[OOC - LOL WUT?]
Timeline: In August before the summer festival.December 22nd after defeating YOU-KNOW-WHO and saving Inaba from turning into something out of Silent Hill. :P March 20th. The night before he leaves Inaba. So...yeah. Post true-ending.
Here's the tl;dr version: This Souji is the human form of Izanagi. And most of the Investigation Team's past lives are gods/legendary figures from Japanese Mythology and Buddhism.
Long version: (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Years ago, Izanagi finally sucked it up and went back to the underworld to visit Zombiefied Wife Dearest only to find that she's not there. He was told she somehow managed to escape and is now currently hanging out somewhere in the mortal realm with humans.
So he along with some of his kids and fellow gods of Japanese mythology decide to look for her by descending into human form. Ie, they reincarnated as humans.
Except the problem with that is the fact when they did so, they lost all memory of who they were and what their mission is. Oops.
Izanagi also chose to be born to a couple whose jobs tend to make them a lot so he could unconciously continue searching for Izanami. Except this made his human personality/incarnation Souji unhappy at times due to the CONSTANT MOVING.
Then one day, Souji's parents declare that they're going to be working oversees for a year and so he'll be living with his uncle and cousin in Inaba while they're gone. So when Souji arrives and meets the Gas Station Attendant of Doom, he feels oddly drawn to him/her for some reason but is quickly distracted by the feeling of 'urgh, dizziness' after they shook hands (where Izanami gives his memory/powers a jumpstart) and that's quickly forgotten. And then the plot starts up.
So when Souji and Yosuke decide to rush into the weirdass TV world to see if they can find clues in Saki-senpai's death in the funky version of the shopping district, they are attacked by Shadows. This event unlocks Souji/Izanagi's powers into the form of a Persona...which is also called Izanagi. So yeah, he's summoning himself. \o\;
But what also happened when those powers were unlocked was that Souji's memories of his past life were unleashed. But before he could wtf over it, Yosuke's shadow shows up and turns into a giant frog thing of death after Yosuke denies it. After it's defeated, Yosuke accepts the shadow and gains his persona Jiraiya.
In turn, that's right, Yosuke's powers as Susano-O are also unlocked in the form as his Persona. However, his his memories of his past life as a god don't reveal themselves until his social link is maxed and Jiraiya turns into Susano-O which in turn means he's at full power (yet his and everyone else's Persona still have to learn their abilities, orz). Which also weirded him out at first but gets used to it. Later it turns out Yukiko and Kanji are gods too.
The four of them now wait to learn who their friends truly are while keeping the 'lol I'm a god' thing a secret.
Now for who's who: (bold means their social link is maxed and the party member is at full power)
Souji: Izanagi
Yosuke: Susano-O, god of storms.
Yukiko: Amaterasu, goddess of the sun.
Chie: Suzuka Gongen, legendary bandit demoness
Kanji: Rokuten Maou, a Demon Lord in Japanese Buddhism. Apparently bffs with Mara
Rise: Kanzeon, Buddhist goddess/diety of mercy
Naoto: Yamato Takeru, legendary Japanese prince
Teddie: LOL STILL A SHADOW *tomato'd*
Other random crap (more will be added for later):
-Unfortunately the human mind can't bear to have all those memories, powers and knowledge on the surface all at once so it moves it all to the subconcious/unconcious to where they hang out until the user needs/decides to recall them. /bs-ing
-As much as Souji and Yukiko want to date, they're kinda weirded out by their relationship of their past lives (father and daughter). That and there's the 'my zombie ex is out there somewhere' thing
-Souji/Izanagi will act like his ordinary human self unless there's a good reason why he should bust out the Amenonuboko and smite your ass.
-For the lolz, Souji/Izanagi will recognize gods from other mythologies. JUST BECAUSE I CAN. *shot*
-Rise/Kanzeon understood that Senpai hugged her 'cause she needed it. And why he's apparently not interested in dating her ("Right, so you're a one-girl type of guy. So, who is she~? :D"). But she refuses to lose hope that someday, he'll fall for her. ("Face it, senpai, Izanami hates your guts. :|")
-Mostly everybody in Inaba doesn't know that Izanagi's dating god!Thanatos...because it happened in the mall and for some reason he didn't show up in Inaba yet (or maybe he did and is being invisible about it).
