Difference between revisions of "Naomi Suzuno"

• Clothes - Quite positively her most versatile pieces of inventory, Naomi doesn't appear to wear the same thing twice, save perhaps her school uniform. She also wears her hair differently each time, but it's always up.
• Shoes - The same as her clothes, though she prefers boots for the colder months and ballerina flats for the summers. She occasionally wears sneakers.
• Satchel - A well-kept, leather messenger's bag that's probably worth more than an average teenager's allowance for three months. Contains every day essentials such as her cellphone, a swiss-army knife and a can of mace.
• Butterfly Pin - A gift from her mother, usually placed on her hair. She rarely leaves home without it.
• Purple Tatted Bracelet - A gift from Miwa Saitou, which has become a staple accessory on her person, no matter what she is wearing at the time; indicative of the importance Miwa holds in Naomi's life.
• Kandori's Claymore
  • A new acquisition, Naomi was given the sword during her stay in Mikage-Cho at Tohya's request, when she asked Takahisa Kandori for supplies before entering the Karma Palace. It is a slim blade designed to be wielded in one hand or two, forged to be brutally functional but has enough personal embellishments situated there by the blacksmith to make the weapon a unique piece. TS Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock has been engraved around the handle (a poem especially familiar to her for reasons yet to be revealed), and Kandori's trademark 'K' signature carved on the hilt.
  • It was given to her with a message: Only use it to cut away people's expectations and help them to question, in reference to Naomi's first, heavily intellectual conversation with the infamous CEO. It was enough to tell her who it was from, even without Tohya mentioning his name the moment it was given to her.

Solo Contacts

• Five Minute Makeover - Naomi truthfully tells the demon what its most compelling physical attribute is and how to emphasize it so it stands out.
• Artful Manipulation - Naomi utilizes her eerie and calculating insight to be able to convince a demon to do what she asks.
• Teasing - Naomi teases through the means of her signature, verbal repartee to make the demon pleasantly flustered.
• Trivia - Naomi tells the demon something it didn't know before but somehow relates to its interests.

Multi-Contacts

• Good Cop, Bad Cop - (Naomi + Tohya) Tohya and Naomi team up to deliver the KNOWS version of this classic routine. May lead to an interested or fearful reaction.
• Fashion Hour! - (Miwa + Naomi) Miwa and Naomi team up to give a demon fashion advice! This may lead to a joyful or angry reaction.
• Nice Girls Do It Better - (Naomi + Miwa) Naomi and Miwa team up again, this time to seriously sweet-talk the demons. May lead to a joyful or fearful reaction.

• Understanding: 3 - I See You
• Courage: 4 - Adrenaline Junkie
• Knowledge: 4 - NEEEERRRRDDDDD
• Diligence: 4 - WorkaPlayaholic.
  • Willpower: 5 - Yes
• Expression: 2 - Mildly Botoxed
  • Eloquence: 4 - Wall Breaker

"I've heard it spoken time and again that courtesy is a lady's armor, but I believe it hardly constitutes a full arsenal if a woman has any hope in surviving modern day society."

Born to a wealthy British-born expatriate and his investor's personal assistant (oooh, scandal!), Naomi Suzuno's life is typical of those who come from a privileged background; legal battles, business propositions, and more than enough family drama as other relatives jockey for control over the myriad of trusts and assets accumulated by the Spencer family over the decades. After a devastating plane crash that left her illustrious father incapacitated, the heiress is thrust in the uncomfortable position of taking care of the family business and all that entails...or at the very least attempt to ensure that it stays where it is until she becomes of age. A former student of St. Hermelin, she transferred to Seven Sisters High School at the wake of her household's move to Sumaru City.

She Looks Like A Flower But She Can Sting Like A Bee (Like Every Girl In History), Guarding The Family Coffers, Taking Care of Business, Airplane!, Girl With The Golden Credit Card, La Fashionista, Sugar Momma

Like most stories that involve legacies and fortunes, Naomi's beginnings were rife with conflict. Her father, British-born Miles Spencer, was the CEO of Spencer & Strassen -- a business that specialized in luxury entertainment, goods (like art and antiques), and travel; a company that catered almost exclusively to the international elite. Based in London, by the 20th century, S&S expanded its operations worldwide. Asia, with its economic boom during the early 90's, was a prime target for it and it didn't take much to convince the distinguished executive to open a base of operations in Japan. It was there when he met Midori Hisakawa, a middle-class local woman and the personal assistant of one of his more important Japanese investors. Against his family's wishes (and this event would remain, to the rest of the family's eyes, a black spot in its history), he married her and settled in Lunarvale, where his only child, Naomi, was born.

