Kasumi Horie/Notable Social Links

Notable Social Links

Social Links - Fool Through Fortune 0 - THE FOOL: Minako Arisato: A bright, bubbly girl that Kasumi really enjoys being around. She is a member of SEES which is also a plus. Their most recent meeting happened by chance at Paulownia while Kasumi was shopping for uniforms for school and work. I - THE MAGICIAN: Shiki Ichimonji: After a couple of meetings Kasumi has grown an interest in Shiki. He seems to be a good friend and has the most interesting hobby with writing manga. He also offered to help train her with her weapons. II - THE HIGH PRIESTESS: Maki Sonomura: Kasumi likes Maki et. al. She only recently came to understand the whole relationship between Maki and her two little sisters. Now she gets who they are for the most part and she is completely okay with this. Maki was the first person to give her hugs ICly. She seems to be a very caring person. Masumi Hayashi: Kasumi shares an interest in the occult with her. After she found out that Masumi was shadow-possessed, she wanted to try and help. When Masumi disappeared, she went to help and ended up fighting against her. Eventually, she found out that Masumi was trying to fight the shadow-possession and went into the TV after her. Even though the girl seemed cured by the experience Kasumi hasn't seen her in awhile... III - THE EMPRESS: Mitsuru Kirijo: Kasumi met her randomly in Port Island and she knows that she is a member of SEES as well as the heiress to the Kirijo group. After Mitsuru found out about Kasumi having the potential and experiencing the Dark Hour she offered to tell her more about SEES. Kasumi got her phone number from Aigis after their first meeting. They have had a couple of rather grim but meaningful meetings. She thinks that Mitsuru possesses a wisdom that is beyond her years. Kasumi mentioned that she had lost her mother and brother and Mitsuru shared that she too had lost her mother at a young age. It strengthened the bond that Kasumi felt towards her. Even though they have only known each other for a short time Kasumi trusts her in the same way that she trusts Himeru...maybe even more. Mitsuru was involved in Kasumi's dungeon rescue. At their first meeting afterward, Mitsuru asked her flat out about her family. Kasumi willingly answered and that was a major first for her. IV - THE EMPEROR: Akatsuki Enda: Kasumi ran into the college student a few times. He has offered her quite a bit of advice before she began high school, being a former Gekkoukan student and all. After finding out that he had an uncle that was a published author, Kasumi wanted to meet him. However, after hearing about his brother's situation and the events within the TV, she isn't sure that she will ever get that chance. V - THE HIEROPHANT: Shinjiro Aragaki: They had an odd first encounter when she found Shinjiro waiting for her outside her job. They spoke and she found out that Mai had told him about her first Dark Hour experience. He seemed to be focused on making her understand exactly what she was getting into. However, she also promised him that she would not get involved as long as she could avoid it. He also shocked her by actually showing her his Persona. It was the first one she had ever seen. Subsequent meetings yielded more information about persona control and training. After inadvertently finding out about aspects of his past and questioning him, Kasumi found that she felt a great amount of compassion for him. She still thinks he's creepy and too serious but she also thinks that she understands more about him now... VI - THE LOVERS: Shinsuke Kusagawa: Itsuka's twin brother and a musician. She hasn't seen him too often but their meetings have been enjoyable at least. VII - THE CHARIOT: Aigis: When they first met, Kasumi wasn't really sure what to think about Aigis. However, after numerous meetings they have formed a bond. Aigis enlightened her about the supernatural and SEES. Kasumi had a suspicion that Aigis was not 'normal' and through her TV Dungeon found out that she appears to be a robot. Surprisingly, she was not really freaked out by it but was more intrigued than anything. She admires Aigis a lot. Yoh Yamagatani: Kasumi considers Yoh a good friend, probably one of her best friends in fact. He's always cheerful and even though it can grate on her nerves sometimes, especially when he seems happy to fight, most of the time she enjoys his presence. It's because of him and Aigis that she finally decided to join SEES officially. She is concerned to know that he is dating a shadow-possessed though. VIII - JUSTICE: Arisa Shiratori: A good friend of Maki's that Kasumi met awhile back. They have only run into each other a couple of times but their last meeting was very informative. She explained Maki et al. to her a bit and helped her understand Mikage-cho more even though Kasumi has never been there before aside from seeing it in Mai's abyss. Katsuya Suou: A detective that Kasumi met during the fight against the Lovers shadow. She later 'hired' Jason and Katsuya to look into her family's past. Even though the answers she received weren't what she expected, Kasumi is grateful for his work and it ultimately helped her to shed some great personal baggage that she had been carrying around for a long time. Nanako Dojima: A very sweet little girl that Kasumi has run into a couple times. She doesn't know much about her but she's very adorable and independent for her age. IX - THE HERMIT: X - THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Ran Itoh: The middle Itoh sister! Kasumi has grown attached to the Itoh family and Ran is no exception. :) Social Links - Strength Through Judgement XI - STRENGTH: Jason R. Butler: Kasumi met him the night of the Greater Arcana shadow fight and found out that he was a detective, specifically a private investigator. She approached him recently about taking on a new case. After months of waiting for a response, Kasumi didn't really get the answers that she was hoping for from the investigation. However, thanks to it, she finally was able to talk to her father about everything. Kasumi is very grateful for the PI. Thora Kobayashi: A Yasogami student that Kasumi ran into a couple of times. Thora led