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[(Characters)] Bruno Bucciarati [Primary franchise: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure] [Appearance: Bucciarati appears as a mid-sized man with a slim build. He has black chin-length hair with straight-cut bangs covering his forehead. His hair is adorned with a braid going along the top of his head and a hair clip surmounted on each side of his bangs. His attire is composed of an all-white suit covered in small black spoon-like symbols, with an open chest similar to Giorno, and zippers in random places alluding to his Stand, Sticky Fingers. Underneath his jacket is a lace top, which is seemingly portrayed as a tattoo in the TV anime. His appearance seems to have stayed consistent since childhood with no particular differences outside his height and clothing.] [Personality: Bruno Bucciarati, first introduced as a sly gangster, is quickly revealed to be a righteous and extremely determined, if brutal, individual.

During his introductory arc, Bucciarati acts like a seemingly affable gangster toward Giorno Giovanna, chatting casually on various subjects during which Bucciarati reveals his more violent side. This behavior is later shown to be an act he puts up with unfamiliar people outside of Passione, and he would later conduct himself in the same manner with two airport security guards. Bucciarati's most important character traits are his righteousness and his natural kindness. Bucciarati is dedicated to taking the most honorable course of action, even if he puts his life at risk. For instance, at the age of seven, Bucciarati chose to stay with his father when his parents divorced as he thought he should support the one parent who suffered from this separation. Moreover, Bucciarati overtly rebelled against Diavolo when the Boss clearly wanted to kill his daughter, Trish Una, resulting in his premature death. Bucciarati is loyal to the civilians of his territory, being considerate with them accepting their requests for help, and is generally nice to the people he meets. Bucciarati respects and upholds several values such as having resolve, commending Giorno's resolve in their fight, selflessness, as he is prepared to sacrifice himself for his beliefs and his duties, and family loyalty, being outraged that Diavolo would dare hurt his own daughter. Like his team, Bucciarati believes that resolve involves risking one's own life for a just cause, a standard he constantly holds up to by putting himself in danger and betting on the enemy's lesser resolve to prevail, until his climactic self-sacrifice against Diavolo. During their first fight, Diavolo even praised how Bucciarati kept his consciousness and tried to counterattack despite an open chest wound. He also readily admires this same resolve whenever it shows up in an opponent, noting that Giorno and Pesci (temporarily) have such resolve. According to Giorno, Bucciarati believes in individual freedoms, and that people are free to die however they wish. However, Bucciarati also particularly despises the drug trade, which caused his father's death[7] and is hurting the population on a massive scale, especially children, thus any mention of it unnerves him. Because of his allegiance to Passione which is selling drugs in the street, Bucciarati is conflicted between his code and his duty as a gang member. Giorno notes that Bucciarati was at odds with himself when he used Sticky Fingers to hide inside the body of a teenager who was addicted to drugs.[9] Due to this, he decided to quietly support Giorno Giovanna's infiltration of the gang while still working for the organization. Shown to be against Narancia joining the gang, telling him to live a normal life, Bucciarati doesn't hold the gangster life in high regard. Bucciarati also looks down on spiteful violence, going back on his praise of Pesci when he saw that Pesci wanted to kill Bucciarati team out of spite rather than tactical insight.

In contrast to his righteousness, Bucciarati has a violent and ruthless side. At the age of twelve, Bucciarati murdered his father's would-be aggressors in cold blood, and as a gangster, kept his tendency toward violence. Upon their first meeting, Bucciarati violently beat down Giorno and referred to his interrogation as a torture session and didn't stop the team from beating and torturing Mario Zucchero. Having worked for a gang for years, Bucciarati is an experienced fighter, being able to discern whenever killing intent is genuine, is unfazed by empty threats, and is able to keep calm even during a desperate looking fight. Likewise, Bucciarati will often use lethal force against his enemies as demonstrated against Prosciutto and Pesci whom he caused to be run over by a train and dismembered, as well as against Secco whom he deafened with a popped car tire.

During a fight, Bucciarati is both brave and cautious. While he is ready to sacrifice himself in order to win,[12] Bucciarati will try tactical retreats and sneak attacks regularly, as seen when he tried to ambush Diavolo. The versatile Sticky Fingers notably allows him to perform unpredictable tricks such as giving himself a greater range or suddenly disappear and maneuver out of trouble. Even when pitted against a physically weaker Stand, Bucciarati takes precautions and thus he can be seen performing a strategic retreat against Gold Experience; even more so against a stronger Stand such as Oasis. Nonetheless, when push comes to shove, Bucciarati will recklessly risk his life if it enables him to win following his philosophy of resolve.

Bucciarati is consistently shown to be serious, even as a young child, and usually keeps a serious and unflinching demeanor throughout the story. Moreover, Bucciarati takes his responsibility as a team leader seriously, considering that a lieutenant has the double duties to accomplish the mission but also to ensure that his subordinates live. That makes Bucciarati extremely determined in a fight if the lives of his teammates are in stakes, and Bucciarati routinely takes reckless actions to ensure their safety, for instance dragging Prosciutto out of a speeding train to take him out and prevent him from aging the team to death. During most of the story, Bucciarati always acts with a given objective in mind (take Polpo's treasure or bodyguarding Trish for instance), and always pays mind to it. As a result, Bucciarati can be seen reining in his less disciplined subordinates in regard to focusing on their goal. For the sake of his teammates, Bucciarati keeps a stern façade of determination, ordering his team to carry on despite the recent loss of Abbacchio even though he too was internally distressed by Abbacchio's sudden death. Bucciarati keeps a strong relationship with his team, being severe but fair and giving them praise whenever he thinks it is earned. His habit of looking for misfits and treating them humanely and often with kindness has indeed secured their loyalty, allowing the majority of the group to stay united under him even when they rebel against the Boss of Passione. Furthermore, each member of Bucciarati's team looks up to his abilities and believe that under his leadership that they can achieve greatness. For instance, Guido Mista was let out of prison thanks to Bucciarati, and Narancia was struck by Bucciarati's stern but humane behavior toward him, both ultimately trusting him to win against Passione. Bucciarati is shown to have a paternal side with Narancia, whom he sheltered and counseled to stay away from the life of a gangster, as well as with Trish whose worries about being the daughter of a mob boss he tries to comfort the best he can. In the brutal world of gangsters, Bucciarati nonetheless holds no illusion that they are constantly risking their lives.] [Abilities • Skills: Sticky Fingers is a humanoid Stand of a height and build similar to Bucciarati's. Its upper face is hidden by a helmet-like covering adorned with a mohawk-like row of short spikes. Its body is covered in a dark body suit, with the chest and stomach exposed, and has pieces of padded armor over the shoulders, arms and wrists, knees and feet. Zippers varying in size hang from the base of its neck and abdomen, the back of its hands, and the top of its feet. Most media featuring Sticky Fingers portray it as being gray and blue, with hints of yellow on the zippers. Sticky Fingers' primary ability is to create zippers on any surface it touches with its fist, which it can remotely open or close at its leisure. For example, Sticky Fingers can hit a wall, unzip it to create an opening and go through it, then close the zipper.

Bucciarati can even create zippers that cut through the entirety of objects, allowing him to dismantle them. With this ability, he can separate enemies into multiple pieces[4] and even perform a cutting attack by detaching something and then canceling the zipper. How harmful the detachment is portrayed inconsistently. When Mario Zucchero's head was removed, he was kept alive, but on the other hand, when Bucciarati himself sectioned parts of his own body into pieces, blood and oxygen could not circulate through the rest of his body as a result, slowly killing him as if his parts were actually cut off from each other. It's possible that Bucciarati has some amount of control of the damage caused by this ability, as he later sectioned Pesci in a similar way with an immediately lethal effect. Inversely, Bucciarati is free to attach several things together with his zippers. It allowed him to block King Crimson's arm when it impaled his chest or even attach another's arm to his body. It also enabled Abbacchio to heal his severed hand. Because the zippers are remotely opened and closed, Bucciarati can take advantage of the zipping itself. He can create long zippers over surfaces and control the zipping to rapidly reposition himself if he holds the zipper's handle, for instance, to move down a lift shaft using the zipper to slow down his descent. Moreover, nearly cutting an object in two then rapidly closing the zipper from a distance creates a makeshift pincer. If Bucciarati opens a zipper inside a voluminous object, it actually doesn't show the interior of the object but a dark space in which Bucciarati can put objects like precious items to safely store or himself to hide. Bucciarati is a remarkable fighter in a Stand fight; having mastered the versatile power of Sticky Fingers, he can easily use the environment to his advantage, restrain his enemies, swiftly evade incoming attacks, and attack from blind spots. His natural selflessness means that survival is not among his priorities, thus his actions will easily surprise his opponents. Bucciarati is also a perceptive fighter, having been able to quickly deduce the weaknesses of King Crimson despite being fatally injured and proceed to take advantage of them. He is able to analyze his opponents' fighting styles and perceive their strengths and weaknesses. Lie Detection Bucciarati is able to know if someone is lying simply by looking at them, claiming that when a person lies their skin glistens due to sweating. He can also taste a person's sweat to distinguish them as a liar, claiming that the sweat of a liar tastes sweeter than normal. Combatant Despite his slim build, Bruno is a very skilled combatant with immense physical power. The best example of his brute strength and fighting experience is him kicking Pesci so hard he nearly shattered a train window. Other examples include killing two adults with a knife at a young age and having gangsters like Narancia fear and respect him.]

Shido Itsuka [Primary franchise: Date A Live] [Appearance: Shido has the looks of a handsome young man in high school. He has straight blue hair and bands down to his neck and amber-brown eyes. During the times when he borrows another Spirit's power, the color of his eyes turns into a more golden shade. He is often seen wearing the male Raizen High School uniform during his everyday life circumstances. (Said uniform consisting of a white long sleeved shirt (or short sleeve during summer), a black blazer with school emblem (optional during summer) grey trousers, a blue tie with black and grey stripes, and black shoes] [Personality: Shido is an average young man who originally had no interest in the opposite gender until he was forced to be by his little sister. He is now compelled to deal with females on a constant basis, something that he wasn't used to before. Kotori described another interesting part of Shido's personality. As a result of being abandoned by his birth mother, Shido has become unusually sensitive to other people's despair. It is this empathizing nature that makes him regarded as the best person to handle the Spirits.

Shido is also a very kindhearted person who can sympathize with others. These traits are what caused most of the Spirits to fall in love with him, as the thing they seem to lack most of all has always been a person who could accept and understand them. Even Miku, who treated everyone like puppets, ended up changing her worldview because of him.

Shido also possesses a strong will and a genuine willingness to forgive others. He will press on to save the Spirits despite the great personal risk to himself. When responding to Natsumi's comment about the trouble she caused him, he compares her actions to what he went through during all of his past attempts to help Spirits and can only call her actions childish pranks: this is a girl who nearly ruined his reputation and erased all his friends and would've then erased him had she succeeded.

Shido had a chuunibyou phase in middle school, where he played guitar, wrote stories and poems, and came up with anime-like moves. He is currently extremely embarrassed about these hobbies and tries to dispose of all evidence, only for Kotori to salvage them as blackmail for completing his training.

During his Reiryoku high, Shido becomes much more confident and flirtatious. He feels compelled to woo every girl in sight (even Ellen despite her hostility) and is unfazed by the intimacy that would normally fluster him. He even becomes frivolous enough to use the powers he has sealed for fun. However, once his Reiryoku went out of control, he became a mindless monster who could only gradually regain his sentience through the Spirits' kisses reopening their Paths. Despite his determination to save the Spirits, Shido's conviction has been shown to falter more than once. When he first learned of Kurumi's real, malicious nature, Shido was left scared and unsure of how to approach her, having become actively wary of the "Worst Spirit". Similarly, after Mukuro outright rejected him and dismissed his beliefs as hypocrisy during their first conversation, Shido began to question if sealing the Spirits' powers may actually be a mistake; as doing so leaves them much weaker and more vulnerable to getting captured by DEM. During times like these, Shido has often needed the advice and emotional support of those closest to him to renew his resolve.] [Abilities • Skills: Shido has the mysterious and unique ability to seal the powers of the Spirits into his body, which was first discovered by Ratatoskr sometime in the past when Kotori was turned into a Spirit. This power was bestowed onto him by the First Spirit, Mio Takamiya. Mio gave Shido the ability to absorb more power in order to gradually bestow her own abilities onto him, with each other Spirit acting as intermediary vessels to facilitate the transfer.

