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Character name: Leorio
Fandom: Hunter X Hunter
Timeline: After York Shin City arc.
Age: 19!
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Leorio knows Ten, which is the predecessor to actually learning how to harness Nen (which is the spiritual energy of the HxH world). Ten mostly involves meditation, discipline and awareness, so Leorio doesn't have much in the way of supernatural powers yet, though he is a registered hunter (which is a special class of occupation that skilled civilians need to take a massively difficult test to pass and is a pretty important status with a bunch of perks).
Despite (or in addition to?) that, Leorio's physically strong for a normal person. Gon and Kurapika, before they learned Nen, were weaker than him. He's also training to be a doctor, so he has some pretty wicked medical skills. He also uses a switchblade!
How would they use their abilities?: Mostly to earn money! Lots of it. Leorio wants to be filthy rich.
Appearance:
Leorio's a bit younger than he looks (only 19), and relatively tall. He has a lean but solid build, short spiked hair and almost always wears a suit and sunglasses. Leorio's usually got a briefcase full of basic medical equipment. He's clumsy and moves with a lot of wasted energy, but his expressions and actions are big and dynamic. He's a goof, and it shows.
Background/Personality:
Leorio wants to be filthy rich. If you asked him why, he'd tell you that money runs the world. To be powerful and successful, one needs a whole buttload of money, and that's what he wants. It's why he took the hunter exam. At first glance, he looks like a pennypinching cheapskate (and also a master of haggling), but Leorio is essentially a dedicated, compassionate young adult who generally comes off as a bit selfish to some people. He's fiercely loyal and protective of his friends
He took the hunter's exam with Gon, Killua and Kurapika. He had a hard time keeping up throughout-- in the beginning, when they were forced to run up an enormous flight of stairs, Leorio managed it with difficulty (though to be fair, dozens more failed completely). While he was running, Kurapika asked him about his goals and he said that when he was younger, a good friend was sick with a curable illness. They didn't have enough money to help him, so Leorio decided to become a doctor. The problem was that medical school is extremely expensive and by getting a hunter's license, he could go through it for free.
Hunters have a lot of benefits like these; their license grants them privileges and access to places and things most civilians are restricted from. Leorio wants to be a doctor who'd waive fees for the poor-- so no one would have to go through what he did. He's an idealist with a cynic's view of the world, wanting to make the world better but knowing that in order to do so, he needs to be on guard, careful and occasionally stingy.
Anyway, so he meets Gon (the main character, who's 12), Killua (an assassin, same age and Gon's future BFF) and Kurapika (the last of his clan, and a guy who frequently pisses Leorio off) at the hunter's exam. When Hisoka decided to test him along with a few other participants in the exam, he stood his ground and prepared to take on the monster clown. Hisoka (REALLY SCARY HOMICIDAL MANIAC) approved of him, to a certain extent, and brought him to the testing grounds after punching him out.
Lots of things happen-- but basically they make it through to the end. In the second-to-last step of the exam, the contestants are brought to an island and everyone needs to obtain a certain number of points by taking someone's else's number tags, which they were given at the beginning. Leorio's target was stuck in a cave with a man who controlled snakes. Things happened and the guy was dead, but he had ordered his snakes to attack anyone who tried to leave or approach the body. So Leorio was stuck down there, but he yelled for Gon and Kurapika not to come in-- at the same time getting bitten for yelling the warning.
Gon saves the day with his insane courage and ability to hold his breath, but Leorio's pretty clearly a very responsible and caring guy. He'd put the safety of his friends before his own, and while he was a little less put together in the beginning of the manga, a few months after becoming a hunter, he's really straightened himself out and matured.
The last test ends up being several one-on-one fights. As things progress, more of Leorio's personality shows through-- he might be older and less talented than Gon and Killua, but he's a hell of a lot easier to piss off and Leorio isn't really the kind to back down from anything, though he is logic-minded most of the rest of the time. He sees a famous serial killer, for instance, and advises Killua to back down.
