Difference between revisions of "Yuuka Chiba"

• Face: Red-rimmed glasses, fixed by Teddie to be wearable in the Midnight Channel - UNEQUIPPABLE
• Back: Small white mini-backpack. Plain. Almost always has a book or homework in it.
• Neck: Green, thick cotton ribbon choker. Small white-colored bell attached to it. - UNEQUIPPABLE
• Shirt: White three-quarter sleeves ivory blazer, button-up, with green ivy embroidery
• Skirt: Ivy-green colored, pleated, 3 inches above the knee, crossed with white plaid
• Stockings: Full-legged white stockings.
• Ankle: Green, thick cotton anklet, with charms - books, microscope, bells - UNEQUIPPABLE
• Shoes: Comfy loafers with white socks
• Pouch: Tye-dyed leather pouch. Worn on the waist. Contains Evoker, SEES armband, wallet, and necessities such as her cellphone. Worn all the time. - UNEQUIPPABLE

• Expression: 3 - About middling.
  • Singing: 5 - fear her voice.
• Courage: 2.5 - Slowly improving
• Knowledge: 5 - Extraordinary
  • Academics: 5 - well used
  • Common Sense: .5 - lack thereof, shall we say
• Diligence: 4 - Sees things to completion - especially homework
• Understanding: 3 empathetic, but only just so
• Stubbornness: 3.5 - getting stubborner by the day.
• Impulsiveness: 2 - See common sense.
  • Self-Preservation: 0.5 - Life is confusing.

• Fun Sized - Ken will be taller than her in a year
• Dojikko - Yes, she is that clumsy.
• Generic Cuteness - Not abnormally sexy or cute, just about pretty
• Brainy Brunette and Greeneyed Redhead - mixing apperance tropes for years
• Apologises A Lot - And how.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! - the only thing that can hold her attention is homework(even then...)
• Beware The Honest Ones - She tells it how she sees it.
• Beware The nice Ones - She's braver than she looks.
• Bookworm - Her room is her library.
• Break The Cutie - partially subverted, as she's struggled away from it
• Corrupt The Cutie - If your Devil Arcana or if your name is Takahisa Kandori
• Cowardly Lion - Don't piss her off; under that look she's stronger than she looks.
• Daddy's Girl - Majorly subverted, as he's the one that's pushed her so hard for years.
• Light Is Not Good - Subverted in that she uses Light attacks primarily when using Personae, played straight in that a normally very bright and smart girl can get pissed
• Driven To Suicide - Attempted too, at least
• Improbable Age - she is sixteen!
• Genius Book Club - Even at the beach.
• Not So Weak - Have to prove herself
• What The Hell, Hero? - self-explanatory... or is it?

• Minato Arisato: Leader of SEES. Yuuka and Minato have a relationship that can just be mostly called 'confusing'. Has ran the SEES gauntlet, which Yuuka has finally forgiven him for. Is running a second Gauntlet, which she has not forgiven him for and it hasn't even happened yet. He's a fellow second year with her.

• Tohru Adachi: Inaba detective, evidently someone who the SEES relies on for some information. He's shown concern for Yuuka, which surprises her.

• Souji Seta: Leader of the KDA/Inaba-based group of teens that deal with the Midnight Channel(like Shirou and Thora.) He's really nice, if quiet, and he's smart.

• Junpei Iori: Minato's best friend. Kind of weird. Kind of like Fumiya. Nice!

• Shiki Ichimonji: Published mangaka. Was lost on the West side of Mikage-Cho. Yuuka believes she's met some form of him running around that's a child in Mikage-Cho, but she hasn't honestly asked for any specifics.

• Yosuke Hanamura: Souji's second in command. Really nice, energetic(to a fault, even). Can't seem to do anything right, subverted in that Yuukas' watched him do many things very right, if not the correct or right way in doing such things. As such Yuuka understands him. Whoops?

• Shiori Hibiki: Wataru's girlfriend. A first year at Gekkoukan, and who Yuuka considers her best friend, and vice versa. The pair are quite close, and often turn to each other in times of need for help. As of now, lives in Yuuka's room at the Chiba Residence in Port Island. Shiori is not just a friend, but her sister. Shiori and Yuuka have grown apart, slightly,

• Mitsuru Kirijo: SEES head, graduating third year at Gekkoukan high.

• Akatsuki Enda: A third year senpai in SEES. Yuuka and Akatsuki don't talk much anymore.

• Mae Ikina: A friend of Shiori's? Mae was mean to Yuuka, and she makes Yuuka uneasy.

• Yuuka has no noticable Lovers links(that she wishes to speak of.)