Now the wife of a wealthy businessman, Midori concentrated her efforts in being an attentive wife and mother and took an active interest in her daughter's upbringing. Concerned about her gaijin last name and how her future classmates would react to it, she convinced her husband to register Naomi under her maiden name so she would better fit in with the rest of the children in her class -- since then, school records knew her daughter as Naomi Suzuno while important legal documents bore her full name (Naomi Suzuno Spencer).

She was thrown into an egregiously messy turning point in her young life at the age of 13. Returning from yet another vacation with her parents, an inexplicable engine failure in the family's jet sent the aircraft crashing into the private landing strip reserved for their arrival at the local airport. Given her position on the plane, situated close to her mother and belted into her seat, Naomi would have died if it wasn't for the intervention of a strange manifestation that protected her moments before the impact occurred. While injured, she miraculously survived the accident and the emergency surgery afterward that compelled attending, medical personnel to remove most (but not all) of her ruptured spleen. Her parents weren't so lucky -- her mother was killed instantly and her father's spinal cord was severed. Miles Spencer left the hospital paralyzed from the neck down, able only to move his head and right hand.

Chaos reigned over family matters during Naomi's recovery. Other members of the Spencer family wasted no time trying to assert their rights to the company and control over the family coffers, either through direct legal action or through more indirect ways (like wresting Naomi's guardianship away from her invalid father, being heiress). An investigation was launched upon examination of the plane's remains in which it was discovered that the engines were sabotaged before it left its last stopover, which put the entire household as suspects. Through the canny maneuverings of the family lawyer, Christopher Kent (working through his colleague, Akira Tanaka, who was based in Sumaru City), attempts to seize the family fortunes stopped, and guardianship of Naomi was passed onto her uncle, Henry Spencer, Miles's youngest and favorite brother. However, given Henry's uneagerness to move to Asia, and Naomi's unwillingness to move to London, Henry executed a series of legal documents denoting the family butler, Anthony Robinson, who had served and assisted Miles for a good fifteen years, his official agent to oversee his niece's welfare in the East. The seriousness and complexity of the entire affair had a profoundly sobering effect on Naomi, who realized in spite of her youth that she was going to have to maintain an active hand on responsibilities she knew little to nothing about. She pulled out of school and was tutored at home while she and Robinson saw to her father's condition. She started depending heavily on Messrs. Kent, Tanaka, and Conroy Wright, S&S's deputy CEO and a trusted friend of the family, in handling the Spencers' business and legal affairs.

Naomi decided to return to school in her first year, enrolling at St. Hermelin when she was 15 years of age. Now that the family's seclusion after the disastrous crash seemed over, the media, on top of everything else, came calling -- Miles's accident had reached his prominent business partners in Europe. After a year of struggling against repeated attempts by the paparazzi to get the story, Robinson suggested that the family move from Lunarvale to Sumaru and while reluctant to do so, Naomi agreed. Not only was Sumaru bigger, but the family had holdings there, medical facilities were more accessible, and it would put her in the same geographic location as Tanaka. After finishing her first year at St. Hermelin and beginning her second, she had her father moved to one of their high-class hotels in the area (the current Spencer home is, in actuality, a series of renovated penthouse suites in the Peninsula Sumaru) and transferred to the Seven Sisters High School to continue her schooling there.

Naomi is sweet tempered and charitable. Her generosity, thoughtfulness, and her unique brand of quiet vivacity has won her, at the very least, amicable relations with those she deals with at a regular basis. She is a warm person, driven by the sincere desire to be the best person she could be, though whether she succeeds in this or not has yet to be determined. While mostly quiet, it is not coldly so -- in fact, she can carry on conversations easily, and she has an honest fascination with the lives of others. A voracious reader, she is comfortable in being alone with a book as much as she is in the company of others. In public, her manners are impeccable and practically Victorian; her hair is always up and rarely is she discourteous. Her family's money afforded her the best education available and she isn't one to squander it or flinch away from its application to her every day life, having grown to prove herself both intelligent and articulate. An observant creature, coupled with her passionate heart, she steps on the fine line between romanticism and pragmatism. Nothing delights her more than to be able to take care of those whom she considers very dear to her, and she is typically easy to please. It takes a lot for her to lose her temper, however while she could be very patient, this has a limit. While she may appear like a delicate milksop, she is surprisingly forthright when expressing her opinion and she has very little patience for the coyness expected from her gender.

While she exudes a soothing presence, she isn't afraid of confrontation, especially if she knows she's right. However, she isn't hard-handed when doing so and more often than not will seek a diplomatic solution to the problem. She is, for lack of a proper term, a cautious optimist, and while she makes an effort to see the best in other people, she also knows that sometimes, there just isn't any. It is rare to see her give up on anything she sets her mind to and her more obvious gentility typically masks the bullish tenacity she applies in risks she deems worth taking.

