Application for sirenspull
Player Information
Name: Amy
Age: 20 years old.
AIM SN: comraderie30
email: aiua.thread@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? Part of the game already; rapturescreed
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Monster
Canon Format: Manga/Anime
Character's Name: Doctor Kenzo Tenma
Character's Age: 31 years old
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? Tenma’s NV will look like this phone here. Considering Tenma is from the 80’s to early 90’s, the technology isn’t very advanced in comparison.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Tenma is a highly accomplished brain surgeon. His medical knowledge and skills place him high above the rest of others in his field, and he has been described as a genius by his peers. Even though he has not practiced in a real hospital for a long period of time, he still remembers everything that he had learned, and he has been able to put it into practice many times. Also, he is very skilled in handling guns, after learning from a trainer on how to handle them. He is proficient in all guns, from simple handguns to sniper rifles. At first he had a difficult time in the idea of shooting a person, but after one incident, he has had no trouble since. He speaks German, Japanese, and English.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Tenma's latent ability will be something called "Anesthetic Touch". This ability will basically be that after awhile in Siren's Port he will be able to administer localized numbness via touch. This numbness will grow in time, starting out in ten minute increments. When he's fully able to control it, he'll be able to numb a spot for up to two hours.
Weapons: Tenma will be arriving with two handguns on his person, with a silencer on one.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Link to the series here.
Dr. Kenzo Tenma was a young Japanese doctor who worked at the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany, during the 1980’s. He was a highly accomplished brain surgeon, and he seemingly had everything going for him at the time; the favor of the director of the hospital, Heinemann; a promotion right in front of him; and he was even engaged to Heinemann’s daughter, Eva. However, things were not fine at the hospital, as Tenma was unwilling to play the political game of hospital politics for very long, and he seizes his chance to try and change things when the massacre of the Lieberts happens, bringing in the twin children, Johan and Anna Liebert. Tenma decided to operate on Johan instead of the city’s mayor. When the child was saved, but the mayor died, Tenma lost all social standing in the hospital, his promotion, as well as his fiancée in the process. Once both children have disappeared, Heinemann and the other doctors were murdered.
Nine years pass; Tenma is now the Chief of Surgery at the same hospital. A known criminal was hit by a car and found on the street, and he came under the care of Dr. Tenma. One evening, Tenma comes back with a gift for the criminal, but he finds the man gone and the guard in front of his room dead. He followed the trail to a construction site to find the man; the man who shoots the criminal is none other than Johan Liebert, the boy who Dr. Tenma had saved nine years ago. While trying to find more information on Johan, he discovers that the boy’s sister is now named Nina, and living a happy life of an adopted daughter with two loving parents. Unfortunately, Tenma only finds her on her birthday, and while he manages to prevent her from meeting her brother, he is unable to stop Johan from murdering her foster parents. As well, Tenma had gone to a man to receive training in the use of firearms, as his plan is to kill Johan to stop him. Tenma continues his search for Johan’s beginnings, coming to meet a man called Hartmann, and he begins to learn about Kinderheim 511, a secret orphanage in control by East Germany. As well, he meets a young boy named Dieter, who is being physically abused by Hartmann. He takes Dieter away from the other man and convinces him that not everything is darkness; that you do not need to live in the bad memories, but to make good memories.
Afterward, when he was in the Turkish quarter of Frankfurt, Tenma was kidnapped by a man called “The Baby”. He was about to kill Tenma, when two people helped him out, saying that General Wolf wanted to talk to him. He then helped the members of the Turkish quarter to put out the fires that were started there. Again though, he had missed seeing Johan, though he had met Nina again, and he had to leave to find his trail once more. He then went to go visit a former colleague and now a criminal psychologist, Rudy Gillen. He wanted him to go through the different writings that Johan had been leaving him, and see if he had any idea as to what they meant, or if Johan had two different personalities, as if one was trying to stop the other from committing the murders. Instead, he realizes that Johan is just playing with him.
