Tatsuya Suou

Tatsuya Suou is the protagonist of Persona 2: Innocent Sin and the deuteragonist of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment and the second in the Persona series.

He is a student at Seven Sisters High School who gets involved in a plot perpetrated by the evil Joker. He awakens his Persona in a battle with the Joker and joins his other classmates in tracking him down to stop him from killing people. The Joker is revealed to be the leader of a group called the Masked Circle who benefit from the odd occurrence of rumors becoming reality, and Tatsuya and his allies band together to defeat them. Eventually it's revealed that the Masked Circle has come to be in league with an army led by the, once assumed, long deceased member of the Third Reich: Adolf Hitler. Tatsuya and his friends end up defeating Joker and revealing him to be their long lost friend Jun, who joins them in attempting to defeat Hitler before he uses the powers of rumors to take Sumaru City and turn it into a space ship to destroy the rest of the world. The group enters Xibalba, the space ship that Hitler is leading, and are brought to the Collective Unconsciousness where it is revealed that Hitler is really a demon of chaos known as Nyarlathotep, who has orchestrated all of this. It is revealed that Nyarlathotep is the counterpart to Philemon, and the two of them made a bet at the beginning of time to figure out if humans are naturally good or bad. This has all been a game to them, and this is the final confrontation. Tatsuya and his friends defeat Nyarlathotep, which he commends them for, but in doing so completes the Oracle of Maia, which leads to Maya's death. Philemon tells Tatsuya that they cannot revive her, but due to being in the Collective Consciousness, they are able to send themselves back in time to make it so these events never happened, saving Maya. However, in the process, they would all forget each other. Tatsuya and the others agree, and tell each other that they will try to still remember each other.

Before being transported back in time, Tatsuya makes the decision to remember his friends before being sent back, which creates a paradox. When the group is returned back in time, they were no longer associated with each other. Because Tatsuya remembers, his mind inhabits the body of the "new world's," Tatsuya. Because he was the Paradox in this world, there were other stragglers including Tatsuya Sudou, who attempts to get the former members of the Innocent Sin cast to remember the other world which would create a paradox and end the world. Tatsuya attempts to stop this from happening by joining his brother, Maya, a man named Baofu, and Maya's roommate Ulala, and once again ends up in the Collective Unconsciousness in the final battle with Nyarlathotep, who, once again orchestrated all these events. Tatsuya decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone by returning to his life in the "old world," saving the lives of everyone in the current world so that it is not destroyed due to the paradox.

He is a Persona-User who awakens the Persona Vulcanus after meeting Philemon, which later evolves into Apollo once Tatsuya acquires the Red Eagle Mask.

Physical Appearance
Tatsuya has brown hair worn long with a center part, brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. At 5'11" (181 cm), he could be considered tall (especially in Japan where Persona 2 is set), although he is shorter than his fellow Persona user Eikichi Mishina.

In Innocent Sin he wears the male-variant Seven Sisters uniform, consisting of a black blazer and black pants with contrast trim worn over a white button-down shirt, and black sneakers. Additionally, he wears a blue tie, indicating his status as a third-year student. A black wristwatch can be seen on his left arm and his belt buckle has a distinctive leonine design. His childhood self is dressed in much lighter clothing: a white and blue raglan t-shirt.

In Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya sports a two-piece motorcycle outfit consisting of red pants and a matching jacket with a large 'X' symbol on its front. He also now has a distinctive tattoo-like marking winding up his right forearm.

History
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Personality
Following the tradition of Shin Megami Tensei series, he is a silent protagonist, and some aspects of his personality, including his sexual orientation, are determined by the player's in-game actions and decisions. The most salient event regarding his sexuality occurs after the Shadow Lisa fight, where the player may choose to express feelings for one of his party members. If the player selects Jun Kurosu, then Tatsuya and Jun are treated as lovers. He has a more established history and personality than most other silent protagonists in the franchise, due in no small part to his ability to speak in Eternal Punishment.

