#badadults

Whoooo progress!

Retired adult warriors when a literal child pops into their world: *Immediately throws them into the most traumatizing w@r*

The retired adult warrior when the child doesn't want to join the war: *Cries, screams, throws up, and throws a tantrum*

I’ve recently been playing a game called Persona 5 royal which is an updated version of the original Persona 5 with extra content added to it. In the game you play as a high school student that has just got an assault charge added to his record. Throughout the game you come to see a group of people become what we will call “monsters.”

Through the perspective of your character and the group he forms called the phantom thieves, the other members also being high school students. All of these students have been treated unfairly which is why they come together. The “monster” that this group sees are the adults of the world. 

Using Mary Douglas’ theory of dirt helps to explain this. The adults that considered that monsters are ones that have broken the rules of the society and have been getting away with their misdeeds. Some of these misdeeds include phyical and sexual abuse of students, theft, and blackmail. The adults doing these things don’t get away with these misdeeds even though they break the law. Which therefore makes them break the boundary between right and wrong which is definitely the main boundary of the game.

However, from another perspective you can also see the phantom thieves as being monstrous as well. This is because they break the boundary between reality and cognition. To fix these adults the phantom thieves must go into the cognitive world and steal the distorted desires of these adults. Which afterwards makes these adults confess their sins. However, as the phantom thieves become more well known they don’t become seen as monstrous but become seen as heroes of justice that are helping to fix the world which reinforces the boundary between right and wrong.