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Player nickname: Shugo
Player LJ:cocanuts
Way to contact you:
Email: moirails[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM: inyourdna
Other: plurk; sleepcoast
Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: n/a
Character: Eridan Ampora
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History:As a forewarning, I wrote a lot of Eridan's history into his personality while writing his personality so, apologies for the shortness.
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the land of Alternia there lived little grey skinned children with candy-corn horns called trolls. Their culture is ruled by the hemospectrum caste system which divides the trolls worth in their society based on blood. Like a rainbow, you have red-orange-yellow-green as the peasants, the blue as the noblemen, the purple as the royal-nobles and then you have the one troll to rule them all who has the highest pigment of blood color to determine their right to the throne. But, a simpler divination among the trolls is the fact that some of them are land dwellers (peasantry up to the grandest high blood) and sea dwellers (any troll with fins and gills). Eridan is the later, with purple blood as well as the aforementioned gills and fins.
Because of Eridan's rank, he has always been better off than most trolls because he gets the privilege of terrorizing the other trolls and getting away with it. So a lot of what Eridan does throughout Homestuck is mostly influenced upon this one aspect of his life. The fact that he is a sea dwelling noble blood.
When the readers finally get to meet Eridan, we only get a glimpse of his shoes and thoughts. One could immediately assume he didn't appreciate land dwellers because of the faygo bottle littered upon his beach. But, it isn't until much later does he get a proper introduction along with the other sea troll, Feferi, do we get to learn anything about Eridan. Initially he comes off as a bit of a badass, shooting down a whale that's kazillion times larger than him before galloping away on his sky horse to his hive (a house).
Once in the Hive, it is discovered that Eridan has a fondness for FLARP, a game that is like dungeons and dragons but with the exciting real life experience of being shanked in the ribs or dying painfully. (How exicting!!) He is really good at what he does, having once had the ultimate alliance with Vriska (who turned out to be his kismesis at the time) possibly from her ruthlessness and his intellect on troll tactics from reading the many military history books and fanfics. Eridan is also interested in magic, though he calls it white science because he believes magic is fake.
As mentioned before, his rank in society really does influence a lot of what Eridan does, or the lack of action Eridan takes. For whatever reason, he can't get over the fact that Vriska is no longer in a hate-romance with him and pesters those around him, clinging onto them for advice and some sort of kinship between them. (Ultimately, no one really knows how to comfort Eridan because his emotional needs are kind of high up there.)
When the game starts, Feferi, Eridan's moirail, immediately breaks off their relationships as moirails because Eridan is a big bossy bully who is too much work. Quite frankly, Feferi's had enough of his shit with KILL ALL THE LANDDWELLERS, and absconds the fuck out of there once she realizes that Eridan is no longer a threat to troll kind. (Really, there's only 12 of them left.)
It's presumed Eridan stays mostly to himself throughout Scrub as he complained that no one ever visited him in his planet, the Land of Wrath and Angels. He wasted away the time by killing the 'angels' floating around on his planet but in doing so, pissed them off. (He probably wasn't supposed to go slaughtering the Angels...) But from there, he gained something from the angels- learning how to destroy Hope with their light. (His title, Prince of Hope, fits this because Princes are destroyer/destructive classes.)
Eventually he leaves the Land of Wrath and Angels to pursue Sollux, whom Feferi has been hanging out with. In Sollux's planet, he challenges him to a fight and promptly gets his ass handed to him on a silver platter. He doesn't soon forget this because when the trolls are later banished to the meteor he brings it up relentlessly.
But not before pestering Rose to teach him dark magic from his computer. Their conversation ends with Rose blowing up his computer and Eridan seeking out Kanaya to furnish him a wand to exact revenge on the lilac wench. Sometime after acquiring his wand, he gives Jade the code to the punchcard of his gigantic rifle so that she can use it.
With time, he brooded on the fact that "weh weh it's so hard being a kid, nobody understands him" and decided the best coure of action was to seek out Jack Noir and join his forces. Despite Jack, killing all their dreamselves and blowing up all their planets, Eridan is convinced that if he submits to Jack, he and Feferi will be able to live and win the game. When he comes up to Feferi to present this idea, he runs into Kanaya with the matriorb. He then promises her that he will help her with that but first, he has business to take care of.
Business in the form of revenge. He confronts Sollux and Feferi who are glubbing about feelings on Gamzee's horn pile and tells them his plan. Insults are thrown, egos are hurt, until Sollux decides to stop Eridan's bullshit because he believes Eridan is going to get them all killed by going to Jack. The two engage in a fight using optic blasts and magic wands. WHITE SCIENCE ultimately wins and Eridan blinds Sollux with science, leaving him unconscious. Feferi then attacks Eridan but, in a fit of anger, Eridan blasts a hole through her torso. Leaving one troll dead and one unconscious, he then turns to Kanaya who also tries to stop him with her chainsaw. But, alas, he also kills her too after destroying the matriorb, ensuing all Hope is destroyed.
He absconds to then confront Vriska and Gamzee, leaving Karkat stunned with the three bodies of his comrades. Between Eridan leaving and arriving at the threeway showdown with Vriska and Gamzee, Kanaya somehow revives and enters their fray. She turns to Eridan, grabs the wand and in a fit of vampire fury she snaps it into two, debunking the magic before chainsawing Eridan through the torso. As most chainsaws through the torso wounds will do, it killed Eridan.
Currently he is drifting among the dead dreamers and dreamers through dream bubbles.
Personality: Eridan. Where do I even begin with Eridan? I guess Eridan is like Lord Voldmort's need to be an asshat and Harry Potter’s teenage angst mixed together into the body of a hipster. That is to say he has “some serious feelins and problems here."
But lets spin that wheel of problems and feelings to begin.
Eridan has an overpowering genocide complex. That is he wants to kill all land dwellers to the point where he has made it his sworn duty to do so. It doesn’t help that he is the second-highest blood type in the caste system and due to this high rank, he is a sea dweller. Nor does his nerdgasm for military history and legendary Alternian conquerors help his genocide complex. Instead, they only help drive him to bring about doom everywhere he goes.
However, the reason he hasn’t wiped out all the land dwellers can be thanks to Feferi, his moiral. (Moirails are a type of troll romance.) She stops Eridan from his destructive impulses. Though he does orphan trolls to feed Feferi’s lusus. But it is a sacrifice that must be made to keep her lusus’ voice to a whisper. If it’s voice ever rose above a whisper, with a vast glub, it would destroy wee babby trolls AND their lusus. So at the expense of orphaning wee babby trolls, she and Eridan protect their race from the vast glub.
It may also help to know that Eridan holds matesprit (again a type of troll romance) feelings towards his fellow royalty. He was rejected by Feferi, however, and was left in a complete wreck of emotions and problems after Feferi left him. (She felt he was no longr a danger to their race after they entered the game and dropping the relationship would be the best because Eridan was just too much.) Despite this unrequited relationship, his matesprit feelings may be the reason why he yielded to Feferi from time to time due to wanting to impress her. After Eridan was deserted, he became bitter and jealous. Seeking the attention of other trolls to form some other quadrant relationship with them. (He even goes as far as trying to be Vriska’s kismesis again and tries hitting on Rose in the same attempts.) From Kanaya, we learn that Eridan is a bit of a tool and overbearing on every relationship he forms.
But lets move past Eridan’s sad, pitiable romance issues and move onto his exaggerated emotional theatrics. He is a very emotional kind of guy but sometimes overly exaggerates the situation because he is a bit pompous at times. Although he is able to get serious, going as far as dropping his accent for Feferi to show how serious he was about being committed to the relationship. Though his massive ego and arrogance gets him worked up, his tough façade does crumble when faced by, well, pretty much anything and will sometimes admit that he is a bit of an asshole (he is) or feels like one. This is best seen when he outright insulted Sollux and then felt bad five seconds later when he found out Sollux had died saving Feferi. When he realizes what a jackass he makes himself out to be, he tends to get very frustrated with himself or doesn’t know what to do. Sometimes he punches himself in the head, other times he holds his head in his hands lamenting about what a fuckass he is. And yet still, he actually seeks out help from the other trolls to fix his problems. He’s basically a handful to handle whether you’re his friend or not. All excuses to indulge in more emotional theatrics.
All that aside Eridan is pretty badass. When he is first introduced, he is shown being exactly that by taking down a large whale lusus with his gun (Ahab’s Crosshairs). He is also seen to be an unstoppable badass when he FLARPS (extreme roleplaying) because his respiteblock (equivalent of room) is full of treasure chests of rare prizes, treasure, and even deadly weapons that he has amassed in his many sweeps of EXTREME ROLEPLAYING. In fact, it has been hinted that his hive may actually be a spoil from his campaigns. Amongst his collection also includes statues (presumably of legendary conquerors) and a hidden wand collection in a refrigerator. (Because Faygo is nasty shit and doesn’t belong in your refrigerator, silly readers.) He is interested in magic and wizards but firmly insists he believes it to be FAKEY FAKE FAKE. However, despite this disbelief he is very fascinated with it and also pestered Rose to learn her secrets. (He also later pester Kanaya into making a wand to train him in the ways of white magic. I mean. Science.)
And no, Eri Ampora does not live under the steps like many of you may wish to believe all young wizards live. No, but he also does not live in a castle on a cliff like the noble blue bloods. Instead, Eridan lives in a giant land wrecked ship in the middle of the ocean. Which is presumably a spoil from one of his FLARP campaigns since his avatar, Orphaner Dualscar, is the greatest Petticoat Seagrift troll and conqueror of conquest. (And evidentially really skillful at making orphans out of young FLARPing trolls.) His avatar profile is based off stories of military conquerors and their stories which include their GLORY OF VICTORY, STING OF DEFEAT, POLITICAL MACHINATIONS, and ROMANTIC INTRIGUE.
Unexpected from someone like Eridan is his mythological title in the game which is “the Prince of Hope”. What it means, or what powers he gains from this role is unknown. However, it may not be too far off because despite his massive ego of arrogance, hating all life, and being a sea dweller, he spends most of his time out of water. (Though he claims it is to effectively wipe out all forms of life.)
To kind of match his attitude and everything he represents (read; Harry Potter, Hipsters, Villians, Royal Pain in the Ass, etc.), Eridan dresses very flamboyantly for a troll. His outfit, a mix of Harry Potter, villains, royalty and hipsters, which consists of a purple highlight in his hair, a wide assortment of rings, a high collared cape with a striped scarf and striped pants as well as trendy glasses.
Eridan is also said to have a bit of an accent, what kind of an accent is unknown. However ANDREW HUSSIE has said that he pronounces his double v’s as “w”s. His speech impediment for trollian goes a little like this; a vvery wweird and sort of wwavvy soundin accent. Doubling the vs and ws and dropping the "g" in "ing". He sometimes replaces "of" or "an" with "a". His trollian handle is caligulasAquarium and his font color is the color of his blood. He is also associated with Aquarius.
So let's conclude the wheel of feelins and problems, we've found out Eridan is;
♒ a bit of a tool
♒ has an overpowering genocide complex
♒ has a sworn duty to kill all land dwellers
♒ is overbearing
♒ likes white science (aka fakey fakey fake magic)
♒ Harry Potter, Dear Readers
♒ is the second royal person and number one royal pain in the ass
♒ hipster
♒ speaks with a wwavvy accent
♒ has exaggerated emotional theatrics and induldges in them
♒ admires militant history and conquerors
♒ has serious feelins and problems
Other: n/a
Additional Links: n/a
Player LJ:
cocanutsWay to contact you:
Email: moirails[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM: inyourdna
Other: plurk; sleepcoast
Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: n/a
Character: Eridan Ampora
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History:As a forewarning, I wrote a lot of Eridan's history into his personality while writing his personality so, apologies for the shortness.
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the land of Alternia there lived little grey skinned children with candy-corn horns called trolls. Their culture is ruled by the hemospectrum caste system which divides the trolls worth in their society based on blood. Like a rainbow, you have red-orange-yellow-green as the peasants, the blue as the noblemen, the purple as the royal-nobles and then you have the one troll to rule them all who has the highest pigment of blood color to determine their right to the throne. But, a simpler divination among the trolls is the fact that some of them are land dwellers (peasantry up to the grandest high blood) and sea dwellers (any troll with fins and gills). Eridan is the later, with purple blood as well as the aforementioned gills and fins.
Because of Eridan's rank, he has always been better off than most trolls because he gets the privilege of terrorizing the other trolls and getting away with it. So a lot of what Eridan does throughout Homestuck is mostly influenced upon this one aspect of his life. The fact that he is a sea dwelling noble blood.
When the readers finally get to meet Eridan, we only get a glimpse of his shoes and thoughts. One could immediately assume he didn't appreciate land dwellers because of the faygo bottle littered upon his beach. But, it isn't until much later does he get a proper introduction along with the other sea troll, Feferi, do we get to learn anything about Eridan. Initially he comes off as a bit of a badass, shooting down a whale that's kazillion times larger than him before galloping away on his sky horse to his hive (a house).
Once in the Hive, it is discovered that Eridan has a fondness for FLARP, a game that is like dungeons and dragons but with the exciting real life experience of being shanked in the ribs or dying painfully. (How exicting!!) He is really good at what he does, having once had the ultimate alliance with Vriska (who turned out to be his kismesis at the time) possibly from her ruthlessness and his intellect on troll tactics from reading the many military history books and fanfics. Eridan is also interested in magic, though he calls it white science because he believes magic is fake.
As mentioned before, his rank in society really does influence a lot of what Eridan does, or the lack of action Eridan takes. For whatever reason, he can't get over the fact that Vriska is no longer in a hate-romance with him and pesters those around him, clinging onto them for advice and some sort of kinship between them. (Ultimately, no one really knows how to comfort Eridan because his emotional needs are kind of high up there.)
When the game starts, Feferi, Eridan's moirail, immediately breaks off their relationships as moirails because Eridan is a big bossy bully who is too much work. Quite frankly, Feferi's had enough of his shit with KILL ALL THE LANDDWELLERS, and absconds the fuck out of there once she realizes that Eridan is no longer a threat to troll kind. (Really, there's only 12 of them left.)
It's presumed Eridan stays mostly to himself throughout Scrub as he complained that no one ever visited him in his planet, the Land of Wrath and Angels. He wasted away the time by killing the 'angels' floating around on his planet but in doing so, pissed them off. (He probably wasn't supposed to go slaughtering the Angels...) But from there, he gained something from the angels- learning how to destroy Hope with their light. (His title, Prince of Hope, fits this because Princes are destroyer/destructive classes.)
Eventually he leaves the Land of Wrath and Angels to pursue Sollux, whom Feferi has been hanging out with. In Sollux's planet, he challenges him to a fight and promptly gets his ass handed to him on a silver platter. He doesn't soon forget this because when the trolls are later banished to the meteor he brings it up relentlessly.
But not before pestering Rose to teach him dark magic from his computer. Their conversation ends with Rose blowing up his computer and Eridan seeking out Kanaya to furnish him a wand to exact revenge on the lilac wench. Sometime after acquiring his wand, he gives Jade the code to the punchcard of his gigantic rifle so that she can use it.
With time, he brooded on the fact that "weh weh it's so hard being a kid, nobody understands him" and decided the best coure of action was to seek out Jack Noir and join his forces. Despite Jack, killing all their dreamselves and blowing up all their planets, Eridan is convinced that if he submits to Jack, he and Feferi will be able to live and win the game. When he comes up to Feferi to present this idea, he runs into Kanaya with the matriorb. He then promises her that he will help her with that but first, he has business to take care of.
Business in the form of revenge. He confronts Sollux and Feferi who are glubbing about feelings on Gamzee's horn pile and tells them his plan. Insults are thrown, egos are hurt, until Sollux decides to stop Eridan's bullshit because he believes Eridan is going to get them all killed by going to Jack. The two engage in a fight using optic blasts and magic wands. WHITE SCIENCE ultimately wins and Eridan blinds Sollux with science, leaving him unconscious. Feferi then attacks Eridan but, in a fit of anger, Eridan blasts a hole through her torso. Leaving one troll dead and one unconscious, he then turns to Kanaya who also tries to stop him with her chainsaw. But, alas, he also kills her too after destroying the matriorb, ensuing all Hope is destroyed.
He absconds to then confront Vriska and Gamzee, leaving Karkat stunned with the three bodies of his comrades. Between Eridan leaving and arriving at the threeway showdown with Vriska and Gamzee, Kanaya somehow revives and enters their fray. She turns to Eridan, grabs the wand and in a fit of vampire fury she snaps it into two, debunking the magic before chainsawing Eridan through the torso. As most chainsaws through the torso wounds will do, it killed Eridan.
Currently he is drifting among the dead dreamers and dreamers through dream bubbles.
Personality: Eridan. Where do I even begin with Eridan? I guess Eridan is like Lord Voldmort's need to be an asshat and Harry Potter’s teenage angst mixed together into the body of a hipster. That is to say he has “some serious feelins and problems here."
But lets spin that wheel of problems and feelings to begin.
Eridan has an overpowering genocide complex. That is he wants to kill all land dwellers to the point where he has made it his sworn duty to do so. It doesn’t help that he is the second-highest blood type in the caste system and due to this high rank, he is a sea dweller. Nor does his nerdgasm for military history and legendary Alternian conquerors help his genocide complex. Instead, they only help drive him to bring about doom everywhere he goes.
However, the reason he hasn’t wiped out all the land dwellers can be thanks to Feferi, his moiral. (Moirails are a type of troll romance.) She stops Eridan from his destructive impulses. Though he does orphan trolls to feed Feferi’s lusus. But it is a sacrifice that must be made to keep her lusus’ voice to a whisper. If it’s voice ever rose above a whisper, with a vast glub, it would destroy wee babby trolls AND their lusus. So at the expense of orphaning wee babby trolls, she and Eridan protect their race from the vast glub.
