#persona Adam Kadmon

[teddiesbestestpal]

Morgana sweats as he falls upon the lower floor of Maruki’s palace, Adam Kadmon had knock both him and Tiefsee out of the upper layer of Maruki’s palace.

Morgana sweats, the black cat panting and sweating having already dropped his sword onto the ground, as hears the elegant yet graceful tap of boots Morgana grins.

“ Thanks for coming Tiefsee!” Morgana says eying the dumbo octopus Metaverse creation the same short height as him with light creamy orangish yellow skin with pointy elf ears long orangish yellow tentacle tendril hair with piercing reddish pink eyes with heavy eyeliner covered by a golden masquerade mask with a trident theme, underneath Tiefsee’s long grey trenchcoat adorned with golden buttons and a skull & crossbones badge he wears a white collared shirt with a light pastel reddish pink frilly tie around it and he wore light pastel reddish pink frilly gloves, his pants can rarely be seen under his trenchcoat but they match the color of his collared shirt which is white, he wears white boots with black stripes on the edge and with small gold buttons in the back and on his shoulder their are gold Epaulletes.

“ What are we going to do Tief?!” Morgana asks urgently as Tiefsee shakes his head.

“ I don’t know! Maruki’s stupid false reality has prevented me from processing data to access situations like I usually do!” Tiefsee says panicking as suddenly Adam Kadmon appears, the tall golden mechanical giant staring at them.

“ Tief! Watch out!” Morgana exclaims pulling out his sword as he tries to cut through Adam Kadmon but is pushed back. Morgana summons his third semester persona Diego as Diego casts Garudyne onto Adam Kadmon but Adam Kadmon destroys Diego with a single step as Morgana jumps back in pain.

“ Mona! Are you okay?!!” Tiefsee says with genuine concern written all over his face.

“ Tief.. please defeat Adam for me…” Morgana says as Tiefsee retorted.

Even though he couldn’t process data correctly currently he will help Morgana.

Tiefsee materialized his golden bladed anchor with a golden handle connected to a golden chain similar to that of a morning star. as Tiefsee threw his Anchor into Kadmon’s Back as he used the chain to pull himself up there.

“ I’m doing this for Morgana! For Akechi! For everybody!” Tiefsee thought to himself as suddenly a blue energy surrounds him as his Persona transforms into his new third semester Persona Edward, the now turquoise teal skinned half merman with long pastel light turquoise teal hair with a small emperor’s crown on it with tear shaped code coming out of it as Edward’s scleras are black with water tear shaped code in them and a closed mouth wearing a light dark turquoise fish tail scales themed raincoat with long puffy sleeves, actually opposable legs with scales on them and part bright turquoise teal with rainbow scale themed stripes heeled boots with a seashell shape at the end of them and wielding a fishing rod with multiple sharp bladed Darts at the end.

“ Rippled Heartache!” Tiefsee says as Edward channels his water energy as drips of water appear around him as the bladed darts from his fishing rod’s end become coated in water as the darts enters Kadmon’s body destroying it piece by piece as it makes a water heart shape before exploding as Tiefsee surely but gracefully landed on the floor.

Morgana got up as well happily hugging Tiefsee.

“ That was amazing Tiefsee! And you awakened to your third semester Persona as well! See? I knew you would get one!” Morgana says as Tiefsee blushes as he leans into the hug.

“ Thanks Mona.. now I’m sure the others are having a more easier time defeating Maruki..” Tiefsee says sweating while hugging Morgana, Tiefsee has worked hard today and so has Morgana, so they deserve to embrace each other.

[leelreallylikespersona]

Oh goodness who remembers these

[adam-sadmon]

So I've been getting back to my replay of Royal and left off before the first foray into Maruki's Palace. It's already one of my favourite segments in a videogame ever but, not speaking Japanese, I was curious and used Google Lens to try and translated some of the banners and signs in that opening segment I passed over the first time around, and jeeeeeeesus I'm immediately reminded why I fucking love Maruki

Maruki's Palace has such an uncanny way of getting under my skin not only in the faux-heavenly atmosphere re-appropriated from pure white to clinical white, from glorious gold to mechanical, but in the sense that moreso than any other palace (Futaba's as a runner up) Maruki's is the mind of a deeply damaged person.

[eggs-can-draw]

Drinks!

[golfishwiththebigeyes]

Takuto Maruki-

[woolmasterleel]

Some doodles from yesterday (❁´◡`❁)

Since I have to yap about every little thing I draw, I'm hiding it here <3

I threw on one of my playlists and made myself do quick doodles per song.. I only did five but it was fun challenging myself to just get stuff down and not worry so much about it.. ANyway elephant in the room: Love Story of course.