When Hanzo (a ninja who was WAY stronger than Gon) started smacking the kid around and broke his arm, Leorio was absolutely furious and seconds away from stepping in on Gon's behalf, even if it would mean that Gon would lose the match. But he also did yell for Gon to just give up and try again (while acknowledging at the same time that there was no way in hell he would do the same). After the test, where Killua had lost by default for killing the guy Leorio was supposed to fight because his brother messed around with his head, he threw his support behind Killua, even volunteering his own win to be brought into question in the interests of having a fair judgement.
Later on, after the test, he goes with Gon and Kurapika to fetch Killua back. He couldn't contribute much-- usually following Gon and Kurapika's leads-- but anything they got into, he was with them the whole way. When they first tried to get onto the Zaoldyeck (Zoldick?) estate, he was the only one who could open one of the two-ton doors after a week of training. By the end of the month, he could open two sets compared to Gon and Kurapika's one.
After Killua rejoins them, they split up and promise to meet again. Leorio reunites with Kurapika, Gon and Killua in York Shin City, a pastiche of NYC where the biggest auction in the world takes place. While there, he haggles both of them phones and actually gets applause from bystanders for his mad bargaining skills.
When they're facing down one of the most dangerous organizations in the world (the Phantom Troupe/Genei Ryodan), Leorio wholeheartedly throws himself into the planning to take down their leader. He can't do much of the fighting, but he does take part in setting up different parts of the plan-- alerting Gon and Killua to when the lights would go down long enough for Kurapika to snag the leader, for instance.
Other than that, he mostly just kept an eye on everyone. At the end of the York Shin arc, Leorio asks Senritsu (a nen user who befriended Kurapika, whose hearing is insanely, intensely good) to keep an eye on him. She can hear people's 'melodies', and tells him that his are warm and soft, with resonance, and that he'd be a good doctor or a professor. Leorio likes to take care of people and protect them. He's impatient and short-tempered, but essentially a logical and calculating sort of guy. He can also be sort of a pervert if given the chance.
Why should that character be in this game: For OCs only.
Why do you want to continue their history here: For characters from other games only.
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play:
Have you read up on how the game works?: Online with the FlamingFerret, he can take missions, do independent work or steal from people! ... but he probably wouldn't bother with the latter.
1st person sample:
Right, well. So.
[ Leorio sort of nervously takes off his shades and uses a corner of his shirt to clean the lens before slowly putting them back on, clearly stalling for time while he tries to make sense of it all. He brandishes the little manual, eyebrows furrowed, then tucks it into a pocket in his jacket. ]
Is someone going to tell me this is some elaborate joke? If this is an illusion, it's not really funny.
[ Then again, he's never really heard of an illusion-causing Nen ability (though one could easily exist and he just hasn't encountered it yet). ]
But just in case this is real-- I'm Leorio. I'm a student doctor and licensed hunter, and if anyone-- well, knows what that means and happens to know me, I'd really appreciate it if you could drop a line. That's all!
3rd person sample:
Leorio isn't all that familiar with the anatomy of a Vogon (and let's face it-- he didn't even know what a Vogon was until last week when one had been been staring him down with a stack of papers about as tall as Kurapika), but all things considered, it was less complicated than he had really expected. Less complicated not because it was similar to human anatomy, but simply because they had less of it.
It didn't take too long to figure out what everything did and where everything went and he might still be a student doctor, but he's been studying hard for the last couple years-- besides, he'd asked and stayed rather professional about it all and whether or not his patient was cooperative or pleasant didn't make a whole lot of difference to him. Was he proud of himself? Sure. Leorio would bet that even most professional doctors haven't treated an alien before.
This would be good work experience. He wouldn't turn away a patient even if he had no damn clue how to help-- he'd just have to learn.
Leorio finished bandaging up a cut on an arm-- one of the simpler things to take care of, considering earlier he'd had to prescribe for a stomachache and he hadn't even known what a Vogon stomach looked like until he went and spent a few hours with a textbook. There were other aliens on the ship he hadn't even encountered yet, but there was information on them, too. It shouldn't take longer than a couple years to get at least some of it down.
