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[nick / name]: Owl
[personal LJ name]: oath
[other characters currently played]:
Flonne :: Disgaea :: nin_nin_nin
Rozalin :: Disgaea 2 :: hasitsthorns
Luke fon Fabre :: Tales of the Abyss :: dreckplica
Lujei Piche :: Grimgrimoire :: speaknopoison
Umehito Nekozawa :: Ouran High School Host Club :: creepypasta
[e-mail]: houshakuji at gmail dot com
[AIM / messenger]: owls in ur base
[series]: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
[character]: Maebara Keiichi
[character history / background]:
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, faster than you can say U-SO-DA
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a village called Hinamizawa
In western Japan, born and raised
In the schoolhouse is where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some BB gun outside of school
When a couple of kids, they were up in no good
Started playing round in my neighbourhood
I shot one little girl and my mom got scared
And said you're moving with your family out to Hinamizawa
I whistled for a police car and when it came near the
License plate said "AC" and had a taser in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare,
But I thought now forget it, yo home to Hinamizawa
I pulled up to a shrine about seven or eight
And I yelled to Mr. Delicious, yo, homes smell you later
Was gonna rock this town 'til I scratched my throat raw
And settle my throne as the prince of Hinamizawa
Seriously...that's about it. But here's the more accurate version, b-because yeah.
Keiichi, growing up, was a pretty special snowflake. He didn't socialize with kids well, he was *actually* pretty smart, but he had problems with being a normally sociable kid. He had this model gun, see--and it wasn't too dangerous, but he'd end up shooting at little kids around his neighborhood. You know, for kicks and stuff.
Only it sort of goes not as planned when he ends up actually shooting a girl in the eye.
And naturally his parents are freaking the hell out and so is Keiichi and they ultimately make the choice to move to this remote little town called Hinamizawa. It's the most they can do for giving him a new start at life, aside from hushing things up back home. Keiichi kind of reforms his attitude coming here, becoming a charismatic and open and friendly guy, because having a new start only works if you have a fresh new personality to go with it. And it works for him! By doing this, he's able to make friends with a girl named Mion and her party van full of lolis. And this is where Keiichi's life takes an unexpected turn for the worse, even if he doesn't realize it in time.
Hinamizawa has a secret only Furude Rika, the shrine maiden and one of Keiichi's classmates, knows. The truth is, Rika is stuck in a neverending cycle of bad end and death. You see, some how or another, every June of 1983, Rika is killed by someone, somehow. The reason it's 'every 1983', is because Rika has an ace up her sleeve. Her very own cosmic reset button. That horned girl's name is Hanyuu--in truth, she is the revered and feared Oyashiro-sama, the 'God' of the village. Though she's pretty much a scaredy-cat and honestly a weak god. Since she covers her eyes whenever Rika is killed, she feels the least she can do is 'turn back time' and start to live through the endless June again, to try and unravel the mystery of Hinamizawa and have Rika grow up to live a normal life. This has happened a thousand times already, and Rika has died many times. (There's not that great of a success rate)
Though this story isn't quite about Furude Rika, even if it has a lot to do with her. Many of the scenarios in which she dies involves Keiichi somehow or someway. One of the earlier arcs depicts Keiichi as a manic, paranoid boy who ends up killing his friends because he saw things that weren't there and heard things that also didn't exist. He plays a major role in Shion/Mion's arc, where something as simple as giving a toy doll to Rena instead of Mion can set off a chain reaction of total crazy. He plays savior and big brother to Houjou Satoko, by killing her abusive Uncle. There is a pattern here.
But except for one of these arcs, Keiichi shows unwavering trust in his friends, which is a consistant theme with this boy. Even when he's shot down by the real culprit, he's still showing concern for them. Aside from one arc, Keiichi can't remember his past deaths or killings, so this trust and loves he shows for the friends who trust and love him is genuine and true, every. time. Reset button or no reset button.
[character abilities]: Normal human being with unusually excellent batting aim.
[character personality]: Keiichi has a multitude of aspects to his personality, making him a lot more than a cardboard cutout of a 'harem' boy. A lot of it, and the reasons why I covered in the background--Upon meeting him, Keiichi is charismatic and vibrant. He's friendly, and not judgemental, which tends to make him a lot of friends around his new school. He's definitely got a competitive side, which shows even more when maid outfits are on the line. He's a member of Mion's club, and in it they play games, and whoever loses has to participate in a penalty game. Most of which involve being stuck in adorable outfits that are INTENDED for girls but heyyy you don't see Mion complaining.
