Sunday, October 27, 2024

Character Analysis: Yu Narukami

 Note: Might have some stuff missing. I've been so busy I couldn't get through as much as I wanted.

Anyway this was made as part of my Patreon. A new Patreon option for character blogs has been added. This time Sonic themed. Shadow, Blaze, Rouge and Mephilis are the options. https://www.patreon.com/c/Ultraguy9000

Background

A transfer student who moved to the city of Inaba. He came into contact with a god named Izanami on his first day, which awakened the power of “Persona” within him.


This allowed Yu to cross into an unconscious realm called the TV world. In that world people's dark thoughts manifest as “shadows”, that can kill them if you deny them.


Persona 4’s plot revolves around gathering a team of allies to hunt down a “murderer” who’s been using the TV world as their MO to kill victims. This is eventually narrowed down to the character Adachi, who’s confronted in the TV world and defeated.


Yu later confronts Izanami. Who reveals she desires to use the TV world to override reality with “fog”, and create a reality that allows humanity to live happily in delusion. Obviously and his allies stop this. Yu later moves away from Inaba as the school year ends.


Personality

Yu is generally portrayed as eccentric. 


Armor

General armor

T-Shirt: Yu’s Initial body armor

Godly Robe: Yu’s strongest armor


Accessories

Yu has access to various accessories that can grant status buffs or even block elemental weaknesses. The most powerful is the Omnipotent orb, which nullifies all damage but Almighty. The Omnipotent orb is implied to function via some vague reality warping.

Arsenal

Katanas & Swords

Yu’s standard weapon is a Japanese katana. He uses various other blade or hand weapons, like golf clubs or bats.


Misc knotable swords

  • Blade of Totsuka

  • Metal Bat


Motorcycle

A motorcycle used for travel. Can be used during some attacks in the TV world.

  • P4GA Ep 2 11:48 Yu has a motorcycle


Orb of sight 

An orb that dispels all illusions. 

Abilities

Social stats

Yu canonically has maxed out social stats. In particular it's implied he’s fairly gifted in terms of intelligence and is at least bilingual. 


Dancing

Yu is an excellent dancer. 


Persona

A Persona is a person’s “shadow” or suppressed negative emotions, controlled and weaponized by their ego. How a Persona is gained varies from game to game, but most traditionally it involves accepting your shadow as being a part of yourself. A shadow has also been described as fragments of the mental power of Nyx, the maternal being that indirectly gifted humanify higher thought.


Connection to Gods and Demons 

Personas and Shadows take the form of Gods and Demons because they’re technically the same thing. Gods and Demons in the Persona series are manifestations of human thought, given form in unconscious worlds. This is most evident in Persona 5 where Joker directly turns the Demons he fights into new Persona.


Summoning conditions

There are various general “methods” for summoning a Persona.


Summoning via Mental world connection

A Persona is most easily summoned within a mental world in the Collective Unconscious. In a physical world it's much more difficult.


Summoning via Fear/Death

A fear of death or large physiological strain can also break down a person's subconscious barriers and allow them to summon a Persona regardless of location.


Summoning via Evoker

Evokers are tools created by the Kirijo group to facilitate Persona summoning anywhere. The gun shape helps create a fear of death and “Plumes of Dusk” installed in them help facilitate a connection to the unconscious mind. Aigis has an evoker built into her.


Loss of control

Those who are weak willed, or lack control over their shadows, may lose control over their Persona. This can lead to the Persona possessing them, killing them or fleeing from them.


Enhanced strength, durability and fighting ability

A Persona grants a person enhanced strength, durability, magical endurance and fighting prowess.


Stamina & Spiritual energy

Special Persona attacks require stamina or spiritual energy to perform. Excessive usage of a Persona can make the user tired. 


Persona breaks

If a Persona takes too much damage it can be broken temporarily. While this does not harm the user, it can result in some notable mental pain.


Time/space manipulation

Shadows and Persona users can influence space and time.


Non corporal interaction

Shadows are immune to normal forms of attack or weaponry. Only Persona users can harm them.


Spiritual awareness

Persona users are spiritually aware. It’s implied for example that Demons and Shadows can’t normally be seen if they manifest in the real world, outside of Persona users.