It may also help to know that Eridan holds matesprit (again a type of troll romance) feelings towards his fellow royalty. He was rejected by Feferi, however, and was left in a complete wreck of emotions and problems after Feferi left him. (She felt he was no longr a danger to their race after they entered the game and dropping the relationship would be the best because Eridan was just too much.) Despite this unrequited relationship, his matesprit feelings may be the reason why he yielded to Feferi from time to time due to wanting to impress her. After Eridan was deserted, he became bitter and jealous. Seeking the attention of other trolls to form some other quadrant relationship with them. (He even goes as far as trying to be Vriska’s kismesis again and tries hitting on Rose in the same attempts.) From Kanaya, we learn that Eridan is a bit of a tool and overbearing on every relationship he forms.
But lets move past Eridan’s sad, pitiable romance issues and move onto his exaggerated emotional theatrics. He is a very emotional kind of guy but sometimes overly exaggerates the situation because he is a bit pompous at times. Although he is able to get serious, going as far as dropping his accent for Feferi to show how serious he was about being committed to the relationship. Though his massive ego and arrogance gets him worked up, his tough façade does crumble when faced by, well, pretty much anything and will sometimes admit that he is a bit of an asshole (he is) or feels like one. This is best seen when he outright insulted Sollux and then felt bad five seconds later when he found out Sollux had died saving Feferi. When he realizes what a jackass he makes himself out to be, he tends to get very frustrated with himself or doesn’t know what to do. Sometimes he punches himself in the head, other times he holds his head in his hands lamenting about what a fuckass he is. And yet still, he actually seeks out help from the other trolls to fix his problems. He’s basically a handful to handle whether you’re his friend or not. All excuses to indulge in more emotional theatrics.
All that aside Eridan is pretty badass. When he is first introduced, he is shown being exactly that by taking down a large whale lusus with his gun (Ahab’s Crosshairs). He is also seen to be an unstoppable badass when he FLARPS (extreme roleplaying) because his respiteblock (equivalent of room) is full of treasure chests of rare prizes, treasure, and even deadly weapons that he has amassed in his many sweeps of EXTREME ROLEPLAYING. In fact, it has been hinted that his hive may actually be a spoil from his campaigns. Amongst his collection also includes statues (presumably of legendary conquerors) and a hidden wand collection in a refrigerator. (Because Faygo is nasty shit and doesn’t belong in your refrigerator, silly readers.) He is interested in magic and wizards but firmly insists he believes it to be FAKEY FAKE FAKE. However, despite this disbelief he is very fascinated with it and also pestered Rose to learn her secrets. (He also later pester Kanaya into making a wand to train him in the ways of white magic. I mean. Science.)
And no, Eri Ampora does not live under the steps like many of you may wish to believe all young wizards live. No, but he also does not live in a castle on a cliff like the noble blue bloods. Instead, Eridan lives in a giant land wrecked ship in the middle of the ocean. Which is presumably a spoil from one of his FLARP campaigns since his avatar, Orphaner Dualscar, is the greatest Petticoat Seagrift troll and conqueror of conquest. (And evidentially really skillful at making orphans out of young FLARPing trolls.) His avatar profile is based off stories of military conquerors and their stories which include their GLORY OF VICTORY, STING OF DEFEAT, POLITICAL MACHINATIONS, and ROMANTIC INTRIGUE.
Unexpected from someone like Eridan is his mythological title in the game which is “the Prince of Hope”. What it means, or what powers he gains from this role is unknown. However, it may not be too far off because despite his massive ego of arrogance, hating all life, and being a sea dweller, he spends most of his time out of water. (Though he claims it is to effectively wipe out all forms of life.)
To kind of match his attitude and everything he represents (read; Harry Potter, Hipsters, Villians, Royal Pain in the Ass, etc.), Eridan dresses very flamboyantly for a troll. His outfit, a mix of Harry Potter, villains, royalty and hipsters, which consists of a purple highlight in his hair, a wide assortment of rings, a high collared cape with a striped scarf and striped pants as well as trendy glasses.
Eridan is also said to have a bit of an accent, what kind of an accent is unknown. However ANDREW HUSSIE has said that he pronounces his double v’s as “w”s. His speech impediment for trollian goes a little like this; a vvery wweird and sort of wwavvy soundin accent. Doubling the vs and ws and dropping the "g" in "ing". He sometimes replaces "of" or "an" with "a". His trollian handle is caligulasAquarium and his font color is the color of his blood. He is also associated with Aquarius.
So let's conclude the wheel of feelins and problems, we've found out Eridan is;
♒ a bit of a tool
♒ has an overpowering genocide complex
♒ has a sworn duty to kill all land dwellers
♒ is overbearing
♒ likes white science (aka fakey fakey fake magic)
♒ Harry Potter, Dear Readers
♒ is the second royal person and number one royal pain in the ass
♒ hipster
♒ speaks with a wwavvy accent
♒ has exaggerated emotional theatrics and induldges in them
♒ admires militant history and conquerors
♒ has serious feelins and problems
Other: n/a
Additional Links: n/a
Player nickname:
Player DW:idgiebay
Way to contact you:
Email: idgiebay[at]gmail.com
AIM: idgie rp
Other: PM
Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: None
Character: Tavros Nitram
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History:
In the first part of Homestuck: Act 5, we're introduced to a race of beings called trolls. The planet they're from is Alternia, which is mostly inhabited by children, as the vast majority of adults travel off-world to join the ongoing battle for galactic conquest. Tavros is one of twelve troll children featured.
One of the first things one might notice about Tavros is that he's wheelchair-bound. We learn that this is due to an accident during a FLARP session that took place an uncertain amount time ago. FLARP (somewhat like a troll equivalent of LARP) is an extreme, real-life roleplaying activity that poses the real dangers of death and/or dismemberment (among other things), and it is said to be used as a means of practice for the trials a troll will face in adulthood. During a flashback, we're shown the aforementioned session; Tavros is caught between a cliff and several high-level enemies. He does the math and comes to the conclusion that, no matter what he rolls, his predicament won't have a favorable outcome, so he opts to give up instead. Vriska, his Clouder (or Dungeon Master), intervenes. She criticizes him for being a coward and tries to pressure him into rolling the dice. When he refuses to do so, however, she uses her psychic powers to manipulate his body and make him jump off of the cliff, costing him the use of his legs.
This sparks a violent cycle of revenge, which results in the death of Tavros' friend and FLARP teammate, Aradia, and causes irreparable damage to the other trolls involved. In short, Aradia used her powers to send the ghosts of Vriska's past victims to mess with her. In turn, Vriska forced Sollux to consume mind honey, which caused his powers to go out of control; he ended up destroying Aradia's hive, as well as Aradia herself. Suspecting Vriska was somehow responsible, Terezi advised Doc Scratch that Vriska was in possession of a magic cue ball, which resulted in said cue ball exploding in Vriska's face, costing her an arm and her Vision Eightfold. Vriska then, once again, controlled Tavros' mind and forced him to commune with Terezi's lusus, who urged a sleeping Terezi to wander outside and look at the sun, which blinded her.
Since then, Tavros understandably hasn't partaken in any FLARP sessions. He's tried his best to avoid Vriska, as well, but is soon forced to interact with her when they all decide to play SGRUB, which is when the real adventure starts.
According to a prophetic dream Sollux had, Alternia is slated for destruction, and the only way to save it is by playing a game Aradia found in the ruins near her hive. Sollux is able to hack and reformat the game to be compatible with their computers, and the twelve of them form two competing teams: the red team and the blue team. The purpose of the game, to put it very simply, is to level up by defeating enemies, eventually becoming strong enough to take on the Big Boss and obtain the prize of a new universe. It runs on a server/client system. One player, acting as the server, connects to another player's computer, known as the client, and is able to control that player's environment. After a series of complicated events that involve crafting totems, punching cards, and creating items, the client player is then transferred into the medium of SGRUB, to a planet that is unique to them.
It happens that Vriska is Tavros' server player. Once Tavros is transferred to his planet, the Land of Sand and Zephyr, he makes a rocket-powered wheelchair and spends most of his time completing useless side quests with an army of imps and ogres backing him, thanks to his ability to commune with and befriend animals and other creatures.
Frustrated by Tavros' time-wasting obsession, Vriska guides him to the gate that leads to her world, the Land of Maps and Treasure. She greets him with a surprising kiss--surprising to both of them, apparently, as she then drops him to the ground and looks shocked.
Why she kissed him isn't clear; it's possible she harbors romantic feelings for him, but not the kind someone like you or I might think. Trolls have a somewhat complicated relationship structure. To avoid going into excruciating detail, I'll just link the explanation, if that's all right. I'd be more than happy to write it out myself if need be, though! That being said, she may have desired to be his kismesis, which Karkat suspects is the case, or she may have had actual red feelings for him.
Whatever the case may actually be, the two come to an understanding off-screen and proceed to hunt for treasure together, until they're interrupted by Aradia, now a robot and on a quest for vengeance. She beats Vriska to near death and then disappears to take care of other business, saddling Tavros with Vriska's bloodied body. Uncertain of what to do, Tavros attempts to revive her with a kiss but is stopped by Vriska's recently awakened dream self, who uses her powers to make Tavros choke himself. Then, using her blood as ink and Tavros' finger as a quill, she informs him that she's not quite dead yet and instructs him to take her to her Quest Cocoon, so she can die there and achieve God Tier.
Tavros does as he's told, but upon Vriska's insistence that he kill her instead of letting her bleed to death, he freezes up and then runs away, leaving her to do just that. The experience is extremely traumatizing for him; he spends practically the rest of the game sleeping, seeking refuge on Prospit's moon (the place he inhabits in the dream world), where he can walk and fly and be happy and carefree.
Not long after, through a combination of strategy and sheer luck, the trolls are able to defeat the Black King and reach the end of the game. Their prize is a newly-created universe, which they assume they will inhabit and populate, since Alternia is doomed. Just as they're about to claim their prize, though, a phenomenon called the Scratch takes place, which they assumed opened a gateway between their game session and another.
It turns out the universe they created is ours. Millions of years in the future, a group of four kids is playing SBURB, which is the game Aradia found in the ruins and which Sollux reprogrammed to make SGRUB. Due to a series of unfortunate events, these kids will decide to implement the Scratch in order to reset their game session. When a session resets, everything is destroyed. In order to save himself, Jack Noir--a former agent of Derse, now an unbeatable enemy--teleports himself to a different session: the trolls'.
Forced to hide, the trolls seek refuge on an asteroid in the Veil. Here, Tavros continues sleeping his time away. In an act of... friendship or mercy or something... Kanaya uses her chainsaw to remove Tavros' legs while he sleeps, making way for the robotic legs that Equius fashioned for him. This excites Tavros and makes him feel empowered and more self-confident! He seems to have a problem with stairs, though, which Equius warned him about, but he insists on trying, anyway.
At this point, Karkat discovers that he can use the chat program Trollian to watch the humans at various points in their time-line. After watching their SBURB gaming session, he comes to the conclusion that it's all their fault that the trolls didn't get their prize, so he resolves to troll them relentlessly and orders the others to do so as well.
Tavros isn't the best troll, and he often gets trolled in return. His first target is the human Dave, whose counter-trolling is so good that Tavros ends up blocking him. He then turns to Rose, another human and Dave's friend, and asks the best way to get on Dave's nerves, to which she answers, 'poetry'.
'Slam Poetry' (basically rap) happens to be one of the "oldest, most revered, and certainly freshest" art forms in Alternia's rich history, and Tavros likes to engage in it. He proceeds to troll Dave with sick rhymes (they're awful, really), which Dave ignores. Tavros, however, is satisfied. At times it seems like he may have a crush on Dave, but it's mostly due to using human phrases that he's not familiar with. His feelings appear closer to admiration, as shown later when the two finally, er... 'meet' in a bubble.
But before I get ahead of myself, Tavros does attempt to troll Jade for a while. The two share a common love of the dream world. He talks to her throughout various points in her time-line and even saves her life when she's a child by communing with her guardian, Bec, who teleports a rifle and bullet safely away before Jade succeeds in shooting herself in the face. Unfortunately, the bullet is teleported in front of her grandpa, who is killed. Tavros doesn't see the problem with this, as he's sure Grandpa was an intruder on Jade's land, and Bec was her lusus. This is because--TANGENT ALERT--trolls do not have family units. They are born of a creature called the Mother Grub, who takes the trolls' genetic material collected by the Imperial Drones, mixes it into "one, diabolical incestuous slurry", and lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at once. The eggs hatch into wrigglers, who later pupate and grow into trolls. Those who are able to survive the tumultuous trials of the brooding caverns are then selected by a lusus (a creature native to Alternia) who aids them in digging to the surface, and then becomes that troll's Custodian.
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Character: Tavros Nitram
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History:
In the first part of Homestuck: Act 5, we're introduced to a race of beings called trolls. The planet they're from is Alternia, which is mostly inhabited by children, as the vast majority of adults travel off-world to join the ongoing battle for galactic conquest. Tavros is one of twelve troll children featured.
One of the first things one might notice about Tavros is that he's wheelchair-bound. We learn that this is due to an accident during a FLARP session that took place an uncertain amount time ago. FLARP (somewhat like a troll equivalent of LARP) is an extreme, real-life roleplaying activity that poses the real dangers of death and/or dismemberment (among other things), and it is said to be used as a means of practice for the trials a troll will face in adulthood. During a flashback, we're shown the aforementioned session; Tavros is caught between a cliff and several high-level enemies. He does the math and comes to the conclusion that, no matter what he rolls, his predicament won't have a favorable outcome, so he opts to give up instead. Vriska, his Clouder (or Dungeon Master), intervenes. She criticizes him for being a coward and tries to pressure him into rolling the dice. When he refuses to do so, however, she uses her psychic powers to manipulate his body and make him jump off of the cliff, costing him the use of his legs.
This sparks a violent cycle of revenge, which results in the death of Tavros' friend and FLARP teammate, Aradia, and causes irreparable damage to the other trolls involved. In short, Aradia used her powers to send the ghosts of Vriska's past victims to mess with her. In turn, Vriska forced Sollux to consume mind honey, which caused his powers to go out of control; he ended up destroying Aradia's hive, as well as Aradia herself. Suspecting Vriska was somehow responsible, Terezi advised Doc Scratch that Vriska was in possession of a magic cue ball, which resulted in said cue ball exploding in Vriska's face, costing her an arm and her Vision Eightfold. Vriska then, once again, controlled Tavros' mind and forced him to commune with Terezi's lusus, who urged a sleeping Terezi to wander outside and look at the sun, which blinded her.
Since then, Tavros understandably hasn't partaken in any FLARP sessions. He's tried his best to avoid Vriska, as well, but is soon forced to interact with her when they all decide to play SGRUB, which is when the real adventure starts.
According to a prophetic dream Sollux had, Alternia is slated for destruction, and the only way to save it is by playing a game Aradia found in the ruins near her hive. Sollux is able to hack and reformat the game to be compatible with their computers, and the twelve of them form two competing teams: the red team and the blue team. The purpose of the game, to put it very simply, is to level up by defeating enemies, eventually becoming strong enough to take on the Big Boss and obtain the prize of a new universe. It runs on a server/client system. One player, acting as the server, connects to another player's computer, known as the client, and is able to control that player's environment. After a series of complicated events that involve crafting totems, punching cards, and creating items, the client player is then transferred into the medium of SGRUB, to a planet that is unique to them.
It happens that Vriska is Tavros' server player. Once Tavros is transferred to his planet, the Land of Sand and Zephyr, he makes a rocket-powered wheelchair and spends most of his time completing useless side quests with an army of imps and ogres backing him, thanks to his ability to commune with and befriend animals and other creatures.
Frustrated by Tavros' time-wasting obsession, Vriska guides him to the gate that leads to her world, the Land of Maps and Treasure. She greets him with a surprising kiss--surprising to both of them, apparently, as she then drops him to the ground and looks shocked.
Why she kissed him isn't clear; it's possible she harbors romantic feelings for him, but not the kind someone like you or I might think. Trolls have a somewhat complicated relationship structure. To avoid going into excruciating detail, I'll just link the explanation, if that's all right. I'd be more than happy to write it out myself if need be, though! That being said, she may have desired to be his kismesis, which Karkat suspects is the case, or she may have had actual red feelings for him.
Whatever the case may actually be, the two come to an understanding off-screen and proceed to hunt for treasure together, until they're interrupted by Aradia, now a robot and on a quest for vengeance. She beats Vriska to near death and then disappears to take care of other business, saddling Tavros with Vriska's bloodied body. Uncertain of what to do, Tavros attempts to revive her with a kiss but is stopped by Vriska's recently awakened dream self, who uses her powers to make Tavros choke himself. Then, using her blood as ink and Tavros' finger as a quill, she informs him that she's not quite dead yet and instructs him to take her to her Quest Cocoon, so she can die there and achieve God Tier.
Tavros does as he's told, but upon Vriska's insistence that he kill her instead of letting her bleed to death, he freezes up and then runs away, leaving her to do just that. The experience is extremely traumatizing for him; he spends practically the rest of the game sleeping, seeking refuge on Prospit's moon (the place he inhabits in the dream world), where he can walk and fly and be happy and carefree.
Not long after, through a combination of strategy and sheer luck, the trolls are able to defeat the Black King and reach the end of the game. Their prize is a newly-created universe, which they assume they will inhabit and populate, since Alternia is doomed. Just as they're about to claim their prize, though, a phenomenon called the Scratch takes place, which they assumed opened a gateway between their game session and another.
