Aigis Analysis
A quick heads up
For this I’ll just be using the games as the prime material and all. This means anything within the Persona main series is fair game (Including Q and Q2). Anything like the anime and manga will be used for pretty decorations and stuff.
I'll also be splitting the feats section into "Low End" and "High End" this time, as I know not everyone is down with everything Persona related.
Also I know this isn’t the first Aigis blog ever. I'm mostly just doing this for fun and adding some of my own twists to it.
Anywho BABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABY YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Background
Aigis was created by the famous Kirijo Group as the final 7th generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon. These androids were designed with the purpose of wielding a Persona and destroying shadows, with their human-like appearances being modeled for the job (mostly just for gaining Persona access but hey.) Ten years prior to the events of Persona 3 Aigis was tasked with defeating the entity known as Death, who had plans on summoning Nyx and invoking “The Fall. Unable to defeat Death, Aigis would seal the entity within the body of a young child known as Minato Aristo (Yes I know his actual name is Makoto Yuki but fuck that). In order to assure that pesky emotions such as guilt didn’t get in the way of her mission, the Kirijo Group wiped her memory. Later she would be found by Shunji Ikutsuki, who recruited her into SEES in their effort to end the Dark Hour.
Naturally a LOT goes down from there. Ikutsuki turned out to be a crazy nihilist in support of the apocalypse, Aigis regains her memories and starts to question her existence, and in due time she begins to believe she truly does have emotions and helps SEES out in stopping the “The Fall.”
Aaaaaaaaaaaand then things go even further because later Minato dies and gets strapped eternally to a door which leads to his Wild Card ability being inherited by Aigis, thus leading to the events of The Answer which no one gives a shit about so let’s just say Aigis and crew learned to value their lives and make the most out of them.
Oh and Arena happens as well.
Weapons
Guns
In true Android fashion Aigis is equipped to the brim with all sorts of Firearms at her disposal, with a total of 120 bullets to work with across the various weapons in her arsenal.
Finger Guns: Aigis’s main and most simple method of firing bullets.
Rifle: A combo ender for Aigis that consumes 8 bullets.
Gatling Gun: Aigis pulls out the big G which consumes 10-20 bullets.
Cannon: For mass destruction Aigis can bring forth a large cannon to damage her enemies.
Pandora Missile Launcher: A giant container of missiles that can be fired in different directions.
Multi Mounted Machine Gun Orion: A combination of several machine guns that Aigis tends to only bring out when her Persona is broken.
Heritage Liberator Palladion: Arguably the most powerful weapon in Aigis’s arsenal, Aigis can combine this weapon with her Persona to create a large laser-like blast.
Miscellaneous: Aigis can utilize other non gun based weapons such as a giant spear, grenades, or flamethrowers.
Armor
Aptly named “Aigis armor V.100” in game, Aigis is covered with an outer shell that does exactly what armor should logically do. She also can equip Aigis Legs v.100, which increases her overall speed, allowing her to avoid attacks easier.
Abilities
As a shadow destroying android, Aigis is equipped with several more extoric abilities that allow her to combat the dangers of Tarturus and future threats within the Persona series.
Persona
As the name implies, a Persona is a manifestation of a user's personality and inner thoughts, often being seen as a mask for the user to face various hardships within the future. Personas come equipped with an affinity for a certain element such as fire, ice, or wind, as well as certain weakness (for the most part) to those aforementioned abilities. As the user evolves, the Persona will evolve as well, taking on new abilities, powers and methods of combat. Each Persona is a part of a certain Arcana class which acts as a species classification system. With sufficient damage however, a Persona can be broken, forcing it to recover itself over time.
Aigis however is more special than the average Persona user. At the start of the Answer she inherited Minato’s Wild Card ability, which allows her to change Personas in the middle of battle. By changing Personas, Aigis can change her abilities, resistances, and weaknesses, allowing for a diverse gameplan that can create several scenarios for the user to pull from. For an understanding of what certain terms mean, here’s a quick breakdown.
Reflect: The attack is sent back at the user
Absorbs: The attack heals the user
Block: The attack is nullified.
Resists: The user takes less damage from the attack.
Weak: The user takes more damage from the attack.
