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Masaki Ashiya is a character from Persona 5: The Phantom X.
Appearances[]
- Persona 5: The Phantom X: Playable Character
Design[]
Masaki has pale skin, gray eyes and slightly messy black hair that covers his right eye. He wears a white button-up shirt, black dress pants held up by a belt with with a brass buckle, a watch on his left wrist and black leather shoes with slightly raised heels.
Cherish wears a mask with the upper parts of the frame purple, yellow lenses and gray lower frames. On his left shoulder, he wears a pauldron with an ornament resembling a crystal flower, while on his right forearm he wears a gauntlet to wield a sword. He wears a yellow necktie that is partially visible under a breastplate and a cape with a roughly cut hem. The scabbard for his sword is attached to a belt slung across his hips at an angle, with a smaller strap to attached to just under the breastplate and a horn-shaped ornament strapped to his lower back. His pants are white with knee high boots.
Profile[]
Persona 5: The Phantom X[]
Masaki is a third-year student at Kokatsu Academy.
With his parents being botanists, Masaki has developed a passion for flowers since he was a child. Though having no concerns of daily living thanks to his wealthy family, he works part-time at the flower shop in Shibuya to stay close to flowers.
Though having a gentle personality, he does not know how to keep an appropriate distance with people, which explains why he does not have many friends.
Masaki comes to know the protagonist after he starts working at the same flower shop, and the two soon become friends. He enjoys their friendship so much that he often invites the protagonist to have dinner together and pays for the bills.
Etymology[]
- Masaki (真咲) consists of the kanji for "true" (真) (ma) and "bloom/blossom" (咲) (saki), tying into his passion for floristry.
- Ashiya (蘆谷) consists of the kanji for "reed plant" (蘆) (ashi) and "valley" (谷) (ya).
- The reed plant has been historically significant in Greek culture and used as a wicker material for weaving cornucopia baskets, an item whose origins are traced back to the Horn of Amalthea. This mythos is referenced through Masaki's Persona Amalthea and the horn-shaped ornament that he wears on his lower back.