tenthtwilight Character Application
Full Canon Name: Yako Katsuragi
Canon: Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro
Age: 19
In-Game Name: Yako Katsuragi
Gender: Female
Role in tenthtwilight: After taken charge in solitary of the detective agency she founded (or was forced to found) with the help (coaccion) of Nogami Neuro, Yako has finally gathered enough money to spoil herself a little with a little vacation at the new hotel in Rokkenjima.
Appearance: Yako has short blond hair with the front locks being longer than those at the back, the lenght of her hair barely scraped the height of her shoulders and is cut in layers with the top one being the longest. She rarely takes time to actually brush it and when she does it's done just to make it look not terribly bad and undo any possible knot that has been formed, because of that she always seems to have bed hair. She often uses a red hairclip with the same of a sharp teeth grin to pull back a bit of her hair at the front to keep it from bothering her, she has two of those hairclips and most of the time at least one is found in her hair.
Her eyes are dark brown with a slightly rounder shape than usual when dealing with East-Asian eyes, this makes them look bigger and wider as well as more expressive. They always have a lively bright in them which is only lost when Yako's dealing with a case, becoming clouder and serious. The soft features around her eyes held still a great deal of an innocence that Yako lost a long time ago though the sharper features on her nose and lips as well as her thin and low cheeks keep her from having a baby face and instead show her as the young woman she is. Her nose has a thin bridge and thin nostrils with a falling short tip and her lips are thin, framing a big mouth that can easily fill most of her face when she smiles.
Yako is not very tall keeping an average height of 1'68 cm and she falls in the thin category due her weight of 43 kg. She has long and slim legs and arms with small feet and hands of long fingers. Her shoulders are broad and slightly squareish, with a narrow chest and waist but wide hips. Her clothes are western looking, she favoures mini and above-knee skirts and blouses though she does have a couple of pants in her wardrobe she usually only uses pants in her pajamas. Boots and sandals are often the complements she uses with her clothing as well as handbags or holdalls.
Personality: Overall Yako's a girl that can be considered bubbly and airheaded, having lead for the most part a happy and apparently eventless life she's the kind of person that could be considered potentially annoying at the very least. Always hungry and with a questionable taste in reference to what is really edible, she's probably the last person one could expect to be able to understand the people around her and much less to solve crimes and riddles on a daily basis. Clumsy and easily overwhelmed are impressions people often get from her after meeting her, her hunger always seems to drive her mind prompting people to consider her more like an animal than a person seeing how her top priority is always to eat food. Constantly daydreaming and with just average grades during her academic life, it matters little that she graduated from one of the top schools in Tokyo, she's obviously just average and only managed to achieve it with the help of her friends who constantly tutored her. There's no doubt in that Yako Katsuragi is probably the most average airheaded girl in the world, with the simplest and happiest life in which the saddest thing that happened was the death of her father. That's what most of the people that live around her and attended school with her will say when asked about her character, that's the mask Yako Katsuragi has allowed herself to wear during years.
There's more in Yako than what meets the eye but there are few who can actually notice it, normally people who are two-faced as well are more likely to perceive that not everything is smiles and food for her. Because of that, despite being criminals, some of the people in whom Yako trusts the most are murderers she helped to imprison, not because they are good people but because they know the real Yako just as she knows the real them that pushed them to commit murders. Through years Yako has come to stand at a point in which good and bad become distorted and unrecognizable, it doesn't reach the point in which both concepts vanish, but it certainly is a place from which she can see that not what she considers to be good is really the correct thing, or that she considers to be bad is really an evil. Nowadays Yako moves herself by her wish to help people, to try to bring ease to the families of murdered people and even to some murderers that act due a two faced nature not necessarily born from a rooting evil. Maybe what she does is not a good thing, maybe the fact that she keeps contact and seems in good terms with some criminals is not the correct thing, but its what makes her feel better with herself and her life, what feels correct for her and thus she continues leading that way of life. The same way, the fact that even her family doesn't know everything about her or her work isn't due her wish to keep it hidding but because it feels that it's better if they don't know, to avoid her mother and her friends to get worried or even in danger due their relation with her. Maybe that's also the reason why she seems to confide more in those criminals with whom she keeps contact, because she can expect them to be able to protect themselves besides the fact that they are relatively safe at prison, that allows her to talk and share the load she carries around without putting her loved ones in danger.
