#HI DID YOU KNOW THAT I REALLY LIKE THE FINAL BOSS IN PERSONA 3 AND THAT THANATOS IS MY FAVORITE PERSONA
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#persona 3#minato arisato#makoto yuki#thanatos#lizzy does art#HI DID YOU KNOW THAT I REALLY LIKE THE FINAL BOSS IN PERSONA 3 AND THAT THANATOS IS MY FAVORITE PERSONA#SORRY FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS IM LITERALLY ABT TO LEAVE THE HOUSE but like. this game. gets me fucked up without fail#i looove nyx avatar as a way to end off the p3 narrative and themes and what happens to the mc after this too. god. great development#and yes this is based on the scene in the fourth movie i really love the rendition of the fight against nyx#i continue to have so much feelings about this game and i am physically incapable of shutting up about it
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Day 15
Race: Oh god
Alignment: Oh fuck
April 9th, 2024
After a few hours of rigorous training, I think I’m ready. Day 15 is a special day, after all. Welcome to the all-for-one Jack Frost special!
1. Lucifrost
Race: Herald
Alignment: Light-Law
Lucifrost is a very strange Frost with a surprisingly intricate design, a demon that only appears in the Demikids and Devil Survivor games, typically as a mid-late game boss. Unlike what one might expect, he isn’t a frostified version of Lucifer- no, his backstory is far more fun.
Lucifrost once was a Jack Frost, but he was exiled from the Frost family due to betraying them, much like Lucifer did to the Angels. Jealous, he wandered down to hell, eventually finding himself in the final layer, wherein he saw the frozen Lucifer in a lake of tears. Rather than feel pity, though, Lucifrost saw an opportunity… for profit. Frozen Lucifer was a perfect idol for the ice-obsessed fiend, who began to try and impersonate the fallen angel, eventually returning to hell after achieving a perfectly angelic form… only to see that Lucifer had long since departed. Likely despondent, he wandered aimlessly to find the king of demons for all of eternity, ending up crossing paths with the DemiKids and Devil Survivors protagonists along the way.
While his backstory is silly, his design is fantastic, an interpretation of an angelic Jack Frost that makes him far more adorable than the Morning Star could ever be.
2. Frost Ace
Race: Genma
Alignment: Light-Neutral
The legendary hero of the Frost Lineage, Frost Ace makes himself known as a mid-game demon who exists as a parody of superhero media and, more specifically, tokusatsu sentai shows like Super Sentai.
Frost Ace mostly works as a 'good side' equivalent to Black Frost, being a heroic transformation that any Jack Frost is implied to be able to take to grow in power. I personally like to see Frost Ace, on top of that, also serving as a general in King Frost's army, as it adds on a bit to the whole 'Frost Kingdom' theme.
You getting tired yet? I'm nowhere near done!
3. The Frost Five!
Race: Frost
Alignment: Five
These bozos are each based on separate frozen deserts, save one, which is a cocktail. In order, Blue Hawaii Frost is based on the Blue Hawaii cocktail, Lemon Frost is based on lemon-flavored shaved ice, Melon Frost is based on melon-flavored shaved ice, Strawberry Frost is based on strawberry-flavored shaved ice, and lastly, Milky Frost is just ice cream.
Ahem.
4. Hee-ho-Kun
Race: Student
Alignment: Broke due to Student Loans
Less of a specific demon and more of a recurring character, Hee-ho-Kun is a demon who originates from SMT if... serving a minor role as a friendly Jack Frost who can become an optional party member, apparently enjoying going to school.
Unfortunately, in order to pay his college bills, he had to open a shop! In SMT 3: Nocturne, Hee-ho-Kun makes his grand return as a shop owner in Shibuya, though later finds his calling as a Black Frost, becoming an optional boss of the Kabukicho Prison area after being cleared, then becoming a recruitable party member once defeated, appearing in the Labyrinth of Amala.
Lastly, Hee-ho-Kun manages to get a girlfriend! In Megami Ibunroku: Persona, aka Revelations Persona, he appears at St. Hermelin HS as a student after it is frozen over as a result of the Snow Queen quest. Let's hope he got the education he hoped for, especially given his acquisition of a girlfriend!
Finally. The Jack Protags.
Ah, they truly are great. Let us bask in their brilliance lest we forget the greatest frosts of them all. Raiho is a personal favorite of mine.
Also, Jack Frost somehow got a Demonica? Enter Demon-hee-ho, a recurring boss in the Strange Journey games. Admittedly, I don't know much about SJ, but I find his inclusion to be really silly, so he gets a special shoutout among his protag contemporaries.
...And that's that! I hope you enjoyed the Jack Frost miniseries. I'm missing a few Jack's, such as the Petite Frosts, but I'm honestly just tired of doing Jack Bros. stuff. Let me have this break. Either way, though, the Frost blockade has been cleared. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming once our snowplows come by.
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Packin' heat
Y'know, part of their police procedures is that you have to be wearing an identifiable police uniform if you're carrying a gun. Since Adachi is a so-called plainclothes detective, he wouldn't actually carry a gun on him. It would stay locked up at HQ and he would have to get permission to bring it with him on cases.
Like, remember how he didn't just whip out his service pistol during Rise's stalker / photographer incident? He wouldn't have one on him to begin with, and he wouldn't try to get permission if he thought he was just going to babysit Dojima's nephew. One would assume he has a gun in December because it's one of his model guns that he rigged to fire, or he just took it from the station without anyone knowing (Dojima had been hospitalized since November after all).
In December, he has a line inside of the TV where he says he became a cop so he could legally carry a gun. For a little context, you can't own a gun there as a civilian. We do know from P4U2 that Adachi does like guns and has various model guns that he does maintenance as a hobby on 'cause he can't take his service pistol home with him.
But, even knowing this, what he says in December feels a little nonsensical. Cause at some point in his career, he decided to become an investigative detective in a country where you don't carry around any sort of weapon as an investigative detective. Idk, I just can't take him seriously when he says that lol. He even says it in the TV world when he's in "B-movie bad guy mode" and trying to make himself out to be the Worst Person Ever.
In contrast, the uniformed Officer Kurosawa in Persona 3 would have a gun. Actually, I assume the black/gray object on his right hip - that you really have to squint at this screenshot to even notice - is his holster. He's stationed at a satellite police station in the mall and would be expected to respond to incidents that happen in the area, which may or may not involve using a baton or gun on a suspect.
Soejima's rough drafts reveal something about this topic and Atlus's process.
In Soejima's draft of Dojima, we see that Soejima did draw him with a gun holster on his left. But in Dojima's finalized full body character artwork, this magically vanished. Soejima - or whoever gave him specs for what Dojima's design needed - might have assumed that plainclothes detectives do carry guns but this later got corrected and we see this reflected in Dojima's finalized artwork. Adachi's own art is pretty useless for this cause he's always wearing a jacket, but I found this notable regardless cause Adachi and Dojima do share the same profession.
Edit: If you are wondering why Naoto has a gun, I have no idea lmao. That seems more about Naoto being a party member and needing a weapon for combat than it does any kind of basis in reality. Like at first we only see her with it inside of the TV, so it just seems like "a TV world thing". But I've been told that in Persona Q it's revealed to be an actual real working gun? Welp okay boss if you say so.
#persona 4#tohru adachi#officer kurosawa#ryotaro dojima#shigenori soejima#after i posts about the myriad truths and yomi 'drop' i am probably done typing about persona until 3+ yrs from now when i finally ng+ p4g#unless adachi has a cameo in p3 reload...? eheheh#actually i would really like to rewrite the adachi's actions post but lmao that is a monumental undertaking
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"The Monkey King and the Infant" details Part 3 - and likely last for now before I go on Spoiler lockdown so I can write:
links to Part 1 and Part 2:
The Jade Emperor sees/is aware of the canon Monkie Kid series. He thinks the whole situation as a big waste of time. So... remove Monkie Kid = no Monkie Kid series, Monkey King stays retired, and less of a headache for the big man up top. Win win.
The Jade Emperor shows Sun Wukong visions of the worst parts on the series inc; LBD's return, the Samadhi fire being reignited, The Jade Emperor's death and the potential breakdown of the universe etc... This is also how SW learns on accident that Macaque is alive again.
Internally SW is very conflicted cus... the universe might end? But more importantly he might actually die? But also consider; Free Son and a return to his beloved.
Other characters occassionally get tormented by visions of canon events/death omens - likely a side effect of the altered timeline, or the Jade Emperor subtly trying to turn them against one another.
Erlang and various other mythos characters show up. Erlang is tasked with ensuring that SW destroyed MK's egg, but is knocked out by Moksha (on command of Guanyin) to give SW a chance to reconsider. In the egg's place, Erlang found a "shell" of obsidian. This isn't enough to convince Erlang... but it's enough to convince the Jade Emperor and the few members of the Celestial Court who knew about the Egg that the task had been completed. Erlang is sussing SW hard for this... but wants to see what the big deal is with the undercooked Stone Monkey before he says anything.
Moksha is acting as Sun Wukong's parole officer as a "Sorry I bonked you" favor to Erlang. Shows up in glamour at Pigsy's as customer to keep an eye on things. Big shipper under her no-crap cop attitude.
Guanyin herself is Very Against the idea of scrambling MK (Mercy personified yo). But she doesn't appear physically, meaning that not even the Jade Emperor knows that she techincally betrayed Heaven.
Nicknames/familial titles MK calls his fam through out the story:
Sun Wukong = "Dad" "Baba" "Baba Wu"
Macaque = "Mom" "Bama" "Baba Mihou" "Mama" (when he was really young)
Pigsy = "Dadsy" "Pops" "Boss" (at work)
Tang = "Papa Tang" "Pama" (verbal slip as a toddler that stuck)
Sandy = "Shúshu/Uncle"
Mei = "Meimei" " (little sister - techically she's older but the title is also a pun on her name)
Nezha = "Tánggē" "Gege" (grew up thinking Nezha was an older cousin)
When it comes to finally training MK when he comes of age; Sun pulls a "Lego Batman and Bruce Wayne" - hoping that by separating the personas, he'll be able to reach MK better as a teacher. And MK 100% falls for it. Cus "The Monkey King" and his dorky "Dad" are two completely different guys! Right?
Macaque meanwhile has a very different style of teaching:
Macaque, in his series outfit, manifesting from the shadows: "MK, we need to talk about-"
MK, battlemode: "AH! THE SIX EARED MACAQUE!"
Macaque: "I'M LITERALLY YOUR OWN MOTHER! YOU PUT THAT STAFF DOWN THIS INSTANT MISTER!"
MK: "yes sir"
This leads to a funny misunderstanding later on when he sees Macaque and The Monkey King interact during training:
MK: "Wait... if my mom is the Six Eared Macaque... and I've got Monkey King's powers..."
MK: *"GASP!"*
MK: "MOM!? Did you you cheat on Dad with The Monkey King!?"
Macaque: "...really???"
SW: *laughing his ass off*
Ok imma punch out and try to finish the first chapter. Will probably post a spotify mix soon. Pls tag or reply, or ask if you got any thoughts/questions. I love feedback!
#the monkey king and the infant#the monkey king and the infant au#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk s4 spoilers#lmk au#qi xiaotian#sun wukong#six eared macaque#liu er mihou#lmk tang#lmk pigsy#tagging the fic is gonna kill me#my aus
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slurps tea loudly
okay as I recap this I am gonna try to navigate my emotions
Oh its the Fortune Arcana boss from Persona 3 but not as good! But the whole point is Sae's cheating anyway so it's not supposed to be fair or fun, that's fine. After proving she's cheating, she turns into her monster form.
She looks like if the SAW movies were a person, jesus christ.
Anyway, lets get to the meat of the situation; the big escape.
Even though Sae's treasure was stolen and the Palace Ruler has been defeated, the casino is not coming apart like normal. (Which is because the treasure they're taking is a decoy, but more on that later.)
And finally we return to the cold open, which admittedly: I fucking loved this. I love that nothing is changed at all, it's just the same sequence again, but now you have context for what the fuck is happening. Now the face the player can use their persona makes sense, now the presence of shadows in a 'real' location makes sense, everything comes together.
