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Section I: *THE APPLICANT*
1. Name/Handle: Levi
2. Contact Details: [ AIM ] brekekekex koaxx [ email ] 16.9floz [at] gmail [dot] com
3. Personal LJ: televisions
Section II: *THE CHARACTER*
1. Fandom: Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
2. Character Name: Beyond Birthday (Aliases: B, B.B., Rue Ryuuzaki and Lue Luxaky [the last of these he would prefer to use as his alias in-game]).
3a. Background/History Link: Wiki
4. Point in Canon: August 21st, the day before he is scheduled to meet with Naomi Misora at the Pasadena apartment complex.
5. Personality: Beyond Birthday has never been mentally sound, though his mental lack of health is directly related to his extreme emotional distress. Driven close to insanity by his congenital shinigami eyes -- his innate and unstoppable ability to see the names and death dates of everyone around him -- Wammy's House drove him over the edge by giving him an unhealthy object of obsession. He is naturally extremely intelligent, so with or without his shinigami eyes he is very sharp and capable of planning well in advance, and with utter precision. His mimicry of L not a factor, he is not a man prone to emotional closeness -- why bother, when every time you see the face of someone you care for you are unable to stop counting down to the date they will no longer be with you? He is detached and cold, at least on a person-to-person basis-- or he attempts to and prefers to believe himself to be detached and cold. In reality, while he does have a tendency to be straight-faced, quiet, and seemingly melancholic, he can be light-hearted, easy-going, and caring -- so long as he feels that it is safe to be so (i.e., that his affection will not go rejected).
His time at Wammy's House was not at all conducive to creating a functioning member of society from the raw material that arrived. He and A or any of the first generation of prototypes were never truly expected to attain the L code; and when so many other children were taken in, to widen the pool as much as possible, B must have realized this to be true. When he realized how hopeless he was -- a boy with an unattainable dream, an overintelligent orphan with a developed obsession over a persona, a young man whose whole life was tainted with the knowledge of death dates of everyone -- he became a boy who made a decision and determined to do anything he deemed necessary to achieve a goal he could meet. Whether he was close with A or not, genuinely or on a rival or colleague basis, A's suicide seems to have been a trigger for him to fully give up attempting to live up to the L code and take a different route to his own version of immortality. He would erase his existence and live only in memories, and L was the only person whose death date he doesn't know, cannot see. L to B is more of an abstract concept than a living, breathing human being. L was a goal. L was an indirect mentor. L is the deity of Wammy's House.
Unable to live up to such expectations, however shaky, B has a severe inferiority complex. However, having received training to become the greatest defender of justice in his century has done nothing but confuse him, subconsciously at least. Knowing death dates, he has no real interest in taking lives, as without his interference his victims would still be dead by the end of the day. He twists this to his advantage, and his defense. None of his victims died conscious -- he drugged them before any harm was inflicted. While he possesses no real affection for humans on an individual basis, he has no real qualms with them, either. Most are simply tools to be used to his advantage, as he is no longer even human himself, but a pawn in his own game.
Beyond is not insane or psychopathic. He is fully aware of his actions, fully aware of his decisions, and fully aware of his conscience. He knows his murders are wrong, that his attempt to become immortal by permanently scarring L is wrong, that creeping Naomi Misora out as much as he does is wrong. He considers, however, that there are more important things to him, personally, than adhering to his own code of morals. He's a boy desperate to make his mark on the world in the highest way he can imagine.
Besides "confused," or "misdirected," Beyond can easily be summed up with one adjective: "devoted." His devotion is not easily won, and certainly not easily admitted to on his part, but devoted he is. Despite his decision and steps taken to surpass L, he still harbors -- though at this point a dormant form of -- intense hero-worship for the detective, his code, and the actions he knows of, cases he's solved. Because of his decision, the steps he takes to mimic a man he has never laid eyes on are carried out as exactly as possible, the precision a ritual in and of itself. L is a safe subject to be devoted to; he is the closest being to Beyond that will never die. L is safe to feel something toward, about. Even if L were to die, B would never know, never be told, especially after having left Wammy's House. L is absolute, L is L is L is, to Beyond, God.
He's put so much effort into erasing his own existence that if asked his own preferences, he would be truly unable to answer except with "I cannot remember." If he isn't eating jam in ways he knows disturb Naomi Misora (deliberately, so he can be certain that she is speaking about him to L, no one eats jam like that), or coffee that is sugared to an unnecessary degree, anything else he eats is deliberate for another reason -- meat or eggs for protein, fruit for natural sugars, bread for carbohydrates, potatoes for starch, and so on. He has no real preferences of his own, not at this point, and sees most of his own actions as a means to an end. For himself he tries to do everything for the sake of function. He showers, for example, often and thoroughly not entirely because he dislikes feeling gross, but to avoid illness as much as possible; he exercises methodically to regulate endorphin release and to be sure his body is completely in working order.
