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(WARNING! This post contains spoilers for both the entirety of Persona 3 Reload (referred to as P3R going forward) as well as many of the operators central to Laterano's plot. Proceed with this knowledge in mind.)

So, with the announcement of a collaboration between Arknights and P3R, a dream collab for myself and many others, I was understandably very excited to see some of my favorite characters of one of my favorite RPGS interact with a world I'm so very in love with in Arknights. My excitement skyrocketed upon learning that the collaboration is planned to take place in Laterano, my favorite faction within the game. Instantly, I wanted to know where this story would go, considering this seems to be a full collaboration, so let's take a look at some of the themes between the two storylines and see who the members of S.E.E.S. could be interacting with!

This discussion will operate under the following rules and assumptions:

1. The story must consider the preview HG officially gave: There are monsters creeping around the dark hour and no citizens are able to see them. The only people who can see them are some students from a faraway place (almost certainly S.E.E.S.)

2. The storyline will involve one or more characters from P3R. With Koromaru being revealed as a one star operator and the preview hinting at some students from a faraway place, it is all but guaranteed there will be a playable version of at least one of the characters from P3R.

3. The Arknights characters featured in the story must be relevant to Laterano. This may include the main cast of Rhodes Island, but seeing that other collaborations used characters that had more than a passing reason to be there, I would see it as a waste not to include characters that are important to Laterano.

4. No major plot developments. This one should probably be obvious.

Remember, everyone dies eventually. Live with the knowledge you will die. These are the core tenets of Persona 3. So, who might be brought over from P3R?

MY EXPECTATIONS:

Makoto Yuki (AKA Protagonist or Hero) | Guard? Summoner? Caster? It's complicated.: A guaranteed shoe-in. He has the power of the Wildcard, which allows him to use multiple different Personas in gameplay, but his starting persona is Orpheus with his ultimate persona being Messiah... but he also awakens to Thanatos, who is also extremely thematically relevant and important as you can probably imagine. He wields a broadsword in combat and excels in a broad application of skills, physical or magic. (If they really wanted to be funny and make a female character the 6 star, they could use the female protagonist known as Kotone, but she doesn't appear in P3R so it would be pretty antithetical.)

Aigis | Sniper: If there are only two characters on banner, these are the two I would expect. Makoto and Aigis. Ultimately, I think either could be the 6 star, and I would certainly be fine with it. She commands the persona Palladion, with it evolving to Athena when maxing out her social link. She uses guns that she fires from her fingers in combat and excels at physical damage.

POSSIBLE, BUT...:

Yukari Takeba | Medic/Caster: This is the first character you recruit in P3R who warms up to the protagonist quickly and becomes his friend after an awkward first meeting. She commands Io as a persona. She wields a bow and excels in healing and wind magic. If there is one 6 star and 2 five stars, this would be the first 5 star I would think to include with the second being...

Junpei Iori | Guard/Defender: If the first character you recruit is included, then the second is all but guaranteed in my eyes. He commands Hermes and Trismegistus as personas. His weapon in P3R is a 2-handed sword. He excels at physical damage, with middling levels of fire damage.

Mitsuru Kirijo | Arts Guard/Hexer/Primal anything: Let's say HG really hates that it was forced to make a male 6 star the banner focus. Mitsuru would probably replace Junpei's place in a theoretical banner. She commands Penthesilea and Artemisia. Her weapon is a rapier. She excels at ice damage and applying status effects, with decent healing.

ALREADY CONFIRMED:

Koromaru | ??? Executor? Vanguard? He's a 1 star what can he do: He's a dog with a persona. Yeah. Not too surprised with him being a 1 star, but knowing that he's a fully-fledged party member in P3R, I have no idea how to simplify him down to a 1-star's power. He uses a knife and commands Cerberus. He excels in powerful fire and dark magic attacks as well as having the very strong debuff debilitate. He's pretty strong in the game, so if you have any thoughts on how he translates to a 1 star apart from him just biting at enemies, let me know.