No matter how I fall on my opinion on this game, I have been convinced that Joker is the best protagonist of any of these games. With the unfortunate exception to the lack of Gay Options he gets, he is an enormous improvement from P4MC in every metric. I know who this character is, even absent my own input, and he's weird and funny and kind of a huge bitch and salty as the Dead Sea.
Huge fan.
This sequence becomes such a victory lap. Like, I'm still figuring out how I feel about the Whole Thing, but this moment of handing the player control and going "Hey, remember this?" and letting them fucking RACE to the end in the hopes of finally figuring out what the fuck is going on, it's a pretty clever trick. /slow claps for the devs
It's still fucking weird that Kasumi is here tho.
Also: Kasumi has the worst mask of everyone in this game by far. Every time i see it I wanna give her literally anything else.
I do wonder if its a Bebop reference. Oh well.
In the present, Sae offers Reverie a plea deal if he gives her the other Thieves. No go.
His beat-up face is so soft and sad, I just wanna hug him close. He needs a bag of peas against his cheek and a hug from dad so bad.
holy shit the fucking pancakes. Morgana was the one demanding pancakes when the team was talking in the hallway before the studio recording and Akechi walked in saying he heard something about pancakes. He couldn't have heard that unless he'd been to the Metaverse before. He's always known what Morgana's saying from the moment everyone met.
HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT
That's really fucking smart honestly. Like, I sussed out Akechi because I'm the audience and I know tropes and story structure so it absolutely had to be Akechi. (Also there were a lot of other hints.) But I'm happy there was a hard piece of evidence for the characters that was more concrete than "have you MET him, he's a murderer."
As everyone and their dog guessed, when Futaba grabbed Akechi's phone, she slapped one of her wiretaps on there. That part's easy.
After that is where things get tricky.
The last thing Reverie does as Sae leaves the room is convince her to take his phone with her and to show it to Akechi.
I am completely convinced that no one in this game has met the real Goro Akechi. Not Sae, not Shido, not anyone. That facade is made of four layers of reinforced cement and the windows are all mirrored glass. He's kind of the inversion of Adachi, who looked like there wasn't a since thought bouncing around in his vacant gaze. Akechi is nothing but loud thoughts, but the container is soundproofed.
Also, it occurs to me right here that someone is directing Akechi, someone has a hand on that leash, and I wanna know what the hell keeps Akechi from spinning around and killing that guy.
Anyway, Sae shows Akechi the phone, he's like ?????? whatever? and they part ways.
Akechi waltzes in, deep-sixes the guard with his own gun, and shoots Reverie in the head.
Your hair has never looked worst, Beige Boy.
"A TRULY SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS," MEMBER OF LEOPARDS EATING PEOPLE'S FACES PARTY SAYS AFTER LEOPARD SHOCKINGLY EATS HIS FACE.
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Out of curiosity, what would the premise of your dream Persona game be?
Well, let's see. What were the strong points of each game?
Persona 3 Portable: Girl Route. Team members have important relationships with each other instead of just orbiting the MC. Extremely strong theme. Structured in such a way that the player doesn't control what day they have a mandatory dungeon/plot event, making for better pacing. Best final boss. Best music. Greatest of the Best Friend guys. My favorite UX by far.
Persona 4 Golden: Best cast. Most interesting mystery. Was extremely queer, especially for the time. Most naturalistic writing. Best villain (not final boss). Easily the most polished script. Combat had the best balance of things to do and friction without being overcomplicated or simplistic.
Persona 5 Royal: Most interesting, sprawling location. Social link bonuses that matter. Jawdroppingly good bonus campaign. Best exploration. Only MC that fully feels like his own person. And I'll admit it, it has the best social links for NPCs.
So, the best Persona game would have:
A protagonist with as much personality as Joker but not gender locked. For the love of god just make a gender neutral protag.
Set it in another city that's based on a real place since it feels like real life designs better locations than Atlus does off the dome.
Honestly at this point I would love to see Persona do a game that doesn't take place in high school. I wanna see some young adults getting up to shit. If you absolutely need the school structure, then have it set in university/college. But the need for structure for the calendar can come from anything.
When everyone is cishet, the cast suffers. P5R proved it. (Okay, it's also because P5R literally has more teammates so no one gets properly developed but the cishetness does not help.) Lets get some queerness back in the cast, it does absolute wonders.
Morgana should be in it again. I don't know why or how, but I do know that carrying a cat around everywhere made Persona 5 was part of why I finished that fucking game.
I personally like the structure of having a central mystery with uncertain mechanics to solve, I think that's really engaging and helps with the episodic nature of Persona. However, once the mystery is solved, DO NOT ADD IN ANOTHER MASTERMIND CHARACTER WHO IS "REALLY" BEHIND IT ALL. JUST FUCKING STOP! GOD I HATE IT. Stop having a really cool set up and then deciding in the last 5 hours that a Mean God Did It All, I'm so DONE with that shit. Fuck Izanami and Fuck Yarblegarble.
While we're at it, if one more Persona game turns out to be a parable on how them kids are on their phones too much, I'm done.
Regarding music, either:
A: Create multiple main battle themes so if they Fucking Suck again like in P4 it doesn't make your players want to scream by hour 30.
B: Just use "Wiping All Out" again for the main battle theme. We're never going to surpass it, why not accept that.
LET THE PLAYER START A ROMANCE SEPARATE FROM SLINK RANKS. If I hit level 10 on someone and decide later I wanna date them, I should be able to do that. That way I can actually meet everyone, THEN decide who I wanna kiss.
Just gimme back Igor using shiny key of solomon shit to combine personae, fuck P5's edgelord bullshit. Also Margaret bc she was funny and also really hot and flirty.
Bring Maruki back just for funsies.
there we go, the perfect persona game
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Hey! I'm really sorry that life has been so rough lately, I'm keeping you in my thoughts 🙏 here are some things I'd love to hear your thoughts about, & feel free to make it as long & detailed as you want! 1/your favourite piece of Bajoran worldbuilding (from the show or from a fic you've read or from your own headcanons - you decide!); 2/your favourite type of alien clothing on any star trek (or single favourite alien outfit) & why you like it; 3/what your concept for Ben & Kasidy's child is: who they are, who they grow up to be, etc.; & finally, 4/your opinions about the clock Ben builds in "Dramatis personae". Here you go! Take care <3
... this is so incredibly sweet, thank you😭😭 I really truly appreciate it, as well as all of these Very interesting questions❤️❤️
Ahhh it's hard to pick, I love so much about Bajoran worldbuilding! First of all the non-linearity of their religion is SO COOL & mind-blowing to think about, & I really love the way it- by its very nature- allows you to re-contextualise so much of the show's lore. Like- is Joseph Sisko written into ancient Bajoran prophecies thanks to his non-linear affair with a Prophet?? Do those prophecies inform or influence traditional archetypes of love in Bajoran culture?? Did Kira grow up learning about an archetype of corporeal love based entirely on Joseph Sisko, the father of an alien man who would decades later become her boss??? I don't know!! But I can write fic about it!!! (And then not post it!!!🙈😂) I do headcanon that dominant Bajoran cultures all have strong archetypical figures, it just makes sense to me given their caste system & that "three brothers" story Kira tells Ben & just how much emphasis they as people place on roles and duty and their place in the world (and on their world). I also love the recurring theme that they greatly value (and like, listen to) their planet. They talk about Bajor like it's a living organism, one big ecosystem they are all a part of, and whenever there are floods, famines, earthquakes, etc, they pay attention, as if its a bug in the immune system- such an interesting contrast to Cardassia, where they plundered their own resources & then came for others. There's this whole collective spiritual (rather than strictly political or social) connectivity that I find very fascinating- something about Kira thinking of herself as simply an empty "vessel" to the powers that safeguard her planet & connect her to her fellow Bajorans. It makes me wonder about their large diaspora, & the sort of pain Bajorans like Ro may carry around over that forced separation. Oh, and that they have Fire Caves. Like those Fire Caves were really just hanging around the whole time huh. Also that Proper hasperat is apparently supposed to be made with a brine so strong your eyes water. So that's five things!
2. Garak's Watermelon Suit.
3.
Lol jk. Garak does have some fire 'fits tho (that red and black tunic with the embroidery? A Look🙌) Anyway,
2. I also think Lenara's purple formal dress was really pretty! And most of Quark's outfits are killer tbh. The detail!
Kira's dress from 'Fascination' was fun- and I like both Winn Adami costumes a lot, the vedek robes with the opera house hat & also the golden kai robes. Again, there's a lot of cool details (esp with that elliptical Bajoran symbol & patterned fabric which the 90s quality completely nukes.) Oh, and speaking of hats- all of Guinan's hats are iconic, and Jadzia's Klingon wedding dress was pretty cool too. Basically I am terrible at choosing things; I just now remembered Spock's Goth Chic robe from TMP and that reminded me SNW has been doing some really cool things with T'Pring's wardrobe-
3. The siskasidy baby!!! I have named this baby so many different things in post-canon fics lol, everything from Jennifer to Sarah to Jadzia ("Jazzy", or "Jazz" for short- I think this is my favourite, given how Avery Brooks seems to be irl about jazz.) I don't think I have any real headcanons about who they grow up to be (I'd love to hear any ideas you may have!) but I did come to terms with Ben missing out on their first year(s?) by imagining he sort of spiritually shares consciousness with several Bajorans over that time period (very much consensually, like this is an experience that allows these Bajorans to walk with the Prophets for a time & also enriches Ben's- and the Prophets'- understanding of Bajoran life) and these Bajorans befriend Kasidy & look out for her and the baby <3
4. Lmaooo I have SO many feelings about this clock. Like WHY did he build a CLOCK. *frantic strings across conspiracy board* I know, I know, the writers were probably just going for something random at the time, it was, at heart, a goofysilly s1 episode that easily could've been on TNG or VOY- but it really does become sort of mind-blowing when you consider it in the grander scheme of Ben's arc. Plus- they kept it in his office throughout the series!! They put it in JAKE'S HOME in the alternate 'Visitor' timeline!! I do think that episode implies their weird behaviours also came from somewhere within them (that's how I like to explain Kira Your-taste-in-men-frightens-me Nerys flirting with Weird Aliens Odo & Dax anyway😂), so I like to think Ben just has this deep ponderance of time & temporality just like. Sitting within him somewhere. The clock was actually from an ancient Gamma Quadrant civilisation whose memories possessed them all, but I still feel like that last shot where Ben sets off the timepiece he (for some reason) built from scratch and lets it tick was Symbolic somehow. Like- this man is part-Prophet!! He was conceived non-linearly his birth was arranged he was always meant to discover the Celestial Temple aka the path to- you guessed it- the Gamma Quadrant!! Something something Events Set In Motion
#thanks again for the ask! I typed this all out last night but it was horrible & full of typos so I held onto it before posting#but it was an excellent distraction thank you :)#ask game#<- again not really that's just my tag for asks
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The ??? Fight: Written like the Omori true final boss
(Beware of spoilers for Persona 3, the Answer, and Omori like spoilers!)
???: Junpei Iori...
Mitsuru: It spoke?!
Junpei: W-what?!
???: You were jealous of him. Jealous that he was the leader, jealous that he was greater than you in every way....
Junpei: So-so what if I was?! Don't you dare say I wanted him to die!!
???: But that's why you lied to Chidori, isn't it?
Junpei: !!
???: You recklessly impeded a mission because you lied, leading to her death in a domino affect. Not only that, but you blamed him for the coming of the fall and asked if he could do anything about it, which he did... At the cost of his life. You loved them both, Junpei, and you killed them.
Junpei: N-no I didn't... I-I mean I didn't mean to—! Argh...!!
(Junpei is unable to battle!)
Yukari: Come on Junpei, you can't let it talk you out—
???: Don't be a hypocrite, Yukari.
Yukari:?! Hypocrite?? What're you—?!
???: Think about it. Had you been more courageous that night, he would've never awakened a persona and would've been safe in a different dorm.
Yukari: I....that's...!
???: You fought to clear your father's name, but you easily fell for a doctored lie. Not to mention how you push others away for selfish reasons, especially now. You caused his death by gullibility and selfishness. You loved him and you killed him.
Yukari: I...I...!
(Yukari is unable to battle!)
???: Akihiko Sanada....
Akihiko: !! What now—?!
???: You sought strength so you could protect the ones you love, but you lost people you cared about no matter how strong you got.
