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Application Post

Please read over the rules and information posts before applying in order to minimize confusion.

Players are limited to five characters.

Samples can be written in first or third person.

Name: Your name or preferred handle, whatever you want us to call you..
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc.

Character Name: If they'll start out remembering a name other than their first name, please make a note of it.
Character Series: Toss a link to a general overview of the canon. Canon-specific wikis or Wikipedia are accepted! 
Background: Again, a wiki link to the character's background will generally suffice. A combination of this and the above canon overview should give a good explanation. Given the nature of the game, this is not only necessary, but we will require you to write something yourself if there's no explanatory source.
Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
Personality: The more detailed here, the better. This lets us get a good feel for the character. Please try to back up your details with canon examples when you're getting past their basic character and more in-depth. Generally, we want to see at least four good-sized paragraphs.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

VILLAIN APPS:

Villain apps are currently OPEN.

There is a limit of three villains in the game at one time. There is currently one villain slot available.

Playing a villain will not count against your five character limit.

Be sure to note somewhere in the title of your app that you’re apping into a villain slot.

For more information on villains, see this page.

Name: Your name or preferred handle, whatever you want us to call you..
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc.

Character Name:
Character Series: Toss a link to a general overview of the canon. Canon-specific wikis or Wikipedia are accepted!
Background: Again, a wiki link to the character's background will generally suffice. If none exists, a bare-bones overview will do.
Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
Personality: This doesn’t have to be as detailed as an app for a normal character would be, but it still has to demonstrate an understanding of your character and how they operate. Three solid paragraphs is a good estimate of what we’re looking for.
Plans: You don’t have to outline a whole plot right here and now, just give us an idea of why you’ve chosen to app this character as a villain, and what sort of things you have in mind for them to do to antagonize the other characters.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

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Name: Geoff
Personal LJ:

drcanadianninja
Contact Info: It's all over the mod contact page.

Character Name: Erk Reglay
Character Series: Fire Emblem (http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Emblem:_Rekka_no_Ken)
Background: Erk Reglay (http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Erk)

Personality: If anything describes Erk, it's studious. He could spend days inside the library if given the option. His studies are the most important thing in the world to him, and he has a tendency to get irritable when people distract or attempt to separate him from them.

He prides himself on his achievements, caring little if someone is better than him or not as long as he meets his own goals. Failures hit him harder than most people, even when it isn't specifically his fault. He blames himself and gets into a minor rut when this happens. Compliments, on the other hand, make him nervous, and typically get buried under modesty. Erk has a difficult time accepting positive feelings of any greater magnitude than acquaintanceship; it takes him years for him to admit that he cares for his adoptive family. He doesn't open up easily.

Erk's got an independent streak a mile wide. He rarely asks for help and when he does, it's in a convoluted and indirect manner. While he may accept help offered (don't expect him to ask for it) accepting anyone for reasons beyond practicality can be difficult. That's not to say he abhors companionship, though. As he grows closer to people, willingly or unwillingly, he begins to show genuine concern for them and is visibly bothered when he finds he cannot help him.

Due to his time with Serra, he is willing to do most anything one would ask of him, and if he considers the person a friend, he will likely suggest any of the various things he can do to help. He's actually quite adept at taking care of others. Taking care of himself, however, is another matter. Erk has a tremendous level of focus and consequently forgets simple things at times, like getting to bed at reasonable hours or, say, eating.

Erk has a pretty serious fear of affection. When receiving a compliment, for example, he freezes up, entirely unsure how to react. Similarly, telling people that he cares about them is a tall order - it took three years for him just to say as much to his very kind and loving adopted family. This spreads to physical contact as well. If he's not alright with it, any form of contact will likely make him recoil like a snake just bit him.

Sample Entry: Erk's first day in Sirocco had been something of a disaster, and he was feeling more and more alien and unwelcome the longer he stayed. Sure, he arrived with amnesia, but nearly assaulting the people who were only trying to help him? Hours later, he was still beating himself up over that. Then there was the Ermis, in which he attempted to pull open the door to the elevator until someone laughed and pushed the button for him. He tried to leave, only to be nearly run over by the metal horses roaming the streets.

The area was unfamiliar and the technology was far beyond his grasp. But then, when all seemed lost, a beacon of hope in the form of a large banner hanging from a streetlight called out to his eyes. Here was a place you belong! Here is a place you can feel safe!

