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EDIT: Wait....hm. I'll have to go review Richard's status. I'll have to remove the multiple Personas somehow. Any suggestions?

As it stands, I'm pretty undecided as to what to do with him.
EDIT 2: Never mind. You can have Fool if you want. I've got a fairly good idea of how to explain it anyway, involving invoking the first two Persona games.

"Well....that's it. We're gone."

((And the disadvantage is that it's useless against characters like Silber or Shasa, who don't use magic, or Richard, who uses something similar but not quite. I did see something similar in Fate Zero, so I wholeheartedly support it anyway.))

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She nods.

((Won't be posting a whole big post until I can be bothered to get up and on my computer; teachers are on strike today so I don't have school.))

The observer vanishes.

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((This thread probably needs a coherent plot. A shame that @Xantalos' one got removed.))

((Most of mine are quite minor anyway... :c))
Yukari wakes up groggily.

isn't anima a god that summons other gods?

she is hardly something that is fair to be used in comparisons

Normal human, who happens to have a lot of gods, by the balls. Had to be an absolute asshole to get it, karma hit her in the face, hence why she's nice now. Oh, and her soul was rendered immortal because nobody wanted to take her for fear of having the gods she DID piss off hunt them down. I'll get to explaining the noodle incident that rendered her soul immortal when I can.


 Or something. Her weakness is that by herself, she's weak. And helpless; not even an energy blast to be used if caught out.

Depends what you mean by strongest player.

Similarly, if you said strongest player;
-Anima is technically in the running for that, due to her wide variety of summons
-Ashley has a one-shot katana
-Samson counters everyone short of Will, Albrecht, Izzy and Dragon!Stella
-Tobias is, well TOBIAS.

How about just limiting personae even more and replacing persona users with summoners who can have one of each (persona, id, stand, asset, Lesser Key of Solomon, meta-entity, etc)? Then reclassify Anima as one, so that one of her summons represents her fiscal future, another her facade, third her desire to [REDACTED] and die (not in any given order), a fourth named after a contemporary rapper/musician/song/band (or establish that there is a contemporary rapper/musician/song/band with the same name as one of her summons), Andras would obviously be the Lesser Key of Solomon summon and designate another as a meta-entity. Thus Kyle's sole summon at present is the Persona Merlin, Yuri's sole summon is the Meta-entity (seeing as it seems to be a reference to something) Emiya and they'd be able to get more.

If it wasn't for the fact that it would ruin the whole concept of Anima in the first place and unbalance the entire thing again, I would.

Also, this game is hardly about balance

I'd say some random perks for people would spice the thing up, make them all a bit more distinct mechanicaly. I doubt it would break out into class wars.

It nearly did anyway. I'm not nerfing Personas, but I AM willing to allow random perks on level up for anyone; granted, magic people would just get pure passives as they have a wider range of ability use than Personas and their skillset.

alternate idea: on level up, grab a perk instead of a stat-up

Then Persona users would be behind in power anyway; eventually it would reach a point where Persona users would pretty much be always weaker than magic users, which isn't how it's supposed to be.

At the moment, it's balanced so Persona users get a random ability, of which the pool is half debuffs/passives/buffs and are slightly more powerful, but fall hard to the things they're weak to and aren't as versatile as a magic user, Anima and certain cripplingly specialized mages notwithstanding.