History Characters / Persona2PartyMembersAndProtagonists

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]

* LoveHurts: Oh boy where to begin. After dying front of Tatsuya in Innocent Sin, he spends Eternal Punishment pushing her away to protect her only for her to never be able to contact him by the end of the game and being forced to watch him from afar.

* PluckyGirl: All together now: "Let's think postive!"

* CoolGuns/{{Handguns}}
** GunsAkimbo: With a different justification in both ''Innocent Sin'' and ''Eternal Punishment''.

* FreakOut: Endures a string of these in a row while inside the TV studio. Then again, having to deal with a Stalker armed with a Chainsaw you swore you did away with would cause that.
* GeniusDitz
* HeartbrokenBadass: She still loves the protagonist of the first game, and this even causes her some angst in a plot relevant scene.
* LadyOfWar

* NotSoDifferent: The stalker claims this; viewing how she loves the protagonist while never admitting or doing anything about it (therefore admiring him in his shadow) is not much different than what he was doing to her. With the sole differences being how open he is about his ''love'' for her and the damn chainsaw he's swinging about; he's not far off.

* {{Ojou}}

* BadassBiker: Tatsuya's most treasured possession (second to his lighter, apparently) is his red sports motorcycle. He wears a red cyclist's jumpsuit in''Eternal Punishment'', the shoes being his only relic from ''Innocent Sin''.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Inevitable when he starts talking in ''Eternal Punishment'' since he was SilentProtagonist in ''Innocent Sin''.

Eventually, cornered by Maya and her companions after a grueling ordeal, he reveals the truth behind his regained memories. [[spoiler:While his companions did agree to lose their memories of each other at the end of the previous game, Tatsuya actually refused, not wanting to forget the time he spent with his best friends. This defiance caused him to regain his memories in the new timeline, posessing his new self, and creating a temporal paradox that threatens to revert the timeline to its original, apocalyptic state.]]

* TheAloner: In Eternal Punishment.

* NotSoDifferent: The stalker claims this; viewing how she loves the protagonist while never admitting or doing it (therefore keeping in his shadow) is not much different than what he was doing to her. With the sole differences being how open he is about her love and the damn chainsaw he's swinging about; he's not far off.

* BadassBookworm: Her otaku level knowledge of the occult makes her a rather effective party member.

* FreakOut: Endures a string of these in a row while inside the TV studio.

* TheResenter: [[Spoiler:A scene at the Monado Mondala reveals Ulala laying heaving into Maya and showing her resentment. This implies that Ulala may not exactly have been drunk when she performed the Joker Curse.]]

* KindheartedCatLover: Katsuya turns into a big softie over cats, [[RealMenWearPink which he finds cute]]. He's even pleased his initial Persona manifests as a cat. Unfortunately, cats also seem to give him allergies.

* {{Resenter}}: He's angry because he threw away his own dreams to raise Tatsuya.

* TheResenter

* HiddenDepths: It's hard to make out at the time of PS2 graphics, but in the art for his persona, Odysseus, it fights like a Samurai and the red at the...area of location reveals both [[spoiler:Baofu's true heritage as native Japanese]] and that he's quite proud of said [[spoiler:heritage]]

->'''Voiced by''': TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese), Kim Strauss (English, ''Eternal Punishment'', PSX), Creator/KeithSilverstein (English, ''Innocent Sin,'' [=PSP=])

-> '''Voiced by''': HirokoKonishi (Japanese), LaniMinella (English, ''Eternal Punishment'', PSX), StephanieSheh (English, ''Innocent Sin,'' PSP)

-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KosukeToriumi (Japanese), Michael Lindsay (English, ''Eternal Punishment,'' PSX), TroyBaker (English, ''Innocent Sin,'' PSP)

-> '''Voiced by''': Shigeru Shibuya (Japanese), BrycePapenbrook (English, ''Innocent Sin,'' PSP)

-> '''Voiced by''': AkikoYajima (Japanese), LaniMinella (English, ''Eternal Punishment'', PSX), WendeeLee (English, ''Innocent Sin,'' PSP)

-> '''Voiced by''': Yuji Takada (Japanese), DaveWittenberg (English, ''Eternal Punishment,'' PSX)

-> '''Voiced by''': Noriko Kaneko (Japanese), AmandaWinnLee (English, ''Eternal Punishment,'' PSX)