It turns out the universe they created is ours. Millions of years in the future, a group of four kids is playing SBURB, which is the game Aradia found in the ruins and which Sollux reprogrammed to make SGRUB. Due to a series of unfortunate events, these kids will decide to implement the Scratch in order to reset their game session. When a session resets, everything is destroyed. In order to save himself, Jack Noir--a former agent of Derse, now an unbeatable enemy--teleports himself to a different session: the trolls'.
Forced to hide, the trolls seek refuge on an asteroid in the Veil. Here, Tavros continues sleeping his time away. In an act of... friendship or mercy or something... Kanaya uses her chainsaw to remove Tavros' legs while he sleeps, making way for the robotic legs that Equius fashioned for him. This excites Tavros and makes him feel empowered and more self-confident! He seems to have a problem with stairs, though, which Equius warned him about, but he insists on trying, anyway.
At this point, Karkat discovers that he can use the chat program Trollian to watch the humans at various points in their time-line. After watching their SBURB gaming session, he comes to the conclusion that it's all their fault that the trolls didn't get their prize, so he resolves to troll them relentlessly and orders the others to do so as well.
Tavros isn't the best troll, and he often gets trolled in return. His first target is the human Dave, whose counter-trolling is so good that Tavros ends up blocking him. He then turns to Rose, another human and Dave's friend, and asks the best way to get on Dave's nerves, to which she answers, 'poetry'.
'Slam Poetry' (basically rap) happens to be one of the "oldest, most revered, and certainly freshest" art forms in Alternia's rich history, and Tavros likes to engage in it. He proceeds to troll Dave with sick rhymes (they're awful, really), which Dave ignores. Tavros, however, is satisfied. At times it seems like he may have a crush on Dave, but it's mostly due to using human phrases that he's not familiar with. His feelings appear closer to admiration, as shown later when the two finally, er... 'meet' in a bubble.
But before I get ahead of myself, Tavros does attempt to troll Jade for a while. The two share a common love of the dream world. He talks to her throughout various points in her time-line and even saves her life when she's a child by communing with her guardian, Bec, who teleports a rifle and bullet safely away before Jade succeeds in shooting herself in the face. Unfortunately, the bullet is teleported in front of her grandpa, who is killed. Tavros doesn't see the problem with this, as he's sure Grandpa was an intruder on Jade's land, and Bec was her lusus. This is because--TANGENT ALERT--trolls do not have family units. They are born of a creature called the Mother Grub, who takes the trolls' genetic material collected by the Imperial Drones, mixes it into "one, diabolical incestuous slurry", and lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at once. The eggs hatch into wrigglers, who later pupate and grow into trolls. Those who are able to survive the tumultuous trials of the brooding caverns are then selected by a lusus (a creature native to Alternia) who aids them in digging to the surface, and then becomes that troll's Custodian.
First Person (entry type): -- caligulasAquarium [CA] began trolling ducklingDrama [DD] --
oh my gog fef i knoww youre out
and i cant get ahold of you so please check your husktop
but today i saw a wwhale
and it was the most glorious thing ivve evver seen in this city
its really big like the lusus wwe used to hunt
and it has horns
a giant wwhale wwith horns fef
contact me back wwhen you get back from wwhereevver
or wwhatevver
just find me
ill be at our hivve by the sea
-- caligulasAquarium [CA] ceased trolling ducklingDrama [DD] --
-- caligulasAquarium [CA] began trolling ducklingDrama [DD] --
the wwhale has been slain
just look at this fuckin thing its bigger than my respiteblock back in alternia
wwe havve enough to feast upon
but fuck if im sharin with you grubby land dwwellers
i dont care wwhat fef says
you should all get your owwn cod damn gut fulfillments
Third Person: The thrill of conquest, when he besieges upon the weak citadels of land dwelling trolls, is to Eridan like candy is to a grubby child. Sweet and mindblowing. How he enjoys reaping the rare treasures and glorious prizes from the undeserving, crushing their pride, their dreams , goals, sometimes their guardians. (He does, however, leave their demise up to his partner in crime, Mindfang.)
The sting of defeat is something he has never felt, and never will because he is a beautiful animal with raw power that cannot be in abeyance within his person, no. He is a conqueror, a troll of militant and supremacy strength. His profile is like that of the idols of history which he closely studies to perfect his arabesque person. He is glorious like his victory.
Except not today.
Today is absolutely the worst day in Eridan’s young troll life. Never has he had a day as bad as this from the time he hatched as a grubby wriggler to this moment. No, today surely takes first place for being the most terrible moment of his life because he appears, from his perspectives, to be in a city that is ravaged by destruction. A city that has met its demise by doomsday measures and has since become a sad empty shell of it’s former days. But it is not the city that makes Eridan grind his ghastly teeth in frustration and scowl like the great people before him in a time of stress. No.
There is all this destruction around him staring him right in the husk. All this destruction in this one single city that he didn’t destroy! Blasphemy! No, bullshit blasphemy! That another troll could exist to wipe out another planet. (He’s pretty sure this isn’t Alternia because the buildings look nothing like the hives of his planet.) Eridan feels so angry at himself because of this. But he feels more angry at the poor sadsack of malarial spew who brought him here to rub their malarial spewin victory all over his face. He balls a fist, bopping himself in the head repeatedly albeit to his frustration. All while disregarding the nearby monsters that creep and lurk close by in the shadows that he’d been fighting up until the moment of realization of his evident failure.
But then, Eridan stops in another moment of apprehension. Perhaps this was a sign. A sign of blackdom. Had he at last finally founded his fated enemy, at last someone who would be linked to him with hatred, and at last the troll who would fulfill one of his quadrants needed during the brood.
At last dear readers, Eridan had found his kismesissitude in this desolated city which only infuriated Eridan (with excitement?) that they had made the first advancement upon him. He felt like saying ‘hurrah, dear readers, I am not a sad lonely glubber after all’ but that is completely absurd. And not to mention silly, after all, it is just him in this city. Him and his kismesis. But his black blush of thoughts was interrupted by a terrible yowel and in a moment, Eridan was back to shooting monsters. This time he shot monsters with all the rage that he could infinitely have in the divinities. It was a scene that was very dramatic like in a movie where the heroes girlfriend dies and he rides off into battle only to die in battle and discover that his girlfriend was a cheating hookie. Yes, this is exactly the kind of theatrical battle that Eridan ensues for with one final battle gurgle and a SHIT JUST GOT REAL pose he points his gun to the gloomy gray sky and shouts as lightning booms across the sky,
“I WWILL FEEL THEIR BLOOD ON MY HANDS! TONIGHT!”
oh my gog fef i knoww youre out
and i cant get ahold of you so please check your husktop
but today i saw a wwhale
and it was the most glorious thing ivve evver seen in this city
its really big like the lusus wwe used to hunt
and it has horns
a giant wwhale wwith horns fef
contact me back wwhen you get back from wwhereevver
or wwhatevver
just find me
ill be at our hivve by the sea
-- caligulasAquarium [CA] ceased trolling ducklingDrama [DD] --
-- caligulasAquarium [CA] began trolling ducklingDrama [DD] --
the wwhale has been slain
just look at this fuckin thing its bigger than my respiteblock back in alternia
wwe havve enough to feast upon
but fuck if im sharin with you grubby land dwwellers
i dont care wwhat fef says
you should all get your owwn cod damn gut fulfillments
Third Person: The thrill of conquest, when he besieges upon the weak citadels of land dwelling trolls, is to Eridan like candy is to a grubby child. Sweet and mindblowing. How he enjoys reaping the rare treasures and glorious prizes from the undeserving, crushing their pride, their dreams , goals, sometimes their guardians. (He does, however, leave their demise up to his partner in crime, Mindfang.)
The sting of defeat is something he has never felt, and never will because he is a beautiful animal with raw power that cannot be in abeyance within his person, no. He is a conqueror, a troll of militant and supremacy strength. His profile is like that of the idols of history which he closely studies to perfect his arabesque person. He is glorious like his victory.
Except not today.
Today is absolutely the worst day in Eridan’s young troll life. Never has he had a day as bad as this from the time he hatched as a grubby wriggler to this moment. No, today surely takes first place for being the most terrible moment of his life because he appears, from his perspectives, to be in a city that is ravaged by destruction. A city that has met its demise by doomsday measures and has since become a sad empty shell of it’s former days. But it is not the city that makes Eridan grind his ghastly teeth in frustration and scowl like the great people before him in a time of stress. No.
There is all this destruction around him staring him right in the husk. All this destruction in this one single city that he didn’t destroy! Blasphemy! No, bullshit blasphemy! That another troll could exist to wipe out another planet. (He’s pretty sure this isn’t Alternia because the buildings look nothing like the hives of his planet.) Eridan feels so angry at himself because of this. But he feels more angry at the poor sadsack of malarial spew who brought him here to rub their malarial spewin victory all over his face. He balls a fist, bopping himself in the head repeatedly albeit to his frustration. All while disregarding the nearby monsters that creep and lurk close by in the shadows that he’d been fighting up until the moment of realization of his evident failure.
But then, Eridan stops in another moment of apprehension. Perhaps this was a sign. A sign of blackdom. Had he at last finally founded his fated enemy, at last someone who would be linked to him with hatred, and at last the troll who would fulfill one of his quadrants needed during the brood.
At last dear readers, Eridan had found his kismesissitude in this desolated city which only infuriated Eridan (with excitement?) that they had made the first advancement upon him. He felt like saying ‘hurrah, dear readers, I am not a sad lonely glubber after all’ but that is completely absurd. And not to mention silly, after all, it is just him in this city. Him and his kismesis. But his black blush of thoughts was interrupted by a terrible yowel and in a moment, Eridan was back to shooting monsters. This time he shot monsters with all the rage that he could infinitely have in the divinities. It was a scene that was very dramatic like in a movie where the heroes girlfriend dies and he rides off into battle only to die in battle and discover that his girlfriend was a cheating hookie. Yes, this is exactly the kind of theatrical battle that Eridan ensues for with one final battle gurgle and a SHIT JUST GOT REAL pose he points his gun to the gloomy gray sky and shouts as lightning booms across the sky,
“I WWILL FEEL THEIR BLOOD ON MY HANDS! TONIGHT!”
Jade corrects Tavros, explaining that Grandpa was not an intruder at all! Tavros doesn't seem apologetic, at first; he confuses self-esteem for never needing to apologize. He then tries to hit on Jade and admits that he has a crush on her, but it's incredibly, painfully awkward. Suffice it to say, Jade does not return the feelings, but they do agree to be friends, after she tells him how awful it was to grow up and never know what happened to Grandpa.
Later, Vriska boasts that she's responsible for creating the monster that Jack Noir became. Enraged by this, Tavros grabs his lance with the intent to kill Vriska, perhaps showing the most negativity he's ever felt. He engages her in battle, but she manages to take his weapon and stab him with it, sending him flying off the edge of a platform. He eventually lands on the floor next to Terezi, who pronounces him dead. She tries to revive him with a kiss, but as Prospit and all the dream selves inhabiting it have been destroyed by Jack Noir, it's no use; there's no way to bring him back.
After his death, his ghost visits the ghost of a Dave (there are a few, thanks to Dave being the Knight of Time and creating several copies of himself via stable time loops) in a dream bubble and flails at him and his awesomeness.
Whether Tavros is permanently dead or not remains to be seen, as Homestuck is an ongoing webcomic. As of now, though, this is where his story ends.
Personality:
Tavros is a sensitive soul. He likes fairies, fantasies, card games, and catching and training the various fauna of Alternia. His hero is Pupa Pan, a troll version of Peter Pan, and he is extremely fascinated by the concept of flight because of it.
Basically, he is what most trolls try not to be. As a race, they are meant to be ruthless and violent in order to withstand the trials of adulthood; killing those of a lower class isn't frowned upon and is, in fact, encouraged in some cases. Their relationships are based on the primary emotions of hatred and pity. Yet, of the twelve trolls, Tavros seems to be the nicest and most naive, possibly even ignorant of his own shortcomings as a troll. Karkat theorizes that Tavros is incapable of hate, even when it comes to the one who's relentlessly tortured him.
If it wasn't made clear in the history section, Tavros has self-esteem issues. In order to deal with this, he's taken the advice of Kanaya and personified his self-esteem. He's named it Rufio, and he talks to him on a regular basis, careful not to let anything or anyone hurt his feelings, though it isn't always effective; in the end, he knows that Rufio is fake, and Tavros' self-esteem suffers, anyway.
This changes a bit when he receives his robotic legs. He feels "great and really confident suddenly", as if Rufio has given him both the high fives he has, and "sort of one of those bro massages, as if to say, 'You're the champ!'". Terezi urges him to never let anyone tell him Rufio isn't real, because if you believe in something imaginary hard enough, that makes it less fake! This encourages Tavros to do reckless things, like take on a flight of stairs, which he's been warned against.
Even with his confidence backing him, though, his self-esteem isn't fool-proof. In fact, one might argue that his confidence is false to begin with, as he has to keep assuring himself and others that he is confident, to the point that it's incredibly awkward. The first sign he shows of true confidence is when he decides he has to stop Vriska; unfortunately, that ends in his death.
Because of his uncertainty, he speaks in a halting manner, with a lot of 'uhhs' and 'umms' and pauses interjected.
Other:
The troll caste system is based on blood color; Tavros' blood is orange-brown (not unlike peanut butter!), which puts him just above red--the lowest class--in social standing. Like many trolls in the lower class, though, he doesn't seem to care about that sort of thing.
On a related note, when trolls chat online, it's customary for them to use their blood color as their chosen font color, and type with quirks that fit their personalities and usual way of speaking. As such, Tavros types uHH, lIKE THIS,
As mentioned in the history section, Tavros is able to communicate with and influence all manner of beast. This ability apparently transcends time and space, as he is able to commune with Bec, despite being separated by universes and millions of years. He used this ability to control the underlings in his session, gaining experience that way instead of through battle.
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First Person (entry type):
[sample 1]
dEAR JOURNAL,
kARKAT SAYS i SHOULD STOP CALLING YOU A DIARY,
bECAUSE DIARIES ARE WHAT GIRLS WRITE IN, i GUESS, oR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
aNYWAY,
i'M GOING TO TRY THIS THING THAT kANAYA SUGGESTED TO ME,
tO, uHH, hELP MY SELF ESTEEM, tHAT IS,
sO STARTING RIGHT NOW, i'M NOT GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE THAT UPSET ME,
bECAUSE THAT WILL HURT rUFIO'S FEELINGS, aND HURT FEELINGS AREN'T GOOD FOR HIM, aS THEY MAKE HIM FEEL VERY SMALL AND THEN, aS A CONSEQUENCE, vERY ANGRY,
aND YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIKE HIM, wHEN HE'S ANGRY,
sO, uHH, i HOPE NOBODY MINDS OR, iS OFFENDED, tHAT i'M GOING TO DO THIS THING,
oK,
uM,
i THINK THAT'S IT,
(pS, oH YEAH, rUFIO IS THE NAME OF MY SELF ESTEEM,)
---
[sample 2]
wHO DO YOU TALK TO CONCERNING ABOUT, yOU KNOW, fEELINGS, oR THINGS OF THAT NATURE,
i TRIED TALKING TO rUFIO BUT, iT WASN'T THE MOST HELPFUL THING TO DO AS, bEING MY SELF ESTEEM, hE DOESN'T REALLY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SITUATION THAN i DO,
aND, oH YEAH, hE'S ALSO A FAKE,
tHERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT, mAYBE, aRE KIND OF UPSETTING ME RIGHT NOW, i GUESS, aND, uHH,
i DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, }:(
Third Person:
"Okay, you had better prepare yourself because, uhh, I'm really going to give it to you this time!" Tavros grinned at Tinkerbull, who stared back in anticipation. Poised in the troll's hand was a yellow Oogonibomb, containing a fiduspawn only he knew the identity of. It was the perfect match against Tinkerbull's tortoillini; the lusus would never see it coming.
With a proud battle cry, Tavros threw the bomb. It hit the ground and burst open next to the tortoillini, who fled the scene a lot quicker than one of his type should. (Tavros noted the high speed attribute excitedly; this mash up was very likely to yield some good results.) In the wake of the blast was a blue fidusucker with a long body, four skinny legs, and a long, pink tongue. It wasted no time seeking out a host plush to lay its egg in. In no time, the plush burst open, and, after a shout of "Lizardna, I choose you!" from Tavros, a slimy, blue fiduspawn slithered away from the mess. Tinkerbull was on pins and needles!
The lizardna sought the tortoillini, who was cowering in a corner. With a little nudge from Tavros (not that anybody needed to know that part), the lizardna made his move with a flashy charm spell. The tortoillini was immediately swept off its feet. Success!
Now all Tavros had to do was let them get to know each other a little better, and surely a mating scenario would commence. Who knew what kind of offspring they'd produce? The suspense would be killing Tavros for the next few days.
Still grinning, Tavros looked at his lusus. "Good game! You're, uhh, getting a lot better."
Tinkerbull said nothing, though he didn't have to; Tavros could understand him easily by their mental connection. His lusus was proud, and that was enough for the troll. All in all, it was a job well done, and Tavros remained the best (and only) fiduspawn master on this side of Alternia. "Now, let's get some battle practice in." After all, even a commander of all manner of beasts needed to devote time to his own training, if he ever hoped to be a cavalreaper. (He pointedly ignored the voice in the back of his mind that sounded suspiciously like a certain sp8der telling him that Her Royal Condescension would sooner have him culled than allow a cripple like him into the ranks; Tavros was an expert at deluding himself to save his mental state.)
