[OOC Information]
Name: Erica
Age: 23
AIM and/or Plurk / E-mail / LiveJournal: [AIM/Plurk]
BouncyErbear, [E-mail] bouncyerbear@gmail.com, [LJ] bouncy_erbear
What characters do you play here already, if any? n/a
Where did you hear about Just A Game? The mods
Have you seen MST3K before? I have seen a few episodes, yes
[IC Information]
Character Name: Terra
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Gender: Male
Age: Late Teens-Early 20s
Species: Human
Appearance: Terra is a young man of average height and a lean,
muscular build. He has dark brown hair that is spiked up in the middle
and frames his face with longer bangs on the sides, the hair falls to
about the base of his neck. His eyes are a piercing dark blue and his
skin isn't too dark but probably shows that he does go outside a lot.
He is typically seen wearing khaki colored hakama-style pants, a black
skin-tight top, red straps crossing his chest, and a thick belt with a
special crest on it. Perhaps his most noticeable accessory is the
armor he wears on his left arm which covers his entire arm going up
from his hand to his shoulder. It is gold, black, and brown/red in
color.
Personality: On the outside Terra generally appears to be calm,
cool, and collected. Deep down, however, he is a very passionate
individual who would go to any lengths for his friends. While he seeks
to become stronger and more powerful for their sakes he is also
constantly tempted by the darkness as that offers it's own power.
However, this also causes some internal conflict as he has always been
raised to believe that darkness is bad and corrupting.
Despite this, Terra is really a kind person who only seeks to help
those in need and protect the weak. He is a little too trusting for
his own good and despite his age a little too gullible. This probably
comes from being raised in a slightly sheltered environment by a man
who is very pure-hearted himself. Terra has never encountered evil
people prior to leaving his home and doesn't know how to tell when he
is being manipulated because he is so innocent and sheltered. He is
quick to help without thinking about what the consequences might be or
if the person he is helping deserves it or not and in that regard
Terra is very selfless...even if it DOES get him into heaps of
trouble.
Eventually he learns from his mistakes but never soon enough to
prevent bad things from happening and this causes Terra no end of
grief as he is very hard on himself personally. While Terra can be
realistic he is also a dreamer and possibly even an optimist. As I
said he tries to see the best in people and thinks that dreams are
possible to obtain (with a little hard work of course). You do NOT
want to threaten his friends though because that tends to piss him off
to know end and is probably one of the few things that brings out true
rage in Terra. Most of the time though he is pretty laid back and just
wants to be with his friends and maybe have a bit of fun.
History: Terra has lived in the Land of Departure for as long
as he can remember. There he grew up training with Aqua and later Ven
to become a keyblade Master. This was done under the guidance of
Master Eraqus. On the day of the exam Terra accidentally lets his
control of the Darkness slip and is told he has failed to qualify for
the Mark of Mastery. Upset by this turn of events, especially since
Aqua passed, Terra wanders off to brood only to run into Master
Xehanort who tells him that he doesn't need to suppress the darkness
but harness it. Terra is grateful for this advice but is soon called
back to the hall by Master Eraqus who senses danger for the Princesses
of Light. He assigns Terra and Aqua the task of traveling the worlds
and investigating the matter. He also tells Terra that this would be a
good chance to redeem himself and gain the mark of Mastery. After some
parting words with Ven, Terra blasts off into the Lanes Between and
heads for other worlds.
He visits several worlds in his journey and each one seems to take him
closer to the darkness. Terra encounters such figures as Maleficent
and the Evil Queen. Both women manipulate Terra for his helpfulness
and play towards the darker side of him, Maleficent going so far as to
actually make him her puppet to take Princess Aurora's heart. These
events cause him nothing but distress as he realizes, only after the
fact, what poor choices he is making.
He does do one good deed by helping one young maiden, Cinderella, out
by escorting her to the Prince's ball. It is there that he learns of
the Boy in the Mask who can apparently control Unversed and that Ven
has runaway from home.
After visiting three worlds, Terra feels it is time to visit Yen Sid
who might know something of Xehanort's whereabouts. Terra doesn't
learn much from Yen Sid, only that the Masked Boy and Xehanort might
be connected. When he leaves, he hears Xehanort calling to him and
travels to a mysterious place known only as the Bad Lands. Xehanort
confesses that he made the Masked Boy, Vanitas, and his connection to
Ventus. Xehanort uses Terra's sympathetic nature against him by making
him think it was all an accident. The conversation seems to trigger a
sort of vision for Terra who isn't quite sure what to make of all
this. Xehanort asks for Terra's help and hints that Vanitas might be
in Radiant Garden next.
