Naoto has so many missed opportunities for interacting with other characters in PQ and PQ2 it makes me cry. The most missed opportunity is Ken and Naoto interacting
They both try to act more mature than their age and have complexes about it, they both have childish interests that they try to hide, like Ken has a unison attack in q2 with some of the PTs cause he think the PT are really cool. Naoto has also shown to be a fan of the Phantom Thief trope (cause believe it or not, p5 did not event phantom thieves, the trope has been around for a while). I see a lot of people point to Naoto’s SL with the phantom thief letter and are like “FORSHADOWING????” and more than half the time it’s not ironic. The author of Case Closed/Detective Conan did a manga called Magic Kaito/Phantom Thief Kaito before Conan, which no doubt is something Naoto would be into. Naoto also gets really excited about the code names the PT have. Ken and Naoto have so much in common from their complexes to their interests it truly is a crime we didn’t see more of them interacting.
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i am mainlining this shit like coke what can i even say, i love a good mirror ANYWAY
Sumire literally begging you to leave her to this fate is agony. This is so much and it's awesome. I felt so goddamn uncomfortable with this traumatized girl sobbing and asking Reverie/Me to just let her fix her pain.
I love when games make be feel like garbage but in an earned way! I have literally been cogitating on the Phantom Thieves and how they alter people's mind for the ENTIRE game! Bring it back in the endgame armed with some teeth! Good!
I actively like that the game is wrestling with this. Like, the Bad End, right? How different are Maruki's methods than the Thieves? Shiho's attempted suicide finally incentized me to roll with the entire idea of stealing Kamoshida's heart, but as evidenced by my unrelenting and endless bitching about Ryuji and Mishima and the Phansite, I never bought into the idea that the Thieves were justified by default.
I love to have all that shit thrown back in my face. Delicious.
HILARIOUSLY I WAS RIGHT, SUMIRE COMES DOWN TO FIGHT US AND DEFEND HER RIGHT TO HAVE MARUKI RE-RIG HER BRAIN.
Akechi: "I mean, I could stay and kill her but then you'd me, like, mad at me and frankly I am too tired of this shit to deal with your pouty face too, so you can fight her solo. I'll stand over here looking smug."
Akechi is a gift.
I have some absolutely batshit bonkers personae at this point and start every fight with all three stat categories boosted, so this wasn't even a fight.
Maruki watches all this and when Sumire starts begging for it all to stop, he comes down to join us.
I could put, uh, 15 screencaps in here but here is a timestamp, you GOTTA see this fucking sequence. Should start at 2:48
okay yeah Maruki is a better villain than Adachi, we are there.
Getting upset at Sumire's pain and so using his fucking weird-ass power to tear the Persona out of her heart and ask it to fight to defend her, I.... holy shit. Holy shit?
SO YOU WANNA FREE SUMIRE FROM THE DELUSION THAT SHE IS HER SISTER? THEN FIGHT HER PERSONA AS IT RAGES AT YOU AND SCREAMS FOR YOU TO LEAVE HER ALONE.
this! this! this is better than the base game! where was this writing the entire game! fuck!
Finally, the gang shows up, all carrying starbucks, and are here to help pacify the blackout rage of Sumire.
Morgana, I love you. Have I mentioned I love Morgana?
This entire game is about a boy and his cat in my heart.
honestly even if I'm cold on Sumire, the Cinderella motif is awesome.
WHAT A FUCKING SHOT! CINNAMON TOPOGRAPHY!
Also through this entire sequence, the whole thing while everyone talks, Maruki never raises his voice, his composure never cracks, his resolution never breaks.
He's even like "okay. come at me." but he wants to talk first. He wants everyone to live in this world until February 3rd, when he will show up to talk this through. And then, if it comes to a fight, they can all fight.
Everyone catches up outside the Palace and decides its time to head home and they'll talk tomorrow, because Oof there's a Lot to think about.
Back at the cafe, things are back to normal for Futaba and Sojiro. Wakaba is gone.
That's the part that really throws a wrench into the ethics for me. Maruki is able to undo the murders of good people, and by resetting everything, they are dead again. The implications of this are a lot. He absolutely should not have the power to restore life like this, but he does and already has.
It makes it all the more interesting that Akechi is here. Because logically, it feels like if you somehow deleted him from the timeline, it would undo the deaths of Wakaba and Okumura. And yet, he's still here.
My theory that Akechi is here because of Reverie's desire is gaining more traction.
Thank god there is a fun moment of levity here int he flashback where Morgana does his usually I Am Not A Cat from pure instinct but then is like oh wait i am a cat lmao nvmd. It's a good chuckle.
Futaba goes home to presumably cry into Sojiro's chest as he awkwardly pats her head and tries to figure out what the fuck is wrong. Just gutting.
Also she confirms that she lowkey knew the whole time something was wrong but ignored it. Oh, Futaba. I'm so sorry.
SCREAM LAUGHING.
ugh yeah OBVIOUSLY i was hot as a human, have you MET me? idiot. moron. dumbass.
i love morgana the most, have i mentioned. just for real, imagine your cat looking in the mirror and going "man if I were a human I would get so much action, it's unreal," with absolute confidence.
that's comedy.
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TS expresses multiple times that Aesfrost explicitly did not loot pillage and plunder Glenbrook or slaughter civilians when they invaded. The heroes caused more destruction taking Whiteholm back than Gustadolph did when he conquered it. Hyzante's problem isn't "religion bad" the religion itself was corrupted by Idore.
Do you have a website akin the the FE Datamine for the TS script ?
I remember how Whiteholm being relatively "unharmed" being a major point in the Roland routes, the Whiteholm peeps don't see anything wrong with Aesfrost' rule because Aesfrost (Gustadolph) specifically made sure that all exactions wouldn't be made in the main city ? But I can't remember the chapter...
However, several character supports (or stories? I don't remember how it was called) like iirc Flannagan, Avlora, Medina and Cordelia's were pretty revealing about what was happening in Glenbrook -in Flanagan's chapter iirc some Aesfrosti are pillaging for funsies, Medina has to heal an Aesfrosti soldier and meets opposition, Cordelia receives her share of flak and Avlora is hated by randoms because of what her army did.
Hyzante's religion is as consistent as swiss cheese, but iirc it thrives on enslaving Rosellians to hide the secret that salt didn't come from the goddess but they just happened to find some salted lake in the desert and hide the existence of rock salt to keep their monopoly. And that nonsense existed before Idore became the head honcho with his mechanical doll!
EDIT : someone compiled the script on the wiki!
Pariatte, out of anyone, notices how Gustadolph didn't attack the city of Whiteholm, but only focused on the castle so he wouldn't lose a lot of "popular support" from people who matter, aka not the peasants from Falkes, but the randoms in Whiteholm.
And as expected from the ones who aren't subjected to the worst of Aesfrosti occupation, Whiteholm people don't think Aesfrost's occupation is "that bad after all".
Heck, even Patriatte expected better of them lol
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