Makoto Yuki (Persona)

"Per...so...na..." - Makoto Yuki, awakening to Orpheus, his initial Persona.Makoto Yuki (b. November 30, 1992 - d. March 5, 2010) was a fictional student at Gekkoukan High School around Tatsumi Port Island, Iwatodai City, Japan. He was orphaned at a young age and therefore, lost any sense of self-care and no longer feared death. He was one of the very few people unaffected by the Dark Hour, whereas people in the city turned into coffins, but he remained unchanged. He shared this ability with several other students of Gekkoukan, who established a group known as SEES (Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad) and became it's field leader due to his special ability to summon multiple entities to battle known as "Personas." While he saved the world from ruin, he gave his life to act as a seal from ruin. He is not the protagonist of any media so far on the MinneEagle channel, but in a playthrough, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts wear the SEES outfits, as well as battle a Cognitive version of Makoto in Persona 5.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
=== Transferring to Gekkoukan High School ===
=== The Dark Hour ===
=== Nyx Battle & Sacrifice ===
In February, SEES faced off against Nyx, who was about to bring ruin. However, almost every member, save for Makoto, was held down by the shockwave force, which allowed Makoto to advance alone and face off against Nyx. His chances of winning were almost nil, where Nyx would continuously use the Death move on Makoto, surviving the first hit. It was thanks to the will and determination of his friends that pushed Makoto to recover, dodge, and block every attack that Nyx used. Once every last one of his friends gave their will power and friendship to Makoto, he used the power to create the Great Seal, enabling him to finally seal away Nyx for good. Although he was believed to have been killed, he revealed himself to have survived.
Makoto clung onto life for a whole month to fulfill his oath of reuniting with his friends on Graduation Day. However, when he encountered Aigis on the rooftop of Gekkoukan High, he eventually collapsed and he rested his head on Aigis' lap, who swore to devote her life to protect him, unaware that he was dying at that very moment. In the end, just before Makoto's friends would reach him, he finally closed his eyes and he passed away peacefully and at ease, becoming the Great Seal.
=== Legacy ===
Makoto's cause of death was not found out by SEES until much later, at first believing it to be either related to him sacrificing his life force to defeat Nyx, or a severe case of exhaustion as a doctor had described, as it was a mysterious death. The members of SEES struggled to adapt to life without Makoto and continued to find answers related to how he died and what happened to him. After being trapped in a loop in their dorms, they fought to retrieve keys that could either free them from the loop and allow them to live on normally, or use the keys to go back in time before the defeat of Nyx and the death of Makoto. While Akihiko and Ken wished to use the keys to escape and allow them to live on so that the deaths of their loved ones are not in vain, Yukari and Mitsuru wished to restore Makoto back to life as a way to honor it. This caused some infighting between the SEES members to decide what would happen. Aigis was initially unable to decide, but eventually decided to continue on with the present and accept the fact that Makoto was gone. SEES used the keys, save for the final one, to go back in time right to the moment that Makoto used the Great Seal, and then discovered his fate as becoming part of a door that would keep Nyx from Arebus, which was calling for Nyx to bring the Fall. SEES realized that the past was best left as it was and Makoto remained dead. However, the surviving members decided to live out their lives to the fullest to ease Makoto's burden.
Elizabeth, Igor's assistant in the Velvet Room, decided to leave the Velvet Room to find a way to free Makoto's soul from the Seal. So far, there has been no news as of present-day.
In time, there were two new Persona users who possessed the Wild Card ability, hence allowing them to hold more than one Persona within their conscience. One was Yu Narukami who had awaken to his Persona a year after Makoto's death in 2011, and he became a Shadow eradicator and savior in Inaba as he investigated the unexplained deaths of several victims through the Midnight Channel, or the TV Metaverse, similar to Makoto. Another was Ren Amamiya, a transfer student in Shibuya who was falsely accused of assault, who had awakened to his Persona in 2016, six years after Makoto's death, but five years after Yu's own awakening, and he became a specialized thief known as a Phantom Thief, who stole the distorted desires of corrupt individuals and changed them to confess their crimes.
Ren was also granted the opportunity to fight a cognition of Makoto in his own version of the Velvet Room, with Makoto being described as a "SEES Boy" who had prevented the Fall.
In a semi-canon twist of events, around Christmas Eve of 2016, Takuto Maruki made a great cognitive change to reality by fabricating it to his own, making it where those who wish for their happiest desires to come true happens, with examples being Futaba Sakura of the Phantom Thieves wishing for her deceased mother, Wakaba Issiki to come back to life, which she does in Maruki’s reality.
This could possibly be the case for Makoto should anyone who knew him had deeply wished for him to come back to life, similar to the cases of Wakaka and the presumed and possibly deceased Goro Akechi. However, in early February, this reality was undone by the Phantom Thieves to ensure that their reality was untouched and that everyone needed to grow from their troubled past. If Makoto was brought back to life because of this, he would now remain dead again in the original reality.
