#looking at you Adam and Eve

[no-context-nonsense]

Pretend like it’s Saturday still. Why didn’t I post yesterday? Oh you know… I spent half the day crying and didn’t make the graphic. 😂

[imadhatt3r]

Am I insane or are Joker and Akechi low-key equivalent to Adam and Eve in the 3rd semester

- Maruki's palace has some heavy "Garden of Eden" themes, with it essentially being a paradise where people live free of suffering and strife but also in a kind of blissful ignorance of themselves. The highest structure is LITERALLY named Eden, with a garden and an apple tree with a snake and everything. Maruki oversees everything as God, one who gave this wonderful place and unburdened lives to people.

- 3rd semester Akechi was born out of Joker's cognition thanks to Maruki, just like how Eve was born out of Adam's rib; There's also the fact that Joker wanted Akechi alive again so that they might try starting their relationship over and due to his regret over how their relationship ended up- which parellels Adam's desire for a companion. Joker and Akechi are the only two people in Maruki's reality who feel that something's not right (at least at first), making them truly uniquely cognicient beings, kind of like how Adam and Eve were uniquely intelligent among all the other life in Eden (given that they could talk and were chosen to be the caretakers of all other creation).

- In the bible, it was Eve who convinced Adam to eat the apple and gain awareness; In the game, it's Akechi who manages to convince Joker about the truth of what's actually going on around them.

- Once Adam eats the apple, he and Eve are banished from Eden by God, forcing them and all the other humans in the future to live on Earth, where they have to suffer from hunger, illness, pain, and all the other things they never felt while in Heaven. Joker and Akechi go after Maruki with all the other phantom thieves- their consciousness allowed them to disobey their "God" and destroy his reality, causing them and all humanity to return to the original world, where they have to suffer from heartache and other emotions they were free of in his "Paradise". Not to mention that they themselves will suffer too- Joker will have to live without Akechi, mourning the relationship they could have, while Akechi will literally stop existing. If they obeyed, they could still both exist together (even if it would be in a way they don't want).

- Adam and Eve are, of course, positioned as a "pair of opposites", given that Abrahamic religions see men and women as opposite "forces". Almost every aspect of Joker and Akechi mirrors eachother, from designs through personalities to places they occupy in their lives. There's also the fact that Adam and Eve were sort of destined for eachother, made for eachother by God, just like how Joker and Akechi were destined by gods to be rivals and opposites.

- "Rebellion" in general is one of the main themes of the game, and Adam and Eve can be seen as humanity's first rebels by going against their creator (or at least that's one possible interpretation). Joker and Akechi are P5's protagonist and deuteragonist, the two main thematic characters of the game; Them being united together AS A DUO (unlike during the Shido situation, where they had the same goal but mostly worked separately) against a shared God-like opponent who is trying to take away their free will is kind of like if God wanted to take Adam and Eve back and wipe their minds, and Adam and Eve fought together like hell to stay free.

- This is really minor, but there is a Mementos dialogue about Akechi eating a single apple for lunch every day... 👀

[jazzy-a]

Lucifer: Look, Adam! I found your baby pictures!

Lucifer, literally holding up pictures of dust

[skullfragments]

i see your "thousand eyes and wings" biblically accurate aziraphale and raise you "biblically accurate according to weird ass medieval illuminations" aziraphale (& bonus crowley)

inspired by this illuminated manuscript page depicting the story of adam and eve:

(i'm pretty sure tumblr fucked the quality on these do please click for full size😭)

[scream-for-me-now]

"You're just not good enough

Darling, you're looking rough

Such a disgrace, that ugly face

Even a mother couldn't love"

[lytorika]

family portrait. maybe. or maybe it's faked for clout

[harapeveco]

Btw, how to eat life ln will have official English translation 🎉🎉

Yeh I saw!!!! I also made a post about it but no one saw it 😔😔😔 you guys are so mean

But it’s good it’s getting an official translation bc not only does that mean [REDACTED] can finally die but it also means I can finally buy an Eve book that is not in Japanese and I can actually read

