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Ultimate Personas
▼ ULTIMATE PERSONAS
▼ WHAT ARE ULTIMATE PERSONAS?
We're glad you asked!
Ultimate Personas are an evolution of a character's Soul Persona, awakened when they take up a new resolution in their heart, face a major personal issue, or rise above their weaknesses and shortcomings. This is generally the culmination of many months of character development gained by forming Social Links with other characters in the game, and growing and changing in the process. Although it's a very different process for each individual character, this journey of self-discovery awakens the sleeping power in the Soul Persona, causing it to change into its Ultimate form.
Ultimate Personas are an evolution of a character's Soul Persona, awakened when they take up a new resolution in their heart, face a major personal issue, or rise above their weaknesses and shortcomings. This is generally the culmination of many months of character development gained by forming Social Links with other characters in the game, and growing and changing in the process. Although it's a very different process for each individual character, this journey of self-discovery awakens the sleeping power in the Soul Persona, causing it to change into its Ultimate form.
▼ HOW DO I GET ONE?
As noted above, awakening an the Ultimate Persona requires the character to have gone through some large personal change or revelation. As such, the character must already have achieved MAX level before applying to receive their Ultimate Persona. For most characters, this means they have been in the game for 9 months from their IC intro, and 6 months for characters who already had a Persona before coming to Hinoto-Ri.
Requesting an Ultimate Persona upgrade will require that the player is able to provide sufficient character development detail on how their character has grown / changed / learned since coming to the city. Note that this can take very different forms for different characters, and not all characters will change in a positive way - resolving to destroy the world by giving in fully to one's hatred is just as monumental a change in outlook as accepting one's own true nature and deciding to help humanity, for example. All it means is a different god will take notice when the character is granted the Ultimate Persona.
Requesting an Ultimate Persona upgrade will require that the player is able to provide sufficient character development detail on how their character has grown / changed / learned since coming to the city. Note that this can take very different forms for different characters, and not all characters will change in a positive way - resolving to destroy the world by giving in fully to one's hatred is just as monumental a change in outlook as accepting one's own true nature and deciding to help humanity, for example. All it means is a different god will take notice when the character is granted the Ultimate Persona.
▼ IS THERE A FORM TO FILL OUT?
Why yes, there is! Just copy the handy dandy code in the text box below, paste it into a new comment in this thread, and we'll get back to you with an approval or a request for more information.
Once the Ultimate Persona has been approved, a mod will get in contact with you personally to go over the details. A mod-run scene or thread is not necessary for the Ultimate Persona to awaken IC, so we encourage you to roleplay it out in whatever way you feel is appropriate! It may not even happen right away, as it can take some time for a suitably dramatic event to trigger it. This is a major milestone in your character's development, so get creative and use your imagination! The only thing you have to remember is that you cannot evolve to ultimate unless you have been approved.
Once the Ultimate Persona has been approved, a mod will get in contact with you personally to go over the details. A mod-run scene or thread is not necessary for the Ultimate Persona to awaken IC, so we encourage you to roleplay it out in whatever way you feel is appropriate! It may not even happen right away, as it can take some time for a suitably dramatic event to trigger it. This is a major milestone in your character's development, so get creative and use your imagination! The only thing you have to remember is that you cannot evolve to ultimate unless you have been approved.
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Character Name (OU/AU/OC): Desco (OU)
Character Series: Disgaea
Soul Persona: http://tyrantball.dreamwidth.org/550.html
Arcana: Tower
Ultimate Persona:
Adapted from fan-made Persona 4-based skill list chart by
Justification: When Desco first arrived in Hinoto-Ri, she was violent, selfish, and cared only about her own desires. Now, months later, she is...still violent and selfish. However, she has started to care about other people! Thanks to continual input from the various non-human Visitors Desco has decided to be violently overprotective of, she's evolved from someone who does not care if you die to someone who does not care if you die but will spend effort on avenging you anyway!
Someone please explain why death is a big deal to her she still does not understand.
Desco's closest CR have become her surrogate 'family', and with these select few Desco shows consideration, patience, and a level of caring that is normally reserved for her Big Sis. Their views of her penchant for violence and emotional dependency issues vary - Otoha has personally witnessed how violent she can be, while Nano has seen Desco at her most vulnerable.
