Application for Planeocracy.
... Really just dumping this here because I like it better than the app I did originally for Vatheon, even if it is lengthier. And if I ever decide to re-apply, this is here. Um. Yep.
Player Name: Char; C-chan (Derpchan)
Character Name: Naoya HasNoCanonLastName
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Background: Wiki Links Here. And I'll be writing the rest from here. Essentially, though, Neko's app covers most of it. I'm covering the bits important to Naoya. Which, by the way, are full of spoilers for his game.
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In the beginning, so says the Old Testament, Adam was created. And after his first wife split, Eve was made from his rib. ... Or so they say. So that Man would not be lonely, he had Woman beside him. Not long after, they found themselves out of Eden and on Earth with all the other life, so says Christianity. Whatever really happened and when, in these early days nearly 6,000 years ago, this was a long time before Naoya was born.
... Or was it? As the legend goes, Adam's wife had Cain, then Abel... and dispute what you will, but of everything to be taken with a grain of salt, this part of the testament is not to be taken lightly. Naoya knows this because he is the first Son of Man. He is Cain. Not was, not once had been at some point... is. One day He wanted a showing from Adam's sons to determine who's offer was more worthy. Cain was a farmer; Abel was a Shepherd. Abel offered God his finest lamb, and Cain his best food. In the end, it's said that He chose the younger Abel's food over Cain's. The eldest sibling was not happy about this; he endlessly worked on tilling the earth and bringing it's riches as his reward. All his younger brother did was watch over a flock. What happened in between, how it happened, or why is debated. What is known is the result... and so the first murderer and the first martyr were born. Cain killed Abel--why? No one knows. Jealousy, rage, anger... it's hard to say. Most likely, for Naoya, it was an accident. The God he had loved had betrayed him, and his little brother did not deserve such praise, after all, but that is only the tip of the iceberg for the incident; whatever happened truly may never be known.
Once the deed was done, God came to Cain and questioned him: "Where is your brother, Abel?" And Cain replied, "Am I my brother's keeper? I do not know."
But God knew. He knew what he had done. And thus, as a penance for his sin, he punished Cain, thrusting a Mark of his deed upon him: he would remember every lifetime he had, each reincarnation, and would forever walk the earth. Adam wept and Cain left, becoming a migratory nomad...
Present: Twenty-Four years ago
Naoya is born to his parents, in Japan. At an early age, the young child loses them in a car crash, and as a result, goes to live with related family around the age of seven. Presumably, Akira is already born by the time he goes to live with his cousin's family. The two grow up together--if a few years apart. Naoya shares a lot of similarities with his young cousin, mostly looks, but there's one big difference, of course: he was born with red eyes and very pale skin... also pale, white hair. An albino, if you would call him such. He also happened to have bad eyesight, and had been wearing glasses from an early age.
Eventually, as the two grow together, they become rather close. Naoya is like a brother to his cousin (the MC), and vice versa. He molds the boy to trust him implicitly, who frequently finds solace from arguing parents in his older cousin's words. Although Naoya is not the most emotional person, he stays with the boy as long as he can afford to. But eventually, he must move out, and becomes a programmer. Hired by the Shomonkai, he moves to Aoyama after the age of twenty or so, and has lived there since. From his family's point of view, there is nothing odd about this.
Present
But from Naoya's point of view, there's still many things he has to do. He doesn't have long to prepare for what he knows will be coming, after all.
The first step was simple enough: he goes to the Shomonkai, a group of cultists that preach about the wonders of the Internet, the repeating of the Tower of Babel's incident, the new coming of their own master (an ancient demon named Belberith) and how God is going to judge humanity once again. Naoya decides to help them: he is hired to make them COMPs, or Communication Players, with demon summoning programs inside of them. That's right--demons. With the aid of Indie rock-band vocalist Aya, a member of the band called D-VA, whose song summons demons in the ancient common tongue, and Amane Kuzuryu, who serves as the link between the demonic world and their own, Naoya begins work on creating programs for the COMP that turn the rituals for summoning into code. When he is done, he takes three special and specific COMPs and sends a message out to his cousin and his friends. The email was sent to Kihara Atsuro, and messages passed along by him to Tanikawa Yuzu and his cousin, telling them to gather in one place: Shibuya. He later calls and tells them he cannot come, but fate's wheels spin regardless. He also begins to visit the key players in his plan aside from his cousin's three friends, giving each individual a COMP ahead of time. The program itself in the COMPs that he gives Atsuro, Akira, and Yuzu is protected. This is so he knows they'll open them. He knows this because one of the trio, Atsuro, is his student and a programmer with significant (but no where near matching his) talent of his own; the boy has been his apprentice of sorts for some years now, and he knows him well enough to know he would crack it. Atsuro's talent also gives him a penchant for wanting to hack things... and it was, to him at least, or any other programmer and hacker, like a greeting between friends. Once the boy started looking into the COMPs, Naoya knew the young man wouldn't stop. He'd figure it out, just... not too quickly. Which is precisely what he needed. Preparations nearly set, everything is coming together.
