+come along, come along with me
Character Information
Name: Nagi Kengamine
Age:
Canon: Deadman Wonderland (manga)
Timeline:
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter(s): Castform
History: Series wiki.
Character entry.
Canon point would be chapter 12, before recruiting Ganta into Scar Chain.
Personality: For all the world, Nagi is really a decent guy. He acts friendly towards his friends and comrades, helps people despite being in a prison where no one is ever trustworthy, and organizes resistance against the horrors that are being commited there. (Really, it's a mistery why he's even in prison to begin with.) The story he tells adds to the impression of a good person, someone mature, reliable, stable. Despite losing his wife, he hangs on to the hope of maybe, some day, being able to see their child, and he is what ties Scar Chain together at the core: without him and his hope, none of the others would have had the guts to group together, in short: he's a leader.
He's an optimist, a philanthropist even: it seems he really, genuinely wants to help people, and he's not quick to give up on someone. Of course while he's often right about judging a character, he isn't perfect, and in a place like Deadman Wonderland such mistakes tend to have severe consequences. It was this misplaced faith in people that led him to try making a deal with the promoter Tamaki to throw the fight to save his wife, causing not only the loss of his vocal chords, but also that of his wife and their child. ...you'd think he'd learn after that. He did, partially, but he didn't learn the lesson very well, as illustrated by Rokuro's betrayal later on in the arc, which very nearly led to the obliteration of Scar Chain as a whole.
Nagi, throughout all this, displays a steely determination. Having lost everything, he gets back up and fights for hope of all things. It's his greatest strength never to lose sight of his "light" so to speak, surviving the battles and never once losing in the two years since the death of his wife. He's never once flown off the handle, rarely seems truly caught off guard, and doesn't lose his head no matter the situation. He's confident and trustworthy. The kind of guy you can count on to pull through, the kind of friend who'll always keep his word and be there, and if it costs him an arm and a leg.
And then there's the side people don't see.
His hope is to one day meet his child (the fantranslations can't seem to agree on 'son' or 'daughter') which he pretends survived his wife's death. The truth of it is, he knows that's not actually the case, the Promoter went out of his way to show him the unborn child that had been forcibly removed from the womb, sitting in a jar to be used as a specimen. Deep down, if Nagi were being honest, he's long since lost hope, but he managed to make himself forget about that. At the core, Nagi despises everyone who lives (even himself) for outliving his wife and child, is hurt by the injustice that was done to him and to them. He'd burn the world down, given the chance. He's got amounts of rage bottled up that go well beyond sanity, but luckily, there aren't many people to remind him of what happened. It's pretty likely to send him on a murderous rampage. ...so much for pacifism. Nagi needs his own delusion to keep himself stable, at this point, even though he later realizes he has a reason to hang on still, it isn't until after he slaughters a bunch of people who just happen to be there.
The person closest to him is Karako, who functions as a second in command within Scar Chain. It is also her who later organizes the rescue attempt, and her who talks (and punches) sense into Nagi after he snaps. Her guts make her a key part of the organization, and Nagi's levelheaded determination gives her something productive to put her ferocity and drive to use for, and it's one of the examples of him being a good judge of character that he recruited her to begin with, when the other members saw her as a hazard more than anything. They make a splendid team. Even so, Nagi, in his delusion, never really opened up to her about what actually happened, never once speaking about his lost hope or about his anger towards not only the ones responsible for his loss, but everyone else as well. He did show her the locket he carries, supposedly containing a picture of his child - it's in actuality empty - and she didn't call him out on it, either, letting him believe his own lies.
On a less serious note, Nagi, not having seen the sky in years, has a thing for using weather metaphors for outlooks and situations.
Powers & Abilities: As, I think, outlined in the Wiki, Nagi possesses a particular power called Branch of Sin, which allows him to control and manipulate his own blood. His particular style, called "Owl's Eyeball", consists of him creating small, floating spheres of blood that explode on his command (not necessarily just from contact).