Desco's Ultimate Persona, Yog-Sothoth, is a Support-type Persona due to Desco's growing disenchantment with her Combat-type Dragonlord. Dragonlord can't particularly kill things faster or more efficiently than Desco herself can, and it lacks the kinds of skills Desco currently deems most useful - the ability to keep in contact with her 'family', heal their injuries, and transport them to safety. Her own desire to protect both her family and her 'subjects', will, therefore, give rise to a Persona that can do those things.
http://destinystrings.dreamwidth.org/38618.html?thread=3922138#cmt3922138 - Someone offers to be her sister. Desco immediately attempts to murder them.
http://destinystrings.dreamwidth.org/114405.html?thread=13939941#cmt13939941 - Desco has adopted Nano as a sister and is completely willing to share food with her.
APPROVED
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Character Name (OU/AU/OC): Atoli (OU)
Character Series: .hack//G.U.
Soul Persona: Innis Avatar
Arcana: Moon
Ultimate Persona:
[INNIS PHASE]
LVL (MAX) | MOON
COMBAT SKILLS
► Ice Dance (Inflicts a large amount of Ice damage on one enemy for up to three times)
► Slow-Mo (Decreases an enemy's Speed by half.( 2turns))
► Poisma (40% chance of inflicting the Poison ailment on one target.(2 turns))
► Mamagnadyne (Deal large Earth damage on all enemies.)
▷ Goldeneye (30% chance of inflicting the Illusion ailment on all targets | all allies.(2 turns))
▷ Fire Dance (Inflicts a large amount of Fire damage on one enemy for up to three times)
▷ Thunder Reign (Inflicts a severe amount of Lightning damage on all enemies.)
▷ Data Drain (Reduces an enemy's HP by 50%, with a 40% chance of inflicting each possible status ailment.)
★ Invisible Dolls (Cannot miss. Deals severe Physical damage to a single enemy three times.)
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Null Wind (Becomes immune to Wind attacks. Takes precedence over Resist Wind.)
▷ Null Fire (Becomes immune to Fire attacks. Takes precedence over Resist Firel)
▷ Null Dark (Becomes immune to Darkness attacks. Takes precedence over Resist Dark.)
Justification:
When she first woke up in the city, Atoli was fully convinced that if she acted as who she was, no one would like her. She believed Haseo, the person she was trying the hardest to befriend at home, only spent time with her because she looked like his old guildmate, and it had stuck. Even something so supposedly harmless as a snowball fight causes her to think someone is trying to demean her. It wasn’t long since that though that Sora was able to convince her otherwise - Haseo actually did like her, based on the fact that 1) he’d come after her when she ran away, 2) the way he (or she? I forget which...) had acted around her when they’d first met here, and 3) that kind of thinking was dumb anyway, people have similar-looking PCs all the time. Both Haseo she encountered later (the The-World-as-real-life female Haseo and the normal one from the future) would confirm this and also say that the one person she truly admired, her guild superior Sakaki, had been using her the whole time.
Although she realized then that she didn’t have to change for other people, she wasn’t quite sure who she was after having suffered from so much pressure in her real life outside of the city. Surprisingly, her love for animals has not decreased despite the number of animal-like demons, and her recent foray into Pokémon has even gotten her into a club now that she has a course load that is while existent not as unforgiving as the one she had at home. She still needs to expand herself after being crushed under the weight of people’s inflexibility, but now that she doesn’t have that pressure she is happy and free to do so.
APPROVED WITH REVISIONS
-Data Drain is too powerful as written, as this would inflict an average of 7 status ailments at once after we introduce the new ones. Please pick three of the available ailments for this skill to cause to bring it in line with skills like Dunwich Horror and Dreamworld and reply with them here before posting the Ultimate in your journal.
Please make sure to update your character hub with the appropriate information. You are now free to have Atoli's Soul Persona transform into the Ultimate Persona form at any appropriately dramatic time.
