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PLAYER INFORMATION-
Name/Nickname: Ten
AIM/E-mail/Contact: ninja octopii (AIM), yesihatespring@gmail.com
LJ: tenshinoakuma
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Ika-chan
In-Game Name: Ika-chan
Age: 8
Gender: Female (though there's no given canon on Ika-chan's actual gender)
Position & Ship: Cabin boy (or seaman, barring that) on the Silvana
Appearance: Ika-chan is very ordinary in appearance. In fact, she is so ordinary that a passerby may mistake her for a normal, non-sentient, flying squid. One day, she may grow up to be a giant, flying squid that's as large as an airship. But for now, Ika-chan is only slightly larger than a person's head, including her eight arms and two tentacles.
As she doesn't have even vaguely human facial features for expression, Ika-chan's main method of communication (aside from her child-like voice) are body language and colour changes. Given her small size, she tends to get tired 'swimming' about, and can be often found perched on whatever she can use as a resting place (which sometimes includes a person's head), cheerily waving a tentacle at passerbys.
Personality: Once strangers realise they are chatting to a talking, flying squid, they tend to realise that Ika-chan is very much a child. She is very innocent, doesn't understand the concept of sides and is completely unable to pick up on subtleties. Her most noticeable characteristics are her cheefulness and friendliness, and she's the kind of character who is willing to go on fetch quests on behalf of strangers just because they asked, even if their reasons are not genuine.
Following from her innocence, Ika-chan can come off as being incredibly ignorant of the world. This is partially a consequence of her limited interaction with other sentient beings, but her ignorance of human concepts such as heaven and hell are also due to only living with other sentient sky creatures. Heaven and hell weren't something fish thought about when they were preoccupied with a pressing matter called 'survival'.
In some ways, she is a bundle of contradictions. Ika-chan doesn't seem to have a sense of self, as her actions are always defined by the requests of others. But at the same time, she also has no concept of loyalty, only remaining faithful until her mini-quests are done. She doesn't seem to think of the future, as she is often off searching for that pearl someone asked her to find, or that lost daughter. But at the same time, if she's given a long time goal she cannot achieve yet, she'll keep it in mind until the appropriate time comes. And the past is something she forgets very easily.
Abilities/Weapons: Ika-chan's main abilities are the same any other sky squid's; ink squirts, colour changing and 'jet' propulsion through the air. While colour changing is a natural skill for most sky squid, for Ika-chan, camoflaging herself in that manner doesn't come naturally to her. Also, unlike other sky squids, Ika-chan is able to talk! Which is handy if she ever finds her tentacles stuck in a small, enclosed space she shouldn't really be exploring...
How well can your character hack?: Ika-chan has never used a journal prior to boarding the Silvana, so she doesn't know how to hack and doesn't understand why she'd want to.
Weaknesses: Ika-chan doesn't know what a lie is and doesn't understand what it means to lie. Additionally, because she is very simple and childish, Ika-chan takes everything at face value and is unable to understand deeper concepts. As a result, it is incredibly easy to manipulate Ika-chan; her ignorance is one of her most notable characteristics and she will believe everything someone says as the truth... until someone else tells her otherwise.
History: One day, Ika-chan woke to find herself in a cave in Kagatau inhabited by sentient sky fish and land anenomes. This cave had previously been open to the rest of the sky, and life had been good and food plentiful. But an earthquake (the first of many) caused the exit of the cave to collapse, blocking the inhabitant's only route to the open sky. Mana crystals, which had been buried deep within the rocky ceiling of the cave, came free and fell into the cave during the earthquakes. These mana crystals brought about a change in the cave's inhabitants, giving them sentience, the ability to talk and (unknown to the creatures) a lifespan comparable to a human's.
After the cave had been sealed from the rest of the sky, Ironhead, the largest and strongest fish of the cave, made himself ruler of the cave. He declared all those in possession of a pearl as a part of his kingdom and those without a pearl would be attacked.
Ika-chan didn't know any of this, but ventured through the cave regardless, helping the mother and father of a land anenome family with their troubles, braving blowfish, lobsters, Ironhead's attack starfish and strong winds that would blow her in the direction of deadly spikes. But all that didn't matter to Ika-chan, because that was what she had to do to help the anenome family.
When she came across the glutton Carry, Ironhead's right hand fish, Carry told her to bring scarce food to him, claiming that Ironhead wanted to eat the requested dishes. In reality, Carry was using Ironhead's name to eat all he wanted. So it wasn't long before Carry became sick after eating a globefish platter.
