Tatsuya Suou

"*That's right... I remember now... A sin that must not exist... How do I atone...?*"
— Tatsuya, *Persona 2: Eternal Punishment*
**Tatsuya Suou** (周防達哉, *Tatsuya Suō*) is the protagonist of *Persona 2: Innocent Sin* and the deuteragonist of *Persona 2: Eternal Punishment*. Though his name is set as "Tatsuya Suou" by default in *Persona 2: Innocent Sin*, players can change it at will.

He's a senior student enrolling in Seven Sisters High School in Sumaru City. He has an older brother named Katsuya Suou, a police detective. Tatsuya also has an unnamed father.

In the manga and anime series of *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc*, he is the leader of The Adults Team and Maya's husband. However, he was manipulate by his mistress by seduce him and stop him from remarried Maya.

In *Persona 2: Future Generation*, due to Shiori and Lisa's demise, he, Maya and The Adults Team members are no longer become Persona user.

## Appearances

* *Persona 2: Innocent Sin*: Protagonist
	+ *Persona 2 Tsumi: Lost Memories*: Protagonist
	+ *Persona 2: Innocent Sin ~ The Errors of Their Youth*
	+ *Persona 2: Innocent Sin Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics)*
* *Persona 2: Eternal Punishment*: Deuteragonist, playable character
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony*:Playable character.
* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Innocent Sin Arc:* Protagonist (for Season 1), playable character (for Season *2**)*
* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc:* Major Character.
	+ *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc — the Black World:* Mentioned
	+ *Persona 2: Future Generation:* Major Character.

## Design

Tatsuya has brown hair worn long with a center part, brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. At 5'11" (181 cm), he could be considered tall (especially in Japan where *Persona 2* is set), although he is shorter than his fellow Persona user Eikichi Mishina.

In *Innocent Sin*, he wears the male-variant Seven Sisters uniform, consisting of a black blazer and black pants with contrast trim worn over a white button-down shirt, and black sneakers. Additionally, he wears a blue tie, indicating his status as a third-year student. A black wristwatch can be seen on his left arm and his belt buckle has a distinctive leonine design. His childhood self is dressed in much lighter clothing: a white and blue raglan t-shirt.

In Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya sports a two-piece motorcycle outfit consisting of red pants and a matching jacket with a large 'X' symbol on its front. He also now has a distinctive tattoo-like marking winding up his right forearm.

In Hope Harmony, as a police officer, he wear police uniform, a police cap,

However, in the first season of the anime series of Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc, as a member of the terrorist organization, he wear a black suit, red button shirt, black necktie, black leather shoes, a sword scabbard around his waist, shoulder holster inside his suit, and still has a distinctive tattoo-like marking winding up his right forearm.

In the *second part of the first season of Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc*, return as a police after the epilogue of the first season,.

## Personality

Tatsuya Suou is the primary protagonist of *Persona 2: Innocent Sin*. Following the tradition of *Shin Megami Tensei* series, he is a silent protagonist, and some aspects of his personality are determined by the player's in-game actions and decisions. He has a more established history and personality than most other silent protagonists in the franchise, due in no small part to his ability to speak in *Eternal Punishment*.

A distinct characteristic of his present in all three *Innocent Sin*, *Eternal Punishment*, and *Hope Harmony* is his habit of flicking the engraved Zippo lighter Jun gifted to him as a child open and closed. While Tatsuya lost Jun's Zippo lighter in the Eternal Punishment timeline (since they never met in this reality and thus never exchange gifts), he keeps this habit by using a new, silver-colored Zippo lighter he bought somewhere.

He's also an avid motorcycle enthusiast, and owns a bike of his own in all three continuities. Because he is often seen performing maintenance work on his bike and works part time as a mechanic, rumors from Seven Sisters eventually give him the ability to flawlessly pilot any vehicle in *Innocent Sin*, which he carries over to *Eternal Punishment* and *Hope Harmony* as the Tatsuya from the "Other Side;" the Tatsuya of “This Side," however, has no such ability.

In *Innocent Sin*, although he seemingly projects the image of the quintessential aloof “bad boy” and is exceptionally popular among his peers because of it, Tatsuya is an awkward, somewhat-shy loner who tends to alienate those around him, and is strongly uncomfortable around people who pursue him persistently, either romantically, like Lisa Silverman, or as an acquaintance, like Eikichi Mishina, as a result of the Alaya Shrine incident.

His relationship with his family is strained; he’s envious of and hostile towards his successful older brother, Katsuya, despite Katsuya’s best efforts to care for him, ashamed of his disgraced ex-police officer father whom he considers a coward, and disappointed in his mother for remaining passive when his father was discharged from his capacity as a police officer on false accusations.

The one consistent exception to his usual behavior is Jun Kurosu, with whom he shares an exceptionally close bond even within the Masked Circle itself irrespective of whether he is selected as Tatsuya’s love interest. The two are repeatedly likened to one another as children and teenagers, by themselves and other characters, each carries a memento of the other, and their exclusive Personas correspond to each other. Tatsuya’s emotional reliance on Jun is so great that when Jun’s feelings of despair upon being confronted with a duplicate of his mother created by Nyarlathotep nearly cause him to fade from existence, Maya is able to bring him back solely by reminding him of how alone Tatsuya would be without him.

Originally, Tatsuya was a caring, proud, self-confident person and it's in his nature to not leave people in need. He has a vague feeling in his heart to be a person who can express ideals to others like Maya did when they were young. However, he does not know exactly what to do with his life and spends most of his free time on his bike and mechanic work, seeking economic independence from his family due to his father's disgrace.

In Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya is characterized as a fairly passive individual and a brooding figure. Upon Tatsuya's first meeting with Maya, who has no memories of the original timeline, she refers to Tatsuya as the "déjà vu kid," swearing that she had seen Tatsuya somewhere. The Tatsuya of "This Side" has a pattern of skipping classes with a friend, Anna Yoshizaka. According to another student from Seven Sisters, Tatsuya always attends school, but skips lectures.

However, in his scenario, it was clear when Shiori Miyashiro wanted him to help her to taking down Sudou who killed her younger brother 10 years ago. Apparently it was Shiori herself monologue about she urges Tatsuya to make himself comfortable, showing him his room and the room with a TV he might want to use. Tatsuya says nothing and his long shadow that falls on the floor tells the story of his state of mind - confusion, rejection and, last of all, solitude. He does his things by himself and plans to disappear, like a shadow in the dark. But Shiori won't let him. What happened ten years ago makes this not only his story, but their story.

At the same time in 2007, the year before Persona 3 occurred, he have a dark relation with Shiori.