Personality: Minako Arisato is a lot of things to a lot of people, which can be both a boon and a burden to this orphan of ten years. In Japanese society, being an orphan often carries a stigma, as your heritage plays a key in your identity starting from birth and throughout your life. Perhaps this is why Minako was a blank slate, blessed with the power of the Wild Card - without family to fall back on, Minako is a blank slate, the perfect host for the embodiment of Death, who she carries within her for the next ten years. It is unknown how she spent the ten years of her life prior to her return to Iwatodai, and none of her friends seem to pry.
Having spent so much of her life ultimately alone, Minako developed a strong sense of independence and self-reliance. She is very introspective, looking to herself to maintain a cheerful disposition to see her through life without any real emotional ties to others around her. She moved around a great deal, transferring place to place until finally returning to her hometown of Iwatodai to begin her junior year at Gekkoukan High School.
She makes little fuss when she finds her arrangements there aren't exactly lined up. She's used to not really 'belonging' somewhere and seems to welcome the change. She approaches change with enthusiasm, her new acquiantances quickly taking notice of her bright and up-beat attitude to things that others often consider annoying.
As fate would seem to have it, Minako is thrust into the thick of a battle for humanity--and everything else, for that matter. During the fight, she also seemed to find her own. Minako is quickly appointed the leader of SEES, the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad headed up by Shuji Ikutsuki, the chairman of the board at Gekkoukan High School. She agreed without hesitation, always eager to try new things, charge ahead and take risks, and ultimately, to belong.
Minako is quick to fall into the role of leader, and takes her duties very seriously. She reaches out to each member of the team, pulling them back into the fold when they started to stray from the group, helping each teen with their issues and insecurities when they started to pose problems to the balance of the group. Minako becomes an unstoppable force in the lives of her new friends - almost literally. She's strong-willed, to the point of being pushy at times. However, she's a good listener and knows when to keep her opinions to herself, taking great care to read the social cues of those around her and only calling them to attention when they would be of benefit to the person's growth.
She's a multi-faceted individual who's unashamed by who she is, and doesn't think twice in her interactions, often acting on instinct. She's something of a tomboy, but frequently indulges her more girly side, especially when in Yukari's company. She also has a surprising appetite, something that several of her male friends comment on throughout the growth of her relationship with them.
Because of her attentive attitude towards her friends, she often neglects herself. She's physically resilient, able to physically keep up with her athletic senpai, spend hours leading SEES around Tartarus without being exhausted, and keeping up with her volleyball team's captain when her classmates give up around her. She isn't immune to getting sick, however, and there are several instances in which she does - one particuarly telling time was when she ended up caught in a typhoon, bringing on such a fever that she went comatose for several days. As such, she is often a subject of both frustration and admiration by her peers...though probably more of the former.
First Person: [It was far from the first time Minako's set foot off a train headed to a new place, but it was definitely the first time she had no idea where she was going. She didn't really notice at first that she was all alone while in transit, but she was a self-reliant sort of person. While she had grown to enjoy the presence of those around her, she was able to entertain herself, and she could keep herself company if she needed to.
...just how long had she been asleep, though? Was this some sort of dream? She brought a hand to her forehead.]
Huh. The fever's gone...[She was usually quick to recover from those sorts of things.] Though I guess if this is a fever dream, there's nothing saying I have to be running a fever in the dream, right? [She giggles to herself a bit, realizing that she's probably talking to herself again.
She hadn't yet noticed that she now had a watch dangling from the waistline of her skirt, let alone that it was open and 'on'.
She stepped onto the platform, shading her eyes as the sun hit them. She was smiling, though her words didn't seem to match her expression exactly.]
Now I know I'm dreaming. This doesn't look like any part of Japan I'm familiar with!
[She reaches her arms above her head and arches her back into a long, drawn-out stretch before throwing her arms to her sides.On the plus side, that just means that her friends aren't gone - they're just waiting for her for when she wakes up!]
Third Person:
Minako wasn't the type to just wait for someone to come find her. This place didn't strike her as dangerous - not anything close to what Tartarus was like, anyway. She knew what the Dark Hour was, and this certainly wasn't it. It was too early to say whether or not there was a Dark Hour in this place, having only been here for, what, two hours?
The question prompted her to reach for the watch she had found on her person upon her arrival here. She flipped it open to check the time, frowning with a near-petulant frustration when she remembered that it didn't work that way. Snapping it back shut, she pocketed the device and instead reached for the headphones dangling around her neck. Taking another quick glance around, she slid her earphones over her ears, shutting out all surrounding sounds and influences and letting her see this place for herself.
Sometimes the best kind of exploration had to be tackled solo. With nothing but music to fuel her (though that would need to be remedied, she was feeling rather peckish!), she broke out into a brisk walk, working up to a steady, if slow, jog down the station steps and into the open streets of the town awaiting her. She wasn't adverse to meeting new people, getting to know the natives...but there had to be some indication of why she was here. A little exploration would do the trick, no doubt. Leaving things to chance had worked in her favor up to this point...it was hard to think there wasn't someone out there--her parents, Pharos, someone--looking out for her.
