Character Information
PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Zef
AGE: 22
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: Ze/Zir
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: purewhiteshadow (AIM) Zeffyface (Main)
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Navi
SERIES/SOURCE: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
AGE: 8
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Student
BACKGROUND:
Navi’s short time in the world began in a small and forgettable county of the Appalachian United States called Hyrule. The beautiful countryside and historic Civil War forts made Hyrule a lovely place to visit, but staying was not a wise decision for the faint of heart. Outside the capitol city the law enforcement and emergency contacts spread from thin to none, and outside of the tiny towns one could walk a full day in any direction without seeing sign of another human being. Still, the citizens stayed for generations. It was a common saying that the ranchers of Hyrule were more stubborn than the mules they bread.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature often proved herself more than a match for the wills of humans. One spring night a violent thunderstorm and a lightning strike in the village Kakariko began a fire that jumped from wooden house to wooden house until the entire town was ablaze. With the fire department an hour away the fire ran rampant, and by the end of the night most citizens found themselves homeless, many parents found themselves childless, and far too many children found themselves orphans. Among them was a boy of barely five named Link, holding his toddler sister Navi as they huddled together and watched their world burn down.
As dawn broke, the fire finally subsided and the villagers had to decide where to go and what to do with themselves. The most hardy stayed behind and began to pick up the pieces, salvaging what they could of Kakariko. Many gathered what was left of their families and belongings and departed for the capitol. The children had no choice but to go to the only place available, the Kokiri Orphanage. Founded by the kindly but aging Mr. Deku, the orphanage opened its doors and welcomed the sudden influx of children with what little it had and became Navi’s only remembered home.
With over a dozen children to share Mr. Deku’s attention, the finer points of Navi’s care often fell to Link. They stuck with one another more often than not, Navi toddling along in her brother’s shadow as if she was glued there and Link barely associating with the other children. As they grew, they began to compliment one another more fully. Where Link wouldn’t speak a single word unless alone with his sister, Navi took to language and never looked back, speaking for both herself and her brother more often than not. The adults decided both were likely coping with grief in their own way and left the siblings to their devices.
When Navi began attending school, the teachers all had roughly the same assessment. It was possible that the girl was brilliant, but they would never know unless they could get her to sit still and pay attention. She bounced off the walls, jabbered constantly, and insisted on helping the teacher explain every subject. Finally as an experiment they sent her to Link’s class and allowed her to sit with her brother provided she stay quiet. To their shock, it worked. On occasion they would even find her reading from her brother’s books when she had finished her own work, with Link helping on the odd word. And so it became the solution throughout the years, with Navi doing extra work over the summers to officially catch up.
It was also at school that the adult world first noticed Navi’s odd insistence that she was not a human. Even after months of asking, she consistently claimed to be a fairy that had the power to transform into a big person, but that it was getting harder to hold the spell. If asked to prove it, she would only shake her head and reply with a ‘Link told me not to’ before running off again. Mr. Deku tried at various times to get the two to explain this, but the story remained the same and Link would only nod his agreement. Finally Mr. Deku asked how she could be Link’s sister if she was a fairy. Navi shocked him by blinking and replying she wasn’t, she was his guide. Link, she explained, was going to save the world and needed a guide to help him; one that knew everything about everything. When asked about her parents the girl shrugged and said fairies didn’t have any, but that was okay. That she was sad Link lost his, but he had her to help. And so Mr. Deku sighed and counted this bizarre claim as another way of dealing with the loss of her parents before sending the two out to play.
Although loners before, the siblings became even more reclusive as they reached the sixth grade. With a girl named Saria as their only real friend, they would go exploring in the woods almost the entire time while at home and had a habit of vanishing at odd moments during school. Navi in particular, found more excuses to leave the classroom than most of the other students combined.
When news of mutants and the Xavier Institute reached Hyrule, not much attention was paid. Most citizens believed the entire thing to be a government hoax in an attempt to raise taxes, while the others kept quiet in their opinions and went about their lives. Therefore, Mr. Deku was astonished to find Link in his room one night without his living shadow, demanding more information about the school in a clear voice. The caretaker obliged, offering what little he knew and a crumpled pamphlet that was left in the mailbox. The next day, Link and Navi were caught sneaking away from lunch to work awkwardly on the school’s old computers, Navi with two encyclopedia volumes on her chair to help her reach the keyboard.
