I’m about to vomit out a bunch of thoughts, and I’m not sure any of this is going to make sense by the end, but. I’ve been thinking a LOT about these three lines in RE4make:
“You haven’t changed. You just think you have.”
“You can’t save her. You can’t save anyone.”
“This time, it has to be different...”
I’ve seen people focus in on that Krauser line and tie it directly back to Sherry, which is cool! Even as recently as five years ago, people completely glossed over Sherry’s impact on Leon’s life, and it’s cool that the remakes have had people digging into his character and realizing “oh shit, literally everything that happens to him after RE2 is because of his paternal love for Sherry.”
But... Krauser’s line is about more than just her.
With the remake turning Krauser into Leon’s combat trainer, chances are he knows about everything that happened in Raccoon City. And I don’t mean, like. He read a government file. Leon probably told him.
In OG, Krauser and Leon have this exchange of dialogue:
Krauser: “What is it that you fight for, comrade?”
Leon: “My past, I suppose.”
Krauser: “Hmph. Umbrella.”
It was axed completely from the remake, because it doesn’t make sense for it to happen in the remake. If Krauser was Leon’s trainer, that question was probably asked very early in their relationship. And since they weren’t currently in a fight to the death, and because they weren’t already six years removed from Raccoon City, chances are, Leon’s answer was a bit more involved than just “my past.”
So, let’s back up a little bit. In RE2make, they basically turned Kendo into a completely different character. OG Kendo was literally just there to point a shotgun at Leon and/or Claire and then go “oh my bad you’re not a zombie” and hook them up with some guns before he gets eaten. In RE2make, he’s a desperate and terrified father just trying to spend his last few moments with his infected 6 or 7 year old daughter before she turns. After he shuts the door on Leon and Ada, Leon turns to Ada and says, “Protecting people like that is why I joined the force.”
But Leon doesn’t protect or save Kendo or his daughter. He doesn’t protect or save... anyone. Every single person that Leon comes into contact with and tries to save dies horrifically -- and some, he even has to kill, himself (Marvin Branaugh). The only people who make it out of Raccoon City alive are people who saved themselves (Claire and Ada).
Of course, there is Sherry. But Leon didn’t save Sherry; Claire did. ESPECIALLY in remake canon, since nearly all of Leon’s scenes with Sherry got severely shortened or removed completely in RE2make.
But then, when Claire entrusts Sherry to Leon’s care (on his own insistence, per her RE3 epilogue), he goes and fucks that up, too. Gets her kidnapped and held hostage indefinitely by the federal government, and the only thing he can do about it is do exactly as they say and just hope they keep their end of the bargain and not hurt her.
So, when Krauser says “You can’t save anyone,” he means anyone. Ever. And even up to that point in RE4... Leon got the two officers who drove him into town killed, and he watched Luis die a slow, agonizing death right in front of him. And then, past that point, Leon has to kill Krauser with his own hands. Then he watches Mike die.
Ashley is literally Leon’s first and only success story, up to this point in canon. (And even when you go all the way up to current-day canon, Ashley is one of... three? People? I can think of? Total? Who Leon actually saves?)
So, Leon saying, “This time, it has to be different,” he doesn’t just mean Sherry. He means Ada. He means Kendo. He means Marvin. He means the entirety of Raccoon City. He’s staring down a repeat of what happened back then, not in terms of the bioterror situation, but in terms of his own personal failures. His survivor’s guilt. He can’t handle the thought that he’ll be the only person to walk away again -- and he refuses to be.
And that’s why Ada’s line bothers me so fucking much.
I mean, first of all -- Ada, you haven’t seen this man in six years, and you’ve spent a total of like five minutes with him since meeting up with him again here, so how the fuck would you even know -- but even aside from that...
To be clear: she’s right.
But she’s also wrong.
Leon has changed -- to an extent. In RE2 (OG or remake), Leon honestly believed that if it was lawful, then it was also morally right. He doesn’t believe that anymore. There’s no more “letting the law sort it out” or trusting in the power of authority for him anymore. His moral compass has been boiled down to: “If you hurt or murder innocent people, you’re a fucking asshole, and I don’t really care who you are, I’ll kill you myself.”
RE2 Leon was willing to hear people out and give them an honest benefit of the doubt -- even Annette Birkin. RE4 Leon just tells people to shut the fuck up before opening fire.
RE2 Leon was honest and trusting to a fault, and he felt stronger as part of a team. RE4 Leon is suspicious almost to the point of paranoia, and he just wants to be left the fuck alone to do his job.
