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nephalemOne cannot simply describe the finer nuances of Dave. No. One must be a Strider to stride along the boulevards of Strider comprehension.
Okay, no, who am I kidding, he's pretty much transparent. Basically if you've ever listened to "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette, take that, flip it, make some smartass comments about it, indulge it just for the sake of hilarity, and set it to red text and there you go. Irony a la Strider. He keeps using that word, but he really doesn't seem to have any idea what it actually means. The kid was brought up to do everything in an "ironic" way, and to look as insufferably "cool" in the process as he possibly can.TT: The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless.
TT: Through an intense commitment bordering on religious devotion to the absolutely inane, absurd, or plain fucking stupid, a very different kind of sincerity begins to materialize. One of reverence to the ridiculous. You begin to "mean it," but what exactly it is you mean is never quite what appears on the surface, and is utterly inaccessible to obtuse and literal minds. That you "mean it" then becomes inseparable from the joke, and additional rich strata of humor may be stripped aggressively from this irreconcilable truth.
Dave's life basically revolves around being cool. Not just looking cool while secretly being a bit of a failure on the inside like your typical anime trope, no. He wants to basically be the embodiment of downright enviable full-stop cool. This probably has a lot to do with who raised him, given that his older brother (who is actually technically his genetic father; please don't get me started on ectobiology), aptly named Bro, is already the epitome of a cool douchebag. It's all in the walk, not the talk. The irony in all this is, of course, that in his efforts to be cool, Dave only really succeeds in being painfully uncool, regardless of what he may or may not think about himself. Either way, Bro, and subsequently his little however-partly-unintentional prodigy, have got both the walk and the talk. For the majority of Dave's young life he wears a pair of Ironic Anime Shades resembling the ones Bro wears and often emulates his habits and interests in many ways; it isn't until John gives Dave a pair of authentic Ben Stiller sunglasses for his thirteenth birthday that Dave really begins to deviate into his own special flavor of Strider.TG: my bro taught me a few tricks he basically knows everything and is awesome
The shades and the way his Bro's puppets begin to freak him out a bit, anyway, also thanks to John's influence. Puppets are one of the only few things that actually unnerve Dave, which is a slow progression in canon from just being vaguely creeped out to an outright enraged outburst after being covered in them at one point. This may be caused in part by one puppet in particular called Lil' Cal, which happens to be present the room where Dave's dream self sleeps, causing the waking world Dave to sometimes have nightmares and wake up in a cold sweat.
So, of course, Bro finds ways to troll Dave with puppets all the damn time.TG: dont tell john this but i think he might have been right about the puppets
TG: theyre sort of starting to freak me out a little
TG: i mean dont get me wrong i think its cool and all
TG: the semi-ironic puppet thing or whatever
TG: or semi-semi ironic
TG: man i dont even know
TG: im just starting to think some of this shit is going a little far and its kind of fucked up
TG: oh man i wish lil cal wouldnt look at me like that
TG: with those dead eyes jesus
TG: sometimes i dream that hes real and hes talking to me and i wake up in a cold sweat and basically flip the fuck out
TG: oh god why did i just tell you my dream
TG: youre going to have a field day with that
One of the other very few things that shake Dave's otherwise unshakeable composure is death. When handling it around others he maintains his flat and infallibly cool and calm demeanor, making quips about it and essentially being very roundabout in his feelings regarding it, but has been shown to be "unable to face" the notion of his own death, even when doing so would allow him to ascend to a higher level of power. Similarly, when he comes upon the corpse of an alternate version of himself during a time loop, he is visibly disturbed and cannot stop staring at the blood, and is also notably "freaked out" by having to dispose of his own body (by tossing it out a window and into a pit of lava). He also doesn't deal very well with the deaths of others, from the accidental maiming of a Rambunctious Crow ("no one can ever know about this") to discovering the bodies of his friends and, later on, Bro, impaled by his own sword. When asked if he is sad or broken up about it by Terezi he leads her on a completely roundabout and noncommittal wild goose chase without ever giving up an actual answer.
It's pretty apparent when he tries to break Bro's sword (saying that if he's going to remove it from Bro's body it has to come out horizontally in order to prevent more blood from spilling, which in itself denotes a significant amount of respect shown toward Bro that wasn't shown toward even his own dead bodies), though, and upon failing to do so, lets himself lay on the ground face-down and unhappily tells Terezi to leave him alone.
In Dave's book, downplaying feelings is the quintessential rule of cool. So it isn't that he doesn't have them or feel them very strongly—he just doesn't communicate them outright very well. His actions speak for themselves, but his words are a conundrum, a mixture of sarcastic and sincere and sometimes outright lies in order to save face. He hasn't been shown to completely lose it around anyone, and as long as he has a say in the matter, that's how it'll stay. Bro brought him up to be tough, to hold that unshakeable wit or bust, and Dave doesn't normally have a problem with doing so. In fact, outwardly, Dave reacts pretty well to the nightmare that is SBURB, though most of that is due to his arrogant tendency to flat out reject things that don't fit into his mold and will continue blindly pushing forward in whatever direction he's headed, regardless of whether this could put him into a bad spot.TG: maybe i am supposed to be a hero and rise to the occasion because there seems to be this little persistent voice in my head nagging me about it
TG: insisting someones gotta pay
TG: and its hard for me to disagree
Some of that blindly pushing forward is caused in part by being an easily-influenced person. He takes cues from others to structure his idea of cool, but things like John's opinions and Terezi's influence on him have been shown to massively direct what he does, though he never makes a point of showing it or saying so. Dave may have a hard time remembering things, since he forgets what he's doing at the time during quite a few moments in the storyline (at one point he even forgets that he was supposed to forget something), but when he is set on a task, he is pretty dead set about it. Again, sometimes literally, because many of his alternate timeline selves are killed as a result of a generally bad decision or some poor advice that he followed (thanks a lot, Terezi). After finding Bro dead he expresses that he feels weird for being the only one angry enough to want to go after Jack Noir and make him, and other such mutinous agents, pay by "putting them in the slammer," and notes that each of his friends all have their own reasons for not dropping what they're doing to make this happen, whereas he himself feels that they should all quit tiptoeing around the big problem and face it head-on. A lot of this might be grief talking, but Dave later makes a point of wanting to be the one to sacrifice himself for his friends to put a stop to things, so, again, you never know when he's actually being serious.