I'm joking but. But I gave her white lilies... not her wedding flowers but Mirror's funeral flowers. I think it's fun

Speaking of him. Mirror has different outfits for every arc and I want to draw all of them.. This one is his Empire of Hiedero Arc, maybe??? I considered Rapid Corpus but I think he's only expose his shoulders around Rukka since he's more relaxed then

Yaldy in Jose's outfit because I think it's so cute

Adam was fun to doodle again, I really like his design I just never draw him. He looks pissed the hell off (●'◡'●)

And as always I'm late to art meme trends, but I've wanted an excuse to draw Maggies and Yaldy together so I scribbled them out (my gijinkas since. I think regular Yaldy is far larger than egg Magolor so. You wouldn't see him at all). Those two seem so wildly different but are more alike than I thought.. evil controlling god wannabes are my favourite genre o(*°▽°*)o

They would kill each other though for sure

[jagopolis]

messy adam kadmon and azathoth persona 5 royal "gijinkas" for funsies

[calmlythrilling]

while i'm here on pv's account i want to briefly mention that in a blue exorcist au, ideally i would want pv as a teacher(probably on demon biology or medicine) to play into that college-professor-at-night part of him.

however that's just my ideal thought. i prefer sticking to canon as close as possible. so what likely happens in a blue excorist au like that, was that laserblast(a human dragoon exorcist) compared himself to people like father fujimoto or mephisto, and constantly put himself down for being so weak and powerless compared to those people, to the point that he started messing around with demons' bodies/spirits trying to figure something out that wasn't straight up demon eating. until something like, say, the blue night(or some other major event) happened, and laserblast supposedly dies, except he isn't dead he just gave up and decided demon eating was the way to go and he changed his entire identity, goes by venomous now, and has cut all ties with those people and even holds a grudge even if it's an irrational one. ...the whole identity fighting with shadowy would probably get switched around to fighting against this demon instead of himself though.

[apostlearcana]

Sex is great and all, but have you ever been forced to spill to a demon masquerading as his contract about how much you hate him and still thought the sex was great?

(Or: Valjean gets an impromptu and unwanted 'therapy' session right after he and Adam nearly break the bed.)

...living proof I am tired and finally air my grievances of "I'm sick and tired of being unable to properly express hate-sex between Personas in their human bodies."

EXPLICIT, POST-COITAL ANGST. HOORAY!

[we-rate-maruki]

Is Adam/Ainosuke from Sk8 The Infinity a Maruki?

Persistence | They get up again

In sk8, rad skateboard battles are magic that can change hearts. Skating kind of functions like cognitive psience. Maruki would get hurt while learning to skate. He may not be naturally athletic, but he is persistent.

The Gentle Madman

Ainosuke's baseline is like Palace Maruki. They wield a well-fitted suit, a charming personality, and very convincing arguments.

The Matador of Love

I see Adam, matador of love, as Ainosuke's metaverse form. Maruki would use his staff to do cool flips. I like their masks, their armor, and their flamboyant flair.

Come forth, Persona!

Their religious metaphors have a lot of the same bones. Paradise, Adam, and temptation.

Before we continue, I want to acknowledge that Adam is regularly creepy and awful towards minors. Gross.

The creepy sexy panopticon

They both spend much of their time gathering information about the world. To better understand it. To better shape it with their tentacles.

Before the fall

ASFDsdyfdsfs.

Tragedy changes you. Ainosuke became devilish, and Maruki became saintly. Perhaps, with a nudge from Tadashi/Shibusawa, they might have walked different paths.

Adam/Ainosuke from Sk8 The Infinity gets a 9/10 on the Maruki scale.

[rayne-the-neutrois-nerd]

My bff left off Strikers in Konoes palace and she thinks its the final palace, and I said to her that I'd be shocked if it is because Persona games never end of the big boss being just A Guy

And guess who was fucking right

[king-dra]

i dont think im ever gonna get over how goddamn cool Adam Kadmon is, what an absolute peak design

[leelreallylikespersona]

Adam just wanted a celebratory picture after their first major battle

[adam-sadmon]

So I was thinking about Maruki (as I do 23 hours and 48 minutes a day, leaving 10 minutes for existential dread and 2 for sleep) and I was reminded of that Robert Caro quote (shout out to Lindsay Ellis' Game of Thrones videos), 'Power doesn't always corrupt, but it always reveals', to paraphrase, the idea that there are such people who are incorruptible and those we believe in power who've let it control them didn't need much corrupting to begin with.

I think about all the people who've wronged Maruki like the robbers, the guy who pulled all funding from Maruki's research etc. And how the very notion of revenge never even occurred to him, he had god-like power to rewrite their lives but, because Maruki was always a good person going about his quest wrong, he didn't let the power get to him because therr was nothing there to get.

[wild-selenite-caffine]

i like to think its because he has a Palace, which means he doesn’t technically show his “true self” until around the fist fight he has with Joker on the collapsing bridge, and also because technically Azathoth isn’t Maruki’s personal Persona? if that makes sense based on how i understand it since its been a hot minute since P5R has rotted my brain

long rambling ahead, spoilers for P5R, not sure if all makes sense but feel free to read it all!

just to expand- and also kinda rewind a bit- Azathoth initially introduces himself to Maruki by saying “I am the other you, dwelling in mankind’s hearts.” and Maruki doesn’t have the reaction I would expect from the half; as far as i understand (and in P5’s case), the Shadow calls out to the Self, which forms the mask, if the Self chooses to “rebel”, the mask is ripped off and the Shadow manifests as the Persona, and also it comes with pain and ripping off the mask as the “acceptance of the contract”.

