Misc. facts.
- Minato's usual attire isn't all that different from his Gekkoukan uniform when he's 'off work,' so to speak, though he wears a blue ribbon with his uniform when working, and the Gekkoukan patch is absent from it. He also has very nice dress shoes!
- Minato doesn't exactly have the chance to stick an MP3 player in his ears, let alone own one. When he can get out or sneak out, instead, he buys... books. And hides them in various nooks and crannies. From Elizabeth. Because all she cares about is the Compendium, Dictionaries, and when she's done with THAT, The Encyclopedia. From A to Z.
- ... That said, Minato tends to usually be carrying some kind of book in his back pocket like the others carry an MP3 player, and usually tends to bury his face in it, because long and arduous days of doing nothing but waiting for guests can be extremely boring.
- By token, this has given him a bit of a fascination with human fiction and science--he's read it all, theories to biographies, and Elizabeth's rambling can be overly educational--but not to obsession. Despite having only a few years in school as a child, so to speak, with his parents, he managed to become self-educated through these means. Secret booklove of Stephen King. That dude has some horrific nightmares and makes them into books. Humans are so interesting, sometimes. We also will never touch Twilight.
- Minato can turn said book usually occupying his back pocket into the Compendium at will, provided Elizabeth or someone else isn't using it. He can sense when it's in another's hands--a skill he had to learn to pick up as more of necessity than anything else. Would you want an angry Elizabeth missing her precious compendium after you?
- Ryoji leads SEES; the game progresses normally as it might in canon, only with him as their leader.
- Ryoji becomes the Appriser and aware of all of this, but manages to, instead, stop himself in the end and, by destroying Nyx's chances--and really, consequentially, Erebus's--along with his own 'soul,' the Fall is prevented.
- The Answer still occurs, though we'll say they're not as attached to Ryoji--though Aigis still misses him, even if he was stupid sometimes--and are all curious about Minato, wishing they could know more. One of the doors in the Answer reveals his past.
- The Velvet Room takes the look of an elevator, still, but with an extra locked door. Also, Ryoji's chair is a coffin, versus a lyre, like Minato's.
- He prefers to be around to assist Ryoji instead of Elizabeth. Elizabeth allows him the pleasure, and the two have struck up a small friendship in this way. Minato also runs Elizabeth's request list, though she handles doling out the rewards.
- From time to time, Ryoji has managed to drag him out of the room, either with Elizabeth or on his lonesome.
- Minato will later go on to assist Souji along with mainly Margaret, and sometimes Elizabeth, who has no reason to be gone. All of them are there, just at different increments. Margaret is still the Empress social link; Minato is Aeon. Advancing his social link is really quite easy--just max Margaret's, and max all your stats, and you can get the young man to open up.
- On that note, the Velvet Room exists in a time and space outside of normal reality, so Minato can be both from the events of Persona 4 and Persona 3. He knows about the spoilers regarding both games, though he has little info regarding The Answer.
- Minato knows the compendium remedially, and has been studying fusion his years there. He gives the fusion forecast in Persona 4.
- Minato, when Igor is out, likes to take it upon himself to read the compendium or try out fusing. It seems he doesn't mind it. It's really whether Elizabeth will lend it to him, and she can sometimes be... difficult.
- As a young boy, Elizabeth... read the dictionary to Minato as a bedtime story. He probably knows every definition down to the letter L. (Yup, she still hasn't finished it. Elizabeth enjoys their... 'quality time,' and can be very stubborn, as she enjoys relating each word to him. After the threat of a Pixie, one learns to deal with it.)
- Minato's manners aren't the best and he's about as closed off as he is, normally, in the beginning of Persona 3. Unless, of course, you happen to be a guest or related to one. For example, when SEES popped in after the Answer, he was instantaneously kind as possible. It wasn't so much training as it was growing up around people like this that he learned the proper mannerisms.
- He tends to blend into the background. It's intentional, because whenever he goes outside the Velvet Room, for whatever reason--i.e. talking to SEES--he prefers not to be noticed by large crowds.
- People with supernatural abilities will definitely get a kind of feeling from him. Not one of death, more of one of... never existing. It's quite complex to explain and is something that can only be felt, not described.
