I Think The Thing That Bothers Me The Most About The.... "resolution" Of Naoto's Character Arc In Persona

i think the thing that bothers me the most about the.... "resolution" of naoto's character arc in persona 4 is not simply that they "aren't really trans," but the way they weakly attempt to explain this. They really brush it away as "ohhh guys they really did want to be a woman this whole time!" when instead if you read it closely, it feels a lot more like them feeling like "i really do wish i was born a man, but that's just not the case, so i have to swallow my pride, accept my circumstances and deal with how it is." which... sucks, and is probably why they try to explain it away in a way that doesn't feel right or connected well.

we've seen stories be able to execute just fine the sort of plot where a character has to pretend to be a man for a certain reason and in the meantime is also struggling with gender roles, while still very likely being a cis woman, like mulan. the thing about naoto that's different is that being a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth ties heavily into their life... they connect it very emotionally to the characters in fiction that they looked up to, and i mean come on, the true feelings their shadow said in the TV really say it all... naoto is willing to go to extreme lengths to present as a man, permanently, and it's weird to think they'd have all these feelings and desires just simply because their working field is misogynistic and they just had to do it to get far in their field, or whatever.

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After watching the movie, I started to think about how Miguel didn't even looked at Mayday when she fell on him. One can assume it's because he's not in a good mood, but I started to think about what he lost.

I'm not very good at explaining it, so I hope the artwork talks for itself

It's been 2 weeks+ since the movie release, so at this point there's a lot more approach of that situation in a comedic way. It took me a lot of time to finally start this, and it feels like a bad timing since what's going on rn are memes about it more than anything, but well, I wanted to do it anyway

I started to fight this piece too much, so I'll just leave it at this point and call it finished, good or bad

yes, this was the artwork that made me open a poll about Miguel's ass... I'll share the version of it that didn't make it... at some point-

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moviesarefun1

4 months ago

You silly doggy!

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moviesarefun1

2 years ago

Alright I’ll bite. I want to know why ppl are writing smut for Miles, Gwen, and Hobie when they’re literally all minors??

Miles is 15. Gwen is 16. And Hobie is supposed to be Gwen’s age so he’s 16/17. I don’t understand how you’ll look at media revolving young characters and sexualize them that way, and some of y’all be grown ass adults doing this so that’s even worse. The only person you should be writing for is Miguel and even then y’all are going crazy with how you’re writing him and overdoing it, it’s insane. They’re amazing characters from an amazing story, why do y’all have to sexualize everything like damn.

If you have to age up a character to write smut for them, maybe you shouldn’t be writing period. But that’s just me because I have a fucking brain, so I’ll shut my mouth for now.

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moviesarefun1

1 year ago