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|| Player Information ||
Name: Lunare
Personal Journal: saturate
Time zone: EST
Contact: lastlunareclipse@gmail.com | AIM: lunareism | PLURK: lunareism
Current Characters: needslight
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Name: Ruka Minazuki / Yomotsuki
Canon Point: Post-Game
Is this character dead? Negative.
History: [Wiki links work great!]
Personality:"The things that no one remembers will become things that never existed."
Memories are important to those without them, and for a long time Ruka had been without her childhood memories. At 17, she couldn't remember anything from ten years ago, and with an ill, and dying mother, Ruka needed those lost memories. Despite the warnings from her mother, Ruka was determined to find those memories, and maybe uncover the reason why two of the girls who had been kidnapped along with her so long ago died tragically.
If there was only one word to describe Ruka, it would be determined. What else can be said about a young woman who keeps going despite attack after attack of ghosts? Her need for those lost memories, the yearning for a father she can't remember, is her driving fuel. Nothing can stop her from her goal, not even the dead. Along the way, secrets unfold along with her memory, doubling her drive. Even the fear she felt couldn't force her to turn back from her goals.
The most we see of Ruka is in high-stress situations, with some flashbacks thrown in for good measure, and despite these situations, Ruka is surprisingly calm for all her chest-grasping and gasping. She rarely has a moment to breathe in Fatal Frame IV, always being accosted by one revelation or ghost after another, and it makes it clear she's very capable of holding her own. She has the will to survive, and won't lie down to die no matter how many nasties come for her.
Not just a determined survivor, Ruka is a quiet daydreamer, always seeming lost in her thoughts. She spends a lot of time thinking, the kind of girl who'd rather listen to someone speak than voice her own thoughts on the subject matter. She isn't timid, however, just quiet. She doesn't mind speaking with others, but there are times when it may seem she isn't listening, off in her own world; she means no offense to the people speaking with her, chances are something was said to trigger a memory, or a thought, and she'll lose herself for a moment before attempting to get back on track.
Ruka is shown to have played the piano since early childhood, and even nearing adulthood it seems she never quit playing. Both the beginning of the game, and after credit scene show her playing the piano, putting her all into a song that lies near and dear. That song was passed down from her mother, and it not only helped free her memories, but it freed the spirits of Rougetsu Island. In my head, she is a huge piano nerd with a hardon for songs that calm spirits/angry moons. Her name even means "Flow of the Song".
With all her memories, and with Rougetsu Island free, Ruka is at peace. She's seen horrors, but she's learned that every horror has it's story, and that all stories will come to an end. Over all, Ruka is a calm and determined youth, but not at all forceful. She has her moments of shyness, and she'll always be a daydreamer. And while most of the game, when playing Ruka, she focuses on herself and her memories, the people around her, friends and family are just as important.
Skills | Powers: Ruka is very good at camera-fu, meaning she has a neat camera that has the ability to capture images of the past, and exorcize spirits. She can kick some serious spirit ass with that thing.
She can also play piano. Really, really well. Her piano skills are so fierce that she scares the spirits to the afterlife, or rather she just happens to have learned the song that can calm the raging spirits and set things right again. It's all in how you look at it, I'm sure.
Ruka is careful, intelligent, and just happens to be a quick learner. Most people would undoubtedly be hesitant to believe that the camera they picked up off the floor could deal with ghosts, but Ruka? She owns those ghosts with the camera, and there is no questioning. Maybe it's a horror game thing.
Her determination, and strength to move onward alone is a huge strength, perhaps even the largest one she has. Without it, Ruka would have ended up just like Madoka, fear forcing her to give up, but Ruka doesn't even consider it.
Her ability to focus on a goal, and not let anything pull her from it is another powerful strength, giving her the ability to get through anything as long as she has something to work towards.
In terms of physical prowess, Ruka is fairly weak, so you won't find her beating evil things up with a baseball bat, nor can she take hits from a baseball bat and walk away A-OK. She's a young, human female and has all the physical weaknesses most people do at her age.
