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Character: Elphaba Thropp
Series: From the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, and the Broadway musical Wicked.
Canon: Spoiler warning for those not familiar with the book. (I’m afraid this will be….. not quite as brief as you’d like, simply because she is from a relatively obscure fandom and merits some explanation. I apologize.) Elphaba Thropp is a woman in Oz who had the terrible misfortune of being born with green skin. As a child she was used by her Unionist minister father as an example of what would happen to people if they sinned, and was largely ignored by her mother, who later died in childbirth. She attended Shiz University, where she was roommates (and eventually close friends) with Galinda Arduenna, who would later become Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba is an advocate for the rights of the Animals, for in Oz Animals can speak and live just as humans do. However they, and many of the other races, are being oppressed, and once she discovers that this is because of the tyranny of the Wizard, she swears to oppose him. She leaves Shiz University, and starts her life as an enemy of the Wizard’s regime. In the musical, this is where she gains her title of the Wicked Witch of the West, as an attempt by the Wizard to turn the citizens against her. In the book, this is where she joins a terrorist group - and this is the age that she would be RPed as.
Elphaba is fiercely intelligent, and has a very sharp wit. She’s cynical about people and the world around her in general, and is convinced that she does not have a soul. Her passion for doing what she considers to be the right thing causes her a good deal of pain, as she says - “being born with a talent or inclination for goodness is the aberration.” Although she acts harsh, she is very devoted to the few people that she loves. So devoted that she considers being absent from them the only security she can give. She also is terribly allergic to water, for unknown reasons, and it frightens her - something others claim is really due to her fear it might “baptize” her into a faith, as she is very much against religion. Thus she relies on oils instead. She has a good deal of magical power, but often no real control over how it turns out. For the sake of amusement, I’ll go with the musical’s judgment of her power (she also has her flying broom by then, which is necessary, of course.).
I’d always assumed that the Wizard was incapable of doing anything remotely magical, being on the whole a man utterly bereft of any sort of self-sufficiency. Yet, there is no other reason I can surmise to explain why I am suddenly in this…. place, for lack of a term accurately describing such destitution. Most likely he’s found someone apt in sorcery to do it for him, as I doubt anyone else would have such a vendetta against me as to put me in such a position.
It’s not the people here - being as I am, I’m hardly one to bat an eye at some of their eccentricities.
However, I do take issue with the glaring fact that there is a lake.
There are several reasons why I chose to live in the Emerald City - bringing down the Wizard being the most obvious one - but the fact that it kept me away from any sources of water was a perk. If this is in fact not the Wizard’s doing, and is some sort of an afterlife or other world of the type that the more spiritually-inclined insist on preaching about, it has a sadistic sense of humor. Once I even thought I heard my mother over my shoulder, “Shall we go walk by the edge of the lake today and maybe you’ll drown? Maybe we’ll go out in a boat and tip over!”, barring the fact that she’s been dead for over fifteen years. Though from what I’ve observed, that’s not the sort of restriction that applies here. I wonder if any do.
There is a damn lake.
You’d think that with the peculiar assortment of… beings… here (I hesitate to say ‘people’), they wouldn’t find someone with green skin all that outlandish. Yet I have received several odd looks and offhand comments already. The others keep a considerable distance from me - although that could just be normal etiquette for this area. I don’t feel particularly like getting anywhere near some of them, either.
I was born green, have always been green, and will be green until I die - unless, of course, I manage to get skinned. Which is something that would normally be unlikely, but with the presence of that water and all the unstable people who seem to be trapped here, it has become a disturbing possibility.
I did receive one piece of advice - “Don’t go near the lake.”
Incidentally, that was the only bit of information I didn’t need.
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Character: Kamio Akira
Series: Prince of Tennis
Canon: Kamio is the vice-captain of Fudomine team and is a
stereotypical redhead. He angers easily, is quick to lash, and leaps before
he thinks. A major point that probably makes him attractive to his teammates
is his fierce loyalty to any he trusts, barring all retarded spazziness he
achieves when he's angry. On and off the courts, he's known as the "speed
demon" with his unnatural speed. Kamio's love for music extends into his
playing; known phrases used to boost his own morale or simply to taunt the
opponent - "rhythm ni high", "rhythm ni ageru ze", "rhythm ni noru ze".
Essentially, anything that involves raising or riding his rhythm. His best
friend is Shinji and the person he respects the most is the team captain,
Tachibana.
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Shinji, how many times have I told you about leaving long voice messages? I
can't believe I had to go through the entire damn story about your sister's
cousin's friend's grandmother's cat choking on a pea.
Why the hell aren't you answering your cell anyway?
Why isn't anyone answering their cell?
Whatever it is, answer your damn cells, 'cause this camp officially sucks.
It stinks. I bet it was Tetsu's idea of a prank to give me the wrong camp.
Seriously, where are you guys? This isn't the summer camp Tachibana-san
described at all, it's more like a full-out horror amusement park for the
insane. No tennis courts. No tennis equipment. Lots of gorillas. Lots of
zombies.
Zombies.
Okay, their makeup's good and all and they look disgusting and they stink
like zombies- I don't want to know what the hell they roll themselves
in -and it's all good for the damn park but there was no need to chew on my
head. There was no need to gnaw, with 'mmmmm' noises, on my
head! Do they not pay you lunatics enough for some plain riceballs!?
