Isako Toriumi

Isako Toriumi is a non-player character in Persona 3. She is a faculty member of Gekkoukan High School and teaches composition. Toriumi has short, light brown hair that reaches to her neck, and dark gray eyes; she wears a white turtleneck-like collar shirt, a brown jacket, brown pants and black high heel shoes. Toriumi's in-game avatar is a female character that wears gray in the English version and red in the Japanese version. On the surface, Toriumi appears to be a laid-back teacher who complains about her work at the start of a class and is first seen complaining about her having to teach her class about an author she doesn't like and derailing the subject. When privately speaking to the protagonist during her Social Link as "Maya/Y-Ko," however, she becomes a pathological complainer who outright neglects grammar and punctuation, makes many typos, uses expressions such as "lmaonade," "roflcopter," "1337" (in the original Japanese version, she instead mixes Hiragana and Katakana in her online dialogue) and uses many emoticons. "Maya/Y-Ko" speaks in an extremely informal and vulgar fashion unlike the real-life teacher, and constantly complains and badmouths people implied to be other Gekkoukan High School faculty members. None of the other teachers are aware of her badmouthing them behind their backs. She also has a crush on the protagonist but refrained from reciprocating because of social taboos. Toriumi drinks. According to the Rank 4 Hermit Social Link, she got drunk and passed out at Paulownia Mall where an "older man" heavily implied to be President Tanaka called her a "drunk slut," and Toriumi told him to "shut the fuck up" in return. During a class session near the end of the game, she is also sorry for her class because they aren't of age to drink.[1] In the same confidant event, she also expresses that she doesn't want to be married, but her mom keeps trying to force the issue. The English dialogue has her telling the protagonist that "it is sexist to think that women can only be happy when they're tied down," but in the original Japanese script, she only tells the protagonist that the idea that women can only gain happiness by marriage is an "old concept" (using the "Showa Era" as a metaphor).