Post by shan on May 16, 2017 1:05:45 GMT
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MAKOTO NIIJIMA
17 FEMALE SHE/HER ASEXUAL BIROMANTIC HUMAN THE NEUTRAL FACTION |  |
PERSONALITY Makoto is reserved and dignified, as well as intelligent and regal. She holds herself with an air of superiority and confidence, but underneath that mask is a girl that does not know what she wants from herself or what to do with her own life. She strives for justice in every action that she does, hoping to live up to her father's ideals. Her ethics were initially skewed by the desires of the adults around her as well as her own perfectionist attitude and her inability to accept failure as any sort of option. Although she acts cool and collected, this leads to a lot of built up rage that is typically channeled when battling Shadows in the Metaverse, although it does make an occasional appearance in the real world as well. Makoto can be rash, stubborn, and hotheaded, although even then this can still lead to her doing the right thing. Beneath both her cool and tough exteriors though belies an inner sensitivity. Makoto is very self-conscious about her image in both the real world and cognitive one-- she is actually quite embarrassed about the appearance of her Metaverse thief outfit, and is insecure about liking action movies and things young women do not typically enjoy. On top of this, she does have a fear of the supernatural: ghost and horror stories are enough to make her bravado crumble to dust. All in all, Makoto Niijima is a strong young woman who is still figuring out her place in the world as well as her own inner self. |
Makoto is a Persona user of the High Priestess arcana. After embracing her true self while confronting Kaneshiro, Makoto became able to summon Johanna. Johanna is a strange Persona in that she is essentially a motorbike that Makoto rides during battle. She harnesses Nuclear skills that are effective against enemies with status ailments such as burn, shock, or freeze. She is also capable of healing magics such as Diarahan, Mediarahan, and Energy Shower. After her bond has reached its max Johanna becomes the trickster Anat, although this has yet to happen.
In addition to being a Persona user, Makoto is quite skilled in aikido and proficient in using brass knuckles as well as a revolver. She also is an incredibly skilled driver with both her Persona and Morgana's car form.
A detailed list of her Persona's abilities can be found HERE.
In addition to being a Persona user, Makoto is quite skilled in aikido and proficient in using brass knuckles as well as a revolver. She also is an incredibly skilled driver with both her Persona and Morgana's car form.
A detailed list of her Persona's abilities can be found HERE.
HISTORY PERSONA 5 SPOILERS AS WELL AS POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT AHEAD, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Makoto Niijima's family life has been far different from what most experience. Her mother died at a young age leaving her with her older sister Sae as well as their father. Their father was a respected police officer tasked with cleaning up Shinjuku. Three years ago, in an effort of self-sacrifice in order to bring about justice, her father died in the line of duty, leaving her to be raised by her sister. It is because of this that she is incredibly hardworking despite feeling as if she lives in the shadow of her successful older sister. The year of the mental breakdowns and the notorious Phantom Thieves occurred in her third year at Shujin Academy. Through hard work and the determination to be as successful as her sister, as well as earn the praise of the adults around her, Makoto had become the student council president and was set to receive letters of recommendation to prestigious colleges in Japan. Although her path to success seemed perfect-- albeit stressful to the point Makoto was unsure if it was what she wanted-- the school itself was not. Shujin Academy held a dark secret, that of the volleyball coach Suguru Kamoshida. Kamoshida had been abusing his team as well as assaulting female students. The faculty, staff, and parents of students were involved in the cover up of his crimes. However, his actions became too much to bear for the Shujin students, particularly one girl named Shiho Suzui, who attempted suicide off the top of the school roof. Unbeknownst to the other students of Shujin this act is what created the Phantom Thieves of Hearts: a group of vigilantes who used a place called the Metaverse to steal Kamoshida's heart-- his Treasure-- to force a personality change and make him confess to his crimes. A calling card was left across the school walls, and it seemed like a prank, graffiti. It was undeniably real though when Kamoshida confessed to his sins. This act left the school in chaos-- students felt the relief as Kamoshida collapsed in tears, all immediately turning on him, finally confessing the truth to each other as well, no longer feeling the pressure to appease the adults around them. This left the faculty involved in the cover up of his crimes unsettled, and Principal Kobayakawa asked Makoto to track down the Phantom Thieves, as they were likely students of Shujin. Although Makoto pondered how just the group was, wondering if her father would have approved of their actions, a letter of recommendation for college was on the line, and she agreed as student council president to look into the matter. Makoto then started trailing Akira rather unconvincingly, often pretending to bury her nose deep in a manga while following him. Eventually she did figure out that Akira was not only a member of the Phantom Thieves but their leader, and learned this after confronting him with her suspicions as well as recording she