#sae's palace

[may-lutlone]

what do you mean sae palace wasn't like this fjdndmmxmx

#artists on tumblr #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #persona 5 #persona 5 fanart #goro akechi #akira kurusu #shuake #akeshu #ren x akechi #ren amamiya #persona 5 protagonist #sae's palace #shuake fanart #p5r #p5 fanart

[lilac-liliales]

Interrogation Room

Playing P5R and bear with me, but I think Akechi knew he didn’t kill Ren at the interrogation room. Let me parse my doubts into something coherent because I can’t make sense of them otherwise.

First: when Futaba steals Akechi's phone on the first day infiltrating Sae’s Palace, everyone is surprised, and it shows in the exclamation signs above their heads. Everyone except Futaba, who plotted this interaction, and Akechi, who acted surprised, but wasn’t really surprised. Similar to when he met Morgana after his panel: he acted surprised to keep up the charade, but really wasn’t.

On 8/28, Akechi connected Medjed to Futaba on sight, and implied so in front of Ren. On 10/11, he knew Sae’s laptop had been tampered with. I can’t wholeheartedly say he didn’t connect the dots. He allowed Futaba to spy him.

Second: The Phantom Thieves knew that stealing the treasure caused the palace to collapse. It's safe to assume Akechi knew this too, because he witnessed Okumura’s fight from the shadows. After defeating Sae’s Shadow and fake-stealing her treasure, he must have been aware something was going on. Why isn't Akechi wary of things not going according to plan? Or rather; did Akechi expect the Phantom Thieves to foil Shido’s plan from the beginning? When Joker was successfully subdued by the police troops, Akechi must have been the only one actually surprised at the turn of events.

Third: While on his way to the interrogation room, how could Akechi, a known veteran lurker from the metaverse, not sense the reality shifting? During the Third Semester, Akechi is confirmed to have amateur navigator perception, which means he should be more aware of his surroundings than the average Persona Users. Also, as evidenced by the Phantom Thieves’ first access to Okumura’s Palace, he can feel the shift into the metaverse even before the surroundings are warped.

At a considerable distance from the area of effect, even before material changes occur, Akechi senses the shift. So did he really miss it during the interrogation room... or was he aware they shifted into the palace all along?

Fourth: Akechi was a full fledged hitman in both the metaverse and the real world, and we can see as much from his deft handling of the guard’s gun and appliance of the silencer. In P5S there’s an unsolved assassination case that’s directly tied to the Antisocial Force, and the modus operandi is Shido’s blueprint. Thus, If Akechi was experienced in killing both shadows & people, why couldn’t he tell the difference between them? Or more likely; was he aware it was a cognition the whole time?

Fifth: The Conspiracy planned to escape-goat the Phantom Thieves as the perpetrators of the mental shutdowns & psychotic breakdowns. However, Akechi repeatedly states he's going to bring the true culprit to justice, and this is reiterated throughout the game. It aligns with his ultimate plot to betray Shido at the peak of his power, and with his confession during Christmas’ Eve. It begs the question: was Akechi ever really willing to let Joker take the fall in the first place? 

Sixth: The "deal” between Akechi and the protagonist consists of Akechi protecting the Phantom Thieves from the authorities, as Sae herself phrased - ["I can't believe you evaded the police's network until today… The only logical explanation is that someone in the police has ties to the Phantom Thieves.”] His "smooth talk" ability is more than just a perk; it’s employed several times as his go-to persuasion tactic to steer Shido away from damaging others. 

Akechi calling Shido after the interrogation room and straight up lying to him so as to postpone the Phantom Thieves’ assassinations is a perfect example of Akechi covertly covering for the team’s asses. Akechi’s billiards allegory in Rank 7 - for which you need maximum intelligence - explains his situation as a pawn of the conspiracy while hinting to grander forces at play, along with his proposal for an unlikely alliance. There are several messages in the thieves’ chat that also cover this. He was hinting at this development all along, and he was either confident -or faithful- that the Phantom Thieves would be prepared for it.

When observing Sae’s Palace Memoirs inside the Thieves’ Den, Akechi mentions he's impressed with the plan the Phantom Thieves pulled, and in the mementos dialogue (3.00), Akechi is even embarrassed about the Phantom Thieves discovering him so early in the year due to the "pancakes" line.  While we must be skeptical of Ren’s unreliable cognition, it's safe to assume Akechi was completely in the dark about the Phantom Thieves' Contingency Plan during Sae's palace.