Posting Samples
Third-Person Sample:
Nagi was probably one of the few who had looked forward to travelling. He was never in any hurry, took his time leisurely walking down the route or through the city streets no matter what the weather. In fact, one might find him smiling to himself as he went, even in pouring rain - and he still often found himself suppressing the urge to humm as he walked. Really, Nagi had no reason to feel trapped here. He was far more free than he had been in years, and in fact, probably more free than he deserved to be. That left little room for him to complain.
Pokémon, he found, made good companions as well. He'd caught his first one not too long ago, a small, round, green bird, that had spent a good hour in a staring contest with him. Naming them was tricky, so he'd decided to hold off on that, but his Castform didn't seem to mind much. Eventually, Nagi thought, no matter if he would go out of his way to get all the badges or not, he'd just settle down in one of the towns, get a job, a place to live, maybe eventually have a business of his own. So when Nagi sat down in the grass, leaning back and feeling the rain soak him through, he didn't consider it might get him sick. He'd gotten much too used to the constant fear of death to worry about that anymore. Instead, for a change, he thought about a possible future, and cherished what he'd been given. Only very rarely he allowed himself to think about what it had cost him, and even though he kept the locket close to his heart, he hardly looked at it anymore.
First-Person Sample:
[Have a Nagi. Nagi looks, as per almost usual, pretty chipper. For those who haven't spoken to him, you'll notice his voice sounds... off. Strange. Unnatural. Mechanical, perhaps. It lacks inflection, but he sounds friendly enough none the less.]
Hello, PokéNet.
I have a question and a small request for you. I recently caught my first pokémon, and I'm... not really sure what to name her.
[He turns and tilts the camera to show a Natu, who sits unmoving and intently staring at something offscreen.]
I would appreciate a suggestion.
And with that out of the way... what do you usually name your pokémon after? Do you have a theme, or do you name them for their traits, or do you think them up on the spot? Trainers, do you prefer catching your own or do you acquire eggs from breeders instead?
Name: Nagi Kengamine
Age:
Canon: Deadman Wonderland (manga)
Timeline:
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter(s): Castform
History: Series wiki.
Character entry.
Canon point would be chapter 12, before recruiting Ganta into Scar Chain.
Personality: For all the world, Nagi is really a decent guy. He acts friendly towards his friends and comrades, helps people despite being in a prison where no one is ever trustworthy, and organizes resistance against the horrors that are being commited there. (Really, it's a mistery why he's even in prison to begin with.) The story he tells adds to the impression of a good person, someone mature, reliable, stable. Despite losing his wife, he hangs on to the hope of maybe, some day, being able to see their child, and he is what ties Scar Chain together at the core: without him and his hope, none of the others would have had the guts to group together, in short: he's a leader.
He's an optimist, a philanthropist even: it seems he really, genuinely wants to help people, and he's not quick to give up on someone. Of course while he's often right about judging a character, he isn't perfect, and in a place like Deadman Wonderland such mistakes tend to have severe consequences. It was this misplaced faith in people that led him to try making a deal with the promoter Tamaki to throw the fight to save his wife, causing not only the loss of his vocal chords, but also that of his wife and their child. ...you'd think he'd learn after that. He did, partially, but he didn't learn the lesson very well, as illustrated by Rokuro's betrayal later on in the arc, which very nearly led to the obliteration of Scar Chain as a whole.
Nagi, throughout all this, displays a steely determination. Having lost everything, he gets back up and fights for hope of all things. It's his greatest strength never to lose sight of his "light" so to speak, surviving the battles and never once losing in the two years since the death of his wife. He's never once flown off the handle, rarely seems truly caught off guard, and doesn't lose his head no matter the situation. He's confident and trustworthy. The kind of guy you can count on to pull through, the kind of friend who'll always keep his word and be there, and if it costs him an arm and a leg.
And then there's the side people don't see.