obtained of a conversation between him, Ryuji, and Ann. After interrogating him-- not unlike her older sister-- she requested that he take her to the group. She agreed with their hostility in that it was possible the adults at the school were just using her, and appreciating their honesty, she asked the Phantom Thieves to prove their intentions: as either a just group or a band of delinquent vigilantes. If they proved their acts as just, she promised to delete the incriminating recording. If not, she would turn it over to the police. Makoto proposed that the Phantom Thieves change the heart of the gang boss who had been extorting Shujin students for money through phishing scams. The gang boss was having students smuggle drugs for money, as well. The problem with this of course was that the Phantom Thieves could not change a heart without a name. Although there were rumors that Shujin students were being extorted by the yakuza, there was no way to learn of a full name of the head of the operations, which was required for the Metanav app to transport the Phantom Thieves to the palace. Their previous two targets, Kamoshida and Madarame they had happened upon by through rumor and personal connection, and it was easy to meet the three requirements of the Metanav. Despite this, Makoto still gave the group a deadline of two weeks until she would report them to the police as well as the school. Two weeks seemed like an impossible deadline though to the Phantom Thieves. Makoto decided to confront Akira about how the search was going when the two were approached by a man that offered them a "job." Although Makoto made an attempt to interrogate him, he dodged all her questions and the two were still without a name for the yakuza boss. Eventually Akira used his connections to find the name of their boss: Juyna Kaneshiro. While the Phantom Thieves were having trouble figuring out how exactly to get into Kaneshiro's Palace, Makoto spoke to Sae about her thoughts on the Phantom Thieves, and how it was possible their father would approve of their existence were he alive. Sae spoke coldly in return about how he died with a lofty sense of righteousness to leave all the responsibility on them, and that she had no time for such childish thoughts. Sae's anger took a turn for the worse when she declared that Makoto was useless and only ate away at her life. A nerve was struck in Makoto that night. The following day, she went to check up on the Phantom Thieves' progress, but was told by Ann that when it came to what they do, she was useless to them. Sae's words still rang in her ears, and determined to prove that she wasn't useless, wasn't a pushover, wasn't some pawn of the adults around them, Makoto decided she would help them meet Kaneshiro. She recklessly approached the man that offered her a job the other day and demanded to be taken to his boss. She took off without the Phantom Thieves but did call Akira's phone so that he and the others could listen to her speak to the mob underlings. With this information the Phantoms were able to follow her to Kaneshiro's hideout. It quickly became clear to her that her rash actions only served to get them into more trouble as she was restrained upon arrival, and Kaneshiro got photo evidence that he said he would leak to Shujin if the five of them did not get three million yen to him in three weeks. Going to the police was not an option as he promised to break their families and anyone else they cared about. Regret hung deep on Makoto's heart as she had not meant to get the Phantoms into trouble along with her. She apologized for her current actions as well as her past ones-- stating that she knew that the school had to have been covering up Kamoshida's actions, and that if she had cared enough, maybe she could have done something. Their reactions were surprising to her: what was done was done, and even those close to Kamoshida's victims still didn't do anything until almost too late. It soon dawned on Morgana that Makoto's actions were of worth to them after all: now that Kaneshiro considered them his customers, they now had access to his bank in the Metaverse. They took her with them, and all doubts about the Phantom Thieves were washed away-- since she had seen the other reality for herself, she could not logically question its existence. After catching her up to speed on the cognitive world and the process of stealing one's heart, they made their way into Kaneshiro's bank. They eventually run into Shadow Kaneshiro, and he sends Shadows after them. The Phantoms end up cornered by Shadow Kaneshiro and his Shadow lackeys. He orders his Shadows to kill the Phantom Thieves, although he tells Makoto since she is one of his "goods" she has nothing to worry about, and that soon her sister will be one of his personal slaves. He told her to prevent this she better start taking customers herself and endure it, do as she's told. Words that Makoto was sick of hearing, sick of being forced around to do adults' dirty work for them-- she was sick of her own uselessness, her ineptitude to do anything as she was told to sit and do nothing. "Shut your damn mouth you money grubbing asshole!" The words that came out of her mouth surprised herself but there was no stopping the pent-up rage that bubbled and broiled within her. Her inner self awoke and Makoto eagerly accepted her contract, ripping off her own mask to don a costume of a metal biker, as well as reveal her Persona Johanna, a motorbike herself. The battle that ensued was easier given Makoto's elemental affinity, and the Phantom Thieves were able to make an escape. It is after this that she officially joined the Phantom Thieves as their strategist, and also their driver. Eventually the Phantom Thieves stole Kaneshiro's treasure, and a change