#makoto speaks

[weight-of-the-law]

Makoto entered her third year in shujin with such a petite body You would never recognise the waddling mound of lard in the halls of shujin as makoto nijima if it wasn't for her red eyes and black hair~ from an unpopular obedient girl to a mound of lard with 4 girls following her everywhere to pamper her and sometimes tease her~ they were fighting for where to take their priced piggy today.. Until a certain blonde had an idea!

"okay girls.. I know we all wanna pamper nijima-senpai but how about we just take her everywhere!~ we can go to big bang burger then at the buffet and then to leblanc! Afterwards i can take her to buy some new clothes since her uniform is on its last legs already

great idea takamaki-senpai!"

"oh i hadn't thought of that takamaki-san"

"Man panther your Int stat must be through the roof today!"

The blonde and her friends chuckled as makoto's black vest and white blouse was completely unbuttoned a bit of pale white flesh escaping through it..

Makoto really wasn't sure HOW she got to this position, and by that, she meant her shirt being unbuttoned. If you asked her now she'd be completely oblivious to the changes that had occurred that lead to her being in such a state, but even if someone tried to bring it to her attention it was doubtful that she'd care. The chiming from her small escort of girls around at all times seemed to take care of erasing all concerns from her mind anyhow...

[weight-of-the-law]

"I... is this REALLY your best plot for... I don't even know what but it's just plain silly really."

Makoto massaged the ridge of her nose wit her fingers, wonder what Anna was trying accomplish here, but she didn't want to be rude and outright say no to whatever her friend wanted to try. That said this was getting a little old and if Anna wasn't going to take things seriously than maybe she could put her foot down...

"Did you really think this was going to work?"

@weight-of-the-law

"Ooooohhhhh, you wanna be a lazy, slobby house wife so bad..... and you totally have a big, fat crush on me, oooOOOOhhhhhhhhh-"

Anna is so grateful to have such a compassionate and gullible classmate to use her amatuer hypnotist skills on~

Waving a pendulum in front of Makoto's face like a dog wagging her tail, the pale girl is literally praying for miracle to happen while resting her other arm on the class prez's desk. She always did think the brunette was too uptight...and hot...so maybe this would even things out a bit in everyone's favor~

[hey-heigo]

au where everything is the same but kyoko is this thangg (design by @/babirousa)

[borkthemork]

I know that the fandom jokes a lot about how much Togami and Kirigiri order Naegi around to explain the clues in the trials, but I absolutely love the way they utilized this during the 4th Trial.

Specifically, in how Kirigiri is able to pack so much humiliation towards Togami without even breaking a sweat.

Togami throughout the game, especially in the Fourth Chapter, has been continuously downplaying the capabilities, lives, and agency of his fellow classmates. He is elitist, he was born into a family where if you don't bite and claw to survive, then you won't win, and believes he got to where he is through sheer cunning, willpower, and cold rationality. The idea of cooperating with the other students was beneath him. The idea of seeing people such as Asahina and Naegi as equals disgusted him due to his perceived differences in their class, capabilities, status, and levels of intellect.

In Trial 2, specifically, we see him attempt to one-up the others regarding being able to showcase how powerful and assured he is as an influential player within the Killing Game. He even used Naegi as a pawn to get him on the trail of his fabricated crime scene, just to see how people respond and to make the game less "predictable" while keeping control on the situation. However...

In that same trial, we see that the moment Naegi was able to uncover something Togami himself couldn't catch, his resolve wavers. He is humiliated, angry at the idea of some commoner, who couldn't even read 11037 as an upside down 'LEON' at the first trial, was able to outsmart him and put them on a new, unexpected path of inquiry all together. We can see that this gets to him after the trial is complete, showcasing how even if externally he looks calm and assured, being put off guard cuts him deep within his pride.

Being outsmarted, taken by surprise, or not given power over a situation frustrates him, and the seeds of that get planted during Chapter Four through multiple characters such as Kirigiri, Asahina, and Naegi.

Keep in mind that during this chapter a few key points happen that set the stage for what's to come. I am talking about Kirigiri's critical comments towards him before the Class Trial, and that Asahina was able to slap and threaten him.

These series of events do four things:

One, Asahina's actions hardened his viewpoint on Asahina as emotionally reckless and stupid, someone who he will underestimate in the later parts of the chapter.

Two, this outburst makes him double down on the idea of emotion as inferior and childish.