Akihiko: I get it! I get it! I wasn't strong enough to protect Shinji, Miki, and Makoto! I know that already!
???: But what if seeking strength alone is the problem?
Akihiko: H-huh?
???: Do some actual thinking here. Had you been smart enough to keep an eye on Ken and Shinjiro at all times, that incident could have been avoided. And if you actually thought things through enough, you could have seen through Ikutsuki's lies. In your willingness to put strength over wisdom, you allowed your own ignorance to kill the ones you love. You loved them and you killed them.
Akihiko: I... Really am that stupid.... Aren't I...?
(Akihiko is unable to battle!)
???: Mitsuru Kirijo....
Mitsuru:?! Whatever tricks you have up your sleeves, I won't fall for it!
???: Why did you make him the leader when the entire Dark Hour was the Kirijo group's fault?
Mitsuru: Huh?? W-well, he had the Wild card ability so that was the reason...
???: Or the easiest excuse to hold on to.
Mitsuru: What?!
???: You talked a lot about atoning for the group's mistakes, but when the topic of leadership came up, you cowardly handed it off to someone else. Someone who lost his parents and had Death inside of him because of what your family did.
Mitsuru: That's–!
???: It was also your fault that Ken's mother and Shinjiro died thanks to your failure on that night. Not to mention how your cover-up affected Ken. And lastly, you foolishly trusted the doctored video Ikutsuki made enough to cause your own Father's death and Makoto's sacrifice. In the end, you are still your Grandfather's scared lab rat.
Yukari:...lab rat...?!
Mitsuru: I...no, I...! (sob)
(Mitsuru is unable to battle!)
???: Ken Amada...
Ken: (gulp) I-I..
???: I don't need to tell you twice about how your black and white obsession with revenge cost us an ally that could've prevented his death, but have you ever considered that maybe that's what the Chairman wanted you to do?
Ken: W-what...?!
???: Think about it. He was most likely involved in the cover up and made the drugs that were killing him. Ikutsuki most likely allowed you to join just so Shinjiro can rejoin S.E.E.S to help kill the Full Moon Shadows. And worst of all, you and Takaya might as well did Ikutsuki a favor in killing him.
Ken:!!
???: You wanted to be useful to the group, especially to him, but you were set to become it's bane from the very beginning. You loved him and you killed him.
Ken: Y-you're right... I never should have... God, I'm nothing but a killer–!!
(Ken is unable to battle!)
???: Aigis...
Aigis:... I know what you're going to say. That I killed him by putting Death inside of him, that my foolishness allowed the chairman to take over and make everything worse, how I failed to protect him, and... How I loved him and killed him. All the feelings of guilt I held for a long time.
Metis: Sister...
Aigis: But after listening to you berate the others on their perceived faults, I come to a conclusion. (readies gun fingers.) You are not him. You are a being created by our guilt and sorrow over his death. Makoto-san would never blame us for his death and he would want me to defeat you!
Metis: Well, you heard her! Are you just gonna drown in your own guilt and let that thing kill you?! The guy you all loved had a good relationship with you, right? Would he really blame you like this?!
Junpei:....Dammit, she's right! We can't drown in guilt like this! He never showed any hate for the crap I pulled even at my worst, so I'll make it all up to him right now!
Yukari: As much as I want to talk about Mitsuru-senpai being a "lab rat", I'm more pissed about you using his face for your lies!!
Akihiko: Shinji, Miki, Makoto... Even I'm smart enough to know that they wouldn't blame me for any of it. So nice try, faker!!
Mitsuru: The Kirijo group has drowned in guilt long enough, and my Father sacrificed himself to make sure I swim to the surface!
Ken: Maybe I'll never get over the guilt and my insecurity about being on the team, but I'll never let you tarnish his memory!!
(Everyone is ready for battle!)
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I finally finished Persona 3! Thoughts below the cut.
First — I have only played the female protagonist (Kotone's) story. Something like ten years ago I started FES which only has the male protagonist (Minato's) story, but I got stuck on the October boss because I was super underleveled and the Fortune shadow's cheating made it so that I was doing too much damage to my party to be able to keep up with the healing. As a result, I never finished it. I don't really remember Minato's story too much, aside from remembering that it felt different than Kotone's did, so I can't comment on the story from Minato's point of view. I'm also not very interested in playing his story, though I might someday. But for right now, it's not a priority. So any comments I make on the story, I'm making solely on Kotone's version of events.
All of that out of the way . . . while I'm not counting this as a formal review because this game originally came out in 2009 and so it's a bit late for that, it'll still be easier for me to break my thoughts down the way I usually do for a formal review. So that being said:
Overall Score: 7/10.
The Pros:
— For the most part, the gameplay is pretty smooth. Apparently being able to change party member's equipment from a menu instead of talking to them in Tartarus was a Portable edition, as is the ability to buy equipment at night. Both of these things are huge quality of life upgrades. I also liked the option of being able to take direct control of my party member's actions in battle; although I only did this near the end, it helped a lot in cases where I knew the enemy was invulnerable to magic or physical attacks, and they kept using them anyway. I also only ever ran into the issue of having to leave Tartarus because of the Reaper once, though I don't know if that was just because I was better at managing my time there this time around or not.
— I really enjoyed just about all of the characters. I remember not really liking Yukari back in the day, and I don't know if that's because her interactions are different with Minato than they are with Kotone or what, but I really liked her this time around. (And in fact it was Junpei I didn't really like at first, but he grew on me.) I like the fact that they're all nuanced; oh sure, there are definitely anime tropes present in them, but they're also allowed to be flawed and are written to be a little more realistic, particularly with regards to things like the traumatic events they experience / are still healing from. I think Yukari's relationship with Mitsuru was probably my favorite in the game; I really loved seeing how they grew over the course of the plot, including how they grew closer.
— The social link aspect is really fun. My favorite part of any story is the characters, so getting to build relationships over the course of the game and see how the characters change in relation to the protagonist was pretty delightful. Even though the protagonist is mostly just a vessel for you, the player, to experience the story through, it was still fun to see.
— The fact that there's a social link with each of the SEES members is apparently exclusive to Kotone's route, but I really liked that, too. I didn't manage to max all of them (I only got Akihiko, Koromaru, Mitsuru, Shinjiro, and Fuuka to max), but I got them all pretty close. (Junpei and Yukari were at 9, I think Ken was at 7 or 8, and Aigis was at 6 or 7.) To me this really added to the feeling of camaraderie between the main characters; I could believe that they cared about Kotone because their relationships with her had been significantly developed.
— The side characters were all pretty great as well! Special shout-outs to Maiko and the old couple at the bookstore; they were probably my favorite non-school social links. I also really care about Rio and Saori as well, though. (Hidetoshi . . . not so much. But he did redeem himself near the end.) Hoping one day Rio wakes up and realizes that she deserves so much better than Kenji's ugly ass, though. Same goes for Yuko and Kazushi.
— The ending is pretty ambiguous as to whether or not Kotone survived the ordeal. On the one hand, she comes back at the end and you have that whole segment at the school leading up to the moment on the rooftop. On the other, Aigis keeps breaking down in tears, and there's the implication that none of that is really happening, that it's all in Kotone's mind, or something of the sort. I kind of like the fact that it can go either way; either Kotone magically came back somehow, or she really did sacrifice herself to save everyone. I understand that FES has an epilogue called The Answer that confirms that Minato is truly dead, but since The Answer isn't included in Portable, I think the paths in Portable could go either way and that's fine by me.
— Koromaru. Everything about Koromaru is a gigantic pro. I love him so much ♥♥♥♥♥
The Neutrals:
— On the one hand, it's nice that you can put the characters in casual clothes or special costumes. On the other, it sucks that this is tied to armor. You're stuck with mid armor if you want to see characters fighting in something other than their school uniforms, which honestly kind of sucks. I wish that it was done like it is in Tales games, where the costume the character wears has no bearing on their defense stats.
— The Persona fusion system is nice, and I like that you can put Personas into the compendium so you can buy them back later if you need them. But also, it would be nice if you could have a storage box for Personas like in Pokemon, because I wanted to keep Orpheus around for sentimental reasons, and just honestly didn't have the space to do that. =/ RIP Orpheus, you are missed. (But missed much less once I got Hell Biker, my friend Hell Biker ♥)
— The requests system is cool and gives you a reason to go after certain goals in Tartarus, and similarly rescuing the people that wander in there gives a sense of accomplishment, too. However, both of these things are tempered by the fact that the quests do get repetitive after a while, and the dumb-dumbs who wander into Tartarus had a bad habit of doing so right after I had just been in there and didn't feel like going back. Like, I still did! But it was annoying. Especially when they did so right before a full moon so you either went that night or you couldn't save them.
— The story is okay. It's possible that I would feel differently about it if I was younger, but at this point I'm pretty used to the themes of the Power of Friendship and Defying Fate in JRPGs—or even accepting that you will die in less cheerful games like Zero Escape. So to me, the themes that you have limited time to do what you want and that everything will come to an end didn't really hit very hard, or feel very groundbreaking. Similarly, things like Ikutsuki being a traitor are things I saw coming from a mile away, so they weren't twists that were really shocking to me as they might have been if I'd played this game as a teenager. I still enjoyed it well enough! But it's not a story that will leave a lasting impact on me.
The Cons:
— The game isn't balanced very well, in that in both of my attempts at Portable (it took me so long because I restarted near the end of the game because I realized that I fucked up something I wanted to do and couldn't bring myself to keep going on that file) I ended up with basically nothing to do by the end of the game. All of my stats were maxed out, so I had no reason to go to the arcade, karaoke, or anything else. I finished my non-school social links, and you can't do SEES social links outside of school for whatever reason. It made it so that I was just going to bed early every night to progress the story. It feels like a letdown, and is especially frustrating when I did have SEES social links I wanted to max out, but literally couldn't because there weren't enough days at school to be able to do it.
— The second semester school music is annoying as fuck, I hated having to listen to it so much.
— The conditions needed to save certain characters, or to romance other ones, are just ridiculous in some cases and I'm not sure how anyone does it without a guide. In my first attempt at Portable, I missed out on saving Shinjiro because I started his social link one day too late. I also missed out on romancing Akihiko because I picked the wrong option in the fourth social link event, so even though I agreed to have Kotone date him in the ninth one, it didn't count as a romance. Like, what?? I understand making a game challenging, but this shit's ridiculous.
— Some of the story beats, both optional and not, are either uncomfortable or just distasteful Specifically:
I hate that there's even the option for Kotone to return Ken's feelings. Him having a precocious crush on her? Adorable! Her returning those feelings? Disgusting! Of course, it is optional so that's good at least, but the fact that it's in there at all is just gross. Literally, why. Why would you do that, Atlus. There's no reason to do that.
Similarly, the idea of romancing Aigis as either Minato or Kotone is uncomfortable to me, because she very much falls into the Born Sexy Yesterday trope. Akihiko and Junpei both find her very attractive, but, because she's a robot, she has no concept of what it means to be human and her entire story arc is about her learning what it means to live. She already has a predisposition toward the protagonist due to sealing Death inside them, and while initially her desire to be close to them is because she wants to monitor Death, that changes pretty quickly. I'm not knocking people who do like shipping Aigis with either Kotone or Minato, because it's not like it's inappropriate from an age standpoint like the potential romance with Ken is, but it's still uncomfortable to me. Born Sexy Yesterday almost always is.
Lastly, there's the fact that Chidori was fridged for Junpei. Granted, it is possible to save her, something I had literally no clue about and honestly I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to figure that out, but it is possible to save her in a similar way to Shinjiro. However, the original story (and the one most people are likely to experience if they don't know beforehand) has her fridged for Junpei's sake. Which—it's not surprising. Women in Refrigerators is a trope for a reason. But it's still not something I'm ever jazzed to see. Junpei should have been able to grow and evolve as a person without having a female character sacrificed to make that happen.
— There are smaller, optional story beats that also aren't great. Bunkichi hitting on Yukari, for instance, with his "if I was fifty years younger" bit; Maiko's dad hitting on Kotone; Maiko herself being hit by her father and called annoying by her mother and the story treating that as if it's not a big deal, etc. This game was written over ten years ago, and these kinds of things crop up a lot in anime, but still. They're just not ideal.
