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Minato Arisato is introduced at the beginning of the story arriving by train to attend school at Gekkoukan High School in Iwatodai. The train is a little late, and he arrives later than usual. Instead of people and electronics, he finds that the city is covered in coffins and silence. Continuing on, Minato eventually arrives at the dorm in darkness, stumbling into Yukari Takeba by mistake. After the misconception is cleared, Minato moves into his room, and a seemingly average school life begins.

The keyword here is seemingly.

Actually, the story of Persona 3 begins ten years before the events of the game in May of 1999. An event on the Moonlight Bridge in Iwatodai both killed Minato's parents as well as gave him a curse. In order to stop the monster named Death from rampaging the streets, the person fighting it sealed Death inside Minato, stopping Death's awakening. This event enabled Minato to access his powers as a Persona user ten years later. With his parents dead, however, Minato would be passed around from relative to relative, before finally returning to the place his parents died.

A few days after his arrival, a massive monster (Shadow) attacks his dorm after being led there by an upperclassman named Akihiko. Apparently, he was fighting it when he found that he didn't have enough power. The monster confronts and attacks Minato and Yukari when they try to escape. It immediately knocks out Yukari, and thinking quickly, Minato uses the gun-shaped tool that Yukari was about to use and pulls the trigger against his head. Doing so allows him to summon his Persona, Orpheus. Although Orpheus is his persona, it quickly transforms into something more vicious and tears apart the Shadow before it returns to being Orpheus.

Upon the monster's defeat, Minato faints for several days before returning to school. He is invited to participate in a meeting later the day he returns from class.

In Iwatodai, there is a twenty-fifth hour that normal people cannot feel. This is called the “Dark Hour”. Normal people do not experience it, spending it in a coffin until it passes. It bathes the place in a strange, green light and renders all electronics immobile. When the hour ticks by, people go back to normal without having any knowledge of it happening. But a few people can move during this time period with a special power called a Persona. Although assumed to be a regular human who will sleep through the Dark Hour, Minato is later revealed to be Persona user as well.

He is told that the known Persona users in the city are members of a group called Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES). Disguised as a club at Gekkoukan, SEES is actually a group dedicated to destroying the shadows that roam during the Dark Hour. Although these shadows are small to medium size, are usually weak, and do not usually spawn or appear outside of the tower Tartarus, once a month during there will be an extra strong one that appears with the Full Moon outside it.

Shortly into their first foray into the 'shadow nest', Minato is appointed the field leader of SEES. This basically means that Minato is supposed to issue commands or plan out strategies in their missions. During the year, other members from outside the school join SEES. It's later revealed that there are twelve bigger than usual shadows that will attack during full moons, and that eliminating all of them will result in the disappearance of Tartarus and the Dark Hour. This becomes the goal of SEES.

One of the members that join is a a robot, Aigis. When SEES visits the private Yakushima as part of their Summer Break in July, Aigis, what should have been an "inoperable model," reactivates herself and spends much of the vacation following and observing Minato. During his stay there, he remarks that he feels like he is being watched or followed. On the third day, the protagonist confronts Aigis as part of "Operation Babe Hunt." Aigis retreats from the beach into the forest, stating that she needs privacy to confirm who he is. Minato is then urged by his friends to follow her. Eventually, he finds her in the forest, where she throws her arms around him. She says that her highest priority is to be with him. At the end of the vacation, Aigis is brought back to the dorm to join the Special Extracurricular Execution Squad.

During this quest, SEES comes contact with a rival group named Strega who are carrying out contract killings during the Dark Hour. They're trying to stop SEES from destroying the Dark Hour so their lifestyle can remain the same. In what is presumed to be the final battle, SEES defeats Strega, and its remaining members jump off a bridge.

In November, a transfer student named Ryoji Mochizuki arrives at Gekkoukan. Aigis calls him dangerous and warns Minato to stay far away from him. Eventually in December, Aigis confronts Ryoji and gets nearly destroyed. This encounter causes Ryoji to reveal that he isn't even human. He is the thirteen shadow, Death, that Aigis sealed into Minato ten years ago. Ryoji then reveals that defeating the twelve shadows that came before him was a bad idea, because now the end of the world is nigh. When the goddess Nyx makes contact with Ryoji, an event called "The Fall" will occur, and many people will die. Ryoji expresses guilt and leaves.

