Miyako Hotsuin

Miyako Hotsuin is a character from Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker.

Appearances

 * Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker

Design
Miyako Hotsuin's face is similar to Yamato Hotsuin, but less pale, slightly more rounded, and with larger eyes. She is shown wielding a whip and wears a white-purple ribbon on her hair, a JP's uniform with a black heavy trench coat with a scabbard hanging, a black dress, and high length yellow boots. She is sometimes seen changing between wielding a sword and a whip.

In the Break Record ending, as a reborn human, she is shown to be slightly younger, wearing a white cape with a yellow ribbon in the front of the cape, a yellow dress in the same style as her previous black dress underneath the cape, and a pair of white boots. She also retains her white-purple ribbon on her hair.

Personality
In contrast with Yamato, Miyako is shown to be more soft-spoken and well-mannered, speaking and referring to the Protagonist and his friends politely (referring all of them with suffix "-san" in Japanese, except Anguished One whom she refers as Alcor). Miyako is more open on welcoming opinions of others or at least willing to hear it first before voicing her own opinion. She is not used to interacting with people aside from her subordinates, or any form of familiarity and is confused how to respond to it. The notable examples are that she's embarrassed when Daichi refers to her as "Miyako-chan", when Alcor comments that she's cute, and when Io asks her to become her friend.

Aside from her politeness and open-mind, she can be as cold as Yamato; albeit in different ways. Like Alcor, she greatly loves and cares for humans, but at the same time believes that in order to gain something, one needs to give up something in return, including human life and choosing the path leading to a smaller sacrifice is for the best. Therefore, she has no hesitation to sacrifice the lives of others and even her own if it means saving mankind. She does so out of genuine concern for the world and actually prefers for a way where there's no need for sacrifice.

After joining the party, Miyako shows more of her softer side but still distant due to her seriousness about the situation. She often misunderstood all of the party's attempts to befriend her, resulting in the party needing to be a bit pushy to make her more sociable, something that shocks Miyako but she slowly accepts it. When talking to Yamato, however, she can be sneaky and shows similar sarcasm as the former though still polite. She takes any chance or opening to tease him, enough to make the usual composed Yamato annoyed.

Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker
Prior to the Triangulum invasion, Miyako is created by Canopus to fill Yamato's absence in the third world, replacing his existence. Similarly to Yamato, Miyako's position as the successor of the Hotsuin household has deprived her of a normal childhood.

Miyako was not aware of her true identity as Cor Caroli and believes that she's a normal human until Alcor approached her, making her realizes her true identity and also about what happened in the previous worlds. This realization shocks her as she also remember that part of Canopus' plan is to destroy humanity. She eventually comes up with a plan to sacrifice her own life as well as the Protagonist and his friends' lives to make Alcor the true administrator. However, Alcor disagrees with her plan as he want to believe in his friends' potential. Miyako, thinking there's no other way, imprisoned him and forcefully put the Septentrione into a catatonic state beneath the Sky Tower.

Tuesday
In the world created after the Purge of Polaris, she suddenly appears at the same time as the arrival of the new invaders. She first confronts the Protagonist and his party at the top of the Sky Tower with JP's helicopter, apprehending Denebola's core. Having heard about them from Makoto, she takes the protagonist and his party to JP's base and introduces herself as the bureau chief of JP's. When Io was about to introduce herself, Miyako interjects that JP's have already looked into their background with their resources so introductions won't be necessary.

The party then reveals everything about what happened in the previous world, and surprisingly Miyako believes them. When asked about Yamato, Miyako claims that she has never heard of someone with that name and that the name doesn't exist in the Hotsuin family's history records, but there's a record that refers to Al Saiduq as the one who informs them about the demons. The party asks for her help to look for Yamato, Al Saiduq, and their other friends. Miyako agrees, though she cannot promise regarding Yamato and Alcor, and in exchange she asks for their cooperation with JP's to protect the world against the disaster caused by the new invaders, Triangulum.

Wednesday
She enters the Protagonist's room just as he is awake and is shocked when the Protagonist calls her out. She apologizes before informing him that they're still searching for his remaining friends. However, she couldn't find anything about Yamato in the Hotsuin family's history record and even Japan's entire data base nor any sign of Saiduq's appearance. Putting aside the search, she asks for him and his friends to be in charge of helping the civilians while JP's will be the one to take care of the Triangulum. They are interrupted by Daichi and Io's arrival, prompting her to leave.