All is as planned.
It's the year of his cousin's second year in high school. Naoya knew beforehand by a large margin that something was going to happen... after all, he's the one making sure to set it up. With this knowledge in hand, he set his preparations in order. The Tokyo Lockdown and God's Judgement of Man for summoning demons using the common tongue was going to begin soon. This day had been anticipated.
Watching ever patiently from the shadows, Naoya watches as they end up accidentally summoning demons, earning their contracts with the demons and the right to do so with them as they please--be it battling alongside their masters or something else. They, from here on out, will begin fighting for their lives. As the COMP had warned them, peaceful days were to be over. ... But Naoya has more important things to do. The COMPs have the Laplace Mail system--a prediction of the events that will happen each Day of the Lockdown and also predict how long a person has left to live, showing a Death Clock (or a number with a value from one to nine days, wherein anything past ten and it does not show up), that will show how long they and everyone else inside the Lockdown has left to live based on the program's predictions. What is the Lockdown, you ask? When the government found out the demons summoned had flooded the Yamanote Circle inside Tokyo, the angels take over the Government and Special Defense Force, ordering them to lock Tokyo down completely. No humans or demons can leave, and in seven days, if they are not gone, the Government will BOMB the entire area. God's Judgment has begun.
... And so has Naoya's master plan. Inextricably linked to all of this as the one behind it, he alone is not only the one behind most of this Lockdown and distributing COMPs to people and preparing, but he has been waiting for his chance. The fact is? He is Cain... and he still remembers. Naoya has been preparing for this for many, many lifetimes. That's right: this is where it all comes together for him, you see. He schemes to install his cousin as the overlord of all demons (the king of Bel), so that he can destroy God himself with Naoya at his side and free humanity from His and the angel's shackles. If his cousin wins the war between the Bels he is about to be thrust into (the strongest demons warring for the right over all other demons), then not only will he have whatever he wishes, but he will be able to end the Lockdown and save everyone. The Government will have no choice... and if Naoya can convince him to follow his path, then he will also help him end God in a war between angels and demons so massive, it is only the beginning... Let's Survive indeed.
Personality: ... Ah, here's where it's going to get exceedingly long.
There are many words to describe Naoya, but stupid is NOT one you would ever want to use. He's a man who is cunning, ruthless, and above all, angry at God. He WILL do whatever he wants to get something, and use whomever he must to get it. Being the genius that he is, he usually grasps a situation's possible solutions immediately, and goes about systematically using the easiest and the neatest method to get out of them. Though Naoya's true strength and his real intelligence is debatable. That is not to say he isn't a genius, but more really to say his biggest strength--his ability to predict, analyze, and think ahead in regards to humans as a whole--stems from the fact he has been around people long enough to memorize the patterns and typical reactions to almost anything. And though it isn't very often, if backed into a corner and forced to fight, he's the type to always think on his feet, and to do so quickly. Efficiency is the name of his game, he doesn't have the time or the heart to care for who he hurts along the way to achieving his goals. Naoya would much rather win down his opponent, then proceed to enrage them, hoping to make them slip up, so he can find their weakness before striking back. Not unlike a snake, his words can be as potent as any venom; reading people for him and knowing their weakness... how to get under their skin, and by just enough to make them mad, or point out their flaws, is as easy to him as reading a book.