On the subject of his friends, Dave is actually quite close to them, despite how detached he can be from them all at times. His three friends, Rose, Jade, and John, understand him in a way that doesn't need to be said, seeing both the good and bad qualities alike in him—and the reverse holds true as well. They influence him in many ways, as does Terezi, his "patron troll" and the only one that he really cares about at all. It's easy for Dave to joke around them whether they appreciate his humor or not and he has been shown to resort to texting them to "calm his neves" during a moment when a possible puppet-induced freakout is imminent—even if the person he's trying to contact isn't at their computer to take his messages, he will go on and on and on, babbling away (and has also been shown to awkwardly mumble to himself in a corner while hanging around people in person, too). He seems to share a number of interests with all of them, despite how often Dave berates them for liking stupid shit like Nic Cage movies and writing gay wizard fanfiction, and in turn they berate him for his weird interests, too, such as his lame self-photography; weirdly preserving dead things in jars; and rapping on the fly, to the point of almost being obnoxious. The four kids really care about each other a lot, and it says something about Dave in particular that he would be willing to give himself up for the rest of them, despite that his apparent fear of his own death.TG: but i dont want you to die
TG: this isnt right
So overall Dave is kind of a mess of tropes and notions of cool, shooting off pop culture references and starting some sick fires in the form of the noble art of slam poetry to get his point across (or just to fill the airspace, who knows). He does things "ironically," which is really just that something is uncool but treating it as cool therefore makes it ironic and subsequently cool in this way, and never seems to be able to take things seriously except for when he is, just ha-ha you can't tell if that's what if he's doing or if he's just being a jackass. He keeps his bizarrely candy red eyes hidden behind a pair of stylish shades and wears a heck of a slick suit, but there are lot of feelings going on beneath the surface there. Dave just doctors them up with tropes and irony labels before he lets them fly. And if it takes people awhile to get it—if they never get it, even—it's whatever. He's got plenty of time on his side.
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radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!vorpalbladeAt first glance, it's very easy to see why a couple of Roxy's friends don't take her seriously. A lot about Roxy comes off as though she is the epitome of party girl: rarely seen without a martini glass in her hand or without the many typos of someone hopelessly inebriated. She's constantly cracking some kind of joke, seems to take everything in a light-hearted fashion, and spends quality hours giving her friends a hard time—all in the name of love, of course. At first glance, Roxy doesn't seem to be the kind of girl interested in video games, science or conspiracy theories, but like a lot of things in Roxy's life, first impressions tend to lie.
Roxy is a girl who is casual with her friends, seeming to basically not care at all what comes out of her mouth (rather, her drunk fingers), possessing all but no inner filter with regards to sexual terms or profanity. She is a typical teenager in that regard, using chatspeak to get her thoughts down quickly and often not bothering to correct her typos save for a few lines later, when she'll use an asterisk and at least attempt to spell something as correctly as she knows how. Backspace? What's that? She's too busy skipping from one thought to the next with all the enthusiasm of someone who's had a little too much time on her hands. That's not to say she's stupid—that's in no way true, no matter what universe she's in. Roxy just tends to get a little ahead of herself at times, saying and doing things that, had a moment been taken to consider the outcomes of such actions, she might have reconsidered doing or saying. Like, for example, rigging a certain .exe file to explode a few seconds after it was run.
On the flip side, Roxy's enthusiasm, propensity to typo and other traits of her very sociable personality can be seen as incredibly obnoxious. When one adds in the fact that she is drunk or inebriated in some fashion at least ninety percent of the time, many people would be put off by her. She gives off the impression of a girl who would be all up in someone's business were they standing right next to her, possibly laughing and touching and hanging all over them during the good times. It's during the bad times that people get a glance at the under layers of what makes Roxy tick.
Ro-Lal is, for all intents and purposes, an orphan in a world that's falling apart at the seams. In fact, that's literally what she is; never has Roxy spoken to or even known her "ancestor", an author by the name of Rose Lalonde. However, this is not a fact that Roxy makes readily known to her friend, Jane Crocker, for reasons her two other friends are well aware of. Who's going to believe anyone that says they live 400 years in the future after Batterwitches and trolls have slowly wiped out what remained of humanity? Roxy plays it off like it's no big deal with Jane; with Dirk, her broken heart is on full display. It kills Roxy to have never known her mother figure, and it's one of her driving motivations for playing Sburb (even though she knows what it'll do to Jane's world because, hey, it's already happened). In the same vein, having her best friend in the whole world never believe when Roxy says that her mother is dead and she is alone? Tears her apart inside.
Because of these reasons (her loneliness, the dystopian world around her, and the fact that her friends either live thousands of miles away or 400 years in the past), Roxy tends to drink. A lot. Though she says that her mother stocked mountains of the stuff as a passive-aggressive jab at her, the audience knows it's not true. It's a coping mechanism to help her get through each day in her hellish future, and now it's an addiction, and addiction is a powerful thing, something she can't shake.
But who cares about that stuff, right? Roxy will give it no further thought unless she's talking to someone she trusts very much—Dirk being one of them. Even though she might snark at him from time to time because he doesn't want to return any of her affection, even in a friendly manner, it's safe to say that Roxy would be entirely lost without him. He's the one that looks after her dreamself when she's asleep, making sure she doesn't wander too far off. He's the one who listens to her talk about how much it hurts to know that her best friend Jane doesn't believe the fact that Roxy's mother is dead. Dirk is the one that's constantly there for her, having “more to do with her than any guy should” and liking it that way.
