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stop pissing off your girlfriends minato

minato should've gotten stabbed week 0 but four had to finish the deed.....

anyways!!! aside from the whole headband thing... minato really appreciated shess for his patience, especially for someone like him who needs to take his time with things and if he goes off on a non sequitur, shess usually asks him for clarification instead of just going "okay, sure" and moving on. 100 comment thread dealing with minato's charades without so much as a complain? patience of a saint. the fact that shess just let him keep trying to explain without getting angry or frustrated and telling him to just write what he means down, is something minato appreciated a lot bc to him, at least, the charades were part of making things fun. and shess was always accommodating like that, letting him light his birthday candles with lava and whatever... it was just really nice knowing somebody with a calm and laid back pace like his, compared to many of the others here

minato did his best

did he??? honestly, yeah he did, but it's "his best" that's questionable here

he also honestly thought emma was one of the best people here, even though he would go around telling people "yeah, emma hates me" bc she was just always so incredibly frustrated around him haha but she was always checking up on him and trying to get him to realize that sometimes people are assholes, that his opinion and wants are just as valid as anybody else's, to try to be more concerned and thoughtful about things, etc. a lot of people tried to get minato to take better care of his health and were satisfied with focusing on just that, but he felt that emma was more concerned about his life in general so he could be more reliable and competent, sort of like... the sort of life lessons a parent would sit down with their child to talk about, and he'd lost his parents too young to have that, so he sort of equated emma with what his parents might have been like and that's why she's his boggart, bc his boggarts shifted between people whose deaths he felt responsible for and that was futaba, ryoji, and his parents when he was little and felt like he should've died with them AND SORRY THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT TO SAY, BC IT WAS JUST MINATO PROJECTING and that's why emma was his number one feared person, bc if he were to be around her any more than he needed to, he would be more attached and then if she dies he'll also want to die and he's just "haha let's not do that"

that picture is him this entire game

time is fake, i whisper into my hands as i tell myself as long as their last thread isn't over yet there's still time to reforge this friendship

but ahhhhhhh cinnabar hated him so much at the beginning it was really funny, minato's persistence paying off... but also i'm so glad that the turning point was cinnabar's leg falling and breaking minato's arm bc minato wasn't originally going to be as reckless in this game, but then i sat there and went "oh i can break his arm" and that realization was eye opening and the timing of the war was perfect for him to just keep destroying himself and never stopping. thanks, sib.
but even cinnabar was so snappy at him, the kindness behind their words was always so apparent to minato, bc they were always worried about their poison ruining things or killing people and saying how much they hated it and minato tried so hard to find a way to show them that no, it's fine. i think a lot of minato's friendships were ones where the other person was a friendly person by default and so friendship was really easy and he didn't have to put a lot of effort into them, but with cinnabar it's like those social links where you've got to talk to the person 2-3 times on separate days and figure out what they like and bring an item to them and also max out some stat before they'll even talk to you. out of the entire game, minato was more serious about and put forth the most effort into becoming friends with cinnabar and since it was the cr that he actually actively pursued for once instead of people coming to him, it meant a lot more. and it hurt a lot more when things fell apart— like he'd been telling people all game that he doesn't really feel emotions and it's all just sort of blunted so he doesn't feel them or care much about them, but destroying his friendship with cinnabar made him cry and he was just "oh. i can't continue being like this"
he wants to see cinnabar happy!!!!! bc they said they wanted to be friends once upon a time and they gave him gifts and he'd never gotten gifts before since he never completed any social links lmao he also wanted to show cinnabar fireworks bc he assumed they'd never seen it before, and for minato, what he loves above all else is novel, unforgettable experiences, and he wanted cinnabar to have those too

