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- PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Taco
AGE: 21
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: Sheeeee/Heeeerrrr
EMAIL ADDRESS: britishmoo@gmail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: [aim] fonic melodist | [lj] tacos_of_doom
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Megumi "Gumi" Kamui [13376066135]
Colette Brunel [powyourhammer]
Fuu Hououji [sonatineofwind]
RESERVED? Yeah, but the reserve ran out. :( So technically no?
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Inoue Konoha
ALIAS: n/a
SERIES/SOURCE: Bungaku Shoujo
AGE: 17
GENDER: Male
OCCUPATION: Student
BACKGROUND: Inoue Konoha is the first of two children born to his parents, followed years later by his younger sister (who is adorable, by the way). For the first several years of his life, Konoha was a fairly normal kid. But one day, in his early school years, he met the girl who would ultimately become his best friend (and first love). It was difficult to get close to her, but somehow, Konoha did ... and as he got closer, he started to be more and more drawn in by the outlandish and crazy stories she always told. The two were inseperable through most of their early schooling years, up into middle school. Her dream was to become a writer, and an opportunity to become published arose in the form of a young novelist's contest.
Konoha had a talent for writing as well, and though he wanted to enter the competition, he felt he would be betraying his best friend if he did. He did end up entering that contest, but under the pen name of 'Inoue Miu'; partly because he was told that a 'mysterious female' novelist would sell better, and partly because he didn't want his friend to know. Konoha didn't expect to do well in the competiton, but alas, he won. His novel, Just Like the Sky, was published, and became a huge sensation over the next several months. His friend, on the other hand, became depressed, and Konoha was left feeling incredibly guilty over the popularity of his novel. He finally told her that it was he who wrote that novel, under a pen name, and relations between the two of them became strained for a while before, one day, Konoha witnessed her try and take her own life by jumping off the roof of the school, telling Konoha that he "wouldn't understand."
For the rest of his middle school years, Konoha battled severe depression. Though nobody else knew it was he who had written it, the popularity of his book only served as a reminder of how guilty he felt over betraying his best friend like that, and served as a reminder of what she did as a result. Konoha swore he would never write a novel again. He wouldn't go to school, or even out of the house quite often. Somehow, he managed to pass all of his classes, though, and he eventually took the high school exams and became a high school student. As he started with high school, Konoha slowly started to get better. He became friendlier with his fellow students, and he started to make a few more friends. He started doing better at home, too. Things were finally looking up for Konoha, and though he was obviously still feeling the guilt over his novel and his friend, he was starting to look past all of it and see that there were also good things in life.
One day in his first year of High School, though, would change his life forever.
As Konoha was walking to class, he came across an older student sitting underneath a tree. At first, there was nothing out of the ordinary, but then he saw her rip a corner off a page of her book and eat it.
The girl caught him staring at her, and stood up to introduce herself. She claimed she was a "Literature Girl," then insisted that he join the Literature Club. Konoha initially tried to refuse, but she said that now that he knew her secret, she had to keep an eye on him and make sure he didn't tell.
Thus, he was blackmailed into joining the literature club.
For the next two years, Konoha's routine changed so that he went to the literature club room every day after school. His esteemed "president" always set up prompts for him to write about, and he wrote her "snack" for the day. Over those two years, Konoha came to trust this girl, and found that she was the only one he could be truly honest with. The two became extremely close, and had a sort of relationship where they snarked at each other often, but really did care a lot about each other's well being. Once again, things were looking better for Konoha. He had even gone back into writing, inspired by the literature club president .... not that he would ever admit to it.
Things got more complicated upon visiting a friend and classmate in the hospital one day. Konoha made a shocking discovery: His best friend from all that time ago was alive, and apparently had been trying to contact him. After getting over his initial shock, Konoha started visiting her in the hospital every day. His friends who knew this girl started warning him that she wasn't being the most honest person, but Konoha ignored them in lieu of his old friend's words. In a short amount of time, Konoha started to devote himself more to her, not realizing that she was trying to separate Konoha from all of the friends that he had made while the two had not been in contact. Despite warnings from his friends, Konoha refused to believe that she could possibly be manipulating him in any way, and continued to devote himself more and more to her ...
... Until the day his friend's mother yelled at Konoha, blaming him for her daughter's attempted suicide all those years prior. His friend happened upon that, and yelled at her mother to go away, holding broken glass to her neck and threatening to kill herself. When her mother was gone, she told Konoha that she hated him, and that everything she had ever said to him was a lie. When Konoha asked her what she wanted from him, all she asked him was "What is Campanella's wish?"
