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PLAYER INFORMATION-
Name/Nickname: Anne
AIM Contact: thetsukara
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Kuchiki Rukia, Bleach
In-Game Name: Rukia Kuchiki
Age: 24
Gender: female
Position & Ship: Boatswain, Serenity
Appearance: Rukia is a petite girl, less than five feet tall with a build to match her height. She also has shoulder-length black hair that flips out at the ends, and a strand that hangs in front of her face, and big blue eyes. When not in uniform, she likes wearing dresses, mostly because it's hard for her to find trousers that fit properly.
Personality: Rukia, at heart, is a modest, graceful, and introverted sort of person, though she also likes being able to be around people. Having grown up by herself for a good part of her early life, Rukia is very independent, usually thinking she can do things on her own--even if sometimes she's wrong. She can admit when she's wrong, though when she is it's usually very, and therefore serious. And Rukia is very good at serious.
When it comes to her duties, or her life back in the military, the life she left behind in Melior, she can be quite serious. If it's not related to her job in the military, quite often she won't wish to discuss it. In truth, she's quite respectful of her adoptive family and her career in the military--but she also knows that going back would not only mean a court martial, but the disapproval of her honored big brother, a thing that would unbalance her entirely.
She's also, perhaps, a bit naive and silly, not about people mostly, but about technology more complicated than a sword, gun and plane. However, Rukia isn't one to let a little thing like not understanding the manual keep her from using new technologies as best she can and, because she is rather intelligent, it usually ends up working out for her. She also has a great love for the sillier of the radio programs and trashy novels, especially those crazy ones where they 'hunt ghosts', getting pretty into them, for a laugh.
Because of her small stature, which she hates people pointing out or making fun of, Rukia likes high places, including airships, planes, and rooftops. She also gets quite mad if people mistake her for being younger than she is, or treat her lightly because of her diminutive size.
Though an introvert, Rukia is quite good at playing any part thrown at her that she needs to, making up sob stories or putting on 'cute' voices as needed. She will bicker, fight, and even hit (if needed) with the best of them to get someone to see her point of view, or if they just feel like arguing with her instead of doing what she says.
For all this, she does have a bit of a girly side though. Graceful, even in dresses instead of a uniform, she's rather elegant sometimes, despite the seeming severity of her appearance on occasion. She also loves bunnies. Really. Really loves bunnies. Even her drawings of people end up looking kind of... bunny-ish, really. Though don't say anything about it to her, she may try and stare you into submission.
Abilities/Weapons:
Rukia, having been in the military for several years, and part of their training programs in both mundane and magical weapons, is fairly skilled with both. She can shoot fairly well, though her preferred weapon is her sword, which she keeps with her constantly. She can also fly a two-seater plane by herself, though her current plane, which she's had with her for quite a few years now, is in more and more questionable condition, due to her inability to do more than basic repairs on it, nor pay for more extensive ones. She's still flying though.
Normally, snow, ice and other associated elements are her specialty when it comes to magic, using many of these with her sword as a focus; she knows other sorts of spells as well, such as bindings. *However*, since an encounter in the Badlands (and with a mysterious science-minded man) a few years ago, her magic has been severely weakened to the point of being nearly useless and doesn't seem to be recovering--she would very much like to find out why and fix this. While she still has the abilities, she simply has no way to power them (passive abilities like sensing magic in the area are still working, though in a reduced state).
Though very small of stature, Rukia is a pintsize powerhouse, given her speed and agility. She's good at both sword play and hand-to-hand--though she prefers having a weapon with her.
She can also draw. Really well. Shut up, they're excellent drawings.
How well can your character hack?: Easy. She received some training in journals and such technology in the academy, but it isn't really her specialty. In fact, without said training, she'd probably not be able to hack them at all.
Weaknesses: First off, and most obviously, Rukia is pretty damn tiny, despite her physical abilities. So while she may be quicker or more agile than someone, she can also be over-powered.
She's also missing much of her magic ability, which she relied on quite heavily before the accident. Even after so long, she's still sometimes tripped up by the fact she *can't* just freeze someone to the floor.
As noted, Rukia ia rather introverted, though she can easily play at being energetic. Consequentially, this sometimes means she doesn't share what she's really thinking or feeling. This can be a definite disadvantage, when she's is sad or depressed, but doesn't want to burden anyone else with it--which can simply cause her more depression.
History:
Rukia grew up, having been abandoned by her sister as a baby, in one of the very worst parts of Solare, already a bad town. She was clever enough, and lucky enough, to survive as on her own as a child, until one day, while spontaneously deciding to help them with a heist, she met a gang of children about her age in the same situation.