Anyone who has gone through what Ruka has will undoubtedly suffer mentally from the trauma. She suffers from athazagoraphobia, a fear of forgetting. The memories she regained by the end of Fatal Frame IV might be a one-time thing, what would happen if she forgot again? What would happen if the Luna Sedata Syndrome flared? How would she get her memories back then?
She tends to lose herself in her thoughts often, so it can make socializing fairly rough.
First Person Sample: [The video sprang to life, the images caught show a young woman, no older than 18, stepping off the ferry cautiously. She glances back as the ferry moves out.] I'm not supposed to...
[Her shoulders seem to sink, and she turns her attention back to the unfamiliar world in front of her. She takes a few steps forward, eyes narrowed and lips pursed in concentration. She raises a camera, one that was way past it's prime, and seems to scan the area with it before lowering it again as something seems to catch her eye.
It must have been the tablet, as she makes her way close, picking it up carefully. She turns it over, scrutinizing it] What am I supposed to do with you?
Third Person Sample: Ruka's hands shook as she reached out to gently press down on one of the piano keys, inciting a sad response from the once carefully cared for instrument. It was slightly out-of-tune, but not as badly as she'd feared. She carefully sat down the camera obscura on the bench next to her after reassuring herself that she wouldn't need it for the next few minutes.
It was stupid of her to think that, but she just wanted to--no, needed to--play that song. Just once. The melody was so familiar, a childhood remnant that pressed itself against her skull and conjured up memories, images she still couldn't remember.
"Maybe it will..." One key after another, and she could almost hear her mother's voice.
"Good job, Ruka." She kept playing, reminded of happier times. The melody sang to her, pulled on her heartstrings; it made her feel so full,"You've gotten better"
Ruka stopped playing as she hit a bad key, her mother's voice disappearing with the harsh sound, and the melody she hardly remembered disappearing along with it. She felt as if she had been so close to something, so close to bringing something, some far off memory, back only to lose it again.
"I came back to remember, and I won't leave until..." Until she can remember her father's face, and his touch. Until she is whole again.
Name: Lunare
Personal Journal: saturate
Time zone: EST
Contact: lastlunareclipse@gmail.com | AIM: lunareism | PLURK: lunareism
Current Characters: needslight
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Name: Ruka Minazuki / Yomotsuki
Canon Point: Post-Game
Is this character dead? Negative.
History: [Wiki links work great!]
Personality:"The things that no one remembers will become things that never existed."
Memories are important to those without them, and for a long time Ruka had been without her childhood memories. At 17, she couldn't remember anything from ten years ago, and with an ill, and dying mother, Ruka needed those lost memories. Despite the warnings from her mother, Ruka was determined to find those memories, and maybe uncover the reason why two of the girls who had been kidnapped along with her so long ago died tragically.
If there was only one word to describe Ruka, it would be determined. What else can be said about a young woman who keeps going despite attack after attack of ghosts? Her need for those lost memories, the yearning for a father she can't remember, is her driving fuel. Nothing can stop her from her goal, not even the dead. Along the way, secrets unfold along with her memory, doubling her drive. Even the fear she felt couldn't force her to turn back from her goals.
The most we see of Ruka is in high-stress situations, with some flashbacks thrown in for good measure, and despite these situations, Ruka is surprisingly calm for all her chest-grasping and gasping. She rarely has a moment to breathe in Fatal Frame IV, always being accosted by one revelation or ghost after another, and it makes it clear she's very capable of holding her own. She has the will to survive, and won't lie down to die no matter how many nasties come for her.
Not just a determined survivor, Ruka is a quiet daydreamer, always seeming lost in her thoughts. She spends a lot of time thinking, the kind of girl who'd rather listen to someone speak than voice her own thoughts on the subject matter. She isn't timid, however, just quiet. She doesn't mind speaking with others, but there are times when it may seem she isn't listening, off in her own world; she means no offense to the people speaking with her, chances are something was said to trigger a memory, or a thought, and she'll lose herself for a moment before attempting to get back on track.
