#sae niijima

[smokedhamu]

P5 X AITSF I am back with more crossover brain rot, this time with Akechi & Ren being Psyncers. Also Sae as Boss, I am feeding myself at this point-

#p5 #p5r #aitsf #crossover #p5 aitsf AU #au #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #goro akechi #akechi #sae niijima #morgana p5 #loki persona 5 #shuake #akeshu

[sketchy--akechi]

apply cold water to burned area

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #akechi goro #goro akechi #niijima sae #sae niijima #liz art #hah! you better have BURN HEAL!

[ca-3]

twitter is distracting cause i keep saving tweets to draw... anyway, this is MakoHaru to me 🤭

(Bonus: big sis is here to help....?)

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #ca3 art #makoto niijima #haru okumura #comic #makoharu #?? #QueenNoir #okujima #this ship is so hard to tag #also this got WAY too popular on twitter for some reason... got 33k likes and im still in shock why and how #i think the sapphics were relating too hard but honestly same #sae niijima #kinda salty it got so popular cause its now my most popular tweet and i low key half assed this comic 😭 but glad ppl thought it was funny

[kx0e]

why sae niijima from persona 5 is a lesbian, in this essay i will

thank you for coming to my ted talk

#art #doodle #persona 5 #sae niijima #tae takemi #kuon ichinose

[kurumeuruki]

Idk Akechi, is it crush or anger?

I was so close to dropping this and letting it chill in my WIPs after a workload just got dumped on me but we good. I prevailed! \O/

still on dat shuake yuri grind on oct lezgooo i think? might revert back to normal shuake. who knows.

and I prob need to clear my inbox, i kept forgeting I got mail.

#persona 5 #genderbend #goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #sae niijima #akeshu #shuake #my art #comics #p5 comics

[crocrubies]

let's do this fair and square

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 #p5r #sae niijima #shadow sae #persona #j's art #loosely based on an old piece from 2020 that i will not be sharing lmao #i just got csp (was a medibang user before 🙄) #so im playing around w it i loveeee the textures n shit lol

[personallyfive]

i've fallen in love and the only person who i can talk to is a cat

#art #comic #pegoryu #rei akiba #persona 5 protagonist #morgana #persona 5 #Sae Niijima #ren amamiya #p5 morgana

[vashtijoy]

Something I've noticed for a while is that Akechi doesn't appear to say that he was in foster care in the Japanese script.

Akechi おかげで僕は、色んな所を転々とさせられて、まあ、今じゃ気ままな一人暮らしだけどね。 okage de boku wa, ironna tokoro o tenten to saserarete, maa, ima ja kimamana hitori kurashi da kedo ne Thanks to him, I was passed from foster home to foster home. But, I do quite well by myself these days. After that, nobody would keep me for too long, so I got moved about a lot. But now I'm alone and free to live as I choose.

There are a few interesting points here:

おかげで okage de, "thanks to"

Akechi does not specify what or who he's crediting here; the translator has glossed in "thanks to him". IMO it's more likely to be "because of the death of my mother"—the thing he was just speaking of. Shido is responsible, but (at least according to Akechi's flow of speech) he is slightly indirectly responsible.

転々とさせられて tenten to saserarete

tenten to suru, in this context, means moving around often from place to place; living at a lot of different addresses. But note the passive-causative on suru here, saserareru. This is something that was done to Akechi, something others inflicted on him, something he experienced as a profound negative. This was bad. Looking at what he goes on to say later—"so someone would want me around!"—I've tried to capture this with "nobody would keep me".

Also note that tenten to suru, while not usually violent in this "moving about" context, is also a term for e.g. kicking a ball around, which again makes it an interesting choice of words.

気ままな一人暮らし kimamana hitori kurashi

This is a set phrase, essentially meaning "a free and carefree life alone"; it's used, often with a little irony, to describe the joys of living alone, or of being single. Note that Akechi does not mean this—he sounds (JP audio) miserable as fuck, and he's brought this up, rather ineffectively, to try and lighten the mood.

It comes across as "I was alone, and I'm still alone, but at least now I'm alone on my own terms and can do as I please"—which he knows is untrue, and we know is untrue, and Ren and Futaba can surely tell is untrue.