In Hamburg, Inspector Lunge catches up to him again. While he manages to escape, Lunge is badly injured by the true murderer behind the crime, and so Tenma ends up helping Lunge with the stab wound to his stomach. He helps him as much as he can, and then gets him to a hospital in Hamburg, saving his life in the process. In Munich, Tenma finds himself looking over a Dr. Reichwein, who was a professor for Rudy Gillen when he was in school. He leaves Dieter in the care of Dr. Reichwein. Tenma hears on the news that Schuwald, who is employing Johan as his secretary, plans to give his collection of books to the library, and Tenma buys a sniper rifle, planning to shoot Johan in the woods near Schuwald’s house. In the end, he goes to the library with the sniper rifle in its package, and he lies on top of a bookcase, waiting for the speech to begin. Unfortunately, when it comes time to actually shoot Johan, Tenma is unable to do it, and then he is found by Roberto. After a mild scuffle, with Roberto about to shoot Schuwald, Tenma knocks him to the ground and they fight, right until the library begins to go up in flames, according to Johan’s plan. Tenma has the opportunity to kill Johan, but he doesn’t.
While on the train to Prague, Tenma meets a man named Grimmer, who helps him escape the train before the police find him once again by using the fake passport he has.
After he escaped the train, Grimmer had followed him and then offered to show him to the Czech border. When he finds Suk, he sees that Grimmer is there, covered in blood; he had incapacitated all of the other men, and he asked Tenma to help save Suk. When they go to the hospital to see Suk, however, he is gone, and they are taken to see a man named Karl Ranke, who is head of the Czech secret police. Tenma continued his search for Johan’s origin in the Czech Republic, and eventually came upon the publisher for the books written by Franz Bonaparte. Leaving Grimmer, he gets caught by the police. After being caught in Prague, he was transferred to Dusselfdorf. After escaping prison he goes back to Prague to see the “Red Rose Mansion”. In Frankfurt he then went into a taxi to follow the car that the man with glasses had gone in. However, the police showed up, and he had to take off running, dashing through an alleyway until he comes out onto another street, only to be hit by a minivan.
Point in Canon: Volume 15 Chapter 131, right after he was hit by a car running from the police from the Jahreszeit Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: When Tenma was younger, he was a shy child, one who wasn’t able to make friends easily. Constantly getting picked on, he had a habit of wetting his pants, which earned him the name of “sissy pants Tenma”. Because of his loneliness, he was the type to curl up and read a book, rather then go out and play with other children. Because of this, he never had many friends back home in Japan, and while he was going to become a doctor, after his father, he began to study hard, even when he was young. When he finally went over to study in Germany, it was apparent that he was much more book smart then anything else. But even when he was young, continuing till he was older, he was always friendly, and had a charming personality. Tenma has always been a naturally nice and friendly person. He’s the type of person who will go out of his way to help someone, even at the risk of something bad happening to him because of it. He cares about the people who are constantly surrounding him, such as his fiancée, and his friends at the hospital. Unfortunately, before the operation he performed on the young boy who had been shot in the head, he was very naïve and had an idealistic view of the world and the ways of it as well. He has thought, and still does to this day, that everyone is equal and deserves equal care. However, because of his kindness and naivety, he was constantly manipulated and controlled by his superiors; and even by his friends around him, and most especially by his fiancée at the time.
As a doctor, he cares about the welfare of his patients and the people around him. In fact, he may care about them too much; he will take time away from his missions to help any who have fallen sick, or are injured in some way. He is the type of doctor that brings his work home with him, and he can obsess over a patient, wanting to make sure they are safe and are taking care of themselves, even they aren’t. He goes out of his way to do things for them; he’s taken time out of his life, and taken money out of his own pocket, to bring gifts to his patients. Anything to bring a smile to their faces, and while he spends a lot of time with each patient, he always keeps a full workload; he’ll go for days without sleep or anything to eat while he makes sure to give each patient his full attention. While he’s great with patients, however, Tenma is not as great with things such as hospital politics. This is where he can be taken great advantage of, because while he can handle telling a room full of people some bad news after a surgery, he has a harder time of speaking up to superiors and telling them something they might not like to hear. He’s said things of that nature to them before, but he doesn’t always realize that; he thinks that they would be happy to hear the right decision over the political one.
