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#it’s not just about how cops and prisons are irl it’s about how they literally are in the show and how they are in the show is violent
jasontoddenthusiastt · 7 months
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The recent influx of “Jason is obviously a bad person. Look at how many people he’s killed” posts is 2x more idiotic because it runs on the same premise as “Jason is a cop symbol”. There’s an infinitely more famous example right next to him that people ignore entirely.
In the real world killing people is a felony, just as vigilantism as a whole is too. The same way Batman is a fictional character in a fake world, Jason is not part of the real world either. I think if you’re above age 10 you should’ve moved past the stage of trying to point fingers to try to determine a right vs wrong way to do illegal vigilantism in a world like the dcu while pretending it’s a perfect model of a real society lol.
Batman enjoys maiming and crippling people (bad things). Why is he working with cops and throwing drug addicts into prison after beating the tar out of them (bad things). It’s proven in the real world that that does not do anything to rehabilitate them and in fact costs the government billions of dollars and actually worsens the war on drugs (higher mortality & crime rates, and increased spread of infectious diseases). Yet since the authors constantly spoon feed you lines about how heroic he is people just eat that shit up, disregarding the fact that it might be utter horseshit irl and his morals wouldn’t make much sense either.
If ‘character doing bad thing’ is synonymous with ‘character can’t possibly be a good person’, then that should negate the idea that Batman’s biggest trait is compassion (although I think it already does for other in-story reasons lol, re: he tends to be classist and discriminatory towards people who commit petty crimes, calling them degrading names like “trash” and “bottom-feeders”. No amount of donating to charity makes you a good person if at your core you see poor/homeless people as lesser and you get a kick out of mocking them).
There’s far more evidence of Jason possessing all the good traits the authors keep begging you to believe Batman has. He patiently fed and cared for his dying mother all alone as a small baby/child. He literally fed groups of homeless people like a mother hen everyday while he himself was homeless, brain dead, and running on basic survival instincts. After finally regaining higher functioning in his brain and discovering the joker was still alive, one of the first things he cried about was the countless number of other innocent people dead at the hands of his own killer. If the only justification you have for why Jason’s a bad person is that he kills, that’s a weak and baseless argument for obvious reasons.
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arcplaysgames · 11 months
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okay sorry, having a full time job leaves less time to mainline Persona than when I was full time depressed, but I played a good chunk and wow
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Shout out to the localization team for knowing exactly what they are doing because I am personally thrilled to bits. I sure hope there is some, ahem, choice fic on the AO3 about Alice because goddamn.
Anyway, I am SUPER BAD at this game. Even on Easy, the controls just feel..... weird. When the game told me I'd unlocked a new combo, it did help me understand a bit that this is basically a fighting game with permanent hoard mode, but as someone who doesn't play fighting games, it's a steep learning curve.
Whatever, it's a big world, and there are AssCreed-style Prison Keeps that have to be taken over to progress the story.
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The Core of every Prison Keep is an item emblematic of the Jail warden's power. For Alice, there's the first big magazine she made the cover of, her first designer dress, and her big CD. Ann is not thrilled with any of this, clearly seeing herself in Alice. It's easy to imagine that all of these Core items are things that Ann aspires to as well, and the reflection is clearly disheartening.
Again, this game makes the whole Inspirational Model thing work so much more than P5 original. I really feel for Ann here and I'm glad that rather than just a villain the cast isn't really connected to, there was effort here to make it feel more personal.
I really like the writing! It's good!
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ONLY NINE? Oh well, I am going to read all of them anyway.
Anyway, after stealing all the Cores, Alice's Jail goes on high-alert and the team has to bail to consider their infiltration tactic.
AND THEN
BY GOD
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A drunk dude tries to cause trouble with the Thieves on their way back to Sojiro's.
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Hey it's Chaz! And oh. Oh we are putting on a whole show here.
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looks at the camera
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I cannot overexpress how much this fucking guy sounds like Mask-Off Adachi As Played By Troy Baker. Like, I was so fucking convinced the witch was back and this was Troy that I googled it and was LITERALLY SHOCKED to learn this is not actually a Troy Baker performance.
