been watching a bunch of videos on digital painting but lads... i don't think i have the patience for it. this is not a finished piece but i am tired of looking at it
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I think I can finally put into words what makes me so utterly unhinged about specifically the FeMC route of Persona 3 Portable.
On April 6, 2009, you move into the dorms of your new school as a transfer student, and are immediately thrust into solving a supernatural mystery with world-ending stakes, as part of a ragtag group of students who largely tolerate each other more than anything.
Unlike the base route, the Social Link mechanic has been revamped and greater resembles what would become the series standard. So as the months pass and the story progresses as it does in the base route, the bonds you and your teammates form with each other, through all the trials and tribulations, the ups and the downs, they're supplemented with the Social Links you have with all of your teammates, not just the prospective romantic partners.
Combined with the pre-existing gameplay incentives to build the Social Links, the net result is that you're very likely to have spent a lot more time with all of your party members, as you get yourself involved with their own personal lives and mini-arcs, achieving a closeness with them that is explicitly tracked and quantified by the game, in a way that can only at best be implied in the base route.
Hell, along the way, you might even save a few people otherwise fated to perish.
Eventually, on January 31, 2010, you fight the harbinger of the end times. After a long and grueling fight, it falls upon you to finish it, and you set off on your own.
It strikes you down, but you hang on. Even on your own like this, your friends, your Social Links, they all lend you their strength.
With their help, you perform the Great Seal, averting the apocalypse.
It costs you everything.
But you return, to your friends, to the world.
There's still things left to do, after all.
Flashforward to March 3, 2010. Your friends have forgotten about their adventures, but they haven't forgotten about you. They haven't forgotten about the time you spent with them over the year, as friends, through the Social Links, and how you irreplaceably touched their lives. You spend this day and the next catching up with the ones you can.
They talk about the future with you. Some of them even make plans.
On March 5, 2010, your junior year at Gekkoukan High ends. Everyone else is already attending the graduation ceremony for the seniors.
You head to the roof alongside Aigis, who always remembered. A partner of your choice, who now remembers as well, can join the two of you shortly afterward.
In the bright sunlight and the warmth of your loved one's arms, mere moments away from reuniting with all of your dear friends, who all now remember, you fucking die. Memento mori.
Roll credits.
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