I told you I shouldn't have gotten the 'ameboshi' scent hairgel Shinji, but
nooo, you thought it was cool to have scented food in my hair. Why do I ever
listen to you? I had to beat them off with my racquet and now it's all caked
with whatever the hell those idiots soaked themselves in.
Don't even get me started on the people here. I thought those Rikkai
bastards were crazy, but the people here are on weed. Weed and mushrooms. I
tried to look up the camp director of the place and all I got was this
lightning bolt to the tree behind me. What the hell is that supposed to
mean!? All I want is out! All I want is peace and tennis and-- HOLY SHIT
RHYTHM ON HIGH---
[rhythmic whacking noises]
.....Aaargh my new racquet! Shinji, call me back. And for the last
time, shorter voice messages goddammit!!
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Character: Sunao Fujimori (Nao-kun to his friends)/Ran
Series: Sukisyo
Canon: (spoilers) Sunao is a young pretty-boy who has gone through a life of hardship. At a
young age he was taken captive by a hospital facility with his best friend
Sora. Test after test was run on him, until his childhood friend created an
alternate personality in his mind to help them overcome their trials. The
personality was known as Yoru. In response, Sunao created his own alternate
personality: Ran. The two were each other's pillars of strength until Sora
was rescued and Sunao was left behind. Sunao was left to the mercy of the
doctors until he was finally corrupted by the lead doctor/scientist. He was
brimming with hatred for Sora, until he enrolled at the same college as Sora
and began to fall for him all over again. Sunao appears to be very feminine
(with a huge fear of water), and reserved at first, but is quite aggresive,
moody, and violent. He becomes possessed by his anger, and has been known to
hold grudges. However he loves his friends dearly, and feels very insulted
when they show him disrespect. Underneith all of his layers of hate, Sunao
fights of feelings of abandonment and loneliness. More than anything he
wants to be loved and cherished, but this want drives him to the point of
cruelty. Ran, on the other hand, is quite pouty, weepy, easily angered,
playful, and skilled when it comes to seducing people.
I am going to kill whoever dressed me up as cupid and dumped me off in this horrendous place! I don't
even remember what happened. One momentI was being dragged around the school
campus by Sora and the next I was here! maybe Ran came out and did something to get us
here?
Right after I realized I was at some sort of camp, I happened to trip over a
copy of this book wedged in the mud! I don't know whether to punch
that person for putting this where someone could hurt themselves, or thank
them! I think this book will be like gold to the campers here maybe I should sell it... because right
after I picked up this book I ran into a flock of zombies (what do you call
a group of zombies anyway...? A gaggle? A herd?..) I started beating those
zombies with the side of the book!! But that didn't do much of anything. One
came from behind (cheater!!) and grabbed onto my head! He(?) was trying to
bite it off! But he just got my giant yellow wig instead (I hope
he it choked!!) which gave me time to run away to a cave.
Note to self: Do not enter into caves.
I was greeted by a howling purple gorilla with a wig much like the one the
zombie hopefully choked on. Maybe the gorilla mistook me for it's young and
dressed me up...? EITHER WAY! After screaming bloody murder and running in
the opposite direction I finally found civilized people! I
asked them where I was but they were so busy taking their pants off and
getting engaged that all I learned was that
1) The camp is called Camp Fuck You Die
2) The camp gives you a gun
3) The director's fiance was murdered (not surprising when you look at the
people here.. Ugh)
My theory about the fiance's murder? I think it wasn't a suicide at all. I
think it was a suicide. Anyone would commit suicide to get away from a
spouse that is insane enough to lock up a bunch of strangers in hell.
*SIGH*
I'm going to go hide under the bed
look for my real clothes now.... Will update later maybe.
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Character: Liaoyuan Huo
Series: The Ravages of Time (Three Kingdoms)
Canon: Huo is the leader of a famous invincible assassin organization, Handicapped Warriors, working under the house of Sima. Like the rest of his teammates, he is also handicapped in some way, but in his case, being unable to feel pain only helps him in this career path. Besides being the top seat assassin of his time, Huo is also a very skilled fighter and technician, his preferred weapons include sword, spear, and kunai. All the team members use aliases during missions, and Huo’s most popular alias being Zhao Yun styled Zilong, a name given to him by Liu Bei when he met the man during one of his missions. Huo is a principled killer, preferring to only kill when necessary and prefers to 'Fight one skilled warrior rather than a hundreds peons.'
Huo is a carefree but nonetheless focused person. Although he took on many random side jobs at his own whim, when on missions, he always made sure the mission was completed no matter what. He has a very casual attitude even towards Sima Yi, who is the head of the house and his lord. He is quite moderate in personality which is useful in keeping a low profile, but his loyalty is very apparent although he likes to act otherwise. Still, he is a fierce fighter who likes to laugh in face of danger. At the end of Vol. 19 of the comic, the team lost of one of its members that Huo was particularly close to, Xiao Meng aka Diao Chan, which made him quit the organization on the spot and disappear.
I think we need to get one thing straightened out before anything else happens.
Assassins kill living people so that they die, I'm sure because that's what I do for a living... did anyway. And by living people I mean those who breathe, with a working heart, brain and every organ intact. Living people will also say other words besides 'GRRROOOAAANNN' and are capable of forming a sentence longer than 'Me want brains' (Other working variations include but are not restricted to 'I want brains' and 'Urrggg Gahhh Wahhh.') You know, ones that drop to the ground when you sever their spine and spasms a bit before going silent... permanently.
