#third semester

[axoqiii]

february 2nd

[alexsiple]

The ideal and the real

[deetheimposter]

Showtime!!

[lostenzz]

February

They've affected me so badly man its not even funny anymore orz

[may-lutlone]

"Dr. Maruki explaining what will happen once Joker leaves his reality, a rough sketch on digital canvas, 2025"

celebrating the incoming 2/2 with this fast and hahaha sketchy piece (I did it in like two hours but let's goo I like it that way)

(Inspired by a few paintings I saw in Warsaw's National Museum of Art)

[wrmscl]

pretend I'm not a day late

[theotheronez]

Some P5R doodles featuring the rivals and Loki

[artianwen]

You're in "the good place".

[persona-brainrot-real]

I don’t even know how to articulate my thoughts about Akechi and Sumire in the third semester. Something about Akechi, whose entire life was dictated by grief over his mother and the resentment of her killer that he stopped living it, seeing Sumire doing the exact same, grieving her sister and resenting herself as her sisters killer. It’s no wonder he hates Maruki so much for how he treats her and feeds into her desire to live as Kasumi - when you boil it down to it, Maruki’s endorsement of her desire to live as Kasumi isn’t all that different to Shido playing along with Akechi’s desire for revenge, both of them letting the vulnerable child think that they had an ounce of control in their decision.

He protects her every chance he can without ever being condescending to her but it still comes across patronising because she’s standing next to Joker, whose competence he never once doubts. He asks her if she’s okay, if she can handle it, and then turns to Joker and says don’t let me down. He checks in with her constantly and he realises what the issue is with her identity but never presses it so she can figure it out herself forgetting that if it wasn’t for the right circumstances and the confrontation with Maruki that she could never have realised or come to terms with it, just as he never realised that he was never going to get his revenge on Shido.

And in the middle of that you have a guy who has just watched all of his friends abandon him for a better, happier life with their old friends or old family and despite everything they’ve done together he realised he doesn’t really know them all. Not Kasumi, who was actually Sumire, not Akechi, who was lying to him the whole time they were friends (but who he suddenly has to trust completely because he has no other choice, who is STILL lying to him by never mentioning that he’s going to die soon) and not any of the Phantom Thieves, stop having time for him the moment they have other friends.

Maruki managed to make a reality that was completely isolating for Joker, gave him Akechi as a consolation prize for taking everyone else from him (exaggerating for effect: I know he and akechi wished for each other. The point remains that this was the only option Akira has for company after everyone else is given their friends or family back).

Does this make any sense. Can anyone hear me.

[squidgnz]

me and @deerlacy had a discussion

[lobeliaprince]

sweet dreams.

[alexsiple]

january (an omen)

[let-them-eat-rakes]

new game plus third semester

[thatskyafro]

Take back reality

drive link:

[may-lutlone]

the perspective

and the version without blur

[kiyugoot]

so this is p5r 3rd semester