These are all things that were really important to who Leon was in Raccoon City, and they’re reasons why things turned out the way they did for him, back then.
But at the same time, Ada’s right in saying that, at the core of it all, Leon is still that kind-hearted, decent guy who just wants the good guys to win and the bad guys to lose. That’s why it hits him somewhere sensitive when Krauser says: “You can’t save anyone.”
It’s just that, now, the way he approaches it is different. His outlook on life in terms of his goals is different. His expectations for it have changed.
So, if Leon had been smarter/wittier, he absolutely could have turned it around on her and said: “No, I’ve definitely changed. You just think I haven’t.”
And not only would that sound threatening as fuck, he’d also be right. They both would be, at that point.
And for all of those major parts of him to have changed and still be facing down the possibility of failing every single person he comes across, especially Ashley...
"This time, it has to be different.”
And this time, it was.
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Persona Timeline Pt. 1: Pre-Canon
Gonna add references like we're in the Tardis Wiki. If you know, you know.
Events that only took place in the Other Side will be marked with a "🟠". Events that only took place in This Side will be marked with a "⚪️".
For extra fun, you can read only the general and 🟠 events, then when you hit the Timeline Reset in the P2 Timeline, start over but this time reading only the general and ⚪️ events in order to progress to P3. The full Tatsuya experience, some might say.
BEGINNING OF TIMES
- The Great Will created the Megami Tensei Multiverse (Game: Megami Tensei II). The Great Will is implied to also rule, or at least oversee, the Persona Universe.
4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO
- Nyx, a Star Eater, took damage when she collided with Earth (Book: Persona 3 Club). The debris created the Moon and, while Nyx' psyche was trapped on Earth, her body was enclosed in the Moon.
- Fragments from Nyx' body, called Plumes of Dusk, fell on Earth (Book: Persona 3 Club).
- Nyx began the long process of healing her physical body.
- In order to fight Nyx' psyche, the primitive life on Earth indirectly created the Collective Unconscious (Book: Persona 3 Club), connecting all the souls on Earth through the Sea of Souls. Nyx' psyche was sealed here.
2 MILLION YEARS AGO
- Humans came to be.
- The Expanse was formed to house all the gods, spirits, mythological beings, shadows, and demons created by humanity (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
- Chronos / Charon, god of death and time, came to be, born from man's collective unconscious to guide and accompany them to the afterlife (Game: Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth).
350,000 YEARS AGO
- Philemon and Nyarlathotep came to be; Philemon representing the good of humanity, and Nyarlathotep the evil (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Erebus was created as a manifestation of humanity's grief and negative emotion (Game: Persona 3 FES). He began to look for Nyx' psyche, which was still scattered across the Collective Unconscious.
BETWEEN 2,000 BC AND 1598
- Igor began his life as a doll (Game: Persona 3 FES).
- Igor was given life by Philemon and placed in charge of the newly-created Velvet Room (Game: Persona 3 FES).
BETWEEN 1467 AND 1590
- As a consequence of rumors created in 1999 Sumaru, a historical warlord named Kiyotada Sumaru conquered the land what would become Sumaru City (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- A vassal of Kiyotada named Tatsunoshin Suou organized an assassination attempt against him with his lover, Princess Maihime Amano, and his retainer, Junnosuke Kuroda (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Kiyotada gored Maihime with a spear, and Tatsunoshin cut off his head. Devastated, Tatsunoshin ordered Junnosuke to flee Sumaru Castle and burn it down as he fled (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Junnosuke recovered Tatsunoshin and Maihime's remains from the burned down castle and mummified them (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Junnosuke changed his name to Fuyou and founded the Mokujinken school of martial arts (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Fuyou died of natural causes, and his spirit remained in limbo, awaiting for the day Tatsunoshin would call upon him once more. Until then, he protected Maihime's descendants (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
BETWEEN 1598 AND 1995
- Belladonna became a denizen of the Velvet Room.
1752
- Nameless covered his eyes. It is possible he became a denizen of the Velvet Room around this time (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
1809
January 19
- Edgar Poe was born.
1842
May ??
- Poe published "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", which made the earliest references to a velvet room.
1849
October 7
- Edgar Allan Poe passed away due to unclear circumstances.
1875
July 26
- Carl Gustav Jung was born.
BEFORE 1895
? ??
- The Shirogane line of detectives began (Game: Persona 4).
BETWEEN 1909 AND 1969
? ??
