nagi kengamine; 1/10? man idklordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:33:31 UTC
Name: BF Personal LJ: lordsummer Contact Info: AIM: blazing folly, email: ryn_mca@yahoo.com Other Characters Played: Currently pooka_prince, when_in_me, and diaf_askeladd. Preferred Housing: Empty house for now, I'm thinking.
Character Name: Nagi Kengamine Character Series: Deadman Wonderland Character Age: Mid-to-late-thirties. Background: Like all Deadman Wonderland characters, Nagi's life is a whirlwind of tragedy and suffering inflicted on a perfectly good person for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Fun times!First, a quick background on the setting: ten years' prior to the series' opening, a massive earthquake devastated Tokyo, obliterating the city and heavily decimating Japan's stability and economy. In order to get the country back on its feet, a gigantic prison/theme park was constructed atop the ruins, meant to both combat the increasing rising crime rate after the earthquake and to stimulate the economy. This facility, a theme park operated by its own prisoners, was christened "Deadman Wonderland
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nagi kengamine; 2/10? man idklordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:35:43 UTC
Not that it hadn't been ruined enough, of course. We don't really know anything about Nagi's life prior to his imprisonment in Sector G, but his status as a Deadman means he was involved somehow with the Tokyo Earthquake. He developed the Branch of Sin known as the "Owl's Eyeball", and became known as the Owl as a result. If he had any family or friends on the outside, he doesn't seem particularly concerned with them. Rather, Nagi developed a family within DW: he fell in love with a female Deadman, and the two conceived a child. Although they weren't exactly able to get married within the prison, Nagi proposed anyway, and for the first time since their arrival in the twisted nightmare of Deadman Wonderland, the two were happy
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nagi kengamine; 3/10? man idklordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:38:15 UTC
After obtaining an artificial voicebox to speak with, Nagi soon began recruiting, starting with a stubborn young woman no one else was able to befriend: the Game Fowl, Karako Koshio. She soon became the second-in-command of the organization the two developed: "Scar Chain", a group of good-aligned Deadmen dedicated to breaking the "chains" of DW. (Karako also developed a rather large crush on him, although exactly how aware of this Nagi was is difficult to determine.) Although initially something of a rag-tag bunch of misfits, Scar Chain quickly came to command a considerable level of power within the prison, with many of its members able to hack into DW's systems and upset the authority. Nagi and his lieutenants began to develop a plan to reveal the truth of the prison to the world at large, and it's here that he enters the story proper
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nagi kengamine; 4/10? man idklordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:42:21 UTC
Nagi brought Ganta and Shiro back to Scar Chain's hideout, introducing them to Rokuro, his left-hand-man and tactical planner. When Ganta mentioned how Genkaku had nullified his attack, the members of Scar Chain were skeptical; Rokuro examined the security footage of the battle, revealing that Ganta's attack had simply missed, despite Ganta swearing up and down that the attack had connected and Genkaku had done something to nullify it. Ganta's frustration over the miscommunication and his skepticism in the face of the group's laid-back attitude led him to leave the group, prompting Nagi to follow him
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5/10? man idklordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:43:50 UTC
Unfortunately, while his little Crowning Moment of Badass was enough to help out Ganta, it wasn't enough to save himself: having lost too much blood, he collapsed. Rokuro revealed the truth: that Tamaki had sent him to infiltrate Scar Chain and guarantee that their plan would fail. To that end, the "data chip" that Ganta was currently racing to bring to the inspector was, in fact, a bomb. This act of gloating would prove to backfire for Rokuro, however: using the radio transmitter in his teeth, Nagi radioed for help, trying to get the message out to anyone that the data chip was a bomb and that they needed to stop Ganta from delivering it. The message was picked up by Ganta's friend Shiro, who immediately ran off to stop him
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Simple: the same reason the locket he wore around his neck was empty. The "son on the outside" that Nagi had been fighting so hard this whole time to see... did not exist, anymore. He'd somehow managed to convince himself that his son had been born safely, but the truth was that his wife had miscarried after she'd been killed. The baby was born prematurely after his wife’s punishment game, and Tamaki had claimed it to experiment on: the child of two Deadmen was a rare thing, after all
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When he attacked Shiro, however, Ganta stepped in, protecting her with his own body against Nagi’s assault. He continued trying to reason with Nagi, and his attempts started to strike gold when Nagi heard the sound of Karako’s necklace bell. Nagi claimed he had lost his hope with the death of his family, but Ganta insisted that he had a new hope now: Karako, and the freedom that they had worked so hard together to obtain. Ganta soon collapsed, realizing that he hadn’t eaten his antidote candy recently, and that he was dying of the poison in his collar
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Personality: Perhaps the most depressing part about Nagi's incredibly depressing life is that all the terrible things he's endured couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Despite all the horror and death he's endured during his stay in Deadman Wonderland, Nagi remains an incredibly kind and compassionate person who, like Ganta after him, has managed to retain his honor and integrity even in a horrible fucked-up place like Deadman Wonderland.
