goro is a good boy

he is

First off, me and pure-anon will ACTUALLY kill you.

Secondly, there's most to just roleplaying, the site goes through many phases across several days.

Third, PURE, WHERE ARE YOU

I said most to when I meant more than... I-Ignore that, I just woke up.

Delete your account

go back to sleep hibuki mioda

I'll rest when Akechi is dead

go to sleep permanently mona

@Hibiki that's reassuring

pure anon? is this some sort of code for "PREP THE ROCKET LAUNCHERS OP'S ABOUT TO MEET THEIR MAKER"?

akechi died in the boat
dont worry

Hope you're ready OP.

RING THE STRIPED SOCKS ALARM, WE'VE GOT AN AKECHI APOLOGIST OVER HERE.

I disagree with my Pancake Brethren

But RP is such a Meme how can you dislike it?

*readies riot shield* it's so odd that people play at being the characters when they say such unrealistic things. Granted, Persona's not exactly a realistic game, but I think that if you can't hear the character's voice in your head saying something and other characters reacting to it, you shouldn't bother posting it. (Not gonna name names; picking a username to piss people off and making some teenager cry all over their body pillow are different.)

He murdered people.

he didn't know there was a way to change hearts until the PT showed up. And by then it's implied that papa shido would've had him killed if he backed out of their deal (which originally involved rampages, not mental shutdowns)

PURE-ANON PLEASE HELP WE'VE GOT SOMEONE MAKING EXCUSES FOR AKECHI AGAIN

Oh god, an Akechi sympathizer making fun of others. What a sublims individual....

CAN'T PURIFY THIS (A)POLOGIST

*sublime

we've got clowns getting gorowned in here

Honestly gorodidnothingwrong, I question your intelligence.
You do nothing but post complete trash tier posts, not even worthy of being called shitposts, just for the attention.
You are either the co-worker that gets picked up with a red stapler, or you are that child that was abused so badly that you have to come onto an anonymous forum, and do everything you can for attention.
You try to pull our attention becuase it's the only thing you manage to do successfully in life, as you seem to not be capable of much else, and considering the fact you have two accounts to post with, tells me that you have such a high level of ADHD, you probably forget you are taking a piss midway through.
Your low quality posting also tells me that your intellectual though process is so goddamn low, that you unironically think that my "non-existent" testicles actually sprout from above my heel, ignoring the fact that the bone in my ankle is not actually for reproductive means.
The only joy you probably have in your life right now is some people acknowledging your trash tier posting, and your false ego gets inflated every tie a poster ignorantly claims that you are a god tier shitposter, without actually knowing what god tier shit posting was.

Come back to me later when both of your testicles drop, you have a few more years on you, and you experience the world outside of the basement you dwell in. Soon you will learn that mother's hotpocks (assuming you even know what the love of a mother even is) is not sufficient to survive on, and for the love of god, it's not called a fedora.

Figures that would happen eventually.

Surprised it didn't already tbh

I'm wheezing this is better than I could've imagined-- Could @imtherealklib be the rumoured purifier?!

Ah, but I do need to correct a few things- I wear a trilby, not a fedora, and I have my own suite of rooms thank you very much. I don't actually have another account. Not sure whose alt you think I am.. And as everyone over the age of 12 knows, there is no god-tier shitposting. They're called shitposts for a reason.

(/s on everything up to this point. for a testicleless- I know, crazy, there's a female on the internet- hotpockless shut-in this is entertainment. I love Goro and acknowledge that snuffing a couple of guys isn't okay, but he's simply the best character to use if you want to start a fight with Persona fans.)

Damn, a female Akechi sympathizer. Truly, this is Adachi part 2

relax Gorodieverythingwrong

Kalib just used a copypasta.

and no, the "purifier" their username is literally pure-anon

Ah, please don't spoil anything about Adachi. I'm trying to stay unspoiled on P4

I've been bamboozled...!

welp time to scrap this attempt and try somewhere else

gdnw out

Say whatever you want but we all know you only like him because he's a damaged pretty boy light yagami clone :^)

Tbf, good response.

@pixie actually, I think she likes because either
A) She thinks he's cute
B) He's a celebrity

Man like I’m too old and gay to be blabbering about shit on the internet but while I loved persona 5 a FUCKIN lot I really feel like Akechi’s death was handled terribly. Well, not his actual death, but what came after.

Like the player - the player is given full opportunity to be nice to him, to genuinely respond to him as if they care about him even to the bitter end. You CAN be an ass to him, but you can also react favorably to him, every time. It’s implied/stated that Akechi seemed to truly want to be friends with the team, and with Joker, and Joker was allowed by the dialogue to be friendly in kind. Why would he just be forgotten after? They basically say “well that was sad and pretty much sucked” and move on.

No one asks the protag if he’s feeling ok about it. (Except maybe June in a short text after? I can’t remember - but certainly nothing remotely substantial) No one mentions that it’s fucked up how he lived and died. There’s no funeral, there’s no commotion from his place of work (the only mention at all is Sae basically goes “well he’s still missing I guess” - they didn’t even have the decency to tell Sae how her former friend died? Wtf?) - he’s just up and forgotten.