On his own merit, he is willing to help and assist others, especially if he has developed, for whatever reason, an attachment to them from behind his own masks (those attachments naturally developed -- and not, as he feels bitterly against L, those of miles of distance, voice filters, human shields, and so on). He is also more than capable of physically assisting, but will remain emotionally distant for as long as possible. His easiest triggers are the subjects of L and possibly his own name; anyone disrespecting L he immediately dislikes (at best); any comparisons to his idol can either inflate him with pride or deflate him to the point of extreme anger depending on their respective positivity or negativity. He considers his greatest pride is that he, unlike L, is the kind of person to aggressively seek his own information, and not wait for it to be brought to him by others. However, Beyond's greatest pride could really be considered to be his extreme devotion; to those he learns to care for; for the truth and knowledge in most situations to be brought to light; to keeping the peace if he considers that necessary and relatively unharmful.
6. Class: Harrier
7. Abilities: Beyond really only has one supernatural ability; his shinigami eyes. These enable and force him to bear witness to the death date and true name of each person whose whole face he sees. If the face is at least two-thirds obscured, e.g. by (large) sunglasses, a surgical mask, a helmet, etc., he will be unable to see the person's name and lifespan.
He is, however, highly talented in natural areas -- excessive intelligence, puzzle-solving skills, puzzle-creating skills, creativity, abnormally accurate intuition, memorization and analytical capability. His physical strength is higher than average -- he is, after all, accustomed to dragging around fully-grown bodies, and hacking off limbs. He is, however, untrained in any formal martial arts. Beyond is also skilled in acting and deceit, flawlessly concealing his inner thoughts by whatever means he has available and chooses to utilize.
8. Preferred Army: Verity
9. Preferred Position: Soldier, with an emphasis if possible on espionage.
Section III: *SAMPLES*
1. First-person Sample: [ voiced with exaggerated cheer, though whether it's false or sarcastic would be difficult to discern. ]
If one is to be captured for any purpose, how lucky to be utilized for such a noble, ancient cause as warfare, and the waging of it for the ultimate purpose of acheiving peace!
Note: Since the above sample expresses only his acting voice, here is a thread he's more honest in.
2. Third-person Sample: log.
Section I: *THE APPLICANT*
1. Name/Handle: Levi
2. Contact Details: [ AIM ] brekekekex koaxx [ email ] 16.9floz [at] gmail [dot] com
3. Personal LJ: televisions
Section II: *THE CHARACTER*
1. Fandom: Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
2. Character Name: Beyond Birthday (Aliases: B, B.B., Rue Ryuuzaki and Lue Luxaky [the last of these he would prefer to use as his alias in-game]).
3a. Background/History Link: Wiki
4. Point in Canon: August 21st, the day before he is scheduled to meet with Naomi Misora at the Pasadena apartment complex.
5. Personality: Beyond Birthday has never been mentally sound, though his mental lack of health is directly related to his extreme emotional distress. Driven close to insanity by his congenital shinigami eyes -- his innate and unstoppable ability to see the names and death dates of everyone around him -- Wammy's House drove him over the edge by giving him an unhealthy object of obsession. He is naturally extremely intelligent, so with or without his shinigami eyes he is very sharp and capable of planning well in advance, and with utter precision. His mimicry of L not a factor, he is not a man prone to emotional closeness -- why bother, when every time you see the face of someone you care for you are unable to stop counting down to the date they will no longer be with you? He is detached and cold, at least on a person-to-person basis-- or he attempts to and prefers to believe himself to be detached and cold. In reality, while he does have a tendency to be straight-faced, quiet, and seemingly melancholic, he can be light-hearted, easy-going, and caring -- so long as he feels that it is safe to be so (i.e., that his affection will not go rejected).
His time at Wammy's House was not at all conducive to creating a functioning member of society from the raw material that arrived. He and A or any of the first generation of prototypes were never truly expected to attain the L code; and when so many other children were taken in, to widen the pool as much as possible, B must have realized this to be true. When he realized how hopeless he was -- a boy with an unattainable dream, an overintelligent orphan with a developed obsession over a persona, a young man whose whole life was tainted with the knowledge of death dates of everyone -- he became a boy who made a decision and determined to do anything he deemed necessary to achieve a goal he could meet. Whether he was close with A or not, genuinely or on a rival or colleague basis, A's suicide seems to have been a trigger for him to fully give up attempting to live up to the L code and take a different route to his own version of immortality. He would erase his existence and live only in memories, and L was the only person whose death date he doesn't know, cannot see. L to B is more of an abstract concept than a living, breathing human being. L was a goal. L was an indirect mentor. L is the deity of Wammy's House.
