Aeir / Number III
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 | | Subject: The Mekakushi Dan 2017-05-08, 1:26 pm | |
| Note: The Dan's status as PCs is somewhat in flux. I'm not so much claiming them as putting up their profiles. Ofc, since there's no one else participating in the thread and I know them best, I'm running most of them atm anyway. So while they're technically NPCs, I'd appreciate it if anyone who wants to run one of them talks to me about it first. This list isn't complete, and I'll be adding the others as I finish their profiles. - #1, Kido Tsubomi:
“Blindfold complete…” ___________________________ Identity True Name: Kido TsubomiNickname: ‘Dan Member #1,’ ‘Commander’ - The Dan.Fandom: Kagerou Project / Mekakucity ActorsImage Song: Mekakushi Code (Kido's song is spoiler free, but be wary of any other songs from the series if you want to avoid that).___________________________ Age Age: 16___________________________ Date of Birth Birthday: January 2___________________________ Origin Mekakucity, Japan: A moderately large city by the coast, in Japan.___________________________ Race Vanilla Human___________________________ Physical Statistics Height: 5’6”Weight: 97 lbsGender: Female___________________________ Physical Description
Credit to Pixiv Id 4100026… probably. General: A girl with long green hair and flint-like eyes [when not using her Eye Power, at least.] She’s almost always seen wearing a purple hoodie with an orange windbreaker and baggy, olive drab cargo pants or blue jeans, with one leg rolled up to the knee. Due to her hood being almost always up and her tall, lanky build, it’s easy to mistake her for a boy. If she ever dressed properly, however, she would be easily discernible as a slender young woman.___________________________ Known Relatives By Blood:
- Parents: Kido ??? (Father - Deceased), Kido ??? (Mother - Deceased)
- Siblings: Kido Rin (Older Sister - Deceased)
By Adoption:
- Parents: Tateyama Ayaka (Mother - Deceased), Tateyama Kenjirou (Father)
- Siblings: Tateyama Ayano (Older Sister - Deceased), Seto Kousuke (Younger Brother), Kano Shuuya (Younger Brother).
___________________________ Alignment Good (Chaotic Tendencies)___________________________ Personality General Summary: Gruff and a bit rough whenever she speaks, and generally stoic when she doesn’t, Kido presents the image of a ‘tough, reliable girl.’ While she is quite reliable, she’s actually quite kind and maternal. Kido cares for her friends and siblings a great deal, and is always doing some small thing or another to show she cares, though she’s too awkward and repressed to really drop her facade.Facade: Kido hides her shyness and social awkwardness by playing up her role as ‘commander’ of the dan. She speaks as roughly as possible, insists on being referred to by her last name, and generally tries to act as ‘cool’ as possible at all times. Occasionally, this facade weakens a bit when someone needs a gentle hand or bit of care, but it’s replaced quite swiftly. However, it can be broken entirely... if you place Kido in a haunted house or similar situation --- she’s actually quite bad with silly ‘scary things’ like that. Perhaps unsurprisingly if you know about this facade, Kido is also something of a Hikki-NEET, and she has a hard time communicating without it. She also relies heavily on her power when she goes out in public, never allowing herself to be seen by anyone she doesn’t have to interact with.___________________________ Skills Homebody: Kido's actually quite good at cooking, and responsible for most meals. She's also something of a taskmistress regarding various chores around the Dan's base, and makes sure everything gets done. Guitar Playing: Kido isn’t particularly talented at it or anything, but playing the guitar is one of her few hobbies, and she spends a fair amount of effort practicing it when she has the time.___________________________ Powers (Read full descriptions for restrictions. If unclear, ask and I’ll elaborate.) Concealing Eyes: The power to escape notice, so long as one does not make physical contact. Works even through remote observation such as a security camera or scrying spell. Acquired due to an intense desire to hide. It can affect others, but requires focus and is easily disrupted if they come into contact with anyone. As to its maximum range, Kido “hasn’t really tried going all-out, but if it’s a single thing - like a building - where everything’s connected, it shouldn’t be too difficult to make it disappear.”___________________________ Stats Summary: For all intents and purposes, Kido is a normal human girl.___________________________ Possessions/Equipment Valued Possessions:
- MP3 Player: Very frequently in use.
