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Name: Yuko
LJ: spandaex
E-Mail: fleur_de_cerise@yahoo.com
IM: { aim } autophaging
Character Name: Nai
Series: Karneval
Timeline: Mid-Chapter 37
Canon Resource Link: Online Scans and Wiki Link
Character Background: When we first see our character, Nai, he is in the middle of his journey to look for a person named Karoku, using a bracelet he found next to a puddle of ‘red liquid’ as his only clue. During the journey, he meets a boy named Gareki. Gareki shows interest in Nai’s bracelet, which had turned out to be an ID for the National Defense Organization, Circus. On the terms of Nai giving the bracelet to him after they find Karoku, Gareki offers to protect Nai and help him find Karoku.
Now let’s pause to explain what this ‘Circus’ is. The Circus is a transcontinental national defense organization, a group of elite’s that hunt down the most wanted criminals via flying ship. The town’s they visit while hunting for the criminal is shut down during their simultaneous raid and nobody can go out. However, as an after-care, the Circus puts up a show for the town’s people. With rides, shows, and cute characters handing out candies to little kids, the town becomes a complete carnival.
On the train ride to the next town, Nai and Gareki are caught in a trainjack. Here, Nai uses his natural born skill of good hearing to locate a bomb and have it detonated. They meet two people on-board who help them with the detonation, which turn out to be just the people they were heading over to-- Circus Members. With this connection, Nai and Gareki finally reach their first huge step of finding Karoku. The two are told by the Circus’ Second Ship Crew Leader, Hirato, to stay with the Second Ship and to be looked after by Yogi and Tsukumo, two members of the Second Ship. The four (well maybe not Gareki on the outside) bond as they eat and play hide-and-seek together to pass the time until they gather more information.
Out of nowhere, Nai doubles over in pain, and while he is taken to the Second Ship’s medical room, in his dream he converses with Karoku. The check-up shows nothing wrong with Nai, and he wakes up soon after, however it shows something odd about him. According to the genetic test, it shows that Nai’s genes are almost identical to a species of animal called the Niji. Further tests shows that Nai’s genetic structure is close to the Varuga, post-humans with special abilities that were genetically altered by a medicine or through blood that made them monsters. The Varuga are the enemy of the Circus, and Kafuka, an organization doing illegal genetic research seems to be the one creating most of them. Anyhow, Nai’s genes are similar to those Varuga, but were different with the fact that instead of genes being transformed, Nai’s had the genes of a human and the animal completely merge to create a new kind of species, a feat only able to do by a genius. Seeing that the creator would probably come after a masterpiece like that, the Circus decides to keep Nai within their hands to use as a bait for that creator to come reclaim him. Nai himself agrees to stay with the Circus, seeing that it is the only clue to Karoku, and the two works together to fulfill their own needs. (Naturally, Gareki stays as well, since it was first part of the deal to have the Circus bracelet or money from Karoku when he brings Nai to him)
Although Nai is a rare and precious sample, the Circus allows him to walk free and stay with the Second Ship crew, going along with their missions. The reason for this is because the animal base for Nai, the Niji animal, is a rare animal with mimicry abilities that is hard to catch. On top of that, their only habitat is the Niji Wood; an almost uncharted woods of where living species often have light reflecting substance in their cells. With the woods being surrounded by an ocean, perspiration is heavy in the air, and it causes the sky to always have a rainbow. The bent light also causes illusions and due to some natural jamming, communicators don’t work. Thus, the only way to navigate through the forest is through sound. The Niji, being an animal living in such an environment, is naturally equipped with high hearing abilities, and because of it, the Niji are unable to survive for a long time in a closed space. Not wanting a rare sample to die to stress of being closed up, the Circus decides for him to be allowed freedom at the price of having to be with a member of the Circus always.
He becomes almost like a family with the Circus Second Ship (and First Ship), attaining lessons from Tsukumo, having fun with the robot Sheeps, gaining new friends, and such. All is fine and dandy until he has a dream about Karoku once more. In the dream, Karoku tells Nai that he is going to be killed and that he is held captive at the Mansion of Smoke. Nai immediately tells this to the Circus, and despite the danger of running into the mansion, the First and Second ship successfully infiltrates it.
It is there, Nai finally reunites with Karoku. Or, at least with a Karoku. There seems to be two of them, one being the one Nai lived with back in the forest, and the other being a new one with the old’s memories who had been talking to Nai through dreams. The old one isn’t breathing and pretty much dead, while the new one tells Nai to come back to him. Nai, naturally being confused over the double Karoku, tells he doesn’t want to just leave his new friends at the moment. New Karoku, although seemingly not happy, allows this to happen saying that “he has a wide heart, so he’ll just wait until Nai finishes playing”.
Gareki and Nai takes the old Karoku (who was barely alive) where he gets proper treatment. Whilst Nai is waiting for Karoku to wake up, he finds out that Gareki will be leaving the ship as well. After a night of baw-ing with Yogi and Tsukumo, Nai resolves to see Gareki off with a smile, which he succeeds (although half crying). However, not everything is good as when Karoku wakes up, Nai finds out he had forgotten about him.
Nai, being a genetic fusion of the Niji animal and a human, has many qualities similar to an animal. He is quite naïve, and trusts most people. There are a lot of things he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t understand even the simplest words at first, such as ‘blood’ and ‘family’. As he spends time with Gareki and the Second Ship Crew, he learns daily, especially with Tsukumo tutoring him on basic reading and math. (He’s still on 2 + 7 = 9 and writing the alphabets) He is a fast learner however, and usually applies it as soon as he learns it. Being close to a white slate, without someone’s help he probably wouldn’t last long. He doesn’t think to doubt a person’s abilities, and he’s never shown anger or hatred to anyone. Nai is always willing to lend a helping hand to people, and he works hard at everything. As he travels with the Circus, Nai soon wishes to have strength to protect his friends, and hopes that he would be able to make other people feel warm when he is around them, just as they make him feel. Despite him seeming to be a rather scaredy-cat, he is quite forward and sometimes moves with great action (and usually without deep thought), similar to an animal moving with instinct. He will go and protect people or animal, even if it means him getting hurt. Nai is the type of person with a strong and kind heart, who seems to have the natural ability to make people around him smile and realize that innocence is still present in this world.
Abilites/Special Powers: Nai is a rather frail looking boy, with not much strength or skills to live alone. His strengths are his strong will and kindness. However, one part of him is special that is unlike other people- his acute sense of hearing. Having the genes of the Niji animal, he is born with super hearing abilities, able to pick up things not many people can and in far range. On quiet nights, his ears are able to pick up faint voices from all over, and also the feelings of the people close to him. His ears also seem to surpass the wall of species as well, since there is a scene that he is able to understand the strong feelings of an animal.
Third-Person Sample:
Nai tottered back to his room, his face showing that his mind was elsewhere. Naturally he was thinking about Karoku who he had just woken up. He looked the same as he did before, although without as much of a soft expression than at the forest. Nai could tell that Karoku really didn’t know him. And that this wasn’t a surprise or anything. He wondered what Gareki would say. Would he tell Nai to straighten up and don’t look so down? Then proceed to pat Nai’s head? That was Nai’s first guess. He couldn’t really think of any other situation of what Gareki would do.
Speaking of Gareki, Nai realized he couldn’t ask Karoku if he could give Gareki the old Circus bracelet like he promised the first time they met. Fingering the bracelet on his wrist, he felt bad for not being able to keep his first promise with Gareki. It was an important promise. It was the reason why Gareki stayed with Nai and that both of them could have come to the Circus.
As Nai entered the room, he looked up the ladder that led to what was once Gareki’s bed -now empty. He plopped on the bed and hugged the big plushie of Nyanperona tightly, digging his face into it. The cool, cushiony feeling was nice to his slightly warm face. There was so much thing he didn’t understand and so much stuff to think about. His life had become filled with so much more than he had been in the forest. And Nai liked it. He liked learning new things and gaining friends. He wanted to stay here with his friends forever and ever. Especially now that Karoku was here. Nai was sure that Karoku would like the Second Ship as well, and even if Karoku couldn’t remember, they could all make new memories. Concluding his thoughts, Nai looked up from the plushie with a happy face. Giving Nyanperono one last hug, he hopped off of bed to go find Tsukumo or Yogi.
