OOC: Application [WonderlandWars]
AS OF RETRACE 50, THIS ENTIRE APPLICATION IS NOW ENTIRELY INACCURATE.
Thank you, PH mindscrew.
>♘ CHARACTER INFORMATION
[ name ] Reo
[ fandom ] Pandora Hearts
[ canon point ] After retrace 41
[ age ] 16
[ personality ]
First and foremost, Reo is very level-headed and sensible. He is what could be considered the “quiet one”; Reo is the student you would see always carrying a book, usually with his nose buried in it, as if oblivious to the rest of the world. Along these lines, he seems to see the world as if it were a story, or one of the novels he loves so much, and books seem to take the most important role in his life, as he tends to turn to books first, and reality second.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Reo is actually extremely sensible; he does not see the world as if through tinted glasses, but rather as it often really is. He’s perceptive, and he can be blunt, especially if he feels like someone needs a reality check. This someone is usually Elliot, and this shows how little things like the social hierarchy mean to Reo. He makes use of them when it’s expected of him (he is perfectly polite to Zai Vessalius, for example), but when he’s alone with Elliot, where he knows it does not matter, Reo will not hesitate to discard the rather silly and useless social hierarchy in order to dispense his words of wisdom. Sometimes via means of physical punishment; he doesn’t hesitate to punch Elliot in the head if he deserves it.
With that said, Reo is fair. He tries to watch out for and keep his sometimes not very sensible master in line, but when Elliot realizes his own mistakes, Reo doesn’t feel the need to say anything at all. In fact, he says so himself. He doesn’t need to teach Elliot anything when Elliot has already learned the lesson for himself. For Reo is very intelligent and perceptive. He tends towards the most reasonable and efficient answer to things, even if it requires him to be blunt and perfectly honest. He is, likely, one of the most honest characters in the series.
Along these lines, he understands people and situations well. Reo can read the atmosphere, and he understands people’s emotions, so the often rather blunt advice he gives is usually sound advice. And the orders he gives to Elliot are also generally good advice as well, hence why Elliot most likely listens to him (most of the time.). It is a little backwards that Reo sometimes gives the orders to Elliot, his master, and not the other way around, but neither of them seem to mind or notice how backwards it is. Their relationship is rarely that of master and servant, after all, since they are more often friends.
Because of this, Reo likes to tease Elliot. In fact, he likes to tease people in general, though he is more likely to tease someone he knows, since first and foremost with people he does not know, he prefers to keep quiet and learn more about them. In a polite manner, of course, for he is a servant and a well-mannered student. In fact, Reo is most often polite and quietly kind, despite any gentle teasing he might do.
He is, of course, harshest in his teasing on Elliot, and he also knows how to work most situations to his advantage. It isn’t that he is manipulative per se, but rather that he understands people’s motivations for things, and isn’t above using said motivations for the greater good. Usually, this simply means doing something like walking away from Elliot and saying that it was a shame he wasn’t a proper servant for him, prompting Elliot to call him back quickly.
Reo is also often very calm. He takes things in stride, rather than panicking, which is probably one of his strongest and best character traits. When Zwei’s Chain tangles his arm up in the controlling threads, he doesn’t panic and he doesn’t try to escape, which saves him from getting more tangled. In other words, even in the tensest of situations he is level-headed and able to think clearly. Of course, along with this comes his good-naturedness. Reo really is a kind person, and so he will neglect mentioning something if he doesn’t feel it’s necessary, or if he thinks it will do more harm than good. For example, he didn’t tell Elliot that Oz was the intruder at first because he thought that Oz seemed like a nice person. In that, he can often seem to be a little optimistic and perhaps a little naïve, despite his intelligence and his sharpness.
Reo is logical, and he’s also very curious. He is shown to randomly search out a snake and wonder what it was even as they only just escaped from the Baskervilles. In other words, he just likes to understand things and learn, and as such, he is quick to analyze a situation to the best of his abilities so as to make the best use of it.
Generally, however, he is simply polite, well-mannered and a little cautious. He is intelligent, observant and often rather philosophical as well, as a lot of the advice he gives is so, or is at the very least rather poetic. It likely comes from all of the books he reads.
[ history ]
Not much is known about Reo’s history.
