you can’t have your cake and eat it to guys This is so contradictory lmao akechi fans are so desperate to look rational that they don’t even realize they have no argument or consistent beliefs. Me, rolling over onto my stomach so the back of my legs will be just as tan as the front: people who fixate on punishing a 17 year old boy for falling victim to forces far outside his control are boring and aren’t welcome in this yard. None of this absolves Akechi of his guilt and he should still face justice for what he did. You: He still approached Shido with the offer of “psychotic breakdowns” in the first place. Only Shido had access to Wakaba’s research at the time, so who’s to say that Akechi even knew that killing Wakaba’s shadow would kill the woman herself? Once it happened, he’d be trapped with the threat of being accused of murder. You could easily make the argument that the first victim of a mental shutdown was Wakaba Isshiki since she died right when the shutdowns first began. Me, sitting outside on an old quilt in a pair of cutoff jean shorts, a bikini top and aviator sunglasses, basking in the sun, drinking sweet tea and listening to Nujabes on my phone while birds sing around us in trees swaying gently in the summer wind: there’s nothing in Persona 5 that indicates that Goro Akechi’s intent was to kill people from the start and in fact most in-game evidence points to Shido and his conspirators introducing murder into the mix. if you’re going to ship abuse, and then also say the character is mentally ill or gay, and ignore the long history of media making gay and mentally ill people always abusive, then you need to reflect upon the reality of your ships and what you’re putting out there for consumption.

the word abuse is serious and characters who do that should be taken seriously. its not something to downplay by calling them problematic or trash. liking a character who’s an abuser is serious. but you need to admit the reality of what you like, and understand that other people will react. don’t look down on healthy ships just because the people shipping them want a break from abusive dynamics.Ĭontrary to the same arguments stans use, we get that exploring something in fiction is not endorsing it. look at the toxic ideas on relationships you’re contributing to. fandom thinks relationships aren’t imbalanced when one person does all the emotional heavy lifting and the other just remains trash, but its okay because they want each other. why do you ship akira with him, is it just because its hot to see akira abused? why would akira even like him enough for a relationship, looks don’t make up for an awful toxic personality. if you can easily see a character raping or abusing another character in fanwork and have that be in character, i am going to treat that character as an abuser. If akechi would abuse akira in a relationship, he is an abuser. i see them reiterated by akeshu shippers. every toxic message usually aimed at girls in a patriarchal society.

their excuses for it are pure abuse culture - its so hot to see two boys destroy each other, akira likes akechi because of his looks. akechi has all the traits of one and its why i am very wary of people shipping him. I know most fans of male characters are used to thinking abuse is something normal, but its very serious.

people trash on ryuji for being loud and having a temper, but the game makes it obvious that he is not an abuser and would never be one. In real life i would say, anyone can be an abuser, but in fiction we know more about characters and can easily see some as abusers more than others. There are very strong reasons to consider a character like goro akechi as an abuser, or at least a potential one if he got close enough to anyone

Goro akechi fictional character