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Character Name: Morgana (codename: Mona)
Series: Persona 5
Timeline: Prior to Sae Niijima's palace
Canon Resource Link: Check meowt!
Character History: !!!BRIEF WARNING!!! - this entire section is a major spoiler for the entirety of the Persona 5 plot.
Waking up inside a jail cell inside the palace of a high school gym teacher's heart, Morgana at first has no recollection of the world or the events that came to be that wound up with him imprisoned inside someone else's cognitive world. He knows only a few things at the beginning: his name, how to infiltrate palaces as a thief of hearts, creating tools, and some varied details about the Jungian world that exists below Shibuya- Mementos. His biggest desire is to find the treasures buried within these distorted, corrupted inner vistas, born from the extreme dissonance adults harbor within them. Through that, he believes it will bring him closer to humanhood- an assumption Morgana bases on his true identity- and shed him from the furry coils that bind him to this form. Put blank, Morgana is convinced that something has happened to him to make him this way and assumes that he's no different from the regular humans who walk the world above.
When Akira and Ryuji find him inside Kamoshida's palace, he offers his expertise in cracking palace level security, and tutors them on the entry level mechanics of the Metaverse in exchange for a promise to help him find his inner human. At first, Morgana is drawn to Akira's powers, convinced that since he can change personas at will, that he must be a valuable resource in meeting his own goals down the road.
The rules of a palace are pretty simple; in order to change a person's heart, you must secure a route to the core of the palace, which will contain a treasure within it. However, it is not enough to simply attack the treasure and take it right away. Outside of the palace, in the real world, the owner of that distorted inner world must fear that their true desires are at stake. Only then will the heart of that cognition manifest, making it prime for the taking.
Raising Akira and Ryuji to become thieves themselves, Morgana joins the two on their first heist. With his general knowledge of the Metaverse and how to traipse its inner depths, he serves as the team's navigator, mascot, and cheerleader. Things come to a point as they gain deeper entrance into their first palace, with a deadline approaching fast (Kamoshida is threatening to expel all involved parties from school). Above, in the outside world, the team undergoes further stress as they're forced to investigate the situation and deal with the moral scruple of whether or not it's just to actually steal a person's heart. When a close friend of a classmate, Ann Takamaki, attempts to commit suicide following the events of Kamoshida forcing himself upon her, she wanders into the palace herself accidentally and awakens to her persona. These events lead to the formation of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, a conviction born within the group to bring vigilante justice to people who abuse others.
They reach the treasure room, escape, and send their first calling card, which forces the treasure inside Kamoshida's palace to materialize, ripe for the taking. Upon successful infiltration and larceny, they steal the target's treasure, which causes a change of heart inside the victim. Kamoshida confesses to all his vile actions- using his power as faculty to extort students, through brute force and physical torture, even going as far as sexually harassing female students to get his way.
Along the way, Morgana comes to live with Akira in the decrepit attic that his guardian leases out to him. In the real world, his form takes the appearance of a regular house cat, and only those who have entered the Metaverse can hear him speak. Morgana continues his exploits with the Phantom thieves, adding additional members of the core team as they continuously topple palace after palace: an art student Yusuke Kitagawa, student council president Makoto Niijima, and a reclusive mega hacker Futaba Sakura.
Tensions heat up within a rivalry with Ryuji Sakamoto, whose hotheaded temper eventually triggers a separation of Morgana from the team. Believing that he can take treasures just fine by himself, he attempts to pull off a solo heist within a massive food chain's mogul CEO- Okumura. By pure coincidence, he teams up with Haru Okumura and enters the Metaverse with her in tow, eventually taking her under his paw and introducing her as the Beauty Thief to the rest of the Phantom Thieves. Haru, the daughter of the Big Bang Burger's CEO, awakens to her own persona as they try to trigger a change of heart within her father. Eventually, the team realizes that they are better united together instead of taking on separate forces, and they join up once again- adding Haru to the team of bandits.
