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yue & ryslig
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Name: Kestrel
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Yue
Age: 17 (physically)
Canon: Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino
Canon Point: Ending 7
Character Information: Imagine a perfectly normal modern-day Japan, with cell phones and cars and things. Then add in all the Japanese spirits, or ayakashi, of traditional folklore: fox spirits, tengu, shrine gods, flying goldfish, and the like. It's implied that such spirits are struggling to survive in the human realm, though; the reason they can thrive in Yue's hometown of Utsuwa is because a fox spirit named Shin (one of the two shrine gods who watched over the area) had "spirited away" the entire town, casting a barrier that cut it off from the outside world. This barrier wiped the town off the map: trains pass right through the station, never seeing that there even is a station to stop at. Likewise, nobody ever leaves the town.
Ayakashi in this world make a living eating humans. They don't need to eat them to live, but abstaining does mean they're constantly hungry, and can never grow in power. But this doesn't mean they can eat just anyone. Humans are only visible to them if they have particularly strong spiritual energy or happen to be "meals". Like this. Proper consummation of a "meal" isn't just bloody murder, either: the victim is so completely devoured that the very memory of their existence is erased from the minds of the people around them. If an ayakashi eats people indiscriminately, that ayakashi will become an akujiki. These creatures are considered the lowest of the low, and more often than not have lost control to the point they manifest only as corrupted shadows, unable to even speak properly, let alone maintain a physical form.
Yue was born and raised in the local mountain shrine, where Shin's sister, the shrine goddess Mikoto, lives along with her ayakashi servants. Raised solely to be the vessel for Shin's soul, he was kept locked up in his room for the entire seven years he was alive, with little to no knowledge of the world outside the shrine's borders. Despite the severity of his house arrest, he's very well-taken care of: he's on friendly terms with all the ayakashi residents of (and visitors to) the shrine, there's a servant to cook and clean for them all, and he has his "bodyguard" Kurogitsune to play with and keep him company. But Shin, despite being just a soul, is still keeping up the barrier that surrounds the town; and without a body of his own, the power being used to keep that barrier up is coming partly from Yue himself. The constant spiritual strain means that, unlike his companions (and despite being human), he needs a Meal in order to keep himself alive. Due to the unusual circumstances of his birth, he had a weak constitution from the start; add to that the mental and physical strain of keeping both himself and Shin alive, and you have a boy who's constantly hungry and fatigued, fainting so often that his caretakers treat it as a normal occurrence. So you might consider it fate that, when Kurogitsune sneaks him out to see a festival, he happens to run into two different humans (Tsubaki and Akiyoshi) who catch his attention.
The incident at the festival leads to Mikoto explaining (in the vaguest terms possible) that those boys were potential Meals and that Yue should befriend one and bring him home (presumably so that the adults could help him actually complete the process). And so he spends the next few days meeting, befriending, and having fun with his new targets. The problem with this is that he himself isn't all that willing to devour the first and only friends he's ever made. There's also the fact that the principal at the local kindergarten was apparently devoured by an akujiki, leading everyone but Yue and his friends to forget he ever existed--an event which leads the three to embark on a grand detective adventure in which they have zero clues and the only available suspect is Yue (only Akiyoshi thinks it's Yue). Shortly after that, a mysterious man shows up who looks suspiciously like Shin, calls himself Sagano, and threatens Yue's life. Everything goes quickly downhill from there.
In Ending 7, Yue learns that Sagano was once someone treasured by Mikoto, and that his being out here means Shin's seal has been broken - an issue which can only be solved by throwing him back in the seal again. Seeing how much Mikoto loves him though, Yue decides to sacrifice himself in Sagano's stead, making himself a part of the seal and freeing Sagano, Shin, and Mikoto to return to the life they had hundreds of years ago--without him.
