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PART 1 - Out of Character
NAME: Airi
AGE (must be 18 or older): 25
E-MAIL: lovesnotwisely@gmail.com
AIM: battletoasters
PLURK: moveslikejaeger
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PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters (Skip/delete if not applicable)
Full Name: Minato Arisato
Nicknames: Leader-san
DOB/Age: ??? / 17
Birthplace: Iwatodai, Japan, presumably
Gender: Dude
Sexuality: If it can knowingly, consciously and legally give consent he will consider boning it.
Species: Human
Fandom: Persona 3 FES
Journal: pheromonecoffee
PB: his glorious face
Holoprojection Human Interface PB: n/a
Canon Point: After falling asleep on the roof of the school. So essentially, post-The Journey.
Appearance: A kind of short, lean kid with blue hair and grey eyes. His hair falls into said eyes, and he has terrible posture. His hands are always stuffed in his pockets and he's generally pretty expressionless, though less now that he's post canon. He dresses pretty fashionably, and he almost always has his evoker at his hip.
History: ... Yo I forgot I had to do this oh my god.
When Minato was super little, he lived in Iwatodai with his parents. That is, until the Kirijo Group fucked everything up ever and Minato and his parents who were hanging out on a bridge in their car, ended up involved in a giant explosion. His parents died and a robot stuffed the physical embodiment of death in him. He got shuffled around in some foster homes after that.
So eventually in his second year of high school he decides to move back to Iwatodai and attend Gekkoukan High School, which is a private school run by the Kirijo Group. On the day he moves in, his train is late and he encounters a boy in the lobby of the dorm he lives in, during the Dark Hour--an hour between midnight and 12:01 that only those with the potential to summon personas can see. He signs a contract that says he's responsible for his actions and after cryptic advice, the boy disappears. Minato then encounters two young women acting suspiciously in the lobby before the Dark Hour ends.
Within the next few weeks, Minato becomes aware of Shadows and summons a Persona for the first time, leading the teens who already live in the dorm, and their advisor, Ikutsuki, to realize that Minato has different powers from the rest of them. These powers are the wild card and it makes it possible for him to summon many different personas. Because of his cool and calm demeanor, Mitsuru--one of the young women from his first night, and the daughter of the head of the Kirijo Group--asks Minato to be the leader of a group of rag tag high school kids called SEES that fight monsters called shadows during the Dark Hour in a giant tower spiraling out of where Gekkoukan normally is. He and his classmates, Yukari (the other young woman) and Junpei (a joker type), decide to start fighting the shadows while Mitsuru provides tactical support from ground level and their other senpai, Akihiko, is injured. They believe if they reach the top of the tower, they'll understand why it's there and why there are shadows and the Dark Hour.
They find that once a month a shadow breaks free of Tartarus and rampages within the city. During those days, SEES must locate and defeat the Shadows. Each shadow they defeat leads Minato to have a conversation during the Dark Hour with Pharos, the little boy that only he can see from the first night. The conversations are always cryptic as hell.
Over time, the group picks up new members: first, Fuuka Yamagishi, who is the same year as Minato and relentlessly bullied to the point where she's locked in the school overnight and trapped within Tartarus for ten days, then Koromaru, a dog whose owner was killed by a shadow who can fight with a persona. Following that, the group goes on vacation and discovers a humanoid robot who has an attachment to Minato, named Aigis. Aigis was specially built to fight shadows, and she also joins the team and attempts to start school and assimilate as a human. She's bad at it, it's adorable. Soon after Aigis, the group picks up an orphaned eleven year old with the power to summon a Persona, Ken. After Ken, and partially because of him, Akihiko's best friend and one of the original members of SEES joins, Shinjiro.
During their time fighting, it's assumed that defeating the twelve major shadows will end the Dark Hour. However, things are not always as they seem, even among SEES. Junpei accidentally betrays SEES for a young woman in their rival group, Strega, who he does not know is against them. He is kidnapped and it goes poorly with Chidori ending up in SEES custody. In October, it is revealed that Shinjiro accidentally killed Ken's mother when he lost control of his Persona. This is why he initially left SEES and why Ken joined it--he wants to kill Shinjiro in revenge for killing his mother, before killing himself. One of the members of Strega, Takaya, attacks, and Shinjiro takes the bullet meant to kill Ken, telling him to live on before dying himself. This is the first loss to their team, and absolutely crippling.
