Trivia #1: Development on the story and Julie
Originally, the story, Persona 3 Testament, a modified retelling to Persona 3, was going to be published first so the stories could stick with the timeline. In Persona 3 Testament, it follows behind a 2nd year student named Kano Hidetoshi, afflicted with a vision disability that leaves her blind but able to see with glasses or contacts. She is from Ontario, Canada, and practices martial arts. However, given how much I wanted to release Persona 4: Fear Itself, I've decided to work on this story and release it before Persona 3 Testament.
Before the story's release, there were several things I had planned for Julie's character before publishing. For one, Julie originally held no affiliation with Chie Satonaka and Yukiko Amagi, but I decided to give her a background with the two. Along similar lines, she was going to be Yukiko's twin sister, but I wanted to add some diversity given that the main protagonists of the Persona franchise are Japanese (excluding the American version of Persona). So I decided to make her half-British and make her cousins with Maya Amano since I had planned, at least originally, to make this story similar to Persona 1 and 2. In development, Julie was named "Jennifer" and held a Western surname to correspond with her birth in the United Kingdom. However, I wanted to give the audience some proof of her Japanese blood by giving her the "Amano" surname. She was also a brunette before I gave her black hair. The development of her Persona was probably the hardest one I ever encountered. Her original Persona was going to be Deborah from the Bible to correspond with her Justice Arcana. Another was Amaterasu, but I remembered that was Yukiko's Ultimate Persona and if the cast of Fear Itself would meet the cast of Persona 4, I had to make some changes to give their Personas diversity. So, I decided Izanami would be her Persona. Her gothic appearance was given to make her unique than the rest of the cast in which she is dressed according to common view; which is a goth. Don't worry, she doesn't wear dark makeup or anything. She was also planned to have been in Australia instead of England, but I felt it would've been better to make her British instead of Australian. Imagining her voice, I got the thought that she would sound like Jeanne from Bayonetta, but with a nicer tone.
Despite Julie's gothic appearance, she is actually pretty friendly, benevolent, and peppy. She has a sense of humor and speaks with Northern England British accent. She rarely uses slang and hardly slurs in her speech. She is fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, and French. Her favorite colors are black and purple, though she does like pink on occasion. She despises the color yellow. Along with that, she has a strong sense of justice and believes in fairness and equality, given how rough life was for her in Inaba because she had a British accent and was mixed of Caucasian blood. She places the well-being of friends and family above all else without worry of consequences.