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Player Info
Name: Shamera
Contact: AIM: kl0tho, Plurk: Shamera, skype: shameraklotho
LiveJournal: tsukishirou
Timezone: -8:00GMT (PST)
Do you have other characters in this game? Apping Idris!
Character
Name: Prince / Feng Lan
Fandom: 1/2 Prince
Age: 20
Physical Description: SINCE PRINCE WILL BE THE ONE MOSTLY IN GAME... Average height, slender, white hair, red eyes-- he's an albino elf warrior, and he's SUPER PRETTY. Can not be emphasized enough. The series revolves around how pretty he is, and he can't walk down a street without girls falling in faints around him. Because of that, he usually wears a mask when he's outside and doesn't want to be bothered. It's gotten better lately after he learned to start acting aloof and stand-off-ish instead of cute and confused.
Prince before a battle.
Prince and Feng Lan back to back.
Blood Elf Prince
History: So the year is 2100AD and it's summer vacation when Feng Lan gets confronted by her twin brother Feng Yang about this awesome game called Second Life. By this time, most of Earth's population are all about the latest fully immersive MMORPG games going on... there were other games like The World which was the big thing before and provided about 80% realism, but Second Life was all the rage now! This game promotes a 99.9% realism factor (the only thing detracted being the pain level- which was pushed down to 30%, because they don't want you to die in real life because you died in-game), so just about every experience in-game is as real as Real Life.
That realism, however, means that there are some limitations to the game. The first being that players can only play characters of their own gender. And even after that, your character looks a lot like you even if you change the race and coloration. So you're pretty recognizable if someone knows you in real life. Our main character recognizes people in-game immediately if she knows them in real life... and vice versa, seeing someone in real life that she's seen in-game before boggles her.
So this Second Life is almost a real second life in games... close enough to your real life that you're still you. But Feng Lan decides to start the game with a twist... being the first person to ever sign in the game, she is granted one wish for her character. She could have chosen to up her stats or get an amazing weapon or ability, but instead she chose, because of an argument with her brother over whether girls were weaker or not, to play a male character. Now this is never heard of! Second Life is made to be accurate, and that includes gender, and on top of that, the person Feng Lan assumes to be an NPC helping her design her character allows her to be 30% more beautiful as well-- so the creation of the character Prince becomes an impossibility in Second Life-- not only is he intensely beautiful, he is also not a he.
And this is all that happens afterward!
Point in Story: After chapter 44 and the software patch
Personality: To understand Prince, you have to understand Feng Lan, because she is Prince. The same way a player would still be a player when they play an MMORPG, despite having a fictional character facade. And the first thing to understand about her is that she is your typical twenty year old Chinese fangirl. She moons over pretty boys and acts the little demure thing when she needs to, but is a ball of stubbornness and willpower and loves blackmailing her twin brother and is a responsible average university student. As a twenty year old fangirl, she loves her online slang and somewhat naive girl speech which can bleed through to Prince at times so that people sometimes just wonder about him.
Feng Lan is also the sheltered Chinese girl every Asian parent wants their little girl to be: a good daughter, cook, responsible, a good student, and as sweet as can be. It never mattered that she was also a rabid fangirl and selfish in a way that she couldn't see beyond her own nose before- Feng Lan was cute in an acceptable manner. As the series starts, she is petty and the only reason she became Prince was just so she could prove her brother wrong because he insulted her with his tone of voice and manner in which he stated what was completely true about her: that in games, she tended to hide behind male characters and level up extremely easily because she was always protected by guys and had guys giving her free weapons and armor to win her favor. She's cute and she knows she's cute-- not the prettiest girl by any means, but she knows how to bat her eyes and pout and look adorable. She is also extremely oblivious to people who actually really like her. Zhuo Ling Bin had been in love with her almost ten years before Feng Lan's parents exploded in a fit of disgust over their daughter's cluelessness when she assumed that he was in love with her twin brother. Yeah.
