Chris Hawken - 3/this here is the fault of it apparently being obscurecopperprismMarch 2 2010, 05:12:12 UTC
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Okay, so, since Arjuna has no fandom that I know of, lacks a descriptive wiki entry or review with character descriptions, and doesn't even have a TV Tropes page I could link to, I'll write his history out instead.
The earliest thing known about Chris is that his parents were archeologists who traveled the world. Many years after that, and an unspecified length of time before the start of the series, he learned to use his TI-level psychic abilities (the highest ranking, with the capacity to sense the planet's aura continuously), became the Avatar of Time (connecting past and future into the here and now), and absorbed the largest (large enough to wrap itself around the Earth and be prominently visible from space) of a spirit-entity-thing, created by the Earth and known as the Raaja, into himself to prevent it from wreaking destruction on humankind. The first symptom of this manifests - an inability to speak.
The series begins. In an astral projection, Chris reattaches the soul of Juna - also a TI-level psychic - to her body after it briefly dies from her having left, on the condition that she become the Avatar of Time and fight the Raaja. While he refuses to explain why, apparently on the grounds that knowledge and thoughts conveyed by words - which are easily misunderstood - are no substitute for coming to an understanding and acceptance on one's own, he often admonishes Juna for trying to kill the Raaja. His intent is hinted at throughout the series, even in the countdown Juna uses in archery where the final step is "becoming one with the target".
For a time, he is greatly fatigued by saving her, to where he doesn't have the energy to lift his head or open his eyes fully for more than brief periods. By this point, the Raaja has also made his body so weak he can hardly walk, only doing so with the aid of a cane - even kneeling or standing in place, he only supports his own weight (which isn't much; it's an anime, sure, but more-or-less succeeds at keeping human proportions, and god he's thin, and is once picked up and carried by Cindy who's tiny and can't be older than 11) through will, even collapsing onto Juna once after comforting her.
Throughout Juna's time learning to be the, well, Avatar of Time, he sometimes seems to have abandoned her but is watching over her from a distance, and despite being quite willing to express how constrained her mindset is shows more faith that she will succeed than any other character (except maybe Tokio, who doesn't really understand what's going on anyway).
Several weeks after the start of the series, he's weak enough that he can barely move, and soon after begins dying. The Raaja takes the opportunity to begin trying to escape. Juna heals Chris, but this is only temporary. After this point, he's regained some strength; however, he can no longer eat, and can only breathe with a respirator.
The rest of the series progresses with little change regarding him, until the last two episodes. Chris, in his own words, is the Raaja - in the senses of: he'd absorbed the greatest portion of them and, while still being very weak, could more-or-less control and coordinate them; that the Raaja were created of the Earth's suffering and desire to cleanse itself, were a natural part of the Earth where everything of past and future was inextricably linked and not totally separate from the others; and that of Chris' being a TI-level psychic and the former Avatar of Time viewing himself as essentially one and the same as the planet and anything alive on his world, up to and including the Raaja.
At the end of the show, Juna's avoided the disaster of apocalyptic proportions that would have ensued if the Raaja within Chris got loose, by absorbing the Raaja into herself fully knowing the eventual result. Chris speaks for the first time in idk how long before falling asleep, Cindy cries a bit out of happiness and disbelief, and Tokio decides to do as Juna wants and see if the husks of the Raaja really are edible despite how nasty they look.
Okay, so, since Arjuna has no fandom that I know of, lacks a descriptive wiki entry or review with character descriptions, and doesn't even have a TV Tropes page I could link to, I'll write his history out instead.
The earliest thing known about Chris is that his parents were archeologists who traveled the world. Many years after that, and an unspecified length of time before the start of the series, he learned to use his TI-level psychic abilities (the highest ranking, with the capacity to sense the planet's aura continuously), became the Avatar of Time (connecting past and future into the here and now), and absorbed the largest (large enough to wrap itself around the Earth and be prominently visible from space) of a spirit-entity-thing, created by the Earth and known as the Raaja, into himself to prevent it from wreaking destruction on humankind. The first symptom of this manifests - an inability to speak.
The series begins. In an astral projection, Chris reattaches the soul of Juna - also a TI-level psychic - to her body after it briefly dies from her having left, on the condition that she become the Avatar of Time and fight the Raaja. While he refuses to explain why, apparently on the grounds that knowledge and thoughts conveyed by words - which are easily misunderstood - are no substitute for coming to an understanding and acceptance on one's own, he often admonishes Juna for trying to kill the Raaja. His intent is hinted at throughout the series, even in the countdown Juna uses in archery where the final step is "becoming one with the target".
For a time, he is greatly fatigued by saving her, to where he doesn't have the energy to lift his head or open his eyes fully for more than brief periods. By this point, the Raaja has also made his body so weak he can hardly walk, only doing so with the aid of a cane - even kneeling or standing in place, he only supports his own weight (which isn't much; it's an anime, sure, but more-or-less succeeds at keeping human proportions, and god he's thin, and is once picked up and carried by Cindy who's tiny and can't be older than 11) through will, even collapsing onto Juna once after comforting her.
Throughout Juna's time learning to be the, well, Avatar of Time, he sometimes seems to have abandoned her but is watching over her from a distance, and despite being quite willing to express how constrained her mindset is shows more faith that she will succeed than any other character (except maybe Tokio, who doesn't really understand what's going on anyway).
Several weeks after the start of the series, he's weak enough that he can barely move, and soon after begins dying. The Raaja takes the opportunity to begin trying to escape. Juna heals Chris, but this is only temporary. After this point, he's regained some strength; however, he can no longer eat, and can only breathe with a respirator.
The rest of the series progresses with little change regarding him, until the last two episodes. Chris, in his own words, is the Raaja - in the senses of: he'd absorbed the greatest portion of them and, while still being very weak, could more-or-less control and coordinate them; that the Raaja were created of the Earth's suffering and desire to cleanse itself, were a natural part of the Earth where everything of past and future was inextricably linked and not totally separate from the others; and that of Chris' being a TI-level psychic and the former Avatar of Time viewing himself as essentially one and the same as the planet and anything alive on his world, up to and including the Raaja.
At the end of the show, Juna's avoided the disaster of apocalyptic proportions that would have ensued if the Raaja within Chris got loose, by absorbing the Raaja into herself fully knowing the eventual result. Chris speaks for the first time in idk how long before falling asleep, Cindy cries a bit out of happiness and disbelief, and Tokio decides to do as Juna wants and see if the husks of the Raaja really are edible despite how nasty they look.
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