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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Canon Format: Video Game
Character's Name: Tohru Adachi
Character's Age: 27
What form will your character's NV take? Police radio scanner.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Naturally, Adachi is a good shot with small firearms - revolvers and pistols, like the Japanese issue nambu series. In conjunction, he’s skilled in the maintenance of his weapons as well (chances are, he’s a bit of a gun geek).
Less naturally, Adachi is one of the three characters of his game originally given the power of persona from the get go. His is Magatsu Izanagi, which looks like the protagonist’s Izanagi, except more sinister in appearance. Also like the protagonist’s, it specializes in physical and electric attacks, all offensive. Unlike the hero’s, though, Adachi has much less control of his persona, and up until recently, half his strings had been pulled by someone else, anyway. He does not need a card to summon it, but he also hadn't started using it until a few months ago. His control is bound to be shaky (be mindful of collateral damage).
Weapons: Police issue nambu pistol (38 caliber, five rounds at once).
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Wikipedia Entry on Persona 4, but a more character-specific version can be found here.
As he states himself, Adachi was (what he believed to be) a phenomenal cop in theory, but not in practice. His good standing in training made him confident, but when faced with the real world, with real murders and real crimes, those results did nothing for him. As a consequence, "one mistake" (though it’s doubtful it was just one, or that one was as insignificant as he made it out to be) and he was sent to Nowheresville, Japan - a quiet, countryside town named Inaba.
The first kill was a mistake. He took a liking to reporter Mayumi Yamano - a fan obsession gone wrong, and in a confrontation with her at the landmark Amagi inn, accidentally shoved her through a television. Her body appeared days later, strung upside-down on a television antenna, and the sight of the body sent the contents of his stomach hurling. After recovering, however, Adachi took this one step further and forced witness to the crime scene Saki Konishi through a television as well, ending in her death. He was bored and bitter, given a very special ability, and the combination did not mix well.
After that, he stopped pushing people through. He didn’t need to. He had Namatame, with his own delusions of being a savior, to do the dirty work for him. Meanwhile, Adachi continued following partner Dojima Ryotaro around, trying to solve the wild goose chase of the ‘serial murder’ case. It gave him an alibi and the trust of an enemy, but it wasn’t enough. Though he let Namatame continue his ploy, and nearly let him take the blame for the first two kills as well, eventually one answers for their crimes.
His anonymous threats to stop the rescuers pointed out his guilt. After being confronted about his involvement in the hospital, and failing to deflect the blame because of the pressure, Adachi fled to the television world, where Magatsu Inaba sprung up as a result. Still, even that was no match for the adversary. He was beaten, but just as he was about to be dragged back to face his crimes, he stepped through and found himself in a real Middle of Nowhere (and he thought Inaba was bad).
Point in Canon: Post-Magatsu Inaba battle, right before being dragged back into the real world - he is defeated, but only just.
Character Personality: Acid-tongued, egotistic, and condescending, Adachi tends to look down on others, partly out of resentment, partly due to his big-city mentality. He thought he had been destined for great things, had been born and bred believing it. His transfer to the country might as well have been, in his eyes, the end of his life as he knew it (or more accurately, as he expected it to be). With seemingly nothing to lose, Adachi is prone to doing illogical things (like murder) simply because he can, because he's bored, because hey, why not? Accordingly, he is manipulative (or tries to be), selfish, and surprisingly childish in his inability to accept his own fallibility.
More commonly, however, Adachi plays a clueless, bumbling young detective who is more dead-weight than useful, and he plays it well. In Inaba, he pretended to be the loose-lipped, pushover partner of one of the members of the local police force; he was the sort of person you'd last expect to be the killer, almost like background noise, fetching coffee, doing errands. He likes to believe that this act was the perfect disguise to cover up his true intentions (oh, you sly criminal mastermind, you). He doesn't realize it was less an act than he thinks. It's a common theme - Adachi is smart, but never smart enough. He's lucky, but never lucky enough. He always falls short of the quota.
Truthfully, he's both the criminal and the greenhorn - he just doesn't like to think so.
Above all, Adachi is a coward - not a title you’d expect to label a man guilty of both first and second degree murder with. He is a conniving and lying one, but a coward nonetheless, scared of recognizing his own incompetence, that out of the million, he's the 99,999, not the one. Even his crimes were left half-done - the Midnight Channel was handy. All he had to do was put people in. He never had to kill them himself, the Shadows did it for him. When confronted, rather than taking responsibility for his actions, he blamed it on others. In fact, it's doubtful he's even capable of striking a finishing blow. Sure, maybe that whole sick-to-the-stomach thing at seeing the corpse was an act, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe he's a monster; maybe he's human.
Character Plans: Since he’s pulled out before the end of the game, he hasn’t had the three months until March to really come to terms with and accept the consequences of his actions. In fact, landing in an entirely new town rather than Inaba might even seem like fate cutting him a break. Considering it's nightmarish in nature, he'll take arrival without much surprise - as far as he's concerned, it's like a worse version of the Television World, only this time it's hostile to him as well.
As far as development goes, he needs to be humbled a great deal, have his high horse knocked out from under him, and simply, learn to pick himself up after. Adachi is a character whose defining trait is his inability to accept his circumstances, and that's bound to show up again once he finds out the true nature of his 'detour'. He can't do it alone either, though whether he can find someone who can stand him long enough to help him is another matter entirely.
Appearance/PB: Concept Art - Adachi (It's messy, but there are no other official, full-body images.)
