I'm sad to report. Dodging chalk from the teacher in Persona 5 is RNG based. Your proficiency as a percentage to dodge.

I thought you needed higher proficiency to dodge it as the year goes on.

The mental image of Mr. Ushimaru practicing his chalk throwing skills on his off time makes me smile. Him alone late on a Satueday night, nursing a handle of whisky, weighting different wooden dowels to see what simulates chalk before inspiration strikes and settling on throwing it at at some pillows.

I'm curious how my non-cis/gender non-conforming friends view her. I'm kind of forgiving and tend to give the benefit of the doubt to things that don't necessarily deserve it.

I tend also get lost in the potential for something problematic to be good too. Problematic things have space to be reclaimed; just not by me.

When you pull the trigger on romancing Makoto, yall are in her bar decompressing after a fight with Makoto's friend.

Drinking tea, Ren and Makoto get up to pay and leave.

(Lala from my memory) "Oh honey, don't worry about it. You paid me in all that drama I just got to overhear. You kids take care."

Lala Escargot's gender identity is never commented on. I would guess she is suppose to be an older trans woman and a drag queen. Due to her bar being in the red light district.

She's unflattering, but she is also the only adult in the game Ren interacts with who has her shit together.

She is always so warm and kind to him. Asking how he's doing when he enters the bar, and tells him to leave early so he's not out late on a shady part of town. She's just a big sweetheart.

A gay joke at Ryuji's expense could work!

Ryuji, with bleached blonde hair and flamboyant outfit, whispering softly with his quiet, effete, and handsome 'best friend' about the plot.

An older gay couple, speaks a few encouraging words to boys they percieve to be a young shy gay couple and ask Lala to toss a few age appropriate drinks on their tab for the young men on their way out.

Ryuji would have an interesting response, and it could play with the themes of societal perception than P5 deals

Apparently OG Persona 5 kept the proud series tradition of "a shitty scene where predatory gay men hit on one or more of the protagonists".

Royal scrubbed it entirely, apparently the producer for 3,4, and 5 didn't work on Royal, plus Sega owning Atlus hopefully Persona 6 will cut that shit out.

Bayonetta is still the gold standard of eye candy while mantaining some class.

She was designed by a woman for one, but she is also written as a character who is both extremely powerful; and enjoys her sexuality.

She's also a 200yo+ legal adult.

Her sexuality is fun and exhibitionistic. You get a sense that she (the devs) finds it funny to use dominatrix moves to execute angels.

She also maintains powers in almost every situation.