The people here? Not breathing, not living, not my problem. I would not even bother to fight them if not for the fact that I can't search for a missing person with them interfering every two minutes. Besides, I'm not even getting paid to clean up for whoever owns this dump. But I do expect them to cover the cost it’ll cost me to have my clothes washed and get my weapons repolished, two days in this hell hole and the gunk is already making them all rusty.
Still, I have to admit it though; these... whatever provided good exercise and much needed relaxation. Although it is normally not my policy to play with peons, I made an exception in this case. It is not everyday that I can have a good fight that does not get interrupted by my opponents dying. Granted the crawling body parts did catch me off guard but hey, if you want to be the best in the business, you have to learn quickly. Not to mention there is nothing that can work frustration out of your system quite like a mob brawl.
Despite quitting my job, I still have standards here. So please call some other professionals that handle these kinds of clean up work, because as soon as I find Xiao Meng, I'm out of here.
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Character: Horohoro
Series: Shaman King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman_King
Canon: Horohoro is an Ainu shaman partnered up with an adorable little earth spirit named Kororo, in the hopes of becoming the Shaman King and fulfill his dream of creating a giant field of coltrop plants. When he and Kororo combine by 'oversoul'ing he's able to produce a variety of ice techniques, giving him an excuse to go around carrying a snowboard at all times. It also happens to add to his 'cool' factor.
People who don't know Horohoro may label him an idiot at first, since he usually acts without thinking it though, and can often jump into conclusions (and it's usually the wrong one). He's very friendly, easily excitable, and quite often very very loud. Horohoro can get serious when he wants to, and that usually leads to some really deep insight coming from him. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very often. Other than that, he simply enjoys life and acts like any normal hormonally driven 14 year old on a quest to change the world would.
Wow, Ren really can't take a joke.
I mean, so Chocolove and I were secretly plotting to freeze his boxers in the middle of the night as a prank. So he overheard said plot being discussed. It wouldn't have worked anyway; if he's this uptight all the time, he's got to be wearing briefs. Or a thong. I don't want to know. That still doesn't mean he could stuff me in a BOX while I was sleeping (so I happen to be a deep sleeper)! At the very least put a couple of air holes to breathe, why don't ya. And when Ren said he was going to punish me by sending me off to some 'forsaken place of doom', I thought he was joking. You know, he'd probably leave me in here for a day or two, or until I annoyed him enough to let me go.
I guess Ren doesn't joke around either.
Forty thousand feet isn't exactly what I'd call a safe altitude to get tossed out of the plane from, but I that's exactly what happened to me thanks for nothing, stupid pilot. Luckily, I managed to do something about the whole 'OMG I'm FALLING!!!' scenario before I became a decorative splat on the ground. A very large tree broke my fall, thank goodness, except… this wasn't an ordinary tree. Normal trees don't MOVE and fling their branches at you.
WHAT is up with this tree?! When I did finally managed to get off the tree, its roots went and grabbed for my shorts! That's when I decided to get the heck away from it, but not before freezing its shorts-loving appendages.
As if that wasn't strange enough to wrap your head around, then there were the sudden swarm of the walking undead that surrounded me and tried to bite me! Nuh uh, I'm definitely not planning to be anyone's meal anytime soon. Beating the lot of them was a piece of cake compared to the walking corpses that were at Ren's house (and they stink less too), but can anyone explain why they're here? Why are there undead bodies roaming around like this was Club Med for them?
Where exactly am I?!
Wait wait, I didn't just die from that fall, and end up in Hell, did I? I mean, that could totally explain the rotting dead guys walking about, but... DAMMIT, I can't die like that! That's such a stupid, lame way to die! Stupid Ren, I am so going to haunt your ass for doing this to me! I'm going to FREEZE your blanket and pillow every morning! I'll ice the sidewalks so you'll trip and fall! I'll... I'll uhm, I can't think of anything else right now, but when I do, you're so gonna get it!!! That is, you know... if I can get out of this place. I am not going to be spending all eternity being chased down by monsters trying to eat me! And what kind of Hell is this? I mean, I expected it to be a lot hotter and more, burning-lava type of an environment. Instead I get this?? What the heck is up with this forest, and the weird rainbow-colored animals, and the glowing green lake, and that really weird looking yellow rat, and... did I just see a giant 12-foot teddy bear running by?
Kororo..?
What? I'm not?
Oh wait, ok, so I'm not dead.
But that still doesn't explain where the heck I am!
This totally sucks.
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Character: InuYasha
Series: InuYasha- Sengoku o Togi Zoushi
Canon: InuYasha is a hanyou (half human and half youkai/demon) originating from the feudal warring states era of Japan. Fifty years before the start of the series, he was sealed by a priestess named Kikyou due to a betrayal set up by Naraku (the primary villain of the series). Caught in an eternal sleep, he was awoken fifty years later by a girl from the future named Higurashi Kagome. She slipped through time via a well on her shrine grounds. InuYasha can travel through this well also. Together they embarked on a quest to defeat Naraku as well as to gather the shards of a magical jewel known as the Shikon no Tama.
Due to his half youkai blood, InuYasha is uncannily strong. He wields a blade called Tessaiga, which while normally just a rusty sword, transforms into a giant fang in battle. He has a full youkai half brother named Sesshoumaru who he does not get along with well.
InuYasha is gruff and rather childish, but also has a serious sense of honor and can be rather intense with his emotions. He is shy when it comes to romance, and veers away from social contact (although he has improved with this as the series has gone on) due to being outcast as a child because of his mixed blood. InuYasha has a bit of potty-mouth and tends to engage in sulkiness quite often.
