So, there are probably only two reasons that you've decided to open up this thread. Either you're already a fan of the Persona game series and I don't have to explain the basics of it to you and you just want to see where I plan to go with this, or you have no idea was Persona is and the name just caught your attention.
So, SMT (Shin Megami Tensei) Persona is one of the many series that's built of the SMT franchise. Persona in particular (at least from the third game onwards) take a more unique turn on the franchise in many ways. The first being the namesake, Persona. As opposed to fighting off demons and contracting them to fight for you, you are instead using the powers of Personas, which is usually a unique spirit for each party member, with the main character being able to use multiple personas. The demons you can contract in other games are instead created through fusing one another to make new personas for the main character to use instead. In Persona, instead of fighting demons you fight things called shadows, which are generally just monsters with varying designs that are different from the demon designs of the other SMT games.
Anyways, point being everyone gets a special spirit (usually humanoid) that they can use in addition to weapons to fight off shadows in an alternate world parallel to the regular world. In each game the iteration of this alternate world is different. For the third persona game, at midnight every night at midnight, time would be extended for an hour called the dark hour, in which normal people would be put in a stasis like state, while persona users were aware and able to move during this time. For the fourth game, there was the normal world, and then an alternate world which you could travel to by going through a TV, and it was dubbed the "TV world."
So yeah, the basic premise of the Persona Series is generally people are dying in the real world, and it's up to the persona users to go to the alternate world, and stop whatever is causing people to die in the real world.
That being said, we haven't gotten to the specific plot of this RP yet. So I've decided to place this in a major japanese city (as all the persona games take place in japan, keeping that fair) which I've yet to pick, open to suggestions. Point being it'll take place in a major city, and all I can say for now without spoiling anything is...It's gonna focus on cell phone apps. That's gonna play a prominent role in this RP. So with that said, there's one final thing to discuss, Persona themes. Generally the Personas in the series (save for the personas you can create through fusion and such) have a theme. In persona 3, the theme was greek mythology. In 4, it was japanese mythology. So, what do we want to have as the theme for the personas in this RP? Personally I think either Norse or Egyptian based ones would be cool, but I'll let you guys decide :)
Anyways, if you're interested post here, and just talk a little bit about your character and whatever "theme" you want for the unique personas.
So, SMT (Shin Megami Tensei) Persona is one of the many series that's built of the SMT franchise. Persona in particular (at least from the third game onwards) take a more unique turn on the franchise in many ways. The first being the namesake, Persona. As opposed to fighting off demons and contracting them to fight for you, you are instead using the powers of Personas, which is usually a unique spirit for each party member, with the main character being able to use multiple personas. The demons you can contract in other games are instead created through fusing one another to make new personas for the main character to use instead. In Persona, instead of fighting demons you fight things called shadows, which are generally just monsters with varying designs that are different from the demon designs of the other SMT games.
Anyways, point being everyone gets a special spirit (usually humanoid) that they can use in addition to weapons to fight off shadows in an alternate world parallel to the regular world. In each game the iteration of this alternate world is different. For the third persona game, at midnight every night at midnight, time would be extended for an hour called the dark hour, in which normal people would be put in a stasis like state, while persona users were aware and able to move during this time. For the fourth game, there was the normal world, and then an alternate world which you could travel to by going through a TV, and it was dubbed the "TV world."
So yeah, the basic premise of the Persona Series is generally people are dying in the real world, and it's up to the persona users to go to the alternate world, and stop whatever is causing people to die in the real world.
That being said, we haven't gotten to the specific plot of this RP yet. So I've decided to place this in a major japanese city (as all the persona games take place in japan, keeping that fair) which I've yet to pick, open to suggestions. Point being it'll take place in a major city, and all I can say for now without spoiling anything is...It's gonna focus on cell phone apps. That's gonna play a prominent role in this RP. So with that said, there's one final thing to discuss, Persona themes. Generally the Personas in the series (save for the personas you can create through fusion and such) have a theme. In persona 3, the theme was greek mythology. In 4, it was japanese mythology. So, what do we want to have as the theme for the personas in this RP? Personally I think either Norse or Egyptian based ones would be cool, but I'll let you guys decide :)
Anyways, if you're interested post here, and just talk a little bit about your character and whatever "theme" you want for the unique personas.