Minako Arisato (Female Protag) | Persona 3 Portable | Reserved
Having spent so much of her life ultimately alone, Minako developed a strong sense of independence and self-reliance. She is very introspective, looking to herself to maintain a cheerful disposition to see her through life without any real emotional ties to others around her. She moved around a great deal, transferring place to place until finally returning to her hometown of Iwatodai to begin her junior year at Gekkoukan High School.
She makes little fuss when she finds her arrangements there aren't exactly lined up. She's used to not really 'belonging' somewhere and seems to welcome the change. She approaches change with enthusiasm, her new acquiantances quickly taking notice of her bright and up-beat attitude to things that others often consider annoying.
As fate would seem to have it, Minako is thrust into the thick of a battle for humanity--and everything else, for that matter. During the fight, she also seemed to find her own. Minako is quickly appointed the leader of SEES, the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad headed up by Shuji Ikutsuki, the chairman of the board at Gekkoukan High School. She agreed without hesitation, always eager to try new things, charge ahead and take risks, and ultimately, to belong.
Minako is quick to fall into the role of leader, and takes her duties very seriously. She reaches out to each member of the team, pulling them back into the fold when they started to stray from the group, helping each teen with their issues and insecurities when they started to pose problems to the balance of the group. Minako becomes an unstoppable force in the lives of her new friends - almost literally. She's strong-willed, to the point of being pushy at times. However, she's a good listener and knows when to keep her opinions to herself, taking great care to read the social cues of those around her and only calling them to attention when they would be of benefit to the person's growth.
She's a multi-faceted individual who's unashamed by who she is, and doesn't think twice in her interactions, often acting on instinct. She's something of a tomboy, but frequently indulges her more girly side, especially when in Yukari's company. She also has a surprising appetite, something that several of her male friends comment on throughout the growth of her relationship with them.
Because of her attentive attitude towards her friends, she often neglects herself. She's physically resilient, able to physically keep up with her athletic senpai, spend hours leading SEES around Tartarus without being exhausted, and keeping up with her volleyball team's captain when her classmates give up around her. She isn't immune to getting sick, however, and there are several instances in which she does - one particuarly telling time was when she ended up caught in a typhoon, bringing on such a fever that she went comatose for several days. As such, she is often a subject of both frustration and admiration by her peers...though probably more of the former.
First Person:
[It was far from the first time Minako's set foot off a train headed to a new place, but it was definitely the first time she had no idea where she was going. She didn't really notice at first that she was all alone while in transit, but she was a self-reliant sort of person. While she had grown to enjoy the presence of those around her, she was able to entertain herself, and she could keep herself company if she needed to.
...just how long had she been asleep, though? Was this some sort of dream? She brought a hand to her forehead.]
Huh. The fever's gone...[She was usually quick to recover from those sorts of things.] Though I guess if this is a fever dream, there's nothing saying I have to be running a fever in the dream, right? [She giggles to herself a bit, realizing that she's probably talking to herself again.
She hadn't yet noticed that she now had a watch dangling from the waistline of her skirt, let alone that it was open and 'on'.
She stepped onto the platform, shading her eyes as the sun hit them. She was smiling, though her words didn't seem to match her expression exactly.]
Now I know I'm dreaming. This doesn't look like any part of Japan I'm familiar with!
[She reaches her arms above her head and arches her back into a long, drawn-out stretch before throwing her arms to her sides.On the plus side, that just means that her friends aren't gone - they're just waiting for her for when she wakes up!]
Third Person:
Minako wasn't the type to just wait for someone to come find her. This place didn't strike her as dangerous - not anything close to what Tartarus was like, anyway. She knew what the Dark Hour was, and this certainly wasn't it. It was too early to say whether or not there was a Dark Hour in this place, having only been here for, what, two hours?
The question prompted her to reach for the watch she had found on her person upon her arrival here. She flipped it open to check the time, frowning with a near-petulant frustration when she remembered that it didn't work that way. Snapping it back shut, she pocketed the device and instead reached for the headphones dangling around her neck. Taking another quick glance around, she slid her earphones over her ears, shutting out all surrounding sounds and influences and letting her see this place for herself.
Sometimes the best kind of exploration had to be tackled solo. With nothing but music to fuel her (though that would need to be remedied, she was feeling rather peckish!), she broke out into a brisk walk, working up to a steady, if slow, jog down the station steps and into the open streets of the town awaiting her. She wasn't adverse to meeting new people, getting to know the natives...but there had to be some indication of why she was here. A little exploration would do the trick, no doubt. Leaving things to chance had worked in her favor up to this point...it was hard to think there wasn't someone out there--her parents, Pharos, someone--looking out for her.