St. Hermelin High School

Appearances

 * Megami Ibunroku Persona: Location.
 * Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Referenced, Climax Theater Location
 * Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Referenced

St. Hermelin High School is a location in Megami Ibunroku Persona. It is the school that the protagonist and his friends go to and is set in the town of Mikage-cho.

Background
St. Hermelin High School, established in 1964, is a Christian school. All the school Uniforms is gray and white with it's emblem featuring a white Ermine, is looked upon as good luck. The Ermine is known to be a killer of snakes, the creatures that are the cause of human degradation and decadence. The joined X and P are both symbols of good, with the A and Omega standing for 'the beginning' and 'the end.

In the courtyard of St. Hermelin is a giant stone known as the "Hiremon Stone." It was excavated when the building of St. Hermelin was in progress, and was put there as it is believed to be good luck. The story is that an angle named Hiremon came down and put the stone there to protect and bring luck to the school, The school's Drama club has a long history of putting on performances of "The Snow Queen," a play by Hans Christian Andersen. However, with one exception, every single girl who played the titular role in the play either died in unusual circumstances or committed suicide, leading to the principal issuing a ban on the play.

During the SEBEC route of Persona, the school is the only place in Mikage-cho that isn't infested by demons. Later on, St. Hermelin completely disappears with a haze covering the area the school inhabited; presumably coinciding with the Snow Queen Quest, where the school is transformed into a four-towered castle covered in ice.

In the Ideal Mikage-cho, St. Hermelin is generally the same with the inhabitants having different personalities from their real world counterparts. The ideal school is regularly terrorized by a "girl in black" which has most of the populace fearful.

In Persona 2, several students from St. Hermelin can be seen around Sumaru City. In the PSP edition's Climax Theater, the two-part story School of the Heart takes place in St. Hermelin. Maya Amano is sent to write an article about the successful class 2-3 ran by Mr. Kariyazaki, taking the other party members along as her "assistants."



Layout
St. Hermelin High School is a large building with a swimming pool, a newly remodeled gym and several extracurricular clubs such as Ballet and Archery.

Major Students

 * Protagonist
 * Maki Sonomura, a member of the art club who has been hospitalized for nearly a year
 * Masao Inaba, a delinquent with an affection for graffiti
 * Kei Nanjo, the snobbish heir of the Nanjo Group
 * Hidehiko Uesugi, an attention-seeking class clown
 * Eriko Kirishima, a ladylike student fascinated with the occult
 * Yuka Ayase, a bleach-blonde and air-headed girl
 * Reiji Kido, a mysterious loner transfer student
 * Yukino Mayuzumi, an ex-delinquent dedicated to her teacher Saeko

Minor Students

 * Tamaki Uchida, the protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei: if... and new transfer student
 * Yuko Himeno, a girl who comes from an poor family and has to work part-time for her whole family
 * Tadashi Satomi, heir of Tadashi Pharmaceuticals and archrival of Tamaki
 * Kenta Yokouchi, a chunky student with a crush on Yuka
 * Kumi Hirose, a shy student who was a previous Snow Queen victim and was later made guardian of Hypnos Tower
 * Michiko Matsudaira, an egotistical student who was a previous Snow Queen victim and was later made guardian of Nemesis Tower
 * Yuriko Yamamoto, a two-faced student who was a previous Snow Queen victim and was later made guardian of Thanatos Tower
 * Tomomi Fujimori, Saeko's former best friend and victim of the Snow Queen
 * Takahisa Kandori, alumnus and former student council president
 * Yamaoka, alumnus and former student council president
 * Rose Futaba, a student in Mr. Kariyazaki's class, she appears to know about what's going on in the class
 * Akari Torikiri, the younger sister of Musubu Torikiri, who committed suicide

Known Faculty

 * Principal Ooishi, the kind principal who cares about her students
 * Takashi Hanya, the vice principal disliked by everybody
 * Saeko Takami, homeroom teacher of the protagonist
 * Natsumi Yoshino, the school nurse
 * Naozumi Kariyazaki, popular teacher who connects with his students via the website "Ambrosia"
 * Musubu Torikiri, a female teacher, she appears to be shy
 * Minato, a hardheaded teacher with a harsh tongue
 * Nishida, the school's literature teacher from the manga adaption

Megami Ibunroku Persona

 * 2F - Metal Card, Turquoise

Enemies

 *  Gray  boxes indicate rare enemies.
 *  Light Gray  boxes indicate bosses.

Trivia

 * Hermelin is the German word for an ermine, a type of weasel. This animal also features on the school logo.