Yako is a person who, in her own way, loves riddles. Though she hated them back when she was younger, the years she spent working with Neuro made her come to appreciate them and the effect that solving them had on people. Because of that even if her first impression and instinct may tell her to turn around and run away, her core always keeps her still, challenging whatever riddle she confronts, be it a mere puzzle or a crime. She finds satisfactory to see a riddle solved, to open the criminal's heart and soul with the key of the truth both in order to learn why they commited the crime and what exactly pushed them to make it in such a complicated way. It helps her to understand them at least a little even if she doesn't forgive or accept their behavior, and it helps her to get to know herself and others as she's come to learn that everyone is two-faced. Despite not being a person that distruts people she can't say that she will be surprised anymore about finding a loved one betraying her or turning into a monstruous criminal as she has seen even the finest people fall in a well of madness and violence, sometimes for a good reason others for no real reason at all. Anyone could be a criminal, anyone could design a riddle so difficult to solve that it would seem as if God came down from the heavens and commited the crime as there's no way a human would do it, from her mother to her best friend, including herself, the only thing that keeps them from becoming monsters is their actual happiness and the comfort they have within it, but if that happiness would be crushed Yako's the first to know that she can't say she wouldn't fall into madness.
Stress is a word not unknown for her, the fact that, due her own success and the success she had while Neuro was with her, people seem to go to her only when they have a real complicated crime or riddle, forces her to always have to face with riddles and puzzles. There are few cases for her detective agency that involve a calm job of following someone to discover what they're up to, most of her cases are murders that haven't been solved or even to negotiate with terrorists. Because of this Yako is constantly under a great pressure and stress, even in the simplest cases she gets she can't allow herself to fail or make a mistake as people might end hurt or the criminal may run away. However she keeps that stress at bay by totally relaxing herself whenever she's allowed to, general around her family and friends, allowing herself to be a bit clumsy and dumb, caring only about getting her stomach full and nothing else. Because of that people get the wrong idea of her, because of that she seems a two-faced woman, but in reality she's just a girl who works hard and tries to not be overcome by the stress.
Strengths/Abilities: Yako is not a fighter, her physical abilities don't go anywhere beyond those of an untrained human though she has developed a great pain and tiredness tolerancy due the constant harassment she was subjected to by her former partner. She also has gotten a real cold and thick blood that allows her to stay relatively calm during high-stress situations, rarely losing her head though she may still be shaken up if she encounters a supernatural adversary due her conscience that their powers and abilities outmatch her by far.
Despite not being what one would consider academically inteligent Yako's far from being stupid and has a natural talent and interest at understanding human psychology and feelings which often allow her to have the upper hand even when dealing with an adversary that outpowers her. She also has high observation skills which combined with her natural talent allow her to get to know people very easily and without having to share too much information as well as being able to sometimes stand one step above her opponent.
Besides that Yako's other ability is her love for food and culinaries, not only does she have an incredible appetite and an endless stomach but she's able to consume basically any kind of food, this is probably due the awful cooking skills of her mother whose cooking is close to be poisonous and who uses anything in her cooking (including but not limited to electrical appliance's parts). Curiously, despite having had her mother as her cooking teacher Yako's culinary skill are close to amazing although her meals ocassionally are greeted with the presence of odd ingredients such as common weeds.
Powers: Not applicable.
Weaknesses: Yako's only human, despite having seen several horrendous crimes since she meet Neuro she's still often horrorified with the actions people can take in order to kill someone. Though she's known for keeping a calm composture even she has a limit and can be overflowed by the events around her, specially if anyone is killed/dies right in her presence. She also gets attached easily to the people around her making it hard for her to keep an objective view of the events around her even when she remains calm and serene. Despite knowing that anyone can be a murderer and commit the most terrific crimes Yako keeps trying to see those she know as innocent and can even end doubting her own conclusions if they point to someone she knows as the culprit, no matter how sure she actually is of her deductions she won't want to believe it until the culprit confesses. She can be easily distracted when the atmosphere is light or when food is present around and whenever she gets hungry she ends being unable to even move or think, even if she's just a little hungry.
History/AU History: Born in 1967 in Tokyo, Yako Katsuragi was the only child of Haruka, a house-wife with awful cooking skills, and Seiichi a young promising architect. Yako was able to enjoy a normal and peaceful life during her childhood and first teenager days. Everything changed when, soon after Yako turned 16, her father was brutally murdered at their own home while Yako and Haruka were out. With her father gone the normal happy life of Yako came to an end in more than one way, not only because of his death but because the event the crime triggered. It took three twilights for the event to ultimately trigger, small preparations happening during those three days before the ultimately event. Her father's loss was the first preparation, leaving her numb and empty. The second was the messy investigation the police was performing, obviously unable to catch her father's murderer any time soon. The third and last preparation was on Yako herself, overcoming the numb feeling in her heart she determined to catch her father's murderer, as soon as she reached her determination, in front of her appeared a man called Nougami Neuro who identified himself as a demon that devoured riddles and who chose Yako to act as his cover while he feasted in the riddles of the human world.
