Definition of ワガハイ


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




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.




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.