Tenma is an altruistic person as well as an idealist, and even through everything he has seen, his view of the world as never shattered. He is someone that wants to see the good in people, and he usually does. When Johan enters his life, he finds his view challenged, and as such, when Tenma cannot find any goodness within the young man, it is something that affects him greatly. With most people who are murderers, thieves, or anyone with a criminal streak, he can still find the good in the little things they do to help their family, or even random strangers. However, when faced with Johan’s inherent evil, he at first tries to rationalize it, like any other person. When faced with the constant horrific things that he plans and does, Tenma’s ideas and views are constantly shattered and put back together again and again. While Johan regards Tenma as a father figure, Tenma also feels like he is in a sort of father position as well. Unfortunately, while Tenma knows deep down that it didn’t start with him, he feels like he was the one to give birth to this ‘monster’, considering how he saved the boy from a shot to the head when he was young. That is why, when it comes to Johan, Tenma throws his Hippocratic Oath out the window, as much as it hurts him to do so.
One would think that this would push Tenma toward mistrusting people and seeing them in a different light, but when it comes to other people, he is still the same person; the one who finds the good in people, as well as being able to bring out the good in people. He even cares for his supposed enemies, such as his ex-fiancée Eva, the many policemen after him, as well as the main inspector that is chasing after him. Although he is now trained in handling different firearms, he still maintains a doctor’s mentality to never cause harm, and as such, he has a very difficult time in actually being able to shoot another human being. While he maintains that he is the one who needs to kill Johan, before he shot Roberto during the fire at the library, he always hesitated, and his hands shook. Since then, he’s changed in a very important way. While he has never been, nor will he never be a cold hearted killer, there is a switch that has been flipped inside him that now makes him more determined then before to do what is right, and to fix the horrible mistake he once made.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Tenma won’t be settled until he finds Johan and finishes his mission to kill him. However, since he is a humanitarian, he will help out in a medical capacity as much as he can. With the police not following him anymore in this new place, he won’t have a problem returning to work in a hospital, though he will keep his mission a secret from everyone around him. However, if there are people from his world around, then he will help them as much as he can. Unless it’s Johan, in which case he will do whatever he can to find him and finish what he thinks he started.
Appearance/PB: Tenma is a rather tall, thin, Japanese man in his thirties. When he was younger, he was always clean shaven, thin, but not emaciated thin, and he kept his dark black hair cut short so that it would not be a problem when he was in the operating room, as well as something easy to take care of. He is blessed by good looks, but does not care about them, nor does he use them to his advantage. Now that he is older and on the run from the police, he has even less time to deal with the way he looks. His black hair is longer now, and frames his face. It’s usually clean, though it has been known to become dirty the longer he travels away from a place with a decent shower and a change of clothes. Seeing as he was thin before, now he looks like a walking stick, showing that even though he is a doctor and should know better, he does not always eat unless he has to. While he was clean shaven before, now he has stubble along his jaw and around his lips, not even bothering to shave at times. He looks rather dirty and uncouth, but when given a shower, a few days of good rest, and enough food, he will look presentable
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The NV clicks on for audio and then off, then on again.]
Hm. As if a city with monsters wasn’t enough like something out of a television show, they had to add what makes me think of some high tech cellular phone. I wonder what this button does...
[The NV clicks off again and it is back for text.]
I suppose this could be worse. The last thing I remember was a minivan coming towards me, and the next thing I know, I end up here in front of a row of doctors or scientists of some sort.
This place makes me remember a patient I once had. The surgery took hours, but he pulled through. I came to visit him the next day, after he opened his eyes, and he was already asking for the remote so he could watch his favorite show, something to do with super powers and hidden locations around the world.
I don’t know how I got here, but I can just hope that the people I care for are safe. By the way, is there anyone here who speaks German?
