i always think i'm done w okumura's palace like. way way earlier than it is LMAO

i got off the first two airlock levels like right ok that's it we're done RIGHT--

NO. THIRD AIRLOCK LEVEL. FUCK YOU

god. finally. and then i spent 27 years in the velvet room but it's FINE IM FINALLY ALL SET

got all my personas in line for okumura's boss fight so i have. a full suite of elemental personas that do multi-damage LMAO

so we finally got to another scene that we hadn't seen (hifumi and yusuke at akihabara with the air conditioners) and just

god. they're freaks. im sobbing. why are they freaks.

"A BIT ECCENTRIC, ISN'T SHE?" YUSUKE KITAGAWA. YOU ARE THE PLANETARIUM MANIAC

OH GOD YUSUKE KNOWS CHIHIYA IM SOBBING

I LITERALLY GASPED WHEN HE SAID THAT LIKE. WHO ARE YOU TO SPEAK, SIR?

YOU ARE WANTED IN AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT STAR SYSTEMS

God I love him

he is such a freak......

I need 100 more hours of Hifumi and Yusuke interacting now

I need freak4freak behavior

going back to this before dragon age appears and ruins all my time: fuckin. sending out the calling card for okumura

and futaba just "If a dude's cognition can change the scenery or even the people in the Palace... Couldn't you use that to make a dream world filled with places and people you love!?"

"Man, Palaces are super promising! My greatest hopes and dreams might still come true! Well, that's kinda impossible this time, hehehe... but maybe we should try in the future!?" ACTUALLY LIES DOWN AND DIES

lmao and also: shadow okumura saying he'll "set sail" into the political realm....... lol..... lmao...

ok the dialogue the SIU director gives after the okumura boss fight all but confirms there is a secondary trigger for a mental shutdown OUTSIDE of killing the shadow

all i can think of is that if a shadow dies in a palace they're basically 'remade' into mementos and then they have to be killed again lmao

because even when like, the other palace bosses are 'reuinited' with their real selves, they end up in the prison at the bottom of mementos anyway

Akechi out here doing the double tap

anyway beat okumura's full ass even on hard without breaking a sweat lmao

everything was basically a one-shot until we got to the black robot and that became

ren casts a debuff, morgana does a heal if necessary, makoto hits them with forgetfulness, haru hits with psy for a technical, ren slams a fucking megalodon LMAOOOO

well specifically haru baton passes to ren so i get that boost too

GOD DO WE GO DO AKECHI'S RANK 7 THE FUCKING SAME NIGHT

god. i have to go to sleep but im rotating that in my brain like a rotisserie chicken

alright well. turns out we can't do akechi's rank 7 the same night because the game cockblocked us KLJSHDGS SO. GOTTA DO SOMETHING ELSE

ferretblocked

we went and hung out with mishima instead

fuck ur ferret. it's moon boy time

MOON PIE BOY

lmao coming back to this, akechi still refusing to do rank 7, ig it has to wait until post-okumura

but it's so funny to be like hiii... are u available... no? ok (goes to do a shady deal with the fucking yakuza)

omg the movie with futaba im cryin

"Y'know, sci-fi's more than just some crazy made-up baloney. It's like... a dream that might end up coming true one day. I guess it's almost like hope! You get me?"

me, crying

god every time i see ren and futaba next to each other i just laugh because futaba's only an inch shorter than me.... he's so FUCKING tall

longshanks crimeboy

HE'S TOO TALL!!!

TALLBOY CRIMEMAN

god yoshizawa's fucking magical girl transformation

and god the fucking chains on celledrion when you first see her!! bc she's not fully free until sumire is!!

it's just. god. that it's cinderella is poetry. sumire putting on kasumi like she puts on the princess decor for the ball... but it all has to come down sometime...

i have been playign this game for over 300 hours and i just now figured out if you click the touchpad in mementos it makes ur controller meow at you

Sumire is so fascinating frankly with how she could still technically "awaken" despite not seeing the truth

And I love what I think is Sumire's shadow desperately trying to break through to her in Maruki's palace

It would make sense why the shadows would be pissed at "rejecting their master's kindness" or whatever the fuck

Sumi shadow: girl for the love of GOD I need you to WAKE UP
Sumi in reality, heading full speed towards a mental break: no ❤️

literally just running headfirst into a brick wall

we love a girlfailure

We love and cherish a messy woman

tabletop ended a little early so i finished up some mementos requests and did mishima's rank 10 ;v; my BOY

did a lil more tonight just to inch along, finished hifumi's rank, did sojiro's rank 8, and took the girls to destinyland

realizing now that the girls brought yaldaboth the equivalent of a fucking mickey mouse cap

oh my god

Alex and I are experiencing the true Wet Ferret Jumpscare

we got a glitch that made it seem like akechi was in leblanc when he wasn't

it was terrifying

in other news: futaba and iwai hangout was cute as fuck

and now we get to see one of the strength hangouts we missed last time, the art museum!!

