Isako Toriumi

Isako Toriumi is a non-player character in Persona 3. She is a faculty member of Gekkoukan High School and teaches composition.
==Appearances==
*Persona 3 / FES / Portable / Reload: Supporting Character, Teacher; Hermit Arcana Social Link
**Persona 3 Portable (F): Minor Character; Teacher
***Persona 3 (Manga): Minor Character; Teacher
***Persona 3 The Movie: Minor Character; Teacher
***Persona 3: the Weird Masquerade -Souen no Kesshou-: Minor Character; Teacher
==Design==
Toriumi has short, light brown hair that reaches to her neck, and dark gray eyes; she wears a white turtleneck-like collar shirt, a brown jacket, brown pants and black high heel shoes.
Toriumi's in-game avatar is a female character that wears gray in the English version and red in the Japanese version.
==Personality==
On the surface, Toriumi appears to be a laid-back teacher who complains about her work at the start of a class and is first seen complaining about her having to teach her class about an author she doesn't like and derailing the subject. When privately speaking to the protagonist during her Social Link as "Maya/Y-Ko," however, she becomes a pathological complainer who outright neglects grammar and punctuation, makes many typos, uses expressions such as "lmaonade," "roflcopter," "1337" (in the original Japanese version, she instead mixes Hiragana and Katakana in her online dialogue) and uses many emoticons. "Maya/Y-Ko" speaks in an extremely informal and vulgar fashion unlike the real-life teacher, and constantly complains and badmouths people implied to be other Gekkoukan High School faculty members. None of the other teachers are aware of her badmouthing them behind their backs. She also has a crush on the protagonist but refrained from reciprocating because of social taboos.
Toriumi drinks. According to the Rank 4 Hermit Social Link, she got drunk and passed out at Paulownia Mall where an "older man" heavily implied to be President Tanaka called her a "drunk slut," and Toriumi told him to "shut the fuck up" in return. During a class session near the end of the game, she is also sorry for her class because they aren't of age to drink.Start of day at January 8, in-game calendar In the same confidant event, she also expresses that she doesn't want to be married, but her mom keeps trying to force the issue. The English dialogue has her telling the protagonist that "it is sexist to think that women can only be happy when they're tied down," but in the original Japanese script, she only tells the protagonist that the idea that women can only gain happiness by marriage is an "old concept" (using the "Showa Era" as a metaphor).
==Profile==
===Persona 3===
Ms. Toriumi is the homeroom teacher of Class 2-F in Persona 3. She is a language teacher for the junior class at Gekkoukan High School.
====Social Link====
The protagonist can form a Social Link (Hermit) with her after he receives a copy of an online game from Junpei Iori. Unlike other Social Links, Ms. Toriumi is only available on Sundays and holidays and only goes by the name "Maya"/"Y-Ko." In addition, choosing to play the MMORPG uses up the entire day and not just the daylight portion.
Maya/Y-Ko, convinces the protagonist to use the handle Tatsuya/N-Jima. The protagonist could also say "tell me if you find JOKER." "Maya" and "Tatsuya" talk through Toriumi's grievances at work, and she directly reveals that she has a crush on the protagonist, not knowing that "Tatsuya" is the same person. In her real life, she is reluctant to follow up on it due to social taboos.
Their online relationship starts off harmless, and the unknown player genuinely enjoys chatting with Tatsuya. Eventually, she begins to confide in him about her personal life, and the protagonist discovers she's an adult and a composition teacher. At first, she would complain about the difficulties of her life: her parents want her to get married, while Toriumi herself believes that it's wrong to think a woman can only be happy while being tied down/women can be happy without being married. Eventually, her problems delve into her grievances at work, such as with a person called Mr. E. Her ranting would degenerate for the worst and she'd become more vulgar, badmouthing another called Ms. K, laughing at her for being a "skanky hoe" who uses breast pads.
When Innocent Sin Online administration announces that the servers will all be shut down, she plans on sending her and the protagonist's chat logs to them in order to prevent them from shutting down the game. However, she decides not to as when reading over them, she didn't like seeing herself complain and apologizes to the protagonist before telling him she's quitting the game. Before she logs off, she leaves a message in the sand for him saying "i luv u" where the protagonist takes a screenshot of and makes it his background picture, unlocking the fusion of Arahabaki.
thumb|right|250px|Toriumi discovers the truth about Tatsuya.
During the epilogue of the Social Link, the protagonist can go into the school's faculty office to find Ms. Toriumi. After her quitting her MMO, she realizes she's been studying more into how she wishes to teach her classes, stating she didn't want to live just in the present. The protagonist drops his cell phone, which now has the background picture of Maya's message in the sand to Tatsuya. Ms. Toriumi picks it up and sees the picture, shocked and embarrassed to realize he is Tatsuya and cries, revealing that the online gamer the protagonist met in the Social Link is actually Toriumi herself. She (jokingly) claims she will quit the school and never come back, and that she was better off dead, losing her calm personality she usually exhibits in real-life. She then seemingly chills out and thank the protagonist for helping her turn her life around, finding it within herself to accept the protagonist as the person she loves, and tries to ask him to dinner, but storms out of the office after saying "Oh, to hell with this (her online game record being exposed)!", flustered and embarrassed.
===Persona 3 Portable===
As the female protagonist, the Hermit Arcana Social Link is replaced by Saori Hasegawa in the Health/Library Committee. On the date when Junpei would normally give a copy of Innocent Sin Online to the protagonist, he instead ponders on getting back to the game himself after not playing for a while. A few of her problems that are revealed during her Social Link events for the male protagonist, such as her dislike of Mr. Ekoda, are still mentioned during one of the final Social Link events for Saori.
