Persona 6 May Feature A Male Velvet Room Attendant For One…

The Velvet Room Attendants have been an integral part of the Persona series since Persona 2. Usually young-looking, blue-clad individuals, the Attendants help Velvet Room master Igor with duties like maintaining the Persona Compendium, fusing Personas together, and providing the protagonist with cryptic advice. Until now, the majority of the Velvet Room Attendants have been female, with Persona 3 Portable's Theodore as the primary exception. However, Persona 6 may need to feature a male Velvet Room attendant if it chooses to continue the series' naming convention.

Velvet Room Attendants Are Named After Frankenstein Characters

All Velvet Room attendants in Persona games are given names drawn from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a classic work of science fiction and horror literature. These names pair well with Igor, a name that is often used for the laboratory assistant of Victor Frankenstein. (The original Frankenstein novel did not feature an Igor character, but a hunchbacked assistant, variably called Fritz, Igor, or Ygor, has appeared in many Universal Studios Frankenstein films.) This trend has continued throughout the main Persona games.

Game	Attendant	Name Reference
Persona 1 and 2	Nameless & Belladonna	Names sometimes attributed to the Monster and his Bride
Persona 3	Elizabeth	Victor Frankenstein's wife
Persona 3 Portable	Theodore	Character in the film The Ghost of Frankenstein
Persona 4	Margaret	Sister of ship captain Robert Walton, to whom he addresses his letters
Persona 5	Caroline & Justine	Victor Frankenstein's mother (Caroline), a serving girl (Justine)
Persona 5 Royal	Lavenza	Elizabeth's last name

There Are Few Female Names Left To Use

With so many female Velvet Room attendants appearing throughout the series, most female character names in Frankenstein have already been used. There are few female characters in the novel, to the point where Persona writers had to use the minor Margaret, who never appears in person and is simply the recipient of letters. Lavenza, which is the last name of the character Elizabeth, is also made into a first name and given to an attendant appearing briefly in Persona 5 and more frequently in Persona 5 Royal.

There are, however, many unused male character names in the original Frankenstein novel whose names could be used for an attendant in Persona 6. Even if the Persona writers wish to avoid using Victor Frankenstein himself, they could draw from any of these individuals:

Robert Walton, a seafarer and Margaret's brother
Henry Clerval, Victor's best friend
Alphonse and William Frankenstein, Victor's father and younger brother
Waldman and Krempe, professors Victor encounters at University
De Lacey, an elderly blind peasant

It should be noted, however, that there are two unclaimed female names from Frankenstein, even without having to rely on last names like Lavenza. During the Monster's time in the wilderness, he spies on a peasant family which includes two female members, Agatha and Safie. These are characters who beat the Monster and drive him away when he tries to speak with them, so those names could serve well for a potentially villainous Velvet Room attendant.

Persona 6 May Move Away From The Frankenstein Theme

However, there is one big hint that Persona 6 may be moving away from the series tradition of naming its attendants after characters from Frankenstein. In the mobile game Persona 5: The Phantom X, Igor has an assistant named Merope, whose name does not come from Frankenstein. Instead, she is named after one of the Pleiades from Greek mythology. As there are seven Pleiades, all of whom are female, it is possible that Persona 6 and future Persona titles will continue featuring female Velvet Room attendants with names following this new theme instead.