Drifting past the ill Carry, Ika-chan encountered Ironhead himself. He was about to ignore her, until Carry accused Ika-chan of poisoning him. While Ironhead turned on Ika-chan, she managed to fight him off and left him alone when he stopped attacking her.
After some more wandering, she managed to find Ben, a starfish, who suggested that finding a ship would be the way to escape the cave.Luckily, Ika-chan and Ben managed to find a ship, and quickly set about making sure everyone they met (including Carry and Ironhead) boarded the ship. After all, if you're going to escape from a place, you're supposed to bring everyone else who is trapped with you, right?
Once everyone had boarded, they left the cave just as a huge earthquake began to cause the cave's collapse. However, after they had left the cave, they drifted about on the ship until they finally crashlanded in the Badlands. When Ika-chan woke up, she couldn't see any of the others and having nothing better to do, floated away from the wreckage to drift around until she found something to occupy her.
As she wandered (taking liberal breaks), Ika-chan came across the Silvana and boarded without a second thought, floating about and exploring it ('This ship is so different from Ben's ship!'). The Captain found the squid before any other crew members, but not being one to allow freeloaders, would only allow her to stay on board if she had money or could work for it. A squid dinner was the third option.
Having none of the former, Ika-chan became one of the crewmembers of the Silvana.
SAMPLES- (in which there is no Boston in the Fall)
Third Person (roleplay):
The first thing Ika-chan was aware of when she woke after the crash was the yawning silence around her. It wasn't something unsettling, though; it was almost like the cave. There were no signs of the others, there was nothing for her to do here. No point staying by the shipwreck.
She drifted about, taking rests when she was tired, eating when she was hungry (there were a lot of insects here!), and searching for something to do when she was neither of these things. Eat, sleep, look around. Several days passed, though she didn't really notice.
She only noticed the ship when she was nearly on top of it. The ship was the most interesting subject in the barren Badlands. Maybe there would be something there?
Ika-chan cheerfully jetted over to the ship.
First Person (journal):
zcm/,.va;sdlfgjhwqrupoqt[]o1p23439580qeproi
[Voice]Ooo, there's so many buttons~ What does this d-
PLAYER INFORMATION-
Name/Nickname: Ten
AIM/E-mail/Contact: ninja octopii (AIM), yesihatespring@gmail.com
LJ: tenshinoakuma
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Ika-chan
In-Game Name: Ika-chan
Age: 8
Gender: Female (though there's no given canon on Ika-chan's actual gender)
Position & Ship: Cabin boy (or seaman, barring that) on the Silvana
Appearance: Ika-chan is very ordinary in appearance. In fact, she is so ordinary that a passerby may mistake her for a normal, non-sentient, flying squid. One day, she may grow up to be a giant, flying squid that's as large as an airship. But for now, Ika-chan is only slightly larger than a person's head, including her eight arms and two tentacles.
As she doesn't have even vaguely human facial features for expression, Ika-chan's main method of communication (aside from her child-like voice) are body language and colour changes. Given her small size, she tends to get tired 'swimming' about, and can be often found perched on whatever she can use as a resting place (which sometimes includes a person's head), cheerily waving a tentacle at passerbys.
Personality: Once strangers realise they are chatting to a talking, flying squid, they tend to realise that Ika-chan is very much a child. She is very innocent, doesn't understand the concept of sides and is completely unable to pick up on subtleties. Her most noticeable characteristics are her cheefulness and friendliness, and she's the kind of character who is willing to go on fetch quests on behalf of strangers just because they asked, even if their reasons are not genuine.
Following from her innocence, Ika-chan can come off as being incredibly ignorant of the world. This is partially a consequence of her limited interaction with other sentient beings, but her ignorance of human concepts such as heaven and hell are also due to only living with other sentient sky creatures. Heaven and hell weren't something fish thought about when they were preoccupied with a pressing matter called 'survival'.
In some ways, she is a bundle of contradictions. Ika-chan doesn't seem to have a sense of self, as her actions are always defined by the requests of others. But at the same time, she also has no concept of loyalty, only remaining faithful until her mini-quests are done. She doesn't seem to think of the future, as she is often off searching for that pearl someone asked her to find, or that lost daughter. But at the same time, if she's given a long time goal she cannot achieve yet, she'll keep it in mind until the appropriate time comes. And the past is something she forgets very easily.