And that's how Erk found himself in the Sirocco Public Library.

Name: Tenchi
Personal LJ:

chibitenchi86
Contact Info: AIM: chibitenchi86, Plurk: Ninjabait

Character Name: Rozalin
Character Series: Disgaea 2 (http://disgaea.neoseeker.com/wiki/Disgaea_2:_Cursed_Memories)
Character Age: 17
Background:Rozalin's wiki (http://disgaea.neoseeker.com/wiki/Rozalin_(Disgaea_2))

Personality: Rozalin is the ideal spoiled princess - complete with exaggerated posing and sticking her nose in the air. Doing whatever she wants and is incredibly stubborn about what she does or does not want to do. If there’s something that has to be done, especially if it is uncomfortable for her, Rozalin will get someone else to do it for her. After all, she is a princess and demands-no, deserves to have her every wish answered. She will use wits, deception, and whatever else she deems necessary to get what she wants.
Her faults include being quick to anger and a temper that is difficult to placate once it gets set off. If pushed or an insult hits even closer to home, Rozalin will attack that person with her own barbed retorts or even with a weapon. Although if she can be proved that she was in the wrong, she will reluctantly apologize if she does not like the person and actually be remorseful to someone she does care about.

While being knowledgeable about a great many things as most of her life was spent in study, which is the greatest way for a noble to waste time, Rozalin has very little experience in the way of real life. No applicable skills for a job or even what a normal person has to do for day-to-day life. She does pick up skills quickly, as was shown by how she did not know how to fight and yet became very good at it in a short amount of time. But until something causes her to have to experience something for herself that conflicts what she read in her precious books, she will firmly believe in what they tell her.

When coming across people who are full of confidence and go for their goals without questioning anyone they have to “rely” upon, Rozalin becomes confused. Especially when multiple goals or promises seem to conflict with each other, such as Adell and his promises to save his family, protect Rozalin and return her to her father. She becomes even more confused when others trust her even though there is no real reason to. While she believes them to be idiotic, Rozalin will wait and watch to see how things will turn out with them before deciding on how to deal with them.

That leads to her not trusting anyone completely until they do something to prove they deserve it, like Adell and his never-wavering promise. But once she does give in and starts to care about that person, Rozalin will do whatever she can to protect them from harm. Even if it means letting loose the evil flame inside of her that brings out her previous incarnation, Overlord Zenon.

Sample Entry: Testrun box entry! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/269185.html)

Thanks for applying! Now that you're accepted, follow the directions here.

Name: Lisa
Personal LJ:

uwaaaah
Contact Info: AIM: UnfingSalmon or CommunistCod // email: lyingpieceofcheese@gmail.com // plurk: CaptainPlanette

Character Name: Danny Fenton/Phantom
Character Series: Danny Phantom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Danny_Phantom_episodes)
Character Age: 16
Background: That link I gave you up there? Is the best overview of the show out there, and is still incredibly disappointing. Which is why I'm going to try giving the shortest possible summary that I can that is still coherent.

Danny grew up as a normal kid in a crazy family. This wasn't significant until he was 14, when he accidentally fixed his inventor parents' latest ghost hunting project—the Fenton Portal, a device that would allow a portal to open between the human world and the Ghost Zone. In the process of turning it on, Danny became half-ghost. He decided to use his ghost powers to fight all the ghosts that suddenly invaded his hometown, Amity Park, even though he had little to no control over his powers. But with the help of his friends, Tucker and Sam (who is actually a girl, yes), he managed to gain more control and keep Amity Park safe.

Then Things began to happen:
- Danny met Vlad, an old classmate of his parents, who is also half-ghost with twenty years more experience and plans to kill Danny's dad, marry Danny's mom, and hopefully adopt Danny as an apprentice. Danny beat him and went home safely, but Vlad is not so easily thwarted—he gave Danny's classmate, Valerie, a ton of ghost hunting gear to supplement her intense hatred of ghosts, particularly Danny Phantom.
- Danny is framed by a previous foe, Walker, as having taken the mayor of Amity Park hostage. Although Danny defeats Walker, the incident turns Danny Phantom into Public Enemy Number One. The bad reputation, unfortunately, sticks.
- The ghost king, Pariah Dark, is released by a scheming Vlad, and immediately goes on a tyrannical rampage, leading to a ghost invasion. It's up to Danny to ~*~save the day~*~! Which he does and his reputation is finally good after the whole Public Enemy fiasco. But he doesn't realize that he was actually a pawn in Vlad's perfectly executed plan this whole time (the details of which I will not bore you, because Vlad is this show's equivalent of Xanatos).