He archived his lance into his sylladex and wheeled himself out the door, Tinkerbull close behind. He would spend the rest of the night sparring with his jousting dummy, mostly because it was fun, but also because it made him feel that much less useless. It was similar with fiduspawn. This way, he was good at two things his friends couldn't do, and that gave him a short lived spark of confidence.
Later, Vriska boasts that she's responsible for creating the monster that Jack Noir became. Enraged by this, Tavros grabs his lance with the intent to kill Vriska, perhaps showing the most negativity he's ever felt. He engages her in battle, but she manages to take his weapon and stab him with it, sending him flying off the edge of a platform. He eventually lands on the floor next to Terezi, who pronounces him dead. She tries to revive him with a kiss, but as Prospit and all the dream selves inhabiting it have been destroyed by Jack Noir, it's no use; there's no way to bring him back.
After his death, his ghost visits the ghost of a Dave (there are a few, thanks to Dave being the Knight of Time and creating several copies of himself via stable time loops) in a dream bubble and flails at him and his awesomeness.
Whether Tavros is permanently dead or not remains to be seen, as Homestuck is an ongoing webcomic. As of now, though, this is where his story ends.
Personality:
Tavros is a sensitive soul. He likes fairies, fantasies, card games, and catching and training the various fauna of Alternia. His hero is Pupa Pan, a troll version of Peter Pan, and he is extremely fascinated by the concept of flight because of it.
Basically, he is what most trolls try not to be. As a race, they are meant to be ruthless and violent in order to withstand the trials of adulthood; killing those of a lower class isn't frowned upon and is, in fact, encouraged in some cases. Their relationships are based on the primary emotions of hatred and pity. Yet, of the twelve trolls, Tavros seems to be the nicest and most naive, possibly even ignorant of his own shortcomings as a troll. Karkat theorizes that Tavros is incapable of hate, even when it comes to the one who's relentlessly tortured him.
If it wasn't made clear in the history section, Tavros has self-esteem issues. In order to deal with this, he's taken the advice of Kanaya and personified his self-esteem. He's named it Rufio, and he talks to him on a regular basis, careful not to let anything or anyone hurt his feelings, though it isn't always effective; in the end, he knows that Rufio is fake, and Tavros' self-esteem suffers, anyway.
This changes a bit when he receives his robotic legs. He feels "great and really confident suddenly", as if Rufio has given him both the high fives he has, and "sort of one of those bro massages, as if to say, 'You're the champ!'". Terezi urges him to never let anyone tell him Rufio isn't real, because if you believe in something imaginary hard enough, that makes it less fake! This encourages Tavros to do reckless things, like take on a flight of stairs, which he's been warned against.
Even with his confidence backing him, though, his self-esteem isn't fool-proof. In fact, one might argue that his confidence is false to begin with, as he has to keep assuring himself and others that he is confident, to the point that it's incredibly awkward. The first sign he shows of true confidence is when he decides he has to stop Vriska; unfortunately, that ends in his death.
Because of his uncertainty, he speaks in a halting manner, with a lot of 'uhhs' and 'umms' and pauses interjected.
Other:
The troll caste system is based on blood color; Tavros' blood is orange-brown (not unlike peanut butter!), which puts him just above red--the lowest class--in social standing. Like many trolls in the lower class, though, he doesn't seem to care about that sort of thing.
On a related note, when trolls chat online, it's customary for them to use their blood color as their chosen font color, and type with quirks that fit their personalities and usual way of speaking. As such, Tavros types uHH, lIKE THIS,
As mentioned in the history section, Tavros is able to communicate with and influence all manner of beast. This ability apparently transcends time and space, as he is able to commune with Bec, despite being separated by universes and millions of years. He used this ability to control the underlings in his session, gaining experience that way instead of through battle.
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[sample 1]
dEAR JOURNAL,
kARKAT SAYS i SHOULD STOP CALLING YOU A DIARY,
bECAUSE DIARIES ARE WHAT GIRLS WRITE IN, i GUESS, oR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
aNYWAY,
i'M GOING TO TRY THIS THING THAT kANAYA SUGGESTED TO ME,
tO, uHH, hELP MY SELF ESTEEM, tHAT IS,
sO STARTING RIGHT NOW, i'M NOT GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE THAT UPSET ME,
bECAUSE THAT WILL HURT rUFIO'S FEELINGS, aND HURT FEELINGS AREN'T GOOD FOR HIM, aS THEY MAKE HIM FEEL VERY SMALL AND THEN, aS A CONSEQUENCE, vERY ANGRY,
aND YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIKE HIM, wHEN HE'S ANGRY,
sO, uHH, i HOPE NOBODY MINDS OR, iS OFFENDED, tHAT i'M GOING TO DO THIS THING,
oK,
uM,
i THINK THAT'S IT,
(pS, oH YEAH, rUFIO IS THE NAME OF MY SELF ESTEEM,)
---
[sample 2]
wHO DO YOU TALK TO CONCERNING ABOUT, yOU KNOW, fEELINGS, oR THINGS OF THAT NATURE,
i TRIED TALKING TO rUFIO BUT, iT WASN'T THE MOST HELPFUL THING TO DO AS, bEING MY SELF ESTEEM, hE DOESN'T REALLY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SITUATION THAN i DO,
aND, oH YEAH, hE'S ALSO A FAKE,
tHERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT, mAYBE, aRE KIND OF UPSETTING ME RIGHT NOW, i GUESS, aND, uHH,
i DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, }:(
Third Person:
"Okay, you had better prepare yourself because, uhh, I'm really going to give it to you this time!" Tavros grinned at Tinkerbull, who stared back in anticipation. Poised in the troll's hand was a yellow Oogonibomb, containing a fiduspawn only he knew the identity of. It was the perfect match against Tinkerbull's tortoillini; the lusus would never see it coming.
With a proud battle cry, Tavros threw the bomb. It hit the ground and burst open next to the tortoillini, who fled the scene a lot quicker than one of his type should. (Tavros noted the high speed attribute excitedly; this mash up was very likely to yield some good results.) In the wake of the blast was a blue fidusucker with a long body, four skinny legs, and a long, pink tongue. It wasted no time seeking out a host plush to lay its egg in. In no time, the plush burst open, and, after a shout of "Lizardna, I choose you!" from Tavros, a slimy, blue fiduspawn slithered away from the mess. Tinkerbull was on pins and needles!
The lizardna sought the tortoillini, who was cowering in a corner. With a little nudge from Tavros (not that anybody needed to know that part), the lizardna made his move with a flashy charm spell. The tortoillini was immediately swept off its feet. Success!
Now all Tavros had to do was let them get to know each other a little better, and surely a mating scenario would commence. Who knew what kind of offspring they'd produce? The suspense would be killing Tavros for the next few days.
Still grinning, Tavros looked at his lusus. "Good game! You're, uhh, getting a lot better."
Tinkerbull said nothing, though he didn't have to; Tavros could understand him easily by their mental connection. His lusus was proud, and that was enough for the troll. All in all, it was a job well done, and Tavros remained the best (and only) fiduspawn master on this side of Alternia. "Now, let's get some battle practice in." After all, even a commander of all manner of beasts needed to devote time to his own training, if he ever hoped to be a cavalreaper. (He pointedly ignored the voice in the back of his mind that sounded suspiciously like a certain sp8der telling him that Her Royal Condescension would sooner have him culled than allow a cripple like him into the ranks; Tavros was an expert at deluding himself to save his mental state.)
He archived his lance into his sylladex and wheeled himself out the door, Tinkerbull close behind. He would spend the rest of the night sparring with his jousting dummy, mostly because it was fun, but also because it made him feel that much less useless. It was similar with fiduspawn. This way, he was good at two things his friends couldn't do, and that gave him a short lived spark of confidence.
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Wwhat kind of a fourm is this anywwavves? Already looked through it and there aren't any quackerbeasts, so no need to fuckin tell me about that. ...not that it wwould havve made a difference if there wwere any. This place is already a disappointment wwith or wwithout quackerbeasts wwaddlin around uselessly wwith their animalistic bleetin and their beady little image soakers soakin in your form.
But it's a disappointment because it's like wwatchin a drama unfold and glorify itself betwween comedy and romance. Just plain sad and pathetic. Usually I wwould applaud at such endeavvors but it's about as excitin as wwatchin evveryone else be gleeful about the stupid humans. Wwhat the glub do you guys evven do?
Do you really just sit around talkin to strangers from other univverses so to speak? Ok. That's not really neww to me and it's not like I havve anythin better to do around this hopeless hole-filled rock, except to bemuse myself in your shenanigans apparently.
Wwhat kind of a fourm is this anywwavves? Already looked through it and there aren't any quackerbeasts, so no need to fuckin tell me about that. ...not that it wwould havve made a difference if there wwere any. This place is already a disappointment wwith or wwithout quackerbeasts wwaddlin around uselessly wwith their animalistic bleetin and their beady little image soakers soakin in your form.
But it's a disappointment because it's like wwatchin a drama unfold and glorify itself betwween comedy and romance. Just plain sad and pathetic. Usually I wwould applaud at such endeavvors but it's about as excitin as wwatchin evveryone else be gleeful about the stupid humans. Wwhat the glub do you guys evven do?
Do you really just sit around talkin to strangers from other univverses so to speak? Ok. That's not really neww to me and it's not like I havve anythin better to do around this hopeless hole-filled rock, except to bemuse myself in your shenanigans apparently.
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First Person (entry type):
Third Person:
History:
Born to hotel chain owner Wilfred Tipton and his third wife, London Tipton had a privileged life from the very beginning. At a young age she was set to reside in Boston's Tipton Hotel where she was taken care of by manager, Marian Mosbey. Though Mosbey was not his biological father for most of his life, he acted as one as her actual father was too busy to be present for her. London grew up spoiled, never having to work a day in her life and therefore it can be understood as to why she is sorely lacking in the intelligence department and the compassion department. Because London has lived in the hotel, most of her closet and most trustworthy friends are actually employees and residents such as Maddie and the troublemaking twins.
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody is a sitcom and London's main role is to serve as a foil for the other teenage female character, Maddie. As London is the mean, dumb, rich girl; Maddie is the kind, smart, poor girl. Though that portrays London as antagonistic, Maddie, at times, can be portrayed as manipulative by using London's stupidity and wealth to her advantage. But despite their opposite traits they are actually quite close and are arguably best friends. Common plotlines that both London and Maddie find themselves in generally explore their relationships as friends and rivals or they act as sidekicks to Zack and Cody's mishaps and adventures. But since this is a sitcom, continuity is not always set in stone and everyone reverts to normal once the 25 minute slot is over.
Personality: London, in simple terms, is Disney's family-friendly parody of Paris Hilton (back when people still cared about Paris). Superficial, airheaded, self-absorbed and apathetic towards the less fortunate; London is the rich friend you put up with because she'll let you drive her sports car if you do. Being the heiress to The Tipton Hotel means she's had a privileged lifestyle since she was a fetus and has the rare ability to do whatever she wants. A trip to Paris on a school night? Sure. Getting a stable because she suddenly has a three-second interest in ponies? Why not. But where London differs from her archetype is that she has heart and moments of insecurities. Abandoned by her parents, compensated with lavish gifts and people who are only interested her for her reputation make her more grounded than one would realize. Even so, the tender moments don't change London's common identity as the mean, dumb hotel heiress.
Generally cheery, London's constant upbeat exterior is due to her obliviousness. She looks nice but speaks bluntly, thinking that the recipient of her harsh words won't be offended because she's London Tipton and it's good enough to be talked directly at. Most people don't bother defending themselves because any retort will be met with a confused expression or a dead stare, their witty insult flying easily over her head. Furthermore, most people get paid or have jobs that depend on how nicely they treat her. Growing up with this misconception of attention has lead London to become spoiled and to her surprise, lonely, as she realizes that people only like her for her name and money (though at times, she does realize people only want her for her money and reputation but only if it's of a mutual benefit). Only a few people, such as the hotel's candy girl, Maddie, and her father figure-like manager, Mr. Mosby care about her with wellbeing, rich or not.
Other than being socially ignorant, London is dumb in the most basic sense of the word. She thinks "PRNDL" (in driving) is a word, has forgotten her last name and though Shakespere's Romeo and Juliet had a 'happy ending'. London's assumption that everyone is in love with her combined with her stupidity can make her an easy target for mockery and manipulation. While tricking her is amusing, it's difficult to have a serious conversation with her because she lacks basic understanding and would fail elementary school even as a late teenager. Though, London, is capable of intellectual clarity which seems to only coincide with her emotional clarity.
Being the child of divorce and having a father who is never around (and as a running joke, never seen) has lead London to create a shield with her dumb heiress reputation to protect herself from feeling lonely. This is represented well on London's Birthday, despite lavishly putting on a party where almost a few hundred people were invited, she was still extremely alone. Both her mother and father refused to see one another causing her to run from one wing of the hotel to the other and due to the number of people when London stepped outside, she was not allowed back in as she was mistaken for an imitator. Despite relying on her money and her fame, in the end, London is nothing even with those things. But this leads her to reconcile with her friend, Maddie (whose own party was overshadowed by London's) and realize that having a lot of things doesn't fill the gaping hole inside.
But again, London still continues to be the airheaded heiress because she is inarguably dumb. Her life is easy and she is still an extremely fortunate person as this is a Disney sitcom, and the power of friendship will always keep her from coming off as a terrible or depressing person.
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All of this typing is chipping my three hundred dollar manicure and looking at the letters on this key thing is making me four-eyed. Why couldn't they put them alphabetically? Like, A... B... D...
C? Or just have London Tipton spread out, that's all anyone would want to type about anyway.
Hmm... What did I want to talk ab-- Oh, right! So daddy won't let Ivana, my beautiful Pomeranian, go on the SS Tipton with me. I need one of you who's good at taking care of dogs to dogsit her and I want only the best for my baby. Does anyone need me to repeat me for them? I need you [she points to the camera] to do something for me! [and then forgets to point at herself]
Otherwise I'm going to have to ask Maddie of all people. I mean, her hair looks like a chicken farm, I've seen feathers come out of it and I don't want someone who I can't trust with a hairbrush to touch my darling Ivana. What do poor people say? Treat people... And award-winning show dogs, the same way you'd want to be treated!
So if anyone's interested in being paid a thousand dollars to stay in my suite and look after her then leave me your details and I'll get back you. Also provide a picture because if you can't dress yourself then forget about going anywhere near me or Ivana.
Third Person:
Dancing through the revolving doors with light footing, London hummed to herself as she made her way through the lobby. Nothing relaxed her more than a shopping spree, even if it was only a micro one because Mosbey had sternly lectured her to "stop spending!" As if she really would but just for him, she kept the budget to $10,000 which was a huge to sacrifice. Well, maybe that was a lie because she just had to have that Armani dress. And that may or may not have had more zeros than $10,000! But it was like that math class she once took. Anything times zero is just zero.
The strange maths was making her head hurt a little, but she didn't feel physical pain until she passed the candy counter. Backtracking, London made a distorted face as she tried to comprehend what was right in front of. What was that thing?
"Maddie, what is that... thing? And why it on your head?"
On hearing London's scrutinizing first thing, Maddie turned herself away from rearranging the display and gave a polite look.
"Nice to see you too, London. And how was your day?" though her tone was sarcastic, London ignored it as she pointed to the hat the was resting on Maddie's head. If London knew their number, she would call the fashion police and have Maddie arrested for life.
"Seriously, what is that? I demand you take it off immediately."
"What? No? It's just a hat and I happen to think it looks rather fetching."
"Fetching for a bear, maybe."
"Oh," Maddie interjects with a fake ha-ha before returning to her work. Well, if Maddie was going to be that stubborn then there was something not even the poor could resist. Placing down her many shopping bags, London rummaged through her purse to fish out her wallet. London could feel Maddie take a glance at her as she opened in her haste. A pile of green slammed onto the counter.
"I'll pay you $500 dollars if you take it off right now"
"London..." though Maddie sounded disapproving, it was a bluff.
"A thousand!"
With a hand on her hat, "And it's off."
London replied with a genuine smile while Maddie held an expectant one. What London didn't know was that while she left the lobby Maddie could easily put the hat back on. Even so, London felt accomplished for getting rid of that... thing (was it even a hat? Who knew?). Out of sight, out of mind. What would the poor do without her? She gave Maddie money and fashion advice.
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Character: Agent Phil Coulson
Fandom: Marvel Live Action (Ironman, Ironman 2, Thor, the upcoming Avengers movie, a pair of inter-movie shorts)
Character Notes:
History:
Not much is canonly known about Agent Coulson before his days with S.H.I.E.L.D. but certain things can definitely be inferred. Given the responsibilities he is given for intiating contact with new people/items of interest to S.H.I.E.L.D. He works closely with Director Nick Fury and is quick to follow whatever orders that the Director assigns him.
Coulson is first seen shortly after Tony Stark's escape from being held hostage in the desert and tries valiantly, though quite politely, to set up a meeting with the egocentric and brilliant billionaire. He is put off time and time again by Tony and his personal assistant, Pepper. But this does not deter him. Eventually, he happens to be in the right place at the right time when Pepper discovers the malicious intent and plans of Obadiah Staine. Without hesiitating, Coulson and several other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents move in to apprehend Stane. Of course, his Iron Monger suit was a bit unexpected and the ensuing battle a bit brutal. Luckily Tony Stark and the Ironman suit show up. Much fighting ensues, much of it out of Coulson's and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents' hands.
Of course, once the battle is over, Coulson is quite central in picking up the pieces. He puts together the cover story for what happened -- both in regards to Stane's less-than-pleasant end and Stark's alibi for all that had gone on. Of course, Tony completely shatters the carefully crafted cover story and Coulson gets to try to assemble things into some order once more.
