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While I was playing Persona 5 JAP version on the PS4, I noticed that Morgana,
one of the characters in the game refer to itself using " ワガハイ ".

Why does it use that? and what does it really mean?

I refer to Morgana to " it " because it's a talking cat
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word-choice words
Definition of ワガハイ
ワガハイ is just one of archaisms for "me" (also see 「拙者」、「わらわ」、「わし」, e.t.c).
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Since it's a cat, I feel like it may be in reference to this book titled
[吾輩は猫である](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat).

ワガハイ or 吾輩 in kanji, is an archaic first person address term.

> Why does it use that? and what does it really mean?

It carries a feeling of pompousness and self-importance (which is of course
very important for a cat). Wikipedia says:

> Sōseki's original title, Wagahai wa Neko de Aru, uses very high-register
> phrasing more appropriate to a nobleman, conveying a grandiloquence and
> self-importance intended to sound ironic, since the speaker, an
> anthropomorphised domestic cat, is a house cat, not feral.
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