• Aigis: Aigis is a droid, or battle robot, created to fight Shadows. Attends Gekkoukan as a transfer student; has a Persona. She can come of quite stiff-necked, even cruel, but Aigis is one of few Yuuka wouldn't mind having at her back. Yuuka confuses Aigis, and Aigis confuses Yuuka, so in turn, they are really

• Fumiya Watanabe: Yuuka-babe ... really? He's kind of cute too, if you can look past the neon. Yuuka also totally didn't end up helping him score at the SEES beach party. /Totally/ didn't. She also didn't help save him from his TV Shadow Fumiya self along with Chie, Aigis, Shiki, Thora, and Shirou. Maybe. He hasn't really hit on her in a month or so. Make her wonder if he's surprised at her ability to roll off him calling her babe and just enjoy his friendship. Who knows?

• Sayaka Takuma: Sayaka is a kendo-girl, very quiet, shy, reserved. Yet, Yuuka's friend. How odd. She lives at the Chiba residence in Port Island, in her sisters old room.

• Yuuka has no noticeable Justice links.

• Yuuka has no noticeable Hermit links.

• Yuuka has no noticeable Fortune links.

• Yuuka has no noticable Strength links.

• Wataru Hoshimoto: Wataru is a autistic mute in middle school. Known Persona-User. Older brother happens to be Yoh Hoshimoto - the SEES member that saved Yuukas' life in her first Dark Hour. Wataru and Yuuka have bitten each other before when they got mad, due to tempers. So far, it's a mostly smooth ride ... mostly. Happens to be Shiori's boyfriend -- also supposedly guilty of killing five men. Kandori got him released into the KNOWS program.

• Shirou Sekigawa: Where do we start? Shirou and Yuuka have a caustic, chaotic relationship at their very best, and at the very worst, the two are capable of, with words alone, cutting each other down. However, even through the constant snark, they make a really good team... as long as they aren't mad.

• Hitoshi Taniguchi: Hitoshi was just a first-year Gekkoukan writer and student. Now he is a member of SEES and a Persona-User with Calliope. Yuuka and Hitoshis' relationship is closely guarded... by Yuuka herself.

• Itsuka Mizuhara: A first year, SEES member. Yuuka and she have a rocky relationship that is starting to look up... Shiki's girlfriend. D'aww. Itsuka and Yuuka are eerily starting to have a lot in common, and the two have become closer over time. Yuuka suspects there is still some more to Itsuka that she hasn't met, but only time will tell.

• Lucas Xavier: Priest/Pastor. Persona-User. Guidance Counselor. Worst Best Friend. Best Worst Enemy. Sadly, Yuuka's stopped speaking to Lucas, and no one is quite sure why...

• Takahisa Kandori: Yuuka took on Kandori solo for his presumption to interfere in Fumiya's dungeon. She came out of it in pain, but alive, and with a map of the Lunarvale SEBEC building. Sweet, as even after Mikage-Cho it still seems to be accurate. Speaking of Mikage-Cho, while in said area, Yuuka ran into him alongside Himeru and Naomi, and ended up having a philosophical discussion about being pawns on a chessboard or if it was better -or worse - to be the player -- while a panda was nomming on her.

• Teddie: Teddie and Yuuka met in the TV World. He gave her personalized glasses for the world. Kind of cool. Cuddly.

• Hinata Itoh: Hinata Itoh is the younger sister of Kanon and Ran Itoh. Yuuka considers Hinata not just her kohai, but also her friend, ranked up next to Shiori and Sayaka in terms of friendship. Hinata swore to her to always be there for Yuuka, to help her stop running, to help with anything - a home, relationships, life in general - Yuuka considers herself deep in debt to this amazing teen.

• Yuuka has no noticable Moon links.

• Yuuka has no noticable Sun links.

• Yuuka has no noticable Judgement links.

Starting the next year, Yuuka quickly found herself lost, confused, and utterly /lost/. More than once. There were so many new people, and Yuuka quickly found herself out on the outside of SEES, with little to no friends, and just about nothing that made her happy anymore. It was time to change that, and change quickly did happen. Yuuka managed to alienate both Itsuka Mizuhara and Yoshiro Yoshino within a week. She regretted this almost immediately. She avoided most battles or the more enriching events known as Tartaru runs, due to her fear of her Evoker and just unable to feel at home with the group. This changed, over time. Pastor/Guidance Counselor Lucas Xavier and Yohs' brother, Wataru, quickly became involved in her life, as did Shiori Hibiki, a fellow SEES member. Between the three, and the quiet guidance of several others such as Akatsuki Enda and Aigis, she quickly found a balance, including attending such events as the SEES Gauntlet... which she /still/ hasn't forgive Minato Arisato for yet!