Growth

A Persona can grow in power and even evolve into stronger forms as the heart of the user develops.


Immunities

Persona users have some natural immunities, such as resistance to mind control.


Wild Card

The wild card is the ability to utilize more than one persona. Yu has this power by default.


Social links

Wild card users can siphon the power of their bonds with friends or family into energy that can amplify their Persona. This power can also be used to endure normally fatal damage or overwhelm the “will” of godly entities.


Velvet room

The velvet room is a location between mind and matter that can be used to manage Persona abilities. It’s run by Igor and Philemon. A Persona user can enter the room physically or mentally. When entering mentally they leave their physical body untouched in the real world.


Fusion & Compendium

The Velvet Room can be used to fuse new Persona and also keeps a record of old Persona that can be recalled at any time through the use of a compendium. Wild Card users can use these services mid battle via their mental link to the room.


Existence outside normal space/time

The Velvet room exists outside of normal space/time. Allowing it to connect to various time periods or timelines. 


Persona 

Izanagi

Izanagi is Yu’s primary persona. It battles with a large sword and electricity. It has a weakness to wind based attacks.


Null Physical

Can nullify physical damage or knock opponents back.

  • P4AG Ep 1 15:29 Izanagi uses null physical to repel shadows


Physical attacks

Izanagi can enhance various physical strikes from you or itself with electrical energy.


Electrical attacks


Magatsu Izanagi 

An enhanced version of Izanagi gained by befriending Adachi. It’s essentially a corrupted version of the normal Izanagi.


Magatsu Mandala

  • Does heavy curse damage to all foes


Izanagi No Okami 

Yu’s ultimate Persona.  It resists almost every element. 



Country maker

  • Increases power based on the number of Persona known.


Myriad Truths


Other Persona

  • P4A Ep 7 19:10 Yu summons a snake persona that can use Bufu spells

  • P4 Ep 3 20:34 Yu uses Pyro Jack, who uses a an agi spells

  • P4A Ep 12 16:56 Makami uses an Agi spell 

  • P4GA Ep 12 14:07 Yu uses Kaguya. Kaguya is intangible 

Persona Skills

Note: Gonna cheat a little and just copy/paste the skills from Aigi’s blog. Most should be about the same for 4 and realistically, Yu should be able to access them via the velvet room.

 

Phys Skills

Various physical attack skills

  • Myriad Arrows: P4AG Ep 1 16:20 Izanagi uses Myriad Arrows to destroy thousands of shadows across a small down area. Creating a massive explosion and forming a giant crater 

  • Primal Force

  • Pralaya (Shiva) : https://youtu.be/L7MfYB9MwNo?t=45 


Fire Skills

Fire explosive spells


Single target


Multi target


Ice Skills

Ice explosive skills


Single target


Multi target


Elec Skills

Electric explosive skills


Single target


Multi target


Wind Skills

Wind explosive skills


Single target 


Multi target


Light Skills

Light skills


Instant kill


Explosive 


Darkness Skills

Dark Skills


Instant kill


Explosive



Almighty skills

Almighty are non-elemental spells. According to mainline SMT they involve some form of existence erasure. 

  • SMT If describes the Almighty element as ‘governing over destruction’ and bringing ‘death beyond death’. https://imgur.com/a/B6GZLa9 

  • Velvet Blue:  “Just after, Elizabeth’s Megidolaon exploded. The golden flames stormed with a force that transformed the space itself into nothingness. Only the Persona user who cast the spell could possibly withstand it. Anything and everything would be incinerated by this flame. Despite being directly hit by the Megidolaon, the girl was completely unharmed.”

  • Velvet Blue: “A Fusion Spell— a technique which makes two simultaneously summoned Personas interact. The SEES girl had done this technique by herself, but Elizabeth was able to create a Fusion Spell with the help of Margaret. Armageddon, the same spell that had defeated Elizabeth before, eradicated each and every Shadow, leaving not even one atom in its wake. “


Explosive/offensive spells


Other

  • Life drain (drains HP)

  • Spirit drain (drains SP)  

  • Stagnant air (Increase ailment susceptibility) 


Support Skills

Negatable

Increases strength/defense/evasion


Reduces enemy strength/defense/evasion


Non-Negatable


Shields


Negation


Ailment Skills

Ailments cause status effects. 