Ryoji appears in the middle of December, giving SEES the option of killing him in order to forget the pain of the Dark Hour and live in peaceful ignorance before leaving. At the end of December, Ryoji again returns, asking SEES to kill him. However, SEES unanimously disagrees even at Ryoji's insistence, and Ryoji regretfully reveals the secret to fighting Nyx. He tells them that she will arrive on January 31, 2010 at the top of Tartarus, the Promised Day. Before they climb the Shadow nest Tartarus to defeat Nyx, however, SEES makes a promise to each other that they'll meet on top of the roof of the school building on Graduation Day (March 5th) when the battle has ended.

As SEES climbs Tartarus on January 30th, they work to defeat Nyx, who still retains some of Ryoji's features. She warns that she will return so long as humanity desires for oblivion because of its self-destructive nature. To prevent this from happening, Minato sacrifices himself to perform the Grand Seal. This process would bind his soul to the gates, preventing Nyx from making contact with Erebos. When the two come in contact, then the true end of humanity will occur.

Minato is supposed to die here, but he manages to eventually go back to the dorm. He also manages to hold on until March in hopes of seeing his seniors graduate. After the fight with Nyx, however, everyone seems to have lost their memories except Aigis, who isn't human and is therefore not subject to that law. (It's unknown if the protagonist actually loses his memories or was pretending to have them lost, but it's more likely that he didn't since he seemed to be expecting Aigis when she came to fetch him on March 5th.)

His world, however, is destroyed sometime before Graduation Day. When Minato goes to bed on March 4th, 2010, he doesn't wake up until he arrives near the Bastion. With the world destroyed, Minato is relieved of his duty as the Grand Seal. His soul that was used to seal the gates returns to him and allows him to become fully human again.

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Minato is commonly defined silent protagonist and much of what is his personality is free to interpretation, but he definitely has one. As the options in game hint that he's a rather dry and occasionally sarcastic individual. His body language betrays that he's rather nonchalant, if not an apathetic. Minato keeps his hands in his pockets and walks with a slouch. What most other people say to him or about him simply redirects itself elsewhere. He lives relatively detached from the world and society, evidenced by the fact that Minato is almost always seen listening to his music unless others are walking with him. It is even lampshaded that other students people consider him mixed up in some pretty dark shit (This is mentioned by a couple of Junpei's classmates when they tell him that Minato's pretty dark since his parents are dead). His responses in conversations range from being kind, to a simple, "I don't care," or even cracking a joke.

When he first arrives in Iwatodai, Minato is plain, timid, and not all that "intelligent." Presumably this is because he's never had reason to work hard. If he has to move around, within a short period of time, there's no point in working hard if it will eventually be erased as he moves. In his first months at school, he doesn't make an effort to reach out to people. He ignores the rumours that surround him and opts for hanging around the people he's been forced to meet. Accepting it with silence makes sense. A kid who is passed around by his relatives and doesn't have strong parental relationships would grow disinterested in the world around him, therefore burying himself in his own mind and music. In addition to the presence of Death within him, Minato experienced the Dark Hour from a young age, even if he didn't know what it was. He's painfully aware of the events that took his parents' lives and is particularly aware of the thin border between life and death. Even more so, he's afraid of reaching out and getting attached to people, only to lose them like he did his parents.

Goaded by the gloom in his life, Minato puts on a stoic façade. His face is almost always worn in a neutral expression and rarely twists into one of anger or a smile. The only look that clings to his face is the one of melancholy.Although things can catch him off-guard, it's much rarer that he'll express vocal surprise. He walked through a city full of coffins to get to his dorm and didn't even bat an eyelash. Suffice it to say that he's either seen something like this before, or just simply wasn't fazed. Not many things get to him.

Minato oozes silence. He's stated to be easy to get along with, probably because of how quiet he is. He also keeps and open mind when interacting with others. The Drama CDs accompanying the game hint that, like his expression, Minato's voice is a calm neutral and somewhat monotonous. Out of the few times that he speaks on the track, he only really says a couple of words. His nature makes him also good at hiding secrets. Throughout the events of the game, the player isn't told very much about Minato at all, and other members of Gekkoukan don't know anything about the Dark Hour or even Minato himself. He reveals very little of himself and his past, focusing on others instead, either out of not wanting to remember the pain, or burdening others with his own problems. All the Persona-related help he gets, like the Velvet Room or his excursions with Elizabeth, the attendant there, are all kept secret from anyone else.