By the second Ironman movie, Coulson finds himself tasked with playing babysitter to Tony Stark. He demonstrates a fairly effective tough love style that involves threatening to taser his somewhat difficult charge and watch reality tv with zero remorse. However, babysitting duty is interrupted when a call comes in from Director Fury. Coulson is then dispatched to New Mexico to investigate an object that has fallen to earth.
On the way there, however, Coulson finds himself in a situation where he isn't backed up by other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents or coordinating a cadre of superheroes. He stops in at a gas station and minimart to pick up a snack only to find himself in the middle of a robbery. He handles himself with a remarkable calmness, volunteering to give up his gun even if they didn't know he had one to begin with. This is a ruse, however, and in the next instant he disarms the two gun-bearing men with a bag of flour and a fairly acrobatic sort of move the Spartans from 300 would be fairly impressed by. Threat neutralized, the man buys his damn donuts and heads on to the next mission.
The object that has drawn S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention turns out to be Mjolnir -- the hammer of Thor. Coulson spearheads the project to set up a perimeter and contain the artifact. He also seizes the research and data of Jane Foster. Later he encounters Thor (whose powers have been stripped by Odin) and takes him into custody to interrogate. When Thor is sprung by his friends using a falsified identity, Coulson allows him to leave despite knowing that the story is bogus, though he does send a couple agents to keep an eye on things.
Later, battle and violence break out again and Coulson finds himself quite squarely in the fray. Eventually he comes to something of an agreement with Thor, though the god of thunder flies off to Coulson's protests that he hasn't been debriefed yet.
After Thor returns to Asgard, Couslon goes back to business as usual at S.H.I.E.L.D. -- which is everything but usual. At his canon point, things are just gearing up to go a bit crazy. The Avengers are bit by bit being assembled.
Personality:
Coulson comes across as largely no nonsense. He does not have much patience for stupidity or arrogance, especially when they stand in the way of his doing his job. As such he has a bit of a butting of heads with certain characters -- notably Tony Stark.
However, Coulson is also rather patient, as long as he needs to be. In the Ironman movie he approaches Pepper time and time again to set up a chance to debrief Stark about his experience. He also shows a great deal of restraint and patiences when Thor breaks into the makeshift compound constructed around the grounded Mjolnir. He sends Agent Barton up to be ready to shoot the rampaging Thor, but holds off on giving the order even after Thor pummels his way through all the agents on the ground. Though he does seem to show an almost dark side when he begins questioning Thor, it's a momentary sort of thing. Just as soon after, Coulson releases him and chooses to have him followed to see what can be learned. This further willingness to wait and see how things pan out is further evidence of the fact that he is a methodical, patient sort, willing to wait if he thinks there is something that can be gained from this waiting.
Coulson is also, however, a man of action. Even if he's willing to let things play out, if there is something that needs his attention, he is quick to provide it. He doesn't hesitate when there is danger to jump into the fray -- even if sometimes he is a bit out matched. Despite this fact, that he's something of an everyman in a land of super heroes and beings with powers that far surpass those of mere mortal men, Coulson does not flinch. With the exception of physically taking cover when things begin exploding, there is very little physical indication that anything catches him off guard. He is composed and a consummate professional. After all, the last thing he wants to do is let S.H.I.E.L.D. or Fury down. He takes his job and duties very seriously, even when those duties lead to him playing the role of glorified babysitter to certain heroes who have a bit of a diva in them.
That said, despite the fact that he does take his duties seriously, Coulson also has a rather sharp and dry sense of humor. He's quick to offer off-handed threats (like tasing Tony Stark and watching Supernanny while he twitches on the ground) that he may or may not really mean. He takes his work very seriously, but seems to take himself at least somewhat less seriously -- especially when time and again he's informed that the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division needs to work on its name, a fact that he acknowledges and seems quite pleased to inform Pepper has been changed to simply S.H.I.E.L.D. by the end of the first Ironman movie.
His sense of humor is on display again in two of the shorts that Marvel produced that happen in the time between the main movies -- The Consultant and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer. In the first, he is shown talking with a colleague, absolutely horrified about having to consider usign "the consultant" in an attempt to annoy someone into making a decision they want made a certain way. Even in A Funny Thing, he ends the sudden and swift takedown of the two armed robbers by telling the frightened clerk that to explain to the police, she ought to tell them that the Tae Bo videos have been paying off.
In general, Agent Coulson seems a serious, capable and quick-witted sort of man who takes his job and his responsibilities quite serious. He's a fairly normal guy (though he's been shown to be quite good at physical combat) surrounded by a world of abnormal. He rolls with the punches and doesn't let anything perturb him very much, or at least if it does, he doesn't allow anyone to see this, keeping his reactions measured and otherwise to himself. He tends to get a bit annoyed with some of the more extravagant and arrogant personalities sometimes displayed by the memebers of the Avengers, but in the end he has faith in S.H.I.E.L.D. and the men he works with.
Other: As a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson is almost always armed -- with both firearms and several handy dandy little devices, such as those that open doors that otherwise might be closed.
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First Person (entry type):
All right. This needs to stop. I don't know who is behind it, and I'm going to be the bigger man here and not make an issue of it. So long as my property is returned, I don't see any reason to make a bigger deal of it than it is.
But right now it's a deal. Whoever thought it was funny, fine, great. I get the joke. Now I need my ties back. Standard S.H.I.E.L.D. issue is black. Plain black. It matches all the suits, fits the stuffy government image. It's actually pretty crucial.
So whoever thought the Hawaiian patterns and floral options and kitties were funny, great. But they're not helpful. ...I do sort of like this one though. It looks a little like a certain shield. Maybe I'll keep that one.
The others though, those can go back where they came from.
And my property can be returned. For now, my offer of overlooking the infraction if they are returned stands. But if not, well, I will find my things. I don't like making things personal, but my ties are serious business.
Third Person:
Coulson was not having a good day. This in and of itself wasn't out of the ordinary. Life had its challenges. And he rose to meet them whenever he could. Sometimes this rising was easier than others. At the moment, he was having a bit of difficulty.
He lifted his coffee cup, hesitating before it made it all the way to his lips. The cup was held poised, and he frowned just a bit. Huh. His eyes scanned down to the report in front of him. Paperwork. It was the least enjoyable part of his job. He was pretty certain that he'd rather be dodging bullets, dodging bullets, even dodging Tony Stark than having to finish writing up this current report. Luckily he didn't have to do it often.
But today. Oh today. His eyes narrowed just slightly at the form in front of him. Progress report. What progress? Now his coffee cup finished the rest of its journey to his lips and he sipped thoughtfully, wincing at the heat of the beverage.
Progress.
He could do that. The Avenger Initiative. Things were going well...ish. The candidates were lined up. And of course, Romanoff and Barton were more or less already in order. The former more than the latter. Ok. He could begin there. ...Stark was another matter. Stark was always another matter. He set the coffee cup down and lifted a hand to pinch at the bridge of his nose. They hadn't recommended him for the initiative. But it was an inevitability, wasn't it? They were kidding themselves to think he wouldn't be involved.
He'd need to stock up on ibuprofen for that eventuality. Oh yes, so much ibuprofen. He pursed his lips. Actually, this report was coming together. It didn't have to be good news. Fury would understand.
Right? Maybe. Probably.
Well, he'd have to. The world wasn't perfect. Coulson did his best. Would do his best. And they got by pretty damn well. And there had been threats. Lots of threats. Lots of threats mitigated with... well, mostly efficiency. Yeah. By and large efficiency. In fact, he was going to eliminate the qualifiers. Efficiency. There. Who was going to argue with him?
No one, that was who.
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Character: Agent Phil Coulson
Fandom: Marvel Live Action (Ironman, Ironman 2, Thor, the upcoming Avengers movie, a pair of inter-movie shorts)
Character Notes:
History:
Not much is canonly known about Agent Coulson before his days with S.H.I.E.L.D. but certain things can definitely be inferred. Given the responsibilities he is given for intiating contact with new people/items of interest to S.H.I.E.L.D. He works closely with Director Nick Fury and is quick to follow whatever orders that the Director assigns him.
Coulson is first seen shortly after Tony Stark's escape from being held hostage in the desert and tries valiantly, though quite politely, to set up a meeting with the egocentric and brilliant billionaire. He is put off time and time again by Tony and his personal assistant, Pepper. But this does not deter him. Eventually, he happens to be in the right place at the right time when Pepper discovers the malicious intent and plans of Obadiah Staine. Without hesiitating, Coulson and several other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents move in to apprehend Stane. Of course, his Iron Monger suit was a bit unexpected and the ensuing battle a bit brutal. Luckily Tony Stark and the Ironman suit show up. Much fighting ensues, much of it out of Coulson's and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents' hands.
Of course, once the battle is over, Coulson is quite central in picking up the pieces. He puts together the cover story for what happened -- both in regards to Stane's less-than-pleasant end and Stark's alibi for all that had gone on. Of course, Tony completely shatters the carefully crafted cover story and Coulson gets to try to assemble things into some order once more.
By the second Ironman movie, Coulson finds himself tasked with playing babysitter to Tony Stark. He demonstrates a fairly effective tough love style that involves threatening to taser his somewhat difficult charge and watch reality tv with zero remorse. However, babysitting duty is interrupted when a call comes in from Director Fury. Coulson is then dispatched to New Mexico to investigate an object that has fallen to earth.
On the way there, however, Coulson finds himself in a situation where he isn't backed up by other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents or coordinating a cadre of superheroes. He stops in at a gas station and minimart to pick up a snack only to find himself in the middle of a robbery. He handles himself with a remarkable calmness, volunteering to give up his gun even if they didn't know he had one to begin with. This is a ruse, however, and in the next instant he disarms the two gun-bearing men with a bag of flour and a fairly acrobatic sort of move the Spartans from 300 would be fairly impressed by. Threat neutralized, the man buys his damn donuts and heads on to the next mission.
The object that has drawn S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention turns out to be Mjolnir -- the hammer of Thor. Coulson spearheads the project to set up a perimeter and contain the artifact. He also seizes the research and data of Jane Foster. Later he encounters Thor (whose powers have been stripped by Odin) and takes him into custody to interrogate. When Thor is sprung by his friends using a falsified identity, Coulson allows him to leave despite knowing that the story is bogus, though he does send a couple agents to keep an eye on things.
Later, battle and violence break out again and Coulson finds himself quite squarely in the fray. Eventually he comes to something of an agreement with Thor, though the god of thunder flies off to Coulson's protests that he hasn't been debriefed yet.
After Thor returns to Asgard, Couslon goes back to business as usual at S.H.I.E.L.D. -- which is everything but usual. At his canon point, things are just gearing up to go a bit crazy. The Avengers are bit by bit being assembled.
Personality:
Coulson comes across as largely no nonsense. He does not have much patience for stupidity or arrogance, especially when they stand in the way of his doing his job. As such he has a bit of a butting of heads with certain characters -- notably Tony Stark.
However, Coulson is also rather patient, as long as he needs to be. In the Ironman movie he approaches Pepper time and time again to set up a chance to debrief Stark about his experience. He also shows a great deal of restraint and patiences when Thor breaks into the makeshift compound constructed around the grounded Mjolnir. He sends Agent Barton up to be ready to shoot the rampaging Thor, but holds off on giving the order even after Thor pummels his way through all the agents on the ground. Though he does seem to show an almost dark side when he begins questioning Thor, it's a momentary sort of thing. Just as soon after, Coulson releases him and chooses to have him followed to see what can be learned. This further willingness to wait and see how things pan out is further evidence of the fact that he is a methodical, patient sort, willing to wait if he thinks there is something that can be gained from this waiting.
Coulson is also, however, a man of action. Even if he's willing to let things play out, if there is something that needs his attention, he is quick to provide it. He doesn't hesitate when there is danger to jump into the fray -- even if sometimes he is a bit out matched. Despite this fact, that he's something of an everyman in a land of super heroes and beings with powers that far surpass those of mere mortal men, Coulson does not flinch. With the exception of physically taking cover when things begin exploding, there is very little physical indication that anything catches him off guard. He is composed and a consummate professional. After all, the last thing he wants to do is let S.H.I.E.L.D. or Fury down. He takes his job and duties very seriously, even when those duties lead to him playing the role of glorified babysitter to certain heroes who have a bit of a diva in them.
That said, despite the fact that he does take his duties seriously, Coulson also has a rather sharp and dry sense of humor. He's quick to offer off-handed threats (like tasing Tony Stark and watching Supernanny while he twitches on the ground) that he may or may not really mean. He takes his work very seriously, but seems to take himself at least somewhat less seriously -- especially when time and again he's informed that the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division needs to work on its name, a fact that he acknowledges and seems quite pleased to inform Pepper has been changed to simply S.H.I.E.L.D. by the end of the first Ironman movie.
His sense of humor is on display again in two of the shorts that Marvel produced that happen in the time between the main movies -- The Consultant and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer. In the first, he is shown talking with a colleague, absolutely horrified about having to consider usign "the consultant" in an attempt to annoy someone into making a decision they want made a certain way. Even in A Funny Thing, he ends the sudden and swift takedown of the two armed robbers by telling the frightened clerk that to explain to the police, she ought to tell them that the Tae Bo videos have been paying off.
In general, Agent Coulson seems a serious, capable and quick-witted sort of man who takes his job and his responsibilities quite serious. He's a fairly normal guy (though he's been shown to be quite good at physical combat) surrounded by a world of abnormal. He rolls with the punches and doesn't let anything perturb him very much, or at least if it does, he doesn't allow anyone to see this, keeping his reactions measured and otherwise to himself. He tends to get a bit annoyed with some of the more extravagant and arrogant personalities sometimes displayed by the memebers of the Avengers, but in the end he has faith in S.H.I.E.L.D. and the men he works with.
Other: As a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson is almost always armed -- with both firearms and several handy dandy little devices, such as those that open doors that otherwise might be closed.
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First Person (entry type):
All right. This needs to stop. I don't know who is behind it, and I'm going to be the bigger man here and not make an issue of it. So long as my property is returned, I don't see any reason to make a bigger deal of it than it is.
But right now it's a deal. Whoever thought it was funny, fine, great. I get the joke. Now I need my ties back. Standard S.H.I.E.L.D. issue is black. Plain black. It matches all the suits, fits the stuffy government image. It's actually pretty crucial.
So whoever thought the Hawaiian patterns and floral options and kitties were funny, great. But they're not helpful. ...I do sort of like this one though. It looks a little like a certain shield. Maybe I'll keep that one.
The others though, those can go back where they came from.
And my property can be returned. For now, my offer of overlooking the infraction if they are returned stands. But if not, well, I will find my things. I don't like making things personal, but my ties are serious business.
Third Person:
Coulson was not having a good day. This in and of itself wasn't out of the ordinary. Life had its challenges. And he rose to meet them whenever he could. Sometimes this rising was easier than others. At the moment, he was having a bit of difficulty.
He lifted his coffee cup, hesitating before it made it all the way to his lips. The cup was held poised, and he frowned just a bit. Huh. His eyes scanned down to the report in front of him. Paperwork. It was the least enjoyable part of his job. He was pretty certain that he'd rather be dodging bullets, dodging bullets, even dodging Tony Stark than having to finish writing up this current report. Luckily he didn't have to do it often.
But today. Oh today. His eyes narrowed just slightly at the form in front of him. Progress report. What progress? Now his coffee cup finished the rest of its journey to his lips and he sipped thoughtfully, wincing at the heat of the beverage.
Progress.
He could do that. The Avenger Initiative. Things were going well...ish. The candidates were lined up. And of course, Romanoff and Barton were more or less already in order. The former more than the latter. Ok. He could begin there. ...Stark was another matter. Stark was always another matter. He set the coffee cup down and lifted a hand to pinch at the bridge of his nose. They hadn't recommended him for the initiative. But it was an inevitability, wasn't it? They were kidding themselves to think he wouldn't be involved.
He'd need to stock up on ibuprofen for that eventuality. Oh yes, so much ibuprofen. He pursed his lips. Actually, this report was coming together. It didn't have to be good news. Fury would understand.
Right? Maybe. Probably.
Well, he'd have to. The world wasn't perfect. Coulson did his best. Would do his best. And they got by pretty damn well. And there had been threats. Lots of threats. Lots of threats mitigated with... well, mostly efficiency. Yeah. By and large efficiency. In fact, he was going to eliminate the qualifiers. Efficiency. There. Who was going to argue with him?
No one, that was who.
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Current Characters: Kaworu Nagisa (apocryphas), Kouichi Aizawa (owlcreation), and Soldier Blue (geolatry).
Character: Yoite.
Fandom: Nabari no Ou
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Current Characters: Kaworu Nagisa (
apocryphas), Kouichi Aizawa (owlcreation), and Soldier Blue (geolatry). Character: Yoite.
Fandom: Nabari no Ou
Character Notes:
History:
History:
You'll never forgive me if I detail this one like I did Kouichi's. So, I will do extremely detailed bullet points. Never mind the fact, too, that his personality section is monstrous.
