![]() Much in the same way as Nagito becomes fixated on Hajime, the Ultimate, talentless, worthless, most shining beacon of hope there is Akechi sees how Joker is consistently beaten down by life and yet strives to carve his own path, and is unable to cope with either the jealously or the admiration he feels, never mind any combination thereof. Because he plays by his own rules, which are fundamentally incompatible with Akechi’s. He has his idea of how the world and it’s people work, and therein lie his issues with Joker. He sees all things as means towards his ends. He can’t watch someone trip three feet away from him without assuming his luck has played some role in it.Īkechi is much the same way, though he owns it a little better. ![]() Hope and despair, good and back luck – and there he sits in the eye of it all, defeated yet somehow untouchable. He is, of course, compassionate and empathetic but, unlike Hajime (or even Joker), whose talent with people comes from their respective abilities to remove themselves from a situation and see it as someone else would in order to make a moral judgement, Nagito cannot fathom a world that doesn’t conform to his ideals. He wants so badly to be more than he is, that he struggles to see a world outside his own perception. For all his espousing that the hopeless may never be hopeful, he still leaps at the chance to become worthy. But herein lies the contradiction that defines him as a character. Forever putting himself down, calling himself all kinds of worthless, and willingly throwing his very life at every cause that comes his way. Nagito, at a glance, seems to have the very opposite of an ego. I know what I said, just go with me on this one. With a dash of insanity, of course, because anime gonna anime.įor me, their most intriguing similarities run deeper than a trope, however, and it all starts with this inflated sense of self-importance they seem to share. Not a villain, not a hero, but rather somebody who follows their own moral code. Namely: the morally ambiguous foil to the main character. In short, I do feel they fall into a very specific character archetype. I also never don’t want to talk about Nagito. So you know what? I’m gonna. ![]() That smile is the last thing someone saw.”) And I want to talk about him. (And I quote: “Who’s this Light Yagami-looking motherfucker? No, I don’t trust him. Here’s the thing, though: my feelings about Akechi started strong and stayed that way throughout my Persona 5 experience, though the nature of those feelings has changed drastically since my first impression. You know, Anon, the dumb lizard brain that governs my every impulse wants to point at them and say: “mentally unstable twinks with great hair and a Very Heterosexual rivalry with the protagonist” and call it a day. (I dont remember the other characters the video mentioned) what are your thoughts about it? Do you think they’re similar? Once i saw a video on youtube explaining a certain “anime character type”, and it compared Akechi with Nagito.
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