#Wakaba's daughter

[hopefulpeacestudent]

Voiced by: Erica Lindbeck (eng) & Aoi Yuki (jp)

#phantom thieves #persona users #atlus #persona 5 #Persona 5 manga series #Aoi Yuki #Erica Lindbeck #Futaba Sakura #Hermit arcanum #phantom thief #Navi/Oracle #P5MM #Wakaba's daughter #Persona 5 Manga series #Persona 5 Mission Mementos

[boypussydilf]

thescene where akechi showsup in leblanc for the first time makes me want to scream . the part where he talks abt his childhood unprompted overshadows the everything else about it im talkihngn about him trying literally so hard to talk to futaba and be nice to her and get along with her its so much

#*recognizes her as wakabas daughter* *starts trying to be nice to her* #its too much.imgonna explode #basilposting #MAN after watching the game in japanese all day its weird seeing characters names written . not in japanese lmao

[cielomist]

i think when junko finds out about the fake suicide note shidos people made for wakaba she finds everyone involved and obliterates them

#keetext #p5 suou au #she loves wakaba SO MUCH and she will not stand for people making wakabas darling daughter think she hated her!!!! #ooouuuggghhh the friendship i made up between junko and wakaba is so important to me.

[rollthedice-playthecards]

Wakaba Isshiki, Nourriture.

#A Righteous Rebellion #arcana swap #arcana swap au #arcanaswap #arcanaswap au #Persona #Persona 5 #Persona 5 Royal #moodboard #Wakaba Isshiki #Sustenance Arcana #omnisexual #tw r4p3 #psychology #psychiatry #motherhood #mother-daughter #queens #sekhmet

[vashtijoy]

1/9: not the old reality, but the next one in line...

I want to talk about how mindboggling Maruki's attitude to life and death is. He's bringing people back from the dead wholesale—Akechi, Wakaba, Okumura, Sae and Makoto's dad, Kotaro the dog—so why doesn't Kasumi get a free pass from the afterlife?

Well, Maruki doesn't give a shit about Kasumi. He cares about Sumire. She wasn't the first patient whose cognition he altered—but she was the first he made such a grave alteration to.

And what's Sumire's wish? It's not to have her sister back. It's to be her sister—her slightly older sister, who always overshadowed her, who was more confident than she was, better than she was, who died to save Sumire when Sumire thinks she just wasn't worth it. Who belongs in the world, who brought life and light and colour to the world, and pride to their parents, when shy, drab Sumire does not.

So that's exactly what she gets. Bringing Kasumi back for her own sake, or for the sake of her parents who have still lost a child either way, is never on the table.

This is also what happens with Okumura and Wakaba. They are not cognitions; they're the same people they always were. Reality has been altered so that they never died. They seem different, sure—but that's because they're subject to the same Maruki fuckery as everyone else. They get to be happy and superficial just like everyone else.

But even despite that—despite the fact that they are actually real people, who were dead and are alive again—their whole existence is still contingent on Haru and Futaba's wishes. They don't poof out of existence when Haru and Futaba "wake up" because they somehow weren't real. They vanish because reality has been rewritten again—as it is now constantly being rewritten, down in Mementos. Because their deaths are no longer undone.

Read that again: they cease to exist because they're no longer wanted around. Because they were only ever brought back to make Haru and Futaba happy. And so, when their presence no longer makes Haru and Futaba happy? Off they pop.

It's not entirely dissimilar to how the PTs vanish on 12/24, when they no longer exist in people's cognition. The PTs were real, beyond a shadow of doubt. They still vanished.

This, obviously, is all incredibly fucked up.

[more on Sojiro and Futaba beneath the cut]

sojiro doesn't remember, redux

You can confirm this by looking at what Sojiro tells Futaba, when you get back to Leblanc on 1/9:

Futaba: Hey, Sojiro... Futaba: Is Mom... Sojiro: Mom...? You mean Wakaba? Sojiro: Well... What about her? Futaba: Uhh... nah! It's nothing! Futaba: It's just, I happened to remember something about her, that's all! Sojiro: I see... Okay then. Sojiro: Y'know, I caught myself thinking about her earlier too. Odd coincidence, huh? Futaba: ......

Futaba: Mom really is gone again... Sojiro sees it that way too now.

That last line is more like "that's Sojiro's cognition now, too"—soujirou mo... sou ninchi shiteta. I talked a bit yesterday about how Sojiro forgets Akechi in the third semester, and I don't think he's fine here. It's just that, like everyone else who's not awake, his cognition has been rewritten to share the new reality, where Wakaba died—somehow, because Akechi didn't do it—two years ago.

She was never in Leblanc on 1/2. They never had that New Year party. They never went to the shops with Futaba. Those things just never happened. Only Futaba remembers them.

Note that Sojiro didn't get a wish here. There's no sign anything has changed for him—because hey, maybe he would have wanted Wakaba back, who knows? Maybe Wakaba's wish would have been to be alive with her daughter, and not ash in a grave.

Sojiro just gets manipulated as a side-effect of Futaba's wish, presumably along with everyone else who ever knew Wakaba. That one event in the past changes, and like the butterfly flapping its wings, all of reality changes along with it....

futaba's apology

Often when this is brought up, people make objections like "are you saying Futaba wished to kill her mom again". And the answer is both yes and no.