As midterms came up for second term, a foreigner, new to her class, named Blaise Cameron, popped up. Blaise was ... incredibly charming, sweet, and above it all, he /sang/. Yuuka quickly fell for the charm of the teen, which led to chaos as Yuuka let slip to SEES about his issues and his want to find his father, who had disappeared. This quickly went south, including as Shiori intervened, threatening Blaise, and earning a broken arm for it, and more tears from Yuuka. Things didn't go well for several weeks following it, especially as over time they managed to patch things up themselves, which made Yuuka feel incredibly bad at Shioris' intervention. She feels she owes Shiori a debt, which Shiori has assured her is not so, but still... she doesn't think it is right. In was in these patchy times that Yuuka, Aigis, Shiki, Thora Kobayashi, and and Shirou Sekigawa went into the TV World to rescue Fumiya Watanabe. It went pretty well, however, there was a unfortunate offense: Takahisa Kandori showed up with the Chariot Shadow, Minagi Shimizu, and another unknown girl. They ended up having to do battle in a locked room before they could continue. Once down, however, they continued to make their way up to Fumiyas' tower, where they battled his Shadow and he accepted it, gaining the ability to call his own Persona. That brief annoyance was enough, however, and one calm night in Lunarvale, Yuuka stalked up to Kandori's office, and battled him. She /thinks/ she won - she thinks - she got out with an accurate map of the Lunarvale SEBEC building, however, he topped her by dumping her in Yosuke Hanamura's room before back to her bedroom at Xaviers' church. A few days later, Yuuka was at the meeting with Shion Katsuragi and Souji Seta where they interrogated Fumiya about about getting TV'ed, but didn't get very useful information.

Things were looking up between Blaise and Yuuka. As well, Minagi had the Chariot Shadow removed. Things were... going okay. However, one night, Blaise asked her, Shiki Ichimonji, and Minagi Shimizu to play the Persona game with him. Shiori and Hinata Itoh showed up as well. Yuuka was... very uneasy the whole time. Things ... went well, however, in terms of the game itself. They landed in the world of between consciness and unconciousness, meeting the Guide, AKA Philemon. He gave them some food for thought, while Yuuka said some stupid things to Blaise. This led to a event after the game, where they met up again, and he yelled at her. She fled, leaving her Evoker behind. Minagi, who Blaise was becoming close too, got the Evoker and returned it to Minato, who still has not actually given it back to her. This depressed Yuuka. Blaise and Yuuka met up several days later, in Lunarvale, while out exercising seperately. He told her about his need to stay faithful and how he still needed to behave, as he was getting close to Minagi. It ... sort of broke her heart, but she agreed to it. A couple of days later, late to a event where they were raiding the Lunarvale SEBEC building, Yuuka was barely inside of Lunarvale when the DVA system shattered, creating Mikage-cho....

Yuuka ended up on the East side of Mikage-Cho, AKA Lunarvale, alongside many others, including Thora, Shirou, Yosuke, and several others that she didn't get really close too. yosuke had a smart idea and started something called Fort Junes, where everyday is /still/ great. This was nice, as it was calm, quiet, and safe. Until the little girl who called Wataru big bro, Aki showed up. Really defenseful, really angry, she called Yuuka whore right off the bat, and things have gone downhill since there. There were some ups, as Yuuka managed to find Shiori and bring her to Junes, and Lucas showed up not long after... with Ponyo, the guardian of the Samegawa River, and uh, Watarus' pet. Daigan, Yosuke's Shadow, showed up once, and Thora, Yuuka, and someone named Tohya Kidzuki tussled with him, with him managing to put each of them into if not through a wall of Fort Junes. (Yuuka and Tohya left dents; Thora, a huge hole.) Yuuka had some bad nightmares that night, and left, leaving cryptic notes with both Shiori and Lucas as she disappeared into the night, promising to be there when they find Wataru... And find Wataru they did. Listening to the cryptic clues of Aki and the hee-hoos of Jack Frosts, they found what seemed to be a perfectly normal Japanese home ... but nothing was normal, for Yoh Hoshimoto, Yuukas' former senpai, and the dead brother of Wataru, was very much alive and kicking(literally, and physically.) Wataru and Shiori faced off as she yelled at him about forgetting her, his girlfriend. Aki showed up, and thanks to the timely intervention of Yosuke, she was taken care of, leaving Lucas and Yuuka dealing with Yoh and his Persona. They... won, barely, but it led into another battle with Wataru locked in a cage, protected by a guardian skeleton dragon, which was dispatched easily enough. That done, the group headed back to Fort Junes, less Yuuka, who disappeared, too hurt, too ... something... to deal with the emotional breakdown.

