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Character Name: Tohru Adachi
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Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Episode Adachi, right when Sho is about to deliver the final blow.
Background/History: Wiki
Personality:
Simpleminded and eager to please, Adachi isn't what one would call a model police officer, and that's no more apparent than when he's first introduced at the side of his senior partner, Ryotaro Dojima. Upon arriving at a murder scene, his first impulse is to duck out so he can throw up much to Dojima's chagrin, an action that more or less sets the mood for a large majority of his personality for much of Persona 4's story, because it's that single word — impulse — that describes a good deal of his character. It's Adachi's impulsive nature that unwittingly allows (or so we're led to believe at first) Yu Narukami and his friends to continue their investigation because, although they have no support from Dojima who would prefer that they stay out of police business, it's Adachi and his tendency to run his big, fat mouth at inappropriate moments who ends up becoming the Investigation Team's primary source of intel. Always up for a conversation, Adachi chats freely and openly about how the police are dealing with the serial murders plaguing Inaba, making him the only real inside connection our heroes have. However, even if you take that key part of usefulness out of the picture, there's still an innate sense of likability about him. To put it simply, Adachi is fun. He's friendly and goofy. Though he's meant to be Dojima's partner and supposedly has as much authority as the older man does, he behaves more like his personal assistant, doing errands for him and enduring his bossiness with the long-suffering air of someone who's very used to it, but at the same time remaining steadfastly loyal to Dojima and looking out for his well-being. In short, he's pegged as the game's butt monkey before we even properly know his name.
However, the truth is not always so clear-cut, and looking beyond the easy answer initial appearances may bring is one of the story's driving themes. And out of every character in the cast that our initially Happiest Game About Murder boasts, none come so close to conveying this message as Adachi does.
Eventually, the Investigation Team digs deep and discovers certain clues that cast suspicion on Adachi as the true culprit behind the murders, which turns out to be true when he ends up fleeing after they question him, leading them into the Midnight Channel where he finally reveals the truth behind his actions to them. It's here that the mask comes off and Adachi's true personality — that of a conniving, cold, manipulative sadist — rears its ugly head. Why did he kill Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi? Surprisingly, for no good reason at all: for the former, because she rejected him; for the latter, because he could. Of all the excuses he could make for his deplorable actions, Adachi is very upfront and sincere by cutting straight to the chase — he was bored, bored to death of being in Inaba, a town he wasn't even supposed to be in, and bored to death of rotting in obscurity while other less deserving people reaped the benefits of achievements he should've been recognized for. As he talks about his motives to the Investigation Team, it becomes obvious that Adachi is a hateful, bitter man with an entitlement complex the size of a small country who, in all likelihood, never joined the police out of a desire to do justice. In his words, the only reason he chose this particular career was so he could legally carry a gun.
Although one would expect some long, drawn-out reason for such deep-seated issues, Adachi has very little in the way of a backstory that would suggest justification for his behavior. In his Social Link, he reveals that he was went to high-school at a prestigious school where his grades counted above all else and, as long as he was getting good ones, his parents cared little for what he did on the side. All he could do was — in his words — “study his ass off”, which put him at the top of his class and prepared him for what he hoped would be a fantastic life with opportunities for advancement and recognition. When the real world outside of school proved to be the complete opposite for him, Adachi immediately takes this letdown and the subsequent failures that follow it as personal slights against him, all due to what he believes is a lack of talent, nursing a grudge against the world which begins to steadily grow into vicious contempt not just for the way society works but also for the people who he believes to be naturally born with talent — that magic ticket that ensures success and allows them to do whatever they want no matter how little effort they put into it. It's this very entitlement that leads to the deaths of Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi in the first place. Fostering a borderline obsessive crush on Mayumi, Adachi volunteered to be her assigned bodyguard in the midst of a scandal for the sole purpose of being able to get close to her. Then, when he found out that the rumors were true and she was having an affair with a city councilman, his immediate reaction was one of betrayal, acting like she had jilted him despite the fact that she had never even met him prior to that day. Rejected and angry, Adachi attempted to assault her, shoving her against a nearby TV which accidentally led to her falling into the Midnight Channel. Barely a week after this, Adachi tried to do the same thing with Saki, a high-school girl he brought in for questioning after she found Mayumi's body, once again making advances and reacting violently when he was rejected.
