#yosukeposting

either as post lab but pre re-realization so yosuke is under the impression that naoto is a girl, but has up until this point known him as a guy and he presents exactly the same as he did when he was all in on being seen as a guy and seems pretty uncomfortable being treated as a girl actually so it’s pretty easy to just keep treating him as a guy but if i hit on him It’s Technically Not Gay (it is).

and in addition or even in an entirely separate scenario disregarding all that, it’s a matter of naoto being the absolute safest guy to hit on in inaba. like, yu is out cause while he’s probably cool, it’s too high stakes. hitting on your boy best friend (intentionally lol) is like crossing the rubicon; no going back from that. kanji is out because yosuke has been too much of an interplanetary scale asshole to him and anything kanji could possibly say would decimate his ego. kou & daisuke are out cause while there’s kind of a vibe there yosuke doesn’t know them that well and ergo can’t trust them to not blab and the entirety of inaba finding out. the entire rest of inaba is out for obvious reasons. the entire rest of everywhere else is out because what’s yosuke gonna do? operation babe hunt but gay this time? c’mon. naoto is the absolute safest option. yosuke’s ego might get bruised but naoto has already had a guy express interest in him and been normal about it (unclear if he realized but good enough), is else-wise queer, and would not say shit to literally anyone. he’s perfect

and then yosuke’s inferiority complex thing with girlyu is insaaaane. absolutely nothing would change about girlyu except the way people react to her. so like literally everything that yosuke sees in yu as the paragon of masculinity is still there, but recontextualized as something feminine. the whole tangled up envy/attraction… yu is everything yosuke wants to be, and i don’t think that’d change even slightly if yu were a girl. here’s how transfem yosuke can still win. and yes rank 10 still happens like that, there yosuke grapples with how he’s been seeing her as a girl and as someone out of reach above him instead of an equal, yada yada.

ooooh, interesting question! i think first of all, the way in which yosuke is ostracized would change, so the way she reacts to it would change, at least somewhat. i don’t think cis girl yosuke would be hyperfeminine or a mean girl cause both of those things are very social, they’re only really acceptable if they’re what your clique are doing, and yosuke doesn’t have a clique. my interpretation is probably closer to your second option, though i think she’s more inclined to envy and self-deprecation more than resentment.

i think femininity wouldn’t “come naturally” to girlyosuke, so she’d overcompensate and double down on anything she can perform, say heterosexuality. like how i believe canon yosuke is more interested in women as an extension of masculinity, i think cis girl yosuke would be more interested in men as an extension of femininity, but those dynamics aren’t quite parallel. pursuing men isn’t performing acceptable femininity. not pursuing men isn’t acceptable femininity. there isn’t really an acceptable femininity at all, no comfort of doing it right. i think girlyosuke would still have an interest in fashion magazines, just womens fashion. so she’d parrot the same kinda “guys like girls who” shit, especially as justification for her own taste lmao, but she wouldn’t then use that to be hyperfeminine herself, cause trying too hard to be pretty/attractive to men despite being plain will get her figuratively murdered, socially, especially when she’s already in a precarious position as the face of the thing that everyone loves to hate. i mean, not trying hard will also result in her ostracism, but that’s the baseline. girlyosuke is so dire. she’s even more like saki. she’s simultaneously put on a pedestal and degraded as the princess of junes. i think she’d be pretty desperate for any friendship she can get, while resenting the town that shuns her.

honestly girl yosuke is just yosuke + misogyny. vast swathes of her deal are the same just flipped, then reconsidered how she would be seen by the society around her keeping in mind misogyny.

the things i think would most change are her relationships to those around her, depending on if they’re also cisswapped or not. girl yosuke with guy yu is (superficially) uninteresting like every romance in p4, except it would be like a romance in p4 even if the writing around it wasn’t p4, you know? cishet souyo is inescapably very persona 4. it’s plucked straight out of yosuke’s dreams. the comphet + bisexuality combo… dire. a guy she genuinely likes coming along willing to tolerate her? she’d think him a saviour. it’s fun to think about. but if yu’s also a girl then it’s as it is in canon + internalized misogyny, which is also very fun.