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Pharos | Persona 3
NAME: Bookie
AGE: 23, until next week whoops
PLAYER JOURNAL:
TIMEZONE: EST
CONTACT: plurk: bookworm12890
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Pharos/Phillip Santorini
CANON: Persona 3 (specifically the fem!MC route)
POINT IN CANON: Roughly the end of canon game, from November in Save the Earth
AGE: 11
APPEARANCE: Here
CANON HISTORY:
Once upon a time, there was a world filled with creatures called Shadows. Some nut got the idea to bring them together in hopes of harnessing their power. Many believed that he wanted to use them to create some great machine, but what he really wanted was to bring about Death, to summon the end of the world. One of the scientists working under him found out and sabotaged the experiment, separating the Shadow into 13 different parts, each representing one of the major arcana. As his final act, he left a message pleading for the future not to destroy these Shadows, because doing so would cause them to combine and create Death once again.
The thirteenth of the separate arcana, a weakened Death, was confronted by the last remaining anti-Shadow unit, Aigis. Unable to defeat him, the only thing she could think to do was seal him inside the nearest living thing- a young girl.
He rested, unknown, inside the girl for many years. During this time, he subconsciously lead her back to Port Island, but was also influenced by her and developed a human form, and a basic understanding of human emotions. Ten years later, when she had returned to Port Island, she walked into her new dorm to see a young boy with dark hair and bright blue eyes, offering her a contract.
Over the course of the next few months, the boy appears in the girl’s room during the Dark Hour (the hour of time between one day and the next), often talking to her about ‘ordeals’ (the coming of the next full moon, and it’s accompanying boss fight), as well as referring to ‘the Fall,’ which he admits to not entirely knowing everything about. After ever major shadow is defeated, the boy regains more and more of his memory, eventually telling the PC that his name is Pharos, and requesting she be his friend, thus forging the Death social link. By the time the last arcana has been defeated, Pharos remembers his role and bids the PC a final farewell, telling her he will always remember and cherish their conversations.
Because of the nature of his AU, even though this is the end of Pharos’s story, he also has some information from who Pharos became next- Ryoji Mochizuki. Long story made incredibly short, Ryoji was the result of the fully completed Pharos, only seventeen and with more of a grasp on how emotions and humanity as a whole worked. He led a month believing he was a normal human before figuring out his purpose, and gave his friends the choice to kill him and forget that the Fall, aka the end of the world, was coming, or let him live and force them to suffer until the day came. They opted to let him live and try to fight Nyx, so he told them how to get to her. In order to stop Nyx from destroying the world, the MC made herself into a seal to separate Pharos/Ryoji/Nyx’s Avatar from humanity.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Pharos, for all intents and purposes, is a small, creepy child. At the beginning, he hardly remembers anything about who he is, but he has an awareness and understanding of anything included in the Dark Hour. Because he’s not really human, not to mention what he actually is, Pharos has little trouble discussing death, and even admits that before knowing the PC, he never considered it to be a problem. He’s very fatalistic, believing that death and the Fall are both inevitable concepts.
Despite this rather depressing (to the PC, not him) outlook, Pharos is very curious about the PC’s experiences with life and emotions, developing a clearer idea of what it meant to be human through her. He grew very fond of her over time, even eventually taking to calling her ‘my dearest.’ With her (because he can’t be seen by anyone else), he’s generally very friendly and willing to answer questions... provided you ask the correct ones.
Because the PC is the only one who can see him, Pharos is often very lonely. This doesn't come through but so often because he cherishes his time with the PC, but he goes so far before he leaves as to call their friendship a 'miracle'. He truly enjoys the little time they have to converse, and treasures the memories he has with her. In a way, this combination between his curiosity, friendliness, and loneliness explains a lot about the character he becomes in Ryoji, who goes out of his way to talk to new people and deeply values the friendships he forms. However, even at the end when he recovers all of his memories of what's to come, he shows very little in the way of remorse, focusing on how much he cared for PC in contrast to the fact that he was going to destroy her world. This could indicate little care for anyone outside of his personal social circle (small as it is), instead mourning the loss of a friendship than a mass loss of life.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: Phillip is from Save the Earth, where the entire premise is based around characters being reincarnated/reborn into a rough equivalent of the Earth we all know and love. Given Pharos’s rather supernatural nature, this changes a lot for him.
Phillip, for all intents and purposes, was a normal 10 year old who loved soccer, theater, and his dog. Shortly before he started fifth grade, however, he had his first ‘Echo,’ a memory/power from his canon life coming back to him, and was able to access the network where others were involved. During the course of his time on the network, he made quite a few friends (namely Toushirou, Luke, and Henry, though two of them wound up forgetting about the network) and spent a lot of time being told by adults that he was too young for all the danger that was involved.
He probably should have paid attention to them, seeing as he was involved in several fights, but Phillip didn’t see a problem with this as a.) he gained back Pharos’s rather ‘meh’ attitude about death and b.) he got back Pharos’s immortality. But he didn’t, and he and a bunch of the younger kids still got involved in all the big fights that went down. (They also tried to make their own kid's superhero group, but that never really took off.)