The next month, they assume that the fighting will end, and Chidori sacrifices her life saving Junpei. When they defeat the twelfth shadow, they think all is good. However, Ikutsuki takes Aigis to the lab an reprograms her to kill everyone in SEES. He tricks them to Tartarus and they're all affixed to crosses. Aigis is able to overcome her programming long enough to be saved by Koromaru, but not before both Ikutsuki and Mitsuru's father are killed. Before he dies, Ikutuski admits that he was looking for the Fall, and going to use the group as sacrifices to bring about the end of the world.
Now completely betrayed and confused, the group continues to fight through Tartarus. Each member, starting with Akihiko just after Shinjiro's death, comes to their own resolve to continue to fight and their Personas evolve! They meet a new friend Ryoji who Aigis thinks is dangerous! They go to Kyoto except Ken and Koro they can't because they're a baby and a dog respectively. Then Ryoji awakens to who he actually is and gets into a fight with Aigis, nearly destroying her. Ryoji tells the group that he is actually a harbinger of Nyx, the goddess coming to end the world. He says there is nothing anyone can do to stop it from happening. Aigis is repaired and Ryoji returns at the end of the year to ask Minato to kill him--if he does that, he'll be able to wipe the memories of everyone and delay the Fall--make it peaceful for the group who fought so hard to save the world. Minato refuses.
Strega starts a cult and everyone starts wanting to die. They train. They make a promise to meet on the roof on graduation day. Eventually, the group arrives at the top of Tartarus and does battle with the Nyx Avatar--Ryoji's true form. Nyx finally reveals her true form and it becomes obvious SEES can't defeat her. Minato then rises to do battle against her alone. Though he is initially unable to fight her on his own, the voices of his friends and social links come to him, encouraging him through the battle before he finally pulls off the Great Seal. He then returns to his friends who all thought he was going to die alone fighting Nyx.
However, the group loses all memories of fighting shadows after defeating Nyx. Minato grows tired all the time. On graduation day, Aigis sits on the roof with Minato's head in her lap, discussing life. Minato closes his eyes and hears the voices of his friends rushing to see them, before falling asleep.
(He slips into a coma, and by the next day, he dies, his soul acting as a seal between the physical form of humanity's will to die that claws away at him, and the door sealing Nyx.)
Previous Game History, IF APPLICABLE: N/A
Personality: 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, the hard calls and he draws the responsibility to himself.
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.
Special facts/special abilities about your character: I'm gonna recycle this from an old strength section of an app because like it's legit the same, except with a little more detail because it was for, like, Luceti so it's longer than the personality section oh my god. I hope that works.
Being from FES, Minato is capable of using a variety of weapons, from swords to bows to axes to his fists. He can use anything anyone in the game uses short of hand guns because his hands are not guns.
He's also on track team because headcanon and he's damn good at it when he tries, making him fast and also enduring in his ability to match his rival's pace.
He's durable as anything from doing that monster fighting bullshit all the time. Like a punch in the face barely phases him and he has survived a few bullet wounds if you count boss fights which gets kind of complicated but if we're focusing on this asshole here, he's just durable.
Minato is exceedingly smart, charming and brave. Because you have no other choice if you wanna slink with any of the SEES girls and they're kinda cute so you wanna do that so he drinks a lot of coffee and spends a lot of time studying and also he really likes karaoke. And this makes him charming and smart and brave because apparently a caffeine rush teaches you how to people. I think this counts as three but w/e there's way more.
Adaptability is possibly Minato's greatest strength. Having learned to deal with transience at a young age, it's easy for him to slip into a new life and new responsibilities. Almost nothing fazes him. Nothing surprises him, nothing throws him for a loop. He remains stone-faced through just about everything, including the fact that the moon turns green and blood runs like water. He can easily accept his role as a persona user, and shrugs on leadership like it's a light coat. It seems nearly effortless.