First-Person Sample:
[ the camera turns on to show Nai peeking into the camera ]
It works! Um um…This is the Mansion right? I remember it now! I don’t know why I forgot it back at home…maybe it’s like Karoku… But it looks just like before! Was I gone for a long time? Is everyone still here? I hope they are…oh! But maybe they would like to be home…
I don’t know if I want to be here…because I really want to go home, but but now I can remember, I miss all my friends here too. [ frown ]
LJ: spandaex
E-Mail: fleur_de_cerise@yahoo.com
IM: { aim } autophaging
Character Name: Nai
Series: Karneval
Timeline: Mid-Chapter 37
Canon Resource Link: Online Scans and Wiki Link
Character Background: When we first see our character, Nai, he is in the middle of his journey to look for a person named Karoku, using a bracelet he found next to a puddle of ‘red liquid’ as his only clue. During the journey, he meets a boy named Gareki. Gareki shows interest in Nai’s bracelet, which had turned out to be an ID for the National Defense Organization, Circus. On the terms of Nai giving the bracelet to him after they find Karoku, Gareki offers to protect Nai and help him find Karoku.
Now let’s pause to explain what this ‘Circus’ is. The Circus is a transcontinental national defense organization, a group of elite’s that hunt down the most wanted criminals via flying ship. The town’s they visit while hunting for the criminal is shut down during their simultaneous raid and nobody can go out. However, as an after-care, the Circus puts up a show for the town’s people. With rides, shows, and cute characters handing out candies to little kids, the town becomes a complete carnival.
On the train ride to the next town, Nai and Gareki are caught in a trainjack. Here, Nai uses his natural born skill of good hearing to locate a bomb and have it detonated. They meet two people on-board who help them with the detonation, which turn out to be just the people they were heading over to-- Circus Members. With this connection, Nai and Gareki finally reach their first huge step of finding Karoku. The two are told by the Circus’ Second Ship Crew Leader, Hirato, to stay with the Second Ship and to be looked after by Yogi and Tsukumo, two members of the Second Ship. The four (well maybe not Gareki on the outside) bond as they eat and play hide-and-seek together to pass the time until they gather more information.
Out of nowhere, Nai doubles over in pain, and while he is taken to the Second Ship’s medical room, in his dream he converses with Karoku. The check-up shows nothing wrong with Nai, and he wakes up soon after, however it shows something odd about him. According to the genetic test, it shows that Nai’s genes are almost identical to a species of animal called the Niji. Further tests shows that Nai’s genetic structure is close to the Varuga, post-humans with special abilities that were genetically altered by a medicine or through blood that made them monsters. The Varuga are the enemy of the Circus, and Kafuka, an organization doing illegal genetic research seems to be the one creating most of them. Anyhow, Nai’s genes are similar to those Varuga, but were different with the fact that instead of genes being transformed, Nai’s had the genes of a human and the animal completely merge to create a new kind of species, a feat only able to do by a genius. Seeing that the creator would probably come after a masterpiece like that, the Circus decides to keep Nai within their hands to use as a bait for that creator to come reclaim him. Nai himself agrees to stay with the Circus, seeing that it is the only clue to Karoku, and the two works together to fulfill their own needs. (Naturally, Gareki stays as well, since it was first part of the deal to have the Circus bracelet or money from Karoku when he brings Nai to him)
Although Nai is a rare and precious sample, the Circus allows him to walk free and stay with the Second Ship crew, going along with their missions. The reason for this is because the animal base for Nai, the Niji animal, is a rare animal with mimicry abilities that is hard to catch. On top of that, their only habitat is the Niji Wood; an almost uncharted woods of where living species often have light reflecting substance in their cells. With the woods being surrounded by an ocean, perspiration is heavy in the air, and it causes the sky to always have a rainbow. The bent light also causes illusions and due to some natural jamming, communicators don’t work. Thus, the only way to navigate through the forest is through sound. The Niji, being an animal living in such an environment, is naturally equipped with high hearing abilities, and because of it, the Niji are unable to survive for a long time in a closed space. Not wanting a rare sample to die to stress of being closed up, the Circus decides for him to be allowed freedom at the price of having to be with a member of the Circus always.
He becomes almost like a family with the Circus Second Ship (and First Ship), attaining lessons from Tsukumo, having fun with the robot Sheeps, gaining new friends, and such. All is fine and dandy until he has a dream about Karoku once more. In the dream, Karoku tells Nai that he is going to be killed and that he is held captive at the Mansion of Smoke. Nai immediately tells this to the Circus, and despite the danger of running into the mansion, the First and Second ship successfully infiltrates it.
