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pheromonecoffee) wrote2013-05-18 01:49 am
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Player Information
Name: Justyne
Contact: coloniesofrailtracers
Current Characters: Fuu and Mariya
Character Information
Name: Minato Arisato
Canon: Persona 3 FES
Age: 17
Canon Point: Post-game
History: I am not summarizing over 100 hours of play time
Personality: Oh boy. Here goes. My disclaimer is that Minato Arisato is a mostly silent protagonist. This is what I came away with after having played the game and seeing his choices, the options given to him and the way people act around him.
Minato Arisato can come off to people as a lot of things. He can come off as cold, he can come off as silly, he can come off as straight up lost it. He wears an expressionless face most of the time, seeming distant and alone. He can be smart or completely brainless, charming or ridiculous, brave or timid. He's this kind of mystery of a person that can act one way in one moment and completely differently in another. Knowing literally no one when he first arrives in Iwatodai, shuffled from place to place his whole life, Minato lacks a firm setting of how he should be, an understanding of what people expect of him. When played against who he is within his own self, this makes him a very strange sort of person. He's very internalized, he doesn't explain how he gets to conclusions he gets to, or the reasons he does the things he does. He has to rely on himself in order to figure out every step of his life. Having learned loss very early in his life, and the transience of all relationships ten years ago, Minato has taken it on himself to bear all his own burdens and to not rely on others to help him solve his problems. He lives in his own head, alienating himself accidentally from those around him.
Once he comes to Iwatodai, his life takes a big turn in the form of the relationships he builds. Though he still knows they could be broken and disappear in an instant, Minato's strength now depends on his relationships, in more than one way. He is chosen to lead SEES due to his natural ability with Persona, and his safety and the safety of his team depends on his relationships with the other members. He is faced with needing Social Links, drawing his power from them. And for what might be the first time in years, people are interested in him, and getting to be with him. In the end, he still remains mostly a dump for their emotions and issues, but he is faced with real people and real problems rather than shallow small talk and distance he seems to have received prior. Early on, responsibility is pressed to him, with Mitsuru asking him not only to lead SEES, but join Student Council to help her out. He's pushed to join a sports team and a cultural club, and in each of these places he finds someone else who wants to understand him and be his friend. They want his support as much as he wants theirs and Minato seems to need this. Everything seems to result in a social link for him, especially early on, every classmate representing a bond--a bond which has the ultimate goal of being unbreakable. Permanent. Etching Minato into the minds of his classmates forever.
Having always been an outsider prior, sent from home to home, moving around often after the death of his parents, this is something new to Minato. So sure, he slips up a lot with his weirdness. Hot sauce in his coffee and such like. But the eagerness to be with others is something that is sincere. The like of other people is something he can embrace wholeheartedly.
It's because of this that Minato is such an accepting person. He can befriend everyone from one of the most sought-after girls in school to the robot to a little girl whose parents are going through a divorce to a dying man. He can find someone to connect with everywhere from a slowly dying online game to a bookstore in town. Having lived mostly on the outside, there's no real outline for him to follow in the people he spends time with and this really shows. He makes time for pretty much everyone, helps everyone as equally as he can to the best of his abilities.
And all of this is just the social aspect of his life. Minato has a great deal riding on him at night, being the leader of SEES inside of Tartarus. When it comes to a battle situation, Minato's friends put their lives in his hand making him a good strategist. Despite having a team full of people who want to fight every night, Minato can only choose a few to train at a time. Despite a robot who always wants to be at his side, a shota who wants to get stronger, a senpai who wants to train and a classmate who wants to be a hero, Minato has to develop a thick enough skin to say no, and a quick enough mind to know who will play well where, using skills and strengths and weaknesses to make their path through Tartarus as safe as possible. Within the Dark Hour, Minato stops being Minato and starts being the leader, starts making the decisions.
And in the end, his decisions are ultimately what cause the world to start to crumble. Minato is the one who has to take responsibility. And he does so without complaining. Minato's core is responsibility and duty. To his friends, his classmates, and the entire world. Even if he was scared to face Nyx, even if he thought he couldn't do it, he used the relationships he'd been so eager to form, so desperate to strengthen--and he used those and the sincerity of everyone's feelings for him as his strength. In those moments, Minato was not forgettable, not fading, not transient, but firmly and decidedly alive. In the moment Minato chose to die, he also realized that he was pretty much immortal in the memories and hearts of the people he had connected with. It was his duty to them to take responsibility for the actions he'd taken. He'd released Death, he'd brought Nyx down. And that, in the end is what makes Minato who he is.
