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[badbadbathhouse]

Oh gracious, I turn a blind eye for just a sexond and the second post fills up! Darlings, sweetpeas, do please forgive my tardiness. I bring you now our third installment of the fantasticousity, and would indeed love to, ah, beg your pardon in being so late about it.

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: PERSONA 4 KINK MEME
PART THREE

In this scintillating post

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Second years

[anonymous]

I'm doing this according to Atlus' translation (ie rendering "Yousuke" as "Yosuke", people use given names rather than family names, etc).

I'm also working off of memory here, so... while I'm pretty sure that the ones for the investigation team are correct, the ones with the s-links are doing a bit of guess work.

As a general note: Nanako doesn't refer to any of the characters directly (I think...) except for Rise ("Rise-chan"), Dojima ("Dad"), and Souji ("big bro").

Souji
Yukiko, Chie: Souji-kun
Kanji, Rise: senpai, Souji-senpai
Naoto: Souji-san
Yosuke: Souji
Teddie: Sensei
Nanako: Big Bro
Dojima, Adachi, teachers: As far as I know, they never refer to the MC by name.
Other S-links:
>first years will, as a general rule, call him Souji-senpai
>people his own grade will most likely use Souji-kun
>Kou and Daisuke drop the honorific--boys, as a general rule, are more likely to drop the honorifics than girls
>Shu calls him "Mister"
>Hisano calls him Souji-chan
>Adults will most likely call him either by Souji-kun or Seta-san, depending on context.
>>I imagine he's the polite sort who prefers using -san with people for some reason, but you're free to imagine whatever.

Yosuke
Souji (most likely), Chie, Teddie: Yosuke
Yukiko: Yosuke-kun
Kanji, Rise: Yosuke-senpai
S-links:
>Kou and Daisuke both call him "Yosuke"
>First years will call him -senpai
>Junes workers use Hanamura (?), Hanamura-san
>>He uses -san honorific with most girls and adults, but drops it with his close male friends. He probably uses family name-san with people when polite (or trying to get out of trouble with Chie--he calls her "Satonaka-san" when returning his broken DVDs). The excepion is Chie, who is just "Chie." Probably because two syllables is faster to yell than three?
>>Drops -san/Mr., Ms. with teachers: namely Morooka ("King Moron") and Kashiwagi. Seems like a general trend in the cast.
>>Uses "Mom" and "Dad" for parents

Chie
Souji (likely), Naoto: Chie-san
Yukiko and Yosuke: Chie, no honorific (but for very different reasons, haha)
Kanji, Rise: Chie-senpai
Teddie: Chie-chan
S-links:
>Kou calls her Chie-san
>First years will most likely address her by -senpai, people her own grade... well, by all indications, everyone in this school is on a first name basis, with the honorific -san attached.
>In my head, Dojima calls her "Satonaka!" with the exclamation point once she joins the police. "Satonaka!" "Y-yes, Dojima-san!" "Good work for today." "O-oh... thank you. I thought you were going to yell at me or something..." "Satonaka!" "YESSIR!"
>>Uses "King Moron" and "Kashiwagi", no honorifics.
>>Uses "Mom" and "Dad" for parents

Yukiko
Souji (likely), Yosuke, Naoto: Yukiko-san
Chie: Yukiko
Kanji, Rise: Yukiko-senpai
Teddie: Yuki-chan
S-links:
>As a second year, first years call her -senpai, peers call her Yukiko-san
>Kanji's mother calls her Yuki-chan (from extrapolation, I imagine most of the shopping district calls her Yuki-chan, which just led to a disturbing image of Daidara calling her "Yuki-chan", as well...)
>Mitsuo calls her Yuki (because that's not creepy at all. Nope.)
>The workers at the inn call her Yuki-chan
>>She calls the workers at the inn by last name-san (Kasai-san). She'll call most boys first name-kun (following Atlus' translation), girls by first name-san.
>>Unlike Yosuke and Chie who drop the honorifics with their teachers, Yukiko most likely keeps hers. She strikes me as a person who would use honorifics pretty regularly. Adults are last name-san, parents are "Mother" and "Father"

Working on the chart for the first years right now. :)

First years + others

[anonymous]

Kanji
Souji (most likely), Yosuke: Kanji
Chie, Yukiko, Rise, Naoto: Kanji-kun
Teddie: Kanji
S-links:
>The owner of Aiya's call him Kan-chan
>His mother calls him Kanji-chan
>Teachers/adults not familiar with him from childhood/other students and Dojima call him "Tatsumi"
>Naoki calls him "Kanji-san"
>>He's actually pretty respectful to people... just... not always to their face.
>>Evidently, he drops honorifics with males his own age.

