#Mayumi Dojima

[sir-klauz]

what is with this guy whipping out a random Hatsune Miku cross dress on us all bc apparently it would be too suspicious for Mayumi undercover as a guy walking around without a girlfriend on his arm bc she turns out to be such a good looking guy so this dude decided to dress as Hatsune and pretend to be her fake girlfriend out of nowhere

(Mayumi before and after)

[haunted-xander]

TV WORLD

[fishy12233]

Iconic Persona 4 characters I wanted to draw

[transtranslations]

Empty by 小梅むすび (Koumemusubi)

Artist's Note: Happy birthday, Adachi-san.

(continued in part 2 here because there were too many images)

[adachimoe]

What was Adachi doing at the Amagi Ryokan?

It's genuinely unclear to me whether Adachi was actually supposed to be babysitting Mayumi, or if he just showed up and pretended he was so he could talk to her lol. I think the game is suggesting he was not actually assigned to her and was more or less stalking her.

After Adachi's name is brought up at Aiya, Yukiko mentions that Adachi showed up at the ryokan claiming to be there to babysit Mayumi while the paparazzi were swarming the ryokan. This information is shocking and totally new to Naoto, who is the detective in our group who worked on the murder case with the police for multiple months beforehand.

When we finally see the flashback of Adachi confronting Mayumi in the Amagi Ryokan, she has no idea who he is. If Adachi is her police escort, wouldn't she know about this guy already?

On the other hand, you can confront Adachi in the hospital and ask him about Mayumi in front of Dojima. And Dojima doesn't react as though it's weird for Adachi to have been at the Amagi Ryokan.

But we also don't know what exactly the protagonist asked Adachi since we're a silent protagonist...

On the other, other hand - if Adachi was actually assigned to babysit Mayumi, how is this somehow not brought up in the early scenes where Dojima and Adachi talk about the case?

I feel like the combo of Naoto's shock + Mayumi's reaction + Dojima not going "dude, what" leans towards him not being assigned to her. Like he showed up at the Amagi Ryokan, flashed his badge at Yukiko and the other staff, and it worked. He had headcanons about Mayumi and he needed to confirm them in-person. Normal teenage girl behavior.

I'm aware that the Persona 4 Golden anime has its own version of this where Adachi is actually legitimately seriously assigned to go babysit Mayumi. But that's just the anime adaptation's take on Adachi, and in the commentary track for episode 7, the director emphasizes that this is their take and encourages you to think whatever you'd like. At the end of the day, the anime adaptation doesn't have to worry about details that make Adachi being assigned to her seem weird, but the game's narrative does.

[teecupangel]

unhinged idea i had: desmond and the modern persona series. i am leaning on 3 or 5 because 3 matches desmond well with the whole death thing and it's my favorite in the franchise but also phantom thief desmond... i have no idea how we can incorporate this into ac but maybe desmond is a wild card??? possibly???

Here’s the Desmond in Persona 5 idea we had before and here’s the Desmond in Persona 3 idea we also had before.

Since you did specify Modern Persona series and Persona 4 has always been my favorite of the three, we’re going to go for Desmond arriving in Inaba in the strangest of way…

He was found dangled on one of the telephone poles, right arm heavily burned and unconscious.

He was in a coma for a week before waking up and he thought “they’d definitely give me to Interpol and I’d get taken by Abstergo if I tell them my real identity” so he pretended to have amnesia. So for a few weeks, he’s known as John-san.

And during those few weeks, he was allowed access to a phone to check the net and try and see if he can remember anything.

The first thing he noticed was the date.

2011.

Okay.

That was a lie.

The first thing he noticed was that there was no mention of Abstergo anywhere at all. No ads. Nothing.

So he didn’t even think he timetraveled a year before his death.

No.

Without Abstergo…

He was in a different world.

Fuck.

.

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Unorganized Notes:

He had to be discharged from the hospital once he was deemed healthy enough and Dojima helped him find a home he can rent and work.

Work turned out to become an employee at Junes because, quoting the manager, Desmond’s foreign looks will attract customers. He works in one of the stands and that specific stand (selling grilled meat and juice) got a 50% increase in profit.

The actual real reason why Dojima helped Desmond stay in Inaba is because he’s super sus of him. His face and fingerprint came up zilch and he even asked ‘favor’ from an American government official (who may or may not be part of a certain intelligent agency) find anything about him.

He casually flirts with Adachi whenever he sees the police officer around Junes. Adachi always splutters and make a fool of himself while Dojima sighs and tells Desmond to stop screwing around. The reason why Desmond is trying to get under Adachi’s skin is because there’s something about him that makes Desmond feel… something. Like he should be looking at something but he doesn’t know what he should be looking at in the first place.

By the time Yu comes to Inaba, Desmond has been staying for three months… trying to get a feel of this world by pretending he was ‘relearning the world’. His Japanese is better know and not as archaic as it was before (he still doesn’t know which Bleed knows Japanese but he’ll take it).

Overall, he’s integrated himself in the small town of Inaba quite well.

Then the murder of Yamano Mayumi happened and Desmond gets roped in because she was found on the cables near a telephone pole, very similar to how Desmond was found.

The police is, of course, suspicious of Desmond. He’s connected to this, either as the first victim who survived or as the culprit/accomplice.

Desmond is definitely curious about what’s happening and that’s when he heard kids… well… talking about the murder.

Desmond wasn’t going to pass it off as kids being kids because he knows what teenagers are capable (Ratonhnhaké:ton being a good example and also Altaïr but Altaïr’s childhood was fucked up from the start in his eyes anyway) so he follows them.

… into the TV because fuck it, what’s the worst that could happen? He’d die?

.

In this one, Desmond serves more as their adult supervision who can’t fight because he has no Persona. They also leave him in the entrance and he’s annoyed by this until… the day Chie joins them after awakening her Persona, he hears a voice.

It’s a man clad in what looks like Assassin robes of some kind, dirty and worn out. Yu, Yosuke, Teddie, and Chie returned (without Yukiko because they need a break) to find Desmond and the hooded figure talking about how Desmond is powerless. He had always been powerless. Nothing has changed.

“All those sacrifices. All those suffering… and for what? You are still as powerless as you have always been, Desmond Miles. Even the strength you have now was never yours from the very beginning. Your strength exists because of their death.”

This finally makes Desmond hit the hooded figure with a right hook and his hood falls off, revealing it was Desmond’s shadow.

But this shadow was old with the golden glow of the Apple on his skin. Desmond, of course, tells him that he wasn’t him and this turns into a boss fight with Yu and the team.

Desmond notices while they fight that his shadow’s fighting style slightly shifts at times and he recognizes each of those shifts because the tell were the small tells he knows his Bleeds would make. He manages to help the team defeat his shadow but telling them what his shadow’s move will be and it ends with Desmond accepting the fact that, yes, his strength did come from others but it was his to use as he sees fit. That he has to accept that the choices he made did mean his ancestors’ actions and sacrifices were for nothing.

And that…

he has to keep moving forward from that.

That’s how his shadow turned into his Persona and how he’s now able to join the team.

(I think for this one, Desmond should only have one Persona unlike in the other Persona ideas. He’s Arcana can still be the Fool because he is starting from the ‘beginning’ or he can also be the World/Aeon if you want to shake it up. His Persona can still shift into three ‘forms’ and his ultimate Persona makes him able to shift into 2 more forms)

[gayest-persona-character]

Round 1!

