#its doing smt to my brain

[lltntbt]

Reading Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer is waking up all my latent FelicityxOliver feelings again

[high-metafive]

one thing about me is that i am literally always thinking about smtiv. the other thing about me is that i am literally always thinking about smtiv and actually smt in general im just always thinking bout it

w. would anyone like to be friends about this subject ,or..

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

why do people act like when youre a vegan you secretly want to eat meat or whatever. like i very clearly do not want that

[cosmicallyavg]

me writing the most unspicy spicy line in my fic

[bigkickguy]

I haven't been drawing because i've been flourishing playing 2007 mmo smt imagine in my free time - and also mh generations ultimate for the first time i am in my favorite environment - making yaoi in my head about video game characters no one has cared about for like 15 years

[zzztobi]

✧ ⎯⎯ "that good, uh?"

pairing!: atsumu x afab!reader

warnings!: MDNI!!!! fwb, creampie. just atsumu being a lil possessive :p

a/n!: phewwww its been so long since i wrote smt in here lmao i just came to tumblr to read smut thank u for everyone's service

atsumu's dick was the best one you've taken in your whole life and you didn't have to tell him.

he could tell by the way your eyes rolled to the back of your head, the way you gasped and moaned, or the grip you had on your sheets when he was pounding you in all fours.

you didn't tell him because it would've inflated his ego and would get too cocky for your liking. you've known him your entire life so you already knew how his mind worked.

some part of your brain told you this was wrong, that you fucking your best friend for years wasn't moral. but fuck it because being friends with atsumu shouldn't feel this good. especially when he's whispering such filthy things in your ear:

“f-fuck baby, your pussy feels so good” moaned atsumu before giving you a harsh thrust that made your whole body convulse. “we should've done this before angel, we've been missing out shit!”

and you would nod while saying a chain of “yes atsumu!” that took the air out of his lungs after hearing you moaning his name like that.

he would ask if he could cum inside of you because he wanted to pump you so full of him, mark you as his so no one could take you away from him. he wanted you to be his, and only his.

and maybe he should've confessed his feelings before all this mess started, but he didn't have it in him to do it, not when your pussy wrapped so tight around him made his head so dizzy and mind fuzzy. well it'll have to wait until the next time then.

©️ zzztobi 2023 — all rights reserved. please don't repost, translate or copy any of my work.

[strwbmei]

I had a very important test in college earlier but I woke up way too horny that I think I forgot some things.

LIKE FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON I WAS DREAMING UP ROBIN LITERALLY ON HER KNEES BEGGING FOR FORGIVENESS BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING HIT ON OR SMT.

(I’m crossing my fingers that I passed. Btw have a good day Mei)

Your brain knew its priorities even when you were asleep! I wish I could dream stuff up like this ahaha (mostly fluff, suggestive at the end)

I don't think she'd apologize for being hit on exactly, but she'd definitely feel really bad if she accidentally made you jealous. Robin is a superstar renowned across the cosmos; it's a given that she'd have a ton of fans everywhere. Some of those fans however, overstep their boundaries and put her in a tough spot. She just tries to be kind to everyone, but unfortunately some people don't have as good of an intention as Robin likes to believe.

And while both of you are fine with keeping your relationship a secret for obvious reasons, you don't appreciate Robin just letting her fans outright flirt with her. She'd do anything to make it up to you. Your favorite food? Already on the table. That date you had to cancel because Robin's schedule was full? Those commercials and recordings don't matter nearly as much as your happiness; she's going on it no matter what her manager says.

Robin would also be really physically affectionate, even kissing you in public when she's sure no one is looking. She'll reassure you that it's only you that she loves, and most of all, she'll make sure to set clear boundaries with her fans.

And remember how Robin would do anything to make it up to you? She means it. She's already good at showing you her love through words, but you should see what she can do with her actions. Singing is far from being the only thing her mouth is good for.

[sh1-n0bu]

It is 3am again and I am on Tumblr again to share every thought I've ever had so today's victim of my unquenchable thirst™ is not Scaramouche but Xiao. I cannot get enough of him he is just so mhhhhhh djchwhsjyjsnsnssjsjdjdnnbsbdbdbs. I do not have an urge to bring him to ruin. He's been through enough I just wanna be nice to him. Care for him. Poor thing. I give him many kisses too mwah mwah.

