player. NAME: Tale JOURNAL: larvyane E-MAIL: einmyrias@gmail.com CONTACT INFO: larvayne & ringsofroses CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
character. CHARACTER NAME: Arisato Minako SERIES: Persona 3 Portable CANON POINT: Before the Promised Day! Specifically, 29th January 2010. APPEARANCE: \o/ DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: Macabre Dancer. Minako normally wields a naginata in battle but this doesn't translate well into any of the other classes. The reason that I've picked Macabre Dancer over all the others is because the class is a balanced caster which translates well to Minako’s ability to persona-switch depending on the situation.
PERSONALITY: ( As a disclaimer to this section: Minako is a silent protagonist like the original male main character. However, it is clear from her dialogue options that she is a upbeat and cheerful individual. That is the basis of this written personality. )
( "You're outwardly adorable. And yet, you have it in you to be stronger, more courageous, and more charismatic than a man..." - Mitsuru. )
On the surface, it's easy to see Minako as a ditz: she sometimes has her head in the clouds, latches onto the weirdest things in certain conversations and is oblivious to a conman/celebrity's scam until he admits the truth and this is despite her being insightful regarding her other social links. It probably doesn't help that her Arcana is of the Fool -- the inexperienced childlike spirit at the beginning of a journey.
Minako, however, presents herself as a cheerful and energetic girl. Nearly always smiling, she never does things half-heartedly, whether it's leading a group of her comrades to scale a seemingly endless tower or visiting a dark alley in the middle of the night to play detective. A quick thinker, flexible, she adapts easily and can often remain calm in the worse of situations, which makes her a good leader. In spite of this, Minako thinks with her heart and not her head; when it comes to danger befalling the people she cares about, she's willing to put her own life at risk, and this is exactly why she rushes in to defend a friend of hers against thugs without a single thought of how she would defend herself.
Emotional, she's prone to quick outbursts of anger that fade just as fast and she holds very little grudges, willing to put aside past animosity and lend a helping hand or listening ear to friends, strangers and enemies alike. However, she does not wear her heart on her sleeve. More often than not, Minako represses all of the negative emotions and insecurities, burying them all deep inside herself.
It's no surprise then that Minako's initial persona is 'Orpheus', a man who had lost the love of his life to death itself and entered the underworld in order to rescue her soul; like Orpheus, Minako lost her family ten years ago. Being constantly shifted from place to place, from foster family to foster family, did not allow Minako to forge endurable bonds of friendship and so she learnt to be independent and alone even if she yearned for friends and a family to call her own.
Coming to Gekkoukan and meeting the people she did meet her changed her and her outlook ever so slowly. Here there were people who could empathize with her own background; here, there were people who offered to listen and share the burdens she held even if she never took them up on it. The contract she signed her first night here awoke her to the fact that she was responsible for her own life and the decisions she made; knowing that she would remain at Gekkoukan for at least two years, Minako made an effort to improve herself as a person over the past year, becoming a Genius in Academics with a Bewitching Charm and Badass Courage.
( "It seems you've discovered each of the social links, and formed strong bonds with them all. In order to have gotten so well, with so many different people... You must have worn many faces. Perhaps you'll find this useful, since you seem to be able to adopt any sort of face... A cipher like you... ...should have this." - Igor. )
A Persona is defined as a manifestation of a person's psyche and is a facet of a person's personality that reacts to the world. As a Wild Card, Minako can switch Personas as easily as changing her clothes; she's both perceptive and good at fitting in with others. Some might call it being manipulative but Minako sincerely wishes the best for everyone.
At the end of the day, this is a girl who loved her friends and the world enough to give her life up in order to protect everyone and this is a girl who held on to life in order to fulfil the promise she made with them.
samples. FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE: Hello everyone（＊・ω・）/ This is Minako here! In order to train, I've been exploring a lot of areas and everything is so beautiful.
My favourite field so far is Δ Dawning Love's Fortune! It's pleasant and sunny, complete with lush grass and brilliant flowers. Has anyone else been there before? What are your favourite area words? (*≧ω≦)Please share them with me!
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: Slowly, over the month, Minako became certain that everyone had made their own decisions. The dark mood and tension that had settled in with Ryoji's departure was slowly disappearing, leaving no fragments of doubt behind. She could sense their determination even in their fear, sense their strength even in their weakness, sense their answer -- even if none of them had spoken it aloud.
We'll fight, she thought to herself. We'll fight, all of us, together.
Death came to everyone, death spared no one -- but, even now, Shinjiro-senpai was clinging on to life in his coma in the hospital. Even now, Akinari-san was struggling to finish his story of the pink crocodile and the bird. Even now, her non-SEES friends were out there, living their lives out to the fullest.
She would not kill Ryoji; this was a decision she had made since she was first offered a choice. She could not kill him -- and she would not, even if she had never known him. No matter how painful or tough it would be, she wanted to fight Nyx, to prevent the tragedy that would befall the world if they did not.
"Hey," Junpei started to say, one day after class, "if Ryoji were to walk in and sit down like nothing happened, how would you react?"
There were so many things she could say, so many things that she wanted to say. But... She could not say them aloud. After all, she wasn't supposed to cry, right? Hiding her sadness, Minako grinned. "20 demerits for tardiness."
