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Personality

Yukari is one of the most popular girls at school thanks to her looks and extrovert personality, which made her have lots of admirers. Despite this, she doesn't have any close friends since she is scared of forming close relationships and prefers to maintain everyone at an arm's length. Still, she is often seen outside during the day with her school friends, and later on she starts hanging out more often with her dormmates too, forming close friendships with Makoto, Kotone, Mitsuru and Fuuka. Once Yukari is close to someone she is pretty playful and teases her friends at times.
Since she speaks what is on her mind and is cold towards new people due to her fear of attachment she may appear a bit intimidating at first, but in reality she is actually very kind, especially to those around her, thinking often about the SEES' members well-being and trying to cheer them up and worrying about Mitsuru and Akihiko forcing (to her point of view) others to join SEES prematurely. She also one of the residents who looks after Ken the most.
During school, she practises archery. She also has a strong sense of fashion and likes shopping; sometimes she can be seen reading a fashion magazine in the dorms at night, took Kotone shopping to buy matching chokers (P3P) and asked to pick up outfits for Aigis (P3D)
Yukari is very determined, having no problems going to the back alley to find out what happened with Fuuka and being the first one in the group to firmly decide she wanted to fight Nyx.
She has a crush on Makoto, which made her a bit bitter towards Aigis at first. Makoto is also the only male character she is close to (she hangs around with Junpei too, but aren't exactly friends, even if they care about each other)
Fun facts: She's scared of ghosts, her favourite flowers are gerberas, her panties are pastel pink, she reads (and maybe writes?) fanfiction.

Her arcana

Yukari's major arcana is The Lovers.. As a small overview, while upright, The Lovers represents union (with oneself and others), how relationships evolve, harmony, choices and values. While reversed, it represents inner conflict, betrayal and disillusionment.
  • Ruling planet: Mercury
  • Element: Air
  • Zodiac sign: Gemini
  • Animal: Magpie
Just as the major arcana tell the story of The Fool, both of The Lovers' positions (upright/reversed) also tell Yukari's evolution throughout the game; and out of all The Lovers characters in Persona, I think Yukari is the one who plays it the best.

"Finding someone to care for, and loving them with everything I've got..."
During The Journey her The Lovers upright is very present. This card represents the need to be open and honest to create meaningful connections, trust, the choice of how you connect with others and what you stand for.
Yukari's character mostly revolves around her relationships: the one with her father and his death, the strained connection with her mother, her difficulty to trust Mitsuru, her fear of getting close to others... And despite all her problems connecting to people, a meaningful relationship is one of the things she yearns the most for, specially shown during her social links ("Maybe I just wanted someone to take special care of me for once")
Honestly is also very important to her, not being able to connect with Mitsuru until they both completely opened up to each other (Yukari was untrustful of her at first, accentuated after she found out Mitsuru was kind of hiding ), and apologising to the MC first thing during her social link. These two relationships are what helped her the most to learn how to trust others and being more open.
The choice of what you stand for & the self-reflecting duality of The Lovers is present throughout all the game: her resolve to stay on SEES, to move on from the MC's death, to reconcile with her mother.... Her ability to know what she stands for also shows in how she is usually the quickest person to decide during important choices (to kill ryoji or not, to go back in time or not...)

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Her reversed The Lovers specially shines during The Answer. When this card shows up in readings it usually means the person is facing a choice with important consequences, that they might be avoiding responsibility for their actions, lack of communication and disharmony with others and oneself; textbook description of what she was going through during The Answer.
Despite the friends and relationships she was able to form during The Journey , it was the loss of bond what made her cut with all the people she held dear and distance herself once again (but this time around, in a more aggressive manner). Her desire to maintain this bond made her strain all her other relationships, be out of sync with her environment and make decisions without thinking about her values or consequences, just trying to recover what she had lost.
This card can also tell that you need to move on from certain relationships, and learn from your mistakes; which is what she had to do in order to stop Erebus.
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On another note, The Lovers' element is Wind, which coincides with all the offensive attacks she learns in battle (Garu, wind-based attacks), and even thought this is most likely a coincidence, its animal are magpies and Yukari ended up being the lead actress of a bird-themed superhero show (she's an argus instead of a magpie thought).

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