♡︎ 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 ♡︎

characters: sub!xiao x gn!dom!reader

warnings: overstimulation, dacryphillia, dumbification, feminization, corruption, marking, as always i say cock but it can be a strap on as well, some hints of breeding, some heavy make out and ig that’s abt it

notes: GODS HORNY NONNIE I LOVE YOU AND I CANNOT MF STRESS THIS ENOUGH❗️❗️❗️i’ve always wanted to write smt for sub xiao bc how tf are y’all seeing him as a dom😃 bby would cry if given the slightest bit of affection. he’s a thousand year old extra virgin olive oil wtf y’all. anyways sorry i rambled, happy reading fellow horny ppl

sweet boy🥹

sweet sweet baby boy🥹

first of all it would take a lot of time and trust to get to this point of relationship with xiao

at first even a little bit of making out with him would leave him with a mushy brain and a hard cock

he loves loves loves! marking

kiss his neck, suck on it, leave hickeys, bruise him a little bit

make sure everyone knows who he is absolutely smitten for

he doesn’t mind being marked

he’s sensitive!

sensitive sensitive sensitive!!!

just playing with his cute pink nipples while sucking hickeys on his neck would get him to cum in his pants

and speaking of playing with his nipples whenever you play with them or suck on them he would be all whiny but secretly loves it

“hnngh - n-no… don’t do t-that… ‘m not a woman unngh~! aahhh~!”

has the prettiest moans

slightly feminine too

you think scara was loud? xiao is the loudest

the first time you offered to give a handjob he was nervous and excited

he wanted to be more intimate with you but he was afraid he might do something wrong and upset you

not to mention he doesn’t know a single thing about sex

slowly play with his cute small cock, rub the tip it makes him see stars

and when he was about the come he got scared because there was this weird hot feeling in his tummy and he didn’t know what it was and cried😢

you have to teach him about the basics of sex and that weird hot feeling in his tummy is completely okay

and when he first had his orgasm it felt sooo good, it felt like he was sent to celestia

since then he got addicted

wanted to know and feel more about the different pleasures of the flesh and poor boy got addicted

loves loves loves loves loves!!!! lovemaking

guide him through the things, teach him how to pleasure himself, how to ride your cock as his needy hole keeps sucking your cock in like a needy whore

but its okay he’s your sweet needy whore♡︎

the first time he took your cock he was incredibly nervous

was low-key afraid that he might break because it was just too big

definitely has a size kink, it doesn’t matter if you’re physically smaller than him, whenever your tip touches his hole he would trash around saying it would break him because your cock is just too big♡︎

always has a belly bulge♡︎

praise him

never degrade him, he might cry bc you hurt his feelings

would always want to hold hands while making love because he wants that reassurance and fuzzy feeling of being in love and being loved🥺

one time you forgot to hold his hand and he safeworded thinking he did something wrong

“hic y-you didn’t hol-d my hand a-and i thought i did s-something wrong…”

baby boy kwndksjfjkd

i feel like his favorite position would be missionary just so he can see your face and hold you close to him

easily gets overstimulated but loves the feeling so he let’s you keep going even though he’s sobbing and can’t think of a single thing<333

“aanngh! hiiig! [n-name]~~! auUUNGH~! nyaaah~! l-love you! loveyouloveyouloveyou!! kyaa-ngh~!”

since he’s and adepti and adeptis can have a human and animal form i feel like he would go into heats here and there

and boy when he gets into his heat he becomes a bit more… perverted

definitely would drunkenly giggle while guiding your hand and letting it slide up his tummy and to his tits

“giggle… [namee]~ be sure to fuck me full of your cum okay~? giggle”

so be sure to stuff him full okay? pinch his nipples, bite his neck, fuck his pretty cunt and fill him up until he’s satisfied♡︎

aftercare is important!!

after having his tummy fucked (his words not mine) he would need a nice warm bath

kiss his chubby little cheeks and the diamond mark on his forehead<3

hold his hand while whispering to him of how good he was and how he’s such a good boy, your beloved boy, your darling dearest

cuddles after sex is a must and i cannot stress this enough

hold him close, let him hear your heartbeat as he drifts of into sweet dreams because he knows you will always keep him safe and love him eternally

[drawingbakeryy]

DROP THE DONNIE BACKSTORY. I SAW THE HASHTAG. PRETTY PLEASE!1!!1!???? NOT FORCING BUT U GOT ME REALLY CURIOUS….