I feel like there were other things that bugged me, or that I liked, but these are the main points of my experience overall. Again, overall I liked it! And I'm going to start Persona 4 Golden soon (I already have it downloaded on my Switch lol). But these are just my thoughts, now that I'm done with the game. Also:
Koromaru is best boy. That is all.
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How Deep My Love Goes, Chapter 4
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Welcome Back
He kisses her cheek, turning to go for his first day in the role he’s been waiting for his whole life. He’s never been so conflicted between dying to be in the office and never wanting to leave the apartment again. She’s not letting go of his hand and he turns back and looks at her.
He forgot what it’s like to feel needed and how much he loves it. In college, they would tell each other how many hours it would be before they’d see each other next.
“Good luck today. Call me and tell me how it goes!” She’s putting on cheer and wants him to feel good about going, but she’d rather keep him here, where there are soft pillows and softer kisses, where no one can make him feel like less than he is.
“I will,” he says. As if he ever stopped calling her at work. He keeps his hand in hers for a second before turning around and pressing the elevator button and stepping inside.
“Hey,” she says.
He’s never going to be able to leave. He smiles and steps back out.
“You’re CEO today.”
He shrugs.
“I mean, not really.”
She tilts her head, a mixture of disbelief and a coy smile.
“But… kind of. You are.”
He lets himself enjoy it for a moment.
“Kind of.”
“So. How many hours?” She asks in the type of cute, shy voice she used on him when she was 22.
She loves when she can see the love in his eyes. He counts in his head.
“Uh, ten?”
She tries to put on her Patient Wife persona but Impatient College Girl is insistent.
“Ten. Ummmm, okay.”
He’s never been happier to see her pretend something is fine. She gives him an irresistibly adorable look and he considers everything that awaits him when he gets home.
“I’ll try for nine hours. So- so, 7:00.”
She smiles. He missed making her smile. He feels himself relax a little at the thought that she wants him to be there so much and wonders what made her change her mind about them so quickly.
“Okay,” she concedes. “Go before I start really thinking about you being in charge… bossing everyone around.”
He pauses. She’s into this.
“You could text me, you know, if you, uh, want to share your thoughts.” He knows it might be a hard day and he’s already hoping for the rare bit of reassurance.
She laughs softly and looks away, suddenly bashful at the idea of recording the words. He’s usually the one who talks like that.
“Um, are you going to tell me what to do when you text me back? Because, you know, I don’t really know how to do that…”
“Right. You’re so innocent.”
She shrugs and gives him an angelic look. He’s staring.
“Okay. That’s really not fair. I have to go to work.” She giggles. He’s so easy.
“So, I should stay over here while you leave then, right?”
He lets his head fall back.
“Jesus, no. Come here.”
She takes a couple of steps toward him and he kisses her like he won’t see her for months, gentle and intense with his hands in her hair. She feels like no time has passed since he did this for the first time and it made her fall in love.
He keeps both hands on her face and looks into her eyes.
“I love you,” he says easily, like he never stopped telling her. “And I’ll see you at 7:00.”
He exerts a physical effort to get in the elevator.
“Love you! Byyyee,” she says cheerily.
He shakes his head and smiles.
“Bye.”
The elevator shuts and he runs his hands over his face to see if it’s real.
…………………………
She’s just opened a bottle of wine when he gets home and is watching the sunset from the kitchen. She hears him walk in and turns to meet him.
“You’re home!”
He’s pumped up with energy and so ready to show off. He revels in finally getting to hear her say those words as he walks over and gives her an extra-confident sexy kiss. She feels her heart flutter.
“Yeah, and what time is it?” He raises his eyebrows and she looks at his watch.
“6:57. Wow.” She laughs softly.
“That’s right.”
“So, it sounds like things got better today!” He’d tried to sound confident on the phone, but she could tell he was dealing with disaster.
“Oh, they got better. I saved the fucking company today. Dad doesn’t even know, but he was seriously letting things slip. If- If he doesn’t make the announcement at RECNY then he really will be out of his mind. I got four billion dollars from Stewy and got us out of debt-“ he stops to breathe and looks around. “Where are the kids?” He asks curiously.
“Oh, they’re both at friends’ houses today. I meant to tell you earlier.” She has to remember to tell him things like this now. She hopes he’s not mad. “They already had the plans, so I didn’t want to cancel. So- out of debt?”
“Oh. Okay- well, yeah, that’s okay. Uh, yeah, the bank was about to do something completely fucking insane, but, you know… that’s not happening anymore.” He’s so proud of himself.
“Wow,” she smiles and nods. “So, you’re kind of a big deal.”
“I actually am.” He smirks. He slows down the energy just a little bit and they walk over to sit on the couch. “How was your day? How was work?” He really wants to know. He used to wonder what she was doing all the time.
“Well, not as epic as your day! But, interesting. I talked to this new client who is just getting completely screwed. He’s been through some truly disgusting stuff at work and he’s getting these horrible threats, it’s awful. I really want to get him his day in court.”
He loves that she gets to take on any client she wants pro bono. She’d broken down to him in her first year of law school about having to go into corporate law because otherwise she’d make nothing. The next day she’d gotten a letter from the accounting office that law school had been paid for in full. She’d protested to him through happy tears until it sank in that she could now take on only those who needed her most.
“I have no doubt you will. So, just you and me then- you wanna go out? Because then we’re coming back here and you’re going to do what you said in that text that I could barely stop thinking about for five minutes.”
She’s glad it made an impression. She’d played coy earlier but she really hadn’t been much for the dirty texts before.
“Oh, I’m going to?”
“You’re going to.”
She moves closer. He’s so hot when he’s on an ego trip.
“How can you be sure?”
He smirks at the way she’s almost up against him.
“I mean, for one thing, you can’t stay more than a foot away from me.”
She laughs. He’s won.
“Fuck you.”
“I know this new French place. It’s super good.”
“Sounds great.”
“So, I should probably also tell Dad about us, you know, before the press publishes those photos from earlier, and ones they’ll probably take tonight?”
“Oh. Yeah, okay, so you have to call him now?”
“Well, I mean, yes, I don’t know-“ he’s fidgeting with the phone, putting it down and picking it back up again and rubbing the throw blanket next to him. She hates to see it, but it’s best to get it over with. She puts her hand on his.
He picks up the phone and feels his shoulders tighten as he drums his fingers on the couch cushion. She can tell the moment Logan answers by his sharp intake of breath.
“Dad. Hey. How are you?”
“In my own fucking room being told what I can and can’t eat by these morons,” Logan grumbles. It’s not on speaker but she can hear his booming voice.
“The doctors? Yeah.” She snickers at the dryness and he allows himself a tiny smile in her direction. “Do you- are you feeling okay? Do you need anything? I can come over there right now.”
Plans evaporate when Logan might need him.
“No, not here. I have enough people crowding up this place. What is it?”
“Uh, I just- I wanted to tell you that Rava and I got back together last night. She came to the hospital because she was worried about you, and-“
Rava looks away to roll her eyes. Right.
“-we, uh, we’re back.” She can hear his shallow breathing waiting for Logan’s reaction like he’s still 17. There’s a pause.
“Huh. Good, son, that’s good. Plays well. See you at this bullshit next week. Roman tells me we’re calling it the sad sack wasp trap.”
“Yeah. Roman calls it that.”
Logan chuckles.
“I like it. And Marcia and I will still be there. Don’t say anything fucking stupid in that speech of yours.”
“Yeah,” Kendall says, looking at the phone and not even sure if his dad heard before he hung up.
“Okay.” He gives her a nervous smile. A look of relief washes over him. “He’s back.”
For better or for worse. She looks at the couch.
“We play well,” she nods sarcastically.
“Welcome back,” he says with a strained laugh.
“So- you’re not going to tell him you saved the company today?”
“No. I’ll let the news do that for me.” She actually watches the smirk come back across his face. She’s glad to see it. Logan doesn’t get to mess this up. She takes his hand and stands up.
“Good. Well, we better go then. We have a lot to do tonight.”
…………………………
It’s been five endless work days full of Logan’s blustering and disappointment, five days of noticing the many unsettling oddities his stroke seems to have brought on. Kendall and Roman have been increasingly concerned and are feeling hopeful that he’ll serve as a figurehead more than a CEO moving forward.
At home, it’s been five deliriously happy dinners full of kids’ laughter and the sweet, knowing glances he used to strategize about how to get back. Five nights of the kind of love most people only read about, and the kind of sleep only found when things are just as they should be.
After five days that had felt like a new lifetime, the evening of the RECNY ball has arrived. Kendall’s been prepping all week, planning the night that his father will finally announce that he’s ready to accept his place as the legend he’s been raised to become.
Rava’s meeting him at the office before they ride over together. Things have been so crazy he hadn’t had time to come home beforehand. It’s dark outside and the only light on in the office is Logan’s- Kendall’s.
She hasn’t worn a dress this elegant in so long, and she feels like it might be too much. She’d worked with her old stylist to have a floor-length black work of art made with the smallest hint of shimmer in the silk. A deep V in front and a slit up part of her leg give it spice, and she hopes it isn’t too over-the-top. She makes her way across the mess of cubicles and opens the glass door. He looks up from the couch and she watches his eyes widen and flit all the way from her face to the floor as he stands up and walks over to her.
“Hi,” she says, squeezing her eyes shut. “I feel like we’re at prom and I feel ridiculous and this is way too much, right?”
He’s trying to remember the last time he saw her like this and feels at a loss for words.
“I- no. You look unbelievable. Wow.”
He puts his hands on her waist and feels the fabric over her body. He slides his hands over the dress. He wants it on the floor. Silk makes him insane. She picked it on purpose.
She grins and shakes her head.
“It’s too much.”
“No, it’s… perfect. But, you know, if, uh, if you just want to take it off for a while, I’m pretty sure we’re the only ones here.”
“Ohhh, stop that. God, I’m nervous. Your whole family is going to be there, the photographers, all the pressure on you... I’m ready for champagne already.”
He puts on a mock-serious tone.
“Substance abuse is not the answer, Rava.”
She laughs and puts her forehead on his shoulder.
“I think I heard that somewhere.”
“It’s gonna be great. You know them, they’re all, you know, they’re all assholes. But we’ll just be with Stewy and whoever, it’s cool.”
“Yeah,” she smiles at him. He can’t get over it.
“Uh, come sit on the couch for a second, I just have to finish this email and then I gotta show you the final speech.” She settles onto the couch and watches him cross the room and sit down at his dad’s desk.
“You look good there,” she says.
“You know, I feel good here.”
She’s thrilled to hear it. He finishes typing and walks back over to her.
“Okay.” He takes a breath. He wants to impress her so much. “Time for the speech. I talked to all the fucking best people for this, like Lampoon guys, poached a couple SNL writers today… so- yeah, we’ll see… you know, tell me what you think.”
He goes into the whole thing, peppering jokes throughout the speech all about Waystar and how much it means, and how much good the company does in the world. When he reaches the part he’s most hopeful will get a chuckle from the audience, she bursts out laughing so he has to stop for a second. He’s so relieved.
“You wrote that one, didn’t you?” It’s the only one he did.
“Yeah. How could you tell?”
“It’s just like that thing you wrote for the Lampoon senior year!” He looks at her like she’s the most wonderful thing in the world and leans over to kiss her head. She catches his face as he pulls back and kisses his lips. “I guess you’re right, sometimes you are funny,” she says, gently rubbing her lip gloss off him with her thumb. He looks down and smiles. “You can leave it,” he says.
…………………………
The red carpet had been exhausting. It’s never been her favorite part of being a member of the Roy family, but she knows Kendall secretly likes the validation, so she goes along with the madness. The interviewers had had a million questions and the flashes from the cameras had been blinding. But they’ve made it inside.
The first one to greet them at the door is Connor.
“Hey, Kenny!” He��s so happy to see his little brother and gives him a warm hug.
“Hey,” he says, letting the embrace last a few extra seconds. Connor’s the only other one in the family who doesn’t withhold affection.
“Rava!” Connor exclaims as they pull apart. “I’m so glad you’re back. I knew it would work out. See, I told you, buddy!“
He pats Kendall’s back and Kendall smiles but doesn’t look at her. She might melt.
“Yeah. You knew it.”
Connor ushers them inside.
“I did! Well, come in, come in, you’re at table two. Mostly because you were born second, in case you forgot. Have fun tonight.”
