#p4 stuff

[leonawriter]

Chie, to Naoto: "You don't look it, but you really don't like losing, do you?"

Akira, to Akechi: "Really hate losing, don't you?"

I think it's a Detective Prince thing XD

And unlike what many seem to think, I don't think Akechi copies everything from Naoto intentionally. I thin a lot of things are just... a natural part of his personality, or preferences that he picked up that happen to match hers. Like, this? There's no way this could be faked, because neither of them make their competitive nature a part of their public persona.

[sufroyo]

they are like three peas in a pod to me ........

[ariespetal]

Ooeeuuough I just think they're silly <3

bonus:

[aibyoutachi]

redrew some arena sprites

[chiricat]

sorry partner i just think you’re the coolest person on the planet. i have eyes for no one but you btw

[nyamcattt]

paulownia mall purikura ✨

[quartzskies]

the besties!

[a-sketchy]

persona misogyny is so fucking wild. ignoring literally everything else about the entire rest of the games, every single s.link with a female character is like “entirely for having been born a woman i have had to work twice as hard for a fraction of the benefit. even now, i am stripped of my agency in a position i never wanted in the first place” and/or “i’m put on a pedestal by the people in my life because of my looks. men see me as an object to be conquered, women hate me for ‘stealing’ ‘their’ men. if i’m withdrawn i’m a bitch, if i’m friendly i’m easy. because of this, i’m alone” and/or “because of my personality or hobby or lack of cooking skills, i feel like i’m failing at femininity. if being a woman is something i can fail at, then where does that leave me? i’m scared at the loss of my identity and place in society”

like very consistently they present female characters with complex thoughts towards their place in society as women, femininity as a whole, and facing issues stemming from misogyny, and then the payoff is always “my problems were entirely my own fault. i wasn’t strong enough, i was a coward. but now, i’m gonna work hard to be exactly what society expects me to be (which is what i want to be)! i’m gonna do better at femininity (which is still something tangible i can fail at)! i’m going to try hard at making friends (which was my fault for not doing)! all my problems are solved through personal responsibility (that im totally culpable for), effort (which i previously was not putting in), or you, a man! i am Happy and Satisfied with this outcome, can i be Your woman?”

and like hello? why are we here. what the fuck are we doing. why do we keep doing this every single time. can we not do the constant lukewarm attempts at criticizing misogyny so you can jerk off to your own thoughtfulness, while ultimately reinforcing patriarchal systems and brushing off any deeper misogyny-bred issues as a lack of deference to one’s rightful place in society? like maybe don’t do that? for fucking once? just an idea

[yummycrummy]

he doesn't know where he is ever

[crazymecjc]

I’m back with niche souyo content (tsuritama roleswap au)

[dizziiedaikon]

[leonawriter]

reaching Mangetsu Inaba in the playthrough I’m watching, and usually I skip past all of the actual dungeon crawling and levelling and fusing- but someone mentioned Loki in the comments of the video and sure enough, he got made.

As is known, Loki in P4/G is of the Fool Arcana, but Personas are known to move Arcana depending on the social links/confidants available in the game they’re in. 

Funnily enough, though... as far as I’m aware, from P3 and P4 and even P5, the Fool Arcana seems to most often be aptly named. It’s the journey of the protagonist - and their friends - when they’re starting out their journey and being led astray. It’s the path you end up taking when you don’t know the full facts about a situation, so maybe you’re making assumptions, or maybe you’re being lied to.

Spoilers for the games below.

In P3, you’re told by Ikutsuki that if you defeat all of the Full Moon Shadows, then the Dark Hour will end and so will Tartarus vanish, and Shadows - all of it will be over. The protagonist and their friends in SEES want this to happen, they want things to be safe, so they fight with this cause in mind, and they are the Fool Arcana. However, late in the game after you’ve defeated the “last” Full Moon Shadow, the Dark Hour doesn't go away, and it turns out that you were lied to. You’ve actually been enabling the formation of Nyx, the ultimate big bad of the game, all this time. It’s only after this, and understanding what Nyx is, that SEES becomes the Nyx Annihilation Team, and gains the Judgement Arcana.

In P4, the Investigation Team is Yu’s Fool Arcana. They’re searching for “the killer” but they aren’t part of any official investigative squad, police or otherwise; they’re basically just kids stuck in something too big for them. Their only way to move forward is to react to what others (Adachi, Namatame, the Midnight Channel) do, the information they’re given, and there’s little they can do in the way of direct action. In fact, they nearly kill an innocent man and let the real killer go free because they want to have found the killer, having previously been convinced that they’d found “the killer” when even then, if they’d looked at the facts, it wouldn’t make sense. They only become the Judgement Arcana “Seekers of Truth” after not letting assumptions and the desire for easy vindication cloud their minds, and looking at the facts properly.

In P5, the Fool Arcana is “Igor” who isn’t even Igor. Akira is told what to do rather than guided, and - in a rather more literal case than usual - led by the Nose. We see at the end that the Phantom Thieves’ actions, either due to how things are meant to be or how Yaldabaoth has distorted Mementos, we don’t know - have been effectively doing the bad guy’s work for him. In a break from the previous two entries, the Fool Arcana only maxes out right at the end of the game, sure, but after the Judgement Arcana has been unlocked and completed, and they only find out that they have been played for fools right at the end. Interestingly, one could argue that the Phantom Thieves were still being the Fool Arcana right up until January, with how they were led astray not only by Yaldabaoth, but also Maruki.

In a way, the Fool Arcana is the “Trickster’s” Arcana. They’re being made fools of; they’re being tricked, pranked, whatever you want to call it. The purpose of maxing out the Arcana is to grow as a person enough to see this and move past it, having learned from the experience. 

But also, everyone starts as a “Fool” - someone who can be taken advantage of. By understanding yourself, and the world around you, you understand how you were tricked, and how not to be tricked next time.

[qwuilty]

(worlds most melancholy playing of you cant fight the homestuck)

I havent done sprites in a bit but i had a lot of fun doing these, i tried to stick mostly to the canon style and drew most the sprite parts myself besides using nepeta's coat and editing the god tier sprites (also thank you to my partner for helping me decide some especially p1's <3 <3 <3)

Bonus alternate god tier for p3 cause i feel both are fitting for him

[ariespetal]

The girls !!! I love them sm <3

[aibyoutachi]

[chiricat]

souyuri (again)