History Characters / Persona4TheInvestigationTeam

* PainfulPersona: No, [[IThoughtItMeant summoning her persona does not hurt her in any way]]. All jokes aside, the reason she even came to Inaba was because her idol life as Risette was wearing on her, especially since it felt like no one really liked "Rise". Luckily, after spending some time with the Investigation Team, she eventually comes to value ''both'' versions of herself.

A teenage IdolSinger nicknamed "Risette" ("Risechi" in the Japanese version), she suddenly retires from her work and moves to Inaba to help her grandmother's tofu shop, enrolling in Yasogami as a freshman. Despite being genuinely cheerful and bubbly, Rise is frustrated at her fans seeing her as Risette rather than her true self.

** Rise wears a revealing concert "uniform", complete with NavelDeepNeckline and BareYourMidriff.
** Chie opens up her signature green jacket and wears a BareYourMidriff tanktop.

* SmallTownBoredom: What's he characterized for. He ended up in Inaba after his dad transferred the family there. Despite this mentality (to where he got ''ascended'' for it), he grows to love the town, namely because of the people he cares about.

* She also seems to take a particular amount of glee out of teasing boys she knows except for a notable few like Yu and ''Persona Q'''s Zen. If offended enough, she will reflexively [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale slap them]], regardless of the other person's intentions (though she usually apologizes for it). This is done as part of how she plays with the YamatoNadeshiko trope; she's clearly not as submissive as she seems at first glance.

* DelinquentHair: Bleaches his hair. He stops dyeing it in ''Golden'''s epilogue, but decides to dye it again in ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'' after being made fun of.

* SenpaiKohai: Along with Kou, Daisuke, Ai, and Yumi, the Class 2-2 quartet of Yu, Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko are kohai to Saki and sempai (spelled and pronounced "senpai" in-game) to Kanji, Rise, Ayane, Naoki, and Naoto. Kanji becomes noticeably more polite to the second-years once he realizes they're his sempai, and if Naoto's romanced, misinterprets her being embarrassed to talk with the protagonist as rudeness.

Chie's Shadow takes the form of a long-haired, masked dominatrix supported by three pale Chies. The dominatrix has long black hair, similar to Yukiko's. It represents her jealousy of Yukiko's natural gifts and talents, as well as her wish and need of control over Yukiko.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed when compared to Teddie but there are times where he acted almighty to himself such as considering himself as the chief of operations of the team in ''Q2''.

* SecretArt:
** His unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Death Needle, which has a chance of instant death that increases if the target has an ailment.
** His unique skill in ''Q2'' is Kunai Backup, which causes him to follow-up on his row's actions with a normal attack. This upgrades to Kunai Dance which has increased damage.
* SinsOfTheFather: His above-mentioned HeroWithBadPublicity status is because he's the son of the manager at Junes, which many in the shopping district resent.

* AnIcePerson: Downplayed -- Chie learns a few Bufu skills early and backs them up with Ice Boost, but eventually stops learning them entirely and begins focusing on her physical skills instead. ''Persona Q'' forgoes even giving her any ice skills, while ''Q2'' replicates this behavior -- Chie again starts with Icestrike Link as her only source of ice damage, partially develops it with Ice Boost and Double Link, and then discards any focus on it to expand her physical repertoire.

* AggressiveSubmissive: [[PlayedWith In an interestingly non-sexual way]]. Chie's for the most part a straight up NiceGirl, but her Shadow manifests as a brutally jerkish Dominatrix who represents Chie's repressed desires to leverage Yukiko's popularity to look better for herself. Even outside of her Shadow, she can lose her temper easily and can likewise act quite aggressive when angry... but when flustered or flirted with, she immediately freezes up and gets extremely bashful. She's arguably ''the'' most insecure in her own sexuality out of any of the girls in the Investigation Team aside from Naoto, with her oftentimes seizing up and begin to babble awkwardly whenever anyone flirts or teases her.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Rise/Yukiko (both have beautiful feminine looks and are popular with males), Naoto (an intelligent detective who frequently exposits) and Chie (a tomboy who is skilled at kung-fu).

