Name; Masateru Shine [Shine is the first name]<br/>Gender; Male<br/>Sexuality; Straight<br/>Age; 20<br/>Appearance;<br/>Eye Color; Brown<br/>Hair Color/Style; Brown, shoulder length, blond highlights<br/>Tattoos, scars, or other distinguishing marks; Missing his left eye due to a childhood accident; wears an eye-patch instead, which has a stylized Third Eye symbol on it, in gold thread.<br/>Student or teacher? N/A<br/>Teacher of/Student of? N/A<br/>Job?  Fortune Teller<br/>Job position/title if you have one; N/A<br/>Arcana Choice; Hanged Man<br/>Summon Persona Preference;  Other<br/>Other Means; Shine's persona-summoning ability is handicapped (which may eventually be fixed), in that he has to be physically injured (by himself, or another) for the Persona to manifest. He must do this because his belief is such that one can not gain power without making sacrifice; that for everything you gain in life, you in turn, must lose something.  It is because he feels this way that he can not just will his Persona into appearance; he must make a sacrifice of himself to it.<br/>Persona Name; Beliza<br/>Persona Appearance; Beliza appears as a pale, raven-haired, voluptuous woman adorned in a black and red outfit that has a variety of small, glittering crystals sewn into it. She carries a dozen trinkets in the form of pendant, earrings (6), anklets, wristbands, and a diadem; each of these 'trinkets' is marked with a rune, sigil, hieroglyph, or other symbol that has a meaning related to divination.<br/>Powers and abilities; Beliza is capable of making a multitude of physical attacks, as well as charm based attacks. She shares her supernaturally fast healing with her master (think: Spring of Life), but above all of this is her ability to discern hidden and forbidden lore, as well as to reach out telepathically (much like Fuka's Persona in P3) to others. She is immune, and shares this immunity with her master, to mind-influencing effects (such as confusion, charm, etc.), while being weak to the elements of fire and light. She voids the element of darkness with infernal knowledge.<br/>Persona Lore/History; Beliza is something of a glamorized movie vampire. Hundreds of years old, while still appearing quite youthful; sexual, predatory, and dominant. She is protective and nurturing in her own way, however. Her make-up is based partly on the Leanan Sidhe, which is known to seduce artists, and steal away their life, while driving them to even higher levels of artistic mastery.  In Beliza's case, one could safely replace 'art' with 'divination'. It should be noted that Beliza has appeared many times, in Shine's dreams, to the man, even before she manifested as a Persona. She is, in some ways, a muse, and spiritual guide.<br/>Weapon of Choice;; Throwing knives/pocket knife<br/>Skills; Divination (genuine power, not 'cold reading'), cooking, speaks English and Latin fluently, well versed in esoteric lore.<br/>Hobbies; Cooking, studying (Eastern European history, means of divination).<br/>Likes; Being right, peace, quiet, cats.<br/>Dislikes; Being wrong, disruptions, passionate non-believers; Those who ask for, and then fail to take seriously, his divinations.<br/>Quirks;<br/>Ons; Bondage, sexual domination.<br/>Offs; See O/O<br/>Personality;  Shine is a stout stoic, and quiet loner. Because he was injured in a car accident and lost his eye at a young age, he has suffered bullying and teasing at the hands of his peers. This has, in turn, driven him away from social interaction. However, he is able to put on a friendly face and demeanor when he interacts with his customers.<br/>Personal History; Not a native to Inaba, Shine actually was born in the city of Sapporo. His mother was a Geisha, and his father owned a modestly successful ramen shop. A small Buddhist shrine in the area is where he usually spent his days, when not in school; other children were brought there by their parents to play someplace relatively safe.  This choice in playgrounds would have serious, unforeseeable consequences, however.<br/><br/>One day, while playing, their was a large, high speed collision by the shrine.  Metal chunks went flying everywhere, and Shine was close to the road at the time. A piece of shrapnel ended up flying right by his face, and, because of how he was positioned, damaged his left eye. Screams of pure, unadulterated pain and terror were enough to summon an adult, who was able to call emergency services and get people out there... however, the damage done to his eye was too severe. It ended up needing to be removed.<br/><br/>Recovering in the hospital from this accident, and learning how to see and do just about anything with the lack of peripheral vision and depth perception was a trying experience. What care free youth and innocence he had died on the day of his injury, and a quiet bitterness settled in.<br/><br/>The other children never understood what really happened; most probably didn't care to. All they knew was that Shine was different, and he was a loser with one eye. Their cutting jabs and remarks caused the boy to distance himself from social interaction, and instead saw him develop two obsessions. The first, like many kids, was one with video games (and he often times still carries his PlayStation Portable wherever he goes).<br/><br/>His second interest was spawned from the first. Oracles, prophecies, prophets, fortune telling... all of these things showed up in his favorite RPGs, and curiosity and free time drove him to research them.  Around the time he was fourteen, he was still sort of experimenting and playing around with Tarot cards, but had actually gotten eerily quite good at it.<br/><br/>Around the time he began studying other forms of divination (specifically, Runes), he performed a small ritual (similar to the Persona game) in order to create a spirit guide to help him as he continued down the path of divine enlightenment.<br/><br/>A strange, pale woman, began showing up in his dreams. Always looking the same, always feeling the same, always with this strange surrealness to her. He surely thought that that must be it, much to his own surprise. He could barely remember what happened in his dreams, though some times random thoughts and feelings stuck with him.<br/><br/>As life carried on and he graduated from high-school, he decided to say to hell with the typical act of going to cram school and fighting to get into a college. To hell with becoming a businessman or something like that; he knew what he wanted to do in life. He also wanted a change of scenery.<br/><br/>The fact he went to Inaba may be divine providence, or mere coincidence, but the place had a strange appeal to him. He showed up about one year ago, after a vision he had, and which he can only remember in snippets. With money borrowed from his father, he set up a fortune telling parlor in the newly expanded shopping district.<br/><br/>His clientele is pretty far ranging, but usually seems to include middle-aged house wives wanting reassurances (and not always getting them), or by kids who just think it's kind of cool (and usually end up shocked when his predictions turn out right). Most people in Inaba know about the "One-eyed Seer".<br/><br/>Dungeon Theme/Creatures that inhabit it; A hospital, a place that still frightens Shine and where he spent much time after the traumatic loss of his eye. The hospital has a noticeable tilt to it, making it moderately more difficult to fight and move through; vision here is distorted and lessened due to how dark it is, representations of how difficult it was for Shine to learn how to function with only one eye.<br/>Monsters:<br/>Ocular Phantoms: Literal, basket-ball sized, floating eye-balls. They use a lot of magic, null most magic, and are weak to physical attacks. Spawned from his obsession with the lost eye.<br/>Blind Surgeon: Strikes out with surgeon's tools, dealing slashing/stabbing damage. No magical talent, weaknesses, or strength. Lab coat is covered in blood splatters, and there is gauze bandaging wrapped around both eyes, soaked with blood. Spawned from his fear of surgeons.<br/>Nurse: Women in a nurse's outfit, they have featureless faces, appearing much like the nurses from Silent Hill. They know one spell (Dia), and attack with Bashing damage punches. Spawned by his hatred of the nurses, and their boundless optimism.<br/>Table Poltergeist: What appears to be a table that is animated and attacks with Bashing damage hits. Spawned by all the times he crashed into a table while trying to figure out how to walk after his injury.