She later calls the Protagonist to inform him about Keita, Jungo, Joe, and Ronaldo's whereabouts. She also informs him of the appearance of the second Triangulum, Spica, and reminds him and his friends to take care of the demons rampaging while JP's will take care of Spica. Hearing the report that the Protagonist and his party defeated Spica against Miyako's order, even though she's grateful for their help, she criticises their disobedience and orders them to stand back the next time the Triangulum appears since the Triangulum is JP's' problem, not civilians like them.

Spica's main body resurfaces and make its way to the Rainbow Bridge, killing the JP's members guarding there in the process. The Protagonist and the party once again disobey Miyako's order and defeats it. Before the Protagonist could deliver the finishing blow, Miyako stops him by destroying the Spica buds herself, entraps Spica's body, and then kills Aramisaki, shocking the whole party. She once again reprimands the party's disobedience as she expected them to obey her order, and warns them not to do anything as they please before leaving.

Suspicious that Miyako is hiding something from them, the party goes to the underground lab beneath the Sky Tower with the code that Fumi manages to get. They are surprised to find an unconscious Al Saiduq trapped within a tube. Miyako finds them and uses the Dragon Stream power to render them unable to move nor summon their demons. Since they have seen too much, Miyako cannot let them free and knocks them unconscious, putting them in jail.

Thursday
Al Saiduq reveals that Miyako imprisoned him as part of her plan to create a new "Administrator", which also includes sacrificing the party's lives. The party presumes that the reason JP's hasn't been after them lately is because Miyako is planning to keep them around until the time for their sacrifice comes. When Arcturus appears, she unexpectedly saves the party by temporarily binding Arcturus and tells them to escape while she's holding the Triangulum. According to Makoto, Miyako is wounded after retreating from Arcturus, but fortunately her wounds are not life-threatening.

Recovered from her wounds, Miyako assists in the second battle against Arcturus by once again binding its movements when it was about to kill the party. She also gives part of her Dragon Stream power to Yamato, increasing his power and dealing damage against Arcturus, eventually defeating it. Before Yamato could kill it, Miyako imprisons Arcturus. She introduces herself to Yamato whom she refers as "Brother", shocking them. However, Yamato claims that he doesn't have a sister and questions her identity, followed by the party questioning her entire plan. Miyako remains silent to the questions and instead telling that even if they defeated Arcturus, the Astrolabe won't restart. She tells them that she will explain thoroughly once they return to their respective base.

Back in the base, she contacts the party at Nagoya and explains her plan: she is going to use them and herself as a sacrifice to make Saiduq the rightful Administrator, and the Triangulum are necessary for that plan. She also reveals that her existence is not "natural" in the world as once Yamato returns to the world she should not be present any longer and there is a possibility that Astrolabe cannot restart if she remains. She gives them one night to think and give their answer tomorrow.

Friday
If the Protagonist chooses to follow with Miyako's plan, they are all sacrificed and Saiduq officially becomes the true Administrator, watching over the world. However, later the world is once again put on trial and this time is completely engulfed by the Void, reaching the bad ending.

If the Protagonist refuses to go along with her plan, she warns them to be prepared as she now must use force to capture and sacrifice them. Ordering her subordinates to capture the party, they are only successful in capturing Daichi. She visits Daichi at his cell and repeats her earlier statement that there is no other way. Before leaving, she states that she has no qualification to become their friend.

At the promised time, beneath the Sky Tower, she waited for the party to come. She let Daichi return to their side and once again asks if they will cooperate with her plan. With the party once again refusing, Miyako intended to force them with the power of the Dragon Stream, but this time Yamato blocks her attack with equal power, leading her to attack with the entire JP's members present. The party eventually succeed in freeing Saiduq. At this time, Miyako uses her last resort to realize her plan. She tells her subordinates to retreat as she reveals her true identity as the fourth Triangulum, Cor Caroli.

Once she is defeated, Saiduq reveals her origin: Miyako is a Triangulum created by Canopus, another Administrator like Polaris. When Saiduq and Yamato reset the world for the second time, Yamato stayed in Akasha Stratum to continuously salvage the Protagonist's deteriorating data, consequently making Yamato's existence disappear. This caused an error in the third world and so Miyako was created to fill that error. Miyako feels that now that her plan has failed and starting to doubt her will, she tells the party to kill her. The party refuses and instead asks her to help them defeat Canopus together since she is their friend. Regaining her resolve, she joins the party.