Personality: Yue is a friendly kid, one canonly described with words such as "curious," "absent-minded," and "suspicious." All three of these are true, in their own ways: having been locked away in a Shinto shrine all his life, he's acutely aware of the fact he knows very little of the outside world, and when given the chance, tries the best he can to remedy that. His lack of knowledge and proper social skills works against him though - he doesn't understand why wearing his mask when there isn't a festival might be considered strange, and sees nothing wrong with chatting up strangers or wandering unannounced through a school in the middle of the day. But he has no ill intentions, and genuinely enjoys the companionship and learning experiences he gains from his adventures, taking pleasure in the simplest things from a nap shared with a friend to the prospect of eating "fluffy, dream-like" cotton candy. He enjoys helping people too if it's not a chore, and tends to stick up for people or shoulder blame himself if it's applicable. (Like saying he's to blame for sneaking to the festival, and not to punish Kurogitsune alone.) The absent-minded part comes in with the fact that he doesn't always pay attention to where he's going, and sometimes asks questions other people might think were kind of obvious, plus the fact he's half-asleep so often. He's the kind of good kid who'll flinch and apologize when he gets in trouble, and even apologizes to potential killers if they seem to disapprove of something about him. This isn't to say he never bites - when annoyed or otherwise not bothered to properly reply, his retorts include such childish things as name-calling or stealing things for an impromptu game of tag. Likewise, he'll argue when he feels he's in the right, and if curious enough, will casually break rules in order to get something he wants. He can also be surprisingly forward when he feels like it, actively hunting down a man everyone has told him to stay away from (because the guy can - and wants to - kill him) in one of the available story routes. Obviously though, he isn't a particularly belligerent person, and the worst he tends to do is complain that someone's being mean, or that he doesn't want to do something. He has a lazybones attitude towards life as a whole, his exhaustion often getting the better of curiosity (though that curiosity is intense, a fact mentioned multiple times in official sources).
All that aside, he does have his serious moments. The issue of his "Meal" comes up often, for example, and while most of his worries are never voiced, he does go out of his shell to ask for other people's thoughts on who his meal should be, and what the importance of the meal really is. But he only asks one question, to one person, and generally only when they ask what he's thinking. This reticence is partly a way to keep others from worrying about him; the only complaints he ever openly makes to people are health-related, such as exhaustion or hunger, or silly things such as saying getting his fortune told is a pain. When asked if anything's wrong, or if there's a reason for his questions about the Meal, he denies it and lets the matter rest. In one path in the PSP remake of the game, Yue is confronted with the realization that he actually feels the need to eat his new friend Tsubaki (as opposed to just understanding that he needs to do so eventually), and only manages to voice his fears to Mikoto when she finds him walking around in the middle of the night and asks him what's wrong. Likewise, in the manga he has nightmares over the idea that he might become an akujiki, or that his friends will disappear the way the akujiki's victims did - but when Kurogitsune hesitates to explain things to him, he lets it rest at that, and never brings it up again. But generally Yue keeps these things to himself (and to Shin), wondering what will happen, what he should do, whether he's even able to do it, never telling anyone else his worries. Likewise, he tries not to pry into other people's affairs, backing down if they don't want to answer - though it's still pretty obvious that he really wants to know. One of the reasons behind this reticence is that he knows exactly what his position in life is (to be a vessel), and has long since resigned himself to a life in which forming any strong desires or attachments would be more of a hindrance than anything. After all, as a highly valued object, he has very little freedom (freedom to choose his own future, freedom to leave the shrine grounds, freedom to make friends that he doesn't have to eat...)
When faced with something particularly dangerous, his first reaction tends to be to freeze up like a deer in headlights: unsure what to think or say or do, he absolutely fails at avoiding attack or injury, and does get laid low once or twice because of this. He dislikes fighting as a general rule, preferring to try to talk it out if given the opportunity, or even when...there really isn't an opportunity. On the other hand, when faced with the prospect of someone particularly close to him getting hurt, especially someone he thinks of as needing his help, he'll immediately run to their aid. For example, he jumps to protect Tsubaki and Akiyoshi when akujiki attack (like a guard dog) but is less likely to do the same for his fellow ayakashi (who he knows for a fact are stronger than him), and is very unlikely to attempt helping those humans whose faces he can't even see. (The most he feels for them tends to be something along the lines of how you'd feel for stray dogs or those terrible news stories that take place a continent away; at most he might potentially be a horrified bystander.) In other words: he's totally vulnerable when surprised in battle, or when faced with any sort of danger whatsoever, but will give it everything he has if someone he cares about is the one in danger. Sadly his only actual fighting methods are to run away or act as a flimsy human shield. He's very willing to be a shield though, and there's multiple endings in which he sacrifices his life or his freedom for the friends he's known for less than a week.
5-10 Key Character Traits: lazy, friendly, loyal, curious, mischievous, stubborn, secretive, flighty, defeatist
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits!
Opt-Outs: minotaur, werebear, troll, naga
Roleplay Sample:
An event thread from Cereal!
