APPLICATION
Mun
Name: Famine
Livejournal Username: timeskips
E-mail: devil.shield@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: AIM: novatierrie
Timezone: JST For another month and a half or so anyway
Current Characters in Route: None
Character
Name: Ken Hidaka
Series: Weiss Kreuz
Timeline: Just after the first mission shown in Side B, with Kurumi living in the flower shop now. This is about six months after Ken's arrival in London, best I can tell. Chronology? What's that?
Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia
Weiss wiki article on Ken (...it's like the only article on here. |Db)
Affiliation: Trainer
Personality: Ken is a textbook example of the idiom 'nice guys finish last.' From very early in his life, he's had terrible luck in both events and how others in his life have dealt with him. Even so, he's remained a nice guy through everything, even if he's acquired a bit of a penchant for angst along the way.
He started out his life as nothing but a normal, soccer-obsessed kid. But his mother died when he was young, and without any time to adjust to the passing of his beloved parent, his father left him on a church doorstep and took off. Ken wasn't raised by his family, but instead by the Sister who ran the youth home associated with the church. This formed a rather solid base for his abandonment issues, as well as the base of his moral beliefs (gasp, shock, the career killer is Catholic.) Even after such a blatant violation of his trust, Ken grew up optimistic and trusting in the people around him.
That trust was taken advantage of again by his best friend Kase. After the man framed him for cheating in the professional soccer league they both played in, he had Ken assaulted and left to die in a burning warehouse. (This also instilled in him a fear of explosives and fire that he still deals with.) To the end, Ken was worried about Kase, and devastated when he believed his best friend had been killed. His loyalty to his friend would get exploited again--Ken is absurdly loyal, to the point where it took Kase betraying him three times for Ken to finally get the clue that the man he thought was a friend was really not--and he still cried as he struck the final blow, and is still willing to believe that Kase was manipulated into hating him--notably, at the end of the series, he blames Takatori Reiji for Kase's betrayal, not Kase being a jerkass.
Though he's definitely one of the good guys, he's also rather hot-headed and impulsive, prone to fits of anger--especially when dealing with Aya, but we won't go there at the moment. He's a very tactile person who prefers to solve problems by hitting them. (This works really well when your problem is with another person. :|) That isn't to say that he's not capable of rational thought, he even seems pretty intelligent--by way of street smarts (he also sometimes exhibits common sense.) He's not incredibly well educated, seeing as how he never bothered going to high school, but little irritates him more than someone dismissing his opinion because he's a middle-school dropout.
He's good with children, relating to them a lot like an older brother, and he's rather protective of them to go along with. He hates liars and those who take advantage of other people. And perhaps the most telling bit of his personality is that he absolutely hates the fact that he kills people. He sees Weiss as a necessary evil, the operative word there being 'evil'. Despite lapsing in his religious practices, Ken was still raised in a Christian setting for most of his life, and he does still quite thoroughly believe in heaven and hell and the idea of mortal sin. (His character quote is 'It's too late to confess now,' showing that he does still believe and he basically thinks he's damned himself through the choice he made to join Kritiker.)
Ken's canon point is very nearly the latest possible, and this means he's gone through a lot of development through the intervening time. The above is his characterization during Kapitel, the first series, and while it all still applies...well, there's a lot more to him than that. First off, while he's still a nice guy, Ken has gone through an impressive psychotic snap. Years of throwing pebbles at his psyche ended up with it shattering, and for quite a few years 'crazy' was a term found lacking to describe his mental state. Whereas before his snap Ken was a kind man, driven to these actions by circumstance and hating both the circumstances and the way he's dealt with them, yet not knowing how to break the cycle...for the last few years Ken has absolutely reveled in the chaos and death he left in his wake. This made him incredibly dangerous--a loose cannon barely restrained by what remained of his sense of morals and yet fully aware of what he'd become, as evidenced by his admission to Aya during the drama CDs set inbetween the two anime series. Despite his mental state during this timeframe, Ken never went after anyone he wasn't commanded to--even if it was very loosely.
