Anonymous · 3mo
Love your art, thanks again for the AkiTone Art, looking forward to more!
I have to ask, seeing as you have art depicting the idea, what are your thoughts on the prospect of Persona actually bringing back Yuki in some limited fashioned? It's been something of a point of debate for a long time and there's a lot of arguments for and against.
Count me among the people who firmly believes that pulling the trigger on it now (if you'll pardon the pun) is not only perfectly ok and makes sense given the framework already there for it, but P3 Reload puts in a place where it feels much more required to properly offer the cast of 3 closure that The Answer only really half does. It wouldn't do anything to take away from the ending of 3 and is a long time coming for fans of the game.
Hello :)
No one will agree with me on this, but I couldn't care less about spin offs being canon or not. I dont care about seeing the characters after the game, i dont care about seeing characters aging, especially after how they treated the P3 cast in AU. For me spin offs should just be fun and whimsy, a way to bring something new and refreshing to the table without disrupting what the main games did, without having to justify their existence or purpose. Does PQ have a purpose in the timeline? Do the Dancing games have a reason to exist? They dont. But despite that, they are good games, my favorite spinoffs i would say. Because they are fun.
So I would be perfectly fine with Makoto returning, because him, along with Shinji and Akechi, have the potential to add something. But I would accept it only as a temporary thing or something out of the main timeline because, even though his absence hurts me, especially in P4AU as a FG player, I know that him returning would just make less significant his sacrifice, and it would be unfair for him to get another chance when other dead characters (...so just Shinji, lets be honest Akechi is not dead) dont and will never have the chance to. It would be a disgrace to the themes of P3 and the effort the game puts to make you understand them.
Also, okay, Liz or whatever brings him back, but at this point, would it be worth it? Both in universe and as plot point? What would be the point of him returning now? When all his friends moved on and grew up, what would be his reason to be back at all? People often say to make him a Velvet attendant, but I dont think Atlus can or will ever do that, because it would make him lose his status as "silent protagonist" archetype (which Japan, the main audience, loves) and spoil P3 for new people. It would bring nothing to the story because the P3 (but obviously also the P4 and P5) cast wont be used anymore in the main games. It would be a meaningless sacrifice (ahah, get it? Sacrifice? Because-) of P3 story.
...to make it simple
-Makoto in spinoffs either non canon or as a temporary thing = okay, splendid, terrific, perfection, I NEED HIM.
-Makoto actually being canonically brought back = ugh, bleh, ugly, stupid. It ruins everything. Worst idea ever. Liz's plan should just to bring his soul to the Sea of Souls, not reviving him.
