#vasuki

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Ok, ok, ok, ok. Reminder that you only need to ask me something once, twice after maybe a week or so has gone by--not every day. Please follow some common sense (and netiquette!).

Anyway, I have a feeling the answer to this one won't be all that exciting. Vasuki's design has always looked a bit sinister to me--but not necessarily evil. We need to find out the intent behind him, so to the profiles we go:

They all seem to repeat this same info. Nothing particularly nefarious implied, it's all the standard myth stuff. And yeah, I don't think the "potent venom" is the reason.

So what gives? I think he's Drake (Dark-Chaos, 邪龍, "Wicked Dragon") for two reasons:

First, the other possible "Dragon" (species) races in Devil Summoner were already full:

Snake on left, Dragon in middle, Drake on right. Snake and Dragon sure don't look full , do they? Particularly Dragon. Okay, so "full" is maybe the wrong word, but with race selections you sometimes have to allow for a certain amount of gameplay priority or "balancing." Take that level 70 Vasuki is the highest-level demon of the Drakes, ranking him above Snake's level 67 Ouroboros but below Dragon's 78 Zhu Yin. Also, all three of these demons were new for Devil Summoner. One Light (Zhu Yin), one Neutral (Ouroboros), one Dark (Vasuki). Balance! And it's hard to argue against Ouroboros and Zhu Yin being where they are. This left Vasuki to fill the Drake slot.

And now the second reason (which I think may be more of a stretch):

Shiva is one of the series' most archetypal Chaos demons (and probably the best representative of Light-Chaos). So would it be proper for his neck-snake to be of a Light or Neutral race? Probably not! So why not Dragon, then? Yeah, that's where I gotta just 🤷‍♂️ Guess they just had to have Zhu Yin in there.

Round 2 matchup 23

Propaganda for Cappucceetle:

"Also answers to Joey Quickbeans."

Propaganda for Vasuki:

"It's a two headed snake, how is that not awesome. It's also very good at spreading poison."

More info under the cut

Looks like Trumpeter (Surrender/Almighty) is being added as a Persona, with players being able to earn him through participating in the event promoting the new part of the story! Vasuki (Surrender/Gun) is also being added, but not as part of this event, just generally

The new summer event is stated to arrive in Version 4.3.1, finally giving us a number for that version, and will also include a new rerun banner

The new Tycoon cards' names: Bui: "Virtual Player" ♦ 9, Riddle: "Adventure Fairy Tale" ♦ 10, Igor: "Lord of the Narrow Space" ♠ 2 - Note that I have no idea how accurate "Narrow Space" is as a translation; given Google Translate often translates the Chinese name for Mementos as "the Impression Space", this may just be a mistranslation of a common Persona term? The card's name in Chinese is 狭间之主, if anyone can help translate that more accurately.