HMMM IM STILL LIKE FIGURING IT OUT STILLLL— BUT ILL DROP SOME

okay so yk the apocalypse started, blah blah blah all thag junk

one thing i know for sure, he had a lab explosion

which will explain these scars, he was extremely disappointed because in the explosion it did destroyed and ruin creations and tech he worked so hard on, it also ruined his lab which he was pissy about, overall he was just really annoyed abt this and extremely upset

afterwards yk living in apocalypse until he got krangified.. yayyyy

like years later after the explosion

the infection started in his eye, he was out on mission, he wandered off to a infested area which was dangerous but he honestly didn’t care because he needed samples of the krang, he went in and this one krang aimed to his eye, it got into his eye which dee immediately was disgusted by the thought of something in his eye, but it wasn’t long before it started taking over him, it was a fast because it got into his head first, now he’s all infected.

here’s a photo of how he looks like when he’s infected but his whole arms is covered and also the shoulders to his neck is covered but overall this is what he looks like, the host is now in his left eye like, it completely took over his WHOLE eye, the only way to get rid of the infection is to pull out his eye

imagine the angsttt omfgg

yeah uh, but the eye is extremely sensitive, but it does have the ability to protect itself but closing it and covering it, which i thought is cool. . .

forgot to mention he’s also around in his 30s rn, likeeee two years or smt.

anyways yeah that’s a whole angst potential story, i also would say he was taken from the krang, i havent like given it a whole whole plot or like what happens

but i do say he was taken by the krang onces, he managed to escape though because he’s donnie!!!!🔥🔥

ITS MIDNIGHT RN AND I DONT FEEL LIKE TYPING MORE— but in my small brain this is what i could type🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️ for now

[yukkoislost]

[SCRAPPED DESIGN?]

my insanity accidentally uhm. enabled me to think of like a whole other 4 ocs so...

meet SD-R !! more below cut

i had to actly sit down and consider what i was making w this kid because that adds a whole other layer of freakin lore that i gotta plan so,,

i don't really like his design atm... so this is most likely NOT the final design, more of a trial?

anyway the main idea i had for him was that he's a project along with his two other squadmates created by the last surviving humans on earth to combat the absolute solver/cyn

another example of people creating things that they can't control !!!! i love it !!! anyway in order to combat AS, who is basically a god (or the devil, however you wanna see it), they thought that they should make their own god

crazy genshin shit ik

SD-R is one of the first of the project, along with his squadmates SD-A and K

R is the leader of the squad, but he doesn't pilot (that's A's job) and K is kinda just there,, haven't had a proper purpose for them yet but might make them a priest disassembly drone playing on the whole cross usb thing idea i liked it

so basically humans facing extinction who didn't learn from past mistakes though HEY!!! what if we made a GOD DRONE or something like that because realistically speaking i don't think that's possible but seeing how far the AS got it may as well be tbh. anyway.

his voicebox doesn't work because of having a 'true voice' which affects humans so they disabled it,, the chains keep him down to earth in a sense

i think i'm trying to do too much making a god-ish drone thing 💀 please smack me

you see this little icon !!! it's like their symbol (like how the AS has its own little triangle hexagon thing) :)

i think i might switch out the demon wings for like angel wings or something but erm haven't decided yet !!!! I'M THINKING TOO MUCH GRR

i js wanna make em look a lil more diff since they're meant to be differentiated and stuff but my creativity isn't working tdy and my brain is melted lol

his hairs tied up btw idk where that went but i wrote it on the ref sheet and uhm deleted it somehow?? i didn't realise sorry sobbing

a silly little paper doodle for R,,

I SAT HERE AND WONDERED WHY HE LOOKED SO OFF TO ME ITS BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE A HOMESTUCK OC OR SMT ill change the colours

will delete this post eventually probably

[sorenblr]

Now that you've completed the SMT V stream, I (and I'm sure some other folks, too) would love to hear what you think of it compared with the other main Megaten games you've played on stream. I think you've done SMT 1, SMT IV and SMT IV:A so far. Include Persona 1 too if you'd like.

And that dreadful Tokyo Mirage Sessions: pound sign Fire Emblem, too

SMTV is hard for me to discuss because there's very little about it that compels me to deeper thought. It really, genuinely bores me to think about, and anything I do have to say about it only evinces an incredibly cynical read of the series. I'll just put whatever I have left to say here, so that I don't feel the need to revisit.