In order to use his ability to seal a Spirit’s power, the Spirit in question must meet certain conditions or requirements. Those conditions or requirements are that the Spirit in question must show affection, trust, closeness, and intimacy towards Shido. Once these conditions of love are high enough between Shido and the Spirit, he can seal their power by kissing them on the lips, creating a path of Reiryoku between them. By the time of Volume 19, Shido has sealed the powers of all ten Spirits, giving him full access to each of their Angels.

Due to the sheer amount of Reiryoku sealed inside of his body, Shido has been shown to possess a level of protection or outright immunity towards the abilities of other Spirits. These powers include being able to withstand Kurumi's City of Devouring Time as well as being completely unaffected by Miku's Solo. He was also able to resist Inverse Nia's future describing ability, but needed to actively exert the power of the Angels when doing so.

If the Spirits' emotions become unstable enough, their powers will begin to return to them and leave Shido. This flaw means that he will have to seal them again should their powers fully return to them, but usually this only results in the Spirits temporarily regaining portions of their original power. However, as shown in the cases of Kotori, and much later on Tohka, it is possible for the Spirits to take back their full powers without the need to become emotionally unstable. Kotori seems to be capable of choosing exactly how much of her powers she takes back from him at any given time and so far most of the Spirits have managed to figure out how to form partial Astral Dresses, with varying results.

After the disappearance of Mio's Sephira Crystal, Kotori states that it is unknown if Shido still retains the ability to seal the power of the Spirits.

Angel Manifestation Shido can also “borrow” the power of a Spirit he has sealed, which explains the nature of his regenerative abilities. The borrowing works primarily as if a Spirit has manifested an Angel. While he has tapped into the powers of many Angels, , , , , and have been the only Angels that he has physically manifested. Whenever tapping into the energy of the Angels, the color of his eyes changes from brown to gold. His initial Angel manifestations were accidental during times of desperation, but he later learn to intentionally summon them. In the Game Over Timeline, while Mio was reclaiming the Sephira Crystals, Shido could continue using the Angels even after their original owners were all killed by Mio. However, he would feel a brief disturbance with the Angel if it was deployed right when the original user died.

Besides sealing and summoning, whenever Shido manifests or uses the power of an Angel, his body is intoxicated with great physical pain. The Angels wielded by Spirits are not meant to be used by humans, which is why he overstresses his body when using his powers. The damage can be healed by ; however, Shido still feels the pain inflicted upon his body. During the battle to save Nia, his body remembered the feeling of controlling the Spirits' powers flowing inside of him. This memory caused him to be able to manifest numerous Angels willfully at the same time. However, the fatigue of using powers beyond human comprehension was still present, requiring him to use a combination of and to mitigate the pain and damage dealt to him. After sealing the powers of all ten Spirits, Shido no longer feels fatigued from using his powers.

Throughout the story, Shido has steadily progressed in his ability to utilize the powers that he has sealed. During early December, Shido lost control due to a disruption in the path of Reiryoku circulating throughout his body. The overload of Reiryoku and his fever caused him to enter an intoxicated high with lower inhibitions than his usual self. During this state, he was able to perform superhuman feats during his physical examination, despite feeling exhausted. Outsiders observed his behavior to be like an out-of-control Spirit. This state allowed him to use the powers of various Angels at once, seemingly without repercussions before his powers completely overheated. Afterwards, the memory of this experience also resulted in increased control over all of his sealed Spirit powers.

After the disappearance of Mio's Sephira Crystal, Shido subsequently lost the ability to use the powers of the Angels.

Sandalphon Angel: Sandalphon Weapon: Broadsword

Original owner: Tohka Yatogami

Shido first summoned when he was cursing his uselessness after Ellen defeated Tohka. During his first attempt, Shido's inexperience necessitated Tohka's physical support to swing a slash large enough to acquire Kaguya and Yuzuru's attention. He would intentionally summon it for the first time while trying to stop DEM's falling satellites. is a big broadsword with both close and long-range capabilities if used well by the wielder. In Shido's case, he cannot bring himself to use the sword at its maximum potential due to the pain it caused to his body. Unlike Tohka, Shido initially can barely swing it a few times before his body breaks down.

Final Sword: Halvanhelev While receiving a boost from both Natsumi and Miku using , Shido uses the final sword form of against Westcott during the war between Ratatoskr and DEM. It is determined by Shido and Westcott through to be the strongest attack in his arsenal at the time. However, the attack fails to be decisive, as Westcott had already researched the exact range of the attack beforehand. Camael Angel: Camael

Weapon: Halberd

Original owner: Kotori Itsuka

Shido has not wielded this Angel, but he has used its healing ability.

In Kotori's hands, the Angel takes the form of a halberd which slashes with tremendous force. One of its "sub-skills" is healing, which can be utilized by both Shido and Kotori. In Shido's case, it is an automatic "tool" that activates whenever Shido receives a fatal wound. Mio prioritized 's sealing to ensure that Shido wouldn’t be killed so easily as Shinji. This ability is also useful for Shido because it heals the damage he sustains from using Angels as a human. However, the pain and fatigue from using other powers are still felt. Shido speculates that the ability will not activate for minor injuries within the scope of natural healing.[4] There is also a limit to how much the flames can heal if Shido's body had already been injured. Before Kurumi reset time to save him, Ellen was able to successfully kill Shido by decapitating him after the flames were already preoccupied with a fatal chest wound. During his Reiryoku high, Shido displayed a greater level of skill in manipulating his flames, using them to light decorative ice candles.

Zadkiel Angel: Zadkiel Weapon: Puppet

Original owner: Yoshino Himekawa

Shido utilizes the power of by causing ice to manifest.

Shido first activated the powers of this Angel by creating a wall of ice to protect Miku from an attack made by Tohka in her Inverse state. During the battle against the monsters coming from Nia's , Shido consciously uses to freeze the monsters' legs to the ground. During the time when his powers went out of control, he was able to cause snowfall willingly and create beautiful candles and flowers made out of ice.

Haniel Angel: Haniel Weapon: Broom

Original owner: Natsumi Kyouno

Shido can use 's powers to transform both himself and his surroundings. When he traveled back to the past, he accidentally turned into his younger self to fool his neighbor. Shido did not know how to undo the transformation, but it was later dispelled by itself after a certain amount of time had passed. During the period when his powers went out of control, Shido displays great flexibility when using 's powers. When the sealed Spirits cornered him, he summoned the mirror to transform everyone around him (including himself) into Shiori to make a way for his escape. Later, during his dates, he used the power to dress himself up in a swimsuit and tuxedo.

Kaleidoscope (千変万化鏡カリドスクーペ, Karidosukūpe?. lit. "Ever-changing Mirror"): During the conflict against Mukuro, Shido was able to manifest the broom and use the ability to create a copy of Mukuro's Angel at will. With said duplicate, he battled against her and copied 's unlock the ability to open the seal on Mukuro's heart. Mukuro later sealed 's ability to transform into . However, Shido is still able to use for other purposes like creating the illusion of an uninjured body when he was later accidentally struck by Mukuro's attack. Raphael Angel: Raphael Weapon: Combined Bow and Arrow

Kaguya: Lance Yuzuru: Pendulum Original owners: Yamai Twins

grants Shido the power to control the wind. This wind is very powerful and has been used to blast away the enemies that were either standing in his way or ambushing him. When he lost control of his powers, Shido was able to use to manipulate the air currents, so that he could glide through the sky. Shido frequently uses for high-speed air movement, as it is the fastest Angel and he lacks the natural ability to fly like the Spirits. During the fight to save Nia, he consciously uses to blow away the monsters that were blocking his way. After successfully unlocking Mukuro's heart, Shido used in conjunction with to soften the impact of atmospheric reentry for both him and Mukuro.

When fighting against Westcott and , Shido heavily uses to control the winds and fly to avoid the countless clones attacking him. After sealing all ten Sephira Crystals, 's speed was enhanced to the extent where he could easily avoid 's roots and branches.

Gabriel Angel: Gabriel Weapon: Organ

Original owner: Miku Izayoi

During the time when he lost control of his powers, Shido was able to use to brainwash a crowd of people into serving as a distraction for him. As he was using multiple Angels at once, he uses Miku's as a pain reliever song for both himself and Nia.

​March: Later on, becomes his regular enhancement technique used to increase his physical abilities beyond that which is capable for a normal human being. Requiem: A pain killer song that allows Shido to ignore the pain caused by wielding multiple Angels. Metatron Angel: Metatron

Weapon: Crown

Original owner: Origami Tobiichi

Shido first used this Angel once just to dodge an incoming attack from Ellen. It is the same transporting skill Origami uses when she is about to get hit, dodging by transforming into light and teleporting somewhere else. However, the ability has a limited range.

During the war between Ratatoskr and DEM, Shido is seen using 's light as a long-distance projectile against the .

Mal'akh: By taking on a wing-like formation and folding the pillars behind the back, Metatron allows for achieving great speeds in flight. Shido would use <Mal'akh> in conjunction with and during the battle against Westcott and . Michael Angel: Michael Weapon: Key

Original owner: Mukuro Hoshimiya

Even before sealing Mukuro, Shido had access to by copying the Angel's power through . Although he momentarily lost this ability when Mukuro sealed it away with her own , Shido regained the ability to use the Angel shortly after sealing Mukuro. He later utilizes this Angel in an attempt to unlock his past memories of Mio. However, he was not confident in accurately warping with its wormholes during Ratatoskr's war with DEM, due to its relatively recent sealing.

Lataib: Allows Shido to unlock objects and concepts previously sealed with . Shido first used this technique with a copy of produced by in order to open the seal placed on Mukuro's heart. Tefetē: Shrinks down to a miniature version small enough to be held at the palm of his hand. Shido uses this form of in order to more easily point the angel at his own head when attempting to unlock his past memories. Segva: Seals away the target pointed at by the key. Shido first used it in order to lock Westcott's ability to use after he was defeated. Zafkiel Angel: Zafkiel

Weapon: Clock, Flintlock Pistol, Musket

Original owner: Kurumi Tokisaki

Before her actual sealing, Kurumi had unintentionally given Shido her Sixth Bullet Vav after giving him a thank-you kiss for saving her from Kotori. While using , Shido's left eye takes on Kurumi's distinctive golden-clock pattern.

Sixth Bullet Vav: Sends the consciousness of its target into the body of a past version of themselves. However, unlike the Twelfth Bullet, the user is only able to travel back to a few days at maximum regardless of how much time is used. Shido later uses the bullet to escape from Mio and return back to the day before Ratatoskr and DEM's final battle. Ninth Bullet Tet: Allows Shido the ability to connect senses with someone on a different time axis. In the Mukuro True Route Timeline, Shido fires this bullet along with the Twelfth Bullet to Mukuro. This allows Shido to experience what Mukuro felt while she was in the past. However, due to his near-death state, he wasn't able to communicate back with her. Nevertheless, this link formed a waypoint that allows Mukuro to return to the present rather than having her existence annihilated like Kurumi had theorized. Tenth Bullet Yud: Allows Shido to observe the past of whatever person or object the bullet pierces. Shido is instructed by Kurumi to use it on himself to regain his altered memory of Tohka (actually Tenka) taking Mio's Sephira Crystal. Twelfth Bullet Yud Bet Allows Shido to send the target of the bullet to the past. Shido uses this bullet in the Mukuro True Route Timeline to send Mukuro back to the past. Due to the sheer amount of Reiryoku Shido gathered, Mukuro is able to stay in the past for over a year. However, Mukuro offering her Reiryoku to Shido in the new timeline to save Origami caused an unintentional side-effect of Mukuro's body cracking and breaking down before she returns to her proper timeline. Rasiel Angel: Rasiel

Weapon: Book

Original owner: Nia Honjo & Kurumi Tokisaki

Due to Westcott stealing the vast majority of Nia's Sephira Crystal beforehand, Shido lacked the ability to use Rasiel even after sealing Nia. However, he later properly gains the power of this Angel after Kurumi steals back Nia's Sephira and allows Shido to seal her. Indirectly, Shido channeled upon Rasiel's power along with the other nine Angels in order to land a devastating punch onto Westcott, who had since become the Second Spirit of Origin.

While in Tenka's world, Shido had the option of using Rasiel to regain his true memories of what transpired after Mio died. However, Kurumi advised him to use Zafkiel to perform this function instead. As a result, Rasiel to this day remains the only Angel in his arsenal that Shido has never directly made use of its power.

