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Character Information
General
Canon Source: The World Ends With You
Canon Format: video game
Character's Name: Shiki Misaki
Character's Age: 15
What form will your character's NV take? Shiki's NV will be built into her cell phone. The background with her and Eri together will stay the same. ;)
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: An ability known as a "psych", which relies on the stuffed cat "Mr.Mew" that she sewed as a child. Her psych only works on Mr.Mew, and only in the Underground, which is where strong souls end up, with the chance to fight for their lives again. She uses him as a weapon to battle Noise.
Basically, she just levitates him towards the enemy and Mr.Mew just kind of "does his own thing", which Shiki doesn't seem to find all that surprising. A little odd, given that at the ultimate fusion level Mr.Mew expands into a monstrous stuffed cat that shoots lasers from his eyes and is big enough to allow Shiki and Neku to sit like canaries on his shoulders, but that's Shiki for you.
She's also a mean seamstress. Sews her own clothes and all. =)
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? I would like to make it so that Shiki's Underground ability extends to the realground, that is, she can maneuver and fight with Mr. Mew even while alive (although it looks a little odd). Additionally, if it's all right, with training and effort I'd like her to be able to expand this ability to manipulating other stuffed animals to fight and such, and even over time being able to manipulate objects with more... obvious offensive capacity.
Weapons: ...Mr. Mew.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:Shiki lived a regular life for basically fifteen years. She wasn't the most self-confident or outgoing of girls, but she did have friends and she had a dream: Shiki wanted to be a great fashion designer whose clothes would take the people of Shibuya by storm. The one problem in this dream is that honestly, Shiki didn't have much of a design sense. However, she was a mean seamstress, and with a needle and thread she could give life to designs beyond even what they had on the page.
The designs, however, came from her best friend and arguably the most important person in Shiki's life: Eri. Eri was the designer to Shiki's seamstress, the self-confident, outgoing, intelligent, bubbling girl to Shiki's shyer wallflower personality. She was everything Shiki wasn't, everything Shiki wanted to be, and the two girls were basically inseparable.
However, things weren't perfect in paradise. Shiki was jealous of Eri; her personality and her design talent, the way things in life seemed to come so easily to her while Shiki had to struggle and fight for everything. She didn't allow this jealousy to poison her relationship with Eri, but it did make her sensitive and rather bitter, and when Eri told Shiki that she wasn't cut out to be a designer, Shiki took the words as a hurtful insult rather than the rather misguided attempt at comfort that they were: what Eri meant was that Shiki was meant to be a seamstress, that her talent in this area was amazing, and that she was as necessary a part of the creative process as Eri herself.
But Shiki didn't see that way, and she left feeling terribly hurt. And the next day, she died, and found herself in the Reaper's game, in the body of her friend Eri, forced to play and win if she wanted to return to life again. And Shiki did want to live, and she found herself - slightly surprisingly - prepared to fight as hard as she damn well could for the right.
She found a partner in the form of the reclusive, bitter, and almost totally asocial Neku, who for all his personality flaws was an expert user of psychs in the form of pins. Together they formed a pact, and agreed to take on the game forever - or, well, Shiki decided that this was the goal, and Neku didn't exactly fight hard enough to drive her away even though he wasn't enthusiastic.
And through the game, Shiki realized that she liked herself, found her own inner strength and personality, and even began to draw out Neku. When they ran into her friend Eri on one of the game days and heard her talking about Shiki and how Eri valued their friendship and Shiki's talent, this bolstered Shiki's budding confidence in herself even more - enough to totally dissipate her jealousy and endow her with a new appreciation for her own body, talent, and personality.
It was with this renewed sense of purpose that Shiki accompanied Neku to take on the week's Game Master, and the two fought and defeated him. Shiki, Beat and Neku were the only three players surviving, and Shiki was - although it may have been a farce, as Beat and Neku were Producer and Composer's proxies, respectively - the highest-scoring player in the game, and thus the one approved to return to life.
Shiki and Neku agreed to meet at the statue of Hachiko the next week, assuming that he'd win the game again; and Shiki appeared to dissipate into the air, although really the Producer Kitaniji was putting her into cold storage, as over the course of the week she had become the thing that Neku valued the most, and thus was his price for playing the game the next week.
However, instead of being restored to life or put into storage in the Shibuya River... Shiki wakes up in Siren's Port.