Unable to live up to such expectations, however shaky, B has a severe inferiority complex. However, having received training to become the greatest defender of justice in his century has done nothing but confuse him, subconsciously at least. Knowing death dates, he has no real interest in taking lives, as without his interference his victims would still be dead by the end of the day. He twists this to his advantage, and his defense. None of his victims died conscious -- he drugged them before any harm was inflicted. While he possesses no real affection for humans on an individual basis, he has no real qualms with them, either. Most are simply tools to be used to his advantage, as he is no longer even human himself, but a pawn in his own game.
Beyond is not insane or psychopathic. He is fully aware of his actions, fully aware of his decisions, and fully aware of his conscience. He knows his murders are wrong, that his attempt to become immortal by permanently scarring L is wrong, that creeping Naomi Misora out as much as he does is wrong. He considers, however, that there are more important things to him, personally, than adhering to his own code of morals. He's a boy desperate to make his mark on the world in the highest way he can imagine.
Besides "confused," or "misdirected," Beyond can easily be summed up with one adjective: "devoted." His devotion is not easily won, and certainly not easily admitted to on his part, but devoted he is. Despite his decision and steps taken to surpass L, he still harbors -- though at this point a dormant form of -- intense hero-worship for the detective, his code, and the actions he knows of, cases he's solved. Because of his decision, the steps he takes to mimic a man he has never laid eyes on are carried out as exactly as possible, the precision a ritual in and of itself. L is a safe subject to be devoted to; he is the closest being to Beyond that will never die. L is safe to feel something toward, about. Even if L were to die, B would never know, never be told, especially after having left Wammy's House. L is absolute, L is L is L is, to Beyond, God.
He's put so much effort into erasing his own existence that if asked his own preferences, he would be truly unable to answer except with "I cannot remember." If he isn't eating jam in ways he knows disturb Naomi Misora (deliberately, so he can be certain that she is speaking about him to L, no one eats jam like that), or coffee that is sugared to an unnecessary degree, anything else he eats is deliberate for another reason -- meat or eggs for protein, fruit for natural sugars, bread for carbohydrates, potatoes for starch, and so on. He has no real preferences of his own, not at this point, and sees most of his own actions as a means to an end. For himself he tries to do everything for the sake of function. He showers, for example, often and thoroughly not entirely because he dislikes feeling gross, but to avoid illness as much as possible; he exercises methodically to regulate endorphin release and to be sure his body is completely in working order.
On his own merit, he is willing to help and assist others, especially if he has developed, for whatever reason, an attachment to them from behind his own masks (those attachments naturally developed -- and not, as he feels bitterly against L, those of miles of distance, voice filters, human shields, and so on). He is also more than capable of physically assisting, but will remain emotionally distant for as long as possible. His easiest triggers are the subjects of L and possibly his own name; anyone disrespecting L he immediately dislikes (at best); any comparisons to his idol can either inflate him with pride or deflate him to the point of extreme anger depending on their respective positivity or negativity. He considers his greatest pride is that he, unlike L, is the kind of person to aggressively seek his own information, and not wait for it to be brought to him by others. However, Beyond's greatest pride could really be considered to be his extreme devotion; to those he learns to care for; for the truth and knowledge in most situations to be brought to light; to keeping the peace if he considers that necessary and relatively unharmful.
6. Class: Harrier
7. Abilities: Beyond really only has one supernatural ability; his shinigami eyes. These enable and force him to bear witness to the death date and true name of each person whose whole face he sees. If the face is at least two-thirds obscured, e.g. by (large) sunglasses, a surgical mask, a helmet, etc., he will be unable to see the person's name and lifespan.
He is, however, highly talented in natural areas -- excessive intelligence, puzzle-solving skills, puzzle-creating skills, creativity, abnormally accurate intuition, memorization and analytical capability. His physical strength is higher than average -- he is, after all, accustomed to dragging around fully-grown bodies, and hacking off limbs. He is, however, untrained in any formal martial arts. Beyond is also skilled in acting and deceit, flawlessly concealing his inner thoughts by whatever means he has available and chooses to utilize.
8. Preferred Army: Verity
9. Preferred Position: Soldier, with an emphasis if possible on espionage.
Section III: *SAMPLES*
1. First-person Sample: [ voiced with exaggerated cheer, though whether it's false or sarcastic would be difficult to discern. ]
If one is to be captured for any purpose, how lucky to be utilized for such a noble, ancient cause as warfare, and the waging of it for the ultimate purpose of acheiving peace!
Note: Since the above sample expresses only his acting voice, here is a thread he's more honest in.
2. Third-person Sample: log.