Persona Timeline Pt. 3: 1999-2008
This one will cover Persona 2, so be aware of the timeline split! Almost all the Persona 3 backstory happens in this one too.
1999
? ??
- Eikichi awoke to his Persona, believing it to be a shinigami (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
February ??
- Aigis was manufactured (Game: Persona 3).
March ??
- Reiko graduated from Karukozaka High School.
- Tamaki and Tadashi graduated from St. Hermelin High School, at some point beginning to date.
April ??
- Chikarin began to attend Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
? ??
- A depressed Anna began to skip school (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Tamaki and Tadashi began to work at the Kuzunoha Detective Agency, the former also as a Devil Summoner (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).
- Jun began to call himself "Joker" and grant wishes to anyone who played the Joker game. Then he founded the Masked Circle (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Sudou joined the Masked Circle as King Leo (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Tadashi ran away after being threatened by assassins (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- Junko wished for eternal youth and joined the Masked Circle as Queen Aquarius (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Sasaki wished to become a successful producer and joined the Masked Circle as Prince Taurus (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Anna was told of the Joker game by Shimazaki (Novel: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Anna dropped out of school entirely to become the last executive of the Masked Circle as Lady Scorpio (Novel: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Kozy and Michel began dating (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). ⚪️
April 20
- Unit #031 / Labrys was activated (Game: Persona 4 Arena).
Before May
- Labrys tried to escape Yakushima Island, but was deactivated (Game: Persona 4 Arena).
May ??
- Aigis was first activated (Game: Aegis: The First Mission).
- Yuu Kimijima tried to make Aigis more human by force, but died in a shadow attack and Aigis' memories were erased (Game: Aegis: The First Mission).
Between May and August
- Lisa and Tatsuya awakened to their Personas and, along with Michel, met Philemon (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Tatsuya, Lisa, and Michel met Joker, who decided to kill them only after they'd remembered their sins (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Yukki and Maya, who were investigating the rumors about Joker for Coolest, joined Tatsuya's team (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Yukki contacted Elly to help them decipher the Oracle of Maia (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Prince Taurus used rumors to create the group MUSES to help fulfill the Oracle of Maia (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Sasaki created the idol group MUSES (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️
- King Leo died in the blimp of the Aerospace Museum (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Nate returned to Japan to investigate with Elly rumors of someone looking like Kandori in Sumaru (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Yukki confronted her Shadow and became friends with Anna (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Prince Taurus was hit by one of the laser traps in Xibalba and died (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Tatsuya's team defeated Angel Joker and saved Jun. Yukki chose to transfer her Persona ability to Jun (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Maki, Nate, Yukki, Anna, Brown, Elly, and Reiji fought to repel the invasion of the Last Battalion (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Okamura killed Maya with the Spear of Destiny, completing the Oracle of Maia and kickstarting the apocalypse (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
- Philemon decided to reset the timeline in exchange for Tatsuya, Jun, Lisa, and Michel's memories of meeting each other (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠
🟠T̴̞̈I̵̧͘M̶̰̐É̴̲L̸̹̊I̶̥͛N̶̼̂Ĕ̴̜ ̷̹̾R̴̤͝Ȩ̴̔S̵̼̈É̴͓T̷̜͠🟠
- Tatsuya met Maya again and regained his memories of the Other Side, but went to sleep inside the body of This Tatsuya for the moment.
July 3
- Ryuji Sakamoto was born (Game: Persona 5).
Between August and October
- Tatsuya began to skip class with Anna (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
September 10
- Aigis was activated once more (Game: Persona 4).
October ??
