Affably Evil: He is by no means evil, but even as the Phantom Thieves oppose him he doesnt hold anything against them and repeatedly tries to get them to accept his new reality.He does it once more when Joker saves him from his suicide, begging him to let him go. Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As a part of his Reverse Councillor Tarot motif, he's shown to constantly try and 'reach an understanding' and keeps asking you not to destroy his dream world for the sake of everyone's happiness, to the point he's begging during the first phase of his fight not to do it.

This one sounds rather cultish for example. His treasure is a golden torch with chains on it, and its true form is the newsletter about the murder of Rumi's family.Īkechi: The language of a Shadow is a hint into its Ruler's ideology. It first appears on top of the Odaiba construction site at the start of October, and is based on the real laboratory Maruki had planned to open before his funds were embargoed and his research stolen by Shido. His Palace is a massive, towering laboratory made out of glass and gold, filled with cognitive patients in white who are slowly being brainwashed into believing they're experiencing true happiness, before experiencing true bliss in a model of the biblical Garden of Eden. To this end, he takes advantage of the Phantom Thieves' personal wishes to create a new, idealized reality in which all of their dreams can come true. While devastated, this only emboldened Maruki's desire to better understand the cognitive world, and he later opened a clinic where he subconsciously used his powers to help alleviate Sumire Yoshizawa from her suffering, who he brainwashed into believing was her recently deceased sister Kasumi.ĭuring the Day of Reckoning, Yaldabaoth's merging of Mementos with reality causes Maruki to manifest his Persona which gives him the power to make his deluded belief that he must 'save' all of humanity from suffering of any kind come to fruition. It worked, but at the cost of her forgetting their relationship. After his girlfriend Rumi fell into catatonia following a break-in that resulted in the deaths of her parents, Maruki awakened to a Persona with the power to alter cognition, which he used to save Rumi by rewriting her memories. The creator of the 'dream world' the Phantom Thieves suddenly find themselves in during winter term. Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (JP), Billy Kametz (EN)

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