#fandom-p5

[lyriablackfrost]

Title: Same Mistakes Fandom: Persona 5 Ship: Akechi/Ryuji Rating: T Warnings: Trauma, Mention of Death Words: 1529 Synopsis: Seeing Ryuji pushing himself too far brings back feelings Goro wished he could forget.

Prompts used: @badthingshappenbingo - Worked Themselves to Exhaustion @hurtcomfort-bingo - Stroking Someone's Hair @seasonaldelightsbingo (Winter Wonderland) - Eyes Filled With Tears

My cards under the cut.

#lyriaswriting #fandom-p5 #ship-ryugoro #challenge-bth #challenge-hcb #challenge-sdb

[easyaesthetics]

Shuake & tweets - Happy 11/20!!!

#I am an unapologetic prince outfit hater LMFAO #it did grow on me & I like it for its symbolism but I will nvr forget how excited I was to see his thief outfit when we entered the casino #and then saying ‘oh. that looks awful.’ ALOUD TO MYSELF IN MY ROOM HAHAHAHHA #I love him so much that I’m willing to overlook it tho <3 #IT NEEDS MORE RED!! the white looks so unbalanced 😭 #anyway YEAH happy 11/20!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 my second 11/20 in the fandom :))) #persona #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #mine #akeshu #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #sae nijima

[luckykoifishing]

I forgot that I never posted this one on tumblr

#artists on tumblr #fan art #artwork #persona 5 #persona 5 fanart #persona 5 fandom #artistsoninstagram #anime art #digital artists #digital art #yusuke kitawaga #p5 yusuke #my art

[beyondplusultra]

any excuse to challenge you.

— 11.11 happy pocky day, akeshu!

#persona 5 #p5 #goro akechi #akira kurusu #akeshu #shuake #ren amamiya #pocky day #i realized that this ENTIRE time i have never drawn any pocky day art for any fandom and i had to remedy that immediately #my art #art 2023

[amiedeselfes]

I just realised that akeshu and their justice ideals and perceptions in the story is even more symbolic that I thought.

Hear me out. Akechi for his justice has decided to sacrifice others for it. He has tricked, manipulated, killed and hurt so many for his revenge, his justice.

Ren instead, to face the injustice he has gone through, has decided to sacrifice himself for others. To save people, to stop assaults, violence, gaslighting and manipulation from many palace rulers, he has put himself into danger. He has gone throught police interrogation and even death itself for his justice. It's a sacrifice of himself he makes for others to not live what he has gone through. He does it so justice prevails, true justice to his eyes.

BUT! In the boiler room, their vision of justice shatters. At this very moment, for Akechi's justice to prevail he doesn't sacrifice others but himself. And for Ren's justice to prevail he must let him do so, let someone else be sacrificed for his justice.

The parrallels in there makes me insane. Why are they like this.

#persona 5 #ren amamiya #goro akechi #akeshu #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #engine room #WHY ARE THEY GAY THIS WAY #they are constantly in my head #fandom takes #characterization

[cowardlybean]

oh god it’s a doodle invasion everybody run oh god they’re taking over

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #cowardly draws #morgana persona 5 #morgana p5 #suprisingly. He’s there #shigeo kageyama #dimple mp100 #dimple #I’m not tagging all thus #ritshou #theyre there #Also tidbits of other fandoms but not significant enough to tag

[ragecndybars]

persona characters ranked by ability to drive

(i know most of them canonically can't but we're assuming a few years have passed here and they all ended up getting their licenses for the sake of argument)

#Persona 5 #P5 #Persona 4 #P4 #Persona 3 #P3 #Persona 2 #P2 #Megami Ibunroku Persona #P1 #sorry if thats not the right tag i haven't finished the game yet so i'm not plugged into the fandom

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Propaganda:

Propaganda for Hualian: "Xie Lian is a god and Hua Cheng is his devoted believer, which is very yuri. They've also been separated for 800 years, which is very yuri too. Oh and they've been through The Horrors! With one of them forced to helplessly watch as the other suffered unimaginable pain! Now that's extremely yuri of them, if magical girl animes are to be believed..."