In the final few episodes of Gluhen, Ken realized just how far he'd fallen, but couldn't find the strength in himself to recover for his own sake. However, he did recover--but only for the sake of Aya, whom he had fixated on as the one person in his life that hadn't either abandoned him, betrayed him, or died on him, the one constant and the only member of his generation of Weiss who seemed to have come out of the ordeals they went through more complete and at ease with himself than he went in. Ken very likely envies Aya this on a subconscious level, but as it is, his fixation on Aya shows itself in a stubborn, absolute loyalty. Ken will follow Aya to the ends of the earth and back, and indeed has done already.
At this time, Ken's mental state is mostly stable, though there are some things that may set him off again. However, he's gotten rather good at being cheerful, whether it's genuine or faked for the sake of appearances, Ken nearly always seems to have a smile handy. However, he generally doesn't let anyone get close to him any more than superficially without a fight due to what's happened to him in the past.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Loyalty. Ken is absolutely loyal to anyone he throws his hat in with. Once he's given his trust to someone without reserve, it's hard to lose it--but it's even harder to gain back if you do.
+ Determination. Once Ken sets his sights on a goal, he doesn't rest until he's attained it.
+ Strength and Speed. Physically speaking, Ken is a lightning bruiser, capable of hitting hard and fast--and he knows the best places to hit to make someone go down. This is in no way superhuman--he's just well trained.
+ Weaponry and Combat. Ken is an assassin, with nearly six years experience under his belt--he has gone through extensive training, enough to be able to infiltrate a militia force, and is definitely a force to be reckoned with in hand-to-hand. He's no marksman, but he's also capable of wielding firearms and using military arms.
+ Reflexes. Ken is an ex-professional soccer player--specifically, he was a goaltender--and so his hand-eye coordination is top notch. Fighting for the last few years of his life has only increased this skill.
+ Common Sense/Intuition. Ken might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but he does have some measure of common sense and is capable of jumping to conclusions that most other people wouldn't consider--or wouldn't think him capable of reaching.
+ Technology. Ken isn't the best with this, but he knows his way around technology with moderate skill--including such things as surveillance technology.
- Loyalty. Ken's trust in people has been so absolute at times that it can easily be used to manipulate him. He will always give the benefit of the doubt to someone he considers a friend, even when it's proven to bite him in the ass before.
- Poor Judge of Character. Maybe not so much anymore, since his trust issues have cropped up, but Ken is inclined to think favorably of most people at the outset, and so this can be taken advantage of. He'd call this optimism, though.
- Logical Thinking. Ken may be able to jump to conclusions sometimes, but his method of doing so is completely erratic and when presented with a logical problem, he will more than likely be unable to solve it. He thinks intuitively, not logically.
- Education. Middle school dropout, hi.
- Mental State. Ken's psyche is like a snow globe fixed with super glue after half the water's already gone. He is /not/ all there, but he's definitely progressed from how he was even as recently as a few months ago.
- Lack of Trust. Ken doesn't trust most anyone completely anymore--not even himself. This translates into him trying to hold people at something of a distance. As he has an extroverted personality, this doesn't really work as well as it could. He'll interact with people and make friends, sure, but he's never completely honest with them.
- Pyrophobia. Okay, so maybe it's not quite so intense as that anymore, who knew going crazy was a good way to cure phobias? but Ken is wary around large open flames due to the whole nearly burning to death thing.
Pokemon
Starter: Rattata, male. He will name him Ratty and feed it cheese 'cause rats like cheese right? And he will ride around on his shoulder.
Password: French toast. YEEEEAH TOAST.
Samples
First Person Sample:
Okay, seriously, how do I get this Joey kid to stop calling me? He keeps on ringing me to brag about his Rattata and it's really bloody annoying. Ratty kicked its ass, anyway.
[Ken grins, and scratches behind the ear of the Rattata perched on his shoulder.]
