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Death delivers us all to the same end.

Created on 2008-09-04 01:15:51 (#16511970), last updated 2008-10-28

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Name:	Ryoji Mochizuki
Location:	United States

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Arcana XIII - Death

☠ Death delivers
NAME Ryoji Mochizuki // Death // The Appriser // Thanatos // Pharos
FANDOM Persona 3
AGE This one's tricky. In actuality, Ryoji was "created" just over 10 years ago, has a physical age of 16-17, but has a spirit that is as old as humanity itself.
SPECIES Shadow
GENDER Male
TIMELINE After New Year's Eve
☠ us all
The amount of contrast between the two sides to Ryoji's personality is striking. Around friends he is eternally cheerful and fun, but his serious side is just about as serious as it can possibly get. Ryoji's character traits are based off of both the Death Tarot card and the Greek god Thanatos.

Ryoji's public persona is one full of charisma. He's confident, but not enough to be considered cocky. He's well aware of his charm and puts it to good use in making friends. There's more politeness than anything in his manner of speech. Most of the time he maintains a great mood, which he shows through frequent joking comments.

As far as dating goes, Ryoji is anything but inexperienced. Within a couple days at school he was asking out any girl in sight, including the female members of SEES. His gentlemanly charm makes it difficult for women to resist, except of course the ones from SEES. Like any teenaged male he clearly has sexual desires, but these are only displayed through jokes. It is unclear as to how far he got with any of his dates, but it is implied that he enjoys them for the female company rather than having any ulterior motives.

Ryoji can't always be sunshine and butterflies, and so he has his negative side. This negative side is fearful, worrying, and pessimistic. Bringing Ryoji to anger is difficult, but he'll most certainly get snappy if one of his friends is being targeted. He cares for his friends immensely, even to the point where he was willing to sacrifice his own life in order to save them from suffering. When he learned the truth about what he was, Ryoji apologized over and over again for not being able to change what was fated. He's also a bit stubborn, or at least very firm in his beliefs that what he's doing is best.

As a spirit of Death, Ryoji can be profoundly wise. His choices aren't exactly smart at times, but that's because he doesn't yet understand the significance of the small things in life. Ryoji knows about the big picture instead. He's naturally very in tune with the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. He knows that all living things have their own unique purpose, and he knows the meaning to life itself. He won't be telling anyone this, understandably, but he might let you know that you'll discover it for yourself when you die.

☠ to the
In 1999, the Kirijo Group, a company of great influence, was conducting secret experiments on the monsters known as Shadows. The purpose of these experiments was to find a method of using the Shadows' great abilities to control and alter the fabric of time and space. The head researcher, Dr. Kirijo, had malevolent plans for these studies and attempted to create a being that would bring about the end of the world. Another scientist heard of these plans, and set off an explosion during the final stages of this experiment. This explosion brought about the time period known as the Dark Hour, and Tartarus (also known as the Tower of Demise). Death managed to escape the explosion, but he was left in an incomplete state and broke off into twelve pieces to create powerful Shadows. As the weakened form of Death wandered, lost, he encountered the Anti-Shadow Weapon known as Aigis. Death was too powerful for her to defeat alone, so Aigis sealed him into the mind of a young boy who was watching nearby. This boy was Minato Arisato, the protagonist of Persona 3.

Ten years later, Minato was assigned to the dorms of Iwatodai. In the dorms there was a group known as SEES - the Special Extra-curricular Execution Squad. The members of SEES were all able to access a power known as Persona (a manifestation of one's inner self), to defeat Shadows. A powerful Shadow attacked the dorm, and Minato was forced to defend himself. He called upon the power of Orpheus, but Orpheus was immediately ripped apart by the spirit of Thanatos. Thanatos violently disposed of the attacking Shadow and effectively saved his host's life.

After this event, a mysterious young boy of about ten years of age begun appearing to Minato in his sleep. This boy introduced himself as Pharos and quickly became friends with Minato. Pharos gave warnings of "ordeals" that would take place every full moon, which were more of the powerful Shadows attacking. He also talked about the approach of "The End", also known as "The Fall". Months passed, and the twelve major Shadows were defeated one by one. Pharos came to visit Minato during the morning the day after it was defeated, and said that he has regained his memories and must leave.

Five days later, a transfer student known as Ryoji Mochizuki joined Minato's class. He gained many female (and jealous male) admirers right away due to his flirty, cheerful attitude. Ryoji became fast friends with Junpei Iori, a member of SEES, and began hanging out with him in the Iwatodai dorms. During one full moon, Ryoji was shown standing on the Moonlight Bridge - the same place where he fought with Aigis ten years ago. Aigis recognized him for who he was right away, although it took a few minutes of explanation in order for Ryoji himself to gain his memories back. He realized that he had been subconsciously leading Minato to defeat and reunite all of his missing pieces. Now he was fully complete, so Aigis stood no chance against fighting him this time and was quickly subdued. When the other members of SEES come to her aid, Ryoji explains everything. He is The Appriser of Death, whose fate is to usher the great maternal being known as Nyx into this world. This in turn, will cause The Fall - the time when Nyx will bring an end to all life in this world. Ryoji tells the members of SEES that Nyx cannot possibly be defeated and that The Fall is inevitable. The most he can do is offer a choice. The members of SEES can either let Ryoji live and wait out the coming of The Fall in fear of their impending death, or kill Ryoji and lose all of their memories related to him, the Shadows, and The Fall. Ryoji leaves them to think about their choice, and vows to return a month later on New Year's Eve.

Ryoji comes back as he had promised. He gives a brief review of their choices, and makes it clear that he thinks being killed will be the best option for everyone. Ryoji goes to wait in Minato's room until midnight to let the members of SEES deliberate. They choose to let him live, despite Ryoji's desires to let them all live peacefully until the time of The Fall. Nonetheless, he lets them know that Nyx can be confronted at the top of Tartarus on January 31st. Ryoji leaves and wishes them all "best wishes in the coming year".
☠ same end.
As Thanatos, Ryoji has access to a whole slew of powerful abilities. Thanatos possesses godly strength, is lethal with a sword, and is just as lethal with his teeth. Some of his more specific attacks are energy blasts, instant-kill moves, and poison. I could elaborate, but since Thanatos will be inactive anyway at Enlevement, so it makes little difference.

As Ryoji, he retains his swordfighting ability. In his battle with the android Aigis, he was able to put up energy barriers strong enough to be able to severely damage her internal components. Ryoji doesn't enter any other fights as himself after that, but the ending makes it clear that he is a lot more powerful than even he is aware of.

There is one important ability that will carry over to Enlevement. This is Ryoji's inability to feel any kind of intense or lethal pain. His human form allows him to feel light sensations of pain, but no more than what might occur in everyday life. If he picks up any life-threatening injuries or is killed, he will feel nothing. This comes from him being a personification of death, to put it simply.
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Ryoji's Relationships:

Ion: A kindred spirit and a very good friend. I don't quite understand what else I feel for him.
Cross: A bit misled, but nice. And likes women~
Yuffie: Cheery and charming. Good to pass time with.
Cossette: Adorable girl who speaks like an adult. Her presence is comforting.
Kusuri-uri: Kind and mysterious. His calmness is a relief.

Overall Info
Rating • Any
Death • Sure, just as long as I know about it before it happens.
Smut • Yes
Yaoi - Het - Yuri • Yes / PLEASE ASK if the rating's going to exceed PG-13 / Yes

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