Again Terra sets off, this time for the world of Radiant Garden which
teems with light. Unfortunately the Unversed are there in large
numbers and sizes. Terra follows a rather big one through the town and
is eventually lead back to his friends: Aqua and Ven who were also
chasing similar Unversed. They team up and destroy the thing and Ven
rewards them with lifetime passes to Disney Town. Unfortunately the
reunion is cut short as Terra, Aqua, and Ven realize they have
different ideas about what they need to do next. Terra gets upset and
splits from the pair to go on his own. On his way out the door he runs
into a mysterious stranger who says he's taken Xehanort prisoner.
Terra confronts the individual and ends up dueling him. Just as Terra
is looking bad in the fight, the imprisoned Xehanort snaps him out of
it and tells him to fight back no matter the cost. He argues that
Terra would bring shame to his Master and his friends if he lost. This
is enough to trigger Terra's anger and he once again loses control
over the power of darkness. He goes so far as to shoot out the
stranger's eye with a blast of it. Once he realizes what he's done he
sees himself as a failure but Xehanort is there with kind words to
make Terra see it differently and further bring him to the "dark
side." Xehanort offers not only to make him a pupil but also a Master,
playing up on Terra's one greatest desire.
Terra parts ways with Xehanort and visits more worlds. This time he is
seeking strength for himself and trying not to think about his
supposedly ruined relationship with Aqua, Ven, and his former Master.
He continues his journey of morality by heading to the Olympus
Coliseum. There he meets a young Hercules and rescues him from the
Unversed. He enters the Games to find out how strong he really is and
runs into Hades, Lord of the Dead, in the process. Hades wants to join
in on the 'let's manipulate Terra' game the villains seem to be
playing these days. Hades, of course, makes Terra an offer that
involves entering the games and conquering the darkness. And, as you
may have guessed, things go horribly wrong. Terra is forced to
confront a darkness possessed Zack controlled by Hades and ends up
saving him. Terra also ends up being abducted by aliens in Deep Space
and there he meets Experiment 626. At first distressed by the idea
that 626 will destroy his Wayfinder (which 626 steals upon meeting
Terra) he instead ends up teaching the experiment about friendship and
potentially plants the seeds for 626's change of heart.
After visiting another world where he is tricked, again, into helping
a pirate Captain guard treasure from Peter Pan under false pretenses.
Terra finds himself drawn to a warm light in the middle of the Lanes
Between. Following the light he arrives on Destiny Island, confused as
to what he's supposed to do now. While contemplating this, Terra
encounters a young Riku who sees right through Terra as a traveler
from other worlds. After a brief conversation and another strange
vision of the future, Terra decides that Riku should be made his
successor. Riku has reminded Terra that he still has things he needs
to protect and given him renewed faith.
Xehanort once again summons Terra and warns him that Ven may be in
trouble with Eraqus. It appears true when Terra returns home only to
find Eraqus pulling a keyblade on Ven and threatening to destroy the
boy. Terra intervenes and throws Ven into a portal and decides to use
the power of Darkness to fight Eraqus for Ven. Things get out of hand
though as Eraqus is left near death after the fight. Terra realizes
his mistake but it is too late as Xehanort deals the finishing blow
and erases Eraqus from existence. Terra breaks down into tears at the
loss of his Master. Xehanort scoffs at Terra and decides he needs to
push Terra over the edge into darkness by destroying his home and also
threatening to destroy his friends as well.
Terra leaves his dying world behind to go save Aqua and Ven. He winds
up at the Keyblade Graveyard where he again finds his friends. Aqua
confronts Terra about his actions and Eraqus's death but little can be
said at their reunion before Xehanort and Vanitas show up. They engage
in a large battle over the wasteland. When Vanitas is ordered to go
after Aqua and Ven instead, Terra tries to go after him but instead
finds himself being pulled onto a strange space station in space.
Extra notes: He’s probably going to suck at riffing. Terra’s
not good at making fun of things. Terra will still have his armor on
as it counts as clothes but he can’t access the full armor.
Cambot post sample:
[Terra stares at the cambot for a long time. He doesn’t know what to
do with it nor what to do with where he is. He looks around again as
if this will give him answers but it does not.]
Hello? I don’t understand what is going on. I...I don’t understand
how or why I am here. Please, it’s really important that I get back
or else...I just know things will get worse if I’m not there.
[Cambot starts making a sad song play over Terra and Terra blinks,
looking up at the screen again.]