It is there, Nai finally reunites with Karoku. Or, at least with a Karoku. There seems to be two of them, one being the one Nai lived with back in the forest, and the other being a new one with the old’s memories who had been talking to Nai through dreams. The old one isn’t breathing and pretty much dead, while the new one tells Nai to come back to him. Nai, naturally being confused over the double Karoku, tells he doesn’t want to just leave his new friends at the moment. New Karoku, although seemingly not happy, allows this to happen saying that “he has a wide heart, so he’ll just wait until Nai finishes playing”.
Gareki and Nai takes the old Karoku (who was barely alive) where he gets proper treatment. Whilst Nai is waiting for Karoku to wake up, he finds out that Gareki will be leaving the ship as well. After a night of baw-ing with Yogi and Tsukumo, Nai resolves to see Gareki off with a smile, which he succeeds (although half crying). However, not everything is good as when Karoku wakes up, Nai finds out he had forgotten about him.
Nai, being a genetic fusion of the Niji animal and a human, has many qualities similar to an animal. He is quite naïve, and trusts most people. There are a lot of things he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t understand even the simplest words at first, such as ‘blood’ and ‘family’. As he spends time with Gareki and the Second Ship Crew, he learns daily, especially with Tsukumo tutoring him on basic reading and math. (He’s still on 2 + 7 = 9 and writing the alphabets) He is a fast learner however, and usually applies it as soon as he learns it. Being close to a white slate, without someone’s help he probably wouldn’t last long. He doesn’t think to doubt a person’s abilities, and he’s never shown anger or hatred to anyone. Nai is always willing to lend a helping hand to people, and he works hard at everything. As he travels with the Circus, Nai soon wishes to have strength to protect his friends, and hopes that he would be able to make other people feel warm when he is around them, just as they make him feel. Despite him seeming to be a rather scaredy-cat, he is quite forward and sometimes moves with great action (and usually without deep thought), similar to an animal moving with instinct. He will go and protect people or animal, even if it means him getting hurt. Nai is the type of person with a strong and kind heart, who seems to have the natural ability to make people around him smile and realize that innocence is still present in this world.
Abilites/Special Powers: Nai is a rather frail looking boy, with not much strength or skills to live alone. His strengths are his strong will and kindness. However, one part of him is special that is unlike other people- his acute sense of hearing. Having the genes of the Niji animal, he is born with super hearing abilities, able to pick up things not many people can and in far range. On quiet nights, his ears are able to pick up faint voices from all over, and also the feelings of the people close to him. His ears also seem to surpass the wall of species as well, since there is a scene that he is able to understand the strong feelings of an animal.
Third-Person Sample:
Nai tottered back to his room, his face showing that his mind was elsewhere. Naturally he was thinking about Karoku who he had just woken up. He looked the same as he did before, although without as much of a soft expression than at the forest. Nai could tell that Karoku really didn’t know him. And that this wasn’t a surprise or anything. He wondered what Gareki would say. Would he tell Nai to straighten up and don’t look so down? Then proceed to pat Nai’s head? That was Nai’s first guess. He couldn’t really think of any other situation of what Gareki would do.
Speaking of Gareki, Nai realized he couldn’t ask Karoku if he could give Gareki the old Circus bracelet like he promised the first time they met. Fingering the bracelet on his wrist, he felt bad for not being able to keep his first promise with Gareki. It was an important promise. It was the reason why Gareki stayed with Nai and that both of them could have come to the Circus.
As Nai entered the room, he looked up the ladder that led to what was once Gareki’s bed -now empty. He plopped on the bed and hugged the big plushie of Nyanperona tightly, digging his face into it. The cool, cushiony feeling was nice to his slightly warm face. There was so much thing he didn’t understand and so much stuff to think about. His life had become filled with so much more than he had been in the forest. And Nai liked it. He liked learning new things and gaining friends. He wanted to stay here with his friends forever and ever. Especially now that Karoku was here. Nai was sure that Karoku would like the Second Ship as well, and even if Karoku couldn’t remember, they could all make new memories. Concluding his thoughts, Nai looked up from the plushie with a happy face. Giving Nyanperono one last hug, he hopped off of bed to go find Tsukumo or Yogi.
First-Person Sample:
[ the camera turns on to show Nai peeking into the camera ]
It works! Um um…This is the Mansion right? I remember it now! I don’t know why I forgot it back at home…maybe it’s like Karoku… But it looks just like before! Was I gone for a long time? Is everyone still here? I hope they are…oh! But maybe they would like to be home…
I don’t know if I want to be here…because I really want to go home, but but now I can remember, I miss all my friends here too. [ frown ]