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APPLICATIONS

✗ Applications are processed weekly, every weekend. The cut-off time for the submission of applications is 11:59PST on Saturday.
✗ Before applying, please read the FAQ and Rules pages.
✗ Please submit your application with the journal you plan to use if you have one made already. If not, another journal is fine, but we prefer your intended journal so it makes for an easier time in granting access to the mod journal and the contacts page.
✗ For very long applications, we would ask you to please separate them into various comments so that they will not take up too much of the page.
✗ Please title your application as { [CANON/CANON OC/OC]CHARACTER NAME || Series Title || reserve/no reserve || X of X } in the subect header
✗ IMPORTANT: Our application form was edited on September 07, 2015. Please use the revised form.
✗ If you are looking for an example of what an application should be like, please refer to the application here for an example of a canon character application, and here for an original character application.

✗ Canon Application

<BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG>
Name:
Age: If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18!
Personal Journal:
E-mail:
AIM/etc:
 
<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only.
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point of the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only to be used if are already playing another character from the canon you are applying for. For example, if you are apping Mario and you already play Princess Peach in the game, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.
 
Personality: We are expecting at least THREE well-written paragraphs minimum, with references to canon examples of your character’s personality where available. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional.
 
Background: Here is where we would like to see information about your character's history and their place within their canon. This can be written if you wish, or you can link to any wikis and relevant resources.
 
Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.
 
Network/Actionspam Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp and must be in action form (brackets). We are looking for a minimum of 6 to 10 lines that give us an idea of how your character speaks/acts. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.
 
Prose Log Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs and must be a minimum length of 250 words. This sample must be in prose format (paragraphs, no brackets) and should show character reactions/introspection. It does not need to be in game's setting, but it must demonstrate your character as you are apping them. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.

✗ Canon OC Application

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Character Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point in the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only to be used if are already playing another character from the canon you are applying for. For example, if you are apping Mario and you already play Princess Peach in the game, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.

Personality: We are expecting at least THREE well-written paragraphs minimum, with references to canon examples of your character’s personality if available. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional.

History: Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history.

Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.

Relationships to Canon Characters: If any, if not applicable please put N/A.

Network/Actionspam Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp and must be in action form (brackets). We are looking for a minimum of 6 to 10 lines that give us an idea of how your character speaks/acts. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.
 
Prose Log Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs and must be a minimum length of 250 words. This sample must be in prose format (paragraphs, no brackets) and should show character reactions/introspection. It does not need to be in game's setting, but it must demonstrate your character as you are apping them. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.

✗ OC Application

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last. (Western order)
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Appearance: The sorts of things included in this section should be the character’s height, build, clothing style, hair, accessories. As well as their general posture and mannerisms as well, like quirks or vocal tics.
Chosen PB: First come, first serve. Please check the taken PB page. You are also welcome to use your own or commissioned art, or icons that do not depict your characters face but facets of their personality as well.
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.

Personality: This should be self explanatory. However, when discussing personality please include why they have particular personality traits, how this effects their lives and interactions. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional. The minimum will be three well-written paragraphs, but you should be able to write more.

World Information: Please go as in depth as you can about the world. There is no wiki or website for us to reference, and we need to know as much as we can about the place your character comes from so that we can understand the character when reviewing the application.

History: Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

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.

✧ N A V I G A T I O N ✧

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CHARACTER
Name: Yami Bakura (He also just goes by Bakura, but that can become confusing.)
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh
Age: Apparently 16. Really…a 3000 year old spirit.
Timeline: After the Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist manga, but not the resolution of the Millennium World arc
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: The only time this would become relevant is in both Bakuras referencing each other, in which case I would be applying them both because they coexist with each other. They’re used to sharing headspace and talk to each other often, so it’s not so much playing another character as two sides of the same coin! I just thought it prudent to apply them both so as to show all sides of them. :3

Personality: Yami Bakura is a spiritual entity that has resided in the Millennium Ring for 3000 years. Like the pharaoh in Yugi’s Millennium Puzzle, he has little to no memory of his past life, though he does seem a little bit more aware of things than the other dark side is. While Yami Yugi is a predominantly benign persona—at least later in the manga—Yami Bakura does not share any similarity with him. He is rude, uncaring, and seeks to share no bond with his host. Rather than cooperate with Ryou Bakura as he should, he overpowers his host’s weak will and controls him in order to get what he wants, be it the Puzzle, locator cards, or a chance at another Millennium item.