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globs - 2019-08-03 23:48 (UTC) - Expand

is minato ok

no

minato always considered north a very very practical person and he liked that A LOT about her, how she can be reasonable about things and not be clouded by human traditions that don't make sense anyways. like how burying possessions with the dead is stupid when it should be shared among people who are actually alive to use them... minato was also "hell yeah humans can be stupid sometimes" lmao
for a lot of the game, minato was so resistant to the idea that sometimes people are shitty and kill for no reason, and that sometimes people will stab you in the back even if you consider them friends, and they're both harsh realities that he refuses to consider but could see the truth in it in the end, and it's bc of these thing that minato believed that north would do what needs to be done to get rid of the corruption and get them all out of this situation, bc she isn't blinded by optimism like minato is

and then he sent her his shopping list of things to send over and she actually pulled through instead of ignoring it or (most importantly) asking him why before doing it, and that sealed the deal for minato believing she was the best choice to be the last person standing, bc north is somebody who gets things done. minato voted north bc she got him gifts and he is biased

hi card

me, knowing what shirasu is like, and having minato love and trust him 100%,

SHIRASU WAS ALWAYS GOOD TO HIM AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS he brought minato food and taught him how to cook and therefore minato could see no wrong with him. akane liked him? she told minato as such and minato nodded and went "therefore he must be a good person"
but he was always really calm and kind and accommodating, and minato asserts that it doesn't matter if a person acts differently around different people bc that's just how people are, so the shirasu that he sees is just as real as the shady shirasu he keeps to himself. he wishes they could've spent more time together so he could learn more about him, bc what he hears about him from other people contrasts so much with what he sees of shirasu, and that's sort of why he thought kohryu would've been a good fit for shirasu's persona, bc it's very versatile and in minato's mind, shirasu is very fluid like that too

but the one thing that minato liked about shirasu above all else, is that he leaves bones and fish scales in on his fish, like there was one time when kara asked why he doesn't remove them and shirasu said something like "you can do that yourself, can't you?" and that was the moment minato went "yes, i will follow him to the ends of the earth"

closes eyes

for both tsuru and namine pls

minato forgetting who both your characters are was sad and funny and then cinnabar forgot him and i sat there and whispered to myself "this is karma........"

he forgot tsurumaru bc it'd been two months since he'd seen him, but the reason why he connected him with bob-chan was bc minato was the one who showed him the thing where you move a chicken around but their head stays perfectly in place and tsuru was so absolutely delighted— and it was that reaction that struck minato bc that's exactly the reaction he loves seeing and invoking in other people, that wide-eyed excitement. and he sort of carried that with him for a while, and felt very comfortable being here in who knows where, bc he could hold onto the belief that he's still capable of making people smile.
and then two months passed. and minato felt real bad about forgetting a person and only remembering the memory, bc he's supposed to care more about people, but it felt bad!! so he tried really desperately to make it up to tsuru by trying to think of fun things to do, but he wasn't very successful in that. for his wish at the end, the most he could do was ask that tsuru's somehow able to see polar bears, bc he's sure that tsuru would be delighted by them and that's the best minato could give him

namine....................... touches the ground, every time they talked i wanted minato to tell her just how much she means to him, she really was his best friend in the game bc she'd always stayed by his side and does stupid reckless things with him and she never blamed him for any of it. it was sort of like seeing himself, in a way, bc he was always the person who would agree to do whatever the other person wanted and just being there made them feel appreciated and that's what he felt too, the fact that she would always check up on him and worry about him and she just always looked so sad all the time that seeing her smile would always lift his heart bc namine deserves happiness!! he always felt accepted for who he is, flaws and all, and a lot of what they talked about really resonated with him bc when their promise of "i'll always be by your side" changed to "i'll always keep you in my heart" it was him coming to terms with the fact that he'll most likely be going back home alone in the end, but at the same time, he won't ever feel alone bc the bonds he made here are ones that will always be with him and give him strength. being around namine made him feel loved, and it was a very warm, very novel feeling, and there was a tag somewhere that i can't remember where now but it was something about minato thinking that he'd never really felt happiness in his life, but being with namine, he thinks that's what happiness must be, just being around somebody you like and being comfortable around them and they don't even have to do or say anything, just being together makes him happy. actually, i think it might have been amnesiac minato who first said that he loved her, bc all he has to go on is who namine is as a person, not any of the memories he had of her, and zia is a coward who won't post to the tl;cr meme but there's so much that minato and axel talked about memories and keeping people in their hearts bc the brain might forget but the heart does not, and minato's heart did not forget namine even if he had no clue who she was. minato loved a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons but this is probably like... the only romantic love lmfao