Deciding to stick with them, the group worked together so they all survived, becoming something more like a family than a gang on the streets of Solare. During this time, she and another of her friends both showed signs of having latent magical powers, noticed and pointed out by a passing military man. They both decided to stay with their makeshift family though, having silly fun with their newfound powers.
Such things could never last though. Years went by, and they all got older and, circumstances being what they were on such rough streets, eventually everyone but her and her friend had died or been killed somehow.
Rukia finally decided she was tired of such a life, and her friend agreed. They had a way out, and they took it, enrolling in the military academy in Bellcius and both of them getting in on their first try, Rukia in the second class, her friend in the top class.
As the both of them progressed, her friend advanced further ahead of her, and Rukia was left, never feeling quite as close to most of her classmates as she might have been. Not that she would ever admit to being lonely, when her friend wasn't about. Instead, she focused on getting through the academy herself, making up for her small size with plenty of determination and training in magic.
And then, one day, a man from one of the old noble families in Ivona showed up at the military academy, looking for her. It turned out that the man was from the Kuchiki family, and wished to adopt her. Unsure about this, Rukia turned to her old friend from Solare, but he hid his own uncertainty about the situation, expressing that it would be a great opportunity for her, hiding his doubts and fear of not seeing her again with enthusiasm.
She took this at face value, though, and reluctantly agreed to join the Kuchiki clan as the man's younger sister. Immediately, he progress through the academy and into the military was accelerated. Family privilege apparently meant bypassing both the usual graduation exams and unit placement tests. Despite this, she was given an almost menial job, with a rank of sub-lieutenant rather lower than her skills would have recommended her for, because her new brother wished to keep her from being sent on missions that were too dangerous. Not that he let her in on the fact that this was the reason she was ranked so low, or even that he'd pulled any strings at all.
The captain of her small ship turned out to be a rather sickly, though brilliant man, his second-in-command often taking on command duties himself. Due to his friendly manner with everyone, and the fact that he didn't treat her and her new noble status any differently than any of his other personnel, Rukia grew quite fond of him, and of his wife, also an important and well-beloved part of the crew.
And then one day, on a routine patrol in the Badlands, her patrol came back, all dead except for her, and she was unconscious. In the middle of the night, though, something happened, some creature out in the Badlands had taken over her body when it slaughtered the rest of the team, and started to kill others on the ship.
Unfortunately, it got away first--or nearly. The lieutenant requested that he be allowed to go after it himself, given that it had taken over his wife. The captain agreed, provided he and Rukia went too. But when they caught up with the creature, now back in its monstrous original form, the captain told her to let the lieutenant fight the creature on his own, since this, the captain said, was a fight for his pride and that of his wife.
But the fight went wrong: bullets did nothing to it in this form, and before long, the creature had taken over the lieutenant's body instead, turning on Rukia and the captain, who ordered her to run while he fought the creature. However, Rukia couldn't just abandon her superiors in good conscience, and so turned back to help. The creature came after her then, and might have killed her--if the lieutenant hadn't won out at the last second, impaling himself on the sword she had brought out to defend herself in lieu of a pistol.
He told her, dying, that he could leave his heart with her now, echoing something he had said to her before. She took it upon herself to be one of the people that brought the news of his death to his family, blaming herself for it since that day.
After that, another year or so of service passed rather uneventfully. Until the ship got a report of monster activity in the Badlands near Garrettstown. It was a routine extermination that was indicative of a period of increased monster activity during that time. But, since the monsters were mostly easy to take care off instead of real threats, a small flight consisting of Rukia and a few others was assigned that area, to be stationed in Garrettstown and fly regular patrols of the area until the monster activity died down.
After a few weeks of this, the unit stationed there fell into a relaxed sort of routine, flying their patrol, coming back, getting ready to do it all again while enjoying the dubious pleasures of the town when not, technically, in uniform.
It was on one of Rukia's patrols that a plane from the mercenary ship Amadeus happened by. However, the monster this time was quite a bit larger and stronger than what they had been dealing with in the past few weeks. Seeing the other plane seemingly attempt to go after the monster by itself, Rukia panicked, flying her plane in a hasty and dangerous maneuver to get his out of the way. Unfortunately, the monster ended up catching *her* plane instead, crashing it into the floor of the desert.
Fortunately, thanks to her magic, and some quick thinking, she survived, but the plane, including its radio she could have used to call for back-up, was very much history. The other pilot landed, probably to see if she was all right, but as he was doing so, the moster got to her first, and she ended up having to fend it off with her trusted sword for a minute or two. Unfortunately, this was a new sort of monster out in these parts, one that seemed to drain magic power and physical strength. The orange-haired pilot of the other plane made it there just in time, yelling something about his own shipmate. So, convincing him the only way to beat this monster was to let her in his plane and follow her directions, she climbed in.
