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grieving your guiding light (missed maruki deadline ending)

(Not Shipping)

optional thoughts yapping about this:

There is something about the missed deadline ending that reminds me deeply of Rumi with the way Ren wakes up and has a hazy memory like Rumi did.

Maruki puts Ren on a weird high horse, something i’d say even close to worshipping. Maruki’s palace has religious undertones as is, picturing Rumi as his “Eve,” and he pictures Ren as his “guiding light.” He willingly put the continued existence of a Utopia onto a teenage boy who he knew had a sentimental heart. He manipulated him by showing him that if he didn’t accept the reality then he’s ripping his friends away of happiness, and then the disgusting act of using Akechi’s “corpse” and using him as an “it” to basically say “the blood is on your hands.”

Anyways, Maruki has weak morals. The “don’t throw away your mask” song repeats “don’t sleep through dreams that can come true,” and yet, the moment Ren was too much trouble, he convinced himself that putting him in permanent sleep purgatory was the way to his happiness. He acts high and mighty about what is right, what is suffering, what is happiness, yet he fails to have a solid thinking of what “justice” is, unlike the phantom thieves and Akechi. NCP dialogue throughout third semester reveals many contradictions in the reality. His reality is faulty at best and it will continue to contradict on top of itself over and over until it’s a giant mush.

Because he genuinely convinced himself this was the best thing to do, I see him grieving over Ren, in a sense. Even in the ending he says “i wanted you to accept this gift with your own free will.” It’s not like he necessarily wanted to do this to Ren, but he believes he is “selfless” enough to do so.

He lost Ren, his light to his research. And he lost Rumi, the person who he created a perfect world for. The moment he realized Rumi couldn’t remember her trauma, he decided right then and there that he would not remind her of it, and clarified her as something he “lost.” He sees forgetting as happiness, so truly, he has no problem with “sleeping through dreams that can come true.” And I don’t think it would stop at Ren, why would it? The moment someone’s issues contradict with another, the easiest solution is something like Ren’s state. His reality will have no actual life eventually. A psychological murder of the human race.

Placing this much expectation on a teenage boy is all in all gross, and he was too reliant on him. He confided in a young boy and got attached. He sickeningly grieves over what “had to happen” with Ren, falling in self pity. And that’s what happened with Rumi, aka falling into a self pitying of “losing her” when it was his own doings. But he fully, genuinely believes he lost both of them.

This is not to say I think Maruki is obsessed over him in this ending; far far from it, he has other issues to attend to and a whole reality to create. If anything, he forgets him at some point. But at the beginning, I can see him visiting a couple times, or looking over him from afar like a God would. But Rumi will forever be engraved in his palace, and I think Ren would be too, with them both being the reasons why Maruki could create this reality.

I can also get into how him seeing Ren’s desire and grief for Akechi also reminds me of Maruki and Rumi but that’s a can of worms for another day lmao

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book-accurate personality arsene lupin as akiren’s persona

the idea of arsene infodumping akiren about his life (re; adventures in his novels) is kind of cute if you think about like arsene looking at the phantom thieves plan sending the calling card like “this is exactly what i did to the baron satan” and ren’s there like… “who the hell is baron satan?”

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the idea of arsene infodumping akiren about his life (re; adventures in his novels) is kind of cute if you think about like arsene looking at the phantom thieves plan sending the calling card like “this is exactly what i did to the baron satan” and ren’s there like… “who the hell is baron satan?”

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this brings the question, how old is maruki exactly? me personally i see him as being the same age as the innocent sin cast (around 35) , but what’s the common consensus?

there's a list of people allowed to hit maruki takuto but other than the obvious phantom thieves (incl. ake/sumi), sonomura maki is also allowed to beat the shit out of her (presumed) kouhai

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sorry constant maruki tweeting he’s like a parasite in my head eating my brain. but as much as i love him, i don’t think he deserves anything good.

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there's a list of people allowed to hit maruki takuto but other than the obvious phantom thieves (incl. ake/sumi), sonomura maki is also allowed to beat the shit out of her (presumed) kouhai

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back to my jokakyodai agenda, i’m so infatuated with the idea shitty mental state post-p5(t->s+) akiren i just gotta think about how that’ll effect the kashihara family’s bonds. presumably their mother was already distant even before the incident, and jun himself probably left the nest to focus on his education somewhere else leaving ren back home alone a little bit lonelier than before. maybe he has friends from sevens or from his prior schools in sumaru but he’s probably unable to form a proper bond with them like he is with the phantom thieves, even then he’s never shown to be completely open with anyone up to a certain point. i’m not saying jun would be a bad brother but sometimes it would definitely be difficult for ren. morgana urges him to come to his senses, even talking to jun on his behalf but he’s not there.

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need to find more people who’s insanely into maruki and akiren’s dynamic in 3rd semester, or just maruki<—>akiren in general

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this is compensation for his (possible) lonely family life with distant parents

i love giving joker siblings here’s his list so far:

futaba sakura

kaoru iwai

shinya oda

akane hasegawa

jun kashihara

maya amano

yosuke hanamura

rise kujikawa

…

there MIGHT be more but who knows where it stops exactly. inaren (inaba ren) fans can think of the whole investigation as his older siblings in canon, sumaren (sumaru ren) fans MIGHT be able to connect the masked circle but either way family for joker persona 5 and love for all

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i love giving joker siblings here’s his list so far:

futaba sakura

kaoru iwai

shinya oda

akane hasegawa

jun kashihara

maya amano

yosuke hanamura

rise kujikawa

…

there MIGHT be more but who knows where it stops exactly. inaren (inaba ren) fans can think of the whole investigation as his older siblings in canon, sumaren (sumaru ren) fans MIGHT be able to connect the masked circle but either way family for joker persona 5 and love for all

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this is one of the only times we get to see the jokers in the same art style and it's legit killing me. I genuinely hope we can see them interact in a future game, I know barely anyone is interested in these two but *shakes you* listen to me. they have potential.