You just confronted your shadow, /v/. What does it say, and what does it turn into when you say "YOU'RE NOT MEEEE"?
define a shadow in this context
It's about me being in denial about, I don't know, I have not faced my shadow so I don't know.
> and what does it turn into when you say "YOU'RE NOT MEEEE"?
Nothing, because I employ my meta knowledge to not trigger it and instead go and frolick in all my fantasies with it.
And by frolick I mean have rough sex.
Repeatedly.
Cool. Now neither of us will be virgins.
"I'm a loser who depends on everyone else! I put up a front of being a 'normie' but really i'm an introverted freak! I hate most of my friends, and only hang out with them because I'm bored. I wish I could just shut out the world, play H Games, read doujins and watch anime all the time!"
it turns into a gluttonous monster with 1000 penises
it turns into Rise and we have lots of sex
how the hell are we supposed to know what we are in denial about
thats the whole point of denial
>>318772769
Not really, denial can be a conscious thing that you choose to ignore and keep out of mind
>Your friends sure do love all those games you recommend. They've already poured hundreds of hours into "generic-open-world western RPG," and Bloodbourne's their GOTYAY for sure.
>Must feel nice being their authority-figure go-to shaman on anything vidya that isn't Call of BattleOps the Spinoff, the Sequel.
>But let's be real for a minuteyou hate those games so much and tire of their "shitty taste," all the while hiding away in your room playing your anime games, you poor closeted weeb.
>Have fun playing "Zenoburadu" instead of going out with them this weekend, and God forbid anyone finds out you have a VitaTV. At least you'll be able to talk about those to strangers online!
I then breakdown and cry, but it's all right cuz my shadow plays Dragon's Crown co-op with me IRL, which is all I ever wanted.
As someone who's never played purse owner, are "shadows" just slut versions of the characters.
>>318773505
In Persona 4 they represent uncomfortable truths that they have to come to terms with.
>>318773505
Only if the character is a closet slut
>implying anything could make me say "YOU'RE NOT ME"
I'm a self-loathing bastard who doesn't give a shit about anything. There's nothing that I'd really have trouble coming to terms with.
>>318773505
Not take...It just so happens that...
>>318773629
3+ of the Shadow selves ended up having to do with sex, sexual identity, and gender. Cuz Teens. That be what Teens do.
>>318773863
careful with that edge buddy boy
>>318774186
Not edge, just a combination of apathy and piss poor self-esteem.
>>318774186
Do you even know what edge is, retard?
>>318773863
You shadow would be that part of you that wants to love yourself then.
Hey!!! Keep that shit on the DL. I don't want people knowing exactly how freaky I am.
I wouldnt, since I don't have any buddies to defeat him.
So I'd just skip the fighting step and accept it for who I am, it is.
Whatever.
>>318771409
"I could be successfil if I tried"
>>318774398
edge is edge
>>318774410
yall alright there?
It just vanishes because even it knows I'm not worth killing tbth(to be totally honest)
>>318771409
>Hey Anon's friends, wanna know his fetishes?
>>318772117
this
>>318771409
Nothing, I'm well aware of my shortcomings and complexes.
"You use everyone. The only reason your polite to people and kind is doyou get something out of it! You go around acting like everyone's friend, when infact your just trying to help yourself."
>>318774837
Don't listen to him! That's not true! You're NOT ME!
>>318774709
Edge is trying to piss people off to seem either hardcore or original. How is what he said edgy?
>>318774963
cause its edgy tbch
>>318774950
*shadow turns into a giant piece of shit with severed dicks and feet wriggling around it it's contents*
>You try to pretend to be a tough guy but in reality you're a softie. You're so afraid of people hurting you that you just push them back by acting like a douche and eventually dropping contact with them.
>You tell yourself that's ok and that you don't see companionship anywaysBut that's wrong right?
It'd probably turn into a giant heavily armored thing with a very obvious weak spot.
>>318775421
*shadow turns into a giant, rogue floor tile*
If I knew then I wouldn't have one.
>>318775291
Fuck off, retard
>>318775421
"this sort of thing isn't my bag, baby!"
>>318775601
"Perhaps if you exerted more control over your life you'd be like me"
It turns into a JRPG hero with friends at his side.
>>318775291
You clearly don't know what edgy means
>>318771409
Why don't they just accept their shadows at first?
I really don't get it because the fights last all of about three minutes and then they accept them. Why not just do it from the get go?
>You seem to hate everything and everyone but insecurity and anxiety has crippled you to the point that your life cant advance beyond your current NEET'hood, the truth is you just care too damn much to ever let your defenses down and re'enter the social world. You think everyone is judging you and everything you like. I'm your shadow...
>>318771409
REEEEeEEEeeeeEeeE!!!1!
You... You're not me!
>>318776153
They're all insecure enough to have Shadows in the first place. I don't thinkNanako ever got one, or Yu either.
>>318772061
>>318774837
All you'd have to do is say "YEP< YOU"RE ME" before they get the chance too. But of course, in this generic high school nepu-tier bullshit, every character is too dumb to tell that to the person in denial so they don't gotta deal with the retarded "symbolic" monsters.
