
Just… testing something…
EDIT: This post is about IN GAME RELATIONSHIPS. This isn’t about adult men calling 15 year old girls “Waifus”, I think we can all agree that is weird 💀
Ok SECOND EDIT: This post is mostly about the age discourse and the misinformation I saw around that - the discourse around the sibling thing ISNT ABOUT wether dating your stepsister is moral or not (ITS NOT! 🎉), it’s about wether or not you view Futaba as your stepsister in the first place. I personally don’t, and some people do. And that’s fine, because everyone is different and is allowed to have different opinions. But I want to say that there is a lot of in game evidence that this sibling idea is predicated mostly by fandom headcanon. 👍
The biggest piece of misinformation I’ve seen in this entire fandom is that Futaba is somehow really young, even though she’s the same age as Kasumi . Google will literally tell you that she is 15. I could go on a whole rant on to my theory about how this idea started to spread, but I’ll spare you. Needless to say, a 1 year age gap is not unusual in dating in general.
And to the “they are basically siblings” argument let me also remind you that
- You meet her 4 MONTHS into staying with Sojiro, who had no intention of you meeting Futaba. Ever.
- Joker has parents? And friends back home? This is glossed over in the game but still relevant, he isn’t an orphan.
- They don’t live in the same house or go to the same school
I’d also like to say I have played Persona 5 (Royal) RECENTLY, not in the last year, within the last two months. Persona 5 definitely suffers from chronic “Misrememberment Syndrome” where people who haven’t played the game in 5+ years make wild assumptions on their poor memory of the game that has been supplemented by just strait up misinformation people have spouted on the internet in the meantime. I’ve seen everything from casual players to big YouTubers spout this nonsense and nobody listens or talks about it 😭
You can dislike Futaba and her romance route, just don’t dislike it for fake reasons. If you want to pick apart a problematic romance in the game there are three adult women right there