By the way, this quick use of a throwaway stereotype, as if it explains everything—ima ja kimamana hitori kurashi da kedo ne—is one of Akechi's verbal tricks; he becomes laconic in this way when he touches on things he doesn't want to discuss, things that are sensitive to him.

This is how he explains to the others in the engine room that he's illegitimate, for instance—tsumari kakushigo sa, "In short, I'm his secret child", kakushigo ("hidden child") here being a popular term, with no real English parallel, for the secret or unacknowledged child of someone famous or powerful.

You could maybe render his line here as a detached-sounding "but now I'm footloose and fancy-free", for the same effect.

色んな所 ironna tokoro

This is what has been translated "foster homes", but it just means "all sorts of different places":

Akechi 色んな所を転々とさせられた ironna tokoro o tenten to saserareta I was passed around from pillar to post.

So: he was passed from place to place, from pillar to post. Like a pebble rolling on a beach, or a ball being kicked around a field. Do we know what any of those places might have been? No; he doesn't tell us. There's IMO nothing here to suggest that he was in the care of the state—but equally, there's nothing that excludes it.

But Akechi returns to this in the anime, in Proof of Justice—and he is far more specific:

Akechi だから、母が死んだあと��、親戚の間を転々として行ったね。 dakara, haha ga shinda ato wa, shinseki no aida o tenten to shite itta ne After my mother died, I was passed around my relatives.

Anime Akechi gives us more detail, again with tenten to suru, but he removes a lot of the emphatic force—we gain the detail that he was with his relatives, but we lose that outraged passive-causative, that makes it clear this hurt him—what I've tried to capture with "nobody would keep me for long" up at the top. It's possible, of course, that the difference in tone is to do with the different tone in the two scenes—game Akechi is at a very low point, while anime Akechi seems reflective and chill.

But is this canon? Well, usually when the game and the anime contradict, I prefer the game for its lack of adaptation drift. But there are a couple of occasions when the anime seems to clarify things that were not clear in the game text—and IMO, this is one. Per the game, Akechi was passed from place to place; the anime clarifies that those "places" were with his relatives.

TBH, even the localisation's "foster home" doesn't necessarily imply state foster care; a relative who takes you in is a foster parent. Of course, if you want a backdoor here (which is in no way required, I'm not your mum), he never suggests how long he stayed with his relatives....

does anything in-game support this?

Well, there's one thing in the game that supports this reading, and it's actually on 8/28 itself. Immediately after Akechi says he was passed around after his mother's death, Futaba does this:

Remember, Futaba already does not like Akechi. She resents him for his pursuit of the Phantom Thieves, even before she suspects him of killing her mother. Yet when he mentions his sad past, she connects with him.

Why is that? It's because Futaba, too, was passed between her relatives—with the results we all know: they were abusive, exploitative and cruel, leading to her being rescued by Sojiro. The game draws an explicit connection here between Futaba and Akechi—suggesting that they have this backstory in common, of being passed between abusive relatives. It suggests we can glean a little more about Akechi's past by looking at what we learn about Futaba's.

And she was rescued; he was not. They both turned to crime to work off some of what they endured—but Futaba retained her moral centre, while Akechi fell off the edge. This is why she tells him what she does in the engine room: "You thought [being alone and not trusting anyone] was enough, right? That part I totally get."

but isn't he just lying his ass off here?

BTW, as to whether Akechi is just trying to ingratiate himself with Futaba (or with Ren) on 8/28—I don't think so; I think he tries, and then gives up after his performative cut-in. We just saw him trying to ingratiate himself with Sojiro—his failure there, at the start of the scene, is what upsets him and opens him up. So far, so good.

Is he trying to get in with Wakaba Isshiki's daughter, to continue his pursuit of her research on Sae's behalf?—the reason he was at Leblanc in the first place? No, because he never mentions it to Futaba, ever again.

What Akechi will do later is stand up for her, on 9/13, protesting Sae's threat to remove her from Sojiro's custody:

Sae: There have been frequent occurrences of mental shutdowns surrounding Okumura recently. Sae: If only there was a clear connection between him and the Phantom Thieves… Sae: Well, it would be problematic if there wasn't one. Akechi: So you're jumping the gun here. Akechi: You really told a man you would terminate his parental authority based purely on your speculation?