Powers and Abilities
Tatsuya is a Persona User, meaning he is able to draw on the powers of his inner self to summon Demons that represent inner parts of his soul. A unique property that Tatsuya and the other Persona 2 cast members have is the power of the Wild Card, meaning that they are not restricted to using only one Persona based on their Arcana. Tatsuya is, in turn, able to switch Personas at will.

Appearances

 * Persona 2: Innocent Sin
 * Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
 * Persona 3; "Who's Who" guest
 * DemiKids Light / Dark Version; BattleNet opponent

Trivia

 * Tatsuya is the only Persona protagonist to be a main character of two mainline games; Innocent Sin and The Additional Scenario in Eternal Punishment.
 * Tatsuya is one of the four Persona protagonists to actually speak in a mainline game. The others being his castmate, Maya Amano, Noaya Todo in Eternal Punishment, and Ren Amimaya.
 * Tatsuya is the only Persona protagonist to be in his third year of high school. Every other protagonist, with the exception of Maya Amano who is graduated, is in his or her second year of high school.
 * His favorite food include rare steak (bloody ones especially) and seaweed-salt flavored potato chips. It's also noted that he dislikes squid entrails and anything with red bean paste in it.
 * The subtitles of both games in the Persona 2 duology refer to Tatsuya. His "innocent sin" in the first game is his refusal to forget about his memories with his friends because he's afraid of being alone, even though he needs to in order to save the world and Maya. His "eternal punishment" in the second game is to not only live in the original world where all humans outside Sumaru City are dead, and his friends are living in another reality, but during the game's events, has to live in a world where no one but him remembers the events of the first game and his friendships.
 * Exclusively in the Persona 2 art book Innocent Sin World, Tatsuya's future dream is to become a person who can express ideals to others in the same way Maya did when they were young.
 * Unlike his friend Lisa, Tatsuya is fluent in English.
 * Tatsuya and Jun's exclusive Personas are representative of the exchange of their "treasures" as children; Vulcanus and Chronos are the Roman god of fire and Greek personification of time respectively, while the most famous myth involving Apollo and Hermes is the exchange of the lyre and the caduceus between them, both of which became heavily symbolic of their owners.
 * Tatsuya is capable of stopping the flow of time with Apollo's ultimate ability, Nova Kaiser.
 * Tatsuya actually has two Zippo lighters:
 * The first, original one is an old, gray colored Zippo lighter which is a gift from Jun in Innocent Sin. This one is engraved with the words "The most precious things cannot be seen," signifying their friendship. This lighter is lost when the world was reset, since Tatsuya and Jun never met in the new timeline.
 * The second one is a brand new, silver colored Zippo lighter in Eternal Punishment. While the reason Tatsuya bought it is never stated, it might be to keep his habit in check and honor the memory of his friendship with Jun. At the game's ending, Tatsuya of "This Side" keeps this new lighter and uses it to light Katsuya's cigarette.
 * The reason Tatsuya can pilot vehicles flawlessly without any prior training is because of the power of rumors. In Innocent Sin, a rumor spread that Tatsuya was "good with machines" because he was always seen driving and tinkering on his motorcycle. The epilogue points this out by showing that the Tatsuya of "This Side" cannot fix his motorcycle like the Tatsuya of the "Other Side" was seen doing at the beginning of the game. As the playable Tatsuya in Eternal Punishment is the Tatsuya of the "Other Side" controlling the body of the Tatsuya of "This Side," the rumor still affects him and that's why he can pilot a blimp, a submarine and one of the X series robots.
 * At some point in development for Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya originally kept his Sevens High school uniform instead of wearing a red jumpsuit. This is shown in promotional material showing unused art of Tatsuya in his Sevens High outfit, along with unused sprites of this.
 * Tatsuya is the tallest protagonist in the series at 181 cm (5'11").