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Character Name: Naoto Shirogane Series: Persona 4 Timeline: Post-True Ending. Canon Resource Links:Ta da!
Personality: Naoto is a detective. This fact is one that has helped shape many of her other personality traits, although the determination to be a detective is what powers her through it all. The immediate, integral part of her personality is not her intelligence, but her determination. She is the sort of person who believes in moving forward and not giving up. She will find a way to do things; she will solve a case, find the answer. It's a part of who she is. The intelligence, of course, is a vital tool in helping her achieve the goals, but she is ambitious enough to desire them in the first place. Along with her determination and intelligence is an extremely analytical and logical mind: she has the ability to look at things and immediately analyze them for important facts. It's as polished-- perhaps more polished-- than one would normally expect from a sixteen year old, and certainly more than most people would expect from a sixteen year old girl.
The fact that Naoto is a girl is something that she's extremely insecure over. Being both young and female, it's extremely hard for Naoto to feel valued or respected. People have a tendency not to take her seriously, in her eyes, and she responds to the challenge by crossdressing, presenting as a male and using that as a deterrent. Her age, unfortunately, is not so easily hidden, and she projects a calm, almost arrogant face to most people, which only serves to irritate most of them more. She can be almost flippant, at times, and will frequently jump to negative conclusions about people, but she accepts when she's wrong about things and will do her best to fix anything she's presumed erroneously.
She has, through the course of canon, realized that she does not desire to be a boy for the sake of being a boy, but that she desires the respect she perceives as easier to gain and maintain if she was a boy. While she's certainly not feminine by any means, she's less insecure on the entire gender subject, valuing the opinions of friends who care for her as Naoto-- regardless of gender or presentation.
Naoto's parents are deceased, and she was raised largely by her grandfather. She was determined to be a detective, which was a family job, and she strives for that goal quite hard-- she's frequently, some would say, too hard on herself. She doesn't do many things that most teenagers would consider fun, and instead spends quite a bit of her spare time working on detective cases. Of course, this has changed a little since she joined the Investigation Team properly, as she suddenly has quite a few friends and people who care about her and want to spend time with her, something that had never really happened before in her solitary lifestyle.
Outwardly, Naoto does seem to be a fairly calm, level-headed individual. She works carefully to maintain that, but despite all her efforts, she can be easily surprised or thrown for a loop when things work out differently than how she anticipated. She can be embarrassed, perhaps not easily in general, but easily via revealing details about her personal life or poking fun at her gender and insecurities there. She doesn't respond well to most teasing of that nature, and she can have a sharp tongue when challenged, almost instinctively doing her best to verbally assert dominance of a situation even if she's doing so over someone older and with more experience in the situation than she has. This can easily come off as arrogance, and many people respond poorly to it in turn. Despite initial social gaffes that she may make, she is open to mending friendships and relationships, and does try her best.
Inwardly, however, Naoto is anything but calm. She has numerous insecurities and weak points, and they're extremely easy to poke at, if you know where to aim. She desires acceptance and respect above all else, and frequently feels as though she doesn't get them; she can be bitter and quite more upset than she would show. She doesn't deal well with many of her emotions, largely because she relies so heavily off of logic-- what place do emotions have in investigations, in being a detective? She's the one that needs to be objective, but strive as she might to remain objective, it's a goal that very few humans can ever fully maintain. As such, her emotions cause her a decent amount of confusion, and it's only through the help of others that she tends to be capable of working through them.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Naoto's greatest strengths lie in her dedication and intelligence. Once she dedicates herself towards something, she is wholly dedicated towards it and will not let herself falter. Her intelligence, thankfully, tends to allow her ease in achieving a vast majority of her goals. She is analytical and logical, which also help her in a variety of situations in life, from schoolwork to practical applications in what adults like to call the real world.
Her greatest weaknesses, conversely, largely focuses on her logical mindframe. She can have problems understanding emotional problems, particularly when they're her own. She can understand emotional motivation in a more clinical sense, but applying psychology to herself takes more time. She also has insecurity in both the area of her gender, as well as gaining respect from people. She can come across as arrogant when she doesn't mean to, which can offend people.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder. Starter: Magnemite. Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples First Person Sample: [on screen is Naoto, looking baffled, with a hand to her head and a frown on her face.]
Hello-- Kanji? Rise-chan? Senpai? Are you all still here? I-- [she hesitates, the frown deepening.] I must have left. [she says the words a little slower than usual, as if she's not quite believing each one as she says it.] I don't remember leaving. I was in the Centre when I went to sleep last night.
