#crowboy discourse

Some galaxy brained takes today. Hi, did it ever occur that Goro can have all this rage, hate, and spiteful intent, that which initially forged his path towards Shido, but ALSO have a crippling sense of despair and entrapment that Shido played with? Because that is just as much, if not more relevant to his character.

Also relevant: Institution kids like Goro can be 'lost' by caretakers in as little a year. Was he supposed to risk dying or joining the Yakuza anyway when his original plan wasn't to kill?

Yeah, really, if the choice is ‘go to your only family and person who can fill in as guarantor because no one else can or will’ and ‘possibly die in the streets alone unloved and helpless’ who wouldn’t pick the former. And people seem to expect an awful lot of cause-and-effect evaluation from a fifteen year old sunk in anger on top of that, when the average person out of the institution doesn’t know what a light switch is let alone how to navigate the world independently. Add that to the acquisition of a strange power no one else in the world had - according to Goro at the time - and it’s hard to imagine lines not blurring.

there must be some kinda anti wasp nest kicked up because i got a SLEW of trolls today on my p5 sideblog. im guess there's shit going down in the tags again?

I hate to jump on peoples’ tags like this but no, this is wrong. It is IMPLICIT, not EXPLICIT. ‘Explicit’ requires detail, with absolutely no room for doubts.

What you are given in Shido’s workroom as a ‘recollection’ is anything but. There is only an indication of Goro promoting himself as a user of a Persona power, but it is not explicit in what that power is, neither is it explicit on exactly how and when he reached Shido, and by what means.

In fact, every single bit of what you’ve just said is entirely implicit, and shows that you’ve missed the point of my post: that there’s no evidence to tell you exactly what Goro was even DOING with his Persona in the first place. Hell, if Goro even HAD the rampage power before Wakaba’s death, which was the subtext of my post.

What is EXPLICIT, however, is Shido’s hand in Goro’s use of the overall power. As stated by Shido’s own Shadow, and not *just* to Goro.

There really is no questioning that fact- it alone, is the reason why Goro is even an ‘Ace’ Detective in the first place, with as much popularity that he has. Not to mention this is extremely significant in a number of ways- especially considering Shido’s hand in Metaverse research.