Commission

Commission

Pantom Thief Violet with a suit inspired more in Cendrillon and less in Joker. Commission for flightofarobyn on twitter. Unmasked and masked version

maruki analysis (??) thingy i made bc i’m horribly sick & have nothing else to do

he has a strange..selfless selfishness to him where like. he genuinely Does want to help ppl but his reality is something only he wants. even tho he frames it as better for humanity he’s the one who wants to live in a world where ppl can simply just forget their pasts, he’s the one who wants to live in blissful ignorance. he’s constantly running from his past but in doing so he only ends up hurting himself & those around him

even when akira does accept his reality he’s still miserable. he could’ve easily used his powers to live the life he wanted to w/ rumi but no, instead he chooses to make a world where he flat out doesn’t exist. rumi, akira, nobody remembers him, everyone else gets to live happily meanwhile he’s left to carry the world of his shoulders. i feel he just..doesn’t think he deserves to be happy

we don’t know anything about his backstories but honestly, i think he was depressed & had bad self worth issues even before everything. he cares very little for himself like as shown in his diary entry where he refers to himself as a “lowly researcher” and wonders if he’s even good enough for rumi, when he throws himself away to adam kadmon, & again where even in his perfect world there’s nothing for him

all in all, maruki is just an extremely sad person who’s only coping mechanism is running away

I know Strikers takes place about a year after P5 but... The designers definitely missed some opportunities with the PTs' character designs. That and Yusuke growing his hair out is one of my favorite HCs!

Phantom Thief Akane notes!

Self-explanatory! Shall we start?

Persona ideas:

-Cosette (Also from Les Misérables and Jean Valjean's adoptive daughter, self-explanatory there).

-Esmeralda (Hunchback of Notre Dame, also by Victor Hugo.), third tier would be Esmeralda's birth name Agnès but that might be confusing since that's a name shared with Makoto's third tier so not sure. Element would be fire. Just feel like the character fits Akane's fiery personality pretty well (regardless of whether you're familiar with the book or Disney version) and Zenkichi's Persona was also from a Victor Hugo novel so it would be some fun theming with the two.

-Hua Mulan (pretty sure we all know that one), Mulan's own story would probably be something Akane would relate to a bit after her change of heart (Mulan having disguised herself as a man to take her father's place in the military as a way to protect him (as he is of old age)). It would maybe symbolize her desire to protect Zenkichi now after he did so much to protect her. Now it's her turn. The element for this Persona would probably be either Bless or Nuke (Or Ice as a reference to Mulan starting an avalanche in the Disney film). Though going with this, it would be tough to figure out the second and third tiers for her.

-The initial concept I have right now is: Esmeralda -> Hua Mulan -> Agnès but again, not quite sure.

Design:

-The ideas I do have are somewhere along the lines of maybe being inspired by old fashioned fencing outfits or taking inspiration from one of Asami Sato's outfits from The Legend of Korra (namely her fighting outfit).

Codename: -My bf came up with the perfect Codename for her: Lupine! To add a Wolf theming with Zenkichi and apparently there is a flower under that name too and the meaning fits Akane to a T!

-Plus, the "Lupin" part of the name would be a cute reference to Joker since his Persona is based on Arsene Lupin. Especially if we go with the HC of Zenkichi adopting Joker! Weapons:

-This is tough since I DOUBT Zenkichi would let her use a gun. I imagined her melee weapon being a type of rapier but I'm not sure.

-A Twitter mutual also suggested a fan, sword, sai, or a form of a cognitive weapon.

Show em what you’re capable of~

these shoes don’t fit me