Third Person Sample
It had been almost like jail in a way, the questions upon questions, the wondering of what he should do; to answer or not to answer. He remembered Lunge’s words, on how it was better to stay quiet, better to stay silent so that they could not pin anything on him. But it wasn’t the same here. He wasn’t being questioned for any crimes he did not commit, and all they wanted to know were things about the world he had come from. But that had been done hours before, and now he had finally reached the apartment that was assigned to him.
It was dark when he opened the door, the room cool and empty from not being used. He switched on a light, closing the door beside him and letting the care package he had been given fall to the ground as he leaned against the wall. He was tired, so tired, but if he closed his eyes, all he could see were flashes of images that made his heart twist painfully in his chest. He could see Mr. Baul, Roberto, telling him that he was going to kill Eva, and that just made him see her face as she cried after Martin’s death. He saw Dr. Reichwein, he saw Mr. Vardemann. And of course, he saw Nina and Dieter, and he prayed for a moment that they were both all right back home.
Looking around the room, he moved away from the wall and went about looking around the small apartment. His old apartment had the same make up, the same smallness; though here there was the slight smell of disinfectant, the smell of a place wiped clean. He had stayed in many different places while on the run, and all of them, even the mattress in an empty loft still had a warm, home-like feel to it. This place didn’t have that.
"Welcome to your new home," Tenma muttered, the sound of his voice almost like an echo in the empty space. But still, he walked into the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, the bathroom, flipping all of the light switches on until he was bathed in golden light. If he didn’t move, he could almost see Dieter practicing with the soccer ball in the living room; he could see Rudy or Dr. Reichwein in the kitchen, preparing something to eat. The path he had taken was a lonely, harsh one, but it was something he needed to do.
"Look at me! Look at me! The monster inside me has already grown this large, Dr. Tenma!"
"Help! The monster inside me is about to explode!"
When he looked out the window, he could almost see Johan’s reflection in it, the young man staring at him as he pointed a finger to his forehead. Closing his eyes for a moment, Tenma opened them back up and looked out into the streets below him.
Tomorrow was going to be a good day, and all he needed to do was take some long needed rest and start anew in the morning.
This was a new beginning.
Name: Amy
Age: 20 years old.
AIM SN: comraderie30
email: aiua.thread@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? Part of the game already; rapturescreed
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Monster
Canon Format: Manga/Anime
Character's Name: Doctor Kenzo Tenma
Character's Age: 31 years old
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? Tenma’s NV will look like this phone here. Considering Tenma is from the 80’s to early 90’s, the technology isn’t very advanced in comparison.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Tenma is a highly accomplished brain surgeon. His medical knowledge and skills place him high above the rest of others in his field, and he has been described as a genius by his peers. Even though he has not practiced in a real hospital for a long period of time, he still remembers everything that he had learned, and he has been able to put it into practice many times. Also, he is very skilled in handling guns, after learning from a trainer on how to handle them. He is proficient in all guns, from simple handguns to sniper rifles. At first he had a difficult time in the idea of shooting a person, but after one incident, he has had no trouble since. He speaks German, Japanese, and English.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Tenma's latent ability will be something called "Anesthetic Touch". This ability will basically be that after awhile in Siren's Port he will be able to administer localized numbness via touch. This numbness will grow in time, starting out in ten minute increments. When he's fully able to control it, he'll be able to numb a spot for up to two hours.
Weapons: Tenma will be arriving with two handguns on his person, with a silencer on one.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Link to the series here.
Dr. Kenzo Tenma was a young Japanese doctor who worked at the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany, during the 1980’s. He was a highly accomplished brain surgeon, and he seemingly had everything going for him at the time; the favor of the director of the hospital, Heinemann; a promotion right in front of him; and he was even engaged to Heinemann’s daughter, Eva. However, things were not fine at the hospital, as Tenma was unwilling to play the political game of hospital politics for very long, and he seizes his chance to try and change things when the massacre of the Lieberts happens, bringing in the twin children, Johan and Anna Liebert. Tenma decided to operate on Johan instead of the city’s mayor. When the child was saved, but the mayor died, Tenma lost all social standing in the hospital, his promotion, as well as his fiancée in the process. Once both children have disappeared, Heinemann and the other doctors were murdered.
