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Character Information
Name: Ken Amada
Fandom: Persona 3
Canonpoint: March 31, 2010; The Answer
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Physical Description: [1] [2] [3]
History: [History]
Previous Game History: N/A
Personality: Despite being eleven, he is fairly mature for his age. The maturity isn't something that comes naturally to him, necessarily—he works for it. He does things he thinks are mature, such as drinking coffee black because it's an "adult" thing to do or drinking milk despite being lactose intolerant because he wants to grow taller, but he also tries to tackle situations with the levelheadedness of a wise adult. Of course, he's still a child and he has normal child interests, like watching Phoenix Rangers on Sundays and collecting figurines based on the show. He also still retains a childish excitement when it comes to things he's interested in or finds fun, but he usually catches himself in the middle of an energized rant and reels himself back into a more levelheaded state. Even Ken's thought process behind choosing his weapon is a blend of childishness and pragmatism: he wanted to fight on the same playing field as adults, but he also wanted a weapon that had a long reach so he would be more useful in a fight.
But Ken isn't necessarily mature because he wants to be. He feels he has to be mature. To act like an adult. If he doesn't come off as older than he is, he knows the adults in his life won't believe him or won't take him seriously. It's a fear that stems from the death of his mother. The circumstances surrounding his mother's death were rather unusual. In a fairly normal city in Japan, a shining horse monster burst out of a teenager and then attacked and killed his mother. It was an event he saw with his own eyes. He was positive about what he had seen, but he also knew it was an outrageous story. When questioned by a police officer about what he'd seen, he asked the officer if he would really believe him. After getting a yes for an answer, Ken explained what he saw and was promptly brushed aside. The office claimed the trauma had been too much for him and that he was misremembering or making up events that didn't, and couldn't, happen. In fact, the officer went on to state that it was a drunk driver who drove into his house, causing the house to collapse and kill his mother. It was that experience that made him unable to trust adults, and it was that experience that cemented the belief that he had to do things himself. If he wanted to find his mother's killer, he would have to rely on himself, not on adults.
With his mother dead and his father having no part in his life, Ken was forced to more or less take care of himself. He still went to school and lived in a dorm, but he didn't have parents to teach him things anymore, or anyone to cook or clean for him. He was on his own, essentially forced to grow up quickly like most children who lose their parents.
Although he carries a heavy distrust for adults, that doesn't mean he dislikes them. In fact, he can get along with adults perfectly well, and he gets along especially well with the members of Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), all of whom are at least four years older than him. However, he knows that while many adults may be perfectly nice, they're unlikely to listen to anything other than what they want to hear.
During the summer when the elementary school students were able to go home to their families, Ken was more or less handed over to the SEES members since staff members felt an eleven-year-old shouldn't live by himself during summer break. Initially, he kind of keeps to himself, but as the days go by, Ken eventually becomes part of the evening conversations and activities in the common room. It's also during this time that he comes out of his shell a little. Ken gets to know the members of SEES and more or less becomes friends with them. He grows to respect all of them for various reasons, but he especially respects Akihiko for his strength and talent with boxing. He's even able to befriend Shinjiro, despite his rough exterior. Over time, his mature adult façade cracks and crumbles more frequently and he easily passes off as a normal, well-adjusted eleven-year-old.
The problem is that he's not. As happy as he seems to be with SEES, he's not well-adjusted. He is haunted by the death of his mother and tormented over the fact that no one would ever believe him about what he saw. The fact that he's a child is just one big obstacle to him, but it only serves to fuel his determination to find out what really happened.
When Ken is invited to join SEES as an official member, he's all too happy to seize the opportunity. Not just because he's become good friends with its members, but also because they can summon monsters similar to the one that killed his mother—a being called Persona. These were people who just might not think he's crazy if he were to ever tell them how his mother died. Plus, joining SEES also helped him understand and utilize a powerful weapon he possessed—the ability to summon a Persona of his own. He didn't mind that joining the organization meant putting his life in danger every night. He didn't mind that summoning his Persona meant that he had to make himself feel like his life was in danger by putting a gun to his head. It was a small price to pay if the end result meant finding out what happened to his mother.
Ken eventually does find out Shinjiro and his Persona are responsible for his mother's death, and he goes about exacting revenge in a terrifyingly adult manner. He doesn't impulsively craft a plan for the instant gratification of revenge like a typical revenge-seeking child might do. Instead, he waits until it's the anniversary of his mother's death, withdrawing from the SEES members as the date approaches, and he meets his mother's murderer with plans to kill him to avenge her. The followup plan is for Ken to kill himself, wrapping the whole event in a single murder-suicide act. Yet when he learns that Shinjiro is already dying, Ken is absolutely distraught. He waited two years for the opportunity to avenge his mother and it was snatched away from him unfairly and without any warning. As if to add insult to injury, Shinjiro takes a bullet for Ken and dies from his injuries, all the while using his final breaths to tell Ken to live, for the sake of not just himself but also for the sake of his mother.