Yako stepped out of the normal world and entered a world of "magic" and "demons", guided by Neuro into that delusionary world and forced to claim the fame that Neuro didn't want whenever he solved a crime. Neuro decided to open a detective agency that would allow him to get hold on Yako more easily as well as just sit and wait for the riddles to come to him. Despite her protests there was little Yako could do against Neuro and his sadistic antics that drove him to torture her physically and to try to mess with her daily life just for his own pleasure. Yako Katsuragi, who had never seen anything more grotesque than the American horror movie of "Friday 13th", soon found herself facing the most horrible and grotesque scenes on a daily basis from the crimes she had to face. As time passed and they worked together, driven by her wish to be at least a little more helpful to Neuro as something else than his cover and by her wish to find the truth in every crime they faced, Yako began to develop her natural talent at understanding human psychology and feelings, something Neuro was unable to do. Neuro himself noticed her development and often tried, in his own way, to help her to evolve further, sending her to try to solve the crimes on her own though more often than not his choice in the riddles that he thought she could solve ended being too much for her and often put her life in danger. Still with time and at her own pace soon Yako found herself solving some relatively simple crimes and being able to solve riddles that laid too much in the feelings field of the human mind and to which Neuro would have no access without her.
However, as Yako's and Neuro's fame increased, many people began to get interested in the pair and many tried to beat their perfect record of crimes solved. Yako and Neuro were faced with harder riddles each day, each one more cruel and grotesque than the previous one in a try to break Yako's mind and thus leave Neuro without the little help she could provide. Her endurance came to an end though, when both she and Neuro met their worst opponent, a man that Yako could swear was more a demon than a human and who called himself Sicks. Through a series of terrorist attacks Sicks offered Neuro with the biggest and most grotesque riddles they had ever seen meanwhile he killed hundreds of dozens of humans cutting Neuro's so called "source of food". It was then, when people died around her in great numbers and without any motive other than annoying Neuro, when Yako began to crumble, reaching her limit when people she had meet since the start of her partnership with Neuro, began to be killed right in front of her eyes without them being able to do anything. Blaming herself and drowned in sorrow and confusion, Yako was all alone with her pain due her mother's lack of knowledge of her activities as a detective and Neuro's lack of ability to understand human's feelings. She reached the decision that to have meet Neuro had been the biggest mistake and broke her partnership with him after throwing at him all the pain and confusion she had tried to hold since they meet. Yako returned to her normal life away from supposed demons and crimes, but it wasn't enough for her to overcome her depression and despite her mother's and her friends' attempts no one was able to reach to her heart to comfort her. Only someone who knew her, who knew the Yako that helped Neuro to solve riddles and who knew about Neuro's claims to be a demon, thus understanding the natural gap that existed between them, would be able to reach to Yako and help her. Such person turned out to be the first murderer whose riddle Yako had solved on her own, Aya Asia, a singer who had killed her only two friends to remain in an eternal solitude that allowed her to compose her songs. After receiving a visit from Neuro, Aya noticed something was off with them and broke out from jail in order to go and see the teenager, helping her to overcome her depression and evolve further beyond her previous limits. A few days later Sicks found his end and Neuro vanished, supposedly going back to his home to recover, leaving Yako behind to close their detective agency or continue with it if she wished too.
Three years have passed since that fateful year in which Yako's path crossed with Neuro. Thanks to her evolution during that year she keeps working as a detective, helping the police to solve cases or even negotiate with terrorists. Though without Neuro she's nothing more than a mere human, the things she gained during her time with him help her to succeed in her work while she wonders everyday if Neuro will return or not, both wishing and dreading for it.
Reason for traveling to Rokkenjima: After working for the detective agency she and Neuro opened five years ago, Yako has finally gathered enough money to allow herself to have a dream vacation. Away from people claiming to be demons, "magic", murders and other crimes in general all Yako expects to do is eat and relax around the island and remember what's like to be a normal girl who doesn't get involved in murders and other crimes at any given time. Neuro always said she was a stupid girl.
Can you and your character handle the graphic nature of this game? Definitively yes, though it may be an understatement to say that Yako has seen worse things in her life she has already have her share of grotesque murders and the like. She may be bewildered if they are killed while she's looking, but who wouldn't? She also may be more freaked out by how the criminal commited the crime than by the murder scene itself. For a clearer example of how she woulc react in front of a grotesque crime scene please refer to the rp sample below.
RP Sample: Prompt choosen: Event impossible to perform by human standards.
