#torhu adachi

[samasmith23]

I finally discovered the true identity of the mysterious serial killer in Persona 4 Golden, and… oh geez! Torhu Adachi is one truly sick bastard, ain’t he?

Like, Adachi is just a pure sadistic incel with a nasty sense of “nice guy” entitlement who threw the first two murder victims into the supernatural “TV World” simply for rejecting his unwanted advances, and later tricked & manipulated Taro Namatame into “saving” Adachi’s potential future victims by throwing them into the TV for him. And aside from his misogyny & entitlement, Adachi’s primary motivation for committing the murders & manipulating others was simply to ease his own boredom due to his status as an ineffectual police detective in a small rural town.

I’ve gotta say, not since Suguru Kamoshida & Masayoshi Shido from Persona 5 Royal have I been so fired up to beat the living crap out of a video game villain! And how appropriately fitting that the common denominator between Adachi & the other aforementioned villains is that all 3 of them are horrific predatory misogynists in positions of authority (with Kamoshida being a high school gym teacher, Shido being a corrupt politician running for Japanese Prime Minister, and now Adachi being a local police detective)!

ATLUS truly does a phenomenal job making some of the most detestable villains imaginable for their games! Villains who are legitimately terrifying in just how realistic their deplorable mannerisms & actions are despite being involved in supernatural plot lines!

[transtraumatizedvillainsclub]

Hey adachi

...ow.

Why is it always you that causes me torment. - ⚠️

[ghostymermaid]

Walking to the bus stop.

[raeseddon]

Haven't been able to stop thinking about the conversation @gurofriend and I had about Yousuke's character arc and how it relates to Saki, for a number of reasons: the biggest being that one of the things we hear her say when Yu and Yousuke enter her dungeon is "I wish it would all just disappear." 99% of the time, when a character says that in a piece of Japanese media, it's meant as a form of suicidal ideation. Given the game before this had a main character who was that level of suicidal in the beginning and how important a theme apathy, and the rejection of apathy is as whole in the Persona series, there a lot of meaning behind having Saki say this, whether she would or wouldn't have gone through with it. I'm even willing to put out there that her Shadow probably was her subconscious desire to self-harm, given form.

The importance of this is to immediately tell players that this is a different game than the last: the the core message of it will be very different, since if this were Persona 3, Saki might have made contact with/been contacted by The Velvet Room, for that struggle in her alone. The reason her murder hangs over Yousuke specifically for the rest of the game is because for as lonely and isolated as he felt, he never once considered wanting to "make it all disappear" and the fact that Saki did, apparently have that thought often enough for it to be one of the first things they hear, effects Yousuke in the deepest part of himself.

Throughout his social link, he has these asides where he talks directly to Saki, telling her that you don't need to be special to be special to someone: that just living and being yourself is enough to mean something to another person-- but you have to be able to be yourself, which is where both he and Saki struggled. Eventually, Yousuke's able to be comfortable with himself, accept his feelings towards Yu, and live "with a smile." To a Western audience, his constant bringing her up and "talking to her" might come off as him being hung up on her, but speaking to her spirit is his way of finding closure and moving on. In that way, it is a traditional Persona game, but it comes at it from a different angle than previous entries in the series-- by ending the life of someone who had the potential to be a main character in the previous game right off the bat.

This also fits with Yu being one of the few Persona protagonists not meant to be a blank slate player surrogate-- the writers had a clear personality in mind for him given the dialogue choices, and a lot of that has to do with this being a different game. Part of the point of the P3 protagonist in particular being such a blank slate is his apathy when you start playing. He's genuinely just alive because ending his life would mean doing something, and his apathy is such that he can't even be bothered to do that. Yu has no such hang ups-- he's just a normal kid being thrown into insane circumstances. From the choices given, it's the players choice to make him open/out going or reticent about showing what he thinks/feels-- but those are really your only options. Ironically, even with only two varieties of choices, it still makes him more interesting/nuanced than the P3 male protagonist. It also makes him better prepared to face up to the first real villain of the game, Adachi-- someone who had pretty much the same choices Yu had in life but chose to opt out of everything instead.

In a lot of ways, (and the anime shows this with "Chad" Yu especially) Yu is a bit of...weird guy, he comes off as this combination of being really forward about how he feels while at the same time...selectively unaware of how that forwardness is going to come off to the people around him [insert autism disk-horse here...] he sees the world for what it is and generally takes people at face value and in good faith-- something that comes back to bite him with Adachi-- but that's exactly why Yu couldn't be the type of player surrogate the P3 protagonist was. It would have been the exact same narrative arc as P3 if they allowed Yu to be that type of player surrogate. P4 is still about how apathy is a cop out to actually living, but the burden of learning that isn't on the player character, it's on the antagonist.

