Yes Ryuji is an abuse victim so is everyone else on the team, doesn’t mean ryuji gets to act the way he does. I’m an abuse victim I was teased, beaten up and had things thrown at me because I was black by my white peers, but depsite being so young I was able to distigush that from my interactions with white people in the future, I was able to tell instantly that they weren’t jerks cause they were white but because they with stupid bigots not raised right,

I also wanna state this right off the bat that talking about any character’s faults should not turn into what abouting another character’s faults to soften the faults and mistakes said character, ryuji has done.

Moving on Ryuji regardless of what anyone says is in charge of his own words he’s not possessed by a ghost or forced to be this way by any abusive past because there are plenty of fulfilled and deep characters in persona that are still respectful and rational despite having horrible lives. Let’s use Shinji as an example, shinjiro was a man who was brash and curt because he feared that the more people stay close to him the more his powers could hurt them, he pushed people away because of the life he took and the family he accidently broken, despite that he wanted to still do good and was only cold when he had to be and when he called say akihiko out by addressing old wounds he was appropriately hit and called out for it. (And no this isn’t condoling physical violence that’s just how aki is)

But like Yusuke JUST learned about his surrogate father killing his mother and while he’s about to probably break down Ryuji decided to scoff at him and specifically say “You aren’t gonna cry are you?” and even if the tone in japan and english were a mistake  (which they weren’t japan would have corrected for that; Ryuji still decided to say those specific words.

Not to mention that’s not the only time he’s been disrespectful and no him being an abuse victim or a teenager doesn’t mean he gets away with it, nor does he get to take his abusiveness out on other people.

Like the time where he compared futable to morgana knowing morgana has indentity and isecurity in being useful (which is stupid and here’s why) Morgana taught them how to sneak in and out places, theif tools, alot of the early plans hingh on him and even then he adds alot to the overall series plans, he’s the one who ask futaba to hack the phone. Morgana is the second most useful party member; he’s also their getaway alive vehicle, when ryuji stupidly activated the metanav and sent them into a desert, morgana didn’t get lazy or complain or had to be told, he turned into a car and offered the ride.

I’m just saying Morgana has much more to offer than Ryuji and Ryuji fanned those flames putting that all on futaba for no reason and morgana who without him ryuji would get nowhere fast.

Last stretch

And in the end the cat apologized and Ryuji never did for driving morgana away in the first place, so it seems like to me Ryuji is literally abusing someone himself.

The time they were trying to flirt with girls and when one of them spoke he said to her face “weird accent.”  Ryuji has no filter or respect and he doesn’t learn by the end of both games he’s in; it says something that Morgana doesn’t chastise ryuji anymore after well makoto joins but even more the team gather to literally tell morgana sorry, Futaba yells at him that he needs to apologize and when he’s there he literally shits on him right there.

Morgana’s about to come back and instead of swallowing his pride and admitting he’s a big source of the team’s problems, yelling out phantom thieves everywhere like an idiot, literally using the fact that he has superpowers as a reason why they should be rolling in women or money despite doing all that ot literally get rid of people who abuse that. Getting upset cause the girls on his team dont kiss his butt, one of his excuses being “we helped save them” as if they also didn’t save ryuji’s dumb butt plenty of times, it’s a team not a reward system, it also says something that when ryuji says these things a room full of people look at him and say how stupid the take is; or you the player have the option to disagree with him and steer him back on track of being a hero….cause it’s morally right.

And not because in the end you’ll get a reward, it’s superhero 101; in the end Ryuji has alot of problems he has to work out; him being thoughtful, smart, understanding and mature is something he needs to take from his social link and people need to stop being over backwards for him because they can excuse his abuse for literally being just as bad in the game himself, it’s not cute, it’s not Atlus being bad at writing cause p3 is a banger and persona 4 was popular (though overhyped and oversaturated) for a reason and the characters here are well written too,, But Ann and Ryuji have a serious case of whiplash from their SL to their canon portrayals.

Ryuji needs to take things from his Social link and Ann needs to put her canon personality into her social link cause “stupid white american girl” was dead and stupid in p2, let’s leave that in the past.

-I still want them to repay me for makig mark a black persona user with a spear chucker and graffiti and he gets called a money and put in jail? why did they THINK this is the rep we’d want? Repay me back in persona 6 you dicks-

You’ll also notice I didn’t bring up the fact that you tried using other characters faults as crutches for Ryuji which I wont address cause derailing to topic to point at the faults of another is a recipe for ignoring a character’s problematic traits, we are not kylo ren’ing this.

Anyway I dont expect you to agree and that’s fine, I’m not trying to get people to hate ryuji but realize “why” they like him and where his real faults lie and the faults in his writing fall, he should of apologized to morgana cause as it stands now, the cat is the more mature one for having the guts to face his faults and they weren’t even his ryuji was just an ass, and a getaway vehicle is more useful than ...not having one.