#persona 5 spoilers \

[generallemarc]

Y'know, I actually think that Maruki was a better villain than Shido. I forget the exact quote, but it's that one about how the worst tyrannies are those carried out by people who genuinely believe they're doing things for the benefit of all: that's him. I normally love villains in media, they're usually my favorite characters in whatever story they're in, but I despised Maruki, both for what he did to Yoshizawa and the kind of thinking he represents. The man was a physical(well, "physical" in the game world) representation of what happens when you let your depression win, and I know I'm going off topic from ^^^ but also I'm kind of not? Because ^^^ is also that, it's also people letting their fear and dread rule them, and Maruki's ideal world is built around him letting people do that if they "want to". If the grief-ridden teenager "wants" to literally become her dead sister so that the "wrong one" wouldn't have died, she should be allowed to engage in this supremely unhealthy coping mechanism, should be allowed to turn it into her new life if she "wants" to.

Glanced at the abyss and all the queers apparently want to kill themselves, or think that they, as 20 to 30-something year olds, will be barred from getting any hormones in their blue states, because people want to ban the usage of puberty blockers and HRT on children. So now they're passing around medical advice to stockpile meds and DIY HRT, because all of them seem to love LARPing as powerless teenagers living under turbo-fascism.

These fuckers are grown-ass adults who are going to doordash away this month's rent money or send it all to random scammers pretending to be Gazan refugees, and they're acting like Trump is the worst thing to happen to their lives, when they are their own worst enemies.

[zipsunz]

last hope for humanity / humanity's last hope

[spacepatrolhana]

a collection of all my stupid friday night funkin persona jokes

[zombeela]

evil creature experiences remorse original here

[notamure]

okay turn up

[a-megabyte]

what do you mean this isn't how the whole game happened

[eelektrossfan]

royal trio

[softausterity]

sweeter poisons

[megaderping]

Something a lot of people mistakenly believe is that Akechi enjoys the work he does for Shido and that he takes the orders to kill without any resentment or regret. These text messages shed some light on the way he thinks and show that this is not actually the case. Unfortunately, these texts are entirely missable if you finish the treasure route to Sae's Palace too early. As a result, this crucial characterization is often overlooked and people take what they know about characters like Persona 4's culprit and Persona 3's traitor and assume that Akechi is playing it straight.

But even without these obscure texts, it's not like the game is subtle about this. Akechi's lack of freedom and agency is a recurring aspect of his character that people will often cast aside because it's much easier to boil him down to "crazy serial killer" than actually look at the complexity of his situation and his own victimhood.

Throughout his Royal confidant, Akechi's perfectly crafted mask cracks several times. Moments like this show him offering an out, even if he's MUCH happier if you don't consider it.

He doesn't WANT Joker to change. As much as he claims to hate Joker, he admires his convictions. Wishes he had what Joker had. Wishes he could have been more like him. See: the Gun About rank up where he mentions how he used to want to be a hero of justice.

The creepy smiles and shit you see on 11/20 and in parts of the engine room are another mask Akechi wears. Akechi ALWAYS swaps out his masks to best serve his situation. Yet he still tells Shido not to kill the thieves, that Morgana is just a cat, and is perfectly content to leave them alone, and after his fight in the engine room, when the mask literally breaks...

We see his regrets on full display. He isn't proud. He's done making excuses. All those little times the mask broke in the Royal confidant were ways to set up this moment. He genuinely cares SO much about Joker, but that caring was dangerous to his objectives, so he HAD to hate him. He HAD to want to kill him to achieve his objective, and yet...

He still cares. He's putting out spikes in third sem, no doubt because he suspects his own fate should they destroy Maruki's world, but...

[senblades]

change the world

[phantomwaffles]

i found a old piece of.. a shuake (meme?) artwork? uhhhhh... i forgot i posted it on Instagram a loong time ago, so here you go

(i dont remember what i was doing 💀)

[acehunter0]

what a silly character

[zipsunz]

do you think i'll get into heaven?

[akechisstinkyfoot]

prince practice

my commission's are now closed!thank you for all of the support!

[phantom-chirp]

There are many Akechi lines in P5R that have plagued me, but this is one of the biggest ones, because what

Sir, what are you talking about?? Am I just missing something, what the hell does this mean. Why did you choose to draw that parallel?? Goro???

[chococrystal]

Oh, to be dealt a bad hand