List of Persona 2 Characters - Eternal Punishment Characters - Eriko Kirishima

Eriko Kirishima (桐島 英理子, Kirishima Eriko?), known in Eternal Punishment as Ellen, is another returning character from Revelations: Persona. Eriko is now a fashion model, but retains her interest in the occult from back in her high school days. She now holds a permanent home in Paris. In Innocent Sin, after Tatsuya Suou received the Oracle of Maiya, Yukino decides to look for Eriko's aid to unpuzzle the metaphor behind the poem. Eriko then stations herself at the W-Slash internet cafe. Once Nazis invade the city, she can be spotted in Seven Sisters High School fighting alongside other Revelations characters, including Hidehiko.

In Eternal Punishment, Eriko is a playable character. Sneak mentions that there are two people (a man and a woman) investigating the New World Order. If Maya spreads the rumor that the person with information on the NWO is a woman, you will get Eriko to join. She still uses fencing swords, and will immediately establish rapport with Ulala Serizawa, who shares her love of fortune telling and ghost stories.

Eriko will take the group to the Sumaru TV station to investigate if Chizuru Ishigami (also known as "Wang Long Chizuru") is really involved in the New World Order. Their suspicions were confirmed as Chizuru's shikigami (who was disguised as a cat) traps them with a spell called "Kimon Tonkou" taking them to a reverse dimension. With her knowledge of the occult, Eriko concludes that they would have to find and enter the "Ba Gua" gates located on each the studio entrances in order to escape. Ellen enlists the help of TV host and former classmate Hidehiko Uesugi to find the right order of the Ba Gua gates by scouting them out back in the real world. Inside the reverse dimension however, a stalker of Eriko lies in wait, taking the rare chance to get close to his idol. Eriko will rejoin the rest of her former classmates later in the game, fighting off the New World Order soldiers that are trying to take over the city.

In Eternal Punishment, Eriko is tormented by visions of the main protagonist from Revelation: Persona. It is heavily implied that she was in a relationship with the main protagonist of Revelation: Persona, or that she is at least in love with him. It can be seen in the Spring of Mirrors at Mt. Iwato that she only gathers enough courage to make an intimate promise to him at graduation, days after Maki's memories were selectively wiped when St. Hermelin returned to normal.

As was previously the case in Revelations, Eriko wields a rapier. Her initial Persona is Nike, and her Ultimate Persona is Gabriel.