

Pandora is the true form of Sophia's Persona.

Pandora is a member of the Tyrant Order in Megami Ibunroku Persona, but her Order was changed to Deity in both the Japanese and English versions of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. She manifests as a monstrous, multi-limbed lump of flesh with Maki's head poking out of the main body, although after this form is defeated it is revealed to be a cocoon for her true form, which appears as a giant version of Maki with butterfly wings and antennae. As Pandora represents the negative and repressed qualities of her host and can be accepted and reformed, she can be considered as a prototype of a Shadow Self. Her and the Ideal Maki then merge, and one by one the party members are sent back to the real world. After she is defeated, she questions how the party could be so powerful, and is reminded that they are fighting together as friends and that she isn't alone. After the protagonist and the "Ideal Maki" come in contact with the soul of the "real" Maki in the Sea of Souls and receive her compact, the party is able to enter the Avidya World and confront Pandora, who plans to use the DEVA System core in a bid for destruction of all reality. Pandora then proceeded to steal the core of the DEVA System from the real world.

After the death of Takahisa Kandori, Aki awakened Pandora only to have Pandora devour her, destroying her half of the other Mikage-cho in the process. Pandora is Maki Sonomura's ultimate expression of nihilism.