- Sudou was freed from the Sanitarium by Nyarlathotep and revealed the truth about the Other Side. Sudou then became JOKER, a contract killer (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Kandori was brought back to life by the New World Order to build the Joker Separation Machine (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
October 13
- Other Tatsuya took over the body of This Tatsuya with the mission to atone for the sin of remembering the Other Side (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Nyarlathotep gave Other Tatsuya a brand on his arm with which he gives him mental inducements (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Shiori called JOKER to call a hit on herself to arrest him (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Other Tatsuya saved Shiori from JOKER and went to live with her for the time being (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Ulala drunk dialed JOKER on Maya (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- While pursuing rumors about JOKER, Maya, Katsuya, and Ulala awoke to their Personas (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Baofu joined Maya's team to seek revenge for Miki (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
November 2
- Shiori told Katsuya and Tatsuya's father about Personas and everything else to make him withdraw the missing person's report (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- JOKER lost his eye again and Other Tatsuya killed him (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Ishigami used rumors to infect those who called JOKER with the JOKER Curse (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Shiori disappeared (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
November 4
- Nate returned to Japan to investigate the New World Order with Elly (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Tatsuya entrusted a demonized Shiori to Igor, who gave Tatsuya instructions on how to save him and introduced him to Persona User Swami Chandraputra / Randolph Carter (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Other Tatsuya joined Maya's team (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
November ??
- Kandori was defeated and chose to die with Ishigami (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Chandraputra led Maya's team to Kadath Mandala to save Shiori's psyche, who was later possessed by Nyarlathotep to kill Maya and make Tatsuya become Takuya (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Maya's team managed to save Shiori (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Maki, Nate, Yukki, Brown, Elly, and Reiji fought to repel the invasion of the New World Order (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Maya's team defeated Nyarlathotep (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Philemon won his motherfucking bet against Nyarlathotep, and Other Tatsuya returned to his timeline, leaving the body of This Tatsuya be (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Baofu became a man-searcher with Ulala (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
November 12
- Ann Takamaki was born (Game: Persona 5).
? ??
- Mitsuru learned of the existence of Aigis (Game: Persona 3).
- Eiichiro prevented the Kirijo Group from finishing the creation of Death, separating it into 13 parts (Game: Persona 3).
- Death's separation caused an explosion that created the Dark Hour. Kouetsu and Eiichiro died with most scientists in the facility (Game: Persona 3).
- Aigis sealed Death inside Minato, and since he moved out of Tatsumi Port Island, the other parts of Death became dormant. Death took the form of Pharos (Game: Persona 3).
- Reiji married his girlfriend (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Takashi Kido, Maiko Oohashi, Akira Kurusu (P5MC), and Shiho Suzui were born (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment / Game: Persona 3 / Game: Persona 5).
- The Kirijo Group began the construction of the new Gekkoukan High School on top of the remains of the old labs (Game: Persona 3).
BETWEEN 1999 AND 2001
March ??
- Shimazaki graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
? ??
- Hifumi Togo was born.
BETWEEN 1999 AND 2003
? ??
- The Kirijo Group began to experiment with artificial Personas.
- While accompanying her father to Tartarus, Mitsuru awoke to her Persona (Game: Persona 3 FES).
BETWEEN 1999 AND 2009
? ??
- Lisa's younger sister was born (Game: Persona 3).
- The Kirijo Group rounded up 100 children and began to experiment on them with artificial Personas. Only three children; Takaya Sakaki, Jin Shirato, and Chidori Yoshino; would survive (Game: Persona 3).
- Ikutsuki took one of the test subjects named Sho Minazuki for a separate project to create the ideal soldier, isolating him to emotionally manipulate him (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).
- Sho was implanted with a Plume of Dusk, which gave him a second personality named Minazuki that developed a Persona aside from Sho's (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).
2000
January 28
- Yusuke Kitagawa was born (Game: Persona 5).
March ??
- Tatsuya and Anna graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
- Jun graduated from Kasugayama High School.
June 25
- Yoshida lost his second elections.
- Owada won his fifth term as a legislator.
? ??
- Tatsuya became a police officer (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- Jun became a teacher (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).
- The orphanage were Akihiko, Miki, and Shinjiro lived burned down. Miki died in the incident (Game: Persona 3).
- Akihiko was adopted by a rich family (Book: Persona 3 Official Design Works).
- Yuuki Mishima was born.
BETWEEN 2000 AND 2009
? ??
- Maki became a therapist (Game: Persona 3).
2001
February 19
- Futaba Isshiki / Futaba Sakura was born (Game: Persona 5).
March ??
- Lisa, Sheba, Mee-ho, and Kozy graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
- Michel and Sugimoto graduated from Kasugayama High School.
