Artificial Persona user

Artificial Persona-users are people whose Persona has been pulled out by force breaking the rules of obtaining it naturally.

Appearances

 * Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Mentioned
 * Persona 3: Strega(Antagonists
 * Persona 3: FES: Strega/Antagonists (The Journey)
 * Persona 3 Portable: Strega/Antagonists

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
If the player takes Kei's route in Eternal Punishment there will be a document of research material wrote by Takahisa Kandori on how to separate a Joker from its user, as well as how to artificially create Persona-users using the former as a basis. Having one's Persona artificially awakened may case severe side-effects.

In Tatsuya's Scenario in the remake of Eternal Punishment Shiori Miyashiro was turned into a Joker and is captured by the NWO alongside other infected civilians. The NWO attempted experiments on her that involve giving a human a Persona, which results in her body being possessed by the demon Wendigo.

Persona 3
When the Kirijo Group separated from the Nanjo Group, the former used Kandori's research data to create their own artificial Persona-users for their own goals. The members of Strega are artificial Persona users created by the Kirijo Group. They were picked up off the street along with other veriety of kids and were used as fodder for the corporation's experiments. Because their Personas were not awakened naturally, they must take suppressants supplied by Shuji Ikutsuki. The drugs keep their Personas from killing them, but have lethal side-effects.

Trivia

 * In the Tatsuya Scenario in the remake of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Takahisa Kandori says that if a Persona is pulled by force out of the user, that user may become a demon.
 * It is revealed in Persona 3 FES, when Mitsuru's past is seen, that some of the artificial Persona-users, like Strega, turned into Shadows.