persona ruined my life

souyo dumps!

As a child, Shinjiro Aragaki was described to be a “cheerful boy” until Akihiko’s sister is killed in a fire. He undergoes a drastic change overnight to become the pillar of support his best friend desperately needed. 

Shinjiro’s life was completely ruined because of a freak accident that was completely out of his control. He was 15. 

He already knew the pain of losing a loved one (Miki) but was also an orphan who had killed a parent- something he must’ve yearned for.  

Consumed by guilt, the teenager ostracizes himself from his friends to the point where he’s homeless and living in the streets of bad neighborhoods. 

He takes lethal drugs because preventing himself from harming any more people is a priority that outweighs anything else - even if that means slowly killing yourself.

At 17, Shinjiro returns to SEES and finds people and a place he can call a “home” again. 

Despite this he is still saddled with immense grief. He doesn’t know how else to atone for his sins other than allowing Ken to have his revenge, which is why he goes to meet Ken that night and willingly accepts his death.

Even if you save him in Fem MC’s route - he wakes up months later from a coma and immediately loses yet another person dear to him. 

Unless Kirjio Group manages to create something better, he would probably still have to keep taking Persona Suppressors. But even so, by then the Suppressors must have wrecked havoc on his body after continuous usage. It’s very likely his life has already been cut far shorter than any of his peers.  

shinjiro and akihiko get couples therapy