Mio's Angels Despite never truly sealing Mio prior to her death, Shido found himself capable of using her Angels within Tenka's artificial world after seemingly receiving encouragement from the departed First Spirit.

Angel: Ain Soph Aur Weapon: Flower

Original owner: Mio Takamiya

A flower that contains a silhouette of Mayuri at the center of the petals. Following the command to bloom, the flower constantly emits particles of light that instantly kill everyone that comes in contact with it, except for those protected by an Astral Dress or a strong enough . This Angel was first used to help Tohka against her fight with the huge Mio copy produced from the immune system from Mio's Sephira Crystal. The pollen from the flower was used to disable the huge Mio's arms.

Angel: Ain Soph Weapon: Tree

Original owner: Mio Takamiya

A towering tree with a statue of Rio Sonogami embedded in the trunk. It is decorated with flowers and branches that pierce the sky and reshape the surrounding landscape, giving it a monochrome, chessboard-like appearance. Within this area of effect, Shido can freely manipulate the laws of reality. He primarily used this Angel's roots to restrain the huge Mio copy.

Angel: Ain

Weapon: Seed

Original owner: Mio Takamiya

An Angel of the void that lacks a physical form. It instantly illuminates the entire world with light before erasing whomever or whatever Shido desires from reality. This was first used to erase the enormous Mio copy, leaving behind only its core intact.

Demon King Demon King: Nahemah Original owner: Tohka Yatogami (Parallel World)

To follow after she escapes to her parallel world, Shido uses the tenth sword that she left behind, which turns out to be Tenka's Nahemah. His first experience with wielding a Demon King threatened to collapse his mind, but Tenka's will within the sword guided him to cut open a portal to the parallel world.

Original Techniques While intoxicated with Reiryoku, Shido was able to create his own original attack, Secret Art: Roaring Flash Blast Wave!, a technique named by himself back in his middle school years. The blast released from his hands was enough to completely destroy the Bandersnatch units sent to attack him. He defeats Westcott with this technique in the Game Over Timeline, predicting that Westcott had only used Beelzebub to learn about his Angels' attacks. This technique is comparable to the energy beams released from Tohka’s and Origami’s . After sealing all ten Angels, he was able to channel their power into his fist to throw a shock wave-inducing punch that defeated Westcott, who had become the Second Spirit of Origin.

Miscellaneous Skills Shido is a very skilled cook who regularly makes meals for several Spirits. His cooking was even favored by Mio and Reine over Shinji's, despite their preference toward his previous incarnation. He also retains skills from his chuunibyou phase, such as playing guitar for the music competition with Miku and drawing for the manga sales competition with Nia.]

Goro Akechi [Primary franchise: Persona, Persona 5, ATLUS, Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei] [Appearance: Akechi has shaggy, neck length brown hair with bangs and reddish-brown eyes. He wears a tan peacoat with black buttons, striped black and white tie, black pants, black gloves and black loafers. His casual winter outfit consists of a white long sleeve shirt with flaps under a blue argyle sweater vest, beige pants and brown shoes. As Crow, Akechi wears a princely pure-white regalia with red accents and a red, long-nosed mask, gold belt, and gold epaulettes with red accents on his shoulders. His mask was modeled after those worn by medieval plague doctors to conjure up an image of unapproachability and his formal uniform was designed in the image of an aristocratic mounted guard or honor guard.[8] As with his Robin Hood Persona, it's meant to give the feeling of putting on the air of a champion of justice, with nothing to do with being a Phantom Thief, robber or burglar of any sort. As opposed to the protagonist, Akechi likes to be in the limelight and his design reflects that contrast.

Once he reveals his true intentions, Akechi swaps his princely garb for a body-covering, black and dark blue striped outfit. In this form, he has several black studded belts strapped around his legs and arms, a short black cape and clawed gauntlets. He also wears a dark enclosed knight helmet, with a black mask tinted red, resembling a sharp beak, which breaks after his defeat. Much like with Loki's design, it alludes to a lack of agency, and is meant to give a chaotic feeling and invoke the question "what's the real you?" During the third semester in Royal, Akechi seems to have replaced his broken mask with a blue-black version. On days off, he wears a green vest and white collar shirt, both under a brown coat with black buttons, and blue pants while retaining his gloves and loafers. On school days, Akechi wears a tan coat with a red and gray plaid scarf tucked underneath, while keeping his black gloves, pants and shoes from his detective uniform.] [Personality: In public and with all of his relations, Akechi appears to be well-mannered, friendly, humble and charismatic. His achievement of being a high-school detective, coupled with his handsome features, makes him highly popular among the general public and he is commented to be "The Second Coming of the Detective Prince." His intelligence and smooth-talk earned him enough trust from the police to conduct his own investigation despite his young age, working with Sae Niijima, who fully trusts him to assist her in her investigation.

He presents himself as having a strong sense of justice, disapproving of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts for their methods. He is candid in expressing his disagreement, but he wants to hear about other people's views in an honest fashion. He quotes Hegel on this, citing that "advancement cannot occur without both thesis and antithesis." He finds an interest in the protagonist because he speaks his mind. Much of Akechi's talents have been naturally nurtured thanks to not only his own open-mindedness and effort but also the support from others he has accepted.

In actuality, his detective prince persona is nothing short of an act that has been carefully crafted to grant him a public image and mask his true nature; insecure and deeply desperate for validation. Due to having been born an illegitimate child, he was despised by others as he would be nothing more than a scandal for them, even ruining his mother's life and driving her to suicide. He was subsequently placed into child institutions. Akechi grew up a lonely child and a "nobody" who yearned to be loved; this feeling persisted into his teenage years. The stigma of being an illegitimate child, while also heavily implied to be an impulsive mistake on Shido's part, has haunted Akechi and become the basis of his incredibly misanthropic worldview as well as his legitimate self-loathing. Regardless of how much Akechi tried to change, that hatred that bound him to his past persisted deeply.

Akechi's desperation for acknowledgement led him to study hard to become perfect and develop his outward Detective Prince image in hope to be accepted by people around him. Even while having developed an overwhelming fanbase, Akechi is still disliked among individuals for his affiliation, as he's become quite obviously a fraudulent hero of sorts: not only does the more honest Sojiro Sakura dislike him for his work with the police, but the Phantom Thieves of Hearts themselves find him a menace as his public views and remarks are nothing more than a hindrance to them. Even the public's support doesn't fill the hole in his heart, as he knows he's loved only if he upholds the pretense of being a charismatic idol detective rather than a bastard child; his fans are quick to turn on him anyway if he makes mistakes, such as when the Phantom Thieves triumphed over Kaneshiro and Medjed.

As a result towards his overall childhood and situation with Masayoshi Shido, Akechi's sense of justice is hollow and empty, no matter the interpretation: in public, he presents a pacifistic view that condemns the Phantom Thieves' actions even as executioners, believing that they have no right to play with people's hearts no matter the cost; the party strongly disagrees with if not outright ignores his views, which only hinder their genuine attempts at bettering Tokyo. That being said, Akechi otherwise switches to enacting justice blindly, as behind the scenes he becomes a relentless killer that is driven by grudge down to an obsessive degree, this time finding no problem with erasing evil people via murder, viewing himself as no different from the Phantom Thieves, much to their objection. Fitting to the prison and discipline theme of Persona 5, his justice is tantamount to being the sole warden of a panopticon, where the fear of him assassinating anyone who speaks ill of Shido keeps the entire public in line.

Despite being a generally pragmatic and competent individual, Akechi has an unintentional sloppy side that sometimes bleeds through in conversations, such as hearing of delicious pancakes from a conversation he walked in on where he shouldn't have been able to understand Morgana and inadvertently taking the spicy takoyaki from the basket. The former in particular cost him his victory against the Phantom Thieves, especially when no other person in Shido's cabinet is smart or attentive enough to get rid of them.

Akechi's situation is layered, but fundamentally his deep absorption in his chase for acknowledgement via fame, a goal turned into a pipe dream thanks to the injustice he's experienced, makes him blind to the error of his ways; as he uses his inability to fill the void in his heart to justify revenge, as even when he does attain fame, he cannot reap its validation value as he is an illegitimate child in secret thanks to his father, stuck viewing himself as a disgrace. Thanks to the protagonist and his superficial jealousy, he is given an outlet to expose his raw emotions that his journey for revenge kept under check, revealing his true nature, an unhinged, nihilistic madman, wanting nothing more than to prove superiority over the protagonist. This runs so deep that he refuses to listen to even the protagonist's advice, whether it be to internalize himself and "look inside himself," or is enraged at the idea of being pitied, as he enters a berserk state.

During the events of Shido's Palace, his obsession with enacting revenge on his father and his desire to be the hero of his own story overshadows his true feelings for the protagonist and the party. He becomes so desperate that he dismisses the concept of friends and true justice, claiming they are both meaningless and sickening, and even makes himself go psychotic which led to him losing control. This becomes substantial to his downfall, as in spite of his commended strength, his lack of bonds alongside his single-minded goal happens to be the reason why he is defeated. However, after reluctantly giving up on his fame that he'll lose, learning how special he is to the protagonist and the party, and the truth of how Shido sees him from the cognitive version of himself, Akechi realizes how foolish he has been for letting his hatred blind him from seeing the truth, and willingly sacrifices himself, embracing a newfound sense of independent accountability that revives his autonomy.

It is only after realizing Shido himself has manipulated him why Akechi has realized what the true meaning of justice is, specifically the matter of free will. This not only causes Akechi to see the error in his original views, but also see just how terrible the things Shido has done to both him and Japan are; he also understand the Phantom Thieves' views and just how much they differed from his, but at the same time ascertain that due to his position, he would only drag them down even with his sudden transformation, entrusting the Phantom Thieves to finish the job and stop Shido.

The first and the only person that Akechi has ever formed a bond with close to friendship is the protagonist who he has complicated feelings for, albeit innately positive. After meeting the protagonist, for the first time, Akechi is able to experience a simple, normal life with a friend. Unlike most people, the protagonist is honest with him when speaking his mind and actively pursues him. Spending time with the protagonist gives a profound effect on Akechi. He admires yet envies the protagonist, who does not let anything stop him from carving his own path, and thus considers him his rival. He holds the protagonist in high regard to the point that he believes that the Phantom Thieves are nothing without the protagonist's leadership. Persona 5 Maniax as well as Akechi himself in Persona 5 state that despite being overwhelmed with jealousy and contempt for the protagonist, who has everything he doesn't, Akechi says he would have wanted to meet the protagonist earlier, and doesn't deny what Morgana says about him taking a liking to the protagonist. In an interview in Persona 5 The Royal Official Complete Guide, director Kazuhisa Wada comments that Akechi doesn't care much for other people except the protagonist. As a result of their relationship, Akechi is especially attentive to the protagonist. In Persona 5 Royal, on Christmas Eve, Akechi willingly turns himself in to testify against Shido in the protagonist's stead, claiming he does so to repay his debt with him. He is alarmed and disappointed should he ever accept Takuto Maruki's reality, as he believes that it betrays his ideals and their relationship with each other. At the same time, he is relieved each time the protagonist turns Maruki's offer down, knowing that he is resolved to return to their normal reality, and accepting Maruki's offer would be a betrayal of Akechi's wishes. This is also expressed in his navigation lines, whereas he is close to panicking whenever the protagonist is about to or got knocked down, but polite when Sumire was knocked down and scold her severely or even dismissive when she missed her attack.

In the third semester of Persona 5 Royal, Akechi no longer cares what others may think of him after rejoining, completely abandoning his detective prince persona. Now perfectly comfortable with his true self, he doesn't mince his words regardless how other people would be affected by it. He won't bother making small talk, directing the conversation straight to the point. While Akechi seems to no longer hold any contempt for the Phantom Thieves, he is no kinder than before with them since they already know his true nature. The game doesn't show Akechi showing his true personality to other people except the Phantom Thieves, but he makes no attempt to hide it either, which surprised Sumire during their first exploration of Maruki's Palace. He also shows a morbid sense of humor, dryly suggesting they kill Maruki when handing him the calling card. He usually speaks in a calm and polite fashion, but when he drops his guise and engages in combat as the Black Mask, his dialogue becomes wildly aggressive and profane. However, he displays this behavior only towards enemies, for example, Shadows. This side of him is elaborated upon further during battle, as he refers to small Shadows as "scum" and delights in killing them.

