and unregistered units made outside the corps in the outer suburban areas. The smugglers call him the Black Mask.Akechi finds them scavanging metal components in a discarded unregistered Jaeger(Arsene) in the outer urban areas and he tears Arsene apart. Ren was a perfect Pilot, the best scores, but after something. he starts failing every test. Upon his brief imprisonment and his return his compatibility tests keep failing, he leaves one of the PTs on a comma

Noragami AU: Lowly God Akira, Akechi is Shidos Shinki. working with Nao

Side Hustle (Hades AU): Zag-Akechi, Demigod Prince of thieves Joker.with Nao

Passerine/? (HadesxPJO AU:) child of zeus (unclaimed) akechi praetor, amnesiac hermes child joker, goros very mad about this. with Nao

Arcane AU: Firelight leader (here called the phantoms), Joker, and Enforcer Akechi.

Hunger Games AU: pawn of the revolution joker. games victor goro works both as celebrity and agent for in the games. after winning Joker realizes he is being used by the revolution so he makes his own group to cause mayhem, and Goro double crosses everyone

Arcana Shuffle AU: NG+ only adults remember, joker isnt fated anymore but like remants of weird power and fate clung to him so instead of waking arsene he wakes the fucking reaper, goro's mother is alive, he has a real life and friends and so makoto is the trickster and haru is the other side of the coin. akechis role here starts when jokers unstable state threatens to break the timeline preventing the main events from happening. Goro awakens Robin and arsene.

HermitFaith AU: NG+ where Akechi and Ren remember, but they awaken memories as soon as the game starts, in the arcana swapped roles of Hermit for Akechi and Faith for Ren. They have to navigate the timeline supervising for the main events to ocur and reach the end of the timeline. Goro has a Palace that happens to look like the Engine room, lol

The Forge (Fantasy AU): Altoi crown prophecy, the cursed throne prince akechi decides he wont be doing and fated prophecy prince duty so he becomes a mage in the Norden lands. Joker is a blacksmith apprentice who is actually a pretty good mage himself, hes from Yongen the Fortress, mining town that legally belongs to Altair. Shido is waging war refusing to doom the kingdom because akechi doesnt want to die for the prophecy lol.(im using an old worldbuilding i really love but i never actually put to action). joker is some sort of ex mage from the velvet ring but his soul-bond died and to everyone in the ring you are supposed to have died with your soul-bond. so he isnt well seen in the Velvet Ring anymore. Lavenza Adopts him as blacksmith for custom catalysts. but like mages are pretencious , and full of shit and joker dislikes them

Steampunk/dieselpunk AU (Berserker cyborg Joker AU):

Lesbian SHUAKE aus:

Hockey Lesbians AU: they are angry lesbians playing hockey, originally by ned and swervey

The Night the world ended we- (Post-Apocaliptic AU): Mementos collapsed and they are left to beat yadly on a fistfight.

[leonawriter]

That one art I reblogged has me thinking of genderswap P5R and lesbian shuake with Akechi presenting as high femme to the public but actually having no real attraction to femininity at all, and still having Loki bringing this added aspect of "you know what else this god of trickery was known for? Shaoeshifting and gender fuckery." And the Black Mask outfit is no different from canon.

Also just, since I'm talking about costumes, Akira's Thief costume not being different at all right from the start. Maybe same with Ryuji's? Some might change, but it's more "what makes sense here, given how a different gender would change the way they see themselves and how society gives them a different self-image to live up to?"

Akira doesn't need to change because c'mon put a girl in that outfit and she makes it look hot. Ryuji might have subtle differences, may have a different Persona, might not. I don't see Ryuji being all that different as a girl. (She'd probably be called "Ryuko" or something, too). Yusuke might have a different Persona, or not, but u can easily see girl Yusuke rocking some sort of mix between traditional Japanese women's clothes, and the cowboy/Elvis look he's got going in canon.

And Akechi? The "Prince" outfit being more like a magical girl not because "Akechi is a girl, so girls wear skirts" but because magical girls are THE number one type if hero marketed at girls who'd be Akechi's age when she was watching TV with her mama. A friend suggested Utena vibes. I've nit watched it myself, but yes.

I think a big thing would be that none of the girls in a genderswap au would fit with society's view of how a girl should be (tempted to leave Futaba as she is, just because, as she still fits), and honestly? That fits the themes of P5 way better than the canon girls get to a lot of the time.