I. Yoite first makes an appearance when Miharu, Thobari, Kouichi, and Raimei all head to Fuuma Village. The Banten group, originally having head there in order to get advice from Fuuma as to what to do regarding the Shrinabanshou (the hijutsu that is coded into Miharu's body - and one that has the power of All Creation), ended up meeting more than just Fuuma. Instead, they were greeted with the wake of destruction and death the Kairoushuu started to leave behind. Unbeknownst to Banten, the Kairoushuu had already started moving toward collecting all the other kinjutsusho in order to extract the Shinrabanshou and give it to their leader, Hattori. This is implied, however, as they acquire Fuuma's kinjutsuho and quickly depart, though not before Yukimi (whose name would later be revealed) tells Yoite to handle the rest (re: Banten and the others of the Fuuma clan). Even so, none of them end up truly leaving? Why? Well, it's because Yoite immediately knows that Miharu holds the Shinrabanshou and describes to the rest that it is the "kid with the fixed eyes" that holds it. And so, a chase through Fuuma Village begins. Yoite makes his first displays of Kira (a forbidden technique that allows the user to fire their own ki at a person or implant their own ki in a person in order to harm - at the expense of, eventually, their life), injuring quite severely Thobari and Kouichi with Kira. He also manages to dispatch Raimei with a swift kick to the stomach. Ultimately, when he fends off Miharu, he injuries his eye - but leaves a piece of his ki in their purposely. Even while fighting, he began to formulate a plan. What plan? Well, I'll go into detail when I reach the next bullet. Even so, Yoite is finally made to leave when Fuuma arrives upon Miharu's cries for Yoite to stop injuring Thobari. And leave he does with a simple "farewell" after retrieving his hat.
II. Despite the incident, Yoite is not seen for quite some time after. That is, well, in direct correspondence with anyone from Banten. Sometime during the period Thobari is unconscious, we're greeted with an inside look of Yukimi (Yoite's guardian's) apartment. There, he gives credit to Yoite for finding Fuuma Village when a messenger comes in to speak with Yukimi. However, upon calling Yoite "cute" -- well, he abruptly goes and uses Kira on him in agitation, displaying the first signs of that sort of anger. He does not kill him, but notably wishes to scare him off. Yukimi tells him off in a rather gentle way, and Yoite admits that something is a little off about himself. Yukimi agrees. What other information is gathered here, however? Well, it becomes clear that Iga Village is not a physical place where all the ninja of the Iga village live (the Kairoushuu). Instead? Well, it is an online site where all the members gather. It shows their numbers, too - and it places them probably over a thousand. But, moving on. They watch a report from Hattori that urges them all to go and find the ninja villages, much like how Fuuma encourages those of Banten to find them as well.
III. However, it isn't long until Yoite opts to go to Banten to follow up on his wish - one that he will quickly reveal is the wish to have never existed. Tracking down and locating Miharu, he makes quick work of knocking out Kouichi and Raimei despite warnings that he was coming from one of their comrades. Yoite proceeds to abduct Miharu and take him to a frequented location of his. As he goes along, he describes who the people who crowd there and what they are there for. He tells Miharu that they had heard he was a Death God and that he could end their lives. They continue their walk through this dilapidated area, where Yoite and Miharu end up at Yoite's disused train car hideout. Here, Yoite explains to Miharu that he has a wish to be erased from existence and analyzes how Miharu acts and what he is. He shows a kind of visible distress in the way he speaks to him here, as he does ask to speak with him one-on-one right off the bat. He tells him that he needn't even understand the wish, but that he wanted to make the desire known. Even so, Miharu initially rejects the wish. (They are also interrupted at one point by one of those seeking to die, and Yoite makes a gruesome demonstration out of the previously explained Kira to Miharu - who attempts to escape, though Yoite stops him.) So, Yoite uses the back-up plan he already installed and concocted. Freeing the ki from the injury he inflicted on Miharu, he explains that he has embedded his ki into his comrades. If he dies, he takes them all with him. He tells him he knows that killing them himself won't do any good or make Miharu want to exact revenge because he is so indifferent - but he does know that it would be a bother to him if they died because he let someone else die. So, he finally agrees to help Yoite exact his wish. Yoite then tells him that they'll keep this agreement between them, and that because he has agreed - he will do anything to assist him and "make (him) King of Nabari." So, with that agreed and settled upon, Yoite walks Miharu home and tells him about the plans to acquire the kinjutsusho and why - which is to say, is that they'll allow them to take the Shinrabanshou out.
IV. In either case, Yoite does not show up again until the plans to assassinate a target at a science convention is laid out - that is, the assassination will be carried out by Banten. Yoite and Yukimi are sent to be guards for the target, though they're rejected forthright. It is possible Yoite agreed to come because he had a hunch that Miharu would be there, but in either case - it is luck that leads them to Miharu this time. Miharu, at the prompting of Oda (the one who would give them the kinjutsusho of her village if he fulfilled this mission), runs to tell Thobari of a hiccup in his plan (the Kairoushuu). However, Miharu is captured by Yoite and Yukimi both. Thobari is greeted with all three after failing to rid of the target (because of his morals and his lack of desire to kill), and it becomes quickly evident that Yukimi and Thobari will (and do) square off. Once again, though, the Kairoushuu is rejected for their services and even though Yukimi tells Yoite to follow them to provide them projection - Yoite refuses because Miharu is there. So, while their guardians are fighting, Yoite and Miharu exchange information. Miharu tells Yoite what they're doing here and what their prize is, and Yoite concludes that he'll let Banten take the kinjutsusho this time because it'll even out both sides. They continue to convincingly faux fight (and even more so when their guardians take notice), but Miharu is quickly called off by Thobari (or, well, carried off). Yoite and Yukimi follow after. However, this where all things more-or-less go to hell! Here, they all resume their missions. However, one of Oda's comrades attempts to attack the one she actually has issue with, only to be stopped by Yoite using Kira. This explodes into fighting. During the scuffle, Miharu yells to Yoite that Oda can "read his heart", but it is already too late to avoid her. She does, and Yoite - all of his buttons and all of his fear triggered - goes on a rampage and kills/injuries many until Miharu stops him by standing in the way of Kira. Yoite then collapses into himself, and orders Yukimi not to touch him. He remains that way for the rest of the scuffle. When Kouichi ends the mission and fulfills the requirements, it is only then that he manages to pull himself together. He apologizes to Yukimi, saying it was him who caused the mission to fail, but Yukimi partially dismisses it. They head off. It should be said, though, much about Yoite is revealed by Oda's mind-reading. Even so, she tells him before they go entirely that he's allowed to hunt her down if she reveals any of his secrets.
V. In either case, it is a little while until Yoite shows up again. This time, it is when Raikou and Gau come to Hattori's house where the rest of the Kairoushuu are gathered. They crowd around him and try to make sense of Yoite. In either case, I'll skip some of the bits and pieces here and say that they've found out more about Kouga Village, the one Yoite mentioned to Miharu during their faux fight. That being said, Yoite and Gau get into a small fight after Yoite is provoked enough, but Yoite soon collapses into himself. Hattori, noticing this, ask Yoite how much longer he has to live. He only tells Yukimi, but it is revealed he has maybe two more months to his name. So, determined now by that small timeframe, he sets off to see Miharu after the meeting adjourns and notes that he's losing a good amount of his hearing. He tells Yukimi and his sister sayanora, after pretending he only heard certain parts of what they were saying. So, off he goes.
VI. In either case, after Miharu spills (very few) of the beans to Thobari, Hanabusa (on her way back home to Thobari) spots Yoite collapsed on the way to their house. Naturally, being as kind as she is, she tries to help him and is told not to touch him. Instead, Yoite keeps asking for Miharu. So, she takes his hat and goes up to the house to ask if Miharu is there and that Yoite is asking for him. That is when Thobari notices that Yoite has made it up to the house and is sitting outside the gate. He goes to attack and they begin fighting, but Miharu and Hanabusa break it up. That being said, they're later separated and outside Yoite and Miharu talk about what the next move should be. Yoite tells Miharu how much time he has left, tells him that Daya will be acquired by him, and that Miharu should go after another kinjutsusho. He agrees, and he also tells him before this that he had to tell Thobari small pieces of what was occurring, but didn't mention anything of extreme importance. Hanabusa gives them snacks and tea during this time period, and eventually they realize how stressed they actually are. In any case, Miharu tells Yoite that he has a plan that he hasn't mentioned to anyone at all. Yoite comments that he seems "less dead" and Miharu remarks that it only occurs when he's thinking of "Yoite things." Miharu then tells Yoite to shake hands, though Yoite tiredly protests and tells him it is "better not to (him)." Even so, Miharu insists and eventually Hanabusa steps in and makes them grab hands and leads them to dancing about. She also tells them that they're welcome back any time they feel like and that she'll always be there to give them a hug. Yoite looks a little frazzled, understandably being himself, but there's no immediate withdrawal from contact.
Miharu later offers to let Yoite stay his home, but Hanabusa insists that it is okay for Yoite to stay at the house (despite Thobari's protests). However, he kindness causes Yoite to withdraw and further withdraw when Thobari more-or-less breaks down the impossibility of Yoite's wish and questions why he wants to die so badly despite his young age. So, even despite Miharu's requests to wait, Yoite points a finger at his throat and tells him to do what he's said to do earlier and reminds him that his friends are still in danger because of him. So, he leaves and goes to collapse in hide-away, mumbling feverishly about how he can't offer anything in return for their kindness and to stop being so warm to him.
VII. Ah, I suppose I should cut these down a little... Anyway, Miharu goes to acquire the kinjutsusho as requested, but also goes to meet up with Yoite. He bumps into Raimei on the way and partially involves her in the plan. He tells he to go fetch Banten's kinjutsusho, which she agrees to. Anyway, during the conversation following after he meets with Yoite, he tells Miharu that he "doesn't need any more useless feelings and memories," which Miharu tells him he's actually a little more relieved to know. Even so, during this segment, Miharu changes the promise a little. He tells him that he will erase him (and before that he has to free his friends), but until then - Yoite can't die. A fair enough trade, Yoite silently concedes. So, they set off to gather the kinjutsusho.
VIII. They go to meet up with Yukimi. Miharu enacts the plan he's never told, and tells him he'd like to join with the Kairoushuu. With that said, they acquire Miharu's needed kinjutsusho in order to show his loyalty to the Kairoushuu. Even so, when they get back, Hattori suspects him a little - but Yoite steps in the way of his threat. Yoite's accredited with the success, so he's also assigned to be Miharu's guard. Even so, eventually Yoite becomes upset during the party that follows because he can no longer taste anything, and Miharu goes to follow him outside. Miharu attempts to comfort him, but Yoite tells him the only reason he's come to help him (despite Miharu saying the contrary) is that he doesn't want to see his friends die. He tells him that he is "completely paralyzed by death", while he "survives off of them."
IX. Skipping the extra bits: The go to Alya to retrieve Daya. Before getting to the school proper, Raikou talks to Miharu and tells him that their bond goes beyond a friendship (his and Yoite's). Even so, moving on -- once they're shown their rooms, Yoite goes and offers to get Daya by himself. Yukimi tells him to knock it off and stop being a "Death God impersonator." So, humiliated, Yoite tells him goodnight. The next evening, after strategizing, Yukimi tries to call Yoite in. Yoite doesn't come to him, but Miharu goes to him. Yoite begins to talk about how fading into the night must be like disappearing. He also allows Miharu (after protesting) to throw a scarf on him. However, that evening, after they all settle in? Well, that's when things begin to become messy. Kouga makes their positions known, and Yoite and Miharu run off to try to get the kinjutsusho as their plan crumbles. Unfortunately for Yoite, as the fights progress, he becomes gravely injured. This makes Miharu actually use the Shinrabanshou to heal his wounds. He tells him, though, after he is gravely injured that he doesn't want to die - which makes Miharu realize that he wants to save him, though perhaps in a different way. So, Miharu listens to what his heart says and tells him that Yoite is another him.
But, skipping all the mess that follows as they event come out of all the disaster in one piece and acquire Daya from Shijima -- Yoite doesn’t wake up immediately, though he later does in the hospital.
X. In either case, Yoite wakes up in the hospital after having a nightmare and after Miharu notices the scar on his neck. He tells Miharu, feverishly, that he isn't Sora and that Sora never existed. He tells him that all that exists is, more-or-less, what he is now. Miharu attempts to calm him down, but Yoite (temporarily) still remains confused as to where he is after recovering from such shock. He asks him where he is, and who he is - and only manages to snap out of it when he notices that the scar on his neck is showing. He quickly covers it with his hand after he begins crying, though Miharu leaves after telling him "it's not fair." :(
However, as a side note, Yukimi is also given the order to off those from Banten, though it seems clear that he won't be following that order very well, especially when he only goes to confront Thobari directly and doesn't actually hurt either Raimei or Kouichi. Like Yoite some time ago, Yukimi also does things for the people he cares for. Even though he whines and calls them brats, because Miharu cares? He won't hurt them.
XI. Some time later, Yoite is released from the hospital. Yukimi is set to pick them up, and Yoite tells Miharu a little more about how Kira works. He tells him there's no way to restore his life force, but he can stimulate the ki of those who are wandering toward death. This proves important information, as when they try to coax Raikou to come back? He refuses and only tells Yukimi if he can beat him in a match, that he'll join him. However, Raikou's talk of Gau not waking up makes Yoite angry because he isn't trying to preserve his most precious thing. Yoite suggests Daya, but Raikou rejects it and they begin to argue. Yoite reveals that he has killed his own mother in the course of the argument, and tells Raikou that there is nothing left that is precious to him. He says he's only going forward for his wish, and asks Miharu if that's correct. Miharu doesn't answer. In any case, Yoite eventually takes off, only to use Kira to revive Gau. The others race after him, but only discover that Gau is now awake.
XII. Ends up that Miharu and Yoite had likely wandered off to Yoite's hideout. They come back, but only after Hattori makes it clear that they're not messing around anymore and will be more-or-less taking over for Yukimi. Yukimi had attempted to protest, but he failed. Even so, they go on ahead and celebrate Miharu's birthday, though Yoite knows things are going to come crashing down (probably he picked it up from Yukimi's lie earlier and the fact they mentioned they have to go get the one from Banten), and tells him he's going to get the kinjutsusho from there by himself. This is so Miharu doesn't have to suffer, but Yukimi tells him to knock it off and they get into a small argument - though Yoite ends up collapsing. Yoite is again sick, so Yukimi bundles him up and gets him lemonade, and he apologizes. Yukimi then asks him if he was serious about killing his mother, because that kind of thing sounded off - and pulls back the blanket to reveal what Yukimi dubs something "transparent" in terms of his expression. Ends up he did, though not in the way that is expected. Yukimi, motivated by that look, goes and decides that he will hunt down where Yoite was when he was "alive." He wants to know more about him, essentially.
XIII. Really shortening this: Yukimi finds out that Yoite is neither male or female, finds out what happened in his childhood (his mother died in childbirth and his "family" more-or-less took out all their grief, anger, and rage on him - culminated in stabbing him in the neck, where he only escaped because his "brother" allowed him the opening. Fell at Kairoushuu's feet after running, and opted to learn Kira (as revealed by Hattori) because he wanted to die/disappear), and finds out that Yoite used to be called "Sora." A little before this, it is revealed when Yoite came to Yukimi he had already learned Kira and that it would take some time for him to catch up to his age. It is presumed he came when he was about 14 to learn Kira, but his age (16) would not catch up to him physically. Instead, it would catch up over a three day period. During that time, Yukimi and his sister fed him pretty constantly to actually make him somewhat healthy. So, they presume this is why his appetite is still so large. Similarly, Yukimi also hunted down what he was wearing when they found him and found a card in his shirt pocket. So, he follows that card. Simultaneously, though, Miharu is taken by himself to see Hattori who tells him that his agreement with Yoite is pretty much pointless. Miharu begins to be threatened but Yoite, who had been worried, walked there to see him. He's greeted with that scene, and Hattori reveals Yoite's lack of hearing and makes the promise to "erase sad children like (him)," but Yoite more-or-less collapses emotionally. In tears, he tells himself that he can only trust Miharu to do this and they demand Hattori hand over all the kinjutsusho. However, Kasa (the organization that disrupted Alya and the organization that is run by Ichiki - Hattori's assist) comes to chase them off. Hattori tells them to keep Miharu safe, but kill Yoite.
XIV. More is found out about Yoite by Yukimi. Yoite and Miharu managed to run to an isolated and abandoned warehouse, where they are safe for the time being. Yoite goes off to get medical supplies for Miharu, even despite Miharu's protests, and comes back just as Miharu finishes talking to Yukimi. Ends up that the cellphones that Yukimi gave them both before they were out of his care were charged with money. Anyway, Yoite washes Miharu's face and his feet. He passes out quite abruptly afterward, though Miharu manages to rouse him and tells him that he'll curse him if he dies before he can erase him. Anyway, the eventually head to a bus stop and Miharu tells them they'll got to Banten and that they'll have to be sneaky about it. He assures Yoite it will be all right. In either case, they wander about for a while. Kasa catches up to them, and ask him why Yoite wants the Shinrabanshou to be used on him so badly. Whether it is to live or disappear, etc. Miharu manages to get them out of there, even so. They arrive at a train station and the master lets them stay the night in one of the station rooms. He gives them dry clothes, and Yoite refuses to change despite being soaked. When asked why, he speculates he's a girl - which Yoite disagrees with quite strongly. Even so, they eventually change and stay the night there. They leave before the station master can come back in the morning, and have a rather nice day. So, they're circulating around and hitchhike onto the back of a truck. There, they spill the secrets they've been keeping. Miharu wants Yoite to live, and Yoite wasn't holding his friends hostage after all (he thought they would carry traces of him, too - which he didn't want). So, they're able to take the train back to Banten finally, but Yoite tells Miharu that even without all of his senses at full capacity, Miharu beside him feels more there than ever before.