Point in Canon: Just after being put into storage in Shibuya River by Megumi, at the end of the first week. In the PAST week, she's been fighting for the right to come back to life again with her partner Neku, growing as a person and becoming more self-confident and also closer to him.
Character Personality: Shiki grows a lot over her round playing the Reaper's Game. Fighting for her life forces her to grow to her full potential, and although at first she's putting on a mask and acting as much like her best friend Eri as she possibly can, as the days go by she acts more and more like herself, and the personality of Shiki is likeable all on her own. Shiki is probably a little more intense than Eri, determined and focused, but she does her best to bolster up Neku too, and the other friends she meets in the game. She acts as a restraining figure when Neku gets a chip on his shoulder, pushes for the partnership when Neku is prepared to walk, and is basically a source of common sense when one is needed.
This is not to say that Shiki doesn't have her own moments of relative crazy. This basically comes out when Mr.Mew comes in to the picture. I don't think any perfectly normal person would be so nonchalant about finding out that the cat plushie they'd sewed as a child apparently has a mind of its own and is capable of fighting monsters. Of totally fucking monsters over, in fact. This seems indicative to me that she has her own special kind of crazy, and an almost inhuman ability to take things in stride even when they're totally bugfuck insane.
She has a pushy side, too, and if something bugs her, she'll let the person getting on her nerves know. However, she's more likely to keep this under wraps for at least the preliminary stages of a friendship; it's only as time goes by that people will realize how she's actually rather strange. She wouldn't show her strangeness right away, and I think that this would be true even for the newly more self confident Shiki; she doesn't have to show her entire personality right at the first gasp, and she's not panting after the approval of other people anymore, either. She does her own thing, she likes what she likes and who she likes, and she doesn't need to prove herself to everyone she meets in order to feel like a worthwhile person. She might have ditzy moments, and to be frank she does spaz out quite a bit, but at heart she's a pretty sensible, self-confident girl.
Character Plans: Shiki will be unlikely to affiliate, although I'd like her to perhaps fall in with the AGI crowd a bit and have to fight that pressure. Siren's Port will be stressful to her, and she'll be on the lookout for people to befriend; as much as she wants to support others, she also needs support, and that might lead her into making connections with types that are rather unsavory; I'd like her to struggle with that a little bit, maintaining her kindness while also protecting herself.
Likely I'd choose to employ her as a greeter; she likes meeting and talking to people, and is pretty good at putting up a confident front if she has to, and it would be a clear way to both remain neutral and to offer newcomers help.
Appearance: Picture + some canon info here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
{We open on a video feed into the NV; it's not of the utmost quality and the image is somewhat grainy, but it's full of bright colors, panning over some swatches of cloth and various spools of thread laid out on Shiki's bedspread before she turns the phone around and the camera lands on her own face.
She smiles, somewhat watery into the camera, but at the moment (from her perspective) the relatively low quality of the image is the blessing in disguise. Too many details wouldn't be good at the moment, and her voice comes cheerful through the NV.}
So... check it out! I managed to get some fabric and stuff with a bit of the tip money I earned at the café... not like it's a lot, but it got the goods so who cares, right? And they're not actually too bad as far as quality goes, so... um...
{A moment where the camera image blurs as she moves to sit on the bed, legs folded, Mr. Mew visible in her lap.}
...So you know, the NV is pretty cool, but I kinda... well... mine isn't the easiest to interact with. {A little pout, for a split second.} It's kinda awkward to just talk into the camera video, I have to hold it funny... I guess it's not a big deal really, just a little inconvenient, you know? But if I end up sending a lot of texts, that's why - ! Uh... so, what I was saying, fabric!
I thought, if anyone wanted, I'm... not the best designer or anything, but I'm really good at sewing. So, if anyone wanted any mending done... {Her face goes awkward for a long moment.} I know it's not a lot, but it's what I'm good at. So, if anyone needed something like that, or for some secondhand thing they found to be prettied up, you should - give me a call! I'd be happy to do that. Maybe eventually I can even get in doing that somewhere for work for real... I guess it's not that likely, I mean, even in the real world. I mean - at home, it takes people years to be able to live on doing that kind of work. Fashion stuff. {Awkward face awkward face} And this place is serious, it's not like it'd be any easier here, right?
Uh... and it's pretty serious here for something like that, anyway. I guess.
It's just a thought, you know?
