So I was thinking about Maruki (as I do 23 hours and 48 minutes a day, leaving 10 minutes for existential dread and 2 for sleep) and I was reminded of that Robert Caro quote (shout out to Lindsay Ellis' Game of Thrones videos), 'Power doesn't always corrupt, but it always reveals', to paraphrase, the idea that there are such people who are incorruptible and those we believe in power who've let it control them didn't need much corrupting to begin with.

I think about all the people who've wronged Maruki like the robbers, the guy who pulled all funding from Maruki's research etc. And how the very notion of revenge never even occurred to him, he had god-like power to rewrite their lives but, because Maruki was always a good person going about his quest wrong, he didn't let the power get to him because therr was nothing there to get.

[ID: a fully rendered digital comic featuring various characters from persona 5 royal narrated by Azathoth. Panel 1 & 2: A birds-eye view of Takuto Maruki visiting Rumi in a hospital. Azazoth says "I have a deep fondness for human desires. When they fulfil their desires," the statement finishes in the next panel, "then I, too, feel a great sense of fulfilment." with a close-up shot of Maruki placing his fist near to Rumi's, both grasping one of Azazoth's tendrils. A third tendril lies in between their hands as if to separate them. 3: A speech bubble against a black background shouts "But there are far too many limitations on my ability to do that here!!" 4 & 5: Sumire Yoshizawa ties up her hair with a ribbon as it says "Once a wish is granted, it vanishes." During a scene where Goro Akechi and Joker happily hang out in the Jazz Jin, it says "Or by fulfilling the desires of one person," above Joker, then "it becomes impossible to fulfil the desires of another." above Akechi. 6: Azathoth's skeleton glows inside Maruki's silhouette, as well as the tendrils wrapping around his arms. During this, it says "That's why I want to swallow the entire world. If I can do that, then within me," 7: It finishes, "I can fulfil your desires for all eternity." End ID]

Azathoth's stake.

or: I redrew a page from dunmeshi and set it in the third semester. sorry the low quality I have no idea what happened here 😭

og page below. MAJOR dungeon meshi spoilers if you wanna avoid that

[ID: a page from the dungeon meshi manga narrated by The Winged Lion.

Panel 1: A panel showing a person looking at a bookshelf, a person caressing their skin, and a person preaching to a crowd. The Winged Lion says "I have a deep fondness for human desires. When they fulfill (sic) their desires, then I, too, feel a sense of fulfillment (sic). I want to grant the desires of every human in the entire world."

2: He shouts "But there are far too many limitations on my ability to do that here!!l

3 & 4: Over Thistle's unconscious form, he says "Once someone's wish is granted, then it vanishes..." Over Mithrun holding his partner's cheek in front of a heartbroken witness, he finishes "Or by fulfilling (sic) the desires of one person... It becomes impossible to fulfill (sic) the desires of another."

5: The Winged Lion mimics the motion of eating something between his fingers as he says "That's why I want to swallow the entire world. If I can do that, then within me... I can fulfill (sic) your desires for all eternity."

End ID]

Hey guys something is wrong with my priest

How do you do Persona Royal fandom

royal should have ended like this btw

//P5R Spoilers

Almost perfect✨🐙🧃

Oh goodness who remembers these

Satanael Defeats The God Of Control in Persona 5 Royal (2019)

Day 7: Alternate Universe

“Would you rather I take that for you? You’re all friends, right?”

I love the complexities of the false ending. There’s a lot of debate as to whether it’s a “good” ending or a “bad” ending, but one thing’s certain—it’s an alternate universe that undermines all of the struggles the heroes went through.

maruki doodles

So a minor thing but I've always liked Maruki's treasure being a torch. I think it's a great malleable metaphor that's whatever the beholder wants it to be.

To the weak and the helpless it's a guiding light in the dark, a means out of the blackness of despair and into the golden light of Maruki's paradise.

I think Maruki thinks of it almost in the classical sense you see in a lot of the heavenly/Grecian art, the aesthetic of which comes up a bit in the second half of his palace. In this instance it's almost Promethean, his is the fire of enlightenment he gifts to the masses, though his idea of spiritual enlightenment, ironically, is ignorance.

if I had a nickel for every reality warping doctor with a Persona who was based on Lovecraftian gods I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

Violet: Well I can’t say I SHOULD’T have it.

Crow: Whoever issued this has MAJOR issues of his own

maruki stop distorting your body you're scaring the hoes

A persona?

AZATHOTH THE PERSONA!