[She opens her mouth and closes it again; a false start that she's not accustomed to. This situation is one she isn't accustomed to, though.]
Is it really January? [she sounds a little small with the question and a little overwhelmed-- she gets her feet back under her a second later, after a breath. This all just creates more questions she needs to find answers to, doesn't it?]
I've been given a new starter-- has anyone seen Dupin? I'm sorry if he's been causing trouble in my... absence. I'll set out for Goldenrod right away.
If anyone was keeping track of arrivals and departures for their own records, I have no memory of leaving, and I don't believe I returned home at any point. [and with that, she cuts her message short.]
Third Person Sample:
Questions were whirling through Naoto's mind quicker than she could even contemplate them. She didn't know the answers to half of them, anyway-- she knew the basics, and no more than that. Where am I could be answered with 'New Bark Town', but why am I here was eluding her. She was still in Johto, just as she had been before, but now she was back at the beginning. Her belongings were gone, her Pokemon were gone, and in the place of Dupin was a Magnemite floating in lazy circles around her.
"Magne," it informed her, and she eyed it for a second before returning it to its ball. She would talk with it later and make an effort to be a good trainer, if it was really hers now. Now, though, she needed to figure things out.
When she finally pulled out her Gear, she sat down surprise. Jan-- January? It wasn't-- a moment ago, it wasn't. When she went to sleep last night, it was November. She knew it was November. Halloween had been a few weeks ago and Kanji had just left her a voice mail that she was pondering on how to reply to. Had it really been two months, somehow?
She shook her head a little. It was obviously two months later: that fact was not up for dispute. She had left, for all intents and purposes. Not being capable of remembering it didn't mean that it hadn't happened, as was evidenced by very few people remembering their arrival here. She needed to get back to Goldenrod, then, first thing. Magnemite would be a good companion, from what she remembered of the path the first time. With any luck, Kanji would be able to come help her again, but-- well, she'd just left, so unexpectedly. She hadn't been able to say goodbye, or even reply to his message-- he could be dozens of things, from angry to not interested to upset with her, and she didn't know which was the worst, at the moment.
Taking a breath, she opened her Gear again. She could probably have at least a few of her questions answered, and the trepidation and confusion she felt was no reason to put it off.
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Character
Name: Naoto Shirogane
Series: Persona 4
Timeline: Post-True Ending.
Canon Resource Links: Ta da!
Personality: Naoto is a detective. This fact is one that has helped shape many of her other personality traits, although the determination to be a detective is what powers her through it all. The immediate, integral part of her personality is not her intelligence, but her determination. She is the sort of person who believes in moving forward and not giving up. She will find a way to do things; she will solve a case, find the answer. It's a part of who she is. The intelligence, of course, is a vital tool in helping her achieve the goals, but she is ambitious enough to desire them in the first place. Along with her determination and intelligence is an extremely analytical and logical mind: she has the ability to look at things and immediately analyze them for important facts. It's as polished-- perhaps more polished-- than one would normally expect from a sixteen year old, and certainly more than most people would expect from a sixteen year old girl.
The fact that Naoto is a girl is something that she's extremely insecure over. Being both young and female, it's extremely hard for Naoto to feel valued or respected. People have a tendency not to take her seriously, in her eyes, and she responds to the challenge by crossdressing, presenting as a male and using that as a deterrent. Her age, unfortunately, is not so easily hidden, and she projects a calm, almost arrogant face to most people, which only serves to irritate most of them more. She can be almost flippant, at times, and will frequently jump to negative conclusions about people, but she accepts when she's wrong about things and will do her best to fix anything she's presumed erroneously.
She has, through the course of canon, realized that she does not desire to be a boy for the sake of being a boy, but that she desires the respect she perceives as easier to gain and maintain if she was a boy. While she's certainly not feminine by any means, she's less insecure on the entire gender subject, valuing the opinions of friends who care for her as Naoto-- regardless of gender or presentation.
Naoto's parents are deceased, and she was raised largely by her grandfather. She was determined to be a detective, which was a family job, and she strives for that goal quite hard-- she's frequently, some would say, too hard on herself. She doesn't do many things that most teenagers would consider fun, and instead spends quite a bit of her spare time working on detective cases. Of course, this has changed a little since she joined the Investigation Team properly, as she suddenly has quite a few friends and people who care about her and want to spend time with her, something that had never really happened before in her solitary lifestyle.
