Character: Shuzen Cocoa
Series:
Rosario + Vampire (II)Age: 14-15
Canon: Rosario + Vampire is the story of what high school would have been like if those popular girls really were monsters. Aono Tsukune is an ordinary human boy who accidentally ends up in Youkai Academy, where vampires, succubi, werewolves, and others learn algebra-and how to integrate peacefully into human society. Tsukune braves the supernatural horror for the love of super vampire Mocha, whose abilities are so overwhelming that she willingly seals them away with a rosary. Rosary + vampire! Get it?
Sounds like a good idea, right? Shuzen Cocoa couldn't agree less. Cocoa has spent her life buying into the "vampires as supremely powerful and elegant dark beings" ideal, and the idea of her perfect half-sister Mocha giving that up really pisses her off. Cocoa herself is a somewhat whiny, awkward, cranky teenager whose "pride as a vampire" brings her great sorrow when she's forced to do anything she doesn't want to-which happens fairly often. In fact, Cocoa gets the short end of the stick most of the time, being continually stuck in uncomfortable and embarrassing situations and then missing out on opportunities she'd actually enjoy. Such is long-suffering Cocoa's lot in life. No matter how much she wishes otherwise, she does not quite live up to the vampiric ideal she so admires, and even something so simple as asking a friend from the Newspaper Club to help her train, or admitting she has friends at all, sends her into spazzy fits of shame. Hardly the picture of cool elegance.
Overall, Cocoa is irritable, stuck-up, overly dramatic, and childish. However, she is also a better person than she would admit and will put herself on the line for her friends or ideals. It doesn't hurt that she loves attention, danger, and a good fight; putting her life on the line is Cocoa's idea of a good time.
Sample Post:
I... am a vampire. Born into a house of darkness, queens of the supernatural world, beautiful and bloodthirsty, we walk our paths through this world... alone. Without need for companions or support, strong in our independence. The eyes of the world watch a vampire with fear and awe. Shadows of twilight, sparkling with grace in the sun! With the scowl of a flower and the grin of a killer! That... that is my ideal. That is my birthright.
But now...
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!? Why do I have to recruit for Youkai Academy's Newspaper Club? I only joined up myself because I felt sorry for those idiots! And now they send me to a swamp in the middle of nowhere to chat up zombies? How completely beneath me! You hear me, weaklings? You're all beneath me! And I mean that literally-gross! Scrape yourself off my shoe, mister, or I'll punish you. Your gravestone will say "Being killed by a vampire was the most honor I've ever had in my pathetic life!" And I'll make all that fit on it! This is such a waste of time. To get more people to join, we should be making the newspaper itself more interesting. The same old "Bigfoot and Werewolves Clash over Hair in Shower Drains" headline gets boring. I could bring some glory to our club if I managed to get a scoop on a good murder or something-hey, wait! Maybe I can make something of this after all! With so many zombies, at least one has to have some kind of tragic event or unsolved mystery surrounding their death! The killer might even be lurking in the shadows! I smell danger! ♥ Heeeey, guys, wait! I'll generously forgive you for earlier if you answer a few questions for me! First, how did you die? One at a time-
-"Choked to death on a piece of cheese pizza?" "Listening to the radio in the bathtub?" "Overdosed on dihydrogen monoxide, the silent killer?" AHHHHHHHH! That's all useless! Only complete idiots would die in such stupid, mundane ways! No one's going to join up to investigate a death at the hands of stringy cheese! Please tell me at least one of you died a mysterious and bloody death at the hands of an unknown killer! If I go back to Youkai Academy empty-handed, they'll... they'll put me in the bikini again... we might even have to do a bikini car wash! I won't accept such shame to my clan! Argh, you losers! Fine, just sit there and stare at me until your other arm rots off! And here, take this one back while you're at it! I changed my mind, I don't need a hand from you after all! As if I'd accept one from a lesser being!
Stupid zombie camp! Isn't there anything newsworthy here besides the smell? If they're not going to give me suspense and intrigue, the least I could get is some decent chaos! A monster of some sort... something big and mean, something that goes after innocent passersby without discrimination. Leaving its victims totally violated and humiliated! A local beast of legend from which there's no escape! Yeah, something like that sure would be fun to run into... I mean, the perfect headline to drum up some interest in the paper. But noooo. Ugh, I guess I'll just camp out by the lake tonight and hope something interesting happens. A dead body washed up in the shallows? Ghastly howls from that grove of trees? Maybe even the groaning of something stalking me in the depths?
... No, just a beautiful sunset over the water... agghhh, this place is SO BORING!
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