Kendall nods. He knows the non-jokes are based in some deep insecurities so he always lets them go.
“Yeah. Thanks, Con.”
He holds her hand as they walk across the huge and immaculately decorated ballroom. They stop for drinks and make their way toward the stage. Kendall’s looking at the podium like it’s an altar.
“You’re going to do great, don’t worry,” she says. “That speech is perfect.”
He squeezes her hand and they walk over to sit down at the table, already partially occupied. Stewy smiles at Rava and leans back in his chair.
“Oh, welcome back, Rava.” He swivels to look at Kendall. “Ken, I’m very impressed. Guess this means I’ll call off the dogs then.”
Rava’s sipping the pre-poured glass of champagne at the table, her second on an empty stomach.
“What does that mean?” She asks. Kendall shoots him a warning look.
“Nothing.” He puts his hand on her thigh and Stewy laughs while he sips his scotch. Kendall rolls his eyes and she looks at him.
“Oh, does one of your friends have a crush on me?“ She teases.
“Might be a couple of them, actually, are you entertaining offers?” Stewy asks, smirking and clearly deeply enjoying creating chaos.
Rava laughs and takes Kendall’s other hand on the table as she turns to Stewy.
“Nope.”
“Oh, that’s adorable,” he says, voice oozing sarcasm.
“Okay. Fuck off,” Kendall says. He turns to Rava. “You want to come get another drink?”
“Yes!” Rava answers, slipping her arm through his.
They start walking and he looks serious.
“What?” She asks playfully.
“Nothing. Stewy…”
“Oh, he was just messing with you.”
He raises his eyebrows.
“Oh, he wasn’t?”
“He- he told me a few days ago that he was deciding whether to… allow someone to ask you out, and he asked me if I was okay with it.”
She laughs softly.
“Ken.”
“Well? You were just dating someone else, so… you know, whatever. I don’t want to get into it.”
“Awww,” she reaches out to stop him and guides him to look at her. “Hey, I’m taken now. And I’m happy about it.” She smiles at him and gives him a quick little kiss. He looks at her face, trying to read it. He really hates that she was with someone else. He feels a little nauseous thinking about it, but he thinks he shouldn’t say anything more. She looks back and realizes she didn’t ask an important question.
“What did you say?”
“What?”
“What did you say when he asked whether you were okay with it?”
“Uh….I- I told him it was fine and then I came to see you that night,” he chuckles. He takes her left hand and looks at the ring. “Just- don’t take that off.” She laughs, but it does little to quell the insecurity he’s feeling.
“I won’t.” She kisses him again, a little longer this time, the warmth of the champagne making her want to get closer.
Roman calls out from the table next to them.
“Ugh, people are eating here, that is disgusting. What is this, 2005?” Kendall looks at him.
“Dude, if it were 2005, you’d be calling me from the strip club asking what the chances were that a girl named Sapphire was serious about you.”
Roman gives Rava a look.
“Well, you wouldn’t share, so…”
Rava laughs out loud.
“See, even your wife knows I’m funnier than you.”
“Fuck you,” Kendall says to Roman, with a barely-there smile. She rolls her eyes at Roman. Kendall takes her hand and they walk over to the corner bar.
He gives her an amused look.
“You’re a generous audience tonight.”
“Well, I’ve been generously sipping. I forgot how much fun it is to be the couple who grosses everyone out. I actually love that.” He gives her a small smile.
“Me too.”
She can tell he’s feeling worried and wants to make it better.
“A glass of champagne for her, please,” he tells the bartender. She steps closer to him again and he looks around to see if people are watching.
“Are you trying to get me drunk?” She smiles in his ear and he can’t stop the wild memories of what happens when she drinks just a little more than necessary. He wants all her attention on him.
“Yes.” He allows himself a glance down her slinky dress and she takes a long sip from the fresh glass.
“I think it’s working,” she whispers, touching the button on his jacket.
“Okay, you can’t do that here,” he laughs quietly as she breaks through the seriousness.
“Good point. Back room?”
“Ha ha.” He looks at her and she’s biting her lip and smiling. “No. Wait, are you- what? No. Are you serious?”
She’s still able to feel a little self-conscious.
“I don’t know.”
He looks at the half-empty glass and shakes his head.
“I asked for this.”
An A/V tech walks over and awkwardly tries to interrupt them.
“Sorry, but Kendall, can I borrow you for a second?” He asks. She shakes her head in protest and Kendall tries not to laugh.
“Uh, sure, yeah.” He looks at her.
“I’ll be back,” he says. His gaze lingers on Rava’s plunging neckline as he walks away with the tech, who is not relishing this moment.
“Um… so the thing is… I’m really sorry, but, your dad said he’s actually going to make the speech.”
“What?”
“Yeah, he said he was going to make his speech instead.”
“What- no. I’m making the speech, it’s already in the teleprompter, I’ve already- it’s set.”
The guy looks uncomfortable and doesn’t really know what to say.
“Sorry, um, it’s Logan’s orders.”
“What- okay. Never mind. I’ll talk to him.”
Rava watches his face change from the bar and he walks over to Logan with purpose. It looks like he’s probably not going to be back here. She picks up some tray-passed appetizers to soak up the alcohol in her other hand and goes to sit back down next to Stewy at the table, wondering what could be going on. She’s feeling a little disappointed and uneasy. He hasn’t taken his eyes or hands off her for a week.
Stewy’s stunning date is sitting so close she’s practically in his lap, whispering in his ear and giggling at everything he says. The familiar jealously of happy couples that’s been hanging over her for years creeps up, and she reminds herself that she finally has that again, if he would only come back over here. Stewy keeps his arm around his date and notices Rava’s expression.
“Trouble in paradise already?”
“No. I don’t know. He’s talking to Logan, so…”
Stewy rolls his eyes.
“Fuuuuck Logan.”
“Yeah… what do you think he wants?”
He slowly stirs his drink and traces his fingers along the high slit in his girl’s dress.
“Could be anything, really. Luring Ken to a sinkhole, just getting close enough to put some arsenic in his drink…”
“Seriously. Do you think it’s about the speech, or- I mean, it must be important, right?” She’s hoping for validation.
Stewy shrugs.
“Could be. Guess we’ll find out.”
The girl is running her fingers through his hair.
“Now if you’ll excuse me,” he smiles at the girl.
Rava nods wearily and looks around. Kendall catches her eye from across the room and he looks like he got struck by lightning.
“Shit,” she mutters. Logan ruins everything.
She watches as he whispers in Gerri’s ear and Gerri walks over to Logan as Kendall pretends not to watch. Gerri shakes her head at him.
Kendall walks over to the table slowly, the way he does when he’s processing the worst kind of news. He stops to talk to Roman for a minute, who’s shifting in his chair at the news of another family rift. He walks back and sits down next to Rava, saying nothing for a second.
“What did your dad say?” She asks tentatively.
“I guess… he’s going to be making the speech.”
“What? Why would he do that?”
“Thinks I was trying to… fucking… sabotage him or something. It was one joke about him. You know, he might not even need my help to sabotage things, the way he’s been acting at the office. He’s out of it. And it’s not just me saying this, I mean, Roman agrees with me. Honestly, I-I don’t know what he’s gonna say. I tried to get Gerri to do something, but, you know, she’s part of the problem.”
The lights dim and she hates watching him deflate as his dad comes on stage. Stewy pats Kendall’s shoulder.
“It’s all right, man. He can’t keep this up forever.”
The wheels start turning.
“…Yeah. That’s true. Dude, can we talk right now?”
“Hell yeah, bro.”
Kendall and Stewy walk over to an empty table a couple of tables over and start planning. Rava’s left with Stewy’s date, who immediately starts texting. After about 10 minutes, Logan finishes his speech and the room erupts in the kind of thunderous applause reserved for those who control the lives of every clapper.
Kendall stands up and fist bumps Stewy before he walks all the way across the room and Stewy returns to the table and sits down. The next speaker comes on and drones on about the half-hearted charitable efforts of Waystar’s PR department.
Rava’s half-listening as she looks around the space. She spots Kendall huddled with Gerri and watches her give him a shrug before nodding and taking him over to sit down at the table with Frank.
The second speech ends and an inspirational video begins. Kendall walks back across the room and she’s glad to see him sit down.
“Hey!” She whispers. “What’s going on?”
He looks around nervously. “I- I can’t really- I’ll tell you later.”
“Really? Something big, or-“
Roman appears behind Kendall and leans down to talk quietly.
“Uh, so, I just talked to Gerri, and I need to talk to you. Like, now.” He pulls Kendall’s arm.
“Yeah,” Kendall says. The two brothers walk into the hallway outside the ballroom. She looks after them uncertainly.
“Is he coming back?” She whispers to Stewy.
“Here?” He gestures to the table. “Not tonight. Probably not for a while, actually.” He smiles. “This is gonna be a fun ride.” He whispers in his date’s ear. She nods and takes his hand as they walk toward the bathrooms.
Rava sighs and fiddles with the dessert fork in front of her as she takes another long drink of champagne. She feels the space around her and realizes she forgot about this part.
…………………………
In the car, she stares out the window and they ride quietly. He’s going over every board member in his head, analyzing whether he can trust each one of them, figuring out to who to approach first. She crosses her legs and he realizes she hasn’t said anything for 20 minutes.
“You okay?”
“Oh. Yeah, I guess so.”
He knows better.
“What?”
“I guess I forgot that I was also married to a company,” she says, half-joking.
He sighs. “Come on, that’s not fair. This- this is everything, you know that. This is the time. I mean, and this was literally my dad’s foundation, so… it’s going to be about the company there. You know how that is. This is my chance, you know? This is everything.”
She looks back out the window and nods.
“Yes, it is.”
“Don’t do that. You know that’s not what I meant, but this is, like, the most important week of my life. And-“ He rolls up the partition and takes a deep breath. “Look, we’re planning a vote of no confidence against Dad.” She looks shocked. “Yeah. I know. I hate it, but this vote… this could be it for me. I-I mean, you’re here with me, right?”
She nods.
“Yeah,” she says. “Um, so what happens if it works? If you become CEO?”
“…If?” He didn’t know there was so much doubt in her mind.
“No, when. Are you ever going to be home?” She hadn’t really considered this part in their week of domestic bliss. She hadn’t considered it for years.
“Uh- what? Yeah, I’ll obviously be home. I mean, maybe less, but I’ll try. I’ll just have to focus on this stuff, though.” He doesn’t know where this is coming from. “Is this, like, news that I want this?”
“No, I don’t know, it’s just never been so... close before, you know? I mean, your dad is basically a company and not a person, so, you understand my concern?”
He’s taken aback by that one.
“I’m not my dad, Rava.”
“I know that!” She jumps in, realizing that was really the wrong comparison to make. “No, you could never be like that. And, of course, I want you to get it. It’s your dream. I just… the timing is hard. It’s stupid, this is stupid.” She wishes she’d kept her mouth shut.
“The timing?”
She looks at his hand and wants to hold it.
“I just got you back,” she says quietly.
He blinks and looks at her. It hadn’t even occurred to him that that could be the reason behind her lack of enthusiasm.
“Oh. Wow, okay. Hey.” He moves closer and puts his arm around her. She feels silly.
“I just… I liked the glow. It’s only been a few days, I’m not ready to lose you to the boardroom already.” He doesn’t even know what to say. No one has noticed or cared when he got home for a long time. “It’s not your fault, it’s just how it is.” She wants to make herself stop talking but the drinks won’t let her. “This is nothing, it’s fine. You just kept getting pulled away and I started to feel like a commercial break in between the main attractions.”
“In that dress?” He tries to get her to smile. She lays her head on his shoulder. “Well, I- I can’t completely change that part, you know how it is- sometimes it’ll be like that but- but that was way better than it’s been for the last three years.” She’s still quiet. “I lost the speech, and I still- I actually had fun because you were there.” That gets an amused smile. She can’t remember ever hearing Kendall say he had fun.
“Yeah, I know that’s the way. I shouldn’t have said anything. But we could’ve had a lot more fun,” she sighs, missing the sexy feeling from earlier in the evening.
“Yeah? Well… if you’re still up for fun…”
“That doesn’t just fix problems, you know,” she admonishes, leaning into him nonetheless.
He snakes an arm around her waist and lets his eyes wander over her exposed thigh peeking out of the slit.