[akechicrimes]

I am. A baby Akeshu, do you have any fic recs? I tend to prefer multi chapter stuff and I'm not a big fan of aus where everything's different, like, no personas. Of course you don't have to answer but if you do thank you very much!

oh hello!!!! welcome!!!!!! this response is super late jsjskksjsjs but SHHHH

i haven’t warned for all these so you’ll have to check the tags on them but here is Akeshu’s Greatest Hits

my one true love(s)

it takes a village - new game plus where the phantom thieves remember the previous timeline but akechi doesn’t. has my favorite goro characterization of all time forever and ever and ever and ever and has wonderfully executed its premise at every turn. i lose my shit over this fic every time it updates and it owns my heart. PLEASE READ IT

you will not take my heart alive - akechi goro gets his heart changed and akechi goro has an extremely hard time in the aftermath. primarily an extremely long character study and exploration of his mental health and the reasons he did what he did in the first place. for the very very very very very strong of heart because akechi goro has some No Good Very Bad mental health and also has those Self Destructive Tendencies.

a multitude of deaths, and a world for the two of us alone - not a multichapter fic but i cried. akechi goro is in a long term relationship with akira post-game and he has a Very Difficult Time adjusting to being in a relationship and, uh, being not an assassin anymore, and also a difficult time with intimacy and relationship issues and akira is v patient with him as goro tries his best. it’s good, i swear, it makes me chicken tender.

[russian accent] fandom classics. i read. is good

l’appel du vide - akira gets thrown back to the year he was a phantom thief three years after the game and tries real hard to save akechi this time around. this is the king shuake fic lmfao it’s practically a rite of passage.

once more, with feeling - groundhog day AU where akira and akechi get stuck on the day akechi is supposed to die, and it keeps ending with akechi dying while they try to escape. also king shuake fic and another rite of passage.

a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn - akechi goro serves three years of jail time and gets out and and tries to put his life back together and also is really fucking bad at doing that.

hungry thirsty roots - akechi goro gets his heart changed and the phantom thieves have a lot of feelings about reforming their ex-enemy. one of the classic akeshu redemption fics.

the immortal realm of barbelo - akira dies and akechi gets him as a persona. akechi attempts a redemption arc while his crush lives inside his brain.

[russian accent] fandom classics. i have not read. i hear is good tho

god eater / with mournful tread / where have you been? / trial by media / yesterday’s protagonist / perhaps every friends / killed with kindness / sakuraso / bullet caught between your teeth / leave me something to remember you by / if you never shoot, you’ll never know / this world is (ir)redeemable / krákrgaldr

not actually TECHNICALLY what u asked for but i am morally obligated to recommend these fics to everyone i meet. i will literally go to jail if i do not recommend these

black star - persona 5 sequel one year after the canon game with a heavy emphasis on akechi’s redemption arc in a scenario where he survived. i have literally printed all 150k words of this fic and put it in a binder to put on my bookshelf because i love it so much.

you just haven’t earned it yet, babe - ok i know some people feel like genderbends r transphobic and also this isn’t a multichapter fic but this is really a super super good fic about both akechi and akira as lesbians in which akechi struggles with the prison of femininity. is good i promise.

don’t make me delete this chatroom - IT’S TECHNICALLY SHUKITA BUT PLEASE EVERYONE READ THIS FIC IT HAS SUCH GOOD CONTENT AND IT’S SO WHOLESOME AND I LAUGH SUPER HARD AT EVERY CHAPTER AND IT DOES BETTER GROUP DYNAMICS THAN P5 CANON AND ALSO AKECHI IS SO FUNNY IN THIS FIC AND ALSO HE HAS FRIENDS. YALL KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE A FIC WHERE AKECHI HAS FRIENDS? REAL GENUINE FRIENDS? REAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PHANTOM THIEVES? I LOVE IT A LOT. PLEASE READ IT

[destroy-trash-boys]

it’s almost the choice day in royal and i’ve seen comments about the wandavision show, and it really does show the difference between what people accept in m/f stories and what we’re told to accept in anything for wlw and mlm in fiction

there’s a balance between an ending that’s too happy it doesn’t feel earned or it feels hollow, and one that’s misery for misery’s sake. p5 vanilla felt hollow and more “trust the system” and didn’t go into any of the trauma joker would have faced. royal actually goes into it a bit more, with maruki as a parallel to him, but then it also just drops at the end. the one time they go into the protagonist and make him his own, not up to interpretation, he has a desire of his own that he has to give up, it almost feels like punishment. 

