#tamaki uchida's shadow

[ask-tamaki-uchida]

A shadow's a clone of yourself, but filled with the parts of you that you don't want to acknowledge. They have eyes that glow and smiles too wide and voice that echo in an awful cacophony that splits your train of thought into bits of nothingness. How would you deal with one of those?

Tamaki...

A voice sings in the back of her head, saccharine and childish and bone-chilling. It echoes in the recesses of her mind, beckoning for her to close her eyes and remember all the blood her body has had to endure, both losing and spilling. The sounds of cracking bones and dying screams and tearful whimpers as lives are ended, by her hands or by the demon's. There's no distinguishing human from demon, not really, when all of them commit the same crimes. She shudders, drawing the blanket in her bed tighter and tighter around her until its all but a cocoon, and still, all she feels are chills. The voice grows louder, scratching and clawing its way forward, but it won't emerge. It can't. It's the real world, and she's safe. There's no way such a terrible beast can exist in a world like this. But it wants to, terribly, and it sings with the voices of a thousand dead girls, all broken and bloodied from their attempt to crawl through Hazama's world. All abandoned corpses, with no soul to fuel them but memories of the girl they all once were. They sing, and laugh, and scream to be let out, to be remembered, to be mourned. They yell for a multitude of things; home, parents, safety, love, but are never satisfied. Tamaki Uchida doesn't sleep well at night already. But with a Persona, with her own demon living within her, she doesn't sleep at all.

[cake-apostate]

You know who should cameo in the next Persona game? Tamaki Uchida, the heroine of Shin Megami Tensei IF. Since IF was the proto-Persona and the bridge between SMT and Persona, she’s a great way to show that both games coexist.

Mostly though, it’s because weird stuff seems to follow her wherever she goes. After her second year of high school ended in disaster because of the whole ‘dumped into Hell’ incident, she transferred schools, only for her to get dumped into Hell again. Then after graduating, she moved to a completely different city for college, which then proceeded to go to hell. Twice.

I think that she should be a teacher at whatever school in Persona 6, and when things inevitably go to hell, she just throws her hands up in the air and shouts, “Oh, come on!” Then she draws her sword, summons high-level demons, and kills all the Shadows before the protagonists can even react. She’ll protect the rest of the students and provide a safe haven while the protagonists save the school.

It would also be funny if she seems like just another crackpot teacher until this happens, who rambles on and on about mythology and claims that magic is real. 

Or she’s a seemingly clueless detective who goes down the wrong avenue of investigation, only for it to turn out that she was right about a lot of things. 

[kationella]

Characters I would agree are members of the Shadow Ops

(Besides the P3 cast)

Tamaki Uchida

Eriko Kirishima

Kei Nanjo

Ulala Serizawa

Baofu

Yu Narukami

Yosuke Hanamura

Teddie

IF the Phantom Thieves were recruited:

Akira Kurusu

Morgana

Ryuji Sakamoto

(Goro Akechi if he's alive)

[theheartsofheroes]

[ @shoutaimu and I finally finished watching all of the Bandai Sera Myus. And since I don’t feel like sharing the document, here are our rankings for the Senshi actresses (plus Kakyuu) as well as ranking the roles of several recurring cast members. For double castings of Chibi Moon we put them in the same slot. I might come back and make another post with our explanations for the rankings but for now. Just have this list]