Nine years pass; Tenma is now the Chief of Surgery at the same hospital. A known criminal was hit by a car and found on the street, and he came under the care of Dr. Tenma. One evening, Tenma comes back with a gift for the criminal, but he finds the man gone and the guard in front of his room dead. He followed the trail to a construction site to find the man; the man who shoots the criminal is none other than Johan Liebert, the boy who Dr. Tenma had saved nine years ago. While trying to find more information on Johan, he discovers that the boy’s sister is now named Nina, and living a happy life of an adopted daughter with two loving parents. Unfortunately, Tenma only finds her on her birthday, and while he manages to prevent her from meeting her brother, he is unable to stop Johan from murdering her foster parents. As well, Tenma had gone to a man to receive training in the use of firearms, as his plan is to kill Johan to stop him. Tenma continues his search for Johan’s beginnings, coming to meet a man called Hartmann, and he begins to learn about Kinderheim 511, a secret orphanage in control by East Germany. As well, he meets a young boy named Dieter, who is being physically abused by Hartmann. He takes Dieter away from the other man and convinces him that not everything is darkness; that you do not need to live in the bad memories, but to make good memories.
Afterward, when he was in the Turkish quarter of Frankfurt, Tenma was kidnapped by a man called “The Baby”. He was about to kill Tenma, when two people helped him out, saying that General Wolf wanted to talk to him. He then helped the members of the Turkish quarter to put out the fires that were started there. Again though, he had missed seeing Johan, though he had met Nina again, and he had to leave to find his trail once more. He then went to go visit a former colleague and now a criminal psychologist, Rudy Gillen. He wanted him to go through the different writings that Johan had been leaving him, and see if he had any idea as to what they meant, or if Johan had two different personalities, as if one was trying to stop the other from committing the murders. Instead, he realizes that Johan is just playing with him.
In Hamburg, Inspector Lunge catches up to him again. While he manages to escape, Lunge is badly injured by the true murderer behind the crime, and so Tenma ends up helping Lunge with the stab wound to his stomach. He helps him as much as he can, and then gets him to a hospital in Hamburg, saving his life in the process. In Munich, Tenma finds himself looking over a Dr. Reichwein, who was a professor for Rudy Gillen when he was in school. He leaves Dieter in the care of Dr. Reichwein. Tenma hears on the news that Schuwald, who is employing Johan as his secretary, plans to give his collection of books to the library, and Tenma buys a sniper rifle, planning to shoot Johan in the woods near Schuwald’s house. In the end, he goes to the library with the sniper rifle in its package, and he lies on top of a bookcase, waiting for the speech to begin. Unfortunately, when it comes time to actually shoot Johan, Tenma is unable to do it, and then he is found by Roberto. After a mild scuffle, with Roberto about to shoot Schuwald, Tenma knocks him to the ground and they fight, right until the library begins to go up in flames, according to Johan’s plan. Tenma has the opportunity to kill Johan, but he doesn’t.
While on the train to Prague, Tenma meets a man named Grimmer, who helps him escape the train before the police find him once again by using the fake passport he has.
After he escaped the train, Grimmer had followed him and then offered to show him to the Czech border. When he finds Suk, he sees that Grimmer is there, covered in blood; he had incapacitated all of the other men, and he asked Tenma to help save Suk. When they go to the hospital to see Suk, however, he is gone, and they are taken to see a man named Karl Ranke, who is head of the Czech secret police. Tenma continued his search for Johan’s origin in the Czech Republic, and eventually came upon the publisher for the books written by Franz Bonaparte. Leaving Grimmer, he gets caught by the police. After being caught in Prague, he was transferred to Dusselfdorf. After escaping prison he goes back to Prague to see the “Red Rose Mansion”. In Frankfurt he then went into a taxi to follow the car that the man with glasses had gone in. However, the police showed up, and he had to take off running, dashing through an alleyway until he comes out onto another street, only to be hit by a minivan.