Oi, something is wrong with the well. I was going to pick Kagome up in her era but it didn't take me to the well house. Instead I ended up at this 'camp.' The camp seems really dangerous but I think I'm in Kagome's era because there are 'computers' in the cabins. I just want to get the hell out of here and back to one of the two wells, but someone said we can't leave. Keh, this is stupid. Speaking of this camp…
[Private]
I kinda was wondering if there may be some shikon shards behind all this, but only Kagome can sense those. It just seems really unnatural here. Damn I don't even know where Kagome is… or if she's even here.
[End Private]
There's something called a 'bunk' that we're supposed to sleep in. The first night, I wanted to sleep outside instead of in the cabin. There's no way I could rest with all that damn snoring from the other guys in there. But when I went outside to hop in a tree, I found out that I'd rather tolerate the snoring.
Well I was up in the tree, and was already annoyed by the wet moss all over the damned branches. One of the guys in the cabin had warned me not to go outside at night, but I've fought a lot worse than a bunch of zombies. Hell, I have fought a bunch of zombies… and one was gay at that!
I'd finally closed my eyes to sleep when I heard something… It was a voice and I couldn't hear any footsteps or anything, just this singing voice. Keh- it was a man's voice and they couldn't sing worth shit. They sang this song I'd never heard before… that went like this. (I'm NOT singing it by the way. Writing the words out is bad enough.)
I'm too sexy for my shirt
too sexy for my shirt… so sexy it hurts. Okay that's enough!
I decided snoring was better than that, so went back inside the cabin for the night.
Not that I'm scared or anything, but there's some strange shit out there. It seems too weird for even Naraku. I'm wondering if it was Sesshoumaru actually, because he would do something that stupid. (But I don't know how he'd get here…)
And what is with everyone's obsession with my Tessaiga? Some of the guys won't stop trying to touch my sword. It's really pissing me off. I don't let anyone touch my sword, you guys got that?! Well… except Kagome sometimes.
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Character: Hidaka Ken
Series: Weiss Kreuz
Canon: Ken's a good guy, athletic and happily outgoing, though a good deal of what he's wanted in life has gone from "Hey, anybody wanna play some soccer?" to "Don't make me kill any more of my friends, kthx. *tear*" Because, that's just the kind of thing that happens if you're one of Kritiker's (A shadow organization that's "cleaning up" the night. By killing people they don't like.) highly elite florist assassins. He wasn't always a florally adept killer, though. Once upon a time he was a much loved professional soccer goalie, who was then betrayed, disgraced and left for dead (Warehouse fire. What a way to go.) It was after this that Kritiker armed him with one Wolverine-esque glove and added him to Weiss, the same team that current camper, Omi, is already a part of.
This is Ken after the end of series, but before the OVA. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume, however, that before his departure Omi helped the boys get their Van of Flowery Death up and running.
[Email communication to Weiss]
There's a reason I never take solo missions... stuff like this always happens to us. The hell made them think it was a good idea to send Omi out here on his own?
What? You know they knew about the Zombies and just didn't tell us. Yeah, that's right, this place has ZOMBIES. No! I'm not making it up. Who makes up zombies? We know psychics, this is the same kinda thing only... oozing.
The point is I haven't seen Omi yet, and this whole mission is like one of those really bad ideas I sometimes get -- like that one time with the pudding -- that you guys usually talk me out of. Except no one did.
...stuff it, Kudou, not all my ideas are stupid, just... som-- shutup.
Anyway, I figure I'll just camp out until I figure out where Omi is and grab him and then, um. Well, if the zombies can't give directions, maybe one of the campers can. Uh, assuming I can find one that's not, um, undead too.
Right. Find Omi, avoid zombies, get home. It's a good plan.
Oh, and Youji, I told you that ESPN4 was better than the Playboy channel. If you were fighting off bands of organized squirrels, you'd wish you'd watched Scottish log tossing finals too. Ha!
[/Communication]
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Character: Haruhara Haruko
Series: FLCL
Canon: Haruko is a Vespa-riding, guitar-wielding, young-boy-kissing, home-wrecking alien girl who comes to Earth looking for the space pirate Atmosk. She appears to be slightly insane, what with the number of times she bashes people's heads in with her bass guitar, but she is actually quite driven in her attempts to bring down Medical Mechanica. She flies, runs people over on her bike, gives reports to a cat, shoots bullets out of her guitar, plays baseball, works as a housekeeper and occasionally impersonates a nurse. Pretty average anime girl, really.
Weeeeeeell, I don't really know if Medical Mechanica's been messing with this place. Not enough doorless factories or giant robots. Ohhhh wait, there's one. It's all kinda freaky here though, so maybe they're moving into biological warfare.
There are soooo many Taro-kuns here though. All sad, depressed, sexless little kids. You'd think they'd be more interesting, fighting off zombies, but they're all like Taro. Although some of them are ninjas, with a capital purple. I wonder how good their heads would be.
Oh yeah, zombies. They must be attracted to my devastating beauty, because they all came swarming over when I landed. But you knooooow, I gave them what they wanted. A devastatingly beautiful BANG IN THE HEAD with my guitar. It was like... WHAM. BAM. SCREW YOU, MA'AM. FLOTSAM JETSAM.
Anyway, I should go mingle with the natives. Maybe there's a good head there for me... I just haven't looked hard enough ♥.
Heeey. Heeeeeeey. Where are yoooooou, boys and girls? Your new housekeeper wants to say hello!
