History Characters / PersonaRebirth

Oliver's high class cousin. She had the misfortune of defending her father's less than savoury practices at an earlier age, with her final retort against a protestor reaching [[MemeticMutation a viral state]]. The whole affair eventually led to her [[{{Kuudere}} closing herself off from the world]], reserving her [[{{Adorkable}} true nature]] for close friends, family, and the ever wonderful Internet. Her persona is [[ClassicalMythology Spartacus]].

* CuteMonsterGirl / HalfHumanHybrid: Her attempt to forcibly regain control of herself during her monster transformation left her with a pair of wings and a tail, along with long, wire-like black hair. Until she accepts her shadow, she won't be able to get rid of them, either.

* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: Kira means light, sun, and glittering depending on language, but also bares a resemblance to the Gaelic name for 'Lady of Dark Beauty', hinting at her conflicting personality traits. More directly, Kameko is the Japanese word for tortoise, a symbol for long life ("He who fights and runs away...").

* RefusaloftheCall: When he first gained his powers, his new magical side conflicted so much with his scientific norms that his mind locked up for three days.

There is little justification that he gives for his actions other than the standard [[CrapSackWorld "The world is a terrible place"]], and that he's just playing his part. A look into his history reveals he's from a very long line of criminals, traceable back to the feudal era. His parents, being apart of this bloodline, were less than stellar role models. Due to the events of his childhood and the genetic code he carries, Sora believes that he literally has no other choice than to be evil. It's been implied that that may not be entirely true.

Kyousuke is not exactly the sanest person in Nagashima. Spoiled from a young age by rich parents, they didn't notice that their child appeared to have some severe mental problems. Once they hit hard times, they began to notice, but have only been passing it off as a phase. Kyousuke does everything and anything he thinks is fun, and barely even achknowledges the fact that other things exist if something's grabbed his attention. He's almost childlike, and has been described as a hyperactive puppy. Granted, a hyperactive puppy that happens to be able to control monsters and has nuclear powers.

[[spoiler:That's when Ms. Yellow walks in. She reveals that Kyousuke is not fully fixed, and that the damage done to him from his spells is now internal. The effect is now even worse, because energy is building up in his body that will eventually cause him to explode. Kyousuke goes into hiding, but comes back when Kira is about to be killed by the Gunman. He ascends and kills the gunman, but pleads with Kira to flee before he explodes so she won't die in the crossfire. Kyousuke dies, and leaves all his possessions in Kira's hands.]]

* SnakesAreEvil: Kyousuke has recently acquired a giant snake monster. It is his pet and he calls it niggles.

* {{Yandere}}: And ''how!''

His Persona is the sadistic [[SengokuBasara Yoshitsugu Otani]] of The Hermit Arcana, whom constantly whispers actions of malice to the scientist that occasionally get through to him, but mostly is ignored. Yoshitsugu is a Dark-aligned Persona that allows Katsurou to create purple auras around his fists to allow him to rot anything he touches. His has yet to test this power on humans however.

Zenshiro Murakami is one of the local Yakuza leaders that are trying to take over Nagashima's underworld. One problem though. Zenshiro has no interest in the goal and much rather surf rather than extended his clan's territory of influence. Despite being a Yakuza leader, Zenshiro has a laid back personality that really just wants to live a normal life, however it is an impossible wish as his father was assassinated, leaving Zenshiro to take control of the clan despite his disdain of the title. This usually prevents him from surfing on the beach. However that does not mean he is a push over, Zenshiro wields a [[ImprobableWeaponUser freaking anchor spear]] that is not easy to wield with one arm. [[OneHandedZweihander He does though]].

* SurferDude: The dude much rather surf at the beach all day rather than deal with his clan's business

* [[PowerBornOfMadness Power Born Of Madness]]/[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Manabu has the potential to ascend to [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]], but the only way for him to do so is to lose his mind completely. [[spoiler:It happened in an AlternateUniverse thread after he ate Miyuki alive.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity

* {{Expy}}: A villainous version of Merseault, from TheStranger.