- The Demon Painter was born and raised in Sumaru City (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
1913
? ??
- Possible date for Jung to have met Philemon, or at least began to have visions of the Velvet Room and/or Expanse.
1914
July 28
- World War 1 began.
BETWEEN 1914 AND 1918
? ??
- With Philemon's help, Jung wrote the Red and Black Books. The Red Book was a record of the origin of Personas and Philemon's power, while the Black Book recorded everything about the Sea of Souls. The Red Book granted limitless power and free manipulation of people's consciousness and unconsciousness, while the Black Book could harvest power and take others' Personas to summon and create beings for various purposes (Manga: Persona Tsumi to Batsu).
- In order to seal the Books' ridiculous power, Philemon created special keys (Manga: Persona Tsumi to Batsu). A fraction if their power can still be used with the Books closed, though.
- Jung finished the Red and Black Books and gave them to Philemon, who introcued them to Igor (Manga: Persona Tsumi to Batsu).
- Philemon set free the Red and Black Books along with their keys from Kadath Mandala, awaiting for a human who showed the abilities the Books provided (Manga: Persona Tsumi to Batsu).
- Igor began to make an effort to get to know his guests (Manga: Persona Tsumi to Batsu).
1916
? ??
- Kosei High School was founded (Game: Persona 5).
1918
November 11
- World War 1 ended.
1929
Between May and June
- Bunkichi Kitamura was born (Game: Persona 3 Reload).
BETWEEN 1929 AND 1949
? ??
- Tatzusou Sudou was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
1937
Between February and March
- Mitsuko was born (Game: Persona 3 Reload).
BETWEEN 1937 AND 1946
? ??
- Stephen was born (Game: Shin Megami Tensei).
1939
September 1
- World War 2 began.
BEFORE 1944
? ??
- Kouetsu Kirijo was born.
1945
April 30
- Adolf Hitler escaped to Antarctica with the Last Battalion, growing his forces and waiting for the time to strike again (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
September 2
- World War 2 ended.
1948
? ??
- Jyun Owada was born (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).
BETWEEN 1951 AND 1976
? ??
- Munehisa Iwai was born.
BEFORE 1952
? ??
- Tatsuzou Suou was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
BETWEEN 1956 AND 1976
? ??
- Sojiro Sakura and Wakaba Isshiki were born.
BETWEEN 1958 AND 1967
? ??
- Stephen began the Terminal System project and became the first human to initiate contact with the Expanse. However, a shadow crossed over and, since Stephen didn't speak their language, was crippled by it (Game: Shin Megami Tensei).
- The event with the shadow inspired Stephen to begin the creation of the Demon Summoning Program (Game: Shin Megami Tensei).
BEFORE 1960
? ??
- Setsuko Sonomura was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
1961
June 6
- Jung passed away.
BEFORE 1962
? ??
- Akinari Kashihara and Maya Okamura were born.
1962
Between January 20 and February 18
- Junko Kurosu was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
BEFORE 1963
? ??
- Steven Silverman and Kankichi Mishina were born.
1963
? ??
- Masayoshi Shido and Takeharu Kirijo were born (Game: Persona 3 / Game: Persona 5).
BETWEEN 1963 AND 1968
? ??
- Toranosuke Yoshida was born.
1964
? ??
- St. Hermelin High School was founded (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
1966
Between April 20 and May 20
- Ginji Sasaki was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
? ??
- The winning streak of the Special Investigations Unit began, mostly aided by forged evidence (Game: Persona 5).
1967
June 13
- Kaoru Saga / Baofu was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
? ??
- Miki Asai was born.
1968
July 28
- Kyouji Kuzunoha was born (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner).
November 8
- Takahisa Kandori was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
? ??
- Chizuru Ishigami was born.
BETWEEN 1968 AND 1976
October 1
- Zenkichi Hasegawa was born (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).
1970
May 16
- Ryotaro Dojima was born (Game: Persona 4).
BEFORE 1971
? ??
- Philemon and Nyarlathotep made a bet on whether humanity would destroy itself or become enlightened beings (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Nyarlathotep cursed Sumaru City so strong rumors would become reality (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
1971
? ??
- Tatsuya Sudou was born with Nyarlathotep whispering in his head (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- First art contest in St. Hermelin High School (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
BETWEEN 1971 AND 1974
? ??
- Saeko Takemi and Tomomi Fujimori were born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
BEFORE 1973
? ??
- Eiichiro Takeba was born.
