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♚ OOC
Name: Ichi
Age: 22
Contact: northpaws
Character In-game: N/A

♛ IC
Name: Souji Seta
Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: Post-True End
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Appearance: Here

History/Background: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 ▪ Protagonist

Personality:

Souji was originally a silent protagonist whose personality was left up for the player to decide. For some, he might be cheerful and outgoing. For others, he might be smooth and cool, but based upon canon facts shared about him in the games and manga interpretation, there are things that flesh him out as a character. However, because the later video games give him a standard personality that matches the one in the manga but neglect to provide a detailed background, this interpretation of Souji will be mostly based upon the manga’s (hence the name being Souji Seta instead of Yu Narukami).

It’s difficult to say that Souji isn’t a person shaped by the events in his life. Since a young age, Souji was always moving from city to city, following wherever his parents were assigned to work next. The Setas almost never stayed in one location for long as there was always some place to go, some place to be working, and as a result, they had to drag their son to these areas. It was tough on him at first, but he began to get fairly used to it. He learned to become independent and how to take care of himself when his parents weren’t around. However, it also started to seriously affect his social life and gave him a pessimistic view on making any lasting connections with others as he never stayed in one area for long. As a result, he never tried to make any good friends whenever he arrived at a new school, preferring to distance himself away from them, because he knew he'll lose them as soon as the year ended. So, Souji became a loner for most of his school years.

Souji really did want to try and make some close friends, but he knew it was rather pointless to. No one ever kept in contact with someone that moved to the other side of the city, especially someone they only knew for a year. So, instead of trying to think positive, that pessimistic outlook began to overshadow how he started every year: stay friendly but don’t attempt to get attached. Once he moved, he would start all over again.

Then everything changed once he arrived in Inaba and a string of murders started to occur.

Souji soon found himself wrapped up in these murders and discovered new powers on the way, which allowed him to enter into TVs and summon a number of Personas. He was quickly appointed as the leader of the Investigation Team and was trusted to rescue everyone thrown into the TV. At first, he only accepted because he couldn’t have put that on Yosuke or Chie, and he did want to help these murders come to an end, but he soon embraced the role of the leader. Through countless journeys into the other world, he proved himself over and over again that he could lead a team, and that was the start of when he started to open up more and allow his hidden personality traits to finally begin to shine.

During the times when he often went into the TV for rescue missions or just to train, Souji began to display great leadership skills. He knew when enough was enough, what each person's strengths and weaknesses were, what strategy was best, and such on. He always tried to pull the best out of someone and soon began to encourage them to give it their all. He began to connect with his teammates (and, in general, everyone else), listening to their issues and concerns, which was something he never did before arriving in Inaba. He gave them advice when they needed it and learned which of their abilities to hone in battle. He was left in charge to decide which members he wanted to take into the dungeon and how to balance out the team. He was trusted with their lives and in exchange, he gave them his.

The other reason why he continued to prove himself as a leader was that he’s always calm and level headed. During his first encounter with Shadows, he didn’t panic like Yosuke or Teddie, but he was able to call upon his Persona for the first time to defeat them. He then later went on to defeat Yosuke’s Shadow immediately after. Instead of running away and cowering, he stood his ground and protected them, who were grateful for the act. This was the first display of his great courage and drive to protect others, but definitely not his last.

When going out to rescue the other victims, he wasn't afraid to face Shadows that were three times his size and could easily kill him with a single blow. He thought of strategies, knew who to send out, what to do, when to run away, and soon, Souji started to know his friends a lot more and become closer to them. He wasn't afraid to take a mortal blow for his comrades if needed and to lend a helping hand. From there, his pessimistic view slowly turned into an optimistic one. Soon, he became to believe that he could make friends, if he tried to, and that he could encourage others to do the same.

Souji was able to make friends outside of the Investigation Team and join some school clubs. He also even managed to grab a job working at a day care center, where it showed that he was good with children. He made new friends left and right and the kind nature he had tucked away was finally out on full blast. He was able to empathise with everyone’s problems, but especially with his little cousin, Nanako. He became extremely close with her, going as far as to consider her as his younger sister, but part of the reason why they were able to connect was because he understood what it’s like to be left alone. Nanako’s father had often been at work and she was normally by herself at home, and Souji immediately knew what that felt like. As a result, he spent a great amount of time with her and just like his job at the daycare, he proved how well he gets along with children. He often helped her with her homework, showed her magic tricks, took her out with his friends, and as a result, he soon became the centre of Nanako’s world. So, when she was kidnapped, he stopped at nothing to get her back, proving that when he does make close friends, he will push himself to do everything in his power to save them.

Now, all this doesn't mean that Souji is completely serious without a sense of humour. He is a pretty level headed guy, especially as the leader, but when he doesn’t have to worry about leading a team, he can be pretty laid back and goofy. Some of his remarks can be pretty comedic (“Stand your guard!!” he yells while the team is being pelted by wash basins from the girls) and so can his inner dialogue (“You feel as if a thousand showers will never make you clean…” after standing in the river where a teacher started vomiting upstream), but just overall, he acts like a normal goofy teenager. He attracts an entire group of cats by his uncle’s house, or he takes expired food out of the fridge and eats them. He gets signed up for the cross dressing pageant and he tackles it head on. He sings the Junes theme song with Nanako, and e even says weird, nonsensical stuff in the spin-offs, like “ME EAT YOU WHOLE” in Persona Q as a greeting.

Overall, Souji is definitely a person who was shaped by his environment and circumstances. If he continued to stay in the city and follow his parents around, he might have never stopped being a loner and grown out of being a pessimistic. He might have not had the kind of friends he has now and Inaba helped him grow as a person. Sure, it all sounds like some kind of cheesy story that his parents always used to tell him, but to him, it was all of a dear year in the rural town that he’d never forget. Because of his stay in Inaba, he became a much stronger person than he was before and became the strong and dependant leader that he is now.

Carrier: This cat from Neko Atsume, if that'd be all right!

Magic Weapon:

A two-handed sword that’s nothing special on its own, but becomes more useful with mana. Depending on how much mana is used, the channel of electricity can become stronger or weaker. With a lower amount of mana, the sword will emit little bits of electricity to give someone an extra shock but with a larger amount, there’s a higher chance that it can paralyze an enemy. A new or careless may shock themselves accidentally (or at least give themselves a pretty bad hairdo) or accidentally drain their mana too quickly.

Once fully mastered, it’s possible to spread some of that electricity to around the sword’s surroundings without the need for direct physical contact. This will require a great amount of mana however, and practise to reach that level. Said practise, however, has a high chance of shocking the user instead of whatever they want to be shocked.

Sample: TDM link!