This won't stop Roxy from doing some carefree flirtlarping with his AR, however. Who else is she going to flirt with? Everyone else is off-limits to her! Dirk is the best pale pal a gal can have; Jane's... well, Jane's Jane, and though Roxy would consider her a bffsie, there's a lot that should stop her from considering Jane in any romantic fashion at the moment, not the least of which is her unbreakable sense of skepticism and doubt with regards to a lot of things Roxy has to say; and Jake? Jake is so far out of the ballpark that there's no fitting end to that metaphor to describe just how off-limits that guy is. Roxy still likes him well enough—especially since he believes beyond a shadow of a doubt the truth of her life and Dirk's—though their conversations seem to run across the more surface aspects of Roxy's personality. He calls her smart and sassy and Roxy has absolutely no problems soaking up the praise.
It's all true. Roxy is the sassiest kid in Homestuck yet—she has no qualms giving her friends lip when they're being tight-assed or when they're going to do something stupid. As previously mentioned, she's a frisky flirty girl with little to no inner filter to keep her conversations “family friendly”. She is also one of the smartest, utilizing her mind not only with her inclinations for naughty jokes and hilariously misspelled words (she's been called out by a couple people with regards to some of her typos, claiming that she misspells on purpose in order to make a pun or just to be straight-up silly), but also to use fenestrated planes to travel through her house, appearify pumpkins and other assorted things, create a bunch of fucking meowcats through means of ectobiology, and to hack websites and program, well, computer programs. Not only is she good at it—how many people do you know that can rig a computer program to explode?—but she makes a reference to herself as an “elite haxxor bitch.” And we come to another one of Roxy's drawbacks: she brags about her talents.
A lot. Hey, no one else is going to talk her up! She might as well do it herself.
Despite the fact that Roxy likes to hide behind a carefree veil, it's safe to say that this girl has the absolute biggest heart in the whole of Homestuck. She is the type of girl who would do absolutely anything for her friends. When her world was under attack by murderous drones and her neighborhood was set alight? Roxy spent most of her time running around gathering up the Carapacians who had more or less been her caretakers during her life. Instead of letting them stay in harm's way, Roxy instead put herself in harm's way in order to get them safe, making it clear she thought that someone should be looking after them the way they looked after her when she was a baby. This girl spent every chance she could appearifying vegetables (especially pumpkins) and handing them out to the creatures as thanks and because she knew they didn't have enough to eat most of the time. It's no wonder that this girl's alternate universe self was a mother because it's clear that Roxy will do what's necessary for those closest to her.
But let's not go this long without mentioning that Roxy is about as obsessed with conspiracy theories regarding the Condesce as she is with wizards, which can be summed up in two words: a lot. She writes fanstories with her mother's wizard characters, but doesn't really like the stuff she gets down on paper, choosing instead to to hide the journals and pretend they don't really exist. She even named her cat—the one she appearified from her mother's time—Frigglish, after one of the characters in Complacency of the Learned.
All in all, Roxy is an outgoing, sassy and smart girl with a tendency to enjoy a little escapism in the form of RP, fanfiction and video games. It's very easy to write her off, but given an opportunity, she can at least try to charm the pants off of anyone who'll give her a bit of attention.
As a Rogue of Void, Roxy is highly sought after by the Condesce for her powers, and she's even told by Calliope that said powers will make her incredibly powerful and effective in the game. As it stands, the only known effect of the Void in Roxy's life is to black out cameras and monitors to make it basically impossible to see her and her friends. The only way this can be avoided is by her partaking in the drink every so often, which cuts off her access to the Void. For the game, this seems like a fitting cap: being able to hide herself from being traced via technology.
As her strife specibus contains both Fistkind and Riflekind, this means that Roxy is physically strong as well as being capable with a rifle—a portal gun, to be exact.
She's also a very capable hacker and programmer, able to re-program a virus to blow up a friend's computer. Who even does that?
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!awillowweeping∙Calsprite was able to shape shift and shoot lasers.
∙Sprites can be solid or become completely incorporeal to pass through walls.
∙Create functioning energy objects ala green lantern.
∙Glowing graffiti. Dave's is red that glows orange.
∙Grow back missing appendages.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!valdrianthradioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!killkindsIn a dystopian, underground future, there's a city full of debauchery, crime, drugs, and The Hard Knock life. It's unknown why humanity has fled to being underground or what exactly the state of the surface is, but either way the people living in the city have become accustomed to the constant winter. With genetic engineering common, half of the human population has some kind of aesthetic defect: whether it's small wings or the tusks of a pig. This is where Badou Nails lives.
Badou's history itself is lacking, only seen in small snapshots and some side-projects that weren't quite put into the manga serialization. We know a few things: he had an older brother named Dave, and Dave "died" when he was young, purportedly killed by the same person that gave Badou the scar under his eyepatch and on his hand with a single stab of a sword. Dave, while an idealist and wanting to dig up the secrets of the Underground in their post-apocalyptic and fucked-up world, was a terrible parent, often leaving Badou to fend for himself which hardened him in a lot of ways and hardened him even more after his death. "It's a hard-boiled life", he says after all, and the yolk's gone bad. While Dave was a journalist, Badou sticks to the less honorable camera gigs of being a P.I., digging up dirt on the gangs and mafias in The City to sell for quick change. He has made Information his business and nicotine his way of life, all traceable back to how his brother's death shaped his psychology and existence.
