you know how many times I'd go looking for kizashige fanart in the tags and instead I would find someone saying how much they hate it and that they wish people would care about anything else and then I click on their profile and see they follow me. like what are you doing to yourself. are you actually just that stupid.
I see that you people are still so insanely annoying about kizashige and I quite genuinely don't understand the way some of you want to act like kizashige overpowered other ships in the fandom because you know what you can do? make your own fucking content. it's that goddamn simple. I was autistic enough to draw kizashige constantly and therefore expose people to it more and you can do the exact same thing with seinao or mayushige or whatever the fuck instead of just complaining and trying to start a ship war where there doesn't need to be any. not everyone needs to like * everything * from a dumb fucking game. just block the kizashige tag or kizashige shippers if you are so sick and tired of it. curate your fandom experience to your liking, it's not that fucking hard
i don't know if you take requests but if so could you draw morishige with estradiol as a counterpart to the kizami with testosterone you drew awhile back
my one wish is that kizami and morishige existed in a game that was like corpse party but went further with the ero guro aspect and didn't try to pretend it was just an isekai cult plot and it was also just them so I didn't have to waste time with the rest of the boring ass cast
the thing you people keep constantly missing about morishige "being like that" before hh is that "being like that" does not refer to him being into gore but that it refers to him always being someone with a severe complex over his own insecurities and inabilities to be well-regarded and that necrophilia became an outlet in hh to feel superior over people who couldn't fight back
I have recently gotten into Persona 4, and I luckily remembered you also really liked souyo back in 2019. However I cannot find any of your souyo fanarts, so I wanted to ask if you have any of those works achieved somewhere?
When I was very into Corpse Party I was utterly enchanted by your kizashige fanart, and I believe we have had hours long conversations about those two a while ago. I was wondering if you had similar complex and well developed thoughts about Yu and Yosuke’s relationship as well?
Thank you! :)
ah most of my old p4 art is on another blog but whatever I posted was maybe just 1% of what I actually ever drew. persona 4 was my last big interest, I got into it in 2016 so I was really obsessed with it for a long time, but I didn't post my art much back then (and it's so old, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that now).
however last year, I was part of a souyo zine but I never posted my piece. this would be the first time I'm showing this off
I still love persona 4. it remains one of my favorite games of all time and was definitely a major influence towards my current taste.
I think about this often, but one thing that p4 really influenced me now with corpse party is that I've always focused on the metaphorical aspect of the darkening first, that it twists a character's desires rather than it being a completely literal corruption. it's a similar mechanic as the shadows throughout the persona series. shadows in persona are uncomfortable, contorted representations of a person's psyche, that aren't entirely true. the darkening is just as ugly and awful and confusing. it's all about symbolism.
another thing is that I focus a lot on the societal aspects in kizami and morishige's characters, how being neurodivergent and just * being different * affects them in their everyday social life, which is also a very present theme throughout persona. like, yeah, they're fun characters because they're gorehounds, but that's not The Thing that got me attached to them in the first place. I often wonder if I hadn't been into p4 before, if I would have read their characters very, very differently.
ANYWAYS, when it comes to yu and yosuke's relationship, I also had very particular ideas of their characters and dynamic to where I was quite miserable being in the fandom. you've given me the opportunity to rant about this, so as someone who was obsessed with souyo for almost four years straight, I basically hated yu and yosuke's characterization in fandom.
people who hate yosuke, whatever, but people who thought yosuke was just a happy-go-lucky, bubbly idiot who always needed yu to scold him for being homophobic pissed me off so much. souyo fans are basically incapable of addressing yosuke's internalized homophobia in any meaningful way because all they do is make yu their mouthpiece for times where they themselves wanted to scold yosuke while playing the game, thus so much fanwork comes across more as just self inserting rather than writing yu as an actual character with his own personality where he can be just as immature and dumb, even in his own dialogue options. I guess this is just the nature of working with a silent protagonist, but I hated it so much. clearly, I still do.
I related to yosuke a lot as many other people did, but I was a BIG fan of shadow yosuke and cared a lot on what that guy meant for yosuke's overall character. yosuke is so often reduced to his homophobia, that many people miss out on his general issues with wanting to be special and to stand out, and how this makes him a very clear parallel to adachi. I think yu is a parallel to adachi mostly through their narrative roles as protagonist and antagonist and through such symbolism, but the parallels between yosuke and adachi go beyond just that and to the core of their personalities and backgrounds and that always made me crazy.
adachi and yosuke both suffer from constant boredom, masking, resenting everything around them, and feeling so unfulfilled in life. the difference is that yosuke was able to make real friends, instead of becoming obsessed with his own ineptitude and pessimism like adachi did.
and that really, really got to me about yosuke's character. I loved how much he hated everyone and everything around him, I loved that he was basically living his life aimlessly, that he was trying so hard to find some purpose, that he always made mistakes and fucked up and would act out by being an asshole either intentionally or unintentionally. his homophobia was only * one * part of that.
I don't have as much to say about yu individually, but my interpretation of him was always that loneliness was a major part of his character. his implied backstory of always moving around and having neglectful parents leading him to being very apathetic to most people as a result, only to then be terrified of letting go once he finally found people he belongs with. I was obsessed with how the anime ran with his abandonment issues, how he kept everyone in a timeloop because he didn't want to be alone again.
basically, I always saw yosuke as someone who was pissed off deep down and wanted an escape through the tv world, and that yu was someone who wanted to belong somewhere so much, that it scared him. that they were two lonely, socially inept, fumbling teenagers who wanted to mean something to someone. I thought they were obsessed with each other.
I've said a lot and I could probably say more, but this was definitely an interesting ask as yu and yosuke have sort of just been in the background for me these past few years. I think whatever I wanted out of souyo I saw in kizashige a lot as well, which is funny because to an outsider, they're incredibly different ships. this tweet says it all though.
I still think about mayu transferring to byakudan where she meets kizami in their third year and she thinks he's so much like morishige until she asks him about his interests and kizami is just like Um... I don't know... and she is severely disappointed forever
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