User:Rex700/Hikari (Draft)

<!--Hikari is a major character in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Hikari is a character from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Appearances

 * Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Major Character

Design
Hikari is a young woman with short, white hair and orange eyes. She wears a black and orange school uniform, and a white hat with a movie reel hair accessory,and carries a yellow megaphone.

Her primary school self appears as a short, young girl with a pair of short twin tails, and wears an orange dress with a white uniform on the inside.

Her secondary school self appears just like her present self, but she wears a headband, and wears a girl's only primary school uniform with 4 buttons on the chest. She wears a red ribbon knotted in a butterfly knot on her neck, and wears a black skirt.

Her high school self appears just like her real self, but lacks the hat that the real person wears.

Personality
Hikari is a young woman that, at the start of the game suffers from extreme depression and self-esteem issues due to her bad past. She was not strong enough to cope with the hardships of life, which is why Nagi (Persona Q2) took her into her reality as a refuge from the outside world. Initially, she does not talk much and always stays on Nagi's side because she does not trust anyone other than her, only whispering clues to Nagi about the whereabouts of the P5 hero's teammates.

As each movie is cleared, she becomes more confident and slowly opens up to the party, even revealing her true dream of becoming a movie director to them. She is also kind towards the party and often blushes when she is excited. Eventually after Doe's resolve, she becomes a party member and can participate in navigation towards the party. Eventually the interaction with the heroes of P3, P4 and P5 had resulted in her strengthening her resolve and regaining confidence around people.

When Nagi drops off her guise and reveals her true intentions, Hikari expresses a clear desire to get her wishes of becoming a free person once again and escape from the cinema world heard by the almighty ruler of the collective unconsciousness, with the bonds of her friends agreeing in unison to overthrow her false peace. Her wish eventually gets heard after the climax of the confrontation and prompting her to surrender and release everyone inside her domain.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
When Hikari was in primary school, her school had a class rabbit. However, one day the rabbit fell ill due to food poisoning, and the crime was blamed on Hikari alone by her teacher due to her being responsible for feeding the rabbit. Other students were also responsible for feeding it, but none dare say a word against their teacher as she is considered a heroic figure in the class. Eventually, they pressurized Hikari to comply and apologize, which she begrudgingly does.

At Secondary School, Hikari was often bullied, and the bullies would draw insults on her desk and put trash on it. A girl known as Miyuki was willing to clean up the mess for her and even befriends her, and she asked her out to watch a dinosaur movie where a group of herbivore dinosaurs team up to use their power to overthrow the oppressing carnivorous dinosaurs. She accepts, but the rest of the girls refuse. At the next day she had her desk drawn with insults and litter being thrown on her desk once again, and the girls kicked Hikari out of their friend group because she does not share an opinion as them. Miyuki was reluctant to betray Hikari at first, but forcefully did so due to peer pressure.

Due to her interest in movies, her lifelong dream is to become a film director, which is unique among the people around her age. The dream was inspired by her father, who also had a great interest in films, and he was the only person who actually cared about Hikari's wishes. However, when she expressed her wishes to her relatives, they both called the dream hopeless and she should instead be studying and working like a normal person. They detested Hikari's wishes to be unique among other people around her age and her uncle even tried to snatch the camera that her father gave to her.

The events combined result in Hikari having extreme depression, self-esteem issues, and a complete inability to socialize with others. Sensing the weakness in her heart, Nagi (Actually Enlil, one of the gods ruling over the collective unconsciousness in disguise) put her into her domain in the collective unconsciousness, which appears as a twisted street filled with cinemas. She shut her in one of the cinemas and allowed her to take refuge from the hardships of reality, in the price of her personal freedom and inversely increasing her inability to communicate or socialize. The cinema would broadcast realities formed from her heart, effectively turning the movie world into Hikari's Palace. Her cognition also results in the creation of Doe, a cognitive copy of her father, who broadcasts the movies in the cinema.

One day, when the Phantom Thieves of Hearts were exploring Mementos, the Morgana van loses control and ends up in one of her realities, the movie Kamoshidaman. After they escape with the price of an F.O.E kidnapping Makoto Niijima and Haru Okumura, they enter her cinema and Hikari and Nagi suddenly emerge from the front seat, claiming that they had watched the Thieves escape. Hikari was too shy to speak with the Thieves directly, but she has an idea on what is going on and whispers to Nagi about the whereabouts of the lost comrades. However, when confronted with the whereabouts of the P3P heroine, she does not have an idea about that person.

