Character Info, Permissions, HMD
Character: Madotsuki
Fandom: Yume Nikki (Dream Diary) - Japanese RPG-Maker game
Character Notes:
History: In truth, Madotsuki’s ‘history’ means nothing to the game. She is a hikikomori. There is no need for the game to go into detail because the players (before the English translation was available) were surely well-versed enough in Japanese culture to know the basic profile of a hikikomori.
Hikikomori is a Japanese term describing a shut-in who refuses to leave his/her room (or house) and refuses social contact. Because of this there are a few things that can be immediately known about Madotsuki. Firstly, she is from a middle-class to wealthy family (hikikomori-ism does not appear in the lower classes due to the need of others to support them, considering that they do not work). Secondly, her withdrawal from society was a slow process starting with depression/social anxiety in high school and culminating in her shutting herself up in her room.
*WARNING FOR GAME SPOILERS IN PERSONALITY SECTION*
Personality: Firstly, Madotsuki is depressed. This is seen in her constant sleeping, vivid/disturbing dreams… not to mention the end of the game, where she commits suicide by jumping off of her balcony. All of these point to depression.
She is naturally very creative, as evidenced by the variety and detail of her dream-worlds. Some part of her does want to interact with people - her dreams are full of human-shaped figures (however, when she tries to interact with them, they cannot talk and only make noise…).
While in her dreams, she is inquisitive and curious. She wanders around as she feels like it, finds new areas, and experiments with effects. Unlike when she is awake, she is not afraid. However, because she is aware of the fact that she is dreaming, she does not treat the figures in her dreams as though they were real people - usually, she’ll try her effects on them to see if anything happens. And/or knife them. She’s not a crazy knife murder- it’s just one more thing she can do in her dreams.
One thing that she is afraid of in dreams is sex and the reproductive system. Most of the disturbing imagery that appears in her dreams are distorted (and sometimes bleeding, or covered in eyeballs) reproductive organs, specifically the female uterus. She hasn’t come to terms with her body’s development and expresses this by dreaming about such things in a nightmarish context - (The large phallic-shaped creature dubbed kyukyu-kun by fans is immediately followed by her waking up from panic, rather than of her own choice; the “weeping alien” which is also quite obviously phallic produces showers of blood when stabbed, unlike most other creatures; the girl dubbed Monoko grows extra limbs and a melting eyeball when she is ‘changed’ by an effect…) Fear of puberty and sex is rather common among hikikomori, so this is quite to be expected in a character like her.
A NOTE ABOUT CHARACTERIZATION:
If you're actually reading this far, I assume you've interacted with Madotsuki or plan to. You maybe noticed she doesn't use capitals or standard grammar. In my mind, Madotsuki views her interactions on the comm as a form of talking to herself - not to mention that she isn't used to holding conversation. So yeah, her dialogue will be choppy, awkward, and nonstandard in its grammar.
THIS WILL CHANGE, I PROMISE. give her some time to get used to interacting on the comm and eventually she'll grow used to holding a conversation without the rampant awkward.
PERMISSIONS:
Please, know whatever you'd like to about Madotsuki. Do whatever you'd like to her. If you're in doubt just pm me, I can't imagine a scenario that I'd be opposed to.
HMD
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...please?
Fandom: Yume Nikki (Dream Diary) - Japanese RPG-Maker game
Character Notes:
History: In truth, Madotsuki’s ‘history’ means nothing to the game. She is a hikikomori. There is no need for the game to go into detail because the players (before the English translation was available) were surely well-versed enough in Japanese culture to know the basic profile of a hikikomori.
Hikikomori is a Japanese term describing a shut-in who refuses to leave his/her room (or house) and refuses social contact. Because of this there are a few things that can be immediately known about Madotsuki. Firstly, she is from a middle-class to wealthy family (hikikomori-ism does not appear in the lower classes due to the need of others to support them, considering that they do not work). Secondly, her withdrawal from society was a slow process starting with depression/social anxiety in high school and culminating in her shutting herself up in her room.
*WARNING FOR GAME SPOILERS IN PERSONALITY SECTION*
Personality: Firstly, Madotsuki is depressed. This is seen in her constant sleeping, vivid/disturbing dreams… not to mention the end of the game, where she commits suicide by jumping off of her balcony. All of these point to depression.
She is naturally very creative, as evidenced by the variety and detail of her dream-worlds. Some part of her does want to interact with people - her dreams are full of human-shaped figures (however, when she tries to interact with them, they cannot talk and only make noise…).
While in her dreams, she is inquisitive and curious. She wanders around as she feels like it, finds new areas, and experiments with effects. Unlike when she is awake, she is not afraid. However, because she is aware of the fact that she is dreaming, she does not treat the figures in her dreams as though they were real people - usually, she’ll try her effects on them to see if anything happens. And/or knife them. She’s not a crazy knife murder- it’s just one more thing she can do in her dreams.
One thing that she is afraid of in dreams is sex and the reproductive system. Most of the disturbing imagery that appears in her dreams are distorted (and sometimes bleeding, or covered in eyeballs) reproductive organs, specifically the female uterus. She hasn’t come to terms with her body’s development and expresses this by dreaming about such things in a nightmarish context - (The large phallic-shaped creature dubbed kyukyu-kun by fans is immediately followed by her waking up from panic, rather than of her own choice; the “weeping alien” which is also quite obviously phallic produces showers of blood when stabbed, unlike most other creatures; the girl dubbed Monoko grows extra limbs and a melting eyeball when she is ‘changed’ by an effect…) Fear of puberty and sex is rather common among hikikomori, so this is quite to be expected in a character like her.
A NOTE ABOUT CHARACTERIZATION:
If you're actually reading this far, I assume you've interacted with Madotsuki or plan to. You maybe noticed she doesn't use capitals or standard grammar. In my mind, Madotsuki views her interactions on the comm as a form of talking to herself - not to mention that she isn't used to holding conversation. So yeah, her dialogue will be choppy, awkward, and nonstandard in its grammar.
THIS WILL CHANGE, I PROMISE. give her some time to get used to interacting on the comm and eventually she'll grow used to holding a conversation without the rampant awkward.
PERMISSIONS:
Please, know whatever you'd like to about Madotsuki. Do whatever you'd like to her. If you're in doubt just pm me, I can't imagine a scenario that I'd be opposed to.
HMD
Ahh, the most important part. Please leave comments here. PLEASE. PLEASE LEAVE THEM.
Anon is on! IP logging is off! If you have anything at all you'd like to say, please do!
...please?