Application for somarium
[Player name] Michi
[Age] 22
[Personal Journal] michiichi
[Other characters currently played] Ada Vessalius, Julius Monrey and Neliel Tu Odershevank
[Character name] Crona
[Age] Unknown
[Canon] Soul Eater
[Point in time taken from canon] Chapter 31
[Background] Medusa’s one and only child is Crona. At a young age, Crona’s blood was replaced with black blood from the Demon Sword Ragnarok as a stage in Medusa’s studies of black blood. This made Crona the Demon Swordsman - a Meister and a Weapon in one body. Ragnarok, the Demon Sword, literally came to life inside of Crona. It, like Crona, grew over time based on his strength. When young and weak, Ragnarok has a more child-like form (despite it being more demon than human) and when it grew up and became powerful, so did Ragnarok’s form, same as Crona developed.
As a child, Medusa did not treat Crona as a child as much as she did a test subject. When she wasn’t working with Crona, Crona was left in his room in the dark (despite being uncomfortable in the dark). As such, he lacked a proper concept of a family, as well as that of friends. His loyalty to Medusa is built more on necessity and fear than it is actual love. With nowhere to go and no one else to care for him, he became dedicated to doing everything Medusa asked of him. There was fear and resistance at first, but she acted as his teacher, working him through it for her own goals and purposes.
Eventually he succumbed to madness brought on by the black blood as well. It dulled a number of his senses. Being brought up by Medusa, he also greatly lacked a sense of proper “right” and “wrong”. All he realized was that he needed to do what Medusa asked of him. That included feeding Ragnarok the souls of innocent humans as well as bad. Strength was the important thing. But Crona didn’t seem to know the difference at the time. His background didn’t give him a very clear view of right and wrong.
But it’s through one of those stints of human soul stealing that he meets and fights with Maka for the first time. And in the process, he hurts Soul very badly, leaving a huge scar and tainting him with some of that black blood as well.
It’s quite some time later before he runs into Maka again. And they fight again, Maka feeling it’s personal after what happened to Soul last time. Maka sinks herself into the madness in order to understand Crona a little better and we see the flashbacks of Crona’s past, as well as the interaction of their souls. Maka erases the line that separates Crona from the rest of the world and reaches out to him.
Crona’s body, mind, and the black blood all react badly to this, however, and try to reject the change, injuring Maka. However, Maka hugs him and asks to be his friend. Crona snaps out of it and realizes something then. He realizes that physical contact isn’t so bad. This ordeal weakens Ragnarok’s power but it strengthens Crona a little. Crona accepts Maka’s friendship and turns himself over the the DWMA in the aftermaths of chaos in which the Kishin located under the academy was let loose and the organization Arachnophobia began to make its move.
He seemed to believe that Medusa had been lost in the chaos and destruction that followed.
Medusa doesn’t show up for some time and Crona is taken in by the DWMA. But rather than punishment, he begins a trial run as a student. With the help of Maka and the other Meisters and Weapons, Crona begins to see how friendship works. He begins taking classes and helping the other Meisters. At this point, he still doesn’t know about Medusa’s resurrection, and has just returned from the party with his friends.
[Personality] When Crona was still very young, Crona’s blood was replaced with black blood from Ragnarok. Crona’s mother, Medusa intended to use Crona for a number of experiments on black blood. The black blood, and the presence of Ragnarok induced quite a bit of madness in Crona. It seems that the stronger the black blood and thus Ragnarok, the stronger the madness gets. And by madness, I do mean nothing short of insanity. In the maddened state, Crona becomes rather spacey and says a number of odd things, as if in a strange trance. There are distinct moments of clarity; most which come when Ragnarok breaks through his skin and taunts her. This may very well be a direct result of the fact that Ragnarok and a large portion of the black blood technically leave her body during those times.
The most noticeable thing about Crona is his inability to deal with many things. From a young age, no one took the time to deal with Crona, and as a result, Crona is very socially inept. Things like talking to people or physical contact are strange to him. The only real person Crona had to associate with was Medusa, and their relationship and mother and child is a twisted thing as well. Affection and friendship are still new to Crona. They are things Crona considers new and unusual but not necessarily bad. Before Maka hugged Crona, he noted that he didn’t know physical contact felt so nice. It’s not that he did not want these things, or, if he did not, it was due to a mistaken perception due to a lack of personal experience.
He has had some time to get used to it, however. All the same, people who are loud and excitable and/or rather affectionate will still shake him a little bit. He is rather shy and awkward, but not without a sense of curiosity.
When depressed, however, Crona is known for sinking to the lowest of lows, and is shown having the ability to bring others down to that low depth via poetry. When upset, Maka taught him to express himself with poetry, and after reading it, everyone else seemed to fall into the same depressive state.
Crona is very hard on himself. This may very well be Medusa’s influence, but he seems to have a great deal of inner turmoil. When faced with daunting tasks its easy for him to say it’s impossible, rather than convince himself he can do it.
He questions people when they’re nice to him at times, and still forgets from time to time exactly what all comes with friendship.
At the same time, when friendships are formed for Crona, he becomes very protective of those people. That means fighting for them if they’re ever in danger or standing up for them whenever he can. On the other hand, he also feels there isn’t much that he can do for people outside of fighting, but rises up defensively when those situations when he can fight for them arise. If there was anything else they needed, he would most definitely try, despite any lack of knowledge or skill, although failure to do whatever task he took on successfully would only send him further into despair, and result in many apologies. Crona has a tendency of making things that aren’t his fault… his fault, and automatically resigning himself to apologizing for it, whether it’s realistically his fault or not.