-> '''Voiced by''': JojiNakata (Japanese), Creator/RichardEpcar (English, ''Eternal Punishment,'' PSX)

-> '''Voiced by''': ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), SkipStellrecht (English, ''Eternal Punishment,'' PSX)

* {{Badass}}: Became one on purpose to avoid being seen as a wimp.
** TakeALevelInBadass: Does this both in his backstory and in the game itself.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm: He's both sensitive and brainy, and more than a little Machiavellian.
** BadassGay: Very much so.
** CulturedBadass: This guys kicks ass with [[SomethingAboutARose flowers]].
** FourStarBadass: [[spoiler:As leader of the Masked Circle, which he orders to face down The Last Battalion in ''Innocent Sin'']].

* {{Badass}}: Compared to the other party members, there's not much to Yukino's character. She's tough, reliable, and good-hearted.
** BackToBackBadasses: With Anna in both scenarios. There are two ways this can go down: Yukino succeeds in pulling Anna back from the brink, and the pair of them set off to fight Nazis with the other St. Hermelin grads; or, in the 'Bad' story path, Anna is shown battling alongside Shadow Yukino at Caracol, and you must fight them.
** RetiredBadass: Former gang kid, so she was badass in a different way before being a good guy, as pointed out from the first game. Becomes a straighter example of this in ''Eternal Punishment'', in which she becomes a minor character.

* {{Badass}}
** HeartbrokenBadass: Her heart was broken by a con artist. Her response: TakeALevelInBadass so she could shove his teeth down his throat.
** TakeALevelInBadass: Borderline DirtyCoward in the beginning of the game, but attains a lot of spine along with some CharacterDevelopment after Maya frees her from the [[spoiler:JOKER curse.]]

* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit: He's not exactly ''inconspicuously'' dressed.
** HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:His lover was murdered by the Taiwanese Mafia, and he wants revenge.]]
** BadassBaritone: In both Japanese and English.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBiker: Get a good look at that pic, because he never takes off the helmet in-game.
** CulturedBadass

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm: Her otaku level knowledge of the occult makes her a rather effective party member.
** CulturedBadass: Like Kei/Nate, she is rather well off financially and a well groomed and refined model.
** HeartbrokenBadass: She still loves the protagonist of the first game, and this even causes her some angst in a plot relevant scene.

Jun is a loner student at Kasugayama High School. He used to attend Seven Sisters, the school where his father teaches World History. When Jun awakened to his Persona, [[BullyingADragon he used it to injure some kids who were bullying him]], and was soon transferred to Kasugayama High School. Jun's affinity is with the Fortune Arcana, and his starting Persona is [[BlowYouAway Hermes]] / [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]]. As a child, Jun exchanged mementos with a young Tatsuya Suou, who was his playmate at the Alaya Shrine. Jun gave him an engraved zippo lighter, while Tatsuya presented Jun with his father's silver wristwatch.

-> '''Major Personas''': [[spoiler:Joker-Nyarlathotep]], Hermes, Chronos

* [[spoiler:HopelessBossFight]]: The first time, anyways.

* OneWingedAngel: Defeating him the first time causes Jun to be [[spoiler:possessed by Nyarlathotep, becoming the Angel Joker]].

* [[spoiler:SignificantDoubleCasting: He shares his VA with Joker for a reason.]]

* [[spoiler:VoiceOfTheLegion: Joker in ''Innocent Sin'' fits this the first time he is voiced. However, this may also be a way to hide his actual gender, as for a somewhat solid portion of the plot, Lisa (and later the other characters for a few minutes) believe that Joker is the little girl they left to die ten years ago. It's worth noting that this is dropped by the time you actually fight him, since the party already knows who he is by then.]]

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* AloofBigBrother: In ''Innocent Sin'', Tatsuya's big brother Katsuya appears to be a cold-hearted jerk preoccupied with his job. However, ''Eternal Punishment'' subverts this showing us that from Katsuya's point of view he's trying his best to be a good brother, and Tatsuya is the one causing the problems.

* BettyAndVeronica: To [[SiblingTriangle his younger brother]] Tatsuya's Veronica.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Due to the different PointOfView between the games. He's a jerk from Tatsuya's perspective, but from Maya's perspective he's stressed out due to Tatsuya's petulant behaviour.
* CluelessChickMagnet: Katsuya is ''very'' popular amongst the female officers, but is totally oblivious to it. He's similar to his brother in that respect. In an NPC conversation, it's revealed he was given a cake in St. Valentine's Day. He wound up offering professional advice on the taste to the poor woman, and ''not even knowing why he was given the cake, since it's not his birthday''.