>>318776058
edgy means youre bein edgy
Shadow me? But I am the shadow version of me.
>>318771409
I usually have thoughts that I'm gay because I don't have sex so probably something like Kanji's shadow.
Female version of me
>"If you want to be a woman so bad, why don't you just transition?"
>It's just a fetish
>"And that's why you think about it all the time, even when you're done fapping"
>I just admire women
>"And wish you were in their place"
>It's just a phase
>"It's been over ten years since this started, fag"
>Transition wouldn't make me a real woman
>"Can't be any worse than it is now. It's not like you feel like a real man"
>FUCK
>>318776251
Why didn't Yu have one anyways?
>>318776513
He let all his friends know his bizarre secrets in weekly memos he wrote before bedtime each Tuesday.
>>318776292
woah...
>>318776513
same reason adachi didn't have one
but then namatame did sorta so who knows, maybe he didn't reach out to the truth enough
>>318776513
From a meta standpoint giving the blank slate insecurities would be tricky as fuck. It's far easier just making him the chosen one.
>>318776272
It isn't just saying it though, they also have to really accept their shadow self. Which is symbolized by the battle.
"Please kill yourself anon"
Pic related it's part of the huge rant i cant post here that my shadow made me tell it
![pudMsyS[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qEHsZTn.jpg "pudMsyS[1].jpg")
>>318777034
>>318776513
Yu was just given his by a goddess wanting to stir up shit.
His shadow does actually appear in the anime, blatantly in the last episode while battling Margaret but also in the Mitsuo episode. He starts losing all the friends he made one by one. Exactly what his shadow feared: being alone again.
>>318773863
There's a character with severe self-loathing, delusions of grandeur, an inferiority complex, and a generally empty life that he fills with video games and online bragging about how good he is at said video games. His shadow is a giant baby.
Probably be a loli or some shit and I'd wonder what the fuck is wrong with me.
>>318777360
But I'm too shit at vidya to brag about anything, and I'm well aware of the fact that I'm a manchild. I wouldn't have any trouble coming to terms with a shadow like that.
"Damn. Im really ugly"
Would likely just tell me that I'm lazy and am not as smart as I think. Also that im a hypocrite for not living up to the expectations I place on others.
everyone on /v/ wallows in self pity so much the manchild shadow wouldn't work.
could you make a shadow out of repressed and unfulfilled potential joie de vivre? denying your potential and stunting it with shitposting and ennui?
>>318774891
>not posting the robotnik one
0/10
>>318776750
>same reason adachi didn't have one
I remember there was a fan theory that was prevalent for about a year after P4 first came out that Teddie despite having his own shadow was actually the shadow of Adachi or Yu, there was all this faux evidence and arguments as their usually is for such fan theories, but an interview atlus did discussing cut content pretty much killed it for good. The one thing I thought was interesting about it was gave Teddie as a shadow himself a real origin rather than just appearing out of some dudes ass in the TV somewhere. Oh well.
>>318778029
It would have to be something so fucking pathetic that no one would ever want to be associated with it.
>>318771409I ain't no senator's son
>>318778029
>>318778179
Yes and we're above those pesky /v/tards and are just here to laugh at them, am i right? :)
>>318778029
Wasted potential would also work for everybody here
>>318771409
> A shadow MUST, BY DEFINITION be something I can't sdmit and dont want to hearJust say nice things about me and I'll deny the shit out of you, shadow-san
>>318771409
Rise is a whore.
>>318778257
This is about the time your shadow appears.
My shadow would probably be aslut
>>318775291
DUDE
>>318778290
probably the most apt catch-all
>>318776513
Just like Adachi, he was given his starting Purseowner by Izanami, so he could bypass the whole shadow part.
I have the same "wasted potential" that basically everyone here does, but my parents wasted it for me so my shadow would probably have some deep-seated resentment for them
I'm not talking petty shit here at all either, they absolutely ruined my education and stunted my social growth throughout my entire life
>>318778340
>Shadow Rise boss
>dat pole grinding attack animation
>mfw imagining her grinding on my dick like that
sweatingman.jpg
It'll berate me for never gettingthis 8
>>318778960
>tfw Rise is never going to attack your dick
>>318777624
Well you're supposed to face or confront your shadow, but I guess you could accept it instead and become Adachi? I always figured that's what happened there, instead of confronting his shadow he embraced it and thus got an evil persona out of it.
I may say no homo but I secretely love wearing the clothes my exgf left at my place and dream of fat juicy cocks pounding my ass.
My shadow wouldn't transform because I acknowledge that I'm human garbage.
Disregarding that, it'd probably mutter something about me being a vile hopeless romantic in love with the idea of being in love, and a parasite/leech with delusions of grandeur that coasting obliviously and aimlessly through life on the grossly unappreciated slave labor of doting parents.
All this before morphing into a swollen, hairy black penis with the head of my father, covered in vagina-shaped eyes with rotten-tooth dentata.