Third Person Sample
Chin up. Keep eye contact. Stay steady, try not to mumble, stutter, or say "um" too many times (or at all, really). She did know the rules, een though they weren't written down. Don't shuffle your feet or scuff your boots against the ground, or fidget with the portfolio, or hunch. You're a budding professional, so act like one. Make sure you haven't spilled latte on yourself, and that there aren't any lipstick marks on your teeth. Shiki Misaki, you can.
She was ready for her own body again, but still wearing Eri's - sometimes it's nearly a blessing in disguise, even though it makes her bite her lip, that she still needs it. Shiki has known Eri in every part of her life that matters, she practically has an Eri inside her head, and Eri knew - Eri knows - Shiki better than anyone else, and Eri knows other people better than anyone else, too. Eri was the one that taught Shiki about what other people wanted, but Shiki has always been the one who knows about how to project an image. And if she's projecting one now (the dark pants, the stylish jacket, hair up in a bun, and she's good enough to make secondhand look sharp with needle, thread, and a bit of time) then at least... doesn't everyone?
Her drawings aren't the greatest, but she's not really putting her best foot forward with those. The garment bags slung over her other arm will do the trick, or at least they should (if she's half as good as she knows knows knows she is at that, they should).
Shiki crosses her toes, because young businesswomen don't cross their fingers (at least not where other people can see them. Most young businesswomen don't have cat plushies stuffed into the bottoms of their purses either, but there you go).
Even in a place like this she believes what she told Neku before. Clothes make people feel good, and I want to make people feel good - they're like security, that is, armor against the world, self confidence you can put on and off. Shiki isn't a fighter like some, not when she doesn't have to be, but she believes - she hopes - there are other ways to really do good things. Other ways to make a difference. Megumi the Conductor told her she was a winner, that she could go home, that she'd done well, nomatter that she's not home right now, so it's sort of on her now - to keep it up. Keep going forward. It's sort of about being brave, even when it seems like bravery is just doing her best to ignore how scared she really is.
So. This is still a future she want, and it's still a thing she can do, and Mr. Mew at the very least has her back.
Shiki Misaki is here to chase her dream. Shiki Misaki is not here to hem, haw, or back down.
General
Canon Source: The World Ends With You
Canon Format: video game
Character's Name: Shiki Misaki
Character's Age: 15
What form will your character's NV take? Shiki's NV will be built into her cell phone. The background with her and Eri together will stay the same. ;)
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: An ability known as a "psych", which relies on the stuffed cat "Mr.Mew" that she sewed as a child. Her psych only works on Mr.Mew, and only in the Underground, which is where strong souls end up, with the chance to fight for their lives again. She uses him as a weapon to battle Noise.
Basically, she just levitates him towards the enemy and Mr.Mew just kind of "does his own thing", which Shiki doesn't seem to find all that surprising. A little odd, given that at the ultimate fusion level Mr.Mew expands into a monstrous stuffed cat that shoots lasers from his eyes and is big enough to allow Shiki and Neku to sit like canaries on his shoulders, but that's Shiki for you.
She's also a mean seamstress. Sews her own clothes and all. =)
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? I would like to make it so that Shiki's Underground ability extends to the realground, that is, she can maneuver and fight with Mr. Mew even while alive (although it looks a little odd). Additionally, if it's all right, with training and effort I'd like her to be able to expand this ability to manipulating other stuffed animals to fight and such, and even over time being able to manipulate objects with more... obvious offensive capacity.
Weapons: ...Mr. Mew.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:Shiki lived a regular life for basically fifteen years. She wasn't the most self-confident or outgoing of girls, but she did have friends and she had a dream: Shiki wanted to be a great fashion designer whose clothes would take the people of Shibuya by storm. The one problem in this dream is that honestly, Shiki didn't have much of a design sense. However, she was a mean seamstress, and with a needle and thread she could give life to designs beyond even what they had on the page.
The designs, however, came from her best friend and arguably the most important person in Shiki's life: Eri. Eri was the designer to Shiki's seamstress, the self-confident, outgoing, intelligent, bubbling girl to Shiki's shyer wallflower personality. She was everything Shiki wasn't, everything Shiki wanted to be, and the two girls were basically inseparable.