Impossible. It was something impossible, there were no other exists, only one door, the one they had used to enter which had been firmly closed until they arrived. It was what one would consider a "closed room", but it was much more than that, it wasn't just a simple case of "closed room", the door that lead into the room was in another room which also only had one entrance which they had had to unlock. And that door was in another room of the exact same characteristics as the two previous ones and so on and so forth until they had had to unlock and open a total of six doors. It wasn't just a "closed room" it was a "closed room" inside six "closed rooms", and the best part of everything was that, while there were master keys to open the five doors to reach the one that lead to the crime scene, there was only one key to open that door, a key that had appeared in the dinning hall. Still, one could try to find an explanation for that riddle if it wasn't that the last door had been closed from the inside. How could the criminal close the room from outside it? How could the criminal drag six bodies to that room without leaving a single trace? How could the criminal perform such savage crime in the two hours of time that had passed since the victims were seen last and the time when they discovered the corpses? Not only that but how in the world did the criminal manage to hang them all upside down from the ceiling that could not by reached even by use of the longest ladder that was in the mansion?
Yako's eyes narrowed as she took in the grotesque image above her in the room, ignoring the other survivors in favor of trying to find logic in such carnage. The witch Beatrice had killed six people inside a closed room, hidden inside six closed rooms. Or so it could seem if she gave up and decided to believe everything she had heard about the witch since she arrived. At first she had thought it was just an interesting legend, after seeing the epitath she thought it was a creepy obsession from the patriarch of the Ushiromiya family and once the letter "sent" by the witch had been read she had began to think that maybe she was indeed real and that the tales about evil witches weren't so far from the truth as some would thing. Being someone who had dealt with a demon, or at least she always thought he was a demon as he was twisted enough to be one, on a daily basis Yako couldn't deny the existence of a witch, nor her power. But it still was too easy to just blame her for that horror, plus she was sure it hadn't been a witch nor a demon, simply because the faces of the six corpses had been almost smashed in pieces, whether it had been done before their death or after was something she couldn't determine from where she stood but it was enough to tell her that no supernatural being had been involved. Why? Because experience taught Yako that a demon or a witch would enjoy much better to see their victim squirm and die slowly and painfully, delighting themselves in the screams and agony while preventing themselves from getting their clothes dirty by ussing umbrellas, as if the blood that fell from the ceiling was simple rain. As horrorific as the scene was Yako had to admit that it didn't seem as if the victims had suffered much, and only humans could be impatient enough to act like that.
To be honest she didn't want to be there, she didn't want to force herself to stare at the corpses, to take in every little detail. How some still had their eyeballs hanging over the smashed faces, how some seemed to have lost their jaw somewhere, how one that still had half of her face wore such an horrified expression that it made Yako glad that she could only see half of it, how the wires that kept them hanging were still cutting their bodies, how there were a dozen of candy canes sticking out of their stomachs, how much blood was still dripping to the floor covering it. Definitively she didn't want to see it all. And she didn't have to, Neuro was no longer around to force her to look, to throw her to the ceiling so she could get a better look, she was alone and if she wanted she could turn around and go back to the previous room where other survivors had surely retreated to not watch that scene. She could do it and yet she didn't. Maybe she didn't want to look at it, maybe she felt like crying, like tearing her hair in confussion and horror, wondering what had happened and why six people had been killed out of the blue, maybe she wanted nothing more than to try to escape that island even if it meant that she would have to swim in the middle of a typhon. But she couldn't do it, deep down she knew she couldn't, not because she could drown or anything but because she wanted to help catch the monster that had killed those six. She wanted to help catch the psycopath that was capable of such a thing, it was just like in the old days with Neuro, despite being scared she always tried to stay with him, she only broke down once and wouldn't do it again. She had learnt from her errors.
Yako frowned, staring at the crime scene seriously. It was a feat impossible for a human, or so it seemed, it should also be impossible for a human to dismember someone and put their insides inside a crystal box with no apparent opening or even glue that could betray how it was built. It should also be impossible to burn a skyscrapper to ashes in just 2 minutes, or to make a person's brain bleed through their ears, or make them vomit all the blood in their body... There were many things impossible for humans that Yako had faced before, and each one of them was indeed the work of a human. This too, it had to be the work of a human, because the sadistic trait of any magical being wouldn't allow them to let them find the corpses, indeed they would surely enjoy it more if the victims were to be found still barely alive, moaning, begging to be killed or healed, whatever to take away the endless pain they were suffering. If a witch was the responsible Yako was sure that was how it would act, to make it a clearer warning to the survivors, let the victims live just enough to tell them it was the witch or to show them their pain. Maybe there was a witch in the island really, Yako didn't know, but she was sure of one thing, no witch was behind that multiple murder.
