#maruki cw

[tricksheart]

"I'd advise not going to therapy. Might meet a researcher there, bent with changing all of reality and turning into Cthulhu and then finally, an Evangelion. You will be forced into a robot if you like it or not. So yeah, even if you are a master manipulator and strategist like myself, do not go to therapy. You will have a bad time and everyone will forget you in the process. Only a few will survive". Said one of the few that managed to make it out of therapy alive. His sanity, however, is forever damaged. There is no cure for this one. Not anymore.

[kroosluvr]

to bear the anguish of the entire world for the rest of your life

[beyondplusultra]

an excerpt from the poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" by Frank Bidart.

— it's 2/2 again.

[wyrdle]

Various Takuto x Shuji doodles for an AU that is beyond your comprehension

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

thinking about how much sumire's wish says about both her and maruki's reality. how even once maruki has the power to do it he doesn't bring back kasumi. sumire doesn't want her sister back, she wants to be her sister. sumire doesn't just hate herself--she's jealous of kasumi. she resents her for being the perfect elder sister when sumire consistently failed at being the perfect younger sister. sumire idealizes and hates kasumi all at once. the only way she can be happy is if she becomes her. if kasumi simply came back to life sumire wouldn't be happy, because that would return her to the self loathing hell sumire nearly killed herself to escape. maruki can't bring kasumi back if he wants sumire to be happy, even if bringing her back would create a more just world. maruki's priorities are always for the people already alive. akechi isn't brought back because he wants to live--far from it. he's brought back purely because that's what joker wants. same for wakaba and okumura--they aren't given any agency whatsoever in maruki's reality. their existences are wholly for the phantom thieves. notice again how yusuke's mother isn't brought back--madarame is simply a good sensei. maruki isn't doing what is the "right" or "just" thing by reversing death. he's picking and choosing whose wishes to fulfill and how according to their whims.

but the thing is, maruki only pretends to respect the wishes of the people in his reality. he wants there to be a pretense of choosing, hence why he's so desperate to get joker to agree to his reality, but the truth is that maruki's will always prevails regardless of whether anyone else is okay with it. if its what he decides is best he will override the will of his victims, as seen in his palace when he forces people to give up their dreams for another if he thinks it is what will make them happy. maruki is capable of changing sumire's cognition so that she'll be happy with a living kasumi, but he chooses not to, because his goal isn't to erase every injustice in the world. it is to make everyone happy in the way he deems necessary whether they like it or not. he doesn't care if akechi would rather be dead than his puppet. he only cares if joker, the boy he's personally grown attached to as someone who helped him with his research, got his wish. he doesn't care if kasumi is still doomed to a tragic early death so long as sumire, the living girl he's personally grown attached to as his patient, is personally happy.

[tvbles]

Post p4 wild + suggestive under cut

[hauntingmiser]

Day 12 of monstertober!!!!

Anyways here's the clown counselor but he's a shadow!!!!! 😱😱😱😱

It was inspired by a Sprite edit that I will show right here ( it was back in March or something.....) :

Anyways this is a present for my friend

@deliscandystore

I hope you like it tho

[starlightseq]

Maruki pin up kind of in the style of those SR Valentine's playmats from last year. <3

[koipalm]

Hi! I’d rlly like to hear more info about your Maruki’s priest AU, it looks like it has a lot of potential for heart-wrenching conflict and i love that stuff :)))) pls do share if u feel comfortable!

yeas sure! so im not sure how evident it is in the comic, but maruki is controlling akira. it is why the halo mask goes over his eyes instead of leaving him space to see. id say its a mix of brainwashing and grooming from the therapy sessions and also because maruki got to akira first before akechi could.

maruki is basically using the small part of akira that considered keeping the new reality and blocking all of the rest of him out. like this, akira isnt interacting with the rest of the phantom thieves because he's still 'assisting maruki', but he is still allowed to leave the palace, and he still goes around to his usual haunts like kichijoji and shibuya.

fighting akira won't work out, because it isnt like sumires situation, where she is prompted by maruki but still choosing to fight; even if akira was defeated he wouldnt immediately change sides because of marukis hold on him. it means that sumire needs to work alongside akechi as they are trying to figure out how to get akira out of it, and the two of them trying to figure out what it is that sumire is forgetting.

on their side, they are also exploring 'kasumi's' life and the holes in her memory, which eventually ends with them clashing because of what they uncover and akechis pushiness in trying to get her to snap out of it.. they do figure it out eventually, but sumire is much more assertive and snarky towards akechi, especially when she finds out about his past actions.

in akiras case, snapping him out of it would take not only the phantom thieves, but also help from his other confidantes! they would first need to realize what is happening, and then help akira outside (and in :]) the metaverse. it would also mean them delving into akira's past relationships with adults and authority figures....

i dont have a solid design for akira yet, but these are the designs i have done so far ^_^

[braveryhearted]

The two types of manipulative men.

