#much like kotone in p3

[parryperi]

Could be remnants of my Persona 3 brain and how I viewed the two protagonists there but I like to view the masc and fem builders as twins too.

Whether or not I still go with the same headcanon I have with p3 where "whichever protag you picked is the one that survived" is up in the air ahaaa.

I think for Builders it can either be that or a case of "whichever protag you did not pick is still in Cantlin".

The "the other twin is dead" idea sort of stemmed from the fact that Lulu's parents were killed when she was taken away. Sure, might not be a case for all prisoners of the Children of Hargon but yknow!

Thinking about this because I was in the midst of writing a drabble and it just kinda cemented itself into fem!builder's backstory in that drabble. Idk when I'll finish that thing but like, I guess I kinda like the way I put it from a character standpoint?

So, from the way I wrote it for the fem!builder, it goes like this, just to summarize:

• Masc (abbreviated to MB) builder and fem builder (abbreviated to FB) both grow up in Cantlin of course.

• MB is regarded as a total ray of sunshine and loved by the community in Cantlin. The go-to guy if you're having trouble with fixing your house or making a new shed. FB envies him a bit and looks up to him.

• FB's builderpedia is full of drawings from the two, with some of the blueprints FB has being inspired by her brother's machinations or some have corrections for each other written down.

• Basically, FB views her brother's work as being perfect and way better than hers.

• Children of Hargon invade and some circumstance makes them not care for elder villagers, so the twins' parents are no more.

• Both twins know neither of them can adhere to the "no creation" principle. Some sort of circumstance makes it come to where only one twin can be taken alive while the other is implied to face death.

• MB, wanting his sister to survive, does something to draw the ire of the invading monsters so they'll take his sister alive and leave her fairly unharmed.

• Before being separated, MB tells FB to keep making things to make people smile like he does. Furthermore, tells her that when they meet again, he can't wait to meet all the people whose lives shes improved.

• Afterward, FB takes on MB's sunny persona as a way to not only carry on his legacy, but as an attempt to be as successful as him.

• Despite how FB really feels at times and her own opinion of viewing her work as amateurish, she keeps up that persona and confidence throughout the story, especially since it seems to please people.

• Idk if you can tell yet but becoming a people pleaser is what hinders her in Moonbrooke. Thusly, knowing her work was used to harm people she loves tends to make her feel physically ill.

• At some point, FB feels like MB was meant to be the builder Hargon brought to the Isle of Awakening, but didn't anticipate MB sacrificing himself for his sister. Let alone, she feels like a fraud when called a hero as she only views herself just being hungry for praise and adventure.

• It leads to some inner turmoil, like her thinking her friends would have liked MB better than her, and that MB would have avoided everything that happened at Moonbrooke, regarding him as a better fighter too. With how she's asked if she'll ever go back to Cantlin, her anxious mind warps this into believing her friends want her to go away, but later resolves this.

• Eventually finds her own strength in herself, feeling her sunnier side start to come more naturally and feel more comfortable in her new life. While she would like to visit her hometown, she's fearful she may not he able to return to the Isle of Awakening if she does. Knowing she has no family left in the other world, she considers some of the islanders and her friends as newfound family.

Its very much a wip but like, its been on my mind. Let alone that MB and FB's roles can easily be swapped if I want to write about MB another time.

[zipsunz]

little miss fool 🎀🌙

[miusato]

Honestly the main attraction for Shinjiham is how contrast their personality is and it is always funny for me to think about how people around them would react if they found out they're dating in this AU lol

[houndfaker]

its yuri day ……. lets go yuri

[clownowo]

Some assorted doodles from the last few months as I play around with procreate and get a feel for it (so I don’t have to pay a fucking subscription for an art program I ALREADY OWN just to use it on my fucking school assigned iPad)

[proxythe]

i love love when people make kotone so smiley and cute and happy bc i do think it’s true to her, but i also wish people would delve more into her unhinged side lmfaoo. embrace kotones wildly aggressive thoughts and opinions. particularly when it comes to her female friends, she’s so protective and quick to jump to violence about them. like u can fuck w her male friends all u want but dont even joke about yukari or else kotone will kill u with a very large rock

[petorahs]

no cause the way persona 3 took the "passive silent protagonist" route in the most tragic way possible because when you think about it everything that happens in the game is due to their passive involvement.

they just happened to be caught in the crossfire, and subsequently orphaned for it. spent the remainder of those 10 years passively dealing with grief (either through putting up a smiling front or cold one). all their teammates suffered as a direct consequence of them arriving to the city. and later on MC is just understandably blamed for it but they don't say anything after this crushing realization. they can't say anything. they stay silent. they stay passive. (who wouldnt?).

they just happened to be a child on that bridge, under the full moon. knowing nothing about the life that awaited them (and soon, everything about Death).

[eru-iru]

did this for funsies some overlapped but in the end ultimately ryoshu really is the only one i care about HFLSDHGSD

[vhvrs]

being an og akechi fan who has never played p5r is a mystifying world

[snakes-and-fluff]

In P3P I prefer playing FeMC as I prefer her social links (and Wiping All Out), but MC is just as important to me. They are both, together, Persona 3. If an alternate version of Reload came out with just FeMC I wouldn't want that either.

I'm glad that Reload is shaping up to be a great version of MC's story, but without the option to see FeMC's path it just seems incomplete. Not because I only want to play as her or think she's superior, but because every coin has its flipside.

[kumakuma-circus]

just randomly remembered that during my like 10+ attempts at the shadow yukiko fight i more or less consistently ran out of revival beads so yosuke was just dead (well unconscious but whatever) on the ground for like half the fight gfhfjvhfhfhd-

[sketchy--akechi]

I know you said you weren’t serious but

I personally see mokoto (p3) as ace and he has only a special bond with 2 specific characters.

i did in fact never got to play as femc for time purposes but see her very cool and it is very sad she not going to be in reloads 😔(yet)… (I’m hoping dlc with the answer)

but mokoto is absolutely a wonderful character and is one of top favorites. So I hope you can at least give him a try

(maybe watch the movies ???)

um and didn’t want say this before but femc is more of a ng+ character. You play as mokoto and then you play femc to have different dialogue options. Sense mokoto and femc are pretty different (and I’m not talking gender)

I’m saying that because I hope you don’t just see femc and mokoto as just gender swaps.

(I’m so sorry for the rant, you just shot something in my soul and I had to let it out… um I hope you have a nice day 🎶)

(context: i said on twitter that i'm not particularly excited for p3re because there's no femc) anon as i said on twitter it wasn't a serious post, there's nothing wrong with liking/preferring makoto as the mc, but equally i've really loved kotone and i would just miss her too much if i were to play p3 with makoto, equally to how i have a hard time playing strikers knowing that akechi isnt in it. that being said the reason why i played p3p in the first place was because according to leakers p3re wont come out on switch anytime soon, so i have no way of playing it anyway lol this is all just hypotheticals

[miusato]

My favourite kind of aunt-niece dynamic tbh

[houndfaker]

i saw someone else's designs on the dash but totally forgot i did a version of my timeskip femc where she has an actual uniform for the shadow ops and didnt post it here until literally just now. oops!

[clownowo]

I'm not gonna lie when I started Persona 3 i wasn't particularly invested in Akihiko. Definitely wasn't planning on romancing him. Then I encountered the most insane piece of dialogue. I haven't been the same since. It haunts me.

the full dialogue under the cut:

[hecksupremechips]

Crying and sobbing cuz video game will never be as good as it could’ve been 🥺