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Canon: Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro
Age: 19
In-Game Name: Yako Katsuragi
Gender: Female
Role in tenthtwilight: After taken charge in solitary of the detective agency she founded (or was forced to found) with the help (coaccion) of Nogami Neuro, Yako has finally gathered enough money to spoil herself a little with a little vacation at the new hotel in Rokkenjima.
Appearance: Yako has short blond hair with the front locks being longer than those at the back, the lenght of her hair barely scraped the height of her shoulders and is cut in layers with the top one being the longest. She rarely takes time to actually brush it and when she does it's done just to make it look not terribly bad and undo any possible knot that has been formed, because of that she always seems to have bed hair. She often uses a red hairclip with the same of a sharp teeth grin to pull back a bit of her hair at the front to keep it from bothering her, she has two of those hairclips and most of the time at least one is found in her hair.
Her eyes are dark brown with a slightly rounder shape than usual when dealing with East-Asian eyes, this makes them look bigger and wider as well as more expressive. They always have a lively bright in them which is only lost when Yako's dealing with a case, becoming clouder and serious. The soft features around her eyes held still a great deal of an innocence that Yako lost a long time ago though the sharper features on her nose and lips as well as her thin and low cheeks keep her from having a baby face and instead show her as the young woman she is. Her nose has a thin bridge and thin nostrils with a falling short tip and her lips are thin, framing a big mouth that can easily fill most of her face when she smiles.
Yako is not very tall keeping an average height of 1'68 cm and she falls in the thin category due her weight of 43 kg. She has long and slim legs and arms with small feet and hands of long fingers. Her shoulders are broad and slightly squareish, with a narrow chest and waist but wide hips. Her clothes are western looking, she favoures mini and above-knee skirts and blouses though she does have a couple of pants in her wardrobe she usually only uses pants in her pajamas. Boots and sandals are often the complements she uses with her clothing as well as handbags or holdalls.
Personality: Overall Yako's a girl that can be considered bubbly and airheaded, having lead for the most part a happy and apparently eventless life she's the kind of person that could be considered potentially annoying at the very least. Always hungry and with a questionable taste in reference to what is really edible, she's probably the last person one could expect to be able to understand the people around her and much less to solve crimes and riddles on a daily basis. Clumsy and easily overwhelmed are impressions people often get from her after meeting her, her hunger always seems to drive her mind prompting people to consider her more like an animal than a person seeing how her top priority is always to eat food. Constantly daydreaming and with just average grades during her academic life, it matters little that she graduated from one of the top schools in Tokyo, she's obviously just average and only managed to achieve it with the help of her friends who constantly tutored her. There's no doubt in that Yako Katsuragi is probably the most average airheaded girl in the world, with the simplest and happiest life in which the saddest thing that happened was the death of her father. That's what most of the people that live around her and attended school with her will say when asked about her character, that's the mask Yako Katsuragi has allowed herself to wear during years.
There's more in Yako than what meets the eye but there are few who can actually notice it, normally people who are two-faced as well are more likely to perceive that not everything is smiles and food for her. Because of that, despite being criminals, some of the people in whom Yako trusts the most are murderers she helped to imprison, not because they are good people but because they know the real Yako just as she knows the real them that pushed them to commit murders. Through years Yako has come to stand at a point in which good and bad become distorted and unrecognizable, it doesn't reach the point in which both concepts vanish, but it certainly is a place from which she can see that not what she considers to be good is really the correct thing, or that she considers to be bad is really an evil. Nowadays Yako moves herself by her wish to help people, to try to bring ease to the families of murdered people and even to some murderers that act due a two faced nature not necessarily born from a rooting evil. Maybe what she does is not a good thing, maybe the fact that she keeps contact and seems in good terms with some criminals is not the correct thing, but its what makes her feel better with herself and her life, what feels correct for her and thus she continues leading that way of life. The same way, the fact that even her family doesn't know everything about her or her work isn't due her wish to keep it hidding but because it feels that it's better if they don't know, to avoid her mother and her friends to get worried or even in danger due their relation with her. Maybe that's also the reason why she seems to confide more in those criminals with whom she keeps contact, because she can expect them to be able to protect themselves besides the fact that they are relatively safe at prison, that allows her to talk and share the load she carries around without putting her loved ones in danger.