Despite his twisted relationship with his mother, Medusa, there is still loyalty there, though it seems much more tied to his fear of the woman, rather than love for a mother. She is the cause of many of the insecurities that Crona has about himself and other people, being the longest standing relationship he has had with any one person.
[Abilities] Crona is special, in that Crona contains both Weapon and Meister within one body. When Crona was still very young, Medusa replaced Crona’s blood with black blood from the melted down Demon sword Ragnarok. As a result, Ragnarok now exists within Crona in one body. Ragnarok can break through Crona’s skin and show a black, physical form that’s more demon than human, and it can also form a long, thin black sword.
Ragnarok’s power has been greatly reduced at this point, which shows. Ragnarok has regressed to a smaller, younger looking form, and the blade form became shorter and thinner.
The black blood in Crona can harden in order to defend against attacks. And when Crona is attacked, the black blood can flow from his body in the form of projectile weapons such as needles or spikes.
Crona’s sword fighting skills aren’t to be underestimated. However, the stances that he uses can be considered quite unusual. Crona has a habit of contorting and swinging in odd ways human bodies usually would not when fighting and is really flexible. He is also capable of jabbing a large sword like Ragnarok pretty fast, demonstrating a strength that is greater than one would expect from a body type like Crona’s.
Ragnarok and Crona are also capable of performing what is called a Scream Resonance, which allows for various sound wave based attacks. It’s different from the Soul Resonances that most partners can perform but similar in strength, if not a little stronger than some, depending on how it is used and who the opponent is.
[Other important stuff] Crona has yet to be given a gender. It’s often pointed out, with characters saying at first that they aren’t sure. And yet it’s never actually resolved. So on this matter, I have a bit of head-canon which I will put to use, should the issue arise.
Physically, it’s clear that certain aspects of Crona are more masculine and others more feminine. I play Crona as an androgynous character. What that means is that Crona fits into neither category and do not identify with either gender. Mentally, many androgynous people consider themselves mentally “between” woman and man, or as if they are entirely genderless.
However, for my sake as a player, I will be using the pronoun him loosely, as it is difficult to write fluidly without pronouns. What this means for other characters is that they may be likely to decide one way or the other, which to associate Crona with and that’s fine. All the same, if asked about it, Crona will likely lean towards male. I base this on the fact that in the manga, Crona refers to himself using the term “boku” which is the masculine form of “I”, which leads to the belief that he at least on some level, seems to associate himself with the male gender.
[Sample Post]
[First Person]
Umm... [Eyes peek up over the screen.] Hello? Can you... hear me...?
[This, is softer, in a whining tone, seeming to be more directed at himself than the listeners.]
There’s so many people... [He’s looking around now, away from the device.]
I don’t know how to deal with this. It’s impossible for me...
[But there’s something else on his mind clearly.] I hope Maka and the others are okay...
[There’s a weird look on his face when he talks about them. It’s a mixture of feelings - unsure, fondness and worry.]
Oh! I’m sorry! [He’s apologizing. For forgetting that he had addressed the... device... thing.] M-my name is... Crona. Nice to meet you... [He doesn’t look sure about that. But it’s an introduction at least. That’s more than he thought he’d be able to do. So he turns it off then, wondering if anyone will answer.]
[Third Person] At first, it seemed so very normal. Or at least, the only thing Crona was panicking about was where he was and how it was that he had gotten here, while having no memory of the journey itself. The last thing he remembered was... a precious gathering with his... friends... And then suddenly, here he was. The change in season was unusual as well. There were strange decorations hanging up and... a lot of people. A lot of people that Crona didn’t recognize. Some of them looked strange and others looked almost oddly... normal. He shuffled along, avoiding gazes and inspecting the decorations when ‘unusual’ took an intense dive into unforseen levels of weird.
There was a scarecrow - normal as that seemed - moving. It was tugging at one of the ribbon adorned decorations.
A. Scarecrow.
Crona’s eyes widened, and his body stiffened, as if turned to solid ice. For a moment he simply stood and stared at the ridiculous sight, unable to comprehend exactly what it was that he was seeing. But no matter how much he stared, mouth twisting into an expression of horror and fear (and perhaps absolute insanity), the sight before him did not change. It was not an illusion. Was it magic? But he didn’t see anyone else around...
Maybe it was a witch. His first thought was most definitely Medusa, but Scarecrows weren’t her style. And yet... the idea of a witch... any witch... terrified him. He wasn’t sure he could handle that.
And if it wasn’t the work of a witch, but a being of its own origin and function? That was even worse.
Even from far away, the scream of “I CAN’T HANDLE THIS,” can most likely be heard.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] Crona is very poor at socialization however, also very curious. He will be influenced a lot and putting him in a game like Somarium with so many people will have some interesting developments. I want to see him make more friends of many types and freak out and generally expand his world. Plus there’s this cute, tiny cast that needs more chaos and friendship and love…
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] No meta-gaming. Because it’s always better to see the results of characters learning or being in the dark the proper way, and more interesting too. When people don’t do it that way it just gets difficult to work with and irritating because it’s really not realistic to have characters know everything a player can see. It just doesn’t work that way.
[Any questions?] Nope, I’ve got nothing.