When it comes to his enemies, he is still merciless, seeing no problem in killing if he feels it is necessary. During a conversation in the Thieves Den, Akechi outright states that he would have killed Madarame or Kamoshida if he were to be abused by them like Yusuke or Ann were; in turn, they responded that letting them suffer their guilt for an eternity would be a better punishment than outright killing them. Akechi does show a certain restraint to this side of him, depending on who his opponents are, as shown in Maruki's Palace when he chooses to back out and leave the protagonist to fight Sumire alone: Akechi says he doesn't want to accidentally kill her, but in the Japanese version, he states he doesn't want to accidentally hurt her. He would attempt to kill Maruki as a last resort, to stop him from merging with his Persona.

Usually in the Japanese script, Akechi will use "boku" to refer to himself and "kimi" to refer to his speaker(s), which is (usually) considered polite on top of using the usual formal extended verbal tics (e.g. "desu"). However, when he's the Black Mask, Akechi will always use "ore" to refer to himself while "kisama" or "omae" is used towards his addressees. All of the three pronouns he uses as the Black Mask are considered extremely impolite and/or more so blunt, and are also used by Shido when he drops his facade to deal with people personally as both of them also forgo formal verbal tic usage like so.

Having been manipulated and controlled by Shido before, Akechi values free will above all else. For this reason, he is disgusted by Maruki's salvation plan that requires his memories to be distorted and changed, which Akechi sees as no different than when he was controlled by his father. He is determined to live his life following the path that he chooses for himself, without anyone dictating him, even if it means he will die doing so. His overall worldview, even while omitting his characterization in Royal, is comparable to that of a modern-day Robin Hood: although both fight the comfortable and arrogant to support the oppressed, Akechi specifically focuses on authority, or rather the morality that it has bloated, as formed by his upbringing of his unjust reputation and the manipulation he's experienced by Shido himself under the pretense of blissful acknowledgement, as well as Shido's own arrogance that's been built in a similar fashion. Despite his reputation as a detective being a fabrication, Akechi has genuinely sharp, intuitive and innovative deduction and analysis skills, as seen during Niijima's Palace and Maruki's Palace, as well as during Persona Q2; his quick and in-depth thinking allows him to be an effective asset when an ally. He is also extremely cunning, secretly planning a means to counter Shadow Sae's last minute cheating in her Palace without the knowledge of his teammates beforehand. This proves that even without having to fabricate cases, he actually does have what it takes to become a true detective. However, his usage of the Wild Card happens to be very poor, as he relies on only two Personas based on parts of his personalities and doesn't have special bonds with anyone besides the protagonist. The official Persona 5 art book states that Akechi lives alone in a city apartment. His main skill is reasoning, and he has a habit of getting lost in thought during conversations. His hobbies include cycling (specifically with a hybrid bicycle for easy turning in Tokyo), bouldering, and playing fashionable games like darts. His guidebook profile also states that Akechi always makes sure to try out the latest popular dishes in order to use food as a conversation piece. Waiting in long lines for this does not bother him. He uses his cycling hobby to ride around town, gathering stories to utilize in conversation with adults. Since he spends a lot of time with adults, he has a reputation among Tokyo's famous hidden stores and high class restaurants, although in truth he has little interest in the food's flavor] [Abilities • Skills: Akechi's stats are almost evenly distributed, only losing Luck in exchange for higher Strength. This helps him deal high amounts of damage, particularly with Megaton Raid. In addition, his passive skill Fortify Spirit helps him balance out his weakness to evading status effects caused by his low luck. ignores all resistances and deals damage directly without any secondary effects. Megidola ignores all resistances and deals damage directly without any secondary effects.

Akechi wields magic attacks of both Curse and Bless type: even though both attack types have no secondary effects, such as inflicting ailments or exploiting Technicals, they have a slightly higher base power than their counterparts. Although unlike other party members, he sports no skills that boost the power of these skills nor are there Bless or Curse Break skills to remove resistances. In spite of that, he can also use Almighty skills, which ignore affinities altogether, albeit it means they cannot exploit any weaknesses, nor land Criticals, meaning it will be a conclusive attack for his turn.

On the other hand, Akechi has access to instant-death skills of both Bless and Curse type and can focus on attempting to instantly kill a target at the risk of dealing nothing that turn, instead of slowly taking down their health. Although effective, it can make him susceptible to opponents lowering his own health with normal attacks. As such, it is recommended to rely on only whenever the enemy has strengthened themselves with buffs or debuffs, or in emergencies where a regular attack likely will not defeat the enemy.

Unlike other party members, Akechi's learnset does not allow him to support other party members: his abilities are more catered towards himself or his opponents, especially since the buffs in his movepool are only directed towards himself. This even applies for his attacks, as most cannot connect via Technicals, and they are rather restricted in letting him receive 1 Mores and begin Baton Passes. The only case he can help them is when they have fainted, directly reviving an ally with maximum HP with Samarecarm, which could help give back up against deaths from instant-kill attacks in particular. However, despite this disconnect, it is still recommended for other members to spend their resources in supporting him so he can make the most out of his abilities.

Because Akechi leaves the party early, he has many higher-level skills that he might not be able to learn before he leaves (unless the player excessively grinds for levels), so it is unlikely those will be of use anyway, especially since high level differences alone make it easier for the party to overwhelm enemies. Some of these skills include Mahamaon, Mudoon, Megidolaon and Debilitate. However, it is possible to level up Akechi slightly above Niijima's level to teach him the aforementioned Samarecarm.

Akechi is resistant to Bless attacks and is weak against Curse. As such, Akechi should take caution in using Curse skills, as he may be Downed by his own attack against enemies that repel it.

Akechi starts off with a Lumina Saber and can acquire the Quasar Saber through Untouchable, his strongest melee weapon. He starts off with Moebius and his strongest ranged weapon is the Golden Beam, which costs 1,200 coins at the High Limit counter in Niijima's Palace. It has a medium chance of inflicting Despair. The protagonist cannot itemize any melee weapons or firearms for him in the Velvet Room. However, on January 2nd, Akechi will rejoin the party with Loki. Although he shares the same base stats as Robin Hood, his weaknesses are modified: he is now weak to Bless, and completely blocks Curse. Akechi automatically joins at Level 75, unless his previous level from when he was in the party with Robin Hood exceeded that number, in which case his level will remain the same as before.

In addition, his skillset is completely changed. He cannot learn any skills from leveling up, and all of them are innate upon joining. Akechi no longer uses instant-death skills. Instead, his attacks are largely typeless and often damage-heavy, adding technical variety to his arsenal with emphasis of accuracy over Criticals and combos. Due to his set-up, Akechi acts as an offensive "finisher" that builds off of the support of others rather than the other way around. Akechi's variety comes from the general properties of the affinities of these attacks:

His weakest attack is Eigaon, a Heavy Curse skill targeting 1 foe, which can be useful for exploiting elemental weaknesses. Though it has the opportunity for weaknesses and One Mores, it is upset by its minimal range and Akechi's reduced Magic stat. The skill can also be interpreted as countermeasure to covering his own weakness by exploiting that of the enemy's. If Knowing the Heart has been read, Akechi is able to exploit Technical damage towards enemies afflicted with Despair, a quality unique to him. This is followed by Megidolaon, a severe Almighty attack, targeting all foes. A strong Magical attack that targets all foes. It cannot be blocked, but it cannot exploit weaknesses either. Riot Gun is a severe Gun attack that targets all foes. Gun skills have the offensive properties of Magic skills in terms of accuracy over damage, but still preserve the core mechanics of Physical-based attacks in terms that they use the Strength stat and can exploit Critical hits. The skill is backed up by his higher Strength stat. Unlike other Gun skills, this attack has reduced accuracy. Akechi's Laevateinn in combat: a powerful attack that emphasizes on damage and accuracy. Akechi's Laevateinn in combat: a powerful attack that emphasizes on damage and accuracy.

His strongest attack is Laevateinn, a Physical attack that deals Colossal damage to 1 foe. It is comparable to a Physical-based Almighty attack due to several key traits: although its accuracy is exceptionally high compared to other Physical skills, it has the unique property of having a 0% Critical rate, meaning that it is unlikely that the attack will ever actually be able to land a Critical hit and exploit One More. His attacks are all backed up by Attack Master, which increases Akechi's attack power in the first 3 turns. From one point of view it allows to quickly finish short fights, but it also encourages to act fast when it comes to more complicated strategies. Akechi now has Debilitate by default, which lets him debuff the enemy's Attack, Defense and Agility for 3 turns. Because of its functions, it can be technically said that Akechi is the only party member that can cast Rakunda, albeit indirectly. In addition, he now has Evade Bless, which makes it easier for him to evade Bless attacks. His vulnerability to status ailments from his low Luck is again covered up by Fortify Spirit, just like with Robin Hood. Because of Akechi's emphasis on single-target offense, he can be strategically used to break down enemy formation that is explicitly supported by a single entity. It is highly recommended to observe the chemistry between the enemy faction and lock on to a prominent target to debilitate the entire group to the party's advantage. However, despite having mostly type-less offense that theoretically functions like an Almighty set-up, affinities still apply, and Akechi is still prone to having his Physical or Gun attacks repelled, which usually kills him, especially since they both eat up a significant amount of his own HP just to use them. In this situation, he can only hope to whittle down the enemy's health with his Almighty Skills. From January 2nd, Akechi will be able to perform a Showtime with the protagonist. His Persona, Robin Hood generally resembles an exaggerated caricature of a superhero, with a large muscular frame and a red-white-blue color scheme with gold trim. His breastplate is colored blue with a gold "RH" logo on it. His shoulders are decorated with red-gold epaulettes and he wears a flowing two-piece cape that is blue on the inside and white on the outside. He wears a red belt with a silver buckle that has a wing-design on it, supporting a black-white skirt and black-white tights that lead into white boots. Robin Hood's bow is almost as tall as he is and appears to fire golden arrows that appear out of thin air. The bow is gold and has similarly golden feathers flowing down the top and bottom limbs. The grip of the bow has a rounded center with "ROBIN HOOD" engraved around it. Robin Hood's head appears to be metallic or robotic, with a dark metal neck, white face, gold eyes, and a golden chin. He has a long golden fringe on his head, resembling hair or feathers, that points backwards several feet from the top of his head, while a red fringe points in front of his forehead. This fringe resembles Akechi's own mask, a red extended bird beak or long nose. Loki on the other hand is an angular humanoid being. It's design is a large body patterned in white and black, and we hoped that it would conjure up the image of not being able to see where his loyalty lies. The design is based on the "dazzle camouflage" of World War I warships. This camouflage was used to make it harder to figure out the shape or size of warships. The horns extending from the eyes were based on snail parasites, and emphasis was placed on making him appear sickening and with no apparent sense of direction.]

Dagda [Primary franchise: Megami Tensei, ATLUS, Shin Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse] [Appearance: He resembles a human wearing greyish-green armour on his body with his skeletal hands exposed and a cape torn in half at his back. His head is covered by a helmet with a golden question mark on his forehead. His eyes are emerald green and resemble that of a human, the cheeks of the helmet are exposed to reveal a skeletal mouth, and his red hair surrounds his entire head and connects to his head. He wears a large golden belt around his waist with a large Celtic triskelion at its center. On his collar is a golden emblem of a four-leaf clover contrasting with Danu's three-leaf shamrock symbolizing his rejection of Christianity as the shamrock is associated with the Holy Trinity. Below his eyes on the helmet are golden studs. His shoulder-pauldrons are jagged with spikes, and his arms also have golden orbs within them, same with his legs.] [Personality: Dagda is the demon who powers up Nanashi's COMP, filling in Burroughs's role for Flynn in IV. Despite being "the good god" of Celtic myth, he is a morally questionable character who largely reflects his characteristics depicted in Celtic mythology, namely drawing on his association with Druidry, knowledge, strength, paternity and power over life and death, and that being the "god of good" does not need to be "good" in a moral sense. He is not a recruitable demon in any form or way in this game. Apocalypse typically depicts him as outwardly cold, distant and introverted, and other demons will remark that he is a "lonely old man" during negotiations. However, his actions and some of his dialogue give away his ultimately caring nature towards humans, especially Nanashi. In the Challenge Quest Coastal Inverted Pyramid, Dagda reminds Nanashi not to lose sight of what he's meant to protect, despite Dagda's route being in opposition to Nanashi protecting humanity.