Yako is a person who, in her own way, loves riddles. Though she hated them back when she was younger, the years she spent working with Neuro made her come to appreciate them and the effect that solving them had on people. Because of that even if her first impression and instinct may tell her to turn around and run away, her core always keeps her still, challenging whatever riddle she confronts, be it a mere puzzle or a crime. She finds satisfactory to see a riddle solved, to open the criminal's heart and soul with the key of the truth both in order to learn why they commited the crime and what exactly pushed them to make it in such a complicated way. It helps her to understand them at least a little even if she doesn't forgive or accept their behavior, and it helps her to get to know herself and others as she's come to learn that everyone is two-faced. Despite not being a person that distruts people she can't say that she will be surprised anymore about finding a loved one betraying her or turning into a monstruous criminal as she has seen even the finest people fall in a well of madness and violence, sometimes for a good reason others for no real reason at all. Anyone could be a criminal, anyone could design a riddle so difficult to solve that it would seem as if God came down from the heavens and commited the crime as there's no way a human would do it, from her mother to her best friend, including herself, the only thing that keeps them from becoming monsters is their actual happiness and the comfort they have within it, but if that happiness would be crushed Yako's the first to know that she can't say she wouldn't fall into madness.
Stress is a word not unknown for her, the fact that, due her own success and the success she had while Neuro was with her, people seem to go to her only when they have a real complicated crime or riddle, forces her to always have to face with riddles and puzzles. There are few cases for her detective agency that involve a calm job of following someone to discover what they're up to, most of her cases are murders that haven't been solved or even to negotiate with terrorists. Because of this Yako is constantly under a great pressure and stress, even in the simplest cases she gets she can't allow herself to fail or make a mistake as people might end hurt or the criminal may run away. However she keeps that stress at bay by totally relaxing herself whenever she's allowed to, general around her family and friends, allowing herself to be a bit clumsy and dumb, caring only about getting her stomach full and nothing else. Because of that people get the wrong idea of her, because of that she seems a two-faced woman, but in reality she's just a girl who works hard and tries to not be overcome by the stress.
Strengths/Abilities: Yako is not a fighter, her physical abilities don't go anywhere beyond those of an untrained human though she has developed a great pain and tiredness tolerancy due the constant harassment she was subjected to by her former partner. She also has gotten a real cold and thick blood that allows her to stay relatively calm during high-stress situations, rarely losing her head though she may still be shaken up if she encounters a supernatural adversary due her conscience that their powers and abilities outmatch her by far.
Despite not being what one would consider academically inteligent Yako's far from being stupid and has a natural talent and interest at understanding human psychology and feelings which often allow her to have the upper hand even when dealing with an adversary that outpowers her. She also has high observation skills which combined with her natural talent allow her to get to know people very easily and without having to share too much information as well as being able to sometimes stand one step above her opponent.
Besides that Yako's other ability is her love for food and culinaries, not only does she have an incredible appetite and an endless stomach but she's able to consume basically any kind of food, this is probably due the awful cooking skills of her mother whose cooking is close to be poisonous and who uses anything in her cooking (including but not limited to electrical appliance's parts). Curiously, despite having had her mother as her cooking teacher Yako's culinary skill are close to amazing although her meals ocassionally are greeted with the presence of odd ingredients such as common weeds.
Powers: Not applicable.
Weaknesses: Yako's only human, despite having seen several horrendous crimes since she meet Neuro she's still often horrorified with the actions people can take in order to kill someone. Though she's known for keeping a calm composture even she has a limit and can be overflowed by the events around her, specially if anyone is killed/dies right in her presence. She also gets attached easily to the people around her making it hard for her to keep an objective view of the events around her even when she remains calm and serene. Despite knowing that anyone can be a murderer and commit the most terrific crimes Yako keeps trying to see those she know as innocent and can even end doubting her own conclusions if they point to someone she knows as the culprit, no matter how sure she actually is of her deductions she won't want to believe it until the culprit confesses. She can be easily distracted when the atmosphere is light or when food is present around and whenever she gets hungry she ends being unable to even move or think, even if she's just a little hungry.
History/AU History: Born in 1967 in Tokyo, Yako Katsuragi was the only child of Haruka, a house-wife with awful cooking skills, and Seiichi a young promising architect. Yako was able to enjoy a normal and peaceful life during her childhood and first teenager days. Everything changed when, soon after Yako turned 16, her father was brutally murdered at their own home while Yako and Haruka were out. With her father gone the normal happy life of Yako came to an end in more than one way, not only because of his death but because the event the crime triggered. It took three twilights for the event to ultimately trigger, small preparations happening during those three days before the ultimately event. Her father's loss was the first preparation, leaving her numb and empty. The second was the messy investigation the police was performing, obviously unable to catch her father's murderer any time soon. The third and last preparation was on Yako herself, overcoming the numb feeling in her heart she determined to catch her father's murderer, as soon as she reached her determination, in front of her appeared a man called Nougami Neuro who identified himself as a demon that devoured riddles and who chose Yako to act as his cover while he feasted in the riddles of the human world.