By no means is 'kind' one of the words you would use to describe his personality. ... However, this depends on if you are related to him. In which case, that entirely becomes debatable--as he has shown with his actions inside the Lockdown, at every turn the group encountered, he was there to lend them a helping hand. Even initially, he chose his cousin--the main character--and his friends to hold the COMPs he created first for more reasons than testing them, after all. He wrote a program, the Laplace mail, to predict the future to within certain elements during this time. Naoya's genius in reading others shows here, but what it shows more is the fact he cares a great deal for his little brother, or in this reincarnation, cousin. When the group needed more help for survival, he sent them yet another program, steadily emailing them helpful, if vague, hints regarding each function, and telling them to continue to survive.
So in some ways, Naoya does indeed care... even if only for one real person: Abel, or the main character. As Cain, he did indeed kill his brother, but it isn't his fault--or so he thinks. After 6,000 years, somewhere between now and then, he lost all meaning in life... and he took what was left of his sanity and his emotions and cut them off, slowly melding them and creating a dagger of pure rage and a burning hatred of God so intense that afterwards, he could only see his own goals, no matter how hypocritical, crazy, ridiculous, and near-impossible those dreams of revenge and ousting God like he'd been thrown out were. All this simply because he wishes to take revenge and, perhaps, deep down, no longer be alone. To install his cousin, or once-brother as the King of Bel, would mean changing him from human to demon. As Naoya cannot ever forget, his loneliness is eternal. He knows somewhere that this will be his last chance to finish and carry out his plans, and hopefully, his chance to finally make Abel understand that he does indeed care for him. Deep down, he's afraid of being hated by his brother; all of this to ease his loneliness and have someone to spend an eternity with.
While his motivations in killing God first and foremost are for revenge, he secondarily is doing this for the good of all mankind. Humanity is endangered by God--or so he believes--in his eyes, due to his ideals of only the righteous being saved. He will not allow God's second Judgement Day to end humanity. The righteous will be saved...? He doesn't believe even that for a minute. Naoya knows their God is a corrupt one who will only save the humans who completely follow his every command, worship him, and care. Destroying God isn't just his goal, it's his life. It is the only reason he even bothers wanting to live anymore. For humanity, and for himself, he will do whatever it takes.
Naoya's wish for vengeance is understandable. After remembering life for so long, to him, life is now meaningless. Love, caring, emotions besides hate, murder... it doesn't matter to him. Think too much and care too much, and you are weak. His ideology follows that strength is the true key to survival, and emotions only get in the way of making logical decisions. He almost never allows himself to feel them. Caring, loving, kindness... all are weaknesses that a logical person cannot afford to feel. But it's about more than that, for Naoya; he no longer has a choice in the matter. Cutting himself off and becoming this way is the only way he can live without pain. One must remember that if you were numb and remembered living through all of the considered joys of life over and over and over, where you have lived in every body imaginable through reincarnation... and you remember all of this every single time? To die, only to know you shall never be able to forget, or to start fresh? To never be able to see heaven's gates...? To only know the hell that is wandering and being stuck on the earth, those you care about all dying in the end? One would not be sane, nor would they be prone to crying, or even feeling at all, in a sense. Therefore, he no longer views emotions as a strength; to him, there are merely a hindrance. His time on earth, as long as it has been, has caused him to reach a very uncertain precipice in the human mind: one more reincarnation, and he might just completely fall into the dark void that is insanity, and never come back.
Almost being there means Naoya is prone to seeing even the craziest sides of himself as justified, and that everything he does or will do is equally deserving, and correct. He was used by God, and therefore, blames God for all of his problems. He believes God set him up so that humanity would learn to murder from him; learn to corrupt and pollute itself because of him. There may even be SOME--if only a bit--of guilt in that. He can't admit to himself--and will not forgive himself, even if he won't admit it--that he killed Abel out of jealousy, or in a panic. In fact, admitting that he killed Abel on purpose at all (if he did) would make all of his lives, as it were, have no meaning. This is quite literally all he can be--numb, cold to others, and logical as he pursues his goals. The only person he will ever even remotely be caring of is Abel (the main character), as it is his little brother's opinion of him he treasures most. He goes so far as to manipulate and raise the boy into trusting him the entire time in this incarnation simply because he wants Abel on a leash; must have him on a leash, for his trust in him is what instills him to continue on. But he also knows he needs this trust because, without it, Abel may not follow his plans or choose his path, and this worries Naoya.
