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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Emerson
Contact: kindadoubthat or
Age: Twenty-four
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Tatsuya Suou
Age: Eighteen
Canon: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Canon Point: After the fight with Metal Jun.

Background: Wiki Link

Personality:

Tatsuya is a young man of few words.

These lack of words are often the source of many misunderstanding and misinterpretations of himself and Tatsuya, being the young man he is, absolutely believes in his own hype. A combination of relative silence, his penchant for skipping school and his hobby of looking after motorcycles cause many of his schoolmates, as well as party members Lisa Silverman and Eikichi Mishinia to take this “cool” impression of him at face value and run with it. Throughout the games in the duology Tatsuya's schoolmates and classmate Lisa can be seen making many off-base assumptions about his personal life and disposition based on this outward persona. Even the player themselves is subjected to this impression at the start of the game due to a lack of any personal input from himself and only seeing Tatsuya through the lens of how his peers see him. However, the truth of his life and personality a lot more grounded in reality and believable for an impressionable boy of eighteen still discovering himself.

Tatsuya is actually quite awkward and shy and his isolation less of a self-imposed want and more of a lack of ability to connect with others and get close to them on a personal level. He doesn’t speak very often because of his awkwardness, but when he does, it’s always blunt and to the point; sometimes veering into outright hostile or confrontational territory if someone pushes his buttons the right way. -and it is very easy to push Tatsuya's buttons because of his unexpectedly hot headed temper and strict sense of personal justice. When Lisa Silverman aggressively flirts and pursues Tatsuya romantically, his response isn't met with the kind of enthusiasm one would expect of a sexpot punk and instead is rather stilted. Tatsuya seems to be unsure of how exactly to respond to Lisa, or any female characters adoration and affection and shows mild discomfort over romantic pursuits, causing him to fall back on silence as a coping mechanism which is then misinterpreted as a rejection because of his perceived “coolness”. His track record with men is even worse, misinterpretation of his inability to communicate often being seen as challenges that lead to verbal insults and ending in fights; the basis for his relationship with Eikichi at the start of Innocent Sin.

While a handful of the adult characters like Yukino, Maya and his homeroom teacher Ms. Saeko do see through his actions, they aren't often successful in getting him to open up because of his personal sense of pride and aforementioned shyness. Even with characters he's at ease with from the get-go like Maya and Jun, Tatsuya is easily flustered and requires gentle nudging to open up. Maya often resorting to teasing him until he blushes or pulling out her comfort doll “Mr. BunBun” to ease him into conversations about his feelings and Jun relying on body language to interpret what Tatsuya can't bring himself to verbally convey, which is more often than not the majority of his personal feelings.

Tatsuya's home life isn't elaborated on immensely but his Father is, from Tatsuya's perspective in-game, a complete failure of a person after having been an absent figure in his childhood and getting suspended from his job as a policeman under accusations of corruption. Information on his Mother is scarce but it's implied she was also an absentee parent and her personal inaction and passivity with relation to his Father did not do anything to endear him to her. This left his overbearing and strict “Type A” older brother Katsuya to do a majority of the parenting and actual raising of Tatsuya, which caused him to resent his brother as well. These unfortunate home circumstances are the source of his dysfunctional personality and the reason why he has a strong driving desire to be seen as independent and able to take matters into his own hands, even if involves violence.

Due to his own mental weakness, Tatsuya admires emotional and physical strength in both men and woman and sees Maya as an ideal he wants to both meet and secretly wishes to be with. He also has a very particular ideal view of masculinity developed from watching sentai shows as a child; Tatsuya desire more than anything to not just be seen as protective, just and a “real man” but to actually be that way in a way his Father could never embody or live up too.

