PLAYER Name: Badge Personal Journal:dragomorph E-mail: bodgerkirin@hotmail.com AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: dragomorph Plurk: dragomorph
CHARACTER Character Name: Hiroshi Canon: Ao Oni Timeline: Post 6.23 objectively. See Personality for details. If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Hiroshi's public face, the one he cultivates the most, is that of a calm, collected, and largely polite scientist. He maintains that all things can be proven through science, and things that break those natural laws cannot logically exist. He pursues knowledge, and eschews those who give in to the temptation to subscribe to superstition. This can make him seem somewhat cold and haughty as he writes off the supernatural as "stupid." He also has a sardonic streak, which just adds to his unapproachability. This is the sort of person he wants to be, although he's not as unflappable as he'd like to pretend he is. And even if he doesn't say it aloud, he DID like being with his friends.
However, this personality has become even more fragile in the face of what happened in the mansion. The truth is that he relies just as much on a gut instinct as he does on cold, logical fact, which is in reality what saved his life in the mansion. He tries to hide it, of course, since that's just not what scientists ARE in his mind. But place him into a high-stress situation, and he becomes just as emotional and irrational as any normal person, albeit one who keeps enough sense in him to hide and not just to run. Furthermore, he suffers from survivor's guilt, the knowledge that only he alone survived, that there were situations where he could have done, SHOULD have done more for his friends, but didn't. This guilt manifests now in a strong, occasionally self-destructive desire to protect anybody he becomes close to. He won't fail anybody again.
He tries to maintain his faith in science, even though it's much more tenuous than it used to be. The collision of his logical, scientific paradigm with the supernatural has, interestingly enough, resulted in an increasing interest in xenobiology, which he tends to keep hidden from other people. (This, of course, is mostly a background detail, since the matter of obfuscation becomes slightly irrelevant in crazy RP land with its xenobiological diversity.) At the same time, he can't fight the occasional nasty doubt that the Oni was just some sort of mental rationalization, and that he's the one responsible for his friends' disappearances/deaths himself. He certainly can't find specific reference to the creature or its variants, and to be perfectly frank he's just not sure how sane he actually was back in that mansion. To him, it'd actually almost be more RATIONAL to believe in a bout of temporary insanity than a blue monster that doesn't follow the laws of biology or physics in the slightest.
There's a very good reason for his doubts. The whole time in the mansion, he'd experienced a strong feeling of deja vu. Once he was no longer in danger, he began to realize that there was something off about his memory: he had absolutely no certainly of what actually occurred anymore. For reasons unknown, every time he tries to pin down an exact set of events, he remembers several possibilities at once. Memories where everybody lived, or where people died in different orders. Where the mansion was laid out differently, and where different monsters threatened him. Where even he isn't the person he knows himself to be. There are little constants here and there -- where he finds his first keys, for example, or that heart-stopping moment in the hidden jail cell. Everything else, however, is one big question mark. This doesn't do much to convince him he was in any way sane and rational in the mansion. No sane guy would write several versions of the same event in his own mind so clearly... right?
History: (Something important to note before I start: Ao Oni, with perhaps the exception of 1.0 and hopefully the light novel, has little to no background information about anything. The kids have personalities which are hinted at, and they give a few details about what brought them to the mansion on occasion, but beyond that any details are a blank slate. Hiroshi then ends up being about 90% the creation of whoever plays him, so bear in mind that most of this is not official canon by any means. While there IS official canon in the form of the light novel, said novel has yet to be translated, and thus can only be speculated on. It also has slightly different events -- AGAIN -- and so is irrelevant since I'm taking his objective canon to be 6.23.)
Hiroshi (head canon last name: Yamane) is the son of a man with a strong disdain for the supernatural, the result both of his strong belief in science and a revolt against a superstitious village he thought of as perpetuating ignorance. Though young Hiroshi feared the monsters under his bed, he soon found himself taking on his father's ideas, dismissing anything that fell outside the realm of science as nonsense -- which included things that go bump in the dark.
His father made sure Hiroshi focused as hard as he could on his studies, often to the detriment of other things. This suited Hiroshi just fine; he was going to be a scientist like his father some day, and aside from watching movies and shows on occasion that featured prominent scientist characters, he generally didn't socialize much.
