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Player Information
Name: K
Age: 29
AIM SN: twistofmoirae
email: twistofmoirae at Gmail
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Rimudo Roun/Uruki
Character's Age: 16
What form will your character's NV take? Rimudo's NV will take the form of a feather made out of silver, which generates text entries in the air, permits audio when he just chooses to talk, and video in the air in front of him, stirring wherever he's stowed it on his person when there is something to pay attention to.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: As the seishi Uruki, Rimudo can manipulate wind, using it for teleportation, breaking a fall, and plying it with a knife-like accuracy that can cut even into stone. The wind he generates can be as gentle as a breath as well, and restore air to someone underwater. (As demonstrated by his kissing Takiko underwater when she fell overboard.) The side effect of using his power, however, is that he turns into a woman, marked with the kanji for “woman” on his breastbone. Rimudo can turn into a woman even when not using his power.
Also notable, seishi tend to be tougher than average humans. Although they can still be wounded (and mortally wounded), it does take more to kill them, and they do tend to heal more quickly, taking days for what might normally take weeks. (This is good, because Rimudo has had a particular tendency to get wounded in the manga.)
Weapons: Although he more rarely uses weapons, Rimudo does make use of a bladed discus on a long chain. The chain wraps around his arm, and the discus attaches like a small shield close to his wrist.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Rimudo’s world is divided into four countries, of which he belongs to the northern quartile -- the land of snow, Bei-Jia. Legend has it that one day a girl from another world will arrive and assemble seven warriors, or seishi, in order to call forth the god that governs the land, Genbu, and save Bei-Jia. No one really believes the legend . . . It’s never happened before, after all. However, whispers speak that the seishi exist -- individuals scattered across the land with extraordinary powers. If the seishi were awake, surely the priestess would soon follow and save the land from the grip of its current ruler.
Which is where Rimudo’s story begins.
Once upon a time there was a little boy whose father didn’t care for him very much at all. Rimudo’s father was the emperor's brother, and a prophecy made at the infant prince’s birth indicated that the son would one day rise to kill his father. So that the prophecy would not come true, the father ordered that his new son be killed, and banished the matter from his mind.
However, his wife, opposing her husband’s will, gave her son to two individuals who had served the crown well over the years -- Tauru and his twelve-year-old son, Soren. The two raised Rimudo with great care, and he came to think of them as his own father and brother.
Peace was not to last. When Rimudo was about eight, his father caught word of his existence and sent warriors to kill him. Rimudo would survive, but Tauru would not, killed in the skirmish. In a fit of rage, Rimudo awoke his power as the seishi Uruki for the first time, transformed, and killed all of those left remaining. Cradling Tauru’s body, he demanded to know why this had happened -- at which point Soren told him of his lineage and of the prophecy given to his father. Rimudo resolved to make the prophecy come true. He came to hate the part of himself who was Uruki and became brutal with his power, killing, as quoted by the manga, a thousand enemies. When older, he attacked the palace in the hopes of killing his father, but failed, only to earn a larger bounty on his head.
When Rimudo met Takiko, his only desire was to live to kill his father. However, as time passed, exposed to Takiko’s kindness and care, Rimudo could not help but to be changed by her, and found himself leaning towards the desire to protect her. Fearing this growing realization in himself, Rimudo did his best to separate himself for Takiko at every possible opportunity, only to be tossed back to her by the twists of fate or his own growing desire to be in her company. He fought for her, he defended her, he did everything he’d promised himself he’d never do, becoming her seishi -- celestial warrior -- in all but name. Though he reminded himself frequently that she was the priestess of Genbu, a representation of a destiny he’d discarded from birth -- a destiny to help her and six others to summon the country’s patron god -- he found himself drawn to her all the same. As time progressed, he found himself potentially feeling even more for Takiko than he wanted to admit -- feelings which placed him in conflict with his own desires.
Point in Canon: Volume 4 of the U.S. version, just after he kisses Takiko and leaves abruptly.
Character Personality: Elusive and attempting to hold himself aloof, Rimudo has never been the sort who ventured much beyond himself. He’s always been focused on his desires, his demands, his honor, finding it difficult to look from the point of view of someone else. When finding himself getting too close, he tends to slip away -- a tendency, which although changing with the arrival of Takiko, he still possesses. When he feels forced into something, he tends to run away rather than to confront it.
Rimudo is the sort who tends to bottle up his true feelings about things until they explode in ways not even he could predict. His temper tends to be sudden and volatile, and if truly incensed, he can easily carry things too far if not prevented. When irked by smaller things, he’s likely to reply with a dry tongue and to become increasingly evasive.