* ShoutOut: Named for the main character of NorwegianWood by HarukiMurakami.

* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Taken past realistic and into incomprehensible circuity, sometimes.

* KatanasAreJustBetter
** WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter

An extremely effeminate NewTransferStudent, Oliver is unique among his demographic in two ways. For one, "he" feels that [[{{Transsexual}} he's a she]]. For two, her Japanese sucks. [[ZeroWingrish Horribly.]] She used to live in an abusive household, but has seemingly become quite well adjusted in her uncle's family. [[SiblingRivalry Sort of.]] Her Persona is [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Pang]] [[DynastyWarriors Tong]], the brilliant strategist who was shunned for his looks and attitude.

* CovertPervert: Her train of thought about a joke she made eventually leaped to [[ASongOfIceAndFire "Khal Drogo is hot..."]] once. And if we're going to take some of the implications placed about how she feels about [[{{Squick}} Oliver]], then it seems nobody is safe from her.

* OralFixationFixation: Always has a sucker or some other kind of sweet in there.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Nezumi, although not in their choice of wardrobe colour. Mai serves as the red Oni of the two. Nezumi generally has to rope Mai in when she gets too... [[BuffySpeak Phoenix-y]].

* WaxingLyrical: Starts singing [[PhoenixWrightMusicalProject Reawakening]] during her HerCodeNameWasMarySue ImagineSpot. Appearantly this is [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight not uncommon]].

* {{Expy}}: At first, she doesn't readily appear to be one. But then upon closer inspection, [[FridgeHorror you realise]] that, if Mai is Pheonix Wright, then Nezumi is [[spoiler: [[OhCrap Dahlia]] [[CompleteMonster Hawthorne]]]].

* GirlsLove

Descendant of the Samurai, one would think that Muramasa would hold the same values as his ancestors. He doesn't. Muramasa has absolutely no care in the world other than himself, in fact, he tries to make everyone else's life as horrible as he can allow just for laughs. The EvilAlbino has [[MismatchedEyes two different eye colors]] one being red while the other [[EyesOfGold being gold]], which he keeps hidden under his eye patch. A skilled swordsman who cares not for mock battles and craves to test his blade, the only thing saving the people around him from getting craved by his blade is the law. If only there was a place that he could kill freely without the law to get in his way...does such a place exist?

* Expy: A villainous version of Merseault, from TheStranger.

His Persona is Grani of the Emperor Arcana.

* {{Engrish}}: Inverted. Oliver can speak English just fine. Her Japanese, on the other hand takes constant forrays into ZeroWingrish, DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and even MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels territory.

* RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms: His Persona is [[InsufferableGenius Pang]] [[{{Gonk}} Tong]], the [[RedBaron Fledgeling Pheonix]].
* StealthPun: He's CousinOliver!

A half-Japanese, half-British boy with eccentric habits, Yuuto was raised by his parents in a rather unconventional manner, encouraging him to [[BeYourself be himself]]. This ended up making him a social pariah, which... didn't affect him much, aside from making him crave friendship and approval from others. Thanks to a psychiatrist's suggestions, Yuuto's family moved to Nagashima, where he became the only male member of Taiyoutono's Cooking Club.

* CloudCuckoolander: His profile describes him as having his head eternally in the clouds and the subtitle for his profile just goes out and outright calls him one by name.

* MakingASplash: His main element, to the point where he has a [[LastDiscMagic extra-strong spell]] in this element: Blue Impact.

* GlassCannon: Eros has good attack skills, magic and debuffs, and can reflect [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. However, he is weak to three elements at once, including [[OneHitKill Darkness]].

* AmoralAttorney: Her persona is Doctor Gonzo of the Heirophant Arcanum.

* {{Gonk}}: Her persona is a toad-like man in a crumpled suit.

