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Expiation App
Player: Gray
Contact: PM
Age: 30+
Current Characters: Sigma
Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Character Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: Post P4Arena Ultimax
Age: 28
Crime: Emptiness
Background: Wiki link
Personality:
While not the worst cop around, Adachi still isn't the one you want to be stuck with when a problem comes your way.
He's a friendly enough guy, approaching most situations with a cheerful goofiness, but it's clear pretty quickly that this cheer doesn't come from a surplus of energy. If it doesn't allow him to act like one of the cool characters from a primetime cop show, he'd much rather be "efficient" (meaning lazy) about everything, taking the path of least or no resistance. While in Inaba he spends as much time as he can get away with wasting it at the local supermarket under the guise of patrolling.
When he does have to exert some effort it's not without complaint, albeit with some self-awareness in that he really should be sucking it up like a good, productive member of society.
The root of this attitude requires an even deeper look on why exactly you don't want to be stuck with this man.
Near the end of the mystery, Izanami says she granted her power to three vessels representing hope, despair, and emptiness. Adachi is the vessel of emptiness.
In Adachi's own words, the only way to get anywhere in the world is with the magical tickets of luck or talent. He has neither. Raised on a diet of emotional neglect and "study and hard work will get you anything you want", he fell face first into the real world when he realized that no. That isn't how it works. Other people need to work less to get where you are, some people have opportunities fall into their laps, sometimes you can put everything you have into something and still, still fail. So...what's the point of trying at all?
He's given up. He has nothing to offer the world. He's empty. Even his apartment is barren, with only a bed, table, and tv to take up space.
And, speaking of televisions...
Alongside that numbness grew spite. Why wasn't he born with talent or luck? Why does he have to work harder than other people to get what he wants? Why isn't he enough on his own? He's just a stepping stone, a placeholder, he can easily be replaced by whatever other schmuck just so happens to be there like a gangly cardboard cutout. This train of thought isolated him from most of the people around him, and especially those he saw as naturally blessed, harboring a deep, dark resentment left to slowly but steadily bubble up.
This is why he first lashed out.
A newscaster on TV, a safe person to have a crush on and imagine as his own, until some other blessed man staked a claim on her. His first attack wasn't meant to kill. Then another girl, a pretty young thing he thought was schmoozing up to that very same man, and yet he himself wasn't good enough for her. Then he knew exactly what he was doing.
Adachi sees his strange new powers as his first real gift from the world. Sure they're unconventional, but they kicked off the most entertaining months of his life, and even now after all that's happened he can't find it in himself to regret putting so many people's lives in danger. With a notable exception.
Right in front of his eyes yet somehow completely invisible to him, Adachi himself did matter to someone. Two someones, even. Ryotaro Dojima, his boss at work, saw this slovenly goofball and took him under his wing, into his home. It wasn't long before his daughter Nanako took a liking to him as well, and though Adachi wouldn't describe their relationship as anything special, those two people are incredibly important to him. The only ounce of regret he ever shows in the game's original story is when Ryotaro preemptively calls an ambulance for him, a gesture for someone important in his life that can't be so easily replaced.
Nowadays Adachi's buffoonery is less about keeping the people around him at ease and more about expressing his distaste for those same people. He's made a deal with the protagonist to play by society's rules, which includes not causing trouble on purpose, but not doing anything at all suits his tired, lazy lifestyle just fine. A good number of his worldviews are still firmly in place--some people have it easier than others and it's shit. But his interactions with that family in Inaba, including the protagonist, has given him a few thoughts to chew on during his stay in prison.
Or, he would chew on them if forces beyond his control would stop stealing him away from his cell.
Abilities:
Adachi has one (1) Persona, Magatsu Izanagi. He'll be played with his P4G moveset, with due consideration to balance and fairness should he be summoned.
