It’s extremely important that you listen to this video by averagedesignedwood with the sound on
incredible video and also PSA: art competition for anyone interested
day 7 .. shuake. i don't think the explanation is needed ... ... 5 seconds of somber winter ambience and heartache
We know the world is in chaos rn but Peter Piper Cream Soda and I hope you have a good day today :)
sorry if this is half assed its 1am and i cant sleep so im yapping and idk if im cooking or not
thinking abt the parallels between the non-joker members of the shujin and royal trios (joker being excluded because. well. he’s in both).
ann and sumire are both driven by intense devotion to someone they care about. ryuji and akechi are both significantly driven by anger at the people responsible for their abuse and suffering.
the difference is in how they were able to cope with those feelings.
ann, feeling guilt and grief over not being able to do more for shiho, committed herself to strengthening her heart and will, hoping to serve as a beacon of hope that would give shiho - and, particularly postcanon, as exemplified in strikers - other people strength in turn. ann was able to cope by holding onto and sharing her truest self, but sumire wasn’t so fortunate. falling into grief and self-blame, she became convinced that the only way to move forward was to become somebody else. she thought that the person she was wasn’t worth being.
ryuji’s anger boiled over when he (rightfully) lashed out at kamoshida, and he struggled with that anger for a long time. it had nowhere to go, because he’d already found out firsthand that standing up for himself and others would be useless. when he awakened his persona, the nascent phantom thieves gave him an outlet in the form of a noble cause. akechi never got that chance. there was no one to fight for him, and he had no one to fight for but himself and his mother’s memory. he channeled his anger into a plan, and we all know what followed after that. (side note: their parental situations are noticeably similar. both of them display immense devotion to their mothers, who were abandoned by their fathers. thats another post though)
ann and ryuji found solidarity in the phantom thieves. sumire and akechi were not so fortunate. instead of the mutual support of young people like them, they found maruki and shido. (VERY different situations. but stay with me.) it didn’t end well for either of them. shido exploited akechi’s anger to mold him into a weapon. and while maruki had much better intentions for sumire than shido had for akechi, he was ultimately responsible for sumire being molded into “kasumi”. they both became manifestations of the adults ideals.
the phantom thieves gave ann and ryuji what they needed. akechi and sumire thought they knew what they wanted, and the adults they turned to used it to turn them into hollow husks of themselves.
i just Know jokah's room is cold as fuck we all know this... we needed to see him wearing leg warmers in his legs AND arms.
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