Confident -- sometimes rather to the point of being overly so, particularly when it comes to fighting -- Rimudo rarely second-guesses himself. He has long been confident in his perception of the world and the way things are or must be. In his eyes people will be cruel and stubborn in the face of adversity, he must kill his father, and he must avoid his pre-ordained fate. Only the influence of Takiko seems to inspire within him the idea that life does not have to be as he has so far imagined it. So confident for so long, for the first time in years, Rimudo has begun to question and to have uncertainties, raising chaos in the former order of his thoughts.
Amid all his faults, Rimudo has the capability to be a decent person. The loyalties he forms are strong ones, and he is quite capable of kindness -- it’s just not something he shows readily. A wolf doesn’t easily roll over to reveal its soft underbelly.
Rimudo seems to be at ease with being part female, using the duality of his nature to his advantage without hesitation. Certainly he would prefer to be male, and would be embarrassed and angry at the idea that he uses his female form willingly, but he has come to understand that being able to become female has its uses. He particularly uses his feminine aspect for purposes of disguise, separating his two identities so that he can slide into various situations and not be readily recognized.
Character Plans: I'm fairly open with Rimudo, but I think the relative corruption of the city will appeal to him and distract him from his restlessness of being kept from his goal of killing his father -- at least for a while. I suspect he'll investigate both sides to the conflict, try to determine if either one is useful to him/pays more, and go with that. (If, indeed, he determines that either one is worth his time.) Ultimately, however, Rimudo serves his own interests . . . which is likely to get him into some kind of trouble, especially combined with his temper. Unfortunately it looks as though Siren's Port has plenty of trouble to find.
It's possible to find some appeal to bounty hunting; quite likely he'd enjoy being the one hunting and getting paid for once, finding some kind of poetic satisfaction to it.
If Takiko ends up with him, all plans may change, as he'll have the added distraction of making sure that she's safe and taken care of. Rimudo will let himself go through hell and not always pay attention to what he's getting into, but he won't let anyone touch Takiko. Though it might annoy him like crazy -- this is not a boy who understands his own feelings very well -- he is compelled to make sure that she is safe and comfortable as much as possible.
Ultimately, however, I would like Rimudo to learn and come to terms a little more with his own humanity and develop as a human being. Right now he files himself into his fate to kill his father and tries not to leave room for anything more. I would like to continue the process begun in the manga of humanizing and redirecting him, discovering and understanding exactly who he is without this larger goal.
Appearance/PB: Male and female forms. For reference, Uruki's female form is several inches shorter than his male form. Hair and eye colors may be anyone's guess, as Watase has the tendency to color depending upon the mood of the drawing, but most consistently his hair is brown and his eyes are gray to amber.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The sound of rushing air explodes through the network, followed by a woman’s voice.]
What . . .
Even the *horse*?
. . . This isn’t Bei-Jia. . . . The hell is this?
[Suddenly louder.] Takiko?
[Muttered softly.] Shit . . .
[Silence. The video flickers briefly, showing a glimpse of an upward view of a woman in clothing that looks vaguely Chinese and rather masculine, long hair bound and sweeping down her back, glaring at something -- or someone -- off-camera.]
Who's there?
Third Person Sample
Her kiss still lingered with him. When he closed his eyes, he could still taste her breath on his lips. Soft. Warm. It teased, cloying at the edges of his consciousness even when they opened again.
Damn it.
Even here, in another city, another world, she still chased him, the thread of her fate racing to slip around his neck like a fine silver noose. Before she’d arrived, the world was ordered. It was Soren and him against the world. Soren was the only one to be trusted, his father was to be hated, and the rest of the world was extraneous. Things were nice and simple that way, and in the complex tangles of a life lived on the run and on the sly, the world needed to be simple.
She’d changed that -- she and the others. He could hear the questions in his head even now, writhing and knotting in their haste to get his full attention. Should I have left her like that? Why’s it matter what she wants, anyway? What about what *I* want? What about what I *need*?
Suddenly there were a lot more people to worry about, and his mind wasn’t ready to handle them. Too many concerns, too many expectations cutting off his air and his life. She was killing a part of him, remaking him into hers. Into Uruki.
When he left, he told himself that had to be it. No more disappearing, reappearing. She'd made her choice. Chosen her fate as priestess. He'd leave her to it and they could both be happy.
Perhaps this new place, for all its massive, maze-like size and network of wagons that drove themselves, was distraction that he needed. Time and space enough away from that slight frame and earnest, upturned face. Time enough to forget the heady, sweet smell of her that infiltrated into everything, blocked out all logic.
Time and space to cut the thread of fate.