Outwardly, Naoto does seem to be a fairly calm, level-headed individual. She works carefully to maintain that, but despite all her efforts, she can be easily surprised or thrown for a loop when things work out differently than how she anticipated. She can be embarrassed, perhaps not easily in general, but easily via revealing details about her personal life or poking fun at her gender and insecurities there. She doesn't respond well to most teasing of that nature, and she can have a sharp tongue when challenged, almost instinctively doing her best to verbally assert dominance of a situation even if she's doing so over someone older and with more experience in the situation than she has. This can easily come off as arrogance, and many people respond poorly to it in turn. Despite initial social gaffes that she may make, she is open to mending friendships and relationships, and does try her best.
Inwardly, however, Naoto is anything but calm. She has numerous insecurities and weak points, and they're extremely easy to poke at, if you know where to aim. She desires acceptance and respect above all else, and frequently feels as though she doesn't get them; she can be bitter and quite more upset than she would show. She doesn't deal well with many of her emotions, largely because she relies so heavily off of logic-- what place do emotions have in investigations, in being a detective? She's the one that needs to be objective, but strive as she might to remain objective, it's a goal that very few humans can ever fully maintain. As such, her emotions cause her a decent amount of confusion, and it's only through the help of others that she tends to be capable of working through them.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Naoto's greatest strengths lie in her dedication and intelligence. Once she dedicates herself towards something, she is wholly dedicated towards it and will not let herself falter. Her intelligence, thankfully, tends to allow her ease in achieving a vast majority of her goals. She is analytical and logical, which also help her in a variety of situations in life, from schoolwork to practical applications in what adults like to call the real world.
Her greatest weaknesses, conversely, largely focuses on her logical mindframe. She can have problems understanding emotional problems, particularly when they're her own. She can understand emotional motivation in a more clinical sense, but applying psychology to herself takes more time. She also has insecurity in both the area of her gender, as well as gaining respect from people. She can come across as arrogant when she doesn't mean to, which can offend people.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder.
Starter: Magnemite.
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample: [on screen is Naoto, looking baffled, with a hand to her head and a frown on her face.]
Hello-- Kanji? Rise-chan? Senpai? Are you all still here? I-- [she hesitates, the frown deepening.] I must have left. [she says the words a little slower than usual, as if she's not quite believing each one as she says it.] I don't remember leaving. I was in the Centre when I went to sleep last night.
[She opens her mouth and closes it again; a false start that she's not accustomed to. This situation is one she isn't accustomed to, though.]
Is it really January? [she sounds a little small with the question and a little overwhelmed-- she gets her feet back under her a second later, after a breath. This all just creates more questions she needs to find answers to, doesn't it?]
I've been given a new starter-- has anyone seen Dupin? I'm sorry if he's been causing trouble in my... absence. I'll set out for Goldenrod right away.
If anyone was keeping track of arrivals and departures for their own records, I have no memory of leaving, and I don't believe I returned home at any point. [and with that, she cuts her message short.]
Third Person Sample:
Questions were whirling through Naoto's mind quicker than she could even contemplate them. She didn't know the answers to half of them, anyway-- she knew the basics, and no more than that. Where am I could be answered with 'New Bark Town', but why am I here was eluding her. She was still in Johto, just as she had been before, but now she was back at the beginning. Her belongings were gone, her Pokemon were gone, and in the place of Dupin was a Magnemite floating in lazy circles around her.
"Magne," it informed her, and she eyed it for a second before returning it to its ball. She would talk with it later and make an effort to be a good trainer, if it was really hers now. Now, though, she needed to figure things out.
When she finally pulled out her Gear, she sat down surprise. Jan-- January? It wasn't-- a moment ago, it wasn't. When she went to sleep last night, it was November. She knew it was November. Halloween had been a few weeks ago and Kanji had just left her a voice mail that she was pondering on how to reply to. Had it really been two months, somehow?
She shook her head a little. It was obviously two months later: that fact was not up for dispute. She had left, for all intents and purposes. Not being capable of remembering it didn't mean that it hadn't happened, as was evidenced by very few people remembering their arrival here. She needed to get back to Goldenrod, then, first thing. Magnemite would be a good companion, from what she remembered of the path the first time. With any luck, Kanji would be able to come help her again, but-- well, she'd just left, so unexpectedly. She hadn't been able to say goodbye, or even reply to his message-- he could be dozens of things, from angry to not interested to upset with her, and she didn't know which was the worst, at the moment.
Taking a breath, she opened her Gear again. She could probably have at least a few of her questions answered, and the trepidation and confusion she felt was no reason to put it off.