Okay I was looking through my files and Iām never gonna get back to it but I still like a couple panels here, hereās a very unfinished Yosukeism comic from a year ago.
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Okay I was looking through my files and Iām never gonna get back to it but I still like a couple panels here, hereās a very unfinished Yosukeism comic from a year ago.

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i find it interesting how much yosuke will compliment and praise yu despite how he is, considering i think a lot of guys like him would rather die than earnestly be nice to a guy that isnt in a joking way or that sort of acceptable Dude Man admiration. though ive always chalked it up to probably some cultural differences. and also atlus wanting him to be the sidekick that is insanely loyal that (accidentally?) comes off as more homoerotic than anything haha
I feel like a lot of it is that Yosuke genuinely does think Yu is like a paragon of Guyness, any want of him can be dismissed as a want to be him, which very much does exist alongside the want of him. Another part of it is that Yosukeās a very deeply lonely person, he gets attached to anyone willing to tolerate him, and Yu as a Guy Friend he can model that sort of āone of the guysā -type acceptance with, Yu offers Yosuke personhood through that he doesnāt get elsewhere, and so reciprocates that by affirming him whatever way he can. And like, Yosuke does straight up really like Yu as a person, and the role (he thinks he needs to play) that will let him stay by his side is that of the best friend hypeman, the sycophant that corroborates but doesnāt challenge Yuās masculinity, that sets him up as an infallible Hero to other people, but is privvy to a sort of vulnerability and Realness by being closest to him, close enough to see past the hero worship, I think itās a pretty established role. Also men love men in general, I think thereās a lot of man loving you can get away with as long as you avoid like the plague any comparison to liking men like how women like men. And underneath the gender roles threatening to crush him, Yosuke is a person, and likes Yu as a person, the Guyness of it all is hugely relevant to the ways thatās expressed, but I donāt think any fear of being gay could suppress the underlying affection.
really perpetually obsessed with the scenario in my head where yosuke hits on naoto in order to quote unquote microdose on being gay (bi but, yāknow)
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 itās pretty easy to just keep treating him as a guy but if i hit on him Itās Technically Not Gay (it is).
and in addition or even in an entirely separate scenario disregarding all that, itās a matter of naoto being the absolute safest guy to hit on in inaba. like, yu is out cause while heās probably cool, itās 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 thereās kind of a vibe there yosuke doesnāt know them that well and ergo canāt 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 whatās yosuke gonna do? operation babe hunt but gay this time? cāmon. naoto is the absolute safest option. yosukeās 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. heās perfect
also i think with their powers combined they could bungle this social interaction so bad they feel Obligated to date for like a week. like they both fuck up their phrasing and mutually think āoh god he genuinely likes me (untrue). i canāt back out nowā
the thing with souyo is that yosuke would only ever want things (affection, commitment) on his terms because the situation (being bisexual. while in inaba) is entirely terrifying and far too vulnerable. paranoia at being surveilled + having something he wants bad in his grasp is a deadly combination. he scrambles for any ounce of control he can get so he can feel like the world isnāt ending. at the expense of yu, who could see it for what it is while being Fine with that, because what is he good at if not operating within the bounds of what people want from him. cause he wants this too, in whatever form he can be allotted. but thereās only so much denial of oneās feelings a person can take in a context that should be reciprocal before something breaks. either something changes fundamentally or it ends, badstyle.

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i like this sequence. yosuke literally did not need to say anything yet said āi relate to you. not that one part the other part the other thing you said a couple sentences ago. not the main thing. i donāt relate to thatā like. sure man. okay.
yosukeās deep understanding of social dynamics and like, the themes of the game, and the way he then perpetuates said social dynamics always gets to me. guy who understands how the world works, resents it, and then enforces the status quo on everyone around him. bro.
i canāt stop thinking about cishet souyo now⦠yosukeās getting a good grade in heterosexuality. itās insane either way. girlyosukeās slink is a hallmark movie built on the bones of psychological horror. a bisexual girl with homophobia so internalized it hits marrow in love with a guy that keeps saving her. the platonic ideal of acceptable attraction. oh my god. i entirely do think rank 10 still happens like that. wanting to be equal to yu instead of the roles of girl and guy, thereby trying to cast away the heteronormativity girlyosuke was clinging to in favour of becoming people to each otherā¦
and then yosukeās 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 donāt think thatād change even slightly if yu were a girl. hereās how transfem yosuke can still win. and yes rank 10 still happens like that, there yosuke grapples with how heās been seeing her as a girl and as someone out of reach above him instead of an equal, yada yada.
also i think het souyo is an unstable isotope that usually degrades into gay souyo because yosuke compulsively becomes whatever gender yu is. and iām barely kidding