-Thanks to a certain incident the other day, there's a time paradox/loop going on where Izanagi hasn't told his kids about him dating god!Thanatos. However, by the beginning of December, Susano-O knows about it (and more or less revealed this to Amaterasu while thinking that she already knows). Let's face it, he has to go home sometime. \o\;
Here's the tl;dr version: This Souji is the human form of Izanagi. And most of the Investigation Team's past lives are gods/legendary figures from Japanese Mythology and Buddhism.
Long version: (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Years ago, Izanagi finally sucked it up and went back to the underworld to visit Zombiefied Wife Dearest only to find that she's not there. He was told she somehow managed to escape and is now currently hanging out somewhere in the mortal realm with humans.
So he along with some of his kids and fellow gods of Japanese mythology decide to look for her by descending into human form. Ie, they reincarnated as humans.
Except the problem with that is the fact when they did so, they lost all memory of who they were and what their mission is. Oops.
Izanagi also chose to be born to a couple whose jobs tend to make them a lot so he could unconciously continue searching for Izanami. Except this made his human personality/incarnation Souji unhappy at times due to the CONSTANT MOVING.
Then one day, Souji's parents declare that they're going to be working oversees for a year and so he'll be living with his uncle and cousin in Inaba while they're gone. So when Souji arrives and meets the Gas Station Attendant of Doom, he feels oddly drawn to him/her for some reason but is quickly distracted by the feeling of 'urgh, dizziness' after they shook hands (where Izanami gives his memory/powers a jumpstart) and that's quickly forgotten. And then the plot starts up.
So when Souji and Yosuke decide to rush into the weirdass TV world to see if they can find clues in Saki-senpai's death in the funky version of the shopping district, they are attacked by Shadows. This event unlocks Souji/Izanagi's powers into the form of a Persona...which is also called Izanagi. So yeah, he's summoning himself. \o\;
But what also happened when those powers were unlocked was that Souji's memories of his past life were unleashed. But before he could wtf over it, Yosuke's shadow shows up and turns into a giant frog thing of death after Yosuke denies it. After it's defeated, Yosuke accepts the shadow and gains his persona Jiraiya.
In turn, that's right, Yosuke's powers as Susano-O are also unlocked in the form as his Persona. However, his his memories of his past life as a god don't reveal themselves until his social link is maxed and Jiraiya turns into Susano-O which in turn means he's at full power (yet his and everyone else's Persona still have to learn their abilities, orz). Which also weirded him out at first but gets used to it. Later it turns out Yukiko and Kanji are gods too.
The four of them now wait to learn who their friends truly are while keeping the 'lol I'm a god' thing a secret.
Now for who's who: (bold means their social link is maxed and the party member is at full power)
Souji: Izanagi
Yosuke: Susano-O, god of storms.
Yukiko: Amaterasu, goddess of the sun.
Chie: Suzuka Gongen, legendary bandit demoness
Kanji: Rokuten Maou, a Demon Lord in Japanese Buddhism. Apparently bffs with Mara
Rise: Kanzeon, Buddhist goddess/diety of mercy
Naoto: Yamato Takeru, legendary Japanese prince
Teddie: LOL STILL A SHADOW *tomato'd*
Other random crap (more will be added for later):
-Unfortunately the human mind can't bear to have all those memories, powers and knowledge on the surface all at once so it moves it all to the subconcious/unconcious to where they hang out until the user needs/decides to recall them. /bs-ing
-As much as Souji and Yukiko want to date, they're kinda weirded out by their relationship of their past lives (father and daughter). That and there's the 'my zombie ex is out there somewhere' thing
-Souji/Izanagi will act like his ordinary human self unless there's a good reason why he should bust out the Amenonuboko and smite your ass.
-For the lolz, Souji/Izanagi will recognize gods from other mythologies. JUST BECAUSE I CAN. *shot*
-Rise/Kanzeon understood that Senpai hugged her 'cause she needed it. And why he's apparently not interested in dating her ("Right, so you're a one-girl type of guy. So, who is she~? :D"). But she refuses to lose hope that someday, he'll fall for her. ("Face it, senpai, Izanami hates your guts. :|")
-Mostly everybody in Inaba doesn't know that Izanagi's dating god!Thanatos...because it happened in the mall and for some reason he didn't show up in Inaba yet (or maybe he did and is being invisible about it).
-Thanks to a certain incident the other day, there's a time paradox/loop going on where Izanagi hasn't told his kids about him dating god!Thanatos. However, by the beginning of December, Susano-O knows about it (and more or less revealed this to Amaterasu while thinking that she already knows). Let's face it, he has to go home sometime. \o\;