The female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable, canonically known as Kotone Shiomi (having originated from the stage play and later clarified as the default name in the 2023 re-release of the game),[1][2][3] is a transfer student enrolling in Gekkoukan High School on Tatsumi Port Island. She is an orphan whose parents died on the Moonlight Bridge in their car during a fatal incident a decade prior to the game.
She is the female counterpart of Makoto Yuki: she is designed to present a fresh perspective for veteran players of the Persona 3 series.[4] Because the rest of the Persona series takes direct reference to the original interpretation of the game involving the male protagonist, her story is effectively non-canonical and takes place in a separate timeline.