Rules

Vote for who you think is more queer/gay (doesn't matter if you think they're bi, pan, gay, lesbian, etc. Who's the most not straight!)

I will allow propaganda in the form of asks or notes (tags and comments)

Be nice and respectful. Not everyone has the same headcanons.

Remember, this is mostly just for fun! We have a few submitted characters for this exact purpose, so don't take things too seriously. (It doesn't matter what the results are, most persona characters will be queer-coded in my heart)

The list of polls is as follows:

Labrys vs. Daisuke Todoroki

Principal Kobayakawa vs. Yukiko Amagi

Mayumi Yamano vs. Suguru Kamoshida

Bebe vs. Sho Minazuki

Isako Toriumi (Maya) vs. Ann Takamaki

Ichiryusai Madarame vs. Ichiko Ohya

Chihiro Fushimi vs. Ai Ebihara

Philemon vs.Shibusawa

Kou Ichijo vs. Fuuka Yamagishi

Munehisa Iwai vs. Miyabi Hanakouji

President Tanaka vs. Akihiko Sanada

Ryuji Sakamoto vs. Taro Namatame

Kanami Mashita vs. Haru Okumura

Nozomi Suemitsu vs. Angel and Julian

Ryotaro Dojima vs. Rio Iwasaki

Sadayo Kawakami vs. Maya Amano

Nagi vs. Saori Hasegawa

Cashier from Peace Diner vs. Junpei Iori

Chizuru Ishigami vs. Minoru Inoue

Chihaya Mifune vs. Mamoru Hayase

Misuzu Hiiragi vs. Lala Escargot

Setsuko Sonomura vs. Junko Kurosu

Eri Minami vs. Tae Takemi

Zen vs. Kenji Tomochika

Eriko Kirishima vs. Takeharu Kirijo

Mika vs. Metis

Junya Kaneshiro vs. Takuto Maruki

Moel Gas Station Attendant vs. Hanako Ohtani

Maya Okamura vs. Igor

Sayoko Uehara vs. Makoto Yuki

Lesbian Student from P3 vs. Mami Shibata

Shunsuke Fujii vs. Saki Konishi

Tatsuya Suou vs. Akinari Kashihara

Miho Ogishima vs. Kinshiro Morooka

Hisano Kuroda vs. Ayane Matsunaga

Kanji Tatsumi vs. Makoto Nijiima

Marie vs. Tatsuya Sudou

SIU Director vs. Reiji Kido

Baofu vs. Takahisa Kandori

Yuuki Mishima vs. Tamaki Uchida

Zenkichi Hasegawa vs. Yosuke Hanamura

Mitsuo Kubo vs. Aigis

Kei Nanjo vs. Margaret

Masao Inaba vs. Noriko Katayama

Yukino Mayuzumi vs. Saeko Takami

Tadashi Satomi vs. Chidori Yoshino

Yumi Ozawa vs. Gay Demons P2

Kasumi Yoshizawa vs. Yuka Ayase

Hidetoshi Odagiri vs. Mutatsu

Shinjiro Aragaki vs. Kazushi Miyamoto

Localized version of Naoya vs. Ren Amamiya

Coach Hiraguchi vs. Chie Satonaka

Shuji Ikutsuki vs. Shiho Suzui

Futaba Sakura vs. Naoto Shirogane

Jin Shirato vs. Hifumi Togo

Keisuke Hiraga vs. Eikichi Mishina

Maki Sonomura vs. Toranosuke Yoshida

Rise Kujikawa vs. Elizabeth

Goro Akechi vs. Yuko Nishiwaki

Noriko Kashiwagi vs. Ulala Serizawa

Yuko Himeno vs. Anna Yoshizaka

Hikari vs. Joker (IS)

Mitsuru Kirijo vs. Hidehiko Uesugi

Masayoshi Shido vs. Youichi Makimura

[talenlee]

Story Pile: Pretty boy Detective Club

I feel like I’m going to need a chart for this one. And some kind of containment perimeter.

Pretty Boy Detective Club is a series of light novels that have an anime adaptation and that anime adaptation has a manga adaptation. The anime came to my attention thanks to my liking the music of Sumika, the band that made the opening song from the excellent anime Wotakoi. Sumika do a kind of jazzy pop song style, which suits Wotakoi‘s office vibe, and before that, they did the opening for this anime, a song called Shake & Shake.

TVアニメ「美少年探偵団」オープニングテーマsumika「Shake ＆ Shake」

Watch this video on YouTube

I’m not talking about the anime this time because I can’t watch the anime here in Australia for some reason, and instead I read the manga — which means I get a different set of cases to the anime, which is potentially a good thing, as we’ll see. Also this manga is part of and connected to the Monogatari novels, both in that they share an author, Nisio Isin, and the main character Mayumi Dojima shows up in both universes.

The two people who read this blog and Monogatari are going What? right now.

Anyway, uh, yeah, that’s the largesse of how this thing exists and why I know about it, and what spurred me to read it. The pitch is pretty simple: It’s a manga about a detective club full of pretty boys. To that end we’re going to discuss the pitch, the characters, the mysteries, and then the problem.

Before we proceed, though, you’re going to need a Spoiler Warning so I can feel free to talk about the twists and surprise in this stupid stupid series and also, Content Warning because we’re going to once again go to the Anime Age conversation!

At the heart of Pretty Boy Detective Club is a continuation of the wonderful tradition of what I think of as Ouran-likes; it’s an anime where a girl falls into what is ultimately a harem setup, a bunch of boys who all attend a club and who are all in their own ways desireable for her to either consider kissing, or to consider kissing one another. The club structure gives you a unifying aesthetic, a common space, and a typical thing to be doing from episode to episode, a habitual to be, and the series spends its time doing episode to episode introducing this girl to these characters and how they solve problems and do things.

Here, meet the protagonist Mayumi Dojima. She’s a girl, which obviously has some problems with Pretty Boy Detective Club, but don’t worry, we’ll get there. One day, pursuing a mystery and filled with the overwhelming ennui of wasting her life as a fourteen year old teenaged girl in Japan (hey, is Japan okay?), she stumbles into a club of pretty boys (don’t worry, you don’t need to know who they are), who tell her they are the Pretty Boy Detective Club (hey that’s the name of the book!).

There, she learns the four rules of the club:

Be pretty!

Be a boy!

Be a detective!

Be a club!

And honestly, this is the most charming thing about this manga for me. It might be showing at this point, but this manga is not as strong a story as I like, but here, this kind of central core aphorism appeals to me greatly. Each of these ideas can be knitted together into a whole idealised behaviour – things like expression, aesthetics, willingness to embrace one’s youth, sticking together, being curious – but it’s also just an obviously silly phrase that makes the speaker sound like they’re telling a joke. I love it!

What follows from here is some honestly fun good hijinks. After all, Mayumi isn’t a boy, so to fit in the club, she crossdresses. But then, fool, they make ‘him’ too hot, and that means for him to leave the class without a girl on his arm would be suspicious! But don’t worry, rather than, say, change the persona or fake identity they gave Mayumi, one of the boys then cross-dresses as a girl, to walk out with ‘him’!