It's just, you know, this bloodless cultivation of recycled semiotics from Nocturne. We ragged on IV for being overly invested in derivation and homage, but it looks almost daring coming off of V. The only really original idea that it brings to the table, the notion of Nahobino as the 'true' form of these divided and depreciated myth images, is almost offensive in the way it reframes designs that at least try to approximate real cultural attitudes towards religion as lesser, enervated reflections of yet more Tokusatsu tripe. Apart from that, it's a very inert piece of storytelling. I feel like a joke is being played on me whenever the game presumes an emotional investment in characters like Tao or Yuzuru.

I generally think highly of all the little design wrinkles that were implemented under Komori's stewardship, and that owe to his experience directing the more balance-intensive affairs of Etrian Odyssey. The new utility of consumables, dampeners as a limited means of addressing weakness in party structure, the need to attend to enemy and player Magatsuhi gauges etc. All necessary supplements to a battle system that was beginning to wear thin by 2016. Only my opinion of everything that enfolds it, the exploration, was diminished on this second playthrough. The layouts are still compelling, with a novel emphasis on managing layers of verticality, but they're populated with so much idiot open-world cruft. Vending machines, chests, glory crystals, health orbs, Miman. An overabundance of piddling incentive to keep you in a state of compulsion, and which I believe contributes to the exhaustion that many players feel come Taito. I still like the Miman, but they essentially exist in a continuum with the fucking feather collectables in Assassin's Creed.

(All the colored orbs littered around the sands are the perfect wedge to that design sensibility. They're almost totally inconsequential and only worth pursuing for the feeling of having absorbed more bright bobbles into yourself. They whisper to your lizard brain so that you don't feel too unstimulated navigating the space, which is never deigned to be worth the doing for its own sake. I'm out here picking up orbs and I can't even use them to extend the duration of Spartan Rage. Videogames are fucking stupid.)

It also made me more conscious of the ways the game fails to leverage art direction against what were probably non-ideal production conditions. It's never easy to forget that you're in a world of economically distributed UE4 assets, with no less than four brilliant hues of sparkling sand and ruined structures that have largely forfeited the Tokyoite specificity of previous games in favor of the same vending machines and multi-floor apartments and office buildings repeated ad nauseam. Daat never feels more like a hostile environment than a self-conscious playground. The concept art backdrops and rudimentary 3D textures of IV/IVA, and the claustrophobic interiors of I- all more lively by far. Pretty good skyboxes, though. No complaints there.

I think the series has moved into the sort of tired self-pastiche that every franchise turns to after decades of iteration. Time and chance happened, and now it's Angus Young crawling out of his mansion and into his boy-clothes to duckwalk across the stage while his grapefruit-sized prostate wages war against him from within.

If I were to rank just the main series from what we've streamed thus far, it would be something like I > IV > V > IVA. The only sense in which TMS has it at a disadvantage is that it emulates more cleanly. I'm glad that we're done with the latter half of the series and can finally move on, but I'll never forget that big huge enormous ass...

[spitblaze]

....just how are you leveling in dark souls

Well my stupid ass WAS going for a Balanced Build bc I forgot how the fuckin game works before Sam reminded me that as a pyromancer and someone who likes hitting things hard I should really only be worried about dex, health, and stamina.

When I say 'balanced' I mean my brain goes 'heehee hoohoo sorting :)' and makes as many stats as possible equal. Which is fine if you're playing like...SMT or a game with only four or five stats to keep track of but is a horrifically bad idea in Dark Souls with its like. Twelve?? I don't even know how many level-able stats that game has but don't fucking do that in dark souls

[arsonyard]

.... Is this like.... The third second or third time i ghost yall?...

I dont have any excuses, i just wanna say im so sorry, again. If i hurt anybody, im sorry. If i told anybody ill be back, but didn't, im sorry.

At least imma explain my situation cuz yall deserve it.

So, basically, i havent been okay. I didn't wanna notice it, but i keep getting worse, mentally speaking. I ignore it and, when i think it "cant possibly get worse, right?", well, it fucking does. This past month ive been on edge too, like if smt minimal happens or if someone speaks to me the wrong way, id implode in tears. I actually feel like crying all the time lol but somehow cant?? Idek

Just uh, yeah. Idk if thats an excuse or not, or if its even valid or not, just thought i at least owed u an apology n an explanation.

I wont lie, idk when ill be back or if ill ever be, idek know if the homies from back then r still here. Wish yall a great life.