Ultimately, he knows his cousin's choice with that war and his power is his own. Otherwise, to everyone else, his ego is as large as he is tall, and his sanity is... lacking, if to a somewhat worrying degree.
If you get on his bad side, he will not hesitate to stop dawdling around and kill you himself, if he can... but only if he's truly angry. He prefers not to leave a mess, and killing does get messy, unfortunately. In truth, he is still human; he cares for life as much as the next person, no matter how he tries to hide it. Part of him has numbed to this, but if they are a person he would truly come to be concerned for, or if they were someone his cousin or little brother cared for, he would hesitate to ever hurt them physically. But otherwise... if he does not know you, then he will step over your body on his way to his ultimate goal. He does, however, have absolutely no problem with killing angels or demons. While it may be true that Naoya has a bad temper if you hit the good (or bad, depending on if you want him mad) spots that cause him to lose it completely, he more often than not isn't always easy to provoke. He's a smart man, and will not be fooled twice by anything. He's also a complete control freak, and as such has a cap over his own actions, and the actions of his relative (the main character) at all times. Essentially, he views them all as pieces on a chessboard, in which the ultimate goal is to use them to take out the king: God Himself.
Though on most occasions, he prefers to be the one provoking you. If he finds you to be easy to manipulate, he will try it. If you have a weakness, he will find it, exploit it, and use it for his own means. There is no room for doubt between this; if Naoya finds anything he can use against you, he can and will use it. Everyone for him is a means to an end, at times, even his own cousin. And those means must be met--he does not, no, will not, give up. Not ever. He is not afraid of death; he's died enough by now to know not to care, and if one did kill him, they would be cursed tenfold to himself, as said by God originally when Cain was worried about how he would be hated and killed if found out. So you tell me: why should a tiny thing like DEATH stop him...? Simple: it won't. That is likely to change once he learns of the rules, but as he is now, he fears nothing.
In short: describing Naoya in one word or sentence is a difficult, if not nigh impossible, task. He's someone who manages to be both ruthless, cunning, and yet still human all at once. If it comes down to it, he isn't past manipulating others to get what he wants. If there is something that will help lead him to his final goal, then he will do it, no matter the cost or what it is. He's an angry person inside, his entire reasoning, down to his ideology, shows it. And though he does have some compassion for his brother, even to the point where he has a hard time telling Akira 'no,' (as per headcanon), it is hardly anything a normal person would have. Most of his feelings are faked, or masked. To some degree, because of all of this, he has trouble expressing himself both verbally and emotionally, and comes off as condescending, rude, and even superiorist at most times. At best, he denies caring at all, even when he truly does. Hiding how he really feels behind a mask of a smirk is far easier than expressing himself, after all. If anyone knew how he felt, they might use it against him, and he cannot afford that weakness. If being this way makes him detestable, so be it. He couldn't care less about the opinions of others, in the end. That is simply how he is; if you do not like it, then you can either die or get out of his way. No, really. He doesn't care. In fact, he only vaguely cares for Akira, and his friends. That's really it.
Reason for Joining: Since Akira and Atsuro are in the place, it isn't hard to see Naoya would follow to keep track of them. More specifically, Akira is his 'project', his one ticket to his revenge--he's not about to let the boy wander off without his careful eye on him, and his Number One Apprentice. ... Moreover, even Naoya would tire of the Lockdown. It's not exactly the calmest situation, even if it's only been about a day or so since it began, and he's the one who essentially started it.
Position Desired: Councilor. There's a reason for this; once Naoya is aware of what's going on, he's likelier to stick his nose into any affairs related to the entire place. Though, I imagine he'd lie about his position? If that's not alright, I think he can still be an Agent. It's demeaning, but, you know. He'd get over it.
Point in Canon: The first night of the Lockdown, right after the party goes to sleep.
Notes: ... SO DID I MENTION NAOYA'S HOBBY IS TROLLING? And that he's essentially a magic bomb? ... Yep. Not that he'd misuse his powers or anything (unless the situation warranted it, nfufufu).
Also, like Atsuro, Naoya is very prone to messing with the computer systems and hacking and such, so I'll probably need more details about that. Plus, Naoya's programming skills are on a... higher level than Atsuro's, so... he'd probably get a lot farther. A-also I apologize for the length of this app. Oh my god. I do not know when to shut up.