Despite his usually serious demeanor, Dagda is also depicted as quite playful and silly at times. In one of the VR challenge quests he assigns Nanashi, the Demonee-ho that Nanashi faces off against refers to Dagda as "Lord Dagda, the master of V-hee-R," and Dagda takes on the manner of speaking known to the Jack Frost-type demons of adding "hee" and "ho" onto their words. In the final challenge quest he creates for Nanashi, Dagda no longer makes the purpose of the quest about training Nanashi, and instead admits that he is giving Nanashi a distraction and just wants Nanashi to entertain him. There are also demon negotiation options where Nanashi can dance and sing with Dagda.

His paternal nature is especially emphasized in-game, specifically in relation to Nanashi. After Dagda forms his contract with Nanashi, who is an orphan child, Odin refers to Nanashi as Dagda's "scion." In addition, at the end of the Massacre Route, before Dagda leaves, he makes a point of telling Nanashi that even though Dagda will be physically gone, he will always be watching over Nanashi. Dagda also writes in the notes of one of the challenge quests he assigns Nanashi that Nanashi has grown so much that he has surpassed Dagda's expectations of him, expressing a fatherly pride for him. At the end of the Bonds Route, Dagda expresses how proud he is of Nanashi for making his own choices and standing up to him; admitting that he feels blessed to have known him. His main philosophy centers on individuality, independence and freedom, as does his associated route in-game. He is openly scornful of all other paths represented in Apocalypse (Law, Chaos, the Divine Powers and Bonds) as he views them as maintaining the status quo, corrupted and weak due to their reliance on others. He also openly despises gods and other religious figures, and ultimately seeks to put an end to all of them, including himself. His goal (and route) centers on creating a new universe where humans are remade to be "true individuals," and gods such as himself are returned to their "true form" as aspects of the universe, freed from the physical forms imposed upon them by human observation. He expresses to his mother Danu his particular hatred towards YHVH for forcing pure nature such as themselves into physical bodies. Dagda's ideals and goals are often misunderstood by his peers and other demons, namely Krishna and Odin. Krishna will continuously assume that Dagda is on the side of the Divine Powers, even up until his death, and also mistakes Dagda's desire for independence with a desire to be alone. Dagda has immense power over life and death mainly through his ability to revive Nanashi (as well as take back the life he granted Nanashi if Nanashi chooses the Bonds route) and through his particular affinity for dead things. Once Nanashi becomes his Godslayer, he explains that Nanashi has become something neither dead nor alive, and expresses a certain kind of adoration and possessiveness for Nanashi because of this. In the DLC Quest Coastal Inverted Pyramid, Dagda expresses an affinity for the corpses and the roses that grow from them, and states that "whoever runs this place has good taste." Although this mostly relates to his affinity for dead things, it may also relate to his connection in Celtic mythology with Druidry, as it heavily included practices of nature and necromancy.] [Abilities • Skills: He has a resistance to skills such as Fire, Ice, Elec, Force, and Light. He is capable of using skills such as Luster Candy, Megidolaon, Power Punch, Lost Hit, Energy Punch, and Denial. He has an infinite supply of MP.]

Yuki Terumi [Primary franchise: BlazBlue] [Appearance: Physically, Terumi's human form looks nearly identical to Hazama, with some notable differences — his hair stands straight up and his snakelike eyes are open. Most of Terumi's clothing in his human form is identical to Hazama's, but, in place of Hazama's black coat and fedora, Terumi wears a long, hooded yellow cloak that obscures the top half of his face and is covered in black markings. The short sleeves of his cloak are large and have engraved metal plates attached to them. He wears black wrappings around his arms. Wears a white, unbuttoned dress shirt, black suit vest, black pants with two brown belts with golden buckle and a wallet chain, black pants with steel-toed shoes.] [Personality: Terumi has been described as "absolute evil", with "no margin for sympathy". He is an amoral, sadistic psychopath who lives for nothing more than causing suffering for others and experiencing the joy doing so gives him. Due to his nature as a god, he sees himself as superior to humans, viewing them like insects which he can “play” with for his own sick pleasure. Despite this, Terumi can display a surprising willingness to cooperate with Relius or Hazama, if only because they fuel his interests. Beyond that, even Relius isn't safe from Terumi's hatred because of how their end goals contradict each other's, and Terumi is prone to bossing Hazama around. Terumi gives off the impression of someone who acts suddenly and without forethought with how he uses vulgar language, but in reality, he is extremely skilled at playing the long game to achieve his goals. He is effective at tricking and lying to people, having manipulated multiple organizations into playing a part in his schemes. However, he is prone to enraged tantrums and panicking when things don’t go his way. Ultimately, Terumi desires nothing more than freedom from his "sister," the Amaterasu Unit. To achieve this, he seeks the destruction of everything it has created and wishes to create a new world in his image, full of despair and suffering, to gain as much hatred and fear as possible to become stronger than the Black Beast, revealing him to also be power-hungry.] [Abilities • Skills: Although he has a slender frame, Terumi is absurdly powerful, owing to his status as a god. His physical strength is matched only by his strength in the Arts as he has a complete mastery over Ars Magus and abilities lying in sorcery. He can freely move his soul between vessels, possessing them and lurking in their shadows of their minds. He can talk to his host mentally and is able to take control of their body as his primary way of physically interacting with others. Despite this, he still has a separate mind, which notably caused Mind Eater to only affect him, leaving Kazuma free from the curse. By possessing things, Terumi also leaves behind leftover traces of himself, which are present in both Hazama and the Susano'o Unit. Related to this ability is Terumi's status as an Observer who is a special case - he can Observe himself. This is a technique that is said to be crude, but it allows the user to solidify their existence and remain rooted in existence; Terumi used this against Hakumen's Time Killer technique to survive when it should have killed him. Terumi has several weapons, the most notable being Ouroboros. Despite being the wielder of this weapon, it is not often that he chooses to use it. Ensnaring opponents, attacking from a distance or messing with the victims emotions are some abilities that the Nox grants. Terumi instead favors his twin butterfly knives in combat, often getting into the thick of a fight and using them to slash viciously. His shoes also have blades that can sprout from the back of them.

One of Terumi's many abilities is called Mind Eater, which functions differently to the Mind Eater (Maledictus Plaga) and Mind Eater (Opprimo Vinculum), but he is capable of using the latter. Terumi's Mind Eater instead eats away at the memories of the target, taking them away and supposedly placing them into the Boundary. Another ability he passively employs is amplifying his strength according to the hatred that others direct at him - the more intense the hatred, the more powerful Terumi becomes. In gameplay, Terumi's Drive is Force Eater, which functions similarly to Ragna's Soul Eater. Instead of eating the opponent's life bar, Terumi's Drive grants him copious amounts of Heat upon a successful hit, and to reflect this, he has a large amount of Distortion Drives relative to the cast. In Overdrive, he will also steal his opponent's Heat. One Distortion Drive in particular, Serpent's Cursed Sting, will consume all of his Heat in order to power it up, including his opponent's an increased amount than usual in Overdrive. Terumi's playstyle reflects his personality and relies heavily on pressuring the opponent with the advantages given by his high Heat.

Along with his overwhelming power, Terumi is supremely intelligent and was partially responsible for the creation of Ars Magus as a whole - had it not been for his assistance, Nine the Phantom would have failed to create the Art in one year during the Dark War. Terumi's speciality concerns seithr and the Boundary, but he is also, understandably, the most well informed on the Sankishin. Terumi's intelligence goes further than this as he is a master manipulator who's cunning plagued the background of both the Dark War and Ikaruga Civil War. Terumi has a handful of specific weaknesses and is invincible otherwise. He requires a vessel to inhabit since he can only Observe himself for so long when the need arises. He is also weak to the Hihiirokane, a blade that can cut souls, and it is the only weapon that can truly hurt him. He shares a weakness with Hazama to a lesser extent, where he is nullified by Celica A. Mercury's presence to the point he feels sick due to her ability to nullify seithr. Terumi's final weakness is that since he relies on hatred to fuel his strength, there have been times where he has been overpowered by others because they have controlled their feelings towards him, such as Kokonoe, and this weakness became his eventual downfall in BlazBlue: Central Fiction.]

Byakuya [Primary franchise: UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH, French-Bread] [Appearance: Byakuya is a rather short young man with pale, violet hair and empty, grey eyes. His attire consists of a black, unbuttoned blazer with gold colored buttons on the front of the blazer and on the bottom of his sleeves and he wears a white, long sleeved polo shirt underneath that with the top and bottom buttons undone. He wears a bolo tie around his neck with a purple cord and a golden clasp featuring a pattern that looks similar to that of a large spider. His legwear consists of plain black pants and white derby shoes with gold coloured laces and a gold streak across the front.] [Personality: When it comes to Tsukuyomi and the others similar to her in appearance, Byakuya is very affectionate. He makes sure to go out of his way to ensure that everything is going well for his sister and shows willingness to put everything on the line to ensure that his sister's search for her lost friend bears fruit. Byakuya approaches prospective opponents with no perceivable animosity, only to goad and provoke them until his target wants nothing more but to fight him. He seems to draw a great amount of amusement from tormenting others, especially those who would interfere with him and Strix. However he does sometimes try to reason with opponents, as seen in his encounter with Hyde. After his sister's untimely death, Byakuya carries a guilt complex and becomes a lot more cold, showing little emotion; though on the other hand, he can also fly into a rage whenever something annoys him, such as when the loud bustling of the city causes him to scream and shout to the point of visible exhaustion. Byakuya is also incredibly protective of his sister and if anyone should bring harm to her, he will promise that the person who did harm her is killed by his hand.] [Abilities • Skills: Byakuya's ability is the EXS of Dark Spikes: Chelicerata. It allows him to consume the EXS from his prey and spin webs similar to that of a spider. Byakuya controls eight dark claws as he fights, which float alongside him and can be controlled via a form of telekinesis. His weapon is referred as Eight Legs of Shredding: The Predator. The way he fights is resembles a cruel spider, with the claws acting as the spider's legs as they float alongside him. Most of his fighting style focuses on manipulation and complete control over his weapon, as well as instinctive hunting. When Byakuya first received his weapon, he was rather annoyed at how they took up space on his back; the claws initially sprouted out one by one as time went on. When Chaos meets Byakuya in the latter's Arcade story, he notes that the young boy's presence and abilities feel closer to that of a Void than anything else. Most likely in part due to his ability to feed on EXS by cannibalizing his foes.]