Meanwhile, Morgana is troubled by dreams of his origin. In his slowly progressing awakening of the events that led him up to getting trapped within Kamoshida's palace, he sees visions of himself waking up as a shadow in Mementos. His inner faith in himself is shook up, leading to a small existential crisis of whether or not he's not even a cat, never mind a human being.
As events unfold, Morgana is crucial in identifying the motives of a star detective, Goro Akechi, who blackmails the team into joining them under the premise that they needed to steal the heart of Sae Niijima, an SIU prosecutor who will forsake her own justice in identifying the true members of the Phantom Thieves. Akechi fools the group into thinking that he's siding with them, begrudgingly, but Morgana is rather unsettled by all of it. He catches Akechi in a lie- who had revealed that he recently became a persona user at a recent point in time. In reality, Akechi had made a fatal mistake of responding to Morgana passively before, at a casual exchange between the group and him during a social studies trip to the television station... something that would've indicated he could hear and understand Morgana far before he had actually claimed to awaken to his powers.
Later, after Akechi's betrayal is revealed, and a plan is formed to trick the world into thinking the leader of the Phantom Thieves has committed suicide under police custody, the team infiltrates and destroys the palace of their final target: a corrupt politician who has been pulling the strings of every corner of Japanese society, Masayoshi Shido. Victory is short lived, however, as even though Shido confesses to his crimes at his inaugural address, the team discovers that something is gravely wrong with society. It moves them to uncover the truth behind Mementos, which also leads to the truth behind Morgana's very existence.
Morgana was created by the master of the Velvet Room, Igor, a watcher who presides over the fate of humanity by guiding certain individuals to taking responsibility for all of humankind's arrogance and desires in an effort to prove the worth and value of people. His role was meant to assist Akira in achieving the taking down of society's collective desire to be controlled and complacent in life. In this way, Morgana is a physical manifestation of hope, of the interior motive behind people to resist clinging to the despair that one resolves to when they feel trapped and hopeless. Accepting his role as a beacon of light, and coming to the realization that he does belong with the Phantom Thieves, through thick and thin, he ultimately helps dissolving the entanglement of Mementos with the world around them after a singularity causes the cognitive world and real world to exist as one.
At the end of the story, Morgana returns to Leblanc just as Akira is set to return home to his life outside of Tokyo. He's reached his own fulfillment in life and accepts who he really is, and vows to stay by Akira's side as long as he can.
Morgana will awaken just prior to the to the events that reveal Goro Akechi is, in fact a traitor.
Abilities/Special Powers: Morgana's form generally changes based on the cognitive state of the world. In everyday dealings, he looks no different from a regular cat, but if the person's perception of Morgana is altered to perceive more, he appears as he does in the Metaverse: a full fledged cat burglar. Due to the collective unconscious of the people of Japan, he's also able to take on the form of a van, as "cats turning into buses" is an extremely widespread cognition among the general public of his original world. Morgana is a persona wielder; the acceptance of true rebellion that hides behind a user's mask. At his current canon point, his persona is identified as Zorro, and provides him with the following abilities:
◇ Garudyne - Heavy Wind damage to 1 foe. Does extra damage if target is burned.
◆ Magarula - Medium Wind damage to all foes. Does extra damage if target(s) is (are) burned
◇ Mediarama - Restore Medium amount of HP of party.
◆ Diarahan - Fully restore HP of 1 ally.
◇ Wind Boost - Strengthen Wind attacks by 25%
◆ Miracle Punch - Medium Physical damage to 1 foe, high critical rate.
◇ Samarerecarm - Revive 1 ally with maximum HP.
◆ Masakunda - Debuff agility/accuracy of all foes for 3 turns.
Third-Person Sample: For someone who's generally not unnerved by traveling between bizarre worlds, something about this place just feels eerie. Off. It has all the telltale markings of a palace, sure- structures and areas that seem too large to be lifelike, too lifelike to be just at the point of surreal, and, all in all, massively confusing. It's nothing like he's ever seen before, and his instincts are telling him that wherever this particular place's treasure was, must be far away and tucked deep within its innermost coils.
