Application: Rifted Guilds
=== Player Information ===
Name/Nick: Jess
Journal: raspberrydrink
Method of Contact: aim@raspberrydrink, plurk @ raspberrydrink, understandham@yahoo
Current Characters: n/a
=== Character Information ===
Name: Souji Seta
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Fandom: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Time period: Shortly after Nanako is revived in the Normal/True Ending
Pokemon: Absol
Distinguishing Characteristics: His gray glasses and slightly fluffier fur around his head
>Explanation: A few reasons: Starting off the appearance fits, as Souji himself is made up of mostly grays blacks and whites. The black and white is reminiscent of his two personal Personae as well, Izanagi and Izanagi-no-Okami. On a less physical level Absols are often mistakenly seen as signs of disaster, when in actuality they arrive to try and prevent it. This fits amusingly well with Souji’s arrival in Inaba just as the murders start, like a bad omen, while in fact he’s the key to solving the case.
History: Here
Personality:
When Souji first arrives in Inaba he’s the classic archetype of the Outsider. Quiet, distant, not un friendly but almost too polite. The game hints that he’s moved around a lot for due to his parent’s work, and this shows in a lot of his early game dialogue choices with Dojima and his future friends: polite but un attached. He won’t know these people for long so there’s no point in getting too attached.
Yet, a few bits of his inner self can be seen: on the first day of school he talks back to his rather intimidating teacher and gets to walk home with two pretty cute girls (and at least thinks of outright saying that Yukiko is attractive). Souji, while a little cold and detached early on, opens up quickly to his new friends. He has a kind of subtle charm to him that attracts others to him, and over the school year he becomes quite popular with guys and girls alike. Enough so that his… less then stellar appearance at a crossdressing pageant disappoints a few people who though he had more class then that.
But he really blooms once the tv world and Personas come into the picture. He quietly takes the reins when Yosuke’s Shadow appears and never really is asked to hand them back over. Souji takes full responsibility for the team’s schedule, money and course- and if anything he flourishes under the pressure. That plus keeping up good grades and a half dozen part time jobs over the year and one could say that Souji is someone that has to keep busy, and does best when not left idle. He keeps calm in stressful situations and knows how to play his team like a hand of well dealt cards, using each one when their skills would best fit- and more then willing to pull them back out again regardless of what they say. He’s had to see his friends ‘die’ over and over, sometimes while they dive in to save him, and as such he has a strong ability to remove himself from the situation on an emotional level if he has to.
This doesn’t mean that Souji is a hardnosed person though. Between dungeon crawls he spends a lot of his time helping the people of Inaba with their various problems. As much as he’s not used to people he is still surprisingly empathetic and is good at easing others through their hardships. He makes friends much easier now then he did when he first came to Inaba, and while he doesn’t offer much about himself he does give off the feeling of earnestly caring about who he’s with. Souji is also a bit… quirky under his occasionally stony shell. He freely cross dresses for the pageant and sits on the girl’s side of a group date with no embarrassment to even up some numbers. A lot of his responses can be rather snarky or playfully meanspirited- though almost never out right cruel. And he has some… odd habits here and there, such eating grass and giving himself missions to feed stray cats. He often has strange dreams (both of the plot based and the just strange variety) and takes the weirdness around him rather easily… even talking to a money grubbing fox and not questioning that it wants to grant wishes.
But still, at his base Souji is a good natured kid that has to deal with the bizarre and manages to not only survive but come out on top.
=== Samples: ===
First Person:
1) You discover a secret passage in a basement. What do you do? Well, I’d probably get some supplies first. But who knows what kind of interesting things could be down there?
2) Have you ever wanted to communicate with aliens from another planet? Yes, especially when I was a kid.
3) Would you feel comfortable stating your opinion to a very important person? It’s gotten me in trouble a few times actually…
4) Do you like to do things according to plan? When it actually happens, yes. But it never does.
5) Do you think that lies are sometimes necessary? … I’ve recently learned that sometimes it’s better to just be honest, even if it’s hard. Learned it the hard way
Third Person:
Souji had suffered from strange dreams ever since he could remember; not exactly nightmares, but surreal things that tended to go a bit beyond things his friends talked about here and there. Inaba had just made it more detailed and vivid. As such he didn’t think anything too odd when he touched the badge on his desk and slipped into a dream of seemingly random questions and the strange feeling of *changing*. Hell, Igor had asked him plenty of things in dreams before, after all.
When he ‘woke up’ and saw a black clawed paw instead of a hand and felt an awkward new weight on the side of his head he was more curious then freaked out, flexing his not hands and reaching up to paw at the curved blade hanging so close to his face.
‘Usually when I dream of turning into a cat I don’t get extra weaponry. Weird’
But as he started moving around the dream idea became less and less believable. His dreams could be pretty realistic, yeah. But adding details like having trouble using this new body? Accidentally cutting plants with his headblade and tail? That was a little too realistic. Add in the new sharper smells and sounds and… it was just too much to blindly accept. There was no false fog this time, but like hell he was going to not question all of this just because it didn’t mesh with the pattern he was already used to.
Finally he gave in and trotted up to the closest…creature, intending to get to the bottom of this… or at least stay busy until he woke up, which ever came first. The things were… cute, and looked kinda like things he’d expect to summon as Persona, if a little on the small size more often then not.
‘Maybe this is all some kind of metaphor? But I bet I’d be seeing Izanagi or Pixie, not little dinosaurs and birds that look like they escaped a cartoon.’