Minato puts everyone before himself. He's strong and determined, and incredibly powerful. He will fight until the very end, he will get the best grades, become brave, alter his personality to be more charming. He will do and say everything right. He will spend time with someone every single day or back off for a month. Even if someone's mad at him, he will keep trying.
Because he needs people. Minato Arisato needs other people to survive. No matter how much they know him, no matter how much they use him, other people are his strength and his motivation. And he's happy, knowing that they, and their children and their children's children can live. Even if he had to give that up himself.
I made myself sad. Thank you and good night.
Camp Information
Parent: Hadesplease stop me.
Minato is the type of person to get the shit end of the stick and still do what he has to. He's the kind of person presented with a terrible future and a horrible past and he still moves forward. He's the kind of person who does what's necessary even if he doesn't have to, because it's the right thing to do. He shoulders his responsibility pretty squarely, looking down all the bad luck he had, all his drawing the wrong lot and doesn't come out of it wanting revenge on people who don't deserve it. He's an outsider even when he's on the inside. He's not bitter or grudge happy, no.
But Hades is the oldest brother. He fought just as hard as Poseidon and Zeus. And he drew the wrong lot and was suddenly cast out of Olympus and stuck down in the Underworld and--
He judged people fairly when their souls were in the balance. Within context of the series, Hades is an honorable and just god, far more so than most of the others. He comes through on his deals even when he doesn't have to. Hades isn't this terrible thing he's normally portrayed as in media (LOOKIN' AT YOU DISNEY) but rather neutral as the gods go.
Please pend me. Don't let me do this.
Skills: Control over darkness and shadows. And, with prior permission, putting the dead back to rest.
Appearance:n/a
Samples
First Person/Journal Sample: Take this when it's done
Third Person/Log Sample: On the bright side, he tried to think, he wasn't really an orphan. He had a father. And he was alive, and he had been alive for a long time. And would continue to be alive for much longer than Minato would.
That wasn't much of a bright side.
He sits on the steps of Cabin 11's porch. He slouched as always, hands in the pockets of a uniform that's much to warm for this kind of weather, hair over one eye and a look that seems disinterested at best.
He's keeping an eye on the camp before him. Summer camp. He was at summer camp.
You don't go to summer camp after you die. Not that he'd ever been to summer camp when he was alive, but he's pretty sure no religion has ever described the afterlife as a summer camp. And he very distinctly remembers that his afterlife was not a summer camp. Last he thought, he was sealing a Greek deity away so that the world didn't end.
And now he's the son of one. He's a demigod. A hero. Well, he thinks that might make some sense anyway. Hell, even his parent makes sense, in a weird way. Hades, Lord of the Dead. And here he was, son of Hades, controlling the dead by making sure they die on time instead of in a giant apocalypse that wipes out the entire world. He imagines that conversation.
"I stopped an influx of souls to the Underworld. Sorry about that. There's less paperwork?"
Yeah that's going to go over great. He'll just try to keep his head down about it.
With a cabin full of unclaimed kids, though, Minato has to wonder how he got the luck to be claimed so fast. What made him special enough that Hades singled him out? Aside from, well, everything that made him special back home. Here it was clear that that wasn't much of a factor in their lives. No Persona, no Shadows. Just weapons and monsters. It's not too different from back home, except for every way that's important. What makes him special here is the same thing that makes everyone else special.
And it's such a relief. Minato, demigod or not, at Camp Half-Blood is relatively normal. No longer defined by his past, no longer bound the the responsibility of being special, given a brief reprieve of what he's sure is going to be an eternity as the Seal. The world hasn't ended yet. Things should... be fine, right? During his time here? He can't imagine the gods would yank him away from that if it meant the world was going to end.
They have him here for a purpose. In the end, just as much responsibility is on him as it was before. He's just getting a vacation, and then he'll go back. He sighs, heavily, before rising from the steps and starting to approach the nearest group of campers. Might as well make the most of it.