** For the Protagonist/Yu, it's threatening his little cousin sister.
*** Hell, this is basically a collective Button for the entire team. All of them absolutely adore Nanako and they're all furious when [[spoiler: she gets kidnapped]].

** Her boss battle has Shadow Rise moaning lustfully, even when she's attacked. Even Yosuke finds it off-putting instead of titillating.

* ByTheBookCop: If she's talked to on the second-to-last day after maxing out her Social Link, she states that she's aspiring to become a police officer so that she can protect Inaba more officially, and that he hopes to be tutored by Dojima.

* NonIndicativeName: "Yuki" is a name more often associated with "snow," whereas Yukiko uses Fire and is weak to Ice. She initially feels that it's a MeaningfulName because she's "worthless" like snow.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise seems to accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Yukiko is the less inebriated of the two, but she still acts rather loopy.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise seems to accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Of the two, Rise ends up being the one who's more off her rocker.

* DitzyGenius: While a straight-A student and overall ''very'' intelligent, she still ''is'' a {{cloudcuckoolander}} who does have a particular thought process when it comes to certain topics, like taking strange delight on someone described as "legendary".

The Investigation Team are a group of high school students ([[AndZoidberg and one sentient teddy bear]]) that was founded to investigate the strange phenomena caused by the Midnight Channel, and the seemingly unsolvable murder cases in Yasoinaba, the town they live in. Fittingly, they all have the mystical ability to wield Personas - supernatural manifestations of each user's personality.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Investigation Team.[[labelnote:*]]Clockwise from the bottom: [[NewTransferStudent Yu Narukami]], [[ActionGirl Chie Satonaka]], [[ClassClown Yosuke Hanamura]], [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Kanji Tatsumi]], [[IdolSinger Rise Kujikawa]], [[TeamPet Teddie]], [[{{Bifauxnen}} Naoto Shirogane]] and [[YamatoNadeshiko Yukiko Amagi]].[[/labelnote]]]]

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* SorryToInterrupt: When sitting on the girls' side of the table during the group-date café, Rose walks in to say hi to Yu, only to immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk back out]] when she sees what he's doing.

* SincerityMode: When Teddy shows up near the end of the game and she's so angry and relieved that she starts crying.
-->'''Teddy:''' Um, Rise-chan? Are you faking?\\

* NeverGetsDrunk: When Rise seems to accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, Chie and Naoto are the only two girls who end up not getting tipsy. Chie mentions that she feels a bit hot, but otherwise, her athletic lifestyle allows her to keep her alcohol level down.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Chie has a bit of a complex about this; she considers Yukiko the ideal girl to be like and is [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe surprised if the MC pursues a romance with her instead]]. Though even if she isn't pursued as a romance, the game hints at various times that this is still all in Chie's head. She has her own assortment of secret admirers, including Kou.

* NeverGetsDrunk: When Rise accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, Chie and Naoto are the only two girls who end up not getting tipsy. Chie mentions that she feels a bit hot, but otherwise, her athletic lifestyle allows her to keep her alcohol level down.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Yukiko is the less inebriated of the two, but she still acts rather loopy.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Of the two, Rise ends up being the one who's more off her rocker.

* IfOnlyYouKnew: [[spoiler: In ''Q2'', during exploration dialogue, she jokingly states that Akechi is hiding a terrible secret. She has no idea that's an understatement.]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: She doesn't have a mean bone in her body and is very kind and selfless, always being ready to help and fight to protect her loved ones, taking her supportiveness of them very seriously. That said, BewateTheNiceOnes has to be taken into account.
* InsistentTerminology: She insists on calling the dog that Chie adopted for her when they first met "Chosokabe" rather than "Muku."

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Kanji was really excited about finding "the secret animal cracker" that Yosuke apparently ate. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext We're not sure why, either]].