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Player Information
Player name: Chris
Contact: illuminatesound, AIM: illuminatesound
Are you over 18: Yes
Characters in The Box Already: N/A

Character Information
Character Name: Naoto Shirogane
Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: About a month post-game, true end.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive

History: Have some wiki links!
Persona 4: Here.
Naoto's personal backstory: Here.

Personality:

Naoto's line of work as a detective has helped shape nearly every facet of her personality. She is incredibly mature for her age, refusing to let her status as a teenager have a negative effect on her work. Even though behaving as she does is as natural to her as walking, the extremes to which she goes to make sure she is taken seriously are almost comical. She tries very hard to prove that she is every bit as good, if not better, at her job as those she works with and to many adults (as well as her peers in school) she comes off as pompous, pretentious, and even a bit bratty. As such she doesn't make friends very easily.

Nonetheless, she is very calm and reserved, refusing to let her emotions get the better of her. Truly upsetting Naoto is a daunting task and it takes quite a lot to get her to raise her voice. Even if one does succeed, she speaks so formally, using a plethora of words not found in everyday conversation, that it may be difficult to realize that she is upset. Truth be told, she has a visual emotional range of a teaspoon and to most people she comes off as cold, callus, and very anti-social.

The girl is incredibly serious and she works hard to maintain her reputation as well as her family’s – feeling that because of her gender, her age and her line of work she must be professional at all times if she’s ever going to be taken seriously. She is very devoted to her job and calling her a workaholic is a bit of an understatement. Sometimes Naoto takes her job to the extreme and honestly, she can get a bit obsessive when it comes to a case that needs to be solved. She is not above putting herself in danger to lure a suspect out of hiding.

She looks at things logically and uses deductive reasoning to her advantage. She’s good at what she does and she is able to decipher motives, behaviors, and characteristics of people she’s around by simply observing and taking careful consideration of her surroundings. She’s a naturally curious person which helps her quite a bit in her line of work, but can also land her in quite a bit of trouble. Naoto is very intelligent and it she is rarely wrong about anything. Her mind is her greatest resource.

Naoto tries to keep things as formal as possible and because of it she ends up pushing people away, but if someone is able to get past her cold exterior, they’ll come to find that Naoto is truly just a very shy person. She keeps to herself and doesn't enjoy talking about herself, her life, or her problems to anyone. General social situations make her nervous and it isn't hard to make her uncomfortable. She doesn't like it, but she gets flustered very easily – causing her to stammer and stutter her way out of embarrassing situations she’d rather not be in.

Now for the big one: HER GENDER.

Gender is a touchy subject with Naoto. Her feelings on her gender, and the roles society expects her to adopt because of it, are a huge underlying factor to most of her actions. Until she was outed by her Shadow, Naoto had purposely been passing herself as a male.

Naoto strongly believes that her age and gender are holding her back from accomplishing her goals. She genuinely loves her job, she has wanted to be a detective since before she could read and she’s damn good at it, but being good wasn't enough. She wants the respect and, above all else, the acceptance of her peers. While her age does pose difficulties, she knows that even though it's a hindrance now, she'll still grow up. Her gender was another problem entirely. The most famous fictional detectives are male, practically the entire police force is male, and Naoto... she is certainly not a man.

She resents her age, her gender and her position in life. If she was older, if she was boy, she might actually get the respect she deserved and then maybe, just maybe, people wouldn't look down on her. They wouldn't treat her like a child or a helpless woman. But even when people started to believe she was a boy, it was clear that her peers still resented her, both in school and at work. To them, she was a boy, but that didn't matter. She was certain that the treatment she would receive would only get worse if they were to find out that she was a girl.

Items on your character at canon point:

- School uniform and hat
- Wallet
- Cell phone
- Revolver
- Watch
- Briefcase: homework, notebooks, pens and pencils, plain manila folder that is very sneakily hiding an issue of Batman


Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

Abilities:

Naoto's a persona user. Basically what this means is she has the ability to call upon her inner self -- her persona -- and use it to fight. As she has not gone through her social link yet her persona is Sukuna-Hikona who's stats and abilities can be found here. The abilities Naoto has access to would be the following:

- Deathbound
- Mind Charge
- Mudo Boost
- Hama Boost
- Mamudoon
- Mahamaon
- Vorpal Blade
- Megidolaon

Other than her supernatural powers, Naoto is very skilled with firearms - pistols and revolvers in particular. She's also very mechanically inclined. She likes to take things apart, see how they work, figure out how to make it better, and put them back together.

Strengths and Weaknesses:

Naoto's a pretty smart girl. She's been working as a detective on her own for a few years now and has been helping her grandfather with his for as long as she can remember. She's able to keep her cool in most situations as well as keep her emotions in check, helping her to think clearly even in the face of danger.

That said, those very same facets of her are also a pretty big weakness when it comes to social situations. She's not able to switch off her logical side and it severely hampers her ability to connect to other people.

Other than that, she's a very small girl. She's 4'11" and scrawny. She isn't physically strong at all, so overpowering her is not a difficult task.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: Over here.

Prose Log Sample: (Sample from Trans 9)

This was heaven - a little slice of absolutely sublime perfection, a thin thread of semi-normalcy to cling to. That sense of safety and normality was a difficult thing for her to find lately. Waking up naked in some pod with a voice in her head wasn't exactly what she would call “normal” by any stretch of the means. But this? This wonderful library? It would do for now.

Slowly, almost reverently, she made her way towards one of the many terminals scattered about the room. The only thing that could make this better would be if there were actual books available. That would be something Naoto would miss terribly. A book, after all, was much more than words. Undoubtedly what was written inside the book was far more important, but there was something about they way they smelled - crisp and sharp and something that reminded her of home - and the way the pages felt under her fingers, that made a book transcend beyond what was written inside.

Then there she was. Just standing there in front of this thing that held every book she could think of and then some - everything she would ever want, enough to make reading all of them an impossible task.

Naoto bit her lip. … So, how was she supposed to use this thing? Asking for help was completely out of the question. She was a detective. If she couldn't figure out how to get this working there was just no hope for her. She was not technologically impaired. This could be done and it could be done alone.

Turning it on was not the problem, figuring out how to get something specific was proving to be more difficult and taking much more time than anticipated.

||Do you wish to access something?||

She froze. Talking ship. That’s right. Stacy.
… Did she really look that confused?

“I am, yes. There are a couple of book I was curious about, but I am sure I can manage to locate them on my own.”

|| I can assist you. ||

“Ah, the offer is appreciated, but I must decline, thank you. I would like to learn how to use this myself,” her tone was a bit sharper than intended, but it was sure to get the point across.

||Very well. If you require assistance, you need only ask.||

“Thank you, Stacy. I will certainly keep that in mind.”

… And never ask. Ever. She could figure this out. She was the Detective Prince! She did not require assistance from Stacy or anyone else for that matter.