That night, Link again visited his guardian, this time with Navi in tow. He shut the door and locked it, then drew the blinds before nodding to Navi. Mr. Deku, bemused, attempted to ask what was going on but was shocked speechless when Navi began to glow and then vanished, with a little floating ball of blue light in her place. The ball zipped behind Link and transformed, becoming again a frightened girl hiding behind her older brother. When Mr. Deku seemed incapable of words, Link began to explain. Navi was special, like the pamphlets and the people in the Xavier Institute said. And it was getting harder for her to control turning into her fairy form; there had already been too many close calls.
Mr. Deku gathered what he could from the two children’s hurried explanation, with Navi’s stubborn insistence that she really was a fairy interjected in on occasion. He pulled the two from school for the next week as he took to researching on his own, then came to them with the decision that Navi should indeed try to attend the institute.
Navi for her part, did not want to leave the boy she declared herself destined to guide. She had never been without Link, and tried a variety of ways to weasel out of going or bring Link with her. None worked. Eventually Link coaxed her around to going willingly, although the strain of his sister leaving clearly weighed on him as well. And so with a quiet departure, Navi was taken to the institute to better learn how to guide the boy that she knew would save the world.
PERSONALITY:
Navi has two gauges, on and off. She is either awake, alert, and incredibly hyperactive or asleep and dead to the world, and it takes roughly five minutes for her to change to either mode. When in a burn-out phase, she will insist that she is not sleepy with her final waking breath.
The only thing faster than Navi’s attention span is her mouth. Given the opportunity and optionally an audience, she will talk and continue to do so without pause until imposed by an outside force. She knows everything, or at least is determined to make everyone think she does. Typically friendly and cheerful to the point of over saturation, she still is prone to the occasional mood swing, tantrum, or glum spell. These however, are usually brief and easily distracted back into happiness.
Navi’s obsession with being useful is only trumped by knowing everything. She is fiercely loyal to the unlucky sods she attaches to, and is usually determined to help even when there is nothing to help with. This usually ends in a mess. Her memory and vocabulary are remarkable, particularly for her age, although with her constant run-on sentences it can be difficult to tell.
She seems to have no concept of what “girly”, “girl stuff” of “ladylike” are, or why she should conform to them when playing in the mud is more fun.
APPEARANCE:
Standing at about 3’9’’ (144 cm), Navi is fairly small for her age. Her hair is a mess of brown curls that fall to her shoulders, occasionally pinned back with a little blue clip that does absolutely nothing to tame it. Her big blue eyes are the only part of her face not completely coated in freckles, with the highest concentration of speckles across her nose. The freckles continue across all visible areas of her skin and only get more numerous in the summertime.
Typically Navi is seen wearing hand-me-down boy’s clothing, which makes telling her gender difficult on days she does not wear her hair clip. Her most favorite outfit consist of a faded green hoodie that falls almost to her knees, under which she wears some worn jeans that are also too big for her and sandals. Her other outfits follow the same vein, and are not many in number. At any given time, there is a betting chance she will have dirt, leaves, or grass stains on some part of her.
POWERS:
Navi’s power may be counted as a form of shapeshifting, or potentially energy control. She can transform herself into a floating ball of almost pure energy that gives off a bright blue glow. The ball is roughly three inches (7.5 cm) in diameter, although looking at it closely is not recommended. While in this form she cannot speak and has about the physical strength of a butterfly, as well as the vulnerability of one. She can however, fly and do so with incredible speed. The form also makes for a handy flashlight/torch, and potentially could have power uses for the less friendly minded.
As she has aged, Navi has found more difficulty staying in human form during her waking hours. She tends to need a few minutes every few hours to turn to her energy ball and fly around before she can return to normal, and on particularly hyper days once an hour. Otherwise she runs the risk of just transforming at random.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
In Navi’s mind she is still a fairy and not a mutant, and her brother is still going to save the world. Attempting to convince her otherwise is like talking to a particularly stubborn brick wall.