Ruka is shown to have played the piano since early childhood, and even nearing adulthood it seems she never quit playing. Both the beginning of the game, and after credit scene show her playing the piano, putting her all into a song that lies near and dear. That song was passed down from her mother, and it not only helped free her memories, but it freed the spirits of Rougetsu Island. In my head, she is a huge piano nerd with a hardon for songs that calm spirits/angry moons. Her name even means "Flow of the Song".
With all her memories, and with Rougetsu Island free, Ruka is at peace. She's seen horrors, but she's learned that every horror has it's story, and that all stories will come to an end. Over all, Ruka is a calm and determined youth, but not at all forceful. She has her moments of shyness, and she'll always be a daydreamer. And while most of the game, when playing Ruka, she focuses on herself and her memories, the people around her, friends and family are just as important.
Skills | Powers: Ruka is very good at camera-fu, meaning she has a neat camera that has the ability to capture images of the past, and exorcize spirits. She can kick some serious spirit ass with that thing.
She can also play piano. Really, really well. Her piano skills are so fierce that she scares the spirits to the afterlife, or rather she just happens to have learned the song that can calm the raging spirits and set things right again. It's all in how you look at it, I'm sure.
Ruka is careful, intelligent, and just happens to be a quick learner. Most people would undoubtedly be hesitant to believe that the camera they picked up off the floor could deal with ghosts, but Ruka? She owns those ghosts with the camera, and there is no questioning. Maybe it's a horror game thing.
Her determination, and strength to move onward alone is a huge strength, perhaps even the largest one she has. Without it, Ruka would have ended up just like Madoka, fear forcing her to give up, but Ruka doesn't even consider it.
Her ability to focus on a goal, and not let anything pull her from it is another powerful strength, giving her the ability to get through anything as long as she has something to work towards.
In terms of physical prowess, Ruka is fairly weak, so you won't find her beating evil things up with a baseball bat, nor can she take hits from a baseball bat and walk away A-OK. She's a young, human female and has all the physical weaknesses most people do at her age.
Anyone who has gone through what Ruka has will undoubtedly suffer mentally from the trauma. She suffers from athazagoraphobia, a fear of forgetting. The memories she regained by the end of Fatal Frame IV might be a one-time thing, what would happen if she forgot again? What would happen if the Luna Sedata Syndrome flared? How would she get her memories back then?
She tends to lose herself in her thoughts often, so it can make socializing fairly rough.
First Person Sample: [The video sprang to life, the images caught show a young woman, no older than 18, stepping off the ferry cautiously. She glances back as the ferry moves out.] I'm not supposed to...
[Her shoulders seem to sink, and she turns her attention back to the unfamiliar world in front of her. She takes a few steps forward, eyes narrowed and lips pursed in concentration. She raises a camera, one that was way past it's prime, and seems to scan the area with it before lowering it again as something seems to catch her eye.
It must have been the tablet, as she makes her way close, picking it up carefully. She turns it over, scrutinizing it] What am I supposed to do with you?
Third Person Sample: Ruka's hands shook as she reached out to gently press down on one of the piano keys, inciting a sad response from the once carefully cared for instrument. It was slightly out-of-tune, but not as badly as she'd feared. She carefully sat down the camera obscura on the bench next to her after reassuring herself that she wouldn't need it for the next few minutes.
It was stupid of her to think that, but she just wanted to--no, needed to--play that song. Just once. The melody was so familiar, a childhood remnant that pressed itself against her skull and conjured up memories, images she still couldn't remember.
"Maybe it will..." One key after another, and she could almost hear her mother's voice.
"Good job, Ruka." She kept playing, reminded of happier times. The melody sang to her, pulled on her heartstrings; it made her feel so full,"You've gotten better"
Ruka stopped playing as she hit a bad key, her mother's voice disappearing with the harsh sound, and the melody she hardly remembered disappearing along with it. She felt as if she had been so close to something, so close to bringing something, some far off memory, back only to lose it again.
"I came back to remember, and I won't leave until..." Until she can remember her father's face, and his touch. Until she is whole again.