Confidant

Confidant, known as Cooperation in the Japanese version, is a game mechanic in Persona 5.

This mechanic is similar to the Social Links of Persona 3 and Persona 4 and involves the protagonist building relationships with helpers around the city. Unlike Social Links however, establishing and improving relationships with Confidants also provides various benefits outside of persona fusions, many of which can be used in battle. Furthermore, only the events that start them and the ones that maximize them are voiced, with the exception of the Fool, Magician, Justice and Judgement Confidants as they progress with the story.

Appearances

 * Persona 5

Persona 5
Similar to Social Link, each relationship with a certain character (or possibly a group) is represented by a major Arcana, ranking up each Confidant grants bonuses to Personas of correlated Arcana: Experience bonus for fusion result; shorter in-game days required for training a Persona in Velvet Room to learn a passive skill for overcoming its weakness. Ranking up each Confidants also unlocks new ability or benefit which directly affect performance in the Palace.

* All party combatants bonus as follow with varied rank requirements:
 * Unlocks Baton Pass.
 * Unlocks Follow-up Attack.
 * Chance to revert to the last negotiation question if the target is enraged by the answer.
 * Chance to recover status ailment afflicted to other party members.
 * Endure: Survive with 1 HP once in a battle when hit by a lethal or instant kill attacks.
 * Protects the protagonist before getting hit by a lethal attack (single target only).
 * Unlocks ally's Ultimate Persona with additional skills and new elemental attributes.

Trivia

 * With the exception of those directly affiliated with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, and the Fool and Strength Confidants, any Confidant that becomes maxed will eventually discover the protagonist as a phantom thief, due to them revealing the names of those they are troubled by to him.
 * The Sun Confidant is different from the other Confidants, as while he does learn the protagonist is a phantom thief based on observations of the protagonist, he was never troubled by anyone enough that they needed to have their heart stolen.
 * Unlike the rest of the Persona installments, the Tarot Cards which are used to symbolize these relationships are notably written in French instead of English, as they are based on the deck. The only exception is Death, which is also unlabeled in Tarot of Marseilles and referred to as such.
 * There are however deformities present in the Persona 5 variation of Tarot Cards from the original design. Below state the Deformities: