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Player Name: Christy (A WHOLE MONTH AREN'T YOU PROUD?)
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Email and/or AIM: evybay@gmail.com/Chiisuchi
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Other Characters: Dietrich (d1, Trinity Blood), Balalaika (Black Lagoon), Diva (Blood+), Horo (Spice & Wolf)
Character: Ryogi Shiki (Sometimes SHIKI, explanation of that is in this application somewhere)
Series/Fandom: Kara no Kyoukai
Deviance: Deviance 2+, Shiki's powers are somewhat dulled and work more to the rules of Shiki Tohno's (Tsukihime) eyes. She cannot use them for extended periods of time and is not able to see metaphysical lines of death (like psychic powers'). However, she does have her ability as in Kara no Kyoukai to turn the power on and off.
Age: 18 or 19
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Canon Used: Well! There are two forms of Kara no Kyoukai. There are the novels, and there is the “movie series”. Luckily, the movies follow the novels very closely to the point that the only thing that differs is the amount of detail in the novels as compared to the movies. It's worth noting that only four out of seven novels have been translated completely (but there are tidbits from other volumes) and only three movies have been released so far.
Basically everything.
Appearance: Shiki isn't a spectacularly beautiful girl. In fact, it'd be fine to say she's rather plain as far as appearances go. Her hair is brown and short, just long enough to hide her ears, and since she trims it herself, it's rather sloppily cut as if it were a bother. Her eyes are the same color as her hair, and her face and body have a sense of androgyny. It's said that she looks like a woman to men and a man to women, but the feature that makes her stand out the most is what identifies her as female right away. Shiki only wears kimonos. Even if it may seem like an anachronism when the turn of the millennium is just around the corner, it's her clothing of choice. When it gets cold, though, or maybe just to accent her personality, Shiki owns a red, leather bomber jacket which contrasts quite oddly with the kimonos she wears.
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Psychology: The current Shiki is not the same as the past Shiki. Sure, you might think it's character development, but it's quite different. To put it simply, it's more like combining the two aspects of Shiki's character that made up her past self. You see, Shiki once had a multiple personality disorder. There was Shiki (式) and there was SHIKI (織). Shiki was the female personality while SHIKI was the male personality. Shiki was quiet, withdrawn, and cold. She did not associate with other people, preferring to withdraw to herself. SHIKI was the male personality, loud, outspoken, and rather rude at times. Shiki was the primary personality, and these two personalities lived together in harmony. They describe the difference as “their priorities being backwards”. What Shiki considers important, SHIKI thinks is trivial, and vice-versa. Shiki accepts all things, while SHIKI rejects all things. SHIKI even rejected humans, and claimed that his only emotion was “murder”. To put it simply, SHIKI loved to kill people. However, when one classmate of Shiki's got too close, SHIKI and Shiki began to become out of sync to the point that SHIKI tried to kill this classmate.
However, there was an accident that put Shiki in a coma for two years. When she awoke, SHIKI was dead. Insert some emo and existentialist crap here (g2/history section/) but it ended up being that this new Shiki was almost a third personalty. The current Shiki is both SHIKI and Shiki of the past. She is still quiet, but certainly makes a presence wherever she goes. Shiki is, at a first glance, a very traditional Japanese woman. She hardly ever wears anything other than her kimonos and red leather jacket, and she is a quiet woman. However, the red leather jacket certainly signifies that rougher edge of her personality. Shiki is a bold person, in reality, and is less the woman she appears to be and leans more towards the androgyny of her figure. She speaks in a mix of Japanese and Western styles (which, to be honest, I'm not sure how that even sounds, but they point it out in the novels a lot, so) using slang and vulgarity when she sees fit. She's not a shy person and will not hesitate to tell you what she thinks of you, whether good or bad. However, she is shy in that she will not let people get close to her emotionally.
On that point, Shiki is a largely apathetic person. Shiki, even before the accident, cared very little for humans. She was lonely, in the sense that no other people were around her, but she was not in that she had SHIKI. However, losing SHIKI, Shiki now must deal with the loneliness she feels in a new way other than, really, ignoring it. Because of that, she is attached to Kokutou, even if she would never admit it. He is her one friend, and the only person in the world that she cares about. Even then, it's not like they have a loving relationship. Shiki is still just as rude and apathetic to Kokutou as everyone else, but Shiki is willing to help Kokutou and even save him if need be. Excluding him, though, Shiki couldn't care less about the other people of the world. For example, she saw a person being mercilessly beat-up to the point of death. She did not come to save him, only to return something he had dropped while running. When the assailants attacked her, she dispatched them easily and quickly, but left the beat-up person to death if he had not interested her.