Everything Futaba does in the third semester grows out of the vow she makes to herself when she awakens in her Palace:

Futaba: Mom is gone. No matter how much I wish for her to be with me, it'll never come true. Futaba: That's why I'll live in the real world, even if she's not there with me anymore! Futaba: And I'm gonna live my life as free and happy as I can!

And, possibly even more importantly:

So when Futaba later makes the painful choice to embrace reality, rather than to accept a bribe of her mother with the world at stake... Futaba is being true to herself. She's implementing the hard lessons she learned back in the summer—lessons she would never have learned under Maruki's control. Lessons, achievements, accomplishments that Futaba sweated blood for, but that he can't even understand. Because he could never face his pain like she did. And like she continues to do.

Futaba: So like... Dr. Maruki's reality isn't totally one hundred percent illusion, right? Joker: Right. Futaba: So... that means I really did get to see my mom again.

Futaba: So let's go take back our own reality. Futaba: The reality where we can beat anything the world throws at us, as long as we have each other. Futaba: The reality my mom gave me.

#persona 5 #p5 meta #sumire yoshizawa #futaba sakura #takuto maruki #i hate the marukiverse

[vulturevanity]

There's something very very interesting about Blanca having Lycanroc-midnight as a partner pokémon, specifically in relation to Dot's way of coping with problems by removing herself from the scene and holing up in her room.

There's a lot implied throughout the series about the relationship between trainer and partner pokémon. Namely, in that both complement each other in some ways while also being mirrors in others. Take, for instance, Liko and Sprigatito in HZ040: while Liko's difficulty to connect with people and Sprigatito's loner attitude manifest in different ways and for different reasons, in the end they both are about not making themselves a problem/nuissance to others while ignoring people's agency and feelings (take Liko losing on purpose to help Wakaba become a gym trainer, robbing her of the opportunity to prove herself worthy of the position, and Sprigatito ghosting her friends after accidentally hurting them when she tried to save them from the Spidops). Same goes for Roy and Fuecoco, with both having a pretty cheerful attitude, but Roy being too goal-oriented sometimes while Fuecoco mostly just wants to do its own thing. Roy and Wattrel have the reverse of that dynamic, as do Liko and Hatenna being similar in different ways to Sprigatito, and so on. It's no coincidence that most characters in Horizons are designed after pokémon they don't have in their teams.

Dot and Quaxly are both performers. The entire Quaquaval line is all about dancing, moving its legs and generally being a big showoff, and Dot's primary passion is in streaming and making videos about pokémon. But while putting itself out there is entirely who Quaxly is, Nidothing is, if not merely a character she's playing, a part of Dot she doesn't exactly flaunt around -- or at least, a facet of her personality she doesn't have the energy to show all the time. Being Nidothing is, like pokémon battling, something that requires her full attention and focus (symbolized by the "mental switch" headband), and Dot isn't one to waste her mental energy unnecessarily. She works hard as a content creator as well as the Brave Olivine's software engineer and IT guy, and disrupting her flow takes her out of it pretty badly (see: every time she got got by Spinel and had a crisis about it); and that part of her, as well as her earnest naivety, is reflected now in Tinkatink, who is constantly looking to build a better hammer for herself while being pretty sensitive and getting upset when interrupted.

So. Blanca and Lycanroc-midnight.

Lycanroc-midnight, as Friede's outro lecture puts it, is a reactive pokémon. It waits for its opponent to move so it can answer in kind. On a surface level, it doesn't seem to fit Blanca, who dictates the scene wherever she's present. She's overbearing toward Dot and just overly energetic in general, always moving first and listening second. People don't seem to have time to learn how to respond. That doesn't seem very "reactive" of her.

But then? When Liko and Roy offer to talk to Dot for her since she doesn't seem to want to talk to her mom, Blanca overtaken with emotion at the fact that Dot has friends who care for her that much, and immediately backs off. She has a hard time understanding Dot, which is why her decisions, which make sense in her head and are made with Dot's best interests at heart, end up making Dot unhappy. And when she gets an inkling that Dot doesn't really want to go back home, she wants to make sure she's making the right call by asking Dot, through a pokémon battle, if this is really what she really wants. And Dot confirms, cutting through every single one of Blanca's rebuttals and counterpoints, that yes, she is having fun being a trainer, traveling around the world and making friends, and no longer wants to hide alone in her dark room. And it makes Blanca so immensely glad and proud that her daughter is happier. And her answer is "of course you can stay here" -- the proper reaction to Dot's actions. The combination of Blanca's helicopter-mom tendencies and Dot's refusal to engage was making things worse for both of them, and in the end open and honest communication was the reason Blanca was finally able to understand her daughter and adjust her mothering style accordingly.