- Stylised Purple Hoodie: She never leaves home without it, whatever the weather.
___________________________ Occupation Dan Leader: Ostensibly the ‘Commander’ of the Mekakushi Dan, in reality she mostly decides the theme of the day’s mission. That is to say - what the roleplay is whenever they’re messing around. However, she has genuinely grown into the role a fair bit, and her foster brothers usually follow her lead.___________________________ Past Origin: The illegitimate child of a wealthy family, Kido spent most of her childhood shunned by all but her older sister, and even she couldn’t be around very often. She felt isolated to such a degree that she wished simply to disappear, as if she never was, and it seemed like her wish might be granted when her father’s business collapsed and he went mad, setting his home on fire and trapping all within it in the flames. Scared, Kido realised she didn’t want to die - not really - and wandered the hazy, smoke-filled halls of her burning home aimlessly for what felt like hours. Every door she opened only seemed to lead deeper into the flames, until she found her sister, who showed her to the proper exit.Kido hesitated, not wanting to go on alone, but Rin rebuked her, saying, “Don’t be a baby! Only you can get through.” Kido didn’t understand, but Rin was adamant and there wasn’t much time left, so she stepped through, though she paused at the threshold and looked back. Rin was standing amidst the flames, grasping her arm and looking off to the side, her face inscrutable due to the haze. That image burned itself into Kido’s gaze, and she can remember it clearly to this day.After exiting the burning halls of the mansion, Kido found herself lying amidst the ashen rubble, her power inactive for the moment. While it was praised as a miracle that she survived, Kido had no extended family willing to take her in, and so ended up at the same orphanage Seto and Kano had been taken too, where they were all eventually taken in by the Tateyama family. From there, that family’s kindness, the creation of the Mekakushi Dan, and what followed, would be a story unto itself.___________________________ Trivia
- Kido dislikes it when her siblings refer to her with Keigo. This is because when she first met Rin, her older half-sister, Rin insisted she had no need to be so polite with her, so Kido resolved to do the same if she ever had any younger siblings.
- She really likes small, cute animals.
- As part of her facade, she uses masculine pronouns. However, this isn’t a habit she’d gotten into as a child, as she only took on that persona much later, following Ayano’s death.
- Kido is ‘Dan Member #1,’ but she didn’t found it. That was Ayano, who gave herself no number, prompting her siblings to therefore insist that she was ‘Member #0’ or ‘the original member,’ as she was the one who came up with the idea for the ‘Dan in the first place.
___________________________ Status Alive___________________________ “Hey, it’s hot out there… why don’t you come inside?”
- #4, Kozakura Marry:
“I had a dream… that this world was so very fragile...” ___________________________ Identity True Name: Kozakura MarryNicknames: “Dan Member #4”Fandom: Kagerou Project, Mekakucity Actors, Canon (with some mild AU elements)Image Song 1: Imagination Forest, by JinImage Song 2: Marry’s Fictional World, by Jin (Not linked, because it's Spoiler Heavy)Background Theme: My Darling Marry, from the Mekakucity M’s album (No spoilers, but be wary of secondary links.)___________________________ Age Actual/Physical Age: ~140 / 14.___________________________ Date of Birth Birthday: July 21___________________________ Origin Origin: Forest outside Mekakucity___________________________ Race ¼ Human, ¾ “Gorgon”: Marry doesn’t know much about her species, where it came from, or even if it exists at all outside of her family. She knows they’re immortal, or at least age extraordinarily slowly, supposedly their hair can turn into snakes, and they can command snakes and imbue them with various powers. Also, those who make eye contact will turn into stone.