Many things are unknown about how he's met his earlier contacts -- a true attest to how much Badou keeps his own history to himself -- such as the Bishop (the owner of a local church) and Mimi (his informant and confidant), but he supposedly met the genetically-engineered and trigger-happy Heine Rammsteiner through the Bishop, saying something along the lines of how he found Heine to be "all prickly, in body and soul". The two seem to have a common habit of leaving trails of blood wherever they go; Badou simply relies on him to stay alive, for all the living he's doing.
He's taken early in the manga before Shit Starts Going Down, so even the information he keeps so close is unknown to other characters as he digs up his own mysteries.
Badou is a coward; when option comes down to fight or flight, the choice is usually obvious. Confrontations mean nothing to him, and he has absolutely no pride or shame to speak of; thus running away is the first natural decision, often screaming at the top of his lungs and tears in his eyes. It's a good thing he stands just over six feet with all that sprinting he has to do from pissing off various Mafioso and their thug grunts (and boy is he good at pissing people off!). It's the catching of these people in lewd and debasing situations that, too, has left him desensitized: lack of interest in sex on top of lack of manners and concern for bodily functions that can easily accrue to his bad sense of humor and foul mouth. He speaks in thick slang that translators often have trouble deciphering, which becomes a problem when Miwa often uses him to explain various plot points and happenings.
But the easy-joking, easy-going nature is only part of a lie, a veneer that houses a deep-seated inner apathy. He doesn't care about life. He doesn't care about death. He doesn't care about anything at all, really. Dave could try to save his city all he wanted; Heine can talk to the fake angel girl and pray for forgiveness; Naoto can carve out her destiny or just try to carve out the face of her killer; Badou will simply exist and keep rooting in the dirt for the answers to his past.
Despite his irregular moods under the influence of whatever-it-is-that-day and his outer layers of stupidity, he definitely has a sharp intelligence underneath the smokescreen of absurdity. He knows people well enough to position his questions so others will open up, and he's tactful enough to not always get caught when snooping around. He can certainly think on his feet, despite his natural bad luck and lack of charm.
He's not just an actor, carving out a false persona in his image, he lives in his deceit... up until he runs out of cigarettes. Nicknamed the Gun Smoker for a very valid reason, when he's not chugging down the cancer sticks, he's drowning in his own insanity. It's either too much or not enough in his erratic lifestyle, because when the smoke stops burning and he gets a good dose of oxygen, he completely loses himself in a cold massacre, a tool which the people in his life like Heine and Mimi use to their advantage: predictability with a sharp edge and high-stakes consequences.
A looter, a browser, a lingerer, a camera-clicker, an asshole, an ennui connoisseur, and a constantly-jonesing junkie addict, Badou is constantly a heartbeat away from getting himself killed and a hop, skip, and a jump away from unearthing secrets that are probably better off buried.
Sure, the lack of his brother glaringly points at an Abandonment Complex: the only thing he ever knew leaving him in shitty streets full of mafia fuck-ups and other little kids dumpster diving, but that doesn't mean deep, deep down he wants to be hugged and nursed back to sanity and wellness. It just means that, all the way through, he wants to be left the fuck alone.
While Badou's definitely not good at fighting (unless he's going beserk), he is pretty goddamn amazing at surviving. Running away from and/or dishing it out with the local gangs and mafia is sort of His and Heine's Thing. His entire life is riddled with violence and bloodshed, including his own, and that of his brother's when he was just a kid. He's not adverse or unused to people wanting to kill each other, or even him. Or even monsters!
But as far as actual confrontations go, he's usually fleeing and pissing his pants most of the time, so he's an incredibly good runner. He crashes into trash cans pretty often so his sense of personal disgust is practically nonexistent, just like his pride.
Even though he's a real failure, he has an incredibly sharp street wit and is actually good at being a P.I., digging around in other peoples' dirty little secrets and finding out things no one wants him -- or anyone -- to know.
He shouldn’t need any down-grading because he’s just a normal human.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!nephalemradioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!kingrockwellradioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!nephalemswitchback, martialedClementine is a very sweet girl who got caught up in a really unfortunate disaster. When the zombie apocalypse hits rural Georgia, her parents are out at a trip and have left her with her babysitter. Somehow she manages to survive the initial outbreak by hiding in her treehouse and avoiding both walkers and invading people alike. Eventually she meets a fellow survivor, Lee Everett, who she lives with to find safety and eventually becomes very close to. Even though they are only strangers, she slowly begins to see him as a sort of surrogate father figure. She never forgets nor entirely gives up on her parents until much, much later when she finds them as zombies. She is very much a "show" rather than "tell" kind of person and prefers to let her actions speak louder than her words, expecting more or less the same from others before she can trust them. Being a child, she is as gullible and easy to manipulate emotionally as one would expect, but has also been shown to be extremely clever and resourceful, coming up with solutions even before Lee or the other adults in her group do.
One would expect a nine-year-old in the middle of the zombie apocalypse to have difficulty surviving, but between being well protected and being smart enough to take care of herself when she needs to, Clem has a lot less difficulty than most others might. Although she is initially afraid to learn to use a gun, she recognizes the need, just the same as she does in other situations where she may not like what is going on, but knows that others have her best intentions in mind. However, she is not afraid to voice her opinion when she thinks something is wrong (such as telling Lee that she doesn't think they should raid the abandoned camper full of supplies when their group comes across it in the field) or asking direct questions when there is something on her mind. She tends to be fairly good at telling when someone is lying to her, but not always. Once her trust is gained it isn't easy to lose it, although her habit of occasionally taking matters into her own hands sometimes overrides the better advice given to her.
