Post by Naru on Mar 31, 2013 16:32:17 GMT -5
NARUSA NISEI
BASIC INFORMATION
✗—AGE: 15
✗—DATE OF BIRTH: 06/15/2986
✗—RACE: Human
✗—GENDER: Female
✗—HEIGHT: 4'9"
✗—WEIGHT: 85 lbs
✗—ACADEMY: Tempest
✗—ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
✗—CHARACTER JOB: Student
✗—CHARACTER SPECIALTY: Intellect
✗—OTHER FEATURES: She has a scar across her chest, seeming like it originated from an incision.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
✗—CHARACTER CLASS: Rank CCC
CHARACTER INFORMATION
✗—TERRITORY OF BIRTH: Tempest
✗—PERSONALITY: Narusa is very proud of her intellectual ability. She is the type of person who thinks that strategy brings more successes than luck, logic crushes instinct, and strength is useless against pure calculation. This stems from her lack of physical prowess and the fact that she is secretly ashamed of it. She uses her intelligence to justify her weakness. In doing everything, Narusa strives to attain the best result. She knows that perfection cannot be attained, but the best outcome is the most everyone can do. Almost everything she does has some calculation or process of logic behind it. Because of that, she tends to become a bit indecisive until she has evaluated every single risk and thought about every single possible result and the ways to get to the desired result.
Narusa's mind is always plagued with stress, anxiety, and paranoia. This is because of her extensive thinking process, and her mind being constantly strained by it. Because of that, she also gets frequent migranes. To remedy her problems, she always carries a bottle of sedatives and painkillers for her stress and headaches respectively. During times in her life, her strains have become so bad that she rarely but still at times showed signs of psychosis and violent outbreaks under extreme pressure. During those times, she claims to black out and realize what she has done after the outbreak. It's because of her outbreaks that she avoids forming close relationships with anyone, avoids prolonged conversation, and her outbreaks also resulted in the biggest regret she holds in her heart. Her distant personality caused her to be viewed by some as a sociopath.
In battle, she never believes in the existence of a truly fair fight. She knows that there is always one who gets the upper hand and she always aims to gain eery single advantage she can in a fight. This means that she will go as far as comprimising her opponent's condition and trying to defeat them before the fight even begins. Even despite that, she still tries to avoid fights as much as possible and only fights when she deems it absolutely necessary or when someone starts an unavoidable fight with her. However, she is never someone to start fights.
✗—APPEARANCE:
If Narusa gives off an impression from her looks, it's one of a weak and fragile girl. She has a petite and slim build. Some could mistake her for much younger than she actually is. Her hair is long and brown, but she prefers to tie it into two braids. Her skin is very fair, showing that she does not go outdoors often. Her eyes are large, hazel eyes that usually stare off into space or look very empty and distant. To some people, she looks so fragile that it's like she might collapse and fall over like a broken doll at any time when she sits still.
Her manner of dressing is very simple. Her usual outfit is a light long-sleeved sweater, a skirt, knee socks, and formal-looking shoes. Sometimes, she wears a thicker sweater when it becomes colder. Other than that, she does not vary her style in clothing very much. This is because her mind is boggled with so many things that sometimes she even forgets simple things like changing her clothing.
COMBAT INFORMATION
✗—FIGHTING STYLE: (3 Maximum)
O INFORMATION - Before every fight, she researches everything she can about her opponent: every strength, weakness, and ability they have to offer. Uninformed fights to her is like fighting with a blindfold over the eyes. Because of that, she tends to avoid fights where she either does not know enough about what her opponent has to offer or fights that she knows she can't win.
O CALCULATION - Obtaining the information about what she's about to face, she sticks to a game plan where she aims to exploit every weakness in any way possible while being aware of her opponent's strengths. She never strikes first and as the battle progresses, she studies her opponent's every move. Because of this, fights can possibly start to become advantageous to her the longer it goes. Because strength is not her forte, she relies on making every strike count.