A part of him knows that this isn't the Metaverse, though, and that's really a problem. One that he doesn't know how to solve, or even where to begin with. And as he stands before these giant fences on the outskirts of everything, he has a moment where he wonders how he even came to be here. He could've sworn he should be somewhere else, laying at the edge of Akira's bed, even, passing time sleeping and waiting for the next big heist. Maybe this is another one of those dreams he's been having lately- but the lack of the world of Mementos around him makes him uncertain that's even a possibility.
Morgana has never been one to see a wall and think that it's impenetrable, but something about these structures seem mystical. There's always a point to crack. There's always a way out. A weak link in the grander formation that leads to safety. He approaches, cautiously, since he's assumed by this point at least 8 of his 9 lives have already been eaten up, but as he gets closer, the horizon of the fence's depth seems to grow at the same distance his gait does.
He tries sprinting forward, but... nothing.
For the first time in a long while, Morgana is relatively terrified of what's going on. Palaces were never designed to keep people in, but rather to fortify against outside intruders. Whatever this was- wherever this was, definitely wasn't part of the plan.
First-Person Sample:
[Morgana was dead set on proving to the world that the pure, gentle visages of noble cat-like creatures everywhere wasn't purely relegated to the stardom of videos on NicoNico. Not that... anyone would really know much at all about streaming video in this world, per se; but that only meant that he had that much more to prove of himself here. It wasn't that hard to set up either- he got by with a little help from voice activated software and the amused interest of his friends.]
Hah! Who needs opposable thumbs anyway? They're totally overrated. Oh. Is this thing on?
[With a small squint at the screen, he tries to figure out how to tell if it was actually recording. Definitely setting himself up to the world with his debut and true to his elegant form, any viewer can see him sauntering up to the camera aperture and clouding it with his little black button nose.]
That little red blinking thingy means it's on, doesn't it... Oh no. Cut! Cut! They can't see this. People are going to think I'm a cat. I am not a cat.
[It takes a moment for him to realize that streaming video doesn't work like a Hollywood production, and in his extreme erring on the side of futility, there's an audible sigh as he pads his way over, staring at himself in the phone's view and swatting it down to the ground.]
End recording!
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Character Name: Morgana (codename: Mona)
Series: Persona 5
Timeline: Prior to Sae Niijima's palace
Canon Resource Link: Check meowt!
Character History: !!!BRIEF WARNING!!! - this entire section is a major spoiler for the entirety of the Persona 5 plot.
Waking up inside a jail cell inside the palace of a high school gym teacher's heart, Morgana at first has no recollection of the world or the events that came to be that wound up with him imprisoned inside someone else's cognitive world. He knows only a few things at the beginning: his name, how to infiltrate palaces as a thief of hearts, creating tools, and some varied details about the Jungian world that exists below Shibuya- Mementos. His biggest desire is to find the treasures buried within these distorted, corrupted inner vistas, born from the extreme dissonance adults harbor within them. Through that, he believes it will bring him closer to humanhood- an assumption Morgana bases on his true identity- and shed him from the furry coils that bind him to this form. Put blank, Morgana is convinced that something has happened to him to make him this way and assumes that he's no different from the regular humans who walk the world above.
When Akira and Ryuji find him inside Kamoshida's palace, he offers his expertise in cracking palace level security, and tutors them on the entry level mechanics of the Metaverse in exchange for a promise to help him find his inner human. At first, Morgana is drawn to Akira's powers, convinced that since he can change personas at will, that he must be a valuable resource in meeting his own goals down the road.
The rules of a palace are pretty simple; in order to change a person's heart, you must secure a route to the core of the palace, which will contain a treasure within it. However, it is not enough to simply attack the treasure and take it right away. Outside of the palace, in the real world, the owner of that distorted inner world must fear that their true desires are at stake. Only then will the heart of that cognition manifest, making it prime for the taking.