At no point does Adachi ever regret Mayumi and Saki's deaths. He goes so far as to call them worthless bitches who had it coming and even has to take a moment to remember Saki's name when asked about her. It's not a habit just isolated to them, though — it's everything. Killing two innocent women and manipulating a grieving man into kidnapping more victims to throw into the TV under the pretense of keeping them safe — most of which are high-school aged kids, mind — isn't a crime in his eyes: it's a game. Bored out of his mind, Adachi dupes Namatame into believing that the people who show up on the Midnight Channel are future victims of the killer, and encourages him to get to them first and put them into the TV because they'll be safe in it. When Mitsuo Kubo attempts to take credit for the murders as an attention-seeking ploy, Adachi throws him into the TV as well because he knows that if the police take him seriously and peg him as the killer, his game will be over.
Nothing is ever his fault. He didn't mean to kill Mayumi, but she forced his hand. Saki was a dippy high-school girl who deserved what she had coming to her because she was a smartass and a whore who was probably sleeping with Namatame. And if the Investigation Team only knew when to quit playing cops and robbers and go back to studying and doing what normal kids should be expected to do, none of the further altercations like Nanako getting thrown into the Midnight Channel and Dojima getting injured trying to chase after Namatame would have happened. Adachi likes to assign blame to anyone but himself and is either too deluded or just unwilling to admit that all of the misfortunes in his life fall squarely on his shoulders. The entire reason for his transfer to Inaba is a particularly glaring example; all Adachi says about it is that it was due to an accident that his superiors unfairly blew out of proportion. At heart, he's a coward who is the exact opposite of the Investigation Team. Whereas Yu and his friends face the truth about themselves and learn to accept it and draw strength from it, Adachi runs and hides from it. When they accuse him of being the killer and he knows that there's nothing he can say to weasel his way out of it, his instinct is to run into the nearest TV and hide in the Midnight Channel, taunting them to chase him while he remains safe at the end of a labyrinthine dungeon, only making any attempt to fight the kids when they have him cornered with nowhere left to go.
Adachi is also very duplicitous even well before the truth about him is brought to light. He's the type of person who doesn't know when to shut up, but every so often he'll let a comment or two slip that's just a little too passive aggressive, a little too mean, but he's crafty enough about it to pass it off as a simple misunderstanding. He's also tremendously lazy. If there's an easy way out of doing something, you can bet he'll take it. At one point, he encourages Nanako to take shortcuts in her reading assignment and copy summaries in the back of the book despite the fact that the book in question is a simple picture book. Instead of doing his own work, he can always be found in Junes taking breaks, which he insists is part of the job and a measure of his efficiency, and only seems to accept Yu's company because it'll make him look like he's doing something important to anyone who passes by. This laziness even extends to his personal life; Adachi has no desire to take up cooking or cleaning, stating that by the time he comes home he's too tired to do anything, and his only requirements for a girlfriend is someone who a) can cook well, and b) is attractive.
And yet, at the same time, it's no secret that for all of Adachi's arrogance and disdain for what the world has to offer, his own private one is deeply devoid of anything meaningful. He has no motivation for creating relationships. In fact, he actually grows very resentful when confronted with them. He believes that being alone and remaining detached from people is the smart way to live life because you aren't getting weighed down by their emotions or giving them the chance to hurt you. This behavior is exemplified by his relationship with an old woman who attempts to bond with him because he shares a name with her son, but instead of returning her affections and trying to form a connection with her, Adachi rejects her at every opportunity, hiding every time he sees her and talking about her behind her back about how annoying she is and how the food she brings him isn't even good. When she finally gets the hint and redirects all of her attention to her actual son when he comes to visit her, it's plain to see that Adachi is deeply wounded by it — almost as much as he is when he sees that her son is rich and successful, the expect opposite of what he is — and attempts to use the incident to fuel his reasoning for why it's best to live your life by your own rules without people burdening you.
And that brings us to the final contradiction of Adachi's personality. After his defeat at the hands of the Investigation Team, humiliated and injured, Adachi accepts his loss with as much dignity as you can expect from him and allows the Investigation Team to do whatever they want with him. Instead of leaving him to die like he expects, they instead pull him back into the real world and demand that he take responsibility for his crimes. And he actually accepts this. He agrees to play by their rules and by proxy the world's rules, allowing himself to be escorted off by the police to face justice. He claims to be above relationships, but he's clearly touched when Dojima personally sends an ambulance out to wait for him when he returns from the TV. He cares about Nanako, too, and even Yu, the target of so much pent-up jealousy and frustration for being the sort of person Adachi hates, who he tells as much when he sends the Investigation Team a letter from jail months later, giving them a vital clue about the real instigator behind the fog because he can't clean up his messes by himself. And then, before Yu can get too comfortable with the idea that Adachi is truly sorry, he closes the letter by calling Yu a dumbass and asking him to stay healthy. What a guy, right?
Surprisingly, this attitude sticks well into his incarceration during the events of the P-1 Climax. Adachi continues to honor his agreement to the Investigation Team by doing his time until it's threatened by the appearance of a mysterious boy named Sho Minazuki who takes control of a policeman to throw Adachi back into the Midnight Channel. Revealing that he wants to use him against the Investigation Team and use the energy given off by their Personas in the subsequent confrontation for his own agenda, Sho gives Adachi an ultimatum: help him, or die and risk having the serial murders continue again. Adachi, of course, agrees. Why? Because if he doesn't, last year's investigation will have been for nothing and the police will have no choice but to set him free, and as a result he'll never pay for his crimes. And because he's made a promise, because it's a direct violation of what he's come to claim as his rules, not even the world's anymore but his, it does more than just piss him off.
So he helps Sho — or so he leads him into believing, anyway. Playing the part of the apathetic bystander who's nonetheless eager to see chaos unfold, Adachi uses his position to help by cryptically dispense clues to the Investigation Team under the pretense of mocking them, knowing that if he were to tell them outright Sho would immediately dispose of him. He drops hints and uses shrewd tactics to keep his allegiance uncertain until the very end, even going so far as to save the Shadow Operatives and distract Sho from immediately noticing the Investigation Team when they eavesdrop on them talking; he even comes between Sho and the kids to keep them from fighting on several occasions. In spite of this, however, the nastiness still remains. With all of his masks set aside, there's even less of a reason for him to hold back, as evident when, in prison, he goads a prison guard into attacking him by taunting him about his own shady past when the man has the gull to ridicule Dojima in front of him. The entitlement has been dulled to something a little less thorny and unbridled, but the crass insults and demoralizing jeers and all its trappings remain. Even when his game has been found out and Sho proceeds to unleash a world of hurt on him, Adachi takes it all with little more than a laugh to even out all the pain, telling Sho not to insult him by putting himself on his level. That he actually has a reason to hate the world and Sho is little more than a spoiled brat lashing out; that just looking at him irritates the hell out of Adachi because it reminds him of the person he used to be back in Inaba; and that even if Sho does kill him, he better be ready for the Investigation Team to come after him next. He remains true to these convictions even when Yu arrives to save the day, putting aside everything to team up with his old enemy to finally bring an end to the P1-Climax — and by extension, the threat to their world.
Ultimately, Adachi is a perfect fit for his Arcana, the Jester, a reversed version of the Fool. Whereas the Fool embodies the beginning of a new journey and reaching a state of limitless creativity where life can be lived to the fullest, the Jester is the total opposite: impulsive and reckless with very little regard to those around itself or the potential it's squandering. For everything awful he's done, he offers no further justification than what he had when the Investigation Team first confronted him — he was bored and this great goddess-given power came to him as compensation for a life of perceived hardship. His manipulative tendencies and misanthropy are so deeply ingrained into his personality that it's crucial to the person he was when Yu first met him — the overly chatty, bumbling detective hiding a dark secret — and the one he is now: the lackadaisical former killer who finds himself allied with the very children who put him away in the first place to insure that nothing they did would go to waste as a matter of his own personal pride, who mercilessly belittles his opponents and treats anyone who crosses him like dirt beneath his shoe, but who is also a little more willing to face the truth, to take responsibility for his actions, and a tiny bit less reluctant to admit that maybe, perhaps, having just a bond may not be such a bad thing after all.
However, the truth is not always so clear-cut, and looking beyond the easy answer initial appearances may bring is one of the story's driving themes. And out of every character in the cast that our initially Happiest Game About Murder boasts, none come so close to conveying this message as Adachi does.
