Chidori Yoshino

Chidori Yoshino is a character from Persona 3. Chidori has long red hair with white ribbons and oval-shaped brown eyes (amber in the P3 Movie). She carries a long chain with a small red hand axe attached to the end of it. She wears a black headband with a cream white ruffled style with a fake dagger attached, giving the illusion that her head has been impaled with it. Outside of that, she wears white style-like fabric collar with a black ribbon, a white long gothic lolita dress, white stockings and high heeled shoes. When she is hospitalized, she wears a normal hospital garb. Although she is never seen without her headband, collar and ribbons, the dagger on her headband is removed when she is hospitalized. In the manga, Chidori is seen at one point without her headband, collar and ribbons. In Persona 3 The Movie, the ribbons on her hair and fabric collar are pink instead of white. She also appears to wear lavender eyeshadow. In Persona 3 Reload, she appears to wear fuchsia eyeshadow and bright pink lipstick. Her gothic dress is now pure white instead of cream white. She no longer wears her headband, collar and ribbons when she is hospitalized. Chidori's personality is like a "gothic-lolita." She has a very soft-sounding voice and loves to draw. Chidori believes that only she can understand her own sketches. She fears attachment because she is afraid of loss and the pain that comes with it. Without a strong reason to live, Chidori is similar to the protagonist in that they are very indifferent to death; Chidori feels all death means is just "not waking up anymore." She is loyal to Takaya and Jin and always follows them to do illegal activities, even during their assassinations, although she doesn't really consider them close friends and only tags along with them because she has nowhere else to belong and they are artificial Persona Users like her. She thinks of her Persona, Medea as her only friend, even though her Persona nearly killed her by strangling her. Throughout the game, Chidori develops feelings and an affection towards Junpei. She always healed and revived the flowers he gave her when she was in the hospital to make them healthy and in the exchange she gets injured on her hand. Chidori self-mutilates, once taking a box cutter to her wrists, which greatly upsets Junpei and he tries to talk her out of it. When Chidori is hospitalized, the hospital staff are warned to remove all sharp objects in her hospital room. Her selflessness and love towards Junpei shows when she sacrifices her life to save a dying Junpei. She has no memories of her childhood since her awakening ten years ago. In Persona 3 FES, when she was revived by the flower that she placed her life force in, she regained the memories of her childhood and it revealed she was a normal person; compassionate, mature and understanding.