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[Character Name] Takagi Keisuke
[Canon] Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
[Point Taken from Canon] day 6, Naoya's route, about ten minutes after he leaves the party once Naoya's route is chosen.
[Age] 17 (May 2nd)
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] ...um. No idea. Uncomfortable?
[Eye Color] Brown
[Hair Color] Brown
[Height] 171 cm. (5'7")
[Other] N-not really. Other than being rather thin, but that's normal for the characters in his canon.
[Clothing] ...he really shouldn't be allowed to dress himself.
[Background] Keisuke was, in middle school, a friend of Kihara Atsuro, and stood up for him when bullies were picking on him, which seems to have been something he did fairly often. The two lost touch after they moved on to high school, since they ended up going to different schools, and after that, Keisuke's life went downhill, fast. During his second semester of his first year of high school, he tried to protect a fellow student from bullies by making himself a target for them instead-and was stunned when the boy turned on him, too, joining in with the bullying out of fear, and after that, he became withdrawn and cynical about people.
Like so many others, when the lockdown of the area inside the Yamanote Circle in Tokyo happened, he was caught up in it, and after he'd been chased by some thugs who were bullying someone they saw as weaker then themselves for fun, he encountered a mysterious young man, who gave him one of the modified COMPs that ran the Demon Summoning Program, telling him only "No, it's power", before walking away. When he turned on the COMP, the program activated: he managed to figure out how to form a contract with the demon that popped out of it, namely, defeat it before it killed him, as well as figure out the death clock function.
Later that same day, he encountered Atsuro again, for the first time in a couple of years, along with his friends Kiyoshi and Yuzu, but slipped away from them hastily when he saw their death clock readings were at zero, meaning that they would die that day. He met them again several hours later, when their death clock readings had increased to 1, and was impressed at how they'd changed their fate. To make up for his earlier cowardice in running away from them, he helps them find a handheld charger for their COMPs, like one he'd earlier acquired, and passed on some information he found out, most notably two facts: that no one inside the lockdown had more than six days to live, and that the SDF soldiers didn't have death clocks. With that discouraging news, he left them and went on his way.
On the second day of the lockdown, he ended up in quite a predicament. A frightened girl named Midori was being attacked by a crowd of demons, and a bunch of innocent people were hiding underground nearby: certain in the knowledge he was going to die there, as his death clock was at zero, Keisuke summoned his own demons, trying to protect Midori long enough so that she could get away. However, Kiyoshi, Atsuro, and Yuzu showed up just in time to help, and no one died, thankfully. When Midori took the spare COMP that Kiyoshi had, Keisuke ended up going with her in order to teach her how to use it...not that he had a choice, really, because Midori dragged him away. Unfortunately, while Midori was successful in making a contract with her demons, she made the choice to become a sparkly magical heroine of justice with them, dropping her death clock by several days immediately upon making that choice, despite Keisuke's attempts to dissuade her.
Keisuke went back to Kiyoshi and the others at the beginning of the third day, wanting their help in helping change Midori's mind, as she would die the next day if she kept up her sparkly magical-girl ways. They agreed to help-assuming they survived the impending battle with the immortal Beldr-and Keisuke joined their group. Unfortunately, while they met Midori several times over the course of the day, she firmly refused to change her mind, even with the obvious evidence that people were getting very nervous about her overt use of demons, and even after Beldr's power was demonstrated to her in a very chance, very unfortunate appearance that they had to flee, very quickly, before they died. Thankfully, after acquiring the so-called "Devil's Fuge" on a tip from a very flamboyant gigolo in a purple suit, they were equipped to actually defeat Beldr...and after a pitched battle, Beldr was killed.
And things went royally to hell the next day. Atsuro let Keisuke read the "Laplace Mail" that had come that day, the Laplace Mail being a special future-predicting e-mail that came every morning and had given them the ability to follow what it said in order to change it. Unfortunately, the e-mail's contents predicted that Midori would die that day, killed at the hands of a mob, and something in Keisuke snapped. He'd seen the signs of the breaking social order, and helped predict in discussions with Atsuro, Yuzu, and Kiyoshi the results of what would happen as things went on, seeing the rot in human hearts, that there were still good people in the world but they were far, far outnumbered by the bad, who would simply go on taking. While Atsuro suggested rescuing Midori, it didn't help, because Keisuke knew it wouldn't solve the real problem. Words wouldn't make it stop, simply rescuing people wouldn't make it stop. Only force would make it stop, and he left the group behind so he wouldn't drag them into it.
Later that day, he came upon Midori being chased by a mob, with Kiyoshi and the others right on her heels trying to drive the mob off. Instead, Keisuke simply summoned his demons, as well as several others, in order to kill the offenders, while Atsuro and the others tried to stop him. During the thick of the battle, Keisuke summoned, through sheer force of will, Yama, the Judge of the Underworld, and formed a contract with him, to pass judgement upon the unjust. Which he went off and did, killing several people who had abused and preyed upon the weak: unluckily, one of the people he killed happened to be one of the members of a gang that Kaido, a fellow demon tamer (who had also summoned his own demon through will alone, Pazuzu, for a contract to become as strong as possible) was the leader of. Even more unluckily, Kaido took it upon himself to hunt down the "four-eyes bastard" who had killed that gang member, because if he hadn't done anything, the other gang members would rebel.