Due to all the mental walls Tatsuya has put around himself, he's quite slow in warming up to people. As Innocent Sin progresses it's made apparent that he childhood friends he met at the shrine, forgot and regains are some of his first and only friends and some of the few people that care about him in his life. The only friendship he's managed to cultivate completely on his own being his classmate Anna who he managed to bond with over their similiar disillusionment with the adult establishment, but if questioned she is revealed to know fairly little about Tatsuya and what she does know has come from her own personal inference making it unlikely he felt very close to her. This slow warming makes him treasure and love the friends he does have incredibly deeply, showing an especially fierce loyalty and complicated feelings towards his surrogate mother figure Maya and best friend Jun. The safety and happiness of these select treasured people weights on him heavily and any future bonds will likely be seen as just as important and worth protecting, even dying for. The intensity of these feelings and his youthful lack of life experience makes this his emotional weak point and one that is easily manipulated, something the antagonist of his game does frequently in order to emotionally torture Tatsuya personally in conjunction with furthering his plans for future chaos.

Going from the Innocent Sin time line to the Eternal Punishment one hasn't resulted in much changes in the broad strokes of his personality; he's still temperamental and struggles to emote. The biggest change -mostly due to the stress of having to bear the memories of the events of Innocent Sin and the less fantastical dangers of the Eternal Punishment world – is that he has become even more closed off emotionally and determined to live up to his unrealistic ideals of manhood and adulthood. At the start of Eternal Punishment Tatsuya is quick to shrug off help from the group of adult persona-users out of fear that Maya being around him will trigger more of her memories to come back on a surface level, but underneath that also because of his personal desire to right the wrongs he believes to be squarely on his shoulders without burdening others, as he was burdened by his Father's wrongs. He's quick to snap at his brother and even quicker to defend his personal choices as “the only option” when the adult persona-users point out how childish his mentality is, arguing that no man can be an island, especially not one as young and inexperienced as Tatsuya. Baofu and Ulala, two people who have suffered comparable personal burdens being involved with a crime syndicate and abused my men respectively, try to reason frequently with Tatsuya that living only motivated by regrets is something that will destroy you.

While Tatsuya does take some of this mentor ship and guidance to heart and some of the warmth of his personality returns, he's still quite bitter and pessimistic about the world and convinced of the evil of his actions despite their “innocent” nature; only truly able to make peace with himself at the end of the game when his Innocent Sin self completes his mission and his Eternal Punishment self is allowed to forget again.

Abilities:

• Take on and summon multiple personae via use of The Velvet Room
• Wields one-handed swords; has no particular style or technique. Mostly relies on blunt force and weight of the blade rather than an precise strikes.
• Able to charm, strike up deals and coerce items out of non-humanoid creatures such as demons, deities, angels and spirits by doing impressions (mostly of vehicles), aggressively persuading them into deals, inspiring them with speeches about manliness or playing the electric guitar.
• Retained the ability to summon the persona: Apollo, Lucifer, Dionysus and Gyokukou Joutei

Alignment:
Elios; hate and love.

The major events of Tatsuya's life have been motivated by love for others, specifically his friend circle and surrogate Mother figure Maya. It's very likely that his life would have been a lot less tragic had he not loved and feared the loss of mutual love so deeply and it is this loss that spurs on much of his anger. Tatsuya isn't loudly angry and many mistake this for being rather level headed for his age but Tatsuya is actually a big hothead. He just prefers to carry his bitter resentment towards those who have wronged him or let him down quietly until it errupts into a violent action, like punching Philemon. In addition to this Tatsuya is symbolically linked to fire and the sun and Elios is also connected to those symbols.

Other: Due to the nature of the rumour system of his universe, the rumour that Tatsuya was an amazing and skilled driver actually gave him the ability to drive literally any type of motorized vehicle despite only having ever had experience with his personal japanese-style motorcycle. But, unless the power of rumours manages to bleed into this universe it's unlikely he'll be able to do this anymore.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

General Sample:
Test Drive
and
From a murder game

Emotion Sample:
Here under [ A - EMOTION WHAT EMOTION ]
and
in this tag

Questions: N/A