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LJ name: ignipotent
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Email:: aeloriax[at]gmail.com
Character: Kashiwagi Mai
Abilities: Mentally sets objects on fire, ranging in size from people to buildings. As she’s had basic Syndicate training, Mai knows how to fight; however, while Mai does have the knowledge, she hasn’t had much experience in execution. As a result, someone with more practice could definitely trump her.
Flaws/weaknesses: Being a Contractor, Mai requires a remuneration (singing) every time she uses her powers. What seems to be her greatest weakness is the fact that she still is a child, and is inexperienced - she doesn’t have the guile of veteran Contractors to trick herself out of every situation, especially if they’re hard-pressed. Neither does she have absolute control over her abilities, she can light people and buildings on fire, but it’s still hit or miss when it comes to pinpointing areas (I.e: setting fire to a person’s eye rather than his or her entire body.)
Normally, she has none to little emotions, despite her faked personality. She can’t dream.
History/background:
As basic facts go, she was born in South America and moved back to her home country of Japan due to her Father’s work. Had mother and father - a relatively normal childhood it would seem.
Mai’s father was one of the first to explore the anomalous, chaotic region of ‘Hell’s Gate,’ who later ended up being the only surviving scientist from the expedition. Maybe a stroke of bad luck or irony, he soon realized that his young daughter was becoming a ‘Contractor,’ a being (or state) hat came about after the formation of Hell’s Gate. They were humans, who in turn gained supernatural powers, lost their emotions, and in turn their conscience. Willing to do anything to save his daughter, he placed a plant seed indigenous from the Gate into his her wrist-- biding her more time, but ultimately setting on course for a potentially worse fate.
By the time Mai reached her Junior High years, her Mother had passed away. Her Father had become so embroiled in his work that he’d not come home for days - a month at a time. This all added up into a highly emotional, easily-angered and deeply hurt teenage girl. She’d made small grabs at her Father’s attention: stealing (though never caught) and changing her surname to her Mother’s. Still, none of that could shift his attention from his work, until receiving a call one day concerning his daughter, “setting trash on fire.” Of course, Mai denied this - sure, maybe she’d steal once or twice, but lighting things on fire? That was dangerous.
What turns out was that Mai had begun slipping into short spurts of her Contractor-state, the effect of the seed waning. No sooner had that began, had she become the target of an underground crime organization (Meyer & Hilton), set on obtaining her Father’s research. Their first attempt at capturing her as bait was thwarted by one of her father’s co-workers, Li Shenshung (Hei), an undercover Contractor for another organization. However, the initial trauma of nearly being kidnapped caused her to slip into a Moratorium state: the middle line between a Contractor and a Doll (an empty shell of a human, basically). In this state, she had no control of her power, setting fire to an entire construction site and effectively charbroiling the workers and building. From there, she continued to slip in and out of this state, accidentally lighting fire to a truck, along her best friend and her family as they tried to get her to evacuate the area.
Eventually, Mai was captured by Meyer & Hilton and held at a local warehouse where she’d finally slipped into full Moratorium mode, mentally regressing into a child-like state. To sum things up shortly -- her Father came to her aid and was killed (by another Contractor) midst holding Mai as he apologizes for abandoning . Hei makes an entrance once again, killing the murderer of Mai’s father; and Mai, transitioning to her proper Contractor state, purposely kills the other Meyer & Hilton agent.
Two surprising things to take note is that her Father’s research was based entirely on finding a way to permanently help Mai, and that transitioning from Moratorium to Contractor state was practically unheard of.
Aaaand this is where canon swerves off, as all prior history actually occurred in the series. As we see her working for the Syndicate at the end of the series, we can assume that she joined soon after the events at the warehouse-- perhaps immediately afterward as she’d have nowhere to go otherwise. From that point on, she worked for the Syndicate, trained by them and sent on various undercover missions of the espionage and assassination sort.
Her last mission (as seen in the series) was protecting the Syndicate’s Neptune System, a weapon secretly intended to cause a Contractor genocide -- which of course she doesn’t realize. As she attempts to stop two other Contractors from sabotaging the weapon, she’s injured by one of their attacks - however, it is the collapse of the building at the end that kills her.
Personality: Considering the fact that she’ll remember her previous visit to the City, her public persona will be largely manufactured; a lie to gain leverage in the City. Just your normal lively, a touch sarcastic, and seemingly sensitive teenage girl. Except, not really.