I know the p5 kids seem to have some major issues talking to each other about things (which I usually see as a trait that can garner character development in them I guess) but they tend to at least somewhat supportive and try to make sure each other is ok. They ask if any of the others are ok every time something about their fucked up life comes up, but like.. never ask the protag “hey, you seemed to really want to be Akechi’s friend even after what he did to you, you clearly liked him to some degree, are you going to be ok?” Like this dude was a social link! A fully maxed one! And he doesn’t even get a damn funeral, or any sort of attempt to damage control his disappearance/death. He was a celebrity to people, and they just never even mention him again? Barely mention that he exists? There are some anons on the website who mention him and there are some random thought bubbles but none even mention he’s missing or anything.

Mind you - I think I may just be upset about this because Persona 3 is one of my favorite games. And when one of the characters dies in that game - he gets a funeral. His friends mourn him. His death is legitimately important to the character development of another character, and his spirit returns to give the player a final well wishing when battling the final boss. The tone of 3 is different, yes - but I would have liked the protag of 5 to at least be able to -act- like Akechi’s death had any impact on his personality or his character. Or for any of the others to have had any change because of it.

I just felt it was really weird. The death was emotional, I cried a lot. But ultimately it had a very weak impact on the plot other than to stop Akechi from being a villain - which could have been achieved by adding him back to the team, having him disappear and promise to turn himself in, or for him to lose his memory or really anything. The fact the player -can’t- save him just feels strange to me, strange to the theme of the game - that shitty adults have been hurting children and the world, and that these children hurt each other as a result of their abuse, but when they form a support group they can rise above that and change the world.

The fact that the Phantom Thieves failed to help this suffering, angry, jaded person - someone who acted like a child and threw a tantrum out of jealousy and anger and as response to the way he’d been used - he became a victim without retribution. That he existed as a pawn of Yaldabaoth and yet the Trickster could not break him free from his chains and take him to battle the force which had enslaved them both made the ending feel a bit empty. The Trickster’s fate was to defy the biased game he’d been forced into; clearly Akechi and Akira were meant to kill each other, one to be the victor, as part of the Game, and he failed to defy that fate. Something about that just feels wrong to me.

Akechi is surely not innocent; but he is not mercilessly evil. He is ill and he’s suffered abuse, and he has been manipulated. He cannot take back the things he had done, but what better change of heart than to transform a killer born from a twisted, abused person who exacted fear onto the masses into a teenager who had a circle of those who could support him and help him face himself and the fate he’d been so unfairly sewn? What better heart to steal and change than that of a perpetrator of terrible crimes into someone seeking to fight that fate so that no one else ever has to suffer the same way?

i've been summoned!!

let me just point out that akechi approached shido with the concept of making people go psychotic!! the only way he could have done that, is if he had tested his power on someone else and observed the results!!

which means he destroyed someone's psyche and saw it as a tool to be used and did not care about how it affected the life of the affected person, or the lives that person could endanger!!

so he totally did something wrong!!

Had he done this and died at the end to assist in the toppling of fate - or after it was all over turn himself in - or in some other way accept punishment for his actions in the end - that would have made more sense and felt more natural. “He was a twisted person whose heart changed and who was able to die to help alter the fate of humanity and to protect those he once had damned and hunted” would have been way better than “he was a twisted person whose heart changed too late and who was killed before his changed heart could battle against the fate it had been dealt”.

Hypotheticals, I suppose. Nothing which ever will change; what’s done is done. And perhaps I simply like him too much, perhaps I shouldn’t sympathize with him. But I do; I cannot ignore those characters who do terrible things and suffer as a result of emotional pain, mental illness, manipulation, and misguided action, because I like to think some part of everyone can be redeemed even if they’ve done terrible things. Perhaps because I can relate to that desire to redeem oneself, or the guilt and suffering characters like this endure.

I guess ultimately: Goro Akechi deserved better. At the very least, he deserved a better end. He was built up and built up - only for him to be forgotten once his time came and went. And while perhaps one could argue he got his just desserts in the way he died - I feel his character, and the writing surrounding how he affected the plot and the theme of the game - fell short. Persona 5 is still an excellent game and I love it dearly. I just wish Akechi could have had some redemption, or at least… a funeral, or some final recognition of what he’d meant to the protagonist or the story. I wish his death had meant more than the way it felt like it was just the removal of a villain from the conflict at hand.

But I guess I’ll just have to fight the chains of fate myself and keep him alive and help him heal in my heart.

Boom.

Anonihilated.

[refreshes page once, Kotone is everywhere, Kotone must be feared]

If all your relationships are built on lies and fabricstions then nobody is going to miss you when you're gone and it blows up; fame is fleeting, as is demonstrated over the course of the game with how fast the turnaround on the thieves is, and ultimately it's not surprising for Goro to end up as a footnote from the perspective of everyone but the thieves and Shido's cronies. Now as for why he got killed off right at the climax of his character arc when he would have turned on Shid-*FARTING NOISES*

Akechi is a respectible man

I hope P5C has an Akechi side story,where you can only play as Akechi and follow his backstory

Also nice one Kotone!

honestly, that would be pretty cool. Also maybe, as mentioned, making him somewhat savable.

Akechi was unlikable from the start, nyu.

Zero redeeming qualities, nyu.

See the weird Broccoli gets it

Akechi had some good qualities. I mean, I can't really think of any from the top of my head, but he must've had some good qualities.

Yeah, i've been thinking about it for the past few minutes and I've come to the conclusion that Akechi was a piece of dick shit.

See I didn't need to take time to think to figure that out

Can we just get DLC to give us his Personae and let the fucker rot?

would pay large amounts of cash for "Watch Akechi Die On Screen Thereby Removing Any Chance To Put Him In A Spin-Off" DLC

Holy shit people make longer posts here then all my book reports combined