#I CRYYYY...

[petorahs]

Hello! In your post about Makoto and Ken, you mentioned movie Ken is your favorite. As someone who’s only played the game, I was wondering what subtle differences there are between movie and game Ken?

hey there! I'm very honored and glad you asked cause I feel like movie Ken is an underrated aspect of his character because of one key substantial difference: He actually was close to Shinjiro and admired him... before learning the truth.

spoilers for Midsummer Knight's Dream!

In the games, it's clear that the catalyst for Ken joining SEES was after he found out Shinjiro was the killer of his mom right before summer vacation was to end and he was supposed to go back to his elementary school dorm. So, he entered SEES (in his eyes rightfully) hating Shinji and with the goal of getting strong enough to kill him. Shinjiro joins right after, Ken himself being his reason, and they literally never talk... the tension is so palpable! There's also this trifecta of sorts that the developers wanted to convey which is pictured above... how Ken admires Akihiko, while Aki admires Shinji, while Ken hates Shinji. the monorail scene in Full Moon, Full Life is symbolic for this.

The movie's take on it though.. provides a slight nuance to this.

In the movies, a handful of characters become narrative foils/parallels to further develop Makoto Yuki's character such as Chidori, Natsuki, Takaya, Pharos obviously, Fuuka, etc. But one that's always stuck out to me was Ken Amada.

Right off the bat, Mitsuru assigns Makoto as Ken's bodyguard because they "share similar backgrounds". Both are orphans who lost their parents to the Dark Hour. Ken is aimless at this point, wandering about during the Dark Hour to kill time. He declines living in Iwatodai dorm even. But then, he thinks he found out the killer of his mom is actually the shadows, specifically a large one with a hulking body and blond hair. This is during the attack on the shrine where Koromaru protects it (cool thing about the movies is that we see the actual moment Koro-chan fights, instead of just the aftermath this time!). Ken's resolve is made and he joins SEES to eradicate shadows. Akihiko looks away quietly in this moment. Shinjiro rejoins SEES except it was Strega that gave him the info that Ken joined. The tension is still palpable, except this time Ken is none the wiser.

Ken immediately takes to Shinjiro because Shinji protected him during a Full Moon attack. He's so strong, everything Ken wants to be. (Nevermind Shinji's own reasoning for jumping in was his brand of punishment...)

This brings me to my final point. It's no secret by now that my favorite is Makoto, and the way that Ken's words echo Makoto's own thoughts about his mom is so quietly tragic to me that provides a layer of depth to both their characters we never really get in the games. They were both driven by their own mothers' influence and deaths.

Life was not worth living after they were orphaned, but now, they can finally live again... recently in Reload the Ken and Makoto parallels I mentioned were that they basically share the same dread, and self-isolation tendencies but I like this sentiment in the movie that there's healing to be found in the little things again :( Makoto and Ken were both healing...

anyways uh. since this is Persona 3 we all know how this ends which I will not spoil because I really, really like what they did with Makoto and his role in Shinjiro's death in the movies (+ the aftermath of it) but! I'll leave with these insane af frames

This is after Ken finds out that the large shadow with a hulking body and blond hair was not, in fact, a shadow at all - but someone's Persona.

[goldfishinaplasticbag]

saw the tweet below on my tl and it was so devastatingly rude i had to doodle something out. happy late father’s day, i guess

[lostsometime]

I am SCREAMING abt Murderbot’s Bad First Impression on Amena in Network Effect.

murderbot: I have identified that my friend’s teenage daughter is dating a Creep, based on these provable facts:

Lied to her about his age, telling her he’s close to her age when he’s actually much older (which I know because I ran a background check on him)

encourages her to lie to her family about where she is when she’s with him

isolates her from friends

convinces her to become intoxicated (when he himself is not, btw, which I know because I can do scans on things like that)

stares at her breasts

me: okay, some of that monitoring is probably over the top but you are absolutely correct that this is a Creep, your caution is appropriate.

Murderbot: anyway she doesn’t like me…

me: Oh, because you told her mom about the creep thing?

Murderbot: …because instead of telling her mom about the creep, I snuck inTO HIS HOUSE AND HID THERE (?!???!?)

IN THE DARK

WAITING

TO INTIMIDATE HIM WHEN HE TRIED TO BRING HER BACK THERE ALONE

and then when she was like WTF you were just standing in his house??? For hours??? Waiting???

I told her that yes, I was, and nobody came by in all that time, which means that when he told her he was taking her to hang out with “some friends” he was LYING and trying to get her ALONE

[hexbaiting]

Loki Season 2 Bloopers

[dymitre]

I mean I'm not obsessed with them. Not at all, they're just so cute that I can't help but cry seeing them together 🥺🙏✨

[polinsated]

1.01 -> 3.08

[junkmailmusubi]

see i keep noticing this "rule" in a lot of fandom spaces that lighthearted fandoms tend to write edgy stuff abt the characters Going Through It and dark fandoms tend to write a lot of fluff. this makes the isat fandom a Very Funny exception to this rule because from what i've seen they all got to watch siffrin's deteriorating mental state in real time and said "hey what if it was Worse. what if we put him through More"

[saint-end]

"Lala, are you crying?" (D.Gray-Man chapter 13 redraw)

[avengetheheroes]

gotta reread the whole aquarium arc just to cope with this shit

here's smiling Denji to cleanse your eyes

[morriemonnie]

eaaeaeaeaeeaeeee

one word.

flustered sprout.

he's a little shy

[lil-shiro]

MONACO GP 25' - may 24, 2025 (📸 Zak Mauger)

[goldfishinaplasticbag]

jaybins from twitter!

first one was done very quickly on my phone to pay for my crimes (my willis and jason comic meant to have jason with freckles but the quality got destroyed and you couldn’t see them). zoom in to see jaybin in all his freckled cuteness

[merakidoll]

mirenhub lore

— ⋅♡𓂃 “so hopelessly in love with you papa”

tags : friends to lovers! one fell first, the other fell harder! two young adults who’s just obsessed with one another. she calls him papa, she’s his pretty girl, bunny, and princess! practically nerd x bimbo trope in couple form. love at first sight

“you want it princess? papa will get it for you”

— the couple loves to stay confined in the comfort of one another’s arms. they’re both severely introverted, only realizing how good sexual pleasure are when they’re together. due to them loving one another so hard, it causes many mishap as they both only want the best for one another.

“i love you papa”

“not more than i love you bunny”

[unadulteratedloathings]

"So what is it that you think they like about you, then, Clo?"

"I didn't say like, I said want."

"You said like."

"Well, what's the difference? Do you have any idea how good it feels when someone, someone literally can't keep their hands off you and they grab you like they're crazy?"

[liam-summers]

Angel + The photo of Buffy he keeps in his book

[creechurrr]