Her true personality is that she doesn’t really have much of one. Deadpanned and apathetic because she doesn’t have emotions, or at least not enough to count most of the time. ;; I must admit the series fluctuates, a doll cries in one seen, a Contractor claims she loves another - at the same time, there’s a clear difference between human and Contractor, if not by their facial expressions alone. One Contractor in the series, who’s remuneration (or payment) is to regain her emotions after every time she uses her power states, shows a clear difference between her before and after state. Apathetic to a near-breakdown. She even states, “Of all the emotions I felt, this is the first time I’ve felt fear.” when someone raises a gun toward her during her remuneration. Then one character goes around and says, “Contractors can feel fear, but they can’t react to it.”
Because Darker than BLACK is inconsistent, I’m going to go ahead and assume Mai’s emotionless, except for very rare moments where she might feel something. ;; Raaaare, though - like if something traumatic happened -- her father entered the City again.
Since this is epic tl;dr, I’ll sum it up this way: Emotionless except for rare occasions, driven by rationality and practicality, but will carry a fake persona (and name) in the City unless someone finds out. :3;
Background setting: [the setting your character came from before PC] It’s a modern version of Earth, except for the appearance of two chaotic regions in Tokyo and South America dubbed ‘Hell’s Gate’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate.’ The latter gate was destroyed during the Heaven’s Gate War, decimating an entire region of South America. There’s Contractors, Dolls, and riddled with underground organizations battling it out. Oh! The stars and moon are left with the appearance of the Gates~
Physical description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mai.png
Wow, I didn’t know there was such a big fountain in this area~ Sort of strange how I didn’t notice it before, huh?
Wait, I don’t recogni-
....
…Um, D-does anyone think they can help me? See, I was trying to get to Shibuya station- and I took all the right streets and now…I can’t recognize anything. Help?
[Private | Not Hackable]
Being recognized would be a great matter of inconvenience; however, if I recall, past experiences with physical doubles provides for an easy scapegoat.
There’s no need to for them to know I’m her.
[/Private]
Sample post:
The words are lost are her tongue. It was a song she’d known before- a melody that that pulled at memories, fragmented and hazy as if passing through old, broken glass. Something about birds, large birds maybe- White feathers. Grey Feathers. Where they flying or had they landed somewhere?
Flocks of wild geese cry and pass-
She absentmindedly wonders if they’ll be able to identify the bodies later. Corpses with locked-in screams, the features that discerned them crumbling as they settled into ash. It was always the same- their expressions at the end. Perhaps it was frightening to die, far from rational - but it all seemed over exaggeration almost.
“…just below the moon.”
Mai remembers the rest of the line now. It must have been written before the stars fell, for how could some one write a song about something they’d never seen? But where had she learned it from? Her songs usually came arbitrarily, half of the time hummed, half of the time sung; there was no real significance other than to complete a payment.
A low voice suddenly reaches her ears and Mai adjusts the microphone piece. Orders about tomorrow nights mission: a scientist with highly sensitive Gate material. Enter his house and kill him --- the children too if they’re there. The whole thing blamed on a faulty heater.
Mai acknowledges him.
Where is the moonlight that might have shone so bright?
Where had she learned it from?
A little girl curled up in her bed, gazing through her window up at the manufactured sky. Someone had told her about the moon-- a man with a rough beard, black hair and tired eyes. She asked whether the moon was really as bright as her storybooks described, and he laughed- reassuring her. A white, shining disk in the sky, which people claimed was made of cheese.
“Maybe it disappeared because someone ate it.”
And he laughed again, then began singing the song about the moon shining on the castle.
Even as hard as it was to remember, Mai couldn’t forget about her him. She was sure she’d been ’sad’ and ’lonely’ when he ignored her, or whatever being ’sad’ and ’lonely’ had been like; but then he came back and she was ’happy.’
Or at least that’s how she remembered it, emotions aside.
To rise and fall is people's fate, the moon shines so bright…
[*] - Song is taken from Moonlight on the Ruined Castle, a tradition Japanese folk song.
[*] I mentioned this in the application, but just in case -- Mai will take up a fake name upon entering the City, pretending to just be a "physical double." Fake names personalities are an everyday game with Contractors in general.