Pallas Athena
The final evolution of Aigis’s Palladion Persona. A member of the Chariot Arcana, Athena is primarily a Physical based Persona that specializes in defense, with the ability to block “Pierce” based attacks at the cost of being weak to Electricity based attacks. It can utilize it’s shield and spear for various attacks and can even imbue them with an unknown energy source for increased strength.
Skills
Kill Rush: Light “Strike” damage to a single foe.
Swift Strike: Light “Strike” damage to all foes
Sukukaja: Increases a single targets speed
Rakukaja: Increases a single target’s durability
Fatal End: Medium “Slash” damage to a single foe
Tarukaja: Increases a single targets attack potency
Dekunda: Nullifies any stat debuffs on her and the party (Speed, Strength, Magic, Endurance, and Luck)
Masukukaja: Increases the entire party’s speed
Heat Wave: Medium “Strike” damage to all targets
Marakukuja: Increases the entire party’s durability
Diarahan: Fully restores the health of a single target
Matarukaja: Increases the entire party’s attack
Samarecarm: Revives a party member with all of their health restored
Akasha Arts: Heavy “Strike” damage to all targets
God’s Hand: The strongest “Strike” attack in Athena’s arsenal. Targets a single foe
Wild Card Personas
For the sake of time and to not overwhelm you with a bunch of random names, I’ll have the links to the skills on the names of the respective Personas, with a simple description of what they do overall.
Potential Resistance: Bless/Light
Weak: Electricity+Dark
When Aigis first awakened her Wild Card powers, her regular Athena Persona morphed into the Persona of Minato himself Orpheus. Orpheus specializes in Fire Techniques with minor healing and physical abilities. While in game Orpheus is fairly weak, other material such as the Persona 5 Challenge Battle DLC and Orpheus DLC imply that Orpheus is much stronger in the endgame, with immunities to bless and more powerful fire skills.
Block:Pierce
Resists: Electricity, Wind
Weak: Light
A god of Japanese legend, Susano-o is the strongest Persona in the Fool Arcana, specializing in physical damage and having consistent healing abilities as a plus.
Absorbs:Fire
Weak:Ice
The one who will bring Ragnarok, Surt is the strongest of the Magician Arcana and utilizes strong fire attacks to punish foes.
Resists: Pierce, Ice, Wind, Light
Weak: Fire
The strongest of the Priestess Persona, Scathach contains several strong magical spells that can cause ice damage, cure various ailments, and even recover her SP overtime.
Resists:Slash,Pierce,Strike
Weak:Dark
The Araibian Mother Goddess and strongest Persona in the Empress Arcana, Alilat exists primarily as a cockblocker of physical based attacks such as slash or strike. She even gets a skill to repel them (which makes you wonder what I bothered putting “resists” but let’s not worry about that)
Absorbs:Elec
Weak:Wind
One of the only good things about SMT4A’s story, Odin is the strongest Persona in the Emperor Arcana, and specializes in electric based attacks, whether it be amping them up or halfing the SP cost in order to spend them more.
Block:Light
A legendary holy dragon and the final Persona of the Hierophant Arcana, Kohryu specializes primarily in healing, and as a bonus can nullify “Strike” and “Pierce” based moves.
Block:Dark
Resists:Fire,Elec
A representation of the mother goddess and the final Persona in the Lovers Arcana, Cybele also specializes in recovery spells, having ways to cure status ailments and recovery health within battle.
Block:Strike,Elec
Weak:Wind
Odin’s bitc-I mean strongest warrior, Thor serves as the strongest Persona in the Chariot Arcana specializing in Electricity just like the big man.
Reflect:Light
Resist:Strike
Weak:Dark
A legendary angel who was once human, Melchizedek deals with “Strike” based attacks while gaining an ability later to reflect Dark based attacks.
Block:Fire,Light
Resists:Elec,Dark
Weakness:Strike,Ice
The big man on campus, Arahabaki is the strongest Persona in the Hermit Arcana, and has an unusual moveset, containing poison, defense buffs, the ability to repel ice and nullify “Strike” based moves.
Absorbs:Wind
Weak:Elec
The keeper of fate, Norm is the strongest Persona in the Fortune who specializes in Wind based techniques and having methods of healing and restoring SP.