She starts out as a cute fangirl, although petty, shallow, and vain. She doesn't like being viewed as ugly and loves chasing pretty boys-- through the game, though, Feng Lan is hit with a dose of her own crazy fangirl and selfishness when other girls moon and fall in love with Prince, leaving Feng Lan intensely uncomfortable and guilty over her deception. It had just been a funny joke to her at the beginning, and she had never known how crazy fangirls really were and understood what the poor pretty boys had to go through, running away from crazy girls all the time. Eventually through the game, she learns to be more responsible not just as a daughter and sister and student, but for her own actions as well.
Prince, in a way, behaves in the manner a girl would think is manly. That is, he fights all the time and swears loudly and can be quite arrogant when he feels like someone is making fun of his manhood. He's everything Feng Lan wanted to be but was never allowed to because she had been born a Chinese girl:
"Maybe the real reason is that I just don't want to hide behind anyone... not anymore. I want to kill monsters to my heart's content, using all kinds of crazy methods and moves, without anyone calling me a violent woman. I want to swear and cuss while killing and whenever I'm pissed or annoyed... but without anyone saying that it isn't ladylike. I want to be able to laugh after hearing an off-colour joke-- or even add my own retort. I don't want to be forced to pretend I don't get it, just to prove how pure and innocent I am... but I don't want to be called a vulgar woman, either."
Underneath the pettiness and the selfishness and ignorance, Feng Lan is projecting who she wants to be in Prince. Strong, confident, and loved by all, Prince is the perfect image of a charismatic leader that Second Life wants to project, except he's actually quite brittle. Feng Lan is slowly becoming a better person by pretending to be Prince and becoming more understanding, but beneath that persona, she is still the same insecure girl who is still growing up and learning what's important, and what can't be treated with disdain or ignored.
And while Prince is strong and never runs from battle and is even quite scary when he fights, Feng Lan has a tendency to run from the fights that are truly important. Never the physical fights, of course. As she stated as Prince before, she truly enjoys physical fights and the freedom of movement she finds, even in bathing in the blood of her enemies (there is a reason why she's known as the Blood Elf Prince), and Feng Lan has a creepy fascination with horror movies-- she also has a tendency to imitate things, so she steals a lot of moves from old fighter games, and the people around her are terrified that one day she'll steal moves from horror movies as well. But when it comes to matters of her love life and responsibilities beyond what she is ready for, Prince hesitates and fails. He tends to be good at little and distant things... comforting people and fighting, but not so good at seeing the whole picture or when things start to go beyond Second Life and start to affect Feng Lan.
What changes the most about Feng Lan when she becomes Prince, though, is due to how stupidly beautiful Prince is-- as Prince, Feng Lan has a slight fear of girls due to how many girls have tried to eat him up; not literally, but definitely as bad as fangirls stalking Twilight characters or something. She is also slightly bitter towards guys who might like Prince because, well, then there's no chance they'd actually like her in real life, is there? So while Prince loves friends, he's not so appreciative of romantic gestures, from either guys or girls. Still, he's very sympathetic to the feelings of girls (seeing as he really is one), and stoicly encouraging to guys in a comradely manner that leaves the men fascinated with how he manages to handle both genders so well. And through her adventures, she slowly starts to realize that outer beauty is only skin deep, and what matters is who will care when they've never seen your face before.
And despite how much Feng Lan enjoys being Prince and being free to do whatever she wants... she's not comfortable with the physical aspect of being a boy. That's right. Especially after the software upgrade that requires characters to bathe and relieve themselves like normal people.
Powers/Abilities: Prince is an MMORPG character, and by that, I mean that he is basically a hologram projection while on the Pradeda. He's not real in the sense that Feng Lan is real. Thus, he can only exist in rooms supporting holograms (everyone room but the forest?), and Feng Lan would take damage when he takes damage. However, he keeps his abilities while he's still 'Prince', and loses them as Feng Lan.
He's got a sword that levels up with him (黑刀, or the "Black Knife" which is more of a sword) and a pet MeatBun (seriously. It's... a meat bun with a face) which can shoot raw meat at people's faces or blow up to extreme sizes and explode, that goes with him everywhere.
His moves? I WON'T EVEN LIST THEM. It's because Feng Lan takes sadistic glee in stealing anime and video game moves for her own. Street Fighter? Kenshin? Mortal Combat? Prince has those finishing moves. Obviously, those games are decades old so most people don't even think twice about those finishing moves not being original. And if they've figured it out, no one's had the courage to courage to say that to his face yet.