Yami Bakura is shown to be sadistic, to the point where he behaves without actual rhyme or reason, other than to amuse himself. An example of this is his capturing the souls of Ryou’s former friends and trapping them into Monster World figures, then forcing them to play out roles properly. He manipulatively insists to his host that he only does this to ensure that Bakura always has his friends around, and wasn’t it his wish to play games with his friends forever? He seems to take great enjoyment in manipulating Bakura to his will. Seeing as he has no real need to ask his host for permission to take over, as demonstrated once during the Monster World arc when he cut Ryou off from warning Yugi to stay away, and again many other instances spread across Duelist Kingdom and Battle City, him bargaining and insisting he’s only there for Ryou’s best interest, and his actions are a form of “rent” payment are nothing but lies.

He may also be masochistic, as he seems never to be troubled by pain for too long. Impaling his hand on a Monster World prop only made him laugh madly, and the same result was yielded during Battle City, when he struck a deal with Malik and sealed it in blood, slicing open his own arm to injure his host. Similarly, during one of the preliminary matches of the Battle City Finals, he seems far more tolerant of this injury later than his host, and withstands the blast from the Saint Dragon, God of Osiris card to spare his host any terrible shock or further injury.

While on the subject of madness, he does seem to express a shade of it himself. His facial expressions and rather enthusiastic laughing fits at the most inappropriate things seem to insinuate that to some degree, the dark spirit is unhinged. He neither denies nor hides this. Sanity is hardly his greatest concern, and what others’ opinions of him are never seemed to matter. The only thing that matters to him is his mission.

And Yami Bakura is very task-oriented. His focus is firmly set on stealing the remaining Millennium items he does not yet own, and unlocking the dark energies that they contain. To this end, he seems the most informed of all the characters on the items themselves. Or perhaps that’s just how he likes people to believe it. The truth is, the thief has just as few memories as the pharaoh does. Well…more or less.
As far as personality goes, Yami Bakura comes off kind of as a foil to Yami Yugi, and they tend to clash so violently because of how very opposite they are. An example of how different they are is that while Yami Yugi is in a cooperative relationship with Yugi, Yami Bakura sees no need to cooperate with his host, and underestimates his worth often. He takes Ryou over completely and mistreats his body without much care.
Background: SERIOUSLY whereas Ryou has one wiki, this guy has like infinity wiki links.
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Bakura
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Bakura_(manga)
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Thief_Bakura
NOTE: This might conflict a little with both the way its portrayed in one medium or the other, I’m really not quite sure, but it has always been my idea and my belief that Yami Bakura is a mixture of the Thief King Bakura and Zorc Necrophades sealed into the Ring. There’s too much conflicting in manga statements throughout all of Yu-Gi-Oh for me not to make this assumption. The fandom seems to take different stances on it anyway.

Abilities: Yami Bakura is an accomplished game master, much like Yami Yugi. He, however, relies on his skill as a thief and cunning “strategies” that may or may not involve cheating. Okay. They sometimes involve cheating. He tends to set up games with everything in his favor, a prime example being that in the Monster World campaign of the seventh manga volume, he was the game’s Dark Master. He also holds this position in the last table top campaign in the Millennium World arc, and therefore controls the most powerful villain characters. It’s only after he’s thoroughly manipulated the situation in his favor that the pharaoh even realizes it’s a game at all.

As he is the bearer of the Millenium Ring, Yami Bakura is also privy to several other abilities linked to it. Primarily, it behaves as a Millennium item locator, though it has been shown in the anime in at least one occasion—without manga canon to back it up—to lead him to whatever he particularly wishes to find at the time. Because canons conflict on that, I’m going to assume that he needs to invoke shadow magic for that particular trick, to a degree where it’s not really cost-effective even for him.