This is, in my mind, delightful. That’s funny. That’s a kind of devotion to ridiculousness and a willingness to clown around with gender presentation that I find very endearing in characters. There is a humour at work here in this series that clearly recognises these ideas, like crossdressing and cute boys are appealing and you can have a fun time with a story that shows them off. There’s a joyful, comedic indulgence, a playfulness and all of this is lovely and fun, asterisk.

Good premise! Good pitch! Ouran type, crossdressing, characters who are extra and idiots!

Now, about those characters. There’s first of all Mayumi, who is an ordinary high school girl, asterisk, who starts the story off by trying to solve a mystery that started when she saw something at the age of four. Without going through all the steps, this winds up getting her attention of both nefarious forces and of also, the club. This club at introduction includes:

Manabu, the leader of the group, and owner of one of the two personalities in the club,

Nagahiro, the student council president and aloof, ponytailed sort of cardboard cutout with access to money and resources,

Michiro, the delinquent and tough guy as represented by never doing anything delinquent and mostly being a nonverbal chef,

Hyouta, one of the other personalities in the club in that he both likes showing off his legs and nonconsensually looking at peoples’ underwear, and I know that doesn’t sound like much but we are trying here,

Sousaku, who I don’t want to talk smack about because he seems to just be a sweet nonverbal autistic kid in the group but this is a Japanese show so even if that’s what they mean they’re not going to say it.

Now you might be thinking ‘hey, that’s kinda mean to say about those two characters and those three other things,’ but this is one of the areas that Pretty Boy Detective Club stumbles. It has a cast of six characters, but is only interested in three of them across five volumes of manga. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty to do with Manabu’s sock puppet accounts across the three-ish cases the manga covers.

These are, I must say, some top tier designs. Like, in the context of Pretty Characters, the characters in Pretty Boy Detective Club are very, very cute, and this manga covers a range of different ways to look good. The crossdressing looks are also really clever in how they incorporate very openly the original designs of the characters, and outfit components that let them hide details of the other identity. The characters also have different body language and stand, sit, and act around a scene in different ways that express different approaches to things.

(And yet they don’t have anything for most of them to do.)

Anyway, yeah, this indulgent manga is great at making indulgent art! It’s really enjoyable! Asterisk!

Next up we have the three mysteries covered by the manga series.

There’s a story about a missing painting on their school property. In this story, there’s a famous artist who it turns out is connected to the school, and an artwork of hers has gone missing somehow. The puzzle of the story is finding out why this teacher left or disappeared, and how she took her artwork with her. The whole of this story is built around considering loyalty to teachers versus loyalty to institutions and the importance of properly funding the arts department in your school.

The second story is about a rival school running an illicit casino, with pretend adult attendants, rigged games, and Sexy Outfits, asterisk. In this casino, our pretty boys play games and win them because they’re so smart, and then they lose a game because the house is running cheated games with special super-technological stealth devices. Dun dun dun! This is done for some nefarious ends about stealing information from the clientele, and if you know me, you know, you know I have beef about this, you know I’m going to be mad because I get mad every time you see a casino being used in a fictional space.

Anyway.

There’s also the story about how Mayumi has super-eyes that she needs to keep contained with her glasses, or she will go blind from looking at too many things, too well, with her too-perfect eyes, like that time she saw a Japanese government satellite doing a nuclear test in space, and therefore is witness to an international violation of multiple treaties. When this information is brought to light by our Detectives it comes out that in fact, Mayumi’s been stalked! Her whole life! To make sure she doesn’t let this information out! And suddenly she’s kidnapped and so is Manabu and Hyouta has to catch them on a bike but then he’s kidnapped and there’s a confrontation and a mystery resolution that happens because someone had money and a helicopter and wizardry, resolving everything. This story also features a really hot evil woman mercenary, so that’s nice.

Are these good mysteries?

No.

They’re really quite bad.

The best one is the art teacher one because the stakes are appropriate, the solution is coherent and there’s nothing they do with just spending piles of money to solve it. The problem and the solution make sense and the actual process of digging into it involves following clues a person left behind, and Sousaku gets to do some things, which is nice. It is, as a mystery story, the best one and the best place to start.

The Casino story is a real mess-up, though not the worst one. It’s a casino written by someone who doesn’t seem to have any interest in understanding how card games work. Frustratingly, they have Manabu sit down to play blackjack, which the narrative describes as ‘the tough stuff.’ Blackjack is one of the easiest Casino games to play. Then they have him describe that he doesn’t know the rules, ‘he’s just memorised some hands.’

That’s not how Blackjack works you ding dong.

It’s silly. It’s very very silly. I hate it when a series tries to use games to tell a story that gets worse if you understand those games. Casinos make money by getting people to gamble. They know they can take losses on any individual because that individual serves as an example of success that other people will use to judge. Games are balanced so the house wins. You know how an illegal casino makes money? It’s not by outsourcing military technology, it makes money by being a ding-dang casino.

And then that whole ‘nuclear satellite explosion’ plot? It’s fantastically silly. It involves the idea of a long-reaching government conspiracy that’s willing to stalk a child for her whole life, and not willing to kill her in the mean time or interfere with her life along the way. It’s this silly kind of honourable vision of an identity for the government, and the mystery is kind of deeply out of context. It requires so many new things to be introduced for the mystery to make sense — like, Japan doing nuclear testing with a satellite in outer space, and for our protagonist to be so good at seeing things she could have witnessed it at four years old.

Know what else makes these mysteries bad?

I’m listing them in reverse order.

This manga starts with the national conspiracy nuclear testing war crimes story and then scales down to an illegal casino run by ninnies and concludes with gosh don’t you miss that cool art teacher? This isn’t good structure. You typically want the start of a story to set the expectations for the rest of that story, and this story explicitly goes in the opposite direction, with the stakes decreasing at every step, with literally the only stakes for the final story being ‘well, I would like to know the answer to this’ rather than any kind of consequences or punishment.

Okay, then that means the mysteries are a disappointment, what else we got?

Alright, I said ‘asterisk’ a few times, and this is where this all comes up.

Way back when, when I wrote about Violet Evergarden, a cool anime series which inexplicably changed the source material to make the protagonist (an obvious adult) claim her age was 14 years old despite something like five years of experience and recovery as a military operative, I did so addressing what I consider ‘the speed run’ of a genre trope we file under ‘anime bullshit,’ which is to say, anime characters, their age, and when they get sexualised.

For the most part I don’t care about anime where teenagers are fucking teenagers because that’s a thing teenagers do and I know as a teenager it’s a thing I wanted to do. What tends to set off alarm bells for me is when a work treats sexual harrassment or objectification as a non-factor, which is why I actually dislike My Hero Academia more knowing that Mineta is around for the very end of the story. When a teacher or adult does this stuff and it’s just kind of meant to be treated as a funny background detail, that makes things worse and so on. Plus, for a lot of anime, the character being ‘fourteen’ is literally nonsense – fantasy kingdom heroes claiming to be fourteen years old despite a lifetime of experience is just in my mind, the author using that number because they think they should, and they’re wrong. It’s at the point where I now consider 14 years old to be a sort of Default Fake Age for anime characters where their life and resources are not explicitly linked to going to school.

If you have two full-time jobs, and a previous career you burnt out of, anime boy, you are not a fourteen year old.

