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THE MUN
Name: Hilda
Personal Journal: starsandtildes
E-Mail/Instant Messenger: hildaaaaa@ymail.com, xheartnothatex AIM
Time Zone: GMT-5/EST
THE CHARACTER
Name: Naoto Shirogane
Series: Persona 4
Age: 15
Persona 4 spoilers below, will be marked
Appearance: Naoto Shirogane, the "Detective Prince", presents himself to the world as a very small, thin young man with very sharp Western fashion sense, making him an oddity in the Japan of the 1860s. He's about four foot ten (with high boots to give himself another two inches), fine-boned, and straight figured, with a delicate face, large slate-blue eyes, and blue-black hair cropped low on his forehead. When he's "on the case", he's always very properly - if uniquely - dressed in a tightly-cut dark suit and his trademark blue military-style cap.
spoilersThis is only part of the story, since "Naoto" is a unisex name. Naoto Shirogane is actually a girl who's taken on a boy's identity. The public has no idea that the Detective Prince is a princess, and unless he's exceptionally observant, neither will your character. She has practice with stereotypically "masculine" mannerisms and stances and keeps her voice low-pitched (in Japan, she was voiced by Paku Romi, the queen of boy hero roles), and as regards her body, already has a very androgynous build, though she does of course improve on nature by binding her breasts down and stuffing rags in her trousers.end spoilers
Personality: First and foremost, Naoto is a detective. If you place a mystery in his way, he wants to solve it, no matter how insurmountable it seems or how dangerous the risk to himself. The mystery at Violet Hill would be a dream come true for him, as there are any number of things for him to explore, from the important question of how did he get here and what are these ghosts (he believes in the supernatural, as the Kuzunoha branch of his family are demon hunters as well as detectives, so he has proof it exists) to the minutiae of English everyday life. He's curious enough to look for solutions, and intelligent enough to find them. He's still a child, however, and some of his solutions are deeply convoluted when taking the problem straight on would be the wiser decision: becoming the perfect detective, for instance, rather than trying to gain respect as himself.
spoilersHer identity as "Naoto" is something she is deeply conflicted about. It makes pursuing her career much easier for her, yes, and she doesn't want to be what she thinks a woman is supposed to be. However, as a detective she values the truth above all else, and she knows she's female, even though she fits so poorly into that role. She's still very cautious of her disguise, though, and her worst nightmare is being revealed, so she rarely gets close to anyone she didn't know from her childhood who already knows.end spoilers
With other people, especially those he doesn't know, Naoto is very quiet unless he has something to say. Some of his reserve comes from his lack of experience in informal situations, a little from shyness, and a large amount from his very matter-of-fact approach to life. Despite, or likely because of, his great intelligence he finds it difficult to relate to other people on an emotional level, even when he understands their thought processes intellectually. He takes on extremely formal and polite, almost pretentious, mannerisms to increase others' perception of him as mature. Even when he's excited internally (and he becomes extremely emotional on the inside: he's still only fifteen, after all), he's still very stoic.
Naoto has other interests outside solving crime, though. Ever since a visit to the capital at age twelve, when a client who had just returned from a (highly illegal, but still tolerated) visit to England exposed him to all of the wonderful things he had brought back, he has become a deep aficionado of whatever western style and technology he can find, going so far as trying to learn English.
AU History: Naoto is the only child of the Shirogane family, the lords of a small Kanto village who are famous for solving crimes not only in their domain, but in the capital and wherever the shogun requests it. Fifty years ago, the current head of the family received the Judge Dee novels in a rare package from China and set himself up to imitate that mystery-solving magistrate during his visits to the capital: he's not just a detective, but a detective with style. Their fame is increased by their status as a cousin branch of the Kuzunoha family, lords of another part of Kanto who have been imperial enforcers for the past eleven generations.
Naoto's parents died when he was very young, and he was raised in his grandfather's house. He showed great intelligence from an early age, and Shirogane-sama had him educated in the arts that spoilersboth a young ladyend and the heir to the family would practice: however, he mostly inclined to intellectual work, reading everything he came across.
Shirogane-sama took cases in his home while Naoto was a child, and when he observed him and his Shirogane and Kuzunoha colleagues, he thought that solving crimes - using your brain to find answers to impossible questions, and fighting for justice in the process - was the best thing you could ever do. However, he was generally discouraged by others - even occasionally Shirogane-sama - from involving herself in them because he was too young to get involved. spoilersAlso, the female members of her family would try to remind her of her position as a young lady, which meant she needed to stay out of grown men's business.
But that wasn't going to stop her. If being a young child meant she couldn't solve cases, she was going to grow up as quickly as possible, and if being a girl meant that mysteries weren't her business, she was just going to have to be a boy to get everyone to think it was. She started using "male" language in everyday conversation and took to wearing boys' clothing, hoping to be treated as one by her family and perceived as one by people who didn't know her.
Surprisingly, Shirogane-sama accepted it, in what the rest of the family saw as "another foolish whim of his, like his Judge Dee act", and made the rest of the family follow his lead. He loved his granddaughter - his only grandchild - and under these circumstances he could make her his heir and his successor as a detective. The child had rarely been seen outside the estate, so reports that Naoto was a girl could be "corrected". As to the problem of age, he started to allow Naoto into his conferences when he was about ten, as the child understood what was going on when he consulted him. By age thirteen, some of Shirogane's cases became Naoto's responsibility, and the "Detective Prince" began his official career. Not a single case he has been consulted on has gone unsolved.