If all these are true, it means that Akechi trusted the Phantom Thieves to save Joker from capture, willingly cooperated into their plot whenever opportunity arose, and then kept his end of the deal by ensuring their livelihood. All while unaware of what the Phantom Thieves were actually thinking.

#persona 5 #p5 #p5r #akechi goro #the conspiracy #antisocial force #my thoughts #my doubts #sae's palace #Interrogation Room #phantom thieves #what a headache #persona 5 royal

[pissinshittinfartin]

#kart tag #persona 5 #akeshu #i just got to sae's palace inb royal after 50 hours // #i got fucking meat brain playing a bad game in 2023 ///

[doodleodds]

Me? Uploading a Halloween comic on November 18th, almost four whole-ass weeks late???? Yeah that’s uh. yup. yeah

Thanks for reading! :) <3

#persona 5 #p5 #akira kurusu #OUGH OH MY GOD ITS FINALLY. DONE. I AM LOSING MY MIND #if you've been following me for long enough: yes! this IS in fact the comic i mentioned that i was making last year. #Fun fact! This is also! The Third Draft of said comic!!! i have redrawn this thing THREE FUCKING TIMES #as a result you may notice that i uh. a) gave up on coloring this thing. no way in HELL am i coloring 30 pages. im not...strong enough #you will settle for simply having monochrome colored panels and you will LIKE IT!!!!! >:OOOOO #and b) gave up on backgrounds! yeah fuck that lmao. i am never drawing people in the monabus again and mementos can kiss my ass!!!!! #i just want to draw my silly little characters & not their environments #and you may also say: sophia. by halloween they are already in Sae's palace. why isn't goro with them and where's haru? #and to that i say shhhh suspend your disbelief. akechi is in mementos carving pumpkins to avoid trick or treaters. #and also haru isn't there because i cannot draw 6+ people in a cramped space yet!!! my art skills are Just Not There Quite Yet :( #so she's staying home and handing out fullsized candy bars to kids. that's where she is while this is all going down #'does akira know it's akechi down there?' :) that's up to you! but i WILL say that I was thinking about Akeshu when i wrote this so. :)))) #ANYWAY if you read this far in the tags im so sorry lmao. thanks for sticking around! Hope you had a happy halloween :) #hopefully i won't disappear for long this time. idk im just gonna start uploading other bullshit art in the interim between comics i guess #probably some fire emblem shit. we'll see. we'll see. anyway bye!! till next time!

[luuxxart]

spoilers: he met her anyway and she did her rita voice, causing him to promptly collapse on the dance floor

#akeshu #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #jun kurosu #junko kurosu #persona 5 #persona 2 #they had to…. evacuate the dancefloor…. #this takes place pre Sae palace btw #Akira’s shirt is the Shellos pattern from original stitch btw!! #Akechi’s suit was supposed to be more Crow and less weeknd djdkdkdk but the grey looked bad #also kurusu family has hair horns you heard it here first #i WISH I had finished my island fic … it would explain why I made junko his great aunt instead of the usual jun being his dad route #basically. my idea is that the kurusu’s have a thing with sophia (smtv) and junko ditched and changed her name to make it big #KINDA LIKE. SOMEONES MOM. #i love a good parallel #also sorry for the filter explosion I was feelin it #now I’m off to do work on zine stufffff

[edenfire]

🌸💘"were you expecting prince charming?~"💘🌸

what if akira is hit with a status effect that turns him into a mouse, and the only way to change back is a kiss from a prince?👀💘💞🌸

I doodled the sketch for this a few years ago, and I'm super happy that I was finally able to color it🥰💗

#shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #persona 5 #p5 #pls consider this🙏 #akira turns into a mouse in sae's palace #(or goro is helping them in shido's palace) #and the phantom thieves are scrambling trying to figure out how to turn him back #and futaba is like ''akechi! youre a prince!! try kissing him to turn him back!'' #and poor goro is like i dont wanna kiss a mouse;;; #but he does it anyway to save their fearless leader #and bam!! it totally works #weirdest first kiss ever lmao #akira is like now lets do this for real👀😏 #or something like that #i just want shuake and co to get up to goofy shenanigans sometimes #some much needed levity pls #pls tell me someone has written this fic #i need it lol #♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ #shitty #(< that's my art tag) #i have been in this fandom for sooo long