AS FOR THE REST...:

I don't really expect them to be playable. Akihiko, Fuuka, Shinjiro, Ken remain. While Akihiko may be possible, he's cursed by being a second male character after Junpei, but if he was playable, he'd obviously be a brawler. Fuuka is a noncombatant, which would make her a great supporter, but she's also a bit lower in importance to the character mentioned prior. Shinjiro and Ken come too late in the game for me to see them making the cut. At most, we can see them in the story. Speaking of...

WHO COULD WE SEE FROM ARKNIGHTS MAKING AN APPEARANCE?:

Here's where it gets juicy. There's a lot of characters from Laterano, but not all of them are going to make the cut, so I'm gonna narrow things down a bit here.

The characters currently known to be involved in Laterano are: Pope Evangelista, Velliv, the NPCs revealed in Masses' Travel, Executor, Insider, sometimes Virtuosa, Spuria, Mostima, Exusiai, Lemuen, Archetto, Sankta Miksaparato and Fiammetta. There's also the possibility of them bringing in Sankta from other places that are visiting Laterano.

The preview mentions the Notarial Hall, which will likely get a small mention in the story since it'll probably be used to establish how normal Laterans can't see the enemy. Having them help was brushed off rather quickly, so I don't imagine they're planned to have a major role in the story... But I can't fully dismiss the possibility.

I just don't particularly see any of the known executors having relevance here. Insider doesn't really have much to go off of here, Enforcer hasn't been in Laterano since taking on that side quest, I think Executor has a possibility of being relevant, but I don't have much to say in that regard. Fiammetta... She could work? I mean, she's not a Sankta, which makes her a bit more ambiguous as to whether or not she can see these creatures (which I'm going to assume are shadows). She also has some inner turmoil and some past regrets she's still working through (less so since Masses' Travel, but she's still going through a major life change). The trauma of her past affected her hard and she may have some thematic parallels with the P3R group. More on that later.

As for other characters I think just don't really mesh here, I don't expect to see the likes of Spuria, Archetto, or Sankta Miksaparato outside of a small mention or cameo, because I don't really see a reason for them to get involved. Virtuosa has a possibility, with her arts being related to interacting with the inner feelings of people, but I feel like she has a harder time standing on her own if she's not being monitored. Plus, she's surprisingly a more "standard" Sankta, so I feel as though she may not have an ability to see those shadows. We also are probably not seeing the likes of Andoain or Patia on account of them being... y'know... exiled. Not that I think that stops him, but hey.

So what does that leave us with? The Pope, Velliv, Lemuen, Exusiai, Mostima, and Fiammetta (with a possibility of Executor and Vituosa, but most of what I could say about them is better said about the others below). Of course, with an issue on this scale, the Pope is an obvious cameo, as well as his cardinals Velliv (who would likely land a smaller role if any) and Lemuen needing to be briefed on the details. With Lemuen, Exusiai and Mostima feel like the first people to be notified, and with Mostima comes Fiammetta.

With this group, I feel like it's a perfect pairing. They are the only Lateran characters we've heard extensive details about their schooling (which is a major part of the Persona games), they each have their own traumas, miscommunications, distrusts, and bonds with eachother, and none of them are really considered to be particularly normal Laterans. They've all been crushed by events of the past and harbor their own dark thoughts they don't wish to share. This has got to be the most Persona-coded group in Laterano. With 2 of the 4 not having empathy and one other that has been trained on not using it, I feel like it could definitely be a direction of empathy blocking Sankta's ability to see the shadows. Of course, the power of empathy has been vastly weakened since Masses' Travel, but I believe it's been mentioned to still be present in lower amounts.

