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□ Name: Chie Satonaka
□ Journal: dontthink_feel
□ Series: Persona 4
□ Canon point: Post-canon, canon being vanilla P4, not Golden because I cannot afford a vita.
□ History: http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Chie_Satonaka
□ Personality: Chie Satonaka is one of the first people introduced in Persona 4, and one of the first few people Souji (or Yu. I use Souji because reasons?) meets in Inaba. Accordingly, Chie has a very big personality. She's easily excitable, quick tempered and dangerously curious. She's the kind of person whose personality (or probably better stated, ego) is so large that it tends to get in the way of others' and she is not afraid of asserting herself. She has boundless energy that she puts into everything she does--searching for a murder suspect, fighting, friendships, rivalries, dares, everything. This has a problem of exasperating other characters, most especially Yosuke. We’ll come back to him later. Several times.
Along with that bundle of energy, Chie is normally very open and friendly and very upbeat. She's welcoming to anyone in just about everything. When she and the beginnings of the Investigation Team were going to meet up for an afternoon at Junes, she had absolutely no qualms inviting Souji's younger cousin to come hang out with them, whereas most teens would cringe at the idea of hanging out with an eight-year-old. She was quick to befriend Souji, asking if he could sit next to her, and walking with him after school. Chie likes to tease people and annoy them in jest (though this can teeter on bullying), but she overreacts to the slightest insult. Thankfully for offenders (read: Yosuke), Chie's easily bought off with her favorite food--steak. She is very protective of her friends, especially Yukiko, who tends to be absolutely clueless about... well, everything. She's the first person to step up when she sees something she thinks is wrong being done, and she's not afraid of people bigger than her. Chie likes to see herself as a defender of justice, probably because she has a huge love of kung-fu flicks and aspires to be like the heroes from them. This sense of justice and right helps Chie make the decision at the end of the game to pursue a career in law enforcement.
However, despite good intentions and high spirits, her attitude and temperament can get her into a lot of trouble. She opens her mouth when she shouldn't, and she holds ridiculous grudges, reacting disproportionately to silly things. It’s shown that a lot of her negative emotions--disappointment, fear and sadness--channel straight into anger, and her first reaction seems to be to flare up. For Chie, it sometimes seems that the best defense is a good offense. Her protectiveness of the people she cares about can make her careless, as well, causing her to do things like run into the TV world defenseless to save Yukiko. Chie wants to do what's right, but has a problem with disregarding her health and this very important thing called rationality, ignoring both of these when she catches someone being bullied. While her rashness and her quick temper are okay with friends, and beating up people like Yosuke or Kanji is met with harmless, silly retaliation, in the rest of the world this would be a definite problem.
As Chie's shadow proved, she's not the cleanest person when it comes to negative emotions. Chie has a lot of issues with not being a "proper" girl, not having the feminine charm or temperament of Yukiko, and she harbored a lot of jealousy over that for a long time. It turns out that Chie is needy in the way that she needs others to need her. If she can at least be the kind of person who other people need, it gives her value. She can't be the kind of girly-girl that guys like, and there is no contest between her and the female members of the Investigation Team. She doesn't want to admit her own short comings, and her own negative emotions, even to herself to start with, but as is the theme of Persona 4, Chie does manage to come to terms with her own dark side. Throughout the game, Chie channels that nasty feeling into protecting her friends and finding value in her own self.
Also through the course of the game, it's revealed that Chie is very intuitive. Put differently, she guesses really well and has incredible dumb luck. From the start of the game, she tends to be somewhat of a deus ex machina--"Have you guys heard about the Midnight Channel?"--but it becomes a running gag later on that she tends to blurt out whatever she's thinking, and it has a bad habit of being right. She's very aware that she speaks before thinking, and tends to not even believe what she's saying, laughing it off while making fun of herself.
Being from a small town, famous only for its Amagi Inn, run by her best friend's family, Chie is the kind of person curious about every strange thing that might happen, from the appearance of Souji from the city to the idea of the Midnight Channel. But while she seems like she wants to find new and uncharted things, when they actually do appear, Chie can be very afraid of them, quick to panic when there's nothing she can do to assist. When Yosuke and Souji enter the TV without her, leaving her holding a cut strand of rope, she refuses to move, panicking that the two might never come back and is angered and relieved to the point of tears when they come back unharmed. Chie’s fears don’t just stop there. While she’s also afraid of ghosts and haunted houses, Chie has a very healthy fear of bugs, spiders, anything with weird joined legs and actually a lot of really common girlish fears. They’re gross, though, so it’s not like you can blame her. Still, when faced with a fear she can take it head on just to ensure the health and safety of those around her.
Chie is a kind of person who’s strongly protective of her friends. No matter what, she will come to their aide. The theme of the game is very strongly the power of the bonds of friendship. Chie is no different from the rest of the cast in this, and by the end of the game, is more devoted than ever. Her friendship helps Chie understand who she is and who she wants to be, and help her define herself.
□ Age: 17
□ Gender: Female
□ Appearance: Chie is a girl of short stature, barely passing 5’, and she has a very boyish appearance overallone. She has short dyed brown hair and brown eyes. She has a habit of taking very masculine strong stances and is almost constantly moving, bouncing back and forth on her feet even in battle. Chie is a girl who has very strange fashion sense, with a lot of layers, and a lot of green. But she’s always dressed for movement, with shorts under her skirt so no one sees anything naughty :|b
□ Abilities/Powers: Chie has the ability to summon the Persona Suzuka Gongen. A Persona is the manifestation of one’s inner self, and Chie uses this ability by drawing forth and kicking a magic Tarot card inside the TV world (sometimes this game does not make a lot of sense when you explain it. this game never makes sense when you explain it). Suzuka specializes in low-to-medium level ice attacks and high-level physical attacks. She has no weaknesses and blocks all ice attacks. Her move set upon her entrance would be:
Bufula - A medium-level ice attack
Black Spot - A medium-level physical attack
Heat Wave - A medium-level physical attack that hits all opponents
Rainy Death - A high-level physical attack
God’s Hand - A higher-level physical attack
Power Charge - A support move that increases the damage dealt by physical attacks
Ice Boost - A passive skills that increases damage of ice attacks
High Counter - A passive skill that creates a higher chance of countering attacks toward her
□ Personal Items: Chie’s school uniform and green track jacket, her pair of glasses she needs in the TV world, her cell phone, one of her kung-fu flicks, a pair of peerless heels (an in-game weapon), as well as her regular shoes, and her rainbow sweatband.
□ First Person Sample:
[Finally situated in an apartment, and finally alone, Chie is completely stressed out beyond all belief. It’s in her head. They’re in her head. That’s so uncomfortable she can’t even think about it. What if they know she’s thinking about it? Okay maybe that’s a little paranoid but she’s pretty sure it’s not! She squints her eyes as if she can see the chip in her head before she sighs and collapses into a chair and… might as well try this thing out.]

So as far as “gross” goes, I think this place deserves an award. I mean seriously. I was minding my own business just hanging out at home [falling asleep on homework] and all of a sudden I’m in this weird creeper’s dream city.

Seriously! This kind of thing is unbelievable. These people do realize I’m still in high school, right?

I don’t even know who I’m talking to. I have no idea what’s going on anymore… Everything just gets weirder and weirder, doesn’t it?

Ugh… I have such a headache now… [the grimace on her face is almost audible, and there’s a quiet moment afterward, with her voice just a whisper.] It can’t just be me, can it…?

□ Third Person Sample:
http://theloonybin.dreamwidth.org/27452.html?thread=16574780#cmt16574780 TDM