Part of that is because unlike most of the other prisoners, as Nagi explains himself, he has something to fight for: the hope of seeing his child again and, after that, his friends in Scar Chain. Having experienced pain and loss himself, Nagi knows exactly how to empathize with those in pain or trouble: he's happy to rescue Minatsuki and spare Ganta the guilt of having put her in danger, and even jokes a little in order to raise the boy's spirits. His crooked smile and lackadaisical attitude may make him seem like he isn't taking things seriously, but make no mistake about it- Nagi is a confident
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He doesn't have much sympathy for Undertakers or any similarly evil people, no matter how tragic their backstory or reasons may be. Although he was more than happy to talk to Hibana and try to help her find her way when he thought she was just a lost little girl, he had no trouble whatsoever cutting her down after she attacked him. As he said himself, she was nothing but "a twisted little girl with a black, rotten heart", and therefore beyond saving. (Chopping off his arm might have had something to do with it also.) This kind of ruthlessness isn't something he's proud of, but it's a sacrifice he thinks he needs to make in order to achieve Scar Chain's dream.
Nagi's biggest weakness, however, is easily his mental instability. Nobody spends years in Deadman Wonderland without developing some kind of personality or mental disorder, but Nagi appears to be the sole exception... at first, anyway. His bright smile, compassionate nature, and inspiring leadership may make it seem like he's the sole sane inmate at DW, but the simple truth is
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10/10! THESE QUESTION MARKS WERE ENTIRELY SUPERFLUOUSlordsummerAugust 18 2010, 22:55:06 UTC
Even after all the pain he's endured, however, Nagi is ultimately not beyond redemption. Ganta and Karako managed to pull him back from the brink of madness shortly before his death, causing him to realize that even though he's lost so much, the dreams he spent so long fighting for aren't dead yet. There's a large part of him that's become a homicidal, raging maniac, but it hasn't won yet: despite everything, Nagi is still a basically good guy who just wants to win his own freedom, as well as that of his friends and underlings. (To use TV Tropesese, he's a Broken Pedestal that's trying to put himself back together.As I will be taking him post-canon, Nagi will be dealing with a whole host of mental issues! First and foremost being the truth about his child: while Ganta and Karako pulled him out of berserker mode, he still didn't exactly have a lot of time to ease into the truth before getting killed. He's stable enough now to accept what really happened without going crazy again, but the wound is far from healed: mentions of "family"
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Personal LJ: lordsummer
Contact Info: AIM: blazing folly, email: ryn_mca@yahoo.com
Other Characters Played: Currently pooka_prince, when_in_me, and diaf_askeladd.
Preferred Housing: Empty house for now, I'm thinking.
Character Name: Nagi Kengamine
Character Series: Deadman Wonderland
Character Age: Mid-to-late-thirties.
Background: Like all Deadman Wonderland characters, Nagi's life is a whirlwind of tragedy and suffering inflicted on a perfectly good person for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Fun times!First, a quick background on the setting: ten years' prior to the series' opening, a massive earthquake devastated Tokyo, obliterating the city and heavily decimating Japan's stability and economy. In order to get the country back on its feet, a gigantic prison/theme park was constructed atop the ruins, meant to both combat the increasing rising crime rate after the earthquake and to stimulate the economy. This facility, a theme park operated by its own prisoners, was christened "Deadman Wonderland ( ... )
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Part of that is because unlike most of the other prisoners, as Nagi explains himself, he has something to fight for: the hope of seeing his child again and, after that, his friends in Scar Chain. Having experienced pain and loss himself, Nagi knows exactly how to empathize with those in pain or trouble: he's happy to rescue Minatsuki and spare Ganta the guilt of having put her in danger, and even jokes a little in order to raise the boy's spirits. His crooked smile and lackadaisical attitude may make him seem like he isn't taking things seriously, but make no mistake about it- Nagi is a confident ( ... )
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Nagi's biggest weakness, however, is easily his mental instability. Nobody spends years in Deadman Wonderland without developing some kind of personality or mental disorder, but Nagi appears to be the sole exception... at first, anyway. His bright smile, compassionate nature, and inspiring leadership may make it seem like he's the sole sane inmate at DW, but the simple truth is ( ... )
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