At a young age he became a servant to the Nightray family, and to Elliot in particular, and it seems he has been serving the Nightray family for a long time. He also works with Elliot at the orphanage in Sablier, which is owned by the Nightray family. He is shown to be quite affectionate to the children, and to be received in kind, so it is likely that he has been working there for quite a long time.
He first appears in the manga when Oz and Co. go to visit Ada at Latowidge, the school Elliot, and by extension Reo, attends. Reo’s first appearance is, of course, him reading a book and telling Elliot to be quiet, as he is yelling at Oz in a library. When Oz is later kidnapped by the Baskervilles, it is Reo and Elliot that find where he has been taken and save him. Though Reo was admittedly quite useless as far as the actual fighting is concerned, he is the one who found how the secret passage opened, as well as being the catalyst for them to escape through shooting at Lotti (though he then nearly missed her at point-blank range).
We next see Elliot and Reo briefly when Oz and Co travel to Sablier, for both are working at the Nightray’s orphanage there. When Oz, Gil and Alice head off into the heart of Sablier, the two decide to follow them to make sure they’re okay. There they are stopped by the Baskervilles, and are nearly more or less killed by them when Break intervenes, stopping the Baskervilles and intending to interrogate them. Understanding the situation, Reo and Elliot run for it, leaving Break to deal with the Baskervilles.
And finally, they find Oz. After some time spent walking, and after Oz demonstrates his suddenly impressive skills with a scythe, they find Gilbert. But they aren’t able to breathe a sigh of relief yet, for soon after comes Zai Vessalius, Oz’s failure of a father. Gilbert runs after the man in a rage, but Elliot and Reo remain behind to try to help Oz.
Thankfully, Alice appears to break a rather tense situation, and, after a heartfelt declaration of friendship from Oz, Elliot and Reo part ways from Oz, Alice, Gilbert and the unfortunately unconscious Break.
And then Reo ends up in Wonderland.
[ appearance ] On the right.
[ abilities ]
None whatsoever.
Okay, that’s a lie, but he really is rather hopeless in fights. He can use a gun to some extent, but his aim is pretty bad. And he can’t use a sword at all.
Reo’s strengths lie in his intelligence and his ability to judge things, as Zai Vessalius pointed out: “He’s quite clever and understands the situation well.”
He has to rely on his level-headed calm and his intelligence in a fight, however, since he is so useless with weaponry.
♛ WONDERLAND INFORMATION
[ allegiance ] Carnival
[ chosen weapon for the shifter ] A basic handgun
[ form of the shifter when not in use ] A small book
♗ SAMPLES
[ first person ]
Oh? This is odd.
Why a looking glass, I wonder? I’m certain I didn’t have one with me before I showed up here.
[He taps at the surface, looking into his reflection with an odd, detached sort of curiosity.]
It seems like it’s more than a mirror though. How strange; I wonder what else it can do?
[He fiddles around with it some more, smiling a little to himself.]
I wonder if it’s some sort of a clue, like out of a mystery novel.
[A pause.]
...Or maybe not. It seems like it does have a purpose, actually. I can’t help but wonder, though...Why a mirror?
[ third person ]
It would be a lie to say that Reo was used to strange situations. He was used to odd ones, certainly; he served Elliot Nightray, after all, and despite the fact that the majority of their time was spent at the Latowidge Academy, they managed to get into odd situations nonetheless. Usually this was Elliot’s fault, and Reo was always certain to scold him for it, but in this case…
As he looked around at the very unfamiliar surroundings, Reo was mostly certain this was not, in fact, Elliot’s fault. In fact, he didn’t know where his master was at all.
“Elliot?”
No answer. Well, it had been worth a try. Who knew? The Nightray could have been hiding somewhere, for some reason, though that wasn’t very logical. Still, Elliot was often illogical in his actions, though Reo wouldn’t go so far as to say that he would hide from his own servant.
But that didn’t change the fact that he was currently alone in a place he had never seen before. It was like something out of an action novel, except that instead of a sword, he only had a book.
Well, if he was careful, it wouldn’t be a problem. And he wasn’t going to find any help or any answers standing around in a deserted area. While Reo remembered reading something about how it was best to remain in the same place when lost so that people could find you, he rather suspected that that required people to be searching for you, and if he didn’t know this place, then it wouldn’t be very logical to expect the people to know him.