i’ve seen people joke about how “shuake is so real even the homophobic fans have to notice” and hey, fair enough, even i noticed something. it’s not canon but i could see the baiting, i just wish it was a ship that wouldn’t be like that and not falling into homophobic tropes, something the canon could have fixed if they wanted to. but it became “real” in the way most subtext ships become real. only when a characters dies -or not, but you think he does-. when characters are separated. there are so many ships in both jrpgs and anime where it only becomes one-sided or confirmed only when the characters can’t be together, so people never have to see a canon gay pairing. people can argue “but there’s het romances that end tragically too” -okay. except the majority of canon pairings are m/f and they will still have more happy endings than not. they’re not required to have unhappy endings. outside of niche stories like in BL, if you see any hint of gayness in something more “mainstream” it’s never canon, it’s one-sided, it’s only the villain. it will never be canon or happy. what was the last one, yuri on ice? and that was four years ago, and people spent half the show’s runtime wondering if one of the characters was going to die or if he was evil. that’s how used to these tropes we are, and how shocked people were that it didn’t happen. the explicit romance and the lack of a tragic ending was the surprise, because we just expect some catch.

p5r is kind of like the rebellion movie for madoka. like a lot of lesbians, i loved madoka as a teen, and still have some nostalgia despite all the problems. but i don’t get angry when people criticize it’s message, or say that they hate what happened and they feel it’s like misery porn. liking some angst and darker imagery doesn’t mean i don’t get the criticism. i get why people hated what happened, and i get why people felt the story was unfairly punishing people who suffered just for the crime of daring to want more.

it’s a common theme for any lgbt themes in fiction. wanting a happy ending is wrong. it’s arrogant and selfish. you see characters punished for this. p5r does the same thing to joker. and then the fandom does the same thing, either making joker a yandere, joker gets corrupted to murder with akechi, joker is miserable for years without akechi, joker has to fight with his friends because of akechi. nothing positive about what akechi does for him. if there’s people writing about their rivalry and them as equals, i’ve still never seen anyone do anything positive with it. and that’s why i don’t like how royal made this the lynchpin of joker’s trauma. how are feelings for another boy, feelings that people say parallel maruki and his ex lover, how are those feelings causing punishment, how is that not homophobic, if not unintentional? the popularity of this ship is because we know this narrative, but we never see anything else. we don’t get any hopeful stories at all, and no one is supposed to say anything about this theme in the game?

it’s really too bad the only times i see people talking about happier endings is when an m/f ship doesn’t get one. both the latest wonder woman movie and wandavision has prompted m/f fans to talk about how the female leads are punished for wanting happiness and romance. they have a point, it’s just rare the same people will also demand the same for wlw and mlm stories. people realize this trope sucks, but it’s the only one we ever get for wlw and mlm ships in popular media. it’s never told why we should accept suffering as the default and always tying it to feelings of another character of the same gender does have a different baggage when it’s the only story we ever get. when gay people are still treated as selfish for wanting to be happy and to be themselves, to be in relationships. i’m tired of people accepting this as the best we can do, or not understanding why others would be sick of it. even the m/f only shippers get sick of this, but if you’re lgbt and want happy stories? you’re derided as a dumb puritan child who just don’t get complex stories. 

but the point still is, no matter how different you think it is, any story that hints that gay coding, subtext, or just textual feelings, leads to suffering or corruption, is always going to have baggage because that’s the world we live in. we don’t have enough gay stories in a variety of media with happy endings. abusive relationships, tragic relationships, they’re still the norm. they’re still all we could get. don’t blame people for wanting better. don’t blame people for wanting gayness to be salvation for once, instead of a character’s downfall. because we barely have any. even that damn “komaeda” checklist proves we don’t. if you like that sort of thing, most media already has what you want. some of us can want complex characters and happy endings for them.

[theexistentiallyqueer]

For the ask meme 001: Persona 5!

I’m so sorry, I meant to get to this last night but then I got caught up in server stuff!

Favorite character: tied between Goro and Makoto

Least Favorite character: Shinya

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Akira/Goro, Makoto/Haru, Ann/Shiho, Sae/Mitsuru, and….actually I think that’s it? I only have the four.

Character I find most attractive: Sae Niijima pls step on me

Character I would marry: I don’t know……Chihaya????

Character I would be best friends with: Hifumia

random thought: what if the real rehabilitation was the friends we made along the way

An unpopular opinion: I tried to romance Makoto once just to see what her romance was like, but it made me feel so icky. She has such lesbian energy.

My Canon OTP: shuake

My Non-canon OTP: shuake

Most Badass Character: Goro is feral, a wildcard, AND a man of the people? Get you a man who can do all three.

Most Epic Villain: Having not yet played Royal, I’m going to stick with Yaldabaoth, who I REALLY enjoyed as a villain.

Pairing I am not a fan of: shumako, shutaba, and any of the akira/adult relationships

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Haru, Ryuji, Yusuke

Favourite Friendship: Akira & Futaba

Character I most identify with: Futaba

Character I wish I could be: Akira, so I can shoot god in the face with my Satan kinsona

[lesbiamano]

lesbian shuakes

[lesbiamano]

goro's too pretty to be wrong about anything-- 0r so akira says.