Eventually, the Investigation Team digs deep and discovers certain clues that cast suspicion on Adachi as the true culprit behind the murders, which turns out to be true when he ends up fleeing after they question him, leading them into the Midnight Channel where he finally reveals the truth behind his actions to them. It's here that the mask comes off and Adachi's true personality — that of a conniving, cold, manipulative sadist — rears its ugly head. Why did he kill Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi? Surprisingly, for no good reason at all: for the former, because she rejected him; for the latter, because he could. Of all the excuses he could make for his deplorable actions, Adachi is very upfront and sincere by cutting straight to the chase — he was bored, bored to death of being in Inaba, a town he wasn't even supposed to be in, and bored to death of rotting in obscurity while other less deserving people reaped the benefits of achievements he should've been recognized for. As he talks about his motives to the Investigation Team, it becomes obvious that Adachi is a hateful, bitter man with an entitlement complex the size of a small country who, in all likelihood, never joined the police out of a desire to do justice. In his words, the only reason he chose this particular career was so he could legally carry a gun.
Although one would expect some long, drawn-out reason for such deep-seated issues, Adachi has very little in the way of a backstory that would suggest justification for his behavior. In his Social Link, he reveals that he was went to high-school at a prestigious school where his grades counted above all else and, as long as he was getting good ones, his parents cared little for what he did on the side. All he could do was — in his words — “study his ass off”, which put him at the top of his class and prepared him for what he hoped would be a fantastic life with opportunities for advancement and recognition. When the real world outside of school proved to be the complete opposite for him, Adachi immediately takes this letdown and the subsequent failures that follow it as personal slights against him, all due to what he believes is a lack of talent, nursing a grudge against the world which begins to steadily grow into vicious contempt not just for the way society works but also for the people who he believes to be naturally born with talent — that magic ticket that ensures success and allows them to do whatever they want no matter how little effort they put into it. It's this very entitlement that leads to the deaths of Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi in the first place. Fostering a borderline obsessive crush on Mayumi, Adachi volunteered to be her assigned bodyguard in the midst of a scandal for the sole purpose of being able to get close to her. Then, when he found out that the rumors were true and she was having an affair with a city councilman, his immediate reaction was one of betrayal, acting like she had jilted him despite the fact that she had never even met him prior to that day. Rejected and angry, Adachi attempted to assault her, shoving her against a nearby TV which accidentally led to her falling into the Midnight Channel. Barely a week after this, Adachi tried to do the same thing with Saki, a high-school girl he brought in for questioning after she found Mayumi's body, once again making advances and reacting violently when he was rejected.
At no point does Adachi ever regret Mayumi and Saki's deaths. He goes so far as to call them worthless bitches who had it coming and even has to take a moment to remember Saki's name when asked about her. It's not a habit just isolated to them, though — it's everything. Killing two innocent women and manipulating a grieving man into kidnapping more victims to throw into the TV under the pretense of keeping them safe — most of which are high-school aged kids, mind — isn't a crime in his eyes: it's a game. Bored out of his mind, Adachi dupes Namatame into believing that the people who show up on the Midnight Channel are future victims of the killer, and encourages him to get to them first and put them into the TV because they'll be safe in it. When Mitsuo Kubo attempts to take credit for the murders as an attention-seeking ploy, Adachi throws him into the TV as well because he knows that if the police take him seriously and peg him as the killer, his game will be over.
Nothing is ever his fault. He didn't mean to kill Mayumi, but she forced his hand. Saki was a dippy high-school girl who deserved what she had coming to her because she was a smartass and a whore who was probably sleeping with Namatame. And if the Investigation Team only knew when to quit playing cops and robbers and go back to studying and doing what normal kids should be expected to do, none of the further altercations like Nanako getting thrown into the Midnight Channel and Dojima getting injured trying to chase after Namatame would have happened. Adachi likes to assign blame to anyone but himself and is either too deluded or just unwilling to admit that all of the misfortunes in his life fall squarely on his shoulders. The entire reason for his transfer to Inaba is a particularly glaring example; all Adachi says about it is that it was due to an accident that his superiors unfairly blew out of proportion. At heart, he's a coward who is the exact opposite of the Investigation Team. Whereas Yu and his friends face the truth about themselves and learn to accept it and draw strength from it, Adachi runs and hides from it. When they accuse him of being the killer and he knows that there's nothing he can say to weasel his way out of it, his instinct is to run into the nearest TV and hide in the Midnight Channel, taunting them to chase him while he remains safe at the end of a labyrinthine dungeon, only making any attempt to fight the kids when they have him cornered with nowhere left to go.
