Re: (Slick) Ticky Mikk | D. Gray-man | Reserved aviyOctober 6 2011, 08:04:43 UTC
Over the course of canon, Ticky attempts to murder Allen Walker, the hero, and ultimately fails because you can't kill the protag. He later loses to Allen, and Allen tries to cut his Noah out of him. There is a very key moment where Ticky accepts his fate; much as he accepted being homeless, then accepted being a Noah, he also accepts that Allen will destroy him. However, Allen's attack is insufficient, and the Noah awakes and possesses Ticky's body and wrecks havoc until an even stronger exorcist can KO him.
After that, Ticky is tormented by the wound that Allen left him, and it gradually is revealed that Ticky looks identical to the Fourteenth, the Noah that possesses Allen Walker. Ticky also develops a fondness for Allen, either because of their multiple connections (both are card cheating homeless hobos possessed by Noah and thrown to opposite sides of a holy war they don't really care about but were dragged into by family), or because Allen himself is family, or because Ticky has some unknown connection to the Fourteenth. Either way, he risks his life to save Allen, and then lets Allen go after smacking him around with a dose of bald-faced reality.
Personality: Ticky is a really very simple person in very complex packaging. All you need to do to understand him is to realize that he was, most of his life, a wayward homeless boy who saw the world in a black and white way and accepted its flaws. He was not particularly bad, or particularly good, and he decided to enjoy what he enjoyed and not worry about the details. Then something inside him awoke -- quite literally! -- and built upon his vision of reality. The flaws he had accepted were really so much worse, but he had also already accepted them! Humanity was dirty and filthy and unforgivable, but he is a part of humanity. He loved and hated them for their hypocrisy, unreliability, and short sightedness. Every terrible thing he wanted to do, that he suddenly took pleasure in doing, was already justified because he himself is human, and this is what humanity does.
Now, Ticky is a clever and self aware sort of person. His Noah did not turn him completely crazy in an instant, it wore him down. Eventually, Ticky ended up living two lives, both to protect his happiness and his sanity. Thus, he appears as a person with two personalities: in his white life he is a carefree, snarky, yet caring homeless guy who really just wants to live with his friends and make enough money to survive. In his black life, he lives with his family, both fighting in the war and murdering people for fun, and keeping up a front as a charming, eligible young lord. He is smart enough that he learned how to play the part of nobility, he cleans up quite well, and everyone buys it. But it's not his heart: he complains about having to woo women or go to parties, and is usually pretty quick to roll up his collars or let down his hair. He has enough vanity that he likes looking pretty, but he's also comfortable enough that he is probably even happier just hoboing it up.
Anyway, the key here is that Ticky does NOT have split personalities, or identities. He simply is one man who chose to live two different lives in two radically different ways. They are both truly him, though they conflict heavily, and thus his insanity. He knows he can't sustain it forever, and that eventually his darkness will swallow up his light and he will well and truly crack and never look back. But he is crazy, so if a part of him dreads that day, a part of him is also excited about it. A part of him knows that he would genuinely enjoy murdering the people he loves best. He does not admit to being crazy, but inside he knows that's what has happened.
After that, Ticky is tormented by the wound that Allen left him, and it gradually is revealed that Ticky looks identical to the Fourteenth, the Noah that possesses Allen Walker. Ticky also develops a fondness for Allen, either because of their multiple connections (both are card cheating homeless hobos possessed by Noah and thrown to opposite sides of a holy war they don't really care about but were dragged into by family), or because Allen himself is family, or because Ticky has some unknown connection to the Fourteenth. Either way, he risks his life to save Allen, and then lets Allen go after smacking him around with a dose of bald-faced reality.
Personality: Ticky is a really very simple person in very complex packaging. All you need to do to understand him is to realize that he was, most of his life, a wayward homeless boy who saw the world in a black and white way and accepted its flaws. He was not particularly bad, or particularly good, and he decided to enjoy what he enjoyed and not worry about the details. Then something inside him awoke -- quite literally! -- and built upon his vision of reality. The flaws he had accepted were really so much worse, but he had also already accepted them! Humanity was dirty and filthy and unforgivable, but he is a part of humanity. He loved and hated them for their hypocrisy, unreliability, and short sightedness. Every terrible thing he wanted to do, that he suddenly took pleasure in doing, was already justified because he himself is human, and this is what humanity does.
Now, Ticky is a clever and self aware sort of person. His Noah did not turn him completely crazy in an instant, it wore him down. Eventually, Ticky ended up living two lives, both to protect his happiness and his sanity. Thus, he appears as a person with two personalities: in his white life he is a carefree, snarky, yet caring homeless guy who really just wants to live with his friends and make enough money to survive. In his black life, he lives with his family, both fighting in the war and murdering people for fun, and keeping up a front as a charming, eligible young lord. He is smart enough that he learned how to play the part of nobility, he cleans up quite well, and everyone buys it. But it's not his heart: he complains about having to woo women or go to parties, and is usually pretty quick to roll up his collars or let down his hair. He has enough vanity that he likes looking pretty, but he's also comfortable enough that he is probably even happier just hoboing it up.
Anyway, the key here is that Ticky does NOT have split personalities, or identities. He simply is one man who chose to live two different lives in two radically different ways. They are both truly him, though they conflict heavily, and thus his insanity. He knows he can't sustain it forever, and that eventually his darkness will swallow up his light and he will well and truly crack and never look back. But he is crazy, so if a part of him dreads that day, a part of him is also excited about it. A part of him knows that he would genuinely enjoy murdering the people he loves best. He does not admit to being crazy, but inside he knows that's what has happened.
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