in his cognition occurred, and he turned himself over to the police. Sae expressed discontentment with the situation, as since he turned himself in, she could no longer get a promotion from catching him herself. Makoto bitterly and sadly remarked to herself that her sister had changed-- she no longer cared about true justice, instead only her own gains and winning case after case. It was that night that Makoto got curious and typed her sister's name into the Metanav. "Candidates found." A chill ran down her spine. Her sister had a Palace. Given that she was not of harm to anyone, and it would not be just to change her sister's heart for her own personal gain, Makoto kept quiet about her discovery as the Phantom Thieves moved onto their next target: a mysterious hacker named Alibaba who turned out to be a young girl named Futaba Sakura, who wanted the Phantom Thieves to change her own heart which had been distorted by grief and trauma. Eventually Futaba gains her own Persona and joins the team, and the Phantom Thieves learn more about the Metaverse in the process, as it is a part of a field of study called "cognitive psience" that Futaba's mother was studying before she was murdered. The Phantom Thieve's popularity grew and so did the call for them to target Kunikazu Okumura, the head of Okumura foods. A misunderstanding between Morgana and Ryuji eventually leads them to a way into Okumura's palace though, as his daughter Haru wished to change his heart to stop the mistreatment of his employees as well as end her own arranged marriage to a misogynistic creep by the name of Sugimura, the son of a well-known politician. For the most part their infiltration of his palace and the stealing of his Treasure is pulled off without a hitch. However, the other Metaverse user, a man in a black mask had been tailing them, targeting similar people, and killed Okumura within his own palace after the Phantom Thieves had stolen his Treasure. It was known to the Phantom Thieves that killing someone within their own Palace led to their death, and they all wondered what they could have done wrong when Okumura died on live television as he tried to confess his crimes. After Haru discovered that Principal Kobayakawa-- who had also recently died from a mental shutdown-- had been sent a calling card, it became clear to the Phantoms they were being set up. The call for the Phantoms' blood and arrest lead Makoto to requesting that the Second Detective Prince, Goro Akechi, be the guest speaker at their school festival, hoping to get information out of him. When he is about to reveal the identities of the Phantom Thieves during his talk, he feigns a phone call to talk to Makoto and the rest of the Phantoms in private. He tells them he knows that they are the Phantom Thieves, and has photographic evidence of them entering the Metaverse. Akechi also informs them that he knows they are not behind the mental shutdowns, as he saw the man in the black mask kill Kunikazu Okumura, and only survived because he gained a Persona of his own. He brings up the fact that Sae Niijima has a Palace and needs a change of heart as due to her distorted sense of justice, she could wrongly convict others of being the Phantom Thieves, even if it meant forging evidence. Makoto was then forced to admit to the group she knew her sister had one for some time. The Phantoms agreed with Akechi to steal Sae's Treasure. Although Akechi seemed satisfied with their conclusion, the Phantoms realized he could hear Morgana and had done so before, so they laid a trap for him, knowing that Akira's capture would be unavoidable, but they could free him if they tricked Akechi into thinking the cognitive Akira was the real one. All they needed was the help of Sae, and to Makoto's relief, her sister found her sense of justice again even without them changing her heart, and their plan had worked. Akira was dead to the world, but he was alive through the use of trickery. The next thing to do was expose Masayoshi Shido, whom they had figured out to be manipulating the Phantom Thieves from the start. Shido's Palace was difficult, given they had multiple tasks to complete as well as puzzles to solve, but the true challenge came in the form of Akechi who had figured out that Akira was alive. Akechi revealed himself to be behind the mental shutdowns and that he killed Wakaba Ishiki as well as Kunikazu Okumura. He confesses that he is Shido's son and has been doing his dirty work for him in order to get revenge later, but after the cognitive version of Akechi appears and reveals Shido planned on killing him anyway, he realized his error and sacrificed himself to make sure the Phantoms go on to change Shido's heart. Changing Shido's heart did not solve the problems of the public, however, and that the people of Tokyo were not making the decisions of their own lives, but someone else was doing it for them. Tokyo soon became a hell on earth as Mementos fused with the real world. It turned out to be that the public's treasure was the Holy Grail, and that a god had been impersonating Igor and used Akechi and Akira to decide the fate of the world. After Akira's refusal the god left to fuse with the Holy Grail, and he freed his friends, including Makoto, from the Velvet Room. A portal soon appeared and everything after is a bit of a blur-- it now appears that gods from the multiverse wish to toy with their fates. Although she has always perceived herself to be just and true, after recent events Makoto did not feel it was wise to align with the Heralds and be under the control of a god yet again. She instead aligns with the Neutral Faction in the hopes to bring about a balance in the way of people making decisions for themselves. |
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