He sighed, calling out and waiting to see what would happen next.
Name/Nick: Jess
Journal: raspberrydrink
Method of Contact: aim@raspberrydrink, plurk @ raspberrydrink, understandham@yahoo
Current Characters: n/a
=== Character Information ===
Name: Souji Seta
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Fandom: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Time period: Shortly after Nanako is revived in the Normal/True Ending
Pokemon: Absol
Distinguishing Characteristics: His gray glasses and slightly fluffier fur around his head
>Explanation: A few reasons: Starting off the appearance fits, as Souji himself is made up of mostly grays blacks and whites. The black and white is reminiscent of his two personal Personae as well, Izanagi and Izanagi-no-Okami. On a less physical level Absols are often mistakenly seen as signs of disaster, when in actuality they arrive to try and prevent it. This fits amusingly well with Souji’s arrival in Inaba just as the murders start, like a bad omen, while in fact he’s the key to solving the case.
History: Here
Personality:
When Souji first arrives in Inaba he’s the classic archetype of the Outsider. Quiet, distant, not un friendly but almost too polite. The game hints that he’s moved around a lot for due to his parent’s work, and this shows in a lot of his early game dialogue choices with Dojima and his future friends: polite but un attached. He won’t know these people for long so there’s no point in getting too attached.
Yet, a few bits of his inner self can be seen: on the first day of school he talks back to his rather intimidating teacher and gets to walk home with two pretty cute girls (and at least thinks of outright saying that Yukiko is attractive). Souji, while a little cold and detached early on, opens up quickly to his new friends. He has a kind of subtle charm to him that attracts others to him, and over the school year he becomes quite popular with guys and girls alike. Enough so that his… less then stellar appearance at a crossdressing pageant disappoints a few people who though he had more class then that.
But he really blooms once the tv world and Personas come into the picture. He quietly takes the reins when Yosuke’s Shadow appears and never really is asked to hand them back over. Souji takes full responsibility for the team’s schedule, money and course- and if anything he flourishes under the pressure. That plus keeping up good grades and a half dozen part time jobs over the year and one could say that Souji is someone that has to keep busy, and does best when not left idle. He keeps calm in stressful situations and knows how to play his team like a hand of well dealt cards, using each one when their skills would best fit- and more then willing to pull them back out again regardless of what they say. He’s had to see his friends ‘die’ over and over, sometimes while they dive in to save him, and as such he has a strong ability to remove himself from the situation on an emotional level if he has to.
This doesn’t mean that Souji is a hardnosed person though. Between dungeon crawls he spends a lot of his time helping the people of Inaba with their various problems. As much as he’s not used to people he is still surprisingly empathetic and is good at easing others through their hardships. He makes friends much easier now then he did when he first came to Inaba, and while he doesn’t offer much about himself he does give off the feeling of earnestly caring about who he’s with. Souji is also a bit… quirky under his occasionally stony shell. He freely cross dresses for the pageant and sits on the girl’s side of a group date with no embarrassment to even up some numbers. A lot of his responses can be rather snarky or playfully meanspirited- though almost never out right cruel. And he has some… odd habits here and there, such eating grass and giving himself missions to feed stray cats. He often has strange dreams (both of the plot based and the just strange variety) and takes the weirdness around him rather easily… even talking to a money grubbing fox and not questioning that it wants to grant wishes.
But still, at his base Souji is a good natured kid that has to deal with the bizarre and manages to not only survive but come out on top.
=== Samples: ===
First Person:
1) You discover a secret passage in a basement. What do you do? Well, I’d probably get some supplies first. But who knows what kind of interesting things could be down there?
2) Have you ever wanted to communicate with aliens from another planet? Yes, especially when I was a kid.
3) Would you feel comfortable stating your opinion to a very important person? It’s gotten me in trouble a few times actually…
4) Do you like to do things according to plan? When it actually happens, yes. But it never does.
5) Do you think that lies are sometimes necessary? … I’ve recently learned that sometimes it’s better to just be honest, even if it’s hard. Learned it the hard way
Third Person:
Souji had suffered from strange dreams ever since he could remember; not exactly nightmares, but surreal things that tended to go a bit beyond things his friends talked about here and there. Inaba had just made it more detailed and vivid. As such he didn’t think anything too odd when he touched the badge on his desk and slipped into a dream of seemingly random questions and the strange feeling of *changing*. Hell, Igor had asked him plenty of things in dreams before, after all.
When he ‘woke up’ and saw a black clawed paw instead of a hand and felt an awkward new weight on the side of his head he was more curious then freaked out, flexing his not hands and reaching up to paw at the curved blade hanging so close to his face.
‘Usually when I dream of turning into a cat I don’t get extra weaponry. Weird’
But as he started moving around the dream idea became less and less believable. His dreams could be pretty realistic, yeah. But adding details like having trouble using this new body? Accidentally cutting plants with his headblade and tail? That was a little too realistic. Add in the new sharper smells and sounds and… it was just too much to blindly accept. There was no false fog this time, but like hell he was going to not question all of this just because it didn’t mesh with the pattern he was already used to.
Finally he gave in and trotted up to the closest…creature, intending to get to the bottom of this… or at least stay busy until he woke up, which ever came first. The things were… cute, and looked kinda like things he’d expect to summon as Persona, if a little on the small size more often then not.
‘Maybe this is all some kind of metaphor? But I bet I’d be seeing Izanagi or Pixie, not little dinosaurs and birds that look like they escaped a cartoon.’
He sighed, calling out and waiting to see what would happen next.