Konoha left the hospital that day at an all-time low. On his way home, he met up with the literature club president, who noticed something was wrong with her friend and walked with him, trying to get him to open up to her on what happened. She succeeded in getting him to open up a little ... but Konoha was worried about her well-being, since she was out in the cold when she had college exams to take the next day. The two said a prayer together that everything would turn out okay, Konoha gave her his scarf and gloves to keep warm with, and the two went their separate ways.
From then on, Konoha sought to find what Campanella's wish was. With the literature club president's help, they used the "map of the universe" Konoha and his best friend made as children to try and find out the answer, but Konoha was still confused.
Konoha later went to the roof of his old school and found aforementioned best friend there. She convinced him to go with her to the "end of the universe" ... by which she meant try and commit suicide with her. Konoha agreed, and the two joined hands and moved to fall off the roof ...
... But then! Literature girl to the rescue! The moment Konoha saw the literature club president, he saved both himself and his best friend from jumping off the roof, and the two then went to escort her back to the hospital ... but before they could get there, she jumped in front of a moving truck.
She survived, with no notable injuries other than her mentality being reduced to that of a third grader. Konoha quit school to devote himself solely to his best friend, and even gave a resignation letter to the literature club president, so she would let him quit the Literary club.
Soon after, however, it was revealed that his best friend's "mental reduction" was just another farce, and that she was doing all of this manipulation to keep Konoha with her. She thought that keeping Konoha with her would fulfill "Campanella's Wish."
The Literature Club president happened upon this, and took Konoha, his friend, and a few of their other mutal friends to the local planetarium to explain to everyone what "Campanella's Wish" REALLY was, and put an end once and for all to this mystery. Once everyone was seated in the planetarium, the Literature Girl used an ability to project everybody in the room to a scene that would help her in her explanation. As she explained, Konoha and his friend finally came to an understanding. His best friend admitted that she didn't ever really feel like she was loved by anybody, and Konoha told her he loved her.
When the projection ended, everybody was back in the planetarium, seated. The Literature Girl was missing, though. Konoha went to find her, and he found her at the train station. She explained to him that she was accepted to her first choice of college, and that she would be leaving soon. Konoha desperately asked if he could rejoin and take care of the literature club in her absense, even going so far as to offer to send her "snacks" daily to her by mail. She only shook her head and told him that he needed to write for the world now, rather than exclusively to her. Konoha desperately tried to make her see otherwise, but she wouldn't relent. Soon, it was time for them to part ways one last time, but before she could get on the train again, Konoha pulled her close and kissed her.
After that, life returned to normal, and to some extent, became better. His best friend recovered, and finally started living a normal life. Konoha returned to school. They all had the same friends ... but the Literature Girl was no longer among them, having gone to college.
Konoha missed her terribly, and still harbored romantic feelings for her, but he tried to remain focused. He even tried to write every so often, but found that his inspiration had gone.
Something was bugging him, though, other than the fact that she was gone to begin with; that ability she had, the one where she projected that scene around them at the planetarium ... that wasn't normal. Konoha did some looking into it, and found out that there was a possibility that his dear Literature Girl was a mutant.
A year passed, and Konoha finally was able to start writing little things again. Nothing big, and definitely nothing like what he had ever written for the Literature Girl, but little things that he would give to his best friend or any of his other friends to read. He started realizing as he gave them his writings to read, though, that their reactions were ... odd. If he wrote something depressing, no matter how good a mood they were in before, they would start bawling. If he wrote something angry, they would become angry. If he wrote something happy, their mood would be increasingly better.
Konoha remembered what a sensation his novel had been, and started to wonder if there was a relation. He quietly started "testing" out this theory, writing different things with different tones and giving them to his friends to read. When he saw that everyone who read these stories one after another reacted in the same mannerisms, he started to suspect that his theory was right; this was quite possibly a mutation, like the ability that the Literature Girl had shown them all that time ago.
At this realization, Konoha started wondering if he really was a good writer at all, and if he should seek some help in getting this under control. Final exams were nearing, though, and he didn't have much time to think about it. After he had successfully gone to his final year of grade school, though, he finally got the courage to tell his best friend about the possible mutation, and talk with her about his idea of seeking some help for it. The two looked around for anyone who might be able to help, and came across the Xavier Institute.
One problem. It was in America.
His best friend wasn't fond of the idea of Konoha going to America, but she realized that it was important for him to get his mutation under control. So, reluctantly, she encouraged him talk with his parents about going. Konoha was reluctant at first, too, but she made her point pretty clear. So he talked with his parents, revealing that he thought he might have been a mutant, and expressing his desire to control it.
His parents were shocked by the idea ... but they saw what their son saw, and agreed that it might be a good idea.
Thus, plans were made for Konoha to continue his schooling in America.