The event of Shinjiro's death completely shatters Ken's adult persona for a time. As if suddenly remembering he's only a child, he runs away from the dorm to hide, knowing that the other member of SEES, all of whom were good friends with Shinjiro, would hate him and rightfully blame him for Shinjiro's death. Ken feels like a coward for running away, and he feels angry that he couldn't exact his revenge. He also feels confused because the person he had quickly grown to passionately despite had saved his life. With Shinjiro is gone and after having some time alone with his misery, Ken can't find a reason to continue living. It's Akihiko who finds and confronts Ken. He treats Ken like an adult, and their conversation enables Ken to forgive Shinjiro for accidentally murdering his mother and essentially overcoming his past.
Ken takes Shinjiro's advice to heart and aims to live his life to the fullest, for his own sake, for his mother's sake, and for Shinjiro's sake as well. This is most evident in two big scenes: the month leading up to January 31st and the entirety of The Answer.
On December 31st, SEES' friend Ryoji comes to them and reveals that he is the Harbringer of Death and that the world will come to an end on January 31st. He offers SEES the choice to kill him so they can live the final month of their life unburdend by the memories of using the power of Persona and the Dark Hour—they would essentially live as normal, carefree students, unaware that the end is coming soon. The alternative is to live until the 31st of January when Nyx will descend and bring the Fall, wiping out humanity—but they will retain their memories. Ken, like the others, wants to wait until the 31st of January and try to fight Nyx. Even though Nyx is purported to be undefeatable, Ken vows to do is best to defeat Nyx so that humanity doesn't end. He can't bear the thought of sitting back and doing nothing when he has the power to at least try. Giving up and accepting the world's fate would be making Shinjiro's sacrifice for him in vain.
In The Answer, the protagonist is "dead," more or less doomed to sleep for eternity. SEES is given the opportunity to fix that. They can either a) return to the past, to the moments before the protagonist sacrificed his life so that maybe they can save him or b) return to the present, leaving the past as it is. SEES is divided on what to do, with Yukari and Mitsuru wanting to go to the past to bring the protagonist back; Akihiko and Ken want to leave the past as it is; the rest aren't sure what should be done. Ken in particular feels that changing the past would be disrespectful to the protagonist's sacrifice, keeping in line with Shinjiro's advice to live life to the fullest.
By the end of The Answer, Ken has matures a lot—natural maturation, not forced—and is completely free of the guilt and regret he had experienced the past two years, leaving him able to take life by the reins.
Abilities: In Persona 3, there is an extra hour that most people don't know about. During this hour, people transmogrify into coffins. These coffins keep them safe from the monsters that also appearing during this hour—Shadows. Ken, however, doesn't transmogrify, and neither does the rest of SEES Which is bad because you know. Monsters, death and destruction.
That aside, not transmogrifying means he has the opportunity to summon a Persona. Without getting into the whole Freudian concept, a Persona is basically a part of the Self. It fights for you (or tries to murder you violently, depending on how it manifested) and is pretty good weapon for killing Shadows.
Personae can evolve if someone comes to a huge realization about themselves or is able to accept themselves for who they are. Ken's initial Persona is Nemesis and is named fittingly enough. After the whole Shinjiro incident, it evolves to Kala-Nemi. And now this is sounding like Pokemon. They can also revert back to Shadows under the right circumstances (ie the reverse of what turns a Shadow into a Persona.)
Basically, Personae are actually a lot like Pokemon. Or Digimon. They usually have an elemental theme going on with them, and Ken's is a mixture of Electric and Light with a hint of healing.
All of that aide, he has abilities he can actually do with his own two hands. His main ability is wielding a huge spear. He may be short for his age, but he is pretty damn good at spearing enemies to death and using it to move around the environment.
His most important ability is his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Feather Rangers, though. Not that he watches it Sunday mornings. No, not him.
Character Information
First Person Sample: [1] [2]
Third Person Sample: This was just like the plot to a movie. A really bad movie. Seriously, who wakes up in the homeroom of a school you don't even go to? Apparently him. While he tried to get his bearings, the teacher prattled on and on about something. It was only after a few minutes of intense staring at his desk that he realized he couldn't quite understand what the teacher was saying. It sounded like Japanese, but... but it was off. There were some words that sounded intelligible every now and then, but the grammar was weird.