Name: Justyne
Contact: coloniesofrailtracers
Current Characters: Fuu and Mariya
Character Information
Name: Minato Arisato
Canon: Persona 3 FES
Age: 17
Canon Point: Post-game
History: I am not summarizing over 100 hours of play time
Personality: Oh boy. Here goes. My disclaimer is that Minato Arisato is a mostly silent protagonist. This is what I came away with after having played the game and seeing his choices, the options given to him and the way people act around him.
Minato Arisato can come off to people as a lot of things. He can come off as cold, he can come off as silly, he can come off as straight up lost it. He wears an expressionless face most of the time, seeming distant and alone. He can be smart or completely brainless, charming or ridiculous, brave or timid. He's this kind of mystery of a person that can act one way in one moment and completely differently in another. Knowing literally no one when he first arrives in Iwatodai, shuffled from place to place his whole life, Minato lacks a firm setting of how he should be, an understanding of what people expect of him. When played against who he is within his own self, this makes him a very strange sort of person. He's very internalized, he doesn't explain how he gets to conclusions he gets to, or the reasons he does the things he does. He has to rely on himself in order to figure out every step of his life. Having learned loss very early in his life, and the transience of all relationships ten years ago, Minato has taken it on himself to bear all his own burdens and to not rely on others to help him solve his problems. He lives in his own head, alienating himself accidentally from those around him.
Once he comes to Iwatodai, his life takes a big turn in the form of the relationships he builds. Though he still knows they could be broken and disappear in an instant, Minato's strength now depends on his relationships, in more than one way. He is chosen to lead SEES due to his natural ability with Persona, and his safety and the safety of his team depends on his relationships with the other members. He is faced with needing Social Links, drawing his power from them. And for what might be the first time in years, people are interested in him, and getting to be with him. In the end, he still remains mostly a dump for their emotions and issues, but he is faced with real people and real problems rather than shallow small talk and distance he seems to have received prior. Early on, responsibility is pressed to him, with Mitsuru asking him not only to lead SEES, but join Student Council to help her out. He's pushed to join a sports team and a cultural club, and in each of these places he finds someone else who wants to understand him and be his friend. They want his support as much as he wants theirs and Minato seems to need this. Everything seems to result in a social link for him, especially early on, every classmate representing a bond--a bond which has the ultimate goal of being unbreakable. Permanent. Etching Minato into the minds of his classmates forever.
Having always been an outsider prior, sent from home to home, moving around often after the death of his parents, this is something new to Minato. So sure, he slips up a lot with his weirdness. Hot sauce in his coffee and such like. But the eagerness to be with others is something that is sincere. The like of other people is something he can embrace wholeheartedly.
It's because of this that Minato is such an accepting person. He can befriend everyone from one of the most sought-after girls in school to the robot to a little girl whose parents are going through a divorce to a dying man. He can find someone to connect with everywhere from a slowly dying online game to a bookstore in town. Having lived mostly on the outside, there's no real outline for him to follow in the people he spends time with and this really shows. He makes time for pretty much everyone, helps everyone as equally as he can to the best of his abilities.
And all of this is just the social aspect of his life. Minato has a great deal riding on him at night, being the leader of SEES inside of Tartarus. When it comes to a battle situation, Minato's friends put their lives in his hand making him a good strategist. Despite having a team full of people who want to fight every night, Minato can only choose a few to train at a time. Despite a robot who always wants to be at his side, a shota who wants to get stronger, a senpai who wants to train and a classmate who wants to be a hero, Minato has to develop a thick enough skin to say no, and a quick enough mind to know who will play well where, using skills and strengths and weaknesses to make their path through Tartarus as safe as possible. Within the Dark Hour, Minato stops being Minato and starts being the leader, starts making the decisions.
And in the end, his decisions are ultimately what cause the world to start to crumble. Minato is the one who has to take responsibility. And he does so without complaining. Minato's core is responsibility and duty. To his friends, his classmates, and the entire world. Even if he was scared to face Nyx, even if he thought he couldn't do it, he used the relationships he'd been so eager to form, so desperate to strengthen--and he used those and the sincerity of everyone's feelings for him as his strength. In those moments, Minato was not forgettable, not fading, not transient, but firmly and decidedly alive. In the moment Minato chose to die, he also realized that he was pretty much immortal in the memories and hearts of the people he had connected with. It was his duty to them to take responsibility for the actions he'd taken. He'd released Death, he'd brought Nyx down. And that, in the end is what makes Minato who he is.