This is however, a surface of Anime Bullshit, because there are depths to it, places it gets worse. Specifically, if an anime wants to centralise its story around a relationship across an age range, or if it wants to bring up things like consent laws. In Transformers: Who Cares there’s a long shot of a card showing the Romeo and Juliet Laws a character keeps in their wallet, which is pretty unnecessary unless you want to focus on it for some reason, and that kind of focus is important to recognise as something a story does as a choice.

Then, phew, Pretty Boy Detective Club really brings up age in weird ways.

You remember how I mentioned that Manabu is a really cute crossdresser? He’s part of the club that directs them to fly their helicopter to the beach when they’re investigating the murder and talks of all his experience being kidnapped and rescued, and then the story tells you he’s ten.

He’s ten.

Again: This is obviously nonsense. He is clearly not ten. Ten year olds do not behave or think like that. I know, I’ve met some ten year olds. I’ve met some really smart ten year olds. They are not encyclopedically constructing multiple crossdressing identities. This is because they are ten.

Okay, okay, okay, maybe it’s one thing, maybe it’s just because the main characters ‘have’ to be fourteen (which they don’t), that means that he has to a whole four years younger than them to make it funny that he’s in charge. He doesn’t attend the same school as them, since, again, they are high schoolers and he is ten and I feel like I’m belabouring this point but I’m just trying to underscore this was a choice. The choice to draw this anime prettyboy the way almost all the characters are drawn and then say ‘by the way, this one’s really underaged?’ That’s messed up.

But don’t worry, the story also touches on how Hyota, who is fourteen, likes to wear shorts, expose his legs, and wants to seduce an older woman. It mentions Hyota being intrusive and sexually harrassing other students as well, and then throws in that one of the characters, Nagahiro, is engaged to a six year old as an arranged marriage. He points out this doesn’t mean anything, but Hyota nonetheless calls him ‘Mr Lolicon.’

It is hard to see the same idea toyed with in three different ways and not go: Oh this is intentional. This is something that the story is indulging for a reason. And I know, knowing this author, part of what’s going on here is a focus on the author’s interests neutrally. This is a series that Goes Some Places and it is, generally speaking, going to be playing around in the genre and conventions of anime. It’s possible to feel the way that this manga is ridiculous about age and go ‘well it’s clearly just nonsense’ and discard that part of the story, in negotiation with it. I might even try and do that! The boys are, after all, hot designs, I would happily steal these looks for characters of my own, and given the elastic nature of anime aesthetics, any of them could work for a character of almost any age range up until they cross the anime threshold of Actually Old in their seventies.

But I kinda wish I wasn’t getting fanservice saying ‘look at this hot child.’

For a premise as powerrful as ‘detective story Ouran,’ I’m sad that Pretty Boy Detective Club is built out of such bad pieces. The mysteries are shaky, the characters are underdeveloped and the structure is a hot pile. Despite all of this, though, I still find the whole project kinda cool, and just find myself hoping for a better version of it.

Anyway, my current hypothesis that holds this nonsense together is that this club is actually at a college and all the characters are roleplaying being anime perverts.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[megaderping]

It was a miracle Akechi fell asleep after what he saw on the Midnight Channel. Though no stranger to death, encountering a hanging, limp corpse differed greatly from experiencing the moment of fatality. The howling scream as Yamano cried for help that would never come. The claws, teeth, the shadows smothering, consuming, devouring her… All so vivid. He gulped down a glass of orange juice at the kitchen table, citrus burning down his throat. What did that mean? Was it metaphorical? Symbolic of Mayumi Yamano's failing career, or was it… a sign? Dojima left last night. The timing was uncanny. Could it be that the ill-fated news report was truly… Someone spoke to him. The words barely registered at first. "Akechi-kun?" Ah. Nanako. He jolted upright, forcing a smile that only half formed. "Hello, Nanako-chan." She gazed up at him, hands tucked behind her back. "You look tired." Tittering, Akechi propped his chin up with one hand and said, "I didn't sleep as well as I'd liked." It was a reluctant admission, because said admission meant exposing some level of vulnerability that would only worry the little girl before him and her cousin toiling away in the kitchen. Full Chapter | Read from the Beginning

[arcplaysgames]

RIGHT BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING DELIVERYMAN

..... wait it has not occurred to me until this exact moment that the TV doesn't need to be, like, activated and on for this process to work. can it be just a fucking TV hanging out not plugged in!?

SCREAMS

i got it

i figured it out

It was President Tanaka all along. That bastard, taking all my prize stickers while being the killer!

adachi i know you're like a bitch in sheep's clothing but i will slap you. no, i will ask kanji to slap you.

oh my god i cannot fucking believe this game actually expected me to remember and give a shit about the fucking regional scandal from the beginning of this game, come on

yosuke why the fuck do you remember that? why are you smarter than me? that's not allowed.

squints at adachi

okay. i'll give you a point here.

though given my analysis of Adachi and his persistent effort to avoid putting effort into anything and anyone, the fact his way of helping is to stop giving a shit is hilarious actually. high five to self.

Dojima obvsly goes after Namatame, and when Namatame sees him in the rear view, he... intentionally crashes them both? shit. Dojima was just in a nearly head-on collision, this is bad.

jfc THANK GOD WE HAVE NAOTO HONESTLY?

okay. okay. /face in hands.

so this namatame guy. hang on. fucking rewind.

He was involved in an affair and I don't even fucking remember the details of it, but he lost his job and started as a deliveryman. I think I talked to him a few times in the shopping district but he was just a guy???? so. The first victim was thrown into the TV and.... it was the first place Chie, Yosuke, and Reverie explored way back in the beginning of the game. The room with the enka singer's face slashed in all the pictures and the noose. So that was, like, Mayumi Yamano's TV world from.... Namatame throwing her in? Did he somehow get the idea that the..... TV was putting a hit out on her and.... thought by throwing her in he was saving her?

Wait that doesn't make sense, if he did the same with Saki Konishi, THEY BOTH DIED. THEY DIED IN GRISLY WAYS.

So this dude somehow thinks he's... saving them, but from what? Is this a fucking "oh death is kinder" sort of "saving" them????

naoto

naoto you're too smart for this come on

he escaped through the fucking tv, naoto

SOBBING OVER THIS VOICE ACTING

... oh this. this is gonna suck.

[katsona-the-katsequel]

Persona Timeline Pt. 5: 2011-2015

This one covers Persona 4. Just a quick note: Unlike the previous games, P4 and P5 are more flexible of when you confront the bosses, so dates vary from playthrough to playthrough. This is just personal preference, but consider the days where you beat the bosses that suit you best.

[LAST UPDATED: JUNE 2024]

2011

? ??

- With humanity's wish changing away from the truth, Izanami-no-Mikoto's personalities split into Kusumi-no-Okami, Kunino-sagiri, Ameno-sagiri and Izanami-no-Okami (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

- Kusumi-no-Okami was sent by Ameno-sagiri and Izanami to spy on humans to find out their wish, but she became amnesiac and took the name of "Marie" (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

March 5

- Yukari, Fuuka, Kenji, Junpei, Rio, and Yuko graduated from Gekkoukan High School.

March ??

- Natsuki graduated from an unnamed high school.

April ??

- Naoto and Rise began to attend unnamed high schools.

- Naoki, Kanji, and Ayane began to attend Yasogami High School (Game: Persona 4).

- Due to a mistake, Adachi was dispatched to Inaba as Dojima's assistant (Game: Persona 4).

- Adachi shook a disguised Izanami's hand when he came to Inaba (Game: Persona 4).

