Sigmund Joker

Sigmund Joker is a character in the backstory of the Persona series. 
He is Siegfried Joker's father.
He only appears directly in Persona ITA.
== Appearance ==
Nothing is known about Sigmund's looks, since no game has been set in the USA where he lives. He is thought to look mostly like his son.
== Personality ==
Almost nothing is known about Sigmund. He's interested in Cognitive Psience but wants to keep his research strictly secret. He has also been noted to be a fan of Wagner operas, a passion which he shares with his wife Sieglinde and which his son Siegfried inherited.
== Profile ==
Sigmund is a well-known researcher in Cognitive Psience, and one of the inventors of the process to artificially induce a Persona. His research also includes Metaverse phenomena, Cognitions, and even ways to resurrect the dead through a Metaverse. 
His top secret research was sought by the Japanese politician Masayoshi Shido and his conspiracy (especially Chojuro Ooe, reformer of said conspiracy after Shido's change of heart), and also by Muneshige Shinozaki, executive of Shinozaki Corporation and the main backer of Toranosuke Yoshida against Shido.
In 2016, Sigmund sent his son Siegfried in Japan specifically to unfold the conspiracy. He had set up Siegfried's probation in Tokyo so that he could have time to apprehend him. Everything that happened to Siegfried in Tokyo wasn't an incident, but actually the result of the clash between Sigmund and Shido's plans. The Phantom Thieves, however, are a failure, as Shido's change of heart gave Muneshige Shinozaki free rein to back Toranosuke Yoshida (whom Siegfried had as Social Link) and attempt to steal Sigmund's research for himself. 
Later, Siegfried remains in Japan for the events of Persona 5 Strikers, and then gets married with his friend Makoto Niijima and goes to live in Asaheim, Hokkaido. He names two sons Wagner and Sigmund-Ryuji in honor of his father. 
In Asaheim, Siegfried forms the Runeslayers along with his friend Yusuke's former boyfriend, Masafumi Ito. The Runeslayers' job is to protect Sigmund's research from both Ooe and Shinozaki. Sigmund outlives his son, as Siegfried dies in 2030, murdered by Kenas Unarpe (Sigrun/Einar Tsuchiya), who had infiltrated Shinozaki's ranks as a double agent under Ooe's orders. 
Not much is known about what happens to Sigmund after 2030, but he's deeply affected by his son's murder and attempts to resurrect him through cognitive psience. His experiment, however, failed and created the Nightmare Core. Sigmund is the cause of Persona ITA's events as it was only due to him that Kiriyama, a small town near Palermo (in Italy) became a Metaverse and got overrun by Shadows. He replaces Philemon as the Velvet Room assistant of the game because the Velvet Room in ITA is not the true Velvet Room, but rather the asylum in Italy where Sigmund had conducted his experiment to have Siegfried back.
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