Re: APPROVED WITH REVISIONS
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Character Name (OU/AU/OC): Fumi Kanno (OU)
Character Series: Devil Survivor 2
Date of Acceptance: March 3rd, 2013
Soul Persona: Vapula
Arcana: Magician
Ultimate Persona:
[PAIMON]
LVL (MAX) | THE MAGICIAN
Fumi Kanno |
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Phantasm (Allows the user to become intangible for 5 minutes once per day.)
► String Vision ( Allows to see view images connected to the Destiny String of a person (Work with that person on what they can see.))
► City CommLink (Allows the user to communicate telepathically with other Persona users in the city regardless of knowing who they are.)
► Absorb Ice (Absorbs damage from Ice attacks.Takes precedence over Resist, Null and Repel Ice.)
▷ Solidus Scan (Reveals all of all foes' weaknesses & strengths.)
▷ Rainbow Alcazar (Repels one Elemental attack (Repel Fire, Wind, Water, Earth, Lightning, Ice effect - All Allies.)
▷ Aegis [A] (Automatic Shield All cast at the start of a battle. One [A] skill per Persona.)
▷ Reality Hack (Downgrades all targets' elemental resistances by one level for three turns - Reflect, Absorb, or Block become Strong, Strong becomes Neutral, Neutral becomes Weak.)
★ Riding the Dragon Stream (Instantly teleports the user and all allies present to a location of the user's choice. User must have visited the chosen location personally before.)
COMBAT SKILLS
► Ziodyne (Inflicts a large amount of Lightning damage on one enemy.)
▷ Maziodyne (Inflicts a large amount of Lightning damage on all enemies.)
▷ Volt Carnage (Inflicts a severe amount of Lightning damage on one enemy.)
Justification: Considering the arc her character development takes in Devil Survivor 2, it could almost be said that Fumi's personality has undergone a regression during her time in Hinoto-Ri. She's gone from the paragon of Yamato's meritocracy ideals to a somewhat bristly scientist who's willing to work with others and entertain their ideas when the situation calls for it. When Fumi first arrived, she was concerned almost completely with research, only bothering to talk to people if it had something to do with her academic interest in Personas or demons. Almost all of her conversations during her first few months were keyed toward this, such as introducing herself to a doctor for the sole purpose of getting access to medical equipment for her lab at JP's. Talking to normal people was a source of irritation for her, and it took a while for her to even begin warming up just slightly. Even in fights with others, she largely preferred to stay on the sidelines and analyze, figuring if other people weren't strong enough to defend themselves, that would sort itself out.
Things began to turn around for Fumi during the memory swap event, in which she learned that some peoples' circumstances are indeed bad enough that there's no overcoming them completely. The experience with Senri was her first taste of this, and the beginning of sentiment and sympathy creeping into her life in the city. She steadily became more sympathetic in her own somewhat detached way, beginning to have more personal conversations with people. In her professional life as well, she started to trust others to help with problems she would usually be tackling herself. When the Wise Men disappeared from the city, she even reached out to the city as a whole to interview for candidates to help her keep the MAGI facility running, something she never would have considered before. Through further interactions with Kotoha, she has also learned the simple joy of caring for a pet, and during the Shadow event, although the thread didn't finish, she was forced to confront the fact that she does think of her associates and colleagues as friends and really does need them, even though she still holds some of her old ideals.
APPROVED
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Character Name (OU/AU/OC): Kotoha Lobelia (OU)
Character Series: Pokemon Black 2
Date of Acceptance: May 11th, 2013
Soul Persona: http://unbroken-chain.dreamwidth.org/1124.html
Arcana: The Sun
Ultimate Persona: [MITRA]
LVL (MAX) | SUN
COMBAT SKILLS
► Incinerate (Inflicts a severe amount of Fire damage on one enemy.)
► Mediarahan (Recovers all HP to all allies. (Requires a medium healing skill).)
► Fulminate (Inflicts a large amount of Lightning damage on all enemies with a 20% chance of Confusion)
► Shield All (Nullifies one non-Almighty attack (nullify effect). All allies.)
▷ Ragnarok (Inflicts a severe amount of Fire damage on all enemies.)
▷ Samsara (60% chance of KO from the power of Light on all enemies.)
▷ World Revolution (Triples all allies' Attack, Defense and Agility.( 2turns))
▷ Megidola (Inflicts a large amount of Almighty damage on all enemies.)