So Reo began to walk, book tucked under one arm, taking in everything with some fascination. It was almost like an adventure, it really was. He might as well enjoy himself until he found some more people, right?
Thank you, PH mindscrew.
>♘ CHARACTER INFORMATION
[ name ] Reo
[ fandom ] Pandora Hearts
[ canon point ] After retrace 41
[ age ] 16
[ personality ]
First and foremost, Reo is very level-headed and sensible. He is what could be considered the “quiet one”; Reo is the student you would see always carrying a book, usually with his nose buried in it, as if oblivious to the rest of the world. Along these lines, he seems to see the world as if it were a story, or one of the novels he loves so much, and books seem to take the most important role in his life, as he tends to turn to books first, and reality second.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Reo is actually extremely sensible; he does not see the world as if through tinted glasses, but rather as it often really is. He’s perceptive, and he can be blunt, especially if he feels like someone needs a reality check. This someone is usually Elliot, and this shows how little things like the social hierarchy mean to Reo. He makes use of them when it’s expected of him (he is perfectly polite to Zai Vessalius, for example), but when he’s alone with Elliot, where he knows it does not matter, Reo will not hesitate to discard the rather silly and useless social hierarchy in order to dispense his words of wisdom. Sometimes via means of physical punishment; he doesn’t hesitate to punch Elliot in the head if he deserves it.
With that said, Reo is fair. He tries to watch out for and keep his sometimes not very sensible master in line, but when Elliot realizes his own mistakes, Reo doesn’t feel the need to say anything at all. In fact, he says so himself. He doesn’t need to teach Elliot anything when Elliot has already learned the lesson for himself. For Reo is very intelligent and perceptive. He tends towards the most reasonable and efficient answer to things, even if it requires him to be blunt and perfectly honest. He is, likely, one of the most honest characters in the series.
Along these lines, he understands people and situations well. Reo can read the atmosphere, and he understands people’s emotions, so the often rather blunt advice he gives is usually sound advice. And the orders he gives to Elliot are also generally good advice as well, hence why Elliot most likely listens to him (most of the time.). It is a little backwards that Reo sometimes gives the orders to Elliot, his master, and not the other way around, but neither of them seem to mind or notice how backwards it is. Their relationship is rarely that of master and servant, after all, since they are more often friends.
Because of this, Reo likes to tease Elliot. In fact, he likes to tease people in general, though he is more likely to tease someone he knows, since first and foremost with people he does not know, he prefers to keep quiet and learn more about them. In a polite manner, of course, for he is a servant and a well-mannered student. In fact, Reo is most often polite and quietly kind, despite any gentle teasing he might do.
He is, of course, harshest in his teasing on Elliot, and he also knows how to work most situations to his advantage. It isn’t that he is manipulative per se, but rather that he understands people’s motivations for things, and isn’t above using said motivations for the greater good. Usually, this simply means doing something like walking away from Elliot and saying that it was a shame he wasn’t a proper servant for him, prompting Elliot to call him back quickly.
Reo is also often very calm. He takes things in stride, rather than panicking, which is probably one of his strongest and best character traits. When Zwei’s Chain tangles his arm up in the controlling threads, he doesn’t panic and he doesn’t try to escape, which saves him from getting more tangled. In other words, even in the tensest of situations he is level-headed and able to think clearly. Of course, along with this comes his good-naturedness. Reo really is a kind person, and so he will neglect mentioning something if he doesn’t feel it’s necessary, or if he thinks it will do more harm than good. For example, he didn’t tell Elliot that Oz was the intruder at first because he thought that Oz seemed like a nice person. In that, he can often seem to be a little optimistic and perhaps a little naïve, despite his intelligence and his sharpness.
Reo is logical, and he’s also very curious. He is shown to randomly search out a snake and wonder what it was even as they only just escaped from the Baskervilles. In other words, he just likes to understand things and learn, and as such, he is quick to analyze a situation to the best of his abilities so as to make the best use of it.
Generally, however, he is simply polite, well-mannered and a little cautious. He is intelligent, observant and often rather philosophical as well, as a lot of the advice he gives is so, or is at the very least rather poetic. It likely comes from all of the books he reads.
[ history ]
Not much is known about Reo’s history.
At a young age he became a servant to the Nightray family, and to Elliot in particular, and it seems he has been serving the Nightray family for a long time. He also works with Elliot at the orphanage in Sablier, which is owned by the Nightray family. He is shown to be quite affectionate to the children, and to be received in kind, so it is likely that he has been working there for quite a long time.