While the party thinking for a way to reactivate Astrolabe, Miyako and Saiduq are thinking for a way to destroy the Factors that guarding Canopus' system as well as a way to defeat the Administrator itself. While thinking it through, Canopus' invaders appears and attacks civilians. When the invaders attacked Yamato and Miyako immediately defends him, their Dragon Stream reacts and completely destroyed the invaders. Fumi summarises that since Miyako and Yamato are existing together, even though Miyako was supposed to no longer exist in the third world since Yamato has returned, this causes an irregularity that cannot be comprehended by Canopus' system, thus allowing Miyako and Yamato's combined power to permanently destroy the invaders.

Finally having found a way to defeat Canopus, all that is left is thinking what to do about the world after Canopus is defeated.

Saturday
In the Future to Win Ending, Miyako and Saiduq reset the world back to its previous state as the Protagonist and his friends continue to fight against another invader.

In the Human Administrator Ending, Miyako suggests to the Protagonist to keep his plan to become the Administrator a secret from the others to avoid making them sad, though Yamato easily saw through this. Miyako then makes the Protagonist the new Administrator of the Akashic Record. She intended to accompany the Protagonist in his solitude as his sword so he won't be lonely while watching over the world. However, Saiduq pushes her away at the last second as he states that she is a human and he alone is enough to become the Protagonist's sword, shocking her as she watches the Protagonist and Saiduq disappear with Yamato and Daichi.

In the Break Record Ending, Miyako and Saiduq creates a new world without the Akashic Record so the world will be completely freed from any invader. She reveals since she and Saiduq are part of the Administrator System, they will disappear as well and bid their friends farewell. Before creating the new world, Yamato acknowledges her as an excellent human being, telling her that she should not be ashamed as the head of the Hotsuin clan, which Miyako is grateful for. In the new world, Miyako this time is truly reborn as a human. When the Protagonist, Io, and Daichi are about to enter the car, Miyako bumps into Io. Recognizing her, Io pushed Miyako into the car with them and is last seen along with the entire party gathering at a beach where Saiduq is surfing.

Fate System
At Fate 1 she gains Ice and Fire resistance, at Fate 3 she unlocks Herald Sandalphon, and at Fate 5 she unlocks Dragon Kohryu.

Miyako's Fate System focuses on her thoughts about the meaning of her existence. Throughout Miyako's Fate System, Miyako is struggling with her fear and doubt that her emotions, her desire, and everything she has is merely a fake since she is only a creation made by Canopus to fix the error in the world. She feels that she has no heart since she is a Triangulum and has no right to stay in the world. Her doubt is put at ease when the Protagonist helps her realize that her fear of losing her new friends is the very proof that she has a heart and a will of her own.

Stats
Similar to Io Nitta, Makoto Sako, and her brotherly counterpart, Miyako leans towards the role of the "magic knight", as her stat spread and growth generally favors Magic and Strength over other attributes. Unlike the aforementioned demon tamers, however, Miyako invests in Agility and Vitality slightly more frequently, making her speedier and more rounded while having a little less Strength (albeit enough to make use of certain cracked skills, such as Fire Amp).

It should be noted that because of coincidentally very similar balanced stats and multiple Fate-granted resistances, parallels can be drawn between Miyako and the Anguished One, although the latter's HP and MP stats significantly outclass her own. Also like Alcor, her balanced stats not only grants her a large number of cracked skills, but the ability to use any of them fairly well.

Trivia

 * Miyako was first mentioned in the art book as Yamato's younger twin sister.
 * Even though she's not truly Yamato's sister, she still refers to him as "Brother".
 * She can channel the Dragon Stream power stronger than Yamato until the latter increased it by removing the stakes at Mt. Fuji, making them possess equal Dragon Stream power.
 * After joining the party, Yamato often refers her as "Fox Woman" (女狐, Megitsune) due to her sneaky attitude when talking to him. In English versions, he similarly refers to her as a "vixen."
 * Unlike Al Saiduq, even though she's Canopus' sword, she cannot control the Akashic Record since she's a human/Triangulum hybrid.
 * According to Shinjiro Takada and Akiko Kotoh in interview, Miyako was actually a character that was decided on during the development of the original version of the game for Nintendo DS, but they decided that she was unnecessary while working out details on the scenario, and decided to omit the character. However, she’s a character they contemplated, so her inclusion began after consulting with the writer on whether she could appear in the Triangulum Arc.