oh the girls are fighting

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING OVER ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION

god sojiro's rank 9 and 10 are so FUCKING tendy, sobs

lmao the convo with maruki and yoshizawa on 10/11... maruki like oooh... you stood up to your problems and got better huh.... couldn't be me.....

god akechi's fucking ACTING when he sees the press conference with okumura with the little gag and everything

BITCH YOU DID THAT

ok jut sitting here reading the anon comments from the phan site on the loading page and oh my god

shitlord EXTERMINATED!!!!! im sobbing

god and yaldaboth just gloating the night okumura dies like

OOH HOO HEE HEE MY LITTLE CHAOS BOY SURE GOT YOU, HUH

time for exams and then akechi to be a shit at top speed for the next in-game month

MY LITTLE CHAOS BOY HEHEHE

HIS LITTLE CHAOS BOY!!!

Yaldabaoth out here laughing as once again he tucks the little broken ferret cage under the table so Joker won't see: wow! how could this have ever happened????

HE FINALLY LIKES MY COFFEE!!!!!

I AM SO HAPPY!!!

WE HAVE ACHIEVED IT

god maruki's rank 9 looks so innocuous until you know what's coming and you realize ren will be thinking about that moment so goddamn hard all of third semester and hate himself LMAO,

"And thanks to you, I've finally found the true goal of that research, too. I don't care how long it takes me. I will make my dream come true. For Rumi's sake, of course... but for you too, Amamiya-kun. I... honestly don't have the words to say what all this means to me. But I can at least say this."

"

Thank you... so much. For everything. Thanks to you, I found my answer. And once it's ready... I hope you'll let me use it to help you find the happiness you deserve.

My path is clear now."

JUST. GOD. FUCK A TEENAGER UP

MARUKI REALLY THOUGHT HE WAS DOING SOMETHING GOOD

AND THEN JUST ALKDN;SDKNBSLKNGH;OSIGSD

YEP

I remember when we first hit this rank and Alex and I were like "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MARUKI....."

just the deep groan of two women who know that Persona bullshit

just. those words ringing in ren's ears as he stands in the palace with sumire being carried away and akechi screaming behind him and everything else is just. so far

because he did this. he did this. if he hadn't been so trusting maruki never would have figured it out.

god meanwhile futaba's rank 5 levels me everytime

just. she and mishima are such a fucking disaster. mishima says kek. i can't live like this

FUTABA ALSO SAYS KEK

it is awful

i just. god. i forgot she also says kek. i'm on fire

god ok so we're in the leadup to the school festival and vanessa brought up "i wonder how akechi would have pinned them down if not for winning the popularity contest"

and i was just sitting here like...... did he stuff the ballotbox

like logically this was a result of like, his popularity riding on the reverse that of the phantom thieves and all that but it's so fucking funny

its also like, his TV interviews were a direct call to invite them to talk to him, the school festival thing just. worked out that way

also dang im crushing social links left and right but unfortch im coming down to having like. none at night and all during the day HJSKLGAS

oh man the school festival is tomorrow tho so i can watch akechi eat garbage on the spicy takoyaki again

FUCK I FORGOT THE 24TH WAS HONEY IM HOME--

its funny how ren and akechi could learn something about each other here if they weren't both disassociating at the speed of sound

LMAO

jumpscare honey im home

I JUST. FORGOT THE FUCKING DATE HAHJKLSSDA

honestly it had me thinking about how i met robbie daymond in 2018 and how i would need to approach him differently now and be like you, motherfucker--

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE LMAAAO

he loves akechi so much

LIKE I DIDNT EVEN MEAN TO MEET HIM THEN IT WAS CRITROLE BS

BUT NOW--

BUT NOW!!!

Akechi wearing a groucho mask as he stuffs the ballot box with messages of "that detective is soooo cool" and "I hope Akechi-kun is our guest!" and "where was Akira Kurusu on October 11th" and "If I were a PT I would give it all up to kiss that detective!"

god 10/26 is like, the worst day of ren's fucking life thus far

not only does he now think the dude he likes was just hanging out with him to doom all of his friends, everything with sojiro and futaba happens, like. bro

this day is literally just

ren: this is the worst day of my life
akechi: this is the worst day of your life... so far

LMAO

laughing bc i remember starting sae's palace and getting mad akechi was a higher level than the rest of us

now we're starting at 51 and he's at 45 like a little baby

anyway now i get to steal akechi's necktie for the third time

the THIRD necktie!!! Alex is out here hunting them for sport

oh shit the fishing pond points ARE cumulative for the award over multiple playthroughs, sick

so that's a head start on that one