#p4 naoto

[gunkmusher]

more first years!!

[murasamene]

flowers for algernon

[nejishadow]

Making as many edits as possible to bulk up my queue while moving

Kannao! They're finally here! Them!!

Also I should've used the PQ renders for the last one but my computer was lagging hard! I got tired of trying!! "Me Eat You Whole"

[draconicdeityarts]

It be like that

[bbycutz]

3 of my Shiromura week drawings so far!! Still working on more so be on the lookout mwahah…

Day 1 - Dancing

Day 2 - Music

Day 4 - Promise

[bimboarcana]

Naoto Shirogane: gender collector

[jupiter-rin]

Persona 4 Golden cast sticker sheet

Still gotta draw some mini stickies to fill the blanks ^^

[anuuuubis]

Shirogane Naoto-kun! 🩵

[mikustan27]

t4t naorise will save u .

[mirror-dimension-dump]

p4 1st years + teddie

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ill finish the second years soon... mabye

[rascal-draws]

guess who finally played persona 4! lowkey obsessed with all these asshole teens <3

please reblog! :)

(tumblr destroyed the photo quality so sorry for the blurriness :,( if anyone knows how to fix that lmk lol)

+ height chart below 👍

[gunkmusher]

my take on the cast of persona 4

decided to draw yu as a girl here because this is my take on the characters and when i played the game i would just pretend yu as a girl. it made sense because i didn’t know you were gonna have to play as a boy when i entered my name.

[habitual-truant]

"Naoto isn't trans! Kanji isn't gay! You obviously don't understand their character arcs at all!"

I'm allowed to be critical of the homophobic and transphobic narratives that are in persona 4. Obviously in canon kanji is straight and Naoto is a cis girl, but it pisses me off when people decide to say "you don't understand their character!" because I do. I KNOW Kanji's arc was about toxic masculinity. I KNOW Naoto didn't like being a girl because she wasn't treated fairly and taken seriously for it. I KNOW they aren't queer. But they should have been.

Throughout persona, a person's shadow has been some part of their unconscious mind, the exact part varying from game to game, but the general consensus being that it's the part of the self that's unknown for whatever reason. In persona 4, its the part that is repressed and rejected. Characters defeat their shadow and gain their persona from accepting that their shadow, a manifestation of the things they hate about themselves, is in fact a part of them. It's not exactly the same for Kanji and Naoto though. Kanji's shadow is the result of internalizing what others say about him as the truth, and Naoto's is the result of rejecting what other people think of her, and repressing the reasons why they think those things. Unlike the other characters who's shadows entirely come from their own emotions and thoughts, Kanji and Naoto's shadows come from how other's perception of the two affects them.

Kanji's shadow is a "gross pervert" that lusts over men. Based off of the other characters and how they defeat their shadows, you would think he has internalized homophobia, and that by accepting his shadow, he accepts being gay. But, its the opposite. Kanji accepts he's straight despite liking feminine things. He accepts that he's NOT gay. I understand the intentions. I know his shadow was the way it was because he was accused of being gay and made fun of for liking girlish things, and he internalized it. I know his arc is about toxic masculinity and unlearning it. But Kanji was attracted to men before his arc. He all of a sudden magically becomes straight after accepting his shadow. "But he had a crush on Naoto, who ended up being a girl!" Yeah, I understand. Doesn't change the fact that Naoto presented as a boy, and was completely socially transitioned. At that point, Kanji had literally no reason to think that Naoto was a girl, he completely saw her as a boy. The writers backpedaled on his attraction to boys. It implies being attracted to the same sex is something you can change, and that it's worth changing. Not to mention, his entire arc is played off as a joke. his shadow is a "pervert queer" because its "haha funny" for a masculine man to like men. It's a mockery.

Naoto's shadow isn't nearly as insulting, showing the main focus of Naoto's arc; nobody respects her as a detective because she's a teenage girl. However, Naoto herself says she doesn't like being a girl when her shadow reveals the fact that she's a girl. Yes, it's because she's ridiculed and disregarded because she's not a man, but she's still uncomfortable as a girl and actively chooses to present as a boy, even after gaining her persona. She is undeniably transcoded, at the very least, before she accepts her shadow. She accepts that she's not taken seriously, that she IS all the things that people look down on her for being, and that she IS actually a girl. Again, while not doing a complete 180, the writers back out of Naoto wanting to be a boy. Even though her arc isn't as abysmally insulting as Kanji's, it still sells the narrative that trans people need to accept that they "aren't trans, just pretending,"

No matter how you look at it, the "moral of the story" for both Kanji and Naoto is that being gay or trans isn't something you should accept about yourself. Both Kanji and Naoto have queer themes in their stories, even if the writers backed out and effectively gave the opposite message. They're queercoded, end of story. For us queers to reject the homophobic + transphobic themes and decide "no, actually these characters ARE gay" is completely reasonable. Who are you to tell us that we aren't allowed to reject the honestly disrespectful writing from a triple A game franchise? Why wouldn't we dislike the way the characters are written? And why do you only complain when its the two characters that are so close to being queer rep?

I 100% understand and respect people who disagree with the headcanons, but those who mock and make fun of people who do consider Kanji and Naoto to be queer? That's something I can't accept.

TL;DR: People choose to interpret Kanji and Naoto as queer because of the queer themes in their arcs. The same themes that the writers completely backpedaled on, and ended up implying harmful things on instead.

[nejishadow]

I never expected to have enough that Teddie would get a whole post, but here we are! Enjoy!!

I am very mixed on Teddie because half of the game was me going "Aww Teddie, I understand!" immediately followed up by "God he opened his mouth again, stop!!". But he was fine by the last third. I get why he's loved

[doodled0g]

naoto is pretty cool !

[gaygrimoires]

companionship 📖