He claimed to have killed a person. Shiki of the present still has SHIKI's desire to kill. She does not indiscriminately kill people, as SHIKI did, but rather vents these murderous desires through her “job” at Garan no Dou where she will certainly fight powerful humans and creatures. Shiki loves fighting and pursues the next great opponent for her to fight. This is because, more than anything else, when Shiki is fighting, when Shiki is dancing with death, she feels the most alive. Shiki is ruthless when she's fighting, still apathetic to her opponent, but she is not beyond mercy. In fact, if it comes to be that they bore her, she will leave them be, or even help them. Shiki fights for the thrill rather than pure bloodlust.
But ignoring the borderline psychopathic tendencies, Shiki is overall, just a cold and detached person. She's been this way her whole life, but the coma actually softened this tendency. While she's more apathetic, more masculine in her mannerisms, and a scary kind of person, if you have Shiki on good terms with you, not only are you pretty incredible, but you have a loyal and good friend, even if she would never admit any of this to anyone.
Other Skills/Abilities: The most notable (and hax) ability of Shiki's is her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. It's a long name, sure, but it is ultimately hax in that it allows Shiki to see the origin or fundamental weak point of all things. And by all things, I mean all things. It's not limited to just physical objects, but also includes things like psychic powers and time itself. If Shiki cuts along these lines, it bifurcates the object, and if she stabs it, it causes instant death.
With less hax abilities, Shiki's right arm is a doll's arm, perfected by Aozaki Touko, a magus, to the point it's not possible to tell that it's not a real arm by looking at it. From when I take her, Touko comments that it could withstand an elephant stomping on it and not break, so it's strong. Shiki is also proficient with blades and in martial arts of any kind. She also has a freaky pain tolerance, but that could be lol anime.
Other Weaknesses: Shiki is human is is subject to human things like stabbings in the heart equating to death. She also does not like cold things, but that's less a weakness and more lol wat.
History: Shiki was born into the prestigious Ryogi family. This family is notable because of its bloodline, which has traces of magic left in it from centuries past. Because of this, the Ryogi family's heirs are those that possess this mystic blood. However, the defining point for this bloodline is the presence of two personalities within one body. The future heads of the Ryogi family have these two personalities, with the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It just so happened that Shiki was a girl. This was of little concern to the family, however, and Shiki was picked as the future head of the family rather than her older brother, despite being female. She was trained since she was very young in swordsmanship and combat, since her family sought to produce strong heirs, and while most future heads of the family eventually went insane because of the pressure of their family and the dual personalities within them, Shiki remained perfectly fine. In fact, the two personalities developed alongside each other, with no fight for control of the body they shared. There is Shiki (式) the yin and there is SHIKI (織) the yang. SHIKI primarily took control for fighting, and while they were two separate people, SHIKI was the representation of Shiki's muted desires. They were unified, and all was well.
Until shit hit the fan, of course. In March of 1995, Mikiya Kokutou and Ryogi Shiki meet for the first time. A month later, they meet again in the same, prestigious high school that they'll both be attending. All the classmates are curious about Shiki, not only because of her odd choice of clothing (since this school doesn't require uniforms) but also because of the very air she gives off. However, they quickly learn that Shiki is cold, and leave her alone for the rest of the year. Except Kokutou. Kokutou and Shiki become something a lot like friends, to the point that they even go out on a “date” for Shiki to introduce Kokutou to SHIKI. At first he's confused by the idea of “two” Shiki's, but it doesn't impact his idea of her at all. Not even Shiki's admittance that Shiki and SHIKI are getting out of sync phases him.