Feeling nervous, he bit his lower lip and gripped onto the edge of the desk. In the back of his mind, he noted how his feet didn't even touch the floor. Since the other students in the room seemed so much older than him, this had to be a high school, right? Oh! That's right. When he woke up, there'd been a letter. He grabbed it and skimmed it quickly, the hope he had managed to scrounge up slowly falling apart as he finished reading.
Wow, how helpful. A locker number and a combination. Was... this some kind of game? Did Tartarus return and somehow shift into this place? Or did something else happen while he was asleep in the dorm?
There was the sound of the bell. Wait, was homeroom over? Ugh. What was going on? Well, regardless of what the letter told him, he wasn't a student here, so he slipped out of the room after the teacher. Maybe if he could find a heater, then he'd be able to find some secret code or something on the letter. Right? That's how it worked in all the popular TV shows with detectives—letters written in invisible ink, their hidden messages revealed when exposed to heat. But... where was he even going to find a heater?
With his shoulders scrunched up, Ken folded up the welcoming letter and tucked it away into his pocket before slowly walking down the hallway. Looking out the windows was a little fear-inducing considering how it was the perfect setting for something to crawl out of the stillness. The thought alone made him shiver.
"What in the world is happening...?"
Oh. Well, good. At least he could understand himself. That was... a little reassuring. As he walked, he tried to take on one pressing question at a time. Where was he? How did he get here? Where were the others? Why doesn't any of this look familiar? But the more questions that weighed down on his shoulders, the tighter his chest felt. Despite so many questions, not a single one had an obvious answer.
This wasn't something he wanted to do alone. No matter how much of an adult he wanted to appear on the outside, the child in him was afraid. There was no explanation. No one had told him that something like this was going to happen, like maybe the Kirijo Group had suddenly decided to run some weird tests or... or... well, he didn't know! But if he could find someone he knew, any familiar face at all, it wouldn't be so bad.
It just felt like he was a thousand miles away from home. Maybe even more.... And, if that was somehow actually true, how was he going to get out of this situation? Sure, he was smart, but... was this really something he could do all by himself?
"It's just a dream," said Ken and he took a deep breath. Maybe the front door would be easier than finding a proper heat source for the letter.... If he could get outside, then he'd at least be able to start heading back. Maybe. It all just... depended on where he was.
Name/Alias: Hojo
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Character Information
Name: Ken Amada
Fandom: Persona 3
Canonpoint: March 31, 2010; The Answer
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Physical Description: [1] [2] [3]
History: [History]
Previous Game History: N/A
Personality: Despite being eleven, he is fairly mature for his age. The maturity isn't something that comes naturally to him, necessarily—he works for it. He does things he thinks are mature, such as drinking coffee black because it's an "adult" thing to do or drinking milk despite being lactose intolerant because he wants to grow taller, but he also tries to tackle situations with the levelheadedness of a wise adult. Of course, he's still a child and he has normal child interests, like watching Phoenix Rangers on Sundays and collecting figurines based on the show. He also still retains a childish excitement when it comes to things he's interested in or finds fun, but he usually catches himself in the middle of an energized rant and reels himself back into a more levelheaded state. Even Ken's thought process behind choosing his weapon is a blend of childishness and pragmatism: he wanted to fight on the same playing field as adults, but he also wanted a weapon that had a long reach so he would be more useful in a fight.
But Ken isn't necessarily mature because he wants to be. He feels he has to be mature. To act like an adult. If he doesn't come off as older than he is, he knows the adults in his life won't believe him or won't take him seriously. It's a fear that stems from the death of his mother. The circumstances surrounding his mother's death were rather unusual. In a fairly normal city in Japan, a shining horse monster burst out of a teenager and then attacked and killed his mother. It was an event he saw with his own eyes. He was positive about what he had seen, but he also knew it was an outrageous story. When questioned by a police officer about what he'd seen, he asked the officer if he would really believe him. After getting a yes for an answer, Ken explained what he saw and was promptly brushed aside. The office claimed the trauma had been too much for him and that he was misremembering or making up events that didn't, and couldn't, happen. In fact, the officer went on to state that it was a drunk driver who drove into his house, causing the house to collapse and kill his mother. It was that experience that made him unable to trust adults, and it was that experience that cemented the belief that he had to do things himself. If he wanted to find his mother's killer, he would have to rely on himself, not on adults.
With his mother dead and his father having no part in his life, Ken was forced to more or less take care of himself. He still went to school and lived in a dorm, but he didn't have parents to teach him things anymore, or anyone to cook or clean for him. He was on his own, essentially forced to grow up quickly like most children who lose their parents.