It turned out, with the help of his (mildly possessed) plane (influenced by his own rather-possessed sword), and a few rather classified magic tips from Rukia, Ichigo, the pilot, was more than able to demolish the monster on his own, flying Rukia back to his own ship, what with her plane in pieces on the desert floor.
But she'd been hurt quite badly while fending off the monster, both physically and, somehow, her magic. The Amadeus, fortunately (possibly) had a mysterious man on board, who promised that the help he gave would have her back to normal in no time.
Except, once she'd been ferried back to Garrettstown, finding her division had been called out to another fight elsewhere, and the next morning when she awoke, she was still no better. Figuring she could feign things for a while until her strength in both forms returned properly, Rukia sought out the rest of her division.
They were all dead or disappeared, the result of another attack of the same sort of monster on the other side of town, to which they had all been called while she'd been on the ship receiving treatment.
Rukia, before having to go back and try and report what had gone so very wrong to her ship, attempted to contact the Amadeus for explanations--only to find that the ship had disappeared into thin air.
Knowing that, at the very least, she would face an interrogation at the last and a court martial at the most for having shared what were still classified military magic implementation secrets, even as simply and necessary as they had seemed in the midst of that fight, to get the boy to do as she'd needed him to.
On top of that, the longer she stayed in Garrettstown, fixing her plane up, the more apparent is was becoming that while her physical strength was coming back up to normal levels, her magic was still gone--she wondered if something that mysterious guy on the Amadeus had done had somehow stolen her magic or something--and she wasn't sure that wasn't a violation of some esoteric military rule as well.
So instead of reporting back immediately, figuring she was in trouble anyway, but might be in less trouble should she come back with answers, Rukia struck out on her own, searching for the Amadeus, the man who had treated her, that ridiculous (and fairly powerful) pilot, or anyone who might know where they might have gone.
Quite a few years later, she ran into none other than the orange-haired pilot, now even stronger than before, on a ship called the Serenity. And even if he can't give her any answers, well, at the very least he can help her fight monsters that seem to keep coming after both of them. And maybe she can pound a few skills into his thick skull too.
Name/Nickname: Anne
AIM Contact: thetsukara
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Kuchiki Rukia, Bleach
In-Game Name: Rukia Kuchiki
Age: 24
Gender: female
Position & Ship: Boatswain, Serenity
Appearance: Rukia is a petite girl, less than five feet tall with a build to match her height. She also has shoulder-length black hair that flips out at the ends, and a strand that hangs in front of her face, and big blue eyes. When not in uniform, she likes wearing dresses, mostly because it's hard for her to find trousers that fit properly.
Personality: Rukia, at heart, is a modest, graceful, and introverted sort of person, though she also likes being able to be around people. Having grown up by herself for a good part of her early life, Rukia is very independent, usually thinking she can do things on her own--even if sometimes she's wrong. She can admit when she's wrong, though when she is it's usually very, and therefore serious. And Rukia is very good at serious.
When it comes to her duties, or her life back in the military, the life she left behind in Melior, she can be quite serious. If it's not related to her job in the military, quite often she won't wish to discuss it. In truth, she's quite respectful of her adoptive family and her career in the military--but she also knows that going back would not only mean a court martial, but the disapproval of her honored big brother, a thing that would unbalance her entirely.
She's also, perhaps, a bit naive and silly, not about people mostly, but about technology more complicated than a sword, gun and plane. However, Rukia isn't one to let a little thing like not understanding the manual keep her from using new technologies as best she can and, because she is rather intelligent, it usually ends up working out for her. She also has a great love for the sillier of the radio programs and trashy novels, especially those crazy ones where they 'hunt ghosts', getting pretty into them, for a laugh.
Because of her small stature, which she hates people pointing out or making fun of, Rukia likes high places, including airships, planes, and rooftops. She also gets quite mad if people mistake her for being younger than she is, or treat her lightly because of her diminutive size.
Though an introvert, Rukia is quite good at playing any part thrown at her that she needs to, making up sob stories or putting on 'cute' voices as needed. She will bicker, fight, and even hit (if needed) with the best of them to get someone to see her point of view, or if they just feel like arguing with her instead of doing what she says.
For all this, she does have a bit of a girly side though. Graceful, even in dresses instead of a uniform, she's rather elegant sometimes, despite the seeming severity of her appearance on occasion. She also loves bunnies. Really. Really loves bunnies. Even her drawings of people end up looking kind of... bunny-ish, really. Though don't say anything about it to her, she may try and stare you into submission.