April 9

- Mayumi left for Inaba and Adachi was assigned to protect her (Game: Persona 4).

- Namatame tried to contact Mayumi to apologize for the problems their affair brought her, but he was unable to reach her (Game: Persona 4).

April 10

- Namatame returned to Inaba and shook hands with a disguised Izanami, who told him about the Midnight Channel (Game: Persona 4).

- Namatame saw Mayumi in the Midnight Channel (Game: Persona 4).

April 11

- Namatame was hired by his family's company in Inaba after being fired from his job (Game: Persona 4).

- Yu arrived to Inaba, met Dojima, Nanako, and Marie, and shook hands with a disguised Izanami (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

- Adachi pushed Mayumi through a TV (Game: Persona 4).

April 12

- Yu transferred to Yasogami High School, met Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko (Game: Persona 4).

- Mayumi's body was found by Saki hanging from an antenna (Game: Persona 4).

April 13

- Saki appeared in the Midnight Channel (Game: Persona 4).

April 14

- Yu, Yosuke, and Chie entered the TV World for the first time and met Teddie (Game: Persona 4).

- Adachi pushed Saki through a TV (Game: Persona 4).

April 15

- Saki's body was found hanging from an antenna (Game: Persona 4).

- Yu awoke to his Persona (Game: Persona 4).

- Yosuke confronted his Shadow and awoke to his Persona as well (Game: Persona 4).

- When Namatame called the police, Adachi manipulated him into thinking he could save people by placing them in the TV World (Game: Persona 4).

April 16

- Namatame pushed Yukiko into a TV (Game: Persona 4).

April 17

- Chie confronted her Shadow and awoke to her Persona (Game: Persona 4).

April 27

- Yukiko confronted her Shadow and awoke to her Persona (Game: Persona 4).

April 30

- Yukiko joined the newly formed Investigation Team (Game: Persona 4).

- Sho began to secretly stalk the Investigation Team, hoping to find some hint that they would understand him (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

May 2

- Elizabeth won her annual fight against Erebus (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

May 16

- The Investigation Team met Naoto while investigating Kanji (Game: Persona 4).

May 17

- Namatane pushed Kanji inside a TV (Game: Persona 4).

May 25

- Kanji confronted his Shadow and awoke to his Persona (Game: Persona 4).

June 6

- Kanji joined the Investigation Team (Game: Persona 4).

June 22

- The Investigation Team met Rise while trying to warn her of her imminent danger (Game: Persona 4).

- Namatame pushed Rise into a TV (Game: Persona 4).

June 23

- The police arrested a wandering Risette fan, believing him to have something to do with the murders (Game: Persona 4).

July 1

- Rise and Teddie confronted their Shadows and awoke to their Personas (Game: Persona 4).

July 9

- Kubo killed Kinshiro Morooka and hung him from a water tower (Game: Persona 4).

July 10

- Rise joined the Investigation Team and developed a crush on Yu (Game: Persona 4).

July 27

- Kubo confessed to the murders out of nihilism and was arrested (Game: Persona 4).

- Adachi pushed Kubo into a TV out of sadism (Game: Persona 4).

July 29

- Kubo rejected his Shadow and was taken into police custody (Game: Persona 4).

September 9

- The Investigation Team drunkenly told Naoto about Personas, but they weren't believed (Game: Persona 4).

September 14

- Namatame pushed Naoto into a TV (Game: Persona 4).

September 17

- Naoto confronted her Shadow and awoke to her Persona (Game: Persona 4).

October 6

- Naoto joined the Investigation Team (Game: Persona 4).

October 20

- Adachi sent an anonymous threatening letter to Yu in an effort to make him drop the case (Game: Persona 4).

November 5

- Dojima found out the letter Yu had been sent and detained him. Yu tried to explain the truth but wasn't believed (Game: Persona 4).

- Namatame kidnapped Nanako and fled to the TV World (Game: Persona 4).

- Dojima ended up in the hospital after a car chase against Namatame (Game: Persona 4).

November 6

- The Investigation Team saved Nanako, but she was hospitalized due to the vibes of the TV World (Game: Persona 4).

- Namatame was arrested by the police (Game: Persona 4).

December 3

- The fog from the TV World began to slip into the physical world (Game: Persona 4).

- Nanako seemingly died in the hospital, and the Investigation Team went to Namatame's room to make sure Dojima didn't do anything (Game: Persona 4).

- Nanako stabilized again (Game: Persona 4).

- Teddie went missing (Game: Persona 4).

December 5

- The Investigation Team began to have suspicions that Adachi was the true culprit and went to confront him (Game: Persona 4).

- Adachi fled into the TV in Namatame's hospital room (Game: Persona 4).

December 6

- Teddie returned to the Investigation Team (Game: Persona 4).

December 7

- Adachi confessed to the murders and challenged the Investigation Team to defeat him (Game: Persona 4).

- Yu confronted Adachi later that night (Game: Persona 4).

December 22

- The Investigation Team defeated Adachi and the police arrested him (Game: Persona 4).

December 25

- Nanako finally recovered enough to return home (Game: Persona 4).

? ??

- Yukari pursued college with a modeling career on the side (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- Sae passed the bar exam while still in high school (Game: Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight).

BETWEEN 2011 AND 2012

March 5

- Hidetoshi and Kazushi graduated from Gekkoukan High School.

? ??

- Hidetoshi decided to become a teacher (Game: Persona 3).

BEFORE 2012

? ??

- Mitsuru founded the Security Department, Shadow Response Unit / Shadow Operatives. She was joined by Akihiko and Aigis. The rest of SEES stayed as Reserve Members (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Akihiko dropped out of college to travel the world, master his punch and become stronger (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Akihiko learned how to summon his Persona without an Evoker (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Yukari was hired as the Pink Argus for Phoenix Ranger Featherman Victory (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- Junpei became a little league coach (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

2012

January 3

- Marie said goodbye to Yu in a dream after her memories returned (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

January 20

- Dojima and Nanako were completely cleared out from the hospital (Game: Persona 4).

February 3

- Margaret managed to locate Marie (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

February 13

- The Investigation Team rescued Marie (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

March 5

- Chihiro graduated from Gekkoukan High School.

March 20

- The Investigation Team defeated Izanami (Game: Persona 4).

March 21

- Namatame was released from prison (Game: Persona 4).

- Yu left Inaba (Game: Persona 4).

March ??

- Rise left Inaba to return to her idol career (Game: Persona 4).

April ??

- Yu, Naoto, and Rise transferred to unnamed high schools.

- Ryuji met Ann (Game: Persona 5).

April 30

- Naoto was hired by public safety to spy on the Kirijo Group (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

May 1

- Labrys was stolen by Hi-no-Kagutsuchi and Sho while Mitsuru and Aigis were transporting her, and they went to Inaba to look for her (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Labrys ended in the TV World where her Shadow Self organized the P-1 Grand Prix, all so Hi-no-Kagutsuchi could absorb the Shadow Selves of Persona Users (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Rise, Kanji, and Teddie went missing (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Yu returned to Inaba (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

May 2

- Elizabeth won her annual fight against Erebus (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Mitsuru, Akihiko, and Aigis ventured to the TV Worls to find Labrys, followed by Naoto (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Yu, Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko returned to the TV World to fight in the P-1 Grand Prix against their wills (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- The Persona Users defeated Labrys' Shadow Self, who was accepted and became a Persona. They also saved their missing friends (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Hi-no-Kagutsuchi briefly took control over Labrys before being overridden by Fuuka (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

- Labrys joined the Shadow Operatives (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

May 3

- Inaba was engulfed in a red fog (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- The Shadow Operatives and Investigation Team battled in the P-1 Climax (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- Sho was possessed by Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, which was defeated by the Persona Users. Minazuki also disappeared for good (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- Sho managed to escape, vowing to one day kill Yu (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

- Ken left the Shadow Operatives to enjoy the rest of his childhood (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

May 5

- Yu left Inaba again (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

Between July and August

- Suguru Kamoshida participated in the Summer Olympics and won gold (Game: Persona 5).

