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[badbadbathhouse]

Oh gracious, I turn a blind eye for just a sexond and the second post fills up! Darlings, sweetpeas, do please forgive my tardiness. I bring you now our third installment of the fantasticousity, and would indeed love to, ah, beg your pardon in being so late about it.

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: PERSONA 4 KINK MEME
PART THREE

In this scintillating post

Comments

Discussion: Name usage

[anonymous]

Does anyone know if there's a list anywhere of what all the characters call each other, honorific- and nickname-wise? Not necessarily every one listed individually, but some thing like 'Dojima: to most people- Dojima-san, to Nanako- Dad'

It seems like every time I'm writing a fic I'll come to a point where I completely blank out on what one characters calls another, because my brain just completely skims over it while playing so while they might be saying, say, Amagi-san or Yukiko-chan the only thing that sticks with me is that they're talking with/about Yukiko.

Second years

[anonymous]

I'm doing this according to Atlus' translation (ie rendering "Yousuke" as "Yosuke", people use given names rather than family names, etc).

I'm also working off of memory here, so... while I'm pretty sure that the ones for the investigation team are correct, the ones with the s-links are doing a bit of guess work.

As a general note: Nanako doesn't refer to any of the characters directly (I think...) except for Rise ("Rise-chan"), Dojima ("Dad"), and Souji ("big bro").

SoujiYukiko, Chie: Souji-kun

First years + others

[anonymous]

Kanji
Souji (most likely), Yosuke: Kanji
Chie, Yukiko, Rise, Naoto: Kanji-kun
Teddie: Kanji
S-links:
>The owner of Aiya's call him Kan-chan
>His mother calls him Kanji-chan
>Teachers/adults not familiar with him from childhood/other students and Dojima call him "Tatsumi"
>Naoki calls him "Kanji-san"
>>He's actually pretty respectful to people... just... not always to their face.
>>Evidently, he drops honorifics with males his own age.

Rise
Kanji: Rise
Yosuke (Chie, Yukiko, Souji, Naoto?): Rise-san
Teddie, Nanako: Rise-chan
Dojima: Kujikawa
S-links:
>Her manager calls her Rise-san
>This was a bit harder, since she's not in any dungeon convos, so all I have here are working off of memory of cut scenes.
>For some reason, I tend to write characters as dropping honorifics with her altogether...

NaotoSouji: Naoto-san

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Man, this will be very helpful~ Anon sees one error, though; in one of either the Hierophant or Justice s.link events, Dojima does call Souji by name as he's turning away towards the stairs; he does not use any honorific.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

OP thinks you're awesome, anon! I didn't really expect someone to go this completely in-depth!

And I'm very glad to see that as far as I can recall I mostly got it right when my brain went blank and I needed to take a shot in the dark.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I was under the impression Yosuke called Rise "Rise-chan" from time to time as well, depending on the context.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

For whatever it's worth, I tend to see Souji calling Dojima "Ryotaro-san" a lot in doujinshi.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Dojima calls Naoto "Shirogane", and the other police calls her "Shirogane-san".

I know everyone knows, but just putting it here. :)

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I'm pretty sure Yosuke eventually drops the -san for Yukiko. Not too long after she joins the investigation team, I believe. At least, he calls her Yukiko when he congratulates for a 1 More, and in his Dungeon Conversations with her.

Oh, and there's a dialogue option for the MC where he says something alone the lines of "Let's save Yukiko" early on. No honorific.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Different anon! Just as a note, the dialogue options never have any honorifics, so it's more or less ambiguous as to what the MC's actually saying.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

These are nice, anon. Definetely useful for those unfamiliar with the honorific lingo (though, I know enough from watching anime and playing Persona 4). :D

On a side note, I don't know if this counts (since it's battle-oriented), Kanji called Yukiko "Amagi-senpai" in a 1 More. Weird, if you ask me. T_T Plus, I did hear Naoto call Soji 'senpai' on another 1 More. (I know, they're not very useful. XP) But I agree about how Yosuke dropped the '-san' on Yukiko. I don't know when it started, though.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Anon is sure he dropped the -san by the end of the game. When they were searching for the true culprit, I was sure he called her "Yukiko".

And Naoto calls Souji 'senpai' all the time.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

I checked Naoto's rank 10--she calls Souji "Souji-san" there. And a quick run through the YT vids (rrgh why are they so long) shows that Yosuke drops honorifics for Naoto, as well. (Or it might've been a proofing error or something. ... Um.)

I couldn't find Yosuke calling anyone but Chie, Naoto, Teddie, Adachi, and Namatame by name in the YT vids (12/5, 12/6), so whether he ever drops the -san is a mystery to me.

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Naoto calls the MC "senpai" in the voiced scenes, but everywhere else is -san.

AS for Yosuke and Naoto, it's kinda weird. I'm pretty sure he never used honorifics when he thought Naoto was a guy, but after that, he called her Naoto-kun at least once, in a Sunday event where they all get together to study. He was teasing her at the time though, so...

Also, I've been checking some videos and a script transcript, and by May, Yosuke already dropped the -san for Yukiko.

The transcript: http://shatterheart.net/games/persona4/script/may_2.php

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlL4T79WFQ&feature=fvw (wait until it loads enough for you to get to 6:18)

Re: First years + others

[anonymous]

Yosuke did refer to Naoto as Naoto-kun once shortly after she transferred into the school, when she blew off the girls trying to flirt with her, IIRC.