#makoto speaks

[full-moon-full-team]

I went on a walk across the city. It's... different than what I'm more used to. It's too big for the rural types of places like Inaba, but what I remember of Iwatodai, it's too small. There's very few cars, too.

Where even am I? This place is called Jubilife City, where is that?

[weight-of-the-law]

***** Makoto really does have the Niijimass going strong

"Uhmmm thank you... I think? I didn't know that was something that existed in the first place but I suppose it's good?"

[haliaiii]

I continue to play persona 5 royal (and enjoy it)

[crescentfool]

p3 reload box art + the art book cover!

[astralsoftieart]

the persona protags for maid day!

[unfortunate--moth]

These look bad i dont make these often but here you go. Scatters these like seeds to a bunch of park pigeons

[cookkoo]

'Can you please not?💢'

[fools-swap-askblog]

Do yu/ren’s friends recognize what happened as well?

Ryuji: Hell yeah we noticed somethings off! Our leaders replaced with this weird guy! At least he didn't fight back when we took him away- heh.

Yosuke: I saw my partner vanish right in front of me- how could I not notice! The question now is where did he go-?

[pegasister60]

"[Locus standi Has Been Initiated] ... [MAKE YOUR CASE!]"

-Excerpt from Chapter 13 of Snake Eyes by KillingJoke98.

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Yeah, if he looked at me like that I'd shut up and listen too.

Another fic rec. This banger's a Danganronpa THH fic! Been a while since I've gone here but this lad is dear to me. He has final girl energy and Makoto-typical luck. A fucking terrifying combination, let me tell you!

This fic is ongoing and on hiatus as of me posting this. I fucking promise you it slaps. Give it a shot!! It's got murder and violence and mystery and betrayal and all the makings of a fantastic DR fic, but through the lens of a protagonist who needs a chance to lay down for 18 hours straight. Somebody please crack open your sewing kit-

[suckerforsaikik]

i'll draw this out later but heres the current vision

[full-moon-full-team]

I have a question for those on this website. What is this?

[A photo is posted. It is from a seated position in what looks to be a hotel room, with the camera focused downwards. A remarkably small Ralts, smaller than most of its kind even, is shown grasping at Makoto's pant leg. It seems quite curious, one of its arms curled up to its chin as if pondering something.]

It followed me into the hotel I'm staying at. It was a bit scared of others but is not scared of me for some reason. What is it? Why is it here?

[weight-of-the-law]

Only her fruends get to call her mookoto and haru when she's milking her.. The new big bang milkshakes have been quite the success..

"I... I have no idea WHAT you're talking about but it sounds incredibly lewd! I think you might be spreading rumors that are totally unfounded there anon..."

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

[crescentfool]

the persona 3 protagonist 25th anniversary nui in food appliances!

[the-business-of-misery]

Is this not their vibe?

[unfortunate--moth]

wowie two in one day?!? im bored and writing is hell so here you go