=== Alternative Timelines ===
In alternate non-canon timelines, Makoto’s fate is changed.
* In The Fall End of his story, Makoto took Ryoji’s deal and killed him in December to allow the members of S.E.E.S. to lose all memory of the Dark Hour and live in bliss until the Fall came. On Graduation Day, instead of reuniting with his friends, he spent his final moments alive with Junpei and Yukari at karaoke, with each one unaware of their impending demise.
* In the Maruki End, as mentioned, Makoto could have come back to life if any member of SEES still desired to make him alive again, alongside Shinji.
== Appearance ==
=== Physical ===
Makoto was a young man, being around 16 or 17 by the time his story began. He had a pale complexion and a slim build due to his age. He also had distinguishable blue hair.
=== Clothes ===
Makoto primarily wore a special Gekkoukan High School uniform that was black, with a white undershirt, a black neckerchief, black slacks, and blue dress shoes. He also wore specialized battle gear and a holster for his Evoker when he explored Tartarus.
== Personality ==
Makoto was a quiet boy who hardly spoke much outside of in-game dialogue options, but he is never heard speaking from these choices, but rather, is implied that he talks to certain individuals. It is likely that Makoto suffers from chronic depression considering that his parents were killed in an accident years ago, effectively leaving him as an orphan. Over time, Makoto began to become more or less detached from reality as when he first entered the Dark Hour, he hardly paid any mind to his unusual surroundings and instead, kept going with what he had in mind. He no longer feared death, unlike some of his friends such as Yukari Takeba, who feared death.
Makoto had an incredible amount of bravery, likely stemming from his deathwish, as the first time he awakened to his Persona, when he picked up Yukari's Evoker to protect her, he realized that he needed to shoot himself with it to awaken his Persona, and he hardly hesitated as he accepted the possibility that he could die. Over time, Makoto began to warm up to his new group of friends and was brave enough to become the Field Leader of SEES, heading up the assault front when in Tartarus. However, he was usually never affected or horrified by the usually traumatizing events of the Dark Hour or Tartarus.
== Relationships ==
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* Makoto was voiced by Yuri Lowenthal in the original release of Persona 3, as well as in combat in Persona 5 on the English versions. In the Reload, his voice actor was changed to Aleks Le.
* Makoto, although an interesting and unusual fact, is the only Persona protagonist who can be confirmed to have had sex with a female character, who was Elizabeth, but in the game, it depends on whether he chooses to "boldly accept" or "gently decline" her offer.
** Ren Amamiya and Yu Narukami are not confirmed to have done so, but it can be implied shall they romance a female character.
* Makoto is so far, the only Persona protagonist to have canonically died and stayed dead.
** Ren Amamiya was once erased from reality by the wishes of the masses thanks to Yaldabaoth's powers, but was brought back to life and reality moments after, and his cognitive version is shot in the head by Goro Akechi. He can be non-canonically shot in the head by Goro Akechi in reality as an ending.
* Makoto dies in two different ways, but one way is canonical while the other is not.
** In "The Fall" Ending, Makoto was freed from his memories of Tartarus, in exchange that all of his friends have had the same done to them, and they could live the rest of their lives in bliss until March 5, when Nyx comes to bring the Fall, which would kill everyone, including Makoto.
** In the "True" Ending, Makoto used the Great Seal, effectively using his life force, to seal Nyx from bringing the Fall, and died later from what appeared to be severe exhaustion from the life drain.
* Makoto, along with Yu Narukami and Ren Amamiya, are the only protagonists in the Persona series who possess the "Wild Card" ability, meaning that they can summon more than one Persona and use them in battle, excluding Kotone Shiomi and Aigis.
** The playable characters in Persona and Persona 2, regardless of edition, can use multiple Personas as well, but they are not given the "Wild Card" ability.
** Some playable characters such as Goro Akechi can technically summon multiple Personas, but most are stagnant or depicted differently in other media. For example, Goro Akechi held two Personas - Robin Hood and Loki. However, Robin Hood was a false Persona formed out of a fake heart, while Loki is Akechi's true Persona.
* Much like the other Persona protagonists (except for Maya Amano), Makoto was 16 around the time his story started, and 17 by the end of his story as well as his life. However, they were all born different years apart.
** Makoto was born on November 30, 1992, Naoya Toudou on December 24, 1979, making him 16 to 17 during his story in 1996, Tatsuya Suou on July 27, 1981, making him 17 to 18/19 during his story and the first to not be 16 around the start, Yu Narukami being born on September 2, 1995, making him 16 to 17 during his story, and Ren Amamiya being born on February 8, 2000, making him 16 to 17 during his entire story.
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