Souji Seta

Note: "Souji Seta"  is the character's name in manga which have been confirmed as canon, though in the actual game the player is allowed to name the character.

Souji Seta is a second year student when he transfers to Yasogami High. As his parents travel often for their careers, Souji often finds himself in different environments and surrounded by many new people.  Because of this, Souji finds it difficult to grow close to people, knowing that he'll only leave them behind when it's time for him to move on.  Despite this, he finds making friends inherently easy upon arriving in Inaba.

Not long after beginning his year-long stay in Inaba at the home of his Uncle Dojima, strange serial murder cases begin occurring. Though the first victim is inconsequential to Soiji and his newfound friends, the second hits a little closer to home. Saki Konishi--friend and romantic interest to Yosuke--is found dead in the very same manner. Upon revelation that both victims had appeared on a supernatural television phenomenon known as the " Midnight Channel" in the days prior to their deaths, Souji and his friends use their newfound abilities--known as Personas--to enter a mysterious world inside of a television to discover the truth behind the murders.

Summary

As his parents are required to travel for their jobs, Souji finds himself switching schools and a friends every few months.   When his parents are called out of the country for a year, he is sent to Inaba, to the home of his mother's brother Ryotaro Dojima, and his daughter Nanako.

Souji Seta arrives in Inaba.

Dojima's home accommodates Souji quite well.   As his job keeps him extraordinarily busy, Dojima sparingly visits his own home, naturally meaning that he has little time to spend with his daughter.   His nephew's presence quells a portion of Dojima's fears about Nanako being home alone for the majority of her time.   A sizable unused room is given up to Souji to use over the following year, fit with a television, futon, couch and bookshelf.  

Souji wastes little time enrolling as Yasogami High School, attending the day after his arrival in Inaba.   He quickly finds himself acquainted with Yosuke Hanamura, Chie Satonaka and Yukiko Amagi.   They all warmly greet the new student quickly befriend him, introducing him to the town.

It isn't long before Souji discovers his mysterious ability to travel into the Shadow World inside the television. He is visited by a man named Igor in a dream, or rather Souji finds himself unwillingly visiting the interior of a limousine, referred to by Igor as the Velvet Room, in a dream.   He is told that he has a large part to play in coming events.

Souji's Persona, Izanagi is awakened for the first time.

As time goes on, many of Souji's acquaintances begin disappearing into the Midnight Channel.   Souji and his "investigation team" go to the rescue, and are usually rewarded by grateful new friends that utilize their own Personas in an attempt to uncover the truth behind the mystery.

As the game nears its conclusion, Souji discovers that a man named Taro Namatame is the culprit behind the kidnappings of his friends, but not before Namatame kidnaps Nanako.   He and his friends rush to the rescue and ultimately thwart Namatame, rescuing Nanako from his clutches.

After Nanako winds up in the hospital from exposure to the Shadow World's fog, it's Souji who talks sense into Yosuke and the Team, preventing them from throwing the murderer into the television world and ending his life the very same way that Namatame himself had murdered Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi.   He's rewarded with the knowledge that while Namatame had been responsible for the kidnappings of most of Souji's friends, he wasn't the one that had killed Yamano and Saki.

 Namatame had witnessed the Midnight Channel and, like Souji, had come to the conclusion that whomever appeared there would be the next victim.   Unaware that Mayumi and Saki had been killed because they were thrown into the television, Nametame had begun kidnapping those who appeared on the Midnight Channel and putting them inside the TV World in an attempt to keep them safe from harm. He kept doing it after his victims turned up safe and sound afterward, in the mistaken belief that they were returning from the TV once the danger had past, when in reality the Investigation Team had been retrieving each of his victims and taking them back themselves.

Given this new information, Souji and his friends quickly come to realize who the real culprit is: Dojima's partner, Tohru Adachi.   Souji confronts Adachi with his friends and the young detective flees into the television.   They give chase, attacking Adachi.   Defeated, Adachi is consumed by Shadow and attacks once more before being thwarted.   He returns to his human form and is brought to justice.

Three months later, Adachi sends Souji a letter from prison informing him that he doesn't believe that it's over.   He's correct.   The Investigation Team figures out that the Dark Goddess Izanami was the gas station attendant that had greeted Souji upon his arrival in Inaba, and had bestowed Souji with his ability to enter the television world upon him with a single handshake.   The same attendant had also greeted Tohru Adachi and Taro Namatame in the very same manner, and had stood back to watch the ensuing chaos.

 Izanagi-No-Okami

Spurring the team to give chase, Izanami retreats to the shadow world and is quickly confronted by Souji.   They face her valiantly, but prove to be too insignificant to take on a God after her transformation into Izanami-No-Okami.   Souji is fatally assaulted by the Goddess, but finds the will to live from the bonds forged with his closest friends and family.   His original Persona--known as Izanagi--evolves into the ultimate being, Izanagi-No-Okami, which easily wins the encounter, erasing Izanami from existence and returning the Shadow World to its natural, pure and peaceful state.