Adachi is also very duplicitous even well before the truth about him is brought to light. He's the type of person who doesn't know when to shut up, but every so often he'll let a comment or two slip that's just a little too passive aggressive, a little too mean, but he's crafty enough about it to pass it off as a simple misunderstanding. He's also tremendously lazy. If there's an easy way out of doing something, you can bet he'll take it. At one point, he encourages Nanako to take shortcuts in her reading assignment and copy summaries in the back of the book despite the fact that the book in question is a simple picture book. Instead of doing his own work, he can always be found in Junes taking breaks, which he insists is part of the job and a measure of his efficiency, and only seems to accept Yu's company because it'll make him look like he's doing something important to anyone who passes by. This laziness even extends to his personal life; Adachi has no desire to take up cooking or cleaning, stating that by the time he comes home he's too tired to do anything, and his only requirements for a girlfriend is someone who a) can cook well, and b) is attractive.
And yet, at the same time, it's no secret that for all of Adachi's arrogance and disdain for what the world has to offer, his own private one is deeply devoid of anything meaningful. He has no motivation for creating relationships. In fact, he actually grows very resentful when confronted with them. He believes that being alone and remaining detached from people is the smart way to live life because you aren't getting weighed down by their emotions or giving them the chance to hurt you. This behavior is exemplified by his relationship with an old woman who attempts to bond with him because he shares a name with her son, but instead of returning her affections and trying to form a connection with her, Adachi rejects her at every opportunity, hiding every time he sees her and talking about her behind her back about how annoying she is and how the food she brings him isn't even good. When she finally gets the hint and redirects all of her attention to her actual son when he comes to visit her, it's plain to see that Adachi is deeply wounded by it — almost as much as he is when he sees that her son is rich and successful, the expect opposite of what he is — and attempts to use the incident to fuel his reasoning for why it's best to live your life by your own rules without people burdening you.
And that brings us to the final contradiction of Adachi's personality. After his defeat at the hands of the Investigation Team, humiliated and injured, Adachi accepts his loss with as much dignity as you can expect from him and allows the Investigation Team to do whatever they want with him. Instead of leaving him to die like he expects, they instead pull him back into the real world and demand that he take responsibility for his crimes. And he actually accepts this. He agrees to play by their rules and by proxy the world's rules, allowing himself to be escorted off by the police to face justice. He claims to be above relationships, but he's clearly touched when Dojima personally sends an ambulance out to wait for him when he returns from the TV. He cares about Nanako, too, and even Yu, the target of so much pent-up jealousy and frustration for being the sort of person Adachi hates, who he tells as much when he sends the Investigation Team a letter from jail months later, giving them a vital clue about the real instigator behind the fog because he can't clean up his messes by himself. And then, before Yu can get too comfortable with the idea that Adachi is truly sorry, he closes the letter by calling Yu a dumbass and asking him to stay healthy. What a guy, right?
Surprisingly, this attitude sticks well into his incarceration during the events of the P-1 Climax. Adachi continues to honor his agreement to the Investigation Team by doing his time until it's threatened by the appearance of a mysterious boy named Sho Minazuki who takes control of a policeman to throw Adachi back into the Midnight Channel. Revealing that he wants to use him against the Investigation Team and use the energy given off by their Personas in the subsequent confrontation for his own agenda, Sho gives Adachi an ultimatum: help him, or die and risk having the serial murders continue again. Adachi, of course, agrees. Why? Because if he doesn't, last year's investigation will have been for nothing and the police will have no choice but to set him free, and as a result he'll never pay for his crimes. And because he's made a promise, because it's a direct violation of what he's come to claim as his rules, not even the world's anymore but his, it does more than just piss him off.