___________________________ Physical Statistics Height: 5’1”Weight: 130 apples (85 lbs)Gender: Female___________________________ Physical Description Credit to “Pixiv Id 1244213” ...probably. General: Marry is a petite girl with long, cream-white hair and magenta eyes (though they turn a deeper red and gain ovular slits when she uses her power.) Her favorite dress is blue, has a tall collar, is worn alongside a frilly white under-dress, and an apron. When she goes out, she’ll occasionally wear a child-sized hoodie (gifted to her by Seto) as a shawl. She wears a pink ribbon in her hair which is tied along the side of her head.___________________________ Known Relatives Grandparents: Azami [Grandmother - Vanished] (approx. 1612-1622 CE), Tsukihiko [Grandfather, Deceased] (approx. 1608-1612 CE)Parents: Kozakura Shion [Deceased] (approx. 1962 CE)___________________________ Alignment Good - Chaotic Tendencies___________________________ Personality General Summary: Having spent almost all one hundred forty years of her life inside the same small house in the woods, to call Marry an extreme hikikomori would be like saying the sun is bright and hot. This is not so much her natural inclination, however, as the result of her parents keeping her hidden away for her world and her own safety. In her childhood, she would actually wander far further into the forest, but… her parent’s fears weren’t unfounded, and she stopped doing that.At this point, it’s more habit than anything else. Marry has very little idea how to interact with strangers, and knows equally little about the world at large. Coupled with her history, she’s not very comfortable going outside at all, refusing to do so unless she’s escorted by her friends. And even then, she can’t cope with it for very long before she has to rest.Regarding her friends, due to the boundless isolation she experienced in her past, and them enabling her to finally see the world and experience companionship, she loves them fervently with all her being. There is nothing in the world more important to Marry than her friends. If the world were to lack their presence, she would be unable to bear it, and there’s nothing she would not do to stay by their side.___________________________ Skills Poetry: As one of many several hobbies Marry picked up over time, she writes poetry. However, she has strange tastes and she’s… not very good at it. Not at all. As a result, she finds her poems embarrassing and tries to keep them secret, until she writes one that she’s proud of.- Example Poem:
“Lots of baby sunfish are born every day, And most of them die! I find that very sad, but if they didn’t the world would be filled with sunfish!”
Handicrafts: Unlike her poetry, which requires an audience and context to grow more intricate, Marry is quite skilled at most handicrafts, having tried and practiced many over time. Her favorites are sewing, embroidering, and knitting. She’s not very good at drawing or painting, though.Socializing: Due to her history, Marry is really bad at socializing and talking to others, especially strangers. As a result, she tries to compensate by being as straightforward as possible, but between the oddness of her own perspective, and her frustration with understanding others and their perspective, this rarely ends well.___________________________ Inherent Traits Supernatural Vitality: Marry ages, but it slowed tremendously (10x as slow as a human) after her early childhood. She never grows ill, and she heals from wounds remarkably quickly (though not fast enough for it to be visible to the naked eye.)___________________________ Powers Locking Eyes: The power to petrify those within one’s sight. Like her mother and grandmother, Marry has possessed this power since birth. However, her power seems less potent than her mother’s, which could turn someone to stone with (self-damaging) effort, or her grandmother’s, which could do it effortlessly within moments, and make them fall apart... But she hasn’t really tried very hard, either. As it stands, she can cause someone to ‘freeze’ in place for a few minutes if they meet her gaze.___________________________ Possessions/Equipment Valued Possessions:
- Ribbon: A long pink ribbon which Marry wears as a hairband. It was her mother’s.
- Embroidered Hoodie: A hoodie given to her by Seto when he was a child. It didn’t, and still doesn’t, fit her very well so she wears it as a shawl instead. She’s embroidered pink roses along its edges.