Abilities/Weapons:
Rukia, having been in the military for several years, and part of their training programs in both mundane and magical weapons, is fairly skilled with both. She can shoot fairly well, though her preferred weapon is her sword, which she keeps with her constantly. She can also fly a two-seater plane by herself, though her current plane, which she's had with her for quite a few years now, is in more and more questionable condition, due to her inability to do more than basic repairs on it, nor pay for more extensive ones. She's still flying though.
Normally, snow, ice and other associated elements are her specialty when it comes to magic, using many of these with her sword as a focus; she knows other sorts of spells as well, such as bindings. *However*, since an encounter in the Badlands (and with a mysterious science-minded man) a few years ago, her magic has been severely weakened to the point of being nearly useless and doesn't seem to be recovering--she would very much like to find out why and fix this. While she still has the abilities, she simply has no way to power them (passive abilities like sensing magic in the area are still working, though in a reduced state).
Though very small of stature, Rukia is a pintsize powerhouse, given her speed and agility. She's good at both sword play and hand-to-hand--though she prefers having a weapon with her.
She can also draw. Really well. Shut up, they're excellent drawings.
How well can your character hack?: Easy. She received some training in journals and such technology in the academy, but it isn't really her specialty. In fact, without said training, she'd probably not be able to hack them at all.
Weaknesses: First off, and most obviously, Rukia is pretty damn tiny, despite her physical abilities. So while she may be quicker or more agile than someone, she can also be over-powered.
She's also missing much of her magic ability, which she relied on quite heavily before the accident. Even after so long, she's still sometimes tripped up by the fact she *can't* just freeze someone to the floor.
As noted, Rukia ia rather introverted, though she can easily play at being energetic. Consequentially, this sometimes means she doesn't share what she's really thinking or feeling. This can be a definite disadvantage, when she's is sad or depressed, but doesn't want to burden anyone else with it--which can simply cause her more depression.
History:
Rukia grew up, having been abandoned by her sister as a baby, in one of the very worst parts of Solare, already a bad town. She was clever enough, and lucky enough, to survive as on her own as a child, until one day, while spontaneously deciding to help them with a heist, she met a gang of children about her age in the same situation.
Deciding to stick with them, the group worked together so they all survived, becoming something more like a family than a gang on the streets of Solare. During this time, she and another of her friends both showed signs of having latent magical powers, noticed and pointed out by a passing military man. They both decided to stay with their makeshift family though, having silly fun with their newfound powers.
Such things could never last though. Years went by, and they all got older and, circumstances being what they were on such rough streets, eventually everyone but her and her friend had died or been killed somehow.
Rukia finally decided she was tired of such a life, and her friend agreed. They had a way out, and they took it, enrolling in the military academy in Bellcius and both of them getting in on their first try, Rukia in the second class, her friend in the top class.
As the both of them progressed, her friend advanced further ahead of her, and Rukia was left, never feeling quite as close to most of her classmates as she might have been. Not that she would ever admit to being lonely, when her friend wasn't about. Instead, she focused on getting through the academy herself, making up for her small size with plenty of determination and training in magic.
And then, one day, a man from one of the old noble families in Ivona showed up at the military academy, looking for her. It turned out that the man was from the Kuchiki family, and wished to adopt her. Unsure about this, Rukia turned to her old friend from Solare, but he hid his own uncertainty about the situation, expressing that it would be a great opportunity for her, hiding his doubts and fear of not seeing her again with enthusiasm.
She took this at face value, though, and reluctantly agreed to join the Kuchiki clan as the man's younger sister. Immediately, he progress through the academy and into the military was accelerated. Family privilege apparently meant bypassing both the usual graduation exams and unit placement tests. Despite this, she was given an almost menial job, with a rank of sub-lieutenant rather lower than her skills would have recommended her for, because her new brother wished to keep her from being sent on missions that were too dangerous. Not that he let her in on the fact that this was the reason she was ranked so low, or even that he'd pulled any strings at all.
The captain of her small ship turned out to be a rather sickly, though brilliant man, his second-in-command often taking on command duties himself. Due to his friendly manner with everyone, and the fact that he didn't treat her and her new noble status any differently than any of his other personnel, Rukia grew quite fond of him, and of his wife, also an important and well-beloved part of the crew.
And then one day, on a routine patrol in the Badlands, her patrol came back, all dead except for her, and she was unconscious. In the middle of the night, though, something happened, some creature out in the Badlands had taken over her body when it slaughtered the rest of the team, and started to kill others on the ship.
