Sep 2, 2025
Promised my friend that I wouldn't look at any persona 5 spoilers and I am going insane, there's so much interesting things about the game and characters and story and I will spontaneously combust from hyperfixation
BUT I can't just speed run the game because 1. Then it'll be over and 2. Akechi is way way way too relatable and you know I can only handle that for short bouts at a time. Who sold my life story to Atlus why is it so eerily similar?? I never thought I'd ever run into a character that I 1. Relate to and 2. Represents/shares some life experiences in a non allegorical way and it is A TIME. Like holy smokes had life been different and I hadn't lost my ability to feel anger, I fear what could've been.
#personal#should delete later#persona 5#akechi mention lol#actually orphan#<- SO LIKE MOST ORPHAN CHARACTERS ARE EOTHER GLOSSED OVER OR ORPHANS FOR PLOT PURPOSES#but like fuck man he is scarily accurate to what i'd expect from a person actually experiencing fostercare and being orphaned#having to constantly prove not that you are worthy but trying to prove you're worthy of being considered human??#never quite getting there and having to do life alone because you only have worth when providing for others and even then it is fleeting#having a super shit birth father that should rot in jail?? no luck in fostercare and never getting properly adopted or experiencing family?#mind you if i hadnt been kept basically locked in a house or in a room for years on end i'd be better at the whole being a person thing but-#it is what it is. also shido reminds me so much of my adoptive mother and my birth father and like?? dude stop stealing my life woes#my toxic trait is that if i was the same age he was when he got his powers AND knew my birth father and knew he was running for#prime minister i'd probably be pretty similar#less yelling though since i suck at talking but like. he is fostercare orphan representation even if he's morally not the best#my friend can attest that while i was playing the early game i'd keep getting frustrated that i couldn't talk more philosophy with him#like dude i was the one that'd spring psychoanalysis and philisophical questions at people in school too#like persona 5 fucking flashbanged me with an alternate univer mirror me that isnt held back by health issues and less trauma and said cope#im going insane actually. when i finish the game ill be changing my blog severely to be persona 5 themed#goodbye old me i am in my rebelling against the pseudo cult leader that wants me psuedo dead phase (long story)#if anyone reads these tags please pretend i am soooooo normal