Inventory:
-The clothes on his back
-A model gun (Nambu Model 60) modified to shoot real bullets, sans bullets
Samples: TDM toplevel
Questions: ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎
Contact: PM
Age: 30+
Current Characters: Sigma
Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Character Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: Post P4Arena Ultimax
Age: 28
Crime: Emptiness
Background: Wiki link
Personality:
While not the worst cop around, Adachi still isn't the one you want to be stuck with when a problem comes your way.
He's a friendly enough guy, approaching most situations with a cheerful goofiness, but it's clear pretty quickly that this cheer doesn't come from a surplus of energy. If it doesn't allow him to act like one of the cool characters from a primetime cop show, he'd much rather be "efficient" (meaning lazy) about everything, taking the path of least or no resistance. While in Inaba he spends as much time as he can get away with wasting it at the local supermarket under the guise of patrolling.
When he does have to exert some effort it's not without complaint, albeit with some self-awareness in that he really should be sucking it up like a good, productive member of society.
The root of this attitude requires an even deeper look on why exactly you don't want to be stuck with this man.
Near the end of the mystery, Izanami says she granted her power to three vessels representing hope, despair, and emptiness. Adachi is the vessel of emptiness.
In Adachi's own words, the only way to get anywhere in the world is with the magical tickets of luck or talent. He has neither. Raised on a diet of emotional neglect and "study and hard work will get you anything you want", he fell face first into the real world when he realized that no. That isn't how it works. Other people need to work less to get where you are, some people have opportunities fall into their laps, sometimes you can put everything you have into something and still, still fail. So...what's the point of trying at all?
He's given up. He has nothing to offer the world. He's empty. Even his apartment is barren, with only a bed, table, and tv to take up space.
And, speaking of televisions...
Alongside that numbness grew spite. Why wasn't he born with talent or luck? Why does he have to work harder than other people to get what he wants? Why isn't he enough on his own? He's just a stepping stone, a placeholder, he can easily be replaced by whatever other schmuck just so happens to be there like a gangly cardboard cutout. This train of thought isolated him from most of the people around him, and especially those he saw as naturally blessed, harboring a deep, dark resentment left to slowly but steadily bubble up.
This is why he first lashed out.
A newscaster on TV, a safe person to have a crush on and imagine as his own, until some other blessed man staked a claim on her. His first attack wasn't meant to kill. Then another girl, a pretty young thing he thought was schmoozing up to that very same man, and yet he himself wasn't good enough for her. Then he knew exactly what he was doing.
Adachi sees his strange new powers as his first real gift from the world. Sure they're unconventional, but they kicked off the most entertaining months of his life, and even now after all that's happened he can't find it in himself to regret putting so many people's lives in danger. With a notable exception.
Right in front of his eyes yet somehow completely invisible to him, Adachi himself did matter to someone. Two someones, even. Ryotaro Dojima, his boss at work, saw this slovenly goofball and took him under his wing, into his home. It wasn't long before his daughter Nanako took a liking to him as well, and though Adachi wouldn't describe their relationship as anything special, those two people are incredibly important to him. The only ounce of regret he ever shows in the game's original story is when Ryotaro preemptively calls an ambulance for him, a gesture for someone important in his life that can't be so easily replaced.
Nowadays Adachi's buffoonery is less about keeping the people around him at ease and more about expressing his distaste for those same people. He's made a deal with the protagonist to play by society's rules, which includes not causing trouble on purpose, but not doing anything at all suits his tired, lazy lifestyle just fine. A good number of his worldviews are still firmly in place--some people have it easier than others and it's shit. But his interactions with that family in Inaba, including the protagonist, has given him a few thoughts to chew on during his stay in prison.
Or, he would chew on them if forces beyond his control would stop stealing him away from his cell.
Abilities:
Adachi has one (1) Persona, Magatsu Izanagi. He'll be played with his P4G moveset, with due consideration to balance and fairness should he be summoned.
Inventory:
-The clothes on his back
-A model gun (Nambu Model 60) modified to shoot real bullets, sans bullets
Samples: TDM toplevel
Questions: ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