Ren Amimaya

Ren Amimaya (also known as Joker,) is the protagonist of Persona 5 and Persona 5 Strikers and the sixth in the Persona series.

He is a student at Shujin High School who becomes a member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts after accidentally entering someone's heart with his new friend Ryuji Sakamoto.

He is a Persona-User who awakens the Persona Arsène after being attacked by Shadows, which later evolves into Satanael.

Physical Appearance
The protagonist appears as a tall young man of slim to athletic build. He has a pale complexion with unkempt, wavy black hair that falls over his eyes. His eyes are gray and have long eyelashes. Despite his messy hair and slouched posture, he wears all of his clothes primly and properly.

For most of his civilian outfits, he also wears a set of large black glasses. The glasses are later revealed to be for aesthetic purposes and to help him maintain an unassuming image, as he did not need them before nor after his probation. However, when his glasses are removed, his eyes are revealed to be sharp and give off an intense gaze.

History
TBA

Personality
As per tradition of the Megami Tensei franchise, he is a silent protagonist, whose personality is based on the player's actions and decisions. However, he appears to have more established traits than any of the previous protagonists. His dialogue options range from somewhat indifferent to outright cheeky. The game allows for quite a number of playful, snarky or audacious answers, including teasing his friends. He also taunts his enemies like the famed Arsène Lupin. In the prologue scene, he remains cocky and confident even when his life is in danger. He also has a flair for showing off and making dramatic decisions, such as exiting by jumping through the stained glass windows of the Casino, much to the amazement (and mild annoyance) of the other Phantom Thieves. This is even reflected in gameplay, as when he is turned into a mouse, he makes a flamboyant hop after escaping a battle.

Powers and Abilities
Ren 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 Makoto has is the power of the Wild Card, meaning that he is not restricted to using only one Persona based on their Arcana. Ren is in turn, able to switch Personas at will.

Arsène
The protagonist obtains Arsène, his initial Persona, during his first confrontation with Shadow Kamoshida in Kamoshida's Palace, where Arsène personally teaches the protagonist how to fight during his first battle. Upon being fused for the first time, he bids the protagonist farewell, but states that he will appear again at an important period in his journey. This occurs at the beginning of Niijima's Palace, facing off against Moloch. At the climax of the game during the battle against Yaldabaoth, Arsène appears once more. The cheers of the public fuel the protagonist to finally unbind the chains around Arsène, causing him to transform into his ultimate Persona, Satanael.

Satanael
TBA

Appearances

 * Persona 5
 * Persona 5 Royal
 * Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
 * Persona 5 Strikers
 * Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
 * Night of the Phantom

Trivia

 * He is the first protagonist in the Persona series to be a criminal.
 * If one includes the rest of the playable characters, Baofu is the first criminal for conducting telephone tapping.
 * The protagonist's mugshot reads "P508954TS."
 * Unlike other protagonists in the franchise, he is the first protagonist shown speaking in several in-game cutscenes. Likewise, most of the in-game narration is his internal monologue, instead of the second person narrator used in the previous games. Despite this, however, when he's with Morgana, he gives an indirect narration to his thoughts.
 * The protagonist could be found within the internal files of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax as a scrapped fighter with his old Persona Mephistopheles.
 * At the Sega Festival 2016, the protagonist won second place in a fan poll of "favorite party member," only beaten by Goro Akechi.
 * He is the third character in the Persona series to be named "Joker;" the first two being Jun Kurosu and Tatsuya Sudou from the Persona 2 duology, the fourth if the JOKER Persona counts as well.
 * Joker is the first Persona protagonist to get a tier 3 ultimate Persona, albeit only as DLC.
 * The protagonist is, according to Sojiro, a "country boy," meaning his hometown isn't a city.
 * When the group travels back home in Persona 5 's true ending, they take the only highway running along the coast in the suburbs of Tokyo, Tōmei Expressway (東名高速道路, Tōmeikōsokudōro)?. They are traveling west from Tokyo, through Kanbara.
 * If the protagonist defeats an enemy, in his victory animation, sometimes he will have a wider grin than he usually has.