His regular and original attacks, however, are listed here (taken from Wikia):
Attack Skill (Barehanded)
* Quake Blast: Use a seismic toss on his opponent.
Attack Skill (Sword)
* Continuous Attack: Repeatedly attacking his opponent without stopping for a period of time.
* Frenzied Strike: Quick attack bolstered by emotions.
* Inferno Slash: Creating flame around his sword and causing explosion when contact with his opponent. Drain large amount of mana points.
* Nine-headed Dragon Slash (Jiutou-Loung Slash): Causing nine slashes to his opponent at the same time by hitting all of the nine vital points instantly.
* Ringing Blade: currently unknown
* Savage Blade: Striking his opponent with multiple blows.
Speed Skills
* Agile Spiral Evasion: Able to dodge his opponents by spiral around their attacks.
* Haste: Cast a temporary spell to increase his speed or one of his teammates.
What makes Prince unique (other than being extraordinarily beautiful) is his choice in class and build-- an elven warrior who fights with swords (rather than the stereotypical elven archer or mage) who actually deals a good amount of damage. Most of this is due to Feng Lan's inherent stubbornness and refusal to lose (as well as her quest for hot guys), but another note-worthy mention is that she is... somewhat ridiculously lucky. More than somewhat. There's a part in the game where a quest requires a stupid amount of luck to complete, and she just... doesn't even understand how it was hard, 'cause she breezed her way through without a thought.
As a character, though, he is a lot faster and more agile than humans, with more stamina and the power to blitz enemies. Feng Lan had commented before while running for the bus that she had forgotten how slow she was in real life compared to Prince. He is also stronger, although not able to punch through walls, he would be strong enough to decapitate a person with a sword, which actually takes a lot of strength, unless the blade is mythically sharp.
And then the one very, very important thing that may be difficult to play out: Prince is inordinately lucky. Not kidding in the slightest. He has a master of luck games, and he thinks they're extremely easy to win because he just doesn't know otherwise.
Itens you're bringing with you: His clothes, his sword, and his pet Meatbun! Who is just a holographic bun who talks, really. Meatbun's abilities will be shot on Pradeda, since his biggest thing is growing very, very large and squishing everyone.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post):
Hey! Is this calling everyone?
[A moment, and he's actually knocking on the screen before looking a bit more satisfied.]
Alright, then! Everyone-- I need answers! Where is this place and how do I get out of here because this story is entirely out of my league. Spaceships? I know Second Life's got lots of different places to play, and probably eras and stuff too, but this is a bit far from the genre I stick to. Fantasy, man! Fantasy! None of this science fiction crap.
So I don't know how I ended up in this area, but I need to find the closest teleport to get back to Infinite City. It's kind of an emergency, okay?
Third Person POV (Log Post):
He huffed even as he raised an arm to scratch at the back of his head in confusion, scowling lightly. This place was new. It didn't look like anything he had seen on the Central Continent before, since that was more themed toward medieval Europe. And the Eastern Continent looked like old China, so... there was a good chance that he had accidentally (somehow!) found himself on another continent again.
....Naaaah. Couldn't be. The last time he had at least been drunk enough he couldn't remember the day before, and then had managed to blow all his money on the ride to another continent. Now he was sure he didn't have enough money to begin with, and he could remember the previous day perfectly well. In fact, he had made sure to stay away from the alcoholic drinks after that one adventure, seeing as big sister Yulien would probably kill him if he managed to spend more than he saved up again.
But the town was weird- definitely too modern for the game period, and too old for any imitation of real life. Was there a continent that somehow did some twentieth century island theme? He hadn't been to the other continents, so he really didn't know.
He wilted a bit at the thought of being lost, but then brightened again. Maybe this meant he'd actually be able to train in peace for a little while! Doubtless, Lolidragon was going to find him soon, anyway, so why not take the time to do some exploration and maybe pick a few well-missed battles? Ahh, that familiar scent of blood and battle~
With a whistle and a new bounce in his step, Prince decided that exploring the forest probably be fun, and with his hands laced behind his head in a gesture of openness and relaxation, he spun on his heel and set deeper into the bright forest rather than think about how he got lost in the first place.