The Ring is also infamous for its soul manipulation abilities. That is, it can be used to seal souls into objects completely, or partially. In the Monster World arc, Yami Bakura was revealed to have been doing this to many of his hosts friends, rendering them comatose and forcing him to transfer to different schools. While the occurrence had never truly been blamed on Ryou, it was proven eventually that his Yami was sealing his gamer friends’ souls into the lead figures used to play on the table top RPG Ryou often created campaigns for. During a shadow game between Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura, the Ring spirit revealed that he is also capable of sealing part of his soul into objects with no detriment to himself, in order to manipulate them. His final move was an attempt to seal a portion of his soul into a set of ten sided dice in order to achieve a perfect roll, which would have succeeded if his host hadn’t mitigated his own soul into the dice instead. However, a more successful example is when he sealed part of himself into a piece of Yugi’s Millennium Puzzle during the DDM arc. Two entire arcs later, he is able to access the pharaoh’s Puzzle and attempt to stop his friends from attaining any information on the Puzzle spirit’s name.

Being an amalgamation of both the former Thief King Bakura’s and a portion of Zorc Necrophades’ soul, Yami Bakura is also a skilled thief. This includes remembering traps that he’s encountered before (he’d make a better adventurer than Indiana Jones), being great at sneaking around places, and he is one hell of a good liar. In fact, he’s so good at lying and acting that he can easily fool Yugi’s friends into thinking he’s his host, imagine that! He emulates the voice, tames his hair, and takes on his mannerisms. At least…when it suits his needs.

Yami Bakura’s very good at Duel Monsters, and uses an occult deck with undead monsters, which also makes use of the Ouija Board card.

Most importantly…due to the nature of his status as a Millenium Item bearer, he can summon the realm of shadows in order to initiate a “Shadow Game” (Yami no Game), to which he will explain the rules, which must be followed to the letter. If the rules are broken, or a loser is decided, that person suffers a penalty game. Penalty games usually result in death or driving their victim insane, though…the tomb robber’s done his fair share of weaseling out of permanent death for losing games against Yami Yugi and Yami Malik. Perhaps there’s a reason for his affinity with the occult…

First Person: [Yami Bakura is as well-versed in the ways of technology as his landlord is, if only because he draws upon Ryou’s memories to do anything. However, there’s no memories to draw on for this damned watch. It doesn’t seem to operate like a normal watch, that much he can ascertain. Like a proper strategist and tactician, he’s conditioned to find what doesn’t belong.

Pocket watches don’t typically have that many buttons.

Unfortunately, he’s an uncultured thief’s soul and decides the best way to deal with his problem is to push all of the buttons until he gets a result he likes. This only ends in him accidentally sending a keysmash of FSKDJFLSKSDFSD across the network, and then activating the video.]

Damn it, what is this thing? I’ve never seen a watch with so many buttons! Tch!

[He lets his hands fall to his sides, dangling the watch so that the view to his face—which wasn’t exactly clear and who wants to see an unpleasant brown-eyed fellow glaring at them anyway—is shifted instead to his pant leg. He’s still audible though.]

This is the first time my dear landlord’s taken me on a trip. I’ll have to talk to him about his little game later…or hear his excuses that it isn’t his fault perhaps. Haha.

Third Person: Pain was a trifling thing, Yami Bakura laughed in the face of it. If not, he’d have hesitated in the deal he made with Malik earlier, the deal he’d signed with his own blood. Then again…it wasn’t really his own blood, was it? It was Ryou’s blood, easily spilt and used to sign his name and body over to the darkness with. It was his landlord’s fault. He was so damned interested in the dark and occult of the world, well here he stood possessed by the darkness for his trouble.

Hah. Even Yami Bakura knew it was more than that. They were linked beyond that, in ways he wasn’t entirely aware of…but then neither did he care. The Ring spirit wasn’t nearly as sentimental as the pharaoh that inhabited little Yugi’s mind, and he was also much less noble; a thief took what they wanted.

That’s what he was doing here. Faced with imminent loss at Osiris’ godly force, he’d been left with no option but to listen to Marik’s advice. The spirit had released his landlord’s soul in the middle of this duel, to let him suffer the pain and blood of their shared injury. Ryou was weak, he couldn’t handle it. And Yugi…he would never attack a friend. At least, Yami Bakura was fairly sure the pharaoh was too sentimental to attack. The world depended on this, but he was a sentimental fool.

…A sentimental fool who was looking a little too determined in his actions. The dark spirit had been aware of what the pharaoh was going to do in Duelist Kingom if little Yugi hadn’t stayed his hand, and how Kaiba would have died. But was Ryou worth half as much to these fools as even Seto Kaiba was? Did they…really accept him enough not to sacrifice him?