Minato puts everyone before himself. He's strong and determined, and incredibly powerful. He will fight until the very end, he will get the best grades, become brave, alter his personality to be more charming. He will do and say everything right. He will spend time with someone every single day or back off for a month. Even if someone's mad at him, he will keep trying.
Because he needs people. Minato Arisato needs other people to survive. No matter how much they know him, no matter how much they use him, other people are his strength and his motivation. And he's happy, knowing that they, and their children and their children's children can live. Even if he had to give that up himself.
I made myself sad. Thank you and good night.
Camp Information
Parent: Hades
Minato is the type of person to get the shit end of the stick and still do what he has to. He's the kind of person presented with a terrible future and a horrible past and he still moves forward. He's the kind of person who does what's necessary even if he doesn't have to, because it's the right thing to do. He shoulders his responsibility pretty squarely, looking down all the bad luck he had, all his drawing the wrong lot and doesn't come out of it wanting revenge on people who don't deserve it. He's an outsider even when he's on the inside. He's not bitter or grudge happy, no.
But Hades is the oldest brother. He fought just as hard as Poseidon and Zeus. And he drew the wrong lot and was suddenly cast out of Olympus and stuck down in the Underworld and--
He judged people fairly when their souls were in the balance. Within context of the series, Hades is an honorable and just god, far more so than most of the others. He comes through on his deals even when he doesn't have to. Hades isn't this terrible thing he's normally portrayed as in media (LOOKIN' AT YOU DISNEY) but rather neutral as the gods go.
Please pend me. Don't let me do this.
Skills: Control over darkness and shadows. And, with prior permission, putting the dead back to rest.
Appearance:n/a
Samples
First Person/Journal Sample: Take this when it's done
Third Person/Log Sample: On the bright side, he tried to think, he wasn't really an orphan. He had a father. And he was alive, and he had been alive for a long time. And would continue to be alive for much longer than Minato would.
That wasn't much of a bright side.
He sits on the steps of Cabin 11's porch. He slouched as always, hands in the pockets of a uniform that's much to warm for this kind of weather, hair over one eye and a look that seems disinterested at best.
He's keeping an eye on the camp before him. Summer camp. He was at summer camp.
You don't go to summer camp after you die. Not that he'd ever been to summer camp when he was alive, but he's pretty sure no religion has ever described the afterlife as a summer camp. And he very distinctly remembers that his afterlife was not a summer camp. Last he thought, he was sealing a Greek deity away so that the world didn't end.
And now he's the son of one. He's a demigod. A hero. Well, he thinks that might make some sense anyway. Hell, even his parent makes sense, in a weird way. Hades, Lord of the Dead. And here he was, son of Hades, controlling the dead by making sure they die on time instead of in a giant apocalypse that wipes out the entire world. He imagines that conversation.
"I stopped an influx of souls to the Underworld. Sorry about that. There's less paperwork?"
Yeah that's going to go over great. He'll just try to keep his head down about it.
With a cabin full of unclaimed kids, though, Minato has to wonder how he got the luck to be claimed so fast. What made him special enough that Hades singled him out? Aside from, well, everything that made him special back home. Here it was clear that that wasn't much of a factor in their lives. No Persona, no Shadows. Just weapons and monsters. It's not too different from back home, except for every way that's important. What makes him special here is the same thing that makes everyone else special.
And it's such a relief. Minato, demigod or not, at Camp Half-Blood is relatively normal. No longer defined by his past, no longer bound the the responsibility of being special, given a brief reprieve of what he's sure is going to be an eternity as the Seal. The world hasn't ended yet. Things should... be fine, right? During his time here? He can't imagine the gods would yank him away from that if it meant the world was going to end.
They have him here for a purpose. In the end, just as much responsibility is on him as it was before. He's just getting a vacation, and then he'll go back. He sighs, heavily, before rising from the steps and starting to approach the nearest group of campers. Might as well make the most of it.