Katsuya Suou is a character from the Persona 2 duology.
Appearances
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Supporting Cast
- Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Playable Character
- Persona 3: Who's Who Guest
Profile
- Age: 25
- Height: 179cm
- Weight: 65kg
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
- Initial Persona: Helios
- Ultimate Persona: Hyperion
===Persona 2: Eternal Punishment Katsuya Suou is Tatsuya Suou's older brother, a by-the-books sergeant from the Konan Police Department who followed in his father's footsteps to become a cop. He awakens to his Persona during the incident at Seven Sisters High School, along with Maya Amano and Ulala Serizawa. He uses his standard-issue semi-automatic pistol to defend himself, and his Persona grants him fire magic.
While investigating the Joker Incident in Seven Sisters High School where a student allegedly performed a curse on someone, Katsuya unwittingly runs into a madman who claims to be the Joker wearing a makeshift paperbag mask. (who turns out to be Tatsuya Sudou, whose memories were restored by Nyarlathotep) Upon claiming responsibility for killing Kaneda (The person who ran over Anna Yoshizaka) and Principal Hanya, Katsuya tries to arrest him but is overpowered by demons and the Joker Persona. It is around this time that he feels the resonance, and awakens to Helios. With the school soon being overrun by demons, he advises Maya and Ulala, who have also awakened to their own respective Personas, to stay with him until the incident is resolved, allowing them use of the familiar pink pistols that the Joker flung at them before attacking. Ulala refuses, since she could do just fine with her fists, so Maya takes them both, and seems particularly comfortable with using the guns.
After confronting the demons left by the Joker in the school's clock tower, Katsuya is pulled out of the investigation team by Captain Shimazu, who was unable to believe his report on the weird turn of events. This hardly deters him, and sets out to find the truth even without the help of his badge.
Though he has a strong sense of justice and upholds the law whenever and wherever he can, Katsuya often drops his guard around Maya (with whom he somewhat developed feelings for), and comes into constant verbal quips with a latter ally, Baofu. Off-hand, his awakening to Helios drives him to slowly appreciate cats, despite the fact that he is allergic to them. Since he's also good-looking (and a particularly sharp dresser), Katsuya has been the apple of the collective eyes of Konan P.D.'s policewomen for some time now.
After saving Tatsuya in the Undersea Cavern, Katsuya's "bad" image back in Innocent Sin will be disproved further when it is revealed that he saves a sizable chunk of his salary with Tatsuya's future in mind. This information is courtesy of Baofu, who did the research in retaliation to the person who has become his "rival" in the background investigating biz.
Katsuya's past is later shown in the vision at Monado Madala before confronting his own Shadow, where he is seen as a senior in Seven Sisters High School talking to his class adviser, Akinari Kashihara. It turns out that Katsuya only became a police officer to try and clear his father's name from the frame-up orchestrated by Tatsuzou Sudou, (this was related to the investigation towards the fire started in Araya Shrine by Tatsuzou's son ten years ago, which almost claimed the lives of Maya and Tatsuya) even if it meant giving up his longtime dream of being a patissier or dessert chef.
Persona 3
Katsuya appears on the television program Who's Who, which is hosted by Trish. He is introduced as "A man in his 30's who dresses in very stylish suits". Trish mentions that though the former is a policeman, he dabbles in a little cooking on the side.
Trivia
- In Innocent Sin, Katsuya is depicted as a harsh, perfectionist older brother who often fails to understand Tatsuya in any way. This behavior has been somewhat toned down in Eternal Punishment, due to the perspective changing from Tatsuya's point of view to Maya's own.
- In Eternal Punishment, you can listen in to conversations about Katsuya between two gossipy policewomen by examining the booth in Konan P.D. covered by curtains.
- During the confrontation with Katsuya's shadow, it is revealed that Katsuya also had a crush on Maya like Tatsuya from the other side. After this embarrassing revelation, the Suou brothers agree to mutually help each other in protecting her instead of fighting among themselves, going against what Nyarlathotep had set out to have them do. In the end, Maya chooses not to associate with the Suou family anymore to keep from aggravating the current memories of Tatsuya from this side.