Yosuke had this crazy idea to break through the high-level demon-infested subway tunnel. Grafting metal plates together and adding wheels, sturdy sides, a roof, and several windows, he, along with the scrounging help of too many people to remember and Thoras' ability with fire and creating things, created the DemonPlow Alpha. Sturdy, with a snowplow-like front, it was set on the wheels of the subway track, and was powered by such uses of magic like Agidyne. At one point, Yuuka, climbing out a window, clung to it for dear life, summoning Unicorn to help break through a dangerous demon. With that, she climbed back in, only to be jolted silly minutes later when they crashed... Shortly after(as in minutes) after they crashed, the group stumbled out to realize they had crashed into the variety of people from the West Side of Mikage-cho, who had been driving cars. With that revelation, the tunnels were open. Yuuka and Blaise found each other after Hinata glomped her, and they wandered off together, into the Augustus forest, where they both napped, before having a serious conversation. What happened both gave and took hope away from the petite girl, yet... she wonders.

... and kept wondering, at that. Wandering around west Mikage-Cho, Yuuka fell in with some old friends, including building up some close relationships with Souji Seta, and getting in a shower and clean clothes, so she at least felt clean rather than dirty and grimy, although that quickly went to hell as she went into demon battles and the like. Yuuka fought and forced herself to train, to stay strong, to be there for all her friends, no matter what happened, wandering often between the two sides. During one such wander, she ran into Naomi Suzuno, Takahisa Kandori, and Himeru Namikawa. What followed was a lively philosophical debate including whether it was better to be a pawn and have your decisions made, or the player with all the consequences -- while a panda chewed on her. Including during the last round of Mikage-Cho was a final battle. Shadow Yoh appeared in front of Fort Junes, with Lucas, Shiori, Hisoka, Souji, and Aki on site with Yuuka. Souji used his gentle, calm words, and got Aki to join the group, especially when it appeared that Yoh had broken out of her control. Together, the group battled Shadow Yoh/Shadow Gawaine, and all was going fine -- until Shadow Yoh sent a mortal blow straight at Shiori and Hisoka -- that Wataru dived in front of and took. Pissed, angry, fire blew through her mind, and she awakened the persona Poltergeist, who proved to be a great help in the battle, but led to strange comments from one Lucas Xavier. Eventually, however, they won, with Wataru hovering on the brink of life - or death. After the battle, Yuuka had to brutally wake Shiori up to the fact that moping around, even with a shattered voice, wasn't going to do anything -- and it worked.

That night, Yuuka headed for the Karma Palace, to face the Harem Queen, alongside Deidra Doyle. Along the way they met up with Masumi Hayashi, Blaise Cameron, and Strega member Chidori Yoshino. They then ran into Naomi Suzuno, Miwa Saitou, and Tohya Kidzuki, and at the bottom of the dungeon, found Shirou Sekigawa, Thora Kobayashi, Enoha Koinose, Ideal Maki, Kanon Itoh, and Adachi Tohru. There, they found the harem queen, Maki's classmate Chisato. Using a special power, she turned Chidori into stone; afterward, Naomi, Shirou, and Yuuka destroyed the mirror, removing her power, causing the barrier to disrupt itself, and disappear. Before they left, however, they convinced her that she was beautiful no matter what, and, accepting this, went upstairs with the others... Then time twisted, and they found themselves in Lunarvale, at the Augustus Trees...