He first appears in the manga when Oz and Co. go to visit Ada at Latowidge, the school Elliot, and by extension Reo, attends. Reo’s first appearance is, of course, him reading a book and telling Elliot to be quiet, as he is yelling at Oz in a library. When Oz is later kidnapped by the Baskervilles, it is Reo and Elliot that find where he has been taken and save him. Though Reo was admittedly quite useless as far as the actual fighting is concerned, he is the one who found how the secret passage opened, as well as being the catalyst for them to escape through shooting at Lotti (though he then nearly missed her at point-blank range).
We next see Elliot and Reo briefly when Oz and Co travel to Sablier, for both are working at the Nightray’s orphanage there. When Oz, Gil and Alice head off into the heart of Sablier, the two decide to follow them to make sure they’re okay. There they are stopped by the Baskervilles, and are nearly more or less killed by them when Break intervenes, stopping the Baskervilles and intending to interrogate them. Understanding the situation, Reo and Elliot run for it, leaving Break to deal with the Baskervilles.
And finally, they find Oz. After some time spent walking, and after Oz demonstrates his suddenly impressive skills with a scythe, they find Gilbert. But they aren’t able to breathe a sigh of relief yet, for soon after comes Zai Vessalius, Oz’s failure of a father. Gilbert runs after the man in a rage, but Elliot and Reo remain behind to try to help Oz.
Thankfully, Alice appears to break a rather tense situation, and, after a heartfelt declaration of friendship from Oz, Elliot and Reo part ways from Oz, Alice, Gilbert and the unfortunately unconscious Break.
And then Reo ends up in Wonderland.
[ appearance ] On the right.
[ abilities ]
None whatsoever.
Okay, that’s a lie, but he really is rather hopeless in fights. He can use a gun to some extent, but his aim is pretty bad. And he can’t use a sword at all.
Reo’s strengths lie in his intelligence and his ability to judge things, as Zai Vessalius pointed out: “He’s quite clever and understands the situation well.”
He has to rely on his level-headed calm and his intelligence in a fight, however, since he is so useless with weaponry.
♛ WONDERLAND INFORMATION
[ allegiance ] Carnival
[ chosen weapon for the shifter ] A basic handgun
[ form of the shifter when not in use ] A small book
♗ SAMPLES
[ first person ]
Oh? This is odd.
Why a looking glass, I wonder? I’m certain I didn’t have one with me before I showed up here.
[He taps at the surface, looking into his reflection with an odd, detached sort of curiosity.]
It seems like it’s more than a mirror though. How strange; I wonder what else it can do?
[He fiddles around with it some more, smiling a little to himself.]
I wonder if it’s some sort of a clue, like out of a mystery novel.
[A pause.]
...Or maybe not. It seems like it does have a purpose, actually. I can’t help but wonder, though...Why a mirror?
[ third person ]
It would be a lie to say that Reo was used to strange situations. He was used to odd ones, certainly; he served Elliot Nightray, after all, and despite the fact that the majority of their time was spent at the Latowidge Academy, they managed to get into odd situations nonetheless. Usually this was Elliot’s fault, and Reo was always certain to scold him for it, but in this case…
As he looked around at the very unfamiliar surroundings, Reo was mostly certain this was not, in fact, Elliot’s fault. In fact, he didn’t know where his master was at all.
“Elliot?”
No answer. Well, it had been worth a try. Who knew? The Nightray could have been hiding somewhere, for some reason, though that wasn’t very logical. Still, Elliot was often illogical in his actions, though Reo wouldn’t go so far as to say that he would hide from his own servant.
But that didn’t change the fact that he was currently alone in a place he had never seen before. It was like something out of an action novel, except that instead of a sword, he only had a book.
Well, if he was careful, it wouldn’t be a problem. And he wasn’t going to find any help or any answers standing around in a deserted area. While Reo remembered reading something about how it was best to remain in the same place when lost so that people could find you, he rather suspected that that required people to be searching for you, and if he didn’t know this place, then it wouldn’t be very logical to expect the people to know him.
So Reo began to walk, book tucked under one arm, taking in everything with some fascination. It was almost like an adventure, it really was. He might as well enjoy himself until he found some more people, right?