Kotone Shiomi

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Kotone Shiomi
Other Name(s)	Brown-haired girlPersona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
Date of Birth	Unknown, 1992-1993
Age	16-17
Height	160 cm (5’3”)
School(s)	Gekkoukan High School
Occupation(s)	Student
Affiliation(s)	S.E.E.S.
Arcana	The Fool Death Judgement Universe
Persona(s)	Orpheus Thanatos Messiah
Voice Actor(s)	Marina Inoue (JA) Laura Bailey (EN)

Kotone Shiomi is a playable character and the female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable, being the female counterpart to Makoto Yuki. The name Kotone Shiomi originated as the name of the female protagonist in the Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade stage play adaptations; the name was later adopted as her default name in the 2023 re-release of Persona 3 Portable, which the game defaults to if the text language settings are changed.

Profile

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Kotone Shiomi is a teenager with auburn hair and red eyes, with pins in her hair forming the roman numerals of the number 22. She wears her hair in a ponytail with her bangs styled to the right side of her face. She wears her Gekkoukan Uniform with little modification and a pair of red ATH-model headphones. She wears the same uniform with the S.E.E.S. armband and her Evoker attatched to her hip during battle with her weapon of choice being a naginata. Her other outfits often consist of the colors red and orange.

Unlike her male counterpart, Kotone is seen to be very cheerful and upbeat in many of her dialogue choices, often making jokes or being sarcastic. She's often described as dependable and tough by her teammates, being referred to as a "tomboy" at many different times by them. However, events of the game show that underneath this cheerful exterior she hides much of her sadness and depression, with the tone of her dialogue choices changing to be more similar to her male counterpart's more blatant indifference and depression.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Kotone Shiomi.

Game Appearances

Persona 3 Portable

On April 6th, 2009 in a parallel universe, Kotone moves to Tatsumi Port Island as a transfer student to Gekkoukan High School. Three days later, she enters the Dark Hour, a supernatural 25th hour where Shadows roam, is caught up in a Shadow attack on the Iwatodai Dormitory and awakens to the power of Persona, with the initial Persona Orpheus. Kotone learns that her dormmates are actually members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (S.E.E.S.), a group dedicated to fighting Shadows. Kotone is inducted into SEES and named their field commander due to her unique ability to control multiple Personas, the Wild Card.

Over the course of the next several months, with the aid of the inhabitants of the Velvet Room - Igor and Elizabeth (or Theodore) - Kotone leads S.E.E.S. in battle in order to bring an end to the Dark Hour and exploring Tartarus, a massive tower that appears in place of Gekkoukan High during the Dark Hour.

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Eventually, S.E.E.S. defeats the twelve fragments, but the Dark Hour is not destroyed. They learn destroying the fragments will allow Death to return to its full power and summon the maternal being, Nyx, and bring about the Fall, the end of humanity.

Death later manifests in the form of new Gekkoukan transfer student, Ryoji Mochizuki. It is revealed that in 1999, the Kirijo Group's experiments on the Shadows went disastrously awry, unleashing the most powerful shadow, Death. The Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Aigis pursued and battled Death, causing a car crash that killed Kotone's parents and left him the sole survivor. Aigis, unable to defeat Death, sealed a portion of its power in Kotone.

Ryoji offers Kotone a choice - kill him and allow SEES to live out the remainder of their lives in blissful ignorance, or let him live and make a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. In the bad ending, Kotone kills Ryoji and is last seen ignorantly singing karaoke right before the Fall. In the good ending, Kotone spares Ryoji. On January 31st, 2010, S.E.E.S ascends to the top of Tartarus and defeats Ryoji's true form, the Nyx Avatar in battle, but are powerless to stop the Fall. Kotone ascends to face Nyx and expends all of her life force to create a seal to protect the Earth from her.

Kotone spends the next two months living a peaceful life with her friends before dying peacefully in Aigis' arms on March 5, 2010.

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Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

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Audio Drama Appearances

• Persona 3 Portable Drama CD Volume 1

Manga Appearances

Persona 3 Portable: Dear Girls Comic Anthology

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Novel Appearances

Persona 3 Portable: Velvet Blue

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This novel focuses on Kotone's relationships with the Velvet Room attendants.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	汐見 琴音	Shiomi Kotone. The kanji of the family name mean "tide watching" and the given name means "the sound of a koto (a Japanese string instrument)."

Trivia

• Her hairband is shaped like XXII, the roman numeral for 22, which represents the fool arcana.
• Unlike other Persona protagonists who's names originate from their respective anime adaptations, the name "Kotone Shiomi" originates from a stage play.
• Kotone is not a playable protagonist option in Persona 3 Reload but she was considered. She was ultimately not included because it would have cost much more than including The Answer as DLC

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