Kotone Shiomi

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Kotone Shiomi
Other Name(s)	Brown-haired girlPersona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
School(s)	Gekkoukan High School

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.

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In a world parallel to the main world of the Persona series, on Tatsumi Port Island 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 her the sole survivor. Aigis, unable to defeat Death, sealed a portion of its power in Kotone.

Ten years later, on April 6th, 2009, Kotone moves back 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 (SEES), 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 seven months, with the aid of the inhabitants of the Velvet Room - Igor and Theodore - Kotone leads SEES in battling the twelve fragments of Death 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. During this time, she re-encounters Aigis, who has lost her memories of their previous encounter due to damage sustained in the fight with Death. Eventually, SEES defeats the twelve fragments, but the Dark Hour is not destroyed. Kotone learns that SEES founder and former Kirijo Group scientist Shuji Ikutsuki had deceived them all; 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. Ikutsuki is killed in a gunfight with SEES backer Takeharu Kirijo. Death manifests in the form of new Gekkoukan transfer student Ryoji Mochizuki, who 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, SEES 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 his friends before dying peacefully in one of her friends' arms on March 5, 2010.

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