★ The Sun Also Rises (Fully revives a KOed party member and grants Absorb Fire for 3 rounds)
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Fire Pierce (All Fire attacks strike for normal damage against Strong, Absorb, and Nullify. One Pierce per Persona.)
▷ Absorb Ice (Absorbs damage from Ice attacks.Takes precedence over Resist, Null and Repel Ice. )
▷ Aegis [A] (Automatic Shield All cast at the start of a battle.)
Justification: So when Kotoha first arrived she was, at heart, a fairly frivolous actress. Her first few posts to the Network were basically frivolous nonsense - she was, to turn a phrase, a 'sweet summer child' who had spent most of her life living in a society where direct violence against others was practically unknown. Her first encounter with actual, meaningless violence was something of a shock to her system. As she spent more time living in the city and interacting with others, she was exposed to a variety of worlds far more dangerous than hers.
Her response was to steadily increase her ability to respond to any situation, including 'newcomers not having enough information', for which she created a helpful pamphlet - her goal there was fairly straightforward, namely, 'make sure nobody gets almost killed like I did awakening their Persona'.
Essentially, she's gone from being Bruce Wayne to being Batman.
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Character Name (OU/AU/OC): Atsuro Kihara [OU]
Character Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Date of Acceptance: September 2012! Game start.
Soul Persona: Enki Prime, previously Enki
Arcana: Emperor
Ultimate Persona:
[BABEL]
LVL (1) | EMPEROR
COMBAT SKILLS
► Dreamworld (40% chance of inflicting Illusion, Happy and Egoism on one target).(2 turns))
► Mamegido (Inflicts a medium amount of Almighty damage on all enemies)
► Mediarahan (Recovers all HP to all allies.)
► Sabotage+ (Halves all enemy's Attack, Defence and Agility.(2 turns))
▷ Scyllan Tide (Inflicts a severe amount of Water damage on one enemy with a 20% chance of Down)
▷ Panteles (Inflicts a severe amount of Physical damage on one enemy with a 50% chance of knockdown)
▷ Freeze Frame (Halves all enemies' speed, allowing to attack twice)(2 turns))
▷ Hubris of Nimrod (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on all enemies; prevents the use of non-Attack skills for 2 turns)
★ Calamity of Babel (Inflicts a large amount of physical Almighty damage on all enemies with a 40% chance of inflicting two of Confusion, Fear, Silence, or Egoism)
SUPPORT SKILLS
► Double Trouble (50% chance of the character repeating the attack they just performed.)
▷ Physical Amp (Increases Physical damage output by 50%.)
▷ Glaucous Heart (Become immune to Earth and Ice.)
Also, there will be a strength to Light that isn't inherent to Persona but was gained from having gone through the Shadow Persona event.
Justification: Atsuro came into Hinoto-Ri straight from the ending of Devil Survivor, which touched upon a lot of his psychological hang-ups and flaws, but never directly addressed them, given that there were more pressing matters at hand. He's never been overtly in need of maturation, having managed to make it into his late teens fairly adjusted despite the whole demon apocalypse and parental abandonment thing, but there's always been some underlying problems. In general, he avoids speaking about his family situation whenever possible, and as a joke, drew a fortune once in the belief that it couldn't possibly get any worse, anyway.
But due to the lack of any familial bonds, Atsuro has always placed extra emphasis on his relationships with his friends. He's unfailingly loyal and won't give up on his friends no matter what, which is a good trait, but he also tends to overlook their flaws. He tries to be the dependable, good guy in these relationships, illustrated in conversations with his best friend Kazuya, but he has a lot of uncertainty underneath the surface. He fears that his friends might not want him around anymore, or that he's wronged them. Most particularly after his talk with Nano about her crush, he feels as if he doesn't deserve to be her friend anymore.
That all came to a head with the Shadow Event, though, and Atsuro's confrontation of his insecurities. At last, he's able to be open about the feelings he doesn't wish to acknowledge, but he's able to accept them and to also accept that his friends are as loyal to him as he is to them. After he accepts his Shadow, he's finally able to put some of his lingering fears to rest.
His parents are still kinda jerks, though.