Which romance s.link is the most try hard? I think Naoto and Yumi take the cake. Naoto, because the choices to win her over are very unclear and you can feel that even though Yu is the bitchmaker, he and Naoto are pretty much different worlds.
Yumi is a goddamn 5head slut with daddy issues. "You gotta respect your dad even if he's shit" yeah fuck you.
>>318780096
Ai's romance is easy to fail.
>I'm worthless! I never had any potential! I never had any talent, I never had any friends! It's all my fault but I blame it on everyone else! I hate women, they're nothing but bitches and whores! It's their fault I'm a kissless virgin and I'll murder them to feel better about how pathetic I am!
>yeah pretty much
>... And?
>and what?
>You're supposed to also want to improve yourself after acknowledging your flaws
>nah man I'm cool
>Well I can't give you a persona like that
>can't you like give me half a persona? like just take someone else's and spraypaint it a different color?
>I-I mean I guess so but that's not how it-
>cool thanks f︂︂a︂m
I always figured that was why Adachi's (and I think Namatame's, it's been a while) eyes glow yellow when you fight them. They accept their shadow and so get a corrupted persona instead.
>>318780096
Are you able to romance the nurse or not? I cant remember.
>It turns into a senator's son
>Helicopters ensue
>>318780880
No, but you can fug her.
>>318780880
Nope, she is a cocktease at first and then makes a 180° turn.
>>318780948
>youre not me starts playing
>>318771409
Probably something about drifting through life
It would probably say something of my fear of responsibility, hate of the fact that I'm supposedly too nice and noble for my own good, disgust with my lolicon fetish, and my constant inner fear that everyone around me who isn't my family thinks I'm not worth spending any time with and just don't want to straight out tell me to avoid appearing mean.
It would probably be a miasma seemingly writhing in pain in a parapet or lookout that blindly attacks with a long, burning trident. Would use and is strongly resistant to fire and light, weak to ice, dark, and physical attacks. Dishes out extremely large amounts of damage, but at the cost of some of it's own HP.
>>318781551
and it would look like some crazy hitchhiker staring at the ground
>you will never reach out to the truth
Probably he would be an intolerant fuck who's envious of the others
I'd embrace him. I embraced him a long time ago
>>318778235
I've been waiting for this!
"I'm not you? If only that could be true..." Somber chuckle "But lying to them is how you get by isn't it? Tell a few more and repeat it enough times and you yourself start to believe it..." .
>>318782415
Dude has big tits at first, then they decrease again... wut
![IDShot_540x540[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/d7WzfM0.jpg "IDShot_540x540[1].jpg")
>>318771409
it says "I need a drink", falls flat on it's ass and turns into a 12 pack of Mexican piss water for me to drink.
>>318774943
holy fuck dude, nice to see a fellow master manipulator on this website!
*brofists*
>>318778290
>/v/irgins have to accept that their is some goodness inside of them in order to face their shadow
brehs
>>318784794
Now is when your shadow appears and reveals you both to be secret idiots.
>>318785147
>their is
>>318779084
>>318784794
>fellow master manipulatorYou aren't unique and there are tons of `` master manipulators'' like you out there. For example, a majority of women are `` master manipulators''.
>>318785503
>>318786126
holy fuck you guys are retarded, I was clearly making fun of him.
>>318786260
Yeah sure.
>>318771409
This.
I'm not weak.
I'm a rational person.
I'm a decent artist.
women don't find me disgusting.
YOU'RE NOT MEEEE
>>318771409
>You like dicks and you are a dick
>You're right, i am you and you are me, now penetrate my soul.
>>318771409
Literally youtube comment tier.
>>318771409
It would probably say that I'm a weeb in denial
>>318771409
There's a gazillion sick degenerate things I'd never tell my parents about, but I feel like it'd be tough for the shadow to come up with something I'm in complete denial over. I've thought up so many things wrong with me I'm sure there's a bunch of them that aren't even true and I'm just overthinking it.
And even if this happened in front of my very few friends i'd know that they boss battle would make all this shit obvious to them regardless, so i might as well admit it to spare them having to fight it and then fuck off.
"You worry about everything."
>>318789776
>You're a tryhard.
I am legit not in denial over anything, there is nothing that my shadow could say that would fuck with me.
>>318771409
Probably something about how I'm terrified of rejection
"Now neither of us will be virgins."
>>318775587
Holy fuck
>>318771409
I couldn't possibly say you're not me, because I don't know myself at all, so you could be, or it could be that you're not. I can't decide either way, because even if I feel a certain way about the matter right now, I might feel the very opposite tomorrow morning and that's why I don't make decisions based on feels in the first place. I'd need to hear your story in more detail, and, if possible get the opinion of a neutral third party, before forming a proper conclusion, if a conclusion really must be formed and we can't just leave this affair unsettled for now. What do you think?
And here the Shadow starts screaming "I'M NOT YOUUUU I DON'T BELIEVE IIIIIIT"
>>318776262
I once met Bill Murray in real life and he was a fucking asshole to me.
>>318792546
What was he like?
>>318771409
Same as Chie I guess