* CoolLoser
* CoolShades

* FairCop

* FiringOneHanded

* HollywoodDateless: Word of God says he's hopeless with the opposite sex, despite being adored by the women in his precinct. (He's [[CluelessChickMagnet similar to his brother]] in that regard).

* RashomonStyle: His portrayal in ''Innocent Sin'' is pretty loathsome. This is a sneering bully who resents having to raise his brother alone, ignores all signs of impending danger for the city, and uses his badge almost as an expansion of his ego. ''Eternal Punishment'' reveals how exaggerated Tatsuya's image of him is, although it's not hard to see some grains of truth. Katsuya ''does'' resent his brother to a degree, and his life ''is'' hampered by having to constantly keep Tatsuya in line. The relationship between the Suou brothers is vaguely adversarial, but with a lot of love, too (Katsuya can berate Tatsuya until he's blue in the face, but will sing his praises in private), like most families. Katsuya himself is torn between his human desires and his professional and moral responsibilities, or rather his wants and his needs. Because we don't see his father (no mention of mom) doing anything about Tatsuya, he's a realistic look at just how strenuous PromotionToParent really is on a person.

* SharpDressedMan: According to Word of God, Katsuya keeps up with the latest fashions to give the impression that he's suave and in touch with pop culture, despite being neither of those things.

* [[BettyAndVeronica The Veronica]]: In Innocent Sin, he is his own Archie to Lisa's Betty and Maya's Veronica, yes, but in Eternal Punishment, he is this trope gender-inverted as Maya is the protagonist there, with [[SiblingTriangle his older brother Katsuya]] as the Betty.

* [[BettyAndVeronica The Betty]]: To Maya's Veronica.

* [[BettyAndVeronica The Veronica]]: To Lisa's Betty in Innocent Sin. Then in Eternal Punishment she is her own gender-inverted Archie with the [[SiblingTriangle Suou brothers]] as her love suitors, with Katsuya as the Betty and Tatsuya as the Veronica.

* [[BettyAndVeronica The Betty]]: To [[SiblingTriangle his younger brother]] Tatsuya's Veronica.

* TheVeronica: In Innocent Sin, he is his own Archie to Lisa's Betty and Maya's Veronica, yes, but in Eternal Punishment, he is this trope gender-inverted as Maya is the protagonist there, with [[SiblingTriangle his older brother Katsuya]] as the Betty.

* [[BettyAndVeronica The Veronica]]: To Lisa's Betty.

The [[HeroicMime silent protagonist]] of ''Innocent Sin'' and a major character and party member in ''Eternal Punishment''. His affinity is with the Sun Arcana, with [[PlayingWithFire Vulcanus]] as his starting Persona. For a long time, he and Maya were the only ''Persona'' series protagonists to have canonical names (provided in the games themselves, not spinoff material), until the animated adaptations of ''Persona 3'' and ''Persona 4''.

A major character and party member in ''Innocent Sin'' and the [[HeroicMime silent protagonist]] of ''Eternal Punishment''. Her affinity is with the Moon Arcana, with [[AnIcePerson Maia]] as her starting Persona. For a long time, she and Tatsuya were the only ''Persona'' series protagonists to have canonical names (provided in the games themselves, not spinoff material), until the animated adaptations of ''Persona 3'' and ''Persona 4''.

Lisa "Ginko" Silverman is a popular girl at Seven Sisters High School. Despite her [[ButNotTooForeign Caucasian lineage]], she was born and raised in Japan and does not know any English, but she has a habit of lacing her native Japanese with some Chinese words, imitating action stars such as BruceLee. Lisa's affinity is with the Lovers Arcana, with [[DishingOutDirt Eros]] as her initial Persona. She is one of the more popular girls at Seven Sisters High School, and harbors a crush for Tatsuya. However, she and Kasugayama High School leader Eikichi Mishina have a confrontational relationship akin to that of Kei Nanjo and Masao "Mark" Inaba from the first ''Persona''.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He definitely has a crush on Maya but the object of her affection is his younger brother Tatsuya. [[MaybeEverAfter Maybe averted by the end of Eternal Punishment]], but it's incredibly unclear.