Name: Kestrel
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Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Yue
Age: 17 (physically)
Canon: Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino
Canon Point: Ending 7
Character Information: Imagine a perfectly normal modern-day Japan, with cell phones and cars and things. Then add in all the Japanese spirits, or ayakashi, of traditional folklore: fox spirits, tengu, shrine gods, flying goldfish, and the like. It's implied that such spirits are struggling to survive in the human realm, though; the reason they can thrive in Yue's hometown of Utsuwa is because a fox spirit named Shin (one of the two shrine gods who watched over the area) had "spirited away" the entire town, casting a barrier that cut it off from the outside world. This barrier wiped the town off the map: trains pass right through the station, never seeing that there even is a station to stop at. Likewise, nobody ever leaves the town.
Ayakashi in this world make a living eating humans. They don't need to eat them to live, but abstaining does mean they're constantly hungry, and can never grow in power. But this doesn't mean they can eat just anyone. Humans are only visible to them if they have particularly strong spiritual energy or happen to be "meals". Like this. Proper consummation of a "meal" isn't just bloody murder, either: the victim is so completely devoured that the very memory of their existence is erased from the minds of the people around them. If an ayakashi eats people indiscriminately, that ayakashi will become an akujiki. These creatures are considered the lowest of the low, and more often than not have lost control to the point they manifest only as corrupted shadows, unable to even speak properly, let alone maintain a physical form.
Yue was born and raised in the local mountain shrine, where Shin's sister, the shrine goddess Mikoto, lives along with her ayakashi servants. Raised solely to be the vessel for Shin's soul, he was kept locked up in his room for the entire seven years he was alive, with little to no knowledge of the world outside the shrine's borders. Despite the severity of his house arrest, he's very well-taken care of: he's on friendly terms with all the ayakashi residents of (and visitors to) the shrine, there's a servant to cook and clean for them all, and he has his "bodyguard" Kurogitsune to play with and keep him company. But Shin, despite being just a soul, is still keeping up the barrier that surrounds the town; and without a body of his own, the power being used to keep that barrier up is coming partly from Yue himself. The constant spiritual strain means that, unlike his companions (and despite being human), he needs a Meal in order to keep himself alive. Due to the unusual circumstances of his birth, he had a weak constitution from the start; add to that the mental and physical strain of keeping both himself and Shin alive, and you have a boy who's constantly hungry and fatigued, fainting so often that his caretakers treat it as a normal occurrence. So you might consider it fate that, when Kurogitsune sneaks him out to see a festival, he happens to run into two different humans (Tsubaki and Akiyoshi) who catch his attention.
The incident at the festival leads to Mikoto explaining (in the vaguest terms possible) that those boys were potential Meals and that Yue should befriend one and bring him home (presumably so that the adults could help him actually complete the process). And so he spends the next few days meeting, befriending, and having fun with his new targets. The problem with this is that he himself isn't all that willing to devour the first and only friends he's ever made. There's also the fact that the principal at the local kindergarten was apparently devoured by an akujiki, leading everyone but Yue and his friends to forget he ever existed--an event which leads the three to embark on a grand detective adventure in which they have zero clues and the only available suspect is Yue (only Akiyoshi thinks it's Yue). Shortly after that, a mysterious man shows up who looks suspiciously like Shin, calls himself Sagano, and threatens Yue's life. Everything goes quickly downhill from there.
In Ending 7, Yue learns that Sagano was once someone treasured by Mikoto, and that his being out here means Shin's seal has been broken - an issue which can only be solved by throwing him back in the seal again. Seeing how much Mikoto loves him though, Yue decides to sacrifice himself in Sagano's stead, making himself a part of the seal and freeing Sagano, Shin, and Mikoto to return to the life they had hundreds of years ago--without him.