So, yeah. Blanca and Lycanroc-midnight, Dot and Quaxly. Meeting in the middle. I don't know how to end this post lol bye

#pokémon #pokemon horizons #pokemon: horizons #character analysis #trainer dot #i missed writing character analyses a #haven't done one of these since my Lilith stan days #my previous dot analysis was more about headcanons than anything else lol #i hope this is coherent btw i was really struggling to put my braincells together

[samasmith23]

Futaba Sakura from Persona 5 Royal and Autistic Coding

I recently encountered a really phenomenal article analyzing how Futaba Sakura’s character from Persona 5 Royal effectively functions as autistic representation, even if the game’s developers didn’t intend for her to be so:

Speaking as an individual on the spectrum myself, I very quickly picked up on the autistic coding of Futaba given her strong special interests in computers & anime, as well as her difficulty in socializing with others. Plus, Futaba’s arc of voluntarily requesting a change of heart from the Phantom Thieves to overcome her suicidal depression & self-loathing shut-in status following her mother Wakaba’s alleged suicide had me on the edge of my seat. Witnessing Futaba enter the mindscape of her own palace in the cognitive world and not only realizing the truth that Wakaba actually did love her daughter and that the alleged suicide note uncharacteristically blaming Futaba for her death was just a cruel forgery (fabricated by the corrupt politician Masayoshi Shido’s henchmen who stole Wakaba’s cognitive psience research on the Meta-Verse before murdering her via mental-shutdown), but also seeing Futaba merge with her Shadow-self to awaken her own Persona and actively assist the Phantom Thieves in defeating the distorted false memories of her mother born from her own self-loathing was legitimately powerful! I related so hard to Futaba’s mental struggles and efforts to overcome her anxiety during the boss fight with Cognitive Wakaba here!

And even after defeating Cognitive Wakaba and clearing Futaba's palace, Futaba herself still maintains a lot of her autistic-coded traits despite no-longer isolating herself in her room 24/7 and being more socially interactive with her fellow Phantom Thieves (although she still does struggle with being out in public). It expertly avoids the ableist trap that's sadly commonplace in other media wherein a character is "cured" of their neurodivergence. Here however, Futaba not only willingly requested the Phantom Thieves to change the distortions in her heart, but all they did was help Futaba to find the stregnth and courage to overcome her feelings of self-loathing, depression and suicidality on her own. She's still the same socially awkward & tech-savy girl that she was prior to the "change of heart," but she's now chosen to embrace the best aspects of herself (which are a part of her neurodivergence) rather than imprisoning herself in a tomb of self-loathing (which was symbolized by her Meta-Verse palace being an Ancient Egyptian pyramid isolated in the desert that Futaba's Shadow was the Pharaoh of).

Also, Futaba may not be the only autistic-coded character in P5 Royal considering that my personal favorite cast member, Makoto Niijima, also struggles heavily with socially interacting with her peers despite her status as a highly committed Student Council President devoted to her studies (initially studying solely because it’s what society and the adults in her life expected from her, before deciding to utilize her passion for academic knowledge to help the oppressed out of her own personal sense of justice).

While Makoto is still my favorite P5 Royal character overall, Futaba Sakura is easily in the Top 3! And I choose to headcanon both characters as autistic!

#persona #persona 5 royal #persona 5 #p5 royal #futaba sakura #wakaba isshiki #makoto niijima #autism #autistic representation #actually autistic #depression #cw: suicide mention #signal boost #atlus games #video games #mini essay

[rabarbarzcukrem]

Black Rose Musical save me

So they're starting with Mikage's backstory? Interesting

Actually, I wonder how they'll go about showing that Mamiya was Anthy all along

Mamiya doing that quick spin with Anthy, and then Utena with Tokiko...

I love the "Burn" song, it does a good job at setting the mood for this arc

Ok we're getting a reminder of Utena's story and what happened in the previous musical

I love the way Saionji tosses his hair lmao. Cunty. And how he runs away with that pathetic "UaUaAaaaa!!". he's such a loser

I like how these musicals really want us to associate "the princess was wrapped in the scent of roses" not necessarily with Dios, but with Anthy. She appears every time this line is sung

Ooooh even during the "on the previous episode" part, Mikage and Mamiya are already watching everything from the shadows

Btw, Mikage's voice sounds really similar to the original in my opinion

The parallels between Mamiya and Anthy are so clear, "if you say so, senpai" = "if utena-sama says so"

Akio being introduced so casually when it's obvious that he's super important to the plot also reflects how it happened in anime

Utena/Anthy and Mikage/Mamiya parallels..Mmmm delicious

I looooove how the whole cast is gradually presented (one relationship by one) and then at the end there's Akio with Anthy. Such an amazing way to show the way all these relationships connect and mirror each other

This musical's theme song being about light, mirrors and never letting go of something that might seem like an illusion...huh...

The scenes simultaneously happening on the stage impact each other - Akio is talking with Utena in the tower, but at the same time pushes Kozue towards Miki. Only a stage adaptation would be able to portray it this way

Wait....No kanae?? :((((

Holy shit Mikage's songs have such a creepy sound with the choirs in the background

(Also Mikage pushing Miki, imitating what Akio did to Kozue)

THE ROSE STABBING SCENE. Intense as hell

The contrast between Kozue entering her Dark Era and Wakaba whining about exams lol. Isn't that a perfect encapsulation of the spirit of RGU. The tragi-comedy of it all

The choreography !!

I wonder if there's any significance to the fact that when the cast is standing still singing zettai unmei mokushiroku, Anthy is copying the dance moves of the supporting dancers

The fact that Black Rose duelists have the same skills as the members of the student council showed by having both of them fight Utena at once?? Clever

Also, power of Dios possessing the sword showed by Dios literally fighting alongside Utena

Shame that Kozue didn't do that dramatic falling on the ground thing after her rose got pierced

The egg being called "a cage of freedom". That's a nice way to put it

Saionjeans appears!!

