| “ | People can do it. As long as they can open their eyes and look around, they'll see it. They'll see the truth! | „ |
| ~ Yu Narukami, Persona 4 The Animation |
| “ | One of the ancient gods who existed before Japan was formed. He created the Ouyashima from chaos, then gave birth to countless children and laid the foundation of soil and nature. | „ |
| “ | Thou art I, and I am thou... From the sea of thy soul, I come... From the very moment of my emergence, I have been a guiding light shed to illuminate thy path... I am the original god... Izanagi-no-Okami. | „ |
Summary
Yu Narukami is the protagonist of Persona 4. A transfer student from the city, he moves to Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin for a year due to his parents working abroad. While initially attempting to live a normal school life, he is caught in a certain rumor known as the 'Midnight Channel', in which if you stare into a TV at night you will see your soulmate. This leads to him discovering that he has the power to enter into TVs, an entirely alternate dimension where shadows lurk and people's darkest selves are exposed. As he learns this, strange murders on foggy nights start to happen regularly in Inaba. Yu learns that there is a connection between TV world and the murders. After awakening the powers of the Persona, he becomes the leader of the newfound Investigation Team in order to stop the serial murders that take place in Inaba and find the truth behind the TV world.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least High 8-C, likely 6-B, higher with Willpower | Low 1-C, higher with Willpower | 1-A, higher with Willpower, far higher with Izanagi-no-Okami | 1-A, higher with Willpower
Key: Early-Game | Late-Game | End-Game | Persona 4 Arena
Name: Yu Narukami
Origin: Persona 4
Gender: Male
Age: 16 (Persona 4), 17 (Persona 4 Arena)
Classification: Human, Persona-user, Wild Card, Fool Arcana, World Arcana
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts, Stealth Mastery Weapon Mastery (Katana), Summoning, Supernatural Willpower, Empowerment, Accelerated Development and Reactive Evolution (Battle, Leveling, and Training; Physical Stats, Magic, and Improved Resistances. (Humans are able to get more powerful after defeating strong demons or even as they are in the middle of battle, even against opponents ontologically superior to them, and are able to grow massively in strength in the span of merely a day's time or less, either through resolve, the threat of death, or training, or the bonds they hold dear), Cognition (Type 1), Non-Physical Interaction, Durability Negation, Healing Nullification, Immortality Negation (Type 2, 3, and 7), and Invulnerability Negation (Capable of interacting with Demons, which are invisible beings comprised of data and information, the fulcrum of the entire verse proper, a concept synonymous to souls, minds, and even concepts. Even entities devoid of time and space, and nonexistent bodies such as The White can be struck down. Can completely negate their invulnerability to conventional weaponry, and the requirement of needing to be on a specific informational frequency to harm, as well as Septentriones, which require spiritual attacks to harm, and as well as killing undead beings and regenerative entities, such as Nagas and Blobs).
Cognitive Physiology, Regeneration (Mid-Low; Can replenish health over time with the Regenerate skills), Magic, consisting of: Fire, Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Lightning, Earth Manipulation, Wind, Radiation, Explosion, Psychokinetic, Energy, Light, Darkness, and Death Manipulation (Hama and Mudo spells have a chance of instantly killing enemies). Resistance Negation and Existence Erasure (Can use Almighty Attacks, which bypass all barriers and reflectors, invulnerability, and resistances. Can even negate an opponents resistance to resistance negation with Pierce. Almighty attacks are able to hurt someone wielding the Omnipotent Orb, which bends the rules of reality to defend the user from attacks, and Reason Bearers, who are able to enforce rules into reality to protect themselves from attacks. The Megi- line of spells is capable of obliterating opponents with a light that erases them "beyond death"), Absorption (Can drain vitality and spiritual energy with Deathtouch, Spirit Drain, Life Drain, Energy Drain, and passive Absorb skills), Power Nullification (Can nullify buffs and debuffs with Dekaja and Dekunda, capable of nullifying instant death attacks), Healing, Purification and Resurrection (with various support spells such as the Dia- line of spells and Recarm), Statistics Amplification and Statistics Reduction (with Physical skills and various support spells such as the -kunda and -kaja line of spells), Damage