[ambra-nata]

Another redraw

[cintipede]

2/2 - There is nothing else to be done

[cintipede]

WHO IS THE REAL GORO AKECHI?

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

[secreteggplantbaby]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

[morgannalefey]

I sincerely hope that the OP realizes that gramma was very likely quoting that cartoon.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the cartoon that was drawn and posted based on my post? probably not, but i guess we can never know

[combeauferre]

what a great day to remember that all aces and aros belong in the lgbt community

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

[moveslikekeithrichards]

you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot

[the-apocrypha]

other assorted roles may include

retrieval team for objects in the backseat

custodian of the parking garage tickets

"All clear my way"

en-route dining concierge

announcing "Horses!" when there are horses

[lynx-girl]

Don't forget the Tommy Gun

[help-my-ocs-breached-containmen]

You should never forget the Tommy Gun

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[chaaistheanswer]

Karishma and Serik, my villain duo 😏 Wanted to explore a mother and son dynamic where she manipulates him into doing whatever she wants, and he most likely knows it but doesn’t care cos he’s very attached to her and has never felt love from a parental figure before.

[chaaistheanswer]

I wanted to draw Edelweiss and Cassian together cos they were roommates back at Knight’s Academy. Funfact! Before meeting Erika, Edel had a crush on Cassian and even confessed, but the guy didn’t get it and only ever saw her as a little sister 🥲 It’s aight tho she got over it and found the gospel of wlw

[chaaistheanswer]

Extra!

[technikki]

new personality test dropped

[scramratz]

Being even mildly politically aware is hell. "Why is gas so high???" Bitch i outta smack you

[despazito]

[mtfdomme]

Can you describe your dick for us? 🤤

Louder than Gods revolver and twice as shiny

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble

[megaderping]

I feel like when people emphasize Akechi's murders, they often act like his motivation only boils down to "daddy issues" or they really make light of the impacts societal discrimination can have on a person. "But Futaba didn't end up like Akechi," I've seen people say, but the thing is, Akechi is meant to show the worst case scenario. Someone without anyone left to uplift him, to ground him, and to give him a reason to be better. He lost his mother at a very young age, endured the foster system, never finding a new forever home, and at his absolute lowest point, was granted power he didn't understand with no one to guide him, and wanted to get close to Shido to one day backstab him and give him a taste of his own medicine. The murders came later, when Shido "instructed him." And given the way Shido yells at Akechi about what happens to people who cross him, and given what he did to Futaba (the men in suits), his cleaner, and how many people he had on his side, on top of Sojiro making it very clear how cutthroat Shido was to his enemies... Akechi was screwed no matter what. His face, his name, all of it could be used to ruin him in the real world. Alone, he would not have been enough to go through Shido's Palace, given how much trouble the Phantom Thieves had as a group. Plus, y'know, this:

Something so many people ignore when they talk about Akechi and his murders and ignore everything else the narrative tries to say about him.

What P5 tries to say about Akechi is so important to its core themes. That, if Akechi hadn't been a victim of so much injustice, he might have never gone to such lengths. That doesn't undo the damage he's done, but it's so important to understanding why the game approaches him with sympathy rather than writing him off as pure evil. Because it didn't have to be this way. If he had just met Joker sooner, if he had just had somebody. Akechi represents what can happen to vulnerable children who are failed by systems meant to uphold justice and other ideals, and how those who have nothing, who have only ever been hurt, are far more likely to lash out in turn.

[senblades]

There's something else to be said about the "but Futaba didn't end up like him!" angle too, and the frankly enourmous logical fallacy that it sports:

Like, first off, Futaba had Sojiro? Her and Akechi's situations aren't exactly the same, even if they have a lot of similarites. (not to mention that her mother died far later in Futaba's life than Akechi's; which may not seem like much, but the difference in how a 6-8 year old will develop after losing their sole parent is FAR different to how a 13 year old will handle it) She still had a support system, however inadequate it was in dispelling all her mental health issues post Wakaba's death.

Which leads into my next point: That being, that some people seem to view how Futaba turned out as some moral paragon. Like yeah, she wasn't killing people (she was still doing cybercrimes though lmao. And she mentions, explicitly, that she was joining the PT for revenge.) but she still turned out a suicidal mess. To point between her and Akechi, and say "look! Futaba turned out wayyyy better! She's just suicidal instead of homocidal!" seems. uh, I'm not entirely sure how to articulate it, but i feel like to say that Futaba turned out better because the only person she's hurting is herself is an uncomfortable line of reasoning, and certainly misses the point.

This, as Dorked mentioned, leads to both Akechi's thematic place in the narrative, and also loops Futaba in. Which is to say: These children shouldn't have been in this position to begin with. We can obviously point fingers at Shido and say he's the main problem, because that man is comically evil, but their status as bastard children born to single mothers should never have dragged them down like this either. P5 isn't exactly subtle about it's critique of modern japanese society, but sometimes people still get lost in the weeds of watsonian reasoning.

So, yeah. Something something, tl;dr dissmissing Akechi's myriad parallels to the PT by saying that it proves he's just worse is missing the point by a mile.

[alinalal-art]

see ya

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[lanotteviene]

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

[threeture]

the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...