September ??

- Rise recruited her friends to dance with her in the Love Meets Bonds Festival (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).

- Kanamin Kitchen, except Kanami, was kidnapped by Mikuratana-no-Kami to the Midnight Stage. Ochimizu was kidnapped as well (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).

- The Investigation Team saved Kanamin Kitchen and defeated Mikuratana-no-Kami, who returned them to the physical world (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).

December 16

- Yoshida lost his sixth elections.

- Owada won his ninth term as a legislator.

? ??

- Kanji began a puppet-making class (Game: Persona 4).

- Sayoko transferred out of the Inaba Municipal Hospital (Game: Persona 4).

- Marie, under the name Mariko Kusumi, became Inaba's weather girl while also being a minor goddess of Inaba (Game: Persona 4 Golden).

- Akihiko returned to college to become a police officer (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

BETWEEN 2012 AND 2014

March ??

- Hanako and Yumi graduated from Yasogami High School.

BETWEEN 2012 AND 2015

? ??

- Ryuji borrowed money from Ann during a school trip to buy his mother a gift and never paid her back (Game: Persona 5).

2013

March ??

- Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kou, Daisuke, and Ai graduated from Yasogami High School.

- Yu graduated from an unnamed high school.

May 2

- Elizabeth won her annual fight against Erebus (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

? ??

- Chie began to attend a police academy (Game: Persona 4).

- Sae and Makoto's father died while solving a case. Sae had to assume legal responsibility for Makoto (Game: Persona 5).

- Sae began to work as a prosecutor (Game: Persona 5).

- Kou left Japan to study overseas (Game: Persona 4).

BEFORE 2014

? ??

- Alice Hiiragi attended and graduated from Shujin Academy (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

2014

? ??

- Yaldabaoth took over the Velvet Room and separated Lavenza into Caroline and Justine (Game: Persona 5).

- Morgana was created by Igor at the last moment (Game: Persona 5).

February 3

March ??

- Rumi's parents were murdered during a home invasion and she fell into a catatonic depression (Game: Persona 5 Royal).

- Naoki, Kanji, and Ayane graduated from Yasogami High School.

- Naoto and Rise graduated from an unnamed high school.

April 6

- Makoto and Haru began to attend Shujin Academy (Game: Persona 5).

April 8

- Ken began to attend Gekkoukan High School (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).

April ??

- Akechi began to attend an unnamed high school.

May 2

August 21

- Elizabeth won her annual fight against Erebus (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

May 21

- Yaldabaoth granted Akechi his Persona abilities and put him in the path of Shido to begin the Conspiracy's activities (Game: Persona 5).

- Akechi began to plot against Shido to get his revenge (Game: Persona 5).

- Wakaba died due to a mental shutdown induced by Akechi in front of Futaba (Game: Persona 5).

- The Conspiracy forged a suicide note from Wakaba blaming Futaba, in order to steal her research (Game: Persona 5).

- Futaba began to be passed around by uncaring relatives (Game: Persona 5).

December 14

- Sojiro quit his government position and opened Leblanc (Game: Persona 5).

August 23

- Takuto Maruki awoke to his Persona, using it to purge Rumi of her trauma and her memories of Maruki (Game: Persona 5 Royal).

- Yoshida lost his seventh elections.

- Owada won his tenth term as a legislator and became the Chief Cabinet Secretary (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

? ??

- Naoki pursued college to later help his family business (Game: Persona 4).

- Ayane left Inaba to study music abroad (Game: Persona 4).

- Shido became a Cabinet Minister (Game: Persona 5).

BETWEEN 2014 AND 2016

- Maruki's research was suddenly rejected by his university due to Shido's machinations (Game: Persona 5 Royal).

? ??

- Hifumi began to attend Kosei High School (Game: Persona 5).

BEFORE 2015

? ??

- Ryuji's abusive father left the house forever (Game: Persona 5).

- Kamoshida got into a scandal with a female reporter, but his crime was covered. He retired from his position of leader of the japanese volleyball team (Game: Persona 5 Royal).

2015

February ??

- Mariko Hyodo was betrayed by her staff after they got a faulty snow sculpture to kill a nine-year-old girl, but she chose to keep it secret (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

March ??

- After graduating middle school, Futaba stopped going to school (Game: Persona 5).

April 6

- Kamoshida became the volleyball teacher at Shujin Academy (Game: Persona 5).

- Ann, Ryuji, Mishima, and Shiho began to attend Shujin Academy (Game: Persona 5).

April ??

- Yusuke began to attend Kosei High School (Game: Persona 5).

- Akira began to attend an unnamed high school.

May 2

- Elizabeth won her annual fight against Erebus (Game: Persona 4 Arena).

? ??

- Owada hit Aoi Hasegawa in a hit-and-run while drunk, witnessed by Akane (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

- Owada threatened Akane to stop Zenkichi's investigations (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

- An anime that served as part of Ango Natsume's "inspiration" began airing (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

BEFORE 2016

? ??

- Futaba was adopted by Sojiro by paying her uncle the better part of Futaba's inheritance to leave her alone (Game: Persona 5).

- Yukiko became the proprietess of the Amagi Inn (Game: Persona 5).

- Kamoshida goaded Ryuji into attacking him and broke his leg, all to disband the track team (Game: Persona 5).

[shake-la-la-la]

(Slightly late) Happy Birthday to Mayumi Dojima 💜

[ribbonspice]

May your sins follow you to the grave and beyond.

For my pinned and 4,000th post, I will introduce myself. My name is Elaine Huang, or Ribbonspice if you prefer. I love reading and writing fanfictions, listening to music and surfing the Internet. I'm also demiromantic and pansexual, and I have anxiety, depression, OCD, autism and ADHD. I also have two sideblogs called @demipan-determinator and @the-stolen-solidarity, so feel free to check those out!

For starters, I must make it abundantly clear that I support Palestine. Zionists will be blocked on sight. Here are some useful links that you can check out if you want to support Palestine.

Now, I usually don't care what labels LGBTQIA+ people use as long as they aren't harmful. For example, neopronouns and xenogenders are fine in my book. However, there are some labels that are harmful, such as mspec and straight lesbians/gays, lesboys/turigirls and gaybians. I think this Carrd goes over all these labels very well. It also provides some alternative labels you can use, and there are some other Carrds at the end like it.

If you want to know how I feel about transid people, it's very simple. Terms like transabled and transracial are extremely offensive to disabled people and people of color. Transspecies and transage have been used by zoophiles and pedophiles to justify their attractions. Gender is mental, and therefore can be changed. This is not the case for age or race.