Boost (with critical hits and Boost/Amp skills), Damage Reduction (with Guard. Capable of granting himself or allies resistances to various elemental attacks with elemental walls), Limited Probability Manipulation (with Critical-chance buffs, such as Rebellion), Forcefield Creation and Attack Reflection (with Tetrakarn and Makarakarn), Chaos Manipulation (Izanagi birthed Japan from chaos), Forcefield Negation (with Tetra and Makara Break) Status Effect Inducement, which includes, Sound Manipulation, Memory Manipulation and Power Nullification (via Makajam, which silences an opponent and prevents them from using skills), Empathic Manipulation (Can inflict dizziness, exhaustion and rage), Fear Manipulation (via Evil Smile and Evil Touch), Statistics Reduction and Age Manipulation (via Ennervate and Old One) and Poison Manipulation (via Poisma and Poison Mist)
Through equipping certain items, Yu can possess any of the following: Enhanced Regeneration, Statistics Amplification, Attack Reflection, Forcefield Creation, Attack Absorption, Limited Precognition, Healing, Purification, Fire Manipulation, Damage Boost, Electricity Manipulation, Smoke Manipulation, Teleportation, Air Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Resistance Negation, Fear Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Sound Manipulation, Supernatural Luck. Resistance to Poison Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation and Age Manipulation
Depending on the equipped Persona, Resistance, Invulnerability, Reflection and/or Absorption of: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Light, Darkness. Resistance to Death Manipulation, BFR, Probability Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Information Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Fusionism and Memory Manipulation (Simply having the potential to awaken a Persona grants one a will firm enough to maintain their own existence and individuality in the unconscious world, where the concept of the ego does not exist and all individuality dissolves into oneness, with ordinary people being immediately overwhelmed by the nothingness and scattered throughout all possible worlds by stepping into it), Curse Manipulation (Like the other protagonists, he is likely able to fight and defeat White Rider, the abstract embodiment of victory and conquest whose crown assures his success in all battles and wars. Unbothered by interactions with Pisacas, which fate humans to die in the span of nine months), Disease Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Madness Manipulation and Chaos Manipulation (Unaffected by the act of looking into Girimehkala's eye, which inflicts incurable sickness and misfortune into individuals, and by the gaze of Yakkha, which is said to inflict disease and madness. The team glasses block out the fog, which can induce sickness), Petrification and Poison Manipulation (Can easily do battle against Basilisk and Cockatrice, both of whom turn normal people into stone simply by being touched or looked at, and have a gaze and breath so poisonous that any mortal being near them instantly dies, turning their surroundings into a desert), Life and Death Manipulation (Can fight Liches, whose presence drains the life of those who see them, and is not affected by Balor's gaze, which instantly kills enemies, and Chatterskull's laughter, which dooms whoever hears it to death, immediately stopping their heart).
All previous greatly enhanced, Elemental Intangibility (Yu can transform into lightning in order to greatly amplify his speed)
All previous abilities to a greater extent. Spatial Manipulation and Durability Negation (with Vorpal Blade), Limited Invulnerability (with Endure skills), Earth Manipulation (Can summon meteors with Agneyastra and create Earthquakes with Gigantomachia), Power Nullification (with Bind skills), Heat Manipulation (Can utilize Loki, who wields a blade too hot to be touched), Absolute Zero (With Bufudyne and Absolute Zero), Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Can summon Personas like Parvati, who retains the innate abilities of her Archetype self.), Status Effect Inducement which includes Sleep Manipulation (via Dormina), Damage Transferal (with Hex ailment, which transfers half of the damage dealt by an attacker back onto themselves), Sleep Manipulation (with Dormina and Lullaby), Mind Manipulation (with Marin Karin and Brain Jack),
All previous, Invulnerability to Poison Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation and Age Manipulation
All previous abilities to a greater extent. Depending on the Persona, Resistance, Invulnerability, Reflection and/or Absorption of Radiation, Explosion, Psychokinetic, Energy, Holy, Curse Manipulation, Absolute Zero.