Player Name: Char; C-chan (Derpchan)
Character Name: Naoya HasNoCanonLastName
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Background: Wiki Links Here. And I'll be writing the rest from here. Essentially, though, Neko's app covers most of it. I'm covering the bits important to Naoya. Which, by the way, are full of spoilers for his game.
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In the beginning, so says the Old Testament, Adam was created. And after his first wife split, Eve was made from his rib. ... Or so they say. So that Man would not be lonely, he had Woman beside him. Not long after, they found themselves out of Eden and on Earth with all the other life, so says Christianity. Whatever really happened and when, in these early days nearly 6,000 years ago, this was a long time before Naoya was born.
... Or was it? As the legend goes, Adam's wife had Cain, then Abel... and dispute what you will, but of everything to be taken with a grain of salt, this part of the testament is not to be taken lightly. Naoya knows this because he is the first Son of Man. He is Cain. Not was, not once had been at some point... is. One day He wanted a showing from Adam's sons to determine who's offer was more worthy. Cain was a farmer; Abel was a Shepherd. Abel offered God his finest lamb, and Cain his best food. In the end, it's said that He chose the younger Abel's food over Cain's. The eldest sibling was not happy about this; he endlessly worked on tilling the earth and bringing it's riches as his reward. All his younger brother did was watch over a flock. What happened in between, how it happened, or why is debated. What is known is the result... and so the first murderer and the first martyr were born. Cain killed Abel--why? No one knows. Jealousy, rage, anger... it's hard to say. Most likely, for Naoya, it was an accident. The God he had loved had betrayed him, and his little brother did not deserve such praise, after all, but that is only the tip of the iceberg for the incident; whatever happened truly may never be known.
Once the deed was done, God came to Cain and questioned him: "Where is your brother, Abel?" And Cain replied, "Am I my brother's keeper? I do not know."
But God knew. He knew what he had done. And thus, as a penance for his sin, he punished Cain, thrusting a Mark of his deed upon him: he would remember every lifetime he had, each reincarnation, and would forever walk the earth. Adam wept and Cain left, becoming a migratory nomad...
Present: Twenty-Four years ago
Naoya is born to his parents, in Japan. At an early age, the young child loses them in a car crash, and as a result, goes to live with related family around the age of seven. Presumably, Akira is already born by the time he goes to live with his cousin's family. The two grow up together--if a few years apart. Naoya shares a lot of similarities with his young cousin, mostly looks, but there's one big difference, of course: he was born with red eyes and very pale skin... also pale, white hair. An albino, if you would call him such. He also happened to have bad eyesight, and had been wearing glasses from an early age.
Eventually, as the two grow together, they become rather close. Naoya is like a brother to his cousin (the MC), and vice versa. He molds the boy to trust him implicitly, who frequently finds solace from arguing parents in his older cousin's words. Although Naoya is not the most emotional person, he stays with the boy as long as he can afford to. But eventually, he must move out, and becomes a programmer. Hired by the Shomonkai, he moves to Aoyama after the age of twenty or so, and has lived there since. From his family's point of view, there is nothing odd about this.
Present
But from Naoya's point of view, there's still many things he has to do. He doesn't have long to prepare for what he knows will be coming, after all.
The first step was simple enough: he goes to the Shomonkai, a group of cultists that preach about the wonders of the Internet, the repeating of the Tower of Babel's incident, the new coming of their own master (an ancient demon named Belberith) and how God is going to judge humanity once again. Naoya decides to help them: he is hired to make them COMPs, or Communication Players, with demon summoning programs inside of them. That's right--demons. With the aid of Indie rock-band vocalist Aya, a member of the band called D-VA, whose song summons demons in the ancient common tongue, and Amane Kuzuryu, who serves as the link between the demonic world and their own, Naoya begins work on creating programs for the COMP that turn the rituals for summoning into code. When he is done, he takes three special and specific COMPs and sends a message out to his cousin and his friends. The email was sent to Kihara Atsuro, and messages passed along by him to Tanikawa Yuzu and his cousin, telling them to gather in one place: Shibuya. He later calls and tells them he cannot come, but fate's wheels spin regardless. He also begins to visit the key players in his plan aside from his cousin's three friends, giving each individual a COMP ahead of time. The program itself in the COMPs that he gives Atsuro, Akira, and Yuzu is protected. This is so he knows they'll open them. He knows this because one of the trio, Atsuro, is his student and a programmer with significant (but no where near matching his) talent of his own; the boy has been his apprentice of sorts for some years now, and he knows him well enough to know he would crack it. Atsuro's talent also gives him a penchant for wanting to hack things... and it was, to him at least, or any other programmer and hacker, like a greeting between friends. Once the boy started looking into the COMPs, Naoya knew the young man wouldn't stop. He'd figure it out, just... not too quickly. Which is precisely what he needed. Preparations nearly set, everything is coming together.
