Junko Kurosu

Junko Kurosu is a character from the Persona 2 duology. She is the wife of Akinari Kashihara, the mother of Jun Kurosu, and a former student of Seven Sisters High School.
==Appearances==
*Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Minor Antagonist
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Minor Character
==Profile==
===Persona 2===
====Innocent Sin====
Junko was once a popular student in the Seven Sisters High School, who later became an actress. When Jun was born, she mostly ignored him and was a distant mother. She and her husband fought and argued constantly. When his home life got worse and worse, Jun began to hate both his mother and father. Junko began to miss her life as a celebrity.
Junko became tired of her husband and got suspicious of his relationship with Maya Okamura, hiring Daisuke Todoroki to follow them, to no avail. She eventually began spreading rumors about him, partly aiding in his death at Seven Sisters High's clock tower. Junko is later revealed to be Queen Aquarius of the Masked Circle, having joined after she made a wish to Joker for eternal youth.
She eventually learned that her own son, Jun Kurosu, was, in fact, Joker himself. Moments after this revelation and the realization of how horribly she had mistreated him, she shoved him out of the way of a Longinus spear aimed for him, taking the blow herself and dying as a result. Thus, she is never fought directly.
She was later summoned by Nyarlathotep to be tortured in front of her son along with her husband just before the final battle. Junko apologizes to Jun for only caring about her dreams and being blind to everything else. Following Nyarlathotep's defeat, she was revived with no memory of her past misdeeds in the alternate timeline created by the party to allow Maya Amano to survive.
=====Metal Mama=====
Junko appears indirectly as the enemy Metal Mama in Xibalba as a manifestation of Jun's anxiety. Metal Mama claims Jun and Akinari were burdens, and her life would be better if Jun was never born, and that as his mother, she can do whatever she wants to him.
====Eternal Punishment====
In the alternate timeline, her husband was still alive and her life with him was a better one. However, Chizuru Ishigami infects her with the JOKER curse. She attacks Tatsuya on Chizuru's command, but is knocked out and cured off screen.
==Stats==
===Innocent Sin===
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== Etymology ==
* The name Junko means "pure, clean, simple" (純) (jun) and "child" (子) (ko).
* Junko's surname Kurosu means "black" (黒) (kuro) and "ought, by all means, necessarily" (須) (su).
==Gallery==
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