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Character: Elphaba Thropp
Series: From the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, and the Broadway musical Wicked.
Canon: Spoiler warning for those not familiar with the book. (I’m afraid this will be….. not quite as brief as you’d like, simply because she is from a relatively obscure fandom and merits some explanation. I apologize.) Elphaba Thropp is a woman in Oz who had the terrible misfortune of being born with green skin. As a child she was used by her Unionist minister father as an example of what would happen to people if they sinned, and was largely ignored by her mother, who later died in childbirth. She attended Shiz University, where she was roommates (and eventually close friends) with Galinda Arduenna, who would later become Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba is an advocate for the rights of the Animals, for in Oz Animals can speak and live just as humans do. However they, and many of the other races, are being oppressed, and once she discovers that this is because of the tyranny of the Wizard, she swears to oppose him. She leaves Shiz University, and starts her life as an enemy of the Wizard’s regime. In the musical, this is where she gains her title of the Wicked Witch of the West, as an attempt by the Wizard to turn the citizens against her. In the book, this is where she joins a terrorist group - and this is the age that she would be RPed as.
Elphaba is fiercely intelligent, and has a very sharp wit. She’s cynical about people and the world around her in general, and is convinced that she does not have a soul. Her passion for doing what she considers to be the right thing causes her a good deal of pain, as she says - “being born with a talent or inclination for goodness is the aberration.” Although she acts harsh, she is very devoted to the few people that she loves. So devoted that she considers being absent from them the only security she can give. She also is terribly allergic to water, for unknown reasons, and it frightens her - something others claim is really due to her fear it might “baptize” her into a faith, as she is very much against religion. Thus she relies on oils instead. She has a good deal of magical power, but often no real control over how it turns out. For the sake of amusement, I’ll go with the musical’s judgment of her power (she also has her flying broom by then, which is necessary, of course.).
I’d always assumed that the Wizard was incapable of doing anything remotely magical, being on the whole a man utterly bereft of any sort of self-sufficiency. Yet, there is no other reason I can surmise to explain why I am suddenly in this…. place, for lack of a term accurately describing such destitution. Most likely he’s found someone apt in sorcery to do it for him, as I doubt anyone else would have such a vendetta against me as to put me in such a position.
It’s not the people here - being as I am, I’m hardly one to bat an eye at some of their eccentricities.
However, I do take issue with the glaring fact that there is a lake.
There are several reasons why I chose to live in the Emerald City - bringing down the Wizard being the most obvious one - but the fact that it kept me away from any sources of water was a perk. If this is in fact not the Wizard’s doing, and is some sort of an afterlife or other world of the type that the more spiritually-inclined insist on preaching about, it has a sadistic sense of humor. Once I even thought I heard my mother over my shoulder, “Shall we go walk by the edge of the lake today and maybe you’ll drown? Maybe we’ll go out in a boat and tip over!”, barring the fact that she’s been dead for over fifteen years. Though from what I’ve observed, that’s not the sort of restriction that applies here. I wonder if any do.
There is a damn lake.
You’d think that with the peculiar assortment of… beings… here (I hesitate to say ‘people’), they wouldn’t find someone with green skin all that outlandish. Yet I have received several odd looks and offhand comments already. The others keep a considerable distance from me - although that could just be normal etiquette for this area. I don’t feel particularly like getting anywhere near some of them, either.
I was born green, have always been green, and will be green until I die - unless, of course, I manage to get skinned. Which is something that would normally be unlikely, but with the presence of that water and all the unstable people who seem to be trapped here, it has become a disturbing possibility.
I did receive one piece of advice - “Don’t go near the lake.”
Incidentally, that was the only bit of information I didn’t need.
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Character: Kamio Akira
Series: Prince of Tennis
Canon: Kamio is the vice-captain of Fudomine team and is a
stereotypical redhead. He angers easily, is quick to lash, and leaps before
he thinks. A major point that probably makes him attractive to his teammates
is his fierce loyalty to any he trusts, barring all retarded spazziness he
achieves when he's angry. On and off the courts, he's known as the "speed
demon" with his unnatural speed. Kamio's love for music extends into his
playing; known phrases used to boost his own morale or simply to taunt the
opponent - "rhythm ni high", "rhythm ni ageru ze", "rhythm ni noru ze".
Essentially, anything that involves raising or riding his rhythm. His best
friend is Shinji and the person he respects the most is the team captain,
Tachibana.
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Shinji, how many times have I told you about leaving long voice messages? I
can't believe I had to go through the entire damn story about your sister's
cousin's friend's grandmother's cat choking on a pea.
Why the hell aren't you answering your cell anyway?
Why isn't anyone answering their cell?
Whatever it is, answer your damn cells, 'cause this camp officially sucks.
It stinks. I bet it was Tetsu's idea of a prank to give me the wrong camp.
Seriously, where are you guys? This isn't the summer camp Tachibana-san
described at all, it's more like a full-out horror amusement park for the
insane. No tennis courts. No tennis equipment. Lots of gorillas. Lots of
zombies.
Zombies.
Okay, their makeup's good and all and they look disgusting and they stink
like zombies- I don't want to know what the hell they roll themselves
in -and it's all good for the damn park but there was no need to chew on my
head. There was no need to gnaw, with 'mmmmm' noises, on my
head! Do they not pay you lunatics enough for some plain riceballs!?
