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"He may be messy-haired and spaced-out, but he becomes a different person when he gets that twinkle in his eye. At the same time, you can get a feel for both sides by looking at him. I added the glasses midway through the design process as a gimmick to represent his two-sidedness, or the way he keeps his head down in everyday life. His sharp, alluring gaze is somewhat mitigated by putting on glasses, and he looks like an ordinary kindhearted boy instead."

— Shigenori Soejima

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live action lion king spoiler alert

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"I TOLD YOU I'M NOT A CAT!!!"

There is a suspicious lack of a little box in LeBlanc

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JOKER YOU CANNOT BE THIS PRETTY IN A FUCKING GACHA GAME!!

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Ren has actual portraits in Persona O.A. AHHH

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has anybody drawn this as ren and morgana

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Persona 5 → Joker

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Akira Kurusu // “Joker” // 00 The Fool ( more persona 5 gifs )

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P5R ✰ Joker

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Persona 5- Joker

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I’ve made a post about this before, but I think it’s more likely that it’s Joker under there. The way the bangs are styled match up more closely with his character model.

Theory: The hooded man is Seiji. The age matches up with Seiji being a second-year in high school, and the black bangs look similar to his too. They both also have a blue color motif.

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High-quality version of the Joker vs. Wonder art from the third beta FAQ!

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So, uh. I found this on the wiki page. Apparently this came out way back when P5X was still called Codename X, so I’m not sure if this’ll even be significant anymore, but I thought I’d put it here anyway. Remember that hooded figure in the teaser trailer? Look at those bangs. It’s Joker.

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when you get knocked out in marukis palace and you have not one but two overprotective love interests

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for the anon that requested i post this here too! 

full disclaimer: this was originally something i never planned on posting, especially because it was just a self-indulgent thing that i drew directly over the official concept art a while ago, but hey what the hell 

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There's something just so fascinating at how Persona 5 finds ways to explain the complex personality of the protagonist. Besides the typical cheeky answer options that we get when we're asked a question, the game is oozing with his personality in every turn.

We know from the cutscenes that he's a confident son of a bitch that doesn't give a rat's ass about how people see him. We also know from these cutscenes that he just can't help himself from getting nosy into people's business when he perceives an injustice even if it has nothing to do with him. Even with just the first few ones, we could see it. Just from the infamous "damn brat!" scene, to how he shows genuine anger when hearing his classmate talk about his new abusive teacher even before he becomes a phantom thief.

Despite his confident demeanor, the games songs meanwhile paint an entirely different picture of him. "Wake up, Get up, Get out There!" tells us that this confidence is new and that he himself has just found his edge. He came from a background of uncertainty and only now after recognizing how powerless he is that he could finally rebel.

Even with this rebellion, we know for a fact that he's still ever so lost as ever from "Beneath the Mask", being the calm song that plays on his downtimes that completely recontextualizes his actions. The song explains how our protagonist not only doesn't want to be perceived by people, but also how he doesn't even know who he is. He doesn't want people to "take off his mask" which is his "place to hide" and see that he's nothing but a "shapeshifter" who's so nothing of a person that anyone is "free to draw" him.

This then leads to some interesting take aways from his other actions like his relationships. None of his relationships are unconditional. All of them are transactional one way or another. Even with his teammates, there are stakes to improving them. Morgana starts their friendship by teaching him the ways of infiltration in exchange for helping Mona get his form back, Ryuji and him have shared stakes of being a phantom thief thus training together, Ann starts their main friendship by trying to get her persona stronger so she becomes a better fighter and phantom thief, etc. - all of them start with transactions. This is even more poignant with his non phantom thief relationships as all of them he wants something out of, and even most of them he doesn't initiate. Morgana does.

From what we know of his history and how he doesn't even know who he is, it could be assumed that he doesn't trust people easily and relationships must always have a catch to them. Coming from a background where he has been beaten, ostracized, and neglected, it's really not surprising that he acts this way either. Even the least of those events happening to anyone could make them distrust others to make them view the world that way.

This is why it's so fitting that Joker is often compared to a cat - a mischievous creature that often causes problems, seemingly so full of itself, but so prone to being abused and distrusting others. He's a stray cat that came from a lot of abuse and isn't willing to let anyone in for fear of its safety. That's why the small little character details and even major aspects of the game really paint an interesting picture of the protagonist that just fascinates the heck out of me

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You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.