An extremely effeminate NewTransferStudent, Oliver is unique among his demographic in two ways. For one, he feels that [[{{Transsexual}} he's a she]]. For two, his Japanese sucks. [[ZeroWingrish Horribly.]] He used to live in an abusive household, but has seemingly become quite well adjusted in his uncle's family. [[SiblingRivalry Sort of.]] His Persona is [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Pang]] [[DynastyWarriors Tong]], the brilliant strategist who was shunned for his looks and attitude.

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Dad]]: In his backstory, played straight at first only to get denied later on.

* BerserkButton: Sabotage his cooking at your own peril.
* BlowYouAway: His Persona appearantly learns every single offensive wind element spell. Including [[LastDiscMagic Phanta Rhei]].
* ChefOfIron: Established as a black belt that managed to break the arm of a [[AbusiveParents certain attacker]] that was undoubtedly much, much bigger than him. His very first appearance, however, involved some excellent FoodPorn. Possibly dips into SupremeChef territory.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Delibrately invoked in regards to his knowledge about the Japanese language and JapaneseHonorifics. Even Japan in general stumps him. (He thinks Shibuya is a TV show, for crying out loud!) He generally just takes Maria's ([[{{Troll}} delibrately wrong]]) explanations of them at face value.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Described by Charles as looking like "a little Shibuya idol" when in his (female) uniform.
* TheDandy: Time will only tell if he winds up being [[AgentPeacock the badass version]].

* {{Engrish}}: Inverted. Oliver can speak English just fine. His Japanese, on the other hand takes constant forrays into ZeroWingrish, DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and even MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels territory.
** Amusingly inverted '''again''' once where Oliver declares that he will "[[FinalFantasy KNOCK]] [[MemeticMutation THEM]] [[NeverSayDie ALL]] [[GoodBadTranslation DOWN!]]" in English despite being eloquent in it.

* FryingPanOfDoom: His weapon of choice.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: You're not really taken all that seriously when you're a teeny tiny trap that can't even speak the language that you're using to make threats of violence.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Doesn't actually realise that as a WholesomeCrossdresser, he is one. They're fairly common at Taiyoutono.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Reacts to a souffle imploding as if somebody just ate his pet bunny alive in front of him and then [[ThereWillBeBrawl ran around wearing its head like a hat]].

* CoolBigSis: Tries to act like and think of herself as one to Oliver, which sort of makes her implied perverseness towards him even [[{{Squick}} Squick-ier]].

* SiblingRivalry: One sided with her cousin Oliver (No, [[IThoughtItMeant not]] [[CousinOliver that one]]. The character directly above this one.). She adores him, but he hates her guts.

* TakeThat: She's not the least bit fond of the [[Film.ResidentEvil Resident Evil movies]] or their [[GodModeSue protagonist]].

* TheRival: With Kubaragi Joe, almost to SitcomArchnemesis levels.

* Expy: She is a Japanese Schoolgirl who acts like HunterSThompson.
** [[SailorNothing because she's a Japanese Schoolgirl who idolizes Hunter S. Thompson.]]
* Gonk: Her persona is a toad-like man in a crumpled suit.

* CountryMouse

* OhMeAccentsSlipping: Suspect to this at times. When he [[OhCrap realized]] that he hit Oliver's BerserkButton, he started to lapse into a loose country dialect.

* GonzoJournalism: presumably writes her articles in this style.

** BrokenAce

* JackOfAllStats: Grani has attack skills, magic spells and buffs, allowing him to have a skill for any situation. He also has only two weaknesses, invulnerablity to [[ShockAndAwe Thunder]], and decent (but not [[LightningBruiser good]]) stats in all categories.

* LightEmUp: His other elemental specialization, Hama, centers around Light-based {{One Hit Kill}}s.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent

* WellDoneSonGuy: His relentless drive to please his father is his prime motivation for becoming TheAce.

* LightTheWay: His other elemental specialization, Hama, centers around Light-based {{One Hit Kill}}s.

* BiTheWay: Implied in his profile. {Another equally plausible answer to the implications is that Yuu is a {{Hermaphrodite}}, but the former is a far more likely and obvious explanation.)

* GlassCannon: Eros has good attack skills, magic and debuffs, and can reflect [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. However, is weak to three elements at once, including [[OneHitKill Darkness]].

