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The Strega are the secondary antagonists of the Persona 3 sub-series within the Persona series.
They are an evil nihilistic team who operate during the Dark Hour, bringing people out of their coffins before killing them and serves as the arch-enemies of S.E.E.S, as well as their dark foils.
Biography[]
Strega is a team of three renegade Persona Users who use the Dark Hour phenomenon for their own personal benefits. They set up and operate an internet website called "Revenge Request" where users can contract Strega to commit all sorts of illegal activities (ranging from thefts to assassinations), which the three carry out during the Dark Hour as they remove the protection of the coffins and allowing them to do whatever they want with their victims.
Past[]
The members of Strega are artificial Persona users created by the Kirijo Group (before Mitsuru's takeover). They were one day picked up off the street while minding their own business and used as guinea pigs for the corporation's experiments. Because their Personas were not awakened naturally, they must take suppressants supplied by a SEES agent named Shuji Ikutsuki. The drugs kept their Personas from killing them, but have lethal side-effects: out of the original hundred kids selected by Kirijo Group for Persona experiment, only Strega survived.
Present[]
In their first encounter with the SEES members, they attempted to learn of their goals. Finding out that SEES aimed to rid the Dark Hour from the reality, the two groups became enemies. For the remainder of the game, the two groups would clash from time and again. In one particular encounter, SEES managed to capture Chidori, Strega's data gatherer (SEES possesses its own data gatherer named Fuuka), thereby weakening the team in the process. Takaya would later set up a plot in an attempt to turn SEES agents against each other. Takaya attempted to manipulate Ken Amada, one of SEES agent, into killing Shinjiro Aragaki. But when this failed, Takaya instead just attempted to shoot Ken, only for Shinjiro to jump in the way of the bullet. Takaya and Jin ultimately made a stand to prevent SEES from eliminating Dark Hour only to be defeated. Rather than accepting life without the Dark Hour, the two jumped off the bridge they battled on, seemingly committing suicide... Or did they?
A month later Takaya and Jin would appear again, alive. The two appear before a hospitalized Chidori. They convinced her to rejoin them, turning her against SEES. When Junpei Iori, a SEES agent who managed to convince Chidori not to walk down that same path, Takaya shot him, killing him in the process. Chidori would then sacrifice her life in exchange for his. Angered by this act, Takaya and Jin fled.
Note: The confrontation took a disastrous turn in manga adaptation because the enraged Junpei unleashed his ultimate Persona — Trismegistus — transmogrified from his Hermes form in courtesy of Chidori's loving sacrifice and some of her own Persona Medea's powers upon Takaya and Jin. Not only Takaya was nearly scorched to the death by Trismegistus' fire-based spells, but also Jin's Persona, Moros, easily subdued by their opponent's Ultimate Persona. The reason they managed to escape was the intervention from Minato who calmed Junpei down and Yukari healed Takaya's injuries.
Last Stand[]
Near the end of the game, the two started a cult for those who wished for Nyx's arrival into human world. The two would make a last stand in the final mission, both are defeated, with Jin dying in the process. Takaya is last seen lying on the ground next to the SEES members during Nyx's final assault. Takaya's ultimate status is unknown.
Members[]
Takaya Sakaki[]
The leader and the oldest member of tbe group.
Chidori Yoshino[]
Chidori was an artist & her Persona was Medea for her healing powers & she wields a hatchet to keep away from people. She will then fall in love with Junpei, and of course sacrifice herself to save him.
Jin Shirato[]
Jin was Takaya's right hand man he's a tech genius & wields a grenade & his Persona was Moros a robot Persona like a UFO mech alike.
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 Villains
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SEBEC Route Takahisa Kandori | Nyarlathotep | Pandora Snow Queen Quest Victims of the Snow Queen Mask | Tomomi Fujimori | Nyx
Innoncent Sin Masked Circle | Master Joker | Tatsuya Sudou | Junko Kurosu | Anna Yoshizaka | Ginji Sasaki | Akari Hoshi | Nyarlathotep Eternal Punishment New World Order | Tatsuzou Sudou | Kiyotada Sumaru | Takahisa Kandori | Chizuru Ishigami | Nyarlathotep
Strega (Takaya Sakaki | Jin Shirato | Chidori Yoshino) | Kouetsu Kirijo | Shuji Ikutsuki | Nyx Avatar | Nyx | President Tanaka | Arcana Shadows Persona 3 FES
The Killer | Mitsuo Kubo | Izanami Persona 4: Arena & Persona 4: Arena Ultimax Sho Minazuki | Shadow Labrys | Hi-no Kagutsuchi
Suguru Kamoshida | Sphinx | Sae Niijima | Shiro Asakura | Antisocial Force (Ichiryusai Madarame | Junya Kaneshiro | Sugimura | Kunikazu Okumura | The Black Mask | SIU Director | Kobayakawa | Masayoshi Shido | Yaldabaoth) | Persona 5 Royal Persona 5 Strikers Alice Hiiragi | Ango Natsume | Mariko Hyodo | Shuzo Ubukata | Akira Konoe | Jyun Owada | Kuon Ichinose | EMMA | Lock Keepers Persona 5 Tactica Lady Marie |
Teru Gojuin | Dark Yashiro | Yatsufusa Hatanaka
Persona Q Clockwork God Persona Q2 Kamoshidaman | Enlil
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