— Syl ※ (@realityindadark) May 28, 2026
I’m not here to speculate on whether these leaks are real or not. I’m instead here to say that the internet is absolutely freaking out about the protagonist, whose rumored design has already fueled fan art, a charming nickname, and even merch that will absolutely sell regardless of if he’s real or not.
Initially, people didn’t seem to like this guy. Some fans took to Twitter to call him ugly. Others jumped to compare him to Bebe, a foreign exchange student from Persona 3 who’s pretty widely disliked but can be befriended anyway. People in the Bebe-hating camp were, predictably, not happy to see this design:
Apparently, though, fans have turned around on this guy pretty quickly. This protagonist is now all over the place, and he’s been lovingly dubbed “John Persona 6.” This might be a reference to that one unnamed Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3 character who everybody jokingly calls “John Dragon Ball,” or it might not be. I honestly have no idea where the name came from! What I do know, though, is that it’s now all over the place:
Fans like John Persona 6 so much that Twitter is now full of fan art of him:
People have even thrown him into their Tomodachi Life islands:
And now there’s…merch???? Of a potential leak????
I think John Persona 6 is pretty cool despite looking exactly like Bebe, but that doesn’t really matter to me because I’ll be picking up the game on day one regardless of who its main character is. What I do care about, though, is that mysterious girl with red and black hair (Jane Persona 6?) who’s missing out on most of the fan art fun. I feel bad for her!