Player Info
Name: Shamera
Contact: AIM: kl0tho, Plurk: Shamera, skype: shameraklotho
LiveJournal: tsukishirou
Timezone: -8:00GMT (PST)
Do you have other characters in this game? Apping Idris!
Character
Name: Prince / Feng Lan
Fandom: 1/2 Prince
Age: 20
Physical Description: SINCE PRINCE WILL BE THE ONE MOSTLY IN GAME... Average height, slender, white hair, red eyes-- he's an albino elf warrior, and he's SUPER PRETTY. Can not be emphasized enough. The series revolves around how pretty he is, and he can't walk down a street without girls falling in faints around him. Because of that, he usually wears a mask when he's outside and doesn't want to be bothered. It's gotten better lately after he learned to start acting aloof and stand-off-ish instead of cute and confused.
Prince before a battle.
Prince and Feng Lan back to back.
Blood Elf Prince
History: So the year is 2100AD and it's summer vacation when Feng Lan gets confronted by her twin brother Feng Yang about this awesome game called Second Life. By this time, most of Earth's population are all about the latest fully immersive MMORPG games going on... there were other games like The World which was the big thing before and provided about 80% realism, but Second Life was all the rage now! This game promotes a 99.9% realism factor (the only thing detracted being the pain level- which was pushed down to 30%, because they don't want you to die in real life because you died in-game), so just about every experience in-game is as real as Real Life.
That realism, however, means that there are some limitations to the game. The first being that players can only play characters of their own gender. And even after that, your character looks a lot like you even if you change the race and coloration. So you're pretty recognizable if someone knows you in real life. Our main character recognizes people in-game immediately if she knows them in real life... and vice versa, seeing someone in real life that she's seen in-game before boggles her.
So this Second Life is almost a real second life in games... close enough to your real life that you're still you. But Feng Lan decides to start the game with a twist... being the first person to ever sign in the game, she is granted one wish for her character. She could have chosen to up her stats or get an amazing weapon or ability, but instead she chose, because of an argument with her brother over whether girls were weaker or not, to play a male character. Now this is never heard of! Second Life is made to be accurate, and that includes gender, and on top of that, the person Feng Lan assumes to be an NPC helping her design her character allows her to be 30% more beautiful as well-- so the creation of the character Prince becomes an impossibility in Second Life-- not only is he intensely beautiful, he is also not a he.
And this is all that happens afterward!
Point in Story: After chapter 44 and the software patch
Personality: To understand Prince, you have to understand Feng Lan, because she is Prince. The same way a player would still be a player when they play an MMORPG, despite having a fictional character facade. And the first thing to understand about her is that she is your typical twenty year old Chinese fangirl. She moons over pretty boys and acts the little demure thing when she needs to, but is a ball of stubbornness and willpower and loves blackmailing her twin brother and is a responsible average university student. As a twenty year old fangirl, she loves her online slang and somewhat naive girl speech which can bleed through to Prince at times so that people sometimes just wonder about him.
Feng Lan is also the sheltered Chinese girl every Asian parent wants their little girl to be: a good daughter, cook, responsible, a good student, and as sweet as can be. It never mattered that she was also a rabid fangirl and selfish in a way that she couldn't see beyond her own nose before- Feng Lan was cute in an acceptable manner. As the series starts, she is petty and the only reason she became Prince was just so she could prove her brother wrong because he insulted her with his tone of voice and manner in which he stated what was completely true about her: that in games, she tended to hide behind male characters and level up extremely easily because she was always protected by guys and had guys giving her free weapons and armor to win her favor. She's cute and she knows she's cute-- not the prettiest girl by any means, but she knows how to bat her eyes and pout and look adorable. She is also extremely oblivious to people who actually really like her. Zhuo Ling Bin had been in love with her almost ten years before Feng Lan's parents exploded in a fit of disgust over their daughter's cluelessness when she assumed that he was in love with her twin brother. Yeah.
She starts out as a cute fangirl, although petty, shallow, and vain. She doesn't like being viewed as ugly and loves chasing pretty boys-- through the game, though, Feng Lan is hit with a dose of her own crazy fangirl and selfishness when other girls moon and fall in love with Prince, leaving Feng Lan intensely uncomfortable and guilty over her deception. It had just been a funny joke to her at the beginning, and she had never known how crazy fangirls really were and understood what the poor pretty boys had to go through, running away from crazy girls all the time. Eventually through the game, she learns to be more responsible not just as a daughter and sister and student, but for her own actions as well.