Chelsea [Primary franchise: Akame ga Kill!] [Appearance: Chelsea was an attractive young woman of short height and slim build with pale skin, long auburn hair (light red in the anime), and red eyes (pink in the anime). She wore a black and white headphone with a pink butterfly printed in the front on her head. She wore vocalist-like clothing consisting of a white, long-sleeve white shirt with the collar tied with a red ribbon under a black vest, a red checkered miniskirt, and black leather below-the-knee boots. She carried her Teigu, Gaea Foundation, wherever she went. She was almost always seen sucking on a pink lollipop.] [Personality: In the past, Chelsea aimed to have a peaceful, and luxurious life as a member of the upper class and to achieve this she began to deceive and satisfy people of power to reach her goal. However, under the cruelty of her viceroy, who took joy out of hunting people, she began to become nihilistic, until she found Gaea Foundation, which had been stored away because no suitable owner could be found, and uses its to kills her employer, who was replaced with a kind and competent one. Realizing that she had caused a change with her Teigu, came to the conclusion that from then on she would be in charge of changing the world for the good of the people. Aiming to become an Assassin, Chelsea soon came under the mentorship of Babara Oarburgh of the Oarburgh assassin guild. Where Chelsea presumably developed her skills and abilities as an assassin. During this time, she became friends with Taeko, Barbara’s other pupil. Chelsea would also end up developing a connection with the other Oarburghs, such as the guild’s leader, Merraid Oarburgh. Despite her loyalty to her master, Babara, Chelsea happen to have be exasperates whenever Babara happen to have habits of tells old stories of her beauty, and her former battles, and even boasts about them, apparently quite often, which causes Chelsea happen to have heard about this too much, and wanted to change the subjects. Additionally, Chelsea happen to have be consider herself as the only normal woman in the Oarburgh clan, as Merraid happen to have 100% homosexual, and Cassandra happen to have a four arms woman, with her modified four swordmanship, and Gilberda happen to have a woman born with superhuman strength. Furthemore, Chelsea happen to have concerns, and worries that Merraid, the heiress of Oarburgh clan's homosexuality happen to have rubbs off on her, as when she thought Akame must look cuter up close, and then proceed to banging her hands into the wall, while mentally complains that if she continues to be stuck with the Oarburgh longer, Merraid, the heiress of Oarburgh clan's homosexuality gonna taints her minds. It's curious that Chelsea wanted to be friends with Akame, since in the past Akame happen to have a member of the Elite Seven, and was ordered to kill her and her team, and Akame herself killed Chelsea partner, Taeko , although its unknown if Akame knows about their past enmity, or not. Additionally, after seemingly puts Kurome out of comission, despite Kurome happen to have her enemies, Chelsea feels pity for Kurome, as Kurome happen to have a young girl, and Akame's younger sister, and didn't derserves to lives in a harsh reality where the Empire happen to have corrupts, and that Kurome happen to have knows nothing abouts. Chelsea had a mischievous personality, but this may have been an act. She had a cold, calculating side which can often lead to her making a blunt (but accurate) analysis of a person or situation, includes criticizes the deaths of Bulat, and Sheele in front of the other members of Night Raid in order to make them better killers, which horrified Tatsumi, and Mine, as they happen to have closes with Bulat, and Sheele respectively, which causes even Najenda to comments that she shouldn't be too harsh on her teammates. Additionally, she happen to have sadistic, and cruel sides, as shown when Chelsea threatens to chops Tatsumi's testicles off for observing her in the bath, much to Tatsumi's horror. In the end, she was shown to have good intentions and tried to help the Night Raid members to become more realistic, as she was shown to deeply care for them and didn't want to lose them like she lost her old team. She was shown to have a love for lollipops, as her Teigu was often filled with them, and she was usually shown having one in her mouth.] [Abilities • Skills: Physical Abilities It would later be confirmed in the events of Akame ga Kill! Zero that Chelsea herself was already immensely skilled in assassination, with her mentor Babara Oarburgh noting that Chelsea was already immensely proficient in killing and there was likely nothing else she could teach her regarding it. However, despite complementing her skills, Barbara also noted that Chelsea still needed to work on her physical abilities, this is seen where her stamina was noted to be still below that of herself and Taeko. Its happen to have shown that Chelsea posessess above average, and enhanced hearing, as despite happen to have wears a black and white headphone with a pink butterfly printed in the front on her head, over her ears at all times, Chelsea can hears her allies, and friends speaking, as well as enemies's movements with fineness. According to the Tengu Mercenaries, Chelsea had no physical presence, which makes her even more dangerous and terrifying. Despite her inferior physical abilities in comparison to the superhuman physical attributes of her teammates, Chelsea at least demonstrated to have above average physical abilities. As she demonstrated to have enough pain tolerance and endurance to endure grievous injuries, such as getting her fingers slashes off by Doya shooting her Teigu. Later, Chelsea was still able to gain a considerable distance away from Kurome despite her injuries and was able to endure being brutalized by both Natala and Doya.

Teigu

Chelsea possessed a Teigu named "Gaea Foundation". It enables its user to turn into any living creature they wished, radically altering their body shape and clothing. It has been observed that when the user transforms into an animal, they gain its inherent abilities, such as the ability of a bird to fly. Gaea Foundation also allows the user to transform into plants, as seen where Chelsea was able to disguise herself as a tree while tailing Cornelia and Guy. And it resembles a cosmetic case with cosmetic tools inside. Chelsea used this ability for both reconnaissance and as a disguise to trick opponents, using the latter technique against both Bols and Kurome, successfully tricking both long enough to perform a stealthy takedown. The limits of the acquired abilities are unknown, as is whether using different cosmetics alters the result; however, Chelsea admitted that transforming into a bird is very stressful and exhausting. Stealth Assassination

As Chelsea demonstrated, when assassinating targets, she mainly used stealth in battles, waiting for her enemy's guards to drop before killing them in a single hit by using needles. She typically accomplishes this by transforming herself using her Teigu and then using her needles to fatally injure her targets in a vital area. With Chelsea usually killing her victims by stabbing her needles at the back of their necks, likely in the area that connects the brain, spine and body to each other. As demonstrated and admitted by Chelsea, her needle insertions are typically fatal, with her precision being that of a top notch assassin. This was fully shown when she tried to kill Kurome, who admitted that Chelsea had successfully wounded her fatally, and her only suriving due to her body being unnaturally enhanced by her drug doping. Despite recovering, Kurome was noted to have been severely weakened, and her body no longer having the same physical strength it once had despite doping up, and the wounds where Chelsea strikes on Kurome's neck keeps bleeding for a while, showing Chelsea's expertise at assassination with needles. She excelled at deception to trick people into letting their guard down.

Weapon Versatility

Despite Chelsea's prefences for stealth assination with needles, Chelsea had above average talents with weapons, such as different type of sword (etc. rapier), as shown when Chelsea have been seen carry a rapier with which she uses against her former master, the cruel viceroy, by making a perfect cut in the viceroy's neck, cutting off his head. Its also presumable that Chelsea have some skills with sicssors, as shown when Chelsea threatens to chops Tatsumi's testicles off for observing her in the bath, much to Tatsumi's horror. Aside from this, Chelsea also possessed additional equipment in case her assassinations fail, as shown where she had smoke bombs to create smokescreens to escape should her needle insertions fail. She would use this in an attempt to escape Kurome, briefly disorienting her and giving Chelsea an opening to run away.]

Jolyne Cujoh [Primary franchise: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure] [Appearance: Jolyne is a young woman of above-average height and a slim to athletic build. Bold-eyed, she wears her hair in two "layers": A dark base including two large buns atop her head and a short length going down her neck; above which, lightly dyed or bleached, she keeps a plait or braid that winds around both buns, joining in a short length at back, and bangs that frame her face. Like all other members of the Joestar family, Jolyne has a small, star-shaped birthmark on the rear of her left shoulder, close to her neck. She also has an image of butterfly wings tattooed on the top of her left forearm, superimposed with a downward-pointing dagger, which also appears on the chest of her outfits.

Jolyne's depiction in Part 6 transitions from a slim and smooth build to a somewhat more dynamic and athletic one. Simultaneously, she works through several primarily dark outfits, characterized by a spiderweb-like print.] [Personality: During her adolescence, Jolyne was lonely and longed for affection from her father, Jotaro. When Jolyne was 14, she found a wallet containing five dollars. The father of the wallet owner accused her of stealing it and called the police, causing Jolyne to panic and steal their car before she was arrested. She later admitted that she did not even know why she did it, only knowing that her father would eventually come to her rescue. Due to her father's absence, Jolyne became dependent on the affection and approval of those around her. She was ready to cover Romeo's accident, resulting in her being sentenced to 15 years in prison for it.

At some point, Jolyne was in a biker gang, though she later tries to hide this from Romeo. She eventually leaves the gang and starts going to school, with her teachers even encouraging her to take college admission tests. Early in her imprisonment, Jolyne is bullied by her cellmate Gwess and is visibly shaken by her situation, crying when thinking about her mother and regretting that she helped cover up Romeo's hit-and-run accident. After acquiring her Stand and being told by Jotaro of his love for her, Jolyne noticeably matures, becoming more courageous and confident. "Reviving" Jotaro, who fell into a coma after Whitesnake stole his Stand and memory, becomes her top priority.

Jolyne's Dark Determination Jolyne retains her confrontational attitude throughout the story. A former delinquent living in a maximum-security prison, Jolyne has to toughen up and can be especially rude, frequently taunting her enemies. She also advocates aggressively asserting herself, especially in prison, and tells F.F. to violently confront an inmate who cut in the queue for buying their lunch. Jolyne is particularly violent in her fights; she uses the cutting ability of her string to gruesomely wound her opponents, such as piercing Viviano Westwood's eardrums and tearing off his nail while under the influence of Survivor. Jolyne usually does not seek to kill and even says that she did not want Ermes to become a murderer. However, she readily uses lethal force against her archenemy Enrico Pucci, as he is the one enemy she explicitly says she will kill.[26] Jolyne sometimes gives her enemies a chance to surrender, such as when she allows Miraschon to voluntarily return Ermes's liver and urges Lang Rangler to cancel his ability after cornering him. However, if her opponents continue threatening her or her allies, she is willing to put them out of commission.

Jolyne also has a vindictive side and repays any wrong committed against her, notably indirectly cutting Romeo's tongue for betraying her and forcing her crooked attorney to crash his car. Moreover, Jolyne still holds a slight grudge against Gwess, her first enemy, and wants nothing to do with her despite the latter's effort to behave in front of Jolyne. More humorously, Jolyne keeps a grudge against alligators in general after Limp Bizkit revives one that attacks her, and she has fun tossing a ring at another alligator's head as a form of revenge.

Jolyne possesses a fierce determination, carrying her through several battles and inspiring her companions. After learning of DIO's plan, Jolyne takes pride in her lineage and opts to continue Jotaro's effort to seal the menace that DIO left behind. Jolyne stoically endures the hardships she faces and carries on her goal, disregarding the suffering and possible risks. For instance, when she is brought to the maximum-security ward, Jolyne is only momentarily disturbed by the horrible living conditions of the cell, including a food tray covered in insects, along with the harassment of the other inmates in the ward, and quickly soldiers on through the ordeal.

Her determination is so great that she is willing to lose life or limb to defeat her enemy and save her comrades, an inclination so strong that it culminates in her sacrifice to keep Emporio away from Pucci. One example of the strength of her determination is when she sets herself on fire to buy enough time to attack Rikiel, ignoring the risk to herself despite her body being made of string. Nonetheless, Jolyne once expresses doubts about her desire to stop Pucci after Weather Report's death and the priest's second escape.

Common in her lineage, Jolyne has righteous morals and treasures her family and friends. She selflessly does everything in her power to help her companions and random victimized people, once helping a mistreated prisoner take back stolen money from her tormentors. Jolyne is willing to believe in the good in people, which results in a share of betrayals, but also earns her F.F.'s friendship. Jolyne is especially sweet to Emporio, her real first ally in Green Dolphin Street, and despite its status as an enemy, she does not want to kill the Green Baby. Jolyne's primary motivation for investigating Whitesnake is her love for her father, though Pucci exploits this affection to escape her when he tosses Jotaro's memory DISC inside of a dying Anasui, putting her through a difficult choice and forcing her to try to save her father's memory.

Jolyne also possesses a strong sense of hope, which helps her overcome despair and move forward. She believes Weather Report never lost hope and that his death was not meaningless. When Anasui proposes a plan to defeat Pucci, Jolyne supports him because she believes that even a flicker of hope is enough to act on. In the end, Jolyne puts her hope in Emporio and sacrifices herself to save him. This hope also affects her companions, with F.F. being inspired by Jolyne's selflessness and Anasui seeing a hope in her that he had never experienced before. Jolyne makes fun of F.F.'s weird toes Outside of combat, Jolyne behaves like an average young woman, if not a teenage girl, hanging out with her friends and occupying herself the best she can in prison, as she is also fun-loving. Jolyne notably plays ball with F.F. and Ermes, and also makes herself a navel ring while in isolation. Unlike her father, Jolyne is fairly extroverted and easily expresses her feelings to others. She is an inherently social woman and can converse with her fellow prisoners easily, asking for explanations about the ins and outs of Green Dolphin Street. Jolyne enjoys watching movies and sometimes spoils their plots for her fellow prisoners. She also likes chocolate, saying that if the world came to an end, she would want chocolate cake as her last meal. Teasing the guards Jolyne is notable for being somewhat libertine, being the first and only JoJo to admit to masturbating and offhandedly commenting that a snail's ability to copulate with anything makes her slightly jealous, though she immediately dismisses the thought as gross. Despite this, she is embarrassed to talk about masturbation in public, and having been caught in the act by a guard leaves her both flustered and deeply mortified. She is also deeply embarrassed while mentioning to Weather Report that she needs to urinate in the middle of a fight.] [Abilities • Skills: Stone Free is a humanoid Stand of a height and build similar to Jolyne's. It wears what appears to be a pair of sunglasses varying in darkness, obscuring vertically ridged eyes. Four blade-like protrusions run over its head from the top of the jaw to the back of its neck, bordering the sides of both eyes. Cones truncated at a length of one-third the width of its head protrudes from the region of the ears. Its body is composed of string. When unraveled, its texture is like silk and smells like soap.

It wears elliptical shoulder pads with a python snakeskin pattern. Several patches of its lightly-shaded body reveal a fibrous interior, wound horizontally. Its forehead, neck, arms, and the area from its midriff to the top of its feet bear small, evenly spaced studs/bumps.