As for non-traumagenic systems, I'm going to keep this as short as possible, since I myself do not have DID. I am against endogenic systems and tulpas for many reasons. This Carrd debunks endogenic systems very well in my opinion. Regarding tulpas, here is a Google Doc in which Buddhist, Asian and Tibetan people have spoken out against tulpamancy, due to tulpas being a closed Buddhist practice.

In regards to proshippers…oh, boy. There are many reasons why proshippers are so harmful, but if I tried to address them all here, it would take too long. This Google Doc is perhaps the best source of information about why proshippers are bad.

I'm neutral on paraphilias unless they actively harm others. Paraphilias like pedophilia, zoophilia and necrophilia are examples of harmful paraphilias. People with these conditions should be seeking treatment.

What about transandrophobia and people who believe in it? I think this should be simple. The term transandrophobia was coined by a man with a fetish for correctively raping lesbians and many of the people who believe in it are transmisogynistic and lesbophobic. I think that should be enough of a reason as to why I don't support people who use it.

I have some lists of my fandoms, favorite characters and ships under the cut. You can also find my other accounts here.

My fandoms:

Houseki no Kuni

Bishounen Tanteidan

Lycoris Recoil

The Quintessential Quintuplets

Tonikaku Kawaii

Oshi no Ko

Stardust Telepath

Blue Archive

Pokémon

Pressure

Friday Night Funkin'

Clinic of Horrors

High Class Homos

Bearers of Light and Shadows

Lackadaisy

Murder Drones

The Amazing Digital Circus

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Fundamental Paper Education

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Vintage Eight

Lacey's Flash Games

SCP Foundation

The Magnus Archives

The Hunger Games

The Outsiders

One of Us Is Lying

LoliRock

Disney

My favorite characters: Oh, boy, where to start?

The Collector (The Owl House)

Hunter (The Owl House)

Asmodeus (Helluva Boss)

Collin (Helluva Boss)

Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)

Emily (Hazbin Hotel)

Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto)

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Bianca Abercrombie (Clinic of Horrors)

Dr. Charlie Albright (Clinic of Horrors)

Lunarella Nocturne (High Class Homos)

Mordecai Heller (Lackadaisy)

Rocky Rickaby (Lackadaisy)

James Ironwood (RWBY)

Mercury Black (RWBY)

Several SCPs (SCP Foundation)

Varian (Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure)

Antarcticite (Houseki no Kuni)

Mayumi Dojima (Bishounen Tanteidan)

Michiru Fukuroi (Bishounen Tanteidan)

Dallas Winston (The Outsiders)

Johnny Cade (The Outsiders)

Chisato Nishikigi (Lycoris Recoil)

Takina Inoue (Lycoris Recoil)

Umika Konohoshi (Stardust Telepath)

Shiroko Sunaookami (Blue Archive)

Saori Joumae (Blue Archive)

Yukino Shichido (Blue Archive)

Tiara (Fairy Fencer F)

N (Murder Drones)

Uzi Doorman (Murder Drones)

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Adelard Dekker (The Magnus Archives)

Tony the Talking Clock (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

Paige the Sketchbook (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

Kaufmo (The Amazing Digital Circus)

A.C. Void (Friday Night Funkin': Vs. Void)

Tabi (Friday Night Funkin': Vs. Tabi)

Lillibeth (Friday Night Funkin': Secret Garden)

Fiorenzo (Friday Night Funkin': Secret Garden)

Gale Hawthorne (The Hunger Games)

Nate Macauley (One of Us Is Lying)

Oracle (Vintage Eight)

Mephisto (LoliRock)

Mister Demi (Fundamental Paper Education)

Sebastian Solace (Pressure)

Painter (Pressure)

My ships are as follows:

Corrosive Plague (SCP-035/SCP-049)

Phantom Forest (SCP-3017/SCP-4494)

Cynical Companions (SCP-079/SCP-682)

Lonely Lovers (SCP-451/SCP-1504)

Fizzarozzie (Asmodeus/Fizzarolli)

M%M (Moxxie/Millie)

Radiostatic (Vox/Alastor)

Chaggie (Charlie Morningstar/Vaggie)

MadMaid (Baxter/Niffty)

GuitarSpear (Adam/Lute)

Zestmilla (Zestial/Carmilla Carmine)

Chisataki (Chisato Nishikigi/Takina Inoue)

Yuumika (Yū Akeuchi/Umika Konohoshi)

Harutaki (Haruno Takaragi/Matataki Raimon)

Michiyumi (Fukuroi Michiru/Doujima Mayumi)

Yubikaga (Ashikaga Hyouta/Yubiwa Sousaku)

Jally (Dallas Winston/Johnny Cade)

Hellerby (Mordecai Heller/Rocky Rickaby)

ZibWick (Dorian "Zib" Zibowski/Sedgewick "Wick" Sable)

Nuzi (N/Uzi Doorman)

Saphette (Sapphia/Odette)

PerciGust (August/Percival)

Lucarla (Lucas/Marla)

JuleRose (Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant)

Marcaniel (Marc Anciel/Nathaniel Kurtzberg)

Padlock (Tony the Talking Clock/Paige the Sketchbook)

CollectKing (The Collector/King)

Lumity (Luz Noceda/Amity Blight)

Huntlow (Hunter/Willow Park)

Gustholomule (Gus Porter/Mattholomule)

Raeda (Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers)

Abstragedy (Gangle/Zooble)

Kingleader (Caine/Kinger)

MeanJokes (Jax/Kaufmo)

JesterDoll (Pomni/Ragatha)

JellyJester (Gummigoo/Pomni)

Showtime (Caine/Pomni)

Daisira (Daisy Tonner/Basira Hussain)

JonMartin (Jonathan Sims/Martin Blackwood)

FairyFlower (Lillibeth/Fiorenzo)

GoldenRose (Aureo/Rosamie)

BlueVirus (Virus R/Acesora)

SkullWitch (Tabi/Lunarella Nocturne)

Everlark (Peeta Mellark/Katniss Everdeen)

PlinthBaird (Sejanus Plinth/Lucy Gray Baird)

Oracarl (Oracle/Carl Stevens)

Provers (Prophet/Joseph Rivers)

Krisper (Kris/Cooper Clay)

Natewyn (Nate Macauley/Bronwyn Rojas)

Enclaire (Claire/Engel)

Lanabbie (Abbie/Lana)

Olice (Alice/Oliver)

Demisasha (Mister Demi/Miss Sasha)

Zipward (Zip/Edward)

[superchat]

"'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' So said the French philosopher Voltaire. After making his opposition clear, he declares he has absolutely no intent to debate, or even take a seat at the debate table. A true example of 'do not kill, but do not let live.' My opinion was also crushed in that manner. No, it wasn't an opinion. Perhaps I should call it a dream. That's why this is the story of how I, Mayumi Dojima, gave up on my dream. But I'm sure that boy, that pretty boy would say this. 'Following one's dream is beautiful. But giving up on it is similarily beautiful. However, only when you give up on it yourself.' Really, that pretty boy says handsome things, if nothing else. Finally, to Voltaire's perfect maxim, as arrogant as it may sound, I would like to add one caveat. You can't defend anything if you're dead."

[stingslikeabee]

His message was passed through the usual discreet channels ( primarily, a folded note in the fingers of a crafty blonde ). It was simple : a request to meet at their usual place, the old house no one ever went to, that Friday evening.