However, things weren't perfect in paradise. Shiki was jealous of Eri; her personality and her design talent, the way things in life seemed to come so easily to her while Shiki had to struggle and fight for everything. She didn't allow this jealousy to poison her relationship with Eri, but it did make her sensitive and rather bitter, and when Eri told Shiki that she wasn't cut out to be a designer, Shiki took the words as a hurtful insult rather than the rather misguided attempt at comfort that they were: what Eri meant was that Shiki was meant to be a seamstress, that her talent in this area was amazing, and that she was as necessary a part of the creative process as Eri herself.
But Shiki didn't see that way, and she left feeling terribly hurt. And the next day, she died, and found herself in the Reaper's game, in the body of her friend Eri, forced to play and win if she wanted to return to life again. And Shiki did want to live, and she found herself - slightly surprisingly - prepared to fight as hard as she damn well could for the right.
She found a partner in the form of the reclusive, bitter, and almost totally asocial Neku, who for all his personality flaws was an expert user of psychs in the form of pins. Together they formed a pact, and agreed to take on the game forever - or, well, Shiki decided that this was the goal, and Neku didn't exactly fight hard enough to drive her away even though he wasn't enthusiastic.
And through the game, Shiki realized that she liked herself, found her own inner strength and personality, and even began to draw out Neku. When they ran into her friend Eri on one of the game days and heard her talking about Shiki and how Eri valued their friendship and Shiki's talent, this bolstered Shiki's budding confidence in herself even more - enough to totally dissipate her jealousy and endow her with a new appreciation for her own body, talent, and personality.
It was with this renewed sense of purpose that Shiki accompanied Neku to take on the week's Game Master, and the two fought and defeated him. Shiki, Beat and Neku were the only three players surviving, and Shiki was - although it may have been a farce, as Beat and Neku were Producer and Composer's proxies, respectively - the highest-scoring player in the game, and thus the one approved to return to life.
Shiki and Neku agreed to meet at the statue of Hachiko the next week, assuming that he'd win the game again; and Shiki appeared to dissipate into the air, although really the Producer Kitaniji was putting her into cold storage, as over the course of the week she had become the thing that Neku valued the most, and thus was his price for playing the game the next week.
However, instead of being restored to life or put into storage in the Shibuya River... Shiki wakes up in Siren's Port.
Point in Canon: Just after being put into storage in Shibuya River by Megumi, at the end of the first week. In the PAST week, she's been fighting for the right to come back to life again with her partner Neku, growing as a person and becoming more self-confident and also closer to him.
Character Personality: Shiki grows a lot over her round playing the Reaper's Game. Fighting for her life forces her to grow to her full potential, and although at first she's putting on a mask and acting as much like her best friend Eri as she possibly can, as the days go by she acts more and more like herself, and the personality of Shiki is likeable all on her own. Shiki is probably a little more intense than Eri, determined and focused, but she does her best to bolster up Neku too, and the other friends she meets in the game. She acts as a restraining figure when Neku gets a chip on his shoulder, pushes for the partnership when Neku is prepared to walk, and is basically a source of common sense when one is needed.
This is not to say that Shiki doesn't have her own moments of relative crazy. This basically comes out when Mr.Mew comes in to the picture. I don't think any perfectly normal person would be so nonchalant about finding out that the cat plushie they'd sewed as a child apparently has a mind of its own and is capable of fighting monsters. Of totally fucking monsters over, in fact. This seems indicative to me that she has her own special kind of crazy, and an almost inhuman ability to take things in stride even when they're totally bugfuck insane.
She has a pushy side, too, and if something bugs her, she'll let the person getting on her nerves know. However, she's more likely to keep this under wraps for at least the preliminary stages of a friendship; it's only as time goes by that people will realize how she's actually rather strange. She wouldn't show her strangeness right away, and I think that this would be true even for the newly more self confident Shiki; she doesn't have to show her entire personality right at the first gasp, and she's not panting after the approval of other people anymore, either. She does her own thing, she likes what she likes and who she likes, and she doesn't need to prove herself to everyone she meets in order to feel like a worthwhile person. She might have ditzy moments, and to be frank she does spaz out quite a bit, but at heart she's a pretty sensible, self-confident girl.
Character Plans: Shiki will be unlikely to affiliate, although I'd like her to perhaps fall in with the AGI crowd a bit and have to fight that pressure. Siren's Port will be stressful to her, and she'll be on the lookout for people to befriend; as much as she wants to support others, she also needs support, and that might lead her into making connections with types that are rather unsavory; I'd like her to struggle with that a little bit, maintaining her kindness while also protecting herself.
