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Petition to give Haru a chainsaw

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The hat makes great cover :V

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Akira x Haru (Persona 5)

For the Tumblr winner @magicalgirlcoco This was their winning request! 

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Deadly Duo ❤

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I will admit, Haru and I were not on the best of terms for a long time since what I did is something that isn’t forgivable…but…she still…

“Dating”…Is that what I should call it?

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who’s ur favorite of the other thieves? can’t say urself >:3

Haru was speaking to Sojiro at the time and was not aware of the sudden jealousy glares from everyone.

Truth!serum ask 1/5

A bitter Akechi: “Wow you’ve only known her like 2 weeks Ren what the F c u k.”

((This was very self indulgent im sorry sdifnasdjfn;is))

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I love Haru…!!!

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My whole brain during the day

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P5 Protag Trailer w/ Subs!

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Atlus is cowards if they don’t ever let Haru and Akechi dance together. I’d be so cool

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‘Crow persona was fake’..really?

One of the things about this fandom that grates me to infinity, is the perennial notion that the ‘Crow’ persona of Akechi’s was.. and without room for doubt, nothing but a falsity, the outfit and Persona included. The evidence for this is dubious at best and at worst, this undermines key aspects of Akechi’s character.

First, let’s say he is capable of ‘creating a thief outfit’ as the common belief postulates (and matching Persona.. somehow) for the sake of deception. It… doesn’t exactly show that it’s deception, given that he barely fits in with the group to begin with. 

This is especially significant given:

the amount of time he’s skulked around watching the Thieves, profiling them

the kind of person Akechi is in the first place, someone who is able to ‘adapt himself’ in the real world for his own survival 

You might say that he ‘wanted to look as innocent and inoffensive as possible’, but even then it’s hard to believe. Considering how he likened himself to the Thieves, you’d think that he would fashion something that would reflect that in him on the surface level. (Not to mention he has a mask that looks like it could literally stab you in the back. Nicely inconspicuous..?!)

Second, Morgana might have said that his two separate powers meant that his ‘appearance was a fake’ (even though there’s a literal wildcard on the team…uh…), but as we all know, Morgana’s word is not God. He’s proven to be fallible on numerous occasions, and is very clearly established to have an incomplete knowledge of himself and even Personas, let alone the Metaverse.

Not only that, Futaba even rebuffed the notion later with more context, saying he likely had the ‘same talents as Joker’. The disparity with them being of course, that Akechi went through life alone; therefore his power had, in some way, become warped in comparison to Joker, affecting how that power manifested.

The full scope of this manifestation isn’t clear, but even so, there’s no reference to his outfit there, or to *ANYTHING* about Crow being faked. Neither of them can corroborate that, and evidently, they do not even try to. The emphasis right now is on understanding his thought process, and thus, his power.

Speaking of powers, his ‘Black Mask’ has its own dubious circumstances that throw doubt on it. I’ll save that for another post, but the main gist is- if he has no need to deceive the Phantom Thieves in Shido’s Palace, and his Crow outfit denotes such, why bother going to them in the Crow outfit at all?

Morgana also said that a part of Akechi’s facade- his smile- was the bonafide truth, especially where it came to Joker. And Akechi not only could not refute that, he reacted so badly to the idea that it spurred his tantrum and subsequent breakdown.

This time, Morgana had made an astute observation that hit the nail so hard on the head, it shattered Akechi’s understanding of his own feelings, his own self. After all, he wasn’t even fully cognisant that those feelings existed, much less how they manifested. 

Yet, deep inside him, he was able to recognise its truth and respond to it as such. 

Separating him into ‘all true’ and ‘all false’ dichotomies is.. oversimplifying that, to say the very least. Akechi’s mentality may have been black and white, but that doesn’t make Akechi himself just as plain.

And look. 

No really, would you just look at this. 