I love shiori already

I can't remember, does Shiori call herself a prodigal daughter in the anime too? Either way that's something I'll be thinking about for the next few days

They did the blood sucking scene 👀 while Shiori and Juri's gay shit was happening 👀

Shiori thinking Juri was reaching for the boy, when she was actually reaching towards her...

Akio walking with the same posture as Touga did... HMMM

They even managed to keep the water motif !

Shiori's horrified expression when she sees her picture...The actress is too good

SHIORI AND JURI FIGHTING SCENE

How did they manage to make them even gayer??

Shiori and Juri taking off each other's roses AAAH

I love that Nanami consistently breaks the fourth wall, it's a perfect thing for her character to do

Wakaba screaming after being stabbed was so heartbreaking...

Akio throwing away that hair clip in the exact same way Touga did with Saionji's exchange diary. Once again: HMMM

Wakaba singing the lines from the first musical about the book she'd read, but this time with her voice breaking, on the verge of crying. I can't stand this

Saionji and Wakaba both singing about a prince on a white horse - Saionji mocking Utena by this, Wakaba actually idealizing Saionji. God, it works so well

Wakaba's duel broke my heart. The actress is so good at capturing the desperation and sorrow in her voice

For the first time Akio is implied to actually have been the one to give Utena the ring...and the way he grabs the supporting dancer and shoves him to the ground. He gives off such sinister vibes

The friendship song is both hopeful and sad because it proves what Akio said - Wakaba had her moment of happiness and specialness but then she had to go back to her normal life of the supporting character. And also because of the fact that while Wakaba and Utena keep singing, Anthy had to go meet up with Akio.. So even though it's heart-warming to see them spend quality time together, none of them really understand what the others are going through

This killed me

"Do you have someone important to you?" And we see the duelists with their black rose counterparts

I almost feel like Mamiya in the flashbacks has slightly different mannerisms that the one in the present impersonated by Anthy.

Mamiya with the candlestick literally SITTING on the COFFIN

"Is (Saionji) going to waltz his ass back in here?" Lmaooo

Did I just imagine it or did Mikage slash Utena on her arm, similarly to how she injured his arm before the duel

Is "Imaginary living body" playing?!?!? Hell yeah!!!

Mikage actually seeing Dios helping Utena fight? Interesting! That's something I didn't expect

I loooove the curtain falling and revealing the projector. That's what I mean when I say that a stage adaptation brings the best out of this anime. There are so many fun visual things like this

I think this arc must have been incredibly difficult to pull off in this form, without being able to do quick cuts and transitions that could be shown in the anime. But they did such a good job! Actually, they kept surprising me with clever ways of adapting the themes of the show to fit this adaptation. I was constantly impressed

The last thing left to say is. PART 3 WHEN

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #moje

[leonawriter]

One of my favourite ideas with regards to Ryoji is this sort of... thing where he can just exist outside of time somehow, because of how short a time he's allowed to exist in reality.

(massive spoilers for P3 onward past this point, obviously, if you haven't already gone through the game.)

[EDIT: I've cleaned it up a bit and edited and put it on AO3. So, if you want like... an entire extra scene plus some, go here.]

Which is great in theory, but a bit more complicated if you wanna put it into practice, other than going "well, he's here because... oh, a wizard did it." There are possibilities and plausibles, but they're frankly limited if you have (like me) a logical mind and a need for something to suspend your disbelief.

Except then I had a thought - Ryoji is also known as Death, or Thanatos. He takes on that role at the climax, even. So, I started thinking along those lines, and wound up with-

Ryoji the psychopomp. Ryoji, the grim reaper.

Not "the Reaper" as in the one that roams dungeons (he exists during P3 and is implied by design to be connected somehow to Tatsuya Sudou, anyway).

More like, that it's a case of "Life gave her creations to Death, no matter what they both knew would happen the moment he touched them."

Minato (or Kotone) dies on the school rooftop, and there he is, able to talk to them, and they're able to tell him that everything worked out, that everything will work out. Their spirit lingers at the Door, and they talk like it's passing notes in class.

A young girl finds herself on the receiving end of unwanted advances, and then she's somewhere strange, confronted with uncomfortable and unwanted truths, and then- then, there's a boy in a yellow scarf wanting to know all of the things that she loved about her life. At first it's strange, and more than a bit hard to think of things for this weird guy who she's never met before, but the more she talks the more she realises that she really did have things she treasured.

He thanks her for telling him, and as she makes her peace with the fact that this is it, he tells her that he'll keep them in his heart now, too.

Wakaba Isshikki knows about the cognitive realm - a little too much, perhaps, but not enough to stop. Enough, perhaps, to see the shadow of a boy following her for a day or two. Enough to feel as though she's already living on borrowed time, when she feels that surely she knows what's happening, and she simply... doesn't care.

She's a little wispy, still, when he leads what's left of her toward the Sea of Souls where she now belongs. He's concerned, and rightly so, about what that means. Wakaba's more worried about the kids.

(A few people don't get Ryoji. Those unhappy few get the floating mask of Death and a series of coffins to tell them that their time has come. For some it's because even in death they have no humility, and for others still it's simply easier, that way. Easier to not be Ryoji wile dealing with it, even if it would have been easier still to simply walk away and let them find their own way to the Sea.

But Kunikazu Okumura had sent so many his way, that it was only right that Death came to meet him personally.

"I didn't even get to finish my speech," the man said, blubbering after the towering figure that Death made.

