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PLAYER
[journal] starkissed
[age] 23 years old [Sept. 22, 1987]
[previous characters] N/A
CHARACTER
[series] Clover
[full name] Oruha (no surname given in canon)
[age] mid-twenties
[gender] female
[canon point] Volume 3, after her death
[reference] 01 || 02 || 03
In Oruha’s world, children born with magical powers - sorcerers - were called “Clovers” and were gathered and classified by the government according to the strength of their abilities. The ones deemed "one-leafs" were the weakest, while only the four-leaf was the strongest with powers even the most powerful psychics couldn’t contain. (Psychics are, according to the canon, apparently different from the Clovers somehow, though this isn't something expounded on in length.)
Oruha was a one-leaf Clover. As with the other Clovers, she was taken in by the government, which then performed experiments on her to gain more insight into her abilities. Since she was just a one-leaf, one whose powers weren’t very useful - that is, the ability to know when she would die - she was branded with a clover tattoo on her chest and just sent home.
Years passed, and Oruha found work as a singer in a small bar. It's there that she meets a soldier named Kazuhiko, who she takes on as a lover after a three month courtship.
More time passed, and eventually, Oruha’s songs reached Suu, the only four-leaf Clover in existence. Suu had always been alone as the government feared that if she found someone to love, that person would be able to use her powers for their own gain. Despite this, Suu makes contact with Oruha by “calling” her on the phone, and while Oruha is understandably wary at first, the two strike up a friendship and become close, even writing and singing a song together.
It's her friendship with Suu that prompts the government into arranging Oruha’s death. On her birthday, Oruha explains matters to Suu and walks to the stage, knowing she's about to die. Up on stage, after she finishes her song, she is shot by an assassin and killed.
[personality]
Oruha’s ability to predict when she will die colors a lot of how she's portrayed. There’s a kind of sadness mixed with wistfulness in her interactions with others, most especially with her lover Kazuhiko, which is later revealed to be due to the fact that she loves him so much and doesn’t want to leave him.
She tells Suu, right before she goes on stage and is killed, that she hated knowing that she was forever “running out of time” and that she thought she “could never pour [herself] into anything” due to this. She was proven wrong when it came to singing and to being with Kazuhiko though, as both of these made her extremely happy.
Her songs show a lot of her inner thoughts as well as her love for Kazuhiko. “I wish for happiness. I seek happiness, to find happiness with you… to be your happiness.” “I’m happy just to be with you, just to see you smile.” “The bliss of our meeting is a gentle light; our eventual parting, a pouring rain.” “In your arms I will be reborn.”
She even says to Kazuhiko in one of their moments together that “to not die is the greatest gift you can give someone you love”, and Kazuhiko - thinking she meant that she feared him dying - reassures her that “I’m strong”, to which Oruha only smiles sadly.
Despite all this, Oruha is still a person brimming with love and life. She’s a kind person who loves to smile and to tease the people around her. She’s unafraid of her own sensuality, and yet she still remains elegant and lady-like at all times. She tries to make the most of the time she has left and tries to share the happiness she has found with others. As Suu describes her, she's a gentle and beautiful person.
The fact that she became friends with Suu (setting aside her initial trepidation) despite never having met her face to face shows just how open and accepting she is, and the way she greeted Gingetsu, Kazuhiko’s commander, with a kiss when Kazuhiko first introduces them shows her affectionate and playful side, though of course she kisses Kazuhiko full on the lips afterward so he won’t get jealous.
On the other hand, Oruha's a very accepting person, so much so that this attitude can almost be considered a flaw. She accepts things so easily that one of her main weaknesses is her passivity.
Growing up with the knowledge of when she would die, she simply accepts it as a fact and makes no move to try and see beyond this. In fact, you could almost say it's all she could see. Despite her love for Kazuhiko and for all the friends she knew she'd leave behind, she doesn't try and change her destiny and inevitable death, instead walking right into it.
However, she's still a sympathetic character, and perhaps the first to touch Suu’s heart. She acknowledges Suu’s loneliness and tells the younger girl that she hopes that Suu will find out what it means to be happy someday and that she wishes they could have met so that she could have held her and sung with her.
[orientation] Heterosexual. In canon, Oruha sleeps with her lover Kazuhiko several times, and she's shown to flirt with Kazuhiko's superior Gingetsu, so she's at least attracted to men (or, at the very least, to Kazuhiko).
