Demon Weapon's Name: Take-Minakata
Demon Arcana: Hanged Man
Demon Weapon Appearance: From shoulder to fingertip, jagged and spiked crimson and ebony armor covers Shouhei’s arms. Demon, or oni-like skulls are part of its cruel design. Take-Minakata’s parasitism of Shouhei manifests itself as beautiful tattoo-like brands that hearken to a tale of Take-Minakata, or Kouga Saburou, a man who temporarily became a dragon after a journey into the underworld. This conceals its blatant armored form.
- Take-Minakata:
Demon Weapon Personality: Take-Minakata’s voice appears to be a shadow of Shouhei’s. Its personality has grafted itself onto and mimicked Shouhei’s own, but more akin to his shadow side.
Demon Weapon Background: Take-Minakata-no-kami is one of the sons of Okuninushi. When the Amatsu decided to increase their influence on the earth, they sent Take-Mikazuchi to conquer Take-Minakata. They had the first sumo match which Take-Mikazuchi won. Take-Minakata then had his arms cut and fled to Suwa, where he married a Suwa goddess, Yasakatome, and became the guardian god.
Strengths: Ailment
Weaknesses: Electricity
Passive Boosts: The Persona of the Hanged Man Arcana are commonly Personas excelling in survivability. Users have a latent 15% boost in health and defense.
Demon Weapon Skill List: Skill 1: Wide Sweep | Inflicts a small amount of Slash damage to all enemies with added miss chance of 10% and added crit chance of 10%. | 8% HP | Tier 1
Skill 2: Strike Master | Increases Strike based dexterity damage output by 30% | Passive | Tier 2
Skill 3: Rakunda | Lowers one enemy's Defense by 30% for 3 turns. | 6 SP | Tier 2
Skill 4: Mediarama | Recovers a moderate amount of HP (40%) to all allies. | 16 SP | Tier 2
Skill 5: Matarukaja | Raises all allies' Attack by 30% for 3 turns. | 12 SP | Tier 3
Skill 6: Akasha Arts | Inflicts a large amount of Strike damage up to 2 times to all enemies. | 20% HP | Tier 3 (Unlocked once defeating an additional thirty Demons/Shadows and using your Demon/Shadow Weapon an additional 35 times in PvS combat; Must be Tier 3 or lower)
Skill 7: Resist Zio | Resist Electric based skills. | Passive | Tier 4 (Unlocked once using your Last Life to successfully defeat a Plot Boss over your current level or using your Demon/Shadow Weapon an additional 45 times in PvS combat; Must be a Tier 4 Skill or Lower)
Skill 8: (Unlocked after using your Demon/Shadow Weapon an additional 45 times in combat and defeating 60 Demons/Shadows in PvS combat; Must be a Tier 4 Skill or Lower)
Special Ability: Last Life
Ability Name: Kouga Saburou
Appearance while in Kouga Saburou: Crimson draconic armor encases Shouhei. Much like Take-Minakata’s sealed form that appears like tattoos, this form change hearkens to Take-Minakata’s possible origins as Kouga Saburou, a man who temporarily became a dragon after a journey into the underworld.
- Kouga Saburou:
Description: When Shouhei’s health gets lower than 30% he automatically goes into a powerful state called Kouga Saburou. This happens once per battle and powers all his moves up by 30%. Even his skills rank up a tier in damage. This mode lasts for three turns regardless if his HP recovers past the 30% mark.
Soul Skill Name: The Art of War
Persona Name: Take-Minakata
Tier: Tier 1
Cost: 12 SP
Type of Damage: Buff
Description: Take-Minakata, a known patron of war, grants Shouhei prowess in the Art of War. For 3 rounds Physical Skills of Tier 2 or lower scale off of Shouhei’s Dexterity instead of Take-Minakata’s strength stat.