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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[CANON] Black Rock Shooter - Black Rock Shooter (TV Anime)
Name: Claire
Age: 19
Personal Journal: astrogony
E-mail: hatsandmonocles@hotmail.co.uk
AIM/MSN/etc: same as above @ aim, monocleclaire @ plurk, tohrurun @ tumblr
CHARACTER
Name: Black Rock Shooter
Canon: Black Rock Shooter (2012 TV Anime)
Age: Hard to tell -- she looks to be in her late teens and speaks and carries herself with the maturity of an older woman. Given what she is, however, she likely started existing when Mato was born (Yuu asserts that she's existed at least since Mato was a toddler), so she's likely around fourteen or fifteen.
Timeline: Post-Canon
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: The first and most important thing you need to understand about Black Rock Shooter is that she's not human. She looks human, moves like a human, and for the most part, sounds like a human -- but she's not. She's an outsider looking in and her understanding of humanity and its feelings is painfully limited -- she is, after all, the manifestation of the more... extreme parts of a fourteen year old girl's psyche.
She speaks in short, rather brisk sentences and generally gives the appearance of being unused to interacting with anyone outside of trying to embed swords in faces. She's blunt and often says or does things without understanding that they're inappropriate for the situation she's in. Life in the otherworld doesn't have many opportunity for real interaction, so outside of fights to the near-death and so the subtleties of human emotion escape her somewhat -- while she's able to recognize that someone might be angry or upset, and recognize what caused that, she has no idea why the event would cause them to feel that way -- she's very much an outsider looking in, and she's yet to work out a way of becoming more than that -- or even if she wants to at all.
As with emotion, most of the other subtleties of social interaction fly right over Shooter's head; when it comes to things like humor and metaphor, she's totally lost -- she takes them, along with sarcasm and exagerration, at face value. Similarly, she's rather childlike in her understanding of lies and deception. Life in the otherworld is very black and while (no pun intended) and as such, doesn't really 'get' why someone would lie or mislead someone. Because of this, she's a bit naieve and can be quite easily mislead herself. She'll believe anything that anyone tells her, without even pausing to consider that it may be a lie.
On top of this, Shooter herself claims to be 'emotionless' but that's clearly not the case -- while it's true that she's pretty linefaced most of the time and her lack of any kind of dialogue until the finale makes it hard to tell what she's thinking, she openly shows expressions of fear, anger, determination, pain, contempt during her time in the other world, among other things -- and upon killing Dead Master, a combination of Mato's grief and rage makes her transform into Insane Black Rock Shooter, who absolutely oozes contempt and sass with every slightest facial twitch -- when she's not grinning manaically or baring her teeth in rage.
She's also determined to the point of single-minded stubbornness and tunnel vision -- when she has a goal in mind, she will literally cross the world on foot to reach that goal and will not hesitate to throw herself into battle against the Otherselves she encounters. As a fighter, Shooter is brutal and ruthless and shows little mercy for her enemies -- the only time we see a sliver of this is when she finds Dead Master in Chariot's world and seems to attempt to reach out to her, before the reunion is crashed by Chariot herself and Shooter is forced to kill her -- and eventually, Dead Master.
But despite this, what ultimately drives her actions is compassion -- Mato's compassion and arguably, her own. Shooter does what she does out of a desire to help others through their pain, to end their pain -- it's just that the only way she knows of doing so is killing their Otherselves and making them forget that pain and whatever caused it. And according to Shooter herself, this desire to end pain and help other through their pain is motivated entirely by love for her otherself.
Because of this, it's hard to discuss Shooter and her motivations without mentioning Mato to some degree, because Shooter, essentially, is Mato -- and yet at the same time, she isn't. She's a hyper-exagerrated version of Mato's strongest thoughts and feelings -- the desire to save others from their own pain. And if 'Yuu' is to be believed, Shooter has existed at least since she and Mato were toddlers, which means that this is a mindset Mato -- and therefore Shooter -- have had since birth.
But for all her inhumanity, Shooter is not incapable of growth and warmth -- again, despite her claims that she and the Otherselves have no emotions, she herself states that her actions are motivated by love for Mato and her transition into the berserk Insane Black Rock Shooter is spurred as a reaction to Mato's anguish over killing Dead Master (who Mato percieved as Yomi). The best example of this, however, if at the very end of the series, when Black Rock Shooter encounters the revived Strength and instead of attacking her on sight as she had done previously, she hangs back and the two quietly acknowledge each other.
And that's, perhaps, the most important part of Shooter -- her potential for growth. Being as she is a part of Mato's psyche, she is limited only by Mato's limits -- which means that Shooter has the potential to become vastly more than the sum of her parts should she let herself do so.
Background: [ BRS Anime Wiki Page ]
[ Anime!BRS's Wiki Page ]
Abilities: Coming as she is from a world where fighting to the death is literally the only way of life, Black Rock Shooter is an experienced fighter with incredible combat ability. She's speedy, powerful and athletic, strong enough that she can engage in battles with mechas that are easily ten times her size and come out on top (though not without a few injuries) and can dart around the battlefield with ease.
She's far stronger than an ordinary human and far more durable. Her giant cannon, which is her main weapon, doesn't seem to weight much, if anything to her and she walks away from being gored in the stomach by a cluster of huge drills (in a display that makes literal fountains of blood gush out of her) without so much as a scratch to tell the tale. She has some kind of regenerative ability -- something inherant to all Otherselves, who will, when killed, come back to life so long as their human counterparts remain.
Shooter is fast. She's able to outrun a mecha in canon that was going at ridiculous speeds, which suggests to me that she's probably able to run at similarly ridiculous speeds. She also has much better mobility when transformed, enabling her to jump to ridiculous heights, spar in close combat with the Otherselves and generally makes her much more graceful.
Her main weapon is a black sword that's sheathed to her hip at all times. She also has the ability to summon a cannon that fires rounds of glowing, flaming blue metal and is able to shift between
First Person: [ here! ]
Third Person: Shooter didn't like the city. It was too loud, too chaotic. There were people everywhere, people everywhere she turned, people people people, talking, yelling, laughing, crying -- too many to count, too many to watch any of them for more than a few seconds at a time. Shooter was used to quiet and solitude, to few companions and even fewer words. The world she knew was expansive and quiet, cold and airy. The city was hot and claustrophobic, pressing in on all sides and she could find little escape from all the noise, no matter where she went.
The ocean was the only place that Shooter felt anywhere close to safe and content. It was cool and airy and the noise of the city didn't seem to be as loud here. The ocean did not roar, it whispered and the cobalt blue of the waves reminded Shooter of the otherworld. The breeze was chilly here and the heat didn't sting as intensely.
So when the city became too enclosing, when she felt as though she could not breath, Shooter went to the beach. She sat on the hot sand and watched the rolling waves melt into the perfect line of blue on the horizon.
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