You had a daughter, Death reminded him, and he was silent the rest of the way.)

Goro Akechi comes to, and the first thing he sees is a bright yellow scarf.

The first thing he does is swear, because boys with slicked-back hair wearing yellow scarves aren't supposed to exist when you're dead. The second thing he does is look around, and realise that you aren't really supposed to exist in a sea of stars and sit on nothing when you're alive, either.

"Please tell me this isn't the afterlife," he says, mostly because although he figured it could be worse - he could have found himself in hell, or surrounded by all of the people he'd killed over the years, all of the ones who had every reason to make his afterlife hell if it wasn't already - it could definitely be better.

"It is and it isn't," comes the cryptic answer. "Usually it is, more or less. Each of those lights represents a soul, after all." And there were so many of them. "But you're a special case! You're both dead and not dead right now, which, usually that doesn't happen? People can almost die but not actually die, but they aren't usually both at the same time, I mean."

"Maruki," Akechi practically spits out. "In that case, I'm surprised you're not inundated right now."

Blue eyes - far too blue to be human, they almost remind him of Morgana, and he was neither human nor a cat, apparently - duck down, glancing away.

"I felt what happened. Everyone caught up in a lie, completely oblivious... if the one controlling that power had wanted to bring ruin, then..." But he shakes his head, bringing himself out of his own thoughts. "It's a good thing that didn't happen, really! And- you're wrong, by the way."

"What?"

"Like I said, you're a special case. I've been able to talk to a lot of people, but I've never been able to ask anyone to send a message back before!"

"Back?" For a moment, Akechi is reduced to parroting back words. Surely they mean something, but the obvious meaning is impossible, and he can't think of anything else. "Who would someone like you even want to send a message to, anyway?"

"Would you believe me if I said they were old enemies, who were also old friends? But, I guess you've had a few of those yourself, right?"

"What would you even know about me?"

Akechi got a lopsided, bittersweet smile in return.

"I've been following you for a lot longer than I think we'd both have liked," come the words that send a shiver down his spine as instincts and senses that were rusty from disuse told him what that meant even as his more conscious mind shied away from the idea of it. "But I hope that after this, we won't be able to talk again for a long, long time."

Something tells Akechi that he's both in no danger whatsoever, and also that he really shouldn't refuse. He expects to be on a strict deadline (ha, dead) but time moves differently here, and apparently they have exactly as much time as they need. No more, and not a second less.

When he opens his eyes again, he can remember everything-

Someone really wanted you to live, Ryoji had said, with a teasing smile, and bright eyes.

It makes him feel small. It makes him feel indebted - to Akira, to Ryoji, in ways that he can't even begin to examine or think of how to repay. It makes him want to give it all back, so that he doesn't have to deal with it, but that would be purely theoretical and besides, he has promises to keep.

First, a debt to Akira, something that to Akechi feels like barely a drop in the ocean and that hopefully Akira and his friends will feel the correct amount of gratitude for.

Secondly-

"Hello- yes, this is Goro Akechi speaking. Is this Mitsuru Kirijo-san? I have a message to pass on to you. Are the names Ryoji Mochizuki and Minato Arisato familiar to you, at all?"

#p3 stuff #p5 stuff #Leona fic #ryoji mochizuki #goro akechi #look I had ideas and then they spilled? #and somehow it worked past my block

[symphonic-scream]

Okay hear me out

Persona 5 Stardew Valley au

So we've got the animal seller, Haru, who's parents divorced when she was young. She spent her teen years in the city with her father, but once an adult she decided to live with her mom, and has fallen in love with country life

Makoto has lived in town her whole life. Her older sister left to have a fancy city job, and thinks Makoto is wasting her talents and smarts by staying to keep up the family tradition. Makoto knows someone has to protect the town, and gladly draws her sword to do so. She trains by cutting down trees for the local artist and for town projects

Ryuji is a former golden child. He was going to be a star athlete, but an accident took it from him. He's not really doing anything at the moment, just working on loving life again. His Ma is the bus driver

Shiho moved to town after a similar incident to Ryuji, only she puts all she is into work, to have a place so when they're adults, her girlfriend can leave her family behind so they can be together. She only recently took over the carpentry business from her mentor, and her girlfriend Ann helped expand the business to include furniture and house decor, with design input

The pub in town in Leblanc. While the owner, Sojiro, specializes in coffee, he'll accept local foods to make dishes by request of the townspeople. His daughter Futaba is a recovering shut in, and his wife Wakaba runs the town clinic, with her med student Tae

Yusuke appeared one day, having sold all he had to find a font of inspiration. He fell for the valley, and at first lived in a tent near the mountain. Makoto, who nearly mistook him for a monster, invited him to stay on her family's property. He mostly paints, but does sculptures for order from the nearby city to pay his share of living costs

The town blacksmith is named Munehisa Iwai. He's the broody type, but cares for his son a whole lot. He's just, not good at showing it. He often requests things his kid would like

The town store used to belong to an older man, but he passed it on to a wayward boy and his younger brother, both whom he met by chance. The boys, then in foster care, lived with him until he became too old and ill go run the store. Akira and young Morgana still keep the Velvet Room running, even if old man Igor is living in Hospice

And, the mayor, Lavenza. She's very new to the position, which used to be Igor's. She's hoping to improve the town a lot, and is caring for her younger twin sisters

A strange man lives on the beach, with a strange talent for fishing. Goro doesn't talk about who he was before he moved there. It's behind him.