His hope is to one day meet his child (the fantranslations can't seem to agree on 'son' or 'daughter') which he pretends survived his wife's death. The truth of it is, he knows that's not actually the case, the Promoter went out of his way to show him the unborn child that had been forcibly removed from the womb, sitting in a jar to be used as a specimen. Deep down, if Nagi were being honest, he's long since lost hope, but he managed to make himself forget about that. At the core, Nagi despises everyone who lives (even himself) for outliving his wife and child, is hurt by the injustice that was done to him and to them. He'd burn the world down, given the chance. He's got amounts of rage bottled up that go well beyond sanity, but luckily, there aren't many people to remind him of what happened. It's pretty likely to send him on a murderous rampage. ...so much for pacifism. Nagi needs his own delusion to keep himself stable, at this point, even though he later realizes he has a reason to hang on still, it isn't until after he slaughters a bunch of people who just happen to be there.
The person closest to him is Karako, who functions as a second in command within Scar Chain. It is also her who later organizes the rescue attempt, and her who talks (and punches) sense into Nagi after he snaps. Her guts make her a key part of the organization, and Nagi's levelheaded determination gives her something productive to put her ferocity and drive to use for, and it's one of the examples of him being a good judge of character that he recruited her to begin with, when the other members saw her as a hazard more than anything. They make a splendid team. Even so, Nagi, in his delusion, never really opened up to her about what actually happened, never once speaking about his lost hope or about his anger towards not only the ones responsible for his loss, but everyone else as well. He did show her the locket he carries, supposedly containing a picture of his child - it's in actuality empty - and she didn't call him out on it, either, letting him believe his own lies.
On a less serious note, Nagi, not having seen the sky in years, has a thing for using weather metaphors for outlooks and situations.
Powers & Abilities: As, I think, outlined in the Wiki, Nagi possesses a particular power called Branch of Sin, which allows him to control and manipulate his own blood. His particular style, called "Owl's Eyeball", consists of him creating small, floating spheres of blood that explode on his command (not necessarily just from contact).
Posting Samples
Third-Person Sample:
Nagi was probably one of the few who had looked forward to travelling. He was never in any hurry, took his time leisurely walking down the route or through the city streets no matter what the weather. In fact, one might find him smiling to himself as he went, even in pouring rain - and he still often found himself suppressing the urge to humm as he walked. Really, Nagi had no reason to feel trapped here. He was far more free than he had been in years, and in fact, probably more free than he deserved to be. That left little room for him to complain.
Pokémon, he found, made good companions as well. He'd caught his first one not too long ago, a small, round, green bird, that had spent a good hour in a staring contest with him. Naming them was tricky, so he'd decided to hold off on that, but his Castform didn't seem to mind much. Eventually, Nagi thought, no matter if he would go out of his way to get all the badges or not, he'd just settle down in one of the towns, get a job, a place to live, maybe eventually have a business of his own. So when Nagi sat down in the grass, leaning back and feeling the rain soak him through, he didn't consider it might get him sick. He'd gotten much too used to the constant fear of death to worry about that anymore. Instead, for a change, he thought about a possible future, and cherished what he'd been given. Only very rarely he allowed himself to think about what it had cost him, and even though he kept the locket close to his heart, he hardly looked at it anymore.
First-Person Sample:
[Have a Nagi. Nagi looks, as per almost usual, pretty chipper. For those who haven't spoken to him, you'll notice his voice sounds... off. Strange. Unnatural. Mechanical, perhaps. It lacks inflection, but he sounds friendly enough none the less.]
Hello, PokéNet.
I have a question and a small request for you. I recently caught my first pokémon, and I'm... not really sure what to name her.
[He turns and tilts the camera to show a Natu, who sits unmoving and intently staring at something offscreen.]
I would appreciate a suggestion.
And with that out of the way... what do you usually name your pokémon after? Do you have a theme, or do you name them for their traits, or do you think them up on the spot? Trainers, do you prefer catching your own or do you acquire eggs from breeders instead?