Her life since the plane crash has become one giant juggling act, and finding a balance between being a child and being a woman saddled with heavy responsibilities is a constant struggle. When it gets overwhelming, she becomes quieter than usual -- not because she necessarily likes brooding, but rather she needs to stop and think before moving again to recover that sense of harmony that she feels is essential to her overall well-being. It would not do her any good, after all, to implode due to all of the pressure she places on herself, though there are, of course, some very bad days in which she feels she can't do anything right. There are times in which she becomes resentful - it's not so much that she has a strong sense of justice, but rather that she has a strong sense of fairness. The concept of equity is important to her and being able to take the good and the bad in equal parts. After all, nothing worth having (and, after that, keeping) is easy to get and if there was anything the business world has taught her, anything worthy always comes with a price.

• Naomi's true connection with Seiichi Miyamoto - unlocked by Tohya Kidzuki, unlocked by default by Seiichi Miyamoto, partially by Akatsuki Enda
• State of Relations with the Spencers of London - partially unlocked by Akatsuki Enda and Tohya Kidzuki
• Circumstances of the Plane Crash - unlocked by Tatsuya Suou, partially by Tohya Kidzuki and Shinjiro Aragaki
• Why Naomi Hates Hospitals - unlocked by Tatsuya Suou and partially by Tohya Kidzuki and Miwa Saitou
• Something About Robin (the Butler) - partially unlocked by Tatsuya Suou
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place (ie. the Citizenship Clause) - unlocked by Tatsuya Suou
• State of Relations with the Suzunos of Tokyo - None

• Action Survivor - Notably her first foray in the dark hour when she meets The Action Girl.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Damn Heroes - A reference to the excursion at the Oni Tower to rescue The Big Girl as well as the Karma Palace/Harem Queen adventure.
• Daddy's Girl - Well, there was no way she was escaping this trope.
• Even the Girls Want Her - At Taiki's suggestion regarding Naomi's complicated relationship with a few girls, but most notably with the Split Personality.
• Feuding Families - This is between her and the Anti Villain, who also has The Only One Allowed to Defeat You trope going for him.
• It's Personal - Inspired by earlier events that has the Anti Villain targetting all of Naomi's friends because it is the most efficient way to get a rise out of her.
• The Consigliere - Fulfills this role with The Stoic and The Kuudere
• The Ojou - This goes without saying.
• The Power of Trust - Used most notably on The Stoic.
• The Strategist
• Undercover as Lovers - Naomi and Tatsuya. Club Zodiac. Her 17th Birthday. Hilarity, awkwardness and bullets ensue.
• Will Not Tell A Lie - Naomi is near-compulsively honest. While she may have a talent for deception, she normally chooses not to exercise it.
• You Can Never Leave - Which may or may not be Naomi's ultimate fate with the Nebulous Evil Organization.

What's in a name? - Naomi's Japanese name means "honest beauty of the bells."

Appearance - At 5'4", Naomi is taller than the average Japanese female. She takes after her mother's looks. The only indicators of her mixed descent, really, are her height and the shape and color of her eyes, which are rounder and violet in hue.

Blood Type - Naomi is blood type B.

Wang Long Fortune Telling - Naomi is a Moon Dragon, and gets along best with White and Light Dragons.

Does She or Doesn't She? - Naomi does have a British accent, but this only manifests when she speaks in English. Her Japanese, however, is flawless and formal. She also follows Queen's English (ex. Biscuit = Cookie, Jumper = Sweater, Shedule and not Skedule, Lift = Elevator, paycheque as opposed to paycheck, etc etc).

The Residence - The current Spencer home is the Peninsula Sumaru, a luxury hotel located in the heart of the city, at its topmost floor. It is in actuality a series of penthouse suites renovated for the use of Naomi's family and her household. At present, the staff comprises of Anthony Robinson, a driver, and two maids. Physicians occasionally come and go to see to Miles's health.

Favorite Foods - Naomi is guilty of having a sweet tooth, and she likes desserts of all kinds. While her palate is rather refined, some of the simpler items make her list, like teriyaki beef and miso soup.

Hobbies - The Spencer heiress is a voracious reader, and she regularly exploits her father's connections in the antiquities and rare book industries to acquire first editions. She loves art and literature, and she goes to museums often. She is fascinated with Ancient Egypt and other middle eastern cultures. She fences on occasion, and skydives whenever she can out of the desire to completely overcome the egregious acrophobia she developed after the plane crash. She also plays the piano well.