Prince, in a way, behaves in the manner a girl would think is manly. That is, he fights all the time and swears loudly and can be quite arrogant when he feels like someone is making fun of his manhood. He's everything Feng Lan wanted to be but was never allowed to because she had been born a Chinese girl:
"Maybe the real reason is that I just don't want to hide behind anyone... not anymore. I want to kill monsters to my heart's content, using all kinds of crazy methods and moves, without anyone calling me a violent woman. I want to swear and cuss while killing and whenever I'm pissed or annoyed... but without anyone saying that it isn't ladylike. I want to be able to laugh after hearing an off-colour joke-- or even add my own retort. I don't want to be forced to pretend I don't get it, just to prove how pure and innocent I am... but I don't want to be called a vulgar woman, either."
Underneath the pettiness and the selfishness and ignorance, Feng Lan is projecting who she wants to be in Prince. Strong, confident, and loved by all, Prince is the perfect image of a charismatic leader that Second Life wants to project, except he's actually quite brittle. Feng Lan is slowly becoming a better person by pretending to be Prince and becoming more understanding, but beneath that persona, she is still the same insecure girl who is still growing up and learning what's important, and what can't be treated with disdain or ignored.
And while Prince is strong and never runs from battle and is even quite scary when he fights, Feng Lan has a tendency to run from the fights that are truly important. Never the physical fights, of course. As she stated as Prince before, she truly enjoys physical fights and the freedom of movement she finds, even in bathing in the blood of her enemies (there is a reason why she's known as the Blood Elf Prince), and Feng Lan has a creepy fascination with horror movies-- she also has a tendency to imitate things, so she steals a lot of moves from old fighter games, and the people around her are terrified that one day she'll steal moves from horror movies as well. But when it comes to matters of her love life and responsibilities beyond what she is ready for, Prince hesitates and fails. He tends to be good at little and distant things... comforting people and fighting, but not so good at seeing the whole picture or when things start to go beyond Second Life and start to affect Feng Lan.
What changes the most about Feng Lan when she becomes Prince, though, is due to how stupidly beautiful Prince is-- as Prince, Feng Lan has a slight fear of girls due to how many girls have tried to eat him up; not literally, but definitely as bad as fangirls stalking Twilight characters or something. She is also slightly bitter towards guys who might like Prince because, well, then there's no chance they'd actually like her in real life, is there? So while Prince loves friends, he's not so appreciative of romantic gestures, from either guys or girls. Still, he's very sympathetic to the feelings of girls (seeing as he really is one), and stoicly encouraging to guys in a comradely manner that leaves the men fascinated with how he manages to handle both genders so well. And through her adventures, she slowly starts to realize that outer beauty is only skin deep, and what matters is who will care when they've never seen your face before.
And despite how much Feng Lan enjoys being Prince and being free to do whatever she wants... she's not comfortable with the physical aspect of being a boy. That's right. Especially after the software upgrade that requires characters to bathe and relieve themselves like normal people.
Powers/Abilities: Prince is an MMORPG character, and by that, I mean that he is basically a hologram projection while on the Pradeda. He's not real in the sense that Feng Lan is real. Thus, he can only exist in rooms supporting holograms (everyone room but the forest?), and Feng Lan would take damage when he takes damage. However, he keeps his abilities while he's still 'Prince', and loses them as Feng Lan.
He's got a sword that levels up with him (黑刀, or the "Black Knife" which is more of a sword) and a pet MeatBun (seriously. It's... a meat bun with a face) which can shoot raw meat at people's faces or blow up to extreme sizes and explode, that goes with him everywhere.
His moves? I WON'T EVEN LIST THEM. It's because Feng Lan takes sadistic glee in stealing anime and video game moves for her own. Street Fighter? Kenshin? Mortal Combat? Prince has those finishing moves. Obviously, those games are decades old so most people don't even think twice about those finishing moves not being original. And if they've figured it out, no one's had the courage to courage to say that to his face yet.
