JIGOKU APPLICATION

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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Maggie
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: Yes
CONTACT: roseburst / Maggie#0451 / pm.
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Minato Arisato
CANON: Persona 3
CANON REFERENCE: Here
CANON POINT: Post-game
CRAU HISTORY: N/A
AGE: 17
APPEARANCE: 170 cm / 5'7", messy dark blue hair, gray eyes. He seems sleepy a lot of the time.
CONTRACT PAYMENT: Seeing his friends again without dooming the world or anything.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

An enemy of your faction has asked for a meeting, proposing a truce of sorts to deal with a greater threat. On one hand, there is indeed a threat at hand, but on the other, this person double-crossing you is just as likely an outcome. Do you agree to the meeting? Do you trust them?
Minato would agree to the meeting. He would remain cautious, but he would be willing to give the enemy a chance and genuinely would try to hear them out. While there's a chance of being double-crossed and injured, he would think that the truce would be more important than the risk of it being a lie - if it isn't a ruse and they missed out on the meeting just because he was worried about getting hurt, that would absolutely suck. That said, Minato did sacrifice his life for the sake of others once already, so his opinions on taking a risk despite the possibility of being hurt/betrayed are probably pretty polarizing. He probably wouldn't even take backup unless someone invited themselves along? He would just eat the risk and go for it himself.

You've worked with your Faction awhile now and you feel like the reward of your contract is within reach. But at the last moment, you are told you have even more service to pay beforehand, an obscure clause in the contract being exploited to keep you under your boss's thumb even longer. Your Faction Leader hasn't spoken on this, and might be able to dispute it. Do you go to your leader? Do you argue the dispute yourself? Do you begrudgingly accept the additional work? Something else?
Welp. Minato would first and foremost ask for a copy of his contract and go over everything to learn exactly what he missed the first time. Determine if it's valid, you know, and if not at least see anything else he missed. If he wasn't given a copy, he'd go to the faction leader to discuss it. If he was given a copy, he'd check the validity of it. Do some research, ask around, see if this is a real contract clause or not, you know. If it was proven valid after all that, he would suck it up and do the additional work. If not...he'd refuse, and see about legally getting himself out from under that.

How important is loyalty to you? What does it take to earn your loyalty? What extents are you willing to go through to maintain loyalty, and respect the loyalty others might have invested in you?
Loyalty matters to Minato, but he's also very, very forgiving. If someone doesn't totally live up to the loyalty he gives to them...that's okay, and he's willing to give out second chances without thinking too much of it. Earning his loyalty is actually pretty easy - he stays aloof a lot, but he actually listens to other people and starts connecting to them much more easily than one would think from looking at him. He puts in solid effort to maintain his relationships, and once you've got him hooked he'll put in a decent amount of effort to check in on you and listen to your problems. He doesn't always see loyalty from others as meaning he has to, like, confide in them in turn...? But he wouldn't do anything to actively hurt others who have invested loyalty in him, because for him loyalty comes with friendship and care. For his friends he was willing to die - but usually it wouldn't come to that point, you'd hope.

An oni of the Shuten Clan has gone completely berserk, and is going on a violent rampage through the city. You can't stop him, but you CAN lead him elsewhere, but you only have two choices: a road by a discotheque with a large crowd in front, or the nearby park that you do not know is unoccupied, and may have children present. What do you choose, and why?
The park. If possible, Minato would try to shoo away kids or get someone to run ahead to clear them out, but he would consider that a few children who might be present are probably easier to clear away than a large crowd in front of a discotheque. The age of the people involved wouldn't come into it so much as which scenario he thinks he'd be able to help and minimize damage the most in, basically.

POWERS & ABILITIES:

STUDENT BY DAY: Minato's social stats are maxed at his canon point, which means he has the highest Academics/Charm/Courage possible, which really just means he's intelligent, charismatic, and fairly fearless. He's also apparently a very good dancer, for whatever that's worth.