So he helps Sho — or so he leads him into believing, anyway. Playing the part of the apathetic bystander who's nonetheless eager to see chaos unfold, Adachi uses his position to help by cryptically dispense clues to the Investigation Team under the pretense of mocking them, knowing that if he were to tell them outright Sho would immediately dispose of him. He drops hints and uses shrewd tactics to keep his allegiance uncertain until the very end, even going so far as to save the Shadow Operatives and distract Sho from immediately noticing the Investigation Team when they eavesdrop on them talking; he even comes between Sho and the kids to keep them from fighting on several occasions. In spite of this, however, the nastiness still remains. With all of his masks set aside, there's even less of a reason for him to hold back, as evident when, in prison, he goads a prison guard into attacking him by taunting him about his own shady past when the man has the gull to ridicule Dojima in front of him. The entitlement has been dulled to something a little less thorny and unbridled, but the crass insults and demoralizing jeers and all its trappings remain. Even when his game has been found out and Sho proceeds to unleash a world of hurt on him, Adachi takes it all with little more than a laugh to even out all the pain, telling Sho not to insult him by putting himself on his level. That he actually has a reason to hate the world and Sho is little more than a spoiled brat lashing out; that just looking at him irritates the hell out of Adachi because it reminds him of the person he used to be back in Inaba; and that even if Sho does kill him, he better be ready for the Investigation Team to come after him next. He remains true to these convictions even when Yu arrives to save the day, putting aside everything to team up with his old enemy to finally bring an end to the P1-Climax — and by extension, the threat to their world.
Ultimately, Adachi is a perfect fit for his Arcana, the Jester, a reversed version of the Fool. Whereas the Fool embodies the beginning of a new journey and reaching a state of limitless creativity where life can be lived to the fullest, the Jester is the total opposite: impulsive and reckless with very little regard to those around itself or the potential it's squandering. For everything awful he's done, he offers no further justification than what he had when the Investigation Team first confronted him — he was bored and this great goddess-given power came to him as compensation for a life of perceived hardship. His manipulative tendencies and misanthropy are so deeply ingrained into his personality that it's crucial to the person he was when Yu first met him — the overly chatty, bumbling detective hiding a dark secret — and the one he is now: the lackadaisical former killer who finds himself allied with the very children who put him away in the first place to insure that nothing they did would go to waste as a matter of his own personal pride, who mercilessly belittles his opponents and treats anyone who crosses him like dirt beneath his shoe, but who is also a little more willing to face the truth, to take responsibility for his actions, and a tiny bit less reluctant to admit that maybe, perhaps, having just a bond may not be such a bad thing after all.
Abilities/Powers:
Adachi is a Persona-user, meaning that he's one of a select few who can summon a spiritual manifestation of his true self — a Persona — from the depths of his soul to fight for him. Whereas the usual method of obtaining one is to either be born with the potential or gain it after accepting your Shadow self, as is the case with the majority of the Investigation Team sans Yu, Adachi's is special as it was bestowed upon him by the goddess Izanami, who granted him, Yu and Namatame the potential upon unwittingly meeting her after their respective arrivals in Inaba. As such, his Persona, Magatsu-Izanagi, is unique in that it's all but identical to Yu's own Persona, Izanagi, hinting at its divine nature.
Magatsu-Izanagi is resistant to Light/Dark spells and is currently level 73 (HP: 4200, Magic: 55, Strength: 65, Endurance: 66, Agility: 45, Luck: 45). Its abilities are as follows:
Vorpal Blade ▶ Inflicts heavy Physical damage on all enemies.
Ziodyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Electric damage on one enemy.
Maziodyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Electric damage on all enemies.
Garudyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Wind damage on one enemy.
Magarudyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Wind damage on all enemies.
Power Charge ▶ The next normal attack, physical skill, or Almighty physical attack will be 2.5 times greater in power. Self.
Mudoon ▶ 50% chance of instant death from the power of Darkness on one enemy.
Dekaja ▶ Cancels stat increase on all enemies.
Heat Riser ▶ Increases an ally's Attack, Defense and Agility for 3 turns.
Evil Smile ▶ 25% chance of inflicting the Fear ailment on all enemies.
Foolish Whisper ▶ 25% chance of inflicting the Silence ailment on all enemies.
Ghastly Wail ▶ Instantly kills all enemies suffering from Fear ailment.
Atom Smasher ▶Inflicts medium Physical damage on all enemies up to 2 times with a chance of fear.
Megidola ▶ Inflicts heavy Almighty damage on all enemies.
Additionally, Adachi can also enter the Midnight Channel, a bizarre world inhabited by creatures called Shadows, by using televisions as portals. During the events of the first game, Adachi was also able to demonstrate several other abilities inside the Midnight Channel such as the power to create illusionary duplicates of himself, change the terrain of the environment, and even summon powerful Shadows to attack his enemies. However, all of this can be assumed to be due to the presence of an entity known as Ameno-sagiri that had been laying dormant in him at the time because, by the end of the game when Ameno-sagiri has been expelled from his body and by the beginning of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, he displays no such abilities when he finds himself in the Midnight Channel once more.