I'll add more if/when I think about it~
Fixed on 6/12/09.
- Minato doesn't exactly have the chance to stick an MP3 player in his ears, let alone own one. When he can get out or sneak out, instead, he buys... books. And hides them in various nooks and crannies. From Elizabeth. Because all she cares about is the Compendium, Dictionaries, and when she's done with THAT, The Encyclopedia. From A to Z.
- ... That said, Minato tends to usually be carrying some kind of book in his back pocket like the others carry an MP3 player, and usually tends to bury his face in it, because long and arduous days of doing nothing but waiting for guests can be extremely boring.
- By token, this has given him a bit of a fascination with human fiction and science--he's read it all, theories to biographies, and Elizabeth's rambling can be overly educational--but not to obsession. Despite having only a few years in school as a child, so to speak, with his parents, he managed to become self-educated through these means. Secret booklove of Stephen King. That dude has some horrific nightmares and makes them into books. Humans are so interesting, sometimes. We also will never touch Twilight.
- Minato can turn said book usually occupying his back pocket into the Compendium at will, provided Elizabeth or someone else isn't using it. He can sense when it's in another's hands--a skill he had to learn to pick up as more of necessity than anything else. Would you want an angry Elizabeth missing her precious compendium after you?
- Ryoji leads SEES; the game progresses normally as it might in canon, only with him as their leader.
- Ryoji becomes the Appriser and aware of all of this, but manages to, instead, stop himself in the end and, by destroying Nyx's chances--and really, consequentially, Erebus's--along with his own 'soul,' the Fall is prevented.
- The Answer still occurs, though we'll say they're not as attached to Ryoji--though Aigis still misses him, even if he was stupid sometimes--and are all curious about Minato, wishing they could know more. One of the doors in the Answer reveals his past.
- The Velvet Room takes the look of an elevator, still, but with an extra locked door. Also, Ryoji's chair is a coffin, versus a lyre, like Minato's.
- He prefers to be around to assist Ryoji instead of Elizabeth. Elizabeth allows him the pleasure, and the two have struck up a small friendship in this way. Minato also runs Elizabeth's request list, though she handles doling out the rewards.
- From time to time, Ryoji has managed to drag him out of the room, either with Elizabeth or on his lonesome.
- Minato will later go on to assist Souji along with mainly Margaret, and sometimes Elizabeth, who has no reason to be gone. All of them are there, just at different increments. Margaret is still the Empress social link; Minato is Aeon. Advancing his social link is really quite easy--just max Margaret's, and max all your stats, and you can get the young man to open up.
- On that note, the Velvet Room exists in a time and space outside of normal reality, so Minato can be both from the events of Persona 4 and Persona 3. He knows about the spoilers regarding both games, though he has little info regarding The Answer.
- Minato knows the compendium remedially, and has been studying fusion his years there. He gives the fusion forecast in Persona 4.
- Minato, when Igor is out, likes to take it upon himself to read the compendium or try out fusing. It seems he doesn't mind it. It's really whether Elizabeth will lend it to him, and she can sometimes be... difficult.
- As a young boy, Elizabeth... read the dictionary to Minato as a bedtime story. He probably knows every definition down to the letter L. (Yup, she still hasn't finished it. Elizabeth enjoys their... 'quality time,' and can be very stubborn, as she enjoys relating each word to him. After the threat of a Pixie, one learns to deal with it.)
- Minato's manners aren't the best and he's about as closed off as he is, normally, in the beginning of Persona 3. Unless, of course, you happen to be a guest or related to one. For example, when SEES popped in after the Answer, he was instantaneously kind as possible. It wasn't so much training as it was growing up around people like this that he learned the proper mannerisms.
- He tends to blend into the background. It's intentional, because whenever he goes outside the Velvet Room, for whatever reason--i.e. talking to SEES--he prefers not to be noticed by large crowds.
- People with supernatural abilities will definitely get a kind of feeling from him. Not one of death, more of one of... never existing. It's quite complex to explain and is something that can only be felt, not described.
I'll add more if/when I think about it~
Fixed on 6/12/09.