Block:Slash,Light
Resists:Strike
Weak:Dark
Unrelated to this Siegfried or that Siegfried, THIS Siegfried is the final Persona in the Strength Arcana, and as the Arcana implies he specializes in physical strength and hits like a mother fucker.
Resists:Strike,Slash,Pierce
Weak:Light
A symbol of life and death, Attis specialized in last minute situation recoveries, such as being able to heal all health when the user is near death, and if they die, revive with full health.
Reflect:Dark
Resists:Slash,Strike
Weak:Light
The Arcana of Death, and the Persona that was initially released when Minato first awakened his, Thanatos is a combination of instant death spells, Fire, Almighty, and “Slash” spells and attacks, proving to be a deadly opponent.
Absorbs:Elec
Resists:Slash
Weak:Fire,Dark
A good lion boi who is the strongest of the Temperance Arcana, Byakko specializes in Elec skills, with an additional ability to endure strong hits and utilize “Deathbound” as a “Slash” skill.
Reflects:Dark
Resists:Elec/Wind (Baal)
Block:Strike,Elec,Wind (Beezle)
Weak:Fire/Light
Beezlebub is a unique Persona, as he’s two entities with different powers and abilities. Baal is the strongest in the Moon Arcana and utilizes more death related spells to his advantage. Beezle is more direct and uses more brute magic force to win battles.
Resists:Slash,Pierce
Weak:Elec
The final Tower Arcana Persona, Chi You specializes in “Pierce” based attacks, being able to even half the cost of HP needed to utilize Strength spells.
Reflect:Dark (Lucifer)
Block:Light (Helel) Elec (Lucifer)
Resists:Slash,Strike,Pierce
Weak:Ice
Like Beezlebub, Lucifer has two different Persona forms, that being his demon form and angel form called Helel. Helel is a strong magic user with the strongest magic spell titled “Morning Star.” Lucifer is similar, but with more of a brute and focusing on hard hitting attacks.
Reflect:Light
Block:Strike
The twin brother of Metatron, Sandalphon is a Light user who utilizes methods to buff instant kill spells, and can gain large amounts of healing methods to keep Aigis alive.
Reflect:Light
Absorbs:Fire
Weak:Dark
The strongest of the Sun Arcana, Asura is a varied individual, having magic spells, methods to reflect physical attacks, and even shielding from mental ailments.
Reflect:Fire/Dark
Weak:Wind
The right hand man of God himself, Satan is the second strongest of the Judgement Arcana, who has a strong magic and luck output, with some methods to recover both SP and HP.
Resists:Fire,Ice,Wind,Elec
Reflect:Light
Weak:Dark
The Ultimate Persona for Aigis, carried over from the will of Minato. Messiah is largely resistant to all elements, carries the strongest Almighty Spell (Megidolaon), a strong “Strike” spell with God’s Hand, and several passive abilities such as recovering SP and HP, can restore Aigis upon death with all her HP, and drain damage from “Strike” attacks.
Heart Items
Basically during Persona fusion, Aigis has a chance of obtaining an item from one of her fusions that can grant her advantages within battle. Rather than listing every Heart Item that is obtainable, I will list the ones that are the most relevant and useful in the long term.
Barbaric Bracers: Grants passive boosts to both Physical and Magic evasion.
Spirit Bracers: Grants a passive Endure spell, which allows Aigis to resist a near death experience.
Arms Master: Halves the cost of physical spells.
Spell Master: Halves the cost of magical spells.
Divine Grace: Strengthens the power of healing spells.
Tome of the Void: Grants the ability “Unshaken Will”, which grants Aigis immunity to all mental ailments. These include Charm, Fear, Rage, Panic, and Distress.
Omnipotent Orb: This item nullifies all damage towards it with the exception of Almighty attacks.
Orgia Mode
A state that Aigis can enter by temporarily disabling her limiter. In this state Aigis’s overall offensive capabilities are increased, alongside removing any negative status effects. However while in this state Aigis loses some control and needs a cool down phase once she overheats.
Extreme Orgia Mode
An even more boosted version of the normal Orgia Mode, Aigis removes all of her limiters to boost her capabilities even more. Not only is her strength and speed increased to their max, but she gains passive healing properties that make her even harder to put down.
