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Player Name: bii
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obiisama, biichan on Discord
Are you over 18? More than twice that!
Do you have any other characters in game?: Siobhan Greenwood, Dunk (both of which should have bonus AC for March!)
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Character Name: Chie Satonaka
Canon: Persona 4 Golden
Canon Point: post-game, pre-epilogue (assuming a maxed friendship route with the protag)
Age: 17
History: Wiki!
Is this character an AU? What type?: Not this time!
Personality: Okay, so here's the thing about Chie: out of all the girls in Persona 4, she is the one that's meant to be a girl you might actually know and go to school with. Next to Seemingly Perfect Girl Yukiko, Teen Idol Rise, and Bifauxnen Naoto, Perfectly Ordinary Tomboy Chie could easily be overlooked.

Which, in fact, is why Chie does her best not to be. She's ordinary, sure, but she's quirky. She's super into martial arts movies—she swears byTrial of the Dragon and it's no coincidence her first Persona, Tomoe, wear Bruce Lee's iconic yellow suit—and if possible, even more into the eating of meat. Chie Satonaka is an obligate carnivore. She runs on the stuff and the more tender and delicious meat the better. If you lose a bet or you owe her a favor, more likely than not you'll end up having to pay up in delicious proteins.

It's a good thing she eats so much meat, really, because she needs all those calories to power her through life. Chie is a very high-energy girl. When she cares about something, she goes in gung-ho. She has a hot temper besides and a tendency to get very loud and expressive at the object of her wrath. Also, she kicks. She kicks hard.

She's something of a freeloader. That is, she has no qualms about making sure she's not the one paying for things in any given situation, especially if Yosuke is around to foot the bill. It's also notable that of all the Persona 4 main characters, Chie's the only one without a part time job, even if it only involves working for family. (This probably has something to do with why she freeloads all the time.) It's not that she's exactly lazy, because she can be very hard-working and dedicated when it comes to things she cares about. But a part time job is way down on her list of priorities, especially when she could be teaching herself Jeet Kune Do by the river or hanging out with her friends instead.

She's a nice girl, really, despite all this. She's earnest and she has a strong protective instinct towards everyone around her. For her, protecting you is her way of showing her affections towards people. The biggest lesson she learns over the course of her social link is that it's not worth it just to focus on personal growth and bettering yourself unless you use that growth and power to help everyone else you can.

This, by the way, was a lesson she learned out of school. Chie will be the first to admit that she's no great shakes at studying. She's kind of terrible at it, actually. She's in no danger of being held back a year, but at best her grades thoroughly mediocre. On the other hand, when outside the classroom, Chie's got a surprising amount of common sense and insight. Although she brushes it off as 'Chie being random again,' she's the one that realizes that the fog from the TV world is entering the human world. To put it in D&D terms, Chie's the epitome of a low INT/high WIS character. ~~She’d make a great monk, actually.~~

Chie, as you might have noticed, is a tomboy: she keeps her hair short and practical and wears a track jacket over her school uniform blouse and biker shorts underneath her school uniform skirt. She enjoys sports, has an active lifestyle, and is very brash when it comes with dealing with the guys in her life—so brash, in fact, that the guys who have been interested in her are too intimidated to even try. Like a lot of tomboys—especially those from Japan, where even in the twenty-first century there are Certain Expectations when it comes to people's assigned gender roles—she's also insecure in her worth as a girl. She's not any good at Girl Things, after all, and she's not pretty or special or anything like that. She honestly doesn't expect people to see her as a girl or anything besides Just One Of The Guys—and that bugs her. Maybe she's not girly, but she is a girl!

Her issues about her femininity ended up feeding into her relationship with her best friend Yukiko. Yukiko, as noted above, was in many ways the Ur-Girl to Chie. She was definitely the belle of Yasogami High until Rise showed up. All the boys loved Yukiko and Chie ended up establishing herself as Yukiko's gatekeeper and protector. Secretly, she felt that if she could make Yukiko dependent on her then even though she would never be as perfect as as Yukiko she would still be able to win against her friend that way.

It was bullshit, of course, and it all came out when confronting her shadow, but luckily her relationship with Yukiko survived the exposure of its toxic underbelly and grew only stronger after the wounds it had taken had healed.

(One final thing: I would argue that Chie, both before and after the shadow confrontation, had something of a crush on Yukiko and Chie's second English VA, Erin Fitzgerald, even confirmed that she voiced her with this idea in mind, but I suspect that this counts as headcanon. I do plan to play her with this in mind, however.)

Powers and Abilities: Chie has the ability to summon a Persona: the “mask” a person uses to face hardship transformed into a god that comes out of your head. Her current Persona is Haraedo-no-Okami, having maxed her social link with the protagonist and met up with him once more after 1/10. Her former Personas were Suzuka Gongen and Tomoe.

Haraedo-no-Okami mainly deals with physical attacks, although she starts out doing some ice attacks. Chie mostly retired from these, however, after Teddie got his own ice attacks for his bearsona. If you want to see the moveset progression for Haraedo-no-Okami, you can check this page. Her final moveset included Power Charge, High Counter, Apt Pupil, Rainy Death, Agneyastra and Dragon Hustle. If it’s all right with the mods, I’d like to leave the last two moves unspecified for now. If it’s not, let me know and I’ll quick pick the last two moves.

When not using her Persona to attack, Chie kicks things really hard. She can, in fact, kick things into the stratosphere on occasion. Besides all that, Chie has the ability to consume a superhuman amount of meat. We don't know how she eats all the meat. We only know that she can.

Inventory: Her wallet, her cell phone, her Trial of the Dragon dvd, her spring/fall casual outfit, meat gum, and just like… normal junk you’d find in a teenage girl’s pockets.

Sample: TDM!.

When presented with a choice, is the character more likely to stick with tried and true methods? Or make something new up on the fly? I mean, Chie’s solution to most things is kicking it, so I'd say that she's more likely to stick to her tried and true methods, though she's not above improvising in a pinch.
What is more important to your character, preserving the past or forging a future? Huh. This is a funny one. Because here’s the thing: part of her character growth near the end of her social link involved her realizing how much the past was connected to the present, how everything that came before had influenced how everything was for her now. That said, I think I would still err on forging a future with Chie. It’s all that Chariot energy.
How does your character influence their own story? What about the stories of others? So Chie is a supporting member of a big ensemble cast. The story gives her a chance to shine early on in the quest to rescue Yukiko and the boss fight against her shadow and she has her own social link which can turn into a romance route… but if you don't finish the route, you'll still be able to finish the game. You just won't get Chie to her ultimate persona by the end. As for influencing her own story… the sad truth is that during the year that the protagonist is in Inaba, he's just as big an influence on Chie’s story as Chie herself is. As I said, supporting member of a big ensemble cast—and one where the player character makes all the most important decisions.

Are you alright with your character’s canon being used as a Recommended Reading?: Oh, sure! It means that the library’s gonna give us video games, right?

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