___________________________ Past Marry’s father disappeared for some reason after her birth, and she never heard much of him, though she still retains some faint memories. She was thus raised mostly by her mother, Shion, and kept sheltered within her family’s home, instructed strictly to stay in the house and never meet anyone’s eyes, lest they turn to stone and their fellows come after her. However, eventually her curious child’s heart proved too much, and Marry wandered out of the house while her mother was occupied in search of wildflowers to make a wreath with.But she was found by some deviant young teens, who heard stories about a family of monsters in the woods and were looking to prove their courage (and mess with a target no one would care about.) Seeing her, defenseless and unaware, they attacked. Hearing her cries, Shion raced out of the house to see her covered in dirt, with the boys pulling at her hair. Furious, Shion threw a fist-sized rock at one boy’s head, drawing blood and knocking him to the ground. Grabbing Marry’s hand, Shion made to leave immediately, but the second boy was about to strike her with a large wooden club, so Shion grit her teeth and turned him to stone.But use of her power that way was too taxing on Shion’s body, and she died soon after with blood leaking from her mouth, leading to Marry spending the next eighty years alone in their home, never leaving unless she absolutely had to… but then one day, a young boy came to her door, having heard her lonely voice crying out to his heart…___________________________ Status Alive___________________________ “...but as long as I can be with you, it’ll be alright.”
- #0, The Founder (Unapproved):
“Red is the color of heroes!” ___________________________ Identity True Name: Tateyama AyanoNickname: ‘Dan Member #0’ ‘Aya-nee’ - The Original Three, ‘Hero-sama’ - Katherine.Fandom: Kagerou Project / Mekakucity ActorsImage Song 1: Ayano's Theory of HappinessImage Song 2 (not-confirmed): RED (lyrics here)___________________________ Age Age: 15 [physical] / 17(minimum) [mental]___________________________ Date of Birth Birthday: November 22___________________________ Origin Mekakucity, Japan: A moderately large city by the coast, in Japan.___________________________ Race Vanilla Human___________________________ Physical Statistics Height: 5’1”Weight: 94 lbs.Gender: Female___________________________ Physical Description General: A girl with long, black(1) hair. Her hair seems shorter than it really is when one’s looking at her from the front because she’s (almost) always wearing a thick, red muffler around her neck, which she pins her hair beneath. Similarly, her bangs are held out of her face by a pair of simple red hairclips. Her eyes are dark brown, though - like any other wielder of one of Azami’s snakes - they turn red when her eye-power is in use. She’s usually seen wearing a black sailor fuku with white borders - her middle school uniform - despite having recently started high school when she disappeared.1): While her hair is supposed to be black, for some reason most visual adaptations make it brown instead. Fanart is no exception, most of the time. One could take from this that it’s actually a very dark brown.___________________________ Known Relatives By Blood:-Tateyama Kenjirou (Father - Alive); Tateyama Ayeka (Mother - Deceased)By Adoption:-Kido Tsubomi (Younger Sister - Alive); Seto Kousuke (Younger Brother - Alive); Kano Shuuya (Younger Brother - Alive)___________________________ Alignment Good: Chaotic Tendencies___________________________ Personality Core: Ayano is an extremely cheerful, optimistic, and generally nice girl who goes out of the way to improve the mood of those around her. ‘Happiness’ is her favorite word, and she’s a bleeding heart who can’t be happy unless those around her are happy. However, she refuses to show her own unhappiness as it would only cause concern - which is counter to her desire to make others happier.Present: However, due to the amount of time she’s spent in helpless in the Haze, she’s gained something of a hard edge and is far from afraid to say things which will almost certainly hurt someone’s feelings if it will help them in the long run. She can also be very lightly manipulative, trying to steer the others toward discovering the reality of their situation so they can try and prepare for it.___________________________ Skills ‘Onee-chan’: Ayano spent several years with her younger siblings and became an experienced ‘onee-chan’ to them. By proxy, the things she learned interacting with and taking care of them can be applied to any child in distress. In other words - she’s really good with kids.___________________________ Inherent Traits Book-Dumb: Ayano isn’t stupid… but she’s horrible at studying and academics. Even with Shintaro’s help, she still consistently scored below average on her tests. Despite this, her problem solving and deduction is at least average, as she was able to piece together Clear-Eyes’ methodology from very few clues.Inspiring: Ayano has a knack for inspiring those around her to be better people. She has a very magnetic, charismatic personality and earnest demeanor that, when combined, result in childish sayings such as ‘Red is the color of heroes!’ sounding serious regardless of when she says them. Among her peers and juniors, at least.___________________________ Powers (Read full descriptions for restrictions. If unclear, ask and I’ll elaborate.) Favoring Eyes: Ayano’s eye power, which she refers to as ‘The Power of Caring,’ allows for her to transfer thoughts, memories, and emotions to others, even from within the haze. She uses this ability to communicate with others while they dream, but, unfortunately, they usually remember very little of the conversation when they wake up.___________________________ Stats Summary: Ayano is, for all intents and purposes, an ordinary human girl.___________________________ Possessions/Equipment Valued Possessions:
- Crimson Hair Clips: A pair of simple crimson hair clips with a plain, rectangular shape. One was gifted to her by her mother, and she received the other after her mother’s death. They’re items of great sentimental value.