Despite how clever and unusually adaptable Clementine is during the apocalypse, she is still a child at heart. She makes friends with the other child in her group and plays games with him while he is alive, pulls pranks and teases him like children will do. She likes to be included and treated like part of the group, often volunteering (or even insisting) on joining in on various excursions that could prove dangerous. She is very eager to prove herself but avoids being reckless as a result—just very brave and strong no matter the circumstance, even when she is scared or upset. This proves to make her invaluable to Lee in her own way, especially after he is bitten and begins to die. Clementine takes all of Lee's advice to heart and uses it to keep herself alive after putting him down, even though it brings her to tears and leaves her all alone.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!bled.dragonkind ).For a youkai, Rin is, perhaps, one of the more ominously cheerful of the bunch. While it's only natural for youkai, residents of Gensokyo and otherwise alike, to prefer wreaking havoc upon the human world and humans themselves, Rin is more laid-back and nonchalant towards the whole chaos-and-destruction deal, preferring instead to sit around in the hot caverns of Former Hell and do what it is she loves and does best: chilling with the bodies of the dead. Fitting for her childish appearance, she's extremely carefree and oblivious to most of the more serious matters going on around the world, and her scope of what's worth paying attention to and what isn't is usually restricted to her immediate vicinity and the same old goings-on within Hell.
Due to living in the Underground, Rin lacks a good deal of understanding about the rest of Gensokyo, which only furthers her nonchalant attitude. Because of this separation, though, her love for her home and the people around her has been tempered over the years, instilling her with a strong sense of loyalty and love for her companions and the simplicity of her own life, even if it does mean that she's missing out on a lot. Catastrophes could be occurring above the ground, and Rin wouldn't bat an eyelash; if something happens within the Underground, however, she's quick to leap into action, albeit naively so. When her good friend, Utsuho Reiuji, became heavily unstable after gaining nuclear-based powers and wished to take over all of Gensokyo, Rin's immediate concern wasn't protecting the welfare of the entirety of the rest of the world from Okuu's wrath, but rather how their master, Satori Komeiji, would react to the sudden change in temperament. In reality, Satori admitted that she wouldn't have chastised Okuu too harshly for her actions; Rin was just worrying too much and letting her devotion to looking out for her friend cloud her judgement, since she should have known better than to doubt Satori's understanding.
Rin has a rather morose sense of humour, which is only to be expected from someone who mixes being silly and flighty and somewhat immature with living within Hell and being obsessed with swiping the dead from funerals. When challenged, she jokes that Okuu's power will kill anyone who tries to stop them, but she doesn't mind that idea because Reimu falling in battle will just give her an opportunity to add another human to her collection. She'll also cheerfully let her opponents know that, having wandered into Hell, it's likely that they'll just end up burning to death due to the ever-raging fires spread throughout the area -- but, that's okay, too, because she promises to look after their bones and souls once they're gone. It's no wonder that she's been completely desensitized to the idea of death and those around her dying, as it's been her duty to cart the dead to Hell for hundreds of years, and she admits that there's nothing she finds more entertaining than being able to hang around spirits and corpses for as long as she wants.
Due to her strong connection with the dead, Rin doesn't particularly care about the living unless she's prattling on about how great it would be if she got to play with their corpses. Her only friends are Okuu and Satori, whom are 'special cases' due to being residents of Hell as well, but she doesn't mind being left in solitude while knowing that everybody above the ground gets to spend time together and party and get drunk and whatever else the youkai get up to. This doesn't detract from her cheery personality; while she won't exactly make an effort to sit down and entertain small talk with someone she comes across, she isn't rude, either -- except for instances when she's making a few less than stellar comments about being incinerated or rotting underground. She's actually decidedly friendly, for a youkai, referring to others as "sis" and holding no bad feelings towards anyone who defeats her in battle, unlike many other youkai who value their pride quite a good deal more than she does.
She's described as living in the present and being very straightforward, which is partly due to her life spent as Satori's pet. The Komeiji family is renowned for their psychic abilities, with Satori being especially powerful, so Rin has been raised seeing no need to lie or cover up her thoughts or feelings. This, of course, makes it so easy for her to share her enthusiasm for her job, but it also means that she's inherently trustworthy and won't hesitate to blurt out any and all information that she's asked for. The only times when she does try to hold her tongue and dabble in deception is during Okuu's freakout, when she's too busy worrying about Satori's assumed punishment to rat her friend out, instead taking things into her own hands instead of just being upfront about the issue.
She doesn't do it often, but when she does keep things to herself, Rin is the sort who will do anything she can to patch up a situation, even if doing so is technically beyond her capabilities. Knowing that she stood no chance against Okuu's new powers, she sent a series of angry spirits to the upper world, in order to draw youkai down to Hell to find the source -- a trap, of sorts, so that she could find someone strong enough to knock sense back into Okuu. This ended up causing a good deal of trouble for the youkai who had to deal with the spirits, but Rin was only concerned with calming her friend down, even if that meant inconveniencing a few other people.
Spell Cards: Within Gensokyo, the residents use a certain type of energy-fueled magic bullets to attack others, known as danmaku. In order to ensure that both youkai and humans can fight on the same level, a number of rules were imposed for use within danmaku fights, with Spell Cards being one of the measures taken to even the playing field. They resemble small sheets of paper with the seal of the Hakurei Shrine, which, when used, unleash the type of attack inscribed upon their surface. As well as danmaku, Spell Cards can also include their users using non-magical means to attack; Mononobe no Futo, for example, uses sake cups in her Throwing Dishes card.
Rin is a kasha, a variety of demon bearing a feline-like appearance with a love and penchant of stealing the bodies of the dead ( usually those who were sinful during their lives, or are especially disliked by the public ) and carrying them down to Hell. She's usually seen with a wheelbarrow, its contents covered with straw, which is, more often than not, filled to the brim with corpses en route to the Hell of Blazing Fires deep within the core of Former Hell in Gensokyo.