There's also the serious, but caring side to him. A huge part of his personality is that Keiichi cares unconditionally. He don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as looong as you looove him /BSB. He believes that friends don't have to keep secrets--not because he's nosy, but that true friends stick together no matter what, through hacksaw murder and abusive step-relatives, he will be there for you, along with the rest of his Loli posse. He's trusting, until you harm one of his friends or try to mess with him. Then it can end with a bat to the face.
And, since it appears in more than one arc, Keiichi has a...bit of a crazy side too. When affected with the Hinamizawa syndrome, he stops thinking with rationality and starts to believe that everyone is OUT TO GET HIM. Sharpie markers become needles, delicious homemade food becomes pointy death in a bento. He's prone to...murder in those states. Though in the second arc starring him, he kills FOR the people he loves! He believes that Satoko's uncle is abusing her (which he is) and ultimately follows in the aunt-batting steps of Houjou Satoshi and bad ends him.
But Keiichi only once remembers in one of the different Hinamizawa's that he's killed his friends--and it crushes him. Uninfected, Keiichi loves his friends with a burning passion that can only come from the GARest of GAR. They're worth getting capped for, okay.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: In the beginning of Minagoroshi-hen. Which is...like pretty much all of the arcs.
[journal post]: OOOI! Mion! I don't remember it being part of the game to dump the loser somewhere new, eh? Ya could've left me a change of clothes if you were gonna go that far!
Seriously, though? I don't know this place at all. It's nowhere near Hinamizawa, so either Mion went way too far with her little prank or Rena knocked me out and took me home...and I'm dreaming!
Never remembered a dream this realistic, though...
...O-oi! What's with all these people staring! Yeah, it's a swan outfit, I'm a guy, take a picture if you think it'll last longe--H-HEY! I DIDN'T MEAN LITERALLY!
[third person / log sample]: It was a beautiful June in Hinamizawa.
To be honest, it was a lazy Saturday, and Keiichi found himself stirring early thanks to assuming he had school that day and remembering as soon as the alarm went off. His groggy hand slapped the offensive alarm right off the night stand, but he couldn't find himself being able to go back to sleep. His eyes had caught the photograph on the other end of the room. He'd just got it--it was sort of a trophy from the first time he'd 'won' one of Mion's penalty games. They were *all* dressed up, because Mion didn't go down without a fight, but they were laughing and fumbling around in that picture, and before coming to Hinamizawa, that would have been the most foreign feeling in the world.
They were all different, with pasts that were hurtful to look back on from time to time, and that mutual understanding was what was able to bring them all together so close, so quick. Mion, the yakuza princess, Rena, an happy, but isolated girl from a broken family, Satoko, who had lived with abusive relatives, and Rika, who didn't seem to share much, but seemed to fit in just the same. It was like a family, these five kids. And Keiichi loved it. Not like he'd end up admitting it so fast, but they knew, and he knew. Some things just didn't need to be said to be spoken.
These little times by himself let his mind wander places they didn't usually go, back to the antisocial Keiichi that had been replaced by the one who lived today. He'd clench his teeth and think of that girl whose life he almost took--whose life he changed forever by making her blind in one eye. Why? Because he was bored, because he thought those kids were stupid, but the reason didn't really matter. If it hadn't been for what he'd done, he would never had met these people in Hinamizawa. That's where this painful train of thought would end, when he couldn't see any way around what he'd done.
He sat up in bed, and pushed aside one of his light curtains. The cicaedas were already crying, and the lush summer air already filled the morning. He liked this country life. Not much work to do, nothing bad to worry about, the change even seemed healthy for his parents. There was something healing about Hinamizawa, and it's residents. Something so humanizing that Keiichi didn't think one could just find in life easily. The folklore, the people, the village hidden away from the prying eyes of the urban civilization. It was the perfect place to become someone new.
He'd pause and think at how he was just going to tell his friends about his old life--they were curious. Would it change how they thought. He peeked outside of the window again just after getting dressed in his casual clothes. He could see all four of them running up the road, ready to collect him for today's games. A big grin spread across his face--the Watanagashi festival was coming up, and it was bound to hold a lot of competition for all of them. He was sure Mion would not rest until she won, and Keiichi thought with that same determination.
I'll tell them after the festival.
He promised himself this as he ran out to meet them. He would just hate to break that trust in the air, that just seemed to come with the quiet and sleepy village of Hinamizawa.
