http://heybiteme.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] heybiteme.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] anemoisity 2011-09-23 02:00 am (UTC)

Name: Shini
Personal LJ: [livejournal.com profile] robindaybird
Contact Info: AIM: Shinigamikitsune Plurk: RShini

Character Name: Yuri Volte Hyuga
Character Series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Hearts
Background: http://shadowhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Yuri_Hyuga - he’s taken from the beginning of Covenant
Personality: Yuri is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and a Perverted Idiot Hero – that’s the first impression most people will get when encountering the guy. And in a way, that’s not actually too far off the mark. He can quite rude to strangers, and with the exceptions of Alice and Karin, he can be a jerk even to friends and traveling companions, though not out of malice but rather he doesn’t have the proper understanding of how to show his emotions to others. And with most beautiful women, Yuri tends to be openly lecherous – kneeling in front of Karin to peek up her skirt, or Oogling a dancer. While he may complain about going out of his way, he will help those in need.

While he acts like he is the only sane person in the group – he really isn’t. The man’s terrified of ghosts despite being able to turn into god-like monsters, is sarcastic and rude when he really shouldn’t be. And he also behaves like a horny teenager as stated above – making his age really surprising to people. There is also that crippling seasickness of his.

The idiot hero comes from that Yuri had little formal education due to being an orphan, and his general disinterest in seeking out information if it isn’t an urgent business – half the time, while someone gives plot exposition, he will be napping, dancing with a wolf, or otherwise not paying attention. However, he makes up for his lack of book smarts with street cunning and genre savviness – correctly identifying a creepy town as being full of cannibalistic monsters, or that the vizier (or rather Russian Mystic) is evil. He can’t tell you the names of famous Chinese Generals, but he can create some cunning ambushes if he set his mind to it – he just generally doesn’t, he's too lazy.

With this savvy comes cockiness. Yuri had punched out things that’s virtually Cthulhu, and thus he tends to not take enemies seriously – usually openly mocking them, or in one hilarious example, ignoring the guy’s ranting completely to ask where he got his cool floating pillow. Generally his power level is such that this level of nonchalance usually isn’t a problem, but he had on occasion got his ass handed back to him.

But on the other hand, he’s still in mourning over Alice, and blames himself for her death – pulling a Lancelot and running away from all civilization for nearly a year after her death. He also tries to hide how much his Harmonixer powers scares him, since before gaining control in SH1 and losing it after the Mistletoe Curse, Yuri feels forcibly fused with vengeful demonic souls – and the Mistletoe Curse’s eventual draining of his memories and willpower terrifies him to no end. To Yuri, the risk of permanently becoming a rampaging monster is the worst fate conceivable to him, he felt the sensation of mindless destruction once during a botched fusion with the Seraphic Radiance, and he never wanted to feel that sensation ever again.

Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/271116.html?thread=9112588#t9112588 - Jerk
http://d-versus-d.livejournal.com/48469.html?thread=1908565#t1908565 - Moron or that scared of ghosts?
http://d-versus-d.livejournal.com/48469.html?thread=1908565#t1908565 - Saaad

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