When his family moved to a new town, Hiroshi got the attention of Takuro, a brash young youth with a fearless, occasionally mean-spirited streak. Deciding to drag this kid out of his shell -- perhaps he saw something nobody else did -- he made it a point to become Hiroshi's friend, even going so far as to fend off anybody who dared to mock his scientific friend. For that reason, Takuro held a special place in Hiroshi's heart as a friend, even if he tried not to let it on too much. Over time, he began to warm to Takuro's friends as well, Takeshi and Mika. Things were actually pretty good.
One night changed all that forever.
It was Takeshi's idea. There was a mansion at the edge of town, supposedly infested by monsters, but nobody had actually dared to check it out. Takuro thought it was a neat idea as well. Mika just went because Takuro was going. And Hiroshi? Well, his friends were going, and it's not like he actually believed in monsters anyway. It would just be a fun, maybe slightly scary night with friends.
Of course Takeshi began to wuss out as soon as they arrived. But still they entered. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of their lives. By the time the dawn rose, only one friend emerged to tell the tale: Hiroshi, who had spent the night chased by blue monsters, some of whom he'd once called friends. Nothing's been quite the same since. Not even his own sense of reality...
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths: Hiroshi is a problem solver with a strong head for puzzles. His lateral thinking skills are shockingly good for someone more attuned to math and sciences, and all these skills together ensure he's better than most at solving complicated problems. He was, and remains, a very dedicated student, the type who would get straight A's. His research abilities are quite keen as a manifestation of this.
Weaknesses: When he's calm, his greatest weakness is his own pride; he doesn't tolerate idiots, and hates the insinuation that he's not smart just because he's young. He's at his most insufferable when people do things or state ideas he finds ridiculous, and tends to work extra hard to prove himself if somebody else finds him foolish, almost neglecting everything else. He's also almost TOO logical for his own good.
When he's afraid or stressed, however, his biggest weakness is an impulsive tendency towards potentially self-sacrificial or stupid acts. Being the only survivor of a terrible event, he's frightened of a repeat of it happening to any new friends, which manifests in unexpectedly rash decisions. In fact, his attitude almost borders on suicidal.
Which leads into his biggest overall issue: his guilt complex. His memories may be messed up, but they all point to the same result: He just plain didn't do enough to ensure everybody stayed alive. In fact, he's not even certain if the Oni isn't just a mental construct to hide his own murderous actions. That he's never felt any desire to kill at ALL beyond supposedly that moment is irrelevant. In his mind, he didn't just leave them behind, he killed them.
Abilities: None.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Technically, he IS a canon character -- the main character of the games, in fact. It's just that so little information is provided about him or his history in the games that he might as well be a fanon OC. Also, the meta-element of his memories is a complete construct of my own creation.
First Person: [The boy is clearly in the library today, a small pile of books nearby. Somehow, he manages to look fairly impassive, which is functioning well to hide his own annoyance.]
I do hate to impose, but I was wondering if anybody knows whether or not any of these books here at the library contain any information at all about some of the monsters people have been talking about that roam this area? It seems rather farfetched to me that such a varied selection of creatures could exist in an area without any literature on the subject, and I'm interested in trying to investigate the subject further. Perhaps some of you might know a thing or two that could help as well? Thank you very much in advance.
Third Person: The nightmare was, like his memories, the same in many of the details, but often scrambled in others. The house was never quite the same, for example. The strange puzzles he could never quite decipher, or the number of locked doors. But it ended the same every time: the monster eventually found him, and chased him. And so he would hide in one of the cupboards, but never fast enough. The doors would open slowly, horrifyingly... and the final variant would occur. Would it be the normal one? The one with the tentacles? The flat one? Or, perhaps, would the monster have a head of hair it had no right to have?
That was the same. Always the same. What made it worse his evening, however, was waking up with the realization that he was not waking up in his own home, his own bedroom, but rather a strange city with strange, empty buildings like the one he had chosen tonight to stay in temporarily. He couldn't stop shaking as fast as usual this time. It didn't help that in that jumbled mess of memories of his, he recalled a similar situation of waking up in a strange room, although the dream he'd had THAT time -- theoretically -- had been much more pleasant by comparison.
He reached for his glasses, trying to ignore the clattering sound they made as he held them. He needed details. The details prevented him from seeing things that weren't there, things that reminded him too much of the real creatures that went bump in the night. He sat up, putting his hand to his forehead and reminding himself that this wasn't THAT place, that there were people here who could, by theory, repel any sort of monster that breached the walls of the city.