General
Canon Source: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Canon Format: Video Game
Character's Name: Tohru Adachi
Character's Age: 27
What form will your character's NV take? Police radio scanner.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Naturally, Adachi is a good shot with small firearms - revolvers and pistols, like the Japanese issue nambu series. In conjunction, he’s skilled in the maintenance of his weapons as well (chances are, he’s a bit of a gun geek).
Less naturally, Adachi is one of the three characters of his game originally given the power of persona from the get go. His is Magatsu Izanagi, which looks like the protagonist’s Izanagi, except more sinister in appearance. Also like the protagonist’s, it specializes in physical and electric attacks, all offensive. Unlike the hero’s, though, Adachi has much less control of his persona, and up until recently, half his strings had been pulled by someone else, anyway. He does not need a card to summon it, but he also hadn't started using it until a few months ago. His control is bound to be shaky (be mindful of collateral damage).
Weapons: Police issue nambu pistol (38 caliber, five rounds at once).
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Wikipedia Entry on Persona 4, but a more character-specific version can be found here.
As he states himself, Adachi was (what he believed to be) a phenomenal cop in theory, but not in practice. His good standing in training made him confident, but when faced with the real world, with real murders and real crimes, those results did nothing for him. As a consequence, "one mistake" (though it’s doubtful it was just one, or that one was as insignificant as he made it out to be) and he was sent to Nowheresville, Japan - a quiet, countryside town named Inaba.
The first kill was a mistake. He took a liking to reporter Mayumi Yamano - a fan obsession gone wrong, and in a confrontation with her at the landmark Amagi inn, accidentally shoved her through a television. Her body appeared days later, strung upside-down on a television antenna, and the sight of the body sent the contents of his stomach hurling. After recovering, however, Adachi took this one step further and forced witness to the crime scene Saki Konishi through a television as well, ending in her death. He was bored and bitter, given a very special ability, and the combination did not mix well.
After that, he stopped pushing people through. He didn’t need to. He had Namatame, with his own delusions of being a savior, to do the dirty work for him. Meanwhile, Adachi continued following partner Dojima Ryotaro around, trying to solve the wild goose chase of the ‘serial murder’ case. It gave him an alibi and the trust of an enemy, but it wasn’t enough. Though he let Namatame continue his ploy, and nearly let him take the blame for the first two kills as well, eventually one answers for their crimes.
His anonymous threats to stop the rescuers pointed out his guilt. After being confronted about his involvement in the hospital, and failing to deflect the blame because of the pressure, Adachi fled to the television world, where Magatsu Inaba sprung up as a result. Still, even that was no match for the adversary. He was beaten, but just as he was about to be dragged back to face his crimes, he stepped through and found himself in a real Middle of Nowhere (and he thought Inaba was bad).
Point in Canon: Post-Magatsu Inaba battle, right before being dragged back into the real world - he is defeated, but only just.
Character Personality: Acid-tongued, egotistic, and condescending, Adachi tends to look down on others, partly out of resentment, partly due to his big-city mentality. He thought he had been destined for great things, had been born and bred believing it. His transfer to the country might as well have been, in his eyes, the end of his life as he knew it (or more accurately, as he expected it to be). With seemingly nothing to lose, Adachi is prone to doing illogical things (like murder) simply because he can, because he's bored, because hey, why not? Accordingly, he is manipulative (or tries to be), selfish, and surprisingly childish in his inability to accept his own fallibility.
More commonly, however, Adachi plays a clueless, bumbling young detective who is more dead-weight than useful, and he plays it well. In Inaba, he pretended to be the loose-lipped, pushover partner of one of the members of the local police force; he was the sort of person you'd last expect to be the killer, almost like background noise, fetching coffee, doing errands. He likes to believe that this act was the perfect disguise to cover up his true intentions (oh, you sly criminal mastermind, you). He doesn't realize it was less an act than he thinks. It's a common theme - Adachi is smart, but never smart enough. He's lucky, but never lucky enough. He always falls short of the quota.
Truthfully, he's both the criminal and the greenhorn - he just doesn't like to think so.
Above all, Adachi is a coward - not a title you’d expect to label a man guilty of both first and second degree murder with. He is a conniving and lying one, but a coward nonetheless, scared of recognizing his own incompetence, that out of the million, he's the 99,999, not the one. Even his crimes were left half-done - the Midnight Channel was handy. All he had to do was put people in. He never had to kill them himself, the Shadows did it for him. When confronted, rather than taking responsibility for his actions, he blamed it on others. In fact, it's doubtful he's even capable of striking a finishing blow. Sure, maybe that whole sick-to-the-stomach thing at seeing the corpse was an act, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe he's a monster; maybe he's human.
Character Plans: Since he’s pulled out before the end of the game, he hasn’t had the three months until March to really come to terms with and accept the consequences of his actions. In fact, landing in an entirely new town rather than Inaba might even seem like fate cutting him a break. Considering it's nightmarish in nature, he'll take arrival without much surprise - as far as he's concerned, it's like a worse version of the Television World, only this time it's hostile to him as well.
As far as development goes, he needs to be humbled a great deal, have his high horse knocked out from under him, and simply, learn to pick himself up after. Adachi is a character whose defining trait is his inability to accept his circumstances, and that's bound to show up again once he finds out the true nature of his 'detour'. He can't do it alone either, though whether he can find someone who can stand him long enough to help him is another matter entirely.
Appearance/PB: Concept Art - Adachi (It's messy, but there are no other official, full-body images.)