Three, Kirigiri's warnings make him believe he can elude betrayal, that he only has to worry about the ones who are already suspicious to him.

Four, due to being humiliated still by Asahina's surprise slap on him, he wants to regain his composure and status again amidst the cast as someone unflappable.

To me, the last point is why Togami himself went to great lengths of drinking most of the poison bottle in front of everyone. It's a way to show how untouchable and smart he is as a player, that he can surprise the others once more and remain unscathed at the very end from thinking many steps ahead of them.

However, this is where Kirigiri's words and actions click into place with humiliating the crap out of him.

When Asahina is interrogated to be lying, Togami starts to lose his resolve. He fell for Asahina's downplaying of her own intelligence and how she made obvious tracks because he believed she didn't have the capabilities to make a cleaner crime scene, and never thought deeply on why personally she would commit murder on her best friend.

He has honed in so much on the idea of killed or be killed, that the obvious contradictions went right under his nose. It didn't help that Naegi had to point this out to him afterwards.

Enter Kirigiri.

Now that Togami has lost his footing with Asahina's reveal, she then tells him that there is new evidence, surprising him once again by adding another unpredictable factor to the trial.

Stacking on to that, she rubs in that he was the one who gave it to her, and that he was too busy acting like a smartass with the bottle that he didn't inspect the evidence closer in the first place.

Since Togami does have some respect for Kirigiri in being capable of deduction and yet sees himself still as one of the best within the group, Kirigiri hones in on this. She adds how she's "amazed" that someone like him would overlook this, adding in a feeling of his intellect and capabilities being looked down upon in disappointment by a semi-peer.

Togami notes this indirectly in his dialogue, but during this scene, Kirigiri is intentionally omitting the answer to the clue also.

Compared to how she omits info from Naegi in past trials due to wanting to observe his capabilities, Kirigiri wants Togami to get desperate in this moment. He is already feeling out of the loop with multiple factors outside of his control, and not being able to think of a proper conclusion on his own due to being put off guard.

Contrasted with his past lectures—about how you can't trust people, and that you have to do things on your own—she now has Togami begging other people for an answer on the situation. To the point where his anger and frustration makes his requests sound childish, as if he's the impatient one compared to everyone else in the room.

To add even more insult to injury, Kirigiri then diverts the answer to Naegi. The person who Togami has mocked multiple times for being a commoner, someone who will never be equal to him, and who he sees as dense as a rock despite acknowledging his past deduction skills.

By doing this Kirigiri puts Togami into a corner where if he truly wants the answer to his question then he has to beg someone who is the complete opposite of everything he defines as a successful person, and you can see Togami processing this for a few seconds before relenting angrily.

In previous sessions, Togami was able to have a say in the trials and even be a massive influence in how the line of inquiries followed through; the moment Kirigiri put Naegi on the spot and gave him the reins, the tide has changed and is now in their hands.

Trial 4 has Naegi and Kirigiri carrying the deduction phase in solving Asahina's betrayal and Oogami's suicide, and doing an amazing job tying up a lot of loose ends in rapid succession much to Togami's bewilderment.

He is completely falling behind, and this makes him even more humiliated and angry as he loses his cool during the second half of the trial.

He yells about Kirigiri giving him loaded questions, about how unfair it is that she knows more than him, basically watching this man go into a tantrum right in front of everyone he's previously mocked for being emotional. It is just an avalanche of continuous pathos triggering the same humiliated feelings with each second he reacts to them.

He has to listen in shock as Asahina is found out to have been the one who betrayed them, and that suicide was the only viable way for the crime scene to occur. Asahina and Oogami took him by surprise, and if it weren't for Naegi and Kirigiri to disprove the former's claims, they all would've been executed. Togami fell for all of it, and gets hit once more with the feeling of being wrong, of losing to people he never expected to best him while Kirigiri continues to refute him without hesitation.

He's then placed in a position where Kirigiri and Naegi have beaten down his arguments well enough for him to dejectedly apologize after yelling, which is huge for someone like him.

The best part about this is that the moment he does this, Togami takes a full backseat to the entire debate as Naegi and Kirigiri interrogate Asahina and reveal the truth over Sakura's death.

He interjects a few times, and he only jumps back into the conversation completely at the finale—all to ask Makoto how he was able to beat him.