His regular and original attacks, however, are listed here (taken from Wikia):
Attack Skill (Barehanded)
* Quake Blast: Use a seismic toss on his opponent.
Attack Skill (Sword)
* Continuous Attack: Repeatedly attacking his opponent without stopping for a period of time.
* Frenzied Strike: Quick attack bolstered by emotions.
* Inferno Slash: Creating flame around his sword and causing explosion when contact with his opponent. Drain large amount of mana points.
* Nine-headed Dragon Slash (Jiutou-Loung Slash): Causing nine slashes to his opponent at the same time by hitting all of the nine vital points instantly.
* Ringing Blade: currently unknown
* Savage Blade: Striking his opponent with multiple blows.
Speed Skills
* Agile Spiral Evasion: Able to dodge his opponents by spiral around their attacks.
* Haste: Cast a temporary spell to increase his speed or one of his teammates.
What makes Prince unique (other than being extraordinarily beautiful) is his choice in class and build-- an elven warrior who fights with swords (rather than the stereotypical elven archer or mage) who actually deals a good amount of damage. Most of this is due to Feng Lan's inherent stubbornness and refusal to lose (as well as her quest for hot guys), but another note-worthy mention is that she is... somewhat ridiculously lucky. More than somewhat. There's a part in the game where a quest requires a stupid amount of luck to complete, and she just... doesn't even understand how it was hard, 'cause she breezed her way through without a thought.
As a character, though, he is a lot faster and more agile than humans, with more stamina and the power to blitz enemies. Feng Lan had commented before while running for the bus that she had forgotten how slow she was in real life compared to Prince. He is also stronger, although not able to punch through walls, he would be strong enough to decapitate a person with a sword, which actually takes a lot of strength, unless the blade is mythically sharp.
And then the one very, very important thing that may be difficult to play out: Prince is inordinately lucky. Not kidding in the slightest. He has a master of luck games, and he thinks they're extremely easy to win because he just doesn't know otherwise.
Itens you're bringing with you: His clothes, his sword, and his pet Meatbun! Who is just a holographic bun who talks, really. Meatbun's abilities will be shot on Pradeda, since his biggest thing is growing very, very large and squishing everyone.
Samples
First Person POV (Network Post):
Hey! Is this calling everyone?
[A moment, and he's actually knocking on the screen before looking a bit more satisfied.]
Alright, then! Everyone-- I need answers! Where is this place and how do I get out of here because this story is entirely out of my league. Spaceships? I know Second Life's got lots of different places to play, and probably eras and stuff too, but this is a bit far from the genre I stick to. Fantasy, man! Fantasy! None of this science fiction crap.
So I don't know how I ended up in this area, but I need to find the closest teleport to get back to Infinite City. It's kind of an emergency, okay?
Third Person POV (Log Post):
He huffed even as he raised an arm to scratch at the back of his head in confusion, scowling lightly. This place was new. It didn't look like anything he had seen on the Central Continent before, since that was more themed toward medieval Europe. And the Eastern Continent looked like old China, so... there was a good chance that he had accidentally (somehow!) found himself on another continent again.
....Naaaah. Couldn't be. The last time he had at least been drunk enough he couldn't remember the day before, and then had managed to blow all his money on the ride to another continent. Now he was sure he didn't have enough money to begin with, and he could remember the previous day perfectly well. In fact, he had made sure to stay away from the alcoholic drinks after that one adventure, seeing as big sister Yulien would probably kill him if he managed to spend more than he saved up again.
But the town was weird- definitely too modern for the game period, and too old for any imitation of real life. Was there a continent that somehow did some twentieth century island theme? He hadn't been to the other continents, so he really didn't know.
He wilted a bit at the thought of being lost, but then brightened again. Maybe this meant he'd actually be able to train in peace for a little while! Doubtless, Lolidragon was going to find him soon, anyway, so why not take the time to do some exploration and maybe pick a few well-missed battles? Ahh, that familiar scent of blood and battle~
With a whistle and a new bounce in his step, Prince decided that exploring the forest probably be fun, and with his hands laced behind his head in a gesture of openness and relaxation, he spun on his heel and set deeper into the bright forest rather than think about how he got lost in the first place.