For each movie cleared, Hikari regains her memories and begins to mutter the true messages of each movie. Eventually, she was able to regain her normal self and get out of the depression, allowing her to gain the will to escape the cinema.

After the first 3 movies are cleared, Doe kidnaps Hikari and puts her into the movie ???. In there, she faces the 3 major traumas that form her movies in the cinema world, and Doe reveals his intentions to keep Hikari in the Cinema forever, as her will was too weak to go out to reality. Hikari denies this wish and Doe goes berserk and attacks the party. In the battle Doe uses a dangerous attack that binds the entire party but Hikari joins the combat and removes binds from a party member every 3 turns.

Nagi then grants Hikari and the party the wish to escape the cinema after they clear the 4th movie, but when she grants the key for them to escape the Cinema and the party opens it, it reveals a twisted landscape and she drops off her guise, revealing herself as a god ruling over the collective unconsciousness known as Enlil, who trapped her in her domain in the collective unconsciousness because she was too weak to cope with the problems in the real world, and the only way to solve this is to have her and other weak people isolated from the suffering of reality, putting an end to their negative thoughts. However, the party does not approve with this and Hikari joins them in turning against her former caretaker.

As Hikari returns to becoming a normal person, she is now willing to socialize with the party and acts as a combat support. She expresses her true wishes of becoming a film director and exchanges opinion with the party. When Enlil kicks the party back into the cinema lobby as a last warning, she and the other party members consider themselves as a Phantom Thieves of Hearts and try to "steal" Enlil's heart. They also found 4 of the reel hairs that contains Hikari's movie of positivity, and replaces Enlil's film of negativity with them, fighting a projection of the 4 former bosses before the projections can be replaced. The party then confronts Enlil and defeats her, and Hikari announces her wish to free the weak from her reality. Enlil is angered and transforms into a godly, muscular eagle-like being, and it easily removes the entire team, leaving Hikari alone to face the almighty administrator. After 3 turns, she manages to summon the 4 protagonists back and they defeat Enlil, forcing her to surrender. Enlil then transforms back into the black haired Nagi and vanishes, destroying her reality forever and the people who were trapped in it were freed and returned to their real world. As she realizes that she would be parting from her first friends, she is drown in tears and leaves from the exit of the cinema back into her reality.

Now returning into reality, she wakes up as if she had a dream and saw her father in the living room. She announces her plans to make a film about her personal growth and her father approves. During the next day, both versions of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad and the Investigation Team receives movie CDs from an unknown source, with the Investigation Team version being implied to be Junessic Land.

After the credits roll, the Phantom Thieves save for Goro Akechi receive an invitation to a film festival for high school students. They attend, and Hikari steps from the seat into the dais of the auditorium where she announces a movie about her growth. This indicates that Hikari came from the same reality as the Persona 5 cast.

Trivia

 * Hikari is similar to Futaba Sakura, as both initially shut themselves out from reality due to trauma, with Hikari being shut in the movie world by Enlil and Futaba shutting herself in Sojiro's house and are completely incapable of socializing, and begin to slowly socialize after the party clears out their distorted negative desires. Both were also known to have unusual talents for people during their age, with Hikari being film production and Futaba being computers and technology.
 * Hikari is one of the few characters associated with a player's combat party that lack a Shadow Self, especially after Persona 3. Her Shadow Self is never mentioned nor does it appear anywhere in the game, while most other characters past this point receive Shadow Selves in one way or another, such as the fake versions of S.E.E.S. and the Persona 2 cast created via unnatural means, natural shadow selves such as Best Friend and the Investigation Team that are born from repressed negative thoughts, and the Personas of the Phantom Thieves who are basically their Shadow Selves fused with their host.
 * It should be noted that the younger versions of Hikari seen in ??? do not qualify as Shadow Selves or Shadows of any sort, as they lack any traits that Shadow Selves have such as mocking their hosts or yellow eyes, and in fact, some of their actions are the reverse of Shadow Self behavior, such as accepting their host's denial towards them. They are more closer to recordings or cognitive copies built by the real Hikari's memories.-->