#idk if this counts as a proper meta post djdhdjfks its mostly BULLSHIT

[alstroemerian-dragon]

okay its in my header and ive mentioned before but i should clarify: im extremely undecided on whether i ACTUALLY headcanon fuyuhiko as having been raised. partially catholic

the thing about that headcanon is that its drawn from an EXTREMELY nondiagetic source. which is. a lot of the design choices in the game. its been stated before that a lot of fuyuhiko’s gang aesthetics are weirdly italian mobster-esque, im not the first to point it out, and to me thats partially just because thats what all the games are like. the designers seem completely unsure about whether their games are extremely japanese or extremely Non Culturally Specific. were never actually told that hopes peak is in japan, just that its in A Country. we assume that its japan, because of cultural aesthetics and because of the fact that its a japanese game, but thats pretty much never made explicit as far as i know! maybe in the anime. i never watched it

but a lot of other things are. Very multicultural. jabberwock can be forgiven for being weirdly americanized in places, given that its hypothetically somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean and could have been a tourist spot for americans. but even elements of the school, hpa itself, are kind of american. even others are very japanese. a lot of the character designs and backstories are multicultural. so fuyuhikos sort of very japanese/very italian design is just. an extension of that weird design choice?

but also. the idea that somewhere in his family is a first generation italian immigrant to japan is. so interesting. making him the future head of an EXTREMELY japanese mafia when hes actually wasian is. so interesting!!!! the idea that (jumping off my hc that shes his half sister) natsumi is fully japanese while hes not is SO INTERESTING!!!! GIVING HIM CATHOLIC GUILT ON TOP OF EVERYTHING IS UTTERLY BONKERS AND IT MAKES ME GO CRAZY

just. the dissonance of having grown up with a very SHINTO background while also going to CATHOLIC CHURCH is absolutely insane. i can not imagine the kind of religious trauma this boy has

also hes gay so like. you can imagine what that does to a person