Minato's super good with strategy and tactics. This comes from a) having a crap ton of personas in his head and needing to know when and where to use them and how best to do so, 2) having a team of more than three others but only being allowed to take three others to Tartarus, so having to balance their skills and talents, matching them up against the shadows on any given level and deciding who to bring when and iii) being able to command his friends tactics in battle when they're all ridiculously stupid AIs new at this monster fighting thing so you can't just be like "Yukari, be on heal/support" you have to be like "ugh Yukari be on heal/support for like right now because we're down in health and hopefully you'll heal me Yukari, no. Yukari, stop Ken is totally fine Yukari I'm dying." And then you turn Ken on heal/support because sometimes he's actually useful and Yukari can go back to the lobby and you will take Aigis instead because can you tell Yukari's AI hated me? Mitsuru and Akihiko and Shinji had no excuse they're just stupid, Minato has to deal with a lot of crap.
Minato has the ability to bear things a sixteen year old shouldn't have to bear. He always has the right answer for a friend in need. He can deal with a dying friend one moment and a girl who feels her parents don't love her the next. He can deal with trivial "my teacher not!girlfriend doesn't love me" from his clingy girlfriend classmate, Kenji in the afternoon and existential crises from a dude at a bar that night. He's a sturdy soul, despite and maybe because of his past of loss. He had to harden himself, mentally to be able to cope with a lot of things that kids don't normally need to cope with. He is unfailingly determined to do what he has to do and dutiful to a fault.
On a completely separate level, Minato becomes the Seal, holding Nyx back from humanity's desire to die. If you do not think this kid is mentally strong, you need to replay Persona 3.
Also, most importantly, Minato is a Wild Card. This means he can control a ton of Personas.
A persona is a facade you put on to protect yourself, essentially. In P3 mechanics, you shoot yourself in the head with a fake gun and it makes your Persona come forth. Most people only have one. Two, if you get a chance for substantial personal development. Minato has like a bajillion because he's somewhat of a blank slate. I've said a few times Minato makes himself what he needs to be in any given situation--the same goes for his persona. While he starts with one, he can change it to any persona he currently has in the filing cabinet of his mind. He can fuse personas in the Velvet Room but there's no Velvet Room here so it's not important. Normally, he can also summon a huge variety of Personae with the assistance of Igor and Elizabeth in the Velvet Room. Unfortunately, there is no Igor, Elizabeth or Velvet Room in sight, meaning Minato cannot exchange his currently equipped personas:
Messiah, Thanatos, Surt, Scathach, Kohryu, Cybele, Thor, Siegfried, Helel and Asura.
All of the links include their specific strengths, weaknesses and spells!
What is arriving with your character? His uniform, his MP3 player and headphones and his evoker. Along with a small assortment of the things he received for maxing out his social links.
PART 3 - Writing Samples
1. First Person Writing Sample: network sample
2. Third Person Writing Sample: Log sample
3. First or Third person Sample: He shoves a hand in his pocket with a concerned frown. He knows some weird magic is going on. He knows something strange is always happening to him. But he had really, really hoped to finally get some rest. When he closes his eyes he can still hear his friends' voice, he can still feel the warm sun on his face--when he closes his eyes he feels like he's still on the roof of Gekkoukan High, head in Aigis' lap. He's still exhausted, and he wonders if he'll ever feel awake again, but that's not really what's important.
What's important is he's somewhere new, and after everything, after resigning himself to death, he didn't expect to wake up somewhere new and alive. He presses the fingers of his free hand to his throat, and he can feel a pulse, so he knows he is alive, at the very least. He stretches his fingers, clenching and unclenching his fists. And then his hand goes to his hip, to the Evoker he's both surprised and comforted to see. He removes it from it's belt and instead slips it inside of his jacket, leaving it loosely pressed to his chest, making sure it isn't obvious to anyone else. And he takes a few tentative steps into the building he was dropped off at. The bed and breakfast seems kind of small, but as he takes the steps up to try to find where he can nap, he realizes exactly how large it is. As his hand leaves the railing of the stairs, he lifts it to the back of his neck, as if he's sore and his muscles are tight. He needs a break. He stares down the hallway, shaking his head.
"... I just want to sleep."
PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? no
Can this character be canon-punctured? III want to say no? Maybe no? No with a question mark?