MINATO

futaba aaaaaaaaaaaaa minato spent so long after her death feeling terrible bc he volunteered to kill her, to the point where she became part of his boggart bc him being responsible for people's deaths is what shakes him the most. but he volunteered to execute futaba bc he believed otherwise lune would use a sword on her and he absolutely did not want her death to be traumatizing. like, it might've been a cop-out to kill her while distracted, but that's what he decided to do in the end, he wanted her last moments to be the excitement of solving a puzzle box and finding a heart item inside, bc he wanted to draw out the "real" futaba and not the corrupted one, and he thinks he was able to achieve that. he wanted to give her a comfortable, painless death, one ending in sleep, and he tried really hard to smile for her in the end so that it was the last thing that she saw.

all he knew before her death was the suspicion that she was a persona user and just that knowledge alone is like "there's somebody here who gets it" and he immediately felt comfortable with her and the fact that she would hop right into rpg stuff with him was also very comfortable. but getting to know her after joining the graveyard, it was like meeting up with a very old friend he quickly becomes very fond of bc she was just so excited and she was smiling and laughing and wanting to do things with him, and it dissolved the fear that he'd been carrying around that she would hate him forever and never forgive him for killing her, so it was a huge weight off his shoulders and getting to see futaba being happy was the best thing to come out of being in the graveyard

PURSUE NAMINE INSTEAD OF HISOKA, YOU MORON

HE CAN PURSUE NAMINE AND THE CLOWN AT THE SAME TIME

but anyways...... i want to just gesture at every other conversation that minato and four have haha she really was a driving force for a lot of his growth, but she did it in such a pushy way that minato was constantly resistant to it. but he also understood that she nags bc she cares, bc nobody would put forward so much time and energy into something they didn't care about, when they could so easily just give up on him and ignore him and that's honestly what he expected everybody in the game to do, give up on him and leave him be. but four never did that and he was always uncertain about why, and four was probably the one person minato had the most trouble getting a read on, bc he would say something nice and she would smile, then he would say something nice(?) and she would get pissed off, and it happens so quickly and he never quite figured out why. he thinks maybe she hated him bc he's so self-destructive that people come to worry about him and he spurns their care, when on other other hand four is out there doing her best and people aren't all gathering around her. and all those times she felt like she could never really understand him, it was exactly the same on his side, so the reason why she was so high on his people he's scared of list is because he doesn't know how to be around her (besides "make an effort" but he's not going to do that) because four is just so cynical that she tends to not believe any of his sweet talk, and she was always very strict towards him, which he understands and realizes is the only way to get him to do things bc if he's coddled, he will take advantage of that and do nothing.

and then she killed him

and he went "oh"

and it was really only then that he started to get it. he understood that the way he acts— like it's nobody's business but his own— endears him to no one and can be offensive enough to drive somebody to kill him. he's used to being ignored, but actively hated? wow! and he immediately justifies it in his mind that four is right to kill him, not only because of what he's like but for what he could be like, a true neutral who's a double edged sword in terms of wanting to save everyone and wanting to kill everyone. it was sort of like facing his canonpoint again, facing inevitable death and it was right then when the shit blew up that he realized that he wanted to live, even if he died half a second later. but it was a life-changing moment regardless! so the reason why minato holds four in such high regard despite what she did is because she killed him haha he trusted her to be objective and prioritize the general good above all else bc she was a ruler and that's what rulers do. and killing him because she felt he was the most dangerous person there and she's not wrong, if he had been chosen for corruption, he would have taken as many people as he could down with him with no remorse because he would have been fully entrenched from the bad end "death as a salvation" mindset and by killing him, four saved him, and is basically the reason he leaves the game as good end minato

the love he has for four is largely appreciative, the sort of love that edges upon reverence, because he knows he can't change her life as much as she's changed his, but he tries anyways bc in his mind, four had never done any wrong. he wants her to feel loved and appreciated bc he loves and appreciates her and doens't know how to get that across besides repeating it every chance he gets, and he absolutely does not want her to ever feel alone and that nobody will stand beside her.

which is also funny bc i remember one of their initial conversations was about making a pact where they would tell each other anything they learned plot-wise and then minato proceeded to never tell her anything bc he never learned anything about the plot until after he was dead

BUT ANYWAYS THANKS ARA FOR FINALLY KILLING ME WITH FOUR AND MINATO I CAN FINALLY REST IN PEACE AAAAAAAAAA I LOVE YOU thank you for bringing up this game to me again so i could immediately go "i want to play minato" laughs

minato.......

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