Oriko Mikuni

* School Uniform
* Magical girl

Kimihide Mikuni (uncle)

**Oriko Mikuni** is one of the character for Persona Record Series. She is a blue-blooded Magical Girl whose father is an ex-parliament member. Oriko does whatever it takes to get the job done, but her strong sense of justice, inherited from her father, keeps her from overdoing it. She is refined and loves drinking tea at home.

## Background

Oriko is the daughter of a politician, Hisaomi Mikuni. As a young child, she helped him in his campaign. Now she wants to make his dream of bringing peace to the city, and then to the world, come true.

She was a highly-respected young woman who excelled at almost anything. However, her world was turned inside-out and her reputation sullied when it was revealed that her father had been embezzling money, and he committed suicide to escape prosecution.

After her father's suicide, people turned their scorn to her, sending her death threats and barring her from the school presidential elections. Oriko became a social shut-in, convinced everyone had betrayed her (which is not surprising given the way so many were treating her for the "guilt by association" from being her father's daughter), and wondering what purpose she served in life if everything had depended on her father's political standing. At this point, Kyubey had appeared and offered her a contract that would define her existence from then on. Oriko wished to have a reason to live, which resulted in her precognitive abilities.

## Appearance

Oriko is a young girl with a waist-length luscious ash-blonde hair and had green eyes.

### Magical girl

She is currently wearing a white long-sleeve blouse over a blue knee-length skirt, white socks and black shoes. Her soul gem was a Silver-coloured circular stuck in the middle of her chest.

## Personality

Oriko's ability to foresee the future gained her the understanding that magical girls can become witches, and because of that, a terrible future could await the city. Due to that vision, as well as her upbringing as the daughter of a politician, Oriko feels responsible to prevent that possible future, at all costs. Oriko smiles as she lies to Yuma, to manipulate the young girl into contracting with Kyubey. She convinces her close friend Kirika to do the dirty work of killing other magical girls. Oriko feels those means are justified by her end goal of protecting the peace she has achieved in her life with Kirika, as well as bringing peace to the world. She seems to be highly influenced by her political family in her ability to exercise Machiavellian tactics with much personal charisma, all for the sake of a lofty goal.

Oriko shows a gentler side in her personal nature with her close friend Kirika. She enjoys teasing Kirika, but deep down, Oriko cares greatly for her. She'll even let Kirika sleep in her lap after a battle. Oriko also shows devotion to her family, from when she was a little child helping out her father in his campaigns to now doing what she can to help make her father's dream of a peaceful world come true.

In Persona Record fics, Oriko decided to fight to help the Persona-Users their best.

## Abilities

Oriko's main power is precognition, allowing her to predict the future through internal visions. However, these visions cost her magic to have, and she cannot always control when she receives them, often leaving her unable to properly fight without risking her soul gem becoming overly corrupted. As such, Oriko commonly has Kirika hunt down witches and obtain Grief Seeds for her, minimizing the amount of magic she needs to use.

## Doppel Description

"The Doppel of anguish. Its form is a ballroom dancer. The master of this emotion has been given the duty of changing the fortold future. A strong wind blows, scattering flowers, the petals of which drift into another world. When the mist at last accumulates, the time comes. It intermingles with the fluttering flower petals, and the festivities begin. The Doppel starts to dance, and at the dance's climax, the enemy shadows vanish like flowers in a storm as an offering to the festivities."

## Relationship

### Kirika Kure

Oriko's best friend. Oriko is always on hand to give Kirika commands like a master and a slave. Even though Oriko uses Kirika every day, she still takes care of and protects her.

### ํํYuma Chitose

Oriko was the person who convinced Yuma into a magical girl.

### Phantom Thieves of Hearts

Oriko joins them with a fight to defeat Walpurgisnacht and save Iroha Tamaki from being kidnapped by the three magical girl sisters and Sasa Yuuki.

## Trivia

* Kirika and Oriko are exactly 121 days and 3 hours apart in age. Oriko is the older of the two.
* Oriko was the student council president and top member of her class in Shirome Middle School.
* Oriko's witch name, Sotria, is based on Sattriya, a classical Indian dance-drama performance art typically centered around the supreme deity of Hinduism, Krishna.
	+ It's modified spelling is similar to the Italian word "storia", meaning "history".
	+ Notably, her witch name sounds similar to Latria, Kirika's witch name.
* Her first name means "weaver girl", and sounds similar to "oracle".
* Her last name Mikuni literally means "beautiful country". It can also refer to 未来に (*miku ni*), meaning "to the future".

## Gallery

Young OrikoShirome Middle School UniformCasual WearMagical girl formOriko and KirikaOriko's doppel (Sotria)