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Aleks Le's final statement before the release of P3R

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Persona 3 Reload - Weekly Famitsu Cover

2/8 issue No.1834

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Part of why I adore Ryomina so much is because they're a genuine power couple.

Not only do they work insanely well together, know each other inside and out, better than anyone else, but they're good at their jobs. If you fuck with either of them, you're dead. They can take anything out , and after the game this only rings more true. Ohh they work so well together.

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wave ^_^)/ !!!! i hate to be predictable, but for the ask game - poor ryoji mochizuki ? :]c

VITY! waves back o/

Anyways here's Ryoji Mochizuki world’s most perfect boy ^_^

favorite thing about them

Where do I start. Nyx being the primordial being, God in the persona universe. All life comes from her. She’s the beginning and the end, she is death itself. Having death be put inside a small boy and his kindness and love making death want to be human itself. Wanting to repay that kindness and love, feeling guilt at the way it treated the small boy, ruining his life.

The fact that Ryoji is Death, is Thanatos, is Pharos, is Nyx. They’re all the same being. The concept and execution of that, who had no feelings either way before, being treated so kindly to the point where it takes forms this bond with P3 Hero. Protecting him from the first arcana shadow as Thanatos on the first full moon of the game. The culmination of these forms is of course Mochizuki Ryoji. Who’s become soft and sweet. He copies P3 Hero’s appearance and gender and is everything that he never knew he wanted to be.

He loves the world so much, loves humanity so much. He’s so endlessly kind and having that kindness be a direct reflection of P3 Hero makes it that much sweeter. The fact he created this form because of his desire to have it and desire to separate himself from Nyx is the sweetest thing in the world. Especially when they’re all still the same being. Ryoji just has a hard time putting that in perspective again, he doesn’t want to be that, (Evident by his dumb Ryoji phase) doesn’t want to go back to that. It’s so sweet. He’s the cutest in the world.

least favorite thing about them

I honestly don’t think I have one.

favorite line

“I know you better than anyone after all… That’s why I came back to you as Ryoji Mochizuki.” (I know this is kind of cheating. sry.)

brOTP

Him and Junpei are so good it’s unreal. Just bros being bros. They hang out, are the most frat of guys and its hilarious. But when Junpei is going through a rough time Ryoji always knows exactly what to say. I find it so sweet.

OTP

Ryomina

They are literal soulmates. They are one another. Mirror images. Love birds. Codependent cats. Made for each other in the most literal of senses. Ryoji made his form from Minato so they could spend time together. Minato taught Death kindness.

Sometimes I feel so like I’m making them up they’re so perfect.

NOTP

This is a bit odd to type out but pretty much anyone who isn’t P3 Hero with Ryoji? I see Ryoji as only being made for one person in particular, so the others just don’t appeal to me in the same way.

random headcanon

Can I cheat and put more than one. I’m gonna. These are all Ryoji post P3 unless stated otherwise.

- Ryoji going a step further and taking Minato’s hair and eye color. Draining a blue Minato used to have til his are bright and shining. The same way he absorbed his kindness.

- He is crazy codependent. Like crazy codependent. If he was able to touch Minato for a split second in November they would never be able to let go of one another. That’s why Minato had to avoid him in FES.

-He's really warm! Got that from Minato too so he's left with all the cold. Ryoji's fun to hug though :)

- Him and Minato watch over the world together in the great seal! Ryoji shares the knowledge while Minato catches up on rest and helps explain new concepts to him when he wakes up. He’s his doorman ^_^ (ha)

- He would really enjoy working retail if he ever got the shot. He loves people in general. Getting to meet them, talk to them, the whole shebang.

- He’s embarrassed of being Pharos. Like people get of old baby photos.

- Ryoji is metaphorically trans baby. Wanting to copy Minato and preferring being called Ryoji, a boy. It makes talking about Gods a bit difficult. Dysphoria and all. Poor thing experiences it in the weirdest of ways. But as Minato and Ryoji continue to be the seal, it’ll get easier.

- He likes sunrises and cheesy rom coms and fairy tales. Classic knight and princess stories. Kind of has the most normal taste ever, but a romantic at heart.

- Speaking of normal, I think “Dumb Ryoji” is a representation on what Minato would have been like if Death was never sealed inside of him. Perfect friends with all of the right people, charming, a bit of a playboy, and best friends with Junpei.

unpopular opinion

I personally don’t imagine Ryoji with a sexuality. His human form was made as a mirror to Minato, and so interacting with him throws him off course. He acts different around him, it confuses him. I don’t see anything Dumb Ryoji does as being a real representation of who Ryoji is.

song i associate with them

My Ryoji playlist is just the most cheesy songs you’ve ever heard in your life.

Anyways I guess my pick is “Rhythm Of Love" by the Plain White T's. (yeah ik. please go easy on me he's so owl city 2010's pop to me.)

favorite picture of them

i like how pouty he gets when he's upset ^_^

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if Ryoji had freckles I would have killed myself. HE'D BE SOOO CUTESY 😭😭😭😭😭

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Yu is the nicest Persona Protagonist and Minato is the kindest

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Minato is smiling in that opening!!! He does not want to leave man don't pluck him out of the sea of souls he is happy!!!!!

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It's crazy how my perfect character was created in 2006

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metaphor finished 👍

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Ryoji and Minato are so eternally precious and sweet. So soft with one another.

Ryoji talking to Minato with such innocence and kindness with their first interactions in Reload. Wanting to pursue him, but not knowing exactly what that means or how to do that. All he knows is that Minato is precious to him and he doesn't want to hurt him. He wants to treat him with the same level of kindness Minato treated him.

They circle around each other in an endless loop of genuine and unending love. Ryoji's choice, his actions, everything reflected being his kindness Minato brought out himself.

Everyone misunderstanding Minato leads right back into everyone misunderstanding Ryoji. They're misunderstood together and nobody quite understands how to perceive them, or how Minato views the both of them.

They're perfectly happy in that odd way, nobody knows if they were ever happy or sad. Everyone tends to get details wrong, nobody will ever know.

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P3 but Ryoji has glasses on the entire time.

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unfortunate that reload fails when it comes to presenting the tone of some things. you shouldn't have to watch the movies to understand that junpei and yukari don't like/are annoyed by main character for the first third of the game. it's essential to their relationship and it's toned down quite a lot.

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hi lucaa thouts on persona 3 remake being $94 on steam for the base game

Hi Jubs,

I think it's frankly ridiculous that they're charging not only so much for their base game, (A base game that sometimes even looks worse than the initial game that came out 18 years ago.) but on top of that, 200$ for the collectors edition that only came with a couple of add ons.

I was fine purchasing it because I wanted to officially support my favorite game, but The Answer being locked behind a DLC wave pack for an extra 40$ is really upsetting. Something called the "Aigis Edition" won't even get you Episode Aigis.

The fact they're trying to recreate the Append Disc, (Which they released one year after the base game launched. Selling only the disc individually for 30$ as an option to people who didn't want to repurchase the game.) seems absolutely ridiculous. Locking 17 year old add on content behind another 40$ dlc with costumes and songs nobody wants, and songs that were initially in FES seems like an insult to their player base.

FES, the full game, has been easily purchasable for a while now. Some part of me can excuse the 70$ base price for the remake, but paying 200$ for a collectors edition and not getting access to future story DLC which has been out for 17 years is something that really grinds my gears.

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ITS T HE SEAL!!!!!

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isn't it crazy how reload completely took away the chronic illness reading for Minato? isn't it crazy how they smoothed him out so they just made him a normal guy for the most part? damn.

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dancing portrait I miss you. it's a shame how much better you look compared to the reload one.