Post by Z451 on Sept 24, 2014 0:36:35 GMT
Teddie
Teddie, known as Kuma ( lit. "Bear") in Japan, is a strange part-clown, part-bear-like creature, who resides inside the TV world.
Learning that somebody has been throwing people in the TV world to kill them, thus causing mayhem, Teddie makes a promise with Yu Narukami and Yosuke Hanamura to find the culprit.
Teddie helps the Investigation Team by giving them advice about how to defeat Shadows or track the people who were thrown into the world.
As he interacts with the characters, Teddie starts questioning his own existence and grows curious of mankind's habits such as dating girls.
In the game Teddie also starts making puns referencing his name.
The translation of these jokes to the English version was noted to be difficult by the Atlus staff.
In a 2013 interview, Atlus's senior project manager Masaru Nanba stated that the change of "Kuma" to "Teddie" in the western localizations was a result of the familiarity of the concept of the teddy bear to American and European players, and specifically noted the change of Kuma's verbal tic of adding his name to the end of sentences to the "very" to "beary" change in the English translation.
When fighting Rise Kujikawa's Shadow, Teddie seemingly sacrifices himself to save his friends, defeating the Shadow but becoming flattened in the process.
After Rise accepts her other self, saying that there is "no real me", Teddie has an existencial crisis; this causes his Shadow Self to manifest, representing Teddie's fear that his existence is superficial and "hollow".
Aided by his friends, Teddie accepts his doubts regarding his existence and his Shadow turns into the Persona Kintoki-Douji (Kintoki-Do-ji), a robotic figure that resembles a rotund red boiler with stubby arms and legs and armed with a tomahawk missile as a pun to the original mythological figure.
Afterward, through restoring his body through extensive training, Teddie "grows" a human-like body inside of him and leaves the TV world.
Using his bear suit, Teddie starts working in Junes and living with Yosuke.
He also becomes an active member in battle, with Rise taking his place for support.
When Yu's cousin, Nanako Dojima, dies after being sent to the TV world, Teddie disappears from the real world.
As the group searches for him, Teddie remembers that he was actually a Shadow, one who wanted humans to like him and, as a result, erased his memory and took the form of a cartoonish bear.
After Nanako revives, Yu finds Teddie in the Velvet Room, where Teddie reveals his origin as a Shadow and Yu informs him of Nanako's revival.
After returning to reality and seeing Nanako, Teddie decides he will stay with the Investigation Team once again despite being a Shadow with Kintoki evolving into Kamui, a cartoonish face on a ball with clawed hands at the end of a missile.
Following Izanami's defeat and the TV world returning to its original state, Teddie decides he will return to the TV world.
In Persona 4 Golden, Teddie gains a new Persona called Kamui Moshiri, which is a stream-lined missile wearing a crown and a long, flowing, star-patterned cape and a rose emblem.
Teddie is the player's Social Link to The Star (Hoshi);in the animated series, his friendship with Yu is symbolized by the Persona Saturnus (Saturunusu) in Yu's employ.
In the sequel Persona 4 Arena, Teddie is impersonated by General Teddie as the organizer of "P-1 Grand Prix" in the TV world, a tournament between Persona-users, while the real one is trapped inside the TV world and seeks to find his friends. Teddie is playable alongside Kintoki-Douji.
He is voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi in Japanese.
In the English version of the game Dave Wittenberg is his voice actor while Sam Riegel provides his English voice for all other appearances.
Yamaguchi portrayed him in the musical.
Early designs of Teddie were to feature him as a more serious-looking character.
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