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three--rings · 12 days ago

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So I'm deep into my Persona 5 feels at the moment and I need to do some screaming.

THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 5!

If you think you might want to play the game, please don't read it and just go in blind. It's so worth it!

Anyway, now that that's out of the way. I need to tell you about My Ship and Why it's Such a Good Ship and it's still taking up huge amounts of room in my head over two years after I finished the game.

Okay, so you have a Detective and Master Thief ship. Great! A+ trope already! We're already having a good time!

The Detective and the Thief meet and they both know who each other is, but are pretending to just be friends (more than friends??). It's secret identity fun with the secret thief spending time with the guy who is hunting him. Except the detective knows he's the thief already and is trying to get in good with him to get info. We're having a blast with the dramatic irony!

But wait, the Thief is actually...a good guy! He got screwed over by corruption and the justice system and so he now fights outside the law to protect people around him! He gets justice by breaking the law! Even better, right!

So now, I hear you say, the Detective and the Thief may start out as enemies (and they do) but actually they're on the same side!

Except....the Detective? He's actually a bad guy. He's working for the big bad. He's been murdering people under orders and is trying to infiltrate the thief's gang to blame his own crimes on them! Oh no!

In fact, he is ordered to Kill The Thief himself! And he does it! (Or thinks he does because actually the Thief figured it out and outsmarted him and didn't get murdered.)

So wow, you're saying. That's really interesting. This is toxic yuri yaoi! REALLY REALLY enemies to lovers! Fake friends to enemies to lovers?

And yes, you're not wrong. BUT there's MORE, because see ACTUALLY while all that is true about the Detective and what he's done...see he's also really really traumatized and he's out to get revenge on his father for his terrible childhood and his mother's death. And his father is the big bad and all of this was part of his elaborate revenge plan and actually he's just motivated by this warped sense of justice.

And actually they're not that different...the Thief even says hey I could have ended up just like you. So it's okay, actually. Let's fight together for justice against your evil dad. I know you did a few murders but I can forgive you.

And then...well...things end in tragedy, of course.

BUT NOT IN FANFIC THEY DON'T! (I mean sometimes they do.)

(Also I'm not getting into how much BETTER this all gets in Royal and everything. Suffice, more stuff happens and it's all very gay and epic and tragic and yeah.)

So yeah. This is why I'm so damn mentally ill about Them. It's like....MATHEMATICALLY the perfect ship. They are narrative foils, they're rivals, they're on opposite sides and then the same side and then opposite sides and then the same side again.

They are also INCREDIBLY OBSESSED WITH EACH OTHER and demonstrably UNHINGED about each other.

So yeah anyway that's Shuake.

#persona 5 #shuake #akeshu #they have at least two ship names #and the thief even has three canonical names #so yanno #I'm reading P5 fic again #and even back to writing it a little #they really have that Forever Ship feeling for me #the most recent addition to the stable #you should play persona 5 though #p5r that is #or I guess watch the anime #if you really can't face a 100+ hour game #threerings plays persona #which is my tag for my reactions to this game

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avenoirn · 5 months ago

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