History Characters / Persona3LaterMembers

* StuckItems: Because he's a dog, Koromaru's footwear equipment slot is permanently occupied by an unremovable item called "Bare Paws," preventing him from equipping shoes.

'''S.E.E.S.''' ([[Characters/Persona3StartingMembers Starting Members]] [[[Characters/Persona3Protagonists The Protagonists]] | [[Characters/Persona3YukariTakeba Yukari Takeba]]] | '''Later Members''' | As the [[Characters/Persona4ArenaShadowOperatives Shadow Operatives]])\\

'''S.E.E.S.''' ([[Characters/Persona3StartingMembers Starting Members]] [[[Characters/Persona3Protagonists The Protagonists]] | [[Characters/Persona3YukariTakeba Yukari Takeba]]] | [[Characters/Persona3LaterMembers Later Members]] | As the [[Characters/Persona4ArenaShadowOperatives Shadow Operatives]])\\

[[Characters/Persona3SEES S.E.E.S.]] ([[Characters/Persona3StartingMembers Starting Members]] [[[Characters/Persona3Protagonists The Protagonists]] | [[Characters/Persona3YukariTakeba Yukari Takeba]]] | '''Later Members''') | [[Characters/Persona3SocialLinksAndNPCs Social Links and NPCs]] | [[Characters/Persona3Antagonists Antagonists]] ]]-]]]

When SEES discovers that a Shadow has strayed out of Tartarus and is heading towards Naganaki Shrine, they arrive to see an injured Koromaru, and the Shadow nowhere in sight. Commending the dog's bravery for defending the shrine, and amazement that a dog can summon a persona at all, they give him the best veterinary care and, once he's recovered, a home in the dorms.

Koromaru's Persona is the Strength Arcana's Cerberus, who uses fire and darkness spells. Koromaru himself uses a dagger to fight by holding it in his mouth and wears cloth and leather dog suits as armor. Once Aigis joins the team, she often translates Koromaru's wishes for the rest of SEES. He replaces Yuko as the Strength Social Link in the female protagonist's path. Both protagonists are able to take him for walks in the evening on certain days of the week to either find items or get a small social link boost if another character comes along. However, Koromaru is one of two party members who doesn't have an Ultimate Persona.

* PintSizedPowehouse: Koromaru is a small dog, but just as capable a combatant as anyone else on the team.

* HowlOfSorrow: In ''Reload'', [[spoiler:he lets out one when Shinjiro dies.]]

* TomboyAngst: Fuuka is so insecure about her supposedly "unfeminine" hobby of tinkering with machines that it results in her compensating by [[FeminineWomenCanCook attempting to teach herself to cook]], which is [[LethalChef so disastrous]] that it only exacerbates her insecurity.

* EatingMachine: As shown in ''Reload'', Aigis is fully capable of eating human food and seems to have a sense of taste.

* MagicallyIneptFighter: All of Aigis' attacking options are physical. It's not until ''Q2'' where she gets skills that uses her Magic stat, gaining access to Nuclear attacks. ''Reload'' retains her physical-based moveset, as the game doesn't have Nuclear element spells.

* NoBiologicalSex: While she was built to be humanoid and feminine looking for purposes of establishing a basic human personality, it's obliquely indicated that she lacks any kind of genitalia because she was simply built to be a weapon. Where other characters get a strongly implied sex scene, Aigis instead goes for something that is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather suggestive in nature]] but explicitly not sexual. She does identify as female, however, even if she doesn't always admit it.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: While he is unable to speak, Koromaru is very capable of understanding what others are talking about. Sometimes he acts a little too much like a human to the point that he wants to go to the theaters to watch a movie.

Despite her behavior obviously marking her as inhuman, she forms a rapport with Koromaru due to being able to understand what he is thinking. Late in the year, she begins attending classes when she is able to pass more suitable for human. Her Aeon social link opens in ''FES'', ''Portable'', and ''Reload'' after she finds her resolve and awakens to Athena, which if completed ends with her giving the protagonist an old, charred screw from herself, which allows them to fuse Metatron. As can be expected, Aigis is uncomfortable about her robotic nature and feels she is unable to fit in among humans.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul:In the vanilla release, she was no closer to the protagonist than the male members of S.E.E.S, lacking a Social Link of her own, and her only one-on-one interaction with him was in the ending scene thanks to her having a RippleEffectProofMemory and remembering the events of the Dark Hour. Her characterization was heavily expanded as early as the ''FES'' re-release, which gave her a Social Link and made her a potential LoveInterest, and ''The Answer'' epilogue took things even further by making her the inheritor of the Wild Card from the protagonist. Every further adaptation and re-release has continued to portray her as one of the protagonist's closest confidants and effectively the {{Deuteragonist}} of the story.