She maintains two primary forms: that of her ordinary, youkai appearance, wherein she's an ordinary, red-headed young girl with a pair of cat ears, and the form of a pure black, two-tailed cat, which Marisa claims is infested with fleas. While in cat form, she can't communicate vocally with humans, but, presumably, other creatures possessing psychic abilities or particularly spot-on intuition would be able to understand her.
She can control and communicate with the spirits of the dead, though the extent of her control isn't shown. For the most part, she prefers to hold conversations with the dead, rather than animate them for her own use -- except in cases where the spirits might lend a hand in conjunction with her spell cards.
Rin isn't much of a fighter, so she has no need to keep access to her Spell Cards nor her danmaku, and her communication with/control over the dead will be dulled down to next to nothing. As for shifting between forms, doing so will be something she'll have to learn to do all over again, and even if successful, maintaining one form over the other won't last for more than a few minutes.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!gilboat Hiro is probably one of the strangest protagonists SMT has to offer. He almost always seems to have something silly to say, regardless of who's on the receiving end. Because of his wit, goodwill and optimism, it's easy for him to befriend even the coldest individuals, rivals, and people who are significantly older than he is.
His jokes may be wasted on Yamato, a detached individual who's prone to making callous, unpopular decisions, but he still tries his be farcical around him and strives to put his skills to good use in favor of the director's ideals. Another prime example would be Ronaldo — a former detective who leads a group of ragtag equal-opportunists through violent means. Though he and Hiro's ambitions clash, Hiro's willing to hear him out. All in all, he wants everyone to get along and if possible, he'd like to be a cog that helps to find a sound end that everyone can accept.In spite of his sometimes snippy, questionable or goofy responses, he's the designated leader as someone who can get along with everyone and keep them together whether they like it or not.Though he often seems to be interpreting things in a strange, filtered way, he somehow always knows what to say. When it's time to be serious, he can shift gears in an instant. He also, surprisingly, knows when to leave a situation alone and it seems impossible for the teen to hold grudges. He's spontaneous, but never acts in important situations without a certain degree of thought. His comedic side is a dominant, valuable trait especially during grim times, but he isn't unaware of certain expectations.Hiro might be the designated leader of their group, but he follows orders from the JP's (Japan Meteorological Agency) to a T. He'll take on assigned Septentriones without a fuss (though facetious complaints may follow an event). He remains composed all the while, perceptive and quick-witted even in in the midst of battle. In fact, the only reason why Yamato (The director of JP's) seems to favor him so much is because of his willingness to take risks, compliance, confidence and ability to produce results.That confidence isn't restricted to battles. Without fretting or questioning anything, Hiro's willing to meet up with potential enemies all on his own. Whether it's because he doesn't want to cause alarm and start fights amongst his party (and possibly be written off as a traitor), or because he truly believes he can handle whatever unfortunate situation he may find himself in. There's that degree of confidence that helps push him along.
Being the glue that bonds everyone, Hiro values each relationship he forms even if they oppose him in the end. The thing about him is that he loves people, regardless of their beliefs/appearance/history/etc. He listens to people who are "supposed" to be his enemy without bias, and then forms his own opinion. Some may call it shady, but because of his evenhandedness he can be thought of as a reliable comrade; he'll have anyone's back as long as they aren't being counter-productive to the cause as a whole. So, even if they can't fully match theories 100%, if both parties are working toward a similar goal then he won't interfere as a product of empathy. Both his will to survive and willingness to listen are two of his greatest assets.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!fontechradioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!Usagi is very much your typical, stereotypical teenage girl. She can be lazy, self-centered, a bit of a cry-baby and sometimes has a super one-tracked mind. This girl loves food, boys and gossip! She is a girl who loves fun, hates homework is late to school more than she is ever on time. She is lazy, loves to nap and is often more concerned with her social life than she is with her studies.
Usagi is also very sweet and caring. She is a girl who will go the ends of the Earth for her friends and has died for them a whole bunch of times. As much as she can be self-centered, she can also be incredibly selfish. What makes Usagi so real, is that she grows up a lot while still being this teenage girl who eats too much. She is a balance of strong, independent, brave and ... utterly lazy, sometimes juvenile and very funny. It's almost comical how quickly she can go from incredibly lazy to shaping up in order to defend her friends! She is, when it comes down to it, someone who knows exactly where her priorities lie. She is also someone who has a lot of stuff on her shoulders; she is a soldier, she is a princess -- she takes it all in her stride as best as she can. Sometimes she whines about it, but mostly she adapts and deals with it.
All of this can also be a downside; while she cares about her friends, she can often be very dependent on them. She has a very Bad Habit of being self-sacrificing if it means the greater good. Usagi desperately wants to see the good in everyone, even the people who are not very good at all. She can be extremely stubborn and sometimes jealous (especially over her boyfriend, Mamoru). Usagi is very much a romantic, and sometimes her feelings can lead her into putting herself in danger if it means she can help Mamoru or even her friends out. See: fighting Queen Meteria, Black Moon Kingdom, Nehelenia, facing off Galaxia, throwing self into Galaxy Cauldron to save univese. She is sometimes stupidly trusting, often without question or a second thought (see: Haruka and Michiru, despite their actions initially being to the contrary, and the Starlights, despite them being from a separate solar system and also super rude).
Much of Usagi's primary development is how she begins to grow up into a young woman, while still keeping these personality traits (even in the future). While initially she is hesitant to become a super hero, she soon adopts the role whole heartedly. Usagi's strength is sticking up for people, after all! This is not to say that Usagi doesn't keep her faults -- she kills herself in her first arc, after Mamoru dies and she continues to risk her life from thereon out (though for less dramatic reasons and more "must save everyone" reasons).
Overall, Usagi is the girl who will likely make you fall in friend love with her. She has a very unique energy around her which makes it very hard for people to dislike her. It is very easy to become frustrated with Usagi, of course, but it is very, very hard to hate her. Unless you are a bad guy, in which case it is very easy to hate her because she is so nice.
