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mom, will you wash my back? this once, then we can forget?

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refusing an impossible wish and settling for one last game of chess.

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Mirrorverse Moira

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🃏its sheotiem

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(The origins of the belief (“the moon is beautiful, isn’t it” = I love you) and even the so-called expected responses are dubious. Some say it’s merely a misconception and that nobody ever uses those phrases in real life. But I decided to use it for this comic anyway because I think it fits akira’s and akechi’s tendencies to speak in riddles.

Plus, I love the idea of akechi saying “I can die happy” to mean “I love you too” in the context of Persona 5 Royal’s good ending.)

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"i woke up in the middle of my surgery

and i watched them botch my heart"

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dance your grief away, little thief

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on the agency of puppets

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(not) a devil

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THE TWO TRICKSTERS

IT'S SHOWTIME! Assorted ShuAke matching profile pictures! More under the cut <3 PSD used

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LET US START THE GAME.

PT: Let us start the game. Part 1 of additional matching Phantom Thief layouts for Noir, Skull, Violet, and Queen! F2U, req'd by no-one.

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IF YOU REGRET, RESET THE GAME.

PT: If you regret, reset the game.

Part 2 of Phantom Thief matching layouts! F2U, requested by no-one.

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THAT'S IT JOKER!

PT: That's it Joker! Matching ShuAke Discord layouts for a pal on Discord! F2U. PSD used

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some akechi minecraft skins i made !!

posting them because i'm quite proud of them :)

download

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once again, society crushes Yusuke’s nudist agenda

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Here's the problem with people asking, "Why couldn't Akechi just quit?" First and foremost, he's only powerful in the Metaverse. Shido controls the law. Shido controls the police. Shido has his cleaner. The very moment Akechi signed on with Shido as a fifteen year old, he was trapped, chained, and any moment of rebellion would turn him into a fugitive if he was lucky. Second, even if he quit, who would he turn to back then? He had no allies and started off as a fifteen year old who had probably been booted out of the system (IIRC, you are left to your own devices once you hit 15 in Japan if you don't have an existing guardian). Sure, he could run away and hide in Mementos, but he'd basically be left to hide from the law without any means to protect himself and without any allies to turn to. He could make connections, maybe, but when society had repeatedly crushed his spirit and treated him like shit, he had no reason to believe it'd work. By the time he met Joker, someone who was willing to just be around him, listen, and just let him be at least a little more true to himself, it was too late because he had blood on his hands, was going to have to turn against the Thieves and thus Joker, and it was all a "sacrifice" he would have to make for a plan that was never going to work. A plan made by a broken fifteen year old who had nothing but a false god's "blessings" to give him even a semblance of power in a world where he had been nothing but powerless. And to ignore this aspect of Goro Akechi is to ignore the message the game was trying to convey the entire time. The Phantom Thieves acknowledge his role as a victim- Shido's greatest victim, in fact. They do so without condoning what he did, but also with an understanding that any one of them could have become him. Akechi is a foil to the Thieves in the truest sense, a combination of the individual themes each Phantom Thief represents, stripped of the unity that allowed them each to find power and comradery.

And the greatest tragedy is that the game was rigged against him from the start. He was always chosen to be an agent of chaos by Yaldabaoth, to be alone, angry, and carve a path of destruction. But at one point, he was a traumatized child in a society that condemned him for the circumstances of his birth, which he could not control.

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ren amamiya / akira kurusu tumblr layouts ! ⠀

made by ﹕essie && maria

requested by anon⠀♡⠀f2u with credit