RP SAMPLES
First-person sample:
“...Woah that’s a big school. Are all the classrooms in that there must be like a million kids if they fit in there but where am I supposed to sleep I mean outside isn’t so bad but maybe we sleep under the desks like that big fire drill we had but longer a-ooh a bug! Come back bug! I don’t wanna hurt you I think unless you’re a mean bug but I don’t know any mean bugs ‘cept bees they aren’t nice but you don’t fly so you can’t be a bee are you a cricket? I read about crickets, they jump and some of ‘em have these wing things that they can flutter with but not really fly and they sing to each other! Do you not want to sing cricket? Are you sick? Where’d you go anywa-huh? What’s that?”
Third-person sample:
A cascade of rapid pats of sandals echoed down the corridor, then abruptly stopped. A few seconds of pause and the footsteps picked up again, this time in a slower, loping pace before halting again. This pattern repeated itself several times over before a little girl finally turned the corner, her book bag bouncing dangerously on her back as she skipped in weaving curves along the hallway. Spotting the next window she made a semi-straight line for it and pressed her hands to the glass, standing on her toes and peering out for a moment or two. After assessing the view she shook some curls from her eyes and resumed her way at a run this time until reaching next window.
Navi wasn’t entirely certain where in the school she was at the moment - not that she was lost - but wherever it was, it was high up. She could see the woods from this window, which was much more interesting than the buildings she could see a few hallways earlier. Distracted by a bird flitting by, she giggled and hopped along to the next window.
“Oh, a lake! Hey Link, they have a lake can we go swimming...”
Turning to look over her shoulder, an expression of pure puzzlement overtook her freckled face for three seconds. As she stared at the empty air around her slowly she evolved into realization, her smile falling off. Oh yeah, that was right. Link wasn’t here; she was by herself. Absently she twisted her sweatshirt in her hands and actually looked at the empty corridor for the first time. It seemed a lot bigger, all of a sudden.
But after a moment her chin lifted and she took a determined breath. She was here for a reason, after all. And the only way to get back to Link faster was to do well.
Now that she thought of it, wasn’t she late for something?
“Oh yeah!” Pulling a crumpled piece of paper from her hoodie pocket, she looked at the instructions to her classroom and then around at the door numbers surrounding her. After a pause she shrugged and smiled, continuing on her haphazard way with the paper fluttering in her hand. She would find it eventually.
NAME: Zef
AGE: 22
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: Ze/Zir
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: purewhiteshadow (AIM) Zeffyface (Main)
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Navi
SERIES/SOURCE: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
AGE: 8
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Student
BACKGROUND:
Navi’s short time in the world began in a small and forgettable county of the Appalachian United States called Hyrule. The beautiful countryside and historic Civil War forts made Hyrule a lovely place to visit, but staying was not a wise decision for the faint of heart. Outside the capitol city the law enforcement and emergency contacts spread from thin to none, and outside of the tiny towns one could walk a full day in any direction without seeing sign of another human being. Still, the citizens stayed for generations. It was a common saying that the ranchers of Hyrule were more stubborn than the mules they bread.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature often proved herself more than a match for the wills of humans. One spring night a violent thunderstorm and a lightning strike in the village Kakariko began a fire that jumped from wooden house to wooden house until the entire town was ablaze. With the fire department an hour away the fire ran rampant, and by the end of the night most citizens found themselves homeless, many parents found themselves childless, and far too many children found themselves orphans. Among them was a boy of barely five named Link, holding his toddler sister Navi as they huddled together and watched their world burn down.
As dawn broke, the fire finally subsided and the villagers had to decide where to go and what to do with themselves. The most hardy stayed behind and began to pick up the pieces, salvaging what they could of Kakariko. Many gathered what was left of their families and belongings and departed for the capitol. The children had no choice but to go to the only place available, the Kokiri Orphanage. Founded by the kindly but aging Mr. Deku, the orphanage opened its doors and welcomed the sudden influx of children with what little it had and became Navi’s only remembered home.
With over a dozen children to share Mr. Deku’s attention, the finer points of Navi’s care often fell to Link. They stuck with one another more often than not, Navi toddling along in her brother’s shadow as if she was glued there and Link barely associating with the other children. As they grew, they began to compliment one another more fully. Where Link wouldn’t speak a single word unless alone with his sister, Navi took to language and never looked back, speaking for both herself and her brother more often than not. The adults decided both were likely coping with grief in their own way and left the siblings to their devices.