I told you I shouldn't have gotten the 'ameboshi' scent hairgel Shinji, but
nooo, you thought it was cool to have scented food in my hair. Why do I ever
listen to you? I had to beat them off with my racquet and now it's all caked
with whatever the hell those idiots soaked themselves in.
Don't even get me started on the people here. I thought those Rikkai
bastards were crazy, but the people here are on weed. Weed and mushrooms. I
tried to look up the camp director of the place and all I got was this
lightning bolt to the tree behind me. What the hell is that supposed to
mean!? All I want is out! All I want is peace and tennis and-- HOLY SHIT
RHYTHM ON HIGH---
[rhythmic whacking noises]
.....Aaargh my new racquet! Shinji, call me back. And for the last
time, shorter voice messages goddammit!!
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Character: Sunao Fujimori (Nao-kun to his friends)/Ran
Series: Sukisyo
Canon: (spoilers) Sunao is a young pretty-boy who has gone through a life of hardship. At a
young age he was taken captive by a hospital facility with his best friend
Sora. Test after test was run on him, until his childhood friend created an
alternate personality in his mind to help them overcome their trials. The
personality was known as Yoru. In response, Sunao created his own alternate
personality: Ran. The two were each other's pillars of strength until Sora
was rescued and Sunao was left behind. Sunao was left to the mercy of the
doctors until he was finally corrupted by the lead doctor/scientist. He was
brimming with hatred for Sora, until he enrolled at the same college as Sora
and began to fall for him all over again. Sunao appears to be very feminine
(with a huge fear of water), and reserved at first, but is quite aggresive,
moody, and violent. He becomes possessed by his anger, and has been known to
hold grudges. However he loves his friends dearly, and feels very insulted
when they show him disrespect. Underneith all of his layers of hate, Sunao
fights of feelings of abandonment and loneliness. More than anything he
wants to be loved and cherished, but this want drives him to the point of
cruelty. Ran, on the other hand, is quite pouty, weepy, easily angered,
playful, and skilled when it comes to seducing people.
I am going to kill whoever dressed me up as cupid and dumped me off in this horrendous place! I don't
even remember what happened. One momentI was being dragged around the school
campus by Sora and the next I was here! maybe Ran came out and did something to get us
here?
Right after I realized I was at some sort of camp, I happened to trip over a
copy of this book wedged in the mud! I don't know whether to punch
that person for putting this where someone could hurt themselves, or thank
them! I think this book will be like gold to the campers here maybe I should sell it... because right
after I picked up this book I ran into a flock of zombies (what do you call
a group of zombies anyway...? A gaggle? A herd?..) I started beating those
zombies with the side of the book!! But that didn't do much of anything. One
came from behind (cheater!!) and grabbed onto my head! He(?) was trying to
bite it off! But he just got my giant yellow wig instead (I hope
he it choked!!) which gave me time to run away to a cave.
Note to self: Do not enter into caves.
I was greeted by a howling purple gorilla with a wig much like the one the
zombie hopefully choked on. Maybe the gorilla mistook me for it's young and
dressed me up...? EITHER WAY! After screaming bloody murder and running in
the opposite direction I finally found civilized people! I
asked them where I was but they were so busy taking their pants off and
getting engaged that all I learned was that
1) The camp is called Camp Fuck You Die
2) The camp gives you a gun
3) The director's fiance was murdered (not surprising when you look at the
people here.. Ugh)
My theory about the fiance's murder? I think it wasn't a suicide at all. I
think it was a suicide. Anyone would commit suicide to get away from a
spouse that is insane enough to lock up a bunch of strangers in hell.
*SIGH*
I'm going to go hide under the bed
look for my real clothes now.... Will update later maybe.
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Character: Liaoyuan Huo
Series: The Ravages of Time (Three Kingdoms)
Canon: Huo is the leader of a famous invincible assassin organization, Handicapped Warriors, working under the house of Sima. Like the rest of his teammates, he is also handicapped in some way, but in his case, being unable to feel pain only helps him in this career path. Besides being the top seat assassin of his time, Huo is also a very skilled fighter and technician, his preferred weapons include sword, spear, and kunai. All the team members use aliases during missions, and Huo’s most popular alias being Zhao Yun styled Zilong, a name given to him by Liu Bei when he met the man during one of his missions. Huo is a principled killer, preferring to only kill when necessary and prefers to 'Fight one skilled warrior rather than a hundreds peons.'
Huo is a carefree but nonetheless focused person. Although he took on many random side jobs at his own whim, when on missions, he always made sure the mission was completed no matter what. He has a very casual attitude even towards Sima Yi, who is the head of the house and his lord. He is quite moderate in personality which is useful in keeping a low profile, but his loyalty is very apparent although he likes to act otherwise. Still, he is a fierce fighter who likes to laugh in face of danger. At the end of Vol. 19 of the comic, the team lost of one of its members that Huo was particularly close to, Xiao Meng aka Diao Chan, which made him quit the organization on the spot and disappear.
I think we need to get one thing straightened out before anything else happens.
Assassins kill living people so that they die, I'm sure because that's what I do for a living... did anyway. And by living people I mean those who breathe, with a working heart, brain and every organ intact. Living people will also say other words besides 'GRRROOOAAANNN' and are capable of forming a sentence longer than 'Me want brains' (Other working variations include but are not restricted to 'I want brains' and 'Urrggg Gahhh Wahhh.') You know, ones that drop to the ground when you sever their spine and spasms a bit before going silent... permanently.
