[OOC: Accepted Application for reference]
Application as of June 2010
Character: Ys Cordelan (Yuca Collabel).
Fandom: Immortal Rain/Meteor Methuselah.
Character Notes:
• Yuca’s soul is constantly reborn, time and again, with all his previous lives intact. His immortal soul that is currently stuck inside the body of a young child, about eight or nine in stature. Needless to say, this causes some confusion, and no end of complications.
• Yuca is clinically insane, and a danger to those around him. He is able to remember all of the lives he has lived, and information overload has caused an imbalance in Yuca’s mental state.
• He is able to put together advanced technologies and operate on human beings because of these memories. He has gone so far as to perfect a solution that gives a person superhuman strength and dexterity, all the while mutating them into a monster. He calls these monsters “Angels” in defiance to the God he once believed in (God doesn’t exist and never did 8|). The only person not to become a monster once going through this process is Rain, Yuca’s best friend and last tie to humanity.
• He once claimed to be Methuselah, though he no long calls himself by that name. From the Christian Bible, Methuselah is the grandfather of Noah and the longest man to ever live (900+ years!). Methuselah’s death was said to signal the coming of the great flood. Yuca’s death works as a catalyst for events of this magnitude in his cannon (please see the history section for more details).
• Though trained as a priest in his past life, Yuca claims that there is no God and holds a deep hatred for the concept of such a deity and anyone who believes in Him/Her/It.
• Yuca has lived, essentially, forever. He is tired of living (waking up to find everything changed and nothing ever the same). He has tried everything from killing himself to having others kill him, but nothing seems to be stopping his reincarnation process. Thus, he has come up with a solution: if there is no one to give birth to him, then he will cease to exist. Destruction of the entire human race, anyone?
• He’s stuck inside his own head; he doesn’t care about anyone else. Yuca is selfish because he doesn’t believe anyone truly exists outside of himself. This life is a dream, after all. He only has a few lucid moments, and those are mostly filled with things to hate.
• He was born fully formed in his current life. There is nothing normal about him. Nor has there been; ever, in the entire history of his lives.
• Description: Red eyes, black hair, creepy eyes, child body, default line face (:|), suit and tie.
History: Six hundred years ago a genius scientist come priest-in-training was contacted by his government to help develop biological weapons to win the country a war. This young man accepted, graciously, and began to experiment in turning human beings into superhuman monsters. He dubbed these monsters “Angels”, and had no reservations in making them. His name was Yuca Collabel, and he soon graduated into becoming a man of the cloth.
Yuca lived in a church that housed a collection of orphans. The two closest to his age, Rain and Freya, were also the ones he was closest to. Rain was his best friend in the world: innocent and oblivious to just about everything, he thought the world of Yuca and crushed hard on Freya. Freya, on the other hand, thought the world of Yuca and saw Rain as a very good, if goofy, friend she could rely on. This classic love triangle was made all the more tragic by Yuca’s disregard for Freya’s feelings and his obsessive watching of Rain.
Now, the church was supposed to be located in a zone where the war couldn’t touch them. This was not the case for long; the war came to them, and the church was no longer safe. The orphans had no place to go. Seeing an opportunity present itself, Yuca formed a plan: he needed persons to experiment on, and here were a ready bunch. Through deceit he took the orphans to his government labs for experimentation: including Freya. Rain, dying from something completely unrelated, stayed behind at the church. Everyone thought they were going someplace safe, but really, they all ended up becoming monsters. Except Freya. Yuca had a plan for her.
Eventually Rain figured out what was going on and barged into the lab. An explosion related to the war had emptied the place out, and Rain was able to find Freya relatively quickly.
Unfortunately, Yuca found them too, before long. Rain was happy to see him, but Freya wasn’t; rightly so, since Yuca proceeded to shoot her in the head. Rain blacked out after seeing his not!girlfriend dead in an instant. For his ultimate experiment, Yuca used Rain and Freya. He fed Rain a part of Freya’s “angel” infected flesh and turned him into an angel, too. He also gave Rain a handy second heart from Freya’s dead body and made it so Rain could not degenerate into a monster. When Rain woke up, groggy and confused, Yuca told him his life story, and then proceeded to shoot himself in the head.
The reason for all of this not-quite-nonsense? Yuca wanted to create the perfect immortal, a person who could wait out eternity with him. Yes, that’s right, Yuca’s immortal too: but only in the spiritual sense. He is continuously reborn again and again and has been since the beginning of time, with no end of this in sight. Yuca just wants this life to end, but it can’t. The only way for him to say dead is if there is no one to give birth to him and bring him back into this world. So he made Rain immortal and declared a bet with him: if Rain wants to save humanity he has to kill Yuca over and over again; if he changes his mind and wants to end the world Yuca will give him the tools to do so.
Flash forward to present day. A severally pregnant woman has a fully formed child burst out of her swollen stomach. She dies instantly, and the young boy covered in blood comes up smiling. This is Yuca reborn. The name of this body is Ys Cordelan, and he is the son of the President of a company with the resources to reinstate his beloved “Angel” Program.