Whoever Tom Taylorson is, they are doing some WORK here.
Everyone is extremely cold towards Chaz the Cop and
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I LITERALLY IRL CACKLED AT THIS. OH MY GOD HARU I LOVE YOU? Haru you're a gift.
Anyway Chaz-- I should call him Zenkichi if he's gonna be around for the whole game........
Anyway, Chaz is extremely upfront about shit. He is with PubSec. Everyone is looking at what's going on with these personality shifts and going
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Which, admittedly, it totally does.
Chaz asks Reverie outright if they're involved. He says no, they're being framed.
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Pardon my language, but the amount of cunt this man is serving with every fucking line of dialogue is staggering. Oh my god, I might be a little in love?
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NOT A PERSONA GAME WITHOUT A DEAL TO FULFILL, here we go!
Chaz wants to work with Reverie and the Thieves. He knows this isn't their doing and if Reverie is arrested, the incidents will continue. So if they team up, Chaz will use his leverage to ensure Reverie avoids arrest.
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oh my god this is my guy, y'all. I am being targeted like a sniper's sight and I am fine with it. I'm in.
hey Chaz do you wanna kiss?
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awwwwwwww shit yeah, dad is on my side!
(Also iirc Sojiro's original job was some kind of liason between Wakaba's lab and the govt and he hates PubSec on principle, so this is great.)
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puts a finger against Yusuke's mouth
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh let me have this one, Yusuke. I need it.
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chaoslynx · 1 year
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Hi chaos what are some of your favourite Eiji moments (from the anime or the manga, Eiji is awesome either way)?
EIJI MY BELOVED OMG
In approximately chronological order, just a very few top picks:
One of my top Eiji moments is in episode 5 when he fucking steals a cop car for the boy he met like a month ago??? And most of that time was spent with said boy being in prison. But Eiji, ride or die boyfriend that he is, is like "yeah he's worth a felony or three" right off the bat.
Episode 11, the way Eiji reacts to Ash telling him his backstory in his own words. I feel like this is a really important moment for both of them because up until now, Eiji knew a lot about Ash, but Ash hadn't chosen to tell it to Eiji. So here, this moment when Ash can tell Eiji in his own words and gauge his reaction is so so vital to the course of their relationship. And Eiji just ... "You're hurt. Really hurt. I can tell." Also in the manga version of that scene, after Ash's, "It doesn't have to be forever. Even if it's just for now," Eiji responds, "Forever."
Honestly episode 11 has so much of Eiji's caring moments, but we also get amazing shit like the classic AshEiji banter and them flipping each other off (in the manga equivalent). Iconic.
The "eat your own weiner -- or is it too small?" scene (manga exclusive, unfortunately) and uhhhh all of his other snarky comments. We love a boy who can banter.
Episode 20 has some more of my favorite Eiji moments:
"Don't apologize. That's for me to do. Let's go, boss."
THE SOUP SCENE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--
The fact that Eiji brought THREE gangs together (Ash's, Cain's, and Sing's) in order to save Ash form Golzine??? Like. Eiji literally led three gangs at once for a while and united them under one cause. Holy SHIT y'all.
Anyone IRL who complains about Eiji missing Golzine in episode 20 has probably never shot a gun, much less at a real person, and much much less with someone they love being that close to the target. I can understand Sing complaining about it, since he grew up around guns and admires Eiji, but in general, I think Eiji did pretty well, all things considered???
When Ash says "I'll lead them away" and Eiji thinks about it for about a quarter of a second before fucking shouldering Ash out of the way and telling Cain to take care of him so that Eiji can lead Golzine's men away instead. Ash's panic in this scene gets to me so badly -- I can only imagine what Eiji would be feeling in that moment. Bones asks "Where are you going?" and Eiji responds "I don't know!" like his only fucking thought is how he can use what abilities he has to save Ash. Holy shit.
