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Claire Aogami; Meister
Topic Started: May 20 2011, 07:16 AM (440 Views)
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Character Name: Claire-Joukyuu "Seventh Blue" Aogami

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Type: Meister

Partnered? No

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Clothing and description: At first look, Claire doesn't seem rather impressive, with his sense of style and dress being particularly tame and rather ordinary. The boy's physical features don't stand out at all either, aside from the fact he dyed his hair to be blue rather than the original black, seen as a symbol of his lineage. The mess sprawls out over his head into a fashion which can only be described as 'bed hair', quite apt as he gets up and goes out into the world without bothering to take care of grooming it. At times it can stick out like a sea urchin, but usually one will see the dyed locks staying down rather than pointed up with the occasional curve upward. Hardly hidden by his hair are Claire's ears, which are pierced by single gold studs on the lobes on either ear, inscribed on the right earring is the letter "U" and on the left are the letters "SO", though they seem more like scribbles given the tiny size of the earrings themselves.

Claire's face holds hints of his japanese heritage, though one wouldn't be able to tell about his eyes as he always keeps them shut, begging the question how does he see? The answer is never given and normally responded with a bigger than usual grin, as he always has a smile plastered on his face, pearly whites and all. In fact, a positive aura seems to exude from the boy at all times, unceasing and ever vigilant, destined to continue shining beyond the darkest corners of the girl's dorm! His clothing is, as stated before, rather tame in comparison to the rest of him. Claire tends to wear the usual student uniform belonging to Shibusen, despite the fact there isn't exactly an 'official' one assigned. A plain button up white shirt with an orange T-shirt acting as an undershirt beneath it, sometimes he'll have a black electric watch on his wrist, normally with the wrong time on it. A regular black uniform coat is what he'll wear over his dress shirt if the weather tends to be unfavorable for light clothes.

His pants are also of a standard uniform design, being grey slacks with a brown belt tightened around the waist, but rather than the usual sort of dress shoes one might expect, he wears a pair of black and white sneakers, always double notted, but extremely loose near the ankles so it looks like he'd slip out of them given a moment's notice. Claire's body isn't all that athletic and leans more towards the skinny side, and he stands at an average height of 5'9" with a low end average weight of 142 lbs. The boy's skin has a pale, yet glowing and healthy feature to it, matching the rest of his constantly smiling form. He also carries a cellphone with a camera on it at all times.

History: Claire descends from a branch family of the Asagami Clan, known for producing Meisters that were capable of manifesting psychic talents and abilities thanks to what they call the unique 'Mental-In' wavelength, which allowed them to utilize the full capacity of the human brain without the negative side effects that would result from it. Though the abusal of this power without the proper training or mental fortitude would end in the user damaging themselves regardless and several of the lesser skilled members of the clan have been known to have destroyed their own brains and reduce themselves to a vegitative state, while others find themselves influenced far too easily by the madness of others due to being unable to safeguard their own minds and driven to insanity. This resulted in an attempted culling of the Clan by outside organizations and fueds that had started from ancient times, and those that inherited the 'Mental-In' wavelength started to decrease. Once the Asagami allied themselves to Shibusen, and at the same time allowing them to be willingly regulated by Shinigami and his laws, the culling stopped and members of the Asagami, who had fled and created the branch families from the main house, returned.

The boy in question comes from the Aogami Family, whose ancestors had migrated to the Americas in search of sanctuary while keeping records of the Clan's past as a whole, and adding to the archives in hopes that they could use them to reachieve the Asagami Clan's former glory. The Aogamis did not produce any members carrying the 'Mental-In' wavelength, which some attributed to the fact that they began marrying out of the Clan and to foreigners without care of their own lineage and ancestry, tainting what purity they had left and ruining the chances for a member to be born with the power their family once prided themselves upon. That held true until Claire's birth, where when the ability revealed itself despite his lack of power, the family rejoiced and declared him the Seventh Heir to the family, also known as the "Blue" making him the "Seventh Blue" as a result. This meant he was destined for a life of learning, solitude, and personal sacrifice in order to achieve something greater for the whole, in other words, a life of complete boredom without anything interesting to do and being forced to sit around with stinky old men preaching about dead people he didn't care about. Now if they were dead women that'd be something for him to go on but they weren't, so he continued not to care.