All is as planned.
It's the year of his cousin's second year in high school. Naoya knew beforehand by a large margin that something was going to happen... after all, he's the one making sure to set it up. With this knowledge in hand, he set his preparations in order. The Tokyo Lockdown and God's Judgement of Man for summoning demons using the common tongue was going to begin soon. This day had been anticipated.
Watching ever patiently from the shadows, Naoya watches as they end up accidentally summoning demons, earning their contracts with the demons and the right to do so with them as they please--be it battling alongside their masters or something else. They, from here on out, will begin fighting for their lives. As the COMP had warned them, peaceful days were to be over. ... But Naoya has more important things to do. The COMPs have the Laplace Mail system--a prediction of the events that will happen each Day of the Lockdown and also predict how long a person has left to live, showing a Death Clock (or a number with a value from one to nine days, wherein anything past ten and it does not show up), that will show how long they and everyone else inside the Lockdown has left to live based on the program's predictions. What is the Lockdown, you ask? When the government found out the demons summoned had flooded the Yamanote Circle inside Tokyo, the angels take over the Government and Special Defense Force, ordering them to lock Tokyo down completely. No humans or demons can leave, and in seven days, if they are not gone, the Government will BOMB the entire area. God's Judgment has begun.
... And so has Naoya's master plan. Inextricably linked to all of this as the one behind it, he alone is not only the one behind most of this Lockdown and distributing COMPs to people and preparing, but he has been waiting for his chance. The fact is? He is Cain... and he still remembers. Naoya has been preparing for this for many, many lifetimes. That's right: this is where it all comes together for him, you see. He schemes to install his cousin as the overlord of all demons (the king of Bel), so that he can destroy God himself with Naoya at his side and free humanity from His and the angel's shackles. If his cousin wins the war between the Bels he is about to be thrust into (the strongest demons warring for the right over all other demons), then not only will he have whatever he wishes, but he will be able to end the Lockdown and save everyone. The Government will have no choice... and if Naoya can convince him to follow his path, then he will also help him end God in a war between angels and demons so massive, it is only the beginning... Let's Survive indeed.
Personality: ... Ah, here's where it's going to get exceedingly long.
There are many words to describe Naoya, but stupid is NOT one you would ever want to use. He's a man who is cunning, ruthless, and above all, angry at God. He WILL do whatever he wants to get something, and use whomever he must to get it. Being the genius that he is, he usually grasps a situation's possible solutions immediately, and goes about systematically using the easiest and the neatest method to get out of them. Though Naoya's true strength and his real intelligence is debatable. That is not to say he isn't a genius, but more really to say his biggest strength--his ability to predict, analyze, and think ahead in regards to humans as a whole--stems from the fact he has been around people long enough to memorize the patterns and typical reactions to almost anything. And though it isn't very often, if backed into a corner and forced to fight, he's the type to always think on his feet, and to do so quickly. Efficiency is the name of his game, he doesn't have the time or the heart to care for who he hurts along the way to achieving his goals. Naoya would much rather win down his opponent, then proceed to enrage them, hoping to make them slip up, so he can find their weakness before striking back. Not unlike a snake, his words can be as potent as any venom; reading people for him and knowing their weakness... how to get under their skin, and by just enough to make them mad, or point out their flaws, is as easy to him as reading a book.