[Fandom OC/Canon] Hiroshi | Ao Oni | Reserved
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Hiroshi
Canon: Ao Oni
Timeline: Post 6.23 objectively. See Personality for details.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Hiroshi's public face, the one he cultivates the most, is that of a calm, collected, and largely polite scientist. He maintains that all things can be proven through science, and things that break those natural laws cannot logically exist. He pursues knowledge, and eschews those who give in to the temptation to subscribe to superstition. This can make him seem somewhat cold and haughty as he writes off the supernatural as "stupid." He also has a sardonic streak, which just adds to his unapproachability. This is the sort of person he wants to be, although he's not as unflappable as he'd like to pretend he is. And even if he doesn't say it aloud, he DID like being with his friends.
However, this personality has become even more fragile in the face of what happened in the mansion. The truth is that he relies just as much on a gut instinct as he does on cold, logical fact, which is in reality what saved his life in the mansion. He tries to hide it, of course, since that's just not what scientists ARE in his mind. But place him into a high-stress situation, and he becomes just as emotional and irrational as any normal person, albeit one who keeps enough sense in him to hide and not just to run. Furthermore, he suffers from survivor's guilt, the knowledge that only he alone survived, that there were situations where he could have done, SHOULD have done more for his friends, but didn't. This guilt manifests now in a strong, occasionally self-destructive desire to protect anybody he becomes close to. He won't fail anybody again.
He tries to maintain his faith in science, even though it's much more tenuous than it used to be. The collision of his logical, scientific paradigm with the supernatural has, interestingly enough, resulted in an increasing interest in xenobiology, which he tends to keep hidden from other people. (This, of course, is mostly a background detail, since the matter of obfuscation becomes slightly irrelevant in crazy RP land with its xenobiological diversity.) At the same time, he can't fight the occasional nasty doubt that the Oni was just some sort of mental rationalization, and that he's the one responsible for his friends' disappearances/deaths himself. He certainly can't find specific reference to the creature or its variants, and to be perfectly frank he's just not sure how sane he actually was back in that mansion. To him, it'd actually almost be more RATIONAL to believe in a bout of temporary insanity than a blue monster that doesn't follow the laws of biology or physics in the slightest.
There's a very good reason for his doubts. The whole time in the mansion, he'd experienced a strong feeling of deja vu. Once he was no longer in danger, he began to realize that there was something off about his memory: he had absolutely no certainly of what actually occurred anymore. For reasons unknown, every time he tries to pin down an exact set of events, he remembers several possibilities at once. Memories where everybody lived, or where people died in different orders. Where the mansion was laid out differently, and where different monsters threatened him. Where even he isn't the person he knows himself to be. There are little constants here and there -- where he finds his first keys, for example, or that heart-stopping moment in the hidden jail cell. Everything else, however, is one big question mark. This doesn't do much to convince him he was in any way sane and rational in the mansion. No sane guy would write several versions of the same event in his own mind so clearly... right?
History: (Something important to note before I start: Ao Oni, with perhaps the exception of 1.0 and hopefully the light novel, has little to no background information about anything. The kids have personalities which are hinted at, and they give a few details about what brought them to the mansion on occasion, but beyond that any details are a blank slate. Hiroshi then ends up being about 90% the creation of whoever plays him, so bear in mind that most of this is not official canon by any means. While there IS official canon in the form of the light novel, said novel has yet to be translated, and thus can only be speculated on. It also has slightly different events -- AGAIN -- and so is irrelevant since I'm taking his objective canon to be 6.23.)
Hiroshi (head canon last name: Yamane) is the son of a man with a strong disdain for the supernatural, the result both of his strong belief in science and a revolt against a superstitious village he thought of as perpetuating ignorance. Though young Hiroshi feared the monsters under his bed, he soon found himself taking on his father's ideas, dismissing anything that fell outside the realm of science as nonsense -- which included things that go bump in the dark.
His father made sure Hiroshi focused as hard as he could on his studies, often to the detriment of other things. This suited Hiroshi just fine; he was going to be a scientist like his father some day, and aside from watching movies and shows on occasion that featured prominent scientist characters, he generally didn't socialize much.