* LightTheWay

* WellDoneSonGuy

* AztecMythology: His persona is Tezcatlipoca, the smoking mirror.

* BatterUp

Conan's a [[{{Woobie}} pitiable]] man. Nearly two metres tall and with a build to reflect that, he's quite used to being perceived as dumb muscle. His lethargy and clumsiness certainly doesn't help with that. However, he's actually very well read and nobody's fool. Conan has been drifting from job to job aimlessly for years after the death of his fiance, trying to put the pieces of his life back together. His Persona is Goliah of the Chariot arcana.

An extremely effeminate NewTransferStudent, Oliver is unique among his demographic in two ways. For one, he feels that [[{{Transsexual}} he's a she]]. For two, his Japanese sucks. [[ZeroWingrish Horribly.]] He used to live in an abusive household, but has seemingly become quite well adjusted in his uncle's family. [[SiblingRivalry Sort of.]] His Persona is [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Pang Tong]], the brilliant strategist who was shunned for his looks and attitude.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Delibrately invoked in regards to his knowledge about the Japanese language and JapaneseHonorifics. He generally just takes Maria's ([[{{Troll}} delibrately wrong]]) explanations of them at face value.

* {{Engrish}}: Inverted. Oliver can speak English just fine. [[ZeroWingrish His Japanese, on the other hand...]]

* [[spoiler:AtteptedRape]]

* CassanovaWannabe: Has allegedly professed his undying love to ''at least'' half of the Cooking Club.

* DudeLooksLikeALady

* CloudCuckoolander: His profile describes him as having his head eternally in the clouds.

A teacher at Taiyoutono who was well known for giving out sexual favors to students. [[spoiler:Shortly after awakening to his Persona, he was kidnapped by Miss Yellow and the Gunman and transformed into a clown-like Shadow through some unknown process. He uses his new abilities to attack lone female students in the ruins and to force them to have sex with him.]]

* TricksterArchetype: Both Charles and his persona. Wukong in [JourneyToTheWest his story]] pretty much existed only to harrass people, and escort a monk to India. Charles pretty much exists to fight and break things.

* TheAce

* DudeLooksLikeALady: And HOW!

* [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs Every]] [[AvertedTrope Male To Female Transsexual]] [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Seemingly favours barrettes.

!'''Yuuto "Yuu" Hayashi/Gabriel Alexander Bolton'''
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny

* ClassicalMythology: His Persona is Eros, god of love.
* CloudCuckooLander

As of now, he's in a 'relationship' with Chouko, and is leading the evil group, stating that their purpose is to keep everyone else out of the ruins. Not all the characters know it, but Sora is one of the few that has made contact with the mysterious 'yellow woman'.

* BlueBishonenGhetto: Sora uses this to his advantage to manipulate women.
* FriendsWithBenefits: It would seem that Sora often had a relationship like this with his past girlfriends. Chances are likely that he's never been in a real romantic relationship before.
* InTheBlood: One of the reasons Sora is [[spoiler:(or pretends to be)]] evil.

* IRejectYourReality: The girl doesn't like society and its reality at all.

* GratuitousSpanish: Used to always be in his speech, but he dropped it with time

* ImprobableWeaponUser: His character profile even states that he played too much [[RyuGaGotoku Yakuza]] and [[DeadRising Dead Rising!]]

* LeParkour: Charles' first appearance, he vaults over another boy, spins around in the air, and punches him one right in the face.
* TricksterArchetype: Both Charles and his persona. Wukong, in his story pretty much existed only to harrass people, and escort a monk to India. Charles, pretty much, existed to fight, and break things.

* BadassLibrarian

!'''Yuuki Mikawa''

* AztecMythology: His persona is Tezcatlipoca, the smoking mirror.

* {{Wangst}}: Some of his monologues wind up as this. [[TropesAreNotBad But in a funny way]].

* FieryRedhead

* AxeCrazy - Tsukasa seems to enjoy fighting a little ''too'' much.

