“Death is but a blessing.”
Hypnos is the Persona of Takaya Sakaki and a Demon in the Shin Megami Tensei series featured in Megami Ibunroku Persona and Persona 3.
Hypnos appears as the boss of the Hypnos Tower in the Snow Queen Quest. The Snow Queen granted Hypnos as a guardian to Kumi Hirose, which she used to put the school faculty and students to sleep so they could live their dreams forever.
Hypnos is Takaya Sakaki's artificially summoned Persona, born from the experiments performed by the Kirijo Group. Surprisingly enough, Takaya is able to summon Hypnos without the aid of an Evoker.
Physical Appearance[]
Hypnos appears as a disfigured body held in the air by wings seemingly grafted into his spine.
Design Variants[]
In Megami Ibunroku Persona, Hypnos appears as a man wearing vines as clothing with long purple hair and rose thorns growing out of him.
In the manga for MIP, Hypnos's design gets rid of the roses and thorns and instead gives him long flowing hair and a blindfold.
Other Video Game Appearances[]
In Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, Hypnos appears as a maiden in a white cloth with roses and thorns surrounding her.
In Ronde, Hypnos appears as a frail child with yellow skin wearing a tattered loin cloth and the face of a brown creature with four green eyes.
| Other Video Game Appearances | |
|---|---|
 Hypnos in Devil Summoner  Hypnos in Ronde |
Mythological Origins[]
According to Homer, he lives on the island Lemnos, which later on has been claimed to be his very own dream-island. His children had sometimes been claimed as the Oneiroi (Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos), the gods of dreams along with his wife being Pasithea. In some other depictions, the Oneiroi are the younger children of Nyx and Erebus which makes them Hypnos' younger siblings.
Appearances[]
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux
- Ronde
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
- Megami Ibunroku Persona / Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
- Persona 3 / FES / Portable / Reload
- Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner
Trivia[]
- Hypnos appears as a palette swap for Caesar in Persona 4 Arena when using Akihiko Sanada's Takaya palette swap.
- It is possible to hack Hypnos for the Persona 3 protagonist to use, but unlike party member Personas, he has no voice clip for Hypnos, instead a different Persona's clip, i.e. "Rangda!" will play instead. As the Persona has no default stats, level or other data (all of which come from Takaya's enemy data himself), even Arcana, without any further codes to change their stats and abilities, the game will crash when using it. There is a picture of Hypnos among the rest of the Personas.