From what we know of Akechi, he’s a god damn showoff for approval. He lives and breathes it, and to an extremely worrying degree. That much is consistent through his interaction with Shido, and with the Thieves.

But the difference is in the sheer lack of restraint he’s showing right here, in this animation.

He has no reason to pose quite like this, with a dance move, let alone this energetic. He could very easily have taken the Yusuke route of ending it with a ‘cool dramatic’ pose, or even calm and dignified like Haru. 

Just like the ‘charismatic Detective Prince’ he is to the public eye. 

To the rest of them - from his perspective, that is - he is just the same ‘Detective Prince’ they have a deal with, and is nothing more than a means to an end. He’s not ‘one of them’, and he doesn’t plan on sticking around either, let alone showing them who he is.

Even given that, the sheer glee showing on his face is something else. The level of expression in his movements is unlike anything he’s shown in the real world. Coupled with how unrestrained he is able to be in this world versus the real world, it paints this ‘mere showboating’ in a very curious light.

Combine that with Morgana’s little observation, and there’s no doubt that all of this was part and parcel of the true smile Akechi tried to deny.

More on that All Out Attack finisher, there’s a certain thing that is ‘meta level deception’, but even that might not be what you think it is. Let’s zero in on it.

‘My sole interest is uncovering the truth’. 

Of course you would say, this is wrong. He is no ‘ace detective’ at all. He’s not uncovering any truth, he’s burying and twisting it. Which is true.

But what if this isn’t about his detective persona at all? What is his interest? More to that, what truth is it not only his wish, but sole interest to uncover?

Recall that he got his Persona power when he was fourteen-fifteen. Which was before he met Shido. At this time, he knew little of him other than that he was a top-tier arsehole who ruined his and his mother’s life. Acquiring this power meant bringing him divine justice, uncovering the scandal of Shido to the mistress and thereafter, the scandals of him to the rest of Japan. 

That sentiment still sticks, but what if even that isn’t all there is to it?

The meta image shown there is not something that the person can control, evidently. It’s just something that represents their thoughts about the battle, at that point. But in this curious case, it seems to be generalised to Akechi himself rather than a ‘curtain call’ for the end of battle.

It could be that the truth that Akechi desperately - if unconsciously - wants to uncover is the truth of Akechi himself. 

As evidenced by Morgana’s comment, he’s so single-mindedly fixated on another’s ruin that he doesn’t even seem to realise what he wants for himself beyond that. Which is where even his own interests have a warped sense of dissonance to them, to the point it’s dubious that he’s even acting in them half the time.

Lastly, we come to Robin Hood, his supposed ‘fake Persona’. The implication there being that it’s entirely unlike Loki, his ‘true Persona’.

Robin Hood is a vigilante, and one who fits right in with the group’s ideals of dealing with a corrupt system. But he is also a master of deception through disguise, a notable trait of Akechi’s in a way, which alone doesn’t compromise identity. Taking this a step further is Loki, whose ‘disguise’ involves changing form entirely. 

This could even suggest that Robin Hood was his first Persona before his mentality became extremely warped, to the point of distorting his own self.

At one point in Akechi’s life, all he wanted was just like anyone else in the PT: to bring rotten adults - in this case a rotten adult - to justice. The childlike idealism born from that part of his psyche would have been what drove his appearance to be the way it was when he awoke.

It’s evidently very deeply rooted and personal, which makes it really hard to believe that it’s fake.

The point is, the truth about Goro Akechi’s deception - and his history overall - is a lot, LOT less clear-cut than you’d think. Which is why it’s so necessary to know what the deal is with each of his Personas and awakening, so that the truths about him don’t get lost to the void.

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heavy P5 spoilers, ramblings 

(somewhat minor content warning for sickness/throwing up)

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Game Shipping: Persona 5 Dates

Akira and Makoto:

Ryuji and Ann:

Akira and Haru:

Goro and Haru:

Akira and Yusuke:

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effin gemini