1973
December 30
- Katsuya Suou was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
1974
June 1
- Taro Namatame was born (Game: Persona 4).
November 30
- Ulala Serizawa was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
? ??
- Misuzu Hiiragi was born.
BEFORE 1975
? ??
- Shiori's older sister was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
1975
January 14
- Shiori Miyashiro was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
1976
July 4
- Maya Amano was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
1977
April ??
- Junko began attending Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
BETWEEN 1977 AND 1908
? ??
- Junko became the first Miss Sevens (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Kashihara and Okamura began to teach at Seven Sisters High School.
BEFORE 1978
? ??
- Shuji Ikutsuki was born.
BETWEEN 1978 AND 1986
? ??
- Sadayo Kawakami was born (Game: Persona 5).
BEFORE 1979
? ??
- Kunikazu Okumura was born.
1979
April 9
- Yukino "Yukki" Mayuzumi was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
June 4
- Maki Sonomura was born with an unspecified illness. She would be hospitalized various times through her childhood and early teenage years (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
July 11
- Masao "Mark" Inaba was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
August 18
- Reiji Kido was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
September 21
- Eriko "Elly" Kirishima was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
October 2
- Kei "Nate" Nanjo was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
December 24
- Kazuya and Naoya Toudou (P1MC) were born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
? ??
- Shunsuke Fujii was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- The New World Order was founded after a small company led by Tatsuzou unearthed Kiyotada's head in the soon-to-be Honmaru Park, which spoke in their heads advice to control the country (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
BETWEEN 1979 AND 1998
? ??
- Tatsuzou became the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
1980
January 1
- Hidehiko "Brown" Uesugi was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
March 3
- Yuka Ayase was born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
March ??
- Junko graduated from Seven Sisters High School and became a famous actress.
August 13
- Tamaki Uchida (SMT:If...MC) was born (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
? ??
- Yumi Shirakawa, Shinji "Charlie" Kuroi, Akira Miyamoto, Ideo Hazama, Akiko Yano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto were born (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
- Chisato Kasai and Yosuke Naito were born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
1981
? ??
- Junko and Kashihara got married (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
May ??
- Upon realizing she was pregnant, Junko retired from stardom (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
July 27
- Tatsuya Suou (P2MC) was born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
October 25
- Miyabi Hanakouji / Kozy was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
? ??
- Reiko Akanezawa and Takuya Miyashiro were born (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... / Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Tadashi Satomi was born.
BETWEEN 1981 AND 1983
? ??
- Mitsuo Shimazaki was born.
BEFORE 1982
? ??
- Shinichi Yoshizawa was born.
1982
February 14
- Jun Kurosu / Jun Kashihara was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
May 4
- Lisa Silverman was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
Between October and November
- Anna Yoshizaka was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
November 15
- Eikichi "Michel" Mishina was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
? ??
- Gekkoukan High School was founded.
BETWEEN 1982 AND 1984
? ??
- Masataka Amano entrusted Mr. Bunbun to Maya while he went away as a war correspondent (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Masataka died away in a war (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
BETWEEN 1982 AND 1985
? ??
- Sayoko Uehara and Noriko Kashiwagi were born (Game: Persona 4).
BETWEEN 1982 AND 1999
? ??
- Junko returned to stardom (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
1983
? ??
- Naoya got a cold and Kazuya, in an effort to make him feel better, went with their mother to buy him manga. On the way home, Kazuya was hit by a truck and died (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Naoya began to act like Kazuya to comfort his mother. Her mental breakdown made her stay at her parents' house while Naoya was taken care of by a housekeeper and the Sonomuras (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Hiroki Sugimoto, Mami "Sheba" Shibata, and Miho "Mee-ho" Ogishima were born.
- Mayumi Yamano was born (Game: Persona 4).
BETWEEN 1983 AND 1984
? ??
- Noriko Katayama was born.
1984
February 1
- Tohru Adachi was born (Game: Persona 4).
April ??
- Kandori began attending St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona). He would become president of the student council.
? ??
- Chika "Chikarin" Ueda was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
BETWEEN 1984 AND 1997
? ??
- Sasaki became part of a one-hit wonder band (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). After fading to obscurity, became a record producer.
1986
April ??
- Sudou began attending Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- The rumors spread about Sudou made his mental state worsen (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
July 6
- Owada won his first term as a legislator.
? ??
- Akari Hoshi / Ixquic was born (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
BETWEEN 1986 AND 1989
April ??
- Saeko and Tomomi began attending St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
? ??
