- 07 - The Chariot -

historical - Ooh.  Thirteen.  Spooooooky.  Death is usually a skeleton or grim reaper, even though it's most likely based on the Black Death of the fourteen-hundreds.  Y'know, what with all the bodies having an effect on the psyche of Europeans and whatnot. 

card - Death is your friend.  Yes, you heard me, death is your friend.  Why is death your friend?  Because it's not Tower.  And it's not necessarily about death either.  Death is about endings... but you have to die to be reborn.  That makes it, essentially, the card of change.

death meaning - Major change.  Destruction and rebirth - that destruction often taking the form of a revolution or other sudden and violent upserge.  Transformation.  The lack of ressurection  (there's a fine line between ressurection and rebirth) after death.  Endings. 

death reversed meaning - Stagnation and lack of change - a boring, damaging, hell-sent rut.  Inertia, in other words.  Lethargy.  It's not healthy to let things live forever....

persona wielder - Eikichi "Michel" Michina

Well, I've not played Innocent Sin, but I'll give a small, FAQ-induced, spoilerful shot...

How is Eikichi Death?  Simple.  Eikichi got reborn.  Not, like, religious-conversion reborn.. I'm talking major personality shift here.  See, ol' Michel used to be just plain Eikichi - a chubby lil' geek-boy who liked drawing cartoons and crushing on the requisite class Cute Girl Miyabi.  Then he got.. errrrr.. pantsed.  Infront of her.  Which.. well, it sounds like a funny sorta trauma, but it seems that after being bullied for a while that particular humiliation was the straw that broke the camel's back.  And so cute lil' butterball Eikichi started dieting and going all vegetarian.  Slimmed up, put on some makup, started learning the guitar, and begin to call himself "Michel".  Mind you, going from generic Shy Kid to Narcissistic Hothead got him exiled to reform school... but that's neither here nor there.  The point is that Eikichi radically revamped himself in order to become Michel.  Death for rebirth.  A painful death - he was no doubt humiliated - but that too is part of the point. See what I'm saying?