The female protagonist can also trigger the cellphone cutscene during the last parts of the game by completing the Hermit Social Link and completing a request from Elizabeth that concerns Mr. Ono.
==Gallery==
File:mstoriumi.png|Toriumi's expressions
File:ToriumiLOL1.jpg|Toriumi realizing the protagonist is her online boyfriend
File:ToriumiLOL2.jpg|Toriumi realizing the protagonist is her online boyfriend (2)
File:Y-Ko (P3R).png|Y-Ko/Maya portrait in Persona 3 Reload
File:Torumi appears in P3M.jpg|Toriumi introducing Aigis in Persona 3 The Movie
File:Persona 3 Manga Toriumi.png|Toriumi in the manga adaptation
==In Other Languages==
Language	Titles 	Titles
Japanese	鳥海 いさ子 (Toriumi Isako) 	Y子 (Waiko)
Korean 	토리우미 이사코 (Toriumi Isako) 	Y양 (Yyang)
==Etymology==
* The name Isako is written in kanji/hiragana (いさ子), which has no special meaning except the kanji "子" means "child." However, when part of the name Isa (3) (いさ) is written in kanji (威佐, 依紗, 依咲, 依沙, 伊三, 伊砂, 伊佐, 以佐, 惟瑳, 意沙, 意早 or 衣咲), it could possibly mean: 
** 威佐 - "prestige, authority, power, dignity, influence, vigor, merit, stature, virtue, pride, dominance, ascendancy/ascendency, ascendance/ascendence, impression, in, domination, mastery, potence/potency, lordship, grasp, control, whip hand, might, force, vis, puissance" (威) (i) and "help, aid" (佐) (sa).
** 依紗 - "rely on" (依) (i) and "thread, silk" (紗) (sa).
** 依咲 - "rely on" (依) (i) and "blossom" (咲) (sa).
** 依沙 - "rely on" (依) (i) and "sand" (沙) (sa).
** 伊三 - "that one" (伊) (i) and "three" (三) (sa).
** 伊砂 - "that one" (伊) (i) and "sand, grit" (砂) (sa).
** 伊佐 - "that one" (伊) (i) and "help, aid" (佐) (sa).
** 以佐 - "after that, by means of, because, in view of, compared with" (以) (i) and "help, aid" (佐) (sa).
** 惟瑳 - "consider, reflect, think" (惟) (i) and "polish" (瑳) (sa).
** 意沙 - "will, intent, attention, wish, purpose, consideration, notice, regard, desire, thought, volition, aim, liking, vein, cognizance, advertence/advertency, count, taste, relish, addiction, bent, gusto, predisposition, vocation, temptation, predilection, proclivity, leaning, flair, aptitude, habit, tendancy, object" (意) (i) and "sand" (沙) (sa).
** 意早 - "will, intent, attention, wish, purpose, consideration, notice, regard, desire, thought, volition, aim, liking, vein, cognizance, advertence/advertency, count, taste, relish, addiction, bent, gusto, predisposition, vocation, temptation, predilection, proclivity, leaning, flair, aptitude, habit, tendancy, object" (意) (i) and "already, now, fast, early" (早) (sa).
** 衣咲 - "clothing, garment" (衣) (i) and "blossom" (咲) (sa).
* Isako's surname Toriumi means "bird, poultry, fowl" (鳥) (tori) and "sea, ocean" (海) (umi).
==Trivia==
* In the original Japanese version of the game, Ms. Toriumi played Devil Busters Online, which was a reference to Megami Tensei II. The main characters are called Devil Busters and Toriumi used the handle Y-Ko (Y子), which was a reference to Yumiko Shirasagi, while the protagonist uses the handle N-Jima, which was a reference to Akemi Nakajima; Yumiko and Nakajima were the heroine and hero of Megami Tensei, respectively.
**In the localized English version, the MMORPG is Innocent Sin Online, a reference to the subtitle of Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Her online name, "Maya," is a reference to Maya Amano, as well as her line, "Let's think positive!" The protagonist's online name, "Tatsuya," is a reference to Tatsuya Suou. The change was made due to Megami Tensei and Megami Tensei II not being available in North America and Europe.
**Also, an introductory message by a third party would be sent to the protagonist before he meets Maya in the game. In English, the message was sent by "PHIL," likely short for Philemon that would originally appear in Megami Ibunroku Persona, and in Japanese, "STEPHEN," which is also Japanese for Stephen of Shin Megami Tensei.
**During the protagonist's first visit to the game, a time frame would be established as part of the story of the game. In English, it's "Spring, the year 20XX." But in Japanese, it's "year 199X, autumn."
**Y-Ko's new portrait in Persona 3 Reload is not a reference to Maya or Yumiko, it instead is a reference to the heroine from Shin Megami Tensei.
*In Portable, instead of using Toriumi's normal portrait covered by a pixel-like pattern on the Social Link menu, it will instead be replaced by a more simplistic icon with a floating circle and a vague ovoid body with the same pixel-like pattern. The same happens in Persona 3 FES.
*In Reload, during Maya's third Social Link event, when she's drunk and complains about her job, the narrative will state that "Maya's avatar danced crazy!", referencing the English localization of Megami Ibunroku Persona: Revelations: Persona.
==References==
Category:Persona 3 Characters
Category:Persona 3 FES Characters
Category:Persona 3 Portable Characters
Category:Persona 3 The Movie Characters
Category:Persona 3 Allies
Category:Hermit Arcana