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Have fun in the war dumbass I’ll be at home fucking military wives

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stop telling me what not to draw. i do not care

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me checking this dumb stupid idiot app everyday like there's a daily login bonus

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inner children

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So I was reading the P5R Art Book I got (with the help of Google Translate akjdsf), when I got to the section showing off the Faith and The Councilor cards. And...

Creator's Comment-- "...The Advisor looks like the Sun, but is actually Mars..."

...holy shit. That gave me pause.

Because, as someone who is an avid student of The Tarot and understands the symbolic significance of Mars, I finally realized...

IT'S THE HECKING TOWER. MARUKI IS THE TOWER DISGUISED AS THE SUN.

The Sun is associated with exactly what it says on the tin-- representing the light of the soul, joy, and warmth in both Tarot and in Astrology. Conversely The Tower card is associated with astrological Mars-- the planet of War and Destruction. More importantly, The Tower represents the hand of fate violently destroying foundations once thought to be stable. Dismantling any constructed sense of control a person has, humbling them and forcing them to start over with a clean slate.

Look at the people falling from the top of The Councilor card just like how they do in The Tower card. Seeing those sad people fall may look like a hint to Maruki being not all that he seems but, when you tie that to the symbolic meaning of The Tower, it goes from a wink and a nod to a straight up spoiler for his entire character arc!

Maruki has constructed this happy facade that needs to be brought crumbling down, not just for the sake of the world being held mercy by his delusions, but for his own healing journey to actually begin.

And even if you just look at it literally-- Maruki's final boss fight is punctuated by his giant tower-like Palace shattering and him nearly falling to his death if not for Joker catching him in time!

IT'S HECKING BRILLIANT. WAAGH!!!

To go even further-- I also love how the Faith card (both versions) are obviously a fusion of imagery from The Hierophant and The Devil cards.

I don't have as coherent an argument to make here, but there are definitely implications.

The fact that The Hierophant card is also known as 'The Teacher', and that The Councilor card even takes the place of The Hierophant in one deck, makes me think that this is hinting at Maruki's influence over 'Kasumi'... and how she overcomes it.

It could also represent Sumire's relationship with the real Kasumi. (Note how the devils in the reversed Faith card are smiling as they parade around a corpse; meanwhile in the true Faith card, where the High Priest is alive and well, the servants look disheartened/depressed by the reality of their situation.)

Tying it back to Maruki again-- it is said that the titular tower on The Tower card is one built by The Devil. It is the beautiful lie that we build to hide an ugly truth. Maruki destroys 'Kasumi's beautiful lie when he forces her to remember that she's actually Sumire. Then in turn, Sumire destroys Maruki's beautiful lie when she shows him that overcoming her ugly truth wasn't only possible- but is how she became her best self.

"So you truly don't want it, huh? ...Looks like I'm totally finished."

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INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You will not benefit from my closeness for very long. My neurodegenerative camouflage will hurt you. It makes me sad.

YOU — You can’t stop it?

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — No. I am just an insect lacking a startle display. I cannot change in the ways you can.

You can choose not to bare your teeth or raise your voice. It is the one thing about you that I envy.

YOU — It doesn’t always feel like I have a choice. Sometimes I think I’ll spend the rest of my short life lashing out at people and die alone.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You are not lashing out at me. Your closeness has no detriment to me. Only to you. And yet, here you are.

YOU — …Here I am.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You must not linger here. But for now, it’s nice.

YOU — It’s nice for me, too.

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INSULINDIAN PHASMID — What is it like to have a concept of failure?

YOU — You don’t?

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — My only purpose is to exist. What is there to fail at?

YOU — Then death would be a failure, wouldn’t it?

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — No. That is part of my purpose, too. Why would I call something a failure if it is unavoidable?

YOU — …

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — I’m sorry. I really can’t understand it.

To fail is to die. It’s just as unavoidable, and just as final. I’m a dead man walking at this point.

I’d rather live as a failure than die. You can at least come back from failure.

Failure is just one stage of the communist project. The only way to avoid it is to never try at all, and that is the only true failure there is.

It just hurts. I don’t know how else to describe it.

I wish I was like you. If I could look at life the way you do, then I would never be afraid of anything…

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — Do you think so? You must be very different from me, then. I am afraid of many things. And I am often hurt. I have lost limbs. I have been sick. I have gone hungry, and I have eaten my own children, and I have slept in the empty nest.

YOU — How can you just accept it? I can’t understand you, either…

EMPATHY — There is no way to bridge the gap. She cannot explain it any more than you could explain to her what it is like to fail.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — I cannot say that I understand your pain, but I know what pain is. And I know that it passes, and life goes on. And even when the pain does not pass, life still goes on.

YOU — How do you bear the pain?

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — Well, usually, I eat.

HALF-LIGHT — Even if her children are all that there is to eat…

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — How do you bear it?

Not very well, to be honest.

Drugs. A lot of them.

By trying to make her love me again. I have to believe she can love me again.

By trying to construct a framework, an identity, *anything* to make the pain make sense.

By talking to you.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID — Oh! Are you in pain right now?

YOU — Yeah. But it’s okay.

CONCEPTUALIZATION — Life gets haaaaard… But we go ooooon…

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yusuke is such a creature

also im on bluesky now

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