Q&A Meme

[twelfthspark]

questions meme



- Leave a comment below with your name and the character(s) you play.
- Respond to others' top levels with questions. Questions about their characters, questions about their plans and things they want to play, questions about their fandoms, questions about what they had for lunch today, whatever.
- Answer the questions you receive.
- After your answer, ask a question back. Keep it up for as long as both parties feel like.

Comments

[appraiser]

throws whatever question I had in mind out the window after reading your response above;
Tell me about this fashion model AU that could have potentially been a thing? because I lost it thinking about it :3c

[furtherforward]

It's a terrible but hilarious thought. I mean, unless you have him modeling all of the REALLY WACKY you'd-only-see-this-on-the-runway things... I got the idea from Xander who plays Jade actually (specifically, Goth Model Midousuji Akira), but I just couldn't do it because that kind of seems like torture to people in this good city of Recollé.

The idea went kind of like this: young, impressionable Akira is complimented on his smile which happens in canon, except instead of talking about how it would look good on an athlete his mother just says it's really photogenic. However, uhhh... BIG GAP HERE because I never got far enough to think about it, but some way or another his photo is used for something... remarkable enough to kickstart this interest in modeling. Getting his picture taken, since his teeth are so great, I guess. In this way, his mother's pride in seeing a professional pic of Akira would get him to keep doing something that made her proud. Then Yowamushi Model happens whether we wanted it or not. Midousuji's hugely critical and manipulative in his modeling career and nobody likes him.

Needless to say, expecting to AU something like this while simply writing in his app that Midousji's a ~well-known model~ or whatever didn't make sense to me, being that he's obviously so Drop Dead Gorgeous. He'd be too much for anybody to handle. I constantly joke about it because it's so absurd.

AND FOR YOU: Man... Ryoji's AU backstory reads so well to me, even though I'm largely canonblind. Did you have any alternative ideas for AUs for Ryoji, and if so, what made you settle on this one?

[appraiser]

Hilarity trumps all haha. I sure was imagining Goth Model Midousuji Akira! With dark eyeshadow and large feathered shoulder pads and sweeping robes /o\ Smile model though... Akira should smile more in this game, be happy!!! All of that is so great though, like, if we ever have an AU AU event, I hope to see something like this for characters being as over the top as their can, haha

I actually learned about Recolle the day reserves went up so in between then and apps was me scrambling to get samples and I went the easy route of trying to draw parallels between canon and AU :') So a lot of it is my trying to keep him as close to canon as possible! e.g. causing a car accident, being surrounded by death, and generally being an overly optimistic person when he doesn't have memories/guilt of being Death to weight him down. I think the only other AU I entertained for more than five minutes is a play off his username and making him an antique appraiser running some sort of pawn shop around town, which had nothing to do with his interests or personality so I made him a wandering bum instead.

re. your app, is there a reason why you decided to keep Akira as close to canon as possible? My case was laziness... also because I wanted to play canon Ryoji and not super different AU Ryoji P:

[furtherforward]

AU AU EVENT........ my god. a perfect opportunity for over-the-top, I'd take it. Midousuji has a penchant for wearing stupid skull accessories, chains, and dark colors in official promo art so a lot of fanart is produced that would work well for this, I'm sorry to report.

THAT EXPLAINS WHY YOU WERE TAGGING IN LATER THAN MOST... Nonetheless I was excited to get a tag from you. That would be an interesting direction to take him in wrt your other AU idea. But paralleling significant events with something more realistic like car accidents and watching the natural cycle of things take its course makes sense.

The reason I kept him as close to canon as possible was because I'm never one to take any interest in any AU genres. I usually avoid AU games, but the regain mechanic in this game sold me on it. I just want to play Midousuji as Midousuji. I would have left his backstory almost exactly the same except in Recollé, but if I'm gonna be given the opportunity to AU him I figured I may as well. So my reason was kind of similar to yours in that I just wanted to play Midousuji the way he is in canon, but any changes are there so that I can interact with the setting and have meaningful regains, hence why I changed what I did and made Midousuji still envious of athletes but resentful of them all the same.

I went and tried to comprehend Ryoji's wiki (HAVING NO EXPERIENCE WITH PERSONA/SMT MADE THIS A TRIP, what is going on) and it compels me to wanna look into P3. If you had suggestions on where to start, how would you? Any playthroughs that you would recommend, or anything like that?

[appraiser]

LAUGHS YEAH I was really happy/appreciative that people were open to new tag-ins to their tdm top levels when they've probably moved onto focusing on apps instead, so!!! :')

haha, Ryoji's wiki sure is a trip, especially since he has like four reincarnations and P3 itself has different versions of the game (original P3, a release P3:FES, P3P with the female protagonist route that Minako is from). The game takes roughly 50 hours to play through, so that's not the most feasible way to start, although it's the best. I'm not familiar with youtube lps, but I'd suggest watching a playthrough of either the original P3 or P3:FES (The Journey) for the story experience, and optionally P3P with the female route for a better appreciation of the characters. I think the movies are well done and can be watched and enjoyed without prior knowledge of the game, but parts of it are definitely glossed over and might not make a whole lot of sense if you aren't familiar with it; also, a lot of Ryoji's scenes in the movie are don't actually happen in the game. There's a manga too, but that also assumes prior knowledge because the beginning is a mess and the story is told out of order somewhat P:

tl;dr play or watch P3:FES to start! Specifically one with a "max social link" run; TheOrigamiGamer has a let's play, that I haven't watched so can't vouch for the quality but it goes until almost the end of the game before he stopped. After where it leaves off though is the boss battle and end of the game, so that's easy to find separately.

I am terrible at helpful recs I'm sorry, haha /o\ Minako's player might be more helpful to ask!