Likely I'd choose to employ her as a greeter; she likes meeting and talking to people, and is pretty good at putting up a confident front if she has to, and it would be a clear way to both remain neutral and to offer newcomers help.
Appearance: Picture + some canon info here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
{We open on a video feed into the NV; it's not of the utmost quality and the image is somewhat grainy, but it's full of bright colors, panning over some swatches of cloth and various spools of thread laid out on Shiki's bedspread before she turns the phone around and the camera lands on her own face.
She smiles, somewhat watery into the camera, but at the moment (from her perspective) the relatively low quality of the image is the blessing in disguise. Too many details wouldn't be good at the moment, and her voice comes cheerful through the NV.}
So... check it out! I managed to get some fabric and stuff with a bit of the tip money I earned at the café... not like it's a lot, but it got the goods so who cares, right? And they're not actually too bad as far as quality goes, so... um...
{A moment where the camera image blurs as she moves to sit on the bed, legs folded, Mr. Mew visible in her lap.}
...So you know, the NV is pretty cool, but I kinda... well... mine isn't the easiest to interact with. {A little pout, for a split second.} It's kinda awkward to just talk into the camera video, I have to hold it funny... I guess it's not a big deal really, just a little inconvenient, you know? But if I end up sending a lot of texts, that's why - ! Uh... so, what I was saying, fabric!
I thought, if anyone wanted, I'm... not the best designer or anything, but I'm really good at sewing. So, if anyone wanted any mending done... {Her face goes awkward for a long moment.} I know it's not a lot, but it's what I'm good at. So, if anyone needed something like that, or for some secondhand thing they found to be prettied up, you should - give me a call! I'd be happy to do that. Maybe eventually I can even get in doing that somewhere for work for real... I guess it's not that likely, I mean, even in the real world. I mean - at home, it takes people years to be able to live on doing that kind of work. Fashion stuff. {Awkward face awkward face} And this place is serious, it's not like it'd be any easier here, right?
Uh... and it's pretty serious here for something like that, anyway. I guess.
It's just a thought, you know?
Third Person Sample
Chin up. Keep eye contact. Stay steady, try not to mumble, stutter, or say "um" too many times (or at all, really). She did know the rules, een though they weren't written down. Don't shuffle your feet or scuff your boots against the ground, or fidget with the portfolio, or hunch. You're a budding professional, so act like one. Make sure you haven't spilled latte on yourself, and that there aren't any lipstick marks on your teeth. Shiki Misaki, you can.
She was ready for her own body again, but still wearing Eri's - sometimes it's nearly a blessing in disguise, even though it makes her bite her lip, that she still needs it. Shiki has known Eri in every part of her life that matters, she practically has an Eri inside her head, and Eri knew - Eri knows - Shiki better than anyone else, and Eri knows other people better than anyone else, too. Eri was the one that taught Shiki about what other people wanted, but Shiki has always been the one who knows about how to project an image. And if she's projecting one now (the dark pants, the stylish jacket, hair up in a bun, and she's good enough to make secondhand look sharp with needle, thread, and a bit of time) then at least... doesn't everyone?
Her drawings aren't the greatest, but she's not really putting her best foot forward with those. The garment bags slung over her other arm will do the trick, or at least they should (if she's half as good as she knows knows knows she is at that, they should).
Shiki crosses her toes, because young businesswomen don't cross their fingers (at least not where other people can see them. Most young businesswomen don't have cat plushies stuffed into the bottoms of their purses either, but there you go).
Even in a place like this she believes what she told Neku before. Clothes make people feel good, and I want to make people feel good - they're like security, that is, armor against the world, self confidence you can put on and off. Shiki isn't a fighter like some, not when she doesn't have to be, but she believes - she hopes - there are other ways to really do good things. Other ways to make a difference. Megumi the Conductor told her she was a winner, that she could go home, that she'd done well, nomatter that she's not home right now, so it's sort of on her now - to keep it up. Keep going forward. It's sort of about being brave, even when it seems like bravery is just doing her best to ignore how scared she really is.
So. This is still a future she want, and it's still a thing she can do, and Mr. Mew at the very least has her back.
Shiki Misaki is here to chase her dream. Shiki Misaki is not here to hem, haw, or back down.