Name: Izabel “Iza” Hamamura de Salles
Appearance: Slightly below average height with a toned, pear-shaped build. Medium brown skin, hazel colored eyes. She has a belly button piercing and a healed gunshot wound on her left shoulder.
Personality: It can be hard to approach and converse with how blunt she can be. She is always seen as mysterious and intimidating to people.Doesn’t like to get too involved with drama and tends to have an ‘every man for themselves’ type of attitude. Very loyal to her family. As time passes, she learns to rely on others, especially her fellow Phantom Thieves. After getting to know her, she becomes more laidback and a troll. Cares more than she lets on, as she is incredibly loyal and will worry if someone she cares for is in danger. Will offhandedly shows her concern as not to make a big deal about it. She is resourceful, hardworking, and likes to use the environment to her advantage.
She is the middle child, with an older and younger brother
Represents the Death Arcana
Her Persona is Maman Brigitte, the Voodoo spirit of life and death
Not a fan of the police force, believing that the majority of them are greedy and eager to accept bribes.
Her Kosei uniform includes knee pads, bike shorts, earbuds around her neck, and unique white high-tops with detachable wheels.
Has a love for music, dancing, and rollerblading
She likes to compose music and creates mixes in her spare time.
She comes from a large family of performers.
She was a dancer and singer in her family, performing her brother’s songs.
When she was younger, she secretly wanted to be an idol but grew insecure because she didn’t fit the mold of Japanese idols.
Used to pickpocket with her older brother when she was younger to help support her family.
She is insecure about her body(specifically her butt) because her peers comment on how “plastic and fake” she looks.
After unlocking her persona, Iza becomes more outspoken and outgoing.
In the Metaverse, she becomes more expressive and flashy.
She hopes to gain notoriety as a performer to earn money for her family, and help raise awareness for other struggling communities.
Her melee weapon is a staff
Her long-range weapon is a collection of large fireworks
Has her bellybutton pierced
Has a healed gunshot wound on her left shoulder
Carries around a Swiss army knife with her at all times(a keepsake from her brother).
To her, rebellion is not caring about society’s norms and letting yourself be wild and express yourself freely.
She tends to keep to herself when she’s in school.
Protag cannot romance this character when loyalty is maxed out, but is able to set her up with Sakamoto
School/Job: Second year at Kosei high school. Internship at Starcorp composing songs and dancing
Backstory: The story is that the son of Starcorp's CEO Mizuki Komura once managed her older brother Matteo since he was a global figure as a DJ and Freedom Fighter. One peace rally/concert he held ended with police shooting up the event. Matteo was shot and fatally wounded, and Izabel was shot in the shoulder, which is where her gun wound came from. A couple of weeks later, Mizuki 'offered' to take Izabel on as a client in Japan since her brother was in a coma and even offered to pay for Matteo's medical bills and offer him top of the line care. This was a generous offer to the public to a grieving, broken family. But under the surface, this was just a plot for Mizuki to blackmail Izabel into performing and composing under him, or else he'd pull the plug on Matteo and go after her artistically gifted younger brother Nico.The same man put her mother in a mental institution after making it seem like she was unfit to raise children because of her supposed practice of witchcraft and her fragile mental state.
When she agreed, he flew her to Tokyo, where he could keep his eye on her, and in a desperate act to keep her remaining family safe, Izabel cut off contact with her family, mainly her younger brother. Izabel made Mizuki agree that she would only dance and compose music but never sing since her passion to sing went away when her brother was hospitalized. So, after a year of this, she still conforms to Mizuki's will and molds herself to his image, unable to truly perform like she used to. All for the sake of her remaining family. Little does she know that Mizuki was the one who set up the police shooting, claiming that he didn't necessarily plan on putting him into a coma and only wanted to give Matteo a flesh wound as a reminder to stay in line since he'd been acting out and inspiring rebellion with his rallies. Mizuki Komura does these things to move up the company's ladder and prove to his father that he can be the successor to Starcorp and not his younger, more talented sister.
Sorry for taking a while to get to this. I don't log on here a whole lot. Here we go.
Here are some things I'd like to point out:
Izabel's name is great (I have an aunt with that name). Matteo is a name more common in Spanish speaking countries. The variation you'd find the most here would be either Mateus or Matheus. Equally, though it became very popular with Brazilian transmasc kids, Nico is not a very common name, Nicolas being the closest thing to it (Nico being a cool nickname, especially if they live abroad).
The fact that her story involves so much gun violence, police brutality and bribery makes me a bit iffy. This is a reality we face daily, but you have not lived this reality. Don't be mad, but to me it just sounds disingenuous, especially considering she doesn't have a lot of other strong brazilian traits going for her.
Please get rid of the pickpocketing to help her family. Falls into the same category. Especially because Brazil doesn't have pickpockets like Europe does. Our crime is different, but it's hard to explain unless you've experienced it.
Maman Brigitte is a haitian figure. In Brazil, we do not practice Voodoo. We have religions like Umbanda and Candomblé, which were also based on African belief systems and perform rituals that some might consider akin to magic, like Macumba. I'm not sure how much the Persona has to do with her heritage or how much it would affect her, so I just thought I'd point that out.
Healthcare in Brazil is universal and free of charge, given out by the government. Since her brother is a singer, it would be safe to assume he could also have had a good private health plan, which would then cost money, but even if she couldn't afford it, she would still always get the option of transferring him to a public hospital. They are not always great and there can be longer wait times than some people can wait for certain things, so that could still be encouragement for her to take the deal.
Since 2003, the country has been making an effort to close down mental institutions and since 2023, the remaining mental institutions are no longer allowed to take new patients. Instead, there is a focus on an interdisciplinary care system that focuses on maintaining bonds between families as a way to care for the people (though sometimes they will take people in to live there). The system is called SUAS and these small institutions are called CAPS. They are state-run and not private.
Brazil is a secular state, which means it has no official religion and people are free to follow and religion. Therefore, practicing witchcraft would not get someone's kids taken away. Only if it had been proven (again, by state agents) that the children were being mistreated (which didn't look like they were).
Both of the previous points, of course, could be thwarted by just using money to bribe the people who work these jobs. But, again, though this is a reality and money does buy your way into a lot of things that it wasn't supposed to down here, it doesn't happen more or less than any other country in the world. We like to say "Brasil não é bagunça", Brazil is not a mess. We have systems in place.
Teens under 18 need parent authorization to get pierced (don't know if that'll be an issue with her parents/brother/guardians).
Brazilian is not a race, it's a nationality! Brazil is a country that houses many different races.
Might be a good idea to figure out which part of Brazil she is from. If she's from Rio, Bahia, the Northeast, her appearance makes sense. If she's from the southern/southeast region (São Paulo, Paraná), where there is a lot of Japanese immigration, greater chances of her being half-white.
It would be natural for her to be insecure about her body just by being in Japan and being different than most people. So there is no need for people to comment on the Brazilian character's ass.
Overall, she does seem very stereotyped and some of her plot points are just misguided. I understand this is not the main character, but I do suggest some more research before releasing her into the wild.
Hope I helped at least a bit and if you have any doubts, I'd be happy to adress them.
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