The library is run by Hifumi, who wants to reopen the museum portion after her parents sold the artifacts to keep it from closing. Hifumi thinks a museum would inspire tourists to donate,

And, finally, our farmer.

Sumire feels lost. Her sister died, her parents can't speak to her without crying, and she feels, trapped, so she impulsively quits her profession. She finds a letter from her grandfather, with the deed to a farm. Needing a reset, she leaves the city and life behind to live in a small town in the valley, where no one knows her, or her sister.

To clear things up, Makoto and Ryuji both grew up in town, have been friends the whole time. Futaba has been in town since she was 6, Hifumi was born there, and Akira and Morgana have been there since they were 14 and 6, now about 21 and 13. Shiho and Ann were in Ryuji's class at school, since they had to travel to a nearby city for school. Haru moved there when she was 18, Yusuke and Goro appeared around 19-20.

Anyways. Talk to me about this

(I'm open to any ships for it pretty much, but I will say I have Okujima in it.)

#persona 5 stardew valley au #makoto niijima #haru okumura #okujima #yusuke kitagawa #ryuji sakamoto #ann takamaki #goro akechi #futaba sakura #akira kurusu #morgana p5 #hifumi togo #sumire yoshizawa

[rainymoodlet]

congrats to the newly-weds! 🥂

we have another summary post, y’all! dallas krueger and shingo sasaki were married on a breezy, warm day in summer, surrounded by those that love and adore them! 🌵

in your wedding itinerary, you’ll find…

ivory krueger: sim of honor

britta roswell: flower pal

cliff kiser: officiant

steven roswell: ring-bearer

this also officially releases dallas into their retirement from being our tjol founder 💕 they did a hell of a job raising our heir, and they deserve a break! they will be living out their days in wakaba with their husband, daughter, four dogs and shingo’s cat, poki 🥰

after moving in with her lil polycule (i set up a wickedwhims protocol for the first time and it is SO cute to see these three autonomously romancing one another without a care in the world 🥹) ivory was promoted to celebrity chef, and is almost a level 3 celebrity! it looks like eva’s baking something herself, too… hmm 🤔 (that’s right, gen 3 is on the way! they all three of them kept thinking abt babies all the time the minute they moved in together… you gotta love u-haul lesbians) ivory’s about to make some moves and buy the shell of her very first restaurant!! we’ve got to get it to THREE STARS, let’s do this! 💪

y’all didn’t get to follow their story the way i wanted, but trust me when i tell you that dallas and shingo deserved this so much 🥹 also my god @ratboysims you made the absolute cutest twins, those roswell boys have stolen my heart!!!

#ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #;tjol #;tjol+ #🫡 #sim: dallas #sim: shingo #sim: ivory #sim: eva #sim: cassandra goth #sim: sachiko #|| #i will tag everyone… later i am too emotional abt this i need to write TAGS ✍️ #donna deserved her Stacy’s Mom makeover (and also dallas hooked her up with cliffie!!! 😉 they majorly hit it off) #ted came :| but he and dallas are actually pretty tight all things considered #ivory got to socialize with him for the first time in a while!!! #she thinks abt him all the time #ANYWAY BUH MY BABIES!!! MY BABIES ARE MARRIED 🥹 #i originally wasnt going to put dallas in white bc Death Color but that outfit was just too perfect 😭 #shingo is so in love with them ugh… its so dreamy #the actual wedding was broken as all hell but #i wanted to give us a good jumping off point from gen 2 because #gen 3??? oh gen 3 has a story 👀 gen 3 has PLANS… #and i am so excited for y’all to meet the kruegers that are coming 😌 #i had so much more to say abt this but i spent an embarrassing amt of time setting this up over the past couple of days 😎 #they’re married and eva is pregnant and ivory is about to buy her first restaurant 🥹 #i am having so much fun fjshdhs

[lisannastraussisanangel]

Do you have any headcanon s about Cana & Gildarts?

(Also do you think that Gildarts might get a little jealous over how close Cana is to Macao and Wakaba compared to him?)

I can totally see Gildarts being envious of Cana's relationship with them. But I can also see him really appreciating Macao and Wakaba filling the role of father to her since he wasn't there for Cana

Gildarts makes sure to physically check in with the guild at least once a year now. He texts Cana about once a month, not wanting to be too clingy but still wanting to be in her life

While Cana would never admit it, she really appreciates the effort he is putting in

Gildarts knows that Cana is super close to Macao and Wakaba so he sits down with them and asks them for advice so he can get closer to her

Cana does not like the three of them talking and actively tries to put a stop to it (Macao and Wakaba have way too much dirt on her)

Gildarts tries to do all the classic dad things he missed. Unfortunately he's very late on all of it, but he still tries.

