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    • Renu said:
    Commission for @Ultra Sonic 007

    View: https://www.tumblr.com/lenuer/711161984858603520/commission-for-an-evangelionpersona-fanfic?source=share
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    The mythological folklore for Tokoyo, for those curious:

    Ultra Sonic 007 said:
    Now, in general, main character Personas in the games are based off of figures from folklore and mythology. Here's the background of Misato's:

    Tokoyo - Wikipedia

    Tokoyo is a figure in Japanese mythology. She was the daughter of a samurai named Oribe Shima. Shima had displeased the emperor, who was in an ill state of health, and subsequently banished him from the kingdom. As a result, he had to set up home on a group of islands called the Oki Islands, away from his daughter. Both he and Tokoyo were miserable at being separated, and she became determined to find him. She sold all her property, and set out for a place calledAkasaki, which was just off the coast from the Oki Islands. Although she asked the fishermen to ferry her there, they all refused, since it was forbidden to visit anyone banished there.


    One night, she took a boat and sailed to the islands herself. She spent the night on the beach. The next morning while searching for her father she encountered a fisherman, whom she asked about her father. The fisherman replied he knew nothing, and warned her not to ask anyone else about his whereabouts. As a result, she was forced to eavesdrop on people's conversations, rather than simply asking them directly. Unfortunately, Tokoyo could not gather any useful information this way.


    On one evening, she came upon a shrine of Buddha, and after praying to him, collapsed and fell asleep. She was awoken by the sound of a girl crying, and looked up to see a young girl and a priest. The priest led the girl to the edge of a cliff and would have pushed her off the edge, if it wasn't for the intervening of Tokoyo. The priest said he was going to sacrifice the girl in order to appease the godOkuninushi, who demanded the annual sacrifice of a young girl. Tokoyo offered to take the girl's place, begrieved and hopeless from not finding her father. After praying to Buddha again, she dived down into the ocean; dagger in her teeth.


    At the bottom of the ocean, Tokoyo found a mighty cave, which housed a statue. The statue was of the emperor who banished her father, and she immediately decided to destroy it. However, thinking better of it, she tied it to herself and began to swim back with it. Before she could leave the cave, a serpentine creature (not Okuninushi, but some unnamed monstrosity) confronted her. Devoid of fear, Tokoyo first stabbed it in the eye, blinding it, then relentlessly attacked until she succeeded in killing it. When she arrived at the shore, the priest and girl carried her to town. Word of her heroic deed spread. The emperor's unknown ailment had also suddenly been lifted. He realized that Tokoyo must have released him from a curse, because of what she did to the statue. He ordered the release of Oribe Shime. The father and daughter happily returned to their home town.


    Legend has it that the city of Edo was renamed to Tokyo in honor of Tokoyo.[1]
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    To quote WateryMind from Spacebattles: "So, Misato's Persona dived into the darkness at the bottom of the ocean, dragged a statue to the emperor up, and slayed a monster on the way, after resigning herself to dying at the hands of said monster. That is both extremely fitting and f***ing metal."
     
    Ultra Sonic 007 said:
    To quote WateryMind from Spacebattles: "So, Misato's Persona dived into the darkness at the bottom of the ocean, dragged a statue to the emperor up, and slayed a monster on the way, after resigning herself to dying at the hands of said monster. That is both extremely fitting and f***ing metal."
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    That's why she's a mantis shrimp.

    Also because I cried when I looked at the (many) colours listed.
     
    sabreFather said:
    Nice! I assume there's a reason her persona's mask happens to be the flag of Finland?
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    Beyond the fact that I wanted a cross motif somewhere on Tokoyo (to mirror Misato's cross necklace), and the blank Angel-esque mask on her face was the best place for it?

    Pure coincidence, I'm afraid. :V

    Misato: Maybe that's why I have a strange hankering for Karhu...

    /but in all seriousness
    //no thoughts of Finland or the Finnish people crossed my mind when envisioning Tokoyo's design
     
    Ultra Sonic 007 said:
    Cue a strange subplot where Misato discovers her Finnish heritage and promptly goes off to find herself. :p

    /Misato being part-Finnish
    //is probably a concept none have previously conceived
    ///...now I've gotta sneak a joke in somewhere
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    I don't know Shin Megami Tensei stuff at all. But since there are persona's based off of real people, I presume they are their ghosts being bound as familiars. And Tokoyo's past life was a Finnish soldier during the winter war? Unless reincarnation isn't a thing. I don't know, I just think the Gas Station Attendant is cute.
     
    sabreFather said:
    I don't know Shin Megami Tensei stuff at all. But since there are persona's based off of real people, I presume they are their ghosts being bound as familiars.
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    The Persona gameline leans into Jungian psychology (hence all the stuff about Shadows, the collective unconscious, etc) and the "when you invoke demons what you're actually doing is bringing aspects of your own personality to the fore" interpretation of Western neo-occultism.

    This is where all the Tarot theming comes from, and also why Personas are figures of myth and legend, or otherwise fictional/fictionalized; the Personas of Persona 5's Phantom Thieves include Captain Kidd (a real Scottish privateer of some renown), Arsène (Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief from the novels of Maurice Leblanc), Carmen (from Bizet's opera of the same name), Zorro, Johanna (Joan of Arc), and Goemon (basically the Japanese Robin Hood, except that he definitely existed and we know exactly who he was).
     
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