Conclusion: bratty, teenage girl with a pure heart and will do anything for friend chums. She is very transparent and wears her heart on her sleeve.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!revolutionarynephalemswitchback)Gino's personality can sort of be likened to those fruit-n-yogurt parfaits at McDonald's. The top is this sweet, sugary fruit stuff, and the bottom layer is this wibbly yogurt with a suspicious coloration and taste. But you can't get to the yogurt part unless you eat the fruit first (or stir the entire thing really hard, but come on, I'm going a long way with this metaphor so work with me, okay).
Gino's fruity top layer is... well, yeah, pretty fruity. He's upbeat, cheerful, extremely friendly, playful. At times he can be a little touchy-feely with his tendency to drape on, poke, pop up right in front of, and generally harass his friends, but this seems more directed toward men as he has a distinct respect for women needing their space. People tell him he's strange and that he should act "more normal" and serious, being a noble and a Knight of the Round, but any waving him off seems to go completely ignored. It seems at times as if he doesn't notice them all and is completely impossible to deter, although that isn't necessarily true. He will stop at nothing when he wants to befriend someone, is very persistent, and an incredible people-person; his personality is very disarming, and so he makes friends easily thanks to this.
Accepting and unassuming, Gino's come to believe that one shouldn't be judged on what they are, but rather who—by the weight and value of their actions. He tries to be honest with people, and he will be, as long as his own thoughts and feelings aren't being called into question. Unfortunately he's very guarded about these thoughts and feelings, and will often laugh off any insinuation that he may feel strongly about one thing or another. If he feels the need to be forthright, however, he will be—underneath that fruity exterior is an awful lot of feeling.
He enjoys competition, challenges, showing off, bragging about his bigdickKnightmare Frame, romance, eating, exploring and trying new things, and generally having a good time. One word you'll think of a lot when observing Gino's interests and activities is "shenanigans." Due to his upbringing, Gino can be a little on the naive side and unaware of how the real world actually works, but is always more than willing to learn. His observations on "commoners" and "commoner things" are not meant disrespectfully, and he doesn't seem to realize how narrow it sounds when he says it around others. Of course, he's prone to doing things that are... unusual at best, but at least he manages to accomplish what he's set out to, most of the time.
Boundless energy combined with his alarmingly noteworthy work ethic makes for a Knight who is competent, dutiful, and not inclined to question his orders very muchout loud. For someone as easygoing and fun-loving as he is, it often surprises people when they find that he is quite real underneath all that derp and that he is capable of balancing knightly responsibilities, social networking, schoolwork, and free time with ease. He is a very well-educated and intelligent person, if not a little inept at culture and society.
That underlying yogurt layer of Gino's personality, however, is far, far more serious and suppressed. He has a distinct dislike of himself—or rather, a dislike of how he lives. He's not at all proud of his upbringing, believing that nobles make themselves far too entitled to everything than he would like and doesn't want to be lumped in that category with them. His endeavors to live "like a commoner" are more than likely his way of not only exploring life outside his birdcage of a childhood, but deviating away from it entirely to spare himself the embarrassment of being a selfish person. Many of his actions are his attempt at proving his worth and showing that he is better than that, that he can be better.
Furthermore, Gino believes that only the weak are qualified to be knights such as himself. "Fighting the strong to save the weak and protecting one's liege for justice" is something he believes to be only colored glass to look at oneself through, and that a knight's only business, really, is to kill. As "strong" people are unfit to kill, because they will not fail to realize the evil of their actions and fight against it, a "weak" person, he believes, realizes their wrongdoing. But instead of fighting it, a "weak" person will only make excuses, however unconsciously, to justify themselves in their own mind and to the people around them. Let me make that a little clearer: people that kill people are "weak." People that don't kill people are "strong." Doesn't do much to narrow things down, now does it?
As convoluted a belief system as this is, it's what Gino goes by and thus he only seems to take an interest in other weak people such as himself. Strong people, he believes, live on a whole 'nother dimension from the weak and that the final stage of connection with those people is lost somewhere between "weak" and "strong." And yet he holds no love for these fellow weak folk, either (or at least, not morally), which sort of makes him backwards and a hypocrite, but okay. Someday, Gino, therapy.
Underneath his happy, fruity exterior he's a bit of a cynic, but prefers not to let these negative things rise to the surface. Therefore he wears the mask of contentment very, very well; sometimes it's hard to tell when he's actually happy and when he's just covering for what he really thinks and feels. Whether he's hurt, or upset, or anything, his response will almost always be "I'm fine," and then a quick diversion to a happier subject. Part of the problem is that he doesn't want to worry the people around him, and the other part is that he wants to be able to take care of it all himself. He does have quite a bit of pride in his own strength of will, which sometimes blows up in his face because it's not possible for anyone to be able to handle everything by oneself.
Furthermore, Gino is quite stubborn and very steadfast. He has been shown to have enough maturity to bear up under the strain of war and battle. Though he does make a challenge out of most things he is unerring in his determination to accomplish, even if that means doing something that he knows is morally incorrect or harsh. At times he follows rules to the letter, and is clearly uncomfortable with outright, unnecessary rebellion. Gino unflinchingly carries out his orders and at least pretends to not think about the consequences as long as what needs to be done is done. That isn't to say that the ends justify his means—not at all. But it's more that he has already grown up enough to understand that he has to shoulder the weight of the choices he makes, and does so without faltering. Usually.
You'd think with all that yogurty underlayer, he wouldn't be able to take a hit (not to mention the fact that he is a big wobbly noodle), but Gino is quite the brick wall with a high tolerance for torment. Emotional pain hits him the hardest, but he has had lots of time to practice perfecting his facade. And he's quite tough, although very much against picking fights outside of battle unless he absolutely has to. Guess maybe at the bottom of that yogurt cup is a steel plate. Or something. I don't know, I've taken this metaphor way too far already, give me a break.
