{"id":109151,"date":"2026-05-01T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-weeknd-just-fumbled-persona-5-royals-hottest-love-interest\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:13:20","slug":"the-weeknd-just-fumbled-persona-5-royals-hottest-love-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-weeknd-just-fumbled-persona-5-royals-hottest-love-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Just Fumbled Persona 5 Royal&#039;s Hottest Love Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1639\/16394322\/4690930-yakuzamachinegunkiss.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though four-time Grammy award winner Abel &#8220;The Weeknd&#8221; Tesfaye might be best known for his swoon-worthy singing voice, lately Tesfaye has been posting more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gene.hackerman\/\">his video game career<\/a> than his singing one. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/the-weeknd-persona-5-royal-romance-takemi-who-is-gene-hackerman\/\">Polygon<\/a>, the latest game Tesfaye&#8217;s been working through is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/persona-5-royal-review-hearts-of-gold\/1900-6417444\/\">certified 10\/10 masterpiece Persona 5 Royal<\/a>. But while he might be around 92 hours in, apparently he still has a lot to learn. Most notably, that you need to indicate that you&#8217;d like to pursue a romance with your in-game love interest during their Rank 9 event.<\/p>\n<p>Tesfaye took to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gene.hackerman\/\">alternate Instagram account<\/a> to lament this fact, sharing an image of a Google search result stating, &#8220;You cannot initiate a romance with Takemi after you have already reached Rank 10 if you did not choose the romance options during Rank 9.&#8221; Presumably, this means Tesafaye searched if he had missed his shot with Persona 5&#8217;s &#8220;hot goth doctor.&#8221; And, if he in fact did reach Rank 10 without having a steamy conversation with Tae, he did. Sorry, Tesfaye!<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MementoMoriXO\/status\/2049511109804036557\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Weeknd posts about not romancing Takemi in Persona 5 Royal via his alt account, gene.hackerman IG story. This comes after multiple comments from Persona fans on the fact that he didn\u2019t romance her <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BJPFHbf44j\">pic.twitter.com\/BJPFHbf44j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 \ud835\ude7c\ud835\ude74\ud835\ude7c\ud835\ude74\ud835\ude7d\ud835\ude83\ud835\ude7e \ud835\ude7c\ud835\ude7e\ud835\ude81\ud835\ude78 \ud835\ude87\ud835\ude7e\ud83d\udc80 (@MementoMoriXO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MementoMoriXO\/status\/2049511109804036557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Shortly after sharing the above post, Tesfaye followed it up with this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MementoMoriXO\/status\/2049511733274771921\/photo\/1\">funny, albeit graphic, image<\/a>. Naturally, fans have taken to X to fire off a lot of incredible memes and jokes about the ordeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-weeknd-just-fumbled-persona-5-royals-hottest-love-interest\/1100-6539736\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\/\">Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-weeknd-just-fumbled-persona-5-royals-hottest-love-interest\/1100-6539736\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though four-time Grammy award winner Abel &#8220;The Weeknd&#8221; Tesfaye might be best known for his swoon-worthy singing voice, lately Tesfaye has been posting more about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}