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P L A Y E R
☓ Name: Tara
☓ Personal journal: untwining
☓ Age: 16
☓ Other characters in The Devils See: N/A
☓ Email: visone.tempesta@gmail.com
☓ AIM: tsundullahan
C H A R A C T E R
☓ Name: Celty Sturluson
☓ Series: Durarara!! (anime)
☓ Reference: Here.
☓ Canon point: From the end of episode 19; just after the confrontation with the Yellow Scarves and Kida.
☓ Age: Unknown, centuries most likely. She appears to be around 25 or so, but only has memories of the past 20 years of her life beyond a few scattered tidbits of centuries past.
☓ Personality: Once upon a time, a woman wakes up in a graveyard with no recollection of how she got there, missing something very important. In fact, a great deal of her memories are missing: she can only recall how to use her abilities, a few splintered fragments of age-old memories, and her name.
Her name is Celty Sturluson, and her head has just been stolen.
Celty is a Dullahan, a Celtic faerie of legend. Dullahans are headless riders who travel with similarly headless horses who draw carriages--known as coiste bodhars--tossing buckets of blood onto those who would foolishly open their doors while they pass on their journey. Typically a Dullahan keeps their head tucked under one arm, and that head is mute but for one thing: the names of those who will soon die, whom they travel to visit.
Celty has a very practical way of thinking, and prefers to simply not over-think things she doesn't understand. Her initial reaction is the realization that "I must not have been thinking of things with my head." Moments after that, she notices that she can sense something, and that it's most likely her head. After considering, she decides that her consciousness was likely shared between her head and body, and that her missing memories must be inside her head, then leaves it at that.
Celty, steed and all, sets out to regain her head. She reaches the sea, and manages to stow away on a ship. There is a problem, however, her horse. She could dismiss the servant-spirit possessing the horse's corpse, but she doesn't know what would happen to it in that case. Unable to bring herself to abandon the spirit, the discovery of a motorcycle ends in the spirit changing shape to that form, and they board the ship. There, a small boy named Kishitani Shinra finds her, and alerts his father. That man--Kishitani Shingen-- offers Celty a deal. He would provide the Dullahan with a place to stay while she searched for her head, but only if she permitted him to perform a vivisection on her. Being practical, she accepts.
Twenty years later, in Ikebukuro, Celty is beginning to fear she's becoming more like a human than a Dullahan. She works as a courier, lives with Kishitani Shinra, and has become something of an urban legend, the Headless Rider.
The first we really see of her she is on a job, rescuing a young woman from kidnappers and delivering quite the ass-kicking while she is at it. She delivers the girl to Izaya, as the job entailed, and beforehand he told Celty "all you need to do is what you're asked." Despite that, Celty saves the young woman from her suicide attempt, instigated by Izaya. When the girl asks her why, Celty's response is simply "because the world isn't as bad as you think." This demonstrates that she does have moral lines that she refuses to cross, as well as a certain amount of optimism. Celty is matter of fact and open about her opinions, and flat-out tells Izaya that he's a creepy guy.
Her home life isn't without its issues, not with a roommate that's obviously smitten with her, and entirely too inquisitive for her admittedly meager patience. She tends to get rather short with Shinra, especially when he insists she's fine without her head, an idea that she's very resistant to. She often gets so frustrated with the man that she ends up leaving the house for hours on end. Eventually Celty overcomes her tsundere and finally allows Shinra to woo her, and they start dating, though this comes with the realization that Shinra is a filthy liar, and though she loves him dearly, she may never trust him again. Nonetheless they are quite the loving couple for the most part, though she seems to have retained the reflex for gut-punching him when he gets too affetionate.
Celty has also managed to befriend another legend of Ikebukuro, the famed Shizuo Heiwajima. Perhaps it's that she can't speak words that piss him off, and the sound of her breathing (she doesn't) can't annoy him, but they are fairly close. Close enough that Shizuo gets angry for her sake when she won't, and close enough that speaking with her can even come close to calming his vicious temper.
The catastrophe that was Harima Mika's impersonation of her head put Celty through a lot of emotional turmoil. It brought up the possibility that her head may not want to be re-united with her, and of how far she would go to regain that part of herself. It proved that Celty has a breaking point, one at which she has been known to ride down a skyscraper, scythe in hand, and beat the shit out of several trained bodyguards. All the while her mind was screaming so strongly that it was actually heard by the crowd below, though they couldn't tell it was her.
Celty's first encounter with Anri was not exactly a pleasant one--not when the girl sent her helmet flying in an attempt to cut off her head, then stabbed her in the arm. It was made extra unpleasant by the stab wound calling her a monster as it faded, convincing Celty that her attacker was an alien. Eventually, though, after the Slasher incident, Celty took Anri under her wing in an almost motherly way.
☓ Abilities: Celty is a Dullahan, or a headless horsewoman. That being said, she is, well, headless. From the stump of her neck rises a sort of smoky shadow-like substance that she can form into most anything at will. Her clothes, for instance, are made of this shadowy stuff, though she also can summon a scythe (which does not actually cut, but instead knocks out those it touches) , turn the shadow into a whip-like shape, spiderweb-like netting, an enclosed sphere, smaller blades, gloves, helmets et cetera.
Celty can see, smell and hear, which she should by all rights be unable to do, so it’s being listed as a supernatural ability simply because it is one. She is also physically stronger and faster than an average human, but nowhere near the levels of, say, Shizuo. She does not need to eat, though she does sleep.
Also to be considered is her familiar of sorts, a spirit called a coach-a-bower. They usually take the shape of a headless horse and chariot, but hers has since taken on the shape of a motorcycle so black it’s like a shadow. It’s known to whinny at times.
Celty is essentially immortal, as her missing head controls her mortality. Without it, she is simply unable to die, and regenerates from wounds within minutes.
☓ Weaknesses: Celty is for all intents and purposes mute. She does manage to speak once in the anime, though she’s consumed with emotion at the time, and it’s unsure whether it was her physical voice or some psychic phenomenon. She deals with this obstacle by using the text feature on her cell phone, typing out what she intends to say and then showing the screen to the recipient.
While she can generally keep a cool head, Celty is actually very emotional. She's prone to emotional outbursts at times, especially around those close to her (hello Shinra). She is sometimes struck with bouts of self-deprication, unable to handle the simple tasks her condition denies her, such as cooking.
Celty is plagued by something of an existential crisis. As a Dullahan she should not be involved with the human world, should not have friends, a lover, a life among a bustling city. Her identity is a huge issue for her, with her fears that she is becoming too human, and her unwillingness to give up what that humanity has gained her.
Her immortality has really only served to increase her fear of death, as she is convinced that her head is what carries the secret to her mortality. An underlying reason for that fear is that Celty is scared of not being able to control her own life, the concept that she could die at any time, no matter her opinion on the matter, terrifies her.
As a supernatural creature herself, Celty maintains a somewhat unhealthy fear of aliens, fed by her favored television programs. Her initial assumption upon encountering Saika was that it was an alien planning an invasion.
Ikebukuro introduced an entire battalion of traffic police a while after the fiasco at the Dollars meeting, specifically to harangue her. This gave Celty an almost ridiculous fear of any police, if not just law-keepers in themselves, considering them the true monsters.
Also she is a ridiculously terrible liar.
☓ Strengths: Celty is good at staying calm in times of need, like fights and other tricky situations. She is efficient in her job as a courier, which often puts her into contact with unscrupulous people. She can get along with most anyone, with few exceptions, her tolerance of Izaya a prime example of this. She is intelligent, willing to help people even after being told to simply do her job.
Celty is very driven when properly motivated, as demonstrated by her conducting the search for her head for twenty years before even beginning to accept that she might not find it.
☓ Intranet post sample: [Celty takes the precaution of angling the camera up so she is out of view before fiddling with the console, and with good reason too. The camera picks up a shot of curling black smoke in contrast to the window behind and little else before she successfully switches to text.]
Can someone tell me where exactly this graveyard is? I don't want to go there or anything, but it sounds like a place anyone would want to avoid, right? So knowing the location of a place to avoid would be nice. I would really appreciate it.
☓ Log post sample: Celty enjoys riding her changed coach-a-bower best at night. Late at night, when the roads are nearly empty of both civilians and police, so she can speed up without fear of being seen or getting caught in an accident. When the luminescent night scene of Ikebukuro can become a series of colored streaks taken in by her not-eyes, seen by some sense of magic.
It’s times like these she can try to remember. Imagining the feel of chilled air whipping through the hair of the head tucked under her arm, recalling the up and down movement of the headless horse her familiar had once been. The spirit had been a near smooth ride, for all its headlessness, and she hadn’t been too jostled in the little time she could remember riding it as a horse.
The Dullahan wonders how that air had tasted, for surely her head had been able to -could even now -- taste it. Or did air have a different flavor at all, given location? A pause, a shift in speeds as the vehicle whirls almost viciously around a corner. She’s ruining her time for reflection, with all of this nitpicking.
She’ll just focus on the feel of the wind rustling her clothes, now, focus on the reality of what she has now. Better yet, she’ll forgo thinking entirely in these blurred moments and allow herself to be lost in the howling wind and the colors she should by all rights be unable to see. Maybe it’s even better this way.
