BASIC CHARACTER INFORMATION

Canon Name: Persona 3 Portable
Character Name: Yukari Takeba
Age: 17
Canon Point: A week post-The Journey
Canon Information: can be found here.
CR AU?: No

IN-GAME INFORMATION

Familiar: Lioness
Magic Types: Healing/Light
Inventory:

1. Evoker (description can be found here)
2. Japanese longbow and arrows
3. Cellphone
4. Jack Frost plushie (a picture of Jack Frost can be found here)
5. USB drive with a video of her dad's goodbye message (link to video here)

CHARACTER QUESTIONS

Q1: You've been stranded on a desert island with only one standard-size travel suitcase. If you could only have 3 items in that suitcase, what would you want those items to be and why?


Yukari quirks an eyebrow at the question. It sounds more like something from a group date than whatever the heck all this is, but if they're asking, who is she to argue?

"Do desert islands still exist?" Okay, maybe argue a little bit. "Well, if they do and I was stuck on one, I guess I'd want my phone? Even if it doesn't work, it'd feel weird not to have it. And a blanket, maybe? It probably gets cold at night on desert islands and I could use it for shade during the day. As for my last thing," she taps her chin in thought, "a lighter? I like the outdoors but I don't like it that much to know how to make a fire on my own. Being able to quickly make a fire seems like it'd be useful. Thankfully, I don't plan on getting abandoned on an island any time soon.

Unless this is what this is. Are you putting us on an island?"

Q2: Tell us about a defining event in your life that you think influenced who you are today.

"...my dad died when I was six." Yukari's mouth twitches into a small frown as she shifts in her chair, glancing down at the floor. Talking about this never gets easier despite how much time passes. "He was a scientist working for this big project for a huge company, the Kirijo Group. One day, the whole lab...exploded. All the scientists and a lot of people in the area were killed." Tragedy in Tatsumi Port Island said the newspapers. Explosion Rocks Lab and Town, Very Few Survivors, and so on.

"After the explosion, the Kirijo Group publicly blamed Dad. I knew it wasn't true, but I was only six. There wasn't anything I could do. Our relatives stopped talking to us, people harassed us me and Mom in Dad's place. We ended up moving around a lot so people could stop finding us.

And Mom...ran away. Not physically," she explains with a wave of her hand, "we stayed together until I moved out a few years ago. But she started threw herself into dating again righta fter he died. It was one guy after the other and she'd badmouth Dad in front of them. ...and in front of me. We started fighting all the time. I couldn't understand how she could talk about him that way when he'd been nothing but kind to us."

She crosses her arms and sinks down into the chair. God, she hates this. "Everyone wanted me to hate him, but I couldn't. I believed he was innocent. So I spent my time researching what happened and putting together clues. I wanted to clear his name once and for all. It wasn't until last year that I got an old letter from Dad saying to go to Port Island and that I'd find my answers there. My upperclassmen met me when I got there and explained some of what the lab was working on and if I'd join them to make things right. I didn't trust them at all, but...if joining them got me closer to figuring out what actually happened, it was worth it. Without him dying, I wouldn't have gotten my Persona or met everyone in S.E.E.S. or...be who I am now, actually."

Q3: What does family mean to you and who do you consider a part of your family?

"That one's tough. You just heard how complicated my family was," she says with a humorless laugh. "I never got a chance to see what one looked like. For a long time, I thought it meant people who were related to each other and that was it. Kinda found out the hard way that relatives aren't obligated to help each other. Then I met S.E.E.S."

Yukari finally starts to brighten up after the previous question. This she can freely talk about without the sting of old wounds rubbed raw. "Sure, we were perfect strangers and we spent so much of our time fighting each other, but we still relied on each other and trusted that we'd do the right thing. We stood by each other through thick and thin. They're more my family than most of my actual family. I'd do anything for them."

She pauses for a beat before fixing the camera with a dead serious look. "Never tell Junpei I said that. Like, ever. He'd never let me live it down."

Q4: Tell me about a time you were involved in a personal conflict (not a physical fight). What would you do differently to resolve it?

"My upperclassman, Mitsuru, and I didn't get along for the first eight or nine months we were together in S.E.E.S. Or, it's probably more accurate to say it was a one-sided dislike on my end. I unfairly put all the blame on Dad dying on her because she's a Kirijo." Yukari had finally found a face and name to put to all of the turmoil of her life, and she'd jumped on the chance to dislike her with the desperation not unlike a cornered animal. "It didn't help that she kept us in the dark about almost everything we were dealing with. Now I understand she thought it was her responsibility to shoulder everything alone because of her family's role in everything, but back then? I thought she saw us as pawns in whatever Kirio Group scheme they were up to. Which was stupid now that I look back at it." Jeez, the paranoia and distrust was understandable at the time but it's straight up embarrassing now in hindsight.

She rolls her eyes and shrugs, sighing, "Would you believe we're best friends now? We could have avoided the whole thing if we'd actually talked about what was bothering us. Neither of us are good at talking about our problems and I'm not...great at listening to people when I'm upset." 'Not great' is the understatement of the century and Yukari knows it, but that's neither here nor there. "But we're getting better. So all's well that ends well, right?"

Q5: Do you have any regrets? If so, what are the biggest ones? If not, what is something you wish you had gotten to do back home?

She's been looking more upbeat with each question since discussing her dad, but this one causes her to jolt back in her seat and look at the floor. If she'd been asked this question a few months ago, Yukari would have confidently answered none. The new goal of her life is to live one without regrets, to be able to hold her head high. But things are different now. "I... I never got to tell her goodbye. Kotone, my best friend, I mean. She did something so selfless," and brave and so stupid, "that none of us are going to be able to repay, but if I could then...."

What would she have done? Try to rewind time? Talk her out of completing the task they'd set out to do? Be the one to hold Kotone's hand while she died?

Stupid. All stupid.

"I don't know," she mumbles. "Thank her for everything. Maybe she would have known how much we care." Yukari takes a shuddery breath and finally looks up with a steely glare, jaw taut and looking ready for a fight. "Can we stop talking about this?"

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