[personal LJ name]: oath
[other characters currently played]:
Flonne :: Disgaea :: nin_nin_nin
Rozalin :: Disgaea 2 :: hasitsthorns
Luke fon Fabre :: Tales of the Abyss :: dreckplica
Lujei Piche :: Grimgrimoire :: speaknopoison
Umehito Nekozawa :: Ouran High School Host Club :: creepypasta
[e-mail]: houshakuji at gmail dot com
[AIM / messenger]: owls in ur base
[series]: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
[character]: Maebara Keiichi
[character history / background]:
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, faster than you can say U-SO-DA
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a village called Hinamizawa
In western Japan, born and raised
In the schoolhouse is where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some BB gun outside of school
When a couple of kids, they were up in no good
Started playing round in my neighbourhood
I shot one little girl and my mom got scared
And said you're moving with your family out to Hinamizawa
I whistled for a police car and when it came near the
License plate said "AC" and had a taser in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare,
But I thought now forget it, yo home to Hinamizawa
I pulled up to a shrine about seven or eight
And I yelled to Mr. Delicious, yo, homes smell you later
Was gonna rock this town 'til I scratched my throat raw
And settle my throne as the prince of Hinamizawa
Seriously...that's about it. But here's the more accurate version, b-because yeah.
Keiichi, growing up, was a pretty special snowflake. He didn't socialize with kids well, he was *actually* pretty smart, but he had problems with being a normally sociable kid. He had this model gun, see--and it wasn't too dangerous, but he'd end up shooting at little kids around his neighborhood. You know, for kicks and stuff.
Only it sort of goes not as planned when he ends up actually shooting a girl in the eye.
And naturally his parents are freaking the hell out and so is Keiichi and they ultimately make the choice to move to this remote little town called Hinamizawa. It's the most they can do for giving him a new start at life, aside from hushing things up back home. Keiichi kind of reforms his attitude coming here, becoming a charismatic and open and friendly guy, because having a new start only works if you have a fresh new personality to go with it. And it works for him! By doing this, he's able to make friends with a girl named Mion and her party van full of lolis. And this is where Keiichi's life takes an unexpected turn for the worse, even if he doesn't realize it in time.
Hinamizawa has a secret only Furude Rika, the shrine maiden and one of Keiichi's classmates, knows. The truth is, Rika is stuck in a neverending cycle of bad end and death. You see, some how or another, every June of 1983, Rika is killed by someone, somehow. The reason it's 'every 1983', is because Rika has an ace up her sleeve. Her very own cosmic reset button. That horned girl's name is Hanyuu--in truth, she is the revered and feared Oyashiro-sama, the 'God' of the village. Though she's pretty much a scaredy-cat and honestly a weak god. Since she covers her eyes whenever Rika is killed, she feels the least she can do is 'turn back time' and start to live through the endless June again, to try and unravel the mystery of Hinamizawa and have Rika grow up to live a normal life. This has happened a thousand times already, and Rika has died many times. (There's not that great of a success rate)
Though this story isn't quite about Furude Rika, even if it has a lot to do with her. Many of the scenarios in which she dies involves Keiichi somehow or someway. One of the earlier arcs depicts Keiichi as a manic, paranoid boy who ends up killing his friends because he saw things that weren't there and heard things that also didn't exist. He plays a major role in Shion/Mion's arc, where something as simple as giving a toy doll to Rena instead of Mion can set off a chain reaction of total crazy. He plays savior and big brother to Houjou Satoko, by killing her abusive Uncle. There is a pattern here.
But except for one of these arcs, Keiichi shows unwavering trust in his friends, which is a consistant theme with this boy. Even when he's shot down by the real culprit, he's still showing concern for them. Aside from one arc, Keiichi can't remember his past deaths or killings, so this trust and loves he shows for the friends who trust and love him is genuine and true, every. time. Reset button or no reset button.
[character abilities]: Normal human being with unusually excellent batting aim.
[character personality]: Keiichi has a multitude of aspects to his personality, making him a lot more than a cardboard cutout of a 'harem' boy. A lot of it, and the reasons why I covered in the background--Upon meeting him, Keiichi is charismatic and vibrant. He's friendly, and not judgemental, which tends to make him a lot of friends around his new school. He's definitely got a competitive side, which shows even more when maid outfits are on the line. He's a member of Mion's club, and in it they play games, and whoever loses has to participate in a penalty game. Most of which involve being stuck in adorable outfits that are INTENDED for girls but heyyy you don't see Mion complaining.