The people here? Not breathing, not living, not my problem. I would not even bother to fight them if not for the fact that I can't search for a missing person with them interfering every two minutes. Besides, I'm not even getting paid to clean up for whoever owns this dump. But I do expect them to cover the cost it’ll cost me to have my clothes washed and get my weapons repolished, two days in this hell hole and the gunk is already making them all rusty.
Still, I have to admit it though; these... whatever provided good exercise and much needed relaxation. Although it is normally not my policy to play with peons, I made an exception in this case. It is not everyday that I can have a good fight that does not get interrupted by my opponents dying. Granted the crawling body parts did catch me off guard but hey, if you want to be the best in the business, you have to learn quickly. Not to mention there is nothing that can work frustration out of your system quite like a mob brawl.
Despite quitting my job, I still have standards here. So please call some other professionals that handle these kinds of clean up work, because as soon as I find Xiao Meng, I'm out of here.
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Character: Horohoro
Series: Shaman King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman_King
Canon: Horohoro is an Ainu shaman partnered up with an adorable little earth spirit named Kororo, in the hopes of becoming the Shaman King and fulfill his dream of creating a giant field of coltrop plants. When he and Kororo combine by 'oversoul'ing he's able to produce a variety of ice techniques, giving him an excuse to go around carrying a snowboard at all times. It also happens to add to his 'cool' factor.
People who don't know Horohoro may label him an idiot at first, since he usually acts without thinking it though, and can often jump into conclusions (and it's usually the wrong one). He's very friendly, easily excitable, and quite often very very loud. Horohoro can get serious when he wants to, and that usually leads to some really deep insight coming from him. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very often. Other than that, he simply enjoys life and acts like any normal hormonally driven 14 year old on a quest to change the world would.
Wow, Ren really can't take a joke.
I mean, so Chocolove and I were secretly plotting to freeze his boxers in the middle of the night as a prank. So he overheard said plot being discussed. It wouldn't have worked anyway; if he's this uptight all the time, he's got to be wearing briefs. Or a thong. I don't want to know. That still doesn't mean he could stuff me in a BOX while I was sleeping (so I happen to be a deep sleeper)! At the very least put a couple of air holes to breathe, why don't ya. And when Ren said he was going to punish me by sending me off to some 'forsaken place of doom', I thought he was joking. You know, he'd probably leave me in here for a day or two, or until I annoyed him enough to let me go.
I guess Ren doesn't joke around either.
Forty thousand feet isn't exactly what I'd call a safe altitude to get tossed out of the plane from, but I that's exactly what happened to me thanks for nothing, stupid pilot. Luckily, I managed to do something about the whole 'OMG I'm FALLING!!!' scenario before I became a decorative splat on the ground. A very large tree broke my fall, thank goodness, except… this wasn't an ordinary tree. Normal trees don't MOVE and fling their branches at you.
WHAT is up with this tree?! When I did finally managed to get off the tree, its roots went and grabbed for my shorts! That's when I decided to get the heck away from it, but not before freezing its shorts-loving appendages.
As if that wasn't strange enough to wrap your head around, then there were the sudden swarm of the walking undead that surrounded me and tried to bite me! Nuh uh, I'm definitely not planning to be anyone's meal anytime soon. Beating the lot of them was a piece of cake compared to the walking corpses that were at Ren's house (and they stink less too), but can anyone explain why they're here? Why are there undead bodies roaming around like this was Club Med for them?
Where exactly am I?!
Wait wait, I didn't just die from that fall, and end up in Hell, did I? I mean, that could totally explain the rotting dead guys walking about, but... DAMMIT, I can't die like that! That's such a stupid, lame way to die! Stupid Ren, I am so going to haunt your ass for doing this to me! I'm going to FREEZE your blanket and pillow every morning! I'll ice the sidewalks so you'll trip and fall! I'll... I'll uhm, I can't think of anything else right now, but when I do, you're so gonna get it!!! That is, you know... if I can get out of this place. I am not going to be spending all eternity being chased down by monsters trying to eat me! And what kind of Hell is this? I mean, I expected it to be a lot hotter and more, burning-lava type of an environment. Instead I get this?? What the heck is up with this forest, and the weird rainbow-colored animals, and the glowing green lake, and that really weird looking yellow rat, and... did I just see a giant 12-foot teddy bear running by?
Kororo..?
What? I'm not?
Oh wait, ok, so I'm not dead.
But that still doesn't explain where the heck I am!
This totally sucks.
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Character: InuYasha
Series: InuYasha- Sengoku o Togi Zoushi
Canon: InuYasha is a hanyou (half human and half youkai/demon) originating from the feudal warring states era of Japan. Fifty years before the start of the series, he was sealed by a priestess named Kikyou due to a betrayal set up by Naraku (the primary villain of the series). Caught in an eternal sleep, he was awoken fifty years later by a girl from the future named Higurashi Kagome. She slipped through time via a well on her shrine grounds. InuYasha can travel through this well also. Together they embarked on a quest to defeat Naraku as well as to gather the shards of a magical jewel known as the Shikon no Tama.
Due to his half youkai blood, InuYasha is uncannily strong. He wields a blade called Tessaiga, which while normally just a rusty sword, transforms into a giant fang in battle. He has a full youkai half brother named Sesshoumaru who he does not get along with well.
InuYasha is gruff and rather childish, but also has a serious sense of honor and can be rather intense with his emotions. He is shy when it comes to romance, and veers away from social contact (although he has improved with this as the series has gone on) due to being outcast as a child because of his mixed blood. InuYasha has a bit of potty-mouth and tends to engage in sulkiness quite often.