I tried getting back on tumblr but, idk, my brain, like, it just gets tired simply thinking abt getting back to an app where i dont have an hyperfixation? Idek if im making sense. Just that, i practically cant do shit abt smt if im not like currently hyperfixated on it. Fuck im not making sense. I rlly dunno how to explain it.

With all this im not asking for forgiveness from anyone. Im apologizing cuz yall, u know who, deserve it. I should be doing this in private too, but i dont think im capable rn, so im sorry about that too. U deserve better.

So uh, sorry for all that text, fuck damn. Im annoying lol. Anyway. Thanks for reading, and uh, see ya around? Maybe? Hopefully

[raidante]

oh i've gotta know, what's the story for your smt protag oc?

ITS kinda hard to exactly explain since I actually do rlly need to just sit and write down my lore for my original work in a doc... but!!!

Essentialy, he's a human soul reincarnated (sort of) into the body of a Golem. He remembers who he is in his past life, which was that of a high school graduate in Tokyo over 30 years ago, and he originally died in the fallout/aftermath of the nukes hitting the city. He vaguely remembers the reason why Tokyo was nuked was because of demons invading, but it all gets hazy. When he wakes up, the world is completely different, and all the questions floating around in his brain need answers. Especially the fact he has a completely new body and looks pretty different than he used to.

Golems in my original work are the biproduct of War and Technology. Humanity's normal weapons and the height of military power could not face the demonic invasion, so the Powers that Be got to work inventing something new with the durability and manpower to fight against demonic hordes that would eventually sweep the world. Advanced programs run by AI were invented to create Golems, these man made biological machines that were super soldiers, able to fight humanity's wars for them, and for the most part are in the shape of man themselves. They don't think, don't speak, just assemble and fight. Humanity lost the war, however, with those that remained from crumbling society fleeing into hiding for survival. These Golems, indestructible war machines just about, were only made for war, therefore they continued the war despite the fact it was a lost cause. Now they roam the ruins of some of the most inhabitable parts of Tokyo, firing on man and demon alike, anything considered a hostile. Their bodies are organic, collected by drones once they fall apart from wear or battle, and brought back to the factories built for production to be recycled. Protag's a unique golem, with a different body build and an individual face, as well as the ability to think and make decisions for himself--hes essentially a brand new kind of human being. This is the result of an AI in an abandoned factory getting hit by energy and glitching out, corrupting the program that builds the soldiers. The AI gains self aware sentience and decides to accompany you by uploading itself into your core, which is located on the protag's stomach.

This is all sort of still...rough around the edges. I need to refine it again and again until I'm happy with how to simplify explanations and also make it sound neat / work it into the lore of the world. But I hope this makes sense?

[dreamychuu]

Hai, hai Chuu! I was that one Hajime ask if you remember. BUT THIS TIME I want to request something different reader that acts mean towards Kohaku but they secretly like em but they dont know how to act, LIKE MAYBE KOHAKU FINDS OUT?  I don't know my brains melting BUT SMT LIKE THAT, sorry if its confusing(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

I hope you take care of yourself and to keep safe and healthy!

(๑´• .̫ •ू`๑)

A/n : HELLO ANONN!! YES CHU DO REMEMBER and thank you anon, chu will make sure chu take care of chuself.., again sorry if it doesnt fit what you mean or beacuse its late!! | this might be a little ooc sorry!!!

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✧ - Confusion or confession!?

╰┈��� - warning : tsundereish reader ??

✿ - the sunrised, the morning greeted the ES building, a pink-haired youth can be seen walking behind a certain person in the quite Hallway

"[Name]!! [Name]!!", a called of your name can be heard behind you. At first you wanted to look back but when you realize the Voice is similiar to "Kohaku" , You decide to not look back.

Its not like you dislike him.. Its just like you dont know how to act around him and will ended up thinking about him 24/7 instead of doing your work.

the worst thing is that you get confused and sometimes your face starts to turn red.. you hate how it happened if you are around him...

And sometime it makes you treat him rudely but no matter how rude it is that other people can see that you actually really care to kohaku.

After a while You are finally feel relieved because you didn't hear Kohaku's voice calling you again,and it means that he is far away from you.. Until you can feel a hand poked your shoulder.

you jumped in surprise by the sudden touch on your shoulder and finally look back to see that the person who poke your shoulder is kohaku himself.

