Ikeda Koji

Ikeda Koji is one of DarkMinato's Original Characters. He's the protagonist of Persona V.R, and features in many other stories Dark has been involved with. He has a sister, Hishiko Koji, who plays a role in the story of P.V.R.

## Personality

Ikeda has a strong sense of justice, but he doesn't make it his entire personality. He's pretty personable, and willing to talk with anyone or help out with anything. He cares deeply for those he knows well, and will protect them with everything he's got. He isn't flawless though, and does have some favoritism for who he protects, with his sister at the top, and he has a breaking point for what he can take.

## Official Lore

### Pre P.V.R.

Ikeda was born in rural Japan to his Mother, Miyata, and his Father, Hideki. He was a hyper kid and loved to play games, quickly becoming close friends with a boy named Luna Kira. When he was he was 7, his parents had another kid, and so his Sister, Hishiko, came into being. While Ikeda was in schooling, he was a popular kid, and he and Luna enjoyed pulling (mostly) harmless pranks on the students and staff.

Life wasn't all rainbows for him though, because when he was in 8th grade, his Dad died in serious car crash. It broke Ikeda, who was rather close with his father, and he likely would have become depressed if not for Luna, who recognized his best friend was slipping and divided their biggest prank yet. In the years they had been in school, no one had ever pulled the fire alarm, and he decided they would be the first. Ikeda was hesitant, but eventually relented, and Luna revealed his full plan. He had devised a route to get to the stage without running through a single camera feed, then, once they were there, they'd start a small fire started on the stage, the only place lacking a working security camera, then they would pull the fire alarm and act like the rest of the students just exiting the building. What could go wrong?

Everything went wrong in that moment, and Luna forgot to account that the old school may have been less flame resistant than expected, and the fire spread much faster than he had intended. Ikeda, panicked, pulled the fire alarm while Luna tried to mitigate the spread, but it was no use. They eventually had to gun it, and by the time they left the stage, the fire was almost burning around the school in its entirety. In their escape, Ikeda got hit by a falling ceiling tile and fell unconscious, putting him into a coma, and when Luna finally dragged him out, the fire department was actively fighting the fire, and paramedics were helping any injured students.

No one was killed as a result of the event, and an investigation pointed away from arson and instead to the old school having more than a few fire hazards. Luna never told anyone what had happened, and Ikeda recovered from his coma in 2 days time, and when he awoke, the doctor just seemed confused. He explained to Ikeda that his hair color was changing, but not to a natural color, instead, it was turning light cyan. There was no medical explanation, and Ikeda just accepted it as some form of karma for committing arson. Miyata, having lost her husband only months prior and now almost lost her son decided she had enough of Japan, and having a lucrative job offer in her field that required her to move to the states, packed up Hishiko and Ikeda, and moved out to Los Angeles. Ikeda never got to see Luna to say goodbye.

Ikeda, now snapped out of his depressive mood as a result of almost dying, adjusted to L.A. lifestyle well, quickly improving the English he had learned in school. Despite his hair color changing, most people at his school found him cool for being the foreign exchange student with the colored hair, and so he continued to be popular. In his free time, he started pursuing Video Editing and content creation, eventually launching his channel he, uncreatively, named IK. By the time he graduated, he decided to not attend college and instead, pursue his channel full time, which his Mother supported with her lucrative salary, and his sister found amusing.

Life, however, didn't want to let Ikeda be, and when he was 22, almost 23, his mother died. It was ruled as a suicide, but the Koji kids knew for a fact something was off about the whole affair. When it came time for who would have custody of Hishiko, Ikeda lobbied hard to keep his sister with him, but no matter what he did, a clause in MIyata's heavily unfinished will stated that her children below 18 would be sent to live with Hideki's brother and his Wife, so it was hopeless. Hishiko bid Ikeda farewell and boarded a plane back to Japan, as the court mandated, and Ikeda spent that year's December alone.

Over the course of the next year, Ikeda grew his channel and devoted most of his time to it, when he wasn't taking care of himself and his body. He spontaneously bought purple contacts and began wearing them whenever he planned on recording a video, just to add extra character to his content. When a company named ZEIE announced their Virtual Reality program, simply named Virtual Realm, Ikeda was an early adopter, making videos on it long before the world had a overwhelmingly positive opinion of it. However, since he still did his own content with only some Virtual Realm sprinkled in, viewers didn't drive to his channel by the millions, and he stayed somewhat niche.

### P.V.R.: Hardcore

P.V.R.: Hardcore is still being written, but as it'll be the story of P.V.R. going forward, this article and the main P.V.R. Article wont contain story from P.V.R. or P.V.R. Redux/Act 2

### Weighted Mortality 6

Ikeda appears as a participant in Weighted Mortality 6. More information will become available as WM6 happens, as it starts on April 3rd, 2022

## Trivia

* Ikeda Koji was Dark's first OC that wasn't born in the United States or the United Kingdom
* Unlike most other OC's Dark made, Ikeda's favorite soda is Pepsi, whereas most others prefer Dr. Pepper, much like Dark himself
* The justification for Ikeda's Cyan hair not being dye was created because Dark didnt want 2 characters with normal, dyed hair in a row (Michael -> Ikeda)
* Ikeda's Persona is based off Ephraim from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, specifically Brave Ephraim from FEH.
	+ Despite Brave Ephraim having an Axe, Siegmund uses a lance
	+ Siegmund is also the name of Ephraim's personal Lance from Sacred Stones
* All of Dark's OC's have a hatred for a single fruit. Ikeda's are blackberries