- Danny fights some ghosts from a future where he has turned into a raging omnicidal maniac due to all his friends and family dying horrible deaths because he cheated on a test. (Yes, really.) He later finds out that, if he doesn't find some way to stop his future self, their deaths will be repeated and the bad future might come to pass again. So with the help of his friends and the ghostly master of time, Clockwork, he manages to fix everything.
- CLONES. Vlad makes them. Of Danny. Five of them. But none of them are stable and are thus failures—except for the fifth, who is thus far stable but needs a particular piece of Danny's DNA to be complete. So Vlad kidnaps Danny with the help of Dani, the female failed clone. That is, until Dani rebels and fights alongside Danny to kick Vlad's ass. In the process, the perfect clone is destroyed and Vlad goes batshit insane and has a complete breakdown. Thankfully, they manage to get out of there safely and go back home.
- Vlad, after his breakdown, shifts gears from “make Danny my apprentice” to “make Danny's life a living hell.” To do this, he runs for mayor of Amity Park and wins, due to rigging the votes. What ensues is Danny Phantom: The Political Edition as Vlad makes absurd laws and Danny finds ways to counteract them. At the end, although most of the ridiculous rules Vlad's instated are revoked, Vlad remains as mayor. It is after this point that Danny is taken from Amity Park

Personality: Danny, like many teenagers, loves hanging out with his friends and playing video games, thinks his parents are embarrassing, and doesn't enjoy school. But, as it always is with these goshdarn teenage superheroes, there is more to him than meets the eye. For one thing, all that superheroing means he's pretty confident nowadays (compared to the wallflower he was at the start of the show who only wanted to fit in) and is happy to be unpopular, as long as he has his friends. He's not afraid to step up if he has to, even if it means doing so as the loser Fenton.

The boy also carries a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. In his own words, “if not me, then who's gonna protect this town?” It might have something to do with the fact that if he hadn't activated the portal, ghosts wouldn't be an issue in the first place. It doesn't matter how many times he gets thrown into a wall, or electrocuted, or framed for taking the mayor hostage—keeping Amity Park safe is his responsibility, and he'll do whatever it takes to do that.

Speaking of, there is nothing more important to Danny than his friends and family. He fights to keep them safe, even if the friend he's trying to keep safe is about to shoot him in the face. Danny is very much a person shaped by the people around him, and he knows it—at least, he is aware of it enough that he wouldn't give them up for any reason short of death. And it is only around his friends and family that Danny is completely relaxed and a jokester ~~even though his puns are terrible~~. Sometimes they annoy him or make him angry, but when push comes to shove, they're of utmost importance to him. (In other words, it is a Really Bad Idea to hurt them.)

He can be pretty naïve, too. He believes that those who support him are good, and that ghost hunters and most ghosts are bad. He makes exceptions, however, for people like Valerie and ghosts like Clockwork, but they are the exception, rather than the norm. On the whole, he has a clean black-and-white view of morality, whether he realizes it or not. For one thing, it means less of a headache about morals, and for another, it makes it much easier to work out who to punch.

Danny is also quite the optimist. Sure, he gets down on himself sometimes like any other person, but he never gives up. He always sees that light at the end of the tunnel and refuses to believe that he can't do something if he particularly wants to. Maybe that's why he's still trying to become an astronaut, despite his lackluster grades and physical skills in human form.

Sample Entry: Ahoy, cap'n! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/267998.html#comments)

Name: Chris
Personal LJ:

hurricane_chris
Contact Info: E-mail: hurchris@ptd.net; AIM: HurricaneChris04; Plurk: HurricaneChris

Character Name: Kyon
Character Series: Haruhi Suzumiya (http://haruhi.wikia.com/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya_Light_Novel) (The link contains links to info on each of the light novels. Kyon is coming in post-Rampage.)
Character Age: 16
Background: http://haruhi.wikia.com/wiki/Kyon
Personality: One phrase should come to mind whenever anyone (at least anyone familiar with TV Tropes) thinks of Kyon: Deadpan Snarker. Kyon fits the trope to a T. Externally, Kyon seems fairly laid-back and cynical, but when one takes a look at his internal monologue (in the anime) or the narration (in the light novels), you'll find that the boy snarks a lot.

