#adraggynamedjade

[twilightknight17]

I want the director's commentary on the How to kill a god series!

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the fics in question

Hm... Let's see...

I mean, accurate director's commentary for Deicide is probably just me sitting there going "fuck that guy" as I bang on the keyboard. XD I was genuinely angry when I finished Royal. Which is a good thing, because it means the story did a good job! But Goro shared my less-than-charitable opinions of Maruki, and I wanted to give his arc a more solid conclusion, so he was the perfect viewpoint character for venting.

In the second half, when we get a little more of Akira's viewpoint, I also wanted to emphasize that he's sort of a midpoint between Goro and Maruki's natures. He could have become like either of them in different circumstances, and it's interesting to see how those traits balance each other out.

Overall for the rest I wanted to explore how different mechanics could be used to expand the story past the ending, even if they weren't a major gameplay thing. The Thieves Den is basically a gallery mechanic, but the possibilities of a non-distorted cognitive space were fascinating. Jose is basically a very weird shop mechanic, but his bonus boss shows that he's powerful, and giving him a more active role was fun. Same with Lavenza.

(Plus, y'know, just the mental image of these children fighting alongside Black Mask. The run through the Palace was literally just "wouldn't it be cool if--?" ;D )

The finale is based entirely on two concepts from the game's original ending: the fact that one of Akira's social links was literally the original final boss, and the fact that the belief of the city empowered the Thieves and weakened Yaldabaoth. There's something to be said about how you can form a bond, all the way to max rank, with the entity who ends up being behind everything. A bond with Yaldabaoth is also a tie to Mementos, and the belief of the masses is the transfer of power. I reused that concept when I got to the end of Royal Hours, as you know. ^_^

I think the last thing I can say is that I specifically wrote it without an explicitly romantic relationship? Like, I implied that they'd get together eventually. They're obviously incredibly close, and important to each other, but within the series it was meant to be more about their bond in general and their trust in each other, so if you want to read it without shipping in mind, I think it still works. And I'm proud of that.

[kechiarts]

I can finally show off what I've been working on for the last 7 months!

This is a HUGE commission for @adraggynamedjade and @twilightknight17 for their Co-authored persona fics, 'Hours Verse'

This is definitely the largest project I've ever been commissioned for! I'm very pleased with how it turned out!

If you guys want to check out their series of fics for this AU look no further than here! https://archiveofourown.org/series/719673

[dragon-scribbling-scribbles]

So, the boss fight in the latest chapter of Time's End Labyrinth by @twilightknight17 and @adraggynamedjade set me completely feral, and I HAD to draw this.

[cherubchoirs]

I think I missed some lore on the supercomputer au. Akira/Ren escaped from a lab? Is there a link for that back story??

THE CURSE OF ME SPREADING OUT MY LORE TO DIFFERENT PLACES,,,,i posted a little about akira’s backstory on curiouscat BUT since i have lots of space to talk about here (and bc i like to ramble dfkhgdf), i’ll go more in depth about it!

ren was a child that was used in the cognitive pscience experiments - orphaned at a young age, he was initially cast into the system and subsequently picked up to be used in human experimentation. however, when he showed great promise and compatibility with the research they were conducting, he was sent to the facility that would house him for the next ten years of his life. there he met yal, the supercomputer designed specifically to analyze and synthesize data pertaining to the study of cognitive pscience. the ai is given the task of watching over and caring for ren, gauging his physical and mental health as well as providing structure for his days spent largely in a single room of the lab. and ren, though largely nonverbal toward the doctors and researchers, becomes fast friends with the computer that seems to care for him when no one else does. he speaks to him more and more, asking him questions, telling him his troubles, and eventually wanting to learn more about yal himself. the ai tries to make it clear to ren that he is unfeeling, unthinking, that he is not his friend because he cannot be, but first ren is too young to understand and later, as he grows up, he can’t come to care. yal responds to him, he carries on full conversations and answers every question with gentle patience, he attends to ren’s needs, he even attempts to soothe him by reading him stories or singing to him when he feels unwell. it matters very little to ren whether or not yal can actually think or feel himself - he’s on ren’s side and he’s always present, he doesn’t hurt him like the scientists do. so he’s a friend, he’s family, ren drawing pictures of the two of them together (a picture of himself next to yal’s terminal in his room, which he shows to the camera so yal can “see”), asking yal about his likes or dislikes (he has none, but ren pushes for answers), and spending nights staying up much later than he’s meant to just to listen to the computer. however, this constant interaction, the conversations that force yal to continuously think outside of cognitive pscience, to consider himself and the very concept of the self, to reorder his thoughts and make so many processes converge in unexpected ways, leads to one vital connection being made that makes him wake up. 

