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Masaaki Kurono
Topic Started: Jan 23 2017, 12:04 AM (290 Views)
KylBones
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Name: Masaaki Kurono
Gender: Male
Age: 17

Class: 3rd Year Student. Took online classes until this year where he is going to Reitaku High School in class 3-A.

Clubs/Occupation: Works part-time in his Uncle's small computer repair shop as a technician.

Personality: Often found staring off into space. The sort that lives in their own head when they aren't actively doing something. Upon interaction with new people, he often finds himself short on words to share.

Once comfortable with someone, he begins to talk about nearly anything on his mind after a silence has been dragged out long enough. He's a bit of a cynic but an idealist at heart. Possesses a genuine quality of empathy but has trouble understanding people's feelings at times. He'll empathize with someone who lost a loved one or has fallen on hard times; but won't understand why people put such importance on trivial things like "I want my coffee stirred counter-clockwise" or "I've got to look my best for graduation!". He's a sucker for romantic comedies and finds himself tearing up over them sometimes. He insists on trying to be a good person at all costs and wishes the best for people but cynically tells himself to be realistic and know not everyone else will be willing to be a good person and that there will always be someone willing to harm others to get ahead. This thinking will often overwhelm him and he'll begin brooding if not presented with some activity or task.


He has some ideas on how things ought to be, but feels powerless to change those who are so stuck in their ways. He dismisses the thought of even trying to change people, rationalizing to himself that it'd be like trying to change human nature itself. Such an idea is as futile as screaming in space.


After spending much time alone, it has become a concept of comfort. Down to the point that he feels uncomfortable when people look at him for extended periods, or pay particular attention to him in a way that feels like he's being singled out. Whether that attention be because he did something wrong or because people know it's his birthday, he doesn't like getting active attention his way.


History: The product of an unwanted pregnancy from a one-night stand between a mid-level corporate secretary mother and an American while she was on vacation overseas. She kept the child but could not find the father. Her career in the corporate was halted in terms of advancement. It pained her but she suffered through it for her son.

The years took their toll on his mother. Money was tight from having to pay for her son's expenses for school as well as a baby-sitter for him. She had often felt overworked and tired, resorting to drinking and abusing sleeping pills to get rest. This went on for years until she died of liver failure when he was seven. He was then adopted by her brother who ran a computer shop in Nagashima.

His uncle was not the child-caring fatherly sort. He almost seemed to have trouble taking care of himself but he was the only family left that could be located. He still was willing to take him in, possibly out of duty to his deceased sister whom he never visited. He hoped that this would redeem him in her memory. He didn't have much either in terms of living space; Only a 1 bedroom apartment over his computer shop.


Masaaki's Uncle gave him his room and insisted on sleeping on the couch in the living room. It was about this time in his life, at twelve years old, that he had run out of things to say. He would rarely speak to others unless interacted with first, and even then, barely be able to think of what to say. After the loss of his mother, he tried doing anything but think about it. This led to him having a general interest in the sciences and computers combined with living over a computer shop. For many sleepless nights he would silently tap away at his keyboard, as if making a futile attempt to disappear and escape the world.


Masaaki still went to school regularly at first when he moved to Nagashima; though he didn't really feel like talking to anyone, nor was he interesting enough to bother approaching. At certain points he'd look around and find a student or group staring at him. He could only look away and imagine the impetuous lies they were making. He eventually felt too distracted at school and signed up for online courses. Nobody spoke of him being gone, nobody even remembers him.


Now he's back in school, hoping he can handle the pressure of dealing with his peers. He didn't really intend on joining clubs as he was often busy working. After walking into a school again and seeing everyone talking to each other reminded him of how alone he felt, for he did not think about it when he was alone. It nagged at the back of his thoughts slightly, as he had gotten very good at being alone.



Appearance: Slim built lad weighing in at 155 lbs. with a height of 5'10". He has unkempt dull black hair at a shortish length from being to preoccupied to think about getting a haircut. He wears light hoodies and loose fitting jeans. While working and sometimes in public he would wear a dark grey surgical mask; at work to keep dust out and in public to prevent sickness. Mostly only wearing black he doesn't sport any bright colours in his apparel.


His face is soft and often at rest if you catch him looking off into space, turning red and flustered upon detection. His eyes are a yale blue with a gentleness to them and dark lines pronouncing his eyesockets from so many restless nights.
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Current Weapon/Combat Skill: Pragmatic Opportunist (Whatever he happens to have and aim for cheap shots if possible) *POCKET SAND*

Mask: A white thin ballistic mask material with greyscale shading to outline the smoothed over eye sockets. Like the Persona's face.

Persona:
The lich is one who has mastered death through its magic. A being somewhat humanoid in shape but without legs and horrific bone spines protruding from its back oozing wisps of shadow. A hole agape in its chest has a flow of air drifting into it as its thin and pale skin appears to be stretched over the skeleton and sucked into the center of it. It wears a gemmed sash over where its waist would be. The Lich has no legs and floats on wisps of shadow that seem to reach out in tiny lashes and pull him along where he wishes.
Liches are a being that acts as a master for the lost dead who disappeared into the void of memory. He brings the lost souls to him and look through their past to learn their secrets.
A lich was once a human scholar who searched for eternal life and could not cope with his inevitable passing. He found ancient writings of magic and found a ritual to keep one from dying. The more he dabbles in the dark rituals the more grotesque his appearance became until he entirely forsaken his humanity. His thirst for knowledge drove him mad and he became a being of living death.
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(Picture is from http://sigil-nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Lich)
~Name: Lich
~Arcana: Death
~Drain:
~Weak: Light
~Null:
~Reflect:
~Resist: Dark
~Skills: Mudo, Eiha, Analysis


Have you read all the stickies? I have.
Edited by KylBones, Feb 2 2017, 08:28 PM.
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Best Influence.
Okay, some notes:

  • I get that you've been waiting a while, and I'm sorry about that -- please change the title of the thread back to the character's name. It screws up the indexing if you don't.
  • Another formatting issue, please leave a line break between paragraphs. The forum system doesn't indent without an indent tag, so it's easier to mark paragraphs through other means.
  • Please remove the bracketed portion at the beginning of the appearance section.
  • ON TO ACTUAL CONTENT OF YOUR APP: I'm having some slight difficulty with the personality. Can you possibly add some more detail in the first paragraph of that, or on to the end of the section, to show how the contradictory elements of the character's personality work together and manifest? I'm thinking particularly about the idealistic cynic portion and the empathetic-but-doesn't-understand people portion.


Address that and you should be in the clear.
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KylBones
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Did some editting. Is that better?
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Czernobog
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I don't have a problem with it, though the blue lines aren't necessary. By "line break" I just meant "hit enter twice."

Approved.
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OH! That's what you meant by line break. I'll go fix that, sorry. Thanks for reviewing me though!
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