And in the end, Kirigiri responds (in frustration, which is hilarious) by telling him the exact reasons why he never was able to solve this case. She didn't even have to go on a huge tangent, all she needed to do is hit him right where it hurts: his pride, his black and white viewpoints, his inability to win, and that he is just as vulnerable and volatile as the rest of the people he looks down upon.

These lines themselves wouldn't have gotten to him before. We have seen how resistant Togami was when the group tried to argue with him over his behaviors, but now, each sentence hits him like a stack of bricks due to being dragged through the mud multiple times all to prove Kirigiri's point that she was right, and that he was wrong.

There is so much humiliation just packed into every single back-and-forth of the trial, you can't help but wince (and cheer) at how effective it was in getting Togami to back down completely.

[apollos-boyfriend]

man fuck everyone who was saying this manga was a disappointment/bait-and-switch and makoto isn’t actually trans. must a non-binary/genderqueer character turn to the camera and go “actually, i’m transgender” for their identity to be valid

[haliaiii]

I continue to play persona 5 royal (and enjoy it)

[ask-the-byakuya-togami]

Hiya! Mod here again! So, as of now our little roleplay blog thingy is about a third of the cast of THH, but that left me to wonder if there are maybe more roleplay blogs out there!

Like, I would really love the get to include more characters cuz that can be fun! So, if you are a THH roleplay blog (or have been thinking of making one) just respond! Rn I think there's a Byakuya (me), Makoto (@the-ultimate-hope-naegi), Leon (@ask-leon-kuwataa), Chihiro (@ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay), Hiro (@fortune-telling-fxg), Junko (@ask-enoshima), Taka (@kiyotakaishimaru-official), Hina (@aoi-asahina-rp), Celeste (@queenofliars-inanotherlife), Hifumi (@the-alpha-and-the-omega-fanfics) and Sayaka (@p0ps3ns4t10n)

So, that's it! Just interact if u want- don't feel the need to update often or interact with anybody too! :D

Also, hope the others of our 'group'- can I call it that lol?- don't mind me posting this. It feels very much weird, but also wanted to do it still...

[crescentfool]

p3 reload box art + the art book cover!

[animaticx]

Forgot I was making this exact comic like a year ago

[chaiisoftie-art]

the persona protags for maid day!

[dreamingkatfish]

Shadows all around you as you surface from the dark Emerging from the gentle grip of night's unfolding arms Darkness, darkness everywhere, do you feel all alone? The subtle grace of gravity, the heavy weight of stone

This was how that scene went, right?

Something, something, dawn, something, something, light, something, something, change

[weight-of-the-law]

Continuing that makoto haru intrusive thought.. Haru just sharing a bit of her sundae with her and makoto just thinks of haru forcing her to gulp down hevay cream.. While stepping on her gut forcing gas out and teasing her.. Meanwhile in the real world haru is a bit worried makoto zoned out and is drooling a bit..

These thoughts could have come at a worse time, why did her mind always have to travel to places like this when she was out with Haru? She blamed it on Okumura's palace really. All of that fixating on a burger chain clearly messed with her head.

[danganmaticx]

Remember when makoto said you’re so full of SHIT at the end of the game?

Like that’s your dark moment?

That’s your crash out?

Bro your friends are dead!

You’ve been beaten up and assaulted multiple times!

You regularly watch executions!

Byakuya tells you to stfu if you breathe wrong around him!

Hiro wanted to take your fucking organs!

Your damn investigation partner ignored you, tried to get you put in a body bag, and then showed you her dead dad in a box!

Hajime didn’t even get that disrespected and he was tweaking out!

And all you could say is the word shit?!

[cookkoo]

'Can you please not?💢'

[borkthemork]

I think the funniest difference between Naegi and Hajime would be that one has a filter and one doesn't.

Like we have Hajime being done with so many people's shit, acting on impulse (such as hitting a helicopter), and open to calling people out when he can when they're being assholes, while Naegi is more privy to trying to be more patient and open when it comes to listening (to a fault, he does get angry and impulsive after all in the first game when he feels that things are unfair, or when people get hurt).

But what people don't talk about is how absolutely fucking judgemental Makoto can be with his internal dialogue, like holy shit, for someone who acts very kindly to people or gives them a shadow of a doubt, the amount of sass, sarcasm, and plain rude comments Makoto has to filter on the daily is astounding.

No wonder he is tired all the time, this man is using all of his mental energy to not roast someone to the fiery pits of Hell.

[apollos-boyfriend]

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