Laser Guided Amnesia: His fate at the end of Eternal Punishment.Tatsuya is depicted flicking the Zippo lighter open and shut during whenever he's idle. In exchange, Tatsuya gave Jun a wristwatch which belonged to his own father. The lighter is a memento of Jun's father. The inscription reads, 'The most important things can't be seen with the eyes', a quote from Jun's favorite book. Iconic Item: A Zippo lighter he received from Jun as a child.Hello Insert Name Here: Although 'Tatsuya' is his canonical name, the player is given a choice of naming him.Good Scars Evil Scars: He has a knife wound on his back from when King Leo attacked him as a child.Freak Out: The losses at the end of Innocent Sin were simply too much to bear.Fourth Option Love Interest: Eikichi, I choose you!!.Even The Guys Want Him: If Jun is any indication.Deus Angst Machina: It's joked that someone must have equipped an ANGST +100 accessory on him between games.Crutch Character: In Eternal Punishment.Clueless Chick Magnet: His childhood friend Lisa has been pursuing him for ages, much to his discomfort and chagrin.Character Development: His personality is more severe in Eternal Punishment, having become a hardened fighter and losing everyone he cared about.Old Save Bonus: If you have completed save data from Innocent Sin, he'll start Eternal Punishment at the level he was there.In Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya joins up at level 50, with his Ultimate persona Apollo in tow. He wears a red cyclist's jumpsuit for the entirety of Eternal Punishment. Badass Biker: Tatsuya's most treasured possession (second to his lighter, of course) is his motorcycle.Anime Hair: The dev team has joked that it's a helmet, and that he slips it off at night.This creates a Temporal Paradox wherein the world is restored, but Tatsuya retains his memories of the Alternate Timeline (the 'Other Side'), allowing Nyarlathotep to repeat the cycle. At the last moment, however, Tatsuya can't bring himself to lose his friends forever and relents. Faced with a dystopian future, the group accepts an offer from Philemon to erase their memories and rewind time. Tatsuya confronts Nyarlathotep in his domain, and in the ensuing struggle, Maya is killed. At the conclusion of the game, the rumors compound on each other until everything outside of Sumaru City is completely destroyed. Soon afterward, Jun is revealed as a puppet of Nyarlathotep, the entity which is manifesting rumors as reality. This leads him to suspect Jun Kuruso, the last remaining member of the clique, as the true identity of Joker-sama.

He later joins forces with Maya and Yukino, an investigative duo from a local magazine who are also looking into the Joker case.Įventually, Tatusya realizes that he and the rest of his team knew each other as children, forming a masked clique nicknamed 'The Masquerade'. Faced with imminent retribution by the Joker-sama, Tatsuya begins a quest to uncover the truth behind the masked man, as well as the citywide phenomena which is bringing rumors to life. He, along with the others, is knocked unconscious and awakens to his own Persona. Tatsuya is a senior at Seven Sisters Academy in Sumaru City, a a rather aloof boy who doesn't have many friends, often preferring to be by himself and tool around with his treasured motorcycle.ĭuring a encounter with Eikichi 'Captain Death' Mishina at Sumaru Prison (a live house where Eikichi's band 'Gas Chamber' often practices) Tatsuya is attacked by Joker-sama, an urban legend who is said to grant the wish of anyone who dials their own cell phone number. Just as with Maya in her respective game, the player has the option of naming him at the start. His affinity is with the Sun arcana, with Vulcanus as his starting Persona. The silent protagonist of Innocent Sin and central character of the story.

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