#aishi.txt

[fourthnattawat]

no but when alex called henry “baby” on call and all of henry’s defences immediately crumbled…nicholas galitzine i am giving you a standing ovation

[petorahs]

times Ryoji calls Makoto kindhearted, and the final time he saw those kind eyes.

[parfaitstar]

hello please give me attention

[lovedeath]

Note to self:

Make Kokona some almond cookies.

[fourthnattawat]

thinking about the fact that henry has to literally tear his gaze away from alex to say the word “casual” because he is already so in love and if someone like that loved him back it would set him on fire

[petorahs]

ryoji's character be like. "what if the only thing death ever yearned for is life" "what if the answer to accepting death is to try to live" "what if your entire life's purpose catastrophically goes against your every wish yet youre doomed to carry it out anyway" "what if the only way out of it was death" and being shocked when someone important to you... refuses that fate for your sake. that they want you to live.

[fourthnattawat]

it’s been a whole day since i finished s&b and i’m still thinking about jesper’s enraged “i’m sorry you’ve been on a safari when” at kaz completely unironically

[petorahs]

unironically the best feature they added like. the specification that its an email and not instant messaging app. the blackberry phone ass emoticons?? the lower caps..... we are so back

[petorahs]

Hello! In your post about Makoto and Ken, you mentioned movie Ken is your favorite. As someone who’s only played the game, I was wondering what subtle differences there are between movie and game Ken?

hey there! I'm very honored and glad you asked cause I feel like movie Ken is an underrated aspect of his character because of one key substantial difference: He actually was close to Shinjiro and admired him... before learning the truth.

spoilers for Midsummer Knight's Dream!

In the games, it's clear that the catalyst for Ken joining SEES was after he found out Shinjiro was the killer of his mom right before summer vacation was to end and he was supposed to go back to his elementary school dorm. So, he entered SEES (in his eyes rightfully) hating Shinji and with the goal of getting strong enough to kill him. Shinjiro joins right after, Ken himself being his reason, and they literally never talk... the tension is so palpable! There's also this trifecta of sorts that the developers wanted to convey which is pictured above... how Ken admires Akihiko, while Aki admires Shinji, while Ken hates Shinji. the monorail scene in Full Moon, Full Life is symbolic for this.

The movie's take on it though.. provides a slight nuance to this.

In the movies, a handful of characters become narrative foils/parallels to further develop Makoto Yuki's character such as Chidori, Natsuki, Takaya, Pharos obviously, Fuuka, etc. But one that's always stuck out to me was Ken Amada.

Right off the bat, Mitsuru assigns Makoto as Ken's bodyguard because they "share similar backgrounds". Both are orphans who lost their parents to the Dark Hour. Ken is aimless at this point, wandering about during the Dark Hour to kill time. He declines living in Iwatodai dorm even. But then, he thinks he found out the killer of his mom is actually the shadows, specifically a large one with a hulking body and blond hair. This is during the attack on the shrine where Koromaru protects it (cool thing about the movies is that we see the actual moment Koro-chan fights, instead of just the aftermath this time!). Ken's resolve is made and he joins SEES to eradicate shadows. Akihiko looks away quietly in this moment. Shinjiro rejoins SEES except it was Strega that gave him the info that Ken joined. The tension is still palpable, except this time Ken is none the wiser.

Ken immediately takes to Shinjiro because Shinji protected him during a Full Moon attack. He's so strong, everything Ken wants to be. (Nevermind Shinji's own reasoning for jumping in was his brand of punishment...)

This brings me to my final point. It's no secret by now that my favorite is Makoto, and the way that Ken's words echo Makoto's own thoughts about his mom is so quietly tragic to me that provides a layer of depth to both their characters we never really get in the games. They were both driven by their own mothers' influence and deaths.

Life was not worth living after they were orphaned, but now, they can finally live again... recently in Reload the Ken and Makoto parallels I mentioned were that they basically share the same dread, and self-isolation tendencies but I like this sentiment in the movie that there's healing to be found in the little things again :( Makoto and Ken were both healing...

anyways uh. since this is Persona 3 we all know how this ends which I will not spoil because I really, really like what they did with Makoto and his role in Shinjiro's death in the movies (+ the aftermath of it) but! I'll leave with these insane af frames

This is after Ken finds out that the large shadow with a hulking body and blond hair was not, in fact, a shadow at all - but someone's Persona.

[petorahs]

akechi goro really one dialogue box away from calling the protag cute with the way his speech is written i swear

[petorahs]

wait this is so cool :O op also says: "is the chess movement intentional? does the tiled floor mean anything? probably not but its cool to think about"

to supplement, a quick google search about the roles of knights/bishops and rooks mean this:

......"crow with black plumage", or "to trick" sounds very akechi!

joker's could be anything really, but the second definition of bishop being weaver bird of either red or black plumage is noteworthily complementary to akechi's rook.

birds of a feather / two sides of the same coin...

[petorahs]

AKIHIKO SANADA AND MAKOTO YUKI JUST KILL ME WHY DONT YOU

at this moment, did Aki picture Miki putting the medal on him... is Makoto like a little brother to him too... oughhghgh im gonna be sick... they are so found family in this. IM GONNA BE SICK.

[petorahs]

no cause the way persona 3 took the "passive silent protagonist" route in the most tragic way possible because when you think about it everything that happens in the game is due to their passive involvement.

they just happened to be caught in the crossfire, and subsequently orphaned for it. spent the remainder of those 10 years passively dealing with grief (either through putting up a smiling front or cold one). all their teammates suffered as a direct consequence of them arriving to the city. and later on MC is just understandably blamed for it but they don't say anything after this crushing realization. they can't say anything. they stay silent. they stay passive. (who wouldnt?).

they just happened to be a child on that bridge, under the full moon. knowing nothing about the life that awaited them (and soon, everything about Death).

[petorahs]

N isn't "good at battling" because he hates the very concept of bringing harm to pokemon while Kieran is good at battling because he wants to inflict as much pain as possible to the protagonist lol

[petorahs]

its soooo rare that a modern pokemon character seriously is about to dethrone N in many people's favorite character ranking. kieran is the best. cutie deserves it.

sure there's arven and nemona for the better new rivals... and i know volo probably tied with cynthia in a lot of people's rankings. and other new characters that are bangers like bede, lillie, zinnia, hop... but i've never seen more discussion on characterization being up there on N-levels than with kiki

[petorahs]

who let bro cook and be the most beautiful lovable amazing character ever