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| “ | My name is Beauty Thief! | „ |
| ~ Haru introducing herself to the Thieves |
Haru Okumura, also known as Noir, is a major character and one of the party members in the Persona 5 sub-series within the Persona series.
She is a third-year student at Shujin Academy and the only daughter of Kunikazu Okumura, the fifth major target of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. She initially joins the group to change her father's corrupt heart, though it's soon revealed that her utmost desire is to get out of her arranged marriage with her abusive fiance. Her initial Persona is Milady and her Ultimate Persona is Astarte.
In the video game series and anime adaptation, she is voiced by Haruka Tomatsu in Japanese and Xanthe Huynh in English. She is also played by Sugahara Riko in the stage play adaptation.
Abilities[]
Haru's stats are balanced similar to Makoto, albeit with an edge in Strength instead. She learns Psi skills, defensive skills, like Tetrakarn and Makarakarn, and is the only one (aside from Joker) that can learn Gun skills. Her Persona is the Empress Arcana's Milady, as in Milady de Winter, a spy and thief in Alexandre Dumas' famous 1844 novel The Three Musketeers. As a Persona, Milady takes an appearance of a living ball gown with a fan and a handheld domino mask for a face. Her dress also hides a multitude of firearms beneath it.
Her Ultimate Persona is Astarte, also known in Abrahamic lore as Ashtoreth and a counterpart to Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. In Sumerian mythology, Astarte is known for stealing from Enki, god of wisdom. Astarte was later demonized in Judeo-Christian traditions into Astaroth, one of the three dukes of Hell. Astarte manifests as a female figure on top of a huge, pink, floral-patterned, three-faced skull in constant rotation.
Her new third-tier ultimate Persona in Royal is Lucy, a representation of Countess Lucy Hay, the 17th century English courtier who is believed to be the real life basis of Milady de Winter. Lucy trades out her dress for an elegant designer coat, a scarf for a head with a pair of sunglasses as her mask.
Personality[]
| “ | Farewell, dear father! I am no longer your subservient puppet! | „ |
| ~ Haru betraying her father after fully awakening to her Persona |
Haru is generally a very shy and reserved girl.
Haru joins the Thieves as the only senior student in the group, she's the daughter of the president of a country-spanned food manufacturer. She's a very soft-spoken person, though elegant in how she converses due to her upbringing in an elite family. She feels chained down by her father, and despises having everything in her life be chosen for her.
Haru has difficulty in telling people who sees her as a "friend" and those who merely wants to use her for her family's status. She calls Makoto "Mako-chan" as she sees her as the first, true friend she's ever had, much to Makoto's appreciation. She initially teams up with Morgana, who has briefly left the Thieves, to help her pursue her father's treasure inside his Palace. She reluctantly turns down the offer to work with the Thieves, due to their internal fighting, and relies instead on Morgana to help her. Eventually, she was able to get Morgana to be honest with the team and tell them how he really feels. As a result of Morgana opening up to the group and apologizing for walking out on them, she tells the group that she will never marry her fiance.
Despite this, Haru is an incredibly kind-hearted girl; she becomes fast friends with all of the Phantom Thieves, and is the only member of the group Ryuji doesn't argue with on a regular basis. She can also be very awkward and has bad acting skills, as shown when she first introduces herself to the others as "Beauty Thief", and forgets parts of the script she had rehearsed with Morgana, to the point of saying "We will take the Treasure." twice in a row, much to Futaba's ire. She also sadistic towards Shadows as evidenced when she says that she gets a shiver of excitement when they plead for their lives or considers finishing cutting down a enemy a thrill. She later explains that she was trying to be a "heroine of justice", having grown up admiring female superheroes she watched on TV when she was younger. She loved them for always fighting to protect others and being happy, desiring to be just like them someday.
Trivia[]
- Haru acts as a contrast to Mitsuru Kirijo. Both have a Persona of the Empress Arcana, come from rich families, are a year older than the protagonist, were put into an arranged marriage and lose their fathers throughout the game. However:
- Mitsuru is very professional, outspoken to the point of brutal honesty and addresses most of the group by their last names. Haru, on the other hand, is very shy, much more friendly and prefers first-name basis with affectionate honorifics.
- Mitsuru discourages silly behavior, while Haru openly embraces it.
- Mitsuru engages in athletic abilities (fencing), while there is no evidence Haru is athletic.
- Mitsuru is scared of horror movies, while Haru loves them.
- Mitsuru eventually takes over her father's company, while Haru realizes she's out of her depth.
- Mitsuru was the first member to join SEES, while Haru is the last (permanent) member to join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
- Mitsuru is extremely loyal to her father and first created SEES to protect him, while Haru opposes her father and joins the Phantom Thieves of Hearts to reform him.
- Mitsuru is resigned to (albeit not perfectly happy) with her marriage, while Haru is desperate to get out of hers.
- Mitsuru's marriage has no relevance to the story, while Haru's the entire reason she joins the Thieves.
- Finally, while both are devastated by the deaths of their fathers, Mitsuru has an existential crisis, believing there's no reason for her to be friends with the rest of SEES anymore and ultimately needs Yukari's help to snap her out of it, while Haru handles her father's death with great maturity, and is glad that she finally has a group of friends to call her own.
- In Persona 5 game opening, when Haru appears with a lollipops bag near to Futaba and Makoto, she appears with a cold and distant expression pretty different in her final version, also in her concept art she even appeared as that, this is due the opening was made when the game was still in development. Considering that it's possible that Haru possibly was going to have a more different personality and even characteristics than her final version.
External links[]
- Haru Okumura on the Megami Tensei Wiki
- Haru Okumura on the Near Pure Good Wiki
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