Her only interactions with females in the series is with Suu, who's a child when they meet, so I can't say if she's attracted to women as well or not.
[appearance] N/A
[wish] To be able to be with Kazuhiko one last time and gain closure as she had been unable to say goodbye or explain what happened before she was killed.
[requested house] Hachisu or Sazanka or maybe Youfuu
[misc notes] As mentioned above, her only powers are to predict when she'll die, but since she's already died in canon, I was wondering if it was okay if she didn't have this ability anymore.
SAMPLES
[thread link] here
[prose log]
"For you, I will be reborn..."
Oruha held the last note, let it hang in the air for one bright moment before allowing it to fade away. She breathed out slowly, setting her brush down on the desk before inspecting her reflection in the mirror set above it.
She seemed the same as ever, she thought, though she was paler now, her smile a bit wan, less bright than before. It couldn't be helped. She didn't have as much to live for in this world at the moment, nothing except the wish she'd made and clung to and her singing. Even then, once her tenure was over and her wish granted, she might not even have that anymore...
Shaking out her glossy curls and pinning them back, Oruha began the process of getting ready for her shift. She sang quietly to herself, her hands deft as she applied her make up. Her previous melancholy abated as she worked, leaving behind only serenity. Soon enough, she could bring herself to smile at her reflection once more, more life now in her green eyes.
"Whisk the past away on fluttering clouds," she sang, feeling something in her ease, felt hope stir in her heart once more. "Let the future ride on the wind."
It was odd how fitting this song was. Here she was, alive once again after dying once before, and she even had the hope of being able to see Kazuhiko now, even if it was just to say goodbye.
"Fearlessly, unceasingly, patiently. In your arms, I will be reborn..."
Yes, she would be reborn once more, for her own sake and for Kazuhiko's, she decided, her mood lifting. She would be strong for him now in a way she couldn't be back home with the constant reminder of her impending death hanging over her. She had to be fearless, as brave as her lover had always been.
And with that thought in mind, she straightened and looked into her mirror once more. Her reflection smiled back at her with seemingly more substance now. Satisfied, she called out to the little servant girl the house had assigned to her once it became clear she didn't know how to put on the yukata she'd been given.
It was time for her to go up on stage once more.
"For myself, I will be reborn."
[journal] starkissed
[age] 23 years old [Sept. 22, 1987]
[previous characters] N/A
CHARACTER
[series] Clover
[full name] Oruha (no surname given in canon)
[age] mid-twenties
[gender] female
[canon point] Volume 3, after her death
[reference] 01 || 02 || 03
In Oruha’s world, children born with magical powers - sorcerers - were called “Clovers” and were gathered and classified by the government according to the strength of their abilities. The ones deemed "one-leafs" were the weakest, while only the four-leaf was the strongest with powers even the most powerful psychics couldn’t contain. (Psychics are, according to the canon, apparently different from the Clovers somehow, though this isn't something expounded on in length.)
Oruha was a one-leaf Clover. As with the other Clovers, she was taken in by the government, which then performed experiments on her to gain more insight into her abilities. Since she was just a one-leaf, one whose powers weren’t very useful - that is, the ability to know when she would die - she was branded with a clover tattoo on her chest and just sent home.
Years passed, and Oruha found work as a singer in a small bar. It's there that she meets a soldier named Kazuhiko, who she takes on as a lover after a three month courtship.
More time passed, and eventually, Oruha’s songs reached Suu, the only four-leaf Clover in existence. Suu had always been alone as the government feared that if she found someone to love, that person would be able to use her powers for their own gain. Despite this, Suu makes contact with Oruha by “calling” her on the phone, and while Oruha is understandably wary at first, the two strike up a friendship and become close, even writing and singing a song together.
It's her friendship with Suu that prompts the government into arranging Oruha’s death. On her birthday, Oruha explains matters to Suu and walks to the stage, knowing she's about to die. Up on stage, after she finishes her song, she is shot by an assassin and killed.
[personality]
Oruha’s ability to predict when she will die colors a lot of how she's portrayed. There’s a kind of sadness mixed with wistfulness in her interactions with others, most especially with her lover Kazuhiko, which is later revealed to be due to the fact that she loves him so much and doesn’t want to leave him.
She tells Suu, right before she goes on stage and is killed, that she hated knowing that she was forever “running out of time” and that she thought she “could never pour [herself] into anything” due to this. She was proven wrong when it came to singing and to being with Kazuhiko though, as both of these made her extremely happy.