So, without Keisuke knowing it, Kiyoshi & company (whose number now included Midori, who had sense talked into her) were determined to stop him, and preferably before Kaido killed him. Which the next day, they ended up confronting him and defeated Yama, sending him back to...wherever he had come from, and then talked sense into Keisuke, pointing out that by using force to try to make a world for good people, he was no better than the people he was trying to stop, which snapped him out of it. Repenting of his errors, he made up his mind to try again, only doing things the right way this time.
Over the course of that day and the next day, things unfolded to their denouement. Kiyoshi's cousin Naoya-who had been the same man who gave Keisuke is COMP-showed up out of wherever he had been hiding to challenge Kiyoshi to a game of his own devising in order to test his cousin to see whether he was worthy of some answers-and upon his challenge being passed, informed Kiyoshi that he wanted him to become the King of Bel, being the only human able to take the title, and from there, things only went downhill fast. Time was running out, another ugly Bel demon (Belial, this time) showed up on the sixth day and had to be put down, and finally, on the evening of the sixth day, Kiyoshi had to make his choice as to how to resolve the Lockdown.
Kiyoshi chose to follow Naoya and become the King of Bel, to eventually challenge God, which was not a choice Keisuke could agree with. He left the group, along with Midori and Yuzu, who also didn't agree with the choice.
...and ten minutes later, he ended up in Somarium.
[Personality]Keisuke is a polite, soft-spoken young man, who initially comes off as shy and something of a shrinking violet, especially when he's being dragged around by the magical girl nut in the party. He is considerably more stubborn than he seems at first glance, however: he isn't the type to back down from what he believes, unless given very good logic as to why he is wrong, and he was strong-willed enough in order to summon the judge of the dead through sheer force of will to form a contract. He is also very concerned for those weaker than him, and tries to watch out for them, whether through directly standing up to bullies for them (he doesn't do this so much anymore, due to the incident in high school that broke his faith in people), sharing what information he has, or be willing to die to try to protect them (thankfully Atsuro and his friends came in time to prevent that), which doesn't take into account his crazy fit where he hunted down people who abused their power to prey on the weak.
However, beneath the shy reserve, lies a darker streak: Keisuke is extremely cynical, and has lost trust in people. He doesn't have a very good view of humanity in general: he considers humans weak and unable to live righteously on their own, needing God to guide them, a view which has only been cemented by the events of the Lockdown. Thankfully, he has been snapped out of his insane fit of rage and no longer considers it necessary (or even a good thing) to create a lawful, just world for good people by force, and realizes that doing things that way made him no better than those who used their power to abuse innocents. He also doesn't have a very good view of his own strength, believing himself to be weak: before his fit of insanity, he believed that he wasn't strong enough to either protect people or change his own fate, and after, realized that he had been too weak to withstand the temptations of power. In addition, he has a remarkable guilt complex: he believed it was his fault Midori was in danger when she resolved to use her COMP in order to be a heroine of justice and help people in an extremely unsubtle manner, because he taught her how to use it (nevermind that it was her own choice), and then after his crazy fit, believed he had made an unforgiveable mistake, nevermind that his intentions had been good and part of his snapping had been from the stress of the lockdown.
...yeah, Keisuke's pretty messed up. At least he isn't insane anymore?
[Specialties/Abilities] Keisuke has decent-enough strength, and a pretty decent ability in magic. He's insanely fast on his feet: unfortunately, he's also pretty much a glass cannon, as vitality and taking hits are not his strong points at all, to say the least. He's also fairly intelligent.
For the sake of Somarium, he has these skills set:
Active Skills:
Holy Dance: Holy damage - random
Force Dance: Force damage- random
Diarahan - Full heal, one person
Passive Skills:
Force Jump - increases the power of Force spells
Dual Shadow - chance to repeat attack
Mana Surge - hey more MP. Awesome.
Auto Skill:
Blitzkrieg: Start - Attack/Magic up 25%
As a note, Keisuke is currently not hooked up to the new COMP system in Somarium. Nor is he likely to for some time.
[Affection] Go ahead and be affectionate with him if you want: he'll be uncomfortable with it, but I'm okay with making him uncomfortable. He's not likely to reciprocate, though.
[Fighting] Yes for both, but please contact me first if you intend to kill him/it starts going in that direction. He's a fairly decent fighter: pretty decent mage, decent with actually hitting people, really damn fast, but he's very glass cannon-y. He breaks like a twig, pretty much.
[Other Permissions] Telepathy is okay, I'd prefer no fourth-walling, anything else is okay.
[Other Facts] Um.