Senshi

Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon

Anza Ooyama

Marina Kuroki

Miyuki Kanbe

Fumina Hara

Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury

Ayako Morino

Chieko Kawabe

Minami Wakayama

Hisano Akamine

Yuikiko Miyagawa

Mariya Izawa

Rei Hino/Sailor Mars

Misako Kotani

Eri Kanda

Megumi Yoshida

Risa Honma

Aiko Kawasaki

Asuka Umemiya

Horoko Nakayama

Hiromi Sakai

Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter

Emi Kuriyama

Kanoko

Yuriko Hayashi

Akari Tonegawa

Emika Satou

Mai Watanabe

Ayano Sugimoto

Chiho Ooyama

Kaori Sakata

Takako Inayoshi

Marie Sada

Karina Okada

Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

Ayumi Murata

Nao Inada

Mizuki Watanabe

Nana Suzuki

Erica

Akiko Miyazawa

Momoko Shibuya

Kanatsu Nakaya

Yuki Nakamura

Miyu Otani

Chizuru Soya

Sakae Tamashita

Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus

Nao Takagi

Sanae Kimura

Akiko Nakayama

Asako Uchida

Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune

Yuuka Asami

Hiroko Tahara

Tomoko Inami

Sara Shimada

Takayo Ooyama

Miyuki Fuji

Kahoru Sakamoto

Chikage Tomita

Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto

Rei Saito

Yuuko Hosaka

Seiko Nakazawa

Yukiko Nakae

Miho Yokoi

Teruyo Watanabe

Yuki Kamiya

Miwa Hosoki

Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn

Ruria Nakamura

Keiko Takeda

Ayami Kakiuchi

Mao Mita

Chihiro Imai

Mario Tomioka

Eriko Funakoshi

Yui Iizuka

Asami Sanpei

Chibiusa Tsukino/Sailor Chibi Moon

Ayano Gunji

Tamaki Dai Shirai/Natsumi Takenaka

Mao Kawasaki/Ai Miyakawa

Noel Miyazaki

Kasumi Takabatake

Nanami Ohta

Moe Oosaki

Mao Ohno/Mina Horita

Arisu Izawa

Aisha Yamamoto

Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen

Yuuta Mochizuki

Hironari Amano

Hidemasa Edo

Kenji Urai

Yuu Shirota

Yuuta Enomoto

Gyo Miyamoto

Mizuki Sano

Seiya Kou/Sailor Star Fighter

Sayuri Katayama

Chinatsu Akiyama

Taiki Kou/Sailor Star Maker

Hikari Ono

Akiko Nakayama

Yaten Kou/Sailor Star Healer

Momoko Okuyama

Mikako Tabe

Sailor Galaxia

Tamami Matsumoto

Yumie Sakaguchi

Saori Sara

Takemi

Princess Kakyuu

Sakoto Yoshioka

Ai Toyama

Recurring Cast Members

Ryuuji Kasahara

Tiger's Eye

Gilles de Rai

Kyaos/Chaos

MC Fly

Death Ra

Dark Nibiru

Prof. Tomoe/Undead Berserk

Kunzite [only at the bottom because we didn’t get to see this performance]

Ado Endou

Centi/Hanako Hoshino

Selkie

Sailor Lead Crow/Manila Karasu

Calaveras

Dark Menorah

Demon Lillith

Roi Malkuth

White Crow Ado/Dark Maya

Ensemble Roles ~ Death Nightmare ~ Lemures ~ Shadow Bug ~ Sailor Theta ~ Dark Moon

Miki Kawasaki

Esmeraude

Kaolinite

Kunzite

Le Fay/Olam Tiphareth

Dark Mirror

Zilpah Sapphire

Dark Sumer

(Death) Nightmare

Yoshiya Yukimura

Damask/Shintarou Hoshino

Mandrake

Kern

Hemachirou Taitou/Hematite

Death Pe

Nobitarou Oki (Crooked Ref)

Akiko Miyazawa

Elizabeth Bathory

Queen Beryl

Bilhah Emerald

Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

Hikari Ono

Taiki Kou/Sailor Star Fighter

(Prince) Demande

Bloody Dracul Vampir

Roof Merrow

Hawk's Eye

[kationella]

The sources of power in Persona

There are many ways to defend yourself against shadows/demons in Persona, each with its own merits. This list will be an overview of the different ways a normal character in the Persona universe could gain said power.

There may be hope for your favorite secondary character, yet!

Demon Summoning Program

Pros

Can control shadows/demons

Can recruit as much of them as you want

You can set free any shadows/demons you desire at any time

Not attached to any strings from higher beings

Shadows/demons are stored as data in the device, so your psyche won't be affected in any way

You can use in the human dimension as well

No need to accept your true self

Cons

You have to carry a portable computer to run the program with you and maintain it

You don't have a Persona, just shadows/demons in your control

There is no guarantee the kind of shadows/demons you will summon

In the Persona timeline, there is no counter program for it. If you fuck up, you fucked up

No Velvet Room for you

Your Shadow self still roams the Other Dimension

Examples

Akemi Nakajima (Megami Tensei)

Tamaki Uchida (Shin Megami Tensei: if...)

Persona Game / Philemon chooses you

Pros

You gain access to the Velvet Room

Wildcard abilities. Use more than one Persona

There is no need to accept your true self

Your Persona can be used in the human dimension as well (Apparently Souji and Akira haven't gotten the memo)

No need to carry any extra equipment

Cons

You are tied to Philemon and must do what he requests

Philemon can be shady sometimes

Your Shadow self still roams the Other Dimension

You become an automatic enemy of Nyarlathotep

Examples

Every Persona protagonist

Persona 1 Cast

Persona 2 Cast (Both of them)

Evoker

Pros

No need to accept your true self

No strings to higher beings

Easier to carry than a computer

Can use Persona in the human dimension as well

Cons

Must be attached to the Kirijo Group

Need to overcome the fact that you're figuratively commiting suicide

Your Shadow self still roams the Other Dimension

Limited to one Persona at a time

Examples

S.E.E.S. members (Persona 3)

Accept Your True Self

Pros

It's the actual natural way of doing it

You don't have a Shadow self to torment you

Contrary to popular belief, you don't even need to be in presence of your Shadow self to accept... well, yourself. A deeper understanding of yourself

No strings attached to higher beings (Another thing is if you want to follow the dude who actually is attached to a higher being)

No need to carry any extra equipment

Congrats, you can use your Persona for whatever the fuck you want

Cons

Limited to one Persona

No Velvet Room for you

The first time can be emotionally draining

Can only use the Persona in the Other Dimension

Examples

Investigation Team members (Persona 4)

Phantom Thieves members (Persona 5)

Get Chosen By A (Probably Malevolent) Being

Pros

Can use more than one Persona

Will probably gain an extra power from your patron

Can use the Persona in the human dimension as well

Cons

Are you seriously considering this option?

100% attached to your patron

The higher being will grant you the power whether you want it or not

No control over who the being chooses

No Velvet Room for you

You will probably get your ass kicked by the protagonist of the game

Examples

The Masked Circle (Persona 2)

Tohru Adachi (Persona 4)

Taro Namatame (Persona 4)

I'm not counting Souji Seta since he signed with Igor (aka Philemon) before Izanami got her hands on him

You could also go for the option of gaining a Persona through an experiment or force it out, but you don't want to end like Strega from Persona 3, right?