the investigation team when Kasumi was thrown into the TV. She also led the rescue team to save her from the TV World. An experienced weaponsmith, Kasumi has asked for her advice on weapon choice a couple of times. XII - THE HANGED MAN: Baofu: The first time Kasumi ran into him (literally), they had a brief conversation. He was pretty polite although he was kind of weird she thought. The next time they ran into each other was at the Port Island station. Somehow he knew that she visited the Darkside boards. It freaked her out a bit but she did not really have time to talk to him in depth. She finally met him again through a post on the boards and was given official access to the Darkside boards. XIII - DEATH: Seiichi Miyamoto: Ran into him a couple of times. Kasumi thinks it's pretty awesome that he is a musician. Their last meeting he introduced her to his three kittens and they talked briefly about the Dark Hour. Kasumi confessed to him that she didn't think that she was strong enough to be involved in all the supernatural stuff. He pretty much told her that she had no choice. The Masked Man: Kasumi was intrigued by the Masked Man's appearance. He was the first person ICly to really get under her skin when he spoke about previous incidents involving her friends. Mitsuru later told her how dangerous he was and to stay away from him as much as possible. Unexpectedly, Kasumi ran into him at Junes. She willingly went with him to some kind of room and it led to her being pushed into a TV. She later found out that Seiichi was the Masked Man and was angry about it for awhile. Things are better now though... Minamo Takagawa: Nyamo. A Gekkoukan student who transferred after the term started when Kasumi was a first-year. They have spoken about the occult and the Persona Game. Later, after Minamo joined SEES, Kasumi found out that she had been saved in the Dark Hour and was already awakened. XIV- TEMPERANCE: Hitoshi Taniguchi: After a brief encounter at the Strip Mall, Kasumi found she has a couple of things in common with Hitoshi, books and writing. He is much more dedicated to his writing than she will ever be and that is something that she greatly admires. Despite their meetings and him seeing her in her first Dark Hour encounter she still knows very little about him and she hasn't seen him in a long time. XV - THE DEVIL: Itsuka Mizuhara: Itsuka shares her interest in books and writing. She also invited her to join the Literature Club on their first meeting and blatantly asked Kasumi about her involvement in the Dark Hour. With a meeting at the shrine they spoke about everything that had happened since her awakening a little. Kasumi is happy to have met Itsuka and considers her a confidant of sorts, having divulged just about everything about her past and the previous investigation to her. XVI - THE TOWER: Mai Namikawa: A second-year Gekkoukan student and Kasumi’s closest friend. Mai was the first person to really take Kasumi under her wing as her kohai. While Mai tried to protect Kasumi from ever being awakened, she also was the person who first introduced her to the supernatural. She has been there for the younger girl at every major point since then. The night she played the Persona game, her first Dark Hour encounter and then Mai also helped save her in the TV World. Kasumi recently had the chance to return the favor in the Abyss. Things changed very dramatically after Kasumi found out about her past and that she is actually Mai Namikawa and had been using her deceased sister's identity. Their relationship, oddly enough, has gotten even stronger because of it. Kasumi promised her that no matter what other people think, she will always be there for her. XVII - THE STAR: Hinata Itoh: Kasumi first ran into this Itoh sister at the Lucky 7. She has since met her a couple other times. She likes her enthusiasm and energy. Hinata is a second-year at Gekkoukan and Hinata loved when Kasumi called her sempai. Their last meeting was a bit unpleasant and Kasumi found out about how Strega had hurt the Itoh family. Because of that meeting she admires Hinata's enthusiasm even more. For someone to be that cheerful despite everything she had been through shows a lot about her character and strength. Kasumi was surprised to see her involved in the TV dungeon rescue but was very happy she was there. Teddie: A cute little bear that got hurt in Kasumi's TV Dungeon. :( She met him later in Inaba and apologized! XVIII - THE MOON: Keitaro Nagasaku: So far he is the only other first year Gekkoukan student Kasumi has met. They have met quite a few times socially and Kasumi has formed a pretty good relationship with him. One night she opened up to him by showing him a picture of her family before the tragedy. Their relationship got a better because of this. He doesn't say a whole lot but Kasumi and him seem to share a part of their past that involves deep tragedies. Hitoshi threw a Showa Day party where Kasumi found out that Keitaro was a member of Strega. After talking to numerous people about it and finding out that Keitaro had, in fact, helped rescue Yoh, she believes that he can be changed and is simply confused due to his past. Just about the time that she was giving up all hope on him, he went into the Abyss. After saving him though she is not sure of the status of their relationship anymore but she is aware that he is no longer running with Strega. XIX -THE SUN: XX - JUDGEMENT: Kanon Itoh: While Kanon is older than Kasumi she still likes her, especially her tattoos. Kasumi invited her to her birthday celebration even though they had only met one time previously. Kasumi has run into her a few times since and she was there the night Kasumi played the Persona game. She looks up to Kanon and admires her for some reason. She wants to convince her dad to let Kanon give her a Sakura tattoo in memorial of her mother. Nagisa Renge: A Strega member that Kasumi first ran into on Shirakawa Blvd. They came across each other numerous times and Kasumi slowly grew fond of her. Despite the friendship being more of a one-sided thing, Kasumi tried really hard to be friends with her. Unfortunately, she wasn't aware that Nagisa was dying and her death came as a complete shock to her.