XV. Upon arriving back at Banten, they try and fail to sneak into Hanabusa's house. Hanabusa takes them in, and even tells Yoite he's allowed to decide who he is and what he wants, even though Yoite spills all the things he thinks about himself to her. But, things end badly when Miharu runs off after Yoite sort of shoves off the notion and gets captured by Kasa. Proceeding from there, they all try to hunt down where Miharu is and those wavering about helping Yoite before end up helping him now. Even though Yoite is definitely dying rapidly at this point, he eventually comes to the realization that he is himself and he wants to go home to Yukimi's and wants to stay by Miharu's side. Even so, he's quite literally falling apart and even when they discover each other - Yoite only has mere minutes left. They manage to sequester themselves away and Yukimi meets with them one more time before he goes off to distract Kasa (Yoite asks him to protect Miharu), and Miharu tells Yoite that he can live and that he'll change everything. Yoite tells him he knows that he won't want to because he's "so kind" and tells him that he's happy he's just thinking about him and asks him to erase him because he wants Miharu to be able to be happy in the future. So, after cradling his face and kissing his forehead - Yoite finally dies, and Miharu erases him.
Personality:
Though it would be easiest to sum up his existence with one line from canon, I feel as though that would be cheating and grossly insufficient; what can easily be said about him, however, is that he is an individual who is both straight-forward and complex. Suffering and hardships have defined much of his motivations, and he has thus taken them into the formulation of his character. Yoite, in this way, is a particularly unfinished gemstone. He possesses many facets, though many are never able to see the sides that have been left unpolished or left to dull by lack of use. What little pokes through or shines through? Well, that never ceases to surprise anyone.
However, the best place to start? Well, I think it is an in-depth exploration of that very line I mentioned: "I am not alive. So, I am not afraid to die."
From the outset, Yoite was given no chance to develop into a functional child. Blamed for the death of his mother, though she perished in child-birth, Yoite was treated as a monstrosity. A "Death God", if you will. Ridiculed and outcast, coupled with his ambiguous sex, he became target for his "family's" grief, anger, and disgust. Given this, any child would soon adopt the idea that he was nothing - that he was better to have never existed - and that he was a monster. Given this, it is no surprise whatsoever that Yoite faced death as something of a salvation. He was Death incarnate, after all. Despite his perceived inhumanity, there was a tranquility and transparent nature he held in the idea of ceasing to exist; to be never born, to have never caused or experienced deep suffering - it wasn't much of a surprise that he held onto that tightly. And it was no surprise, after all, that it would be later compounded. Facing near-death by the hands of his own family, it was only through the reluctance and horror of his unrelated brother that Yoite managed to escape. Perhaps, even then, clinging to the very wish to vanish from all memory - he took the chance to run. Perhaps, even then, the very concept of death being just an ending without resolution or lack of recall frightened him beyond recognition. (In fact, this continues to only manifest as time goes on. When he realizes that the reality of the known effects of Kira were setting in, he became frightened and more determined than ever to help Miharu obtain the kinjutsusho.)
With these memories and these deep sorrows intact, it comes as no surprise that it is later revealed that Yoite willingly took on the learning of the technique "Kira." Kira, the kinjutsusho of the Kairoushuu, is a technique that uses the possessor's "ki" as a weapon. However, like all kinjutsusho in the world of Nabari, it will eventually and inevitably kill the user. Yoite, being a child who wanted to disappear? Well, as it is placed by Hattori: he is a child who wanted to disappear, so he first disappeared from the "surface." He then became close or one with death/transparency/nonexistence with the learning of Kira. And then - when Miharu appeared - he saw the resolution of his deepest wish harbored in his small body in the form of the Shinrabanshou. So, in this way, it becomes deeply apparent that Yoite moves in a way that will bring him closer to what he ultimately desires. Even though he is cited as "sad and somehow kind" by Gau, that is still his ultimate wish. Even with those who wish to save him in their own individual fashions - Yoite will never consider another ending. It is his M.O., but it is one that will mature and will change by the end of his life. As, even though that is the wish he holds deepest in his heart, there are others that begin to gradually seep in despite his best efforts to (externally) keep them out. Because, even as Yoite is now, his heart collects deep sadness and feels strongly - and this is evidenced by the way he keeps trying to reach Miharu, even past what will logically be the barriers of his wish. He keeps reaching so far in fact, that he emerges in such a way upon the other side of his desires and into the realm of something that is truly, in some ways, the most selfless and selfish thing he might have concluded. In essence, he listened to what his own heart wanted.
Even with this defining trait - that incredible persistence and drive (even at the expense of his health!) - there are many more that make up this boy. As the kind of character he is, it is impossible to say otherwise. Perhaps the best conclusion one might come to about Yoite is the one that Yukimi had concocted toward the end of Yoite's life - when he spoke about him as someone who hides behind a frosty exterior, but still cared in a way that could be considered almost fumbling or bumbling. As someone who was kind enough to be polite in greeting, but also apologized when he knew he had wronged someone. In essence, Yoite was only trying to protect the heart he believed monstrous and without any kind of tangibility - but, it ended up that Yoite's heart was still a fragile and warm thing, even if he did not wish it to remain as much. Perhaps, it for that nature of his heart, that he dislikes those who are helpful or kind to him, because it makes it more difficult for him to remain resolute and more difficult for him to keep to the only identity he has ever had: a Reaper. In actuality, Yoite is as confused as the other children of Nabari. In actuality, Yoite is both lonely and sad - and holds a hidden warmth, but must hide it in order to preserve the only thing he has ever known.
Yet, in many respects, Yoite also displays an impatience and a ruthlessness. Though he seems to have no issue whatsoever with killing, it seems a great shame upon him when he is reminded that he is no "Death God"; perhaps, more than anything, Yoite holds the deepest ache for his mother (though he later has feverish nightmares in which he apologizes for those he has killed - dreams of accidentally hurting those he does not wish to - and his past). As displayed when he confronts Raikou about Gau, he holds himself when he speaks of his mother. Holds himself in such a way, in fact, it displays almost a child-like defense. His hand is curled into the front of his own shirt, in some manners, as if to protect his own heart. But, it does not go without saying that he became angry with Raikou for languishing over Gau; Yoite, as someone who continues living only for the wish to have never existed, says he has lost every precious thing. Raikou, who still possesses his precious thing in some form, hesitates. Thus, it only follows that Yoite's deep anger stems from the fact that many are willing to sacrifice that which they can save and continue to hold dear - because of fear or moral value. Yoite, being as he is, climbs over what is dubbed "a mountain of corpses" to reach his, if only because he has settled into that cursed role of "Reaper." Yet, even so, it goes to follow that Yoite once possessed a heart that could have been considered kind. And, truly, is still kind beneath all the darkness he holds inside of him. In some ways, even, he still goes out on a limb despite his frustrations with others. Like Yukimi said, he is always thinking of others. Continuing on that note, he revives the unconscious Gau (though roughly). Though this was in part due to his deep resentment of that hesitation, it follows that he also contradicts his title of "Reaper." Instead of taking, truly, he sometimes gives. It is because Yoite gives, it goes to follow that Yoite is not what he sets himself to be, solely. No, his frustration certainly was, again, in that hesitation - but he is kind enough to even give more of his own life to save what is precious to other people. People, that is, who have come to even look at him as though he were not entirely monstrous. Even if it threatened his inability to fit anywhere - there is still that small and ghostly part of him that reaches on occasion, but does not expect kindness for it. Even so, as all humans, Yoite savors it - but also hates it because of these deep complexities.
Another primary facet of Yoite’s personality is his seeming “self-centeredness.” While the fact that he is, in many aspects, is absolutely irrefutable – there are quite a number of contradictions that again rise to the surface. Yoite, being as he is, does hold onto his wish with a grip that rivals Shijima’s wish for death – however, as cited by Yukimi, he appears self-centered on the surface, but actually thinks of others. Perhaps the best examples of this behavior appear both during the mission involving Fog Blue, and the eventual flight with Miharu from the Kairoushuu after stealing all their obtained scrolls. In the former example, despite Yoite’s previously violent behavior due to Oda’s violations, he apologizes to Yukimi and cites himself for the reason the mission failed. Yukimi, unsurprisingly, then makes that assessment of Yoite. In the latter example, even despite the fact that Yoite’s health had massively deteriorated, he is the one who goes to the convenience store and fetches supplies to wash and tend to Miharu’s relatively minor foot injuries. Though at this point their bond is undeniably stronger, it still fully and easily covers the idea that Yoite, despite exterior appearances, has a mind that considers other people – though, he only occasionally acts upon it or verbalizes the sentiments. In these scenarios, it is easy to tell that these people are what Yoite could consider his only attachments to the world, or those he feels compelled to back down for. Miharu becomes unmistakably the most important person, but Yukimi has also given Yoite much attention and care. Even despite the latter's constant frustrations with him, it is evident Yukimi's... Unusual brand of fondness has not gone wholly unnoticed. Likewise, despite Yoite's ultimate wish, one could make the leap that Yoite's... Peculiar brand of interest outside the self shines through in return. Even despite Yoite's usual rejection of people who are kind or helpful to him (his refusal to allow Hanabusa to let him stay at her house initially, the demands not to touch him - even though he is injured or saddened, etc.) - he eventually morphs his wish to fit what happiness he could even begin to provide Miharu.
There is also, however, the fact that he is very protective of himself. For those who push him too greatly, like Oda, he displays a viciousness that could be only brought on by that fear of being exposed for what he is and is not. In fact, it might only be brought on by that, coupled with a deep desire to not exist - and a deep desire to hold onto the only identity that he was given. In fact, as one would follow, Yoite has only ever selected his name. All other titles were granted to him, and he used those to later forge an identity that was the Death God. More than anything, he clung to it because the uncertainty his life provided was unbearable. And so, when Oda read his heart, he reacted violently. In these scenarios, though he killed many in panic of losing that small identity, it does not always end with bloodshed. Sometimes, it ends with recoiling from another individual. However, this recoiling or shoving away or threatening (though not truly) are his defenses. Similarly, the latter techniques are used on those who are kindest to him. Even worse, when he hurts Miharu - as he is the only one who could have ended such a rampage against Oda, - he curls into himself and feels badly for it. Yukimi, ever perceptive toward the end in the way of Yoite? Well. He also makes mention that he threatens, but does not mean it. He would never harm him or Miharu or Hanabusa - anyone who has come to form some sort of bond with him - purposely.
On this same note, it should also be said that by the end - it becomes evident that Yoite feels as though he is a burden to others, which is another reason why he pushes those people away and coldly (on the surface) declares that he doesn't want more "pointless attachments or feelings." It reveals and does not reveal simultaneously that Yoite's heart can be touched, but Yoite's heart doesn't want to be - because, really, of the aforementioned reasons and his determination to not exist. Yoite actually expresses these feelings by mentioning that he "clings" to Miharu and that he cannot "repay (Yukimi's) kindness." Similarly, he further degrades himself by throwing in that he couldn't even wear the muffler that Hanabusa gave him when he and Miharu returned to stay with her at the end. But, it is with Hanabusa's coaching and reassurance that she is able to implant the idea that Yoite can choose who Yoite is - and that people do things for him because they would like to remain around him and because they like him. Unfortunately, that lesson comes a little too late. Though it sinks in... Well, the Kira has already destroyed his body irreparably.
And so, it goes to follow that, by the end, Yoite tells Miharu that he wants him to fulfill his promise despite Miharu's offers to save his life. He cites to him that he does not want to see Miharu sad, that he wants to see Miharu happy, and that he cannot erase the mountain of corpses he has left behind him. Even when Miharu says he can - he tells him that he knows he would not want to change everything and the way they stayed side-by-side all this time, despite the fact he is dying. He tells him he wants to see him "laugh and smile" in the future, which reveals all the traits beneath the surface that Yukimi mentions. While his relationship with Miharu started off as a way to get closer to his wish - it evolved in such a way that his final conclusion of what he was, and what he wanted was, well -- it was that he wanted to be by Miharu, and that he wanted to return home with Yukimi. And, ultimately, he wanted to erase himself because he could not bear see so sad that he could not go on existing.
But, as for other traits? It should be duly noted that Yoite is (as implied) very introverted. He does not express his deepest feelings well (he either blurts them out like he does toward the end with Hanabusa or he becomes aggressive like he did with Raikou), and does not tend to speak against those who are annoying him until they hit a particular button (like Gau with the concept of justice - despite how worked up Gau was getting, Yoite only listened). Similarly, Yoite possesses a deep intelligence and an impressive diligence. Despite his declining senses, for example, he is able to pick up on reading lips very quickly in order to mask the fact that he has lost a good percentage of it. Alongside that, he also mentions it directly Miharu. He tells him that he is able to more-or-less decode something if he knows even a little about something. Another notable facets? Well, his immense stubbornness and occasionally grumpy moods for starters. Linking in to his thinking about others, Yoite offers to go get the last kinjutsusho because Miharu was uncomfortable with stealing it from Thobari. Even though he is sick at the time, he still insists on going until he quite literally collapses from exhaustion at the front door. This happens, notably, on quite a number of occasions. This also occurs when he goes to see Miharu in Banten, despite the long walk. He barely makes it there.
As for his grumpy moods? Well, like Miharu, Yoite occasionally unleashes this blunt side to him (though this is not always grumpy). If something pops up that he doesn't want to do and someone tells him to do it (like in the situation where he was told to go after Flosetti, a target they were protecting), he will tell them no quite directly! Similarly, he also possesses a kind of strange reluctance and inability to accept failure (like failing to sneak into Hanabusa's house), so he attempts to try to cover it up with words. Yoite is also visibly flustered on more than one occasion, and that occurs when someone is particularly kind to him or embarrasses him/humiliates him. In this way, it proves that Yoite has a heart that can, again, be touched despite his deep reluctance.
In order to finish this section at all, it is important to also detail his personality when it comes to Miharu:
In the beginning, Yoite possessed no trouble clearing off his teammates and injuring Miharu. After all, they first met when the Banten ninja rushed to the aid of the Fuuma Clan – and Yoite was, quite simply, dispatched to deal with the continuing nuisances that Banten posed to obtaining and securing Fuuma’s kinjutsusho. No, it was only when Yoite was called off by Yukimi, did he ultimately decide to back-off (though, really, Fuuma-sensei’s appearance also had a large part in his being called back). Similarly, due to the quickly gained knowledge of what he holds (the Shinrabanshou), Yoite also deemed it necessary to later confront him on his own time – never mind spare his life. Even so, it isn’t to say that Miharu’s allegiance and willingness to use the Shinrabanshou to make Yoite disappear was ever gained fully or, at least, fairly at the outset. Yoite, being as desperate as he was to escape having ever existed, abducted and subsequently threatened Miharu. He claimed he had placed his ki inside of his friends/teammates, and would not hesitate to kill them by allowing it to erupt if he did not agree. Though it was a massive bluff, Miharu eventually agreed to help him. In this way, Miharu actually began to overcome bits and pieces of his indifference – he didn’t want to be responsible for the death of those people who had been kind to him, but, at the same time, he hadn’t wanted to be involved with them in the first place. So, in this way, Yoite grants the beginning push toward Miharu’s “opening” to others. However, what Yoite hadn’t intended? Well, it was the eventual connection that Miharu would forge with him. Miharu would eventually become to believe that he was “another me” – a person who suffered in the same way he did. That deep sadness was understood by Miharu as time went on, despite Yoite’s attempts to scare him away from him. However, it is always best to show. Not tell.
Following the initial incident, a good chunk of time would go by before they would meet again. While it would not take nearly as long as expected, Yoite and Yukimi were tasked with looking after Fog Blue’s target – the very same individual that Banten was sent to assassinate by them. While it might have been luck or might have been manipulated circumstance – the slow “bundling together” of Yoite and Miharu would begin to form more visibly, here. In either case, Banten agreed to the mission because they were promised another kinjutsu for a successful completion. Meanwhile, it can be speculated that the Kairoushuu was sent here partially to block that effort (even though they initially appeared unneeded and were told as much by their assignment). Even so, even at this point, Miharu heeded both Yoite’s words and the words of Fuuma: by obtaining these scrolls, he might be able to use the Shinrabanshou effectively – or rid of it. For both these reasons, Miharu did not go against the continuing efforts to seize them, especially when Yoite was able to clearly define to him how they operate. But, while enacting their individual roles and missions, it was inevitable that Yoite and Miharu would bump back into each other. As Miharu ran to tell Thobari of the presence of the Kairoushuu at the convention, he was captured by Yukimi and Yoite. Unsurprisingly, though Yukimi expressed surprise that Yoite decided to come, it is possible that Yoite knew bits and pieces of how the convention operated. Similarly, despite Thobari’s efforts to rid of the target – and the eventual brouhaha that ensued as Flosetti was shuffled out of the room – his assistant once again told off Yukimi and Yoite, calling them “lowly ninja.” Coupled with Miharu’s presence and the insult, it’s quite unsurprising giving all that has been detailed thus far, for Yoite’s “grumpiness” to appear. He refused to go after them, even despite Yukimi’s request for him to do so. Predictably enough, he’d much rather use this opportunity to confer with Miharu on the standing of the Kairoushuu when it comes to the kinjutsusho than go after the ungrateful. So, faux-fighting, they exchange information that allows them to get a clear standing on what’s occurring on either side. Ultimately, Yoite opts to “even the playing field” and surrenders the inevitability of garnering the kinjutsusho over to Banten. In this way, it already begins to show the earliest stages of plotting between the two, outside the initial agreement. Working together toward Yoite’s goal (and Miharu’s, eventually, to be freed of the Shinrabanshou), it displays the sort of secretive cooperation and conferring that goes on between them. In fact, it is Yoite that alerts him to the fact that they’re being watched, so they might amp up their fighting believably. Skipping through this a bit, their bond becomes a little more apparent, especially when Miharu warns him that his heart can be read by Oda, and Yoite only ceases rampaging when Miharu steps in.