Oi, something is wrong with the well. I was going to pick Kagome up in her era but it didn't take me to the well house. Instead I ended up at this 'camp.' The camp seems really dangerous but I think I'm in Kagome's era because there are 'computers' in the cabins. I just want to get the hell out of here and back to one of the two wells, but someone said we can't leave. Keh, this is stupid. Speaking of this camp…
[Private]
I kinda was wondering if there may be some shikon shards behind all this, but only Kagome can sense those. It just seems really unnatural here. Damn I don't even know where Kagome is… or if she's even here.
[End Private]
There's something called a 'bunk' that we're supposed to sleep in. The first night, I wanted to sleep outside instead of in the cabin. There's no way I could rest with all that damn snoring from the other guys in there. But when I went outside to hop in a tree, I found out that I'd rather tolerate the snoring.
Well I was up in the tree, and was already annoyed by the wet moss all over the damned branches. One of the guys in the cabin had warned me not to go outside at night, but I've fought a lot worse than a bunch of zombies. Hell, I have fought a bunch of zombies… and one was gay at that!
I'd finally closed my eyes to sleep when I heard something… It was a voice and I couldn't hear any footsteps or anything, just this singing voice. Keh- it was a man's voice and they couldn't sing worth shit. They sang this song I'd never heard before… that went like this. (I'm NOT singing it by the way. Writing the words out is bad enough.)
I'm too sexy for my shirt
too sexy for my shirt… so sexy it hurts. Okay that's enough!
I decided snoring was better than that, so went back inside the cabin for the night.
Not that I'm scared or anything, but there's some strange shit out there. It seems too weird for even Naraku. I'm wondering if it was Sesshoumaru actually, because he would do something that stupid. (But I don't know how he'd get here…)
And what is with everyone's obsession with my Tessaiga? Some of the guys won't stop trying to touch my sword. It's really pissing me off. I don't let anyone touch my sword, you guys got that?! Well… except Kagome sometimes.
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Character: Hidaka Ken
Series: Weiss Kreuz
Canon: Ken's a good guy, athletic and happily outgoing, though a good deal of what he's wanted in life has gone from "Hey, anybody wanna play some soccer?" to "Don't make me kill any more of my friends, kthx. *tear*" Because, that's just the kind of thing that happens if you're one of Kritiker's (A shadow organization that's "cleaning up" the night. By killing people they don't like.) highly elite florist assassins. He wasn't always a florally adept killer, though. Once upon a time he was a much loved professional soccer goalie, who was then betrayed, disgraced and left for dead (Warehouse fire. What a way to go.) It was after this that Kritiker armed him with one Wolverine-esque glove and added him to Weiss, the same team that current camper, Omi, is already a part of.
This is Ken after the end of series, but before the OVA. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume, however, that before his departure Omi helped the boys get their Van of Flowery Death up and running.
[Email communication to Weiss]
There's a reason I never take solo missions... stuff like this always happens to us. The hell made them think it was a good idea to send Omi out here on his own?
What? You know they knew about the Zombies and just didn't tell us. Yeah, that's right, this place has ZOMBIES. No! I'm not making it up. Who makes up zombies? We know psychics, this is the same kinda thing only... oozing.
The point is I haven't seen Omi yet, and this whole mission is like one of those really bad ideas I sometimes get -- like that one time with the pudding -- that you guys usually talk me out of. Except no one did.
...stuff it, Kudou, not all my ideas are stupid, just... som-- shutup.
Anyway, I figure I'll just camp out until I figure out where Omi is and grab him and then, um. Well, if the zombies can't give directions, maybe one of the campers can. Uh, assuming I can find one that's not, um, undead too.
Right. Find Omi, avoid zombies, get home. It's a good plan.
Oh, and Youji, I told you that ESPN4 was better than the Playboy channel. If you were fighting off bands of organized squirrels, you'd wish you'd watched Scottish log tossing finals too. Ha!
[/Communication]
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Character: Haruhara Haruko
Series: FLCL
Canon: Haruko is a Vespa-riding, guitar-wielding, young-boy-kissing, home-wrecking alien girl who comes to Earth looking for the space pirate Atmosk. She appears to be slightly insane, what with the number of times she bashes people's heads in with her bass guitar, but she is actually quite driven in her attempts to bring down Medical Mechanica. She flies, runs people over on her bike, gives reports to a cat, shoots bullets out of her guitar, plays baseball, works as a housekeeper and occasionally impersonates a nurse. Pretty average anime girl, really.
Weeeeeeell, I don't really know if Medical Mechanica's been messing with this place. Not enough doorless factories or giant robots. Ohhhh wait, there's one. It's all kinda freaky here though, so maybe they're moving into biological warfare.
There are soooo many Taro-kuns here though. All sad, depressed, sexless little kids. You'd think they'd be more interesting, fighting off zombies, but they're all like Taro. Although some of them are ninjas, with a capital purple. I wonder how good their heads would be.
Oh yeah, zombies. They must be attracted to my devastating beauty, because they all came swarming over when I landed. But you knooooow, I gave them what they wanted. A devastatingly beautiful BANG IN THE HEAD with my guitar. It was like... WHAM. BAM. SCREW YOU, MA'AM. FLOTSAM JETSAM.
Anyway, I should go mingle with the natives. Maybe there's a good head there for me... I just haven't looked hard enough ♥.
Heeey. Heeeeeeey. Where are yoooooou, boys and girls? Your new housekeeper wants to say hello!
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