Feats/Accomplishments
Strength/Attack Potency
Lower End
Spells like Megidolan can do this
In P4A, fights Chie who can call down meteors
Dukes it out with Erebus who can tear down mountains
Fights Sho who can duke it out with Adachi. Adachi while weakened damaged Kagutsuchi who dispersed a cloud.
Fights the Nyx Avatar who also dispersed a cloud
Higher End
Fights Yu Post-PQ2. Yu was shown to be equal to Joker who had defeated Okumura prior to the events of the game. Okumura’s robot can perform the Big Bang Skill which does this
Asura is>Vishnu who was stated in the compendium to have created the universe
The same Yu had also defeated Izanmi who in P2 battled the cast after they defeated Umr-at-Till. Umr-At-Till embodied the boundaries of the Collective Unconscious and if killed would’ve destroyed it. The CU contains several alternate universes.
The Nyx Avatar had the full power of Nyx, who’s energy required the Collective Unconscious to seal.
Speed
Lower End
Can dodge and react to the aforementioned meteors
As fast as Jubei, who’s Persona can reach orbit in a short timeframe
Can react to Nyx Avatar’s attacks, who’s aforementioned beam reached Nyx’s body (which is the moon) in seconds.
Higher End
As mentioned above, scales to Yu who fought a post Okumura Joker who could dodge the aforementioned Big Bang Challenge skill.
Joker can also wield Mada who can swallow the universe in a single bite
The Phantom Thieves can outspeed enemies who can dodge the Morning Star Skill
Despite time being stopped, the cast can still move and dodge attacks (this is probably more connected Personas having Space-Time fuckery interaction but I decided to put it here cause why not)
Durability
Lower End
Survived a battle with Ryoji
Resisted the pressure Nyx’s body was exerting on the world
Took hits from a casual Elizabeth
High End
Survived hits from Emil, the final boss of PQ2
Kagututuchi was stated to have world ending capabilities (also as a bonus it’s very likely this is the same Hi-No Kagautsuchi from the mainline SMT games given Izami and Nyx’s statuses as regular demons and not shadows)
Pretty much all the feats from AP go here WTF did you expect
Weaknesses
Aigis runs on limited SP and HP in order to properly cast her spells, meaning if she must have a steady supply in order to perform her spells. As mentioned above, Orgia mode forces Aigis into a cooldown state, with EX Orgia Mode driving her into an even longer phase of cooldown with even less control than she had with normal Orgia Mode. She and SEES at this have also failed to get Minato out of the eternal door because Atlus really hates Minato.
Summary
“Don’t worry…. I’ll always be by your side. Protecting you.”
Advantages
Is a very versatile fighter overall. Tons of methods of attack and defense thanks to the Wild Card abilities and weaponry at her disposal.
Heart Items can give her strong resistances to various ailments and attacks.
Both Orgia and EX Orgia are great boosters in battle.
Has ways to compensate for her weaknesses.
Did not end up in the Eternal Door.
Disadvantages
Orgia and EX Orgia mode put her in a vulnerable state.
Less control in those said modes
Needs a steady supply of HP and SP to perform spells.
Limited Ammo for bullet techniques.
A broken Persona limits some of Aigis’s capabilities.
Possible Opponents
Noel Vermillion
I’m sure a billion of you have heard of this idea by now and well..yeah it does work lol. You could make some neat stuff happen with Mu-12 vs Orgia Mode and it’d be nice to see some those sick sprites from ASW without any noticeable clash.
Ramlethal Valentine
I’ve actually begun to really dig this idea for Aigis the more I think about it. Both are life forms created by a higher power (Kirijo Group and Concalve+Ariels) for a specific job. They both initially believe in only fulfilling their purpose and suppress the shit out of their emotions in order to achieve said purpose. Overtime they begin to learn about the beauty of emotions and by the end of their journeys dedicate themselves to protecting others and even going on a rescue mission for those close to them (Elphelt for Ramlethal and Minato for Aigis albeit the mission is technically still ongoing cause Atlus). Depending on my mood I might make a Part 2 to this just to discuss this MU idea further as an actual fight. Given Rammy’s return in Strive it’ll be interesting to see what she could bring to the table in the coming future.
And that’s all folks. Thanks for reading. Next time will be something animoo related so here’s a hint.
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