Personality: Yue is a friendly kid, one canonly described with words such as "curious," "absent-minded," and "suspicious." All three of these are true, in their own ways: having been locked away in a Shinto shrine all his life, he's acutely aware of the fact he knows very little of the outside world, and when given the chance, tries the best he can to remedy that. His lack of knowledge and proper social skills works against him though - he doesn't understand why wearing his mask when there isn't a festival might be considered strange, and sees nothing wrong with chatting up strangers or wandering unannounced through a school in the middle of the day. But he has no ill intentions, and genuinely enjoys the companionship and learning experiences he gains from his adventures, taking pleasure in the simplest things from a nap shared with a friend to the prospect of eating "fluffy, dream-like" cotton candy. He enjoys helping people too if it's not a chore, and tends to stick up for people or shoulder blame himself if it's applicable. (Like saying he's to blame for sneaking to the festival, and not to punish Kurogitsune alone.) The absent-minded part comes in with the fact that he doesn't always pay attention to where he's going, and sometimes asks questions other people might think were kind of obvious, plus the fact he's half-asleep so often. He's the kind of good kid who'll flinch and apologize when he gets in trouble, and even apologizes to potential killers if they seem to disapprove of something about him. This isn't to say he never bites - when annoyed or otherwise not bothered to properly reply, his retorts include such childish things as name-calling or stealing things for an impromptu game of tag. Likewise, he'll argue when he feels he's in the right, and if curious enough, will casually break rules in order to get something he wants. He can also be surprisingly forward when he feels like it, actively hunting down a man everyone has told him to stay away from (because the guy can - and wants to - kill him) in one of the available story routes. Obviously though, he isn't a particularly belligerent person, and the worst he tends to do is complain that someone's being mean, or that he doesn't want to do something. He has a lazybones attitude towards life as a whole, his exhaustion often getting the better of curiosity (though that curiosity is intense, a fact mentioned multiple times in official sources).
All that aside, he does have his serious moments. The issue of his "Meal" comes up often, for example, and while most of his worries are never voiced, he does go out of his shell to ask for other people's thoughts on who his meal should be, and what the importance of the meal really is. But he only asks one question, to one person, and generally only when they ask what he's thinking. This reticence is partly a way to keep others from worrying about him; the only complaints he ever openly makes to people are health-related, such as exhaustion or hunger, or silly things such as saying getting his fortune told is a pain. When asked if anything's wrong, or if there's a reason for his questions about the Meal, he denies it and lets the matter rest. In one path in the PSP remake of the game, Yue is confronted with the realization that he actually feels the need to eat his new friend Tsubaki (as opposed to just understanding that he needs to do so eventually), and only manages to voice his fears to Mikoto when she finds him walking around in the middle of the night and asks him what's wrong. Likewise, in the manga he has nightmares over the idea that he might become an akujiki, or that his friends will disappear the way the akujiki's victims did - but when Kurogitsune hesitates to explain things to him, he lets it rest at that, and never brings it up again. But generally Yue keeps these things to himself (and to Shin), wondering what will happen, what he should do, whether he's even able to do it, never telling anyone else his worries. Likewise, he tries not to pry into other people's affairs, backing down if they don't want to answer - though it's still pretty obvious that he really wants to know. One of the reasons behind this reticence is that he knows exactly what his position in life is (to be a vessel), and has long since resigned himself to a life in which forming any strong desires or attachments would be more of a hindrance than anything. After all, as a highly valued object, he has very little freedom (freedom to choose his own future, freedom to leave the shrine grounds, freedom to make friends that he doesn't have to eat...)
When faced with something particularly dangerous, his first reaction tends to be to freeze up like a deer in headlights: unsure what to think or say or do, he absolutely fails at avoiding attack or injury, and does get laid low once or twice because of this. He dislikes fighting as a general rule, preferring to try to talk it out if given the opportunity, or even when...there really isn't an opportunity. On the other hand, when faced with the prospect of someone particularly close to him getting hurt, especially someone he thinks of as needing his help, he'll immediately run to their aid. For example, he jumps to protect Tsubaki and Akiyoshi when akujiki attack (like a guard dog) but is less likely to do the same for his fellow ayakashi (who he knows for a fact are stronger than him), and is very unlikely to attempt helping those humans whose faces he can't even see. (The most he feels for them tends to be something along the lines of how you'd feel for stray dogs or those terrible news stories that take place a continent away; at most he might potentially be a horrified bystander.) In other words: he's totally vulnerable when surprised in battle, or when faced with any sort of danger whatsoever, but will give it everything he has if someone he cares about is the one in danger. Sadly his only actual fighting methods are to run away or act as a flimsy human shield. He's very willing to be a shield though, and there's multiple endings in which he sacrifices his life or his freedom for the friends he's known for less than a week.
5-10 Key Character Traits: lazy, friendly, loyal, curious, mischievous, stubborn, secretive, flighty, defeatist
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits!
Opt-Outs: minotaur, werebear, troll, naga
Roleplay Sample:
An event thread from Cereal!