Raising Akira and Ryuji to become thieves themselves, Morgana joins the two on their first heist. With his general knowledge of the Metaverse and how to traipse its inner depths, he serves as the team's navigator, mascot, and cheerleader. Things come to a point as they gain deeper entrance into their first palace, with a deadline approaching fast (Kamoshida is threatening to expel all involved parties from school). Above, in the outside world, the team undergoes further stress as they're forced to investigate the situation and deal with the moral scruple of whether or not it's just to actually steal a person's heart. When a close friend of a classmate, Ann Takamaki, attempts to commit suicide following the events of Kamoshida forcing himself upon her, she wanders into the palace herself accidentally and awakens to her persona. These events lead to the formation of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, a conviction born within the group to bring vigilante justice to people who abuse others.
They reach the treasure room, escape, and send their first calling card, which forces the treasure inside Kamoshida's palace to materialize, ripe for the taking. Upon successful infiltration and larceny, they steal the target's treasure, which causes a change of heart inside the victim. Kamoshida confesses to all his vile actions- using his power as faculty to extort students, through brute force and physical torture, even going as far as sexually harassing female students to get his way.
Along the way, Morgana comes to live with Akira in the decrepit attic that his guardian leases out to him. In the real world, his form takes the appearance of a regular house cat, and only those who have entered the Metaverse can hear him speak. Morgana continues his exploits with the Phantom thieves, adding additional members of the core team as they continuously topple palace after palace: an art student Yusuke Kitagawa, student council president Makoto Niijima, and a reclusive mega hacker Futaba Sakura.
Tensions heat up within a rivalry with Ryuji Sakamoto, whose hotheaded temper eventually triggers a separation of Morgana from the team. Believing that he can take treasures just fine by himself, he attempts to pull off a solo heist within a massive food chain's mogul CEO- Okumura. By pure coincidence, he teams up with Haru Okumura and enters the Metaverse with her in tow, eventually taking her under his paw and introducing her as the Beauty Thief to the rest of the Phantom Thieves. Haru, the daughter of the Big Bang Burger's CEO, awakens to her own persona as they try to trigger a change of heart within her father. Eventually, the team realizes that they are better united together instead of taking on separate forces, and they join up once again- adding Haru to the team of bandits.
Meanwhile, Morgana is troubled by dreams of his origin. In his slowly progressing awakening of the events that led him up to getting trapped within Kamoshida's palace, he sees visions of himself waking up as a shadow in Mementos. His inner faith in himself is shook up, leading to a small existential crisis of whether or not he's not even a cat, never mind a human being.
As events unfold, Morgana is crucial in identifying the motives of a star detective, Goro Akechi, who blackmails the team into joining them under the premise that they needed to steal the heart of Sae Niijima, an SIU prosecutor who will forsake her own justice in identifying the true members of the Phantom Thieves. Akechi fools the group into thinking that he's siding with them, begrudgingly, but Morgana is rather unsettled by all of it. He catches Akechi in a lie- who had revealed that he recently became a persona user at a recent point in time. In reality, Akechi had made a fatal mistake of responding to Morgana passively before, at a casual exchange between the group and him during a social studies trip to the television station... something that would've indicated he could hear and understand Morgana far before he had actually claimed to awaken to his powers.
Later, after Akechi's betrayal is revealed, and a plan is formed to trick the world into thinking the leader of the Phantom Thieves has committed suicide under police custody, the team infiltrates and destroys the palace of their final target: a corrupt politician who has been pulling the strings of every corner of Japanese society, Masayoshi Shido. Victory is short lived, however, as even though Shido confesses to his crimes at his inaugural address, the team discovers that something is gravely wrong with society. It moves them to uncover the truth behind Mementos, which also leads to the truth behind Morgana's very existence.
Morgana was created by the master of the Velvet Room, Igor, a watcher who presides over the fate of humanity by guiding certain individuals to taking responsibility for all of humankind's arrogance and desires in an effort to prove the worth and value of people. His role was meant to assist Akira in achieving the taking down of society's collective desire to be controlled and complacent in life. In this way, Morgana is a physical manifestation of hope, of the interior motive behind people to resist clinging to the despair that one resolves to when they feel trapped and hopeless. Accepting his role as a beacon of light, and coming to the realization that he does belong with the Phantom Thieves, through thick and thin, he ultimately helps dissolving the entanglement of Mementos with the world around them after a singularity causes the cognitive world and real world to exist as one.