O DECEPTION - Since she is lacking in strength, she relies on creating situations where a lack of power could be compensated for. Her preferred way is by using deception. The aim of it is to divert the attention of the opponent by using a distraction such as an optical illusion. Using that distraction, it puts her in a safer situation where she can deal a clean blow or study the opponent without a risk of being harmed.
✗—INVENTORY:
O KITCHEN KNIFE - Her weapon of choice, this old kitchen knife has been with her for as long as she could remember. It has signs of being dulled out and sharpened repeatedly for some time. Because of this, it's more narrow than usual kitchen knives which makes it much lighter and easier to handle. Its slashing power has been dulled, so she prefers to use it as a stabbing weapon.
O PORTABLE DATABASE – Although she calls it a portable database, it's actually a simple notebook where she jots down research notes about her opponents and other interesting things she finds. She carries it even in battle and is her treasure trove for information.
O SEDATIVES – When stress starts to become unbearable for her, she carries a bottle of sedative pills in order to calm her down and allow her to think clearly again.
In-Battle Effect: Reset Calculated Strike to Level 0. Can only be used once.
O PAINKILLERS – In battle, pain can hold back someone's performance. Because of this, she carries a bottle of powerful painkillers to temporarily allow her to bear more pain and continue fighting unhindered.
In-Battle Effect: Ignore debuffs for 2 turns, double the debuff effects ingored for 2 turns after the duration. Can only be used once.
✗—NORMAL ABILITIES:
Her abilities are based around evaluating risks, deciding whether it's more useful to risk taking a note and have a chance to increase the possibility of a more powerful attack and work towards truly finding out the opponents weakness, or landing a strike instead and rely on the information she currently possesses to hit the enemy's weakness through a guess. She also has a failsafe that allows her to momentarily distract the enemy in tight situations. Each decision has their pros and cons as taking note of an enemy might end up in her taking in wrong information, consequently making her that much farther away from discovering her opponent's weakness. When she starts to get to an extreme level of stress, however...
O Calculated Strike (Passive) - Moves used in battle are aimed at vulnerable points of the enemy, allowing them to have a chance to strike critically when successful. Calculated Strike starts at Level 0.
Damage Multipliers:
Level 0: No multiplier chance
Level 1: x2 if dice is a value of 1
Level 2: x2 if dice is a value of 1 or 3
Level 3: x2 if dice is an odd value
Level 4: x2 if dice is a value of 1, 2, 3, or 5
Level 5: x2 if dice is a value of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5
Level 6: Knife Attack turns into Heartseeker
O Stress Escalation (Passive)- When she takes enough wrong notes of the enemy weak spot that it becomes completely unreliable, she becomes more and more stressed. This occurs when Calculated Strike goes a level below 0.
Effects:
Level -1: Knife attack will deal half damage from Level -1 and onwards.
Level -2: Roll two dice and if one is odd, it will count as an increase
Level -3: Level -2 effect, but if it fails, repeat once more
Level -4: Roll five dice and if one is odd, it will count as an increase
Level -5: Knife Attack will turn into Heartseeker for three turns and Calculated Strike will reset at 0 after the duration. However, Narusa will suffer exhaustion which will make her unable to do any attacks and will make her more likely to get hit for three turns after.
O Take Note - After studying an opponent's moves, she is able to periodically take notes of their behavior and gather more information to make use of in battle. This leaves her vulnerable while she takes the note. However, it increases the chance of her to make a Calculated Strike. Once she gathers enough notes to clearly identify the enemy's weak point, Knife Attack turns into Heartseeker. She is able to take a note once before the battle begins.
Effects:
Odd dice roll: Increase Calculated Strike level by 1
Even dice roll: Decrease Calculated Strike level by 1
O Knife Attack - Narusa uses the kitchen knife to inflict damage on the opponent. Damage: 1-3
O Heartseeker - Narusa uses the kitchen knife to inflict damage on the opponent's weak point. Calculated Strike cannot be applied to Heartseeker. Damage: Calculated Strike Knife Attack damage + 10
O Distort - She is able to create a mirror image of herself. The mirror image is able to act independently and has ghost-like properties. This means that it's intangible but cannot touch things either. Effect: Creates 1 Mirror Image at a time
✗—ZODIAC STATE ABILITIES:
O N/A
BACKGROUND HISTORY
✗—CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS: Her sister was murdered. Her parents are still alive, but they disowned her and sent her away to study in the school by herself.
