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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
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yuuki mishima | persona 5 | lockdown crau
Player name: Eric
Player age and gender: 32, she/her
Player Contact:
Any other characters in game? Nope
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Character name: Yuuki Mishima
Character canon: Persona 5 (Lockdown CRAU)
Canon point: Canon: Mid-September, rank 6 of his confidant. Lockdown: A week or so post-R1.
Physical Description: A little smaller than average, generally nondescript -- one of the main characters literally calls him an NPC. He has short blue-black hair and brown eyes, and tends to dress pretty sloppily.
About the Character:
CANON:
Mishima is someone whose existence has always been defined by his weaknesses in one way or another. Going back to at least middle school, he's been an easy target for bullying -- weak, socially awkward, kind of a nerd -- and everyone around him has always taken full advantage of it. Even two years into high school, his old middle school classmates still go out of their way to tear him down when they see him around town.
When he got to high school, the students might not have been quite as bad as his classmates from before, but the volleyball coach Kamoshida, who abused his students physically, sexually, and emotionally, managed to singlehandedly make it even worse. The members of his volleyball team were easy to spot around the school because they were always bruised and bandaged, and when someone wanted to know who they should talk to to find out more about the abuse, almost everyone pointed to Mishima as Exhibit A.
By the start of his second year, he's completely beaten down, literally and figuratively. He seems to have earned a special position as something like Kamoshida's dog by virtue of being so easy to manipulate (because it's sure not due to his lackluster skills on the court, something he's frequently reminded of). He's the one Kamoshida sends out to bring him back the students he wants for his "special coaching" sessions, and he digs up dirt and spreads rumors about the people Kamoshida doesn't like so that their secrets can be used against them. He knows it's wrong and doesn't feel good about it, but he's so focused on his own self-preservation like a desperate prey animal that he doesn't think he has any choice.
Even after a girl he went to get for Kamoshida attempts suicide afterward, his response is to run away, and it's not until Akira and Ryuji corner him in a locker room about what just happened that he makes even a minimal attempt to stand up to him.
Once Kamoshida is gone though, after the Phantom Thieves have led him to confess his crimes, Mishima appears to do an outward 180. Inspired by the Phantom Thieves' actions, he takes on a new role that's almost too proactive, in contrast to how quiet and passive he was just days before. He sets up a website and forum for the Thieves, and starts scouting potential targets for them to take down next to keep carrying out justice for people who can't fight for themselves. As soon as he's free from his abuser and has some sense of purpose, it seems like he's reborn as a whole new person. The new Mishima is talkative and enthusiastic, and eager to hang out and do typical teenage stuff for once.
But as much as you feel like you should be rooting for his new self, it's not... all great. He's overly enthusiastic, completely throwing himself into the Phantom Thieves and the "Phan-Site" he runs to the point that he rarely ever talks about anything else. He stays out late to scope out potential shady dealings that might lead to new targets, and then stays awake until early morning handling the Phan-Site.
While he does play a pretty integral role as a collaborator with the Thieves, he inflates his own importance far beyond that. He goes so far as to buy a pricey model gun to protect himself because he's the sole admin and everyone would be lost without him, and never mind that no one even knows who the hell he is to think to target him. He starts talking as if he's the leader and mastermind behind the Thieves, like they're just carrying out jobs that he assigns them, and that "it's all thanks to him". He starts picking out targets for personal reasons rather than for the sake of justice -- from big names that he thinks will make them more famous, to one of his old middle school classmates who's still making fun of him. He also goes so far as to talk about "purging" the users on his website who are opposing the Phantom Thieves, which Akira rightly finds pretty concerning.
That inflated self-importance is incredibly fragile, though; it's not so much that he really thinks he's the one who deserves all the credit as that he really wants to be that person, and is willing to do whatever he thinks he needs to do to accomplish that. He also has at least some level of understanding that what he's doing isn't right, because he starts to wonder if the Phantom Thieves will eventually target him, too. When we actually do see his shadow, it confirms what we already knew -- that he's still got huge inferiority issues from everyone always telling him that he was nothing, and that meeting the Thieves was the first time he thought maybe he could be something greater than a zero, and that he harbors some jealousy toward them because he desperately wants to be a famous hero himself.
The fact that he's had so little positive (or even neutral) social interaction before now really goes a long way toward explaining his current behavior. On the lighter end of things, he's awkward, too familiar with internet memes, terrible at flirting, and can sometimes say things that are a little inappropriate in the social context. On the darker side, he spent such a long time being insulated and focused only on his own self-preservation that he thinks about himself much more than about anyone else, and he kind of missed learning the finer points of empathy and how to read social cues. Also, since his confidant is based on job completion rather than affection, you can actually choose a lot of mean responses to him without hurting your relationship.
It also gives insight into why he gets drawn so deeply into things so quickly. Since he never felt like he had any value or anything worth living for before, finally getting a taste of hope is intoxicating, and he wants to keep feeding that feeling. Similarly, it's easy for him to get so drunk on power because he's been utterly powerless and at everyone else's mercy his whole life up until now.