But the potential of someone who carried Claire's wavelength was great, as a psychic could make for good interrogators and skilled intelligence operatives if trained correctly and carefully watched. The Aogami knew this and tried to hide Claire's ability for as long as they could until he used it to flip the skirt of a girl during a congenial visit to Death City where the main house, the Asagami, had relocated, as well as to offer their customary thanks to Shinigami. This left the Aogami with two choices, allow Claire to become a student at Shibusen or have him taken away regardless and entrusted to the main house, where they would have him become a student of Shibusen regardless and any claim to fame the boy might earn would be given entirely to them. Claire's parents wanted nothing more for the boy to be happy, as opposed to the Aogami elders who wished only for more recognition to the family name, and Claire himself was excited to go to a place where for once, the only girls around him weren't ones he were related too.



Personality: Claire is an unashamed lover of woman first and foremost, his blatant disregard for personal space and common civility stands out highly while he attempts to woo any members of the opposite sex. Normally said attempts are immediately rejected and he laughs them off just as easily, or tries again, or goes for the next best thing and tries to ask someone he hasn't confessed to yet. So yes, his first words in conversation with a girl are normally "Would you like to go on a date?" Or some variant of it. He's equally the same with pretty looking boys who are feminine enough to pass for a girl because in his book so long as you look the part why should he sweat the small stuff? Leave that nonsense to the philisophical types while he just enjoys life as it is. The boy also seems highly eccentric, in both his energetic and cheery manner and in his day to day activities.

Although that eccentricity can die down real quick when faced with boring things like classwork or things that involve a massively disproportionate amount of guys in comparison to girls, and he gets stuck with a dude that doesn't pass his grading. In fact he can get downright lazy and refuse to do anything when forcibly paired with a guy. Despite this he isn't rude to most males unless they are to him first, and tends to be very friendly and easy to get along with, if it wasn't for the fact that he's also something of a manipulative snake. Claire likes to use others to do things for him if he can get it to work, and has no problem going through great lengths to collect blackmail material on others, especially smarter students then him, so he can get good grades without the actual effort and studying. His also being a pervert leads him to using that cell phone of his for taking pictures or videos of risque things and he makes it a hobby to attempt to sneak into the girl's dorm, bathroom, or changing room and sell whatever photos and material he can get or use them as bargaining material. All in all, Claire is a rather bright boy with a girl's name that would be better off using his intelligence for more constructive things than what he actually does.

Abilities:

Technique Name: Mental-In
Effects/Description: Claire is capable of freely manipulating his soul wavelength via his mind without the need of 'self resonance', because a person's wavelength itself is ordinarily invisible, this allows him to move things about with it in a manner similar to telekinesis . At his current level the boy can only lift objects that he could do so with his own hands. He also lacks the precision to grab tiny things like bullets and can only manipulate about five objects at once, while picking up one object at a time. The less objects he's moving about the easier it is, and if he's wielding the maximum he'd be too busy concentrating on them to do anything else. Currently cannot be used along with Ether-Lite if it's active

Technique Name: Ether-Lite
Effects/Description: Using his wavelength, Claire can establish 'connections' with others to send them telepathic messages, unlike Mental-In, this can be seen by those using soul perception as a thin wire made of his wavelength connecting from the back of Claire's head to the back of whoever he's attempting to make contact with. Through this connection a constant telepathy can be maintained, though it works faster the closer they are, and runs the risk of being broken if the Ether-Lite line is stretched too far. Claire can maintain the distance for a quarter of a mile without the need to concentrate continually on it, with a current limit of three people, and he has to touch someone and concentrate in order for the connection to be made, being able to mark one person at a time. In order for Ether-Lite to be set, Claire must focus on the target uninterrupted, especially if it's being done unwillingly, making it impractical to attach during the midst of combat as it would leave him open and something to be done before. He isn't skilled enough to do it in the middle of a conversation or while having other things on his mind either. However if he is connected with more than one person he then needs to focus solely on the person or persons he wants to send a message too. In the case of reading other people's minds he can only get surface thoughts, and too many of them will force him to block it out, interfering with any concentration in battle. Strong wavelengths or wavelength based attacks can also disrupt the connection. Mental In cannot be used if Claire is using this ability and connected with someone else.