“I mean… it’s not going to make them worse.”
She tries to keep a straight face.
“Mmhmmm,” she says, still mulling.
“You do look amazing in this. Seriously. I was thinking about it all night.”
“No, you weren’t,” she rolls her eyes and hopes he argues.
“I was. Believe me, I- yeah. I would rather have stayed in that corner with you all night.” He’s still wondering if she’d really wanted to go with him to a back room as he breathes in the fragrance of her perfume. He thinks he would’ve been too scared of getting caught, but it’s insanely hot that it was even in her head.
“Well, you didn’t stay there…”
He decides now is not the time to make the point that that was out of his control. He brushes her hair back and kisses under her ear.
“When- if- this works, you’re still going to be the best part- you know, of everything,” he whispers.
She looks at him to try to see if it’s true.
“Can I make it up to you?” He tries.
“Maybe.”
“Tell me what you were thinking about with the back room,” he says in a low voice as he kisses her neck.
She blushes.
“No! That was just the champagne talking.” She inhales sharply as he hits a sweet spot.
“Please tell me it wasn’t.” He leans over her and starts undoing the back of her dress.
“You wouldn’t have gone,” she teases and loosens his tie.
“Now I’m thinking I would’ve,” he runs his hands over her hips, up her body, feeling every perfect curve.
“We are in the car!” She giggles.
“Yeah, I don’t care.” She hears his breathing quicken as he pulls her onto his lap.
“You are out of control!”
“Uh huh,” he breathes. “I need you, right now.”
He puts his hand on her face and guides her lips to his.
Chapter 5 💗
#as it turns out this is a book#it will not be a book in future chapters#which are way shorter#and yes I have once again made a kenrava gif and taken it beautifully out of context#but to center it in canon again kendall still kisses rava's head when they are separated#you see#moments like this are why I had to write this in the first place#kenrava#kendall x rava#kendall roy fic#succession#succession fic#kendall roy#rava roy
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Hello!!! Hope you are having a wonderful day! I have two things to say/ask, I hope that's alright!
Have you ever mentioned being into the Yakuza series? Not sure if you did but idk, seeing as you're into both Danganronpa & Persona it might be up your alley (seeing as the fandoms all overlap!).
Also...
I remember you getting into AITSF (One of the Uchicord members was really happy about your Jim Furue takes a few months back) & eventually Raincode, so I'd like to ask....
How'd you like Raincode? You've probably already answered this but I'm a lil silly I apologize >.<
Hope the rest of your day goes well! 💙
I haven't played Yakuza, sorry. I've been meaning to check it out for years but I keep getting distracted by other stuff, and thanks to stuff going on in my life I don't think I have the energy for an 100+ hour game, much less a series of them. I do want to check them out eventually though, I've heard lots of great things about the characters.
I have played Judgment though, and I started Lost Judgment but the bullies infuriated me so much that I just couldn't keep going. I might try again but wow I could genuinely feel my blood pressure rising thanks to those brats. But I really, really enjoyed Judgment; the characters were great, the story was engaging, the mystery was fantastic and goddamn the music. Penumbra is one of my favourite boss themes.
Oh, wow, I wasn't aware people knew about that post and talked about it, especially since Jin doesn't have any screentime where he's alive. But yeah I love Somnium Files, really hope we can a third game... And I really hope Ryuki and Tama get more time to shine since they basically got shoved to the side for the second half of Nirvana Initiative.
I absolutely adored Rain Code. I was excited about it before it was released because I love Kodaka's work (even if his writing choices irritate me at times) but I think he and the rest of the team really outdid themselves. I loved all the characters, even the ones that I didn't get the best first impression of, the mysteries were all really good although I do think Chapter 3 was the weakest. It wasn't bad though, that's the thing, it just kinda ended when it felt like it was just getting started. Favourite chapters have to be Chapter 2 and Chapter 4, both of their conclusions had me sobbing. And that final big twist in the final chapter... Kodaka knew damn well what he was doing and I have to applaud him for that. And I look forward to any potential sequels they make because they set it up pretty well, I'd love a chance to play as Kurumi. I'd like to see how they could improve the mystery labyrinths too. I mean, you don't really do much in them, you just kinda run through, answer questions and do some quick time events, so I'd like to see if they could add some other mechanics to those sections and make them a little more interesting, maybe give your companions something else to do while there as well? Also, favourite character has to be Vivia, we barely know anything about him but his attitude and outlook on everything is so interesting and Aleks Le's performance was so good. Close second place is Yakou though, but I think everyone loves Yakou, so y'know.
Thank you, I hope you have a good day too.
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Doug Walker Jumpscare
My routine for the last full week has just been work, sleep, and slowly force myself through all of Channel Awesome's movies. More accurately 2 of those days were spent watching Kickassia and Suburban Knights, and the last 5 have been me procrastinating finishing To Boldly Flee, because god, that movie has got to be one of the single most unbearable things I have ever watched. I watched them all in the form of a Twitch stream with commentary and The 9/11 Brothers (don't worry about it.) and I don't think I could've gotten through any of those films without those 2 silly little ducks. To be fair, Suburban Knights, and Kickassia weren't the worst, like I found some enjoyment from those 2, especially Kickassia that movie was just genuinely fun, but I could not tell you a single thing about To Boldly Flee other than that every scene was really awkward in a non-funny way.
Doug Walker is like, actually so unfunny that he integer underflows into being the funniest person ever entirely on his own, every single scene involving him (which was almost all of them) became extremely entertaining after a certain point. He has 3 jokes, and 2 tones of voice and he acts exactly the same in every situation, he always feels like he is simultaneously trying way too hard and also has no clue what he's doing acting. It was so hard to tell when a scene was supposed to be serious, or if it was him being self-aware and making fun of himself, like some of those scenes have to be ironic, they can't not be, but they're filmed and acted in the exact same way as the actually serious scenes it's such a mess. Like it sounds like I'm just making fun of him at this point, which I am I think anyone who's ever talked about these movies inevitably does because it's really easy to do, however I did genuinely find these movies (with the exception of To Boldly Flee, which to be fair was probably just because I watched all of these movies back to back and that was not a good idea) to be really fun to watch, and it's very clear that Doug had actual genuine passion in making these and probably really enjoyed filming them (even if the rest of the crew very clearly did not).
This has been like the least productive week ever, I have done NOTHING all because I refused to let myself do anything until I finished these films in their entirety. Tbh I do this a lot, I will very frequently start something and refuse to move onto anything else until that thing is complete, no matter how unimportant it is, it's kind of a problem ngl lol. The worst part is whenever I do just say fuck it and move on without finishing something, it will eat away at me for an indefinite amount of time afterwards, 2 years ago I played Persona 4, got to the final boss then just stopped, like I didn't even attempt the fight I just stopped despite enjoying the game and being at the very end, and that has haunted me ever since.
I don't know where to put this because I suck at structuring things, but like, I just want to bring up a few of my favorite moments (all of them are from Kickassia my brain completely turned off for the other 2 I don't remember shit). The scene where Cinema Snob gets exiled from Kickassia and everyone just awkwardly stares at him as he walks away is easily the best part of any of these movies, it's filmed so weirdly, and it goes on for way too long, like it feels like just a full minute of cutting back and forth between him walking off into the desert, and everyone else on the other side of a fence waving. The point where they just straight up play a random clip from Board James completely out of nowhere was also peak fiction, I love how that small clip of someone else's Youtube show is filmed so significantly better than this full length movie. Another really odd thing is that Doug is just like, obsessed with Ma-Ti from Captain Planet, like he's a recurring character in all 3 of his films, like why him, it just feels so random? I literally don't remember a single other moment from any of these films they left so little impact I actually remember more about the 3 minute Board James cameo than anything else why did I waste my week doing this it wasn't even that funny.
#purgatory#kickassia#suburban knights#to boldly flee#doug walker#doug runner#the ipod brothers#cinematic masterpiece#yaoi#monstergirl
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P3 maniac mode... I DEFEATED IT! Shinji time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eagle thingy: level 5/6
Dancing hand: level 9 (it's HELL. Took way too many tries for my liking. My strategy is to make one of the hand dizzy after bashing all of them. Junpei should attack with Cleave. Yukari heal. Use Shirt of Chivalry on Junpei cuz +3 strength is really great
Wheel guy: level 10 (incredibly lucky that it doesnt use Mazio)
Priestess: level 11 (incredibly easy??? I should've stayed at level 10 lmao)
Crying Table: level 13 (first attempt was brutal because all persona that learn ice at this point are weak to fire....... thankfully I still have my Bufu card from Apsaras and I taught Nekomata that skill, since she's strong against fire. Multiple Agilao and still standing!!!)
The coffin thingy: level 16 (had to remove Junpei from the party because he kept dying and coffin thing got 1 more move :( sorry Junpei, but I don't think I will use you in the future)
Empress/Emperor: level 16
Bug: level 21 (Tam Lin is so insanely OP... however I feel like I was too overleveled... but I need Tam Lin and Akihiko's Mazio :/ I tried this at level 19 and uh it was Bad)
White knight guy: level 23 (Mind Charge + Garudyne.... Christ. My strategy is have a persona that has medium magic damage (Hua Po) and hope that it either use Magarula or the Garudyne goes to Yukari)
Lovers: level 23 (holy arrow beating my ass... thank god I don't have Diarahan)
Giga guy thingy: level 26 (I had to fuse something with Magaru so that it'll be dizzy before it attacks. Empusa it is, cuz Fortuna needs grinding first since I don't have Fortune SL yet. My God Empusa is ugly sorry!!!!)
White tower thingy: level 28 (holy shit this one's a doozy. I'm trying to beat this on low level so yeah. Mazionga is an insta kill on both Yukari and Aigis, even without Mind Charge (Aigis barely survived). I myself died several times even tho I already equipped persona that resist electric (Tam Lin). My final strategy is fuse Setanta and Angel to make Take Minazuchi with Power Charge and Sukukaja. I have a Kill Rush skill card from rescue mission, tho I think you can get Kill Rush from Setanta? The reason why Kill Rush is used is because this thing resist Slash and Pierce 🥲🥲 anyway Akihiko debuff the defense and Aigis can buff Aki because this thing also has Dodge Strike... oh and also use Sukunda with Oberon, since Oberon also null elec (you can get Setanta with Sukunda but I'm lazy so I use Oberon). Then pray that the Zionga went to Aki or FEMC because even with defense it still take half of Yukari and Aigis' HP... Akihiko also attack btw. You need massive RNG luck for this. But it's so satisfying once you beat it :) )
Justice and Chariot: level 30. My god I was severely underleveled. Definitely the point of this run but WOW one pierce attack almost killed Yukari... Also Myriad Arrows??? Isn't that heavy pierce attack?? In this economy???
Magus peeps: level 32. I had to bring Mitsuru back because my entire party kept dying and Akihiko is weak to ice... I used King Frost equipped with Rakunda and Kill Rush. Ugh I forgot which persona that I use but this guy nulls ice and has Power Charge so I switched him with King Frost.
Natural dancer: level 35. Oh my God SCREW SEXY DANCE. I was doing good but it has to charm THE ENTIRE PARTY... I ended up using Narcissus' items for all 4 members. Thank god Yukari's SL is level 6 so I don't have to grind much. Anyway I use Kusi Mitama with Power Charge and Getsu Ei... but then somehow it resist slash?? Only does 21 damage??? I switched to melee attack and it did more damage so no, it doesn't resist slash. Also I defeated it at the last day of deadline so that Shinji can join :D I don't want his only boss battle to be the table guy
Hermit: level 36. Um since when does this guy have pierce attack??? Also it crits me and Shinji?? :(
Arcane Turret: level 37. Sadly I have to google search his weakness because yeah this fight is insanely HARD. I didn't know they're weak to ice... After that it became significantly easier tho Yukari still died lmao
Sleeping Table: level 41/42? Fuck I forgot to type the level :/ I used Eligor because it nulls fire and I made Shinji a weapon that resist fire. I also used Revolution so that Shinji has a higher chance to crit. Wow this took SO MUCH ATTEMPTS. I finally get the girlies that said this boss is the WORST. I guess I could've used my Magic Mirrors but my habit is saving em for Nyx despite that I never used them anyway LMAO. Aki and Yukari dies after Megido and Maragidyne. Shinji barely holds on but because I fought the boss when he's on Great condition he was able to dodge several times (oh yeah I also use Masukukaja items from the antique shop). There was an attempt where Shinji crits 3 times in a row but my dumb ass died when the table barely has any health left.... anyway my tips for this battle is that pray that it use Hamaon and you still have Homunculus. Oh yeah also Eligor is weak to light yet the table never noticed??