Why are you playing that music? It’s not just a sob story this is
serious! I need to help my friends! I can’t just...I can’t just stay
here and no help them.
[He looks down, defeated. He actually feels like he wouldn’t be that
much help but he can’t just stay here. He looks back up at the camera
as Cambot cuts out the sad song]
My name is Terra. If you have any answers...if anyone out there can
help me please let me know.
Third-person log sample:
Terra could only stand so much time alone in his room with his
thoughts. He hadn’t always been so antisocial and it probably wasn’t
a good habit to get into here. He was alone and trapped on a strange
space station and with little to do he knew he’d start to get antsy.
So, Terra had decided to suck it up and actually start venturing out,
maybe actually meet some of these other people on the ship who all
seemed to be from different worlds would make him feel better. It
would certainly take his mind off other things, like letting Aqua and
Ven down and the demise of his Master at the hands of Xehanort. Terra
scowled and shook his head, he couldn’t think about this now, not when
he was so helpless to do anything. He pushed away from the doorway of
his room, refusing to deal with this right now. If he truly was stuck
here then he had all the time in the world to brood over this and
right now he wanted to put it behind him and try to NOT dwell on it.
Perhaps, if he explored the ship more and met some more of the people
on board he could figure something out. He wasn’t sure where to begin
with his explorations but since he hadn’t eaten in awhile the
Cafeteria deck was starting to sound appealing. He’d noticed a map
near one of the elevators that gave a small description of the
different levels and the cafeteria was not too far from the housing
levels. It didn’t take Terra long to find his way to the elevator and
then to the correct level to get some food. When he entered the
cafeteria he found it to be empty except for another cambot hovering
in the corner. Terra decided to avoid it and headed for what appeared
to be the kitchen. Instead of finding the typical makings of a
kitchen, Terra found a strange machine that had the words “Food
Synthesizer” written in big block text across it. He also saw ovens
and a fridge, but they appeared to be predominately empty and off to
the side, showing that the food synthesizer was the main tool of the
kitchen.
“Well this will be interesting,” he muttered, turning back to the
contraption that was clearly supposed to produce food of some kind.
Terra looked it over before finding an instruction manual of sorts and
started flipping through it. However, he was more the type to just
press buttons and see what happens so after passing a few preliminary
pages that just labeled all the buttons he tossed the manual and
turned to the actual device. He found the buttons divided by food
categories and started pushing them, a screen lighting up showing a
menu of sorts that he could scroll though. After messing around a bit
he finally got it to produce a bowl of macaroni and cheese and a
side-order of fries. Normally he might have tried cooking his own
food but he wasn’t exactly in the mood for that right now, plus he
probably didn’t want to risk that just yet.
Terra looked back over the cafeteria space and noticed that there were
a few more people who had ventured in by now. He hesitated for a
moment, looking over the strangers before deciding he would just take
a seat with one of them. Terra put his tray down at the table with
someone already sitting at it and attempted a small smile, “Hi, I’m
Terra. What’s your name?”
Riff sample:
"I see you have a fascination for pirates, espeally fair-haired
captains."Laughter still obvious in his voice.
Terra: It wasn’t THAT obvious.
“I do not!" She stood up quickly and faced him, her face turning pink.
"It was given to me before I got on the ship by my brother."
Terra: Using the ladder by my uncle.
She grabbed up the book and threw it at him. He raised his arm and
knocked it away from him. He grabbed her arm and pulled her close.
Wrapping his other arm around her waist.
Terra: How many arms does he have?
“You have a problem, if you think I could like a pirate!"
Terra: [sings, he sounds a little hesitant about it, like he’s not
sure he’s doing this right] Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
"Perhaps I could make you change your mind, my dear. I am sure I could
change your mind about a lot of things.
Terra: *as pirate* Like maybe you should reconsider giving asparagus a try.
His eyes danced with devilment as he latched his gaze onto her lips.
She struggled against him, but couldn't get loose.
Terra: [all pretense for doing this right is gone, now he’s just
upset] Wait, he shouldn’t be doing that to her! It’s dishonorable!
[getting up out of seat]
"You devil! You are too ugly for me." Her voice going high, as she had
trouble breathing.
"Am I now?" His voice soft. "That's not what the women tell me."
Terra: [back in his seat thanks to some interference, he’s sitting
with his arms crossed, grumbling] Well, considering the level of
hygiene and typical diet, I seriously doubt that. You’re probably
missing several teeth and smell like alcohol.
"Then they need glasses!"
Terra: Contacts would probably work too, actually.