"What's more yuri than 800 years of devotion? Nothing that's what! Ghosts usually move on and disappear after a century of so, Hua Cheng is fueled by love so strong he very literally crawled out of hell, became a Ghost King, fought and defeated 33 gods and searched for his love for centuries until they were finally able to meet again. Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are so yuri there's an entire section of the fandom that just draws/writes them as women, not too weird since being separated and then connected by fate to ultimately defeat a really powerful evil god together is sapphic culture"

Propaganda for Akeshu: "They go on an aquarium date which is yuri coded"

"The gender of it all"

#guy yuri round 1 #hualian #akeshu #persona 5 #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #ren amamiya #goro akechi #hua cheng #xie lian #tgcf #shuake #(i dont know this fandom but those seem to be the right tags for these guys?) #akira kurusu #(why does this man have like 5 names?) #p5 joker #guy yuri poll

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

akechi's "i do not regret with my choices i'm rather proud" line in no more what ifs is so widely misunderstood it drives me nuts. it's a coping mechanism guys. it's a lie.*

(*that has an element of truth to it, as most of akechi's lies do.)

like. there's this trend to take the line at face value. he doesn't regret what he did for shido. he doesn't feel bad or think he did anything wrong. he has zero remorse. but you shouldn't take anything akechi says at face value, and regret and remorse are two very different things.

there's a lot to unpack here, so bear with me as i try to break it all down.

so okay, the source of this whole misunderstanding--the line in no more what ifs. i've gotten into this before in my analysis of the song, but the context of it is specifically in maruki's reality. goro is looking back on his life and thinking about where he ended up because of his choices. he's thinking, was i a fool? did i mess up? was there a better way? this line of thinking is reflected within the game itself when he explicitly says in the engine room that he wishes he met akira sooner, but that it doesn't matter what he wants because it's impossible to change what happened.

but here's the thing--that impossible wish he made in the engine room, where things were different and he and akira could be friends? it's no longer impossible. it's literally right in front of him. but it has a catch. accepting the reality of his impossible dream comes at the cost of being himself. all his choices and agency will be stolen, including the choices he made in the past that got him here. so he's left with one last choice--accept maruki's reality, give into his desires, and lose himself. or accept the choices he made for himself, and the consequences that came with them.

so, his conclusion in the song is that any what if's and regrets are pointless. he cannot afford to regret. he must be proud of what he did and who he is. goro is terrified of losing himself and being forced into becoming another puppet like he was for shido. (and notice--him acknowledging that he was a subservient puppet before, as he does on 2/2, requires that he's aware that the choices he is so apparently proud of weren't entirely his own. he was pushed there by someone else. he still blames himself for being manipulated, but a part of him knows that what he did for shido was wrong, and that he shouldn't have done it. doesn't sound like someone completely without regrets to me.) so he has to hold onto his choices and be proud of them. he can't let himself be tempted. the price he'd pay for them is far too high.

so, yeah. it's a coping mechanism. he's forced into that conclusion by his circumstances. akechi does regret where life has brought him and how he got there and the choices he's made, but regret is pointless, because he can't change the past and he can't accept maruki's future. so he chooses not to regret. people like him can't let themselves regret.

but of course, that's not all. in a post-canon world where he lives, goro isn't going to suddenly break down and be filled with remorse. because like i said, his feelings are complicated, and he still has his pride. akechi doesn't want to admit his faults or his weaknesses, and he does still think the people he targeted deserved it. so is he remorseful? yes and no. he is aware what he did was wrong, and that it was all for absolutely nothing. but he still doesn't view the world as something worthy of saving or protecting. to him people are all still inherently evil, save perhaps for akira, so what he did was both deserved and negligible, because the people he hurt were on the path of destruction regardless of him anyway.

so feeling for his victims and experiencing true remorse is going to be a process of recovery. at the same time, akechi still has the innocent child who wanted to be a hero hidden inside him. part of him does care, it's just been so neglected he isn't aware of it most of the time. that part of him began to be reawakened with akira and would continue to be as he makes connections, especially with the people he hurt like the phantom thieves.

which is part of why i think akechi befriending and reconciling with the thieves is so important! he needs to face the consequences of his actions and realize what he did didn't just hurt evil people, but innocents too. he needs to learn to see people as beings who can change, who are redeemable and are good. that people can love him even if he's done horrible things. and as he realizes these things about himself, he will eventually start to realize that it's true about the rest of the world, too.

goro wants to believe in the world, and in people. he doesn't anymore, but he wants to. when he starts to believe in people again, that's when he'll be able to finally be honest about his past mistakes, and feel true remorse for his actions and mistakes, and be able to start to make amends. the parts of the detective prince that reflected the little boy who believed in truth and justice are still in him somewhere, he just needs a lot of time, self reflection, recovery, and help to rediscover those parts of himself.