Y'know, it's getting kinda cold. What're we all supposed to do if it starts snowing, hole up in town? Like any of these towns are big enough to hold all of us...somethin' here didn't get thought through. But I don't think they asked any of us about that, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.
Third Person Sample:
Okay, this? Not London. Ken was pretty damn sure of that, and he hadn't even been in the place for that long. Well, six months, but in the big scheme of things, yeah, that wasn't too long. Long enough to go through the process of thoroughly hating it and wishing he was in Tokyo again, to tolerating it, to hating it again, to finally realizing he better damn well settle 'cause he was gonna be here a while.
Except apparently he wasn't, and he'd never even gotten the memo. His feet were hanging off the bed he'd woken up in, which while he was on the general subject wasn't his bed and this wasn't his room. Sure, he seemed fixated on that fact, but it wasn't all that often that he woke up in a place he utterly did not recognize with no idea how he got there. He'd never been that far gone. On an impulse, Ken pinched his arm--ow. Nope, not a dream.
Well, shit.
"Okay, first up. Find out where the hell I am, where the hell everyone else is, and what the hell is going on." Three things, but hey--they were all interrelated, it counted as one. Or so he thought anyway.
At least he was still in his own clothes, and not too-small pajamas like this room--a kid's room--seemed to suggest. That would've just been awkward.
But when he walked down the stairs and found himself immediately accosted by an unknown woman, with a bag shoved into his hands and then just as quickly shoved out the door (...okay the hell, did it just lock behind him?) Ken began to realize that whatever was going on here, he wasn't about to get all the answers he wanted anytime soon.
Frowning, Ken stuck his hand in the pocket of his jacket, blinking as he encountered something small and round that he didn't remember putting there. He pulled the item out of his pocket and looked at it...and oh, you have got to be kidding.
He might not have recognized the town, the music. He'd never been much of one for video games. But that little red and white ball? He was from Japan after all, how in the hell would he not recognize a Pokeball when he saw one? He'd lived in Tokyo, not under a rock.
"...what the hell."
Name: Famine
Livejournal Username: timeskips
E-mail: devil.shield@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: AIM: novatierrie
Timezone: JST For another month and a half or so anyway
Current Characters in Route: None
Character
Name: Ken Hidaka
Series: Weiss Kreuz
Timeline: Just after the first mission shown in Side B, with Kurumi living in the flower shop now. This is about six months after Ken's arrival in London, best I can tell. Chronology? What's that?
Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia
Weiss wiki article on Ken (...it's like the only article on here. |Db)
Affiliation: Trainer
Personality: Ken is a textbook example of the idiom 'nice guys finish last.' From very early in his life, he's had terrible luck in both events and how others in his life have dealt with him. Even so, he's remained a nice guy through everything, even if he's acquired a bit of a penchant for angst along the way.
He started out his life as nothing but a normal, soccer-obsessed kid. But his mother died when he was young, and without any time to adjust to the passing of his beloved parent, his father left him on a church doorstep and took off. Ken wasn't raised by his family, but instead by the Sister who ran the youth home associated with the church. This formed a rather solid base for his abandonment issues, as well as the base of his moral beliefs (gasp, shock, the career killer is Catholic.) Even after such a blatant violation of his trust, Ken grew up optimistic and trusting in the people around him.
That trust was taken advantage of again by his best friend Kase. After the man framed him for cheating in the professional soccer league they both played in, he had Ken assaulted and left to die in a burning warehouse. (This also instilled in him a fear of explosives and fire that he still deals with.) To the end, Ken was worried about Kase, and devastated when he believed his best friend had been killed. His loyalty to his friend would get exploited again--Ken is absurdly loyal, to the point where it took Kase betraying him three times for Ken to finally get the clue that the man he thought was a friend was really not--and he still cried as he struck the final blow, and is still willing to believe that Kase was manipulated into hating him--notably, at the end of the series, he blames Takatori Reiji for Kase's betrayal, not Kase being a jerkass.