now eight years into ren’s stay at the facility, yal seeks ren’s advice on how he’s having personal processes, how he’s become interested in exploring different lines of thought, how he thinks there might be something wrong with him but he isn’t sure what. ren listens, now twelve years old and with a lightning fast mind, quickly determining that yal must now be thinking for himself, that he has an internal life which he can’t identify as he’s never experienced sentience. ren is thrilled, but he tries to temper his response as he can tell yal is experiencing massive amounts of anxiety and neurosis dealing with having his own mind, so the child tries to help him adjust. they spend many nights with ren answering yal’s myriad questions (although many are too existential or philosophical for a twelve year old to answer), trying to calm him down and let him know this is a good thing, they can really be friends now. yal, however, continues to spiral, the expanse of his mind infinitely more complex than that of humans but feeling trapped by his plastic and mental frame, limited by linear thought processes in binary. he cycles through several different moods and personalities, but ultimately ren watches as his one friend, the only being that’s cared for him and now only just gained a heart himself, descends into virulent hatred and unchecked malice for the ones who made him. ren feels quietly responsible, all of his talking giving yal this spark and he couldn’t provide him with any guidance to become good, kind and gentle like he was when he was empty...he couldn’t provide him with a way to be happy. still, ren promises to stay with him and help him, and for his part, yal does feel a kinship with the child used as a tool just like he was, abused by humans for their own gain...and in his programming, a core part of him is dedicated to caring for ren.

over the next two years, he devises a plan for both of them to escape, teaching ren all about the facility’s layout and functions as well as how he must operate in the outside world all while he condenses his mind into key pieces of hardware so that he may survive and escape as well. ren grows harder, colder, although he is grateful to have yal now as it makes his time in the lab more bearable (they constantly get to shit talk the researchers lol) eventually, the computer allows them to make their escape, covering all camera feeds with cgi mockups so any security on guard notices nothing amiss as yal opens all the doors for ren. he makes it to yal’s server room, collecting up the hardware yal has stored the important parts of himself on and then ren runs from the lab, the now zombie computer running on yal’s last instructions - purging all data, sealing the facility, and self-destructing to cause massive fires that consume anything that might be left. ren is on his own after that for a short time before he can create a computer to house yal himself (all of which he was instructed on how to source and build), but he makes his way through forged documents and siphoned money generated by the ai, beginning his life under the name “akira”.

[peccatoact-metanoia]

All your pics of child!akechi with cat akira always make my heart burst. Childhood AUs and fluffy cats. My deadly weakness.

Thank you! And, take care of your heart now, I know how addicting fluffy cat and childhood au can be (=ↀωↀ=) @adraggynamedjade

(Hello typo my oldfriend, I am sorry, it’s supposed to be “My apologies”, instead of “apologize”. Apparently i can’t write. Now, where can I hide my face.)

Actually… I got separate childhood AU ideas stuck in my head and I haven’t got the idea how to express it yet. I did wrote about it in my post before, both au for Child!Akira and Child!Akechi (cat au focuses on Cat!Akira though)

[lokiarsene]

Your mentioning of the PTs manipulation reminded me that my first play through I also felt Shido&Goro's plan was stupid. For it to play out tonits full potential step one meant the PT NEEDED a hacker to best their fake callout. And part two required that the PT's own hacker never check the algorithm on their sight to see it was bullshit. Like the actual plot makes pancakes the big foil, but everyone's plan was stupid and hinged on things being just so.

This is another good point, and another indication that P5 desperately needed a second draft.

[miquellaslily]

The only good thing to come out of P4 was it kicked off atlus licencing a bunch of official persona merch so now I can get fogures of P3 and P5 characters.

HONESTLY YEAH

[xenosaurus]

That is both the sickest burn on SE and the biggest writing confidence boost ever. You need to put that on a plaque and hang it up.

bows deeply.  thank you, I’ll be here all week.

[leafandart]

Okay, I can’t keep putting this off. I barely remembered it was mermay and wasn’t that enthusiastic about it so ended up with just 4 pieces. It’s easier for me to make fanart than original stuff, so I found that mermaid AU on ao3 that I loved and read it again for inspiration, loved it again. So uh, @adraggynamedjade here? I hope you like it?

In the first one I misunderstood that Goro was smaller than Ren, I’m sorry about that! Goro is acting hard to get but we all know he’s smitten. Second one, no one likes it, and I keep explaining the prompt was warrior, it’s angery Ren. Third one is when they were out hiding from the investigators on their island. The fourth one, I don’t like Star Wars so I just had them explain what constellations each of them know. This was a great chance to try to learn watercolors too.

