he rode that old man

dammit i wasnt fast enough to post that XD so true

Mara is a girl

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- Said the demon compendium.

“Oh my god, they were roommates.”

Isn’t Mara considered a woman technically? (At least in some games?)

​@@thatperson1009, that's incorrect, actually. The only time Mara was ever referred to as female in the Megaten series was in Strange Journey's compendium entry, which was actually a mistake on the localization's part. Other than that, there is actually nothing that implies that Mara was ever gendered as female in the Megaten series.

​@thatperson1009 Mara has daughters that he uses to seduce men to desire If i'm remembering correctly. Here he's depicted as a penis To symbolize Males cardinal Instrument of desire. Famously he did confront the buddha riding our elephant friend but not as a penis just so you know That's what makes this funny.

It's not random at all. In budhism Mara isn't a huge green cock'n'balls, but rather a human like demon. And yes, he rides his battle elephant demon Girimekhala.

There is Ganesha and Girimehkala where they talk about being each other doppelganger and/or different form based on local myths where they came from. If you have Cybele in your stock, talking and accepting quest from Attis in Shinjuku will also trigger a unique conversation between them. If you have Alice in stock or party, once you get to Taito, Alice will give you a quest in the Demon Haunt. She will ask for you to bring (aka fuse) Loki and trigger the event in Shinobazu Pond. There are more unique dialogues and possible missable optional quests, you just need to search for them.

I had one with yoshizune and kurama tengu, they were talking about training in the old days and how famous yoshizune became.

Dagda: Tch, where’s my Godslayer when I need him?

​@@AceKite00 plot twist: this is the world nanashi created and is now dead (Obviously im joking. We all know after apocalypse nanashi created world of shrek)

"Dagda, you didn't do shit, that was all... that nameless kid."

yup

So this is a reference to an actual myth then?

​@@beetheimmortalMara is the embodiment of carnal desire in Buddhism, and Giri is his steed according to the Sri Lankan version of the religion.

Don't let your dreams be memes

Wait until you see the interaction between Belphegor and Mermaid. I felt sorry for Mermaid there...

Yes. Yes we know. That's the whole point of his design

Mara is the demon of desire in the Buddhist faith, especially carnal desires like sex. As such, depicting Mara as a penis monster is rather apt.

Which "his"?

Yes! The Persona series is a spinoff of Shin Megami Tensei.

Persona is a timeline of SMT where the world isn't constantly trying to reset to zero thanks to Philemon (represented by the blue butterfly). There is some other difference like Nyx in p3, being a reason people get personas etc. Also the monsters are from the sea of souls while in SMT they are literal demons - former gods and demons who lost their power once God ripped their reason from them and cast them out of power. And yes, capital G God. SMT has a lot of Christianity overpowering the other religions as a core theme.

@@Gulyus this is the best explanation of SMT i’ve ever seen ngl

@@GulyusI think abrahamic religions is more accurate since the games does involve Judaism and Islam (such as how angels appear from those two religions in SMT IV for example)

Both franchises belong to Atlus

@@darkwolfzain it's just an ironic title

Just two dudes being dudes, nothing to see here. Just two extremely heterosexual males having a conversation with absolutely no gay undertones.

just two friends, talking about riding eachother and stuff, nothing weird.

This is normal bro activity. Friends ride each other all the time

Real men ride each other, TROMBE! starts playing etc