When Navi began attending school, the teachers all had roughly the same assessment. It was possible that the girl was brilliant, but they would never know unless they could get her to sit still and pay attention. She bounced off the walls, jabbered constantly, and insisted on helping the teacher explain every subject. Finally as an experiment they sent her to Link’s class and allowed her to sit with her brother provided she stay quiet. To their shock, it worked. On occasion they would even find her reading from her brother’s books when she had finished her own work, with Link helping on the odd word. And so it became the solution throughout the years, with Navi doing extra work over the summers to officially catch up.
It was also at school that the adult world first noticed Navi’s odd insistence that she was not a human. Even after months of asking, she consistently claimed to be a fairy that had the power to transform into a big person, but that it was getting harder to hold the spell. If asked to prove it, she would only shake her head and reply with a ‘Link told me not to’ before running off again. Mr. Deku tried at various times to get the two to explain this, but the story remained the same and Link would only nod his agreement. Finally Mr. Deku asked how she could be Link’s sister if she was a fairy. Navi shocked him by blinking and replying she wasn’t, she was his guide. Link, she explained, was going to save the world and needed a guide to help him; one that knew everything about everything. When asked about her parents the girl shrugged and said fairies didn’t have any, but that was okay. That she was sad Link lost his, but he had her to help. And so Mr. Deku sighed and counted this bizarre claim as another way of dealing with the loss of her parents before sending the two out to play.
Although loners before, the siblings became even more reclusive as they reached the sixth grade. With a girl named Saria as their only real friend, they would go exploring in the woods almost the entire time while at home and had a habit of vanishing at odd moments during school. Navi in particular, found more excuses to leave the classroom than most of the other students combined.
When news of mutants and the Xavier Institute reached Hyrule, not much attention was paid. Most citizens believed the entire thing to be a government hoax in an attempt to raise taxes, while the others kept quiet in their opinions and went about their lives. Therefore, Mr. Deku was astonished to find Link in his room one night without his living shadow, demanding more information about the school in a clear voice. The caretaker obliged, offering what little he knew and a crumpled pamphlet that was left in the mailbox. The next day, Link and Navi were caught sneaking away from lunch to work awkwardly on the school’s old computers, Navi with two encyclopedia volumes on her chair to help her reach the keyboard.
That night, Link again visited his guardian, this time with Navi in tow. He shut the door and locked it, then drew the blinds before nodding to Navi. Mr. Deku, bemused, attempted to ask what was going on but was shocked speechless when Navi began to glow and then vanished, with a little floating ball of blue light in her place. The ball zipped behind Link and transformed, becoming again a frightened girl hiding behind her older brother. When Mr. Deku seemed incapable of words, Link began to explain. Navi was special, like the pamphlets and the people in the Xavier Institute said. And it was getting harder for her to control turning into her fairy form; there had already been too many close calls.
Mr. Deku gathered what he could from the two children’s hurried explanation, with Navi’s stubborn insistence that she really was a fairy interjected in on occasion. He pulled the two from school for the next week as he took to researching on his own, then came to them with the decision that Navi should indeed try to attend the institute.
Navi for her part, did not want to leave the boy she declared herself destined to guide. She had never been without Link, and tried a variety of ways to weasel out of going or bring Link with her. None worked. Eventually Link coaxed her around to going willingly, although the strain of his sister leaving clearly weighed on him as well. And so with a quiet departure, Navi was taken to the institute to better learn how to guide the boy that she knew would save the world.
PERSONALITY:
Navi has two gauges, on and off. She is either awake, alert, and incredibly hyperactive or asleep and dead to the world, and it takes roughly five minutes for her to change to either mode. When in a burn-out phase, she will insist that she is not sleepy with her final waking breath.
The only thing faster than Navi’s attention span is her mouth. Given the opportunity and optionally an audience, she will talk and continue to do so without pause until imposed by an outside force. She knows everything, or at least is determined to make everyone think she does. Typically friendly and cheerful to the point of over saturation, she still is prone to the occasional mood swing, tantrum, or glum spell. These however, are usually brief and easily distracted back into happiness.
Navi’s obsession with being useful is only trumped by knowing everything. She is fiercely loyal to the unlucky sods she attaches to, and is usually determined to help even when there is nothing to help with. This usually ends in a mess. Her memory and vocabulary are remarkable, particularly for her age, although with her constant run-on sentences it can be difficult to tell.
