Ken Amada Husbando

Ken Amada is a playable character from Persona 3. He is the youngest member of SEES, and one of the two who doesn't attend Gekkoukan High School until he attends its middle school branch in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax two years later. Ken has styled short brown hair and eyes. Even as an elementary student, he is short for his age. At school and Tartarus, he wears a school uniform of Gekkoukan Elementary, with an orange jacket under his Gekkoukan jacket, and tennis shoes with white socks. On weekends off, he is seen wearing a long orange turtleneck sweater shirt with light orange sleeves and tan shorts. On the summer days off, he wears a black turtleneck shirt underneath his orange and black jersey (with an "8" on the back, referencing his Arcana) and black shorts. Ken wears a slightly altered summer casual attire. He wears a black undershirt underneath his orange and burnt orange jersey. When he is seen cooking, Ken wears a yellow T-shirt with black sleeves underneath, orange apron and yellow shorts. He is given new battle gear, which consists of a long black jacket, fingerless gloves and a white belt he wears around his shoulder. In Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, he wears a high-collar orange jacket with attached white wings, regular black length shorts, mismatched socks (one yellow with purple stripes and the other blue with purple stripes), and green and white sneakers. He also wears fingerless green gloves and black headphones over his ears. In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Ken is now 13 years old and consequently has grown taller from his last appearance. His hair remains mostly unchanged in style, but is slightly longer. Ken now wears the standard uniform of Gekkoukan Middle School, brown shoes, a wristwatch on right wrist, and an armband with "Student Council" written on it on his left arm. He no longer wears his orange jacket, which is now worn by Koromaru, nor the shorts he wore as an elementary student. His "TV glasses" are a pair of light beige glasses. Despite his young age, Ken is very intelligent and mature. It is shown that this is a coping mechanism due to the death of his mother at a young age, which more-or-less forced him to give up his childhood. His maturity is noted by Yukari, who can't believe he's in elementary school and claims that Junpei, who is a full six years older than him, could learn a thing or two from him. Fuuka also notes his maturity, and finds him cute as a result of it. Besides being mature, Ken also says several words that boys his age don't usually use, such as "bastard," which he usually uses when referring to Strega. Additionally, he doesn't take kindly to when others underestimate or degrade him due to his age or the fact that he is in elementary school. He is normally very polite to others, and never misses a chance to show respect where respect is due. He is also honest, diligent, and deeply caring towards his peers, particularly the members of SEES. Ken is shown to like and care a great deal for animals, such as Koromaru. In his video recording, There is a hamster in his room. In Persona 3 The Movie, he cares for a goldfish. In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, it is shown that he and Koromaru are now living together. Although Ken is very mature, he still has several traits that fit with his age and is sometimes too precocious for his own good. Overall, Ken gives off the impression that he's trying too hard to be something he's not, i.e. an adult. Ken notes that one of the reasons he uses spears in battle is so that the long reach of the weapon can let him be on even ground with an adult. He also likes to watch a children's show, Featherman R, but he prefers to keep it a secret. He seems to collect a lot of the Featherman R figurines, as well. He is also shown to be quite naive at times, such as when Junpei convinces him into believing the girls aren't wearing anything under their kimonos, which they wore on New Year's Day: although Junpei had clearly perverted intentions, those were completely lost on Ken. He finds a role-model in Akihiko, whom he admires for his boxing and fighting talents, often referring to him as "Sanada-san" as a form of respect to his senpai. He has a strong dislike for milk, but he forces himself to drink it because he believes it can make him become taller. Unfortunately, it seems he may be lactose-intolerant since it often makes him ill. In the female protagonist's route, he acts shy towards her, due to the crush he develops on her if the right choices are made during his Social Link. Although especially idealistic, his tragedy with his mother's death torments him in maintaining his sense of justice and the reason to live it belies for him: at first, he considers suicide, but eventually forgoes that and responds with a drive for revenge. Although hesitant towards taking down Shinjiro Aragaki, he would become consumed by hatred without thinking of the consequences, specifically the guilt that he will drown in as warned by Shinjiro himself. After Shinjiro's death and Akihiko's support towards him by letting him choose how to live for himself, Ken comes to terms with his loss of his mother and his loneliness, and strives to live on, preserving his ideologies of an ideal world. In The Answer, it is shown that he attempted to tell the truth about his mother's death to a police officer, but the officer dismissed it as some hallucination Ken had as a result of trauma. This convinced Ken that he couldn't rely on adults, and so he resolved to track down his mother's killer on his own. In Midsummer Knight's Dream, however, he initially thought it was just some random Shadow that killed his mother and only discovers that it was Shinjiro later on, ultimately attempting to kill him out of a feeling of betrayal. Ken is portrayed as being more polite and having more remorse over Shinjiro's death in the Japanese version compared to his portrayal in the English version. In fact, in the Japanese version, it is made very clear that Ken feels remorse by outright saying that he no longer wants to kill Shinjiro anyway. After Shinjiro sacrifices himself to save him, Ken becomes depressed and guilty, losing his reason to live, and runs away from the dorm. His depression is especially shown in Falling Down, when he recalls Shinjiro's last words to him and claims that living for what the future has in store is easier said than done, since living is sometimes just as painful as dying. Later, he is confronted by Akihiko, who tells Ken that he is just going to have to move on and accept his mother's death, with Akihiko leaving Ken's decision of whether or not to return in his own hands. He then admits to himself that he had just been running away from the truth the whole time, and was really just looking for someone to blame for the death of his mother. He then decides to live in memory of Shinjiro and his mother, triggering the evolution of his Persona, and returns to the dorm shortly afterwards, stating that he's done running away. In The Answer, Ken seems to have grown even more mature, as he now understands why the Kirijo Group covered up the truth behind his mother's death and made it look like an accident, going so far as to say that it's alright when Mitsuru expresses her sympathy. He also appears to be slightly more trusting of Metis than the others, being willing to believe that all she really wants is to protect Aigis. When the origins of the Abyss of Time are revealed, Ken notes the irony of the group trapping themselves, saying that it's "almost funny." During the dispute over what to do with the keys, he takes Akihiko's side, as the two usually agree and have the same viewpoints. He strongly disagrees with Yukari's desire to go back to before the last battle, believing it to be too big of a gamble and refuses to let the time they spent with the protagonist be for nothing, especially since he, much like Akihiko, has learned to accept that the dead, like Shinjiro, are never coming back. After the group defeats Erebus, however, he admits that he can breathe easier now that he knows for sure that the protagonist gave his life for a reason.