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Out-of-Character Information
Name: wefeelgroove/cherriegal
LJ username: wefeelgroove
Time Zone: -5 GMT?
AIM: wefeelgroove
MSN: wefeelgroove@gmail.com
Y!M: don’t got it
Anything Else?: You already have all this stuff! :P
In-Character Information
Name: Kid, Skull
Game/Series: Legend of Zelda (Majora’s Mask specifically)
Age & Grade Level: 11?, Freshman
Personality: Skull Kid seems unassuming and innocent enough at first, but it doesn’t take long to realize that he’s only luring you into a false sense of security. When you least expect it, Skull Kid will pull a prank on you faster than you can say “Hey! Listen!” And he’s going to LOL forever immediately afterwards. Don’t take it personally- Skull Kid thinks everyone is fair game when it comes to shenanigans. Speaking of which, “shenanigans” can be anything from a tack in your chair to being cursed into an entirely new form. Never mind any permanent psychological scarring that might incur, everything is fine just so long as Skull Kid gets a laugh out of it!
There is, however, another side to the mischievous, insufferable imp. Despite his disturbingly sociopathic tendencies, Skull Kid is actually quite a sweet boy when you get to know him. Unfortunately, so many people have written him off as a “problem child” that he rarely gets the chance to open up, instead seeking attention by playing pranks and getting into trouble. He’s also never had the chance to learn to control his magical powers, as nobody has ever bothered to teach him. Skull Kid is SO RONERY. In the end, all he wants is somebody to play with him and draw pictures and maybe help throw Deku Nuts at Mr. Resetti.
But until then, make sure you have a magic ocarina handy, just in case.
The two sides of Skull Kid seem to clash at every opportunity. Deep down, he really does want to be a good kid, but he has considerable difficulty keeping himself out of trouble. One might think that all he needs is a good child psychologist or some medication, but in Skull Kid’s case, it’s not quite that simple- SK is not your typical ADHD nightmare. His little eleven-year-old mind was left severely warped by a run-in with the evil spirit Majora not too long ago. His memories of the incident are extremely jumbled (if they exist at all), but the effects Majora had on him are very obvious- he has tremendous magic powers that he's never been able to control that were thrust upon him more or less involuntarily, plus he was possessed by a demon for a period of time, so you can probably imagine what it did to his brain. In a nutshell, he’s really messed up.
Backstory:
As far as anyone knows, Skull Kid was an orphan who may or may not have materialized out of thin air. He spent much of his early life scrounging and begging, bouncing from one place to another in search of food and shelter. He finally gained some form of family when he fell in with some other homeless misfits- a couple of fairy siblings by the name of Tatl and Tael. Despite being the best of friends, none of them had any sense of what was right or wrong, and often encouraged each other to make even more mischief when they were together than when they were apart. However, the IRON FIST of Terminan child services eventually came down on the three of them, and they found themselves in an orphanage and enrolled in some dinky school in Clock Town.
Despite the wonders of PUBLIC EDUCATION, Skull Kid continued being a hyperactive brat with no real guidance and was utterly forgettable as a student, remembered only for the hell he raised with Tatl and Tael. Amazingly, he avoided getting expelled survived until middle school, where he ended up causing what Clock Town and most Terminan officials only refer to as the incident. Somehow (probably through robbing some poor mask salesman blind), Skull Kid came into possession of a powerful, ancient relic known as Majora’s Mask. Sealed inside the mask was a horrible demon of the same name, who easily took over Skull Kid’s weak little child mind and started making him do all sorts of nasty things like, oh, summoning the moon to crash to earth and destroy all life in Termina as we know it. Somehow, though, the apocalypse was averted and Skull Kid was freed of Majora, whereupon he (mostly) turned back into the normal-but-slightly-unhinged kid that he was before.
It is unknown if Skull Kid actually has any specific memories of the incident. However, it’s obvious that Majora’s influence has affected him mentally. Most notably, he's retained much of the magic power that the mask granted him, though it's much weaker. He won’t be summoning any moons to crash to earth any time soon, but he can still cast curses and illusions and use a variety of attack magic. He has no idea how to use most of his magic, which can lead to shenanigans.
