Happy Phantom Holidays

Forgive us if this is coming a bit late due to our hiatus, but now it's that time of year again.

From the moment this was posted at late December to January 31, the Phantom Thieves will be accepting gifts.

We can't wait to see what you give us this year.

Until we meet again.

Get ready for the fist of the Phantom Thieves!

IF YOU REGRET, RESET THE GAME.

PT: If you regret, reset the game.

Part 2 of Phantom Thief matching layouts! F2U, requested by no-one.

random p5 fanart cause i can't play persona 3 reload

I find it so funny that the Phantom Thieves get to enjoy cooking from either Sojiro or Joker who are both considered to be excellent chefs meanwhile the Investigation team are living at the edge of food poisoning to the point that Kanji brings insurance when the girls cook for them.

Erika Harlacher you will always be famous

(Extra under the cut)

Another! Same va! And a realization

some guys

Gasp...the phantom miis....

(Just silly tomodachi life things :P)

AoNoSummer 2023 Day 10: Thief

Gotta love three phantom thieves on a revenge quest fighting their way through safe-toting weirdos every week. (also they're super sentai)

From the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, we wish you the happiest New Years anyone’s ever known.

'I Hear a Symphony' by Cody Fry is such a found family song its insane.

Yeah, you could read it as romantic but it could also be about a closed off and broken person finding a family of flawed people who bring them joy and happiness. Seriously.

Imagine ur favorite found family with this shit. Go listen to the whole song. I dare you. Do it, you won't.

LET US START THE GAME.

PT: Let us start the game. Part 1 of additional matching Phantom Thief layouts for Noir, Skull, Violet, and Queen! F2U, req'd by no-one.

I think some people miss the fact that the Phantom Thieves are playing right into Yaldabaoth's hands when they change people's hearts. They're basically proving that people need someone else to act for them and that people aren't willing to solve their own problems. Just look at how they end up sending their targets back into the depths of Mementos.

Don't get me wrong, the Thieves are doing good by freeing people from Yaldy's control and from their selfish distorted desires (which are just another form of control), but they are also showing that people are unwilling to free themselves from Yaldy's control on their own. When people don't free themselves, they only end up being imprisoned even further by society. That's why all the morally redeemable characters in the game change their own hearts, and that's why the Bad Ending is Akira deciding to keep society just as it is under Yaldy's control, with the Phantom Thieves as heroes who continue to change the hearts of individuals, but society as a whole is kept stagnant for eternity.

This is also why the public's support for the Thieves is so important in the final battle. Without their support, the Thieves couldn't have defeated Yaldy, because the public needed to show that they wanted their hearts changed, that they didn't want to be controlled after all. They all needed to show a will of rebellion against their oppressor or the Phantom Thieves would have just become the same thing Yaldabaoth was doing by removing their free will. Prior to fighting Yaldy the PT don't respect the agency of their targets, and they solve other people's problems without thinking about how that might affect the person they're saving. By defeating Yaldabaoth, they let go of that power and give control back to the individuals of society so they can start to change their own lives again. The public shouldn't and can't rely on Yaldabaoth to solve their problems, and they shouldn't and can't rely on the Phantom Thieves to solve their problems either.

And again, don't get me wrong, Persona 5 says that it is good and even necessary to get help from others, but if you really want to improve your life you need to act for yourself. If society is going to improve people need to take destiny into their own hands. Persona 5 is about finding hope even in the darkest circumstances by forging connections with other people and refusing to let society crush you under its heel. But the key to this all is that you must choose to fight against the cruelties of society, even if it seems impossible. Hope for change can be seen by finding belonging with others and working together to change society for the better. In the words of Morgana:

"Even if you feel that only darkness lies ahead...as long as you hold hands together...see it through as one...the world will never end!"

while i think it’s hilarious that sojiro easily accepted and understood that morgana can talk even though he himself can’t understand him — which leads to any of them being able to lie about what morgana says, i think that sojiro should be able to understand morgana, as a treat