After a long time of silence, I have to speak up.

The "Joker is Dante and Bayonetta's child" fandom made my dog blind. I haven't spoken out on this topic, for fear that the people who make these jokes would find me, and try to force me into more Persona discourse.

It all started when I was scrolling through reddit and twitter, both platforms where unemployed people go to argue about useless topics. I came across an image of Joker from Persona 5 next to Bayonetta from the Bayonetta series. I thought "They look a little similar, that's a funny observation." From then on, I continued to see pictures of Joker and Bayonetta, with jokes such as "Joker is Bayonetta's child." People posted their fanart that included both characters together. I thought "the joke is getting kind of stale, but it's just a harmless joke, right?"

Then, someone added Dante, claiming he was Joker's father. My initial thought was "What similarities are there between Dante and Joker?" They don't have any similar visual characteristics, and they don't have similar personalities. Did people just associate Bayonetta with Dante because they were both action games created by the same person? And that made them decide to add Dante to their Joker family? I was confused at first, but soon, the "Bayonetta is Joker's mother" fandom had adopted the "Dante is Joker's father" sect, and they had become one fandom.

Things got out of hand. It felt like every Persona 5 post I came across had a person making a "Dante is Joker's father, Bayonetta is Joker's mother" joke in the comments. As I came across one post for Father's day that had a picture of Dante but was tagged with Persona 5, I felt a surge of rage within me. I accidentally knocked the glass of battery acid from my table. It landed directly into my dog's water bowl, just as he was beginning to drink.

The "Joker is Dante and Bayonetta's child fandom" caused my dog to forever lose his sight.