All previous abilities to a greater extent
All previous abilities to a greater extent, Illusion and Curse Negation, Resistance Negation, and Existence Erasure (with Myriad Truths, Yu completely one-shot and erased Izanami-no-Okami)
All previous, Invulnerability and Law Manipulation (With the Omnipotent Orb, the laws of the universe are warped and manipulated to enforce the law that no harm can be enacted on the user)
Resistance to Illusions and Perception Manipulation (with the Orb of Sight; was capable of seeing past Izanagi's illusions), as well as BFR and Curse Manipulation (with the World Arcana, resisted Izanami's Thousand Curses which dragged him to the Land of the Dead)
Attack Potency: At least Large Building level (Comparable to Chie, who is capable of kicking shadows hard enough to send them out of sight), likely Country level (Izanagi, the very first Persona he gets, is stated to have created the entirety of the Oyashima. Though this might be attributed to Izanagi-no-Okami), higher with Willpower | Low Complex Multiverse level (Fought and defeated Ameno-Sagiri, who was going to fuse the Human world and the TV World, which is part of the Sea of Unconscious that exists within all human hearts), higher with Willpower | Outerverse level (Managed to fight against Izanami along with the rest of the Investigation Team, who is an archetype that resides in the Kadath Mandala and also created Yomotsu-Hirasaka, a plane beyond the concept of dimensions entirely), higher with Willpower, far higher with Izanagi-no-Okami (After obtaining the World Arcana and undergoing his own Second Awakening, one-shot Izanami-no-Okami in the climax of the final battle) | Outerverse level (At the end of Arena Ultimax, Yu single-handedly held off the full power of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, who in his incomplete form who is far superior to the Shadow Operatives and Sho Minazuki at this time), higher with Willpower
Speed: At least Relativistic+ (Should be superior to Plasma, who is capable of using EM waves to attack) higher with Willpower | Immeasurable (Is superior to the likes of Thor, who is a resident of The Expanse, a higher-dimensional plane that transcends past, present, and future), higher with Willpower | Immeasurable (Is capable of combating Izanagi, who exists beyond the concepts of dimensions entirely), higher with Willpower | Immeasurable (Far faster than before), higher with Willpower
Lifting Strength: Unknown (Lacks lifting strength feats) | Immeasurable (Kohryu, one of his Personas, says to possess the might to move all of creation, and those comparable or above it should possess similar levels of strength), higher with Willpower | Immeasurable (Physically contended with Izanami), higher with Willpower | Immeasurable (Should be stronger than before), higher with Willpower
Striking Strength: At least Large Building level, likely Country level, higher with Willpower | Low Complex Multiverse level (Should at least be comparable to Kanji, whose physical blows should be superior to Yosuke's wind attacks that effortlessly blasted away Ameno-Sagiri), higher with Willpower | Outerverse level (Can harm Izanami with physical attacks), higher with Willpower, far higher with Izanagi-no-Okami (Should be far stronger than before due to the World Arcana) | Outerverse level (Can notably damage Hi-no-Kagutsuchi with physical strikes), higher with Willpower
Durability: At least Large Building level, likely Country level (Can take blows from powerful shadows who are superior to Izanagi), higher with Willpower (All Persona-users can enhance their durability through being empowered by their strength of will) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Fought against Ameno-Sagiri), higher with Willpower | Outerverse level (Survived casual blows from Izanami), higher with Willpower, far higher with Izanagi-no-Okami | Outerverse level (Can take serious blows from Hi-no-Kagutsuchi), higher with Willpower
Stamina: Very High. Can fight for hours on-end despite the constant use of physical and magic skills, which significantly drain physical and mental stamina respectively with every use.
Range: Standard Melee Range with physical attacks; Kilometers with magic and ranged attacks | Up to Low Complex Multiversal with spells | As before, Outerversal with spells
Standard Equipment: His Katana and Team Glasses | His Katana and the Orb of Sight | His Katana
- Optional Equipment: Various weapons, accessories, and items
Intelligence: Genius. Yu is incredibly intelligent, having been an avid reader throughout his entire stay at Inaba. Yu is at the top of his class and school, capable of acing his exams with ease. He was also capable of solving the mystery of the Inaba killer, which the police were unable to solve.
Weaknesses: Yu's physical and spiritual vitality is drained by using physical and magical skills respectively, and he inherits the elemental weaknesses of his equipped Persona.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Persona Summoning: The ability to summon and utilize Personas. Personas can move and attack independently of their users, allowing for concurrent attacks to be performed. They are summoned and directed through thought and instinct, and most attacks manifest just as quickly and are controlled through the same means; and it should be noted that Personas do not need to be summoned in order to use their skills. Each Persona has a unique set of statistics and elemental affinities, which also apply to their user while the Persona is equipped. The Personas that Yu has access to are listed here.
Persona Traits: As shown in P5R, all Personas possess inherent traits that assist in combat or support. The complete list of traits available are listed here.
Persona Skills: Personas are all able to use certain skills and spells related to the stories/mythologies of the figure they are based on. Persona-users and their Personas can use skills and spells independently of each other. These skills range from amplified physical attacks, highly-malleable elemental attacks, status buffs and debuffs, ailment infliction, passive defenses and more, can manifest instantly and with a thought, as well as affect the mind, soul, information and concept of the target. The complete list of skills that Yu has access to are listed here.
- Armor Breaker/Armor Destroyer: Physical attacks that lower defenses on contact.
- Kidney Smash/Weapon Crusher: Physical attacks that lower attack power on contact.
- Arm Chopper/Arm Crusher: Physical attacks that inflict Strength Bind.
- Holy Touch/Saint's Touch: Physical attacks that inflict Magic Bind.
- Leg Reaper/Achilles Reaper: Physical attacks that inflict Agility Bind.
