Character Name: Takuto Maruki Canon: Persona 5 Royal Character Age: 35 General Info: Non-spoilery: Maruki is a former cognitive psience (P5R psychobabble for the study of how we perceive things and how our perceptions shape reality) researcher turned high school counselor. He's a very kind, generous, altruistic man who wears his heart on his sleeve and will bend over backwards to help anyone with anything. A little sardonic at times, a LOT incurably nerdy all the time. Has a preternatural way of setting people at ease and getting them to open up. All around good dude.
ONLY CLICK IF YOU'RE CHILL WITH P5R SPOILERS jazz hands!! He is the level 99 endgame boss, lol.
In canon, Maruki's quest to heal everyone of their emotional pains and traumas leads him to quite literally rewriting all of reality to remove any instance of pain or suffering from the world. If you think this sounds like loss of free will and brainwashing... you are correct! The Royal part of Persona 5 Royal is all about the Phantom Thieves trying to take Maruki down and restore the true reality.
The thing is that Maruki's intentions for this are never anything but altruistic. He truly believes that people are better off having never suffered, and will throw away everything in his life to make it so. Even in the bad end of the game where the ideal reality takes over and everyone lives out their perfect, pain-free lives, it doesn't apply to him. Everyone he knew has forgotten him, and he has to live alone as the sole keeper of the memories of their prior reality until he dies(??? unclear if he can die at that point lol he's kind of god)
SO YEAH. Sympathetic antagonist of all time! Complicated dude! However, his original canonpoint in game didn't include any of the spoilery bits above, and he's since regained bits and pieces of that through the altered memories event in August, so he's a weird mix atm.
Desired CR: Maruki has a super solid established core of close CR and has branched out into some new CR via January's Sleepr & the February hanahaki event, so I'm looking to continue doing that! Honestly, he bounces well off pretty much everyone because he is such a "let's talk about YOU" guy – the trick is getting him to actually talk about himself, good luck. :3c He's also even more difficult to put off than before because..... uh well look at who he hangs out with here lmao SO YES I'M DOWN FOR ANY AND ALL NEW CR!! If you've been waiting to get Muki'd, let's do it.
Oh, I do have a special place in my heart for CR in-laws! If you play someone who has ties to his existing close CR (pretty much anyone here) and we don't have CR, I would love to get some started hehe :3c
Monthly Plans: I have two top levels up currently: TDM speed dating & network prompt and one for general shenanigans on Eren's farm!! Feel free to hit up either, I am always down.
I'll go hard on Sleepr as always! And finally, I'm going to be posting a dinner mingle log for Maruki's close CR on 3/22. It's technically for his birthday, but that fact is not advertised nor widely known and I'm not really interested in that changing hdfdslkj I just want to put together a lil mingle to throw his insane circle of CR into the same room, so if that applies to you, I hope you have fun with it when it comes!! :3c
RP Wishlist: I've already achieved all my wildest dreams with him so I'm just seeing where things go now!!
Takuto Maruki | Persona 5 Royal
Canon: Persona 5 Royal
Character Age: 35
General Info: Non-spoilery: Maruki is a former cognitive psience (P5R psychobabble for the study of how we perceive things and how our perceptions shape reality) researcher turned high school counselor. He's a very kind, generous, altruistic man who wears his heart on his sleeve and will bend over backwards to help anyone with anything. A little sardonic at times, a LOT incurably nerdy all the time. Has a preternatural way of setting people at ease and getting them to open up. All around good dude.
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ONLY CLICK IF YOU'RE CHILL WITH P5R SPOILERS
jazz hands!! He is the level 99 endgame boss, lol.
In canon, Maruki's quest to heal everyone of their emotional pains and traumas leads him to quite literally rewriting all of reality to remove any instance of pain or suffering from the world. If you think this sounds like loss of free will and brainwashing... you are correct! The Royal part of Persona 5 Royal is all about the Phantom Thieves trying to take Maruki down and restore the true reality.
The thing is that Maruki's intentions for this are never anything but altruistic. He truly believes that people are better off having never suffered, and will throw away everything in his life to make it so. Even in the bad end of the game where the ideal reality takes over and everyone lives out their perfect, pain-free lives, it doesn't apply to him. Everyone he knew has forgotten him, and he has to live alone as the sole keeper of the memories of their prior reality until he dies(??? unclear if he can die at that point lol he's kind of god)
SO YEAH. Sympathetic antagonist of all time! Complicated dude! However, his original canonpoint in game didn't include any of the spoilery bits above, and he's since regained bits and pieces of that through the altered memories event in August, so he's a weird mix atm.
TLDR: Your existence in this world is an amazing miracle.
Desired CR: Maruki has a super solid established core of close CR and has branched out into some new CR via January's Sleepr & the February hanahaki event, so I'm looking to continue doing that! Honestly, he bounces well off pretty much everyone because he is such a "let's talk about YOU" guy – the trick is getting him to actually talk about himself, good luck. :3c He's also even more difficult to put off than before because..... uh well look at who he hangs out with here lmao SO YES I'M DOWN FOR ANY AND ALL NEW CR!! If you've been waiting to get Muki'd, let's do it.
Oh, I do have a special place in my heart for CR in-laws! If you play someone who has ties to his existing close CR (pretty much anyone here) and we don't have CR, I would love to get some started hehe :3c
Monthly Plans: I have two top levels up currently: TDM speed dating & network prompt and one for general shenanigans on Eren's farm!! Feel free to hit up either, I am always down.
I'll go hard on Sleepr as always! And finally, I'm going to be posting a dinner mingle log for Maruki's close CR on 3/22. It's technically for his birthday, but that fact is not advertised nor widely known and I'm not really interested in that changing hdfdslkj I just want to put together a lil mingle to throw his insane circle of CR into the same room, so if that applies to you, I hope you have fun with it when it comes!! :3c
RP Wishlist: I've already achieved all my wildest dreams with him so I'm just seeing where things go now!!
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