Taking all of this into account, it's impressive that he eventually manages to own up to how selfishly he's acting, and makes himself into a better person without anyone having to change his heart for him. He comes to understand that he can make important contributions in his own way without having to try to measure up against anyone else, and that helping vulnerable people is more important than his thirst for fame. He also ends up standing up to some criminals who are trying to extort that old classmate of his, even if he's terrified while doing so, a stark contrast from the cowardly person he was at the beginning of the game who wouldn't stand up for other students who were being mistreated.
LOCKDOWN:
Mishima was pulled into Fayflower University's entrance exam in mid-September at rank 6, when his thoughts and actions were the most distorted. Without any Phantom Thieves stuff happening, though, those issues didn't manifest in a way that was very noticeable. All things considered, he seemed pretty well-adjusted for the first week there, and things weren't too bad -- his best friend from home was there with him, and he made a few more friends and tried to get involved in things as much as he could.
Everything went to hell in the second week, though, once Oswald Hale showed up and the motive for the entrance exam was revealed. Everyone was forced to remember their worst memories, which eventually progressed into an almost constant loop. While Mishima's were pretty bad, he could tell there were others who had it a lot worse, especially his roommates. In his memories, he kept hearing Kamoshida telling him he was the perfect target because he was too weak to fight back and because no one liked him enough to do anything about it even if they knew what was going on -- which had all been true back then -- so he ended up convinced that if anyone did snap and decide to kill someone to make the memories stop, they'd choose him as their victim.
So when Sherlock Holmes offered himself as a victim during one of their information-sharing meetings, Mishima took him up on it. No one had said anything about trials or executions at that point, and Holmes explained that he was a heroic spirit that could just be resummoned again if he was killed. Mishima even convinced himself that he'd be doing something noble by saving everyone else from their memories, and made himself believe that this would be some praise-worthy heroic effort, not something he was doing to save himself.
Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way, and when he got called out as the prime suspect, he defensively snapped at everyone that he'd done it for them, so they couldn't vote for the hero who'd saved all of them. When that wasn't well-received, he defended himself by saying it had been Holmes's idea in the first place, and that he'd walked him through each step of the murder. A lot of the group actually ended up shifting the blame to Holmes instead, believing he'd manipulated this clearly messed up kid into doing this.
Some of them started talking about voting for Holmes as the culprit instead, which seemed like it could potentially have bad consequences for everyone else. Thanks to the responses he'd gotten from some of the people he'd been friends with -- Yoosung's initial disappointment in him but willingness to extend his hand to him anyway, and Hanamaru's truly believing in the fabricated nobility of his actions -- he eventually backed down out of guilt, and even ended up voting for himself. Despite his own resignation, though, the administrator Vivienne tried to save him by tampering with the voting, and was killed for it.
Mishima still ended up being executed as the culprit anyway.
The first few weeks of his post-death existence were mostly spent in a daze of depression, until Yoosung showed up as the first victim in the next round. Mishima had accepted by that point that his intentions had always been selfish and not noble at all, and he felt like he was partially responsible for any deaths that came after his own since he was the first one who'd fallen for a motive and started everything. He felt especially bad that this had happened to one of the people who'd supported him so strongly before. He decided to just try to be a good friend himself so he could feel like he was doing something positive now, since he couldn't undo any of the things he'd already done.
He and Yoosung founded a Phantom Thieves-inspired guild together with the intention of standing up for victims and defending them against their killers, and took over the faculty office as their guild HQ. Since they never actually needed to defend anyone, though, it ended up as more of a clubhouse, and the most they really did was throw birthday parties for the dead. The two of them ended up in a romantic relationship by the final week, since they'd gotten to be really close during their time together.
That last week ended pretty terribly, though, with Mishima being told that Akira had been killed in an explosion, and not getting any more information on what had happened until after the end of the game, after the whole simulation exploded and the dead ended up in an empty void where they had to recreate a new world for themselves.
Mishima and Yoosung created an awesome tree city like something out of a video game or LOTR, and since then, have mostly been working on world upgrades and playing games while waiting for more updates from the living on the next steps for everyone to take.
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- Web and graphic design - He created the Phantom Thieves' website, which is very stylish and cool looking! In contrast to... himself.
- Behind-the-scenes management - He was the anonymous admin of the previously mentioned website, and he helped manage the Phantom Thieves' targets and activities
- Information gathering - He gets a bunch of information about sketchy stuff that goes on to find targets whose hearts need to be changed. Maybe being almost invisible actually pays off sometimes!
- Gaming - He's not fantastic, but he's decent enough to participate in some tournaments sometimes.
- Enthusiasm! - He gets very deep into things very quickly and acts as a devoted cheerleader for the things he cares about. (He technically kind of indirectly saves the world with this by getting people to believe in the Phantom Thieves again before the final boss fight.)
- Foliage empathy - No, I will never get over the fact that his official profile says he always "eats the parsley that comes with sandwiches because he feels bad seeing it left behind".
Inventory:
- Tablet
- Alt-color version of his summer Shujin school uniform with gold in the plaid instead of red, and a green blazer with the Phantom Guild emblem on the pocket
- ...I think that's it???
Samples: TDM toplevel (I'M GOING TO REPLY SUPER LATE TOO)
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