Mio Kazama

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Mio Kazama
IC Information
Full Name: Mio Kazama
Arcana: Tower
Gender: Female
Age (Birthdate): 19 (August 7, 1993)
Hair Colour: Lilac
Eye Colour: Fuchsia
Height: 5'4" (163cm)
Residence: Hirasaka Ward
Workplace: St. Bernadette's Cathedral, Aoba Ward
Job: Strange Nun, Street Racer, Odd-Jobs
Role: Focus
OOC Information
Source: Persona 5 (OC)
Main Group: Adults
Player: Ark

“In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti: kiss my ass!”

On the surface, Mio appears to be a patient and understanding sister of the church whose presence helps keep things humming along at the perennially under-manned and under-funded St. Bernadette's Cathedral in Sumaru City's Aoba Ward. This is something of a ruse, as the Church does not shell out sufficiently for the kinds of bills she has to pay and holds a curiously small number of actual services. By night, she's the reckless street racer and emergency-driver-for-hire Kijin Myo, services for sale to anyone with the street smarts needed to make contact. To make matters worse, Mio is also the estranged bastard daughter of Liberal-Democratic Party member Saito Takahashi, a man of unimpressive talent but voracious political ambition who has practically inherited a safe prefectural seat in rural Inaba. Having survived two attempts on her life thus far from the man, Mio's purpose has become a bitter quest for the kind of power, money, or infamy needed to get back at her dad and kick over the whole rotten framework that gives men like him such power over the world. Beneath the smile and the good cheer is a wounded hound on a snapped leash, whose passion and energy is easily taken advantage of.

Background

The abridged edition, edited for scanning for hooks:

  • Parents: LDP Representative for Inaba, Saito Takahashi and the late pop idol Kaori Kazama
  • Takes mostly after her mother: the indefatigably positive center of idol group '3SHINE'
  • Doesn't acknowledge it but has the short temper and violent tendencies of her father
  • Father is a sly neocon using urban vs. rural & other culture war tactics in combination with his squeaky clean and handsome image to great effect
  • Papa Mio is also on the take from underworld elements his father & grandfather are indebted to, and views this as his real long-term political aspiration
  • Raised entirely by her mother and her mother's friends, father was absent for her entire childhood
  • A secret mistress and lovechild are bad politics for a conservative ladder-climber, so Mio's mother is paid to go far away by the time she's three
  • Raised in Sumaru City while her mother & mother's friends make it (decently) big in the entertainment industry
  • Mama Mio and friends have, this whole time, been poking their noses where they don't belong in Sumaru's supernatural underground and attracting attention
  • Kaori is killed in a targeted car crash in the summer of 2005, which Mio survives
  • Mio is placed under heavy medication, made to sign an affidavit regarding her father's whereabouts, and then placed with social workers (who are all also on the take)
  • During this time Mio is sequestered away from her mother's friends, her actual friends, becomes increasingly isolated and disassociated
  • Suspended from Akiyama High once for trying to drown someone saying her mother deserved it (almost succeeded)
  • Senior year of high-school is spent becoming increasingly radicalised, curiously high-achieving despite everything
  • On graduation day, Mio is picked up at the school gates by a black van and taken to a prepared space in Konan Ward to be disappeared permanently
  • Daddy Mio has decided there's too much liability in letting her live, and his benefactors really insist on tidying this up
  • Mio is rescued by two of her mother's old friends, who ram-raid her place of capture in a truck
  • The building is a Marked Space and a supernatural firefight breaks out, which in turn triggers Mio's Awakening and awakens her to her Persona, Samson, which proceeds to annihilate her attackers, the building, and the neighbouring buildings
  • Mio is taken into care by her mother's #1 confidant among the rescue party: her former producer Ryosuke Sato, who (with others) has been looking for her for a long while
  • Mio appeared at Saint Bernadette's Cathedral about one year ago
  • Mio has been going by the name Myo in underworld circles and offering no-questions-asked transportation services for about a year, too
  • Contactable through most means common to the spiritually aware, Mio is starting to become known as a pretty reliable ally for operating in the supernatural and cognitive spaces, which also means there might be a target on her back

St. Bernadette's Cathedral

A serene oasis amidst the fashionable bustle of Aoba, St. Bernadette's is a slightly small but picturesque church nestled a stone's throw from some of Sumaru's elite financial consultancies.

Spires of snowy white with brass finery rise above vibrant emerald lawns, and the city's murmurs fade to barely a whisper inside the church proper. Bernadette's is a relatively recent construction, built in the last 10~15 years, but everyone seems to have trouble putting a finger on when it actually was constructed, or what occupied the property before work started on it. As the Anglican faith is not exactly widespread in Sumaru, let alone in Japan, it tends to see more visitors from tourists or students looking for a place to read in quiet, rather than pews packed full of the faithful. This doesn't seem to bother the head priest, a fashionably tussled-looking gentleman in his mid-30's by the name of Father Ryosuke Sato. Father Sato is an unusual character who usually does his work behind closed doors, pops his collar, and wears large square aviator sunglasses indoors. Mio helps him run the church as a 'nun', really more of a gofer who is an whiz behind the wheel and wields supernatural power as a Persona-user. As you might surmise, the whole operation is a front and a safe grounds for a tight-knit group whose found-family ties reach back almost 20 years into the past.

But the church's doors are open to anyone caring to walk through them, so long as as they don't cause trouble, and you could do worse in a search for neutral ground than to try and get the weirdos at Bernadette's to mediate. If nothing else, they boast an impressive safety record: nobody has died in there yet, so come try the punch and get in line for a confession.

Season 1, Episode 1

Persona

Samson is a famous Biblical figure best known for praying to God in his final, captured hours for the strength to wreck house in the temple of Dagon, thus, fatally bringing the temple down on himself and his assailants. One might expect such a figure to be a very offensively focused combatant with an over-reliance on overwhelming physical force.

Samson is a tall, broad-shouldered figure of inky black, clad in a torn robe of flowing quicksilver and a brilliant red bandana whose long and flowing folds double as a scarf. It can be hard to tell, sometimes, where the figure’s head of spiked red hair ends and the bandana begins. Each arm also bears an oversized manacle of battered iron linked together by a silvery chain. Though the figure is obviously masculine in stature and humanoid in shape, it has no discernable facial features and its body is silky smooth, almost plastic in appearance.

Logs and Cutscenes

Season 1


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