... and notice what he's doing here. Akechi clearly already knows about Sae's threats to Sojiro; she does not explain them in this scene. And Akechi has clearly not questioned her on it, as long as he thinks there's a reason for it. When it turns out there isn't one? He calls Sae out. Because Akechi knows what's it's like to be a child with nowhere to go.

Sure, it's not beneath him to throw Futaba to the wolves—or, ultimately, to try to kill her in the engine room. But he views it as distasteful, as unjustified, and as wrong. He knows gratuitous cruelty when he sees it—and it repels him. He knows the difference between right and wrong—he's just elected to ignore it.

And he expects far better than this from Sae.

revision history

click here for the latest version.

v1.2 (2023/11/21)—typos, plus extra context for the game and anime scenes.

v1.1 (2023/11/20)—reblog w/ additional commentary.

v1.0 (2023/11/20)—first posted.

#persona 5 #p5 meta #japanese language #goro akechi #futaba sakura #sae niijima

[troloyunu]

saetaeeee! i think sae should get a gf actually she deserves it

#saetae #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #sae niijima #tae takemi #trolart #wlw

[taitavva]

the consequences of taking any wayward child with red eyes under your wing ....

(sequel to this + full text under cut)

#akechi is surrounded by people who refuse to speak more than 2 sentences at a time #(ignoring shido: windbag extraordinaire ofc #what is a detective prince supposed to do ??? #i tried copying the tactica art style for the full text #i think he's cute ... #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #procreate #2023 #goro akechi #sae niijima #3 hours #it took me like an hour to type that out tbh #ignore any grammar mistakes i totally proofread that block of text #this is my “he would NOT say that” moment #taitavva sketches

[gzeidraws]

sisters swap ⚖

#persona 5 #ace attorney #sae niijima #makoto niijima #ema skye #lana skye #crossover #gyakuten saiban

[little-knight-3]

(Goro blushing sprite made by townslore)

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #persona 5 memes #shuake #akeshu #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #goro akechi #ann takamaki #haru okumura #futaba sakura #sojiro sakura #sumire yoshizawa #ryuji sakamoto #hifumi togo #sae niijima #makoto niijima #suguru kamoshida #takuto maruki #munehisa iwai #memes #if anyone wants these without the characters feel free to text me btw

[bearholdncat]

Fuck it here's some more with Ryuji as more or less the main character

#persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #persona #ryuji sakamoto #pegoryu #goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #haru okumura #futaba sakura #makoto niijima #yusuke kitagawa #sae niijima #sumire yoshizawa #kasumi yoshizawa #p5 shitpost #textpost

[ca-3]

I wanted to wait until I made more Omori x P5 screens before I shared them here too, cause I like how they all look together in a gif set. But I can just share the individual sprites I made too! 💕 Enjoy! I'll make more when I finally get the chance! ✨️🫶🏽

#persona 5 #omori #persona 5 royal #omori game #crossover #video games #ca3 art #gif #ryuji sakamoto #yusuke kitagawa #ann takamaki #sae niijima #makoto niijima #persona 5 joker #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #the friends fight took all my braincells #it was so hard fitting them nicely in the frame #especially Yusuke cause hes so tall #animaton #i had these on Twitter and Instagram only because Twitter makes it easy to make art threads and Instagram likes reels anyways so #feel free to suggest more ideas for these!! i have some ideas already but havent been able to finish them 😢 #originally made these in like March??? #P5 x Omori #persona 5 royal spoilers #??

[kx0e]

doodle

#persona #p5 #p4au #tae takemi #mitsuru kirijo #sae niijima #doodle #art

[hilacopter]

Gather 'round folks, you know what time it is 😛

I edited Joker's sprite myself to make him blush which is why it looks bad

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#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #persona 5 strikes #persona 5 text posts #persona 5 shitposts #yusuke kitagawa #futaba sakura #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #p5 joker #p5 sophia #haru okumura #ryuji sakamoto #ann takamaki #makoto niijima #sojiro sakura #sae niijima #pegoryu