#persona 5 Yaldabaoth

[leelreallylikespersona]

Jose's connected to Yaldabaoth somehow and here's why I think so. Because I think about this occasionally and it's fun

I haven't played P5R in years so it's totally possible I'm missing stuff/misremembering things oops. I'm gonna try and keep things brief

Appearances

Yaldabaoth has somewhat-vague bird imagery. Okay yeah it's feathers because he's an angel, but also his face markings make it look like he has a beak. He's a bird.

Jose's "hair" looks like an egg shell. Birds hatch from eggs. I rest my case.

The more serious connection though... Yaldabaoth is very mechanical and robotic, a quick look at Jose and it's obvious that he isn't human either. His "hair" looks metal, or at the very least isn't real hair. His ears too (and maybe his nose but it may just be shading) look like they're a separate piece attached to his head. These two have similar colour schemes too, mostly silver/white with some gold. Even the placement of their colours is similar? Most of Yaldy's body is bright silver, with darker metal underneath. Jose is wearing a white coat with dark grey under that. Yaldabaoth has gold around his neck, Jose has his gold-ish goggles around his neck.

Mementos

Jose never leaves Mementos, so it's reasonable to assume that he was born there. It can be argued that Yaldabaoth was either also born there, or his creation lead to Mementos also being created, either interpretation works. It can be assumed, then, that Yaldy can manipulate Mementos however he pleases. Jose can do the same, but on a much smaller scale. This is odd, why can Jose manipulate the palace of the masses??? If he was related to the very treasure of Mementos, then it would make sense.

This is were my memory is foggy, but during the third semester, I'm fairly certain Jose is upset by new Mementos. It seems like he prefers Yaldy's Mementos, and now that he's not around, it upsets him. This is probably a huge stretch, but I'll explain later why I think it's Yaldabaoth's absence that's upsetting to Jose.

Personalities

Obviously these two are really really different. Yaldabaoth is malicious and controlling, while Jose is very sweet and is very curious about humans. Yaldabaoth is controlling because it's what humanity yearns for. Humanity unconsciously caused Yaldy to manifest, now he is his own entity who, even though he says he is only doing what humanity wants, he could probably do whatever he wanted. He has free will, he can speak, think, etc. So that brings me to the question:

What is Jose?

I think it's super fun to take all of this and interpret Jose as being a part of Yaldabaoth that is much much nicer. His own curiosities and intrigue of humanity manifesting into a small robotic child who's in awe of mankind. Jose appears more human than Yaldabaoth because of his desire to learn more about them. Jose doesn't like new Mementos because part of him is gone, the area is now unfamiliar and hostile towards him.

It's possible that I'm looking wayyyy too far into the parallels, but it's a fun thought nonetheless! I don't think the person Jose talks about is Yaldabaoth (though that would be fun if it was), mostly because he describes him as being "harsh but nice". Yaldy's definitely harsh, but he isn't nice. At all. I don't see him having a soft spot for Jose either, if he knew of his presence he'd probably be really annoyed, but that's me speculating

I may have missed some things, or misremembered something entirely. Regardless, there are my thoughts, shout out to the maybe four other Yaldy fans, here are more of my crumbs for you

[icespur]

PERSONA 5 & ROYAL SPOILERS, BELOW

Please Ignore if you have not beaten P5 Vanilla/Base Game or P5Royal

During Yaldabaoth Boss Fight:

Akiren: I CAN'T DO IT!

Futaba: I CAN'T EITHER!

Akiren: I CANT FUCKING DO IT ANYMORE

Ryuji: WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU CAN EITHER GIVE UP NOW, OR YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT. BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU, AND WE KNOW YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT US.

Akiren:

Akiren: I appreciate it,

Akiren: BUT LOOK WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH-

Makoto: Akiren-

Akiren: YOU GOTTA DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE!

Ann: Akiren we gotta-

Akiren: YOU GOTTA DRAW A FUCKING LINE IN THE SAND. YOU GOTTA MAKE A STATEMENT.

Akiren: YOU GOTTA LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND SAY 'What am I willing to put up with today?'

Akiren, motioning to Yaldabaoth: NOT FUCKING THIS!

[zerosocialskillz]

Stupid-ass ship I’ve thought of a little while ago:

Yaldabaoth X Maruki

[yaldabaothappreciationhours]

Security meters for Yaldy! I'm surprised it took me this long to make one for him, but here he is now (～￣▽￣)～

These are always fun to do! I thought it'd be fun to have the "get out" next to it for some extra urgency(???) Yaldy would kick anyone out immediately I'm sure (✿◡‿◡)

[cnrohicallydumb]

I was showing my friend a screenshot of levitating yaldy and he made this comparison so I plagiarised him. Thank you winter :3

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

Futaba: Lets see which of the 7 deadly sins is his favorite! Yaldabaoth: Don't make me choose between my babies!

[axoqiii]

shujin trio,,my babies..,.,

[la-venz-a]

[saewokhrisz]

"i woke up in the middle of my surgery

and i watched them botch my heart"

[rrotostap]

#shuakeweek2024 | Day 7 | Free day

it's not a palace AU (bc it's not either of them) but it's a certain somebody's palace/realm, and he's got Goro as his puppet...or rather, a vessel....

[nebulaleaf]

DAWN // DUSK

[senblades]

"You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a prince. You're here to slay him."

Got hit with au brainrot. But like, shuake slay the princess au would slap, right?

mark my words, I'll write a oneshot (twoshot? several shot) for this au one day

[personachampions]

It's party night. Round 2 keeps on going with Matches 17-24!

VOTE HERE!

[tikihoneybee]

crybaby

[leelreallylikespersona]

Happy Day of Reckoning! I did not get to finish the huge Yaldy piece for today, so here's some older art of him (❁´◡`❁)

[taitavva]

KOROMARU BUS KOROMARU BUS!!!! OMG.

now i really want to dm u these outfits n everything. wait. omg. monabus is black due to morgana having black fur, and the thieves r more colorful, so korobus being white due to his white fur and the masks' r more earthy-toned/blended-in colors .... omg...

the idea of yaldabaoth color coordinating his champions is so funny to me. Igor is fine with letting the PTs look like any marker you could find in a crayola box. but Akechi's team MUST follow a strict aesthetic color scheme