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Tsuyoshi Tadase is a curious dichotomy. At first glance, he looks like a bookish nerd with all the courage and strength of a wet noodle. He's small and bespectacled, with a tendency to attract bullies like lanterns attract moths. On the other hand, he has an unorthodox reputation as a very good fighter. Over the years, he's taught himself to fight to defend himself from bullies and other assorted jerks, learning how to dish out what he'd had to take. Somewhere along the line it transitioned from earnest defense to a kind of twisted enjoyment — and the gentle scholar struggles intensely with the brutal warrior that hides within. As a student, he attends St. Hermelin High and works in the campus library, but he's known to frequent just about any bookstore found in Lunarvale and beyond. Fresh material is always enough to lure him long distances, be it something to expand his mind, or some fun and mindless fiction.

Skills

Avid Reader, Avid Fighter, Bespectacled Berserker, Bookworm, Brass Knuckles Cure All Ills, Come On You Guys Stop Laughing At My Glasses, Knowledge: Yes, Books: Yes, Crouching Nerd Hidden Warrior, He's A Nice Guy, No Really, Just Not If You're A Mean Jerk, Symphony In Thud Minor, My Dad Is The Nerdiest Nerd Ever, My Pet Raven Ate My Homework, Support Your Local Library!, Look Just Because My Persona's A Girl Doesn't Mean I'm Girly, Most Useless Pet Ever

Notable Social Links

• 0. The Fool

• I. The Magician

• III. The Empress

• IV. The Emperor

• V. The Hierophant

• VI. The Lovers

• VII. The Chariot

• VIII. Justice

• IX. The Hermit

• X. The Wheel of Fortune

• XI. Strength
  • Yoh Yamagatani: Tsuyoshi met Yoh while reading in the garden of Sun Mall. Yoh's a nice enough lad, though Tsuyoshi's first impression of him is a little skewed — Yoh had come straight from a costume contest. He thinks that Yoh's a nice enough sort. Yoh is fascinated by Trouble, a fact that amuses Tsuyoshi, and he seems to share Tsuyoshi's hobby of reading — or at least reacted favourably to his stack of reading material. Yoh's pet cat is also adorable, in a morbidly obese sort of way, and Tsuyoshi isn't particularly afraid of it trying to eat his raven.

• XII. The Hanged Man

• XIII. Death

• XVI. Temperance

• XV. The Devil

• XVI. The Tower

• XVII. The Star

• XVIII. The Moon
  • Kaede Fujioka: Tsuyoshi met this strange girl by bumping into her in the train station one night after missing his train and having to wait to go home. Her evident tendencies towards fantasy rankle his practical sensibilities on some level, and she can be a little offputting in her straightforwardness... but from all that he's seen, she's nice enough, and they share a hobby of rummaging through bookstores.

• XIX. The Sun

• XX. Judgment

• XXI. The World

Persona

Róta is Tsuyoshi's Persona, a valkyrie mentioned in the Gylfaginning book of the Prose Edda. As one of the valkyrie, Róta is by turns a cupbearer to Odin in the halls of Valhalla, or a fearsome chooser of the slain on the battlefield in host with her sister-valkyries.

Valkyries would ride above the battlefields of the ancient North, choosing the spirits of the bravest and fiercest warriors to ascend to Valhalla. There they would battle every day and feast every night, awaiting Ragnarok, the final battle between the gods.

In spite of being a female Persona to a male "host," Róta nonetheless represents the warrior spirit that burns within Tsuyoshi. As Odin's cupbearer, she represents his more peaceable side as well. Róta also represents his love of fierce weather and challenging adversity — what better, than one of the spirits purported to inhabit the harsh, frozen northlands?

Róta is not a delicate attacker. She moves with a decisiveness that could be misconstrued as cold or cruel, as though confident that when she is summoned to the attack, she is absolutely confident in her target. There is no question about it — she represents Tsuyoshi's inner warrior, which after years of being pounded into paste by bullies, has honed itself into a right proper howling berserker. Róta represents this. When called, she moves with all the brutal confidence that he might display in the middle of a heated fight.

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