PERSONA USER: Like all party members in his canon, Minato can utilize Persona (think summon spirits that allow their users to use unique skills or spells) in battle. They're basically his world's answer to magic. Unlike other party members, Minato has the WILD CARD ability, which allows him to use different personas, rather than just the one initial one. He is able to hold within himself 12 PERSONAS (i.e. 12 combos of spells/skills) maximum, and can only change them out once per "turn" in battle. To clarify, this means he can't use the spells of any persona except the one he has equipped at that moment, and has to cycle through them to access other spells, but can only do so sparingly. Usually he can utilize an in-game location known as the Velvet Room to create and summon even more persona, but obviously for the game he'd be locked to just the 12 he had on him last. As a note, to summon persona Minato has to shoot himself with an evoker - it looks like a gun and it looks like him shooting himself in the head with a gun. I'd obviously always check with people when this came up. I figure in terms of how it would be weaker, either Minato wouldn't be able to summon anything at the start or would be locked to one persona and have to regain the ability for further ones - I'll leave that to the mod's discretion though! The relevant Persona would be: Orpheus, Thanatos, Messiah, Kohryu, Asura, Sandalphon, Odin, Norn, Byakko, Chi You, Attis, Cybele. I would be nerfing any insta-kill or insta-revive skills to not working, and such!

SUITABILITY: Minato has already died once, willingly, to save others. His canon is full of violence and humans being pitted against one another, so while some of the drugs and sex aspects might be mildly new at times, the violence and hedonistic aspects won't be something he will specifically have trouble with. Minato spent a long time keeping to himself and staying in his own lane, and even when he went out of it he didn't come to judge others and was never really fully thrown by anything he came up against. He probably won't start committing huge crimes (he is actually fine with committing some crime though) or trying to murder people, but other people doing that won't break him or anything. He's likely to just sort of try to adapt to his surroundings, make connections, and work the grind of whatever clan he gets as he forms his own thoughts and opinions about the set-up. He's the type who tends to listen to others without judgement as well, so he's likely to take everyone else in game as they come, without prejudice.

FACTION SUITABILITY:

SHUTEN CLAN: While Minato is pretty easy-going on the whole, he would probably manage to fit into the Shuten culture (admittedly likely because he's pretty adaptable and genuinely affable). He's pretty strong in a fight and doesn't mind throwing his weight around when he has to against monsters and the like, although he probably wouldn't be a very good front man for intimidation. He's not a dishonest person by nature so there's that as well (although he tends to be kind of vague and non-committal in a way that hides a lot of what he's thinking, but it's not really a purposeful deceit or anything). He's got a huge appetite in the food way, too, so he might be good for those huge parties? That said, he would be very good at the responsibility to the community part. Minato wouldn't shirk it, and he's pretty good about doing random tasks and taking care of other people, so he'd really enjoy that aspect of the Shuten Clan. There's nothing he'd seriously object to on the whole, though in individual cases his opinions would be his own (he might not attack someone if he didn't want to, etc, but he would instead find alternate means to complete his jobs).

TAMAMO CLAN: In terms of the Tamamo Clan, Minato is again very easy-going. He'd like the concept of freedom very much. He tends to do his own thing a lot of the time, so a philosophy of personal liberty would be very in keeping with what he'd want to be doing - that is, whatever came to mind and focusing on the things that interested him. The concept of pleasure would be less personal to him, perhaps, but he does believe that people should live so they can be happy and would be willing to do work for people who believed that same thing. He's also extremely non-judgmental so he doesn't really mind what other people are doing in general, although he does prefer others not be hurt in the pursuit of it.

SUTOKU ALLIANCE: He'd probably enjoy Sutoku as much as Shuten and Tamamo. Minato would respect their way of organizing things, and he'd actually find information-based missions and concepts to be a good way of going about things. He'd find it easier to follow orders from people posed to know more than people who were simply stronger than him, although of course he'd want to know what they knew himself. He tends to play his cards close to his chest (mostly out of a quieter personality than really trying to hide anything) and would probably fit right in with people who were gathering and hoarding information. He'd also enjoy the fact there was a mix of tribes involved, since he likes gatherings of different types of people.

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENMA: Well, Minato sure does know how to fulfill a contract. He might find the Enma somewhat rigid, but it wouldn't bother him that much. He's worked with another organization in his own canon and fit himself into the ranks and rules without much fuss and could likely do so with Enma. Minato's own personal philosophy probably would make Enma the faction he'd like the least, but he could easily do well there - he just values people more than he does order, even if he'd stick to it. He also tends to be kind of a wild card, so he might get into trouble with Enma, but would try to work it off.

SAMPLES

TDM Toplevel & a network thread from another game.