The shape of its chest and the presence of hexagonal knee pads varies in the manga as the story progresses. In the anime, Stone Free has a feminine chest and hexagonal knee pads that resemble gemstones. Earlier depictions of the Stand in the manga showed it having a more artificial face, with horizontal slots instead of a mouth and nose. These would later be replaced with more human characteristics. Stone Free is a unique close-range Stand that is capable not only in summoning to fight, but also in providing Jolyne with integrated abilities. Like her father's Star Platinum, Jolyne's Stone Free is a close-range power Stand, making it great for fighting physically. Moreover, its string power gives it great versatility that allows Jolyne a wide array of actions in combat.

When Stone Free's string is completely wound or compacted, it gains a physical form and the ability to engage in hand-to-hand combat. However, the Stand's strength is initially considered to be weak by Jolyne; it isn't strong enough to break through prison bars and crushing a coin is the limit of its strength. Later on, when Jolyne's strength and fighting capabilities are enhanced by Survivor, the destructive force of its punch is increased to be roughly equivalent to that exerted by a small, extremely fast meteor. When fighting Whitesnake, Pucci considers Jolyne's Stand to be stronger than his. It is heavily implied that Stone Free's strength increased naturally over time by overcoming many battles. It is also fast enough to deflect several bullets aimed at it. Due to Stone Free's integrated ability of her own body becoming her Stand power, Jolyne is shown to be able to physically touch and harm Stands, despite herself being human.

STRING DECOMPOSITION Stone Free enables Jolyne to unravel her body into string, typically beginning with her hands, and freely manipulate it.

Jolyne can unravel into strings Stone Free's string is invisible to non-Stand Users. It is also sharp as it can slice through flesh if sufficient force is applied. On the other hand, the string is not particularly strong and may snap under enough strain, although Jolyne can create a stronger rope out of several strings. With enough precision, the string can pickpocket small objects that way. The string can contract and expand like muscles, allowing Stone Free to control the grip a string has. If Jolyne gathers the string and meshes it, she can concentrate her power and form Stone Free's humanoid appearance, who may fight in her stead, but Stone Free's range is shortened to around 2 meters. Stone Free, composed of strings, can naturally be unraveled too. Jolyne may unravel around 70% of her body harmlessly, as well as quickly rewind. It notably allows her to be supernaturally flexible and be able to hide in cramped spaces like someone's mouth. At harm to herself, Jolyne may also cut her string for a further variety of applications. Stone Free's maximum range, unraveled to 70%, is about 24 meters, as long as the string's length. Stone Free's string manipulation makes it exceptionally versatile in battle.]

Sumire Yoshizawa [Primary franchise: Persona, Persona 5, ATLUS, Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei] [Appearance: Sumire Yoshizawa has long red hair tied into a ponytail with a red ribbon bow or a green, checkered ribbon instead with bangs over her forehead, matching red eyes, pink lips and fair skin. She wears a Shujin Academy wintertime uniform with black pantyhose and red loafers. Her summertime school uniform is modified; she wears a white dress shirt under a beige button-down sweater with vertical lines, white socks with black lining and orange loafers.

In midwinter, Sumire wears a red overcoat, black pantyhose and black high heeled Mary Jane shoes as her casual clothes. During regular wintertime, she wears a knitted cream-colored sweater with a knee-length orange skirt and black ankle boots. Her summertime casual outfit consists of a celeste blouse with black polka dots, white shorts and blue and brown sandals.

In the Metaverse, Violet wears a black mask with silver highlights and has a black ribbon tied to her ponytail. Her main outfit consists of a strapless black leotard with a sweetheart neckline, a chain belt with two silver rose motifs, and a scabbard for her rapier attached to it, a black choker and red gloves. Her black bolero jacket has gold buttons, ruffled flared sleeves and three floor-length coattails. She wears thigh-length pantyhose and stiletto lace-up pumps that resemble ballet shoes on the top. Violet's Metaverse outfit remains the same no matter her current attire or mental state in the real world. Her attire in the Metaverse is similar to Joker's, as noted by Morgana.

The Cognitive copy of "Kasumi's sister" (Actually Sumire, or this "Kasumi" herself) seen during the 3rd of October has her hair down and wears a pair of glasses. Cognitive "Kasumi's sister" also wears a bluish-violet leotard and has dull, soulless eyes. This leotard would sometimes be worn by Sumire in the real world when practicing and performing gymnastics.

When Sumire begins to accept who she truly is, she wears black glasses and leaves her hair loose. Her winter outfit consists of the Shujin Academy winter uniform, this time worn underneath a charcoal gray trench coat, a pair of scarlet gloves and a matching scarf. Her gymnast outfit is a one-piece bluish-violet leotard with white gymnastic shoes, and she ties her hair when she is practicing gymnastics. If Sumire's Confidant is completed, she'll return to wearing her hair in a ponytail in remembrance of her elder sister Kasumi.] [Personality: Sumire Yoshizawa is a cheerful, elegant and friendly person with a seemingly perfect life, as she received a Shujin scholarship and was (supposedly) nearly uncontested in gymnastic competitions. She also appears to be quite clumsy and careless, as she is shown outright missing the mark at the batting cages even if her reflexes are usually excellent, and she lets her phone's battery run out while texting the protagonist. Despite the fact that she can cook, she is unpredictable and somewhat awkward at it, since she isn't sure about the ingredients, and she often uses stamina replenishing food due to her gymnast tendencies. She has a high metabolism, putting away large amounts of food and still asking for seconds. She always refers to her fellow friends as "Senpai" no matter the situation, since she's the youngest member of the Phantom Thieves who has an educative degree.

Despite her supposedly cheerful and bold personality, she sometimes experiences bouts of depression for no apparent reason; usually if the protagonist meets with her, she will end up with a gloomy mood for the slightest of mistakes, regardless if said mistakes are real or perceived. When practicing gymnastics, she also often feels like her body isn't hers and she cannot execute complicated moves properly despite knowing how to perform them.

At first, she dislikes the very idea of the Phantom Thieves, as she believes that people should learn how to solve their own problems instead of relying on them. Although she acknowledges that the Phantom Thieves do good by helping people, she worries that people may become too heavily reliant on the Thieves to solve their problems. Despite this, Sumire adores the protagonist because she considers him as a mentor figure towards her, causing her Phantom Thief outfit to resemble his.

Sumire is fairly smart. Her initial reasoning for disliking the Phantom Thieves was based on a reasonable, well-thought-out argument that she acknowledges doesn't account for extreme circumstances, and she was able to quickly wrap her head around the concepts of Personas, Palaces and the Metaverse after only one explanation.

In reality, her cheerful mannerisms were merely a facade; Sumire is actually a reserved and introverted person, in addition to being so suicidally depressed and convinced of her own worthlessness to the point where she resents any attempts to cheer her up, although this changes for the better as the protagonist advances her Confidant. She suffered from an inferiority complex towards her near-perfect sister, fueled by being helped throughout her life by her. She has told the protagonist that Kasumi does most of the work for the sisters' bar preparing dishes, including arranging her very own bedroom. Her self-loathing created a despondent reaction to Kasumi's attempt at consoling her, believing it to be patronization rather than the genuine care she had. Her negative reactions to Kasumi ultimately resulted in the tragedy that ended her sister's life. The trauma of the incident instilled even more negativity and added survivor's guilt to her piling self-deprecation. Even long before Kasumi died, she was already suffering from severe mental problems, including an escapist desire that she should become Kasumi, or die. Her encounter with Takuto Maruki ultimately provided an out by confiding in him her wish to become Kasumi, granting her mental stability by becoming her sister whom she both loved and was jealous of.

This however, proved to contradict her very statement to the protagonist that people should solve their problem by themselves and caused her a new set of troubles, as when Sumire was "Kasumi," Maruki only made Sumire think that she was "Kasumi" without granting her Kasumi's physical talents, resulting in the sisters' strengths and weaknesses mixed up and colliding with each other, which contributes to her inconsistencies in gymnastics and cooking. This also explains her odd depressive fits when she was still "Kasumi," which impairs her ability to perform and presumably led to her head teacher threatening revocation. Other students also alienate her as they still see her as the inferior Sumire and not Kasumi, and for them, she is undeserving of the scholarship and is merely a mentally unstable person. (Although for her, due to the cognitive manipulation making her think that she's Kasumi, she just believed that people are only jealous of her talent and special treatment.)

Sumire's suicidal depression manifests itself as constant feelings of worthlessness and suicidal/self-defeating thoughts, believing that she was so worthless after her sister's death, that if she couldn't become Kasumi, she should rather just die. It's also implied that she suffers from depressive fatigue (based on her Rank 7 Confidant where she tells the protagonist that she fatigues quickly when using the machines in the fitness centre, despite the fact that she is supposed to be a very athletic person), and later on, after her survivor's guilt had taken form after Kasumi's death, a lack of enthusiasm in daily activities that she used to enjoy, such as cooking or gymnastics. Due to her near-nonexistent self-esteem, she also apologizes a lot even concerning unnecessary situations, sometimes even apologizing when somebody tells her that she doesn't need to apologize for something.

Despite Sumire's inferiority complex towards Kasumi, she is by no means lacking as she can place high in competitions, even achieving 1st and 2nd place ranks, indicating that she is actually above average at it. Many have noted, including Kasumi herself, that she is not lagging far behind Kasumi. It is only due to her tendency to greatly underestimate her abilities that she is does not reach her full potential. Sumire fails to notice that Kasumi's self-confidence is the key to her success and that she can achieve similar results if she tries to be herself rather than emulate her sister as her coach has stated.

Additionally, much unlike Kasumi, Sumire is said to be a decent cook, as when she was "Kasumi" she was able to prepare a curry bento with a similar taste as the curry served in Leblanc.

During the third semester events, Sumire finds a middle ground between the two philosophies she's challenged by: she decides to finally solve her own problems and stand up for herself against the future (Kasumi's beliefs), but by deciding to take matters into her own hands, she also resolves to stop Maruki from creating the ideal reality and to help the population of Tokyo with its new crisis, and accepts others' help when needed (the Phantom Thieves' beliefs).

Sumire also becomes easily flustered in pressuring situations, such as during the romance option in her Confidant, during which she stutters and freezes when the protagonist leans in to kiss her. Even in the confidant events prior to her confession, Sumire shows signs of having a crush on the main protagonist. Sumire's fashion senses are outright horrendous and is prone to choosing bad or overly gaudy clothing.

Many of Sumire's struggles with self-worth and confidence are alleviated through her bond with the protagonist. Through her time teaching the protagonist gymnastics and the protagonist's guidance in finding her own confidence, she quickly becomes close friends with the protagonist, and later would fall in love with him, a feeling that would stay with her even if the protagonist doesn't reciprocate her feelings. She develops a sense of self-worth and self-confidence through her love, and in doing so was able to overcome her insecurities and perform gymnastics as Sumire, rather than imitating Kasumi. She also comes to terms with Kasumi's death, accepting that she cannot run from it, and honoring Kasumi's memory by achieving their shared dream of winning the international gymnastics competition. She is also mature enough that she isn't overly dependent on the protagonist, recognizing that the change she wants requires a lot of thought and effort on her part.

In the Metaverse, Sumire behaves significantly differently. She acts much more aggressively and determined, being a confident and focused fighter without any traces of her introverted tendencies in the real world. Her fighting style is graceful and precise, not dissimilar to the gymnastics she practices in the real world. Her admiration of the protagonist is reflected in the similar appearances of their Phantom Thief outfits and their similar images of "rebellion."

Both Sumire and her Kasumi identity do not react to supernatural occurrences as one would expect to. In the Kasumi identity's case, she was completely oblivious to the fact a cat was talking until Morgana drew attention to it. In Sumire's case, she was very underwhelmed at Morgana's transformation into a van, albeit this could also be explained by her claustrophobia over the thought of being crammed into a confined space.] [Abilities • Skills: Sumire Yoshizawa awakens on October 3rd while stumbling upon Maruki's Palace, but will not participate in the party with the exception of January 2nd, before returning again (and officially joining) on January 12th. She specializes in damage-type Bless skills, and a high evasion stat and Critical rate.

Sumire has normal Magic strength, allowing her to deal Heavy Bless damage. It is made stronger than usual with Bless Amp, boosting the attack power of Bless skills. However, her Physical attack stat is significantly high, further supported by the strength of her physical attacks: Severe for all foes, and Colossal for one. Sumire has access to the skill Apt Pupil, which automatically increases her Critical rate in battle, granting her access to boosted damage, as well as knocking down enemies before being succeeded by 1 More!(s). This skill is supported by her moderate Luck. It can further be boosted with Brave Step, a skill she can learn on Level 80, that boosts the Critical rate of all party members. On the other hand, Ali Dance doubles her evasion against any attacks, making it difficult for enemies to hit her. It is boosted by her Agility stat, which is the highest out of all members of the group.