Now back in Port Island, Yuuka is trying to relax. It's not working well, as Blaise Cameron is still trying to befriend Strega member Chidori Yoshino, as they evidently got into a fight; as well, Blaises' mother, Valerie Cameron, disappeared. Blaise acted nice, kind, even lovingly to Yuuka, only to confuse her seconds later when he made a comment about how the height difference didn't help. Yuuka gave up at that point, unable to deal with the comfort then rejection, just said forget about it. Seeing him, talking about him, breaks her... along with other boys, Wataru, after recovering in the hospital, ended up in Prison in Sumaru. Evidently, he's going into the KNOWS program underneath Takahisa Kandori with the promise that he gets off charges about the murders...Alongside the male issues, there are more closer, personal issues. Shiori Hibiki informed Yuuka that she was leaving SEES, and as such, Yuuka offered her a bed, desk, and a half-a closet in her room at the Chiba Residence in Port Island. Shiori agreed, and the pair have come even closer, sisters now. Shiori will be moving in shortly, with the agreement of her parents. Yuuka loves her friend deeply, and will try to protect her; this is just one of the ways of doing so. As well, Yuuka finally admitted her suicidal depression to Hinata Itoh, who promptly broke down and expressed to Yuuka her joy and how much she looks up to the second year, which startled her... and she promised not to run away anymore, and has Hinata's full help to try to fix her issues. Shortly after this, Yuuka admitted something rather personal to Shiori Hibiki. What happened afterward was a blasting denial of someone Yuuka had once upon a time liked a great deal. Hatred, anger, and sheer just-gave-up came through her tone, although she made a promise not to hurt someone else... someone who had been there the whole time, through everything... a happy promise, indeed. However, Shiori Hibiki would reveal this to Blaise Cameron, who confronted Yuuka after school. What happened afterward is known to only those two; however, what happened after that is very well known. Losing control over her temper and attitude, Yuuka destroyed a good part of the classroom, not breaking anything, just trashing it. As a result, Yuuka was suspended from school for the rest of the week, and it created a permanent mark on her record. As such, Yuuka's life was thrown into a tailspin. Grounded to the dorms, home, or the Church of the Holy Trinity, not at school, losing all that education time -- it broke her. It broke her. She started to wonder what if what he said was true... and as she thought about it, it led to a ...

Shortly afterwards, Yuuka fled to the Church of the Holy Trinity. Confronted there by Shiori Hibiki, Yuuka finally lost her temper, sobbing out her anger, and attempted suicide. With helpful interference from Shiori and her personae, Pheme, Yuuka was stopped; since then, she's been in a state of half-dazed tears. How this reacted with her friends, only time will tell, but it seems Shiori told some people, as the day after, at home, Sayaka Takuma confronted her about it as well. Yuuka isn't sure what's going on, but there has been one insistent thread in all her talks: don't hurt or confront Blaise Cameron about it! The question is, will any of her friends listen to her? Not that she expected, or really wanted them too. Lucas came down hard on Yuuka, and it startled her that she had hurt /him/ of all people. When Hinata Itoh found out about it, Yuuka was devestated by her reaction and ended up getting trailed by Kanon Itoh after this revelation. She's spoken with Himeru Namikawa, Akatsuki Enda, and so many more about this, and nothing makes sense yet... /nothing/. She closes her eyes, every night, trying to figure it out, what she can do to help...

Help comes, though, in many forms. Igor and Elizabeth called her to the Velvet Room, and what was revealed was the path ahead of her in simple tarot cards. Yuuka freaked and departed. Around this time, a new SEES member, first-year Gekkoukan student Hitoshi Taniguchi had wandered into the dorm. They quickly became acquantices, and naturally, when he ended up lost in the Dark Hour getting chased by a Lurker, who attempted to chomp Hinata, Itsuka, Akatsuki, Aigis, and eventually Junpei as well as Hitoshi and Yuuka. Hitoshi evoked his Persona, Calliope, and since then, Yuuka's fallen into studying mode for exams....

Second semester exam scores bombed. Whoops. Yuuka didn't really care, although her parents never found out about it at first. Instead, Yuuka went into the third and final semester of her second year at Gekkoukan High School resolving to do what she must, because she can. During one night out alone, Yuuka was ambushed by Akimoto, or the Shining Priestess of Strega. It forced her to run and escape, except the door she chose to dive into led to the Abyss of Time underneath the Tartarus'. There, Yuuka found Kazuo, Tohya, Tomomi, Reid O'Lennon, and Yosuke, each having found their own door and entered through it. SEES, KDA, NWO, and everyone else found them a couple of days later, and that...

Is when they all broke time. (Aside from Tohya and Yosuke.)

Yuuka broke time that at a major point in her life where she just meekly said 'yes sir,' she said 'no sir.' As a result, her alt-universe self was a major j-pop star by the name of Yuume-Mi, who had a persona by the name of Euterpe, a Grecian Muse, and didn't require a Persona. She willingly gave herself up to Himeru, Ritsue, and Kanon and the hands of SEES once it was found out she had broken time, and a day later, handed her key over to Thora Kobayashi, who gave it to Yosuke Hanamura, who gave it to Souji Seta, who gave it to Takahisa Kandori, who gave it to Minato Arisato, who fixed time with all six keys.

It was then revealed that the High Priestess Greater Arcana Shadow had been behind it all. That revelation sent Yuuka into a funk, and since then, she's done very little of anything outside of homework and studying, now that third semester exams have finished. What happens next, no one is sure of, however, it'll be sure that things are going to be very, very different from now on....