Now, for the first part of all of this, the ‘Numbered’ were secret. People who weren’t on the network flat out didn’t know they existed. However, a bunch of people fighting a giant snake in the middle of downtown New Jersey with super powers kind of catches people’s attention, and since half of the Numbered were teenagers who weren’t very good at staying quiet in the first place they got outed. Initially, there were mixed feelings from the public about them, but since they saved the city from a giant snake it was more positive. This changed- a variety of other property destruction, smear campaigns by the mafia, and a giant monster popping up and wrecking the second place the Numbered appeared (Las Vegas) did a lot to completely trash the Numbered’s reputation, to the point where publicly known Numbered were openly discriminated against, being fired from jobs, denied access to certain businesses, the works.
Phillip, for his part, has worked very hard to make sure no one found out he was Numbered. For the general public, this wasn’t hard because his only real powers came when he changed forms. His parents, who were by far more important (since only one member of the younger Numbered managed to out themselves successfully to their guardians without being kicked out or running away), were a little bit harder and he’s been having to construct a string of untruths to explain how he manages to be ok after everything rough he does and how he suddenly speaks Japanese when he hasn’t taken Japanese ever. (It’s good acting practice!)
Also, there are aliens. Yup. There was an evil one who was helping out the very corrupt police force and possibly also ThunderCorp, resident evil big business, but other ones got sent to come collect him. They think the Numbered are pretty cool.
Actually though they’re probably evil too but no one knows for sure yet.Personality-wise, because Phillip was a fairly normal child, his personality is a bit more derived from Ryoji, who was closer to a normal person (though still a bit creepy let’s not lie). Very bubbly, very chipper, wants to be friends with everyone and everything. As a carryover from Pharos in particular, Phillip hates being alone or feeling lonely. For the most part, he does come off as a normal kid, except when the topics of death or fate come up and then he gets creepy real fast. It’s normal to not be bothered by dead bodies, right?
By nature of the setting, there are also a few cultural/generational differences. While Pharos ‘grew up’ with Minako in the late nineties/early 2000s and had no access to the word outside of her, Phillip was born in 2003 with all the relevant pop culture and technological knowledge. (He uses ‘google’ as a verb and was completely baffled by old cell phones.) He also grew up in the middle of New Jersey as opposed to Japan- therefore, even though he knows a little bit about Japanese culture through some of his friends, he’s an American kid.
ABILITIES:
Phillip’s only abilities will be the ones he has already gained back from Pharos; any abilities Pharos had that he didn’t get ‘Echos’ for he won’t have.
-Unable to be harmed by anyone who is not a Persona 3 MC
-Can sense how dangerous/powerful other things are
-Can summon minor shadows (but can’t control them)
-Has access to his form as Death, including the skills Megidola, Tempest Slash, Evil Smile, and Ghastly Wail
-Fluent in Japanese
INVENTORY; Phillip will have his backpack from school, meaning it’s got all his homework, the script for the play he was in, and his gym clothes. Basically, nothing useful at all.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? For reference, here is the link to his information for the game in question, including a link to his application and what he knows about his original canon.
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON:
Here and here.
THIRD PERSON:
You know, maybe it says something about Phillip that his first reaction to being in a strange new place isn’t to freak out, break down, or even remain level headed and try to find a Responsible Adult (like a policeman! Actually, no, not like a policeman. Firefighters are still good though, right?). No, Phillip’s reaction is look around, wide eyed at his new surroundings, find the most interesting looking thing in his line of sight, and charge towards it.
“This is so cool!” he says, beaming as he heads towards what looks to him like a giant bouncy castle, which is possibly the best thing he has ever seen ever. There is no small part of denial going on in the little boy’s mind- not knowing where he is and how to get home is a little terrifying, after all. But Phillip isn’t great at focusing on things that upset him at the best of times, and now is most certainly not the best of times. He might actually be a little more willing to panic if he had a friend with him. but... he doesn’t. So off towards the bouncy castle he walks (or runs, depending), knowing that he’s going to have to look for some real answers eventually.
Re: Pharos | Persona 3
We will have to powercap his invulnerability & some of his sensory abilities, and we'll get back to you to discuss the details of that in the next day or two, but feel free to go ahead & intro just as soon as the new mingle is up!
Re: Pharos | Persona 3
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As far as the invulnerability goes - being unable to die is not a dealbreaker. But invulnerability, being unable to be affected by anything, is. Whether we ignore these abilities entirely, weaken them, or find a way to redefine them is to some extent negotiable; do you have a preference?
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I don't really have a preference, no, which probably makes things harder. XD What kind of affected are we talking about, specifically?
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Specifically, it's problematic to be immune to powers & skills of other players/plot-important NPCs! Being resistant is fine, but being immune is the sort of power that is often interpreted as god-moding, even when it's appropriate to the character and not used that way!
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