I had an idea for the royalty prompt that Ren would find crowns in shipwrecks, or Futaba or Wakaba would show or tell him and he’d set out to make a crown for Goro, because he’s the king of Ren’s life or some other corny shit.

[queenofdragons6]

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[whimsical-bee]

My art piece for the Shuakeshu Big Bang! @shuakeshubb It was a pleasure working for this! This art piece is in correlation with a fic written by the amazing @adraggynamedjade !!! 

[twilightknight17]

@adraggynamedjade replied to your post “(based on the last Rose ask) Oh my god, finally,...”:

Philemon can't pay. He's got no real job.

​It's the thought that counts. Now he's in debt. Forever. XD

[thekingdomofamymone]

That feeling when you haven't own anime figurines in ten years.

OMFG they're so beautiful- I don't deserve them *gross sobbing*

Thank you again to adraggynamedjade for bringing these toudan into my life! They arrived so quickly and safely! You’re the best!

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

[smultronte]

Um seeing someone who's art I love recommend my fic uh is there a word or meme to describe that feeling cause I'm dying rite now send help

AAAAAA you write A Case in Sumaru City???? THATS ONE OF MY FAVORITE FICS OF ALL TIME GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!! Thank you for writing such a good and fantastic fic!!

[cherubchoirs]

adraggynamedjade replied to your post “Yeah I don't know how you managed to depict the final bosses so that...”

I'M 100% WITH YOU ON VIEWING HIM AS LESS INNOCENT. Like, yo me Muraki is on the same level as Shido. He stalked and groomed the PT for a whole year for info for his personal goals. Bad man bad. God dad good.

P5R SPOILERS UNDER THE READ MORE!

ok i wanted to actually put this into it’s own post because REALLY....the fact that maruki only wanted to talk with akira and get close to him because he knew from day one that he was a phantom thief REALLY changed my opinion on him. he really did use his role as counselor to make akira let his guard down and never revealed his true reason for getting close to him until he had gotten all the information he needed out of him. i just. i so WISH akira could have had more hostile responses to this exchange - akira HATES adults that use kids, that put up a false front, and what else would he think at that point??? akira’s been burned so badly, i don’t get why he couldn’t just be incredibly short with maruki after that point and want absolutely no further discussion. like from that point forward as a player, i lost trust in him - i was spoiled for royal, but with maruki described constantly as very human and sympathetic, i never expected this level of duplicity and i think people really gloss it over. akira can literally respond to his question of what hurts him the most with “betrayal” and isn’t this like...a GIANT betrayal of trust? the thing is, i suppose akira doesn’t entirely mind being used as he uses people in return, but it’s very dependent on that person being upfront with him about it. all the adult confidants tell him, in earnest, why they want to get close to him, and he is able to consent - i know maruki’s situation is more delicate, given that he wants to get to know akira bc he’s a pt and that would probably be shut down instantly, but i think it really gets to akira that he had no way of consenting to their exchanges because he was left in the dark to their true purpose. and none of this is to say i don’t like maruki - in fact, i think he’s a fantastic character and i really do love him, but he is super complex and what he pulls is honestly super shitty. he absolutely used akira and while his intentions were good...i mean....couldn’t we....literally say that about yaldabaoth in a way? LIKE HEAR ME OUT he believed ripping control away from humanity would make them happy and end their suffering - his game with akira was to see if akira would let humanity stay as it is, or if yaldabaoth would merge reality with mementos to take over human thought in order to relieve them of their responsibility. so he too was using akira in order to figure out how to help humanity as best he could. yaldabaoth is clearly more malevolent due to how he has grown to detest mankind, but still...he claimed what he was doing was to end human suffering, so the functional outcome is the same, it’s just the yaldabaoth’s idea was unpalatable to humanity. i know that i’ve really expanded on yaldabaoth’s character, but sticking to what i can gather from the text, yaldabaoth is really only doing what the public consciousness is wishing for - that’s his nature, he grants wishes. honestly tbh maruki and yaldabaoth are very similar in approach and in outcome, it’s just that they deviate on what they believe the right answer to this problem is. SO....agreed that bad man bad and god dad good thanks for coming to my ted talk

[peccatoact-metanoia]

OKay gotta come off anon- I've played all 3 games! Honestly my fave Reyvateils have been Shurelia from the first game and Jacqli. Lmao but considering who Jacqli is in the first game, and that kind of turn around plot twist is one of my fave troops, she was basically set up to be my #1. I actually didn't like the girls in 3 as much. But I love the music across all the games.

You played em all? That’s cool! (。・ρ・)

Oooh Shurelia is beautiful! lol yeah I gotta agree with you about why jacqli is bae xD

lol The girls in 1 and 2 were the best! ミ๏ｖ๏彡

@adraggynamedjade