Perhaps…it was too much to risk. Ryou Bakura was his vessel. He was not sure he could sacrifice the boy. No deal with some foolish Egyptian brat would cause him to risk imprisonment in that blasted Ring for another thousand years or more. He still had work to do! He was so close…!!

Sorry Yugi. I can’t risk your ethics hurting my host after all! As for our deal, Malik… and yes he could hear the purple-eyed teen raging angrily at his rebellious actions, retaking Ryou’s body, There are other ways. I offered my assistance, not my LIFE!

what big teeth you have grandma!

Edited 2013-08-02 23:39 (UTC)

Well, it happens.

Insert potato joke here.

Who do you think is the enemy?

The mask I wear is one

To the Wage Slave.

PLAYER
Name: Raile
Age: 25 (oh no I'm old)
Personal Journal: Railerat
E-mail: N/A
AIM/MSN/etc: Railerat on both AIM and Plurk

CHARACTER
Name: Machi Tobaye
Canon: Ace Attorney
Age: 14/15
Timeline: Approximately 8 months post-canon
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Klavier wants pretty much nothing to do with Machi. The entire escapade was a bunch of bad news for him--his guitar was set on fire while he was playing it, he was used as an unwitting mule to smuggle an incredibly illegal object into the U.S., his best friend (and bassist) was a murderer... nope. If Machi wanted to apologise, great, but otherwise no. And Machi would prefer to avoid Klavier--the whole "tried really hard to convict Machi of murder" thing does not make him feel great and in fact between that and his incredible level of active guilt in the whole thing... yeah he'd sooner avoid the man. Basically "don't bother me and I won't bother you."

Personality: The 'other half' of Lamiroir--Lamiroir says at one point in the game that she and Machi together are 'Lamiroir,' and in a way this is quite true. Prior to the murder and trial, the two were never separated and had almost a symbiotic relationship--they were always seen together, hand in hand, 'The Siren of the Ballad' and 'the Pixie of the Arpeggio.' He is very devoted to her and has dedicated his life to her, whether she realises it still or not. On his own, Machi is generally a very smart, gentle boy, but does not do well around people he does not know. In fact, with the exception of Lamiroir (and possibly Daryan), his attitude towards others could best be described as either "indifferent" or "uneasy," depending--at worst, he's visibly nervous and sometimes easily startled; Machi is shy around strangers and hard to get to know because of it. In fact, if you push him towards conversations he doesn't want to have, he can even become downright abrasive, although usually that's a good sign you screwed up somewhere.

Coming from a world where a lot of people are either fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, Machi is a little bit of both--possibly fifty percent on each side, possibly a little more of one than the other. Either way, he's in significantly more conflict than most and struggles with his actions a lot. Machi sees himself as bad, but refuses to identify himself as such, trying very hard to be the good person Lamiroir wants him to be. He tells lies (a lot) and manipulates others, but is also completely and unnecessarily honest, alternating erratically between the two and creating a very hypocritical (and possibly dangerous) persona in the wake of his conviction. I don't know whether in his heart Machi is fundamentally bad or good, but I know that whichever of the two manifests depends as much on the people around him as the events that shape his life... and that there will always be that other part of him as well, just not always demonstrated. For Machi, it's not so much a question of moralities as it is a question of loyalties. He wants to do the right thing. He just doesn't know what the right thing is yet.

There's also his 'darkness'... Lamiroir alludes to it at the end of case 4-3. Lying isn't necessarily all he's capable of.

Machi's great love is the piano. He directs himself towards music obsessively and often ignores other people in favour of the piano, preferring the company of music to the company of other human beings. Machi himself is very withdrawn and stoic (read: unresponsive to or afraid of dealing with people); however, his playing is far more expressive and emotional than is, and carries a lot of feeling that he himself could never express. In fact, it could be theorised (possibly incorrectly, possibly not) that he expresses himself through his music rather than through verbal or visual communication--i.e. normal communicative means. Regardless, he's definitely a prodigy. I've had one person on the spectrum describe Machi as a little autistic, and that might be a good way to describe him; however, he does become braver and more normal-acting when you get to know him (or rather, he gets to know you and becomes comfortable around you--it helps when he knows what to expect, which takes a while), so I'm not entirely sure that's accurate. That said, his understandings of things are often very abnormal, and this often compounds his presentation as something of an oddball. This, coupled with his perpetual stoicism and sometimes irrationally rigid adherence to rules that may or may not have a bearing on the situation, means that he is sometimes impenetrable--very often right when he needs to be understood the most. His sporadic kindness is as much a strength as a weakness, as it may be taken advantage of--on the flip side of this, his paranoia and mistrust can prevent him from seeking help when he actually needs it, or making friendships when they are available. And gentle though he is, he is not afraid to get his hands dirty. He is partially dedicated to surviving in a country whose language he understands poorly, and occasionally gets extremely ~~frustrated~~ flustered in dealing with other people. If it gets really bad, he may abandon the situation and run away. A people person Machi is not.