Of course, at the beginning of the year, a string of murders also started. One day, at dinner with his cousin who is also a detective, Kokutou finds out about a piece of evidence that was found at one of the odd murder scenes: their school's emblem. The next day, SHIKI meets Kokutou after school and quite simply tells him that anyone that tries to get close to Shiki will be killed. Despite that, Kokutou, now admitting his love to himself, invites Shiki to lunch the next day. Kokutou notices an injury on her arm, which Shiki nonchalantly comments is from her last killing. Of course, Kokutou refuses to believe this, and to that, Shiki retorts that he needs to back off or she'll probably end of killing him. As if to confirm Shiki's words, that night Kokutou meets his cousin once again, finding out that the victim was found with skin under their fingernails, and that it likely came from the killer's elbow region. Connecting this to Shiki, Kokutou runs out to her mansion to see Shiki. However, the servant of the mansion informs him that she is not in. Kokutou leaves, but does encounter Shiki on the way back. In the bamboo groves, Shiki is standing over a fresh and very gruesomely bloody corpse, holding a knife.
The police find the scene, and Kokutou, and he's taken in for questioning. However, he still will not admit that it was Shiki. In fact, he's so adamant of her innocence that he goes to her house every night, not-so-discretely keeping watch on her house to confirm her innocence since she will not leave while he's there. Understandably, this upsets Shiki and she ignores him. Yet, finally, she loses her patience and confronts him, and only asks if he will be coming that night as their parting words. Stupidly, he does. And meets Shiki in the rain. With a knife. Shiki tries to kill Kokutou, chasing him through the bamboo groves until she stands over him in the middle of the street, pinning him down. She holds the knife to his throat and tells him to say something, to which he replies that he doesn't want to die. Shiki simply responds “I want to kill you”.
At this point, Shiki gets hit by a car, and is put into a coma for two years, and does not age. It's June of 1998 when she awakens, and the first thing Shiki does is try and claw out her own eyes. With bandaged eyes and nothing to see as she's prepared for release from the hospital, Shiki finds herself “empty”. She does not know why at first, but when a magus disguised as a doctor comes to visit, Touko helps Shiki realize that Shiki's sense of emptiness is because she has lost a part of herself. According to Touko, Shiki's accident should have killed her. However, it was SHIKI that died in Shiki's place. Shiki is missing a part of herself quite literally, and has the sense that her memories are not hers because of this. Additionally, any time when SHIKI was in control of the body, Shiki does not remember. Those memories are dead, after all. Shiki has a struggle with herself and her new role in the world, concerned about the feeling that her memories are not hers, the friend whose name she cannot rememberer, and her cursed eyes. However, because of the emptiness, spirits have been lingering around the hospital seeking to take Shiki's body for their own. Eventually, they possess a corpse in the hospital and attack Shiki, nearly killing her, but she realizes she doesn't want to die. Using her new Mystic Eyes, she dispatches the corpse with relative ease with her new realization.
Shiki also realizes that she only truly feels alive when she's fighting, or put more simply, when she has a chance of dying. Because of that, Touko employs her at Garan no Dou, Touko's business of...I don't even know. They do weird shit. It just so happens Kokutou is also employed here! Ohohoho. So as a combination of both Shiki and SHIKI's personalties, Shiki lives quietly in her apartment unless Touko calls with a job for her to do. Shiki's first job was regarding a client's request to track down a girl, dead or alive. Shiki is good at that, obviously. This girl, Asagami Fujino, is a highschool-aged girl who is actually friends with Kokutou's younger sister Azaka, but Fujino is odd. Fujino has insensitivity, meaning she is not capable of feeling sensation, whether it's a tap on the shoulder or pain. Fujino was “taken” by a local gang and repeatedly raped and abused over a period of six months. However, after one hit her in the back with a baseball bat, it effectively fixed her insensitivity, if only temporarily. One of the gang members tried to stab Fujino while raping her, and because of a confusion of pain in her stomach, she ended up killing all but one using an odd power that allows her to “bend” anything.
So Fujino set out to find the remaining gang member and kill him. However, despite her insistence otherwise, she gradually learned to enjoy the murders. So, of course, Shiki and Fujino met. Their battleground was a bridge that was being constructed, and Fujino even overpowered Shiki. Fujino “bent” Shiki's arm, bending and twisting it to the point that it was no longer functional. However, Shiki was excited by this game, and even realized that she could see the lines of Fujino's power after a while.
*INSERT SEXY FIGHT SCENE HERE*
Fujino bends the bridge, almost dies, but Shiki cuts the source of Fujino's pain. Fujino had appendicitis. Fujino lives, we find out, and Touko crafts Shiki an artificial, but fully functional arm for Shiki.
Shiki comes from roughly August of 1998, after Chapter 3/meeting Fujino. However, Kara no Kyoukai's order is not the same as chronological order, so for a better idea of when in the series this is, have a timeline.