A lot of this snarking is directed toward Haruhi's actions. The girl is just so strange and unusual and hyperactive that she keeps coming up with the craziest ideas. Though, really, it's understandable. When a girl is dragging you into everything she does, dressing up in a bunny suit whenever she wants to get attention or cool off, and randomly signing you and your group of friends up for sports you've never even played before, wouldn't you get snarky?

Strangely, despite being the sole person who can put a stop to Haruhi's actions (well, most of the time, anyway -- hell, Haruhi admits this herself and it's why she sent him to get the heater in the last episode in chronological order), he doesn't do it as often as you might think. Most of the time he just follows her around and snarks at her in his head. This is because, deep down, Kyon likely secretly appreciates the liveliness being around the SOS Brigade as a whole, and Haruhi in particular, brings to his life. After all, the guy does keep going back to SOS Brigade meetings and following Haruhi on whatever crazy idea she comes up with next. As a matter of fact, he explicitly states as much in the narration in Disappearance, which is why he chose to return the world to normal, and reaffirms that choice in "Snowy Mountain Syndrome."

But Kyon does put his foot down when he feels Haruhi goes to far, and doesn't hesitate to do it, either. For example, when Haruhi took the photos she forced Mikuru to pose for and tried to post them on the SOS Brigade's website, Kyon objected and forced her to take them down. Then, during the film-making, when Haruhi got Mikuru drunk and started whacking her over the head to make the contact lens pop out, Kyon told Haruhi to knock it off and that Mikuru wasn't her toy. Haruhi responded that Mikuru was, which sent Kyon into such a fury that he tried to punch Haruhi -- Itsuki had to physically restrain him. But even that was enough for Haruhi to get the message.

Despite being an average student, Kyon is surprisingly observant and knowledgeable. He knows more than his fair share of trivia, is up-to-date with pop culture, and has often figured things out before any of the other brigade members, Haruhi included, did. A prime example of this occurs in "Remote Island Syndrome." During the trip, Itsuki's "uncle" was apparently murdered. Kyon figured out both the truth and what they were expected to believe remarkably quickly. However, he waited on Haruhi to figure it out, so as not to deprive her of activity. Because we all know what happens when Haruhi gets bored.

For the most part, though, to the casual observer, Kyon seems like a typical Japanese male high school student. As I said before, he appears fairly laid-back and cynical. He gets through his life by following a tried-and-true routine, is an average student, and takes more mundane changes in his life fairly passively. Still, though, he's got a high school student's curiosity, which is probably what made Haruhi emerge on his radar in the first place.

And, of course, with a healthy male teenager comes a healthy libido. Kyon likes pretty girls. Remember those pictures of Mikuru that Kyon forced Haruhi to delete? I'll let you in on a little secret: they weren't deleted. Kyon placed them in a secret folder that he could pull up at his leisure. Not only that, he constantly fawns over Mikuru in his narration to the point of outright silliness.
Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/272531.html

Name: Foxfire
Personal LJ:

m_a_foxfire
Contact Info:
AIM: AlopexPlasma
Plurk: MadarFoxfire

Character Name: Mokona Modoki (Soel, the white version)
Character Series: Wiki! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa:_Reservoir_Chronicle)
Background: Fandom Wiki! (http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Mokona)

Personality:

Mokona is very childlike, which is understandable as she basically is a little kid. Even so, the one adult Mokona she was cloned (?) from is about as old as the universe and is just as much of a goofball. She's super high energy and loves traveling and meeting new people and eating new things and making all her old friends and new friends smile by being so fucking adorable and taking in ten times her bodyweight in food and booze the little moocher.

She's fairly intuitive with people, shown by her constant antagonism of the surly ninja Kurogane - who actually wouldn't hurt her - as opposed to her more cautious and restrained manner around actual threats to her person. She constantly invades his personal space - everyone's, really - but in Kurogane's case it is partially because she thinks his indignant reactions are funny and likely because she likes it when he loosens up for his own sake; he's so serious and his face will stick like that one day oh no!!

