Persona : DS

Characters from Persona : Dissonant Strain (RP/Game).

Names of characters + their arcana if you can't see the cards from left to right:

Akinari Fujita - The Sun
Eber Fridmund - The Wheel/Fortune
Kumiko Mizushima - The Lovers
Kojiro Ishikawa - The Devil
Rin Junsui - The Empress
Isoroku Yoshida - The Tower
Yukimura Yamada - The Chariot
Hikaru Seiya - The Star
Takuya Mori - The Emperor

Why is everyone tied together by a red string? Because the characters attend 赤糸 学園. Specifically the this 赤(red)糸(string) high school. A very prestigious school.