This, folks, is the beginning of the end of the world.
Personality:Yuca is far from a caring person; in fact, his entire reason for existence is to wipe out all life from the planet. He is tired of this life: everything seems like a dream; nothing is real. He can reach out and touch but never fully grasp what is around him. Yuca can’t understand why people waste so much time trying to feel emotion; to him it is a meaningless effort that ends only in wasted time. Once born, everyone is slowly dying. He wants to die, too, for good, and to take everyone else with him.
At least, that’s what he keeps telling himself. In his heart of hearts, Yuca wants Rain to kill him; he believes in the human race, but not in himself. He has seen so much disappointment over his lifetimes, and has had so many bad things happen to him that he is bitter toward the world in general. Rain is his last connection with humanity, the only point in his muddled world that stays constant. If Rain decides to let humanity live and keep killing him so that they can remain, that would be a-okay with Yuca, just so long as he no longer experiences the misery that is life.
While it can be said that Yuca’s primary driving force is the destruction of himself or of others, he is not without hobbies. When Yuca was reborn as Ys, he was given the resources to do anything he wanted. Yuca brought the “Angel” Program with him into the modern era by resurfacing weapons he had hidden ages ago, as well as making new samples of the monster forming solution known as “Ichor”. When not playing with his metaphorical chemistry set, Yuca enjoys (pretending to) play with children his age, staring off into space (when his brain shuts down), and eating (by not quite avoiding his not!) mother Sharem’s attempts at food.
Yuca is a smart guy and a manipulator at heart. He’s not going to let anyone close just because they are interesting and/or interested in him. Rain is the only person he told the whole story to up front, and this was only because Rain is his Most Important Person. Yuca has mask upon mask to hide behind: he can be creepy or sweet, dangerous or generous. He just prefers being the one in control no matter what, and that bleeds through in his interactions with other people. Ask him a question and he just might answer it, but you may not like what he has to say.
People are stupid, but a person is smart. Yuca considers just about everyone below his intellectual level, and just knows that no one can understand the things he has gone through. Much like a child, he has a habit of sulking if things do not go his way. Unlike a child, his reaction to disappointment can be life threatening in its extremity; when his plans are the disrupted or disregarded he may attempt suicide. Yuca is full of self-loathing: he hates, and he hates, and he hates. There is no room for love in his heart-- only when there is. He understands the responsibilities of friendship and clings to Rain as his lifeline; his reason for continuing on in this world. The only reason he remade the “angels” was to keep up his end of the deal with Rain.
Yuca wants to end the world only because he hates the world for all it has done to him. He wishes to end his own life because his desire to end the world will end up destroying it. Yuca may hate, but he also loves; if obsession can be called love. Nothing matters, but everything matters. That is the paradox of his personality.
Other:
Yuca can’t cook because food tastes like ash to him. He can’t sleep because every time he closes his eyes he sees the past as a nightmare of images. He can’t smile from his heart unless he cries, too, because he is never, ever really happy. He can shoot a person between the eyes without flinching, because human life is nothing but an illusion to him. Nothing matters, but everything matters, because Yuca himself is a contradiction.
*I will be referring to Yuca as “Ys” in the entry portions of this application because that is what most he calls himself; it is his current body’s name, after all. Reapping for the win!
Additional Links:
First Person (entry type):
[Not-Quite-Accidental Video Post]
[Ys is using a scalpel to splice through a portion of someone’s arm that is, fortunately, off screen. You can tell it’s an arm because of the hand bumping into his stomach as he leans against the metal table. He is in a black suit and red tie; despite the blood covering the scalpel, seen as he wipes his bangs out of his face, there is not a speck on him.]
A year… [muttered to himself, but clear enough for the camera to pick up.] It has been a year.
[His eyes darken, and there is the sound of metal on metal as he puts the scalpel down off screen. When his head comes up, he smiles, looking right into the camera.] Hello, again, community. Looks like you found me after all this time.
Everyone seems to be doing so well. I wonder, did anyone miss me? [A widening of his smile into a grin, flashes his teeth.] I sure did miss all ofyou.
Third Person:
Ys does not understand life. It is fleeting and minuscule and all consuming in its illusionary comforts; no matter your actions, it ends in ashes and wasted effort. He has tried to reach out and touch it, grasp it with his hands and drag it back into place [the empty place inside].
If he could find out where life was, perhaps he could [crush it in his hands, under his foot, and be done with it all] finally understand.
There is life in Rain’s eyes, blue as the sky and clear as the ocean a thousand years ago [or more; it is hard to keep track of time when life is never the same once you open your eyes]. There is life in Rain’s smile, so sharp and bright it could out shine the sun. There is life in Rain [and he marvels at it, fascinated by it].
If he could touch it [would he crush it?], Ys could understand why he is still here to wake up under the sun and the stars and the pale light of a moon that swallows the sky and his mind along with it.