Strength/Fortune: level 44. I was kinda overleveled because I had to get Aigis into level 40 after replacing her with Shinji :( I know Shinji isn't a recommended party member but look I can't help it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chu Chulain is the MVP, Torrent Shot is still such a fantastic skill in P3. Kanji was so OP with that skill, worth keeping until Kanji has Primal Force
Knight peeps: level 46. I didn't grind at all lol that was my level after I fought Strength/Fortune. Using Dreamfest is a must. I got lucky that the knight used Torrent Shot on Aigis lol what a dumbass
Giga guy: level 48. Had to level up because I gotta fuse Dionysus to get Mind Charge + Ziodyne. Shinji I love you so much...
Takaya/Jin: level 48. I think I am the first person in the world that died because of them.... EMBARASSING. Jin used Mind Charge + Megido and THEY ALL DIE AND I GOT LIKE 50 HP LEFT. I know I'm underleveled but damn... Look at this shit bruhhh
Hanged Man: level 49. OH MY GOD I FUCKING HATE THIS FIGHT. In Normal it's fine but Maniac??? HANGED MAN IS FUCKING TANKY. He's like Nyx but without the climatic theme and just the spongy part. It's HORRIBLE. In hindsight I should've used Attack Mirror more instead of wasting my Balm of Life :( oh I will NEVER repeat this fight again. Worst boss in the entire game hands down
Hand sword: level 51. That was quite tough... I used Dionysus my beloved as always with Power Charge + Heat Wave. At the end I managed to crit 2 of them, Aigis helped, and it ended with AoA!!!
The buff castle guys: level 53. I wasted my Attack Mirrors for this :( ah it's not like I'll use them for Nyx anyway. Need a Tetrakarn persona asap :( so many comrades are falling... And so many lucky evasion!! Aigis was on like 50 HP and I expected her to die but she managed to evade!! Just... Wow. It seems like Cadenza is more useful than I thought.. I ran out of revival beads lol hoping I could finish the entire dungeon before December cuz Aigis would be gone for an entire month
Ghost white guy: level 54. The first run is a complete failute because it kept spamming Mind Charge + Megido. I got lucky in the second run because it mostly used Evil Smile (got lots of Me Patra gem) and Hamaon (got Homunculus stocked up thx to Bunkichi). Also Akihiko got it shocked once. Still, those Megido is dangerous
Dancer 2: level 56? At first I was big STRUGGLING because it kept spamming Sexy Dance, I tried to heal the charm but then heatwave. DISASTER. But I remembered that I got Narcissus Flower from earlier, similar encounter.... Second try is much easier with it, tho I had to sacritice 1 attack mirror :(
Evil dice: level 58. I had to grind a bit because it had Megidola/Megidolaon. I barely even survived Megido... In the end I survived thanks to Thor
Chidori: There are tears in my eyes she tried to attack Akihiko but SHE FELL 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I wish I recorded it goddamn... Wait I forgot to put my level it's level 59. I actually did this fight TWICE because I forgot to do something AND SHE STILL FELL
Eyeball white: level 61. Easiest boss compared to the hell I've been through... Perhaps it's because Surt is so OP? Or I'm too overleveled? Not gonna grind on the next boss
Snakes: level 61. Okay it's getting difficult again.. it resists fire so I can't use Surt and my team is constantly demolished with Maragidyne... Managed to get lucky when they spam Dekaja/Dekunda
Cross: level 61. Oh god this is even easier than the eyeballs. Mind charge + Ragnarok is instant demolishment. I had to double check if I played on Maniac or not and I did??? Like wow. Surt really is so OP
BDSM Jotun: level 64. I accidentally increased my level because one of the enemies on Tartar Sauce gave me 35k EXP??????? After I got the 10x EXP card????? Insane. But anyway, this boss is HARD AGAIN. Vorpal Blade is no match for Siegfried but it kept resisting all my attacks :( it blocks electric, resist slash strike and fire and wow it was tough to figure out. Thankfully it did not resist ice, so I made Scathach with Ice boost + Ice Amp from Titania and Loki. I still got leftover Minr Charge on Siegfried and it was a breeze afterwards
Horse guy: level 65? I was about to give up because it seems like it absorb all attacks BUT I remembered Yukari has Wind Break. After that it went quite easy. Spongy, but easy
Jin: level 66. Wow this battle is easy. Just spam Thunder Reign and he's dead thanks to him using Infuriate
Takaya: oh my god. This is embarassing. I think I am the only person that died from this fight TWICE. I tried this on level 67 and his Mind Charge + Megidola KILLED ME. Perhaps I should've not wasted Endure... He also used a charged Megidolaon but somehow I dodged that attack... Wow. Embarassing
Nyx: Okay. First try on level 67. Did not go well at all. We all died at Chariot because she used Power Charge and Revolution. Even prior to Chariot the party is massively struggling. I'm going to grind until level 70 to see if I can defeat her
Nyx attempt 2: Level 69. Seems like everyone has a better endurance (previously they were only like level 64 lol now theyre level 68). Unfortunately Nyx hit me with Tentarafoo on Lovers so he crits when using Almighty and I instantly died lmao. I think I'm gonna farm Null Panic skill card. I think this level is doable!! UPDATE: oh no there's no persona that produces null panic.. I have to get them on the shops... I don't want to do Takaya again :(
Nyx attempt 3: level 69. Oh no. She crits all my team while on Hierophant. It's joever. Possibly gonna increase my level again to 71 so that my party will have better endurance. My maximum level increase is 73 I promise (so that Yukari won't learn Mediarahan)
Nyx attempt 4: level 69. Already on Death. She's halfway dead. CRITS ON ME. RIP. Maybe I should've used Endure. That's it I'm increasing my level
Nyx attempt 5: level 72. Imo it's getting way too easy UNTIL Nyx used Revolution + Almighty on Hierophant AGAIN. And I got the crit AGAIN. Lord. If it doesn't use that one move this would be an easy win. I still have my level 69 save just in case. Planning a new strategy which is farming Sharp Student (the persona that has the skill card is level 17 so it'll be easy) (btw I increasednmy level to 72 because I want Michael's Heaven's Blade. Genuinely such an awesome skill it literally crits everytime)
NYX. ATTEMPT 6. LEVEL 72. IT IS DONE!!! I'll upload it on YouTube. So many close calls... In retrospect, I should've used Ken instead of Yukari :( Ken had access to Mediarama earlier, you can get Null Dark accessory from Thanatos and there's no Dark Break skill, and he has better endurance and more HP. Yukari kept dying :T I lowkey want to do this run again but with Ken. Hmm but I just realize that if I equip Null Dark accessory I can't equip Divine Grace so maybe using Yukari is a good call
#Hoo boy!#It's a fun challenge but I'm just gonna grind on Normal.......#Seriously I love defeating the Tartar Sauce bosses but the grind so that I'll be able to defeat them is Rough#I defeated the eagle on level 5? and dancing hand on level 9#Hold on I gotta pin this#I am trying to defeat these bosses as low level as I can lol#Defeating Nyx on level 99 on Maniac is kinda a piece of cake#Oh yeah btw whenever I fuse or buy from compendium I'm just gonna change the difficulty lmao#2 million Orpheus Telos?????#At first I was disappointed that I got Shirt of Chivalry from rare chest instead of attack mirror#But it ended up being SO USEFUL because the defense is still good for around this level LMAO#Also the +3 strength!!!#Btw in case it's too cheating-like I still use Maniac difficulty on grinding until all enemies are scared on me#If that happens I'm just gonna switch to easy and Tab away
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I have beaten Persona 5 Royal! Some scattered thoughts under the readmore for spoilers!
1. I played the original Persona 5 years ago, and I’ve been pretty confused about the love for Akechi because I thought Akechi was a dumb bitch with the worst revenge plan I’ve ever heard. However, Royal’s overhaul to his story really helped in this regard (along with a quick primer on some Japanese cultural stuff I did not know that I really wish the translation made clear to outsiders) and now I view him as, while still a dumb bitch with the worst revenge plan I’ve ever seen, he’s also a dumb bitch pushed there for reason.
2. I was also very confused about the Akechi and protagonist shipping. I get it now. Third semester really is like “hm we’re gonna compare the relationship with Akechi and Joker with a romantic couple.” It’s very gay and very tragic, and that makes it Tumblr bait.
3. I really liked Sumire but I really with Atlas hadn’t forced her as a romantic interest so much. It’s kinda like Rise, where the game clearly wants you to romance a specific person, and that bias is kind of annoying. But I think Sumire was fun and I liked her and how she fit into the story.
4. I warmed to Yusuke in this playthrough a lot more than on my first one. It helped that I knew he was just oblivious to social cues. He’s such a weird dude, it’s incredible.
5. Because Atlas won’t let me kiss the homies (and my worstie) and I romanced Makoto in my first play through, I went for Hifumi in this one because I think it’s very fun that you can romance someone entirely normal (ie no magic powers) but to the public, she’s the one seeing someone entirely normal (not famous). Plus, I like smart girls.
6. Amazing final villian and perfect way to end the game: while the final boss of vanilla does challenge the thieves understanding of what they’re doing, it’s not very pointed, and isn’t nearly as personal as our final Royal boss. It’s also a really good inversion of the games themes: instead of an adult being the worst, it’s an adult trying to honestly help, and while well intentioned, it’s a pointed statement that trying to control someone’s life is not a good thing. (Someone here pointed out Maruki and Joker both have a savior complex that foils well, and I agree entirely).
Anyway, incredible game. I’ll probably play again at some point down the line but not for awhile.
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Desc: oh god here we goez. my 12-year old ass with my blorbo. man i’m gonna be a donk to deal with.
Insp: crossoversaga <3 ur reader/docf fic is quite fancy!! muy bien :) (im sorry i dont speak a lot of spanish :’D)
Here I go.
(this is in my pov if I had a diary bahah. it gets switched so dw! anything in purple is diary stuff bahah)
And so hey!! On vacation in supposedly what’s called the Chipper Grove, it feels familiar. Meh, but big sis is up at her college for now, so yeah! Just me and my parents, along with a long road trip. Man this is gonna be a while.
As I got my stuff out of our truck and into the cabin we got, I felt peace for once. “Maddy?” Mom called me. “Yeah?” “Me and Dad are going out for a bit, okay? We’ll be back!” Mom said. “‘Kay!” I said joyfully. I hadn’t been left alone in so long, I always had to have someone there to keep me company.
So I decided to go out, get some air in me. Even though I’m not an outdoorsy kind of person. At least two hours passed, and all I got was the feeling of being watched and several doodles of my persona with her boyfriend. I kept chuckling to myself, trying to make sure I didn’t get too nervous about my situation.
But I couldn’t keep myself awake, and fell asleep up against a tree nearby… And when I woke up, I was just floating, and I was er… Barely clothed to say the least. I awoke slowly, realizing my eyes were fine within the fluid I was encased in… But I’m not a swimmer! I actually REALLY hate having water on me!
So I tried breaking the glass in front of me, just smashing it clear open and getting whatever breathing muzzle was on me off. “Uuughhhh, finally!” I sighed in relief. Something still felt like I was being watched, but I didn’t know what. I went and got my journal back…
So I just woke up in a chamber! Don’t know what’s going on but I haven’t been picked up by my parents yet! :(( Hope they’re okay and I survive! D:
I managed to get my spare outfit from my bag, which was open somehow. At least my Switch stayed. I sighed again in grumpiness then went through into a hall, carrying my bag. I was still really confused about this place, but I got all my stuff in my bag and wandered until I came to a room. “Dandy Chillspace. Intruders out.” the steel door’s text read. “Well, that’s not gonna stop me because I don’t CARE!” I said, opening up the door.
A suited creature jolted up and looked at me. He was surprised but also looked angry. “Oh for f!cks sake. YOU GOT OUT?!” he yelped at me, enraged. I was startled but I was fine. “Hell to the yeah I did b!!!!tch! Name’s Zayden, how you doin sexyyyy?” I tried to introduce myself. The suited creature just facepalmed and stood up.
