madimpossibledreamer

wait.  majima did gold farming?  that's not...good, but what game?

dreadxcollection shatter has a dark city vibe to it

everyone out here having shipping wars and console wars and I'm like...
HERO SYSTEM

as terrible as Detroit: Become Human was as a civil rights metaphor it works so well as a biblical metaphor where angels start out having to obey every command and end up getting the Free Will virus

(this game is fun but hard)

You can be age 10 to 99

16, 18, 14

Bonus 8

…okay, I decided to ask about ‘when a heart is broken’ and I am not disappointed by how odd the resulting dialogue is.

EPIC MUSIC

I mean, I still don’t really get it, but.  At least it was simple and easy to follow.

Ordinary?

…excuse you, wanna run that by me again?  “back to?”

…brushed hair has nothing to do with getting there safely.  I mean, it’s like a car.  You wash it, you’re definitely going to have it rained on, right?

…well, we’ve got to get the blood crystals, not just kill the lineage types, or nothing will happen.  It’ll just be an endless cycle of killing.

…Yes.  How did you know I was a gamer.  Did Riu mention it?

…”Fools and blunt scissors can be useful if you use them right.”  Well.  Blunt is correct.

Wait what I can just change my party like…holy guac.

C’mon dice

Different slot because I might’ve messed everything up.

Did you just say fundametals?  Because we’re at the mausoleum of metal?

One might ask where all these strangers keep coming from.

There is so much to learn eeeeh

Woah there is automove!!

…I got boyf killed.  Well, potential boyf.

….uh, well, what.  Butterfly teleport. What.

Oh man dwarf you have, like, 900 items on sale.

I’m having a ton of fun but also, seriously, how much stuff is there to learn???

Investigating…there is a wall (what do you see?  A wallllll)

Uh….The girls can be pervs too.  Lovely.

Actually, it’d be interesting if Kanami was Yosuke’s ex.  (in Arcana Life.  Though the ages might get a bit weird with that.  More timelines.)

Uh.  It’s the Elder Fluting from before.

Please don’t call them babies, Ted.  It’s creepy.

I was gonna say Yosuke made it through a portal unscathed for once.  Nope.

Guaranteed??  Yu, don’t…

Chie.  I get that you don’t like ghosts, but this is kinda important.

…Yosuke.

Yosuke, you’re VERY cute.

I’d almost have said the producer was the culprit, but.

Uh.  While you’re…bath?

…Never change, Yukiko.

Yes you can.

…Maybe…she has to save herself?

It’s like in the liquor store.

Well, we’re…pros, I guess, but we’re rarely serious, so.  I don’t think we can actually note that.

I think you’re right, Yosuke.

Tha—t’s actually normal, Tamami.

Hi.  Um.  Thanks?  Unless….Rise’s getting cut off was weird.  What was that.  I have a bad feeling.

…Yes.  I thought we got this.  Shadows are a part of people’s brains.  Likes & dislikes?  Yeah.

…D’ya feel better?

Rise-another female protag.  (Hey, she gets to choose dialogue.  Persona series that’s a protag only thing.)

Obviously, the ones who watch the video.

I’m half convinced that it’s Teddie who really likes the nurses.

What d’ya mean by ‘bully’??

Nobody wants the real you?  That’s so rude!

Of course, it’d make sense to have Ted & Rise on different teams so communication can’t be cut off.  (…Does Teddie’s Sta—er.  Too much JJBA recently.  Persona.  Does it have communication?  I guess I was assuming, because they’re kind of the same type, but I don’t know if he’s used it or not…then again, his closest analogue is Mitsuru & she definitely had long-range communication, so maybe?)

Losing our Shadows à Apathy Syndrome actually makes sense.

Yuri is the AD.  Everyone is Yuri.

Don’t mess w/ Dojima.

Dance instructor gets distracted by attraction to Dojima.  Seconds later, redeems himself.

You’re as oblivious as your nephew.

Chie-4^th 0 misses (after Yosuke, Yu, Nanako)

I think you lack the elementary school capability of distinguishing between simple feelings.

Old maid?  That’s not a descriptor for either of you.

…Kanami, I guess, another protag.

…This ain’t a comedy performance.

Yellow eyes?

You play as the culprit?? (not quite.)

Go Yosuke deduction!