☓ Name: Tara
☓ Personal journal: untwining
☓ Age: 16
☓ Other characters in The Devils See: N/A
☓ Email: visone.tempesta@gmail.com
☓ AIM: tsundullahan
C H A R A C T E R
☓ Name: Celty Sturluson
☓ Series: Durarara!! (anime)
☓ Reference: Here.
☓ Canon point: From the end of episode 19; just after the confrontation with the Yellow Scarves and Kida.
☓ Age: Unknown, centuries most likely. She appears to be around 25 or so, but only has memories of the past 20 years of her life beyond a few scattered tidbits of centuries past.
☓ Personality: Once upon a time, a woman wakes up in a graveyard with no recollection of how she got there, missing something very important. In fact, a great deal of her memories are missing: she can only recall how to use her abilities, a few splintered fragments of age-old memories, and her name.
Her name is Celty Sturluson, and her head has just been stolen.
Celty is a Dullahan, a Celtic faerie of legend. Dullahans are headless riders who travel with similarly headless horses who draw carriages--known as coiste bodhars--tossing buckets of blood onto those who would foolishly open their doors while they pass on their journey. Typically a Dullahan keeps their head tucked under one arm, and that head is mute but for one thing: the names of those who will soon die, whom they travel to visit.
Celty has a very practical way of thinking, and prefers to simply not over-think things she doesn't understand. Her initial reaction is the realization that "I must not have been thinking of things with my head." Moments after that, she notices that she can sense something, and that it's most likely her head. After considering, she decides that her consciousness was likely shared between her head and body, and that her missing memories must be inside her head, then leaves it at that.
Celty, steed and all, sets out to regain her head. She reaches the sea, and manages to stow away on a ship. There is a problem, however, her horse. She could dismiss the servant-spirit possessing the horse's corpse, but she doesn't know what would happen to it in that case. Unable to bring herself to abandon the spirit, the discovery of a motorcycle ends in the spirit changing shape to that form, and they board the ship. There, a small boy named Kishitani Shinra finds her, and alerts his father. That man--Kishitani Shingen-- offers Celty a deal. He would provide the Dullahan with a place to stay while she searched for her head, but only if she permitted him to perform a vivisection on her. Being practical, she accepts.
Twenty years later, in Ikebukuro, Celty is beginning to fear she's becoming more like a human than a Dullahan. She works as a courier, lives with Kishitani Shinra, and has become something of an urban legend, the Headless Rider.
The first we really see of her she is on a job, rescuing a young woman from kidnappers and delivering quite the ass-kicking while she is at it. She delivers the girl to Izaya, as the job entailed, and beforehand he told Celty "all you need to do is what you're asked." Despite that, Celty saves the young woman from her suicide attempt, instigated by Izaya. When the girl asks her why, Celty's response is simply "because the world isn't as bad as you think." This demonstrates that she does have moral lines that she refuses to cross, as well as a certain amount of optimism. Celty is matter of fact and open about her opinions, and flat-out tells Izaya that he's a creepy guy.
Her home life isn't without its issues, not with a roommate that's obviously smitten with her, and entirely too inquisitive for her admittedly meager patience. She tends to get rather short with Shinra, especially when he insists she's fine without her head, an idea that she's very resistant to. She often gets so frustrated with the man that she ends up leaving the house for hours on end. Eventually Celty overcomes her tsundere and finally allows Shinra to woo her, and they start dating, though this comes with the realization that Shinra is a filthy liar, and though she loves him dearly, she may never trust him again. Nonetheless they are quite the loving couple for the most part, though she seems to have retained the reflex for gut-punching him when he gets too affetionate.
Celty has also managed to befriend another legend of Ikebukuro, the famed Shizuo Heiwajima. Perhaps it's that she can't speak words that piss him off, and the sound of her breathing (she doesn't) can't annoy him, but they are fairly close. Close enough that Shizuo gets angry for her sake when she won't, and close enough that speaking with her can even come close to calming his vicious temper.
The catastrophe that was Harima Mika's impersonation of her head put Celty through a lot of emotional turmoil. It brought up the possibility that her head may not want to be re-united with her, and of how far she would go to regain that part of herself. It proved that Celty has a breaking point, one at which she has been known to ride down a skyscraper, scythe in hand, and beat the shit out of several trained bodyguards. All the while her mind was screaming so strongly that it was actually heard by the crowd below, though they couldn't tell it was her.
Celty's first encounter with Anri was not exactly a pleasant one--not when the girl sent her helmet flying in an attempt to cut off her head, then stabbed her in the arm. It was made extra unpleasant by the stab wound calling her a monster as it faded, convincing Celty that her attacker was an alien. Eventually, though, after the Slasher incident, Celty took Anri under her wing in an almost motherly way.