"Why are you ignoring me", he said with a serious expression on his face. instead of taking his expression as a threat you think he looks cute like that.

"Beacuse i can?", you answered with a tone just like someone who was being Disturbed while doing something important even though you were just walking.

Kohaku who have a sharp mouth and never hesitate to say something about what is someone saying or doing seemed to just given up and just sighed.

He then say that he wanted to walk together since you two are going to have a meeting with the other crazy:b member. You just reply with a "whatever" , in a bothered tone.

he walk beside you, in every step you take you can feel your heart beating fast.., especially when your hands are so close to touch each other.

luckily Kohaku didn't notice it. If he realized and move his head to your direction you would have been so embarrassed.

After some minute you and kohaku finally arrived at the room just to see himeru sitting on the chair and Unconscious nikki on the floor.

You just sighed and said "I'll be Searching for rinnie dont go anywhere", before exiting the room.

Kohaku nodded and approach the Unconscious nikki on the floor helping him up.

When he finished carrying nikki body to sit on the chair. He can hear his unitmate say something.

"hmm so thats why, [name] said they likes you oukawa, you're really is strong", kohaku turn his face to himeru direction "Pardon, himeru - han?" , kohaku ask.

"Oh did HIMERU said that to loud?, well there's no need to hide it HIMERU guess, and yes [name] do like you they said it themself to HIMERU", himeru explain.

Kohaku was shocked why was this so sudden? and doesnt you hate him just by how you treat him differently from other members.

When he was about to get lost more to his thoughts a voice of a certain man with a red hair can be heard getting in the room.

As you can be seen closing the door of the room and prepared something you wanted to talk about. Everyone then start to sit but that doesn't mean rinnie will stop talking.

Even the sun had started to set, the meeting was over and everyone get out from the room

Himeru said he wanted to go straight to the dorm while Nikki wanted to buy food and was followed by Rinnie.

when you finished cleaning the room and was about to exit by the door you saw kohaku standing leaning on the wall beside the door.

"Are you finished?", he ask

"Obviously", as always you reply with a bothered tone.

Instead of being greeted with a kohaku's angry face as usual, you can see him smiling as he was holding back laughter.

you are confused and start looking at yourself who knows there is something on you so that's why he was holding back laughs.

He let out a small chuckle followed with a "i like you [name] , you like me too right?" The sudden words that come out of his mouth shocked you.

you immediately stated that he was wrong! but the words that came out of your mouth seemed careless and you looked like a whining baby saying random words.

He then move his hand to your mouth and shut you up. "Am i right ?", he ask again knowing the only way you can answer is just to nodded (yes) or shake (no) your head.

Silent was between the two of you, it seems like you're deciding if you should tell him or not.. He finally move his hand from your mouth giving up.

Knowing you doesnt actually hate him its already okay for him after all.

[theminecraftbee]

I’m so interested in the persona au but SO confused,, if you haven’t already, would you mind doing a quick little summary of what persona even is??? is it a game???

i think if you go through the tag i have also already answered some terminology questions, but yes, i can explain on a higher level what persona is! (this post is now under a cut because i use way too many words here, whoops.)

persona, the game series, is a spinoff of SMT. it uses the same demon designs, general affinity/element system, and "one-more" turn-based combat system as the SMT games. SMT isn't that important in this conversation other than that they're known for being relatively difficult RPGs that like talking about philosophical ideas of order and chaos and humanity and also jack frost is there, hee ho.

(note to self: this is my reminder to actually beat SMT V, i was having so much fun with it then i did the thing that's always a risk when i play long RPGs, which is that i got distracted and the fact it was no longer the cart that was in my switch meant that it no longer existed to my poor ADHD brain. i was only like, two bosses in i think, and only like one MAIN boss, i need to. pick that back up. anyway if you want vague thoughts on "designs that inspire my monster designs", SMT demons, actually. like some of them ARE just fairly standard but some of them are really weird. also when i was writing stuffed bird i was playing SMT III on and off so. there you have it.)

anyway, persona is a spinoff of SMT, so like SMT, it has a battle system that heavily focuses on knowing your opponent's elemental weaknesses, using buffs and debuffs to take down bosses, and of course, as mentioned, jack frost is there, hee ho. however, it is set apart from SMT both by the fact you have a defined party (as opposed to recruiting demons to be your party members, sort of except for the protagonist we'll get to that) and by various plot aspects. in addition, "modern" persona games (so persona 3 though 5) have a social simulator aspect along with the RPG that sets those games apart from other RPGs and is one of the most interesting parts of the game.