[marenwithanm]

So I've been playing persona 5 lol. The found family ever has captured my heart ❤️🥺

#im not done with it yet so plz no spoilers in the tags #working on infiltrating Sae's palace rn #yusuke kitagawa #futaba sakura #akira kurusu #persona 5 #ren amamiya #persona 5 protagonist #morgana #art #fanart #fan art #traditional art #marker art

[lavendorii]

curious because from ive gathered it's kind of polarizing

#txt #polls #very niche but im very curious <- the curiouser #persona 5 #p5r #sae niijima #if ur lost this is about the casino palace theme

[thedaythatwas]

shuake works really well as a jesus/judas allegory and I will not elaborate

#except I will! but later #sae nijima’s palace is the garden of gethsemane #rambling #persona 5 #shuake

[tricksterlatte]

There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.

However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.

I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).

I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.

#parker says things #I love Sae I love everything she represents and her impact on the story so much #She's probably my favorite non Thief character other than MAYBE Sojiro and it shows #This was on my mind as I wrote her and Akechi interacting post canon because wow they barely did and we didn't see any of it on 12/24? #hardly any #I wanna know how she'd react to his actual demeanor especially after 11/20's hellscape #she walked out of that room suspecting him due to Joker and then came back to a murder scene even if that was the metaverse #actually so fascinating to think about how she had no choice but to adapt #and her palace was still there? Atlus give me more please #p5 spoilers #goro akechi the man that you are god I love you and your masks and deception and true self #and how those masks deceive even the player. sometimes even long after completing the game #on all sides. god it's so good #I love any characters who make me think I love morally gray characters who are actually morally gray #ahhhhhhhhhhh

[morbidinlove]

how am i supposed to be infiltrating saes palace when some fucking guy is absolutely RIPPING that bass in the background

how am i supposed to fight when i must groove!

damn you persona and your amazing music

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #persona series #sae nijima #born to groove forced to fight #and the vocals!! #THE DAMNED VOCALS!! #favourite palace theme so far

[incorrect-phantom-thieves]

Makoto: My sister sent me a “Get Better” card.

Ann: Oh, were you sick?

Makoto: No, she just thought I could do better.

#persona 5 #makoto niijima #ann takamaki #sae niijima #you know this is incorrect because Sae didn’t pay enough attention to Makoto to even write her a letter pre-palace

[ancient-day]

THIRD SEMESTER CRUMB LET'S GOOOOOO

#p5t #p5t spoilers #'jest this takes place during sae's palace' yes i know but listen #i will take any and all teeny tiny reference to his 3rd semester behavior ok #i am so starved so he's back to being studied under a microscope #also like ok sorry him talking about his emotions or moods at all is wonderful

[autism2009]

I hate persona 5.

#SHUT UP AKECHI NOBODY FUCKING WANTS TO INFILTRATE SAES PALACE ON THE LAST GODDAMN DAY #WHY DONT YOU INFILTRATE SOME FUCKING MENTAL STABILITY. YOU STUPID GAY FUCK

[235uranium]

hm yknow its odd that music is brought up pretty rarely as smth akechi might end up doing post canon. within canon he actively knows and cares about music theory, to the extent of calling joker to infodump about it and getting embarrassed when he realizes it. he's also canonically good at math, which is relevant to music theory as well

#☢️.txt #i am a proponent of math gay goro akechi #like. dude just calculated probabilities on the spot in sae's palace. #but like. applied math type. #anyways i think akechi is the kind of person to actually know how an instrument is engineered and bring this up as casual conversation

[karliahs]

ahhhhh i finally have a complete draft of a fic that has been giving me so much trouble. it's not done by any means but there are no more [and here we need to get from this point to this point fucking...somehow]s left

#talking #dialogue and some internal monologue stuff comes to me so vivid and clear #and then i am cursed to need to like. write interstitial stuff to get to those things #logistics of people moving places and doing things. hideous #also now the dilemma is do i wait until i'm at the point in my replay where this fic takes place so i can double check details #or do i say fuck facts here is the Thing. look at it #depends how quick i can smash through sae's palace i guess