User:Rex700/Nagi (Persona Q2)

Nagi is a major character in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Appearances

 * Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth': Major Character

Design
Nagi resembles an elegant and middle-aged woman with black, long hair and wears a white suit whose sleeves are long enough to cover her hands. She has a white orchid decoration on her head and a ribbon with blue and white stripes on her neck.

When she drops off her guise, her hair becomes red and she wields a rapier in combat.

Personality
At first glance, Nagi appears as kind and caring, especially towards Hikari. Hikari views her as a comforting figure and the only person that she could vent her hardships to, and thus always stands by her. She also congratulates the party when they clear a labyrinth and seemingly lets them do whatever they want to do to escape the cinema claiming that she didn't have a choice.

However when she drops off her guise and reveals herself as Enlil, she reveals herself to be a overprotective administrator of the collective unconsciousness with a patronizing view towards humanity, believing that they are weak willed and the only way to give salvation to the weak is to trap them inside her cinema domain, putting an end to their thoughts and isolating them from the hardships of reality in the place of sacrificing their freedom and increasing their depression further. As a result, her views of "salvation" and patronizing of humanity turns out to be amoral and comes with a severe disregard for the actual benefits of others.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
Nagi first appeared in front of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts alongside Hikari when they escape a city inside the movie world with the price of Makoto Niijima and Haru Okumura missing. She notifies the party that she and Hikari were the only people inside this cinema and were suddenly trapped there, promoting the party to get the keys required to escape the cinema.

The Phantom Thieves ask her about the whereabouts of their lost comrades, in which Hikari whispers to her that they were inside a movie, which is revealed to be Kamoshidaman. The party instantly recognizes Kamoshidaman as Suguru Kamoshida and began to express disgust on why the lustful bully of Shujin Academy is considered a hero, but neither of the women know who Kamoshida is, and Nagi even states that the two women had isolated themselves from any electronic communication for a long time. Nagi further explains that Kamoshidaman is not Kamoshida and is just another entity taking his form.

When Theodore asked her about the whereabouts of the P3P heroine, none of the two women have an idea about her whereabouts.

For the rest of the game, Nagi and Hikari would only watch the party's progress in the movie. Hikari treats her as a comforting figure and speaks her hardships to her including her suicidal tendencies, which she appears to sympathize.

After clearing the manifestation of Hikari's self-destructive impulses, Hikari expresses to Nagi the will to escape the cinema. She states that she does not have a choice and lets them do so.

However, at this time the outside world of the cinema reveals itself to be a twisted landscape, and Nagi's hair turns red. She drops off her guise and reveals herself to be Enlil, one of the administrators of the collective unconsciousness. She reveals that the cinema and the cinema world is actually her domain there and announces her twisted patronizing of humanity towards the party, saying that weak willed humans such as Hikari should accept her "Salvation", which comes in the form of locking them in cinemas and having them watch their traumas to help them cope with the hardships of reality, in the price of removing their personal freedom, putting an end to all of their thoughts and inversely fueling their negative impulses. She also reveals that multiple people taken refuge in other cinemas in her domain, and Hikari is only one of the people she took under her refuge. Enlil then flees to the deepest floor of her domain, waiting for the party to confront her.

Etymology
"Nagi" refers to a still wind or a calm before the storm. This foreshadows Nagi's true nature.

Trivia

 * Nagi's status mirrors Zen, as they were gods appearing as caretakers of a major character original to the Q series.
 * However, their roles are exact opposites; While Zen is an ally of the party, Nagi appears as an enemy of it.