Movies, Television, or Theatre? - All of the above. She's particularly fond of the Action-Adventure genre and romantic comedies (she will, however, be hardpressed to admit the latter and hides her copy of Bridget Jones's Diary under her bed). She watches documentaries often, and likes watching cop dramas, though if asked what her favorite television shows are, it would be Mythbusters and MacGyver. She may or may not secretly harbor desires to build her very own Hwacha...or at least just figure out how to pass the Egg Drop test.

Revolutionary Fashion! - Clothes and accessories may very well be Naomi's greatest vice and she can be quite the fashionista. No matter the occasion, she dresses to the nines and she tends to have her school uniforms custom-tailored. In public, she is never seen with her hair down.

Miles Spencer - Naomi's father, who left the devastating plane crash paralyzed from the neck down and able only to move his head and one hand. Despite his present state of health, the man seems to have lost very little of his infamous joie de vivre that he exhibited in the days when he was whole. He is extremely dependent on his daughter and his staff to take care of matters for him. Blessed with an old world charm, his keen mind and business sense are invaluable guides to his heir.

Anthony Robinson - Called "Robin" by Naomi, he has served as Miles's butler, assistant, and confidant for the last 15 years. Extremely dedicated to his boss, Robinson's loyalty to the Spencer patriarch seems to have been passed down to his only daughter. Given the rather messy enterprise that followed after the plane crash, circumstances have thrust him in the position as Naomi's legal guardian in Japan. He does not like it when people call him "Alfred."

Akira Tanaka - In tandem with London-based barrister, Christopher Kent, he is one of Naomi's advisors in a multitude of legal and business matters. He works for the Sumaru office of the international law firm Allen & Overy, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. A relatively young attorney, he recently made partner in its M&A and Corporate division.

Conroy Wright - Spencer & Strassen's deputy CEO and a trusted friend of the family, he and Miles have known each other for decades since their schoolboy years at the University of Oxford. He maintains control of the company's daily operations at the behest of his old friend.

• What it is to Love - After finals, Tohya invites Naomi out for coffee and a chat, and asks her a very important question. IC: December 20, 2009
• The Ghost of Future Past - An orchestrated attack on her person sends Naomi running into the path of a ghost, who continues living in the mortal plane through the body of his son. IC: December 21, 2009
• Christmas Charity Ball - Quoted as the social event of the year, the Japanese Children's Foundation's annual Christmas Ball was held during the Emperor's Birthday at the Peninsula Sumaru's Diamond Ballroom. Ninja mistletoe, wacky hijinks, and delinquents in formalwear, not to mention a dozen paparazzi capturing random moments. IC: December 23,2009 - Log courtesy of Shinchan's player, who is a lifesaver
• How To Entertain While Being Hungover - Naomi is caught nursing a hangover after consuming two glasses of Pinot Noir she shouldn't be having in her father's Christmas Eve dinner the night before. Tatsuya visits while making liberal use of the hotel's master key to get through security doors, but beforehand runs into Akatsuki intent visiting the same person. IC: December 25, 2009

Nakama

• IV - The Emperor
  • Akatsuki Enda: "When I do name him, let it be thy part to praise him more than ever man did merit." -- Much Ado About Nothing; Act III, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • Red, gold, and orange/Will autumn kindle a flame/To scorch black my soul?
      • The greatest treasure/To assuage a wounded heart:/Your pure, azure sky
      • Purpure galaxies/A sense of no gravity/Ah, your sparkling eyes -- Akatsuki's Christmas haiku to Naomi
      • "Even if I can't speak for them, I would have done it. And I'd *rather* be 'bothered' than hear gang members on the street talking about what they'd do to you next time they saw you! There were plenty of options--you just refused to entertain them!"
      • "You wouldn't have even told anybody if I hadn't found out on my own, would you? Of course I did! Don't you understand how important you are to all of us? Naomi... you're irreplaceable. To all of us... Can't you rely on us, just a little more?"
    • Handsome, charming, and debonair, Akatsuki by all rights appears to be just the sort of young man Naomi would inevitably get along with....and she does. While their relationship is largely founded on witticisms, banter, and the occasional errant plans to run away together to give the paparazzi something to write about, it has taken a more serious note most recently when a random phone call done at Tohya's behest revealed that they had more in common that they thought initially. Their relationship has deepened after the Ball where he took it upon himself to keep her mind off of her confrontation with Seiichi Miyamoto, and then later visiting her at her home to ensure that she was alright. This continued to develop, almost to an exponential degree, especially after a reckless attempt to get in touch with Shinjiro Aragaki (which succeeded) caused Akatsuki to actually lose his temper and give her a good shaking and talking-to. Shocked by the intensity of his dismay and affection, for once in her life, Naomi actually apologizes to him for a successful plan....which has never happened to her before.
• VI - The Lovers
  • Tohya Kidzuki: "For in my youth, I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood." -- As You Like It; Act II, Scene 3
    • Quotes:
      • "It's just that he mentioned it and I...thought of you? You always surprise me with the things you say."
      • "Even if it's just because, you can call me anytime."
      • "I don't want to do it. I bent, on the last test like this, and I started to feel like maybe I was doing the right thing, but I can't hurt someone like this."
      • "I feel the same way about you. You're my closest friend. There's no one I've been able to share as much with."
    • A senior in Seven Sisters High School, Tohya counts for one of the first people Naomi met in her first few days as a new transferee. While she fostered a reputation for being intimidating, Naomi managed to somehow get along well with her and addresses her as "Kidzuki-senpai." A bit of a mentor in the ways of the supernatural, Tohya was instrumental in Naomi's continued education regarding her Persona's talents and abilities, having offered herself up to be her "spotter" to ensure that she didn't bite off more than she could chew. In that regard, Naomi accords Tohya with the courtesy and respect that she believes the senior is entitled to. Recently, she explained a few things to Naomi that motivated her to join KNOWS. So far, she is the only one who has seen her residence and had the occasion to meet the most important person in Naomi's life; her father, who promptly invited her to stay for dinner. Tohya has confided many things to Naomi, and in return, Naomi has let her in on aspects of her life she has never told anyone before, marking the gray-eyed girl as the heiress's closest friend.
• XIV - Temperance
  • Miwa Saitou: "O, she is ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, and he's composed of harshness." -- The Tempest; Act III, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • "You need to find whatever it is that makes you happy. Trying to compare your happiness to other people's, well... you'll only make yourself disappointed in the end."
      • "We have to do something, right? We're prepared for the worst, and we're together. We'll be okay."
    • A senior in Seven Sisters High School, Naomi met Miwa the same time she met Tohya. She occupies the first chair cello in the Music Club, and encouraged Naomi to join. They have plenty in common; gentle mannerisms, fondness for classical music and a certain love for fashion among the foremost of these, albeit their similarities were hinted at to run deeper than that. Naomi regards Miwa as one of the most beautiful people she has ever met, in looks and demeanor. Things have changed between them after the annual Christmas Ball, where she expressed her genuine regard for Miwa through her present and has asked her senior to call her by her given name. She also notably wore Miwa's present, a purple tatted bracelet, the moment she received it during the party - especially since it matched her dress! Recent discussions have revealed to Naomi the depth of Miwa's concerns regarding her and Tohya's affiliation with KNOWS, and after a heartfelt discussion, Naomi has asked Miwa to speak up her mind a little more, and that she prefers that Miwa do this more often.
• XVI - The Tower
  • Himeru Namikawa: "But I have that within which passeth show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe." -- Hamlet; Act I, Scene II
    • Quotes:
      • "If you ever draw the attention of SEBEC, be wary. They offer power, and power is never free."
      • "I have no interest in making friends and acquaintances who will get themselves killed, Suzuno-sempai. Death only causes unfurfilled promises, lost possibilities and regrets to those left behind."
      • "Innocence of youth is a luxury rarely appreciated by those who still have it."
    • A chance encounter during Port Island's 25th hour had Naomi running into Himeru in the most unfortunate and surreal of circumstances. Her first, true exposure to the world of Persona-users and the Supernatural, she and this austere, first year Gekkoukan student have run into one another several times since then, and most recently, were trapped in Mikage-cho together. After a few shared meals, conversations, and texts, despite being in opposite sides of the hellish dimension, Naomi and Himeru managed to keep in contact with one another, sharing information and trading a few shards of encouragement along the way. She is one of the few people in her life who shares Naomi's formal and precisely enunciated speech patterns and in that alone, some would say it was almost inevitable that the two of them would strike a friendship...and one built out of the deeper and more concrete foundations of trust. Despite appearances, especially during the Tartarus incident in which KNOWS, SEES, and SEES allies confronted one another, Himeru and Naomi continue to get along despite the grievous injuries the former has inflicted on her, and some would say their friendship has only deepened as opposed to devolved after the fight. While she does not know the whole story, Naomi knows a bit about Himeru's own, tragic past, and is rather certain that the circumstances around her sister's death is something that profoundly caused Himeru to become the way she is.
• XIX - The Sun
  • Tatsuya Suou: "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." -- Twelfth Night; Act II, Scene 5
    • Quotes:
      • "Words can't fix everything, and sometimes you just have to live with consequences."
      • "Honestly, you really are a troublesome woman."
      • "You're safe. I'll protect you."
      • "I like the way you are, too."
      • "This isn't a story, it's real life... Nobody's the hero, or the main character. Everybody's...everybody's dreams are as important as everyone else's. Everybody's 'destiny' is just as pivotal to the world as anyone else's. So if there is a destiny guiding us, yours is just as important as mine, Naomi. Besides, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get rid of you anytime soon. I'd probably start getting complacent."
    • Given his infamy and absurd levels of popularity, the first moment she met him, Naomi anticipated that she would never speak to him again after that. Proven wrong after a random encounter on the street, and then later at a surprise visit by the young man at her home (much to the chagrin and paranoia of her butler) intent to speak to her about some very important things, she has recently discovered that their very obvious differences are offset by their more elusive similarities. Tatsuya has exhibited an inordinate ability to consistently surprise her and in turn, she has displayed a certain adeptness in effortlessly cracking through his stoic shell. After an important conversation regarding his endeavors to protect Sumaru City and its citizens reaffirmed several things; notwithstanding her near-miraculous ability to con encourage him into displaying more affable traits. Naomi may be one of the very few people in Sumaru who has actually heard him nearly crack a joke and has seen him smile....just a little. They have been through several Wacky Hijinks and Hilarity Ensues situations together, most notably the time when they posed as a couple in Club Zodiac to spy on the mafia, and Naomi invading his photoshoot out of the desire to talk to him about something Very Important. Out of all of Naomi's acquaintances, Tohya is the only person who is closer to her than Tatsuya is, especially after a quiet conversation regarding his disgraced family. While Naomi normally does not offer up information about herself unless asked, a recent excursion in an abandoned hospital to save a boy from a rumor-produced demon has her breaking that personal rule to Tatsuya (who surprisingly noticed this propensity of hers), and not only regarding herself but also a bit about her butler, Robin.