Yako stepped out of the normal world and entered a world of "magic" and "demons", guided by Neuro into that delusionary world and forced to claim the fame that Neuro didn't want whenever he solved a crime. Neuro decided to open a detective agency that would allow him to get hold on Yako more easily as well as just sit and wait for the riddles to come to him. Despite her protests there was little Yako could do against Neuro and his sadistic antics that drove him to torture her physically and to try to mess with her daily life just for his own pleasure. Yako Katsuragi, who had never seen anything more grotesque than the American horror movie of "Friday 13th", soon found herself facing the most horrible and grotesque scenes on a daily basis from the crimes she had to face. As time passed and they worked together, driven by her wish to be at least a little more helpful to Neuro as something else than his cover and by her wish to find the truth in every crime they faced, Yako began to develop her natural talent at understanding human psychology and feelings, something Neuro was unable to do. Neuro himself noticed her development and often tried, in his own way, to help her to evolve further, sending her to try to solve the crimes on her own though more often than not his choice in the riddles that he thought she could solve ended being too much for her and often put her life in danger. Still with time and at her own pace soon Yako found herself solving some relatively simple crimes and being able to solve riddles that laid too much in the feelings field of the human mind and to which Neuro would have no access without her.
However, as Yako's and Neuro's fame increased, many people began to get interested in the pair and many tried to beat their perfect record of crimes solved. Yako and Neuro were faced with harder riddles each day, each one more cruel and grotesque than the previous one in a try to break Yako's mind and thus leave Neuro without the little help she could provide. Her endurance came to an end though, when both she and Neuro met their worst opponent, a man that Yako could swear was more a demon than a human and who called himself Sicks. Through a series of terrorist attacks Sicks offered Neuro with the biggest and most grotesque riddles they had ever seen meanwhile he killed hundreds of dozens of humans cutting Neuro's so called "source of food". It was then, when people died around her in great numbers and without any motive other than annoying Neuro, when Yako began to crumble, reaching her limit when people she had meet since the start of her partnership with Neuro, began to be killed right in front of her eyes without them being able to do anything. Blaming herself and drowned in sorrow and confusion, Yako was all alone with her pain due her mother's lack of knowledge of her activities as a detective and Neuro's lack of ability to understand human's feelings. She reached the decision that to have meet Neuro had been the biggest mistake and broke her partnership with him after throwing at him all the pain and confusion she had tried to hold since they meet. Yako returned to her normal life away from supposed demons and crimes, but it wasn't enough for her to overcome her depression and despite her mother's and her friends' attempts no one was able to reach to her heart to comfort her. Only someone who knew her, who knew the Yako that helped Neuro to solve riddles and who knew about Neuro's claims to be a demon, thus understanding the natural gap that existed between them, would be able to reach to Yako and help her. Such person turned out to be the first murderer whose riddle Yako had solved on her own, Aya Asia, a singer who had killed her only two friends to remain in an eternal solitude that allowed her to compose her songs. After receiving a visit from Neuro, Aya noticed something was off with them and broke out from jail in order to go and see the teenager, helping her to overcome her depression and evolve further beyond her previous limits. A few days later Sicks found his end and Neuro vanished, supposedly going back to his home to recover, leaving Yako behind to close their detective agency or continue with it if she wished too.
Three years have passed since that fateful year in which Yako's path crossed with Neuro. Thanks to her evolution during that year she keeps working as a detective, helping the police to solve cases or even negotiate with terrorists. Though without Neuro she's nothing more than a mere human, the things she gained during her time with him help her to succeed in her work while she wonders everyday if Neuro will return or not, both wishing and dreading for it.
Reason for traveling to Rokkenjima: After working for the detective agency she and Neuro opened five years ago, Yako has finally gathered enough money to allow herself to have a dream vacation. Away from people claiming to be demons, "magic", murders and other crimes in general all Yako expects to do is eat and relax around the island and remember what's like to be a normal girl who doesn't get involved in murders and other crimes at any given time. Neuro always said she was a stupid girl.
Can you and your character handle the graphic nature of this game? Definitively yes, though it may be an understatement to say that Yako has seen worse things in her life she has already have her share of grotesque murders and the like. She may be bewildered if they are killed while she's looking, but who wouldn't? She also may be more freaked out by how the criminal commited the crime than by the murder scene itself. For a clearer example of how she woulc react in front of a grotesque crime scene please refer to the rp sample below.
RP Sample: Prompt choosen: Event impossible to perform by human standards.