Ironically, Machi has a problem with facing his problems--he avoids them, runs away, or pretends not to know they're there instead of taking on even simple dilemmas out of fear of doing the wrong thing. He doesn't like confrontation, and violence is something he seeks to avoid. This probably has something to do with the above, as well as his very limited and unusual life experiences, which leave him ill-equipped to deal with normal day to day things (though he has learned a lot), let alone unusual and more drastic or complicated situations. He is somewhat prone to panic and indecision because of this, and is very nervous around unfamiliar things.

Unfortunately, he's also prone to excessive stoicism.

One thing to remember about Machi, however, is that he is smart. No matter how much trouble he has with English or seeing things the right way, or how scared he may be, he is extremely clever and resourceful and may surprise you when you least expect it. That is all.

Background: Machi was born in a small country called Borginia, located in northern Europe, where he played piano at various restaurants to make a living, sleeping in alleys and doorways at night and generally ekeing out an existence as a homeless orphan in a tiny country as best he could. Eventually he met Lamiroir, a blind singer who he treated with great kindness; the two of them grew quite close and Lamiroir grew fond of the sound of his piano. He was pretty young when they met--only nine or ten, and as an orphan, Machi probably didn't have a lot of prospects. However, the two of them grew quite close and Lamiroir grew fond of the sound of his piano, so she stipulated his presence in her contract when she was scouted, and the two were always seen together--literally, as the two were always hand in hand, both in public and in private.

There was in fact a second, hidden reason for the constant contact, however--though blind, Lamiroir was billed as "the landscape painter in sound," supposedly because she painted what she saw through her music. Her production team was unaware of her blindness when they billed the catchphrase, and by the time the mistake was caught, it was too late... so Machi pretended to be blind instead and kept up the deception while actually leading her and drawing symbols into her hand to signal important things that she needed to "see." Lamiroir's blindness was a very closely kept secret, and in fact its secrecy was also part of their contract, as was Machi's perfectly normal vision.

At some point, however, Machi found himself in need of a very large sum of money, far more than he could ever hope to make, and ended up agreeing to help a Stateside police detective named Daryan Crescend smuggle a very rare cocoon--called a Borginian cocoon--into the United States for money. This was an extremely dangerous operation, as the transport of said cocoon was highly illegal and being convicted of its smuggling carried a death sentence in Borginia. This was in part because of the cocoon's uses--on the one hand, it was required to make a potent curative--the only cure, in fact--for a rare but fatal disease called 'incuritis.' On the other hand, it could also be synthesised into an extremely powerful poison, called atroquinine. Nigh-undetectable, atroquinine was fast-acting and untreatably lethal, even in small doses. Despite this, Machi got the cocoon to the States, a feat he accomplished by hiding it inside a guitar belonging to a famous prosecutor/rock star named Klavier (Daryan, by the way, was a bassist in said star's band)... a guitar that Lamiroir had gifted to the man after meeting and composing a song with him. Klavier, unaware, vacuum-sealed and express-shipped the instrument to the U.S., bypassing many checkpoints and safety points with his legal status--basically, he had it handled as evidence, and thereby inadvertently prevented the cocoon's detection. Unfortunately, Lamiroir's new manager, Romein LeTouse, was an undercover agent who was looking for cocoons, among other things. And when Lamiroir and Machi went to Britain to do a concert with Klavier's band... LeTouse was murdered. In the middle of the concert. With his own gun. Machi was accused of the crime, largely on the premise that he was one of the few available (i.e. not on stage) at the time of the murder and he was the only one small enough to escape through the air vents, which were the only conceivable exit. And, too, there was the delicate international status of the crime itself (not to mention the scandal of the trial itself), and a political desire to get things wrapped up as quickly as possible. As the trial went on, it was first concluded that the murder was apparently both staged and committed to the lyrics of the song Lamiroir and Klavier had composed together. The truth of Machi's vision--and Lamiroir's--was revealed quickly, making it clear that Machi could very well have seen to commit the murder. Later, however, outside evidence and testimony revealed that Daryan had in fact both set up and framed Machi after killing LeTouse, using the song to get away with it. Machi himself had secretly destroyed the cocoon during the concert, on Daryan's signal, which was issued when Daryan realised they had been discovered. Unfortunately, in order to convict Daryan of this, they first had to get Machi to talk--something they could only do after discovering he could understand English, albeit in a limited fashion. Despite Daryan's pleas and arrogant dismissal of Machi, the pianist finally confessed, revealing that he had actually witnessed the crime, and--frightened--hidden behind a dresser before fleeing up through an air vent, where he had been caught by Daryan and knocked out, who had then set Machi and the corpse up in a way that mimicked the lyrics. Once caught in the dressing room, Daryan had murdered LeTouse in panic and framed Machi afterwards.