Imagine him trying to teach Cana how to ride a bike, father daughter dances, trying to teach her to fish, etc

Cana, of course, is a menace and plays along just to make fun of Gildarts. He gave up pretty quickly and the two just settled on getting drinks and telling each other stories

Cana does give in and ask him to come on a job with her. He cried and gushed all over her for the entire job

The first time Cana got him a father's day present, he nearly fainted. It was only a card with a little note in it, but he cherishes it

Cana secretly enjoys making him happy. She tries to one up her fathers day presents for him each year now

Gildarts firmly believes that Cana can kick anyone's ass. Cana had to put a stop to that when he tried to have her fight Laxus

Gildarts also believes everything Cana says for some reason? She abuses this constantly

Gildarts gets super nervous that Cana is jealous of him and Natsu so he always tries to tell her that she's his number one. Cana assures him that she's not jealous (at least not anymore)

#so rude that we didn't get more cana and gildarts content #anon <3 #this was super fun #fairy tail #fairy tail headcanons #gildarts clive #cana alberona #macao conbolt #wakaba mine #natsu dragneel

[floertoer]

cana before tenrou -- part 1 of a longer post

cana has had 3 parents in her life. the first being her mother. cana's mother was kind, caring, beautiful, and could do no wrong in her eyes. for the first 8 or so years of her life all she had was her mother. sure, her mom had told her stories of her father but he always seemed far away. he was like a myth, the strongest man in the west, he seemed untouchable compared to her mother who was always here for her. then her mom died and cana has no choice but to go on a quest to find this legendary hero.

fairy tail doesn't have any children in their guild. being a mage is dangerous work, not something a child should be doing, at least not one as young as cana. that's what makarov thinks as he looks at this little girl, but she did come all this way and she said she has no where else to go. perhaps it will be okay, just this once. she won't go on any quests yet, not until she's older but she can do some work around the guild.

cana is glad fairy tail accepted her, she really doesn't have anywhere else to go. she's not sure what fairy tail saw in her that her father didn't but small victories. cana's never doubted her mother and she never thought of her father, but now her whole life has flipped. her mother used to tell her that her father loved them and if he could he would be with them, and cana's never doubted that, but now she's not sure. cana can't stop thinking about her father, nor can she stop doubting her mother's words. did he even know he had a daughter? all she wanted to hear him say was her mother loved them and if she could she would be here with them.

macao and wakaba don't want kids. in fact, they don't really like them that much. ivan's ankle biter, laxus, is about as hyperactive and annoying as they come. they hoped another kid in the guild would help mellow him out, but cana isn't playful, she's sad -- really sad. it's honestly hard for them to watch how she mopes around the guild. unbeknownst to them she's mourning her mother and relationship with her father. wakaba worries if it's healthy for a kid to frown that much and her always red rimmed eyes are enough to make anyone feel bad. so they decide to take matter into their own hands and take her out on a job. nothing dangerous, the library needed help sorting some books. it's boring and they'd never choose a job like this but it's good for cana.

it's clear to cana that macao and wakaba have never handled children before. they're awkward, clearly knowing nothing about what children like, and inattentive, just letting her walk off and not even noticing. they're nothing like her mother, but they always come looking for her, so clearly they're nothing like her father either. cana is craving any type of parental affection so she quickly latches on to them and surprisingly they don't mind.

as cana got older more kids came to the guild. cana always welcomed new additions, she liked having more people to play with. laxus had recently entered his angsty teen phase and didn't like running around with her anymore. so when natsu joins she greets him with open arms, the more the merrier.

then gildarts comes back. over the years cana has never gathered the courage to tell gildarts of her identity. not that she had many chances considering he never stayed at the guild for more than a week. still she craved a relationship with him so whenever he left she would bring him a lunch and wave goodbye. she asked makarov once why he didn't stay longer, why he never seemed interested in hanging around. master had seen through her, and told her it wasn't personal, that gildarts' was always like that. he was a nomad at heart and didn't care for children. cana accepted that -- so why was gildarts smiling so much at natsu? why whenever he came back to the guild he would stay longer to hang out with him? was it because natsu challenged him? was it a strength thing? even though he's younger than her, natsu is strong, and apparently he was raised by a dragon. is that what she needs to be to get gildarts attention?

if cana was bitter toward natsu after a visit from gildarts no one mentioned it. although gray did look at her weirdly. macao and wakaba were always so irresponsible with children. what were they thinking leaving alcohol in the reach of her? now cana understood why adults drank alcohol so much, it makes everything a little bit easier. cana has had 3 parents in her life, and not one of them was her father.

#I'm sorry you expect me to believe cana didn't feel some type of way about natsu and gildarts relationship #cana's depression is overlooked #I know cana's alcholism is played as a gag but it has genuinely sad asf origins #no wonder her and gray are such good friends they're both depressed af #I like gildarts but I'm always going to give him his lashings #HE'S A BAD DAD #he's trying to be better tho #fairy tail #cana alberona #gildarts clive #macao #wakaba fairy tail #macao fairy tail #natsu dragneel #gray fullbuster #laxus dreyar #cana appreciation post #kinda

[batbeato]

been thinking about persona and its depiction of motherhood. or: what it doesn't depict.

this started with me being annoyed that there is yet another dead saintly mother in persona 5 tactica. then I started considering: wait, when are persona mothers not saintly? when are persona mothers human? and the answer is: almost never.

I cast my mind back, thinking over all of the prominent depictions of mothers in the series. I think the one that stands out the most to me is Maki's mother in Persona 1. She loves her daughter unconditionally, but she also screws up sometimes, and doesn't spend enough time with her sickly daughter in the hospital, causing her daughter to resent her.

