List of Persona 5 characters

rdf:langString List of Persona 5 characters

rdf:langString Persona 5, a role-playing video game by Atlus, is centered on the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, a vigilante group of high-school students working to change the hearts of criminals by getting them to confess their crimes through defeating a physical manifestation of their subconscious in a mysterious realm known as the Metaverse. Its playable characters can be controlled in the game's many locations, known as "Palaces". People with great desires and a distorted perception of the world have a Palace in the Metaverse which the Phantom Thieves access through a mobile app on their smartphones. Persona 5 is set within Tokyo beginning in April of the year "20XX". The player character is a silent protagonist codenamed Joker. He is a high school student who moves to Tokyo after being expelled from his former school due to a false accusation of assault, later forming the Phantom Thieves. He forms it with , a mysterious cat-like creature who serves as the Thieves's second-in-command, guiding them around the Metaverse, wanting to discover his origins and restore his true form, alongside , who is seen as a delinquent at his school due to an incident with his former track team. More characters join the group during their heists, including fashion model , art prodigy , student-council president Makoto Niijima, hacker and foster daughter of your temporary guardian Sojiro Sakura, and business heiress . Also interacting with Joker are Goro Akechi, a high-school student and ace detective; , a public prosecutor and Makoto's older sister; the residents of the Velvet Room; and his assistants, . Many of the game's characters represent the tarot's Major Arcana suit. Although the suit has twenty-two cards and Royal-exclusive characters account for two additional, alternate Arcana for a total of twenty-four, only twenty-one (twenty-three in Royal) are represented by characters; the last one, The World, is given at a later point in the game. The seven deadly sins are a recurring theme within the game, with certain characters and situations representing certain ones.