Aigis

**Aigis**, also known as **Aegis**, **Ai-chan**, **Sister**, **Strange Girl** and **The Heartless Armed Angel**, is one of the main characters from the *Persona 3* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Aigis is an android created by the Kirijo Group; she is the last surviving model of their experimental anti-Shadow weapon. In combat, she uses a wide variety of high-tech weapons, from machine guns and rocket launchers to long range guns and “rocket punches.” Aigis has the highest durability of any of the characters, and her Personas focus on physical attacks.

Aigis is introduced during SEES' summer beach vacation, where she is simultaneously the target of Mitsuru's retrieval mission and Junpei's "Operation Babe Hunt." She immediately shows an instinctual interest in protecting the Main Character which even she cannot explain. Ikutsuki has her assigned to aid SEES, and she enrolls in Gekkoukan High to act as the Main Character's bodyguard.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Persona 3 Movie 1: Spring of Birth
* Persona 3 Movie 2: Midsummer Knight's Dream
* Persona 3 Movie 3: Falling Down
* Persona 3 Movie 4: Winter of Rebirth

### **Manga**

* Persona 3
* Persona 3 Comic Anthology: Memento Mori
* Persona 3 Portable Dear Girls Comic Anthology
* Persona 3 Portable Dengeki Comic Anthology
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Roundabout
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P3
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Roundabout Special

### **Video Games**

* Aegis: The First Mission
* Persona 3 Em
* Persona 3 Portable
* Persona 3 Reload
* Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
* Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
* Megami Tensei Chaining Soul: Persona 3

## **Trivia**

* In all versions of *Persona 3* except *Portable*, Aigis' upper lip twitches when she blinks.
* In *Persona 3*, Aigis is the only character (except for protagonist) whose attack animations and battle quotes change depending on the weapon equipped. She is also the only character to change her All-Out Attack quote after getting her ultimate Persona.
* In *Aegis: The First Mission*, it is shown that Aigis can also understand monkeys in addition to dogs.
* While perfectly able to understand Koromaru's thoughts at first, Aigis loses this ability little by little when she awakens to the powers of the Wild Card in *The Answer*. As the Wild Card makes her become more "human," she starts losing some of her mechanical traits: humans can't speak with dogs, so now that Aigis is more like a human, she can't understand dogs anymore.
	+ This is also reflected once Aigis welcomes back Metis into the "sea of her soul": as she regains all her human emotions, she also regains the ability to cry and her need to sleep when tired (which is why she collapses as soon as they "combine" again).
		- Despite this, Aigis displays the ability to understand Koromaru once again in *Arena Ultimax*.
	+ In the ending anime scene of *Persona 3* where the protagonist sleeps on Aigis' lap, there is skin where Aigis' white suit used to be on her neck, and she has ears instead of the robotic headphone-like pieces she normally has. This could be symbolic of her having become more human.
* Palladion, Aigis' initial Persona, has a highly robotic appearance, representing Aigis' initial robotic emotions, but as she becomes more human, she eventually gains Athena in place of Palladion, who has a more human appearance than her predecessor.
* There are some audio files hidden in the DVD disc of *Persona 3 FES* that contains the voices of the protagonist and Aigis shouting the names of the other SEES members' Personas. Among these files, Aigis has different voice clips for Palladion and Athena, separate from the ones she uses in *Persona 3*.
* In *Persona 4 Golden*, if Naoto Shirogane has the Gekkou Uniform equipped, she will mimic Aigis' victory pose after battles, as well as say Aigis' lines.
* In *Persona 3'*s Drama CD, Aigis is revealed to be capable of understanding French.
* In *Persona 3 Portable*, Aigis, along with Elizabeth, are the only characters to fall in love with both genders of the protagonists.
* Morgana can wear an Aigis costume as DLC.
* The events depicted in *Aegis: The First Mission*, during which Aigis is activated for the first time, occur during May 1999. In *Persona 4 Arena*, however, it is claimed that her activation date is, in fact, September 10, 1999; 4 months after the prequel's story. As Aigis' memories are erased and she is put on standby at the end of *Aegis: The First Mission*, it is possible that the date claimed in *Persona 4 Arena* was in fact her reactivation date, as opposed to a continuity error.
* In *The Answer*, the sprite of Aigis with a blank expression has an extra left forearm.
* In *P3D*, equipping Sera's costume will make Aigis sing the first line of "Pray" ("Light shines on the heaven").
* Aigis has a lookalike in *Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth*, Ribbon.
* In *Persona Q2*, it is revealed that Aigis can remove her own head.
* Aigis cannot be poisoned in *Persona 3* (excluding *The Answer*), making her the only main series party member with any sort of resistance to a status effect.
	+ Because of the way battles and knock downs are handled in *Persona 3/FES*, where hitting a downed character will cause them to get back up without missing their turn, this has an unintended side effect. If Aigis is down and an enemy attacks her with a poison ability, she will stand up even though the UI will say "Miss." This is because in the code, she is blocking it and not missing it, allowing her to get up without missing her turn.
		- Due to being the only party member in the main series with built in immunity to a status ailment, Aigis is currently the only party member with this unintended side effect.
	+ Despite this, Aigis can be poisoned in the *Persona Q* games, in which she remarks her "parts are corroding."