#I just use the game's own logic for each arcana to extrapolate this

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I have brought this up to my Persona friends as well but I tend to believe in the "inherent" Arcana for the protagonist from p3 onward.

Like Naoya in p1 is the Emperor Arcana and Tatsuya from p2 is the Sun (and Maya the Moon), so why not assign Arcana to the Fools while we're at it?

Minato is obviously Death. Not only does he have it rip out of Orpheus right from the beginning, everything about Minato is encased in change, new beginnings, and resisting that as much as he can. He goes on this journey as a Fool, but also as Death (and hence why his closest ???? SL is Thanatos for most people) (idk I haven't played through p3 yet) but yeah Minato's (and the female protag, by proxy) Arcana is Death.

Yu Narukami was a lot harder for me to pin down, but I've finally figured him out: his inherent Arcana is Justice. Of course it is. Reach out to tue truth, don't believe in the lies laid out before you. That he gets to share an Arcana with Nanako kinda makes sense also, but he's great at wearing the Fool mask better than anyone else. I'd also accept him as the true Fool, really, but Justice does make a lot of sense for him.

Akira is also harder to pin down, but for a different reason. I like his inherent Arcana being Devil; he's temptation for all his friends and he himself cannot resist the temptation to destroy himself if it meant saving another's life. (At least, that's how I play him based on the opening sequence game fuck you.) Not only that, it fits with his Ultimate Persona, Satanael. But Hanged Man works well for him, too; strung up to face his mistakes and gaining a clearer knowledge of his situation and himself in the process. He gains enlightenment at the cost of his own autonomy at the start pretty much.

Anyway yeah that's all I wanted to say inherent Arcana theory whoooooo