PERSONALITY: On the surface, Inoue Konoha seems like a normal teenage boy. He's fairly friendly with people upon meeting them, and he has a fairly easy time making friends; he doesn't usually go out looking for friends, though. He's the kind that usually has friends just ... happen. They come looking for him. And of course, thereby proceed to drag him around for whatever reason-- okay, they're not ALL like that. Just some of them.
Konoha is kind of a pushover. Especially by the women in his life. It's generally very simple to get Konoha to do whatever you want if you're a friend of his. Usually it's as simple as just asking him, but in some cases, it's easy to get him to do whatever anybody wants him to do just by excessive (figurative, by the way, not literal) pushing ... or blackmail. Blackmail works too.
Whether Konoha realizes it or not, though, the friendly face he puts on is something of a mask. Certainly, he's a very nice boy, but there aren't very many people who he can be truly honest with his feelings in front of; he's afraid to let his real feelings show in front of just anybody. There is only one person that he feels he trusts enough to show the real him in front of, and that is also the only person that he will get into little snarking conversations with.
Going a little further beneath that surface, though, Konoha is kind of a messed up kid. He blames himself for his childhood friend's attempted suicide(s), and has emotional breakdowns when he comes across anything that reminds him of that event. During these emotional breakdowns, he hypervenhilates, and completely shuts himself off from most everyone; again, there is only one person he trusts enough to help him through these episodes, when they happen. Also as a result of events in his life, Konoha tends to have some pretty big attachment issues. He doesn't react well to people in his life leaving him without any form of contact.
APPEARANCE: Konoha is about average height for a Japanese high school boy. He has brown hair and brown eyes, and pale skin. He's rather thin. His facial features are often described as 'feminine.' During school in Japan, he wore the school's standard uniform, but in the Americas, he will take to wearing more casual clothes; usually a collared, button down dark shirt and jeans, with tennis shoes, or just a casual t-shirt with jeans and tennis shoes.
POWERS: Writing Based Empathy - Konoha is able to affect the way people feel by his writing. For example, if he wrote something cute and cuddly, his readers would have an exaggerated warm fuzzy happy feeling for a small period of time (anywhere from a half hour to an hour). Of course, this works on the opposite end of the spectrum, too; if he were to write something with an angrier, darker, or more depressing tone, his readers would feel exaggerated feelings of anger, sadness, or depression, depending on what was written. This also lasts for a short period of time.
Konoha is aware that he has this ability, and takes pretty big cautionary measures in order not to accidentally affect anybody who shouldn't be affected. His posts on the network will be either video or audio. As for any classes and papers he needs to write ... I figure he and his teachers can figure something out? |D;;
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* His abilities affect people the same whether his work is handwritten or typed. If it was physically written by him, then it will affect those who read it.
* If he were to dictate his writings to someone else and they wrote it down, the ability would not carry over, and it would be a perfectly fine piece of writing.
* This does mean that his book was probably not popular by way of mutation. The original manuscript might have helped him win, but when the book was mass-produced, it was received well because of his own abilities as a writer. This won't keep him from thinking otherwise, though. :)
ANYTHING ELSE?: The boy is SO whipped by every girl in his life. xD
- RP SAMPLES
First-person sample: [ audio ]
Um ... hi. I'm Inoue Konoha Or would it be Konoha Inoue? They do things kind of backwards in America, if I remember right ...
... Anyway, I'm a little new here, and I was wondering if there was a map of the school that I could use until I get the hang of things around here. Could that be possible?
[ a pause. ]
Well, uh ... thanks anyway.
Third-person sample:
He tapped his pencil against his chin, head propped up on his hand as he sat at a table in the library. The atmosphere in this place was quiet, unlike most of the school, which had just released quite a large amount of students from their classes. Konoha could hear the sounds of his fellow students outside the door of the library, but he was so deep within the room that most of what he heard was muffled. He was grateful for that. It gave him time to attempt some sort of inspiration for this paper he had to write.
Books were scattered across the table. The assignment was a short story, the topic being left to the student, oh, and did we mention he had to write this in English? Despite the unfamiliarity of writing in English (he had done it before, sure, but it wasn't exactly a habit), this was something Konoha could do, and he knew it. Yet ...
Well, his inspiration and creativity had been wavering off and on for the past two years.
So now here he was. Konoha had pulled the books to try and gain some sort of inspiration for getting this assignment done. His paper had multitudes of starts, erase marks, strikeouts. Possible ideas had been jotted down on another piece of paper, and quickly striked out when they didn't work out. He had been sitting here for the past hour, ever since his class released, stretching his brain for ideas and trying to remind himself that pulling his hair out was not going to solve his problems.
His eyes glanced over a page in one of the books he had pulled, and he sighed, stretching his arms above his head and leaning back in his chair with a slight pout.
This could take a while.
OH YEAH.
EXCELSIOOOOOOORRRR!