NAME: Airi
AGE (must be 18 or older): 25
E-MAIL: lovesnotwisely@gmail.com
AIM: battletoasters
PLURK: moveslikejaeger
DROPBOX:
TIME ZONE: est
PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT: plurk
PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters (Skip/delete if not applicable)
Full Name: Minato Arisato
Nicknames: Leader-san
DOB/Age: ??? / 17
Birthplace: Iwatodai, Japan, presumably
Gender: Dude
Sexuality: If it can knowingly, consciously and legally give consent he will consider boning it.
Species: Human
Fandom: Persona 3 FES
Journal: pheromonecoffee
PB: his glorious face
Holoprojection Human Interface PB: n/a
Canon Point: After falling asleep on the roof of the school. So essentially, post-The Journey.
Appearance: A kind of short, lean kid with blue hair and grey eyes. His hair falls into said eyes, and he has terrible posture. His hands are always stuffed in his pockets and he's generally pretty expressionless, though less now that he's post canon. He dresses pretty fashionably, and he almost always has his evoker at his hip.
History: ... Yo I forgot I had to do this oh my god.
When Minato was super little, he lived in Iwatodai with his parents. That is, until the Kirijo Group fucked everything up ever and Minato and his parents who were hanging out on a bridge in their car, ended up involved in a giant explosion. His parents died and a robot stuffed the physical embodiment of death in him. He got shuffled around in some foster homes after that.
So eventually in his second year of high school he decides to move back to Iwatodai and attend Gekkoukan High School, which is a private school run by the Kirijo Group. On the day he moves in, his train is late and he encounters a boy in the lobby of the dorm he lives in, during the Dark Hour--an hour between midnight and 12:01 that only those with the potential to summon personas can see. He signs a contract that says he's responsible for his actions and after cryptic advice, the boy disappears. Minato then encounters two young women acting suspiciously in the lobby before the Dark Hour ends.
Within the next few weeks, Minato becomes aware of Shadows and summons a Persona for the first time, leading the teens who already live in the dorm, and their advisor, Ikutsuki, to realize that Minato has different powers from the rest of them. These powers are the wild card and it makes it possible for him to summon many different personas. Because of his cool and calm demeanor, Mitsuru--one of the young women from his first night, and the daughter of the head of the Kirijo Group--asks Minato to be the leader of a group of rag tag high school kids called SEES that fight monsters called shadows during the Dark Hour in a giant tower spiraling out of where Gekkoukan normally is. He and his classmates, Yukari (the other young woman) and Junpei (a joker type), decide to start fighting the shadows while Mitsuru provides tactical support from ground level and their other senpai, Akihiko, is injured. They believe if they reach the top of the tower, they'll understand why it's there and why there are shadows and the Dark Hour.
They find that once a month a shadow breaks free of Tartarus and rampages within the city. During those days, SEES must locate and defeat the Shadows. Each shadow they defeat leads Minato to have a conversation during the Dark Hour with Pharos, the little boy that only he can see from the first night. The conversations are always cryptic as hell.
Over time, the group picks up new members: first, Fuuka Yamagishi, who is the same year as Minato and relentlessly bullied to the point where she's locked in the school overnight and trapped within Tartarus for ten days, then Koromaru, a dog whose owner was killed by a shadow who can fight with a persona. Following that, the group goes on vacation and discovers a humanoid robot who has an attachment to Minato, named Aigis. Aigis was specially built to fight shadows, and she also joins the team and attempts to start school and assimilate as a human. She's bad at it, it's adorable. Soon after Aigis, the group picks up an orphaned eleven year old with the power to summon a Persona, Ken. After Ken, and partially because of him, Akihiko's best friend and one of the original members of SEES joins, Shinjiro.
During their time fighting, it's assumed that defeating the twelve major shadows will end the Dark Hour. However, things are not always as they seem, even among SEES. Junpei accidentally betrays SEES for a young woman in their rival group, Strega, who he does not know is against them. He is kidnapped and it goes poorly with Chidori ending up in SEES custody. In October, it is revealed that Shinjiro accidentally killed Ken's mother when he lost control of his Persona. This is why he initially left SEES and why Ken joined it--he wants to kill Shinjiro in revenge for killing his mother, before killing himself. One of the members of Strega, Takaya, attacks, and Shinjiro takes the bullet meant to kill Ken, telling him to live on before dying himself. This is the first loss to their team, and absolutely crippling.
