Tohru Adachi

## The Egocentric Police Dick

“Besides, don’t you think it’s kind of funny for you to judge, considering you’re drinking what looks - and smells - like raw sewage? Or is that not coming from the drink?”

### Canon

Persona 4 Golden (Post Persona 4 Arena Ultimax)

### Occupation

N/A (Former Detective)

**Tohru Adachi** is a major antagonist from ***Persona 4 Golden,*** and the deuteragonist of ***Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.***

## Canon

*Tohru Adachi.*

For the better part of a year, known to the small country town of Yasoinaba and its citizens as the textbook lousy detective that you just couldn’t help but take a shine to. On top of being the assigned partner of respected local detective Ryotaro Dojima, his innocent, bumbling demeanour, his harmless, rookie mistakes and the terrible, unfunny jokes he would crack that nobody but himself would laugh at all caused him, for the most part, to totally fly under the radar. Like another person’s puppy, people would smile when they saw him and then promptly forget their encounter.

After all, someone like Adachi was naturally forgettable. A perfect wallflower, loitering around Junes department store by himself, slacking off from his police duties until detective Dojima would catch him and haul his ass back to work. He wasn’t someone to pay much mind to; he wasn’t particularly useful, but an innocent-looking man like him couldn’t hurt a fly.

***All until the mask came off.***

Underneath Adachi’s fabricated personality lies a sadistic, egocentric misanthrope who revels in the misfortune and manipulation of others for his own amusement. For a time, Adachi’s only drive in life was to satiate his own boredom - and, being bored senseless after being demoted and transferred to “nowheresville” Inaba for a genuinely insignificant slip-up, he found an outlet for his frustration and wicked entertainment by masterminding a killing spree spanning the course of a year through the use of his otherworldly power.

Since being caught, Adachi has had time to reflect on his past mistakes and selfish outlook on the world. Though he remains cold and disdainful towards society as a whole, continuing to quench his boredom in his quintessentially chaotic ways and carrying himself with an aura of aloofness and sharp-tongued sarcasm, Adachi has matured, realising that the “shallow bonds and friendships” he loathed humanity for believing in may have a purpose after all.

Adachi does shoulder a great deal of regret for his actions, realising his fallacies only at the conclusion of his battle with the Investigation Team. As his own way of “setting things right for himself”, he took responsibility for his own conviction, and lives by a promise to “follow the rules of this world” - to avoid the destruction of the world he once tried to achieve, and to ensure that the Inaba serial murder case remains closed at all costs.

Having grown since his arrest, Adachi no longer totally despises humanity. While still having the utmost contempt for the entitled, the ignorant and the other odious elements of society that drove him to committing the savage murders he became notorious for, Adachi does still reflect upon some memories - and, indeed, even some people - with fondness. While still disliking the idea of relying on bonds with others, he has come to accept them as a necessity of life.

## Pre-Paradise

TBA - What was your character up to just before their first appearance in Multiverse Paradise?

## Character Relationships

What relationships (friends, foes, romantic interests, etc) have they developed in the RP?

* *TBA -* A character from ***Linked Title Here***. The details of the relationship would go here.