* CharacterCatchphrase: In ''Reload'', she sometimes adds "As they say," at the end of her sentences. While she said this a few times in ''Q'' and ''Arena Ultimax'', it's a much more prominent catchphrase in ''Reload''.

* ElectronicEyes: A more subtle example: if one looks closely, one can see that there is a small circle in Aigis's irises surrounding her pupils. ''Reload'' shows them sometimes clicking and moving like actual reticles from the outside.

* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:The main theme of the end of the game and the Answer. Aigis gains the strength to move on with her friends and cherish the short time she had with him instead of falling into despair. Even by the time ''Persona 4 Arena'' happens, she still thinks about him all the time, but she uses those feelings to give her strength.]]

* IAmAMonster: When her S. Link opens, she spends some time angsting about how she has a human heart but a mechanical body and can thus be neither a person nor a weapon. Eventually, she does see one bright spot in [[spoiler:the fact that she's a robot, which means she won't die of old age and thus will always be there for the protagonist]].

* MagicallyIneptFighter: All of Aigis' attacking options are physical. It's not until ''Q2'' where she gets skills that uses her Magic stat, gaining access to Nuclear attacks.

* MundaneUtility: In ''Q'', after seeing Naoto use her revolver on a target stand instead of the cork guns, she uses both her gatling hands to instantly tear down the entire stand.

* ShoutOut: Whenever Aigis performs a CriticalHit, she says "[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Hasta la vista]]".

* PlayingWithFire: This is the other set of spells Cerberus gives Koromaru, access to the Agi spells and an immunity to fire. Unlike Junpei, Koromaru is a lot better with fire damage, learning group-hitting variants and the associated boosting passives.

* StaticCharacter: Koromaru is the only party member who doesn't undergo any significant CharacterDevelopment throughout the story, highlighted by how he's the only one apart from [[GuestStarPartyMember Shinjiro and Metis]] who doesn't awaken a second-tier Persona. ''Reload'' downplays this by raising the possibility that Koromaru had already undergone his development offscreen, with Cerberus actually being his second-tier Persona rather than his initial one.

* StockSoundEffects: In the original releases of ''P3'', he speaks using stock Shiba Inu sound clips. Averted in the movies and ''Reload'', he is voiced by Shinya Takahashi.

* TeamPet: Although Aigis acts as something of an interpreter, leading to Koromaru demanding to be treated more like a human than a pet. You can take him to the movies![[note]]It doesn't work, for either protagonist, but as a consolation they both promise to buy Koromaru a copy of the home-release when it comes out.[[/note]] He sometimes asks the protagonist to watch a wolf documentary with him in ''Reload'', bringing the remote to him.

* CrossdressingVoices: All of his voice actors on both sides of the Pacific have been female.

* LightEmUp: His persona is of the Justice Arcana and he's obsessed with the idea early on, which fits with the idea of light in this 'verse. However, [[LightIsNotGood light isn't necessarily good in the original releases]], as it is focused on instant-kill abilities. ''Reload'' would re-introduce the Kouha line of spells, which are damage dealing variants.

** In the original releases, Ken's primary niche is being a CombatMedic who is useful because he's tougher than [[SquishyWizard Yukari]]. In addition to this, he has a single-target [[LightEmUp Hama spell]] aided by Hama Boost, a single-target [[ShockAndAwe electric spell]] without any boosting passives, a single-target physical skill with a conditional damage bonus and a passive that augments his normal attack. His main problem is that he tries to be too many things at once, as you might expect of a kid trying too hard to be an adult. As such, the skills he shares with others are done better by others, and the skills that are unique to him are useless on bosses and mini-bosses. ''Portable'' gives him early access to Mediarama and trades his Hama Boost for Primal Force, making him a little more viable for boss fights but not really pushing him out of this trope.

* CrutchCharacter: He sports the highest Strength out of the party and comes with some severely damaging attacks as soon as you get him. This, coupled with the fact that most of the bosses you face right after getting him are very susceptible to physical attacks and his tendency to feel "great" rather frequently, make him quite the powerhouse when you first get him. In ''Reload'', if the protagonist does his dorm hangout events, he can create some of the most powerful healing items available. [[spoiler:A month after he re-joins S.E.E.S., he dies on the next Full Moon.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:He rejoins SEES after hearing Ken has been recruited. He's only ever available until October 4, when he's killed off. Averted in ''Persona Q'', as that game takes place just before the October 4th event and as such Shinjiro is available for the whole game.]]