The next month, they assume that the fighting will end, and Chidori sacrifices her life saving Junpei. When they defeat the twelfth shadow, they think all is good. However, Ikutsuki takes Aigis to the lab an reprograms her to kill everyone in SEES. He tricks them to Tartarus and they're all affixed to crosses. Aigis is able to overcome her programming long enough to be saved by Koromaru, but not before both Ikutsuki and Mitsuru's father are killed. Before he dies, Ikutuski admits that he was looking for the Fall, and going to use the group as sacrifices to bring about the end of the world.
Now completely betrayed and confused, the group continues to fight through Tartarus. Each member, starting with Akihiko just after Shinjiro's death, comes to their own resolve to continue to fight and their Personas evolve! They meet a new friend Ryoji who Aigis thinks is dangerous! They go to Kyoto except Ken and Koro they can't because they're a baby and a dog respectively. Then Ryoji awakens to who he actually is and gets into a fight with Aigis, nearly destroying her. Ryoji tells the group that he is actually a harbinger of Nyx, the goddess coming to end the world. He says there is nothing anyone can do to stop it from happening. Aigis is repaired and Ryoji returns at the end of the year to ask Minato to kill him--if he does that, he'll be able to wipe the memories of everyone and delay the Fall--make it peaceful for the group who fought so hard to save the world. Minato refuses.
Strega starts a cult and everyone starts wanting to die. They train. They make a promise to meet on the roof on graduation day. Eventually, the group arrives at the top of Tartarus and does battle with the Nyx Avatar--Ryoji's true form. Nyx finally reveals her true form and it becomes obvious SEES can't defeat her. Minato then rises to do battle against her alone. Though he is initially unable to fight her on his own, the voices of his friends and social links come to him, encouraging him through the battle before he finally pulls off the Great Seal. He then returns to his friends who all thought he was going to die alone fighting Nyx.
However, the group loses all memories of fighting shadows after defeating Nyx. Minato grows tired all the time. On graduation day, Aigis sits on the roof with Minato's head in her lap, discussing life. Minato closes his eyes and hears the voices of his friends rushing to see them, before falling asleep.
(He slips into a coma, and by the next day, he dies, his soul acting as a seal between the physical form of humanity's will to die that claws away at him, and the door sealing Nyx.)
Previous Game History, IF APPLICABLE: N/A
Personality: 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, the hard calls and he draws the responsibility to himself.
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.
Special facts/special abilities about your character: I'm gonna recycle this from an old strength section of an app because like it's legit the same, except with a little more detail because it was for, like, Luceti so it's longer than the personality section oh my god. I hope that works.
Being from FES, Minato is capable of using a variety of weapons, from swords to bows to axes to his fists. He can use anything anyone in the game uses short of hand guns because his hands are not guns.
He's also on track team because headcanon and he's damn good at it when he tries, making him fast and also enduring in his ability to match his rival's pace.
He's durable as anything from doing that monster fighting bullshit all the time. Like a punch in the face barely phases him and he has survived a few bullet wounds if you count boss fights which gets kind of complicated but if we're focusing on this asshole here, he's just durable.
Minato is exceedingly smart, charming and brave. Because you have no other choice if you wanna slink with any of the SEES girls and they're kinda cute so you wanna do that so he drinks a lot of coffee and spends a lot of time studying and also he really likes karaoke. And this makes him charming and smart and brave because apparently a caffeine rush teaches you how to people. I think this counts as three but w/e there's way more.
Adaptability is possibly Minato's greatest strength. Having learned to deal with transience at a young age, it's easy for him to slip into a new life and new responsibilities. Almost nothing fazes him. Nothing surprises him, nothing throws him for a loop. He remains stone-faced through just about everything, including the fact that the moon turns green and blood runs like water. He can easily accept his role as a persona user, and shrugs on leadership like it's a light coat. It seems nearly effortless.