Finally, Adachi has one more ability in Magatsu-Izanagi: the power to perform a fusion spell with Yu's Izanagi where the two of them merge together to execute an immensely powerful attack that takes the form of sword. This power seems isolated to Adachi and Yu given the nature of their Personas as neither of them have ever performed it or an attack of similar nature before.
Magatsu-Izanagi is resistant to Light/Dark spells and is currently level 73 (HP: 4200, Magic: 55, Strength: 65, Endurance: 66, Agility: 45, Luck: 45). Its abilities are as follows:
Vorpal Blade ▶ Inflicts heavy Physical damage on all enemies.
Ziodyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Electric damage on one enemy.
Maziodyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Electric damage on all enemies.
Garudyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Wind damage on one enemy.
Magarudyne ▶ Inflicts heavy Wind damage on all enemies.
Power Charge ▶ The next normal attack, physical skill, or Almighty physical attack will be 2.5 times greater in power. Self.
Mudoon ▶ 50% chance of instant death from the power of Darkness on one enemy.
Dekaja ▶ Cancels stat increase on all enemies.
Heat Riser ▶ Increases an ally's Attack, Defense and Agility for 3 turns.
Evil Smile ▶ 25% chance of inflicting the Fear ailment on all enemies.
Foolish Whisper ▶ 25% chance of inflicting the Silence ailment on all enemies.
Ghastly Wail ▶ Instantly kills all enemies suffering from Fear ailment.
Atom Smasher ▶Inflicts medium Physical damage on all enemies up to 2 times with a chance of fear.
Megidola ▶ Inflicts heavy Almighty damage on all enemies.
Additionally, Adachi can also enter the Midnight Channel, a bizarre world inhabited by creatures called Shadows, by using televisions as portals. During the events of the first game, Adachi was also able to demonstrate several other abilities inside the Midnight Channel such as the power to create illusionary duplicates of himself, change the terrain of the environment, and even summon powerful Shadows to attack his enemies. However, all of this can be assumed to be due to the presence of an entity known as Ameno-sagiri that had been laying dormant in him at the time because, by the end of the game when Ameno-sagiri has been expelled from his body and by the beginning of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, he displays no such abilities when he finds himself in the Midnight Channel once more.
Finally, Adachi has one more ability in Magatsu-Izanagi: the power to perform a fusion spell with Yu's Izanagi where the two of them merge together to execute an immensely powerful attack that takes the form of sword. This power seems isolated to Adachi and Yu given the nature of their Personas as neither of them have ever performed it or an attack of similar nature before.
Items/Weapons: All Adachi has on him aside from the clothes on his back is his New Nambu M60 handgun, with an according clip of extra ammo.
Sample Entry: Here
Sample Entry Two:
Adachi had only just finished closing and locking the door to his apartment when he heard the noise behind him — guttural but small, a sound that was so passive aggressive he didn't even need to turn around to see who it was because he knew immediately, because while there were many people on this floor who were irritating in some way — some more minor than others to the point of being insignificant, even he could admit that — there was only one person who had a habit of clearing their throat in such a distinct way to announce their presence. And, seeing as how it was only six o'clock in the morning (as if that mattered), hearing it this early either meant one of two things: it was actually important or it was the beginning of one of those long, long, long days.
“Saito-san.”
“Tohru-kun.” The old woman nodded, her lips pulling into a pleasant smile that was wide enough for her toothless gums to peek through her wrinkled old mouth. In that instant, Adachi wanted to gag. Instead, he returned her smile, awkward and out of place as it was, and raised a hand to rub the back of his head. God, what he would have given for a good morning. It'd been so long since he had a chance to eat breakfast before work. Whatever he had in his fridge was infinitely better than anything in the station's break-room, mold and all, so today seemed like a first in terms of setting new records. First time eating a go— okay, alright breakfast in four months; shortest time spent throwing together whatever was clean in my laundry basket; and now, longest time spent standing here listening to this rotten old—
“It's gotten colder,” Saito said with a laugh. Adachi could feel the pulse ticking away in the wrist of the hand that held his key give a sick, sudden leap, her laugh being repulsive enough to remind him of something shivering, like the congealed mess currently festering in the jello mold that lie at the back of his fridge. “The weather people were wrong again, as usual. Back when I was a young woman, we didn't have computers to help tell us things like that. Now everyone is using them and people have forgotten the old fashioned way. That's such a shame.”
