#satanaelesque

          but staying in one place in unfamiliar lands is a dangerous concept,   so after she rests enough to regain her strength,   lucina always continues moving in exploration.   she wanders the lands,   taking shelter when able,   attempting to find something.   what,   she isn’t entirely sure   ---   though she wouldn’t deny another ally or perhaps a means of escaping these wintry area.

iii. Why did you decide to join Arietta?

JOKER

well!! i can at least say that i helped create arietta because i wanted my friends to have a comfortable space for rp! i didn’t really expect it to grow beyond that, but i’m so thankful that it has, and that it’s given me the opportunity to make new friends! it might sound cliche, but this community never would’ve grown the way it has if it wasn’t for everyone involved. arietta isn’t just my brainchild, but everyone else’s, too. 

viii. Is your muse prone to nightmares? How would you incorporate this at Arietta? 

ii. What was the process behind creating your muse’s glade?

naoya’s personality in game is largely up to the player, but there are a few moments where he shows personal autonomy outside of the player’s choice (in his demon conversations, his responses to saeko about his future and his reaction to maki kissing him after he saves her life) and the game paints him as seeming rather self assured and aloof. 

however, the only way for you to get his ultimate persona is if you make very specific choices. naoya’s shadow self outright tells you at the end game if you’ve been making choices to protect children and your friends, angrily tear down authority and reach out to maki with love and understanding.

basically his shadow says: the player could have usurped who you were but they chose not to, they made you yourself and naoya (the character) can achieve his ultimate self because he was true to himself despite their being someone else controlling him.

in the official P1 manga, naoya is much the same, he seems. like he’s wandering through the story line being lead by someone else. -and in a way he is. 

naoya is the protagonist but unlike the other persona games, persona 1 isn’t naoya’s story, it’s his deutrotagonist maki who the plot centers around and her growth that the game follows.

in the manga, they reveal naoya is so “aloof” because he doesn’t think he deserves to be alive

naoya’s twin brother died and he hasn’t been the same since; he doesn’t think or see himself as a person in his own right, he’s just the last remaining piece of his brother in the world. without seeing himself as a person, he lacks a lot of will and motivation for himself. he leads because other people want him too, he fights because he thinks it’s what other people want of him, he lives because he thinks thats what his brother would have wanted him too. 

 the only way to achieve the “true end” of persona 1 is the one that leads you on the path of getting his ultimate persona and passing shadow naoya’s test of your strength of will. the only way for naoya to save maki, is to save himself too. to let himself think for himself and make choices, to see himself as a person.

my naoya is a combination of the two canons at the end of the story. his glade is his own sense of self calling out to him to finally let himself be “naoya”, to enter his own name in the game and play as himself. the room being his own thoughts and fears. 

THIS IS SO FUKCING LONG I’ MSO SO SORRY I HAVE BEEN THINING ABUT THIS GAME FOR 10 YEARS

vi. Can you name a relationship dynamic between your muse and another’s you like?

iii. Why did you decide to join Arietta?

Because I love the mods and would die for them.

Personal attachments aside, I’ve been looking for a place where I 1) feel genuinely comfortable writing 2) can write with my friends 3) can carry out themes and plots that have actual significance. This lovely little place pinged all three. I’ve been rping on tumblr for years (although jcink and so forth aren’t much better LMAO), frankly I’m tired of this hellsite and its hellcommunities and this was a refreshing change of pace. You know how it is.

In conclusion: I’m bitter but now I’m glad so!

v. Name another muse you've considered bringing to Arietta!

ii. What was the process behind creating your muse’s glade?

Ugh, I’m not horribly proud of her glade, and wish I’d done many things differently. Though I don’t know how I’d go about that change lolol My main thought was to create a home for her, a place where she feels safe even in her dreams.

iii. Why did you decide to join Arietta?

Being chased by a chipmunk the relative size of a bear is definitely not the most terrifying thing that has happened in Chise’s life by any means, but as she runs for her life, waking up and simply escaping the dream doesn’t even cross her mind. No, instead she’s pumping her legs in a desperate attempt to weave through giant blades of grass and outrun the rodent, breathing too hard, too fast to even consider yelling for help.

A wall of black shaggy hair rises up before her. In the hopes that she has come across someone or something that could help in her predicament, she just runs up and pulls on a few tufts as the ominously deep squeaking of the chipmunk grows ever closer.

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