Though he's definitely one of the good guys, he's also rather hot-headed and impulsive, prone to fits of anger--especially when dealing with Aya, but we won't go there at the moment. He's a very tactile person who prefers to solve problems by hitting them. (This works really well when your problem is with another person. :|) That isn't to say that he's not capable of rational thought, he even seems pretty intelligent--by way of street smarts (he also sometimes exhibits common sense.) He's not incredibly well educated, seeing as how he never bothered going to high school, but little irritates him more than someone dismissing his opinion because he's a middle-school dropout.
He's good with children, relating to them a lot like an older brother, and he's rather protective of them to go along with. He hates liars and those who take advantage of other people. And perhaps the most telling bit of his personality is that he absolutely hates the fact that he kills people. He sees Weiss as a necessary evil, the operative word there being 'evil'. Despite lapsing in his religious practices, Ken was still raised in a Christian setting for most of his life, and he does still quite thoroughly believe in heaven and hell and the idea of mortal sin. (His character quote is 'It's too late to confess now,' showing that he does still believe and he basically thinks he's damned himself through the choice he made to join Kritiker.)
Ken's canon point is very nearly the latest possible, and this means he's gone through a lot of development through the intervening time. The above is his characterization during Kapitel, the first series, and while it all still applies...well, there's a lot more to him than that. First off, while he's still a nice guy, Ken has gone through an impressive psychotic snap. Years of throwing pebbles at his psyche ended up with it shattering, and for quite a few years 'crazy' was a term found lacking to describe his mental state. Whereas before his snap Ken was a kind man, driven to these actions by circumstance and hating both the circumstances and the way he's dealt with them, yet not knowing how to break the cycle...for the last few years Ken has absolutely reveled in the chaos and death he left in his wake. This made him incredibly dangerous--a loose cannon barely restrained by what remained of his sense of morals and yet fully aware of what he'd become, as evidenced by his admission to Aya during the drama CDs set inbetween the two anime series. Despite his mental state during this timeframe, Ken never went after anyone he wasn't commanded to--even if it was very loosely.
In the final few episodes of Gluhen, Ken realized just how far he'd fallen, but couldn't find the strength in himself to recover for his own sake. However, he did recover--but only for the sake of Aya, whom he had fixated on as the one person in his life that hadn't either abandoned him, betrayed him, or died on him, the one constant and the only member of his generation of Weiss who seemed to have come out of the ordeals they went through more complete and at ease with himself than he went in. Ken very likely envies Aya this on a subconscious level, but as it is, his fixation on Aya shows itself in a stubborn, absolute loyalty. Ken will follow Aya to the ends of the earth and back, and indeed has done already.
At this time, Ken's mental state is mostly stable, though there are some things that may set him off again. However, he's gotten rather good at being cheerful, whether it's genuine or faked for the sake of appearances, Ken nearly always seems to have a smile handy. However, he generally doesn't let anyone get close to him any more than superficially without a fight due to what's happened to him in the past.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Loyalty. Ken is absolutely loyal to anyone he throws his hat in with. Once he's given his trust to someone without reserve, it's hard to lose it--but it's even harder to gain back if you do.
+ Determination. Once Ken sets his sights on a goal, he doesn't rest until he's attained it.
+ Strength and Speed. Physically speaking, Ken is a lightning bruiser, capable of hitting hard and fast--and he knows the best places to hit to make someone go down. This is in no way superhuman--he's just well trained.
+ Weaponry and Combat. Ken is an assassin, with nearly six years experience under his belt--he has gone through extensive training, enough to be able to infiltrate a militia force, and is definitely a force to be reckoned with in hand-to-hand. He's no marksman, but he's also capable of wielding firearms and using military arms.
+ Reflexes. Ken is an ex-professional soccer player--specifically, he was a goaltender--and so his hand-eye coordination is top notch. Fighting for the last few years of his life has only increased this skill.
+ Common Sense/Intuition. Ken might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but he does have some measure of common sense and is capable of jumping to conclusions that most other people wouldn't consider--or wouldn't think him capable of reaching.