  • Charm (Hypnotizes opponent into being an ally)

  • Distress (Lowers evasion to 0)

  • Panic/Confusion (Seals opponents skills,increases chance of critical damage, Makes opponent throw away items)

  • Poison

  • Fear (Paralyzes opponent or makes the opponent flee)

  • Enrage (makes opponent attack without pause)


Multi-target Moves

Tentarafoo (Panic) : https://youtu.be/57X2XNMF0gw?t=626 

Evil smile: (Fear) : https://youtu.be/57X2XNMF0gw?t=641 

Ghastly Wail: Instant kills any fearful foes.

Eerie Sound(Distress)

Poison Mist(Poison)

Sexy Dance(Charm)

Infuriate (Rage)


Healing Skills

Healing spells


Healing


Revival 


Healing/healing ailments


Passive Skills

  • Boost/Amp skills : Increases strength of elemental skills

  • Misc stat modifiers

  • Null/Absorb skills: Gives Persona an ability to absorb or nullify a given element

  • Regeneration 3: Recovers HP over time

  • Invigorate 3: Recovers SP over time


PQ 1-2 skills

  • Salome's kiss : Binds a characters strength skills, magic skills and movement

  • Sleep,confusion,poison, stun, decay, silence, lethargy circle: Induces ailment on opponent repeatedly.

Spells

Strength

  • P4A Ep 17 8:40 Metezubaun uses Megidoleon, which destroys Naoto's entire underground base 

  • P4A Ep 22 11:11 You summons a winged persona that uses a Hama spell across entire stadium sized platform

  • P4A Ep 25 18:20 Satan reflects Ameno’s lasers and then breaks him apart in a TK attack that dispels tons of clouds


Endurance

  • P4A Ep 7 17:48 Yu and co survive being electrocuted

  • P4A Ep 25 10:15 Yu survives a giant mountain sized explosion via Ameno 


Speed

Scaling

Yu should scale to basically everyone in the series. As he’s fought other wild cards like joker and Aigis, as well as all the velvet room members. 


Explaining the Collective Unconscious

The Collective Unconscious is a paranormal location created by the mental connection and experiences of all living things on the planet. It was created in response to Nyx, an alien creature from outside of reality. Nyx fused their mental energy with Earth primitive lifeforms and those lifeforms internalized Nyx’s spirit as a part of themselves, and used that energy to create the Collective Unconscious. The Collective Unconscious acts as a seal against Nyx’s mind regaining autonomy. 


Sea of Souls

The Sea of Souls is the location in the Collective Unconscious where all human souls originate from and return to after death.


Timelines

The Collective Unconscious is connected to alternate timelines. This includes both times of each Persona 2 game, Persona 3 Portable’s female route and an infinite number of other timelines not directly shown.


Locations outside of normal space/time

Many locations in the Collective Unconscious exist outside of normal space/time.


Layers

It’s implied that locations in the Collective Unconscious have a “depth” or distance from the physical world. This depth is described as infinite.

  • P2E Kadath Mandala is a realm where archetypes of Persona and Demons slumber and is one level “shallower” than Philemon and  Nyarlothotep’s realms https://youtu.be/aqPqQR-vWeE?t=7051


Nyx’s Avatar

Yu scales to Aigis, who aided in fighting Nyx’s avatar, Roiji. It’s implied that Roiji himself wasn’t much different than the true Nyx sealed in the moon.


Erebus

Yu scales to Aigis, who helped fight Erebus.


Izanami

Yu fought Izanami.

  • P2E Izanami appears in P2E and fights a Tatsuya who has lived through Innocent sin. This means Tatsuya would have already fought Nyarlothotep and an avatar of Philemon https://youtu.be/aqPqQR-vWeE?t=9361


Chronos

Yu aided in defeating Chronis, a God of time and Death.


Yaldabaoth

Yu has fought alongside Joker, who defeated Yaldabaoth.


Enil

Yu aided in fighting Enil. A God who created various cinema realms in the Collective Unconscious.


General

Yu in general has interacted with most Persona from 3 onwards..

  • Movie 4 1:11:58 Makoto survived a blow from Nyx Avatar that dispersed a ton of clouds

Experience

Main game


Spin offs
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