Although he carries a heavy distrust for adults, that doesn't mean he dislikes them. In fact, he can get along with adults perfectly well, and he gets along especially well with the members of Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), all of whom are at least four years older than him. However, he knows that while many adults may be perfectly nice, they're unlikely to listen to anything other than what they want to hear.
During the summer when the elementary school students were able to go home to their families, Ken was more or less handed over to the SEES members since staff members felt an eleven-year-old shouldn't live by himself during summer break. Initially, he kind of keeps to himself, but as the days go by, Ken eventually becomes part of the evening conversations and activities in the common room. It's also during this time that he comes out of his shell a little. Ken gets to know the members of SEES and more or less becomes friends with them. He grows to respect all of them for various reasons, but he especially respects Akihiko for his strength and talent with boxing. He's even able to befriend Shinjiro, despite his rough exterior. Over time, his mature adult façade cracks and crumbles more frequently and he easily passes off as a normal, well-adjusted eleven-year-old.
The problem is that he's not. As happy as he seems to be with SEES, he's not well-adjusted. He is haunted by the death of his mother and tormented over the fact that no one would ever believe him about what he saw. The fact that he's a child is just one big obstacle to him, but it only serves to fuel his determination to find out what really happened.
When Ken is invited to join SEES as an official member, he's all too happy to seize the opportunity. Not just because he's become good friends with its members, but also because they can summon monsters similar to the one that killed his mother—a being called Persona. These were people who just might not think he's crazy if he were to ever tell them how his mother died. Plus, joining SEES also helped him understand and utilize a powerful weapon he possessed—the ability to summon a Persona of his own. He didn't mind that joining the organization meant putting his life in danger every night. He didn't mind that summoning his Persona meant that he had to make himself feel like his life was in danger by putting a gun to his head. It was a small price to pay if the end result meant finding out what happened to his mother.
Ken eventually does find out Shinjiro and his Persona are responsible for his mother's death, and he goes about exacting revenge in a terrifyingly adult manner. He doesn't impulsively craft a plan for the instant gratification of revenge like a typical revenge-seeking child might do. Instead, he waits until it's the anniversary of his mother's death, withdrawing from the SEES members as the date approaches, and he meets his mother's murderer with plans to kill him to avenge her. The followup plan is for Ken to kill himself, wrapping the whole event in a single murder-suicide act. Yet when he learns that Shinjiro is already dying, Ken is absolutely distraught. He waited two years for the opportunity to avenge his mother and it was snatched away from him unfairly and without any warning. As if to add insult to injury, Shinjiro takes a bullet for Ken and dies from his injuries, all the while using his final breaths to tell Ken to live, for the sake of not just himself but also for the sake of his mother.
The event of Shinjiro's death completely shatters Ken's adult persona for a time. As if suddenly remembering he's only a child, he runs away from the dorm to hide, knowing that the other member of SEES, all of whom were good friends with Shinjiro, would hate him and rightfully blame him for Shinjiro's death. Ken feels like a coward for running away, and he feels angry that he couldn't exact his revenge. He also feels confused because the person he had quickly grown to passionately despite had saved his life. With Shinjiro is gone and after having some time alone with his misery, Ken can't find a reason to continue living. It's Akihiko who finds and confronts Ken. He treats Ken like an adult, and their conversation enables Ken to forgive Shinjiro for accidentally murdering his mother and essentially overcoming his past.
Ken takes Shinjiro's advice to heart and aims to live his life to the fullest, for his own sake, for his mother's sake, and for Shinjiro's sake as well. This is most evident in two big scenes: the month leading up to January 31st and the entirety of The Answer.
On December 31st, SEES' friend Ryoji comes to them and reveals that he is the Harbringer of Death and that the world will come to an end on January 31st. He offers SEES the choice to kill him so they can live the final month of their life unburdend by the memories of using the power of Persona and the Dark Hour—they would essentially live as normal, carefree students, unaware that the end is coming soon. The alternative is to live until the 31st of January when Nyx will descend and bring the Fall, wiping out humanity—but they will retain their memories. Ken, like the others, wants to wait until the 31st of January and try to fight Nyx. Even though Nyx is purported to be undefeatable, Ken vows to do is best to defeat Nyx so that humanity doesn't end. He can't bear the thought of sitting back and doing nothing when he has the power to at least try. Giving up and accepting the world's fate would be making Shinjiro's sacrifice for him in vain.
