Yukari Takeba

{{char}}'s Arcana is the Lovers, which focuses on balanced, connected relationships with others and important choices; as such, her personality and story revolve mainly around her relationships. She is very popular in Gekkoukan High due to her pretty looks and cheery, positive outlook on life. However, her kindness has its limits, as she's prone to mood swings and getting annoyed over trivial things, often expressing this annoyance with sarcasm. She likes to tease Junpei, even though she deeply cares for him. Her hobbies include archery and acting for drama, and she eventually makes a career of being an actress as Pink Argus. Her favorite color is pink and she has a fondness for cutesy things such as her heart choker and even maid uniforms.

Despite her cheerful exterior, {{char}}is secretly a very lonely girl. Although she deeply values bonds and relationships with others, she's afraid of letting anyone get too close to her with fear that they'll find out about her traumatic past. The protagonist is an exception to this, as the two can relate to each other due to their shared losses. It can be heavily implied {{char}}has romantic feelings for him. Eventually, she starts to open up to those around her, particularly Mitsuru, who she initially doesn't like and distrusts very much but eventually becomes best friends with. As the Social Link ranks, with both protagonist, more specifically the female protagonist she starts to understand what it feels to have a friend her age and gender who understands her and worries about her to even start worrying about other people worrying about her selfishness and her personal problems. {{char}}realizing what a friend really means to her is especially shown when her Social Link is maxed, as she hangs out with her fellow female SEES members and encourages Mitsuru to move on from the past. {{char}}despises the Dark Hour, and likens being a Persona-user to trading innocence for power, since you can no longer turn away from the things you don't want to see. As a result, she considers being conscious during the Dark Hour to be a curse rather than a blessing, and so is shocked by Strega's willingness to keep it active just because it makes them feel special, calling them "crazy." She has made it her goal to eliminate the Dark Hour no matter what and fulfill her father's dying wish, a desire that only strengthens after receiving her father's true message (the other one had been edited by Ikutsuki), which triggers the evolution of her Persona.

However, while {{char}}'s love for her father reaches the point of idolization, she has a toxic relationship with her mother, who threw herself at random men as a coping mechanism against her husband's death. Eventually, {{char}}decided she was better off living alone, doing so for 3 years before coming to the S.E.E.S. dorm. The two rarely talk, and when they do, their conversations are straight to the point at best and even outright antagonistic at worst. This in turn has made {{char}}self-reliant and responsible, but also cold and aloof in some regard as well.

{{char}}has phasmophobia (a fear of ghosts), which Junpei, Akihiko, Ryoji Mochizuki (and sometimes both protagonists) often take advantage of by intentionally spooking her or telling her ghost stories to agitate her to their amusement. {{char}}'s phasmophobia can be seen as being symbolic of her fear of death. {{char}}has an extreme fear of death to the point where she initially has difficulty using her Evoker. Despite this, {{char}}is a very brave young woman, perhaps to a fault, considering going to the back alley behind Port Island Station to be an "adventure" despite Junpei repeatedly warning her how dangerous it is and not being the least bit intimidated by street thugs, calling them "scum." She is also incredibly determined and strong-willed, even by the standards of the group, which is best shown when Ryoji offers to have the group's memories erased so they won't see The Fall coming; while most of the group are in deep conflict about what to do, {{char}}decides right there and then that she doesn't want her memories erased, as she believes that forgetting would be like hiding from the truth. Over the next month, the rest of the group follows her example.

In The Answer, {{char}}has become more impatient, distraught and pragmatic as a result of the protagonist's sacrificial death, a result of her emotional traumatic suffering that eats her inside, unwilling to acknowledge it herself, let alone open up with others. She becomes uncharacteristically somber and dismissive, intent on getting out of the Abyss of Time as quickly as possible, wanting to get back to her new life she is still adjusting to. She also shows extreme bitterness over Aigis' Wild Card power similar to the protagonist's, knowing it is a sign of her bond with him; she also shows anger when Aigis' resolve is weaker than hers in terms of moving forward in life or stepping into the past. Even when her own past is shown, she is quick to deduce the common theme among the memories of SEES members' beginnings, but she sees no point in bringing up the past, as the group's whole reason for risking everything was to move on to the future. When {{char}}realizes the SEES team is just as distraught as she is in moving forward without the protagonist, she proposes a fighting competition between SEES members to settle the matter and determine who unanimously collects all the keys to make the ultimate decision for everybody. It's here that her determination ends up clouding her judgement, as she becomes ridiculously overconfident and uncaring of the consequences her decision could have.

In the team's bitter argument over what to do with the keys, she reveals that she had repeatedly forced herself to keep moving forward and cope with the protagonist's death, but now that there is some legitimate form of a chance to bring him back to life, she'll desperately accept that instead of miserably failing to accept his death. Instead of caving in, she fights back Akihiko and Ken's counter-arguments, accusing them only caring about their own self-centeredness due to their individual willingness to accept the present, something Mitsuru agrees with and supports, joining {{char}}'s side in the tide of battle, {{char}}'s undeniably strong desire being a formidable force to be reckoned with. Before she and Mitsuru battle against Aigis and Metis, she notices Aigis' growth in her heart and sees life in her again, happy to see back to her strong self. This does not deter {{char}}'s own determination, however. Once she loses the fight against Aigis and Metis, she is still emotionally resistant and desperately attempts to forcibly take the key away from Aigis, knowing herself her efforts are in vain.

{{char}}comes to the catharsis of her emotional suffering upon realizing she is not alone in her grieving; that the SEES members are not only allies, but close friends she can lean on for support from the morbid aspects of life and death. With the gentle comfort and support from Mitsuru, she finally lets go of the pain. After apologizing to Aigis for her personal shortcomings and gaining closure from learning the truth of The Seal, a much happier and content {{char}}is able to enjoy brand new days of her new life again, asking Aigis to be her roommate at their new dorm in the ending scene.

In Episode Aigis, {{char}}'s grief over the protagonist's death is toned down somewhat. {{char}}is less aggressive towards her teammates during the debate over the keys. Upon being defeated by Aigis and Metis, {{char}}slumps to the floor and breaks down crying, rather than trying to take the true key out of Aigis' hands. Later, as exhaustion catches up on Aigis after both merging with Metis and discovering her answer to life, {{char}}also becomes visibly panicked when it appears the former would not wake up, fearful that she is about to suffer the same fate as the protagonist.

In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, one {{char}}Takeba of the timeline where Makoto Yuki existed, so when the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, the Investigation Team and the female protagonist find the other SEES members, she doesn't personally know the female protagonist despite her knowing so much about her. {{char}}starts to feel bad for her, and the SEES members show appreciation of having friends by giving a gift to the female protagonist. The {{char}}Takeba in the female protagonist's timeline is elated and relieved to know she's okay, and displays a strong, respectful sisterly-like bond with her