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Email address- britishmoo@gmail.com
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Character, series- Inoue Konoha || Bungaku Shoujo
Character journal- writeshersnacks
Character type MAIN. SO VERY MAIN.
Digimon partner- Frimon > Patamon > Pegasmon > Indaramon > Ancient Trojamon
D-Comm colours/symbol- an assortment of browns are used for his D-comm. Symbol is a pen.
Imported from another RP?- No~
Character appearance-
Character age- 15
Character history- Inoue Konoha is the first of two children born to his parents, followed years later by his younger sister (who is adorable, by the way). For the first several years of his life, Konoha was a fairly normal kid. But one day, in his early school years, he met the girl who would ultimately become his best friend (and first love), a girl named Asakura Miu. It was difficult to get close to her, but somehow, Konoha did ... and as he got closer, he started to be more and more drawn in by the outlandish and crazy stories she always told. The two were inseperable through most of their early schooling years, up into middle school. Miu's dream was to become a writer, and an opportunity to become published arose in the form of a young novelist's contest.
Konoha had a talent for writing as well, and though he wanted to enter the competition, he felt he would be betraying his best friend if he did. He did end up entering that contest, but under the pen name of 'Inoue Miu'; partly because he was told that a 'mysterious female' novelist would sell better, and partly because he didn't want his friend to know. Konoha didn't expect to do well in the competiton, but alas, he won. His novel, Just Like the Sky, was published, and became a huge sensation over the next several months. Miu, on the other hand, became depressed, and Konoha was left feeling incredibly guilty over the popularity of his novel. He finally told her that it was he who wrote that novel, under a pen name, and relations between the two of them became strained for a while before, one day, Konoha witnessed her try and take her own life by jumping off the roof of the school, telling Konoha that he "wouldn't understand."
For the rest of his middle school years, Konoha battled severe depression. Though nobody else knew it was he who had written it, the popularity of his book only served as a reminder of how guilty he felt over betraying his best friend like that, and served as a reminder of what she did as a result. Konoha swore he would never write a novel again. He wouldn't go to school, or even out of the house quite often. Somehow, he managed to pass all of his classes, though, and he eventually took the high school exams and became a high school student. As he started with high school, Konoha slowly started to get better. He became friendlier with his fellow students, and he started to make a few more friends. He started doing better at home, too. Things were finally looking up for Konoha, and though he was obviously still feeling the guilt over his novel and his friend, he was starting to look past all of it and see that there were also good things in life.
One day in his first year of High School, though, would change his life forever.
As Konoha was walking to class, he came across an older student sitting underneath a tree. At first, there was nothing out of the ordinary, but then he saw her rip a corner off a page of her book and eat it.
The girl caught him staring at her, and stood up to introduce herself as Amano Toko. She claimed she was a "Literature Girl," then insisted that he join the Literature Club. Konoha initially tried to refuse, but Toko said that now that he knew her secret, she had to keep an eye on him and make sure he didn't tell.
Thus, he was blackmailed into joining the literature club.
For the next two years, Konoha's routine changed so that he went to the literature club room every day after school. His esteemed "president" always set up prompts for him to write about, and he wrote her "snack" for the day. Over those two years, Konoha came to trust Toko, and found that she was the only one he could be truly honest with. The two became extremely close, and had a sort of relationship where they snarked at each other often, but really did care a lot about each other's well being. Once again, things were looking better for Konoha. He had even gone back into writing, inspired by Toko .... not that he would ever admit to it.
Things got more complicated upon visiting a friend and classmate in the hospital one day. Konoha made a shocking discovery: Miu was alive, and apparently had been trying to contact him. After getting over his initial shock, Konoha started visiting her in the hospital every day. His friends who knew Miu started warning him that she wasn't being the most honest person, but Konoha ignored them in lieu of his old friend's words. In a short amount of time, Konoha started to devote himself more to her, not realizing that she was trying to separate Konoha from all of the friends that he had made while the two had not been in contact. Despite warnings from his friends, Konoha refused to believe that Miu could possibly be manipulating him in any way, and continued to devote himself more and more to her ...