She does honestly care for her friends, and it's very easy to be counted as one of her friends. If someone's sad, she'll try to help however she can, whether via antics to pull them out of a funk or by just cuddling up to them and being there if it's something too serious to be alleviated by adorable animal hijinks. She typically doesn't put herself into direct danger, mostly because she has zero combat ability, but she always goes along with the group on adventures that range from harmless funtimes to multiversal apocalypse. Most of the time she doesn't consider herself to be in trouble, because she generally believes that her travel group can handle anything that happens. When they cannot, she gets pretty fucking flustered!

She can also be a fairly legit pain in the ass, as shown in the bonus chapter in which she leaves jelly pawprints all over the walls, the ceiling, and her ninja buddy's new comic book, but that's about as bad as she gets. Also notable is her complete lack of guilt when found out - she's basically like OH NO BUSTED TEEHEE :3 She's basically a very good natured troll, and is incapable of doing anything actually mean-spirited. She likes tricks, but usually busts her own deceptions wide open in short order, partially so nobody's feelings get hurt and probably also because she likes being in position to see their expressions when she pulls the GOTCHA routine.

Sample Entry:
Testrun! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/268142.html)

Thanks for applying! Now that you're accepted, take note of the things over here.

Name: kally
Personal LJ: writesonthesly
Contact Info: sunnydaykally @ AIM

Character Name: Samantha Manson
Character Series: Danny Phantom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Danny_Phantom_episodes
Background: http://dannyphantom.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Manson

Personality: Sam is an individual. She stands out. She is her own person. She doesn’t care if you don’t like her black hair (obviously dyed) or her gunning boots or goth clothes. She is who she is and she doesn’t believe that anyone can truly control her and tell her just what the hell she’s supposed to do. She believes that life has life, eating things with a face is very wrong, and that humanity is slowly crippling the earth with pollution and smog. Oh yea. She’s very vocal with her opinions. She’s the girl who will sit for a week in a sit-in protest rally for a cause she believes in, or even break an animal out of the zoo.

Why yes. She’s been in quite a bit of trouble, but thanks to her family’s wealth, and her parents constant desire to pull her back to be their little “Sammykins”, something Sam very much detests. She prefers comfortable clothes and poetry to their fancy gowns and high class literature. She’s an avid fan of Edgar Allen Poe, and sees darkness and the creeping and crawling things that are associated with being a goth…as simply the imporing of a soul. Goth isn’t angst or “emo” (she hates that word), but more being aware of the supernatural, the soul, and corruption of the girl and the desire to change that. Doesn’t really help sway your ideas from “emo” though, am I right?

Sam has a very stubborn personality, and when she puts her mind to the grind, then she will go out and get the job done. Even if it means a couple cuts and bruises from wandering through prickly bushes, or maybe a broken arm thanks to a fall, she will do it, because it has to be done, and it’s for the greater good of (humanity) everyone. …okay so maybe it might not be for the greater good of everyone, but it probably be for a great and worthy cause.

She’s youth in rebellion, and stubborn and easily flustered. Also sarcastic. She has a wit like no other and even carving blade of the Aztecs have not the sharp edge that Sam’s wit can have. She doesn’t mind cutting down someone who obviously deserves a little prick to their inflated ego, and certainly doesn’t mind making insults aloud. She’s not shy about her opinions of people, and has even made glib comments about girls at school, the jock population of her academics, and the fact that she thinks Paulina is “shallower than the shallow end of the gene pool”, and that yes, “I can stand in a puddle of you without getting my feet wet, then yes, you’re shallow”.

She has faith in her friends and is very concerned when they are in trouble…except when it’s funny, because then it’s just Karma doing her job at making sure Danny and Tucker reap what juvenile antics they sow. But she can also be bossy, such as ordering Danny to destroy giant monster trucks that believes are environmental nightmares. Making him choose the exact extra-credit report she needed as an excuse to break a gorilla out of the zoo… Her hypocrisy can run far, and she can deny that issue several times…but she is quite aware of the case.

Sample Entry:
http://arcanarum.livejournal.com/2713.html

Thanks for applying! Now that you're accepted, take note of the things over here.