☓ Abilities: Celty is a Dullahan, or a headless horsewoman. That being said, she is, well, headless. From the stump of her neck rises a sort of smoky shadow-like substance that she can form into most anything at will. Her clothes, for instance, are made of this shadowy stuff, though she also can summon a scythe (which does not actually cut, but instead knocks out those it touches) , turn the shadow into a whip-like shape, spiderweb-like netting, an enclosed sphere, smaller blades, gloves, helmets et cetera.
Celty can see, smell and hear, which she should by all rights be unable to do, so it’s being listed as a supernatural ability simply because it is one. She is also physically stronger and faster than an average human, but nowhere near the levels of, say, Shizuo. She does not need to eat, though she does sleep.
Also to be considered is her familiar of sorts, a spirit called a coach-a-bower. They usually take the shape of a headless horse and chariot, but hers has since taken on the shape of a motorcycle so black it’s like a shadow. It’s known to whinny at times.
Celty is essentially immortal, as her missing head controls her mortality. Without it, she is simply unable to die, and regenerates from wounds within minutes.
☓ Weaknesses: Celty is for all intents and purposes mute. She does manage to speak once in the anime, though she’s consumed with emotion at the time, and it’s unsure whether it was her physical voice or some psychic phenomenon. She deals with this obstacle by using the text feature on her cell phone, typing out what she intends to say and then showing the screen to the recipient.
While she can generally keep a cool head, Celty is actually very emotional. She's prone to emotional outbursts at times, especially around those close to her (hello Shinra). She is sometimes struck with bouts of self-deprication, unable to handle the simple tasks her condition denies her, such as cooking.
Celty is plagued by something of an existential crisis. As a Dullahan she should not be involved with the human world, should not have friends, a lover, a life among a bustling city. Her identity is a huge issue for her, with her fears that she is becoming too human, and her unwillingness to give up what that humanity has gained her.
Her immortality has really only served to increase her fear of death, as she is convinced that her head is what carries the secret to her mortality. An underlying reason for that fear is that Celty is scared of not being able to control her own life, the concept that she could die at any time, no matter her opinion on the matter, terrifies her.
As a supernatural creature herself, Celty maintains a somewhat unhealthy fear of aliens, fed by her favored television programs. Her initial assumption upon encountering Saika was that it was an alien planning an invasion.
Ikebukuro introduced an entire battalion of traffic police a while after the fiasco at the Dollars meeting, specifically to harangue her. This gave Celty an almost ridiculous fear of any police, if not just law-keepers in themselves, considering them the true monsters.
Also she is a ridiculously terrible liar.
☓ Strengths: Celty is good at staying calm in times of need, like fights and other tricky situations. She is efficient in her job as a courier, which often puts her into contact with unscrupulous people. She can get along with most anyone, with few exceptions, her tolerance of Izaya a prime example of this. She is intelligent, willing to help people even after being told to simply do her job.
Celty is very driven when properly motivated, as demonstrated by her conducting the search for her head for twenty years before even beginning to accept that she might not find it.
☓ Intranet post sample: [Celty takes the precaution of angling the camera up so she is out of view before fiddling with the console, and with good reason too. The camera picks up a shot of curling black smoke in contrast to the window behind and little else before she successfully switches to text.]
Can someone tell me where exactly this graveyard is? I don't want to go there or anything, but it sounds like a place anyone would want to avoid, right? So knowing the location of a place to avoid would be nice. I would really appreciate it.
☓ Log post sample: Celty enjoys riding her changed coach-a-bower best at night. Late at night, when the roads are nearly empty of both civilians and police, so she can speed up without fear of being seen or getting caught in an accident. When the luminescent night scene of Ikebukuro can become a series of colored streaks taken in by her not-eyes, seen by some sense of magic.
It’s times like these she can try to remember. Imagining the feel of chilled air whipping through the hair of the head tucked under her arm, recalling the up and down movement of the headless horse her familiar had once been. The spirit had been a near smooth ride, for all its headlessness, and she hadn’t been too jostled in the little time she could remember riding it as a horse.
The Dullahan wonders how that air had tasted, for surely her head had been able to -could even now -- taste it. Or did air have a different flavor at all, given location? A pause, a shift in speeds as the vehicle whirls almost viciously around a corner. She’s ruining her time for reflection, with all of this nitpicking.
She’ll just focus on the feel of the wind rustling her clothes, now, focus on the reality of what she has now. Better yet, she’ll forgo thinking entirely in these blurred moments and allow herself to be lost in the howling wind and the colors she should by all rights be unable to see. Maybe it’s even better this way.