... Until the day Miu's mother yelled at Konoha, blaming him for her daughter's attempted suicide all those years prior. Miu happened upon that, and yelled at her mother to go away, holding broken glass to her neck and threatening to kill herself. When her mother was gone, Miu told Konoha that she hated him, and that everything she had ever said to him was a lie. When Konoha asked her what she wanted from him, all she asked him was "What is Campanella's wish?"
Konoha left the hospital that day at an all-time low. On his way home, he met up with Toko, who noticed something was wrong with her friend and walked with him, trying to get him to open up to her on what happened. She succeeded in getting him to open up a little ... but Konoha was worried about her well-being, since she was out in the cold when she had college exams to take the next day. The two said a prayer together that everything would turn out okay, Konoha gave her his scarf and gloves to keep warm with, and the two went their separate ways.
From then on, Konoha sought to find what Campanella's wish was. With Toko's help, they used the "map of the universe" Konoha and Miu had made as children to try and find out the answer, but Konoha was still confused.
Konoha later went to the roof of his old school and found Miu there. She convinced him to go with her to the "end of the universe" ... by which she meant try and commit suicide with her. Konoha agreed, and the two joined hands and moved to fall off the roof ...
... But then! Toko to the rescue! The moment Konoha saw his literature club president, he saved both himself and Miu from jumping off the roof, and the two then went to escort her back to the hospital ... but before they could get there, Miu jumped in front of a moving truck.
She survived, with no notable injuries other than her mentality being reduced to that of a third grader. Konoha quit school to devote himself solely to his best friend, and even gave a resignation letter to the Toko, so she would let him quit the Literary club.
Soon after, however, it was revealed that Miu's "mental reduction" was just another farce, and that she was doing all of this manipulation to keep Konoha with her. She thought that keeping Konoha with her would fulfill "Campanella's Wish."
Toko happened upon this, and took Konoha, Miu, and a few of their other mutal friends to the local planetarium to explain to everyone what "Campanella's Wish" REALLY was, and put an end once and for all to this mystery. Once everyone was seated in the planetarium, Toko used an ability to project everybody in the room to a scene that would help her in her explanation. As she explained, Konoha and his friend finally came to an understanding. His best friend admitted that she didn't ever really feel like she was loved by anybody, and Konoha told her he loved her, and would always think of her as his best friend.
When the projection ended, everybody was back in the planetarium, seated. Toko was missing, though. Konoha went to find her, and he found her at the train station. She explained to him that she was accepted to her first choice of college, and that she would be leaving soon. Konoha desperately asked if he could rejoin and take care of the literature club in her absense, even going so far as to offer to send her "snacks" daily to her by mail. She only shook her head and told him that he needed to write for the world now, rather than exclusively to her. Konoha desperately tried to make her see otherwise, but she wouldn't relent. Soon, it was time for them to part ways one last time, but before she could get on the train again, Konoha pulled her close and kissed her.
After that, life returned to normal, and to some extent, became better. Miu recovered, and finally started living a normal life. Konoha returned to school. They all had the same friends ... but his dear Literature Girl was no longer among them, having gone to college.
Konoha missed her terribly, and still harbored romantic feelings for her, but he tried to remain focused. He even tried to write every so often, but found that his inspiration had gone with her.
It had been just another typical day at school. Well, not exactly ... Konoha had gone to school despite being sick. He had been on his way home from school, insisting to Miu and everyone else that he would be fine, when he suddenly felt dizzy, and his vision went black.
When Konoha woke up, he'd have a fever ... and he wouldn't be in any place he recognized, either.
Character personality- On the surface, Inoue Konoha seems like a normal teenage boy. He's fairly friendly with people upon meeting them, and he has a fairly easy time making friends; he doesn't usually go out looking for friends, though. He's the kind that usually has friends just ... happen. They come looking for him. And of course, thereby proceed to drag him around for whatever reason-- okay, they're not ALL like that. Just some of them.
Konoha is kind of a pushover. Especially by the women in his life. It's generally very simple to get Konoha to do whatever you want if you're a friend of his. Usually it's as simple as just asking him, but in some cases, it's easy to get him to do whatever anybody wants him to do just by excessive (figurative, by the way, not literal) pushing ... or blackmail. Blackmail works too.