generally, this au is based on 3 through 5, not persona 1 or 2. i need to... actually play or watch those at some point but stuff about 3-5 is more accessible and more of the vibes i'm going for. (this au is like, ESPECIALLY persona 4 influenced, because i really love persona 4 golden, even given all of its flaws. probably less inane anime bullshit than takes place in persona 4 but listen it's about the VIBES.)

so, what typically happens in a persona game? well, your protagonist, for some reason or another, is moving to a new town, where a supernatural phenomenon is happening. in three its the dark hour, in four its mysterious unsolved serial murders, and in five its the mental shutdowns. there, relatively quickly, your protagonist gets roped into the supernatural phenomena by discovering the other world that shadows live in, and forms a team to fight those shadows and eventually prevent Bad Things from happening. also at the end you fight god. it's been a different god each time! but like. you know. this is an SMT game at the end you fight god,

(persona 5 being my first SMT game left an impression given that it's a game that ends with your persona evolving into literal satan, it giving you a giant gun, and then you SHOOT GOD IN THE HEAD. say what you will about persona 5 the style points here are off the charts.)

the party members in persona games have a "persona". this, like any SMT demon, is a mythological or literary figure. this "persona" gives the party member wielding it magic powers while they're in the other world they do their fighting in. to fight, a persona user summons their persona to use its powers. all of the party members but the protagonist have a single persona that can learn up to eight moves. the protagonist, however, has a special ability - the protagonist can get new personas by recruiting shadows. in 3 and 4, this is done via a minigame involving tarot cards, and in 5, they use SMT's demon negotiation system. the protagonist can switch between these personas on the fly, gaining that persona's skills, strengths, and weaknesses.

in addition, there is the velvet room - a mysterious place only the protagonist can enter, manned by a guy called igor and an attendant. with this, the protagonist can "fuse" two personas to get a new, stronger persona, which inherits skills from its predecessors. the fusion system is complicated and there are many spreadsheets about it online! for our purposes the important thing here is "the velvet room exists".

however, this rpg half is not the only part of persona gameplay. persona, at its heart, is actually a time management game. see, each persona game takes place over a single year. every day that isn't a day you do some plot event, you're given the ability to choose what to do with your day. while "go to the dungeon and fight things" is an option, it shouldn't be what you do most days. most days, you are doing the protagonist's high school life. this is because, to become strong in a persona game, you must form bonds with the people around you by spending time with them. this is known as the social links (or confidants in p5).

each "social link" has its own story with ten ranks, during which the protagonist gets to know them and their deal better. in order to do this, however, the protagonist needs to have high enough "social stats" to do this, which are also raised through activities in the game. (for example, a particular confidant rank may require your character to have high enough "guts", so you go to do activities that raise your "guts".) getting fully ranked-up with a social link gives you benefits in the actual rpg part of the game, but is also important to get the full story out of the game!

all of these activities take time, and you can normally only do like, two activities that pass time during a day. plus, there are additional time-passing activities in the real world that do things like create healing items, raise your stats, or get things that will give you good gear. so one of the key game mechanics of persona is normally "there are a lot of things you want to be doing, and you need to manage your time well to get as many of them as possible done". certain confidants or activities are only available at certain days, but on rainy days you study better, so which do you do?

persona as a story is normally both about the supernatural phenomenon and the demons you fight and about the protagonist and their friends growing up in the real world as well. both the real world and the supernatural world affect the story and the "vibes" of a persona game, to me, have a lot to do with the real-world setting - almost more than the supernatural setting that you do most of the RPG gameplay in, honestly!

(part of why i love persona 4 so much is very directly "inaba feels like a real, specific place to me, and i care for it".)

anyway, if any of this sounds appealing to you, persona 5 royal is now out on PC and basically every console, and persona 4 golden is now out on PC! additionally, persona 4 golden and persona 3 portable have been announced to be out for console and PC this january, if i remember the date right. honestly do highly recommend persona 5 - you'll see a lot of arguments over it being "overrated", but it has so much style and is very, very good at being highly playable even if you don't normally like its style of turn-based RPG gameplay. there's a reason it became so immediately popular. also, as stated, i love persona 4, but that one's a bit less flashy/polished if you don't already like long RPGs. if you DO already like them however... i highly recommend it it's a fun game.

so yeah hopefully this helps!