Now I bet you'll never be able to eat one of those parfaits again without thinking of Gino.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!nephalemswitchback)Cool and casual, Reno is a cocky and cynical guy with a tendency to be lazy and flippant about his business. He is a Turk in the ShinRa company, which are a particular division that often do the "dirty work" such as spying, kidnappings... shady type of things. And Reno is the perfect figure for the job, being quite the sly and shady type himself. He both takes great pride in his work and is very good at it, incredibly competent, befitting his high rank (he is just below Tseng on the Turk ladder). However, it is made clear that Reno views his job as simply a job, and has no interest in pursuing Shinra's ideals while off-duty. This is shown when he is on vacation in Wutai with two of his co-workers, Elena and long-time partner Rude. There is an incident and Shinra soldiers interrupt his drinking party at the bar to request assistance from the Turks, but Reno refuses, saying that he is off-duty and going to enjoy his vacation. When Elena disagrees with this attitude and runs off to help she is kidnapped, Reno shows that he is not above teaming up with his enemies to achieve a common goal. Once the rescue mission is complete he's given orders over radio to eliminate Cloud and his party, but chooses not to as they are, in fact, off-duty. He's sort of the "dubious allegiance" type of character; neither compassionate nor downright malicious, carrying out his orders when he sees fit to but is also neither flippant about what he's asked to do in the face of his boss, either. Actually, he's quite loyal to the people who have his respect and will go out of his way to assist them if he deems it necessary.
... and then he goes off to enjoy his drunkening some more. Reno is quite the boozehound, apparently, and at times can come off as unprofessional (just look at the messy way he wears his Shinra uniform, unbuttoned with the shirt hanging out, no tie—for shame!). Fortunately, he most certainly has the ability to back up both his work ethic and his combat abilities when it comes down to it, in spite of appearances. However, he would much rather be doing things he enjoys, such as piloting helicopters, playing pool, gambling, and gossiping (he has quite the ear for gossip, and as such never seems to say a whole lot about himself because he tends to be more interested in other people's businesses, such as constantly discussing with Rude who this or that person in the Turks likes).
In battle he is nimble and aggressive, often striking underhandedly and without warning. Able to scale (or, rather, run) up the sides of buildings like a human squirrel and do all kinds of otherwise physics-defying stunts, he's a nightmare to keep up with and has a lot of energy as well. He fights with a long, retractable metal nightstick called the Electro-Mag Rod, but can also command some use over various kinds of Materia. He prefers to fight head-on, though. "Just hit it and quit it," as they say. He's not above using foul means to reach an end, which serves him well as his job often calls for "foul means" to be used in the first place. He's also quite persistent, regardless of how much of a beating he takes, but he definitely knows when to quit (after getting his ass handed to him in Midgar by Cloud's gang he takes off like a bat out of hell, just in time for the bomb he planted to detonate and destroy the pillar. He waits quite some time to return and "repay the favor," however).
By the end of Advent Children he's been diluted into more of a comedic relief type of character, a bit more of a joker who evidently likes flashy things and bears no ill will toward his former enemies (even going so far as to say to Cloud that they are "buddies," potentially sarcastic though that may have been). He does have his serious moments, however, and is prone to occasional bouts of egotism. He's more or less a decent guy at heart, but will laugh it off if one were to insinuate as much. When he takes action at the behest of his boss, Rufus Shinra, that's that, and the excuse "because we're Turks" or "because it's our job" is a card he pulls out often. But he won't go looking for fights if he feels they're unnecessary. After Shinra was obliterated by Diamond Weapon and Meteor he tells Elena that Shinra is "finished," and why bother going through with the orders to engage Cloud in yet another fight? He's level-headed, always cool.
When he does get fired up (which isn't all that difficult, if you know what buttons to push—such as Yazoo calling him and his partner "uninformed peons"), he's almost constantly got his stoic and sensible partner, Rude, to back him up. The two of them usually function as two halves of a whole, and are rarely, if ever, seen fighting apart. Since Rufus is his boss and therefore automatically due his loyalty, Rude is possibly the only person that Reno really trusts and respects of his own volition, but, like Reno, Rude doesn't talk about himself much and Reno never really pries (except for the "so who do you liiiiike" question and stupid stuff like that). They know each other well without having to say much at all.
That sort of detached but not necessarily cold attitude that Reno displays toward most things and people pretty much sums him up in a nutshell.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!nephalemswitchback)Neku starts out in his canon as a very anti-social type of person. He keeps to himself and doesn't share his values with anyone, insisting that people don't get him, and he doesn't get people, in turn. This makes him terribly stand-offish and unfriendly, sometimes even directly rude. He's very opinionated and bluntly honest at that, and is certainly not above telling the people he meets exactly what he thinks of them. Neku doesn't sugar coat his words and can be fiercely independent even when he knows that he needs help.
However, throughout the course of his time in the Reaper's Game, he comes to learn to trust others and work with his friends to achieve a common goal. Although he has yet to truly understand the diversity behind each and every single individual person, he soon comes to realize that life is what you make of it, and without everyone's thoughts and minds at work, there would be no creativity left in the world. "Life is what you make of it" is something that he quickly learns, and he goes to great lengths to fight for his ideals and those of the people closest to him. Except in the case of fashion, maybe, because he still manages to be wildly uncool in that regard. However, he is a big fan of art—particularly urban art like graffiti murals—and unconventional music. He is never seen without his headphones, used to block the noise of the world and its inhabitants out and keep his own thoughts in.
radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!plonksradioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community!radioactivism, acting_out, radioaction and radiotunes. Comment to the taken characters list! Then, once accepted into the comms, go ahead and comment to the contact page and introduce yourself on the out of character community! 
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