Maruki clearly doesn’t follow this pattern; doesn’t react much beyond disbelief that Azathoth is right in front of him and that something is happening. I’m sort of leaning towards multiple things:

a) the Metaverse and reality merging throughout December did play a factor because it causes most of the people to be apathetic

b) the idea that Azathoth may not be Maruki’s true Persona; Azathoth can be compared to Yaldy more than a Persona, since in scope of their abilities alone is setting Azathoth a bit apart

and c) a little but of both plus the fact that Maruki is somewhat familiar with what the “Persona” is, because of Joker and cognitive pscience studies, so supposedly he already has a mental image of what one would look like.

so fast forward a little bit to the post-fight, specifically the animated cutscenes as the PTs escape the Palace; once one of the tentacles reach towards Mona, it cuts to Maruki’s mask being gone. then shortly afterwards when he talks to Joker, the whole attire vanishes + Joker’s mask fades because the Metaverse is disappearing.

how i understand this is, Azathoth took on Maruki’s mask to be his Persona, and once defeated, he no longer acts as it and supposedly lies dormant once again. Maruki’s attire meanwhile is essentially a mix between what his “Shadow” self is, and his “true self”, and since the yellow attire is changed to the white one in the cutscene, the white one is what i understand to be what his “true self” could be. (Azathoth could also potentially be just a corrupted Persona? since it takes on Yaldy’s place rather than be a manifestation of Maruki’s rebellion) and so with his fight with Joker, he’s fighting in his true self; a man stricken with grief and consumed with an idea that he could burden all pain by himself, and he’s finally starting that journey to move past it and that he doesn’t need to burden pain alone.

so where does it all end up? Maruki’s change of heart.

i honestly found how Maruki’s change of heart happened compared to everyone else’s. for most, its stealing the Treasure, then there’s Futaba who confronts her Shadow personally akin to P4 patterns, and Sae who changed on her own since her Treasure was never stolen. then there’s Maruki who is simply implied to have a change a heart, albeit not directly shown to us aside from becoming a taxi driver (because to be fair, he does need therapy and shouldn’t be the one giving it).

maybe Azathoth is his Persona, but not to that big of an extent? maybe some tweaks and knocking down the playing god details i would say, because for me, Azathoth leans towards a Persona consumed by human desire (hence being a Blind Idiot God). same goes with Adam Kadmon, its leaning towards extremities and not entirely capturing who Maruki is at the holistic core of it all i would say.

maybe there is some mythological figure that does have the middle ground, or does connect with Maruki better, but yeah, i do like Azathoth and Adam Kadmon because of the many connections it has to a bigger scheme of things; Maruki, his Palace, the whole 3rd Semester, etc

ranting all this while in bed is sure a ride, i hope theres some sense to it lmao

So, I had a thought about Persona 5 Royal. And while the game has been out for a while I will still tag this as spoilers...

So, I'm sure everyone's noticed in a fight, whenever you summon a Persona, the Thief's (or Akechi's) mask disappears.

However, when we see Maruki transform, and summon his Persona...

His mask stays. Even at the very end, when he's inside Adam Kadmon, his mask is still on.

[katsona-the-katsequel]

Aside from combat, what can a Persona do?

Use the skills/abilities/powers the Persona has without having to summon it in the physical world for purposes outside of combat (e.g. Tatsuya using Nova Kaiser to stop time without summoning Apollo / Maruki's unknown ability allows him to change people's cognition whenever he wants / Kenta's unknown ability that helped him become a successful salesman).

Make the user unconsciously adopt traits related to their main Persona's mythos (e.g. Eikichi, someone with Hades, was unexplicably attracted to Akari Torikiri, a girl who turned into Persephone / Wild Cards slightly changing their personality according to their equipped Personas).

Talk to their users (e.g. P2 users have conversations with their Personas / The PTs Personas' made deals with their users upon awakening).

Briefly turn back into a Shadow if the user loses sight of themselves or are under psychological distress (e.g. Shinjiro's fucky wucky with Ken's mother / That brief barely-canon moment in the P4 Anime when Shadow Yu manifested / Hinokagutsuchi literally said so). Good news are that its easy to turn them back.

Go berserk when an user's heart and mind are troubled (e.g. Shinjiro taking Persona suppressants for Artificial Users to keep his Persona in check / Sumire's trauma corrupted her Persona / Kenta's traumatic awakening made his Persona immediatly attack others).

Adopt the form or embody the spirit of someone very close to the user (e.g. Kei and Yamaoka / Sumire and Kasumi / Toshiro and Eri).

Gain enough power they become sentient and become separate beings (e.g. The Night Queen separated from the body after Tomomi's death, eventually surpassing Tomomi in power / Adam Kadmon was so OP he gained full control over Maruki / Erina began to act without Toshiro's knowledge). There's something about this that connects with Teddie. I'm connecting the dots.

Be passed onto people who don't have a Persona (e.g. Yukino gave her Persona abilities to Jun, with help from Philemon).