March 25
- Kasumi and Sumire Yoshizawa were born (Game: Persona 5 Royal).
? ??
- Michel became both a sushi chef and band leader (Game: Persona 3).
BETWEEN 2001 AND 2002
March ??
- Noriko graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
2002
March ??
- Chikarin graduated from Seven Sisters High School.
? ??
- Adachi enrolled in the police force only to be able to carry a weapon (Game: Persona 4).
BETWEEN 2002 AND 2003
? ??
- Akane Hasegawa was born.
2003
November 9
- Yoshida lost his third elections.
- Owada won his sixth term as a legislator.
? ??
- Yusuke's mother died and he passed to be in Ichiryusai Madarame's custody (Game: Persona 5).
- Madarame stole the "Sayuri" painting from Yusuke's mother, passing it off as his masterpiece. This became the first of his plagiarism crimes (Game: Persona 5).
BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006
? ??
- Mitsuru recruited Akihiko, and later Shinjiro, to the newly-formed Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad / SEES (Game: Persona 3 FES).
2004
October 4
- Nanako Dojima was born (Game: Persona 4).
? ??
- Mamoru'a father died when he drove off a cliff (Game: Persona 3).
- Nozomi's twin died of food poisoning (Game: Persona 3).
2005
September 11
- Yoshida lost his fourth elections.
- Owada won his seventh term as a legislator.
BETWEEN 2005 AND 2003
? ??
- Shinya Oda was born.
2006
April ??
- Junpei transferred to the junior high school section of Gekkoukan (Game: Persona 3).
BETWEEN 2006 AND 2008
? ??
- Daisuke's girlfriend broke up with him in a humiliating way (Game: Persona 4).
- Yuuta Minami was born (Game: Persona 4).
BEFORE 2007
? ??
- Takaya, Jin, and Chidori escaped from the Kirijo Group and took Evokers and a great number of Persona suppressants with them (Game: Persona 3).
- Takaya, Jin, and Chidori founded Strega.
- The Kirijo Group let Strega be, and even began to sell them the Persona suppressants that they needed.
2007
April 8
- Mitsuru, Akihiko, Shinjiro, Nozomi, Keisuke, and Mamoru began to attend Gekkoukan High School (Game: Persona 3).
October 4
- Shinjiro accidentally killed Ken's mother when his Persona went berserk. He left SEES soon after (Game: Persona 3).
- Ken began to frequent Baofu's website to find his mother's killer (Book: Persona 3 Portable Club).
? ??
- Kanami developed Acute Stress Disorder after witnessing her idol, Yuko Osada, commit suicide in front of her (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).
- Kanami kept Yuko's diary and hid it to preserve the image of her idol (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).
BETWEEN 2007 AND 2009
? ??
- Chisato Dojima died in a hit and run (Game: Persona 4).
2008
April 8
- Yukari, Fuuka, Kenji, Junpei, Rio, Yuko, and Natsuki began to attend Gekkoukan High School (Game: Persona 3).
April ??
- Minato and Bebe began to attend unnamed high schools.
BETWEEN 2008 AND 2009
April 8
- Hidetoshi and Kazushi began to attend Gekkoukan High School (Game: Persona 3).
BEFORE 2009
? ??
- Lisa left the idol industry to become a fitness hostess, also giving Cantonese lessons on the side (Game: Persona 3).
- Akinari was diagnosed with a terminal genetic lung disease (Game: Persona 3).
- The Demon Painter left the Velvet Room.
- Hidetoshi's father was made into a scapegoat and sent to jail for perjury (Game: Persona 3).
- Nozomi joined a cult (Game: Persona 3).
- Kanji's father passed away, his last words being that if he was a man, he had to become strong (Game: Persona 4).
- A relative of Rise's submitted her application to an idol competition, which she won (Game: Persona 4).
- Minazuki tried to kill Ikutsuki for his abuse and manipulation of Sho, but failed (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).
- Ikutsuki tried to erase Minazuki while keeping Sho's multiple Personas, but failed. Sho was put on life support and hidden in Inaba (Game: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax).
8 notes
·
View notes