[cakeyouareoh]

🐍

[ahopefulbromantic]

I just realized the most tragic thing - that I cannot gush about 31st October being Dziady / Forefathers' Eve because it's a Polish thing and none of my mutuals know what it is and no really good translation of the dramatic works exists to have them read it :(((

It's like a traditional Polish Halloween and nowadays it's mainly known from Adam Mickiewicz's (he's to Poland what Shakespeare is to England) 4-part drama centered around it. It follows a tortured poet (my blorbo, I love him) during the time Poland was partitioned and erased from the maps, its people oppressed but always fighting back. It is one of the most important and culturally significant Polish works ever created. And it's got, like so many themes, so many themes you guys. It's one of my favorite works ever one of my all-time dreams is to play Konrad, a protag from part 3.

So if anyone does know it or is interested in finding out more please please please message me or drop an ask I'd love to infodump!!!

[adorhauer]

what- and I can't stress this enough- the fuck?

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing about millie is that this plays out one of three ways for them. either she never figures out she’s trans and that’s gonna be an unknown that sticks as a knife in her gut for her whole life until she dies because she never even realizes it’s an option. OR. he does realize it. and then either he never does anything to transition aside from go “I’m a guy now fuck off” or he does it instantly via whatever supernatural shit he’s got available to him with zero regard for the consequences.

but i know he doesn’t want to transition. he doesn’t, he won’t. there’s too much vulnerability in it. you don’t get a cocoon, you know, you don’t have something protecting you while you sort yourself out. and that’s so much more terrifying to him than any benefits of the slow and steady process of physically transitioning could get him. so he just wouldn’t do it, unless he could snap his fingers and have it happen in the blink of an eye.

[everysongineverykey]

so-called doomerists when "If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human... Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. ...for ever."

[i-bring-crack]

Need ONE adaptation of the genesis story to have the furbidden fruit hold the taste of the sweetest yet most vile thing anyone has ever tasted, but because its so good Eve can not stop eating it and reaching out for it until Adam finds her eating from the fruit and suddenly human and beast don't look all that different from each other.

Bonus points if Adam and Eve had never felt the taste of any other food at all, or if the reason why people feel so empty when they loose their ignorance of childhood is tied in with the eating of the fruit.

Bonus bonus points is if the fruit is the one to that consumes you instead of being consumed (and why the tree of life exists to contradict it in the first place)

[thepringlesofblood]

straight up i can't believe this is real holy shit

i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

[evulosie]

PER BIBLICAL RECORD [ GENESIS 5:5 ]ㅤADAM LIVED TO BE 930 YEARS OLD.ㅤBY MODERN STANDARDS, IF WE ASSUME ADAM & EVE VISUALLY RESEMBLED PEOPLE IN THEIR 90S-100S AT THE END OF THEIR LIVES, THIS WOULD SUGGEST THEY AGED ~10X SLOWER THAN WE DO TODAY;ㅤEVERY CENTURY THAT PASSED WOULD HAVE SHOWN ONLY ABOUT A DECADE’S WORTH OF AGING PHYSICALLY. FOR MOST OF THEIR EXISTENCE, THEY REMAINED YOUTHFUL & HEALTHY —ㅤONLY BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGNS OF AGING SLOWLY TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR LIFESPAN,

[thebestpartofwakingup]

Sometimes I wonder if people online have started to forget that “Passing” and “Stealth” used to be two separate categories and not. Synonyms.

Idk I can really see how conflating the two can breed a lot of anxiety, especially when the bar for one is MUCH lower than the other.

I think some of the change came from discussion about how some cis and intersex people don’t always “pass” for cis — when previously “passing” in correlation with trans identity was more a question of “could a random person on the side of the street guess your pronouns correctly, and immediately?”

Idk its a bit out of my lane as the now-nb who grew up a cis girl who did NOT pass for cis because of PCOS, but Ive got a lot of trans friends who are anxious about passing — when they definitely do no question — as well as trans family members who both are stealth and family members who will likely *never* be stealth but still take steps to pass.