Maybe the real Persona 6 was the friends we made along the way
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you like to talk about the future as if it's real and when you tell me that you love me I can almost feel it
hello hello ^_^ i was wondering if you could talk a bit about ronnie? i keep seeing your reblogs and thinking "waow that's so character!!" and i simply must know precisely what sort of gordian knot of diseases you have given her.
GASPPP it would be entirely my honor to talk about Ronnie as much as you'd like!!!!! I'm so happy she's caught your eye! ^w^
(here's the girl! :3)
First things first, you should know she's a Date Everything OC. But all you need to know if you aren't familiar with it is that they're all object gijinkas.
So! Ronnie here is a vintage luxury wrist watch :) She's ambitious, charismatic, charming, perfectionistic, very romantic, and perhaps more than just a little bit self-absorbed :P
Ronnie's well aware that she's, first and foremost, a status symbol, and that her timekeeping skills are secondary. As such, she's very concerned with her image and her reputation.
(More under the cut because I ended up rambling quite a bit lmao)
There are two aspects of her reputation that Ronnie is particularly concerned with:
On one hand, she must be beautiful, eye-catching, elegant, refined, luxurious. It's what she was made for. She has very ambitious plans for the future, involving fine dining, international travel, high fashion, all that rich people stuff. She is not just any watch, she is THE watch, she is a princess, and she'll make sure you (you as in, the player character) know that.
She's special and destined for greatness - and the fact that she's in your possession means you must be special and destined for greatness too! Not everyone can have a watch like her, after all. She's very exclusive. And it's her responsibility to make her wearer look very important!
(This also gives her kind of a jealous + competitive streak when it comes to other watches and other timepieces in general. She has to be the best and the only one or else she is nothing)
On the other hand, she really wants to be seen as a good person. Any luxury item can be a spoiled rich kid, sure, but no one likes a spoiled rich kid, and Ronnie really, really needs that kind of validation. So, being a princess is not enough. She has to be chosen by her subjects.
For this reason, she's become kind of a social butterfly, always going around the house performing good deeds, building rapport with people, helping organize events, trying to get on everyone's good side in case something happens and she needs their support...
She isn't always great at it though :p You might have guessed from me calling her self-absorbed that she's not as good at reading people as she'd like to believe, but hey! To some extent at least she at least tries to adapt to different people's personalities and say what she thinks they want to hear (as long as she thinks they're worth her time, anyway).
It's tiring enough for her to walk that tightrope, but she'd probably be able to handle it if it weren't because there's a catch.
The thing is [SPOILERS] she's not a genuine luxury watch! She's a fake, a counterfeit, more specifically a Frankenwatch. Some parts of her are genuine, but some aren't and this is the crux of all her issues.
In theory, a complete fake would know exactly who they are and who they are pretending to be, right? But Ronnie's in a strange gray area in-between. Is she a victim, the genuine watch whose heart was torn out and now has to relearn how to be herself, or is she the monster, a parasite who's taken over someone else's life? Such questions haunt her.
I generally say that she's piloting a dead man's body after his death, because she was mostly made from his body parts, but that's a bit of an oversimplification. Sure, there was one specific watch she was modelled after, who she was made to replace, BUT it's more accurate to say that she was stitched together from parts taken from different watches Frankenstein style. Or, as I like to put it, her body is a graveyard. Maybe that's kind of a dramatic way to word it, haha.
In any case, that's where her identity issues come into play. I often say she IS the mask and that there's nothing underneath, because every decision she makes is heavily influenced by how it'll make her look. Her appearance, her hobbies, the people she hangs out with, the things she says, they must all fit her "benevolent royal" image, but that's not a role she chose for herself.
You could ask who she is when no one's looking, but I don't think that would help. The logo written on her dial defines her, and those letters hold no meaning if there's no one around to gawk at them. As an actress, she is nobody unless she has an audience to perform for. As I/Me/Myself said, she is quantum physics; her witness brings her to existence!
She's so wrapped up in lies that she doesn't know where they end and where the truth begins. But of course, she would do anything to uphold the illusion that she's a genuine luxury watch. After all, if her secret gets out, she will most likely be vivisected for parts... (also deep down she doesn't have any self-worth. the way she sees it, the facade is the most valuable part of her and so she must hold onto it no matter what)
I store my art of her on Unvale if you wanna see more of her :)
Ronnie is a Date Everything OC. She's the personification of a lu
And that's pretty much it! That was longer than I thought it would be :p But I hope that was the answer you were looking for!
Thank you so much for asking, I'm so honored!!! :D If there's anything else about her you're curious about feel free to let me know ^^
what you experience is hyperfixation, which is pathological. what I experience is psychosexual obsession， which is also pathological, but in a darkly chic and subversive way. thank you for understanding.
you can’t call something a crackship if they have multiple scenes together and insane sexual tension. not even if only a few people ship them. that’s just a rarepair. the line must be drawn here.
Some slightly scandalous??? Art I did of Timmy from date everything… ough he’s my favourite frfr
The only reason I drew this was to put on a custom body pillow in the game paralives I swear. The bit got a little out of hand as it always seems to with this catboy (shout out to my irls who are on the bald Timmy server with me 😭)
