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@shumari_p4
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@AP0STASIS
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this fucking page man.. prob 1 of my favorites from any anthology . adachi’s empty stare at the happy dojimas and yu noticing and meeting his gaze eerily. the way they cut between the nanako & dojima panels, literally facing each other from opposite sides of the room. its so,,,
thinking about this. their beef goes crazy
for context dojima got drunk and found marie, mistaking her for a runaway whilst marie begrudgingly tried to help him home. the implication is that they’ve just been arguing about it all the way back to dojima’s house
@Krisdice_
what if hear me out. he grows significantly taller throughout the course of p4 but doesn’t replace his shirt and thus the triangle is slowly formed
@aatracoes
after he left the funeral on 10/5 he immediately walked back and snuck inside on his tiptoes like a cartoon character while sneaky snitch played
@Beethovenus
it would be absolutely hilarious if that was the secret boss instead mike the tv
actually yknow what that sounds like a very toby thing to do
i generally don’t care much for the romances in these games but i like the small detail that even in marie’s romance route she never properly confesses to yu, until (after the hollow forest arc) during her valentines event, a trait unique to her.
@snailsoob
we’re going back in time to stop the p4a kings game scene and eliminate chad narukami. thats right. we’re going back in time to fix yu narukami’s fandom perception.
since my mind has been on femcs lately i like the designs people give fem jokers but i really wish people thought about her more. this design goes so incredibly hard. love you akage/redhead femc
i don’t know why people are so averse to getting bad endings in persona games. its not like you get penalized for it you can just reload a save and most of the time you can easily avoid getting it a second time
i like dojima x adachi and izanami x adachi about equally but specifically this izanami x adachi. interest is far less w god form izanami
fake overly cheery eccentric gas station attendant x guy who thinks he’s so much above them yet gets easily manipulated by them. gay people
@ChihiroFinale
w/o aigis, naoto having a gun kind of makes this unfair
she'd be smart enough to keep her distance and take out more key targets with her ammo (the more athletic types, akihiko, sumire, etc)
also kanji canonically just goes around beating up entire gangs of grown men by himself
i think this is a larger issue that stems from souyo being really oversaturated in the fanbase. it’s a similar issue to what happened with tatsujun for a while where aspects of jun’s character were compartmentalized into fitting a certain stereotype of boys love
I dont think there's anything wrong with choosing to view yosukes character through a homosexual lense, I personally do myself, but why does it feel like the idea of him having internalized homophobia only ever gets to be "explored" as a plot device for "yaoi" or as a joke
*looks at several thousand words long notes about yumarie, including analysis, headcanons, and translations*
guys i think i like these two a normal amount.
i love in fandoms when you have people that like/love a ship and then you have that One guy who is THE ceo of that ship. like they are the wise old man who will sit you by a fire and tell you many many stories and facts about that ship. no one knows them like that person does
slight correction here, the first time marie tells yu "I love you" actually comes when she appears in yu's dreams before she goes to the hollow forest. she's under the impression this is not only the last thing she'll ever say to him, but that he'll forget it all regardless
i generally don’t care much for the romances in these games but i like the small detail that even in marie’s romance route she never properly confesses to yu, until (after the hollow forest arc) during her valentines event, a trait unique to her.
its really funny that post-canon Marie is a working woman with a stable income while Yu remains a broke student. Best part is I think Yu would still insist on paying for everything out of habit, which would def tick off Marie now that she actually knows the value of money.
when they hug, i think yu has the tendency to end up burying his face into marie’s hair, or her hat if she’s wearing it.
not much reason why, this just feels right 2 me
@aatracoes
outgayed by literally every party member in her game. lesbians (chie and yukiko), homophobic homosexual (yosuke), mr “i love you sensei” (teddie), the most male-leaning bi man ever (kanji), and naoto shirogane
i shouldn't watch these vids because i know ill just get mad at them but man. he put marie's sl at 4th worst because "all the fun stuff is with the other members and she doesnt start looking for memories until rank 6" that is the fucking point
@uniplantiso
never got why people included it among the worst jokes of the franchise 😭 at worst its painfully unfunny but nowhere near as character-damaging as femc pedo or chad narukami or as game damaging as the oldsona jokes
“asked her to do this” implies that marie and margaret post-p4g still talk to each other (despite marie not being a part of it anymore and margaret having no obligation) to the point where marie can borrow the velvet room as a favor. AFAIK
no other attendant acts like this w any1
i know it to be true in my heart that epilogue marie’s weather reporter outfit has pants with big ass leg openings. like this. idgaf what p4ga shows in that one shot. a1 pictures made that up on the spot as far as i say
@aatracoes
one of my headcanons for marie is that margaret told her about philemon and stuff and 4 days later she found philemon igor yaoi drabbles on the floor of the velvet room. she’s scared to bring it up to marie.