Unfortunately, it got away first--or nearly. The lieutenant requested that he be allowed to go after it himself, given that it had taken over his wife. The captain agreed, provided he and Rukia went too. But when they caught up with the creature, now back in its monstrous original form, the captain told her to let the lieutenant fight the creature on his own, since this, the captain said, was a fight for his pride and that of his wife.
But the fight went wrong: bullets did nothing to it in this form, and before long, the creature had taken over the lieutenant's body instead, turning on Rukia and the captain, who ordered her to run while he fought the creature. However, Rukia couldn't just abandon her superiors in good conscience, and so turned back to help. The creature came after her then, and might have killed her--if the lieutenant hadn't won out at the last second, impaling himself on the sword she had brought out to defend herself in lieu of a pistol.
He told her, dying, that he could leave his heart with her now, echoing something he had said to her before. She took it upon herself to be one of the people that brought the news of his death to his family, blaming herself for it since that day.
After that, another year or so of service passed rather uneventfully. Until the ship got a report of monster activity in the Badlands near Garrettstown. It was a routine extermination that was indicative of a period of increased monster activity during that time. But, since the monsters were mostly easy to take care off instead of real threats, a small flight consisting of Rukia and a few others was assigned that area, to be stationed in Garrettstown and fly regular patrols of the area until the monster activity died down.
After a few weeks of this, the unit stationed there fell into a relaxed sort of routine, flying their patrol, coming back, getting ready to do it all again while enjoying the dubious pleasures of the town when not, technically, in uniform.
It was on one of Rukia's patrols that a plane from the mercenary ship Amadeus happened by. However, the monster this time was quite a bit larger and stronger than what they had been dealing with in the past few weeks. Seeing the other plane seemingly attempt to go after the monster by itself, Rukia panicked, flying her plane in a hasty and dangerous maneuver to get his out of the way. Unfortunately, the monster ended up catching *her* plane instead, crashing it into the floor of the desert.
Fortunately, thanks to her magic, and some quick thinking, she survived, but the plane, including its radio she could have used to call for back-up, was very much history. The other pilot landed, probably to see if she was all right, but as he was doing so, the moster got to her first, and she ended up having to fend it off with her trusted sword for a minute or two. Unfortunately, this was a new sort of monster out in these parts, one that seemed to drain magic power and physical strength. The orange-haired pilot of the other plane made it there just in time, yelling something about his own shipmate. So, convincing him the only way to beat this monster was to let her in his plane and follow her directions, she climbed in.
It turned out, with the help of his (mildly possessed) plane (influenced by his own rather-possessed sword), and a few rather classified magic tips from Rukia, Ichigo, the pilot, was more than able to demolish the monster on his own, flying Rukia back to his own ship, what with her plane in pieces on the desert floor.
But she'd been hurt quite badly while fending off the monster, both physically and, somehow, her magic. The Amadeus, fortunately (possibly) had a mysterious man on board, who promised that the help he gave would have her back to normal in no time.
Except, once she'd been ferried back to Garrettstown, finding her division had been called out to another fight elsewhere, and the next morning when she awoke, she was still no better. Figuring she could feign things for a while until her strength in both forms returned properly, Rukia sought out the rest of her division.
They were all dead or disappeared, the result of another attack of the same sort of monster on the other side of town, to which they had all been called while she'd been on the ship receiving treatment.
Rukia, before having to go back and try and report what had gone so very wrong to her ship, attempted to contact the Amadeus for explanations--only to find that the ship had disappeared into thin air.
Knowing that, at the very least, she would face an interrogation at the last and a court martial at the most for having shared what were still classified military magic implementation secrets, even as simply and necessary as they had seemed in the midst of that fight, to get the boy to do as she'd needed him to.
On top of that, the longer she stayed in Garrettstown, fixing her plane up, the more apparent is was becoming that while her physical strength was coming back up to normal levels, her magic was still gone--she wondered if something that mysterious guy on the Amadeus had done had somehow stolen her magic or something--and she wasn't sure that wasn't a violation of some esoteric military rule as well.
So instead of reporting back immediately, figuring she was in trouble anyway, but might be in less trouble should she come back with answers, Rukia struck out on her own, searching for the Amadeus, the man who had treated her, that ridiculous (and fairly powerful) pilot, or anyone who might know where they might have gone.
Quite a few years later, she ran into none other than the orange-haired pilot, now even stronger than before, on a ship called the Serenity. And even if he can't give her any answers, well, at the very least he can help her fight monsters that seem to keep coming after both of them. And maybe she can pound a few skills into his thick skull too.