Technique Name: Soul Perception
Effects/Description: Allows Claire to 'see' the souls of others. Claire cannot see souls in further depth yet. He is capable of spotting souls from the equivalent of two city blocks away if he concentrates hard enough and doesn't have any interruptions, needing to stay in the same spot without moving. Without concentrating his range is half a city block. Claire is capable of seeing through a witches Soul Protect, and views souls as simple orbs, colored and decorated differently according to the person.


Combat Style: As opposed to his appearance, Claire fights like something of a sadist, he neither rushes to finish his opponents, nor does he take too long, but he seems to like focusing on critical areas and examining the opponents method of attack before 'going in for the kill' so to speak. Because of this, he'll do things like attack first or try and surprise his opponent to gauge their reactions and how they move, always trying to manipulate the battle to his pacing, either through words or action, and make sure to keep that hold over it. He purposely leaves subtle, yet dangerous opening in his guard that would cause him great injury if they were taken advantage of, counting on the fact that his enemy wouldn't overlook such an opportunities, thus limiting the number of places he has to guess where an attack might come. This form of fighting is, as one might think, completely reckless but means that he will have to either push forward and avoid attacks that come his way, or move back and defend. If it ever looks like a fight isn't going his way or that a battle would be more trouble than it's initially worth, he has no problem with cutting his losses and running without shame.

Claire is capable of fighting barehanded, and uses the Asagami Clan's style of Aikido, focusing on throws and using the opponent's power against them. Due to the fact he was raised in a branch family and only came to the main house recently, he hasn't mastered it yet, being more likely to hurt himself trying to use it than anyone else and relies on dodging or avoiding blows thanks to being flexible and hopefully agile enough to react in time. However he is still fresh and inexperienced when it comes to fighting, having lived a secluded live for the most part and only learned through books and the like. He would much rather not fight at all if given the option, or convince someone else to do it, especially if confronted with male opponents. It doesn't help that he hardly takes anything seriously at all, including combat situations, leading to his streak of pragmatism that some would find shameful. Stopping to beg simply to catch an enemy off guard? Fair. Taking advantage of any sense of 'honor' an opponent might have? Also fair. Human shields? Better you than him. And best of all, he has absolutely no qualms with seeing someone die from very very far away while he's somewhere safe. Though if the boy was ever forced to fight seriously Claire should be able to hold his own long enough to run away, fortunately that is an extremely rare occurrence and he's much better for simply staying in a strategic position and advising others.

Miscellaneous Information:

  • Loves chocolate
  • Always has his eyes shut
  • Sometimes carries around a bag with camera and video equipment for his 'hobby'
  • Tends to rant on about useless things if given the chance


Strengths:

  • Intelligent, capable of planning and coming up with multiple strategies given the time.
  • Manipulative
  • Can align his wavelength quite easily with women
  • Has a good amount of stamina, if he was considered a track runner he'd be the type of person that excels at marathons.
  • Flexible and agile, he's great at moving about and has a limber body.
  • A quick thinker and good at analyzing situations, he can keep up with fast paced situations very well.
  • Incredibly pragmatic, perhaps his best attribute. Nothing is sacred and there are no rules in a fight to Claire. As far as he's concerned if he's the last person standing then who cares about the methods?

Weaknesses:

  • Fails at aligning his wavelength with men
  • Hates pain, he can't take too many hits in a fight or he might just give up or run away. Unless its from a woman in which case it becomes a good thing. But too much of a good thing can still kill you.
  • A Pervert.
  • His practicality and pragmatism can put him at odds with people who don't prefer underhanded methods.
  • Lazy, it takes him awhile to get into anything, or some serious motivation or rewards to have him start off serious right off the bat. Thanks to this he'll oftentimes underestimate things.
  • Due to his constant planning he could over think a situation and slip up if he's still considering the game 'five steps ahead' from now rather than focusing on the present.
  • More of a strategist than a fighter, due to his inexperience and lack of skill when it comes to fighting.
  • Liable to run away rather than fight when forced into a confrontation.