[icespur]

Akiren choosing to wear a wedding dress for Akeshu/ShuAke wedding: 

very late Part 2 to this post below:

I've had this sitting in a Google Doc for a while, I've just been too lazy to post it

(Mementos Mission Manga Scene Spoiler warning)

So while Unapologetically spoiling myself on Persona 5 content, I came across a Manga Spinoff called Mementos Mission. There's a scene where Akira (Protagonist’s name in the Manga canon is Akira Kurusu), teams up with Akechi on an investigation and he's advised to come in disguise and Akira’s version of disguise is “Oh, I just happened to have a female cop uniform in my wardrobe, along with curly hair extensions, lipstick and makeup. I'll wear that.” 

Akechi reacts like most people would, and after recovering from a laughing fit, questions what the heck he's wearing. 

And Akira is so nonchalant about it “You said to come in disguise and this is what I had on hand 🤷‍♀️.” 

The outfit is also available as a DLC costume pack in Persona 5 Dancing In Starlight. 

Point is, Akiren canonically crossdresses and has no issue with it. 

So what if he willingly wears a wedding dress to an Akeshu/ShuAke wedding scenario? 

Originally, the Wedding Dress option was just supposed to be plan B. If for some reason the Metaverse proves to be too dangerous to hold the wedding and they're forced to have it in the real world, Akira could just crossdress as a female and take the role of The Bride. 

Luckily Metaverse Wedding is manageable enough. During the private dressing process the Girls took it upon themselves to play Bridal Boutique for Akiren. 

Fast-forward to the Wedding. Akechi is waiting at the altar, Grim Reaper officiating (it was originally supposed to be Yaldabaoth but Grim showed up and it seemed letting him be a part of the ceremony was the only way not to get K.O.ed by him). Random assortment of shadows sitting in the crowd that the group managed to convince threaten to attend. Sophia is playing the role of the pipe organ, humming a wedding tune. Ryuji is one of Akiren’s best men, Yusuke is busy in the role of Wedding photographer—-um, “Artist”. Since cameras don't work in the Metaverse, Yusuke has to hand photograph the moments by painting them which he is more than enthusiastic about, this man is going to paint the most detailed works of art ever, who needs a silly camera? 

Morgana is on ring bearer duty. unfortunately since Sojiro can't enter the Metaverse, Cop PeePaw Zenkichi Is playing the role of “father that gets to walk Akiren down the aisle” 

Jose is the flower boy. 

Sumire is one of the girls not playing “Bridal Boutique” and is instead one of Akechi's best—-women? She felt bad for him barely having any Bests on his side so she insisted. The rest of Akechi's Bests entourage consists of docile cognitive beings of Sae Niijima, and a couple of his agents. 

Since fashion isn't her area of expertise, Futaba also willingly opted out of playing Wedding Boutique and stood next to Ryuji in Akiren’s Bests line up, along with Lavenza. 

Akechi didn't have anyone close to walk him down the Aisle. Shido was an obvious no go. “Absolutely Mcfucking Never In This Lifetime Or In Hell, Docile Cognitive puppet version or not” - in Akechi's own words. 

So Igor happily decided to fill that void. The long nosed hunchback was an unsettling sight for Akechi but Akiren reassured he's a decent dude. 

The moment comes, doors swing open for the second Groom to reveal—-

Akiren in full wedding dress and veil, hair extensions to further sell the feminine look, along with black lipstick. He's wearing a casual warm smile, absolute zero sense of shame in this man. 

Zenkichi and Ryuji do double takes, Futaba bursts out in a fit of cackles.

Behind Akiren, the girls, minus Futaba and Sumire, stand behind him, all with varying expressions from defeated, embarrassed, and holding in laughter.

“For the record, we didn't force him to wear this. Once we managed to convince him that wearing his Shujin school uniform is not appropriate attire to get married, he suggested a wedding dress. Despite us explaining it's not necessary and a Tuxedo will do just fine, he was already picking out dress options, so we just went along with it.”

“He also pulled black lipstick and curly black hair extensions out of his pocket and ominously claimed “My time has come.” He wouldn't give us an answer as to where he got them from, I can only assume they've been in his pocket all day.” 

Akechi just lets out a defeated sigh, and facepalms. Oh, that's right. His soon to be husband is a fucking dumbass

A lovable, amusing, cute, undeniably sexy dumbass, but a dumbass all the same. But—--he wouldn’t have it any other way. 

[lesbiamano]

akeshu/shuake lesbians real??? I LOVE YOUR ART SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! please keep drawing I love you so much

HAHSHDH THANK YOU,, they’re so fun to draw,, i’ll definitely be drawing more of them soon