Other Notable Links

• III - The Empress
  • Mitsuru Kirijo: "Take that life, beseech you, which I so often owe; but your ring first, and here the bracelet of the truest princess that ever swore her faith." -- Cymbeline; Act V, Scene 5
    • Quotes:
      • Quote 1
      • Quote 2
    • Once upon a time, there were two princesses who spent most of their early childhood together. Some would say that Mitsuru was the first "real" friend Naomi has ever made in her life, and vice-versa. They went to the same educational institutions, rubbed elbows with the same elitist constituents... they were even in fencing club together when they were old enough to wield foils safely. Naomi made her laugh, while Mitsuru did her best to encourage Naomi's independent streak (within reason) and dragged her to every high-class French restaurant within ready access. With tragedies assailing both Kirijo and Spencer families within precious few years of each other, the two girls have fallen out of touch, but never forgot one another. Now, with Mitsuru being the figurehead of SEES, and Naomi being a high-ranking member of KNOWS's Daybreak Squad, will their fondest memories of one another survive the strain of being on the opposite sides of the line? Covertly, they have been seeing more of one another lately, in hopes of rekindling the degree of sisterhood they have lost.
• V - The Hierophant
  • Shinjiro Aragaki: "He expressed no regret for what he had done which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty. It was all pride and insolence." -- Pride and Prejudice; Chapter 36
    • Quotes:
      • "...maybe you'd like to tell me what the hell you were thinkin', walkin' through here. This ain't a place for you, 'jousan."
      • "You might as well just come with me. No one'll fuck with you if you're with me."
    • Quite possibly the only person who can effortlessly knock Naomi's signature calm off-balance by his sheer presence (or, to be more accurate, impressively oppressive resonance), Shinjiro is a mystery wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. His dichotomous nature has many a time forced her to backtrack and question her own perceptions of him...and even during the same conversation. This does not, however, keep her from calling him out on certain truths and being "troublesome." She has also noticed distinct similarities between him and Tatsuya Suou, though they fall short from declaring them pure counterparts of one another as she has also observed one very important difference between them. His dapper appearance in a suit with the stylish and beautiful Ran Itoh on his arm nearly caused a cerebral meltdown thanks to the sudden incongruity between this and her prior outlook on him. Recent confrontations have marginally changed her earlier first impressions; while he's still an uncouth and rough-mannered delinquent, she has seen other sides of him that mark him deep down as a caring and decent individual, and more prone to his own brand of mischief than meets the eye. She has also teased him for being devastatingly attractive, because he is, much to his chagrin and flustered frustration.
• VIII - Justice
  • Kai Nakamoto: "In that day's feats, when he might act the woman in the scene, he prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed was brow-bound with the oak." -- Coriolanus; Act II, Scene 2
    • Quotes:
      • "It's fine, but...I'm just wondering what that would say about me."
    • A first year when he should be a senior, most of the circumstances regarding Kai's situation continues to mystify Naomi given he was far from a simpleton. Nevertheless, she is presently tutoring him so that he would be eligible to take an acceleration test so he could skip a year and join his age group. While intimidating due to his sheer breadth and stature, she found him to be surprisingly shy and friendly. Recently, she proposed the idea that the both of them learn sign language to ease communication between them, and while hesitant at first, a single question from her prompts him to change his mind.
  • Ichiya Chigiri: "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent; for beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth in blood." -- Much Ado About Nothing; Act II, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • "Most of us don't think about it, but we all hide something, just as we all hard our darker sides from public view. Very few show their true selves out in the open."
    • Unbeknown to her, Naomi already met him; as his alter-ego, "Fox," a masked individual who aided her group's efforts in Mikage-cho and who taught her a few bare-handed techniques in exchange of a few fencing lessons. As handsome, college-aged mechanic Ichiya Chigiri, he was recently contracted to see to the upkeep of the Spencer household's vehicles. He seems to have taken a shine to her and has asked her to address him by one of his nicknames. She has recently discovered that Ichiya Chigiri and the mysterious Fox are one and the same, though she has yet to react outwardly to this revelation. At present, she does not know that he fancies her.
• XIII - Death
