The theater kid
Persona 5, the 2016 installment of the Japanese role-playing series, is the game I turn to for imagining my high school experience turned upside down and shaken. It’s absurd and abounds with magical realism, but it also employs the same relaxing repetition your actual high school years settle into.
Between your time spent crime-fighting with a tasteful black mask on, which is a very theater kid thing to do, you—as the protagonist—Joker need to attend your daily classes and answer questions correctly, just as any other 16-year-old. Then and only then can you be prepared to crush adults’ evil hearts in turn-based combat, complete burger challenges for money, and have an inappropriate relationship with your homeroom teacher. Do not try this at home.
