Reveal Your True Form...
Yusuke Kitagawa is a playable character from Persona 5. He
is an art student from Kosei High School who becomes involved with
the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
Yusuke is an honor student who takes an art course at Kosei High School.
He was raised by Madarame as his mother died when he was three. Therefore,
he does not remember her and Madarame took great care of him. As he grew
up, he was tutored in art by Madarame, with his masterpiece "Sayuri" being
one of his greatest inspirations for his artistic career. In reality,
Madarame only raised Yusuke for the sole purpose of exhibiting his artwork
using his name, and he would often give him meager rations during his
tutelage. By the time the game begins, most other pupils in Madarame's shack
are cast away, died because of direct or indirect abuse by him, left due to
losing interest in art, and Yusuke is the last pupil living in his atelier.
While he appears to be aggressively defensive to Madarame, before the events
of the game, Natsuhiko Nakanohara asked him about how Madarame treated him, and
he admitted that he would leave his shack if he could.
Goemon is Yusuke Kitagawa's Initial Persona. He manifests in Madarame's Palace
after Shadow Madarame reveals the reality that he is a corrupt, vain, and greedy
man. Unable to deny the truth anymore, Yusuke's Shadow reaches out to him to
make the contract and show Madarame the difference between vice and beauty, then
transforms into Goemon.