The fallout from the incident probably affected him than Majora did. After the immediate threat of apocalypse now was taken care of, Skull Kid suddenly found himself at the center of attention from a lot of strange grown-ups that treated him like an oddity or a science experiment. Many Terminan doctors kept him locked up like an animal under surveillance to determine if he was still a threat to himself and others. They came to the conclusion that he was mostly amnesiac about events directly related to the incident, and there was definitely some of Majora’s influence left inside him, but his behavior since being free of the mask demonstrated that he had no inclination towards malevolence… at least, not on the same scale as when he was possessed.
Still, Terminan officials were hesitant to allow him to remain anywhere near their country, so they decided to give him the boot in the most humane way possible- by shipping him off to the faraway city of Final Destination. Master Hand, being the benevolent evil mastermind that he is, accepted Skull Kid as a student at Smash Academy so that he could receive the right kind of attention- the training and nurturing he needed to learn how to control his newfound abilities. And who knows, he might also become a well-adjusted member of society, too!
…Yeah, right.
Anything Else?:
-He wears his crazy pointed hat and his elf shoes with the normal school uniform, and wears the red bandana like a cape (and yes, he likes to pretend he’s flying and makes "whoosh" noises sometimes ~/o/)
-Retains a lot of the power he had while in possession of (or being possessed by) Majora’s Mask, but muuuuch muuuch weaker. If he turns you into a Deku Scrub it’ll likely wear off after three a few days, so you won’t have to go on a crazy 64-bit mask adventure to get changed back.
-He’ll fit right in with the shotaloli crowd… at least until he gets gum and peanut butter in all of their hair or something.
-Skull Kid’s favorite number is 3 and he enjoys finding patterns and instances of the number everywhere. THREEEEE DAAAAAAYS
-If it’s not already obvious, I would LOVE for people to use SK as a general deus ex machina for random weird stuff. I plan on doing a main comm post to get people to volunteer characters for SHENANIGANS ala Manaphy’s heartswaps. I also wouldn’t mind doing another epic plot sometime in the future involving Majora if anyone’s interested.
-Skull Kid doesn’t actually remember what he did while wearing Majora’s Mask, but he has a vague idea of the near-Armageddon he caused from listening to all the doctors and psychiatrists who treated him afterwards. He has very abstract nightmares about it and it comes out subconsciously in his drawings. Teachers are going to find his homework covered in doodles of moons.
-Why yes, I purposely kept the Majora’s Mask canon as vague as possible. I’m not entirely sure of every nook and cranny of SBG’s Zelda canon (and especially any canon Happy Mask-mun had about Majora D: ) so I tried to make SK’s backstory fit but remain relatively close to the game’s canon as best I could.
-Students aren’t going to know why Skull Kid is at SBG unless he tells them (which he will if he learns to trust you enough). Faculty members can know if their mun wants them to.
-Understandably, he doesn’t trust grown-ups.
In-Character Example Post:
Oh boy! A whole new school to terrorize! I’m gonna make a lot of friends here! I wonder if I can turn them into Octoroks!
I have a computer! I never had my own computer before! I used the one in Mrs. Hinklebottom’s class at my old school before, but she didn’t let me use it after I set it on fire it blew up all by itself once. I’ll take better care of this one though because the big hand told me it was a present. You have to take care of presents because presents come from people who care about you.
I don’t think the big hand really cares about me, though. I think he’s just scared of me like everybody else.
Is there a coloring class? I want to color more!
In-Character 3rd person writing post:
The pitter-patter of bare feet on concrete was all but drowned out by the din of chattering partygoers, splashes from belly flops and cannonballs, and laughter.
Oh, and the croaking. A lot of croaking.
Skull Kid was completely silent, however, aside from the aforementioned footsteps as he approached the pool. The orange inner tube bounced around his waist and against the bucket as he walked, holding the heavy bucket out in front of him like an offering. His arms were getting a little tired because the bucket was really heavy, but in a few minutes this was going to be completely worth it. Skull Kid’s grin seemed to grow wider with every step. Everyone else was too busy enjoying themselves to notice him approach the far end of the pool, where he stopped and peered over into the crystal clear water.
He took one quick glance around to make sure no one was looking, then quickly held the bucket over the water and turned it over. Plop. Plop plopploploploploploplopsploosh. The croaking ceased instantly as all of the frogs hit the surface. Skull Kid watched the confused critters disperse throughout the pool for a moment before turning and running as fast as his little feet could take him, all while giggling madly and waiting for the screaming to start.