Whether Konoha realizes it or not, though, the friendly face he puts on is something of a mask. Certainly, he's a very nice boy, but there aren't very many people who he can be truly honest with his feelings in front of; he's afraid to let his real feelings show in front of just anybody. There is only one person that he feels he trusts enough to show the real him in front of, and that is also the only person that he will get into little snarking conversations with.
Going a little further beneath that surface, though, Konoha is kind of a messed up kid. He blames himself for his childhood friend's attempted suicide(s), and has emotional breakdowns when he comes across anything that reminds him of that event. During these emotional breakdowns, he hypervenhilates, and completely shuts himself off from most everyone; again, there is only one person he trusts enough to help him through these episodes, when they happen. Also as a result of events in his life, Konoha tends to have some pretty big attachment issues. He doesn't react well to people in his life leaving him without any form of contact.
Digimon personality- Patamon is very young, and is reminiscent of a little sister figure. She's very sweet, and often doesn't really know what she's doing, what she wants, where she's going, or what she's supposed to be doing. The one thing she does know that if she has a tamer, she's got to put aside any and all of her fears to be strong for that tamer.
That said, she actually is afraid of a lot of things. Patamon is shy, curious, and yet scared of just about anything. She has a fear of spiders, of loud noises, of other bugs, of birds, of bees, of giant talking hunks of wood, a lot of things. In fact, at first, she's afraid of this tamer guy she's got.
Patamon is a good judge of character, though, and she can pretty easily see when someone is a good person, regardless of how much she may fear them otherwise. She'll warm up to Konoha pretty quickly, and feel safe around him ... and eventually she'll warm up to every other friend she meets, too.
Until then, however, she'll just be afraid of everything. And work on changing that. Or something. Right.
Character abilities- The only notable abilities Konoha has are that he's a very skilled writer. He has no physical offensive or defensive abilities at all. He's actually kind of a woobie.
Sample RP- He coughed. He coughed again.
He didn't know why he felt so hot ... everything around him was freezing cold.
Upon entering this world, Konoha had landed in a large amount of snow, on his back. He forced open his eyes, groaning as a large amount of light immediately threatened to blind him. He tried to move his arm, but found it was nearly impossible to feel it, much less move it. He coughed again. He couldn't stop coughing.
A Patamon hid behind a tree, watching him, and trying to work up the courage to go over to him and ask if he was okay. She didn't know humans very well. She was afraid of them. They looked weird. But this human looked like he really needed some help, and she didn't think anybody was going to be here anytime soon to help him. She gulped.
"You can do this, you can do this ... you're going to help someone!"
And then she looked at the boy again and shied away. Then shook her head.
"No! Just go over there and ask if he's all right! Right! Let's go!"
And before she could say no, she rushed over to the boy's side.
"HELLO. ARE. YOU. OKAY?" She asked, yelling out the question as she shivered and trembled out of fear and the chilling weather of Meria.
Konoha's only response was to cough.
"DO. YOU. WANT. Do you want ... do ... d-do you want ..."
Patamon whimpered a little.
"H-Hospital, right?"
Konoha would have wondered why a batpig thing was talking to him if he weren't convinced he were stuck in some sickly delusion. He coughed again, entering another coughing fit. As it ended, he choked out the following words:
"T-That's probably ... a good idea."
Patamon nodded.
"R-Right ... I-I'll just ..."
"P-Probably should call my Mom or something ..."
".... Right."
"N'tell the school m'not gonna be attending for a while ... K-Kotobuki-san can probably take notes for me r'something ..."
".... right."
Sample journal entry-
[ AUDIO ]
Ummmm ... s-so, i-if a human is l-laying in the snow when he looks really .... I-Idunno, sick? T-That's a ... that's a bad thing, right?
Because I've got one of those right now .... a-and he doesn't look very good.
[ there's coughing in the background. he doesn't sound very good. ]
.... any chance we could get an ambulance in Meria?
d-doctor, please ...
w-what he said.