Abilities/Weapons: Ika-chan's main abilities are the same any other sky squid's; ink squirts, colour changing and 'jet' propulsion through the air. While colour changing is a natural skill for most sky squid, for Ika-chan, camoflaging herself in that manner doesn't come naturally to her. Also, unlike other sky squids, Ika-chan is able to talk! Which is handy if she ever finds her tentacles stuck in a small, enclosed space she shouldn't really be exploring...
How well can your character hack?: Ika-chan has never used a journal prior to boarding the Silvana, so she doesn't know how to hack and doesn't understand why she'd want to.
Weaknesses: Ika-chan doesn't know what a lie is and doesn't understand what it means to lie. Additionally, because she is very simple and childish, Ika-chan takes everything at face value and is unable to understand deeper concepts. As a result, it is incredibly easy to manipulate Ika-chan; her ignorance is one of her most notable characteristics and she will believe everything someone says as the truth... until someone else tells her otherwise.
History: One day, Ika-chan woke to find herself in a cave in Kagatau inhabited by sentient sky fish and land anenomes. This cave had previously been open to the rest of the sky, and life had been good and food plentiful. But an earthquake (the first of many) caused the exit of the cave to collapse, blocking the inhabitant's only route to the open sky. Mana crystals, which had been buried deep within the rocky ceiling of the cave, came free and fell into the cave during the earthquakes. These mana crystals brought about a change in the cave's inhabitants, giving them sentience, the ability to talk and (unknown to the creatures) a lifespan comparable to a human's.
After the cave had been sealed from the rest of the sky, Ironhead, the largest and strongest fish of the cave, made himself ruler of the cave. He declared all those in possession of a pearl as a part of his kingdom and those without a pearl would be attacked.
Ika-chan didn't know any of this, but ventured through the cave regardless, helping the mother and father of a land anenome family with their troubles, braving blowfish, lobsters, Ironhead's attack starfish and strong winds that would blow her in the direction of deadly spikes. But all that didn't matter to Ika-chan, because that was what she had to do to help the anenome family.
When she came across the glutton Carry, Ironhead's right hand fish, Carry told her to bring scarce food to him, claiming that Ironhead wanted to eat the requested dishes. In reality, Carry was using Ironhead's name to eat all he wanted. So it wasn't long before Carry became sick after eating a globefish platter.
Drifting past the ill Carry, Ika-chan encountered Ironhead himself. He was about to ignore her, until Carry accused Ika-chan of poisoning him. While Ironhead turned on Ika-chan, she managed to fight him off and left him alone when he stopped attacking her.
After some more wandering, she managed to find Ben, a starfish, who suggested that finding a ship would be the way to escape the cave.Luckily, Ika-chan and Ben managed to find a ship, and quickly set about making sure everyone they met (including Carry and Ironhead) boarded the ship. After all, if you're going to escape from a place, you're supposed to bring everyone else who is trapped with you, right?
Once everyone had boarded, they left the cave just as a huge earthquake began to cause the cave's collapse. However, after they had left the cave, they drifted about on the ship until they finally crashlanded in the Badlands. When Ika-chan woke up, she couldn't see any of the others and having nothing better to do, floated away from the wreckage to drift around until she found something to occupy her.
As she wandered (taking liberal breaks), Ika-chan came across the Silvana and boarded without a second thought, floating about and exploring it ('This ship is so different from Ben's ship!'). The Captain found the squid before any other crew members, but not being one to allow freeloaders, would only allow her to stay on board if she had money or could work for it. A squid dinner was the third option.
Having none of the former, Ika-chan became one of the crewmembers of the Silvana.
SAMPLES- (in which there is no Boston in the Fall)
Third Person (roleplay):
The first thing Ika-chan was aware of when she woke after the crash was the yawning silence around her. It wasn't something unsettling, though; it was almost like the cave. There were no signs of the others, there was nothing for her to do here. No point staying by the shipwreck.
She drifted about, taking rests when she was tired, eating when she was hungry (there were a lot of insects here!), and searching for something to do when she was neither of these things. Eat, sleep, look around. Several days passed, though she didn't really notice.
She only noticed the ship when she was nearly on top of it. The ship was the most interesting subject in the barren Badlands. Maybe there would be something there?
Ika-chan cheerfully jetted over to the ship.
First Person (journal):
zcm/,.va;sdlfgjhwqrupoqt[]o1p23439580qeproi
[Voice]Ooo, there's so many buttons~ What does this d-