- Kumi Hirose became the first victim of the Snow Queen Curse (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
BETWEEN 1986 AND 1992
? ??
- Hidehiko had a bowel movement accident that earned him the nickname of "Brown" (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Ideo and Reiko's parents got divorced. Their father kept Ideo and their mother left with Reiko (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
1987
March ??
- Kandori graduated from St. Hermelin High School and began studying at Oxford.
BETWEEN 1987 AND 1990
? ??
- Michiko Matsudaira became another victim of the Snow Queen Curse (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
BETWEEN 1988 AND 1991
? ??
- Yuriko Yamamoto became another victim of the Snow Queen Curse (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
BETWEEN 1988 AND 1993
? ??
- Shido became a metropolitan assemblyman, beginning his career in politics (Game: Persona 5).
BETWEEN 1988 AND 1995
? ??
- Kuzunoha founded the Kuzunoha Detective Agency.
1989
? ??
- Kashihara became a substitute father for Sudou (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Kashihara, believing that the Maiyans aliens were speaking through Sudou, wrote all the messages in the book "In Lak'ech" (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Suspecting infidelity, Junko hired detective Daisuke Todoroki to follow Kashihara (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Junko began to spread vicious rumors about her husband, weakening his hold on reality (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
March ??
- Sudou graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
- Tatsuya, Jun, Michel, and Lisa met each other in the Alaya Shrine. They began to call themselves the Masked Circle (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Maya met and befriended the Masked Circle, becoming a surrogate older sister to them (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Maya taught the Masked Circle the Persona Game (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
Between March and August
- Jun gave Tatsuya an engraved Zippo lighter, while Tatsuya gave him a silver wristwatch. The two made a promise to be friends forever (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Kashihara fell in the Seven Sisters clock tower and was crushed by the gears (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Nyarlathotep took on Kashihara's appearance and replaced him (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
April ??
- Katsuya began attending Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
August ??
- Maya, after revealing she would be moving away, was locked inside the Alaya Shrine by Michel and Lisa. Tatsuya was locked in as well (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- The Alaya Shrine was set on fire by Sudou, who cut Tatsuya with a knife and made Maya develop pyrophobia. Tatsuya took Sudou's right eye off with his Persona (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Sudou killed and dismembered Takuya (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Jun, Lisa, and Michel mistakenly began to believe that Maya was killed in the fire, and hid away their masks (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- The trauma made Tatsuya, Lisa, Michel, and Maya forget about the incident and about each other (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Nyarlathotep made Jun believe that Maya was killed by his friends, and began grooming him to become Joker (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Tatsuzou stopped the investigations of Tatsuya's father into Sudou, using his influence to discredit him and end up with Tatsuya's father leaving the police (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin / Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Tatsuzou sent Sudou to the Morimoto Sanitarium (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Maya moved away from Sumaru City with her mother (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
? ??
- Akira Konoe was born (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).
BETWEEN 1989 AND 1992
? ??
- Tomomi became the last victim of the Snow Queen Curse, carrying a grudge against Saeko for knowing about it and not saying anything (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Principal Ooishi ordered the Snow Queen Mask to be put away (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
March ??
- Saeko graduated from St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
1990
February 18
- Owada won his second term as a legislator.
March 3
- Akinari Kamiki was born (Game: Persona 3).
1991
May 8
- Mitsuru Kirijo was born (Game: Persona 3).
August 11
- Shinjiro Aragaki was born (Game: Persona 3).
Between August and September
- Mamoru Hayase was born (Game: Persona 3).
- Nozomi Suemitsu and his fraternal twin were born (Game: Persona 3).
September 22
- Akihiko Sanada was born (Game: Persona 3).
? ??
- Ulala failed a grade and had to repeat a year (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Naoya pierced his ear as personal proof that he was not Kazuya (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Saori Hasegawa, Ichiko Ohya, and Kayo Murakami were born (Game: Persona 3 Portable / Game: Persona 5).
- Naoya had a cold for the last time in his life (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
1992
Between January and February
- Keisuke Hiraga was born (Game: Persona 3).
March ??
- Katsuya graduated from Seven Sisters High School and became a police officer, dropping his dream of becoming a patissier to clear his father's name (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
April ??
- Maya returned to Sumaru City to attend high school.
Between September and October
- Andre Laurent Jean Geraux / Bebe was born (Game: Persona 3).
October 19
- Yukari Takeba was born (Game: Persona 3).