Minato's super good with strategy and tactics. This comes from a) having a crap ton of personas in his head and needing to know when and where to use them and how best to do so, 2) having a team of more than three others but only being allowed to take three others to Tartarus, so having to balance their skills and talents, matching them up against the shadows on any given level and deciding who to bring when and iii) being able to command his friends tactics in battle when they're all ridiculously stupid AIs new at this monster fighting thing so you can't just be like "Yukari, be on heal/support" you have to be like "ugh Yukari be on heal/support for like right now because we're down in health and hopefully you'll heal me Yukari, no. Yukari, stop Ken is totally fine Yukari I'm dying." And then you turn Ken on heal/support because sometimes he's actually useful and Yukari can go back to the lobby and you will take Aigis instead because can you tell Yukari's AI hated me? Mitsuru and Akihiko and Shinji had no excuse they're just stupid, Minato has to deal with a lot of crap.
Minato has the ability to bear things a sixteen year old shouldn't have to bear. He always has the right answer for a friend in need. He can deal with a dying friend one moment and a girl who feels her parents don't love her the next. He can deal with trivial "my teacher not!girlfriend doesn't love me" from his clingy girlfriend classmate, Kenji in the afternoon and existential crises from a dude at a bar that night. He's a sturdy soul, despite and maybe because of his past of loss. He had to harden himself, mentally to be able to cope with a lot of things that kids don't normally need to cope with. He is unfailingly determined to do what he has to do and dutiful to a fault.
On a completely separate level, Minato becomes the Seal, holding Nyx back from humanity's desire to die. If you do not think this kid is mentally strong, you need to replay Persona 3.
Also, most importantly, Minato is a Wild Card. This means he can control a ton of Personas.
A persona is a facade you put on to protect yourself, essentially. In P3 mechanics, you shoot yourself in the head with a fake gun and it makes your Persona come forth. Most people only have one. Two, if you get a chance for substantial personal development. Minato has like a bajillion because he's somewhat of a blank slate. I've said a few times Minato makes himself what he needs to be in any given situation--the same goes for his persona. While he starts with one, he can change it to any persona he currently has in the filing cabinet of his mind. He can fuse personas in the Velvet Room but there's no Velvet Room here so it's not important. Normally, he can also summon a huge variety of Personae with the assistance of Igor and Elizabeth in the Velvet Room. Unfortunately, there is no Igor, Elizabeth or Velvet Room in sight, meaning Minato cannot exchange his currently equipped personas:
Messiah, Thanatos, Surt, Scathach, Kohryu, Cybele, Thor, Siegfried, Helel and Asura.
All of the links include their specific strengths, weaknesses and spells!
What is arriving with your character? His uniform, his MP3 player and headphones and his evoker. Along with a small assortment of the things he received for maxing out his social links.
PART 3 - Writing Samples
1. First Person Writing Sample: network sample
2. Third Person Writing Sample: Log sample
3. First or Third person Sample: He shoves a hand in his pocket with a concerned frown. He knows some weird magic is going on. He knows something strange is always happening to him. But he had really, really hoped to finally get some rest. When he closes his eyes he can still hear his friends' voice, he can still feel the warm sun on his face--when he closes his eyes he feels like he's still on the roof of Gekkoukan High, head in Aigis' lap. He's still exhausted, and he wonders if he'll ever feel awake again, but that's not really what's important.
What's important is he's somewhere new, and after everything, after resigning himself to death, he didn't expect to wake up somewhere new and alive. He presses the fingers of his free hand to his throat, and he can feel a pulse, so he knows he is alive, at the very least. He stretches his fingers, clenching and unclenching his fists. And then his hand goes to his hip, to the Evoker he's both surprised and comforted to see. He removes it from it's belt and instead slips it inside of his jacket, leaving it loosely pressed to his chest, making sure it isn't obvious to anyone else. And he takes a few tentative steps into the building he was dropped off at. The bed and breakfast seems kind of small, but as he takes the steps up to try to find where he can nap, he realizes exactly how large it is. As his hand leaves the railing of the stairs, he lifts it to the back of his neck, as if he's sore and his muscles are tight. He needs a break. He stares down the hallway, shaking his head.
"... I just want to sleep."
PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? no
Can this character be canon-punctured? III want to say no? Maybe no? No with a question mark?