yo i played persona 5 for the first time (II)
(part 2 of a series, you can find part 1 here)
In this incredibly long chain of posts: Hina taking shape as a character, records of how people gender her, and my reactions to the events of the game, as seen from screenshots of Discord messages I sent.
Sojiro gets off to a good start by not even misgendering the delinquent he took in.
Look, he's trying, at least. That's what matters
In future, Ryuji will consistently forget that Hina is a girl, but he never seems to mean anything by it.
Side note: The mod plans to change the romance options to 4 men and 4 women at some point (as of right now, romances are unchanged, as far as I could tell). Ryuji is going to be one of the male options.
Morgana forgets sometimes as well, but I can't recall a time where he outright calls Hina male, and since, you know, these people are speaking Japanese that's translated for our readability, it's entirely possible that he barely misgenders her at all. Which makes sense, given his whole thing is helping her.
Another change from the mod! Hina can only go into womens' restrooms.
It took about the entire length of the game for me to get to the point where i even tolerate Morgana, though.
Morgana has a different comment on Hina's room.
Takemi: one of the romance options that the mod is planning to keep. The fact that she is a romance option utterly ruins her for me. You will not be seeing much more of her. Hina stopped visiting the clinic after rank 3 of her confidant.
She passes enough to get into the womens' bath with no incident.
I do not have many screenshots from Kamoshida's Palace. I take many more screenshots in later Palaces. Due to that, I miss a lot of Ann's establishing character moments in this recap, so I'll recap her here:
She's one of the romance options the mod plans to keep. She also misgenders Hina more than Morgana but less than Ryuji.
Hina Canonical Character Trait: she's scared of heights
More cute outfits for Hina
Hina transgender moments
Hina eventually has to settle for getting her meds by mail order
MISHIMA is a planned romance option. MISHIMA. There is no larger sign of how few cute boys there are in this game lmao
Sae barely misgenders Hina, but that's just thanks to her barely having any chance to refer to her in the third person for most of the game.
This line works much better with the headcanon, and as a fun side bonus it hurts a lot more!
And I've run out of images. Next post!
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Propaganda:
Pyro
-What are they hiding under there? Not our business!
-There’s a few times in the comic where they joke about Pyro possibly being a woman (one in particular where Soldier seemed to be calling them a woman but was talking about something else)
-I’m trans and obsessed with them
Joker
-There’s something very gender about videogame protagonists that only talk when you pick a dialogue option
-You should’ve seen their disappointed face when they couldn’t wear a dress in one part
-So much cross dressing
-Look at Arsène for even ten seconds
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yo i played persona 5 for the first time (I)
(This post is going to be long, and the ones that follow are liable to be even longer)
I started playing Persona 5 Royal on July 4th of this year.
But I did not want to play as this boy.
Why not? I dunno. I didn't want to. I spent far too much time pretending to be a teenage boy in real life, and I felt no particular desire to do it again.
So, what am I to do? Well, seek out a way to play as a girl instead, obviously.
Which is where this comes in:
An in-development mod to let Joker be a girl instead! Exactly the push I needed to convince me to buy Persona 5 Royal.
So, meet Hina Satou, amateur girl and professional assault-charge-haver.
Hina is significantly shorter than regular Joker. Cutscenes are not adjusted to account for this.
Many animations look really messed up. This is just the price of entry to Hina's beautiful story.
It's at this point, just after the beginning of the game, that we notice...
Much of the script is yet to be changed. So Hina is referred to in masculine terms by a lot of the cast for a lot of the game.
You could take this as just a facet of the incomplete mod and pretend that it isn't happening, or you could do what I did:
Hina Satou is trans! And it's 2016.
So if she's trans, then the lines that change are reflective of how the characters see her.
Everyone just thinks she's a guy who cross-dresses, I guess? Look, the headcanon takes some work.
Given how she looks, people probably wouldn't have even known she's trans if her record hadn't been released by Mishima on Kamoshida's orders.
Some script changes are implemented, however.
In contrast to regular Joker, it seems pretty obvious that Hina's hair is not like that out of a deliberate stylistic choice, but because it just literally will not behave.
Another instance of Hina being short in a cutscene
A change to the entire context of a conversation to take into account Joker being a girl. These are, as of now, few and far between.
This scene is unchanged, despite Hina normally using the womens' side in the bathhouse, so it looks like Hina was peer pressured into joining the Bros Bathing Time
She has to be, like, neck deep in the water to pull off this ruse.
You see how this as-yet-incomplete mod changes the context of so many of the game's lines and events.
It's a well-made mod. The new VA work from Alexa Farron is really good, the models and new outfits look great, and the writing changes, where they exist, are excellent. But its currently in-development state means that my trans headcanon works surprisingly well, and that I got more than a few glimpses through the curtain to the original, unmodded script.
So, now you understand the context. Next time: impressions of the game overall, and my slow descent into madness over this headcanon.
(Next post here, and final post here!)
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So I headcanon Joker as a trans woman and when she started transitioning she had to grow boobs and when she finally started growing them she called a meeting for the Phantom Thieves and just burst into the room yelling "I got boobs!" And everyone else's response was just to yell "boobs!"
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