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NAME: Tale
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E-MAIL: einmyrias@gmail.com
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character.
CHARACTER NAME: Arisato Minako
SERIES: Persona 3 Portable
CANON POINT: Before the Promised Day! Specifically, 29th January 2010.
APPEARANCE: \o/
DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: Macabre Dancer. Minako normally wields a naginata in battle but this doesn't translate well into any of the other classes. The reason that I've picked Macabre Dancer over all the others is because the class is a balanced caster which translates well to Minako’s ability to persona-switch depending on the situation.
PERSONALITY:
( As a disclaimer to this section: Minako is a silent protagonist like the original male main character.
However, it is clear from her dialogue options that she is a upbeat and cheerful individual.
That is the basis of this written personality. )
( "You're outwardly adorable.
And yet, you have it in you to be stronger, more courageous,
and more charismatic than a man..."
- Mitsuru. )
On the surface, it's easy to see Minako as a ditz: she sometimes has her head in the clouds, latches onto the weirdest things in certain conversations and is oblivious to a conman/celebrity's scam until he admits the truth and this is despite her being insightful regarding her other social links. It probably doesn't help that her Arcana is of the Fool -- the inexperienced childlike spirit at the beginning of a journey.
Minako, however, presents herself as a cheerful and energetic girl. Nearly always smiling, she never does things half-heartedly, whether it's leading a group of her comrades to scale a seemingly endless tower or visiting a dark alley in the middle of the night to play detective. A quick thinker, flexible, she adapts easily and can often remain calm in the worse of situations, which makes her a good leader. In spite of this, Minako thinks with her heart and not her head; when it comes to danger befalling the people she cares about, she's willing to put her own life at risk, and this is exactly why she rushes in to defend a friend of hers against thugs without a single thought of how she would defend herself.
Emotional, she's prone to quick outbursts of anger that fade just as fast and she holds very little grudges, willing to put aside past animosity and lend a helping hand or listening ear to friends, strangers and enemies alike. However, she does not wear her heart on her sleeve. More often than not, Minako represses all of the negative emotions and insecurities, burying them all deep inside herself.
It's no surprise then that Minako's initial persona is 'Orpheus', a man who had lost the love of his life to death itself and entered the underworld in order to rescue her soul; like Orpheus, Minako lost her family ten years ago. Being constantly shifted from place to place, from foster family to foster family, did not allow Minako to forge endurable bonds of friendship and so she learnt to be independent and alone even if she yearned for friends and a family to call her own.
Coming to Gekkoukan and meeting the people she did meet her changed her and her outlook ever so slowly. Here there were people who could empathize with her own background; here, there were people who offered to listen and share the burdens she held even if she never took them up on it. The contract she signed her first night here awoke her to the fact that she was responsible for her own life and the decisions she made; knowing that she would remain at Gekkoukan for at least two years, Minako made an effort to improve herself as a person over the past year, becoming a Genius in Academics with a Bewitching Charm and Badass Courage.
( "It seems you've discovered each of the social links, and formed strong bonds with them all.
In order to have gotten so well, with so many different people... You must have worn many faces.
Perhaps you'll find this useful, since you seem to be able to adopt any sort of face...
A cipher like you... ...should have this."
- Igor. )
A Persona is defined as a manifestation of a person's psyche and is a facet of a person's personality that reacts to the world. As a Wild Card, Minako can switch Personas as easily as changing her clothes; she's both perceptive and good at fitting in with others. Some might call it being manipulative but Minako sincerely wishes the best for everyone.
At the end of the day, this is a girl who loved her friends and the world enough to give her life up in order to protect everyone and this is a girl who held on to life in order to fulfil the promise she made with them.
samples.
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
Hello everyone（＊・ω・）/ This is Minako here! In order to train, I've been exploring a lot of areas and everything is so beautiful.
My favourite field so far is Δ Dawning Love's Fortune! It's pleasant and sunny, complete with lush grass and brilliant flowers. Has anyone else been there before? What are your favourite area words? (*≧ω≦)Please share them with me!
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Slowly, over the month, Minako became certain that everyone had made their own decisions. The dark mood and tension that had settled in with Ryoji's departure was slowly disappearing, leaving no fragments of doubt behind. She could sense their determination even in their fear, sense their strength even in their weakness, sense their answer -- even if none of them had spoken it aloud.
We'll fight, she thought to herself. We'll fight, all of us, together.
Death came to everyone, death spared no one -- but, even now, Shinjiro-senpai was clinging on to life in his coma in the hospital. Even now, Akinari-san was struggling to finish his story of the pink crocodile and the bird. Even now, her non-SEES friends were out there, living their lives out to the fullest.
She would not kill Ryoji; this was a decision she had made since she was first offered a choice. She could not kill him -- and she would not, even if she had never known him. No matter how painful or tough it would be, she wanted to fight Nyx, to prevent the tragedy that would befall the world if they did not.
"Hey," Junpei started to say, one day after class, "if Ryoji were to walk in and sit down like nothing happened, how would you react?"
There were so many things she could say, so many things that she wanted to say. But... She could not say them aloud. After all, she wasn't supposed to cry, right? Hiding her sadness, Minako grinned. "20 demerits for tardiness."