As you note, this kind of continuing back-and-forth eventually would come to reveal a bond that was beyond friendship, but is also unable to be defined. Though it starts with a singular idea, it grows. Yoite becomes genuinely worried for Miharu on more than one occasion, and goes out of his way to try to do him favors (retrieving the kinjutsusho for example). Even though it is partially for his wish, it is also for the person. Even though he initially battles against Miharu's kindness, Yoite's care for him also eventually slips through. This is especially notable when he bandages Miharu's feet, and when he apologizes to him on the occasion for "being heavy" when he is hoisting him up or even opting to clear out missions entirely due in part to his desperately wanting to keep up his Death God reputation, but also because it makes it easier on Miharu. So, while at first it was for pure profit, it begins to change and evolve slowly into something past a friendship and past differences - Miharu only came to genuinely want to save Yoite, and Yoite came to genuinely only want to see Miharu happy in the future. While the initial promise was kept, the reasons behind it gradually morphed. Miharu's persistence and Miharu's willingness to even think of him made Yoite, in the end, happy. Similarly, his lack of questioning and his plain determination and really - care for Yoite also added to that. It was natural that Yoite, even despite his trembling heart, would eventually reciprocate that willingness in his own way.
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Yoite uses a forbidden technique called "Kira." Forbidden for the fact it slowly kills the user and kills those around him/her, as well as the fact it implements the mentality of the person, it has a number of very severe side-effects on the user and the victim. At the expense slowly losing their five sense, stunted growth, and loss of life - a Kira user can fire off parts of their ki to use as a weapon. It causes large explosions, but it also seizes control of a person's muscle/bone and can more-or-less explode from the inside out. So, yes, it is very gory. Similarly, the Kira user can implant pieces of their ki to let loose at any time in the victim. Yoite faked he had left parts of his ki in Miharu's friends initially as leverage for continued cooperation, but also revealed the fact that if he died - he would in fact (honestly) take them with him if he did. So, naturally, because the topic is so sensitive in several areas? I plan on making an opt-in post and detailing in full the fact they don't have to interact with that part of him (not that they probably would, anyway - Yoite has no interest in telling irrelevant people - never mind, for a time, the relevant. I can't exactly promise that he wouldn't necessarily go after those who threatened him directly, though! Hence, the opt-in). Similarly, I'll be handling the sex issue as delicately as it should be. It shouldn't cause any concern, because Yoite's absolutely fixed in the fact he's a "he", by the by. This is what he was always called by Kairoushuu, and so he's adopted it for himself and knows for himself. Rest assured, though? This will absolutely never come up. In fact, the only references that would even remotely poke through would easily be mistaken for common modesty to any passerby who has no knowledge of Nabari. Other examples? Well, he has negative reactions to those calling him a girl or those who call him cute. Again, this could be taken easily as he's just generally offended by the insinuation. Not anything deeper. So, again, I will be handling this very delicately and no mentions will ever be made of it.
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(PRIVATE ENTRY:)
Ah, I see. This noisy thing, it won’t leave me even if I ask it to.
Yukimi’s computer…
Will it leave traces of me? If it will go entirely… [ a long pause: ] I don’t want it, still. I don’t want to use something so pointless. Even if it goes to no one, I don’t want to talk to it.
I don’t – [ there’s another long pause. before the text starts to scroll again. a little more slowly. as though he’s realized – no, even if he doesn’t want to talk of anything at all, he doesn’t want to cause more issues for anyone. even if this will never return the endless years of debt. even if he can give them absolutely nothing in return -- ] My fingers… They’ve lost a good portion of sensation. It takes longer.
[ another, longer pause. it seems to demonstrate, without demonstrating. to himself. his fingers – like this, it’s harder to register correctness. muscle memory is only so helpful. even now -- ] Even when doing this, it bothers me a little. Though I keep thinking of what I had before, I notice small things. Like this, I –
[ abrupt. the cursor flickers. shudders to a halt. almost as if he’s noticed -- ]
Yukimi’s computer is cleared up.
[ he can disconnect. ]
Third Person:
Under his hands, many had fallen. (Many had crumpled or cried. Many had spoke out in hushed whispers. Death with a face and cold, colder eyes. Death with a voice and Death that could speak. Death that was Death that was and was not alive. Hiding away amid wreckage. Listening to milling feet. Kill me. We're worthless. Kill me. We've always been worthless.)
Under his hands, many had drawn back. (Born into a role, he followed it. The only tangibility. The only absolution. The only consistency. He clung to it. Easier to find himself wrapped in something, then wrapped in nothing. In slowed declarations. Of fewer who would challenge him. His body. His ideas. His mind. You've never been alive. You're no one. You're --)
Under his hands, Yoite had found a deep well of water. A deep forest of thought. An unending desire, in darkness, to vanish. To have never existed, at all. (He wants more than anything - to leave nothing. He wants, more than anything, to reach that goal. First, by way of offer. Learn Kira. Next, by way of practice. Each time it's used, you'll lose a little more of that life. Next, by way of -- )
Time unwound slowly and quickly. It dragged its feet and spiraled, like small creatures stuck in webs. (And he could feel his life vanishing. Piece by piece. Could feel his life draining, inch by inch. And it was only when... ) And it was only when, in one night, Yukimi spoke about the Shinrabanshou. (Spoke, about the one thing that could grant any wishes. Spoke, about the one thing that could know All Things in Nature. Spoke -- )
Under his own hands, Yoite locked himself inside himself. Hid behind doors and behind shell, and knew and thought how one might come to erase himself. How one might convince someone so powerful to look upon a monster like him. A monster like himself. And --
Dissolve him.
Player nickname: ichi
Player DW:irrigo
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Current Characters: minatsuki takami, john egbert, celty sturluson, river tam, shijima kurookano, sherlock holmes
Character: Raven Darkhölme (Mystique)
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Character Notes:
History:
Player DW:
irrigoWay to contact you:
Email: ezzigreenie@hotmail.com
AIM: kowareta ichi
Other: @UNSPEAKINGLY
Are you at least 15?: y!
Current Characters: minatsuki takami, john egbert, celty sturluson, river tam, shijima kurookano, sherlock holmes
Character: Raven Darkhölme (Mystique)
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Character Notes:
History:
XMFC is a weird reboot and thoroughly different from any other Marvel universe, especially 616, so instead of trying to awkwardly cram comicverse history into here somewhere to fill in the gaps, I'll just go with what the movie gives us.Personality:
Born with the mutant power of shape-shifting, but also the unfortunate curse of being blue and scaly, Raven was rejected and persecuted by those around her from an incredibly young age. She presumably lived on the streets for some number of years, stealing and doing whatever she could to survive. This changes around the age of ten, when she ends up in Westchester, New York, and she gets caught trying to steal food from the Xavier household by none other than the young mutant telepath Charles Xavier. He accepts her mutation, both the shifting and her true appearance, delighted to find someone who is unusual just as he is. He invites her to stay, and she becomes something of an adopted sister to him after that; by their powers combined, they most likely convince the Xavier family that she is an average girl who belongs with them.
Skip ahead twelve years to during the Cold War, and Raven has followed Charles to England; she takes a course in waitressing, while he goes to Oxford to pursue his genetics studies. Eventually, he becomes a Professor, and on that same day their whole peaceful secret life gets ruined. Moira MacTaggert, a CIA agent, comes to solicit the assistance of Charles in the area of mutations, and because Charles is a nice guy who refuses to let other people handle the whole thing, him and Raven end up accompanying Moira back to America, where Charles gets them both involved in the tracking down of Sebastian Shaw, a powerful mutant supremacist. Their first encounter does not go so well, because Shaw and all his minions escape, but they pick up Erik Lehnsherr, a mutant with control over magnetism on a revenge mission to brutally murder Shaw. He reluctantly joins their cause, and the happy little band of mutants goes to a special facility that the CIA deems is necessary to hold them.
And at this facility they adopt their next mutant family member! Charles accidentally outs Hank McCoy for having super intelligence and freaky ape feet, and Raven takes an immediate shine to him. They bond over having abnormal appearances, Hank decides he might be able to make a serum out of her blood that fixes their appearances, Raven tries to make out with him and Erik cockblocks her.
In an effort to further expand their mutant family, Charles uses a brainwave-amplifying machine that Hank built called Cerebro, and he tracks down other mutants with his super telepathy. They pick up Angel (dragonfly wings, spits fire), Darwin (adapts to anything), Sean (supersonic scream) and Alex (laser frisbee discs) who all become Raven's new friends and a now new bunch of kids that Charles and Erik have to take care of. They do stupid things like have destructive parties, show off their powers and make up codenames for themselves, leading to the first set of X-Men aliases.
Unfortunately, when Charles, Erik and Moira all fly off to look for Shaw in Russia, they only find Emma Frost; Shaw is back at the CIA facility, and he finds the mutant kids. He gives them a rousing speech and some vague threats, and the end result is not good - Angel joins him, and in their attempts to stop her and attack Shaw, Darwin gets killed. Charles decides that they have to bail after that disaster, and he takes everyone remaining to the old Xavier mansion where he and Raven used to live. By this point, they've uncovered Shaw's plans in all of this; to escalate the Cold War, using the Cuban Missile Crisis as his starting point, and plunge the world into World War III. It's up to Charles and his ragtag group of mutants (and Moira) to stop this from happening. Cue training montage.
Meanwhile, Raven has a lot of Issues. Erik makes some offhanded comments to her about not being ashamed of her true appearance, an insecurity she has been struggling with for a while, and so she rejects Hank's serum and tells him that he should stop being ashamed too. Hank is not exactly keeping up with this sudden 180°, and his persistent bitterness and a slightly tactless remark of his hurts Raven's feelings badly; while he takes the serum and turns into a giant furry blue monkey man, she runs off and awkwardly tries to seduce Erik. Erik finally convinces her to give up her blonde disguise, kisses her and then kicks her out because they have a missile crisis to stop the next morning. Raven has a big fight with Charles after that due to a lot of mutual misunderstandings, and everybody goes to bed angry.
Raven takes a serious back seat in the actual event of stopping Shaw's evil WWIII plans, although she helps out here and there; in short, Erik kills Shaw and then becomes him, a mutant supremacist hell-bent on wiping out the human race. He marches outside and announces this, and not everyone takes it particularly well. He attempts to destroy both the Russian and American naval fleets that fire on them, and Charles has a bit of a problem with this sudden mass murder, so they scuffle - and unfortunately, when Moira joins in, things take a turn for the worst, and Charles gets shot in the spine. There is a very emotional divorce scene, and then Erik leaves him on the beach and invites the kids to join him on the anti-human side of this burgeoning new mutant-human war. Unsurprisingly, out of all the good guys left, only Raven chooses to join him. She says goodbye to Charles, delivers her mutant and proud line, and runs off to be part of the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Raven Darkhölme is a young woman, leaning definitely more towards the teenage side of things than the adult, and on a first-meeting surface level, her behaviour is entirely typical of this. She's playful, rebellious when she can get away with it, she's fun-loving and incredibly sassy when she wants to be. She likes to tease her friends and joke around. She's blunt, forward and upfront to a fault, with little patience for people who dance around issues. She thinks about boys and dumb teenage feelings and she's self-conscious about her appearance. However, Raven is also a big layered ball of issues; one of those issues it should be noted first, is the fact that's she's extremely contradictory and, at times, hypocritical.First Person (entry type):
The main focus of Raven's character in First Class is her insecurity regarding her true appearance, and the fact that she is forced to hide from the world for being unnatural. She's a strange mix of opposites here; bold and confident in her disguised form, and insecure and shy in her true appearance. Raven yearns for the chance to stop hiding, sometimes resenting Charles for insisting on her disguises, and she wants to be accepted by everyone. At the same time, however, she's utterly incapable of accepting herself; she hides behind her "normal" appearance constantly, even when she's alone. She expects people to accept her blue form even while she's standing in front of them as a pretty blonde. When Hank tells her that the world will never find either of their mutations beautiful and she gets offended, she goes off and tries to seduce Erik in her human form, contradicting the extreme hurt she displayed at Hank's words. After years of being hidden, her insecurities run deep.
Raven, being caught somewhere on the precipice between teenager and adult, is clearly irritated and offended when she's treated like a child, mostly by Charles. She wants to prove that she can be independent and take care of herself; this contradicts two other personality traits that she exhibits, the first being the fact that she can't handle being treated like an adult most of the time. When Charles does expect her to behave like a responsible and mature woman, she gets upset, possibly because she has a different idea of what an "adult" should be like, or possibly because she's spent so long as his coddled little sister that she isn't actually prepared when people do have expectations for her to be an adult.
The second trait is her co-dependence. Raven is never without a figure to guide her in her life; first Charles, and then later Erik. She can't accept herself without first being accepted by other people, she yearns for the acceptance of other people and is defined by their opinions of her, and even then once she has their approval she needs coaxing and reassurance. While it certainly isn't a crippling weakness - she's a fairly strong girl who could pull herself together and make it through, if she were left to fend for herself - it's present nonetheless. At this point in her life, she really does depend on others, and she's unused to being alone and without anyone at all to turn to since Charles found her in the mansion. She wants to be strong and fight, but she wants someone at her side while she does it.
Eventually, Raven does manage to somewhat overcome her insecurities (it's with Erik's help that she finally and wholly accepts herself), adopting the phrase mutant and proud; she finds herself more comfortable and at home with her abilities and appearance in light of her new group of fellow mutant teenage friends. She supports all mutants being open about their abilities, because within the small family that Charles manages to pull together, it feels natural to accept it. But she contradicts herself again, and this is where a large part of her hypocrisy crops up - she refuses to accept Charles' powers. Although she expects him to accept every last part of her mutation, from her shifting to her true form, Raven flat-out forbids him from turning his telepathy on her, essentially rejecting his mutation. She never mentions his abilities in a positive light, either; in fact, she almost gets angry at him for having an invisible mutation unlike hers.
While she's very good at connecting with people who have similar insecurities or fears to her, Raven is admittedly and unfortunately terrible when it comes to empathy outside of that. She either cannot understand or refuses to understand other views that do not coincide with hers; she doesn't even try to see from Charles' perspective, trying to keep himself and his sister safe from a world that is not ready for them, a world that will react with fear and hatred; she understands and sympathises with Angel's fear of being judged by others, and Hank's desires to just be normal - until she begins to accept herself, at which point she abruptly ceases to understand him at all, bewildered by the fact that his insecurities are still as strong as ever. She's incapable of understanding the feelings of others if they're not similar or related to her own feelings. She's even offended by Charles' reaction to her walking into the kitchen in her true form, completely naked with no warning or explanation, for the first time since they were kids just meeting each other; somehow, she just can't or won't wrap her head around the idea that he might not want to see his sister walking around the house naked no matter what skin she's wearing.
Raven is still a strong character despite her faults, though; she is reckless, thoughtless and very often she is headstrong, but she's fiercely loyal when she has someone to pledge loyalty to - at first Charles, I thought it was going to be you and me against the world, and then when she sees the world and the life he is promising, Erik - and while she's not fearless, she can be quite courageous at times. It does take a lot of guts to take Erik's hand on the beach, when what he is vowing to lead her into is an all-out war. She's can be clever, fast-thinking and sneaky, she's quick to defend anything or anyone she believes in, she's stubborn and she absolutely hates inaction of any kind, which contributes to her recklessness, but in the end makes her a force to be reckoned with.
I'm pretty, aren't I?Third Person:
[she sounds upset - quiet, hoarse. looks upset, too; she's staring at her hands with an odd frustration.]
You'd think I look pretty. I mean, one of you guys would date me, right? I am stunning. [she laughs.] God, I'm so stupid. No, you know what? He's stupid. Guys are stupid. Why shouldn't I care about how I look? That is a normal thing to care about! Charles is all, "ooh, you're being ridiculous," but I'm not. I'm allowed to want people to like the way I look. I just...
Everyone wants to be accepted, don't they?
[she goes back to looking at her hands.]
... Ugh, whatever. Never mind, I'm pretty sure this is a Charles thing, not some "all guys are dumb jerks" crisis. I shouldn't expect him to get it. He's a big nerd. He's always— no. I'm over it! I'm over it. [a coy smile, slow.] But hey, I think the question is still on the table. So... Would you date me?
Being a waitress was never Raven's childhood dream or anything. Actually, she's fairly sure all of her childhood dreams just involved having a home, and someone who would accept her the way she is. She'd never thought about what she was going to do once she'd gotten all of that; it was a wild and immature hope, and a life she'd accidentally stumbled across at the hands of Charles Xavier. Once she had that dream fulfilled, that was it. There was nothing else to do. No more dreams. She just kept the one she'd gotten.
So maybe she'd never had starry-eyed fantasies of being a waitress. Maybe it still wasn't the best job out there, and it wasn't taking her anywhere important; she wasn't going to turn out all perfect and Charles Xavier, Professor of Genetics, smiling down at a crowd applauding for her and her revolutionary efforts. Big deal. She was good at what she did. Waitressing was fine. People liked her, and she knew what people liked. You didn't have to be a telepath to figure out something that easy. When a guy was looking your way, you made your waist a little thinner, hips a little wider; when you talked to older people, you used a younger face. It all got you tips. A better reputation. People liked you more. You got acceptance.
But sometimes, when she was alone, she'd sit down in front of a mirror and watch her hair cycle from blonde to brown to bubblegum pink. And she'd realise that even if she knew what everyone else liked, she didn't know what she liked. They all wanted to see the normal girl, pretty and perfect and human. She wanted to see— she didn't know what she wanted to see.
Sometimes she would watch her reflection peel back and she'd be there, striking and blue and not human. And she would wonder what would happen if she walked out like that, right into the streets, out into a restaurant carrying her trays and dishes. She doesn't really have to wonder, because she knows (she knows well) - they'd scream. Disgust. Fear. Hatred. Rejection. People just don't accept her. Not the way she really is.
Oh.
Maybe she does still have some dreaming left to do.
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