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[titanomachias]

Labrys ,':^)

GIVE ME A CHARACTER and i’ll tell you:

how i feel about them

labrys... my scrunkly my scrimblo my mipy... my robot daughter who deserves only good things. i cried a grand total of three times during my first playthrough of persona 4 arena, and i am historically a very difficult person to make cry so that was a really big "wow this game has made me worse!" moment. but in a good way, perhaps! 

i think she’s criminally underrated, has an excellent design and backstory and a personality that is both very endearing and incredibly interesting to dig into. i love her a whole bunch, there's no other way to say it. Shoutout to her for being my p4u main and carrying me in every match against austin (except perhaps when he plays junpei, for then i am royally fucked).

this got long so more under the cut

all the people i ship romantically with this character

@chadnyarukami had kind of a big brain moment in suggesting labrys/marie, which i think... really works actually. oh, you have a minor hangup about not being human and trying to fit in among a sea of normal human people??? get you a girlfriend who is also Not Human! jock robot gf vs goth goddess gf

i don't want to split up yukichie, but i think either of them would be really cute too, judging by how sweet their p4u routes were. and the yukibrys dialogue in blazblue cross tag battle... my god.

(if you haven't noticed yet i am gay)

my non-romantic OTP for this character

non-romantic otp... so basically a best friend? a bro, even...? that’s what this is asking, right? okay. 

i'm going to go slightly offpiste for this one and suggest ken amada. not only is he my other scrunkly (and he’s the other guy i keep writing essay-length posts about on discord), but i think their tentative friendship is really cute and has a lot of potential. for example: ken geeking out over how cool labrys' axe is, plus that moment in the yasogami halls where ken worries about being a normal kid and labrys asks him if it's hard to do............................................. there's Potential there okay!!!!! while i think labrys getting to attend yasogami post-p4u2 is sweet, i'm also fond of the idea of mitsuru scoring her a place at gekkoukan (familiar territory and all that, plus if AIGIS can survive two years of gekkoukan high then labrys should breeze through it no problem) and ken and labrys being supercompetitive about normal student things

tl;dr kids who have known woeful amounts of grief and rage getting to be normal kids = 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

my unpopular opinion about this character

i'm not sure i have one...? i guess the closest thing i have to an 'unpopular opinion' (although i know it's shared by at least a few people) is that i'm not a huge fan of seeing her shipped with dudes. no shade if you do that, but from my perspective that robot is a lesbian.

one thing i wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

i wish we got a little bit more from her epilogue in p4u2. it was an incredibly touching scene, but where everyone else's hinted towards their futures (fuuka choosing to stay in japan in case the shadow operatives need her again, mitsuru being hounded by public security, ken handing his badge over to mitsuru for safekeeping) we didn't exactly get a sense of where labrys would go next, beyond just joining the shadow ops.

i think she should’ve gotten (and mitsuru would’ve been willing to accommodate) her own taste of what a normal life is like, before joining the shadow ops fulltime. like aigis did, when she spent her senior year at gekkoukan rooming with yukari. it was an incredibly human thing to have experienced. i think the universe owes labrys at least a little bit of that, too.