  • Shirou Sekigawa: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" -- Hamlet; Act III, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • "I promised her. That if he tried to take her away from me... I would tear the world down around his ears."
      • "I'm a survivor at heart, Naomi. Kandori has gotten the best of me, but I hope that I've shown him that... well, I play to win."
    • Despite their first accidental and largely inconsequential meeting, this hardworking Inaba country boy became the first among her newest acquaintances to address her by her first name and is one of the few who she sincerely liked instantly. Their friendship during the Mikage-cho incident developed quickly, and while she sensed a degree of awkwardness from him around her, she wasn't quite certain as to why. She worried about him constantly while she stayed at Fort Junes with him, given his tendency to work his fingers to the bone at the expense of his well-being, and made conscious efforts to ensure that he got the rest he needed at Thora's or Yosuke's absence. A few run-ins has her confiding in him as to the circumstances of her awakening and vice-versa, becoming better and closer friends in the process after they parted ways. Most recently, he has asked for her help in tracking down a British journalist named David Goddard, Shirou's biological father.
  • Seiichi Miyamoto: Insert Shakespeare VILLAIN QUOTE here
    • Quotes:
      • Quote 1
      • Quote 2
    • Seiichi's Blurb Here
• XIV - Temperance
  • Dona Kimura: "In the poison'd entrails throw. —Toad, that under cold stone. Days and nights has thirty-one; swelter'd venom sleeping got, boil thou first i' the charmed pot!" -- Macbeth; Act IV, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • "I...came to check out the clock tower again, but... I changed my mind at the last second. The last thing I want to do is get cocky..."
      • Quote 2
    • In many ways, her friend Miwa's dark counterpart (though she has absolutely no idea that this is the case), Naomi first met Dona in the aftermath of the Mikage-cho incident where her strange, fellow second year asked about a mirror. Despite her less-than-stellar reputation around Sevens Sisters High School, Dona's misanthropy tends to lessen while she's around Naomi, who makes the time and effort to reach out to her due to her own nature and further encouraged to do so by the advice of Daiya Kagami, a third year in the same school who has displayed some interest in Dona's welfare. Like with most of her friends, Naomi tries to keep Dona out of trouble, though this does not always work. A recent conversation has revealed that Dona knows about Miles Spencer's temperament, and how he seems to be a stand-up individual; a statement that earned Naomi's curiosity considering as far as she knows, her classmate has never met her father. Or has she?
• XVI - The Tower
  • Takahisa Kandori: "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time." -- Othello; Act II, Scene 3
    • Quotes:
      • "Fear. That is what you can taste in those bowls. A single drop, distilled for each of you from the collective fear of so many broken souls, carried with each of us like an emperor's cloak after battle. Fear. The blue phial contains love. I did not use it, it is so scarce. But one drives the other, as pollen creates the honey, and the crucible needs much more at the starting end than it gives you at the end."
      • "You have a skill for asking the difficult questions."
    • Naomi met SEBEC's infamous CEO by chance, coming across him with Himeru cooking breakfast in Mikage-cho's version of St. Hermelin and promptly engaged him in a deeply intellectual conversation about food (as well as the preparation of) standing in as a metaphor for the human condition. While content with the idea that she would never speak to the man again, she was surprised to receive a sword forged by his own hand the next days after thanks to Tohya's request for supplies, and then later in Okina where he imparted on her certain truths about Sumaru City. The growing consistency of his interactions with her may or may not be one of the main reasons why she agreed to join KNOWS.
  • Thora Kobayashi: "As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island." -- The Tempest; Act III, Scene 2
    • Quotes:
      • "Well this new arrangement has me learning from him. There's nothing /I/ can do right now besides go with the flow."
    • Fellow Daybreak Squad member and Shirou's girlfriend, she was, for the longest time, the only Persona-user who she has known about through the power of her sheer and infamous reputation. Now that they are in the same group in KNOWS, Naomi has met Thora on several occasions. It is perhaps due to her friendship with Shirou that she unabashedly reaches out to Thora, and finds herself occasionally envying her for having no qualms showing what she is feeling on her expressions. Naomi has recently found out what sort of information Kandori is holding over her.
• XIX - The Sun
  • Taiki Himuro: "Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; A stand where you may make the fairest shoot." -- Love's Labors Lost; Act IV, Scene 1
    • Quotes:
      • Quote 1
      • Quote 2
    • Blurb coming soon.

