Narukami, Yuu

鳴上悠 / 瀬多総司

The player names the Protagonist in the video game, while the manga adaptation calls him Souji Seta and the anime names him Yuu Narukami.
He has silver hair styled in a near bowl cut. He is portrayed as a distant yet generally friendly loner, holding a pessimistic view of life because his parents' shifting careers forced him to move often.
At the start of the game, he relocates to the countryside to stay with his uncle and cousin for a year, enrolling in Yasogami High School where he shares a homeroom with Chie, Yosuke, and Yukiko.
The Persona 4 narrative kicks off when the Protagonist encounters Igor and Margaret in the Velvet Room, which appears as a limousine driving through thick fog; the room's appearance shifts depending on its visitor.
His initial Persona, Izanagi of the Fool Arcana, wears a long coat reminiscent of a Japanese bancho and wields the Amenonuhoko, depicted in-game as a spear with a blade like a combat knife. This Persona later evolves into Izanagi-no-Okami of the World Arcana, the game's most powerful Persona.
The Protagonist possesses a unique "wild card" ability to swap Personas, akin to the protagonists of earlier Persona titles, but lacking the power of Death, he cannot use Fusion spells as the Persona 3 Protagonist could.
Characters in the story address the Protagonist with titles such as "senpai", "sensei", "leader", "partner", and "big bro" rather than using "you" or "him" as they did with his predecessors.
The Protagonist's character design remained relatively consistent from its initial concept, with his tone and expressions undergoing the most significant changes.

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