Rise
Kanji: Rise
Yosuke (Chie, Yukiko, Souji, Naoto?): Rise-san
Teddie, Nanako: Rise-chan
Dojima: Kujikawa
S-links:
>Her manager calls her Rise-san
>This was a bit harder, since she's not in any dungeon convos, so all I have here are working off of memory of cut scenes.
>For some reason, I tend to write characters as dropping honorifics with her altogether...

Naoto
Souji: Naoto-san (?)
Chie, Yukiko, Rise: Naoto-kun
Kanji: Naoto
Teddie: Nao-chan
S-links:
>>She uses first name-san for most of the Investigation Team. Prior to that, she used last name-san.
>>As she's a pretty polite person all around, I imagine she prefers using last name-san with just about everyone except her friends.

Dojima
Adachi: Dojima-san
Nanako: Dad
>>Souji never calls him by name. Probably, he calls Dojima "Uncle" or "Dojima-san." It's yours to pick.
>>He calls his seniors at the work place "senpai," and seems to address his subordinates as last name, no honorific.
>>Dojima never calls Souji by name, either.

Adachi
Dojima: Adachi(!)
Investigation Team, pre-spoilers: Adachi-san
Post spoilers, they go "Adachi!!!"

Mitsuo
Everyone calls him first name, no honorific.

Namatame
People call him just plain Namatame. This might've changed post-December, though. Perhaps they've started calling him Namatame-san?

The Fox
*yip!*

Hope that helped. :)

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Man, this will be very helpful~ Anon sees one error, though; in one of either the Hierophant or Justice s.link events, Dojima does call Souji by name as he's turning away towards the stairs; he does not use any honorific.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

OP thinks you're awesome, anon! I didn't really expect someone to go this completely in-depth!

And I'm very glad to see that as far as I can recall I mostly got it right when my brain went blank and I needed to take a shot in the dark.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I was under the impression Yosuke called Rise "Rise-chan" from time to time as well, depending on the context.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

For whatever it's worth, I tend to see Souji calling Dojima "Ryotaro-san" a lot in doujinshi.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Dojima calls Naoto "Shirogane", and the other police calls her "Shirogane-san".

I know everyone knows, but just putting it here. :)

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I'm pretty sure Yosuke eventually drops the -san for Yukiko. Not too long after she joins the investigation team, I believe. At least, he calls her Yukiko when he congratulates for a 1 More, and in his Dungeon Conversations with her.

Oh, and there's a dialogue option for the MC where he says something alone the lines of "Let's save Yukiko" early on. No honorific.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Different anon! Just as a note, the dialogue options never have any honorifics, so it's more or less ambiguous as to what the MC's actually saying.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

These are nice, anon. Definetely useful for those unfamiliar with the honorific lingo (though, I know enough from watching anime and playing Persona 4). :D

On a side note, I don't know if this counts (since it's battle-oriented), Kanji called Yukiko "Amagi-senpai" in a 1 More. Weird, if you ask me. T_T Plus, I did hear Naoto call Soji 'senpai' on another 1 More. (I know, they're not very useful. XP) But I agree about how Yosuke dropped the '-san' on Yukiko. I don't know when it started, though.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Anon is sure he dropped the -san by the end of the game. When they were searching for the true culprit, I was sure he called her "Yukiko".

And Naoto calls Souji 'senpai' all the time.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I checked Naoto's rank 10--she calls Souji "Souji-san" there. And a quick run through the YT vids (rrgh why are they so long) shows that Yosuke drops honorifics for Naoto, as well. (Or it might've been a proofing error or something. ... Um.)

I couldn't find Yosuke calling anyone but Chie, Naoto, Teddie, Adachi, and Namatame by name in the YT vids (12/5, 12/6), so whether he ever drops the -san is a mystery to me.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Naoto calls the MC "senpai" in the voiced scenes, but everywhere else is -san.

AS for Yosuke and Naoto, it's kinda weird. I'm pretty sure he never used honorifics when he thought Naoto was a guy, but after that, he called her Naoto-kun at least once, in a Sunday event where they all get together to study. He was teasing her at the time though, so...

Also, I've been checking some videos and a script transcript, and by May, Yosuke already dropped the -san for Yukiko.

The transcript: http://shatterheart.net/games/persona4/script/may_2.php

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlL4T79WFQ&feature=fvw (wait until it loads enough for you to get to 6:18)

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Yosuke did refer to Naoto as Naoto-kun once shortly after she transferred into the school, when she blew off the girls trying to flirt with her, IIRC.