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outpostmods) wrote2012-03-09 08:31 pm
Application format
OOC Info
Player name: (A nickname is fine here.)
OOC journal: (If applicable.)
Player age: (All players MUST be over 18!)
Contact information: (A way we can reach you offsite. Plurk, AIM, etc.)
IC Info
Name: (Your character's full name, self-explanatory.)
Canon: (If applicable.)
Canon point: (If applicable.)
Age: (Please include canon age if the character is being aged up.)
Sex/Gender: (If the character is gendered differently from their physical sex, please say so here.)
Appearance: (You may link to an image here instead of writing a description. For OCs, a link to a drawing is fine if you have one but it must either be your own original work or commissioned/gifted work of your own character and not something you found of somebody else's character on Deviantart.)
History: (You may link to an offsite resource detailing your character's canon history, however we prefer that you also give us a summary in your own words. If English is not your first language we will be flexible about the summary. For OCs, please succinctly summarize what your character's life was like before arrival to the Outpost.)
Personality: (This is the most important part of the app and ultimately determines whether or not your character will fit here. Give as much detail as possible to show that you really have a handle on the character. You do not need to provide us a novel if you feel your character can be summed up in two or three paragraphs, but we need more than a couple of lines.)
Powers: (If applicable. Your character won't be able to use them from the get-go due to the memory loss, but some powers can be recovered later. Keep in mind a mod may ask you to nerf this.)
DOTES animal: (Domestic cat or dog ONLY for newcomers. You may also choose a specific breed if you wish, or if you want it to be a surprise, the mods will assign you with an animal based on personality.)
Sample post: (This can be either in the form of actionspam or prose. You may use the prompts below, or come up with your own.)
Suggestion prompts:
1) Upon walking into the cafeteria for the first time, your character is hit in the face with a plate of food. There's a food fight going on! Does your character jump in on the fun, flee to the safety of his/her dorm, or something else?
2) After having spent a long time at the facility, your character has just recovered enough memory to know that their current romantic partner in the Outpost is actually their worst enemy from before, but s/he has no memory of their rivalry him/herself. Does your character tell him/her, or keep it a secret in hopes that his/her own memories don't return to keep the peace between each other?
3) Your character wakes up and it's a beautiful day, they're not in trouble, and they have all the resources of the Outpost to pick from. The pool is looking especially inviting, and over in the courtyard there's a group of fellow patients playing a game of ball. What does your character decide to do?
Bakura Ryou
Player name: Fran
OOC journal: http://frannyan.dreamwidth.org/
Player age: 31
Contact information: Email: frannyan mail.com | AIM: Frandenut | GoogleTalk: Frannyan gmail.com
IC Info
Name: Bakura Ryou
Canon: Yuugiou (manga, original series)
Canon point: Post series
Age: 17 [to be aged up 1 year]
Sex/Gender: Male
Appearance: http://pics.livejournal.com/shiromadoushi/pic/000019xs
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_gi_oh & http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ryo_Bakura Most of the information on the YGO wiki is just... off and full of fanon. Additional pages (that I’ve written) are at http://kokorononaka.net/Image/Bakura/BakuraYBakura.html & http://www.kokorononaka.net/FAQ/BakuRant1.html
Personality:
The world of Yuugiou is one based on two central concepts: friendship and games. Bakura is someone who loves both things. His intro chapter is even titled “The pretty boy who loves games,” and the first hopeful conversation he has with the rest of the cast is about the game of Monster World, his favorite. Monster World is a TRPG, a table top role-playing game, and a game that has been turned against him by the spirit of the Sennen Ring. While Bakura wants nothing more than to play his favorite game with his friends, every time he has before, his friends fell into comas due to the Ring Spirit's twisted interpretation of Bakura's wish to play games with his friends forever. His desperation and resolve to keep from losing yet more friends pushes him to fight against the Ring spirit and leads to his martyrdom, showing that there is nothing more important to Bakura in the world that his friends, not even his own life.
Though looking at his life, it's really no surprise that he would go that far. His younger sister died as result of a car accident, and though the letter he writes to her asking how their mother is doing, it's apparent that his mother also died. His father, though he owns Domino museum and thus works nearby where Bakura now lives, lives apart from him. Bakura has been alone and isolated, first by death and then by the Ring for a long time, something that shows through his cheerful nature when he speaks of living apart from his family. As much as he wants to reach out and make friends with Yuugi and everyone when he first meets them, he pushes them away to protect them. The uneasy balance of desperation and self sacrifice leaves him seeming almost bipolar at first, going from chatty cheerfulness to depressed quiet. Once the Ring is beaten, the depression seems to vanish, leaving bright cheerful inquisitiveness, balanced with thoughtful pondering and deep worry when things start to look as if they won't go well.