* SkinShipGrope - Mostly to figure out Kaede's true gender. Needless to say, the Gropee did not [[BerserkButton like that]].
* AttackAttackAttack

* CreatureofHabit: Although new developments are giving him reason to change that.

* LawfulNeutral: He hasn't shown any huge points for this, but the RPer's view of him makes him so.

* TrueNeutral: When the hidden group of Personae-users decide to split into factions, Katsurou adamantly declared he wanted no part of the conflict, only interested in searching the ruins.

* HeroicNeutral/ NeutralGood

* TheSchizophreniaConspiracy: Mostly averted. The Role Player is doing her best to portray Haruka as a realistic Schizophrenic. Of course, not being a doctor or expert on the disease, some slips are bound to be made.

* DrivenToSuicide: It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Haruka has tried to kill herself before. Likely a result of her voices twisting her perception on reality.
* TheArcher: Haruka uses a bow for a weapon.
* IceQueen: She often can act rather coldly to people, which can likely be blamed on her fragmented personality. It also helps that she is predominately aligned with Ice type spells.

* ChaoticEvil: Muramasa loves to make lives miserable, if he can't outright end them.

* NeutralEvil

* ChaoticGood: Seems to care less about law or tradition than his uncle.

* BlowYouAway: His starting spells were Garu and [[AnIcePerson Bufu,]] but out of the two, Charles tends to use Garu the most, [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking either making himself run faster, throwing knives hard enough to stick into walls without breaking, cutting things, throwing bears off of his face, or just plain knocking down innocent bystanders with it]].
* ChaoticGood: Despite raised in bad neighborhoods by a former delinquent single mother, he's managed to keep his heart in the right place.

** BrokenAce: Quite possibly.

* LawfulGood: It even says so in his bio, which also says he borders on LawfulStupid at times.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Grani is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robotic centaur spirit]].

* SurroundedByIdiots: He feels this way about his position as Vice President of the Student Council.

* LargeHam: The fact that he monologues (in public) on a day-to-day basis should be enough, but he also has a personal philosophy of heading into anything worth doing with all of your passion. This leads to a lot of shouting and inspiring speeches from him, regardless of whether or not they are wanted.

* LawfulGood

* CovertPervert: Her train of thought about a joke she made eventually leaped to [[ASongOfIceAndFire "Khal Drogo is hot..."]] once. And if we're going to take some of the implications placed about how she feels about [[{{Squick}} Oliver]], then it seems mobody is safe from her.

* DistressedDamsel: [[BadassInDistress Nah.]] While her general appearance and mannerisms ought to give off this vibe, Maria actually puts effort into getting herself out of trouble when she finds herself in it. This is established in "A Captive Princess", where her immediate reaction to a perceived kidnapping attempt is to grab whatever closest resembles a weapon and kicking open doors.
* GenreSavvy: To an extent. She's familiar enough with RPG tropes that, when she's suddenly dumped into the ruins and awakens to her persona, she adapts rather quickly for a sheltered Ojou.

* ChaoticGood: Desppite raised in bad neighborhoods by a former delinquent single mother, he's managed to keep his heart in the right place.
* ChefOfIron: The ability to cook came to Charles as his mother was burning some pasties, and he decided to take over right before the house set on fire, surprising his [[SupremeChef mother,]] who immidiately told him to take up cooking instead of being a delinquent.
* GratutiousSpanish: Used to always be in his speech, but he dropped it with time

* ChefOfIron: Established as a black belt that managed to break the arm of a [[AbusiveParents certain attacker]] that was undoubtedly much, much bigger than him. His very first appearance, however, involved some excellent FoodPorn.

* ThePowerOfRock: Joe is the personification of this trope. He walks around with his guitar almost everywhere and will usually end his monologues with a solo. When fighting shadows, he uses his guitar as a weapon and will often cast his spells (all lightning-based, of course) via a quick riff. One could even make the argument that [[RonnieJamesDio his persona might have something to do with rock.]]

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Being half-asleep for most of their waking hours day tends to do this to a person.