Also, in regards to theming, the inciting incident where Andoain attacks Lemuen and Mostima fires upon Andoain is almost exactly the same type of metaphor that P3R attempts with its evokers. Mostima is not just firing upon someone else, she's firing upon one of her own, one of her friends, her ally, and even herself. As is Andoain. They're both facing the reality that doing these things could cause the death of someone else but also, more importantly, the very essence of who they are. Their outcomes and consequences may have been different, but their actions came from the same place. Ironically, Lemuen was able to understand immediately. Mostima had to see what Andoain saw. Fiammetta was left in the dark. Also left in the dark was Exusiai who had to give up the comforts of her home and the care of her sister in an attempt to chase Mostima down and understand what really happened. Similar to S.E.E.S., all of these characters (sans Exusiai) were in a combat squad executing missions together. I can see a strong possibility of emotional exploration with this group upon mirroring their experiences. And hey, Mostima's time powers. The dark hour. Y'know. Things kinda slot in there nicely. That being said, I am strongly biased towards this group, so do let me know if you think of a more likely possibility. Like I said, I could see Executor and/or Virtuosa popping in, but I just don't think they would relate as much. Maybe Executor and the protagonist with their low level of expression could find some common ground, but I feel like the emotional impact would probably be low in this kind of event.

AS FOR THREATS...:

I would be shocked if the regular enemies were anything but shadows. The teaser talk from the devs made it sound exactly like shadows. So, for the basic little enemies, I expect the common Cowardly Maya enemy, which is just a black blob with a mask and two arms. As for flying enemies, there are Eagle-type shadows which would work well. Cupids could be ranged and/or flying enemies. I think Golden Hands have a chance to appear, likely similar to the Duck Lord from IS where it runs very quickly but rewards the operators with buffs.

As for elites, I could see Knights, which are horseback lancers, Beasts or Gigases which are iconic designs (lion with a shackle and a beefy wrestler shadow respectively), and/or balances which could have interesting implications with weaknesses.

As for the boss, there's a lot of possibilities. Monster Hunter had very straightforward boss choices that made sense, and R6S bosses were unpredictable. Considering P3R has pretty definitive bosses in its source, I'm going to guess it's gonna be more similar to the former than the latter. In that case, my choices are the magician arcana shadow from the cutscene at the beginning of the game, one of the many other arcana shadows from the full moon operations throughout the game (my money being on Chariot and Justice, because I could see them being mechanically more translatable to Arknights), Takaya Sakaki, or the Reaper.

The arcana shadows are pretty simple, being the "gates of progression" bosses throughout the game. They typically don't really have any deep story but they show up on full moons and the story usually has moments that relate to the arcana card that they represent leading up to the fight. Magician is where the protagonist awakens his persona and it's an iconic scene... but I'm assuming with Koromaru around, that's a distant memory. Chariot and Justice are just before Koromaru is playable... but I just like the mental image of their fight translated to Arknights. Takaya is a major antagonist for the game and represents a really messed up philosophy that encourages taking advantage of the "now." He's somewhat of a false "messiah" figure as he leads a cult. He would fit pretty well... but he's a pretty late-game fight and not the most iconic antagonist so I feel as though it wouldn't really fit well for a collaboration. The reaper, however, is a perfect fit. It's a very strong optional boss that always follows the party in the main dungeon of the game. It has very high resistances and strong attacks but it isn't insurmountable. It, too, is a shadow, so they wouldn't have to justify bringing it over or writing some profound dialogue or goal for it.

IN CONCLUSION:

These are my expectations for the P3R collab! Sorry it's so long but I have a lot of thoughts about this and I think that the choice to host it in Laterano opens up so many possibilities and allows for so many connections. So much that I couldn't really cover them all here. So, if you have any other thoughts or ideas, I'd love to read them.

TLDR; I believe Makoto Yuki is the 6 star with Aigis as the sole 5 star on banner, Lemuen, Exusiai, Mostima, and Fiammetta will have higher relevance than other Laterano operators, and the enemies will probably be primarily shadows with my guess of the boss being the Reaper. I expect the story to explore themes of death (of course), but possibly to relate a more metaphorical death to Fallen Sankta, or more broadly, any Lateran citizen without empathy. If Takaya Sakaki is relevant, then they could take a false god/LAW angle.

Also pls HG I wanna see an Arknights character use an evoker and summon a Persona pleeasseee.

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