yu simultaneously being a "kind person who engulfs everything" and a "person wearing a mask of deceit" alongside herself in marie's eyes... living a straightforward life, but a lie. im not gonna get over this
A little fun fact! Marie's recitations of her poems in the Hollow Forest are not 1 to 1 to the actual poems themselves. Here's an example. Considering she's talking to Yu in the right one... what a bittersweet way to describe her thoughts on him.
not been having the best day but one of my p4g books has a rlly cute narukuma moment and i thought id share
ill get around to scanning these and the p2 books soon i swear
hey have you guys seen th— *gets shot*
i find this detail so cute. yu working on translating for work and marie looks over his shoulder and is like “you suck at this”, lecturing him about nuances he missed. yu deferring to her when he’s having trouble with english from then on
Fun Fact!
In the ENG Dub, Marie is fluent in French. But in JP, she’s fluent in English, the same language that Yu is a translator for and struggles with. This is ref’d in PQ during their marriage scene, where Yu can say “I love you” incorrectly in French and Marie corrects him.
doing her romance only makes yu confess to her.
it’s not that she doesn’t love yu until that point, the romance route is still, well, romantic, and she clearly understands her feelings, she’s just not mentally ready to say it back until after her arc, likely out of self-loathing
hi implication that marie was just wandering aimlessly around inaba for a while and took in no details or 'memories' of her own (likely fading in & out of existence) until she bumped into yu which snowballed into her getting a name and grounding her identity. how you doing
god this makes me so ill. i really wonder what yu's face looked like here. losing another person close to him and he feels out of control of it all once more, unable to move, unable to even speak, to even say a goodbye. all he can do is watch as he loses another person
the perspective is so distant from him. inside a monochromatic hallway versus the bright white light emanating from the emergency room in front of him. his human form's face isnt visible but instead his literal shadow instead shows his expression.
@Kumokummy
kinda both???? i like the hc that u choose which sibling survives but their lives play out the same so u can kind of view them as mirrors of each other
thinkin about how p4 having jp mythology as the focus centered around izanami/izanagi was apparently one of the earliest decisions made for the game. probably a unique process for the hashino trilogy too, to have its mythology come before its overarching theme
this website is such a fucking joke man what the fuck do you mean these have the same amount. what the fuck do you mean. im on the verge of shooting everyone in this room and then myself
the slightly twisted perspective, the use of yellow standing out ominiously on his face, the lights overhead not emitting any light.. its such a powerful way to show the moment that he disassociated from the world upon seeing nanako's condition
@aatracoes
its insane how little they manage to do with strega w how well set up they are. jin’s ingame characterization is “hes gay as hell for takaya and generally more attached” and “he’s good at internet computer” offhandedly that one time and neither are explored well. big shame
i adore this line by the way. this girl hears the person she holds dearest to her heart say "i love you" and her immediate reaction is that it must somehow be a lie. i could talk for ages about marie's often overlooked self-hatred and how it adds to her sl but. for another time
the point is that at the start she's aimless and only using you to get out of the velvet room rather than a desire to 'deepen a bond' with you. the point is that she has no goal until she sees how much fun the IT has in their interactions and feels like an outsider
current thought: yu and marie both dressing as vampires for Halloween but when yu told her they were gonna dress as vampires, marie only looked into the oldest media about them, so she ends up dressing like nosferatu compared to yu’s goofy ass cartoon vampire fit
despite me posting about him a little less i hope you all know that i am just as insane about bancho/yu/souji as i am about marie. he's jumping up and down in my brain too
im sorry seeing this shallow ass interpretation of her sl makes me so mad every time. it reeks of "i need the character to exposition their arc directly to the player character or they have none"
@Bhivyy
@ChihiroFinale
counterpoint, this scene has akihiko rushing towards takaya as he fumbles for his gun
naoto would be smart enough to conceal her weapon for the most part and use the chaos of the fighting to take out the people she deems most dangerous while they are unfocused
its mildly funny to me how the persona community treats yosuke's “aibou” as a nearly romantic word because of it being translated as "partner" bc my first experience of the word was this dude from saiki k constantly annoying his friend to eat ramen with him