OOC: Application
☀ Application ☀
OOC Information:
Name: Xaetel, Xae
Age: 25
AIM: FeathersGlow
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E-MAIL: xaetel@yahoo.com
IC Information:
Name: Roda
Fandom: Tegami Bachi
Timeline: Chapter 41: Going Home
Age: Real age unknown but looks late teens.
Appearance:
Roda is one of the few people in all of Amberground with white hair that falls in odd layers around the tops of her shoulders with a hint of bangs. It's her eyes that really attract attention however as the iris is swirled with green and black but the usually white sclera is black giving her iris the impression that they sink into darkness - if there's any white at all there's been no indication of it in canon. Like everyone else in Amberground she's fairly pale as the lack of sunlight tends to do to skin and she can usually be found wearing a cloak and scarf of some kind. Underneath is a mostly form-fitting bodysuit although it stops at her upper thighs where they create the illusion of small pumpkin pants. They have a small tie that attach to thigh high leather boots leaving the smallest bit of flesh exposed. She has long gloves go all the way up to her upper arms, although currently shoes and gloves are missing and in their place are bandages.
Abilities:
All of Roda's abilities usually lie in the physical side of things, although she's been experimented on to be stronger, faster, and heightened senses (sight, smell, hearing only) that are beyond that of an average human's. She has yet to demonstrate anything beyond pure skill, acrobatic prowess or sheer adrenaline. Although it seems that she is capable of surviving a fall off of a cliff and then travel miles with only basic healing, not to mention that even as a discarded experiment she made it out of the darkened river filled with other discarded experiments. Survival skills - she has them.
Personality:
Roda can be a cold, cruel woman. At a distance she may seem very unapproachable and not willing to share a lot of information about herself. This stems from the whole fact that she was experimented on until the government no longer had a use for her and then discarded. She’s very goal driven, whether it’s protecting Noir or putting their plan to action, no one will stand in her way. Roda is willing to have other people sacrifice their lives, heart and memories for their goals, gathering them up herself and directing them straight to their deaths without batting an eye. Her complete loyalty is to Noir and for him she’d throw away life in Reverse, kill for him and even die to make sure he stays safe. It’s very likely that she’d do the same for Gauche, although Roda would be deeply hurt to see Noir gone. She does enjoy playing with weaker opponents they have no intention of killing, often drawing out fights or playing along should they be trying to hide from her. However, once they become a threat to their plans she won’t hesitate to take them out.
Yet despite all of her ruthlessness she does have a warm, caring side. It’s very hard to get past the outer walls she’s built up around herself but once someone does Roda thinks of them with a lot of fondness. She’ll attach herself to them and even be loyal up to a certain point as Noir always comes first. There’s even a slight nurturing side as Roda will often act like a mother or even a close family member to take care of someone she cares about who’s sick. She’s a smart woman as she knows and taught Noir everything about the country of Amberground and even about Gauche hinting that she might know more than she lets on.
History:
Not much is known about her young past (most of it could be considered speculations and foreshadowing right now) except that she was created in a lab in Amberground’s capital - she didn’t even have a name. This is where the government and the government scientists have been known to experiment on everything from creating stronger human creatures from physical alterations down to messing with memories and “heart”. From the lab in Akatsuki she became a scraped project and dumped into one of the many darkened rivers that lead out into Yuusari where they expected her to die. However her strong will kept her going and she escaped the river where she eventually found a way to an organization called Reverse and their leader Laurence. It was here that she gained a purpose in life - to help bring down the Amberground government and take out the man-made sun.
While out near one of the many rivers of the capital’s dumping ground she spotted a man who was unconscious but still alive and brought him back to Reverse where he woke up. Laurence explained to him the very basics of where he was, that he’d lost his heart and memories to the light and was more intent on using Gauche to Reverse’s advantage than anything. In this moment he gave Gauche the very girl who saved his life and had her take care of the injured man. She did whatever she can to aid him - taking care of his wounds, feeding him, watched as he gained his strength back - and began to tell him of the world, who he used to be and eventually took him to a spot where they could see the man-made sun. It’s here where he asked her name and the girl responded with the brief fact that she didn’t have one. He told her that they were the same which in a sense meant that he didn’t believe himself to be the man known as Gauche Suede.
That didn’t stop his curiosity and he requested to see the place where Gauche once lived and she couldn’t deny his request so they made the trek into the town and showed him around. There he spotted Slyvette and there might have been the smallest spark of recognition but he moved on quickly. Once they were back among Reverse Laurence spoke to the people about the corrupt government, how they experimented on people in the capital as an escaped experiment himself he took it upon himself to form Reverse to challenge them. At this point Gauche asked if the government really experimented on people and she returned simply that it was true and she was one of them. However she never spoke of it further.
Nearly a year had passed from when Gauche was found and Laurence met with them again to return his heart bullet gun. While speaking of the recovery of Gauche’s heart and how it would be beneficial to Reverse, Gauche surprised them all by shooting off a heart bullet and wanted to become an active member fighting against the government. On his own instance the name Gauche was lost along with his memories and life and he became Noir, Marauder of Reverse. Noir gave her a name at one point, Roda, which was once upon a time the name of Gauche’s dingo and she accepted it.
Roda and Noir traveled to the place where she had washed up, The Rosy Riverbank, and she explained that there was more than one dumping ground for the government and Noir was found at a different one. She confessed that it was her who found him and he gratefully thanked her for saving his life. As they drew closer to the water’s edge, Noir spotted a body and they rushed forward towards the man. He was alive and even conscious and as Noir carried his weakened body back towards Reverse headquarters they were told of how he’d woken up in the dark to a terrible smell and floating in the water.
He used a piece of wood to stay afloat and headed to a faint light in the distance while he kept bumping into things in the dark. Drawing ever closer to the light a voice became increasingly louder and soon it became clear that the voice was coming from the thing he thought was wood. It was actually a woman who had been spliced together with wood to make her part-tree, and as soon as she saw the sky she died and became a withered tree. In Laurence’s presence he becomes another member of Reverse and the wolf-boy was given the name Zeal.
The next few years of their life are mostly unknown but it’s very possible that they traveled through Yuusari, growing stronger and doing the task assigned to Marauders - stealing letters from Bees and gathering them in single location for their future plans. (Mainly I’m leaving this very open as TB has a tendency to go back and show scenes from the past.)
Approximately four years later the pair reappeared outside of a town known as Honey Waters to collect a letter that had been meant for Laurence. Roda separated from Noir to take on Lag’s dingo, Niche, and she dropped a lot of hints that the events that had transpired in the town were known to her. Niche became infuriated as Roda relentlessly poked at the fact that she was a failure as a dingo and it resulted in a fight between the two. Her dagger clashed against Niche’s weapon of choice - hair that could become as sharp and dangerous as swords. The whole time Roda had the upper hand, even managing to cut Niche’s forehead, and once Noir had successfully collected the letter from a persistent Lag the woman departed but not before placing even more doubt into Niche’s head. Together they leave behind an unconscious Lag and an angry dingo moving on to deliver the letter to Laurence.
Almost immediately they set off to fulfill their next task which leads them out to Blue Note Blues. There they find one of the biggest and most dangerous gaichu in all of Amberground to awaken it and set it loose into the world. After the two part ways to quickly with Reverse’s plan, Noir went to collect more letters and Roda went back to one of Reverse’s headquarters in a nearby town. She gathered the followers and the letters sent back to the Veritable Abbey where she was seen by Lag. The boy disguised himself as a girl to sneak in and learn more about their plans but he was soon caught by Roda.
While the human sacrifices and letters make their way to a single location near the town Roda delayed the boy, letting him take guesses at their plan before deciding he was a serious threat to them. She attacked him but before she could take the final blow the gaichuu shook the very foundation bringing down the building and separating them as Lag escaped. Yet he came face-to-face with Noir and Lag immediately began to try to get Gauche back, distracting him long enough for all of those people’s hearts and letters to be taken. Roda was the next to enter the fray followed shortly by Zaji who found a dropped letter bullet of Lag’s and together they tried to shoot Noir with it.
After a while Roda told Noir to leave and continue on but when he tried he was faced with an angry Connor who held the body of one of the sacrificed victims. Her heart was gone and the fact that Noir and Roda did this knowing what would happen infuriated Lag. From his body a bright light even stronger than his normal spirit amber began to grow and he vowed to wipe out Noir’s existence. Finally, at long last, he fired his letter bullet at Noir making the man fall unconscious and Roda was at his side immediately. They were far from being safe however, as the gaichuu had been drawn to all of their use of heart and came to attack them all. Tentacles shot down from the sky, ones that were strong enough to break apart the very earth they stood on. When Noir began to sink into one of those large forming crevices Roda refused to let him go. Holding tight she used every bit of her strength the heft the large man up and over her own head to throw him towards safety. She fell from the cliff but in an instant there were hands grasping her own, the ones of the very enemy she’d just been fighting - Lag. His choice to save her confused Roda and stirred something warm in her heart. Rather than see him go down with her weight Roda released herself from Lag’s hold, plunging to the rocks below.
Up top Lag and the others still had to deal with the gaichuu and when it snatched up Noir’s unconscious form right alongside the boy’s, the older man woke up long enough for them to take out a wing. That was enough for the gaichuu to drop them and turn away to find less troublesome heart. Roda had survived the fall and in the time they were busy with the gaichuu she picked herself up, found Noir’s gun and fled the area. Several days later she was seen outside of the Letter Bee headquarters having followed Noir’s body to it. When the man woke up it seemed that Noir was gone and Gauche was back. He was allowed to spend time with his sister and Lag and from the window he spotted Roda on the street below. A man from the capital came to take him back but was convinced to give them one night so Gauche could see his house again before leaving the next morning. From the carriage window on his way home Gauche and Roda’s eyes met but he didn’t stop, leaving her in the street behind him.
Roleplay Sample - Log:
Everything was silent and still in the darkened street. The light of the man-made sun was brighter here in this town than she was used to and the figure moved to pull the hood down even further over her face to help block it out. Bandaged feet moved over the cobblestone with slow precise care as a puff of her white breath escaped her body meeting the cold air. The biting temperature went unnoticed as Roda closed her eyes, attempting to get a little amount of sleep before she moved on.
Yet as soon as her eyes closed they opened again. The image of Noir in the carriage, leaving her behind was burned into her mind. Beneath her tattered cloak thin fingers clutched the gun tighter. A single word passed through his lips - a name. His name.
"Noir."
Roda wasn't sure what to make of the last few days. Everything had gone so wrong ever since that boy had shown up intent on getting Gauche back. She should have killed him back in the abbey. What stopped me? The idle thought crossed her mind. Just thinking of the boy who tried to save even his enemy made something stir in her heart all this time later. Was it something the government did to her? Maybe part of another life that she couldn't remember? She'd seen it so clearly in what was almost her final moment. That boy and a white dog who so clearly adored him, it was there for a second before remembering the man she'd leave behind. Then darkness when she hit the rocks below.
Even now her entire body ached, reminding her of that fall. That she picked herself up and traversed the darkened, dangerous lands to follow Noir's scent. It led her back to where he had once been Gauche - to the Letter Bee headquarters. Now she was waiting.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[Accidental Video]
[Roda throws the little contraption across the room, causing it to start filming her. She's sitting on the floor of her suite, face mostly obscured from view by the hood of her cloak. Dirty bandages are wrapped loosely around her ankles and legs, and she makes no move to fix them.]
Experiments? We're just specimens for them to toy with. It will end the same way. It always does. Discarded to die.
[She stands, the hood moving back to reveal a bit of her face and white hair.]
I refuse to do what they want.
[The video continues to film her prone form until it eventually times out.]
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