[shartlord420]

1/5

Tohru Adachi and Yu Narukami in The Reversed Sun AU

The Sun social link! Although, this is less so a part of the social link itself, and more just a part of the narrative itself. Narukami-san is a useful little narrative tool- free time outside of the house has been unlocked! 🎶🎵

[Next Part]

[zorastix15]

What a weirdo.

[bjy-on-ao3]

Kinktober All Over!

Today is Halloween and all of my Kinktober stuff has been posted! It’s been quite a ride and I’d like to thank everyone who has shown me support here on tumblr, as well as those reading on AO3! Things did so much better than I could have hoped for and it was a blast to work on. I got explore various kinks, works with new characters, and even trick my brain into actually wanting to write on a regular basis!  But, just because Kinktober is over, doesn’t mean I’m done writing! Already since I’ve finished Kinktober stuff a few days ago, I have started on another fic (this one a one-shot) and it is almost complete! One more session of writing and then some editing and it’ll be all ready to go! I will probably work on posting that on the 6th-7th of October. I also have a fic trade (my first one!) I am working on that will likely follow on the 13th-14th of October. Then there’s the mountain of concepts otherwise - of which I’ve added even more to since I made my post about them.

Whatever the case, I am looking forward to continuing to write and hope the folks who’ve followed me up to now will stick around for the future! Also, following below is a comprehensive list of all my Kinktober fics (below the Read More/Keep Reading) for ease of find (you can also see my Masterlist section of the blog).

All are AFAB!Reader-Inserts, though with an attempt to not use pronouns and remain neutral in that sense (23 should be gender neutral overall), so only the character(s) featured otherwise will be listed.

Day 1: Baths (Asmodeus)

Day 2: Balcony S*x (Izaya Orihara)

Day 3: Hate-F*cking (Shizuo Heiwajima)

Day 4: Blindfolds (Lucifer)

Day 5: Size Difference (The Admiral)

Day 6: Dominance/Submission (Thancred)

Day 7: Cunnilingus (Beelzebub)

Day 8: Tit-F*cking (Tohru Adachi)

Day 9: Sleepy S*x (Belphegor)

Day 10: Waxplay (Lucifer)

Day 11: Licking (Izaya Orihara)

Day 12: Lapdance (Diavolo)

Day 13: Seduction (Thancred)

Day 14: Stranger S*x (Izaya Orihara)

Day 15: Masturbation (Asmodeus)

Day 16: Voyeurism (Crystal Exarch)

Day 17: Sex Demon (Diavolo)

Day 18: Hair-Pulling (Tohru Adachi)

Day 19: Thigh-F*cking (Beelzebub)

Day 20: Shower S*x (Ryotaro Dojima)

Day 21: Sixty-Nine (Asmodeus)

Day 22: Threesome (Beelzebub & Belphegor)

Day 23: Stripping (Simeon)

Day 24: Massage (Simeon)

Day 25: Against A Wall (Ryotaro Dojima)

Day 26: Swallowing (Shizuo Heiwajima)

Day 27: Groping (Astarion)

Day 28: Scratching (Shizuo Heiwajima)

Day 29: Sensory Deprivation (Solomon)

Day 30: Aftercare (Solomon)

Day 31: Primal (Astarion)

[manzisme]

Persona 4: adachi gets sent to prison for his crimes

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax: adachi is unwillingly dragged out of prison by an angsty teen to assist him in his crimes and does all he can to go Back to prison

Persona 5 Arena: adachi is broken out of prison and forced to participate in more persona nonsense by another emo teen he doesn’t care about

Persona 6 Arena: guess what? adachi is forced into more persona shenanigans. the guards are worried about how he keeps breaking out. Adachi is even more worried.

Persona 32 Arena: adachi is sick and tired of being broken out of prison every other day for more supernatural magic bullshit. he’s on his hands and knees begging you to not redeem him. he doesn’t want redemption, he wants to live out his days dutifully in prison. aigis’ twelfth robot cousin shoots him in the leg. angry emo antognist teen #32 tries to use adachi to rule the world. adachi has never hated teenagers more. he’s come to expect that next weekend he’ll be forced to save the world and give Yu Narukami the finger again. No, narukami, he is not “valid”, he wants you to stop insisting that. adachi hasn’t slept in years.