In The Answer, the protagonist is "dead," more or less doomed to sleep for eternity. SEES is given the opportunity to fix that. They can either a) return to the past, to the moments before the protagonist sacrificed his life so that maybe they can save him or b) return to the present, leaving the past as it is. SEES is divided on what to do, with Yukari and Mitsuru wanting to go to the past to bring the protagonist back; Akihiko and Ken want to leave the past as it is; the rest aren't sure what should be done. Ken in particular feels that changing the past would be disrespectful to the protagonist's sacrifice, keeping in line with Shinjiro's advice to live life to the fullest.
By the end of The Answer, Ken has matures a lot—natural maturation, not forced—and is completely free of the guilt and regret he had experienced the past two years, leaving him able to take life by the reins.
Abilities: In Persona 3, there is an extra hour that most people don't know about. During this hour, people transmogrify into coffins. These coffins keep them safe from the monsters that also appearing during this hour—Shadows. Ken, however, doesn't transmogrify, and neither does the rest of SEES Which is bad because you know. Monsters, death and destruction.
That aside, not transmogrifying means he has the opportunity to summon a Persona. Without getting into the whole Freudian concept, a Persona is basically a part of the Self. It fights for you (or tries to murder you violently, depending on how it manifested) and is pretty good weapon for killing Shadows.
Personae can evolve if someone comes to a huge realization about themselves or is able to accept themselves for who they are. Ken's initial Persona is Nemesis and is named fittingly enough. After the whole Shinjiro incident, it evolves to Kala-Nemi. And now this is sounding like Pokemon. They can also revert back to Shadows under the right circumstances (ie the reverse of what turns a Shadow into a Persona.)
Basically, Personae are actually a lot like Pokemon. Or Digimon. They usually have an elemental theme going on with them, and Ken's is a mixture of Electric and Light with a hint of healing.
All of that aide, he has abilities he can actually do with his own two hands. His main ability is wielding a huge spear. He may be short for his age, but he is pretty damn good at spearing enemies to death and using it to move around the environment.
His most important ability is his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Feather Rangers, though. Not that he watches it Sunday mornings. No, not him.
Character Information
First Person Sample: [1] [2]
Third Person Sample: This was just like the plot to a movie. A really bad movie. Seriously, who wakes up in the homeroom of a school you don't even go to? Apparently him. While he tried to get his bearings, the teacher prattled on and on about something. It was only after a few minutes of intense staring at his desk that he realized he couldn't quite understand what the teacher was saying. It sounded like Japanese, but... but it was off. There were some words that sounded intelligible every now and then, but the grammar was weird.
Feeling nervous, he bit his lower lip and gripped onto the edge of the desk. In the back of his mind, he noted how his feet didn't even touch the floor. Since the other students in the room seemed so much older than him, this had to be a high school, right? Oh! That's right. When he woke up, there'd been a letter. He grabbed it and skimmed it quickly, the hope he had managed to scrounge up slowly falling apart as he finished reading.
Wow, how helpful. A locker number and a combination. Was... this some kind of game? Did Tartarus return and somehow shift into this place? Or did something else happen while he was asleep in the dorm?
There was the sound of the bell. Wait, was homeroom over? Ugh. What was going on? Well, regardless of what the letter told him, he wasn't a student here, so he slipped out of the room after the teacher. Maybe if he could find a heater, then he'd be able to find some secret code or something on the letter. Right? That's how it worked in all the popular TV shows with detectives—letters written in invisible ink, their hidden messages revealed when exposed to heat. But... where was he even going to find a heater?
With his shoulders scrunched up, Ken folded up the welcoming letter and tucked it away into his pocket before slowly walking down the hallway. Looking out the windows was a little fear-inducing considering how it was the perfect setting for something to crawl out of the stillness. The thought alone made him shiver.
"What in the world is happening...?"
Oh. Well, good. At least he could understand himself. That was... a little reassuring. As he walked, he tried to take on one pressing question at a time. Where was he? How did he get here? Where were the others? Why doesn't any of this look familiar? But the more questions that weighed down on his shoulders, the tighter his chest felt. Despite so many questions, not a single one had an obvious answer.
This wasn't something he wanted to do alone. No matter how much of an adult he wanted to appear on the outside, the child in him was afraid. There was no explanation. No one had told him that something like this was going to happen, like maybe the Kirijo Group had suddenly decided to run some weird tests or... or... well, he didn't know! But if he could find someone he knew, any familiar face at all, it wouldn't be so bad.
It just felt like he was a thousand miles away from home. Maybe even more.... And, if that was somehow actually true, how was he going to get out of this situation? Sure, he was smart, but... was this really something he could do all by himself?
"It's just a dream," said Ken and he took a deep breath. Maybe the front door would be easier than finding a proper heat source for the letter.... If he could get outside, then he'd at least be able to start heading back. Maybe. It all just... depended on where he was.