After that, the next one I can think of is Junko, from Persona 2. She isn't nearly as prominent as Maki's mother is in the narrative, but her focus on beauty over her child is certainly something of note that I wish the story had explored more (even if, as a girl who married a teacher and gave birth a short span of years later, as far as I remember, her obsession with her beauty and youth is understandable). In the end she seems to regret her actions and how they affected Jun.

Then we have Yukari's mother, Persona 3, who Yukari doesn't get along with due to how they dealt differently with her father's death. It's a big rift between the two that only slowly begins to heal, and that shows that both sides are human and how they were hurt and split apart by a tragedy that they might have better dealt with together.

After that... We have very little. What mother figure exists in Persona 4? We have Nanako's mother, who died tragically but is referred to as a loving and wonderful woman. What mother figure exists in Persona 5? We have Akechi's mother, who died tragically but is referred to as a loving and wonderful woman. Same with Wakaba, who is distorted by Futaba's perception of her, but is ultimately a kind and loving mother. Persona 5 Strikers? Akane's mother. Persona 5 Tactica? Toshiro's mother.

If we consider the Confidants, in Persona 5 we do have Shinya's mother, who... is overprotective, yes, but also loves her son very dearly. There is no resentment, merely concern that goes too far.

There are many absent or missing mothers in Persona, all of whom are said to have been loving and kind and wonderful woman. Several times, people will repeat lines about the unconditional and wonderful love of a mother. There are so many loving and kind and wonderful mothers that it seems like recent Persona games take for granted this idea that "mothers will always love their children", which seems rather ridiculous when compared to the presence of abusive fathers (Akechi, Ryuji, Akira in Strikers, and now Toshiro).

This sort of double standard, wherein lines about the unconditional love of a mother, even when their children come from men who are cruel or unkind to them, are spouted whilst men are shown to be abusive, annoys me. It is as if women must have some sort of inherent goodness, some inherent quality of motherhood which men lack, that makes men more prone to abuse.

The Persona series is no stranger to having issues with gender - look at the depiction of drag in Persona 4 and 5, the one-off transgender woman in Persona 3 who was depicted as predatory, the trans NPC in Persona 2 who wants to rip men's dicks off - but I don't think people often talk about how it choose, in recent years, time and time again, to depict mothers as holy saints.

I was playing Tactica, watching Futaba insist on the love of mothers and Toshiro's cognition of his dead mother insist that she loved him dearly, and I thought: why? Why is this trope of the saintly dead mother so pervasive in recent Persona games?

I hope it stops soon.

#persona series #persona 5 #persona 5 tactica #persona 4 #i know there are some here and there who aren't cardboard cutouts but overall its just #let women be awful mothers atlus #let toshiro's mom be mad! let akechi's mom be mad!

[mikka-minns]

Shout out to my cringefail daughter, Wakaba (Who i also now kin for a secret reason), for trying to kill one girl(a lesbian) Who she Thought stole her crush(a gay boy).

#Bonus: the gay boy crush is being groomed by the said lesbian's older brother. So is she. So is everyone in the school. #So is Wakaba herself #But indirectly #Revolutionary girl utena #wakaba shinohara #The reason i kin her isnt this btw

[kankuroplease]

I don't think you have already answered this question, in French daughter-in-law is the wives of the sons example the wives of the sons of Sumi, I don't know what the translator has to translate but sorry 😅🤷 ( I'm afraid that one day I'll send a message in English and it will translate into insults 💀😭) So Sumi's relationship with her sons' wives?☺️

Ah, I see. Translates are tricky lol

That being said, to the question at hand ✨

Katsura

They get along most days, but they do not see eye to eye a lot of the time despite both being strategists. No matter how much faith Katsura has in Madara and his abilities, she’s not one to sit at home when battle is raging.

Sumi thinks she’s a selfish girl for possibly putting herself in danger when they both know her disadvantages may play a part in her own demise. She can’t really argue with her when Katsura brings up how she had more on the line than her (5 sons) when backed up Tajima in taking down lady Asako. -3 for stubbornness +2 for having her sons back at all cost 9/10

Gin

She would be her favorite daughter in law simply because of how well she knows her adoptive father and his late wife who would have loved Gin. She a really thoughtful person and checks on Sumi regularly and they have dinner together regularly.

Sweetest deadpanned lady around~ 15/10

Yaya

Sumi doesn’t know how to relate to Yaya at all. She’s so painfully shy and reserved that it hard to talk to her and Yaya doesn’t seek her out for advice despite knowing Sumi for years as one of Ringo’s friends.

She’s happy Inari is happy with her and she does think she’s a sweet girl, but sometimes she feels she could’ve chosen a better fit for the family as a whole. 5/10

Wakaba

If Sumi is being completely honest, she doesn’t like Wakaba much. She always has a devious little smile tugging at her lips and has Tenko eating out the palm of her hand. Sometimes literally.

She doesn’t treat her differently, but a tsk or two has escaped her lips each time Wakaba and Tenko show up late to a family gathering without their kids because they’re with their nanny and they lost track of time.

Plus she baby trapped her son (not really). 3/10💀

Mate

She adores Mate! Especially how freely she speaks her mind. She knows she sort of tricked her into being her daughter in law, but she’s glad she hasn’t ran off (successfully)

Mate is very welcoming and accommodating towards her and seems to be able to calm Izuna���s temper. Solid 8.5/10

#ask #kpz naruto founder au #kpz firestorm 🔥 #OC: Sumi uchiha