Tohru Adachi (
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Character Information
Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Character Series: Persona 4
Character Age: 27
Character Gender: Male
Original Canon
Canon Point: Post Canon!
Background Link: Have a wiki link
Personality:
++ Superficially, Adachi might come off as ditzy, absent-minded, and incompetent. He may appear as an easy going, polite, well-meaningful, respectful, and submissive guy. He finds this kind of outward personae both practical and useful. Others are certainly more complacent around him because of this, and they tend to underestimate him as a result. He shamelessly uses this to his advantage. He's sly, clever, and calculating, but he doesn't show this at all.
++ Initially Adachi has been a hardworking individual. Being a cop and having a strong sense of justice has been what he wished to do. Yet, unfortunately, his growth in knowing his competence as an officer and detective makes him became prideful and entitled as a result. Adachi has worked his ass off in school to ascend, so to speak; to him it should follow that he is deserving of rewards. However, what came to him instead of a reward has been a penalty to a simple mistake that landed him to work out in Inaba. Now that he has been transferred to the boonies, he simply has given up on his worth-ethic. To him, these people in Inaba, these nobodies are pointless of his aptitude. Thus, he begins to get away with doing the minimum required to be a cop, and so gains a reputation as being like a "rookie".
++ Of course, it is not out of humbleness that he doesn't bother to correct this preconception; it is his willingness to simply let others believe the falsehood they see. In fact, he strongly dislikes others looking down on him. Yet to him, he finds it amusing that others so easily believed his act. He can literally get away with murder on multiple accounts. That others simply see him as that rookie and never bother to see past it (until the end of the game) would be something he later prides himself over. Only an imbecile would believe a person's smiles right as they see them; to him, mostly all of those he met has been as such. (Likewise, Adachi will not come to trust others as easily.)
++ Following this entitlement, there is a sort of misogynistic he view he has towards women. In his mind, he has been successful and smart in what he did; by all rights he feels he should be attractive and that guy the ladies would want. Instead, he's been pushed aside and called a creep (not without a good reason; he tends to be awkward in social situations). This has only served as blows to his self-esteem, and not in a good way. Adachi is not one to get sad; he's one to get mad.
++ Adachi can be very, very passive aggressive and sarcastic when he's upset and trying to keep a "tough guy" appearance. When he's offended, he'll don a smile and attempt to brush any insults off. This, too, is all a cover. Inside, he's raging in both frustration and despair. He's frustrated that a single mistake turned his life up-side down, that he's a "nobody" in Nowheresville, and that he's not respected by others. He despairs over the fact that he failed over a small little mistake, that he's not recognized, that he's virtually alone, and that his life has basically come to a standstill both career-wise. In short, he has seen little purpose to even attempt to move forward or better himself.
++ Despite all of his personality shortcomings and his felonies, at the end of canon Adachi expresses that his run-in with the protagonist and co. made him see the wrong, at least partly. He writes to them, saying that maybe the kids do have a point in what they told him, and that maybe this world isn't forsaken. He even goes so far as to hint at them that there may very well be another individual pulling the strings of them all. Naturally, this person is the true final boss of Persona 4. As such, it's implied that Adachi genuinely had seen that what he did was wrong and that his worldview needed major adjustment. The problem is, of course, where to start with that said adjustment.
++ It's a pretty big 180 from the pre-finale Adachi, and it's certainly a mentality he'll have to go over while in prison. He's become resigned since then, but he's certainly still an unstable individual, perhaps still a bit spiteful at the cards he's been dealt, and certainly someone who will have to work hard to become a better person. Adachi realizes that the beginning to improvement is be to honest with himself and others, but that in of itself is something he's not ready to come to terms with, especially when in prison. At best, he's confused and lost in what can be characterized as despair; at worst, he's bitter in his despair.
Abilities:
++ Adachi knows basic self-defense.
++ He's a really good actor and liar.
++ He knows how to use firearms.
++ Persona! Magatsu Izanagi!
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