There's also the serious, but caring side to him. A huge part of his personality is that Keiichi cares unconditionally. He don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as looong as you looove him /BSB. He believes that friends don't have to keep secrets--not because he's nosy, but that true friends stick together no matter what, through hacksaw murder and abusive step-relatives, he will be there for you, along with the rest of his Loli posse. He's trusting, until you harm one of his friends or try to mess with him. Then it can end with a bat to the face.
And, since it appears in more than one arc, Keiichi has a...bit of a crazy side too. When affected with the Hinamizawa syndrome, he stops thinking with rationality and starts to believe that everyone is OUT TO GET HIM. Sharpie markers become needles, delicious homemade food becomes pointy death in a bento. He's prone to...murder in those states. Though in the second arc starring him, he kills FOR the people he loves! He believes that Satoko's uncle is abusing her (which he is) and ultimately follows in the aunt-batting steps of Houjou Satoshi and bad ends him.
But Keiichi only once remembers in one of the different Hinamizawa's that he's killed his friends--and it crushes him. Uninfected, Keiichi loves his friends with a burning passion that can only come from the GARest of GAR. They're worth getting capped for, okay.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: In the beginning of Minagoroshi-hen. Which is...like pretty much all of the arcs.
[journal post]: OOOI! Mion! I don't remember it being part of the game to dump the loser somewhere new, eh? Ya could've left me a change of clothes if you were gonna go that far!
Seriously, though? I don't know this place at all. It's nowhere near Hinamizawa, so either Mion went way too far with her little prank or Rena knocked me out and took me home...and I'm dreaming!
Never remembered a dream this realistic, though...
...O-oi! What's with all these people staring! Yeah, it's a swan outfit, I'm a guy, take a picture if you think it'll last longe--H-HEY! I DIDN'T MEAN LITERALLY!
[third person / log sample]: It was a beautiful June in Hinamizawa.
To be honest, it was a lazy Saturday, and Keiichi found himself stirring early thanks to assuming he had school that day and remembering as soon as the alarm went off. His groggy hand slapped the offensive alarm right off the night stand, but he couldn't find himself being able to go back to sleep. His eyes had caught the photograph on the other end of the room. He'd just got it--it was sort of a trophy from the first time he'd 'won' one of Mion's penalty games. They were *all* dressed up, because Mion didn't go down without a fight, but they were laughing and fumbling around in that picture, and before coming to Hinamizawa, that would have been the most foreign feeling in the world.
They were all different, with pasts that were hurtful to look back on from time to time, and that mutual understanding was what was able to bring them all together so close, so quick. Mion, the yakuza princess, Rena, an happy, but isolated girl from a broken family, Satoko, who had lived with abusive relatives, and Rika, who didn't seem to share much, but seemed to fit in just the same. It was like a family, these five kids. And Keiichi loved it. Not like he'd end up admitting it so fast, but they knew, and he knew. Some things just didn't need to be said to be spoken.
These little times by himself let his mind wander places they didn't usually go, back to the antisocial Keiichi that had been replaced by the one who lived today. He'd clench his teeth and think of that girl whose life he almost took--whose life he changed forever by making her blind in one eye. Why? Because he was bored, because he thought those kids were stupid, but the reason didn't really matter. If it hadn't been for what he'd done, he would never had met these people in Hinamizawa. That's where this painful train of thought would end, when he couldn't see any way around what he'd done.
He sat up in bed, and pushed aside one of his light curtains. The cicaedas were already crying, and the lush summer air already filled the morning. He liked this country life. Not much work to do, nothing bad to worry about, the change even seemed healthy for his parents. There was something healing about Hinamizawa, and it's residents. Something so humanizing that Keiichi didn't think one could just find in life easily. The folklore, the people, the village hidden away from the prying eyes of the urban civilization. It was the perfect place to become someone new.
He'd pause and think at how he was just going to tell his friends about his old life--they were curious. Would it change how they thought. He peeked outside of the window again just after getting dressed in his casual clothes. He could see all four of them running up the road, ready to collect him for today's games. A big grin spread across his face--the Watanagashi festival was coming up, and it was bound to hold a lot of competition for all of them. He was sure Mion would not rest until she won, and Keiichi thought with that same determination.
I'll tell them after the festival.
He promised himself this as he ran out to meet them. He would just hate to break that trust in the air, that just seemed to come with the quiet and sleepy village of Hinamizawa.