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Mar. 5th, 2023 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariI feel like Persona 5 had a really good initial idea for Ann, and then failed to build on that. Which is fair, because I don’t know how I would build on it either.
Ann is clearly supposed to be the “seductress” character, right? Except Ann never actually seduces anyone. That’s Kamoshida’s mental model of her, someone who lured him in and then cruelly rejected him. Ann is a teenager who never asked for any of this.
In a sense, she achieves her Persona by claiming the stereotype. A girl who’s attractive and yet refuses to have sex is “evil,” but also free, compared to a “good” girl who submits. So she wields a whip and the power of flames to “dominate” her enemies. “Squeal, piggie!” But then where do you go from that? How do you take the dubious “power” of people wanting to have sex with you and turn it into something truly liberating? In Persona 5, you faff around a lot and never really come up with an answer. It aims for something to do with her modeling, but that just retreads Rise’s character arc in 4, which frankly wasn’t that good in the first place.
Ann is clearly supposed to be the “seductress” character, right? Except Ann never actually seduces anyone. That’s Kamoshida’s mental model of her, someone who lured him in and then cruelly rejected him. Ann is a teenager who never asked for any of this.
In a sense, she achieves her Persona by claiming the stereotype. A girl who’s attractive and yet refuses to have sex is “evil,” but also free, compared to a “good” girl who submits. So she wields a whip and the power of flames to “dominate” her enemies. “Squeal, piggie!” But then where do you go from that? How do you take the dubious “power” of people wanting to have sex with you and turn it into something truly liberating? In Persona 5, you faff around a lot and never really come up with an answer. It aims for something to do with her modeling, but that just retreads Rise’s character arc in 4, which frankly wasn’t that good in the first place.