At the end of the story, Morgana returns to Leblanc just as Akira is set to return home to his life outside of Tokyo. He's reached his own fulfillment in life and accepts who he really is, and vows to stay by Akira's side as long as he can.
Morgana will awaken just prior to the to the events that reveal Goro Akechi is, in fact a traitor.
Abilities/Special Powers: Morgana's form generally changes based on the cognitive state of the world. In everyday dealings, he looks no different from a regular cat, but if the person's perception of Morgana is altered to perceive more, he appears as he does in the Metaverse: a full fledged cat burglar. Due to the collective unconscious of the people of Japan, he's also able to take on the form of a van, as "cats turning into buses" is an extremely widespread cognition among the general public of his original world. Morgana is a persona wielder; the acceptance of true rebellion that hides behind a user's mask. At his current canon point, his persona is identified as Zorro, and provides him with the following abilities:
◇ Garudyne - Heavy Wind damage to 1 foe. Does extra damage if target is burned.
◆ Magarula - Medium Wind damage to all foes. Does extra damage if target(s) is (are) burned
◇ Mediarama - Restore Medium amount of HP of party.
◆ Diarahan - Fully restore HP of 1 ally.
◇ Wind Boost - Strengthen Wind attacks by 25%
◆ Miracle Punch - Medium Physical damage to 1 foe, high critical rate.
◇ Samarerecarm - Revive 1 ally with maximum HP.
◆ Masakunda - Debuff agility/accuracy of all foes for 3 turns.
Third-Person Sample: For someone who's generally not unnerved by traveling between bizarre worlds, something about this place just feels eerie. Off. It has all the telltale markings of a palace, sure- structures and areas that seem too large to be lifelike, too lifelike to be just at the point of surreal, and, all in all, massively confusing. It's nothing like he's ever seen before, and his instincts are telling him that wherever this particular place's treasure was, must be far away and tucked deep within its innermost coils.
A part of him knows that this isn't the Metaverse, though, and that's really a problem. One that he doesn't know how to solve, or even where to begin with. And as he stands before these giant fences on the outskirts of everything, he has a moment where he wonders how he even came to be here. He could've sworn he should be somewhere else, laying at the edge of Akira's bed, even, passing time sleeping and waiting for the next big heist. Maybe this is another one of those dreams he's been having lately- but the lack of the world of Mementos around him makes him uncertain that's even a possibility.
Morgana has never been one to see a wall and think that it's impenetrable, but something about these structures seem mystical. There's always a point to crack. There's always a way out. A weak link in the grander formation that leads to safety. He approaches, cautiously, since he's assumed by this point at least 8 of his 9 lives have already been eaten up, but as he gets closer, the horizon of the fence's depth seems to grow at the same distance his gait does.
He tries sprinting forward, but... nothing.
For the first time in a long while, Morgana is relatively terrified of what's going on. Palaces were never designed to keep people in, but rather to fortify against outside intruders. Whatever this was- wherever this was, definitely wasn't part of the plan.
First-Person Sample:
[Morgana was dead set on proving to the world that the pure, gentle visages of noble cat-like creatures everywhere wasn't purely relegated to the stardom of videos on NicoNico. Not that... anyone would really know much at all about streaming video in this world, per se; but that only meant that he had that much more to prove of himself here. It wasn't that hard to set up either- he got by with a little help from voice activated software and the amused interest of his friends.]
Hah! Who needs opposable thumbs anyway? They're totally overrated. Oh. Is this thing on?
[With a small squint at the screen, he tries to figure out how to tell if it was actually recording. Definitely setting himself up to the world with his debut and true to his elegant form, any viewer can see him sauntering up to the camera aperture and clouding it with his little black button nose.]
That little red blinking thingy means it's on, doesn't it... Oh no. Cut! Cut! They can't see this. People are going to think I'm a cat. I am not a cat.
[It takes a moment for him to realize that streaming video doesn't work like a Hollywood production, and in his extreme erring on the side of futility, there's an audible sigh as he pads his way over, staring at himself in the phone's view and swatting it down to the ground.]
End recording!