Between November and December
- Kenji Tomochika was born (Game: Persona 3).
December 22
- Fuuka Yamagishi was born (Game: Persona 3).
? ??
- Ulala met Maya.
- Minato Arisato (P3MC), Rio Iwasaki, and Natsuki Moriyama were born (Game: Persona 3).
BETWEEN 1992 AND 1994
? ??
- Shinji stole someone's bike, which earned him the nickname "Charlie" (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
BETWEEN 1992 AND 2003
? ??
- Miki Sanada was born.
1993
January 16
- Junpei Iori was born (Game: Persona 3).
Between March and April
- Yuko Nishiwaki was born (Game: Persona 3).
May 24
- Mitsuo Kubo was born (Game: Persona 4).
July 18
- Yoshida was voted into office.
- Owada won his three term as a legislator.
Between October and November
- Chihiro Fushimi was born (Game: Persona 3).
? ??
- Saki Konishi was born.
- Sae Niijima was born.
- Yoshida missed a legislative meeting to take a personal vacation, was accused of embezzling party funds, and called a voter an idiot in an open forum. This earned him the title of "No-Good Tora" (Game: Persona 5).
BETWEEN 1993 AND 1994
Between July and August
- Hidetoshi Odagiri and Kazushi Miyamoto were born (Game: Persona 3).
BEFORE 1994
? ??
- Takuto Maruki was born.
1994
April ??
- Yukki began to attend St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
June 22
- Yosuke Hanamura was born (Game: Persona 4).
July 30
- Chie Satonaka was born (Game: Persona 4).
December 8
- Yukiko Amagi was born (Game: Persona 4).
? ??
- Kenji's sister, Yu Narukami (P4MC), Kou Ichijo, Daisuke Nagase, Ai Ebihara, and Tomoe Sayama were born.
- Kaoru and Miki ran an investigation on Tatsuzou and the Tien Tao Lien mafia for money laundering (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Tatsuzou ordered the assassination of Kaoru and Miki, with Kaoru only surviving thanks to the awakening of his Persona (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Kaoru changed his name to Baofu and vowed to avenge Miki (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
BETWEEN 1994 AND 1996
? ??
- Hanako Ohtani and Yumi Ozawa were born.
- Kou's birth parents may have died of an unspecified sickness. Kou was placed in an orphanage (Game: Persona 4).
BETWEEN 1994 AND 1997
? ??
- Dojima saw Yu for the last time before he came to Inaba (Game: Persona 4).
BEFORE 1995
? ??
- Kouetsu discovered the Plumes of Dusk, began to look into their origin, and amassed a collection for benevolent purposes (Book: Persona 3 Club).
- The Kirijo Group separated from the Nanjo Group, though they kept a close working relationship (Game: Persona 3).
- Some mean kids pulled Michel's pants down in front of Miyabi and told him she hated fat people. Out of guilt, Miyabi began to let herself go and become chubby (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
1995
March ??
- After graduation, Maya began to work as a reporter for the teen magazine "Coolest" (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
April ??
- Yumi, Charlie, Miyamoto, Hazama, Akiko, and Ryuichi began attending Karukozaka High School (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
- Maki, Mark, Nate, Naoya, Brown, Yuka, Chisato, and Naito began attending St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Reiji began to attend an unnamed high school (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Elly began to attend an unnamed high school in America (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
April 27
- Naoto Shirogane was born (Game: Persona 4).
June 1
- Rise Kujikawa was born (Game: Persona 4).
? ??
- Kouetsu began to experiment with shadows to create a time manipulation device (Game: Persona 3).
- Kuzunoha passed away.
- Hazama began to face bullying at school (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
- Hazama confessed his crush to Akiko, only to be rudely rejected (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).
- Naoki Konishi, Ayane Matsunaga, and Sumomo Ujima were born.
BETWEEN 1995 AND 1996
January 2
- Kanami Mashita was born (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).
BETWEEN 1995 AND 1997
? ??
- Michel pulled Sugimoto's pants down in middle school, causing the latter to swear revenge.
BETWEEN 1995 AND 1999
? ??
- Kouetsu became a nihilist, which was only fueled by his discovery of The Fall (Game: Persona 3). The Kirijo Group began to dedicate their efforts to bring about The Fall.
BEFORE 1996
? ??
- Kandori became the head of the Mikage-cho branch of Saeki Electronics & Biological Energy Corporation / SEBEC (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Elly's twin sisters were born (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).
- Nate met Kandori and didn't like him (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona)
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