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Taro Namatame (WIP) Nov 8, 2012 9:49:43 GMT -5

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Post by Taro Namatame on Nov 8, 2012 9:49:43 GMT -5

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the roleplayer

HANDLE:

fearjunkie

HOW DID YOU FIND US:

Google

CONTACT INFO:

OTHER CHARACTERS:

Takeo Nakasato, Kumiko Kuroda

NOTES:

Nope

CHARACTER
FACE CLAIM:

[b]Persona 4[/b] - [i]Taro Namatame[/i] as [u]Taro Namatame.[/u] duh. :P

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NAME: Taro Namatame
ALIAS: None
AGE & BIRTHDATE: 37 years old, Born June 1st.
GENDER: Male
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
OCCUPATION: Deliveryman[/style]
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Taro Namatame is a man with short black hair, brown eyes, and a small dot-shaped birthmark on his forehead. He wears a white collar long sleeved shirt and black pants. When he works at his family business he wears a green delivery uniform.
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POSITIVES:
↑ Tries to help others (keyword here being 'tries)
↑ Used to be an outgoing individual. Occasionally, that side of him will resurface.
↑ Cautious
↑ Possesses above-average physical endurance.
↑ Compassionate

NEGATIVES:
↓ Unlucky
↓ Occasionally prone to delusions of grandeur
↓ Slowly losing his grip on reality.
↓ Riddled with guilt over the events of Persona 4, even though he can't quite remember the details of what he did.
↓ Always seems timid and frightened.

OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Before his affair with Mayumi Yamano was discovered, Taro was a fun-loving, outgoing person. However, the consequences of the scandal changed Namatame, making him meek and nervous. He'll occasionally revert to his original personality, but not for very long. As of late, Taro has been plagued by flashbacks from a past he can't remember, one that is filled with fear, despair, and guilt. These visions are slowly driving him insane, as he tries to piece together why he's remember something he doesn't think ever happened.
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Persona 4 post-bad end
HISTORY:
(Note: Due to personal preference I refer to the P4 Protagonist as "Yu Narukami")
Being a city council secretary, Namatame was married to renowned enka singer Misuzu Hiiragi. However, her popularity had put a strain in their relationship. Seeking solace, he met with TV announcer Mayumi Yamano while the announcer was doing interviews with candidates for the next election.

Namatame found out that they both had come from the town of Inaba. Both understood their passion on work, and eventually began an intimate relationship. However, the affair was exposed and a scandal erupted, which led to the end of his career and his marriage. Both he and his wife Hiiragi affirmed that the enka singer chose to nullify their marriage. Namatame then fled to his hometown.

Seeing that the affair had cause a great deal of grief for Yamano, who was getting bad publicity during afternoon shows and had her shows and appearances canceled, Namatame wanted to apologize to her. However, he failed to contact her. Namatame begun to drink heavily to wash away his guilt.

Recalling a rumor of a bizarre channel that showed one's soulmate, Namatame sat one night in front of the television and finally saw Yamano. In the channel, Yamano appeared to be in pain. In his disbelief and anxiety, Namatame touched the screen, and discovered that he could reach literally into the television.

Dismissing it as fatigue, Namatame rested and went to the city to work the next day. He was fired on the spot, just as he had expected. He went back to Inaba, where his father offered him work with the family's delivery service to alleviate his grief. However, his grief worsens when Yamano's dead body was discovered hanging amongst television antennas.

Grieving Yamano's death, he sat in front of the television again to see a high school student on the Midnight Channel. As he had been following the news on Yamano, he realized she was Saki Konishi, the student who found Yamano's dead body. Convinced that the channel was a portent of imminent death, he tried to warn Konishi, to no avail. The next day, he learned that Konishi had died, the same way as Yamano.

Namatame tried contacting the police, and got through to Detective Adachi. Adachi suggested that Namatame keep whoever was shown on the channel safe somewhere. As he was trying to figure out where a safe place could be, another person was shown on the channel. It was Yukiko Amagi, daughter of the Amagi Inn. Namatame thought the girl in the channel was smiling, and decided to place her inside the television, where he believes she will be safe.

He first kidnaps Yukiko and placed her in the television. Days later, Yukiko apparently survived the killings, and Namatame was convinced that he should repeat the process every time a person appears in the channel. His job as a deliveryman was a perfect front for his "mission" to save people. His latest mission - to "save" Nanako Dojima - was almost thwarted, however, when her father pursued him. In desperation, he fled with Nanako into the television

This, however, was the turning point for him. Namatame had never realized that the place inside the television was grotesque and abominable. He could not find his way out, and discovered that a bunch of teenagers are after him. When they finally cornered him, he was caught up in his "mission to save" complex and was possessed by his own Shadow, which transformed after merging with other Shadows into the entity called Kunino-sagiri.

However, the Investigation Team proved to be more than a match for him, and he was defeated and sent to the hospital under police custody. He woke up in the hospital bed one night, and was scared of what had transpired. Suddenly, the Team appeared, apparently angry at him for hurting the little girl, and apparently sending Nanako to her death. The Team was about to hurl him into the television that was in his room, and was motivated to do so when an image of him appeared in the television, mocking the Team's attempt to stop his "mission".

That was what drove Yu Narukami to what he did at that moment.

The leader of the Investigation Team personally grabbed Namatame and pushed him into the TV. Namatame could feel himself falling, and he awaited his demise...

Only to wake up in his bed, in a different time, on a different day, with almost no memories of his actions. Namatame resumed his normal life, unaware of what fate had awaited him.

Family:
Misuzu Hiiragi (Ex-wife)

Acquaintances/Friends:
None

Rivals/Enemies:
Yu Narukami

Romantic Interest:
Mayumi Yamano (Lover)

Other:
None.
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the stats

WEAPON OF CHOICE:

Sledgehammer

ORIENTATION:

Might

BATTLE STATS:

FP: 220
SP: 60

SUMMONING:

KAFIR Watch

PERSONA CLAIM:

[/li][li][b]Kagu-Tsuchi[/b] - [i]Initial[/i] Persona of [u]Taro Namatame[/u]

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ARCANA Tower
The Tower Arcana shows a monument built by greed being destroyed by an external force. Namatame's affair with Mayumi Yamano was quickly ruined when it came to light. Reversed, the Tower represents disaster and broken delusions. Namatame believed that by putting people into the TV World, he was saving them. His 'reward' was being thrown into the hell that is the Midnight Channel and nearly meeting his end.
PERSONA:
Appearance: i.imgur.com/aeYEA.jpg

In Japanese myth, Kagu-Tsuchi was a god of fire. Upon birth, he burned his mother, Izanami, to death. This sent Izanagi into a fit of murderous rage and Izanagi beheaded Kagu-Tsuchi. Kagu-Tsuchi represents the antagonistic link that Namatame now has with Yu Narukami. Namatame's actions led to Yu personally throwing Namatame into the TV.

Furthermore, Kagu-Tsuchi's birth marked the beginning of death. Yu's blind rage towards Namatame ensured that the real culprit, Adachi, would never be caught and that Izanami's plans to turn humans into Shadows went unhindered.
HIGH AFFINITY:
Physical, Fire

LOW AFFINITY:
Electric, Ice

SKILLS:
Agi, Marin Karin, Assault Dive, Gale Slash

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