Questions?: NO?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: YES
Fandom: Hunter X Hunter
Timeline: After York Shin City arc.
Age: 19!
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Leorio knows Ten, which is the predecessor to actually learning how to harness Nen (which is the spiritual energy of the HxH world). Ten mostly involves meditation, discipline and awareness, so Leorio doesn't have much in the way of supernatural powers yet, though he is a registered hunter (which is a special class of occupation that skilled civilians need to take a massively difficult test to pass and is a pretty important status with a bunch of perks).
Despite (or in addition to?) that, Leorio's physically strong for a normal person. Gon and Kurapika, before they learned Nen, were weaker than him. He's also training to be a doctor, so he has some pretty wicked medical skills. He also uses a switchblade!
How would they use their abilities?: Mostly to earn money! Lots of it. Leorio wants to be filthy rich.
Appearance:
Leorio's a bit younger than he looks (only 19), and relatively tall. He has a lean but solid build, short spiked hair and almost always wears a suit and sunglasses. Leorio's usually got a briefcase full of basic medical equipment. He's clumsy and moves with a lot of wasted energy, but his expressions and actions are big and dynamic. He's a goof, and it shows.
Background/Personality:
Leorio wants to be filthy rich. If you asked him why, he'd tell you that money runs the world. To be powerful and successful, one needs a whole buttload of money, and that's what he wants. It's why he took the hunter exam. At first glance, he looks like a pennypinching cheapskate (and also a master of haggling), but Leorio is essentially a dedicated, compassionate young adult who generally comes off as a bit selfish to some people. He's fiercely loyal and protective of his friends
He took the hunter's exam with Gon, Killua and Kurapika. He had a hard time keeping up throughout-- in the beginning, when they were forced to run up an enormous flight of stairs, Leorio managed it with difficulty (though to be fair, dozens more failed completely). While he was running, Kurapika asked him about his goals and he said that when he was younger, a good friend was sick with a curable illness. They didn't have enough money to help him, so Leorio decided to become a doctor. The problem was that medical school is extremely expensive and by getting a hunter's license, he could go through it for free.
Hunters have a lot of benefits like these; their license grants them privileges and access to places and things most civilians are restricted from. Leorio wants to be a doctor who'd waive fees for the poor-- so no one would have to go through what he did. He's an idealist with a cynic's view of the world, wanting to make the world better but knowing that in order to do so, he needs to be on guard, careful and occasionally stingy.
Anyway, so he meets Gon (the main character, who's 12), Killua (an assassin, same age and Gon's future BFF) and Kurapika (the last of his clan, and a guy who frequently pisses Leorio off) at the hunter's exam. When Hisoka decided to test him along with a few other participants in the exam, he stood his ground and prepared to take on the monster clown. Hisoka (REALLY SCARY HOMICIDAL MANIAC) approved of him, to a certain extent, and brought him to the testing grounds after punching him out.
Lots of things happen-- but basically they make it through to the end. In the second-to-last step of the exam, the contestants are brought to an island and everyone needs to obtain a certain number of points by taking someone's else's number tags, which they were given at the beginning. Leorio's target was stuck in a cave with a man who controlled snakes. Things happened and the guy was dead, but he had ordered his snakes to attack anyone who tried to leave or approach the body. So Leorio was stuck down there, but he yelled for Gon and Kurapika not to come in-- at the same time getting bitten for yelling the warning.
Gon saves the day with his insane courage and ability to hold his breath, but Leorio's pretty clearly a very responsible and caring guy. He'd put the safety of his friends before his own, and while he was a little less put together in the beginning of the manga, a few months after becoming a hunter, he's really straightened himself out and matured.
The last test ends up being several one-on-one fights. As things progress, more of Leorio's personality shows through-- he might be older and less talented than Gon and Killua, but he's a hell of a lot easier to piss off and Leorio isn't really the kind to back down from anything, though he is logic-minded most of the rest of the time. He sees a famous serial killer, for instance, and advises Killua to back down.
