Chihaya Mifune

**Chihaya Mifune** is a Supporting Character in **Persona Record Series**, She's a fortune teller active in Shinjuku.

## Chihaya Mifune

### Name

Maiden of ReliefFortune TellerProphetess Who Sees Fate船みふね 千早ちはや運命うんめいを見通みとおす占うらない師Mifune Chihaya

## Appearance

Chihaya has purple eyes, long blonde hair, and wears a big navy blue headband. She wears a necklace with a small red jewel resembling a teardrop.

She wears a navy blue long sleeved shirt. Over this is a light purple dress with clock-like black designs resembling traces of the Wheel of Fortune card and two black laces. On her lower body are navy blue tights and dark gray slippers.

## Personality

Chihaya is a cheerful woman with a lovely atmosphere about her, with a rumor of her fortunes being infallible. This is the most part accurate as her predictions have an uncanny ability to be properly divined down to the most minute details. As a result, she can be fatalistic in her belief that fates cannot be changed even when giving her clients readings with terrible outcomes, as most have inexplicably resulted in such a way.

Her time spent with Ren begins to change these feelings as he and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts alter the fates of many of her clients. She is initially frustrated and suspicious about this, but soon comes to realize that this implies a better world than she had thought. She has a tendency to lapse into her native rural accent if sufficiently upset or otherwise emotionally flustered.

## Background

Chihaya is a tarot fortune-teller who runs a fortune-telling stand in Shinjuku. She has a bright and cheerful atmosphere about her, but her fortunes always hit the mark. She is rumored to definitely be “a real fortune-teller,” but at the same time, apparently recommends these “suspicious stones.” It is later revealed that her powers are genuine, but in the past she was ostracized for her apparent omniscience. The stones, as revealed, are worthless trinkets made of rock salt. Her employers, a group of New Age con artists called the Assembly of Divine Power, force her to sell them, and she keeps to it since her readings say she cannot escape. At the end of her Confidant, she realizes the Phantom Thieves are proof that her destiny can be changed, and she quits after the Phantom Thieves change the ADP's chairman's heart so that he will waive her otherwise inescapable work contract.

## Trivia

* The name **Chihaya** means "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "already, now" (早) (**haya**).
* Chihaya's surname **Mifune** means "honorable" (御) (**mi**) and "ship" (船) (**fune**).
* Chihaya's name (御船 千早) resembles Chizuko Mifune (御船 千鶴子), a psychic who was alleged to possess clairvoyance but committed suicide at the age of 24 in 1911.
* Chihaya's cult boss Yuichi Fukurai (福来 友一) is likewise a reference to Tomokichi Fukurai (福来 友吉), a psychologist who worked with Chizuko to prove the existence of the psychic power.
* Miyu Matsuki (Chihaya's Japanese voice actress) died of malignant lymphoma on October 27th, 2015 at the age of 38. Although not officially confirmed by her agency, Persona 5 is generally believed to be her last professional performance, at least in the video game category. (She also voiced Choppy from Futari Wa Pretty Cure: Splash Star).

## Abilities

Chihaya's Arcana is Fortune, She Uses Tarot Cards a a Weapon and Gains a Navigation Persona Called **Pythia**,

The Pythia was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as its oracle, also known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was also historically glossed in English as the Pythoness. The name Pythia is derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi.