!ooc; Siren's Pull Application

May 08, 2011 02:22

Player Information

Name: Kazu
Age: 18
AIM SN: candycaneFLAWS
email: candycaneFLAWS [at] gmail [dot] com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Currrently Played Characters: Luca Macken | Kuroshitsuji 2 | wishgrant
Conditional: Activity Check Link: N/A.

Character Information

General
Canon Source: Princess Tutu
Canon Format: Anime
Character's Name: Mytho (Officially Prince Siegfried, but Mytho is what he is called.)
Character's Age: ...14-ish? Maybe 15.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A.

What form will your character's NV take? ngl, i chose it just because he will break it within a week. :|a

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Unlike the rest of the group, he doesn't seem to have any big supernatural abilities beyond being able to summon rose petals. He has a magical sword that lets him shatter his own heart and slay giant reality-breaking ravens.

Does never having pants count as an ability?
Also, he managed to seal the raven away with the pieces of his heart, so he has magical heart powers.

However, as these aren't really abilities he has at the moment because of his heartlessness, I'm goign to go ahead and throw in a dormant one if it's alright.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? I'd like to give him empathy; the ability to feel the emotions of others. Through touch in this case. However, he wouldn't be able to recognize most of the emotions he picks up.

Weapons: His magical heart-shattering-raven-slaying sword. It's...not much use without his full heart though.

History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Series Wiki Page
Episode List/Guide

Point in Canon: Post-Episode Eight. After he gets the Heart Shard of Curiosity (though the episode guide links says "knowledge", it's curiosity) returned.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A.

Character Personality: Once upon a time, there was a prince in a storybook. He was beautiful and kind, a prince who loved everyone and was loved by everyone. The prince was also brave and fought the evil raven that was plaguing the town and sought the prince's heart to eat.
And once upon a time, Mytho was that kind and beautiful prince. But to defeat the evil raven, he had to shatter his heart and use the pieces to seal the raven away. This left him emotionless, but for his desire to protect the helpless. Lacking emotions and the ability to understand or relate to others, Mytho became more akin to a puppet then a person, following any orders he was given by Fakir for lack of knowledge about what to do himself. The lack of feeling leaves him without the ability to recognize danger, and whether or not the consequences are worth the person, or gain for which he's endangering himself: He jumps out of a window to save a bird that was learning to fly from a raven. He twists his ankle saving Ahiru from a harmless fall to the floor.

And this is how Mytho spends his time between being discovered by Fakir and the start of the story: Listless, and doll-like.

The lack of emotions is apparent from the start: He talks little, giving only simple replies to pretty much anything at all. "I don't know", "Maybe", and "Yes, Fakir" make up his vocabulary. He speaks in a monotone with no inflection and follows the orders of Fakir and Rue without question. He doesn't do anything because he enjoys it since, well, he has no idea what enjoying something feels like. He follows what Fakir does, taking cues from him in everyday behavior.

But as Mytho slowly regains his feelings shard by shard, we begin to see glimpses of the prince he once was, and still is.

Mytho is a kind and gentle person, one who cares for those around him and wants to protect others from hurt even at the expense of himself. He shattered his heart to seal away the raven that escaped from the storybook and endangered Kinkan Town. After this, he remains in the town and falls into the care of Fakir, at the time a young boy. During his stay with him, he endangers himself multiple times trying to protect things around the town, be it animals caught in a fire or bb!Rue when she is attacked by her father's ravens. It gets so bad that Fakir finally has enough; he orders Mytho to only obey him, to rely only on him. If he follows Fakir's orders, he won't have to worry about not having a heart because Fakir will tell him what to do.

Mytho apparently has an agreeable side as well, because for the next few years, he goes along with Fakir and his orders to the point that Fakir chooses what books he can and cannot read, and he doesn't speak up against it at all. Without feelings, he doesn't understand what it's like to do things on his own and feels no need to. But as he regains his heart shards, Mytho begins to not only become more expressive and understanding of the feelings of others, but more rebellious of Fakir as well.

As the number of heart shards he has increases, so does Mytho's behavior. He begins to show surprise, and more concern for the feelings of those around him. He makes the active effort to understand what it is he's feeling, going so far as to question Fakir and even Rue-- "I wonder if this is the feeling of loneliness?" "Tell me Fakir, what is it I feel for you?" "What is it? This feeling of wanting to see somebody?"

This feeds into the inquisitiveness he apparently held before once Curiousity is returned to him. He questiosn Rue directly about his feelings for her, wants to know if he lieks her, what he feels for Princess Tutu, what he feels about anything.

As an add in, he begins to rebel against Fakir as he gets more and more emotions back. At the beginning it was small things that probably weren't even considered by him: Wandering off without leaving a note for Fakir no matter how many times he tells him to, or going off with Rue despite what he's told. But as the series goes on, it grows. He directly tells Fakir that he'll go meet Ahiru if he wants, and gets to the point that Fakir finally has to acknowledge he no has control over what Mytho does.

It's taking time and is proving to be a struggle but piece by piece, Mytho regains the person he used to be: The kind and gentle Prince Siegfried.

And in the mean time he will just be in the corner causing trouble for Fakir.

And not wearing pants.

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A.

Character Plans:
If the idea Ahiru-mun and I were discussing of having Mytho's heart shards be brought to the Port with him, I would hope to use these to get some plot going. As well, I would like to try developing his character through the heart shards in game.

Appearance/PB: omg it's a guidebook scan!

Writing Samples

First Person Sample [ The NV cuts on to a giant golden eye. Guess who has decided the way to use his NV is to stare at it up close. ] I was told to use this to look for someone I know. [ The voice is soft, only colored slightly with curiosity, the rest of the boy's expression strangely vacant as he finally pulls the screen away so he can be seen in full. ]

Fakir? Rue? Are you here?

[ Silence. ]

Tutu? [ For a moment, there is apparent longing in his voice, but it's gone as soon as it arrives, and once again his face is blank. ]

...This is not Kinkan Town. I don't understand why I'm here. The people made strange expressions.

[ More silence, and more blank!faec. ]

Why?

Third Person Sample: Being ordered around by Fakir wasn't something Mytho had ever been of mind to question. Things were much easier for him that way, with Fakir simply telling him what to do. They were never complicated things, or something that required more ability than Mytho had in his emotionless state. And today's was just as simple -- Stay on the bench he had been led to, and wait for Fakir to come back. No wandering off for anything.

Of course, orders to stay still weren't Mytho's strong point. There were no animals around today to keep himself busy while Fakir did whatever he was doing. Only clouds and the warm breeze that signaled the onset of summer and the continued return of any birds that had flown south to escape the winter.

Somewhere in the distance were voices, higher pitched than the voices of boy's in the dormitories he had come to recognize. Girls, then. Was Rue with them? Or Ahiru?

The feeling was returning. The feeling of wanting to see "someone". Of wanting to be around and talk to that "someone". A tug at his heart, urging to him to get up, to leave the bench against Fakir's orders and go looking for the one person that could drive the feeling away.

The voices were further now, and he recognized laughter as they grew quieter. It didn't sound like laughter from anyone he knew-- not Ahiru's high, somewhat scratchy laughter. Or Rue's deeper laugh, more "sophisticated" as Fakir had once called it. (What made someone's voice sophisticated, he had wondered later, hours after his feeling curiosity had been returned.) Nonetheless, the feeling of wanting to see someone and the curiosity were strong, and he quietly left the bench, giving one last glance to the building Fakir had left for.

But just as quickly he was walking away, following the trail that they'd come up together, following the pulling at his heart.

Maybe he would run into Rue. Or Ahiru. Maybe if he was lucky, he would run into Tutu, and the feeling of longing to see someone would abate once again.

!application, !ooc

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