Daigo was waiting for her when the time came. He looked rather striking in his dark suit as he pathed around the bedroom with a cigarette between his teeth. At the sound of her footsteps on the stairs, Daigo grinned, all teeth and joy. Quickly, he extinguished his small guilty pleasure in an ash tray.

The handsome scoundrel greeted her first with a kiss. He couldn't help himself. Embracing Melissa returned a fire to his belly that he had long thought killed after he married his wife. While he held great affection for Mayumi, he felt no real love for her. Not like this wild, unrestrained thing that overtook him every time he drank in the sight of Melissa Crawford or touched her flawless skin.

"I have something to tell you," Daigo murmured, hands gently holding his beautiful mistress by the hips. "I will not be returning home at the end of the month, as it was planned. Shun and Guinevere . . . Guinevere is expecting. They are going to stay until the baby is born ; they are afraid the trip back would be too hard for her and the child. I have already said I would linger with them."

Daigo sighed. "For us, Melissa. We can continue to do this until the fall." His black eyes glittered with his excitement at that.

unscripted asks . always accepting

The last couple of weeks had been complicated for Melissa, to say the least. The woman was sure that at least the maid suspected of something being amiss - the brunette was not too great at hiding her emotions, bad or good ones. Life with Jonathan was... Bland. A show of politeness, respect and civility, but boring. Tedious, really, to the point that Melissa felt as if she suffocated.

But then, there had been Daigo Dojima - and it was as if life had suddenly been painted with bright colors, as if some sort of fire had been alight in her eyes and the laughter flowed freely again. It wasn't too difficult to realize that it couldn't have been linked to her husband - not when Jonathan's routine had not changed for a split second, still devoted to the well-being of the local citizens as ever and providing for his home as well as he was able.

And yet, the more numerous the hours that councilman Crawford spent at his office, the happier his wife appeared to be; with a life of her own away from the home, even if her excuses were decently elaborated and the politician seemed pleased that she was in good spirits.

The charitable efforts that Melissa supervised at certain parts of the town were real - and good cover. The home where she met with Daigo had been located in the right area of the city for that to work rather flawlessly and for most people to be used to seeing her there, alone (councilman Crawford was always busy, after all). If people suspected of the Japanese immigrant being there, she didn't know - frankly, Melissa didn't care.

And it showed in how fast she was to respond to the kiss pressed to her lips - hugging her lover as if her life depended on it and as if he was the source of the air that had liberated the brunette from the suffocation of a dull and colorless existence. Even the foul mood of the last days had been wiped away - after all, Melissa knew she was so close to losing Daigo; to losing the one man she truly loved.

But, as he unveiled the news, her honeyed eyes blinked with surprise - a baby? Was her newest friend (and ally) pregnant and this was how she found out? But the minor disappointment in not being told outright by Guinevere was vastly outweighed by the news that Daigo was not leaving - not now, at least; not within the foreseeable future so they could remain together.

An affair that should have been ended eons ago, but which neither of them seemed capable to pull away from. No doubt the blonde had guessed that Melissa would be more pleased to know that her secret relationship would survive for a few more months than the idea she was to be a surrogate aunt to her child - and the councilman's wife would need to thank Guinevere later for that.

"I came here prepared for goodbye," she said eventually, smiling up at him, "I thought I was losing you forever," the woman laughed softly, but clearly overjoyed with the news. Her petite arms brought the former criminal back down, enlacing him by the neck and pulling Daigo for another kiss, but one that was longer and hungrier than the welcoming one. Melissa then tugged at him, the motions a signal for a practiced move - and soon enough the man moved to capture her effortlessly in his arms, somehow not interrupting the kiss during the entire thing.

He walked through the familiar room to deposit Melissa on the bed, kneeling over the mattress and joining her soon as he loomed over the feminine figure. Melissa breathed deeply, cheeks flushed and hair splayed all under her head. Well, it was a good thing the room had long been equipped with personal items and toiletries, because they'd both need it later.

"I will take each and every single minute with you, Daigo," she murmured to the Japanese man, running the knuckles of her right hand over his face with impossible tenderness and feeling lost in his eyes - the twin pools of darkness that seemed eager to swallow her whole but which contained just the right light. Like stars in the sky above, Melissa could watch his dark and beautiful gaze forever and the way it shifted when she was around.

"Make love to me, Daigo, please. I need you now," she made room for him, and they both shifted around the mattress in a dance they had long mastered, "I'll need you every single day until fall, my love."

[adachimoe]

Not-so-masterpost list because tumblr's tagging and search sucks ass

As the title says lol

A Series of Posts About Adachi's Role in the Plot of Persona 4 and How It Has Been Misunderstood for 15+ Years

What the bad endings teach us about Adachi

Adachi's fixation on Mayumi Yamano

Adachi is the person in the fog who shows up in the shopping district

Adachi's imaginary dick waving contest with Namatame

In which I try to deduce if Adachi watched the Midnight Channel based on whether Dojima was home or not

Adachi Stuff / Ramblings

Adachi and School

Adachi and the Japanese Economy (lol)

Remember that part in April where Adachi tries to frame Yukiko?

Adachi was not actually assigned to guard Mayumi Yamano, was he?

The 3rd P4 Audio Drama

"Tiger mom"

Yu Narukami's Effort Just Gets Him Called A Dumbass

Was JYB really intentionally cast as both the protag and Adachi?

Was that actually Adachi in Persona 5?

?? Adachi went to a NYE party ??

How Bayside Shakedown inspired Adachi's character

Adachi's overseas transfer

Was Adachi's first choice even police officer?

The contrast between Adachi and Namatame

Adachi's relationship with the Dojima family and why Adachi sent the 2nd threat letter

Adachi and the Investigation Team

Things You Can Miss In-Game

Adachi and Cabbage

Adachi did not facilitate Rise's kidnapping

Nanako reveals Adachi hates bugs lol

Localization and Translation Related Topics

Yuka Someya Loved the Stage Play

Izanami saying that Adachi's power was tainted by "magatsu"

Clarifying what Adachi says in P4U2 about his sentencing

Adachi calling Izanami a bitch and how this relates to Sho

Adachi was not trying to remind you of Yosuke

This World Has Gone to Shit

That time Adachi pretended to be Dojima's wife

"Putting It In" and "That Settles It"

Adachy-baby

Setting and Word of God-esque Stuff

Adachi's Persona Club P4 profile (sorry but he's been 176cm since 2009... It was the anime that got it wrong when they made him 173cm...)

Adachi Q&A from Persona Stalker Club

No, Atlus did not say that the culprit was originally Dojima

Yes, Atlus did consider Yukiko and Yosuke to be the culprit

About Adachi's Social Link

Bayside Shakedown as an Inspiration for Adachi

Arcsys and Atlus on the development behind Episode Adachi

Arcsys made Adachi easy to play because his fans are girls

Full translation of Katsura Hashino's Persona Club P4 Interview

It's the Adachi Ending, not the Accomplice Ending

The P4 Anime Staff on Adachi's Cabbage and Ai Bullying Adachi

Random stuff in Persona Club P4

Posts About Not-Adachi

Yu Narukami's catchphrase is "Calm down"

Yukiko, before and after the TV World

Yukiko as a vehicle for slapstick humor

The Mudoon Curry

Is Namatame from Inaba?

Why is Witch Detective a parody of Twilight?