By no means is 'kind' one of the words you would use to describe his personality. ... However, this depends on if you are related to him. In which case, that entirely becomes debatable--as he has shown with his actions inside the Lockdown, at every turn the group encountered, he was there to lend them a helping hand. Even initially, he chose his cousin--the main character--and his friends to hold the COMPs he created first for more reasons than testing them, after all. He wrote a program, the Laplace mail, to predict the future to within certain elements during this time. Naoya's genius in reading others shows here, but what it shows more is the fact he cares a great deal for his little brother, or in this reincarnation, cousin. When the group needed more help for survival, he sent them yet another program, steadily emailing them helpful, if vague, hints regarding each function, and telling them to continue to survive.
So in some ways, Naoya does indeed care... even if only for one real person: Abel, or the main character. As Cain, he did indeed kill his brother, but it isn't his fault--or so he thinks. After 6,000 years, somewhere between now and then, he lost all meaning in life... and he took what was left of his sanity and his emotions and cut them off, slowly melding them and creating a dagger of pure rage and a burning hatred of God so intense that afterwards, he could only see his own goals, no matter how hypocritical, crazy, ridiculous, and near-impossible those dreams of revenge and ousting God like he'd been thrown out were. All this simply because he wishes to take revenge and, perhaps, deep down, no longer be alone. To install his cousin, or once-brother as the King of Bel, would mean changing him from human to demon. As Naoya cannot ever forget, his loneliness is eternal. He knows somewhere that this will be his last chance to finish and carry out his plans, and hopefully, his chance to finally make Abel understand that he does indeed care for him. Deep down, he's afraid of being hated by his brother; all of this to ease his loneliness and have someone to spend an eternity with.
While his motivations in killing God first and foremost are for revenge, he secondarily is doing this for the good of all mankind. Humanity is endangered by God--or so he believes--in his eyes, due to his ideals of only the righteous being saved. He will not allow God's second Judgement Day to end humanity. The righteous will be saved...? He doesn't believe even that for a minute. Naoya knows their God is a corrupt one who will only save the humans who completely follow his every command, worship him, and care. Destroying God isn't just his goal, it's his life. It is the only reason he even bothers wanting to live anymore. For humanity, and for himself, he will do whatever it takes.
Naoya's wish for vengeance is understandable. After remembering life for so long, to him, life is now meaningless. Love, caring, emotions besides hate, murder... it doesn't matter to him. Think too much and care too much, and you are weak. His ideology follows that strength is the true key to survival, and emotions only get in the way of making logical decisions. He almost never allows himself to feel them. Caring, loving, kindness... all are weaknesses that a logical person cannot afford to feel. But it's about more than that, for Naoya; he no longer has a choice in the matter. Cutting himself off and becoming this way is the only way he can live without pain. One must remember that if you were numb and remembered living through all of the considered joys of life over and over and over, where you have lived in every body imaginable through reincarnation... and you remember all of this every single time? To die, only to know you shall never be able to forget, or to start fresh? To never be able to see heaven's gates...? To only know the hell that is wandering and being stuck on the earth, those you care about all dying in the end? One would not be sane, nor would they be prone to crying, or even feeling at all, in a sense. Therefore, he no longer views emotions as a strength; to him, there are merely a hindrance. His time on earth, as long as it has been, has caused him to reach a very uncertain precipice in the human mind: one more reincarnation, and he might just completely fall into the dark void that is insanity, and never come back.
Almost being there means Naoya is prone to seeing even the craziest sides of himself as justified, and that everything he does or will do is equally deserving, and correct. He was used by God, and therefore, blames God for all of his problems. He believes God set him up so that humanity would learn to murder from him; learn to corrupt and pollute itself because of him. There may even be SOME--if only a bit--of guilt in that. He can't admit to himself--and will not forgive himself, even if he won't admit it--that he killed Abel out of jealousy, or in a panic. In fact, admitting that he killed Abel on purpose at all (if he did) would make all of his lives, as it were, have no meaning. This is quite literally all he can be--numb, cold to others, and logical as he pursues his goals. The only person he will ever even remotely be caring of is Abel (the main character), as it is his little brother's opinion of him he treasures most. He goes so far as to manipulate and raise the boy into trusting him the entire time in this incarnation simply because he wants Abel on a leash; must have him on a leash, for his trust in him is what instills him to continue on. But he also knows he needs this trust because, without it, Abel may not follow his plans or choose his path, and this worries Naoya.
