Oh sure, the Magician will be easy to paint, no problem, says the muses.  

LIARS!  >.<  

By the way, says the muses, you should take that big block of wood you have and do a woodburning of the end of the second opening to Persona 4, you know, when everyone is standing on the TVs.  It’ll be fun!  

FUCKING LIARS!!!  >.<  

Well you should definitely do something with new, older Naoto on it, they say.  And as soon as they mention her name I’m like, “YES!”  I’m so easy  -_-

Now that I’m done fangirling (not really done, but now coherent) it’s SPECULATION TIME!  

I notice on the cover that there seem to be some sort of shadows on the side there, and unless if I’m looking at it wrong, there seems to be some gray thing with a red eye.  So perhaps this case dips into the supernatural, like the Inaba one did?  That would be really cool, actually.  

I also notice that long haired Naoto has long hair like her third persona, or rather, her third persona has long hair and Naoto does now too.  Coincidence?  Hmmm…

Does she keep in contact with the gang I wonder?  I certainly hope so (Kanji and Naoto feelings Kanji and Naoto feelings), I hope there’s some cameos to show the others one year later, because I’m curious (and since Yuu/Souji left too, it would be easy to have him show up).  Maybe even something small, like her having a group picture, or something to show that the others aren’t forgotten.  

Now, originally, I thought the book was taking place in like, her last year of high school?  Now it’s saying it’s a year after P4.  Isn’t that when the fighting game takes place?  I was wondering why, in the game, the entire crew is wearing the high school uniform except her, does she not attend school with them anymore?  Is she going off to solve crimes all around the world like an ace?  I wonder if the game will have a tie in with the book, like, you beat it with her and she goes off, or something.  

I’m assuming we’re getting a slew of new characters, I wonder what they’ll be like. I don’t think this book would make it here, sadly, I mean not even the manga is here in the U.S.  I’m such a dork though I still feel like I want to have it in my collection next to the other Shin Megami things  ^^  I hope she’s still the same person I fell in love with, I mean with the investigating and deducing and analyzing and all that along with being a bit socially awkward.  Though I’m proud of her for accepting herself, at least from the looks of the cover she has with her hair flowing and the bindings appear to be gone.  This makes me wonder… did she just cut her hair for years and finally just stopped?  

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N-Naoto?! It’s Naoto one year later!

This is so cool!

I’m a little sad that she doesn’t have her hat, but still. She looks so cool! I hope (although sort of doubt) that this light novel will be translated and sent to the US. 

Naoto merged with Mitsuru? (Hair, bike, different flavour of badassery)

If this is genuine artwork, Naoto aged a *lot* in one year. Very pleased about the bike, though. And she kept the ties \o/

Oh my fucking… shit Naoto, you just… wow.  It looks like the chest bindings are gone too, so I suppose she’s accepted herself as a woman and realized that women are, indeed, bad ass.  Look at her!  She’s turned into a bad ass, motorcycle riding cop.  Be still my heart!  And look at all that hair!  And the tie!  Just… please Naoto, go back to Inaba at the end of your novel to present yourself to Kanji (or keep in touch with him throughout the novel).  Please, someone animate this into an OVA just so I can see her riding after some criminals to some epic music.  

I’d be more surprised about how much she’s changed in one year but hey, this is video gaming, and I still remember reading Yu Yu Hakusho and seeing Kurama change from this short haired kid who was Hiei’s height to this tall, elegant, long haired thing of beauty in a year.   

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Naoto combos by Kamohito. Might pick her as a sub… after Mitsuru?

Truthfully, I know I will probably not be THIS good at the game.  I mean I do remember being able to string together some combos in Guilty Gear back in the day, but we’ll see?  I still want this game like burning!

Guh.  Just… it’s just so magnificent (and reminds me of Juri from Revolutionary Girl Utena, who is also bad ass).  Just give me a U.S. release date already, Atlus, and then take my money.  

And here I thought the last Persona 4 fic I liked that I wrote was “Push Me,” which I posted yesterday, I found this one deep within the pits of my computer.  It’s a Yosuke x Naoto fic, of all things  O.O  No warnings, really, just… those two talking about… oh, you know, things… 

I did snaz it up a little since it was such a quick write up when I wrote it for the badbadbathhouse a while ago.

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Oh hey someone made a GIF of my OTP doin’ their thang and looking like they’re performing some beautiful ballet routine.  I hope this awesomeness concludes with some amazing win pose if you beat the shadow with a team-up attack.  I also now realize that I’ll be needing this GIF for every outfit these two have, along with all three versions of their persona.  kthnx Atlus.

Title:  Push Me 
Author:  Chibi, that’s me
Summary:  There’s six more sacrifices that are standing right behind you.  You can already hear one of them screaming your name, running in to save you.
Pairings:  Main character/Investigation Team (yep, every single one of them), mentions of Kanji/Naoto, Chie/Yukiko, and there’s an extra pairing at the end.
Warnings:  AU(?), major spoilers to the true ending, yaoi, het, hints of yuri, lots of angst, lots of sex, death, bastard!main character(?)
Notes:  Prompt at badbadbathhouse way back in the day where the main character is actually the killer.  This fic is actually in eight different parts, but rather than post each part separately (since some aren’t very long) I’m just treating it all as one part.  The only other Persona 4 fic I’ve written that I like, so I’m posting it here.  
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Sometimes, when I get excited for a game oftentimes my partner and I ramble about it or rather she lets me ramble and she joins in.  Since we’re both excited for Persona 4 Arena, the ramblings have increased, and when it’s that special time of night when we’re that special kind of tired where everything his hilarious, this happens:

Me:  Wouldn’t it be funny if the game had DLC?  Like costume packs?

Partner:  I had mentioned that before, remember?  Like you get the beauty pageant outfits to fight in, but if you’re playing as Naoto you forfeit the match.

Me:  No no, I remember that conversation.  But what if…

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So I found this awesome picture of Ronald Knox about to lawnmower a zombie (it’s a thing, honest) and thought, “Dude!  That would be a sweet background for my laptop!”  Only… when I went to do change it I realized that my current background is this amazing collage of Naoto Shirogane.  And she just kept looking at me, like, “Oh.  So you are changing your background now?  I suppose I am not sufficient enough for you any longer.”  And I was all like, “No no no!  I’m not changing it ever!”

I can’t be the only one who’s gone through this when changing wallpapers, right?