When Hanzo (a ninja who was WAY stronger than Gon) started smacking the kid around and broke his arm, Leorio was absolutely furious and seconds away from stepping in on Gon's behalf, even if it would mean that Gon would lose the match. But he also did yell for Gon to just give up and try again (while acknowledging at the same time that there was no way in hell he would do the same). After the test, where Killua had lost by default for killing the guy Leorio was supposed to fight because his brother messed around with his head, he threw his support behind Killua, even volunteering his own win to be brought into question in the interests of having a fair judgement.
Later on, after the test, he goes with Gon and Kurapika to fetch Killua back. He couldn't contribute much-- usually following Gon and Kurapika's leads-- but anything they got into, he was with them the whole way. When they first tried to get onto the Zaoldyeck (Zoldick?) estate, he was the only one who could open one of the two-ton doors after a week of training. By the end of the month, he could open two sets compared to Gon and Kurapika's one.
After Killua rejoins them, they split up and promise to meet again. Leorio reunites with Kurapika, Gon and Killua in York Shin City, a pastiche of NYC where the biggest auction in the world takes place. While there, he haggles both of them phones and actually gets applause from bystanders for his mad bargaining skills.
When they're facing down one of the most dangerous organizations in the world (the Phantom Troupe/Genei Ryodan), Leorio wholeheartedly throws himself into the planning to take down their leader. He can't do much of the fighting, but he does take part in setting up different parts of the plan-- alerting Gon and Killua to when the lights would go down long enough for Kurapika to snag the leader, for instance.
Other than that, he mostly just kept an eye on everyone. At the end of the York Shin arc, Leorio asks Senritsu (a nen user who befriended Kurapika, whose hearing is insanely, intensely good) to keep an eye on him. She can hear people's 'melodies', and tells him that his are warm and soft, with resonance, and that he'd be a good doctor or a professor. Leorio likes to take care of people and protect them. He's impatient and short-tempered, but essentially a logical and calculating sort of guy. He can also be sort of a pervert if given the chance.
Why should that character be in this game: For OCs only.
Why do you want to continue their history here: For characters from other games only.
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play:
Have you read up on how the game works?: Online with the FlamingFerret, he can take missions, do independent work or steal from people! ... but he probably wouldn't bother with the latter.
1st person sample:
Right, well. So.
[ Leorio sort of nervously takes off his shades and uses a corner of his shirt to clean the lens before slowly putting them back on, clearly stalling for time while he tries to make sense of it all. He brandishes the little manual, eyebrows furrowed, then tucks it into a pocket in his jacket. ]
Is someone going to tell me this is some elaborate joke? If this is an illusion, it's not really funny.
[ Then again, he's never really heard of an illusion-causing Nen ability (though one could easily exist and he just hasn't encountered it yet). ]
But just in case this is real-- I'm Leorio. I'm a student doctor and licensed hunter, and if anyone-- well, knows what that means and happens to know me, I'd really appreciate it if you could drop a line. That's all!
3rd person sample:
Leorio isn't all that familiar with the anatomy of a Vogon (and let's face it-- he didn't even know what a Vogon was until last week when one had been been staring him down with a stack of papers about as tall as Kurapika), but all things considered, it was less complicated than he had really expected. Less complicated not because it was similar to human anatomy, but simply because they had less of it.
It didn't take too long to figure out what everything did and where everything went and he might still be a student doctor, but he's been studying hard for the last couple years-- besides, he'd asked and stayed rather professional about it all and whether or not his patient was cooperative or pleasant didn't make a whole lot of difference to him. Was he proud of himself? Sure. Leorio would bet that even most professional doctors haven't treated an alien before.
This would be good work experience. He wouldn't turn away a patient even if he had no damn clue how to help-- he'd just have to learn.
Leorio finished bandaging up a cut on an arm-- one of the simpler things to take care of, considering earlier he'd had to prescribe for a stomachache and he hadn't even known what a Vogon stomach looked like until he went and spent a few hours with a textbook. There were other aliens on the ship he hadn't even encountered yet, but there was information on them, too. It shouldn't take longer than a couple years to get at least some of it down.
Questions?: NO?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: YES