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( Player Name ) : Pie
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( Age ) : 24
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( Character's Name ) : Jinana
( Character's Age ) : Unknown, adult. Her age is never mentioned, but she appears to be in her twenties.
( Series ) : Digital Devil Saga
( Canon Point ) : Post death, after her emotions awaken and she is defeated by the Embryon. Prior to this, her 'loyal' follower Bat had sold the entire group out to the Solids
( Playability ) : N/A

( History ) :
Jinana's wiki page.
Digital Devil Saga main page.
If this isn't enough, I will gladly write out a summary.

( Personality ) :
Jinana's personality prior to the Junkyard has never been shown, leaving it entirely in the hands of the Jinana who leads the Maribel. In an early scene - the Karma Temple's meeting of leaders - Jinana asks only one question.

"What is a demon?"

It is the most important question; she likely knows already that some of her people have begun to lose control, some to gain emotions. Later conversations with ex-members of the Maribel show that most of them are very fond of her and it is implied that she is fond of them. While they were not a 'family', they were still a 'Tribe'. And it still makes her sad to have her people die and rise to the sky as rain.

Emotions are an entirely new thing to her and she is often confused by them - as well as by the concepts of things such as 'god' and 'curses' which float into her head. Knowledge that people in the 'real world' would consider entirely normal tends to come to the Junkyard inhabitants as terms and phrases that they remember but have to discover the definition to. While she isn't a pacifist, the idea of devouring her prey is not one that appeals to her. It's this aversion that leads her to lose control of herself. Interestingly, even before her humanity fully returns to her, she tells the Embryon to escape before she changes. It is far easier for her to accept her own death than that of her comrades.

The concept of 'comrades', while one she doesn't understand fully, is important to her; she is the one that first gives them the term in her dying moments and it becomes an important theme among the Embryon later. It is that which allows her to regain her humanity. The recognition of Argilla as her comrade awakens her in her last moment. However, an ex-member of the Maribel will tell you that Jinana named them all comrades. Friendship, it seems, is one of those pesky emotions that confuses her so much. It took Argilla's tears to make her realize the point of it.

A few people throughout the game seem to admire her - although certain people seem to admire her body more than anything else. Jinana's Tribe is one of the more scantily-dressed ones, though there is never a sense of sexuality about it.

Jinana is the second of the mentioned characters to develop even faint knowledge of the events that led to the Junkyard's creation and is a fair bit more prone to using trickery than power to keep others away. This might be due to the fact that the Maribel is one of the smallest and thus weakest tribes - albeit one that can stand up to constant bombardment from the Solids. It's mentioned by Gale that while Jinana is skilled, her followers are not. This may well be the reason for the gates and stealth-based attacks used in the base.

Heat refers to her as an incompetent leader after realizing she didn't devour; it's a good point. She knows her situation and the situation of others, yet she puts herself and others at risk by refusing to do it. Her stubbornness seems to be about as strong as her sense of friendship. Jinana is slow to anger, albeit quick to suspicion. Calmness is a great factor in her personality. She doesn't complain of her hunger, even though it must be violent, or appear sorrowful of her own fate.

Even before her emotions fully awakened, Jinana was shown to be the type of person who did not approve of needless slaughter. Could she be described as determined? Yes, indeed - she withstood her hunger without devouring anyone, until Mick the Slug weakened her. Even afterwards, unlike Harley, she regained awareness long enough to converse briefly with Argilla. It's mentioned by her Tribe that she controls whether they devour or not; they say Jinana gave them 'permission' to devour the Embryon if they could. It doesn't work out so well.

As expected of someone who had been fighting for a long time, Jinana - and by extension, the rest of her tribe - was unwilling to trust the intentions of another Tribe until Argilla's sincerity convinced her. However, she expects little but loyalty in those she chooses to give her trust; Bat's betrayal is entirely unexpected to her. Even though it is the Law to obey your leader, Jinana's trust seems to be stronger than even that. Without trust, one cannot rely on anyone, and thus the war is already lost. The decision not to betray the Maribel is what causes her to give Argilla her unique skill in the afterlife.

( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
Usas Skills
-Null Ailments
-Null Death (opposing force to Expel)
-Null Expel (holy magic)
-Support (summoning spell, rendered inactive by Vatheon)
-Seraph Lore (combo attack, cuts party HP by 8/10ths)
-Whirlwind (Physical attack, random target)
-Marin Karin (single-person charm spell)
-regular single-person attack

As Usas, she has no specific weaknesses.

Personal Strengths/Weaknesses
Her human weapon is never shown; it can be assumed that she is a close-range fighter, like most Tribe leaders. When shown facing down Mick, she is in human form. It is likely that she fears her demonic side and does not want to risk going berserk. As a human, she has no access to the skills mentioned above, or any magic, in fact. She is as vulnerable as any human.

While she is strong, she can be irrational and put herself and others in danger. She's also unstable; if she doesn't devour regularly, she will go berserk, attacking anything in range mindlessly.

( Other Important Facts ) :
Like the rest of the Asura, Jinana really does need to devour people to survive; NPCs might be severely at risk once she comes to terms with this.

( Sample ) :
A 'bubble' surrounding a city. An endless mass of deep blue that stretched into infinity. It seemed impossible that something like this could keep that massive force aside. Jinana's fingerless gloves prodded and touched the bubble slowly.

"This is... 'the ocean', isn't it?" she wondered aloud. The word had risen to the forefront of her mind like so many others. How did she know it? It was a mystery. She had never seen anything like this endless beauty. It felt as though she could become lost within it just from looking at it. A suffocating feeling clouded her mind and she drew herself away from it hurriedly. Every day here, there were new 'words', new 'thoughts' and 'things' and 'people'. It was enough to overwhelm her mind.

On first glance, there was one benefit to this place that she could see.

The rain had stopped.

No matter how many stories people fed her about 'nurses' or Paradise, it was obvious to her how it worked. People did not die here. Therefore, the rain had stopped. People could not return to the world as rain if they did not rise to the heavens. In its own way, this was similar to the Junkyard.

People came as if from nowhere, for a strange purpose, brought by an unknown force that had a vague name. They would band together, or stay apart like rookies. The only true difference was this purpose. It was almost peaceful in comparison.

No. It was peaceful. No matter how many people fought, their purpose was no longer war. It was like an inverse of the world she knew. Was this 'Paradise'?

Or was there something more unkind lurking below the surface?

( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : N/A