#p5 stuff

[leonawriter]

I’m sure we’ve all seen the ideas that go around every so often of “Akira just spends most of the interrogation rambling about Goro Akechi” which I don’t think are even fully viable given how out of it he was and how short of a time he had with Sae, but-

I give to you: 

Sae brings up Akechi and knows they know each other somehow, asks for Akira’s opinions on him, and when Akira remembers Akechi and brings him to mind, instead of rambling on, this bruised and battered boy just gives a kind of goofy smile and mumbles out something about how “pretty” Akechi is that’s mostly just him not realising he’s thinking aloud.

Akira having the drugs make him not ever give blatant details, but sometimes his filter just goes out the nonexistent underground window and in the middle of trying to explain an Akechi-related incident just goes “...which was actually kind of hot of him” and an interjection of “stupid sexy Akechi” at another time, because she’s keeping him on track but his brain is still fuzzy. 

Those sorts of comments get scarcer and fewer and further between the closer they get to the present day, the more Akira remembers, the less time they have, the more he seems to hurt as he’s trying to just remember.

It’s hard to forget that first smile he’d had about her erstwhile assistant, though, which had made him look like a normal kid with a normal crush. Harder still when she realises with a cold shiver down her spine that Akechi, the same Akechi she’d worked with and that Akira had smiled about, was the perpetrator of the crimes she’d been after so long, who was perfectly wiling to kill Akira.

Even harder still to forget when Akechi just disappears, and they tell her he’s dead, and she can still remember that smile when she looks Akira in the eye and sees grief reflected back at her, even if the only Akechi she’d known had been a fake thing he’d put on for her.

She worries, in so many ways, wondering if Akira hasn’t just been remembering the cute face he met, but forgetting the real self underneath. Looking back on the past with rose-tinted glasses.

And then almost a year later, she’s sat in a café with Goro Akechi, who is very much alive, but also appears to be more the kid she’d remembered than she’d expected and at the same time something else that she didn’t know how to handle all of the time. Sometimes he’s a different person entirely to her. A stranger. But then he’ll use the exact same mannerisms, have the exact same logic to reason out a problem, and the exact same...

Ah, she thinks. She’d been used to looking for weaknesses in suspects as a prosecutor. She’s likewise become used to looking for the truth in her clients, and in witnesses. The two sometimes coincide. Right now, she's seeing how Akechi is avoiding one topic in particular.

She isn't sure what, exactly, spurs her on to tell him about the way Akira had smiled and talked about him, but the fact remains that his face turns several shades of pink she’d never thought it could go. He outright squeaks.

The next time she sees Akira, he’s got that same smile on his face. It looks a lot better when he isn’t drugged up or bruised.

[sufroyo]

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

[leaff0dil]

Some persona art dump

[artianwen]

[ devo - puppet boy ]

"living my life under this pressure ... demanding the results that you want ...

and now you're all branding me a failure?"

[hypogryffin]

a collection of text posts again, but this time yusukes the main character. of life [part 1, 2}

[tricksterlatte]

Third semester Mementos convo but it goes like this

[chiricat]

wip dump since i’ve hit artblock for the first time in a while…

1. neon genesis evangelion x persona protags

2. persona kizunas (from prsk)

3. rise & airi swap places (with yu & shizuku supporting)

4. airiena sanrio collab

[endlesslytired]

[alexsiple]

high score

[andtheyreonfire]

biblically accurate shuake textposts. or something

bonus:

[leonawriter]

I just finished the P1 manga, and it gave me a different angle on what I think is a pre-existing idea for Akechi in Maruki's reality, which is that the Akechi we see and that Akira interacts with from about Christmas Eve onward is actually some sort of mix between a cognition and his own Shadow, brought about from Akechi himself being in a coma and not even able to interact with the world.

The more they go through Maruki's palace and experience his reality, the more "Akechi" figures out something's off, but refuses to stop fighting because even if he isn't real, that doesn't mean he thinks the world should be turned into Maruki's playground just so that he can continue to exist.

Akira meanwhile only finds out on 2/2, where Maruki's convinced that the real Akechi is dead, only for Akechi to say that if that were true, then "he" would not be able to exist - but Maruki bites back with "perhaps so, but neither of you have any surety that he's going to wake up, and he won't remember any of this if he does." (Essentially, what Naoya has to face when they defeat Pandora and have things turn back to normal, with Ideal Maki disappearing.)

So here, Akira has to face the idea that even if Akechi's technically "alive," he might not wake up, and even if he does wake up he won't remember any of January because in a way that wasn't the real Akechi who went through all those things with them, had that Showtime, fought alongside them, experienced those moments of friendship... and Akira's going to lose the progress he'd made when they revert reality.

But they do fight, because the hope that the real Akechi's going to wake up is more important, and they'll always be able to make new memories (and Cognition-Shadow Akechi goes "fuck it, I'm about to disappear so it doesn't matter what I do, I can confess to the boy I like if I want to" before he goes).

Akechi wakes up a month or two later, not able to remember anything but having a vague sense that something happened. Sooner or later, they find him or he finds them, and sometimes there's these awkward moments of "didn't I already tell you that?" and re-living things that one side has already experienced but that are brand new to the Akechi who never lived through them the first time.

[daz4i]

i like driving around in gta v while listening to music. usually persona music. made this to embody what it feels like

[gertritude-art]

god gave me special powers so i can murder my dad! yippee!!!

[sicklyjelly]

day 6: wings

Akechi claims he can't really control them in any meaninful way, but moments later the wings smack Joker in the face. How strange!

based on my drawing of Akechi with an Arsene-inspired thieves outfit!

[mildlycuriousdragon]

Finally - the part 2 to the 2/2 post :D Jose sought out an alive Akechi after seeing Mister this lonely and hurt for months~

Bonus doodle:

[tricksterlatte]

The human members of the Phantom Thieves, defined...