I'm crying I love Eiji so much y'all. Oh my god. There are so many more good Eiji moments so feel free to reblog with your favorites too -- these were just a few off the top of my head. Sorry if I got episode numbers or quotes wrong, these are all just from memory lol
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will80sbyers · 7 months
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I bet you support prisons and cops and retributionary justice and the death penalty despite fancying yourself a “progressive” smh. Don’t you see the themes of abuse embedded in the show thru Henry, Max, Will, etc. Don’t you see that young Henry was treated poorly and failed by the 50s nuclear family and society that was meant to protect him? This is canon. His mother thought he was sick, she wanted to fix him. You’re not supposed to cheer when Brenner abducts him. You’re supposed to grieve. Henry is queercoded just like Will but you only have sympathy for “safe” displays. One’s takes on Henry always lead to shitty politics that lead to palpable harm in the justice system. But yeah, stick to your bad seed black and white Tom Riddle cosplay Satan child bloodlust 🙄
You are literally insane, I don't support the current prison system and cops but I also don't support serial killers, they need to be stopped in a way or they will literally keep killing.
Henry is not going to stop because you feel sympathy for him, if he had you in front of him he would say you're weak and kill you without a second thought behind and people like you that want to assume my morality from how I feel what should happen to a FICTIONAL character are out of their minds completely
He was treated poorly and this still doesn't justify him being a fucking serial killer??????? He should not be forgiven.
Henry may be queercoded but he's also coded as a literal pedophile so yeah, I wouldn't really be happy about him being queercoded if I was you!
But stick to defending serial killers online I'm sure they will spare you and you can hold hands with them walking over a rainbow
When people have the predator - victim mentality you are in danger and they do not have empathy for you even if you have some for them, it's you against them, the world is not black and white but people with Henry's personality disorder think in black and white for what they do in this world and that's what you will get when you meet them and that's why when this scenario happens irl people need to be reclused somewhere so they don't keep killing innocents, IN REAL LIFE they should be cured and supervised and treated as humans still
In a fictional world I want them dead and don't care because they are CHARACTERS not real people and I want my favourite characters to be safe not that asshole
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tony-andonuts · 3 months
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Got home from work like an hour ago (early day yipee) butlike also today fucking sucked and im gonna go off a little
Okso first and foremost all but one person from an entire fucking department got let off for ''budget cuts'' today and not only that but us in the kitchen and ALL OF MEDICAL AS A FUCKING WHOLE recieved a budget cut. And we're already purchasing the lowest quality products overall. The department in question not only makes the workload easier on literally everyone but they get the residents out and about rather than rotting in their rooms. Its just so fucking vile and evil, and the department that they cut off is VITAL. The residents are gonna mentally deteriorate and more fights are gonna happen. The assisted living facility i work for is now a fucking PRISON. like dead fucking ass. I really fucking hope that the CNAs told the residents that love to complain because this shit is just straight up cruel and the owner of the corporation as a whole is so fucking lucky their name doesnt have to be public or else i wouldve already scheduled a flight to. Uh, you know <3
Another thing too solike. Okay this is morally inappropriate and i fully acknowledge that but i cant stop thinking abt it
So i had a dream this morning (like 8-10am) that the am aide i work with was gonna get fired, and then i also recieved bad news regarding a resident. IRL at around the same exact time i had that dream was when the department got fired *and* my am aide coworker recieved really bad news. I know i naturally have some clairvoyance butlike. FUCK I really hope it was all a coincidence and my meds were just working really well and that I dont get forebodings like that bc I know for a fact my psychosis will get the better of me if this happens even once more
Anyways i apologise for how out of touch that sounded, i genuinely am both seething for my coworkers who were dumped and saddened for my aide comrade
Butlike fucking UGH I've also been working like 4 days in a row with only one day off in between and Im fucking SHOT. I can technically work those shifts while also doing my laundry, making food, and attending therapy but I can't do much else bc its either Im getting ready to go to work, getting ready to go to bed for work in the morning, or using my one day off to clean everything that got dirty during my work days
Also the transphobia and burnt-out ableism I witness at work makes me wanna scream and break everything but i dont wanna fight with my coworkers in front of the residents so i just have to give the residents twice as much love as the malice theyre recieving like they're living in a perpetual state of good cop bad cop :)
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