“Yeah,” Adachi said. He smiled modestly. See, bitch? You're not the only one who can play nice, that smile said to anyone who had a pair of working brain cells to rub together. Of course, he was talking to Saito who probably thought it meant that he was agreeing with her.
“Oh, you're on your way to work, right?” She asked. “I was on my way back from the market — you know how early they open — and I didn't see your bike when I came back. I'd thought you already left, but since you're still here...”
“Uh, I thiiiink I might've told you already that I don't own a bike,” Adachi said, jabbing the air with the point of his key in a faintly puzzled, troubled gesture. It was so rhetorical it might as well have been a non-statement. Of course he'd told her. Either she had a budding case of dementia or just enjoyed fucking with him; he could never tell which. He had yet to meet an elderly person who wasn't putting on an act in some form or other for attention or company or some other petty shit that made sense only to them. He wouldn't have been surprised if the TV in her apartment was broken or something and this was the only form of entertainment good enough to meet her standards. “Why didn't you call someone? If it was stolen on the property, it'd be the landlord's job to go through the proper channels.”
Saito gave another ladylike cough. “Oh? Well, I'll have to do that.”
“Sure you will.” Adachi winked. Finally pocketing his key, he stepped away from the door and edged around the woman. “And you know whose desk it's going to end up on the moment you do!”
Saito laughed heartily, joining in on Adachi's chuckle. Like the smile, it too had another easily read but easily missed second meaning to it: not mine.
“Saito-san.”
“Tohru-kun.” The old woman nodded, her lips pulling into a pleasant smile that was wide enough for her toothless gums to peek through her wrinkled old mouth. In that instant, Adachi wanted to gag. Instead, he returned her smile, awkward and out of place as it was, and raised a hand to rub the back of his head. God, what he would have given for a good morning. It'd been so long since he had a chance to eat breakfast before work. Whatever he had in his fridge was infinitely better than anything in the station's break-room, mold and all, so today seemed like a first in terms of setting new records. First time eating a go— okay, alright breakfast in four months; shortest time spent throwing together whatever was clean in my laundry basket; and now, longest time spent standing here listening to this rotten old—
“It's gotten colder,” Saito said with a laugh. Adachi could feel the pulse ticking away in the wrist of the hand that held his key give a sick, sudden leap, her laugh being repulsive enough to remind him of something shivering, like the congealed mess currently festering in the jello mold that lie at the back of his fridge. “The weather people were wrong again, as usual. Back when I was a young woman, we didn't have computers to help tell us things like that. Now everyone is using them and people have forgotten the old fashioned way. That's such a shame.”
“Yeah,” Adachi said. He smiled modestly. See, bitch? You're not the only one who can play nice, that smile said to anyone who had a pair of working brain cells to rub together. Of course, he was talking to Saito who probably thought it meant that he was agreeing with her.
“Oh, you're on your way to work, right?” She asked. “I was on my way back from the market — you know how early they open — and I didn't see your bike when I came back. I'd thought you already left, but since you're still here...”
“Uh, I thiiiink I might've told you already that I don't own a bike,” Adachi said, jabbing the air with the point of his key in a faintly puzzled, troubled gesture. It was so rhetorical it might as well have been a non-statement. Of course he'd told her. Either she had a budding case of dementia or just enjoyed fucking with him; he could never tell which. He had yet to meet an elderly person who wasn't putting on an act in some form or other for attention or company or some other petty shit that made sense only to them. He wouldn't have been surprised if the TV in her apartment was broken or something and this was the only form of entertainment good enough to meet her standards. “Why didn't you call someone? If it was stolen on the property, it'd be the landlord's job to go through the proper channels.”
Saito gave another ladylike cough. “Oh? Well, I'll have to do that.”
“Sure you will.” Adachi winked. Finally pocketing his key, he stepped away from the door and edged around the woman. “And you know whose desk it's going to end up on the moment you do!”
Saito laughed heartily, joining in on Adachi's chuckle. Like the smile, it too had another easily read but easily missed second meaning to it: not mine.