He was about 4 inches taller than me, and was an embryo in a jar. He peered down at me before clearing his throat. “AHEM. I am Dr. Fetus, insolent child. You’ve been taken by me. Never to see the world again, you fool.” he said. I kept nodding like a dumbass. “‘Kay, ‘kay, cool. You corrupted or something man?” “What.” “Corrupted, like these guys!” I said, bringing up an image of Boss and his cohorts, Barracuda and Lycanthropy. “Blegh. Pink.” Dr. Fetus muttered. “Oh my god, you don’t like pink either?” I asked him. Doc nodded. “It’s an atrocity to this wretched planet.” My eyes shimmered as I hugged him, ever so tight it was a “hug of death”. “DOOGH-“ Doc squeaked. He’d never been hugged before. Not by anyone he ever knew.
Maybe this is the first person to care about him, for a long time.
As I let go of him slightly, still gazing at Dr. Fetus, I felt such happiness. I thought we’d get along great, but then I started my question storm… “Where am I gonna be put? You got food? Ya like jazz? You don’t have any plans of hurting me right?” and so on.
Dr. Fetus just picked me up, and carried me over to his room. He set me down on his bed. “There. You happy kid?” he asked me, grumpy. I just stared at him as I got out my Switch and began messing with SSBU. Thank god I brought all my games. Dr. Fetus just looked at me with questions in his mind. “What… what are you playing.” “Smash bros. Wanna mess with me?” I said, inviting him into a challenge. “Dare I even ask what slang you’re using, kid…” I sighed. “I’m asking if you wanna play some Smash with me or not, man.” “…Fine.”
And so it began, a little game. I was Ganondorf (fun fact: I main him. Warlock Punch ftw man), and he chose Bowser, the shadow one. “Ah. Looks like you, except as a turtle-dragon!” I chuckled. Doc didn’t bother, and we just got through our match.
Of course I won, being a person who’s beaten a Lv. 9 CPU once. “WOOOOO!! Haha, good game man.” I said in joy as I hugged Doc. Dr. Fetus was just left puzzled. He sighed. “You know, I suppose that’s nice. Just another game where I destroy things. Like you, kid. Eeheeh…” I looked at him, staring with concern. “Oki! So then I got moar!!” I said cheery as I got out my other games.
Pokémon Shield and Sword, Let’s go Eevee and Pikachu, Minecraft, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey… I had some demos as well, but they wouldn’t really work out. “Ooh! You wanna go off with some Mario Kart? I’ll let you play DRY Bowser!” I told Doc, happier than I should be. “Heh. Sure kid, but after this I have crap to do. Got a busy life…” Doc said, his speech turning into a bit of a monologue.
We then proceeded to go for a bit of a Mario Kart course run. It went on for 4 races, I was pretty tired and it seemed to be getting late. I was Pink Gold Peach, and Doc of course was Dry Bowser. He won apparently, man had a Bullet Bill. Didn’t even notice! “Ah, good game man…” I yawned. “But dang I gotta get my sleep…” Doc nodded. “Mhm. Get yourself settled down, kid… I’ll be in my lab…”
And so my first night with an embryo in a jar who somehow kidnapped me, it went well. I think I charmed him, I kept dreaming of my persona and him just being lovers… Didn’t know why but I smiled at the thought.
When I woke up, there was suit folded up on the bed… All black with a top hat and a tie. “Mmm… Doc F?” I called out. There was a note next to me.
“Morning, kid. Got you a special outfit. I’m over in the chillspace, lil kid. Meet me for food.”. The note had a drawing of what seemed to be a hat with a monocle. I smiled at the note. “Aw, doc…” It was sweet of him to do all this! I mean it’s only my second day!
I got on the special outfit Doc got me, but I didn’t know how to tie a tie… So I did it in a bow instead! I looked really dandy, and I hopped down to the chillspace. As the door slid open I saw Doc, half asleep. He saw me, and looked to me happily. “Morning, child.” he said, slightly tired. “Morniiiiinggg!” I scampered over, like a crab as if I was just nuts… Doc sighed.
“So kid. How’d you sleep? Well, I suppose?” “Hell yeah! I think I even have some silly drawing ideas in my brain!” I squealed as I went back for my journals. Doc sighed… Was he being a father or a lover?
I raced back into the chillspace and flopped onto the floor, folding myself into a veerrryy harsh position. I kept chuckling to myself as I started drawing Doc F in so many ways it was crazy. I then showed it to him, and he just looked at it. He adjusted his monocle for a second, then slightly chuckled to himself. “You did draw me good, kid. I’ll give you that.”
“You don’t have to call me ‘kid’, Doc! You can call me Z too, or my name? Zayden? Didn’t I tell ya?” “Uuugghh. Sorry, Z… Just been up in the lab, catching up with old creations…” I gasped, in absolute joy. “YOU MAKE STUFF?!” I squealed. Doc got up. “Hell yeah I do, Z. Come along, I can show you what I do… My son’s back too, he was locked in bismuth…” “Whoa… Wonder what he’s like!” I said cheery, as we just kept walking along to the lab…
And then I saw him, just sitting there asleep. A brownie in a beige trench coat and fedora, and he seemed really nice. Doc tried to wake him up… “Brownie. Brown. Son!” he yelped to him. Brownie woke up. “Yep, hey dad…” he said, still a tad drowsy. “So, the kid I told you about last night. This is them.” he said, looking at me. “Her name is Z, and she-” “Hell-LOOOO?? I forgot to say I’m non-binary! I use they/them pronouns thank you!” Doc sighed. “My apologies, child… Ugh… “
Brownie got up and smiled at me. Tipping his fedora to me, he seemed chipper and lovely. “Pleased to meet ya, sibling! Ah’m Brownie, world-renown world traveller!” I tipped my hat to him. “Ah, glad to meet you too, good sire!” I said, medival-ish. Doc just wandered out. We both followed along as he went up to the roof…
There were mechanisms all around, and I was still gazing at it all… It was so pretty, I didn’t even know where I was. Then Doc went and fell off the roof, backwards. “DOC!” I yelped. “NO WORRIES! I’M PERFECTLY FINE!” Doc said, flying back up, as bat-like wings held him up. They had warm, stringy membrane and talons, they seemed to have been in his coat. Brownie went off the roof too, and floated up as a bismuth hand connected to a vortex held him up.
I was so excited that I went and ran off the roof, happy and cheery. I tried to spread the wings in my suit, assuming I had them. And lo, I began to flutter… “Oh. My. F!cking god!” I swore. Doc was proud of me. Flying over to me, he smiled. “Very amazing, Z… A natural flyer for sure. Wondrous use of ‘f!cking’ too.” he complimented me, happy. Brownie just clapped from over on the bismuth.
We then just got back in, and I was in so much satisfaction. But questions still flooded my brain, ideas too! They were all so amazing I wanted to draw them all! I made another journal entry, and let my new buddies write in it:
I have a brother AND a father!! This is so amazing, and I can fly! Oh my god this is so amazing!! CALM DOWN CHILD. NO NEED TO SCREAM. C’mon Dad, Let Them Be Fun If They Want To!
I was so excited for what was to come, but little did I know it wouldn’t be fun.
#📝 // Poetry and Hearts…#fanfiction#fanfic#my fic#canon x self insert#self insert fic#self insert#dr fetus#dr fetus x self#self x canon#canon x self#drfetus#dr. fetus#dr.fetus#doctor fetus#super meat boy#super meat boy forever#super meatblr
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Yea request are open! I’ve been thinking about it lately from another fic but would Hawks be able to get off from his own feathers being used on him like a vibrator? Maybe not just on the outside of him but also the inside if possible or would the feathers break? Really I just want the bird man to get overstimulated but I didn’t know if you’re okay with writing for him so just ignore this if you don’t
Hey! Nice to see you slide into the confessional again! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ
Hope you don't mind that this is going to be Hawks' debut into the covent for the thirsty people ready to confess their deepest desires on what to do with this man-
𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯; Takami Keigo - Hawks
𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱; 855
𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰; gender neutral reader, sex toys (vibrator, dildo, fleshlight), but the mentioned toys are somehow made from his feathers, implied orgasm denial, masturbation, caught, mentioned choking, dom!reader, sub!character
𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰; silly monologue, Keigo wondering how he didn’t know he could do this sooner, reader wondering why Keigo didn’t know
𝕴 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖒𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖒𝖞 𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖘
It was probably something he didn’t even know was possible until he made it become possible.
As far as Keigo knew, his feathers were either to be weapons, an aid, a shield, even a tracking device, kinda. But he never thought he could use them for his own selfish pleasure.
You’ve been neglecting him for weeks now, always running off and around because of work. It has him tempted to try convincing you, for the hundredth time, to quit your shitty job and work with him in his agency, but you always told him that this job is your dream job. So he’ll just respect that, but he won’t ever respect your boss or coworkers for using you like some slave to the industry.
Okay, maybe he’s just giving himself an unnecessary backstory to justify how the fuck he managed to get his feathers, the ones he grew up with for most part of his life, to fucking vibrate against his dick.
Vibrate. How do feathers even vibrate?
Well, how could feathers become lethal weapons is another question to answer another time.
But holy-
“Fuck! Fuck, that feels good.”
Keigo can’t help but groan, and if a little cute whimper followed, he ignored it. He doesn’t want to accept he’s already close to cumming, less beginning to already lose his cool.
Not like it mattered, considering you would always figure out new ways to make him lose his cool, his tranquility, his collectiveness, his ‘she-calls-me-daddy-too’ persona.
God, what would you fucking do to him if you found out his feathers are transportable, automatic, intensity level 7 vibrators?
He jerks his hips away from his 3 feathers, breathing heavily as he watches how they move, how they shake, how the tip of each feather was covered in his own precum. Ew, no wonder he keeps feeling something sticky cooling on his cheek, and here he thought he was beginning to cry-
Wait, nevermind, his hand can very much confirm he might’ve shed a tear.
Wiping away the droplets of water, whether it be other tears or simply his sweat, Keigo ponders over his next question: could he fuck himself with these newly discovered vibrators?
Great, now he feels weird.
Not because of his question but because of how… Well, his feathers still feel soft, even if having them in a certain abundance and covered with a condom. His makeshift vibrating dildo made by his dearest and loveable feathers keeps prodding at his already prepared hole (thanks to one of your buttplugs.)
Which reminds him: will you be coming home soon? Not so much because of the sheer embarrassment of having to clean your buttplug instead of one of his, but more so to maybe see your raw reaction about this scenario-
“SHIT- FUCK!”
Okay, maybe he should’ve also, like, paid attention to the fact his feathery dildo (ugh, come on, Keigo, name it something else) had been trying to enter him for the past few minutes. But instead of some slow, gentle, sensual insertion, he decided to fuck himself as hard as you usually thrust inside of him.
Just how much did he miss you?
“S-so much! Too much- Miss you~” He whispers to absolutely no one but his feathers and pillows under him, cheek planted on one of the plush, soft materials as he prepares himself for-
“Hnngh!”
That pornographic whimper once he activated the vibration mode.
And when you finally came home, instead of a clingy, pouty, loving boyfriend greeting you at the door and helping you with your stuff, you’re lead by the invisible string to your bedroom, eyes widening in amazement at the sheer impossible yet fucking sexy scene before you:
Keigo, in his trembling, toe curling, back arching and chest puffing position, thrusting into the makeshift fleshlight from his vibrating feathers-
Huh!?
You quickly cover your mouth, hoping that your choked gasp of disbelief drowned in his equally choked gasping and moaning.
Oh, he’s choking himself.
Let’s assess the man who the public admire as their #2 prohero and how he’s never, ever mentioned how his feathers could vibrate.
Again, you’ve walked into him trembling while he’s fucking a fleshlight and being fucked by a dildo made by his own feathers that, for some reason unknown, are imitating the sound and movement of the 7th setting on his wand vibrator.
You don’t really get much time to actually find the reasons and name facts to explain this erotic scene before Keigo’s grabbing one of the pillows and smothering his face with it, drowning out his screams and growls of being overwhelmed by the powerful orgasm his body catapaulted into, especially with how, prior to your arrival, he had been trying to convince himself that denying his orgasm for possibly the 10th time in barely under an hour was going to do more harm than good to him and his sanity.
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