Impossible. It was something impossible, there were no other exists, only one door, the one they had used to enter which had been firmly closed until they arrived. It was what one would consider a "closed room", but it was much more than that, it wasn't just a simple case of "closed room", the door that lead into the room was in another room which also only had one entrance which they had had to unlock. And that door was in another room of the exact same characteristics as the two previous ones and so on and so forth until they had had to unlock and open a total of six doors. It wasn't just a "closed room" it was a "closed room" inside six "closed rooms", and the best part of everything was that, while there were master keys to open the five doors to reach the one that lead to the crime scene, there was only one key to open that door, a key that had appeared in the dinning hall. Still, one could try to find an explanation for that riddle if it wasn't that the last door had been closed from the inside. How could the criminal close the room from outside it? How could the criminal drag six bodies to that room without leaving a single trace? How could the criminal perform such savage crime in the two hours of time that had passed since the victims were seen last and the time when they discovered the corpses? Not only that but how in the world did the criminal manage to hang them all upside down from the ceiling that could not by reached even by use of the longest ladder that was in the mansion?
Yako's eyes narrowed as she took in the grotesque image above her in the room, ignoring the other survivors in favor of trying to find logic in such carnage. The witch Beatrice had killed six people inside a closed room, hidden inside six closed rooms. Or so it could seem if she gave up and decided to believe everything she had heard about the witch since she arrived. At first she had thought it was just an interesting legend, after seeing the epitath she thought it was a creepy obsession from the patriarch of the Ushiromiya family and once the letter "sent" by the witch had been read she had began to think that maybe she was indeed real and that the tales about evil witches weren't so far from the truth as some would thing. Being someone who had dealt with a demon, or at least she always thought he was a demon as he was twisted enough to be one, on a daily basis Yako couldn't deny the existence of a witch, nor her power. But it still was too easy to just blame her for that horror, plus she was sure it hadn't been a witch nor a demon, simply because the faces of the six corpses had been almost smashed in pieces, whether it had been done before their death or after was something she couldn't determine from where she stood but it was enough to tell her that no supernatural being had been involved. Why? Because experience taught Yako that a demon or a witch would enjoy much better to see their victim squirm and die slowly and painfully, delighting themselves in the screams and agony while preventing themselves from getting their clothes dirty by ussing umbrellas, as if the blood that fell from the ceiling was simple rain. As horrorific as the scene was Yako had to admit that it didn't seem as if the victims had suffered much, and only humans could be impatient enough to act like that.
To be honest she didn't want to be there, she didn't want to force herself to stare at the corpses, to take in every little detail. How some still had their eyeballs hanging over the smashed faces, how some seemed to have lost their jaw somewhere, how one that still had half of her face wore such an horrified expression that it made Yako glad that she could only see half of it, how the wires that kept them hanging were still cutting their bodies, how there were a dozen of candy canes sticking out of their stomachs, how much blood was still dripping to the floor covering it. Definitively she didn't want to see it all. And she didn't have to, Neuro was no longer around to force her to look, to throw her to the ceiling so she could get a better look, she was alone and if she wanted she could turn around and go back to the previous room where other survivors had surely retreated to not watch that scene. She could do it and yet she didn't. Maybe she didn't want to look at it, maybe she felt like crying, like tearing her hair in confussion and horror, wondering what had happened and why six people had been killed out of the blue, maybe she wanted nothing more than to try to escape that island even if it meant that she would have to swim in the middle of a typhon. But she couldn't do it, deep down she knew she couldn't, not because she could drown or anything but because she wanted to help catch the monster that had killed those six. She wanted to help catch the psycopath that was capable of such a thing, it was just like in the old days with Neuro, despite being scared she always tried to stay with him, she only broke down once and wouldn't do it again. She had learnt from her errors.
Yako frowned, staring at the crime scene seriously. It was a feat impossible for a human, or so it seemed, it should also be impossible for a human to dismember someone and put their insides inside a crystal box with no apparent opening or even glue that could betray how it was built. It should also be impossible to burn a skyscrapper to ashes in just 2 minutes, or to make a person's brain bleed through their ears, or make them vomit all the blood in their body... There were many things impossible for humans that Yako had faced before, and each one of them was indeed the work of a human. This too, it had to be the work of a human, because the sadistic trait of any magical being wouldn't allow them to let them find the corpses, indeed they would surely enjoy it more if the victims were to be found still barely alive, moaning, begging to be killed or healed, whatever to take away the endless pain they were suffering. If a witch was the responsible Yako was sure that was how it would act, to make it a clearer warning to the survivors, let the victims live just enough to tell them it was the witch or to show them their pain. Maybe there was a witch in the island really, Yako didn't know, but she was sure of one thing, no witch was behind that multiple murder.
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