Persona

Naomi's persona is the Egyptian Goddess Ma'at, who represents Truth, Balance, Harmony, and Order in the culture's pantheon of gods. She's usually represented by a young woman with a scepter while carrying an Ankh on her other hand. Her role is significant in Duat, the Egyptian underworld, where she weighs dead souls' hearts with an ostrich feather on a pair of scales to determine their worthiness to enter Aaru, the Egyptian heaven. Those that were deemed unworthy had their hearts eaten by Ammut, a part-crocodile demon.

It was said that when Ra started to create the world, he created Ma'at first and installed her in place of her counterpart, Isfet (Chaos), so he would have a stable canvas to work with.

Associated Abilities

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Resonance

Sense: For those who can detect Persona-users, there seems to be an extremely peaceful, serene presence around Naomi. It could be the young woman herself, for she is almost always calm, or it could be something else. The case is most probably quite the latter, for with this aura of placidity comes with a sense of pure order and rightness; that, somehow, everything is right with the world and things are exactly the way they should be.

Smell: For those who are able to detect Persona-users by scent, this particular ambiance smells like mint.

Sound: Audibly, Naomi's resonance sounds like a gentle breeze playing over windchimes, from far away.

Talent: Naomi, by nature, is an excellent judge of character - her Persona is, after all, the main judge of the Underworld in Egyptian Mythology in where she specifically weighs a person's heart to judge his or her worthiness to enter Heaven. It's probably not very surprising to those who know her or who have gotten to know her that an innate ability to sense intentions has developed gradually over time. It functions as some kind of social "danger alert" in a way, but it won't specifically tell her what it is she's feeling. Say for example, she's in a convenience store and comes across one of the customers who intends to rob the clerk at gunpoint. Naomi may feel uneasy being around this person, because her Persona gives her an ability to detect ill intent, but she doesn't specifically know -why- she feels the way she does or what the other person intends on doing. The flip side could occur, for example, when she sees somebody beating another in an alley and he turns out to be one who would've been the victim of a mugging but is able to defend himself and turned the tables on his mugger. She would get a sense that something is off in this picture, but not know what it is, since the intent presented is self-defense and not anything more nefarious.

Mirrorcle World - Ayumi Hamasaki - Lyrics
Should I leave my body, or remain trapped inside it? Should I pretend I can see it, or is it just not there anyway? Should I fight, or raise the white flag?

Duty - Ayumi Hamasaki - Lyrics
I saw the end of an era with my own eyes. But I didn't want to know that it's my turn next.

Miss Understood - Ayumi Hamasaki - Lyrics
I said to myself "I'm OK" and showed my usual smile. I didn't feel desperation, but a kind of defiance.

The Tower - Vienna Teng - Lyrics
I need not to need. I've always been the tower, but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow.

Fashion - Lady Gaga - Lyrics
I need some new stilettos. Can't walk down the street in those. You are who you wear it's true. A girl's just as hot as the shoes she choose.

The Dream - The Birthday Massacre - Lyrics
It said, "You're not the first to dream this, little girl. You know it's never happened once in this world. It never crossed my mind that one so young could hope to find a power greater than my own."

Fully Alive - Flyleaf - Lyrics
All my complaints shrink to nothing, I'm ashamed of all my somethings. She's glad for one day of comfort. Only because she has suffered.

Wide Awake - Lacuna Coil - Lyrics
The struggle within, now I understand freedom begins. When you get out of the cage you built. It looks like I'm crazy but I'm not the only one.

Now is Mine - K's Choice - Lyrics
Grateful, humble, I allow these words to be the past somehow. I wonder, am I here now? Am I here now? I feel, hear, see and it confuses me. I am wrong. I am here. Now is mine. I'll take it all around the world. Take my future past, it's fine. But now is mine.

I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace - Lyrics
Every feeling that I get, but I haven't missed you yet. Only when I stop to think about it. I hate everything about you...why do I love you?

Canta Per Me - Noir OST - Lyrics
Strengthen your lyre and sing the hymn of death.

Sacrifice - Christopher Beck (from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack)

Moonlight Sonata - E.S. Posthumus