[tricksheart]

20

Munday Asks: Salt Edition

( accepting )

@electricea said: 20. If you’re feeling salty right now, this ask gives you a free reign to pour out your frustration.

Going into the Persona 5 tag and seeing posts about how M.aruki and Z.enkichi would get along and become a couple just baffles me and makes me a little upset and salty. I get it that it might be a crackship and might be for fun but there is no way Z.enkichi would ever like what M.aruki did to the PTs, S.umire, his own girlfriend R.umi, etc.

If Z.enkichi hated what Ichinose did, I don't see him vibing with M.aruki's plan. Frankly, I don't even think Z.enkichi would like M.aruki's false reality. I know there is a manga panel of them together as a what if scenario but I see that as just being in a group. I think Z.enkichi in actuality would deck M.aruki in the face for claiming Rumi to be gone because she's still alive unlike his own wife, etc.

Sorry for the long winded speech but I just can't apprehend the fandom these days. That's one reason why I just want to go to Persona 6 already so people would move on. I'm just a little tired.

[almightyrozenidiot]

what about 5 and 23 w maruki

Maruki my beloved

5 - I have an entire playlist of songs that remind me of him but I will choose just one (outside of the songs ATLUS gave him)

Translation here

This song just makes me think of him watching over Rumi from his Palace.

25 - I mean this is just like the peak picture of him. The only thing missing is juice falling out of his coat pocket tbh

[etherbonded]

@fukushn said: ' Murkuro, I hope this dosen't sound too sudden - but I wanted to call you to tell you that I'm back here in Tokyo to get married. ' His voice sounded a bit nervous, but still there was happiness in his voice. God...now that that was over, the next part was hearing her approval, and knowing it wasn't to Rumi.

She'd been at home with her... lover? Well, labels are to complicated to describe how her and Chisuke's relationship is. And as long as he didn't use labels, she really wouldn't either. ...She has to tell her brother about that sometime huh? But before she could dwell on the thought further... her brother calls her and she picks up. And... she doesn't hear what she expects but she's not exactly disappointed either.

" ...Is this your way of asking if you have my approval to get married Takuto? Or is this your way of asking me to come to the wedding? " She hums out of curiosity, either way, it'd be a good chance to introduce her brother to Chisuke. Or rather... Kuro as he likes to be referred to as when with others and not alone. " Because yes, you have my approval. Like I've always told you, as long as you're happy and no one gets genuinely hurt? It's fine with me. That's how I've always been. "

Mukuro is happy if her brother is, and as long as nothing hurts him or the other in the end it's all fine.

[wyrdle]

A kinder god than Nyx

more shuji ikutsuki x takuto maruki doodles AKA thinking about their shared desire for emancipation from pain

[hauntingmiser]

Me : uhhhh.....probably spiders?....Idk....probably myself....

( Honestly this looks so amazing tho kudos to you ❤️ )

Adjustments need to be made. But first: what makes you tick?

[the-kinfesssional]

We love randomly having your worst kinmems come to you when you are trying to sleep. Love remembering how much it hurt to be shot. (Thrice may I add)

Coming from that, I remember both sides. So, I remember Ren's POV - being trapped on the other side of the partition and swearing to keep the promise of a duel when we meet again, but the more horrific part would be Akechi's.

Ah yes, I sure do love being shot three times (I went down fighting mind you). That cognitive version of me was such a bitch, his aim was rather bad. To be far, I know I survived that (Something to do with Metaverse cognition) but the wounds scarred.

I'm not going to go into detail about how I felt during that, it's far too morbid.

In other news, I'm kinsidering Takuto Maruki. You know, the guy who threw us into a dreamworld for third semester.

-Ren and Akechi / maybe Maruki? (All Persona 5 Royal)

Aw man, I hope the kinmems don't do that again

On the other side, wow, kinsiders are weird.