+ Technology. Ken isn't the best with this, but he knows his way around technology with moderate skill--including such things as surveillance technology.
- Loyalty. Ken's trust in people has been so absolute at times that it can easily be used to manipulate him. He will always give the benefit of the doubt to someone he considers a friend, even when it's proven to bite him in the ass before.
- Poor Judge of Character. Maybe not so much anymore, since his trust issues have cropped up, but Ken is inclined to think favorably of most people at the outset, and so this can be taken advantage of. He'd call this optimism, though.
- Logical Thinking. Ken may be able to jump to conclusions sometimes, but his method of doing so is completely erratic and when presented with a logical problem, he will more than likely be unable to solve it. He thinks intuitively, not logically.
- Education. Middle school dropout, hi.
- Mental State. Ken's psyche is like a snow globe fixed with super glue after half the water's already gone. He is /not/ all there, but he's definitely progressed from how he was even as recently as a few months ago.
- Lack of Trust. Ken doesn't trust most anyone completely anymore--not even himself. This translates into him trying to hold people at something of a distance. As he has an extroverted personality, this doesn't really work as well as it could. He'll interact with people and make friends, sure, but he's never completely honest with them.
- Pyrophobia. Okay, so maybe it's not quite so intense as that anymore, who knew going crazy was a good way to cure phobias? but Ken is wary around large open flames due to the whole nearly burning to death thing.
Pokemon
Starter: Rattata, male. He will name him Ratty and feed it cheese 'cause rats like cheese right? And he will ride around on his shoulder.
Password: French toast. YEEEEAH TOAST.
Samples
First Person Sample:
Okay, seriously, how do I get this Joey kid to stop calling me? He keeps on ringing me to brag about his Rattata and it's really bloody annoying. Ratty kicked its ass, anyway.
[Ken grins, and scratches behind the ear of the Rattata perched on his shoulder.]
Y'know, it's getting kinda cold. What're we all supposed to do if it starts snowing, hole up in town? Like any of these towns are big enough to hold all of us...somethin' here didn't get thought through. But I don't think they asked any of us about that, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.
Third Person Sample:
Okay, this? Not London. Ken was pretty damn sure of that, and he hadn't even been in the place for that long. Well, six months, but in the big scheme of things, yeah, that wasn't too long. Long enough to go through the process of thoroughly hating it and wishing he was in Tokyo again, to tolerating it, to hating it again, to finally realizing he better damn well settle 'cause he was gonna be here a while.
Except apparently he wasn't, and he'd never even gotten the memo. His feet were hanging off the bed he'd woken up in, which while he was on the general subject wasn't his bed and this wasn't his room. Sure, he seemed fixated on that fact, but it wasn't all that often that he woke up in a place he utterly did not recognize with no idea how he got there. He'd never been that far gone. On an impulse, Ken pinched his arm--ow. Nope, not a dream.
Well, shit.
"Okay, first up. Find out where the hell I am, where the hell everyone else is, and what the hell is going on." Three things, but hey--they were all interrelated, it counted as one. Or so he thought anyway.
At least he was still in his own clothes, and not too-small pajamas like this room--a kid's room--seemed to suggest. That would've just been awkward.
But when he walked down the stairs and found himself immediately accosted by an unknown woman, with a bag shoved into his hands and then just as quickly shoved out the door (...okay the hell, did it just lock behind him?) Ken began to realize that whatever was going on here, he wasn't about to get all the answers he wanted anytime soon.
Frowning, Ken stuck his hand in the pocket of his jacket, blinking as he encountered something small and round that he didn't remember putting there. He pulled the item out of his pocket and looked at it...and oh, you have got to be kidding.
He might not have recognized the town, the music. He'd never been much of one for video games. But that little red and white ball? He was from Japan after all, how in the hell would he not recognize a Pokeball when he saw one? He'd lived in Tokyo, not under a rock.
"...what the hell."