Name: Badge
Personal LJ:

dragomorph
Contact Info: AIM: dragomorph E-mail: bodgerkirin@hotmail.com

Character Name: Tsuruya
Character Series: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (http://haruhi.wikia.com/)
Background: http://haruhi.wikia.com/wiki/Tsuruya
Character Age: 17
Personality: The most blatantly obvious aspect to Tsuruya is that she laughs. A lot. At anything, and everything. However, it is important to understand that she is rarely laughing AT anybody, but rather with them -- even if the other person isn't actually laughing. In other words, she rarely means anything malicious by her laughter; rather, she laughs because she genuinely finds good humor around her, and embraces it. This can occasionally lead to her going too far with something she finds amusing; however, whereas with some people they would fail to grasp where they went wrong, Tsuruya does understand when she's crossed a line, and will apologize openly when she does so.

Tsuruya has a number of random idiosyncracies. In addition to the above-mentioned laughter, she also has a unique way of speaking partly influenced by a somewhat odd fang that causes her to occasionally slur words and speak in a seemingly casual way. She tends to invent words, her most notable being "megas," and to a lesser extent "nyoro." She'll also give cute nicknames to people, especially other girls. You almost wouldn't be able to tell she's from one of the richest families in town.

However, Tsuruya is not all "hyperactive girl." She's fairly athletic, and underneath that happy exterior is a very intelligent young woman who is capable of thinking outside the box when necessary -- although, much like the girl she's on the same wavelength with, Haruhi Suzumiya, occasionally she thinks so far outside of it you can't even see the box anymore. She is almost eerily perceptive and intuitive, being the only one of the "normal side characters" who can tell that something is unusual about the members of the SOS Brigade. She can also be fiercely protective of those she cares about, with a potential for hand-to-hand combat that is not readily obvious, and she is not afraid to fight back if she feels like someone she's close friends with is in trouble. Tsuruya could easily be "that rich girl who's good at everything" if she wasn't so eccentric.

A final thing to note about Tsuruya is that her overwhelming concern is that others are happy. She has no personal intention of being a major player in anything; if people want to invite her into things, that's fine. If they don't, she's happy watching them be happy. And she will not pry if she does not feel it is her place; even though she notes strange things going on, she never questions them, figuring it is each person's own burden to carry. She's happy with the presence of mysteries in the world without feeling a great desire to solve them, or to track them down. Everything is magical and mysterious for Tsuruya, and she embraces it.

Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/271048.html

Thanks for applying! Now that you've been accepted, please follow the directions here.

Name: Shini
Personal LJ:

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

Name: Fel
Personal LJ:

lilac_breeze
Contact Info:
AIM: LilacFelara
Plurk: Here! (http://www.plurk.com/Felara)

Character Name: Gaignun Kukai Jr.
Character Series: Xenosaga Wiki (http://xenosaga.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page)
Background: Jr.'s page (http://xenosaga.wikia.com/wiki/Gaignun_Kukai,_Jr._%28Rubedo%29)
Personality: He may be twenty seven, but in looks and oftentimes actions, Jr. is very much a twelve-year-old boy. He loves action movies and adventure stories, and in battle his gun moves are incredibly flashy. With names like "Moonlit Serenade" and "Storm Waltz", his attacks are both over the top and devastating, proving that while he certainly has a flair for the dramatic, he has real skill as well. His dual handguns are among his most prized possessions and he takes impeccable care of them.

On the surface, Jr. often appears to be carefree, but right when one may think of him as an immature kid he'll say something that betrays his true age. Under the surface, Jr. is a thoughtful and introspective man, with a huge heart and heroic spirit. He can be very protective of those around him, even when the people he's protecting can clearly take care of themselves. Perhaps this originated in his role as the leader of the URTVs, but it is his kind and caring nature that keeps him acting like a hero and watching out for those around him at all times.

Mary once said "I can't believe how much his personality changes when he's holding a gun!" and truly, when not in battle, Jr. is relaxed and calm. He loves books and antiques, and has been known to get completely lost in a good story.

He may not always show it, but Jr. carries a heavy burden from when he failed to defeat U-DO and broke the spiritual link with his fellow URTVs. He blames himself for what happened, and when reminded of those events he clams up. His life as Rubedo is separate from his life as Gaignun Kukai Jr., and when MOMO says that the name Rubedo is very pretty and asks if she can call him that instead, he tells her that he has bad memories connected with that name. He'd rather leave those events and that name in the past, but when it comes back to haunt him he doesn't run - he stands his ground and accepts the responsibility and consequences that those actions created.