Her songs show a lot of her inner thoughts as well as her love for Kazuhiko. “I wish for happiness. I seek happiness, to find happiness with you… to be your happiness.” “I’m happy just to be with you, just to see you smile.” “The bliss of our meeting is a gentle light; our eventual parting, a pouring rain.” “In your arms I will be reborn.”
She even says to Kazuhiko in one of their moments together that “to not die is the greatest gift you can give someone you love”, and Kazuhiko - thinking she meant that she feared him dying - reassures her that “I’m strong”, to which Oruha only smiles sadly.
Despite all this, Oruha is still a person brimming with love and life. She’s a kind person who loves to smile and to tease the people around her. She’s unafraid of her own sensuality, and yet she still remains elegant and lady-like at all times. She tries to make the most of the time she has left and tries to share the happiness she has found with others. As Suu describes her, she's a gentle and beautiful person.
The fact that she became friends with Suu (setting aside her initial trepidation) despite never having met her face to face shows just how open and accepting she is, and the way she greeted Gingetsu, Kazuhiko’s commander, with a kiss when Kazuhiko first introduces them shows her affectionate and playful side, though of course she kisses Kazuhiko full on the lips afterward so he won’t get jealous.
On the other hand, Oruha's a very accepting person, so much so that this attitude can almost be considered a flaw. She accepts things so easily that one of her main weaknesses is her passivity.
Growing up with the knowledge of when she would die, she simply accepts it as a fact and makes no move to try and see beyond this. In fact, you could almost say it's all she could see. Despite her love for Kazuhiko and for all the friends she knew she'd leave behind, she doesn't try and change her destiny and inevitable death, instead walking right into it.
However, she's still a sympathetic character, and perhaps the first to touch Suu’s heart. She acknowledges Suu’s loneliness and tells the younger girl that she hopes that Suu will find out what it means to be happy someday and that she wishes they could have met so that she could have held her and sung with her.
[orientation] Heterosexual. In canon, Oruha sleeps with her lover Kazuhiko several times, and she's shown to flirt with Kazuhiko's superior Gingetsu, so she's at least attracted to men (or, at the very least, to Kazuhiko).
Her only interactions with females in the series is with Suu, who's a child when they meet, so I can't say if she's attracted to women as well or not.
[appearance] N/A
[wish] To be able to be with Kazuhiko one last time and gain closure as she had been unable to say goodbye or explain what happened before she was killed.
[requested house] Hachisu or Sazanka or maybe Youfuu
[misc notes] As mentioned above, her only powers are to predict when she'll die, but since she's already died in canon, I was wondering if it was okay if she didn't have this ability anymore.
SAMPLES
[thread link] here
[prose log]
"For you, I will be reborn..."
Oruha held the last note, let it hang in the air for one bright moment before allowing it to fade away. She breathed out slowly, setting her brush down on the desk before inspecting her reflection in the mirror set above it.
She seemed the same as ever, she thought, though she was paler now, her smile a bit wan, less bright than before. It couldn't be helped. She didn't have as much to live for in this world at the moment, nothing except the wish she'd made and clung to and her singing. Even then, once her tenure was over and her wish granted, she might not even have that anymore...
Shaking out her glossy curls and pinning them back, Oruha began the process of getting ready for her shift. She sang quietly to herself, her hands deft as she applied her make up. Her previous melancholy abated as she worked, leaving behind only serenity. Soon enough, she could bring herself to smile at her reflection once more, more life now in her green eyes.
"Whisk the past away on fluttering clouds," she sang, feeling something in her ease, felt hope stir in her heart once more. "Let the future ride on the wind."
It was odd how fitting this song was. Here she was, alive once again after dying once before, and she even had the hope of being able to see Kazuhiko now, even if it was just to say goodbye.
"Fearlessly, unceasingly, patiently. In your arms, I will be reborn..."
Yes, she would be reborn once more, for her own sake and for Kazuhiko's, she decided, her mood lifting. She would be strong for him now in a way she couldn't be back home with the constant reminder of her impending death hanging over her. She had to be fearless, as brave as her lover had always been.
And with that thought in mind, she straightened and looked into her mirror once more. Her reflection smiled back at her with seemingly more substance now. Satisfied, she called out to the little servant girl the house had assigned to her once it became clear she didn't know how to put on the yukata she'd been given.
It was time for her to go up on stage once more.
"For myself, I will be reborn."