Isako Toriumi

Isako Toriumi is a non-player character in Persona 3.

Appearances

 * Persona 3: Social Link: Hermit
 * Persona 3: FES: Social Link: Hermit

Biography
Ms. Toriumi is the home room teacher of Class 2-F in Persona 3. She is a language teacher for the junior class at Gekkoukan High School. Ms. Toriumi is an avid player of an old MMORPG known as Innocent Sin Online. The protagonist can form a Social Link with her after he receives a copy of the game from Junpei Iori. Toriumi, using the handle Maya (a reference to Maya Amano), convinces the protagonist to use the handle Tatsuya (A reference to Tatsuya Suou). "Maya" and "Tatsuya" talk through Toriumi's grievances at work, and she eventually develops a crush on the protagonist. When Innocent Sin Online administration announces that the servers will all be shut down, she plans on sending her and the protagonist's chat logs to them in order to prevent them shutting down the game.

Ms. Toriumi is a laid-back teacher who is often at odds with Mr. Ekoda. She is extremely fond of cake and she at one point tells a student that they need to bake her a cake to turn in with one of their assignments. Other teachers at Gekkoukan have mentioned they would bring her cake whenever they needed to talk with her so she'd be in a good mood. Although she loves nearly all cakes, she doesn't like Mont Blanc.

Ms. Toriumi and Mrs. Terauchi occasionally play Mahjong together after work. Terauchi is only a novice at the game and Toriumi is teaching her Mahjong terminology, something which Terauchi is very excited about. However, from her descriptions of the games, it seems Toriumi is taking advantage of her inexperience and cheating to win. Supposedly, Toriumi has never lost a match.

Social Link
The Online Game Social link is available after Junpei gives the protagonist the online game. Unlike other Social Links, Ms. Toriumi is only available on holidays. In addition, choosing to play the MMORPG uses up the entire day, not just the daylight portion.

At the epilogue of the Social Link, the Protagonist can go into the Facility Office to find Ms. Toriumi. The Protagonist would drop his cell phone, which now has the background of Maya's message in the sand to Tatsuya. Ms. Toriumi picks it up, and sees the picture, pretty much shocked. However, even through her age, Ms. Toriumi finds it within herself to accept the Protagonist as the person she loves, and tries to ask him to dinner. However, she still storms out of the office, angry.

Changes in Localization
In the original version of the game, Ms. Toriumi played Devil Busters Online, which was a reference to Megami Tensei or possibly even "Shin Megami Tensei: imagine" whitch is currently out in japan and is an MMORPG but is free and only requires a download. This game was being made parallel with persona 3 and this game may be a refernce to it. The main characters are also called Devil Busters and Toriumi used the handle Y子 (Y-Ko) which was a reference to Yumiko Shirasagi while the protagonist uses the handle N-Jima which was a reference to Akemi Nakajima.

Trivia

 * In one moment in the Social Link, Ms. Toriumi (as Maya) reveals that she has feelings for the protagonist in real life, but is reluctant to follow up on it due to social taboos.