LJ name: ignipotent
Other characters currently played:
[ Harry Potter :: Harry Potter :: equalmarked ]
[ Sam Oliver :: Reaper :: idkmybffsatan ]
[ Kinomoto Sakura :: Cardcaptor Sakura :: idkmybffsatan ]
AIM/messenger: along cat is long
Email:: aeloriax[at]gmail.com
Character: Kashiwagi Mai
Abilities: Mentally sets objects on fire, ranging in size from people to buildings. As she’s had basic Syndicate training, Mai knows how to fight; however, while Mai does have the knowledge, she hasn’t had much experience in execution. As a result, someone with more practice could definitely trump her.
Flaws/weaknesses: Being a Contractor, Mai requires a remuneration (singing) every time she uses her powers. What seems to be her greatest weakness is the fact that she still is a child, and is inexperienced - she doesn’t have the guile of veteran Contractors to trick herself out of every situation, especially if they’re hard-pressed. Neither does she have absolute control over her abilities, she can light people and buildings on fire, but it’s still hit or miss when it comes to pinpointing areas (I.e: setting fire to a person’s eye rather than his or her entire body.)
Normally, she has none to little emotions, despite her faked personality. She can’t dream.
History/background:
As basic facts go, she was born in South America and moved back to her home country of Japan due to her Father’s work. Had mother and father - a relatively normal childhood it would seem.
Mai’s father was one of the first to explore the anomalous, chaotic region of ‘Hell’s Gate,’ who later ended up being the only surviving scientist from the expedition. Maybe a stroke of bad luck or irony, he soon realized that his young daughter was becoming a ‘Contractor,’ a being (or state) hat came about after the formation of Hell’s Gate. They were humans, who in turn gained supernatural powers, lost their emotions, and in turn their conscience. Willing to do anything to save his daughter, he placed a plant seed indigenous from the Gate into his her wrist-- biding her more time, but ultimately setting on course for a potentially worse fate.
By the time Mai reached her Junior High years, her Mother had passed away. Her Father had become so embroiled in his work that he’d not come home for days - a month at a time. This all added up into a highly emotional, easily-angered and deeply hurt teenage girl. She’d made small grabs at her Father’s attention: stealing (though never caught) and changing her surname to her Mother’s. Still, none of that could shift his attention from his work, until receiving a call one day concerning his daughter, “setting trash on fire.” Of course, Mai denied this - sure, maybe she’d steal once or twice, but lighting things on fire? That was dangerous.
What turns out was that Mai had begun slipping into short spurts of her Contractor-state, the effect of the seed waning. No sooner had that began, had she become the target of an underground crime organization (Meyer & Hilton), set on obtaining her Father’s research. Their first attempt at capturing her as bait was thwarted by one of her father’s co-workers, Li Shenshung (Hei), an undercover Contractor for another organization. However, the initial trauma of nearly being kidnapped caused her to slip into a Moratorium state: the middle line between a Contractor and a Doll (an empty shell of a human, basically). In this state, she had no control of her power, setting fire to an entire construction site and effectively charbroiling the workers and building. From there, she continued to slip in and out of this state, accidentally lighting fire to a truck, along her best friend and her family as they tried to get her to evacuate the area.
Eventually, Mai was captured by Meyer & Hilton and held at a local warehouse where she’d finally slipped into full Moratorium mode, mentally regressing into a child-like state. To sum things up shortly -- her Father came to her aid and was killed (by another Contractor) midst holding Mai as he apologizes for abandoning . Hei makes an entrance once again, killing the murderer of Mai’s father; and Mai, transitioning to her proper Contractor state, purposely kills the other Meyer & Hilton agent.
Two surprising things to take note is that her Father’s research was based entirely on finding a way to permanently help Mai, and that transitioning from Moratorium to Contractor state was practically unheard of.
Aaaand this is where canon swerves off, as all prior history actually occurred in the series. As we see her working for the Syndicate at the end of the series, we can assume that she joined soon after the events at the warehouse-- perhaps immediately afterward as she’d have nowhere to go otherwise. From that point on, she worked for the Syndicate, trained by them and sent on various undercover missions of the espionage and assassination sort.
Her last mission (as seen in the series) was protecting the Syndicate’s Neptune System, a weapon secretly intended to cause a Contractor genocide -- which of course she doesn’t realize. As she attempts to stop two other Contractors from sabotaging the weapon, she’s injured by one of their attacks - however, it is the collapse of the building at the end that kills her.