- Crimson Muffler: A large crimson muffler that Ayano wears almost constantly, regardless of the weather. She started doing so to set an example for her younger siblings - that the color ‘red’ was nothing to be afraid of because, “Red is the color of heroes.” Since, she has continued wearing it out of both habit and to draw strength from that thought.
___________________________ Occupation Missing Person: Ayano’s a missing person (considered deceased at that) so she can’t really be said to have any occupation. From within the Heat-Haze, she watches over her loved ones and tries (with very limited success) to help anyone caught inside the haze.___________________________ Past (Warning: Very Expository) [also, spoilers for Kagepro and the ‘Today’s Tomorrow’ thread] An ordinary girl who sometimes struggled in school, despite having a pair of scientists for parents, there wasn’t anything particularly remarkable about Ayano’s past until the day her parents brought home a trio of red-eyed orphans, and told her that she would be their ‘big sister’ from then on. While somewhat nervous, she threw herself into the role with the sort of fervor one might expect from an olympic athlete preparing for the games, doing her best to find something to interest and engage them. Eventually, seeing an old manga of hers, she came up with the idea for them to play pretend at being super-heroes, and simultaneously discourage the notion that her sibling’s red eyes somehow made them ‘monsters,’ declaring that ‘Red is the color of heroes!’ and donning a crimson muffler to solidify the point. Thus, the Mekakushi Dan was born.For a while, things were happy. Ayano’s foster siblings were coming out of their shells and growing into their own, and she’d even managed to befriend her class’ surly ‘genius-student’ Shintaro, wand was working on getting him out of his shell too… but then life happened, as it tends to do, and her parents were caught in a rockslide while driving in the countryside. Her father escaped, but her mother was crushed, and nothing was ever the same afterward.What’s worse, Ayano discovered that her father had been possessed by a malicious serpent who intended to resurrect her mother by gathering all the various ‘red-eyed children,’ such as her foster siblings, and sacrificing them to perform a miracle. He was even going to kill her new senpais - her father’s students - to try and get them to ‘acquire’ red eyes, so he could sacrifice them as well! No longer safe at home, and not knowing what to do, Ayano took her siblings from home and found them an apartment to live in, telling them that it was dangerous to stay return, though she didn’t have time to explain why. That done, she concocted a desperate, terrible plan.If the serpent needed to gather all of the powers which granted red-eyes to perform his miracle, then if she acquired such a power herself, but didn’t leave the realm from which they came… then he wouldn’t be able to perform the ceremony, and had no reason to kill her friends and siblings, right? Meeting the serpent wearing her father’s skin atop the roof of her school, she questioned it on the matter and - confirming her suspicions - she threw herself from the building and into the realm where the powers lingered, only realising as she fell that this was what the serpent had intended all along.Now trapped outside of time and space, incapable of returning on her own (and unwilling to risk upsetting the status quo by doing so), Ayano is trapped, unable to do more than occasionally give mostly-forgotten advice to her loved ones in their dreams and helplessly watch from the Heat-Haze as the serpent tortures and murders them, only for time to reset so that he can do it again, and again, and again…Time has no meaning there, so she’s not sure how long the cycle has repeated.___________________________ Status Alive, Trapped (Legally Dead)___________________________ “Everyone… I love you… I’m sorry.”
Threads the Dan (or specific members) are involved in: -- Today's Tomorrow (All) [First Thread / Primary Kagepro Thread] <Private, Invite Eligible>
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