Jr. is a complex man, both the twelve-year-old boy fanboying over books and guns, as well as the twenty-seven-year-old man burdened with a tragic past that doesn't want to let him have peace. He's a little immature and tends to jump in without thinking, but his skill and power (and perhaps a little bit of luck) always pull him through any situation he may find himself in. Overly emotional though he may be, his kind nature and heart of gold always find him doing the right thing.

Sample Entry: It had only been a few months, but the things Jr. had remembered were extremely important. His full name. When his birthday was. And the most important thing of all - his amazingly awesome skill with guns. So naturally he spent all of the money he'd accrued by this point on a brand new pair of shiny twin pistols.

Also, a cowboy hat. He had his priorities, after all.

He headed out to the outskirts of town to practice and see if he could remember anything else.

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Character Name: Kotetsu T. Kaburagi
Character Series: Tiger & Bunny (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Tiger_%26_Bunny_Wiki)
Background: Here. (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Wild_Tiger) Canon point is between episodes 13 and 14.
Personality: Take your standard shounen hero. Now age him up to just shy of middle age. That would be Kotetsu, in a nutshell. He's the sort of guy you could have seen talking about burning spirit and true justice and not batted an eye to it when he was, say, fifteen or so. At his age, however, it comes off as hopelessly dorky, if perhaps endearing to the right sort. The thing is, he speaks of things like justice and protecting others with such a zeal because that's honestly what he believes in. To Kotetsu, the protection of human life -- even the lives of those who are otherwise villainous -- comes before anything else. And nothing -- no one person, no one thing, no one BUILDING -- is going to stop him.

Naturally, this can be kind of problematic. He's impulsive, prefering to act before he thinks and relying mostly on gut instinct. Which is all well and good, but often results in the destruction of a LOT of valuable property in the process. This drives the bean-counters back home up a wall, especially since it's OBVIOUS Kotetsu deprioritizes financial costs over human ones. Furthermore, his impulsiveness means he often blunders into situations, occasionally making them worse. It gets the job DONE, but with all the subtlety of a semitruck.

That said, Kotetsu isn't DUMB, per se. Give him enough leads and enough time and he can be remarkably brilliant. It's just that he's a fantastically lazy thinker, preferring to solve situations with his fists first before actually applying his brain to anything. This at least allows him a rather laid-back approach towards life when he's not doing something serious; when he's not running around saving the day, he can be pretty friendly, if rather immature in attitude, and he's always willing to give advice to people as a veteran of the hero business.

Which brings up one of the most fundamental aspects of Kotetsu's character: He puts everybody else before himself. This manifests itself in admirable ways, his heroic work being prime among them. But it also means he often hides it when things are going poorly for himself, and his attempts to try and conceal things so that others don't worry about him can end up appearing selfish and untrusting even before the gig is inevitably up. But because he's so concerned for others, people tend to trust him, and maybe even -- if they've spent enough time with him -- believe that there's some truth to this whole "justice and the sanctity of life" malarky after all.

Note that, while he TRIES not to make it obvious that he likes getting praised for what he does -- that's just not what a hero should care about, after all -- it's pretty obvious that not getting his fair share of credit stings. His FIRST priority is always saving people and delivering justice -- but his second priority is looking cool while he does it. That's why he fell in love with heroes, after all.

Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/272886.html?view=9148406#t9148406

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[It had only been a few months, but the things Jr. had remembered were extremely important. His full name. When his birthday was. And the most important thing of all - his amazingly awesome skill with guns. So naturally he spent all of the money he'd accrued by this point on a brand new pair of shiny twin pistols.

Also, a cowboy hat. He had his priorities, after all.

Jr. was too excited to do much besides practice what he had remembered, even with the weather being gloomy these past few days. His roommate was really beginning to get tired of the way he'd run around the room, making pretend shooting noses while flipping and jumping over the beds, among other things. So when a day finally dawned bright and sunny, he eagerly headed to the outskirts of town to practice and see if he could remember anything else, but not before announcing his plans. He'd been cooped up for too long, and so had everyone else - it was time for some action, and a lot of showing off.]

Hey! Anyone want to see some super incredible gun skills? I'll be practicing on the outskirts in a few, so hurry out there! You won't wanna miss this, trust me!

[He grins brightly and winks at the camera.]

This is gonna be the most exciting thing the island's seen in a while!

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