another aspect of this is how akechi voluntarily turns himself in. i do think there are ulterior motives here, mainly that he can be the one to help convict shido. it's also self-destructive, a way to sort of end his life when literally doing that didn't work. it's the path of least resistance, where he never has to truly look back on his crimes and self reflect because well, he's paying for his crimes anyway, so who cares. it's the easy out. but it also shows that he is aware what he did was wrong and that it's right for him to try to make amends. goro isn't totally without remorse or regret. his remorse and regret literally pushed him into trying to kill himself. he's just very, very bad at coping with them, and so chooses instead to repress those emotions like he has been for years.

okay, so, conclusion. stop forcing in lines in comics and fic where akechi is like "I don't regret!" without also portraying the nuance lying beneath that line. how in third sem it's a coping mechanism, and otherwise it's a shield keeping him from being honest with himself about his past and his ruined dreams of being a hero. remorse ≠ regret, and goro feels both but to different extents and different reasons. he hates his victims, but he's deluding himself about their guilt, and once that delusion crashes down and he sees that he's hurt innocents, he's going to have to deal with a lot of intense feelings like his already existing self hatred.

akechi isn't some heartless killer who feels nothing for his victims. he's only using that idea of himself as a coping mechanism. he forced himself to become that by repressing the parts of him that care until he can barely feel them anymore. he isn't just the black mask, he is also the detective prince. he's both. akechi is and always will be both sides of himself, even when he tries so hard to shut one of those sides down and ignore it as an aspect of the truth. you can't write akechi well until you understand that. akechi is always both.

so, does akechi regret? well...it's complicated.

#p5 #goro akechi #sera posts #there is a separate but related meta about goro and agency that I want to make but its much less about goro as a character #and more about how both the game treats what he did and how the fandom does and how both are lacking #the nuance that the situation should be treated with #yet again another meta for another day #but hey I finally made the regrets meta I've been wanting to do this for foreverrrr #when I say forever I mean forever. I had a draft saved about this from almost two years ago lol #cw suicide #just in case bc of that one paragraph #sera talks goro

[moeblob]

Me: Gonna doodle a little something! Me, over an hour later: well that didn't really come out as simple as I was hoping but okay.

#persona 5 #p5d #yusuke kitagawa #ann takamaki #ryuji sakamoto #hewwo p5 fandom i bring you dancing art

[t-rexzz]

put the beast in shujin

#the worlds most overworked student council #goro akechi #makoto niijima #persona 5 #p5 #p5r #p5 royal #haven't posted in 7 months comes back with a completely different fandom ummmm #rexs art xp

[lyriablackfrost]

Title: Lingering Darkness Fandom: Persona 5 Ship: Akira/Ryuji Rating: T Warnings: Nightmares, Anxiety, Swearing Words: 6539 Synopsis: Something changed after his almost death at Shido’s palace. At first, Ryuji thinks he is just tired. However, no matter what he does, the feeling that part of him is perpetually trapped in the Metaverse only gets worse with time. Akira is the first one to see through his cheerful facade, and tries to help him find the reason for that change.

Prompts used: @badthingshappenbingo - That's Not Normal @hurtcomfort-bingo - Learning to Be Loved @seasonaldelightsbingo - Pressing Foreheads Together

My cards under the cut.

#lyriaswriting #fandom-p5 #ship-pegoryu #challenge-bth #challenge-hcb #challenge-sdb

[nekupilled]

I hate it that the “if you like the main character you’re boring/a fake fan” myth is so normalized 😭

like the most devoted fan of a main character probably has every single thing about them memorized. every fact. every character and their relations. they know them all.

#this is about joker from p5 too btw #but it’s about you know who (percy #pjo fandom #pjo #pjo hoo toa #heroes of olympus #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians

[futabazine]

All-out Attack! There are only two weeks left to fill out our interest check!

#persona 5 #persona 5 zine #persona #futaba sakura #sakura futaba #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #zine interest check #zine #fan zine #fandom zine

[jingyuan-doodles]

the nerds are hanging out

#daily jing yuan #honkai star rail #jing yuan #jing yuan honkai star rail #dan heng #dan heng honkai star rail #my training for drawing p5 joker is of use for another fandom #one of the dan heng reqs!

[specterthief]

back again with the twitter reposts, akira text posts this time

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #joker p5 #shitpost #mine #fandom: persona