- Dream Needle/Dormin Rush: Physical attacks that inflict Sleep.
- Calm Blade: Physical attacks that inflict Hex.
- Terror Claw/Bloodbath/Death Scythe: Physical attacks that inflict Fear.
- Headbutt/Memory Blow: Physical attacks that inflict Forget.
- Hysterical Slap/Oni Kagura: Physical attacks that inflict Rage.
- Brain Shake/Brain Buster: Physical attacks that inflict Brainwash.
- Sledgehammer/Flash Bomb: Physical attacks that inflict Dizzy.
- Skull Cracker: Physical attacks that inflict Confusion.
- Negative Pile/Bad Beat: Physical attacks that inflict Despair.
- Lucky/Miracle Punch/One-Shot Kill: Physical attacks that have a high critical rate.
- Hassou Tobi: A physical attack that multiplies speed by 8x to perform.
- Hamaon/Mudoon/Samsara/Die For Me: Death spells.
- Divine Judgement/Demonic Decree: Life-halving spells.
- Pralaya: A powerful Almighty attack that inflicts Death.
- Stagnant Air: Changes the air in the environment to make targets more susceptible to ailments.
- Ghastly Wail: An Almighty-based Death spell that instantly kills all enemies afflicted with Fear.
- Makajama/Makajamaon: Inflicts Magic Bind to one/all enemies.
- Disarm: Inflicts Strength Bind to all enemies.
- Scarecrow: Inflicts Agility Bind to all enemies.
- Salome's Kiss: Inflicts Strength, Magic and Agility Binds to all enemies.
- Dormina/Lullaby: Inflicts Sleep.
- Evil Touch/Evil Smile: Inflicts Fear.
- Ominous Words/Abysmal Surge: Inflicts Despair.
- Marin Karin/Brain Jack: Inflicts Brainwash.
- Poisma/Poison Breath: Inflicts Poison.
- Pulinpa/Tentarafoo: Inflicts Confusion.
- Dazzler/Nocturnal Flash: Inflicts Dizzy.
- Taunt/Wage War: Inflicts Rage.
- Sleep Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Sleep to all enemies inside.
- Poison Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Poison to all enemies inside.
- Confusion Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Confusion to all enemies inside.
- Stun Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Paralysis to all enemies inside.
- Decay Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Strength Bind to all enemies inside.
- Silence Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Magic Bind to all enemies inside.
- Lethargy Circle: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that inflicts Agility Bind to all enemies inside.
- Diarahan: Instantly heals all injuries and damage.
- Amrita Drop: Instantly cures all negative afflictions.
- Salvation: Instantly heals all injuries and negative afflictions for all allies.
- Samarecarm: Revives a target at full health.
- Holy Benevolence: Revives all allies at full health.
- Heat Riser: Amplifies attack power, defenses, speed and agility.
- Thermopylae: Amplifies attack power, defenses, speed and agility of all allies when disadvantaged.
- Debilitate: Cripples attack power, defenses, speed and agility of one enemy.
- Charge/Concentrate: Multiplies next physical/magical attack power by 2.5x.
- Tetrakarn/Makarakarn: Erects a shield that reflects one physical/magical attack.
- Tetraja: Erects a shield that nullifies one Death spell.
- Dekaja/Dekunda: Negates all positive stat-changes in enemy field / negative stat-changes in ally field.
- Tetra/Makara Break: Negates physical/magical barriers.
- Pure Memento: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that cures all afflictions for all allies inside.
- Free Memento: Casts a persisting wide-area magic circle that dispels all Binds for all allies inside.
- Rebel's Vanguard/Revolt Vanguard: Greatly increases critical rate of ally field.
- Binding Aura: Increases the affliction duration of Binds.
- Counter/Counterstrike/High Counter: Grants the ability to costlessly and instantly erect a reflective barrier against physical attacks that last a very brief time.
- Boost/Amp Skills: Amplifies the potency of certain types of magic, both offensive and those that inflict ailments.
- Ambient Aid: Greatly amplifies the potency of ailment-inducing spells under special weather conditions such as rain or snow.
- Adverse Resolve: Increases critical rates when disadvantaged.
- Arms/Spell Master: Halves the costs of physical/magical skills.
- Tyrant's Mind: Further amplifies the power of all offensive skills.
- First Star: Amplifies damage if attacking before the enemy does.
- Ailment Arts: Amplifies the potency of ailment-inducing spells.
- Bind Arts: Amplifies the potency of Binds.
- Null S/M/A-Bind: Negates the effects of Binds.
- Circle Recovery: Restore HP rapidly over time for as long as any Circle is present on the field.
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