She seems to have no concept of what “girly”, “girl stuff” of “ladylike” are, or why she should conform to them when playing in the mud is more fun.
APPEARANCE:
Standing at about 3’9’’ (144 cm), Navi is fairly small for her age. Her hair is a mess of brown curls that fall to her shoulders, occasionally pinned back with a little blue clip that does absolutely nothing to tame it. Her big blue eyes are the only part of her face not completely coated in freckles, with the highest concentration of speckles across her nose. The freckles continue across all visible areas of her skin and only get more numerous in the summertime.
Typically Navi is seen wearing hand-me-down boy’s clothing, which makes telling her gender difficult on days she does not wear her hair clip. Her most favorite outfit consist of a faded green hoodie that falls almost to her knees, under which she wears some worn jeans that are also too big for her and sandals. Her other outfits follow the same vein, and are not many in number. At any given time, there is a betting chance she will have dirt, leaves, or grass stains on some part of her.
POWERS:
Navi’s power may be counted as a form of shapeshifting, or potentially energy control. She can transform herself into a floating ball of almost pure energy that gives off a bright blue glow. The ball is roughly three inches (7.5 cm) in diameter, although looking at it closely is not recommended. While in this form she cannot speak and has about the physical strength of a butterfly, as well as the vulnerability of one. She can however, fly and do so with incredible speed. The form also makes for a handy flashlight/torch, and potentially could have power uses for the less friendly minded.
As she has aged, Navi has found more difficulty staying in human form during her waking hours. She tends to need a few minutes every few hours to turn to her energy ball and fly around before she can return to normal, and on particularly hyper days once an hour. Otherwise she runs the risk of just transforming at random.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
In Navi’s mind she is still a fairy and not a mutant, and her brother is still going to save the world. Attempting to convince her otherwise is like talking to a particularly stubborn brick wall.
RP SAMPLES
First-person sample:
“...Woah that’s a big school. Are all the classrooms in that there must be like a million kids if they fit in there but where am I supposed to sleep I mean outside isn’t so bad but maybe we sleep under the desks like that big fire drill we had but longer a-ooh a bug! Come back bug! I don’t wanna hurt you I think unless you’re a mean bug but I don’t know any mean bugs ‘cept bees they aren’t nice but you don’t fly so you can’t be a bee are you a cricket? I read about crickets, they jump and some of ‘em have these wing things that they can flutter with but not really fly and they sing to each other! Do you not want to sing cricket? Are you sick? Where’d you go anywa-huh? What’s that?”
Third-person sample:
A cascade of rapid pats of sandals echoed down the corridor, then abruptly stopped. A few seconds of pause and the footsteps picked up again, this time in a slower, loping pace before halting again. This pattern repeated itself several times over before a little girl finally turned the corner, her book bag bouncing dangerously on her back as she skipped in weaving curves along the hallway. Spotting the next window she made a semi-straight line for it and pressed her hands to the glass, standing on her toes and peering out for a moment or two. After assessing the view she shook some curls from her eyes and resumed her way at a run this time until reaching next window.
Navi wasn’t entirely certain where in the school she was at the moment - not that she was lost - but wherever it was, it was high up. She could see the woods from this window, which was much more interesting than the buildings she could see a few hallways earlier. Distracted by a bird flitting by, she giggled and hopped along to the next window.
“Oh, a lake! Hey Link, they have a lake can we go swimming...”
Turning to look over her shoulder, an expression of pure puzzlement overtook her freckled face for three seconds. As she stared at the empty air around her slowly she evolved into realization, her smile falling off. Oh yeah, that was right. Link wasn’t here; she was by herself. Absently she twisted her sweatshirt in her hands and actually looked at the empty corridor for the first time. It seemed a lot bigger, all of a sudden.
But after a moment her chin lifted and she took a determined breath. She was here for a reason, after all. And the only way to get back to Link faster was to do well.
Now that she thought of it, wasn’t she late for something?
“Oh yeah!” Pulling a crumpled piece of paper from her hoodie pocket, she looked at the instructions to her classroom and then around at the door numbers surrounding her. After a pause she shrugged and smiled, continuing on her haphazard way with the paper fluttering in her hand. She would find it eventually.