Name: Hilda
Personal Journal: starsandtildes
E-Mail/Instant Messenger: hildaaaaa@ymail.com, xheartnothatex AIM
Time Zone: GMT-5/EST
THE CHARACTER
Name: Naoto Shirogane
Series: Persona 4
Age: 15
Persona 4 spoilers below, will be marked
Appearance: Naoto Shirogane, the "Detective Prince", presents himself to the world as a very small, thin young man with very sharp Western fashion sense, making him an oddity in the Japan of the 1860s. He's about four foot ten (with high boots to give himself another two inches), fine-boned, and straight figured, with a delicate face, large slate-blue eyes, and blue-black hair cropped low on his forehead. When he's "on the case", he's always very properly - if uniquely - dressed in a tightly-cut dark suit and his trademark blue military-style cap.
spoilersThis is only part of the story, since "Naoto" is a unisex name. Naoto Shirogane is actually a girl who's taken on a boy's identity. The public has no idea that the Detective Prince is a princess, and unless he's exceptionally observant, neither will your character. She has practice with stereotypically "masculine" mannerisms and stances and keeps her voice low-pitched (in Japan, she was voiced by Paku Romi, the queen of boy hero roles), and as regards her body, already has a very androgynous build, though she does of course improve on nature by binding her breasts down and stuffing rags in her trousers.end spoilers
Personality: First and foremost, Naoto is a detective. If you place a mystery in his way, he wants to solve it, no matter how insurmountable it seems or how dangerous the risk to himself. The mystery at Violet Hill would be a dream come true for him, as there are any number of things for him to explore, from the important question of how did he get here and what are these ghosts (he believes in the supernatural, as the Kuzunoha branch of his family are demon hunters as well as detectives, so he has proof it exists) to the minutiae of English everyday life. He's curious enough to look for solutions, and intelligent enough to find them. He's still a child, however, and some of his solutions are deeply convoluted when taking the problem straight on would be the wiser decision: becoming the perfect detective, for instance, rather than trying to gain respect as himself.
spoilersHer identity as "Naoto" is something she is deeply conflicted about. It makes pursuing her career much easier for her, yes, and she doesn't want to be what she thinks a woman is supposed to be. However, as a detective she values the truth above all else, and she knows she's female, even though she fits so poorly into that role. She's still very cautious of her disguise, though, and her worst nightmare is being revealed, so she rarely gets close to anyone she didn't know from her childhood who already knows.end spoilers
With other people, especially those he doesn't know, Naoto is very quiet unless he has something to say. Some of his reserve comes from his lack of experience in informal situations, a little from shyness, and a large amount from his very matter-of-fact approach to life. Despite, or likely because of, his great intelligence he finds it difficult to relate to other people on an emotional level, even when he understands their thought processes intellectually. He takes on extremely formal and polite, almost pretentious, mannerisms to increase others' perception of him as mature. Even when he's excited internally (and he becomes extremely emotional on the inside: he's still only fifteen, after all), he's still very stoic.
Naoto has other interests outside solving crime, though. Ever since a visit to the capital at age twelve, when a client who had just returned from a (highly illegal, but still tolerated) visit to England exposed him to all of the wonderful things he had brought back, he has become a deep aficionado of whatever western style and technology he can find, going so far as trying to learn English.
AU History: Naoto is the only child of the Shirogane family, the lords of a small Kanto village who are famous for solving crimes not only in their domain, but in the capital and wherever the shogun requests it. Fifty years ago, the current head of the family received the Judge Dee novels in a rare package from China and set himself up to imitate that mystery-solving magistrate during his visits to the capital: he's not just a detective, but a detective with style. Their fame is increased by their status as a cousin branch of the Kuzunoha family, lords of another part of Kanto who have been imperial enforcers for the past eleven generations.
Naoto's parents died when he was very young, and he was raised in his grandfather's house. He showed great intelligence from an early age, and Shirogane-sama had him educated in the arts that spoilersboth a young ladyend and the heir to the family would practice: however, he mostly inclined to intellectual work, reading everything he came across.
Shirogane-sama took cases in his home while Naoto was a child, and when he observed him and his Shirogane and Kuzunoha colleagues, he thought that solving crimes - using your brain to find answers to impossible questions, and fighting for justice in the process - was the best thing you could ever do. However, he was generally discouraged by others - even occasionally Shirogane-sama - from involving herself in them because he was too young to get involved. spoilersAlso, the female members of her family would try to remind her of her position as a young lady, which meant she needed to stay out of grown men's business.
But that wasn't going to stop her. If being a young child meant she couldn't solve cases, she was going to grow up as quickly as possible, and if being a girl meant that mysteries weren't her business, she was just going to have to be a boy to get everyone to think it was. She started using "male" language in everyday conversation and took to wearing boys' clothing, hoping to be treated as one by her family and perceived as one by people who didn't know her.
Surprisingly, Shirogane-sama accepted it, in what the rest of the family saw as "another foolish whim of his, like his Judge Dee act", and made the rest of the family follow his lead. He loved his granddaughter - his only grandchild - and under these circumstances he could make her his heir and his successor as a detective. The child had rarely been seen outside the estate, so reports that Naoto was a girl could be "corrected". As to the problem of age, he started to allow Naoto into his conferences when he was about ten, as the child understood what was going on when he consulted him. By age thirteen, some of Shirogane's cases became Naoto's responsibility, and the "Detective Prince" began his official career. Not a single case he has been consulted on has gone unsolved.