Sadayo Kawakami

Sadayo Kawakami, also known by her maid name, Becky, is a supporting character in the 2016 action-adventure video game, Persona 5 and its re-released expansion, Persona 5: Royal.
Kawakami is the Japanese language school teacher in Shujin Academy and the homeroom teacher of Ren Amamiya, as well as Ann Takamaki and Yuuki Mishima. She is a stress filled teacher dealing with personal problems of the guardians of a former student that she once tutored. When she was told by the school to no longer assist the student anymore, he committed suicide. This event affected Kawakami immensely including her self-esteem. She represents the Temperance arcana.
She is voiced by Michelle Ruff in English and Mai Fuchigami in Japanese.
== Design ==
Appearance wise, Sadayo is a youthful 27 year old women with lanky build. She has dark brown unkept hair and dark brown eyes. The most common trait about Sadayo is her long sleepy face, which shows her stressful nature.
Sadayo dresses plainly simple clothing. She wears a simple yellow shirt and a blue long jean skirt and short heel shoes. As a maid, she wears a typical French style maid outfit and has her hair tied up to create pigtails.
At the Hawaii field trip, She wears a white shirt that contain a red flower shape symbol and the number 14, blue and yellow stripped underwear, and sandals. Around her neck she be wearing a whistle.
== Personality ==
Kawakami is a laid-back but stress filled and outspoken teacher in Shujin Academy. She always try to be professional despite tending to say "crap" at times and never lets her stress bother her. Despite being cold towards the protagonist in the beginning of the game, she only did so because of the protagonist status as an offender and thought that he might become a problem. Kawakami extends her coldness to Ryuji due to his juvenile behavior and tells the protagonist to not interact with him since many in the school view him as a delinquent with rumors spread about him but she does not hold a grudge against him. In fact, she is actually saddened by Ryuji's change of personality after his incident with Kamoshida. Like everyone else, she is aware and afraid of Suguru Kamoshida and his crimes but did not told a soul due to how powerful Kamoshida is as a person and Principal Kobayakawa forbids anyone on speaking about it. After Kamoshida's defeat, she realizes that were more to Kamoshida's character than how the crimes and rumors presented him, which allowed her to unlock her compassionate side, where she would listen to students more often and be willing to help them with anything that they need. Kawakami was even the first person within the school to apologize of not revealing Kamoshida's crimes, feeling that she did not do her best as a teacher.
Kawakami has some sort of self-loathing towards herself and having a sense of pessimism. This is because of a student that she once tutored committed suicide. She was ordered by the principle to help him. Kawakami help the student, Taiki Takase, to improve his grades due to his stress of keeping several jobs that he had. But the school told Kawakami to no longer assist Taiki anymore despite being aware of his troubles, this later lead to his suicided. Kawakami was so shocked by this incident, she felt that she is to blame for his death. Takase's guardians later found out and blamed Kawakami for his suicide but threaten to sue her unless she pays them money as a form of an "apology." They place so much pressure on to her to the point Kawakami became a maid out of desperation to pay them back.
As a maid, also known as Becky, she had to do "services" just to make money. The services are typical maid jobs like housekeeping, back messages, lap pillow, etc. She pulls a "moe" personality in order to attracted costumers even though she does not enjoy it and becomes very tired from the experience. She tends to break character and admits that her age and health that is presented with the character is fake.
If the protagonist goes further with Kawakami's confidants and or romance her, she becomes more caring and supportive, she will constantly get worried for the protagonist way of living and offers her services whatever she can. Afterwards, when she is no longer working as a maid, she will still offer her services.
== Confidant ==
Coming soon
== Gallery ==
File:Sadayo Kawakami wallpaper.jpg
File:Kawakami confidant icon.webp|Sadayo Kawakami confidant icon.
File:BeckyConfidantPortrait.webp|Becky confidant icon.
File:BeckyTextIcon.webp
File:Kawakami icon.webp
File:Persona 5 harem.webp
File:P5R Portrait Kawakami Winter outfit.webp|Kawakami in her winter coat.
File:Kawakami "Moe" face portrait.webp|Kawakami's "Moe" face.
File:Sadayo Kawakami P5 Animation.webp|Sadayo Kawakami as she appears in the anime.
File:Becky Persona 5 animation .webp
File:Sadayo Kawakami in manga format.webp|Kawakami in the Persona 5 manga adaptation.
File:Sadayo Kawakami % 28Live Action Number 2% 29.webp|Sadayo Kawakami in the live-action Persona 5 called "Persona 5: The Stage." She is played by Sawa Minami.
File:P5A-KAWAKAMI in Hawaii .webp|Kawakami modeling for her swimsuits 1.
File:P5A-Kawakami posing in swimsuit.webp|Kawakami modeling for her swimsuits 2.
File:P5A-KAWAKAMI in her swimsuit of choice .webp|Kawakami modeling for her swimsuits 3.
File:PS5 Anime Sadayo model sheet .webp|Sadayo Kawakami's anime model sheet.
File:P5A Artbook Kawakami 1.webp
File:P5A Artbook Kawakami 2.webp
File:Amakuni Becky.webp
File:Amakuni Becky 2.webp
== Trivia ==
* Like Munehisa Iwai, Kawakami is referenced in Persona 5 Strikers when interacting with the yellow telephone in Cafe Leblanc. Morgana will joke about calling Kawakami's services while they are away for the summer.
* Sadayo Kawakami is a fan favorite character within the Persona community and fans are often attracted to her appearance and personality. Besides that, many people sympathize with her situation as a teacher and her struggles.
* The number 14 on Sadayo's Hawaii outfit references her Arcana, the Temperance, which the tarot is #14.
* Sadayo bears a resemblance to Sada Yacco or Sadayakko Kawakami, who is a well known and acclaimed Japanese actress and dancer.
*Kawakami shows a different side of her personality when she is seen modeling in her room during the Hawaii field trip. But this is shown only in the anime adaptation.
*Her last name, Kawakami, means "above the river" and her first, Sadayo, means "chastity-(mundane) world."
*Kawakami's maid services are called "delivery health." The word health in Japan is used as a euphemism for sex services, this explains why Takase's guardians blackmail her in the hospital and plan to expose her for sex work if she does not pay them on time.
== External links ==
Sadayo Kawakami in the Megami Tensei Wiki
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