Digital Artist

(this is future arc/grown up naegami btw)

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sometimes you just gotta kabedon a bitch

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one of yosuke’s biggest flaws is his “homophobia” or how he reacts to those types of situations. i don’t believe yosuke is a homophobe. i’m not trying to justify his actions, cause what he said to kanji regarding his sexuality was horrible. but there is a bit of merit behind what he’s said.

yosuke has a habit of speaking without thinking, something that has a multitude of consequences throughout the game. he puts his foot in his mouth and says the wrong thing at the wrong time. you could chalk it up to him not being able to socialize properly due to his lack of actual friendships. we know he had people back in the city, but he’s never considered them “friends” cause of how forgettable the conversations they’ve exchanged were. when he moved to inaba, it was clear he didn’t have many friends there either, all due to his parents & their junes store. permanently giving him the title of “the junes prince” and making him infamous within the small town.

due to those instances, yosuke’s never been a good socializer. on top of that, he’s rather impulsive when the situation becomes uncomfortable or tense. japan is known to be a rather homophobic country. and as a regular, teenage boy who grew up in the city- its natural that he’s picked up those types of mindsets. it’s not particularly cause he HATES kanji- it’s moreso the fact of ignorance. he felt uncomfortable in kanji’s dungeon because he’s never been exposed to that type of stuff before. without exposure or proper knowledge about those types of subjects, it was inevitable that he’d have a negative outlook on it. he didn’t understand homosexuality.

there was one moment (either in p4 or p4g) that if you go to kanji’s palace, yosuke is hesitant to go in, but ultimately does- saying “I-I shouldn’t...Discrimination is wrong. Yeah.” it’s not the best wording, but it’s the thought that counts. he isn’t known for his words, but he’s at least self aware enough to come to those types of conclusions himself. going from “we’re unsafe with you due to your sexuality” to “discrimination is wrong” is a character change. albeit subtle and small, but it’s still growth in some way or another. he shouldn’t have picked on kanji throughout the game, but yosuke is the kind of guy who doesn’t think about what he says before he says it. this subtle change in thinking is what truly counts- he is making an effort to change the way he views something he’s unfamiliar with.