Personality: Considering the fact that she’ll remember her previous visit to the City, her public persona will be largely manufactured; a lie to gain leverage in the City. Just your normal lively, a touch sarcastic, and seemingly sensitive teenage girl. Except, not really.
Her true personality is that she doesn’t really have much of one. Deadpanned and apathetic because she doesn’t have emotions, or at least not enough to count most of the time. ;; I must admit the series fluctuates, a doll cries in one seen, a Contractor claims she loves another - at the same time, there’s a clear difference between human and Contractor, if not by their facial expressions alone. One Contractor in the series, who’s remuneration (or payment) is to regain her emotions after every time she uses her power states, shows a clear difference between her before and after state. Apathetic to a near-breakdown. She even states, “Of all the emotions I felt, this is the first time I’ve felt fear.” when someone raises a gun toward her during her remuneration. Then one character goes around and says, “Contractors can feel fear, but they can’t react to it.”
Because Darker than BLACK is inconsistent, I’m going to go ahead and assume Mai’s emotionless, except for very rare moments where she might feel something. ;; Raaaare, though - like if something traumatic happened -- her father entered the City again.
Since this is epic tl;dr, I’ll sum it up this way: Emotionless except for rare occasions, driven by rationality and practicality, but will carry a fake persona (and name) in the City unless someone finds out. :3;
Background setting: [the setting your character came from before PC] It’s a modern version of Earth, except for the appearance of two chaotic regions in Tokyo and South America dubbed ‘Hell’s Gate’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate.’ The latter gate was destroyed during the Heaven’s Gate War, decimating an entire region of South America. There’s Contractors, Dolls, and riddled with underground organizations battling it out. Oh! The stars and moon are left with the appearance of the Gates~
Physical description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mai.png
Wow, I didn’t know there was such a big fountain in this area~ Sort of strange how I didn’t notice it before, huh?
Wait, I don’t recogni-
....
…Um, D-does anyone think they can help me? See, I was trying to get to Shibuya station- and I took all the right streets and now…I can’t recognize anything. Help?
[Private | Not Hackable]
Being recognized would be a great matter of inconvenience; however, if I recall, past experiences with physical doubles provides for an easy scapegoat.
There’s no need to for them to know I’m her.
[/Private]
Sample post:
The words are lost are her tongue. It was a song she’d known before- a melody that that pulled at memories, fragmented and hazy as if passing through old, broken glass. Something about birds, large birds maybe- White feathers. Grey Feathers. Where they flying or had they landed somewhere?
Flocks of wild geese cry and pass-
She absentmindedly wonders if they’ll be able to identify the bodies later. Corpses with locked-in screams, the features that discerned them crumbling as they settled into ash. It was always the same- their expressions at the end. Perhaps it was frightening to die, far from rational - but it all seemed over exaggeration almost.
“…just below the moon.”
Mai remembers the rest of the line now. It must have been written before the stars fell, for how could some one write a song about something they’d never seen? But where had she learned it from? Her songs usually came arbitrarily, half of the time hummed, half of the time sung; there was no real significance other than to complete a payment.
A low voice suddenly reaches her ears and Mai adjusts the microphone piece. Orders about tomorrow nights mission: a scientist with highly sensitive Gate material. Enter his house and kill him --- the children too if they’re there. The whole thing blamed on a faulty heater.
Mai acknowledges him.
Where is the moonlight that might have shone so bright?
Where had she learned it from?
A little girl curled up in her bed, gazing through her window up at the manufactured sky. Someone had told her about the moon-- a man with a rough beard, black hair and tired eyes. She asked whether the moon was really as bright as her storybooks described, and he laughed- reassuring her. A white, shining disk in the sky, which people claimed was made of cheese.
“Maybe it disappeared because someone ate it.”
And he laughed again, then began singing the song about the moon shining on the castle.
Even as hard as it was to remember, Mai couldn’t forget about her him. She was sure she’d been ’sad’ and ’lonely’ when he ignored her, or whatever being ’sad’ and ’lonely’ had been like; but then he came back and she was ’happy.’
Or at least that’s how she remembered it, emotions aside.
To rise and fall is people's fate, the moon shines so bright…
[*] - Song is taken from Moonlight on the Ruined Castle, a tradition Japanese folk song.
[*] I mentioned this in the application, but just in case -- Mai will take up a fake name upon entering the City, pretending to just be a "physical double." Fake names personalities are an everyday game with Contractors in general.