Point in Canon: Volume 15 Chapter 131, right after he was hit by a car running from the police from the Jahreszeit Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: When Tenma was younger, he was a shy child, one who wasn’t able to make friends easily. Constantly getting picked on, he had a habit of wetting his pants, which earned him the name of “sissy pants Tenma”. Because of his loneliness, he was the type to curl up and read a book, rather then go out and play with other children. Because of this, he never had many friends back home in Japan, and while he was going to become a doctor, after his father, he began to study hard, even when he was young. When he finally went over to study in Germany, it was apparent that he was much more book smart then anything else. But even when he was young, continuing till he was older, he was always friendly, and had a charming personality. Tenma has always been a naturally nice and friendly person. He’s the type of person who will go out of his way to help someone, even at the risk of something bad happening to him because of it. He cares about the people who are constantly surrounding him, such as his fiancée, and his friends at the hospital. Unfortunately, before the operation he performed on the young boy who had been shot in the head, he was very naïve and had an idealistic view of the world and the ways of it as well. He has thought, and still does to this day, that everyone is equal and deserves equal care. However, because of his kindness and naivety, he was constantly manipulated and controlled by his superiors; and even by his friends around him, and most especially by his fiancée at the time.
As a doctor, he cares about the welfare of his patients and the people around him. In fact, he may care about them too much; he will take time away from his missions to help any who have fallen sick, or are injured in some way. He is the type of doctor that brings his work home with him, and he can obsess over a patient, wanting to make sure they are safe and are taking care of themselves, even they aren’t. He goes out of his way to do things for them; he’s taken time out of his life, and taken money out of his own pocket, to bring gifts to his patients. Anything to bring a smile to their faces, and while he spends a lot of time with each patient, he always keeps a full workload; he’ll go for days without sleep or anything to eat while he makes sure to give each patient his full attention. While he’s great with patients, however, Tenma is not as great with things such as hospital politics. This is where he can be taken great advantage of, because while he can handle telling a room full of people some bad news after a surgery, he has a harder time of speaking up to superiors and telling them something they might not like to hear. He’s said things of that nature to them before, but he doesn’t always realize that; he thinks that they would be happy to hear the right decision over the political one.
Tenma is an altruistic person as well as an idealist, and even through everything he has seen, his view of the world as never shattered. He is someone that wants to see the good in people, and he usually does. When Johan enters his life, he finds his view challenged, and as such, when Tenma cannot find any goodness within the young man, it is something that affects him greatly. With most people who are murderers, thieves, or anyone with a criminal streak, he can still find the good in the little things they do to help their family, or even random strangers. However, when faced with Johan’s inherent evil, he at first tries to rationalize it, like any other person. When faced with the constant horrific things that he plans and does, Tenma’s ideas and views are constantly shattered and put back together again and again. While Johan regards Tenma as a father figure, Tenma also feels like he is in a sort of father position as well. Unfortunately, while Tenma knows deep down that it didn’t start with him, he feels like he was the one to give birth to this ‘monster’, considering how he saved the boy from a shot to the head when he was young. That is why, when it comes to Johan, Tenma throws his Hippocratic Oath out the window, as much as it hurts him to do so.
One would think that this would push Tenma toward mistrusting people and seeing them in a different light, but when it comes to other people, he is still the same person; the one who finds the good in people, as well as being able to bring out the good in people. He even cares for his supposed enemies, such as his ex-fiancée Eva, the many policemen after him, as well as the main inspector that is chasing after him. Although he is now trained in handling different firearms, he still maintains a doctor’s mentality to never cause harm, and as such, he has a very difficult time in actually being able to shoot another human being. While he maintains that he is the one who needs to kill Johan, before he shot Roberto during the fire at the library, he always hesitated, and his hands shook. Since then, he’s changed in a very important way. While he has never been, nor will he never be a cold hearted killer, there is a switch that has been flipped inside him that now makes him more determined then before to do what is right, and to fix the horrible mistake he once made.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Tenma won’t be settled until he finds Johan and finishes his mission to kill him. However, since he is a humanitarian, he will help out in a medical capacity as much as he can. With the police not following him anymore in this new place, he won’t have a problem returning to work in a hospital, though he will keep his mission a secret from everyone around him. However, if there are people from his world around, then he will help them as much as he can. Unless it’s Johan, in which case he will do whatever he can to find him and finish what he thinks he started.