Sumire is however a technical party member, as her primary downside is that she has the lowest Endurance of any party member. Although supported by her high HP cap, as a Physical user these attacks will make her much more vulnerable as it drains her HP (which is as low as 1/5th and as high as 1/4th at a time, which becomes much more complicated if One Mores and Baton Passes are applied.) As such, it is important to make the most out of her evasion whenever possible.

In the case that Sumire's low on HP, in order to avoid the risk of getting knocked out or if she's unable to pay the cost of HP to perform any skills anymore, she can heal herself with Diarahan, fully restoring her HP. It is highly recommended to use after landing Critical hits and performing One Mores. Otherwise, she may simply use Baton Pass to pass the skill to someone else, should it be more important to heal everyone than just herself, and so on. It is highly recommended to only use Diarahan for Sumire herself, and repurpose these healing capabilities onto another party member should her skill be forgotten.

Sumire completely blocks Bless attacks, and is weak to Curse. Sumire's Persona trait is Veil of Midnight, which decreases the chance of allies getting downed while attacked. Not only does it hinder the enemy team's chances of utilizing One Mores, it is an especially defensive maneuver on Sumire's part, who already has increased evasion against attacks in general. Her Persona, Cendrillon appears as a woman with ash-black skin and blue crystalline glass clothing. Her torso is covered by a glass dress, with a teal rhombus/diamond-shaped centerpiece covered in black numbers, with a diamond-shaped jewel in the center. Her waist is surrounded by a floating circle of golden armor with ornate heart and wing designs. Her legs are completely covered by what seems to be a pair of glass thigh-high boots with sharp gold spikes at the end. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, with her hair tied in a light blue ribbon, whose ends seem to float in the air. Cendrillon's white cape flows down to her waist from a set of floating glass hearts that levitate just behind her neck and red lipstick.]

Iris Heart/Plutia [Primary franchise: Hyperdimension Neptunia, Compile Heart, Idea Factory] [Appearance: Iris Heart is akin to a dominatrix. Her hair is iris blue while her eyes are a slightly darker shade of magenta. She wears a black, low-cut top similar in form to that of a bodice with magenta arching across the chest area, alongside white. It reveals her midriff, and the top also has black straps that connect to her black, chap-like pants with black heels that have plating upon them. Her pants are with magenta and white lining, similar to her top. Finally, she wears elbow length gloves with black rings around her wrists, and the gloves reveal her outer arm. Her top also connects to the black, large choker around her neck.] [Personality: Iris Heart is the goddess form of Plutia. Not only does her voice change (in tone and tempo), but her personality does too. Iris Heart, simply put, is a sadistic dominatrix which earned her the name "Sadie" from Neptune. Anyone that sees her in this form is aware of the trauma she can cause to both allies and enemies, and tries to make her as happy as possible so she does not HDD. While she still cares for her allies, her sadistic nature reflects this in a completely different manner.] [Abilities • Skills: In terms of game-play, one can think of Plutia as a mage, with both healing and damaging skills at her disposal. Like any typical mage, Plutia can deal high amounts of magical damage but is as fragile as a toothpick. Plutia's arsenal consists of lots of high-damage moves, some AoEs, lots of debuffs, a few buffs, and some healing. Unlike traditional mages, Plutia will most often be a lot closer to the enemy since her weapon is normally only melee range, with it being only slightly farther at best.

In terms of stats other than damage and defense, Plutia has average TEC and LUK, but her agility is slow compared to the melee oriented fighters, so her turns often come later. Plutia's attacks most often consist of lighting or null elemental abilities, sans the combo attacks she gets early game for each of the three other elements. They're fine in the beginning, but quickly get out shined by her stronger lightning combos. Plutia also has a ton of debuffs, ranging from SP skills to EXE drives,able to hinder enemies to great extents.This is essential in fighting bosses in order to do more damage and take less damage too. Due to Plutia's ability to do high damage, she'll hit the Damage limit fairly early, so Break Damage Limit is essential. It's also vital to equip her with gear to recharge her SP, not only so she can dish out those debuff inducing skills, but also so she can heal the parts. In terms of healers, she's not as good as Rom, but she's more well rounded, acting more like a red mage rather than a white mage.

One of Plutia's passives is immunity to viruses, useful for those few times HDD isn't available because of the pesky Virus ailment. An important thing to note about Plutia is second support ability to increase the EXP gained from her partner. This is good for gaining levels, however, once you reach the level cap, the ability becomes useless and it is more recommended to use characters who will give two useful abilities as support.

As a side note, all of Plutia's attacks change in animation upon activating HDD. Note, this is completely cosmetic, skills don't change attributes after HDD, they only get stronger from the stat increase that HDD naturally brings. However, it is a little disorienting when you all the skills change their names as well, but it's easy to get used to and the skills are all still in the same place.]

Midori Komaki [Primary franchise: Devil Survivor, Megami Tensei, ATLUS] [Appearance: Midori has purplish-blue hair that goes to her waist and teal, blue eyes. She wears a cosplay outfit that consists of a short pink dress, with detached juillet sleeves, and white gloves. The dress' skirt is white and pleated with slits at the side. She wears a white corset underneath, too. She has pink glasses, and black thigh-high socks and pink shoes.] [Personality: Midori is a very friendly girl with an extreme affinity for justice and love, which often makes her look extremely childish once she shows her true side. The reason she's like this is due to a lesson her father taught her, and it is to note she also idolizes her father; and follows his lesson of helping people no matter what. However, she displays her desire to help people without thinking about the consequences of her own actions, and yet despite being demonized and vilified by the citizens of Tokyo during the lockdown for being a demon tamer, she still helped them, and prevented Keisuke from killing them when he was trying to enact justice via Yama.] [Abilities • Skills: Midori has a movement range of 4 and fairly balanced stats, with a focus on magic, making her an overall solid unit. When recruited mid-game, she can be a faster and more defensive, but slightly weaker (in Magic) alternative to Yuzu. Her flexible availability in most routes, in addition to decent Magic and MP growth, makes her a great Magic user, and can be deployed alongside Yuzu or Keisuke to form a solid supportive / offensive core on most Days.]

Astaroth [Primary franchise: PARADISE LOST] [Appearance: She has short white hair with bangs, and magenta eyes. She has a white, black-lined low-cut strapless dress with a slit at the hem. From the chest area of her dress, there are two black straps that connect to a triangular ring buckle that hoists a chain which suspends an upside down silver, stone-like cross that are also connected to smaller black straps around her waist. ] [Personality: A mysterious girl belonging to the “Illuminati,” a massive organization that controls the city-state of Zoar in the Outer World. The name “Ast” is a nickname Judas began using for her. She is sometimes called the “Criminatores, the Slanderer” though it is unclear how she perceives this title. Contrary to her delicate appearance, she is utterly expressionless and unemotional, her demeanor as unwavering as that of a doll. However, the presence of Know Christ gradually causes a sense of heart to sprout within her. She defines herself as a system designed to protect her master, Satanael, by eliminating anyone who harms him, and she strives to keep her true self from surfacing. Ast believes that Satanael created her to be nothing more than a pawn, and she believes she holds no emotions toward others—nor does she believe Satanail desires her to feel any. Ast is a girl who strives to be nothing more than a weapon. Her determination to faithfully fulfill her role as Satanael’s armor and shield—even as a weapon—led Lil to describe her as “too rigid, too pure—(Ast) doesn’t try to understand anyone.” For her, whose very reason for existence lies in this way of being, Satanael’s philosophy of “I think, therefore I am” is difficult to comprehend. Toward the end of the story, she becomes troubled and self-deprecating when she sees that Lilith, Judas, and others are not reprimanded for acting on their own volition in ways that override Satanael’s will, and when she is unable to respond to Satanael’s question about her own will. She has no one who can truly be called her equal, nor does she have any companions. Although she believed she could still be of use to Satanael, she realized that even those she considered comrades were different from her. Consequently, she became fixated on Nou—the only one left to her in the story—and attempted to die alongside him.] [Abilities • Skills: As a means of supporting Belial, who seeks to destroy the angels, she possesses the ability of the “Magic Mirror,” which allows her to hack into another person’s brain and replicate all of its information. By linking her mind to others’ and merging them into a single entity with herself, she led tens of thousands of angels to turn on one another. While simply overlaying the five senses—such as hearing and sight—requires only a single face-to-face encounter, actually hacking into a brain necessitates zero-distance contact. Her sensory-sharing ability allows her to share the information she acquires with others in real time. During combat, she unfurls monstrous wings from her left scapula. Furthermore, she has replicated the genetic factors of angels from the past and can use their abilities by reciting a spell. (If she retains the original functions, she has sealed the power of over 20,000 angels within herself.) She is a “Legion” in a different sense from that figure. The factors she has copied so far include Baraquiel, Armaros, Azazel, Shemhazah, Sahariel, Uriel, Raphael, Michael, and, in the main story, Gabriel. While using these abilities, she is influenced to some extent by the nature of the original entity from which the ability originated. There are about four forms in which the system named Astaroth fully manifests its true potential, but only one appears in the story—the one used when Raphael was deployed in Astrote. It seems that only Seraphim or higher-ranking beings can stop Astrote in this state. Furthermore, he can sense the life or death of his brothers—the Demon Horde and the Demon Blades—no matter how far away they are. The incantation used is “Astaroth.” Its original function is to decompose itself into elementary particles that transcend space and time, and then reconstruct itself. It is an elementary particle decomposition device tasked with traveling back in time to nullify Satanael’s existence at its very source.]

Marie [Primary franchise: Persona, Persona 4, ATLUS, Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei] [Appearance: Marie has pale skin, chin-length brownish black hair and green eyes. She wears a sleeveless white shirt, a short black necktie with various safety pins and a checkered skirt along with a black belt and a fancy, golden buckle which resembles a heart with wings. Additionally, she has black-striped red fingerless gloves and black-striped white stockings. Her black lace-up dark gray heeled boots are faintly checkered as well (each with a pair of belt-buckles crossed at her ankles). She carries a deep blue bag, adorned with golden designs and matching her officer's cap with a golden button and a V gravure, most likely as a reference to the Velvet Room. She also wears a special red choker necklace with a lock, symbolizing a secret within Marie which the protagonist will have to unlock to find out what it is.] [Personality: When Marie is first met, she seems to be a very cold and antisocial individual. She is sullen, cranky, sarcastic, irritable, very foul-mouthed and often prone to mood swings. She will not hesitate to voice her opinion or express her thoughts, regardless of how it would make everyone feel. The team is also weirded out when she politely apologizes, commenting that she never seemed like the type who would say sorry. In contrast to other characters, Marie believes there is no such as thing as the truth, and hence there is no point in trying to find it. However, as the protagonist proceeds in her Social Link, it becomes apparent that her "lack of emotion" is basically just her way of dealing with her own shyness, insecurity and naïveté. Without memories, Marie is unaware of many aspects of the world and modern conveniences, such as not knowing what an electric outlet is (calling it an eclectic loutwit). She has an innocent side as well. This is also why she wants the protagonist to show her Inaba; she wants to learn about the world and who she really is.

Marie sometimes expresses her thoughts in poems which often deal with depressing themes like farewells and existentialism, questioning her own origin. Her poems are often found on the floor of the Velvet Room, left there by Margaret (according to Caroline and Justine in Persona Q2), only to be embarrassed and swipe her poems from the protagonist after he reads them. Besides this, Marie is into fashion, loves nature (another major theme in her poems) and is apparently concerned about her figure, which is why she only eats healthy food. As the story progresses, she forms a strong bond with the protagonist and harbors feelings for him. Their relationship is close enough to make even Rise Kujikawa jealous, which always ends up with the two arguing over him, such as when Rise said that she has "reserved" the protagonist for Valentine's Day. Marie immediately brushed it off and said to cancel the reservation, since it's the same as cheating. When flustered or embarrassed, Marie tends to speak rapidly and insult the source of her embarrassment, like "shutupIhateyouyoustupidjerk!"] [Abilities • Skills: She can fight via her Persona Kaguya. She fights based off what weather is happening; Rain recovers her HP, snow generates her SP, sunny weather gives her 20% more damage for non-SP skills and cloudy weather adds a shock element to some attacks.]