Bakura's cheerful nature for the most part seems to be a mask of who he wants to be. There is a deep insecurity that lurks under it and the need to hide away things that would draw attention to anything wrong. When the Ring starts speaking to him again, even when he's asked if something's wrong, he pushes away the concern, saying it's nothing. He makes a deal with the Ring to save his friends from the trap they've fallen into, putting it back on, even after dying to stop it, then very swiftly seems to forget about it. He always is clueless when he returns to himself after the Ring has taken him over, yet just rolls with it as if nothing had happened. Whether this is by design of the Ring or his own coping mechanisms, or a combination of both is never explored, but it's very clear that he doesn't recall the danger of the Ring, even going as far to wonder aloud why Yuugi would hide it from him.
Escapism is another strong part of who Bakura is, to the point where it interferes with his daily life. When going to join Anzu and the group to watch what's going on in Battle City, he's late to join them because he stayed up finishing an RPG scenario. His character in Monster World is high level, 2 levels under the Dark Lord and is a White Mage, a background character, but one that is supportive and the unsung hero, the one who heals and protects the party while they defeat the Dark Lord. Yet he's also the GM, the one running the scenario and puppeteer the dark forces of the game. When he plays with his friends, he's the one who runs the game, so even when he's playing with them, he's apart from them. In the storyline he fills a similar role, part of the group, but a spectator, giving commentary on the action more than participating in it and when he vanishes, due to the Ring Spirit, Anzu's comment on it is that he's gone “again” implying that he often wanders off.
Despite being friends with the main group, Bakura only appears to really be close to Yuugi. Jounouchi routinely yells at him for worrying or saying the wrong thing, even when it's in defense of his friend, and seems genuinely disturbed at Bakura for having an occult deck. Anzu, despite noticing when Bakura seems off, lets things go when he says “nothing's wrong” even when his face betrays that there is something deeply wrong. She also makes no attempt to go after him when he's wandered off in Battle City, instead running off after Jounouchi. He winds up spending time with Honda on side quests since Honda is similarly left to the side. At the end of the game of Ancient Egypt, when Bakura is unconscious at the other side of the game table, the rest of the group just sits and watches him suspiciously. It's not until the other Yuugi returns that anyone checks on him.
Part of why Bakura so often seems left to the side may have part to do with the fact that he's just a little bit not right, even when the cast is unaware he's wearing the Ring. Having white hair at such a young age stands out even in a world where hair in three colours or a giant spike seems normal. Bakura has an odd personality in his like of the occult, especially with how cheerful he is explaining his deck, which is full of traps, ghouls and nasty tactics fitting a GM. That he shares this deck with the Ring Spirit and that there are many times it's hard to tell which of them is in control also adds a layer of not rightness to his personality, as does the writing to his dead sister and fascination with the Sennen Items. He even asks to keep the replica of the Millennium Eye from Duelist Kingdom, which the Ring Spirit later replaces with the real thing.
Bakura is also the only character in the manga to have come back from the dead. When Yami Yuugi rushes over to him at the end of Monster World, he announces that Bakura is indeed dead, meaning that his spirit had departed when he self destructed the dice holding his soul. It's only because part of his spirit is in his game piece (that sacrifices himself to revive his “master”) that he is able to come back from the dead.
Over all, Bakura is very polite with a playful side. He enjoys playing tricks and harmless pranks whether it be trying to mess with the mime in the park by startling him to helping Mai convince Jounouchi that she hadn't been released from the Penalty Game that had left her comatose.
Powers:
magnet for misfortuneNone.DOTES animal: Cat
Sample post:
Dreams were something he never remembered much of. Snipits of voices, snatches of conversation he never could quite hear, a flash of red or gold, the ever present swirling darkness that held him captive in his sleep even as reality reached in its cold unfeeling fingers to haul him back into the light.
He hunched in his shoulders, curling into himself more tightly as he fought against waking. He didn’t want to wake. He was warm and safe in his dark corner, hiding away from the pain. Why couldn’t he stay?
But it was a lost battle, the dull ache that seemed to have sunk into his very bones stripping away the warm darkness until his eyes cracked open, peering blearily at his surroundings. Where....?
He sat up, pulling his legs to his chest, hunching in on himself as he near bristled at the unfamiliar environment. Something was wrong. Something was always wrong when he woke like this, but he couldn’t let it show, he had to--
…to...
There was a very unpleasant sinking sensation, meshed with a small, growing sense of panic.
He couldn’t remember. He couldn’t remember what he was supposed to do or why he was supposed to do it. All there was was a nagging feeling that he shouldn’t show that anything was wrong.
But there was no one else there... or was there...?
Very cautious and timidly, he uncurled doing his best to ignore the ache that every movement agitated. His foot faltered slightly on the cold floor, weak and unsteady as if it hadn’t felt weight in far too long. How long had it been....? His watch was gone, (he had had a watch?) he couldn’t check, even if he recalled what time it had been before.
Another unsteady foot on the floor, pale fingers clinging to the side of the bed as he tried to steady himself. His hair was too long. (How long had it been before?) He could feel it brushing against...
against...
He turned, looking over his shoulder, eyes wide as he spotted the long white, fluffy tail that was up in the air, almost bristling in alarm.
What on Earth had happened....?
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