Appearance/PB: Tenma is a rather tall, thin, Japanese man in his thirties. When he was younger, he was always clean shaven, thin, but not emaciated thin, and he kept his dark black hair cut short so that it would not be a problem when he was in the operating room, as well as something easy to take care of. He is blessed by good looks, but does not care about them, nor does he use them to his advantage. Now that he is older and on the run from the police, he has even less time to deal with the way he looks. His black hair is longer now, and frames his face. It’s usually clean, though it has been known to become dirty the longer he travels away from a place with a decent shower and a change of clothes. Seeing as he was thin before, now he looks like a walking stick, showing that even though he is a doctor and should know better, he does not always eat unless he has to. While he was clean shaven before, now he has stubble along his jaw and around his lips, not even bothering to shave at times. He looks rather dirty and uncouth, but when given a shower, a few days of good rest, and enough food, he will look presentable
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The NV clicks on for audio and then off, then on again.]
Hm. As if a city with monsters wasn’t enough like something out of a television show, they had to add what makes me think of some high tech cellular phone. I wonder what this button does...
[The NV clicks off again and it is back for text.]
I suppose this could be worse. The last thing I remember was a minivan coming towards me, and the next thing I know, I end up here in front of a row of doctors or scientists of some sort.
This place makes me remember a patient I once had. The surgery took hours, but he pulled through. I came to visit him the next day, after he opened his eyes, and he was already asking for the remote so he could watch his favorite show, something to do with super powers and hidden locations around the world.
I don’t know how I got here, but I can just hope that the people I care for are safe. By the way, is there anyone here who speaks German?
Third Person Sample
It had been almost like jail in a way, the questions upon questions, the wondering of what he should do; to answer or not to answer. He remembered Lunge’s words, on how it was better to stay quiet, better to stay silent so that they could not pin anything on him. But it wasn’t the same here. He wasn’t being questioned for any crimes he did not commit, and all they wanted to know were things about the world he had come from. But that had been done hours before, and now he had finally reached the apartment that was assigned to him.
It was dark when he opened the door, the room cool and empty from not being used. He switched on a light, closing the door beside him and letting the care package he had been given fall to the ground as he leaned against the wall. He was tired, so tired, but if he closed his eyes, all he could see were flashes of images that made his heart twist painfully in his chest. He could see Mr. Baul, Roberto, telling him that he was going to kill Eva, and that just made him see her face as she cried after Martin’s death. He saw Dr. Reichwein, he saw Mr. Vardemann. And of course, he saw Nina and Dieter, and he prayed for a moment that they were both all right back home.
Looking around the room, he moved away from the wall and went about looking around the small apartment. His old apartment had the same make up, the same smallness; though here there was the slight smell of disinfectant, the smell of a place wiped clean. He had stayed in many different places while on the run, and all of them, even the mattress in an empty loft still had a warm, home-like feel to it. This place didn’t have that.
"Welcome to your new home," Tenma muttered, the sound of his voice almost like an echo in the empty space. But still, he walked into the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, the bathroom, flipping all of the light switches on until he was bathed in golden light. If he didn’t move, he could almost see Dieter practicing with the soccer ball in the living room; he could see Rudy or Dr. Reichwein in the kitchen, preparing something to eat. The path he had taken was a lonely, harsh one, but it was something he needed to do.
"Look at me! Look at me! The monster inside me has already grown this large, Dr. Tenma!"
"Help! The monster inside me is about to explode!"
When he looked out the window, he could almost see Johan’s reflection in it, the young man staring at him as he pointed a finger to his forehead. Closing his eyes for a moment, Tenma opened them back up and looked out into the streets below him.
Tomorrow was going to be a good day, and all he needed to do was take some long needed rest and start anew in the morning.
This was a new beginning.