When his family moved to a new town, Hiroshi got the attention of Takuro, a brash young youth with a fearless, occasionally mean-spirited streak. Deciding to drag this kid out of his shell -- perhaps he saw something nobody else did -- he made it a point to become Hiroshi's friend, even going so far as to fend off anybody who dared to mock his scientific friend. For that reason, Takuro held a special place in Hiroshi's heart as a friend, even if he tried not to let it on too much. Over time, he began to warm to Takuro's friends as well, Takeshi and Mika. Things were actually pretty good.
One night changed all that forever.
It was Takeshi's idea. There was a mansion at the edge of town, supposedly infested by monsters, but nobody had actually dared to check it out. Takuro thought it was a neat idea as well. Mika just went because Takuro was going. And Hiroshi? Well, his friends were going, and it's not like he actually believed in monsters anyway. It would just be a fun, maybe slightly scary night with friends.
Of course Takeshi began to wuss out as soon as they arrived. But still they entered. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of their lives. By the time the dawn rose, only one friend emerged to tell the tale: Hiroshi, who had spent the night chased by blue monsters, some of whom he'd once called friends. Nothing's been quite the same since. Not even his own sense of reality...
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Hiroshi is a problem solver with a strong head for puzzles. His lateral thinking skills are shockingly good for someone more attuned to math and sciences, and all these skills together ensure he's better than most at solving complicated problems. He was, and remains, a very dedicated student, the type who would get straight A's. His research abilities are quite keen as a manifestation of this.
Weaknesses: When he's calm, his greatest weakness is his own pride; he doesn't tolerate idiots, and hates the insinuation that he's not smart just because he's young. He's at his most insufferable when people do things or state ideas he finds ridiculous, and tends to work extra hard to prove himself if somebody else finds him foolish, almost neglecting everything else. He's also almost TOO logical for his own good.
When he's afraid or stressed, however, his biggest weakness is an impulsive tendency towards potentially self-sacrificial or stupid acts. Being the only survivor of a terrible event, he's frightened of a repeat of it happening to any new friends, which manifests in unexpectedly rash decisions. In fact, his attitude almost borders on suicidal.
Which leads into his biggest overall issue: his guilt complex. His memories may be messed up, but they all point to the same result: He just plain didn't do enough to ensure everybody stayed alive. In fact, he's not even certain if the Oni isn't just a mental construct to hide his own murderous actions. That he's never felt any desire to kill at ALL beyond supposedly that moment is irrelevant. In his mind, he didn't just leave them behind, he killed them.
Abilities: None.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Technically, he IS a canon character -- the main character of the games, in fact. It's just that so little information is provided about him or his history in the games that he might as well be a fanon OC. Also, the meta-element of his memories is a complete construct of my own creation.
First Person: [The boy is clearly in the library today, a small pile of books nearby. Somehow, he manages to look fairly impassive, which is functioning well to hide his own annoyance.]
I do hate to impose, but I was wondering if anybody knows whether or not any of these books here at the library contain any information at all about some of the monsters people have been talking about that roam this area? It seems rather farfetched to me that such a varied selection of creatures could exist in an area without any literature on the subject, and I'm interested in trying to investigate the subject further. Perhaps some of you might know a thing or two that could help as well? Thank you
very much in advance.
Third Person: The nightmare was, like his memories, the same in many of the details, but often scrambled in others. The house was never quite the same, for example. The strange puzzles he could never quite decipher, or the number of locked doors. But it ended the same every time: the monster eventually found him, and chased him. And so he would hide in one of the cupboards, but never fast enough. The doors would open slowly, horrifyingly... and the final variant would occur. Would it be the normal one? The one with the tentacles? The flat one? Or, perhaps, would the monster have a head of hair it had no right to have?
That was the same. Always the same. What made it worse his evening, however, was waking up with the realization that he was not waking up in his own home, his own bedroom, but rather a strange city with strange, empty buildings like the one he had chosen tonight to stay in temporarily. He couldn't stop shaking as fast as usual this time. It didn't help that in that jumbled mess of memories of his, he recalled a similar situation of waking up in a strange room, although the dream he'd had THAT time -- theoretically -- had been much more pleasant by comparison.
He reached for his glasses, trying to ignore the clattering sound they made as he held them. He needed details. The details prevented him from seeing things that weren't there, things that reminded him too much of the real creatures that went bump in the night. He sat up, putting his hand to his forehead and reminding himself that this wasn't THAT place, that there were people here who could, by theory, repel any sort of monster that breached the walls of the city.
Somehow, he still didn't feel comforted.