The thing is, I thought Yu/Souji taught Yukiko to at least not be deadly in cooking?!?!?

*Exchange glances* GROUP HUG!!

(I cling to my ‘Yosuke played dancing games & is an expert’ headcanon)

Never thought I’d hear Yu in a panic to cover up.

He’s also one of the only ones in our group with this little thing called common sense.  The rest of us are smart, but, y’know, sometimes we miss the obvious.

Dojima’s like ‘Nanako, help me out here’

“I hope we’ll hang out with each other at Junes again sometime.”  Nanako.  Nanako.  You precious awesome of win.

Previously: Buffy - Death, Xander - The Magician, Willow - Priestess, and Giles - Hierophant.

I’m also fairly certain story-wise Tower is a very fitting one for Faith, as well as personality wise.  People generally look at Death, the card I chose for Buffy, and think that’s the ‘bad omen everything’s going wrong’ one.  (Also another factor I forgot to mention in the first post is that the Sunnydale Herald has the Persona Death card in their banner, so that’s even more fitting.)

Just as Faith is written to be Buffy’s ‘dark shadow’, so too can you see Tower as the ‘dark shadow’ of Death, the card that those who are more familiar with the two know is the problem one.

Tower meanings generally involve destruction-self-destruction, destructive behavior, it’s pretty much all the same.

It’s easy to see Tower characters as deserving the doom of their own making, because they’re arrogant and generally any harm that occurs is of their own making, because they’re too proud to ask for help, because their own faults and bad decisions are usually what leads to their downfall.

What can be easy to miss is that it’s easy to downplay your own responsibility and influence.  Sure, they’re the ones that decided to get drunk and throw themselves in the water, and would swear at anyone who tried to help, but even then no one’s even attempting to help, because saving a life is more important than avoiding hurtful words (other than, eventually, Protagonist).  The isolation and refusing to rely on others isn’t solely a choice of their own making.  They desperately need help to avoid the downward spiral of their life but don’t know how to ask for help, don’t think they deserve it, or can’t conceive of a better life in a less hostile world.  They don’t have th coping mechanisms, support, or anything else they might need to save themselves on their own.

(Interestingly, she might have her own Social Link in the form of the Mayor, because there’s a very similar character, aside from the whole ‘actually becoming a devil’ thing, in the Persona 3 social link Tanaka.  [If you play Persona 4, you might be aware of him too.]  Who is the Devil Arcana.  Random stuff I found interesting.)

Also, even if I’m making this not Wesley’s Major Arcana it’s 100% one of his Minor Arcana, because it fits that man, especially in later seasons of Angel.

Sometimes Tower cards have non-Physical damage skills.  She might get an Almighty (Megido) attack but would probably focus heavily on Physical, particularly since HP is used as the fuel for Physical attacks in Megami Tensei (Megaten) games and it would feed into the whole self-destructive thing she has going on.

Previously: Buffy - Death and Xander - The Magician

Willow power-wise is unusual for this tarot card in canon, but personality-wise I’d say she’s spot on, or at least, within a certain time period, it’s spot on.

Priestess as shown in Persona is much closer to early Willow.  Specifically, they’re shown as patient, quiet, reserved, hardworking, intelligent, wise, and shy.  (Generally.  I would argue that Yukiko got to the point where she felt she’d been patient enough, but then, that’s probably also a good parallel, since you could probably say the same of Willow.)  Priestess is also symbolic of untapped potential, which, right up until the end of the show when Willow becomes the most powerful witch in the world, is accurate.

Her striving for good grades, unlike many other Priestess characters in Persona, doesn’t seem to be  due to the pressures of family members—unless it’s the “You’re the daughter of that researcher?” variety, but her mom doesn’t seem to take all that much interest in her life at all, and I don’t remember if we even saw her dad.

Also, there’s fun stuff here about her being a Wiccan priestess.  Symbolism is fun.

If she does get to be a party member (more than canon), then she’d probably be a bit different in terms of Priestess characters.  While she’d start with healing and support and probably one elemental spell (Garu/wind?  Because canonically she knows telekinesis spells), like Yukiko, who is a beast when it comes to Agi/fire, I don’t think she’d stop there, because she focused on destruction a lot near the end, especially as she started unlocking her confidence.  Willow would get recarm and level it up, though, since she also canonically learns resurrect powers.