His quiet voice and expressionless face is the look he displays to strangers and adults. He's polite and charming because of it but in general he doesn't let many people past that wall. He'll opt to drop the detached tones and try to be friendlier around those he's close to, although he still remain a little distance. It's hard for him to speak up in general since he doesn't like garnering much attention.

Being friendlier would not be possible without the bonds he makes through the school year. Although the first couple of acquaintances are the people he know and lives with (Junpei andYukari), he does seek out others eventually. As he grows closer to them, Minato opens up from being the apathetic boy that first arrived in Iwatodai to someone more willing to listen and genuinely become invested in their problems or help them on their way in life. His understanding of others increases, and coupled with his patience, truly makes him almost like a Messiah. He values these bonds immensely, over almost everything else in life.

Like anyoen else, however, Minato is not without his own quirks. For example, Minato likes sleep and often falls asleep in class, almost to the degree of a narcoleptic. He likes to sing karaoke, or spend inordinate amounts of the money on the little Crane game in front of the arcade or spending too much time fusing and summoning Personae. Minato also has a massive appetite for someone who appears so thin. In one event, he eats seven courses.

It's also important to note that Minato is extremely hardworking as well good at time management. He's endures monotonous grinds for expertise in swordplay, and buries his head in textbooks night after night to be prepared for exams that are coming up in two weeks. Doing well in both areas means that others can depend on him and not worry about him (and also for the spending money from Mitsuru). As a whole, Minato doesn't like to be worried about and instead spends his time worrying about others.

In battle, Minato's biggest ally is the rationality of his mind. Minato's instructions and quick and decisive. He rarely jumps into the heat of a battle without having considered the weaknesses and strengths of his allies and his enemies first. His friends and allies are the people he considers most important to protect, and values their survival over his own. Being rational helps him keep his options clear, and his ability to think under pressure makes him a valuable asset on unexpected complications. He's not afraid to use innovative ideas, but would prefer to keep things to experience. Either way, Minato is a formidable opponent when it comes to strategizing.

Minato's strong bonds with his friends is what validates his desire to protect the world. As he is about to perform the sealing ritual in the fight with Nyx, he hears the voices of his friends and acquaintances in his head, lending him the power he needs to actually perform it. In having spent his time and treasured their companionship, Minato finds the answer to life as he becomes the seal.

One-handed sword-wielding. Although Minato is quite skilled with a one handed sword, he doesn't have any supernatural proficiencies. All of it is just practice.

Minato can summon a wide variety of “Personae” as well as switch between them in battle where the other persona users cannot. Although he can only one at a time, he can store up to twelve in his mind and switch between them in battle. There is no specific limitation to how he may summon these Personas, other than the bonds he shares with other people through the form of a “Social Link.” Each persona also has its own set of skills, sort of like a Pokemon. He also had the access to fuse or summon them from a compendium, but since his world is destroyed and Minato relieved from his duty, he will not obtain any more Personas besides the one he brought with him, Messiah. It will arrive at Level 90 with him, with several of its skills sealed.

Minato will be subject to the usual 3 times a day for his active skills, as well as having to spend shards to unlock the rest of Messiah's abilities.

In canon, Messiah has the ability to generate god-level items and equipment, but it will not have access to that in the Bastion. I've also striked out the ones that Minato must buy back with Shards.

Active (x3 per day)
Megidolaon (Active, Almighty Element) - Inflicts severe Almighty damage upon all enemies Minato is facing in battle.
God's Hand (Active, Physical Element) - Inflicts severe Physical damage upon one enemy.
(Lvl 93.) Salvation (Active) - Removes status ailments and fully restores party's HP.

Passive (Always on)
Regenerate (Passive) - Restores a bit of HP every turn.
(Lvl 94) Invigorate 3 (Passive) Restores a bit of SP every turn.
(Lvl 95) Absorb Pierce (Passive) Absorb Physical attacks.
(Lvl 97) Enduring Soul (Passive) Restores all HP upon death once per battle
(Lvl 98) Magic Skill Up (Passive) Enhances all Spell-based attacks by 50%

Minato can probably make it to the Bastion on his own after a bit of confused existential doubt, of course.

I'd like Minato to bring his MP3, headphones and Evoker, and if possible a one-handed sword? (A basic one will probably do for now, although he just might be using his persona to fight if he doesn't!) The evoker is necessary for him to use his Persona, And he would feel naked without his mp3 and headphones that he wears almost everywhere.