Ultimately, he knows his cousin's choice with that war and his power is his own. Otherwise, to everyone else, his ego is as large as he is tall, and his sanity is... lacking, if to a somewhat worrying degree.
If you get on his bad side, he will not hesitate to stop dawdling around and kill you himself, if he can... but only if he's truly angry. He prefers not to leave a mess, and killing does get messy, unfortunately. In truth, he is still human; he cares for life as much as the next person, no matter how he tries to hide it. Part of him has numbed to this, but if they are a person he would truly come to be concerned for, or if they were someone his cousin or little brother cared for, he would hesitate to ever hurt them physically. But otherwise... if he does not know you, then he will step over your body on his way to his ultimate goal. He does, however, have absolutely no problem with killing angels or demons. While it may be true that Naoya has a bad temper if you hit the good (or bad, depending on if you want him mad) spots that cause him to lose it completely, he more often than not isn't always easy to provoke. He's a smart man, and will not be fooled twice by anything. He's also a complete control freak, and as such has a cap over his own actions, and the actions of his relative (the main character) at all times. Essentially, he views them all as pieces on a chessboard, in which the ultimate goal is to use them to take out the king: God Himself.
Though on most occasions, he prefers to be the one provoking you. If he finds you to be easy to manipulate, he will try it. If you have a weakness, he will find it, exploit it, and use it for his own means. There is no room for doubt between this; if Naoya finds anything he can use against you, he can and will use it. Everyone for him is a means to an end, at times, even his own cousin. And those means must be met--he does not, no, will not, give up. Not ever. He is not afraid of death; he's died enough by now to know not to care, and if one did kill him, they would be cursed tenfold to himself, as said by God originally when Cain was worried about how he would be hated and killed if found out. So you tell me: why should a tiny thing like DEATH stop him...? Simple: it won't. That is likely to change once he learns of the rules, but as he is now, he fears nothing.
In short: describing Naoya in one word or sentence is a difficult, if not nigh impossible, task. He's someone who manages to be both ruthless, cunning, and yet still human all at once. If it comes down to it, he isn't past manipulating others to get what he wants. If there is something that will help lead him to his final goal, then he will do it, no matter the cost or what it is. He's an angry person inside, his entire reasoning, down to his ideology, shows it. And though he does have some compassion for his brother, even to the point where he has a hard time telling Akira 'no,' (as per headcanon), it is hardly anything a normal person would have. Most of his feelings are faked, or masked. To some degree, because of all of this, he has trouble expressing himself both verbally and emotionally, and comes off as condescending, rude, and even superiorist at most times. At best, he denies caring at all, even when he truly does. Hiding how he really feels behind a mask of a smirk is far easier than expressing himself, after all. If anyone knew how he felt, they might use it against him, and he cannot afford that weakness. If being this way makes him detestable, so be it. He couldn't care less about the opinions of others, in the end. That is simply how he is; if you do not like it, then you can either die or get out of his way. No, really. He doesn't care. In fact, he only vaguely cares for Akira, and his friends. That's really it.
Reason for Joining: Since Akira and Atsuro are in the place, it isn't hard to see Naoya would follow to keep track of them. More specifically, Akira is his 'project', his one ticket to his revenge--he's not about to let the boy wander off without his careful eye on him, and his Number One Apprentice. ... Moreover, even Naoya would tire of the Lockdown. It's not exactly the calmest situation, even if it's only been about a day or so since it began, and he's the one who essentially started it.
Position Desired: Councilor. There's a reason for this; once Naoya is aware of what's going on, he's likelier to stick his nose into any affairs related to the entire place. Though, I imagine he'd lie about his position? If that's not alright, I think he can still be an Agent. It's demeaning, but, you know. He'd get over it.
Point in Canon: The first night of the Lockdown, right after the party goes to sleep.
Notes: ... SO DID I MENTION NAOYA'S HOBBY IS TROLLING? And that he's essentially a magic bomb? ... Yep. Not that he'd misuse his powers or anything (unless the situation warranted it, nfufufu).
Also, like Atsuro, Naoya is very prone to messing with the computer systems and hacking and such, so I'll probably need more details about that. Plus, Naoya's programming skills are on a... higher level than Atsuro's, so... he'd probably get a lot farther. A-also I apologize for the length of this app. Oh my god. I do not know when to shut up.