Roleplay Sample:

Claire stared at the series of steps leading up to the Academy that he would become a pupil of for the next couple years of his life, until he had graduated and could become a proper member of society. Or not, because with him nothing was ever really 'proper' and he didn't care too much about society. It hadn't done him any favors and unless society was the name of a pretty little thing in a skirt he didn't see why he should bother with it any further once this was all over. Actually that sounded like a good idea, finding a girl named Society in a skirt. Yes, it had to be a skirt, with thigh high knee socks! So there was the precious space of flesh between the hem of the skirt and the top of the socks, that forbidden zone where a cherished area just awaited to be revea-"Hey, are you going to stand there all day or move it?"

A harsh voice rang out, and the blue haired boy turned his head, then raised both his brows in surprise. Standing before him was none other than the quintessential 'High school girl' that existed within any hot blooded male's youth. A blossoming flower among the studious garden that was called 'school'. Ah, today was paradise, today he was knowing what it was to live. Today was the first day of the rest of his life. "Actually no, rather than stand here all I want to do is stare at you~! Oh tell me your name lovely maiden, so that I, Aogami Claire, can take you through the spring of our youth as the two passionate lovers we were meant to b-" His head jerked to the side, having suddenly been kicked, as the girl's leg had shot out and clocked him soundly, causing the boy to stumble to the side.

"Ah.. That must've just been the way you greet people right? Well it's okay, as your one and only darling I have to be able to withstand a lovetap of that lev-URK" That same leg planted into his groin and Claire went down like a ton of bricks, holding his crotch with one hand while weakly raising another. "Th..That was.. A huge expression.. Of love.. I accept you.... With all that I am~!" Suddenly jumping up he moved to hug the girl and only met air, as she had left some time between when he was busy nursing his injuries, and his attempted glomp only led him to smack against the ground.

"...Yeah, I can get to like this place." Claire said with a grin.
Edited by Xain101, May 23 2011, 04:58 AM.
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Yoiii Xain~~ Welcome to 42 ^_^

History & Description:
Excellently written~ Great job here!

Personality:
I should make one small note- we have a large spread of personality and ages here, so before your character gets too personal with another OC, could you find out from that RPer what they are comfortable with? Some people like their characters to be purely for action/adventure (and dislike character romance/flirting) whilst others seem to only live for the romance/drama. This goes particularly for things that he might be capturing on his video :P In short- make sure the person you are RPing is as randy as you are :P

Could you also include the personality traits you listed in the 'strength' section in here too~?

Abilities:
Could you please split Mental-In into two abilities, or remove the part about the shared-telepathy? I'd also recommend possibly tying it better into Soul Eater, rather than vauge-fantasy skill type :3

When he uses soul perception, what sort of range does it have, and how much does it tax him? That is to say; could he read the soul of someone half a city block away, and could he do it while also playing Guitar Hero? :3

Could you also remove Brain Charger? It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the character, and his other two techniques seem pretty useful already ^_^

Combat Style:
You've done a really nice job explaining how he fights :3 To make this perfect, could you perhaps mention how good he is at fighting as well?

Could you also please include the strengths you listed in your combat style?

It might be worth considering making sure he is not both awesome at predicting moves and understanding opponents as well as being a super excellent fighter when he first joins Shibusen :3
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Tried fixing it, seems a bit wordy for my tastes but I suck at shortening things. As for his entire video thing I planned on doing the pervert bit purely in a comedic sense but yeah, I'll be respecting boundaries =3
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Thanks :3 You did an excellent job with the modifications~

At the moment everything looks pretty perfect to me, but I am just a tad concerned about his powers. By themselves each of them is really well thought out and balanced, but together they seem a tad too strong for a 'beginner' character. I'm not entirely sure how best to limit it back a tad, as I do not know what skills are the 'core' for Claire, and which ones just nice to have.

Could you perhaps do two of the following?
  • He needs to touch someone for Ether-link to be connected initially
  • He can only 'tag' one person at a time
  • Remove the shield-ability (or make it a separate ability, because creating shields out of wavelength is different to picking something up with wavelength)
  • Have him only able to pick up a single object at a time



And as always, if you think I'm being unfair, just let me know ^_^ Or if can think of an alternative limitation, also feel free to tell me.
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Put in the limits and removed the shield ability. I figure I'll make that into a separate technique later.
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ACCEPTED on provisos discussed. Nice work and thanks for being so willing to change the profile ^__^
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