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First-tier Persona: Fujin, a Japanese god of wind

Second-tier Persona: Yeah, going with Koga Saburo (dear personashadows: Your work is amazing and you should feel amazing).

Starting stats: Strength 3, Magic 5, Endurance 3, Agility 5, Luck 4; as time goes on, Magic and Agility climb the highest and Strength gets the laggiest

Starting spells: Garu, Cleave, Dia
If this sounds familiar, it’s because I’m taking into account the fact that Naoki’s entering the party in Yosuke’s place. However, he wouldn’t follow the same build. For one thing, he ends up with the full Dia track (because hey, Student Health Association); the physical attacks peter out early on, sort of like Chie starting with Bufu and fading out into physical spells.

Strengths/weaknesses:
First tier: resist wind, weak to ice
Second tier: null wind, resist electric

Final spell build: both Garudynes, both Diarahans, Dekaja, Anima Freeze, Mind Charge, Debilitate

Naoki is not one of nature’s tanks. (They have Kanji for that, let’s be real. Even if Kanji has to swap out every now and then due to protagness, his default is tank.) But that’s all right; the magic’s useful, and if they’re in that much of a pinch he can whack something with his staff.

Syn only

Subsona: Kushinada, Susano-o's wife (and... his sister's second-tier Persona in Herodachi's timeline. oops?)
Arcana: Death
strengths/weaknesses: resists psy

Current skill set: Psiodyne, Mapsio, Recarm, Rebel's Brew (cures status ailments other than Down and Dizzy on party, chance of Confuse on all foes); room for two more, in accordance with PQ's subsona rules

Naoki ended up with a second Persona through an unusual cocktail of situations. It's partly possible thanks to Liminal Space's surfeit of Wild Cards; if two Wild Cards in one space gives everyone two and only two Personas, then more can allow for single-Persona users to gain access to a second without affecting the Wild Cards themselves.

But there's more to it than that, when you don't have a reality-bending mystery to solve (well, not that kind of reality-bending mystery, anyway). It takes a little personal growth, which for Naoki was achieved in the form of chatting with a Trump. He'd had his sights set on Hanged Man... only to be told he'd outgrown the need for him. More importantly than just being told that, though, Naoki let it stand instead of trying to argue the point - it surprised him, but he accepted it.

He doesn't need to be stuck anymore. Saki's loss is always going to shape him, but it's not weighing him down anymore. He's ready for the next challenge.

Rebel's Brew is the equivalent of one of Golden's third-tier spells, since that wasn't a thing in his timeline. And since it took this long to happen, the name reflects some of the circumstances that got Naoki to this point, namely being introduced to Purpose on the Grid.

Psy attacks... would have been on Naoki's subsona from the start if I'd known they existed before P5 came out, frankly. Once he learned they were a thing (thank you Liminal Carol and Haru) he stubborned his way to making them happen.