In short, Machi was not guilty of murder.

He was, however, guilty of perjury, and what was--in his home country--a capital crime. Just as bad as murder, as far as the end result was concerned.

The revelation that the United States did not view it as harshly was a key reason that Machi was absolved of the murder charge to begin with--had Apollo not declared this to the court, he may very well have gone to death row. Instead, Daryan, losing control, revealed his own guilt, and Machi was absolved of one crime but found guilty of another, and he has spent the past eight months in prison. It is from this point in canon that I pull him.

Abilities: Machi is primarily a talented pianist, but he is actually musically talented in general, although he's never played any other instrument or even tried to learn one, and he still holds his greatest affinity for the piano. He almost certainly has perfect pitch, and is possessed of very sensitive hearing--hypersensitive, possibly, but either way he is basically a gifted and perceptive kid, very smart and hardworking in certain circumstances. His history expands on this a bit. Given an unfamiliar instrument and a basic demonstration (or even without one), he could mostly likely familiarise himself and learn out how to play quickly--which is to say, in a matter of minutes or hours (depending on whether it's a guitar or a theremin or a didgeridoo--the more obtuse the instrument, the longer it'd take.) He's also extremely adaptable--maybe too adaptable--and more than clever enough to take advantage of it.

First Person: [Descending from the train, Machi wanders the station in confusion, agitation, and no small amount of distress. A small, young-looking boy with pale porcelain skin and fine blond hair, he is dressed in the blue and white stripes indicative of prison garb. His shoes are blue loafers, the kind with no laces.

Much of his face is obscured by a pair of large black reflective sunglasses.

He has no idea what just happened or how he got here, but he can't be here--he doesn't know where it is, but he has to find out and get back immediately.

He clutches the watch tightly, fearfully; it is from the corner of his eye that he spots the posters, and it is from there that he reads it--slowly, perhaps, and with a bit of difficulty, but eventually he gets the point.

Except that the point is even worse.

He hesitates before opening the watch, making sure first that he is standing in an alcove, a little corner of obscurity where his back is to the wall, his shoulders against the bricks, before flipping the cold metal device open.

A few minutes later, the face of a fragile, doll-like boy appears on the network, his expression--and vision--hidden by the impassive black sunglasses over his eyes.]

.....I.... I am need help.

Third Person: Machi sat on the floor of the living room, impatient but quiet. The furniture around him was stripped, and actually much of it had been reorganised and repurposed--the better to support the comical structure in the far corner that Trucy had dubbed a blanket fort. Machi thought it looked more like a childish attempt at a shantyhome, but (predictably) hadn't actually said that.

What he'd said instead was 'okay.'

That was also what he'd said when she'd told him to take charge of it while she was gone.

Well, it was what he'd said after "but--" and she'd cut him off and told him it was very important, which he severely questioned, but (again) not out loud. Maybe if it hadn't been Trucy, but...

Oh, who was he kidding--he got pressed into a lot of things because he either had sense enough to keep his mouth shut or else not enough sense not to keep his mouth shut.

Either way, now he was in charge of a 'blanket fort.'

It wasn't like he had anything else to do today.

Edited 2013-08-03 08:56 (UTC)

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