✗—CHARACTER NAKAMA: None
✗—CHARACTER GOAL: To escape from her troubled past, and to start a new life
✗—CHARACTER BACKSTORY:
O Before the Academy:
In her family line, it was believed that bad luck would befall twins born as Gemini. It was believed that one of the twins will be gentle and kind, while the other will bring forth the family's downfall. This unfortunately was the case for Narusa and her elder twin sister Nerumi. Narusa was considered a genius prodigy as a child, always scoring the highest in her tests, quick to learn, and very perceptive. However, she was born with a weak body and she never excelled in her school's physical activities. She was also one who cannot handle stress easily. She easily buckled under pressure and caved in on herself, withdrawing and giving up at the slightest sign of defeat. Nerumi was the beauty of the two, also smart but not at the level of Narusa. Still, she became popular among the boys of the school and she gained many friends. She was also very healthy and was proud and looked highly upon herself. Because of this, her parents assumed that because Nerumi seemed like the better child, Narusa might be the one who would fall to the curse of bringing the family's downfall.
It was because of that foretelling in her family line that Narusa never gained her parents' favor. No matter what she did, she would never get praised for it. Her elder twin sister Nerumi, however, was spoiled by her parents and received the best. Narusa lived with jealousy inside her heart her entire life. She wondered why her sister gained everything she has wanted, despite the fact that her sister did not work as hard as her to gain any favor and love from her parents. She thought that it might have been her sister's beauty. Little did she know that her parents have told her sister about the family's supposed curse, and her sister had grown wary of Narusa bringing her social status and popularity down.
One day, Narusa asked her sister how to make herself beautiful. What she received as a reply was a kind smile and an offer. Nerumi offered her that since she was so busy with school, they should meet at the school courtyard in the afternoon. Narusa was excited, and agreed. The time finally came and what greeted her at the courtyard was not her sister, but a group of boys much older than her: upperclassmen. They saw her and started to whisper to each other. They whispered malicious things such as rumours of her being a cursed child, and things going around about her wanting to be as beautiful as her sister, but it being an impossible feat. She grew extremely angry and charged at the boys head-on, but since she was physically weak and was alone, she was overpowered easily. She was left beaten up at the courtyard as she blacked out.
Narusa spent a few weeks in the hospital recovering from her injuries. She was barely saved by a heart surgery, since she overexerted her weaker body in the fight and received multiple hits to the chest. A student was able to send her to the hospital quick enough. The entire time of her recovery, she thought that her sister set her up with the group of upper class boys, and she held in rage towards her sister, grief and pity towards herself, and embarrassment from thinking of what she probably looked like while she was getting beat up: weak and pathetic.
The moment she went home, her parents were extremely worried and angry at the same time since they thought that she was the one that started the fight. She was scolded, but everything her parents said passed through her ears like it was just nothing. She had her mind set on one thing. Going the kitchen, she found a knife rack. Taking a knife she found there, she gripped it tightly with her hand and spouted words of hate and spite towards it, hoping that it will contain her will and it will share the same suffering she went through and will go through in the future. Her sister finally ran into the kitchen, looking very concerned and in tears. She ran towards Narusa to embrace her. Narusa turned around and saw her sister. Something in her mind snapped and everything turned pitch black.
When she came to, it was moments later. Her sister was embracing her, and Narusa felt something on her hand. It was thick and smelled like rust. It turned out that as her sister ran to embrace her, Narusa turned around and in rage drove a knife right into her sister's chest. The last thing she heard was Nerumi's weak and dying words...
"I'm sorry."
Everything Narusa believed during the day she was beaten up was a misunderstanding. The boys in the courtyard were a group of friends that constantly hit on her sister. They asked Nerumi where she was going and she replied that Narusa was going to be there and she would play a little prank on her to make her mad. Nerumi told them the favor that Narusa asked and the fact that their parents said that she was a cursed child. They said that for her, they would do anything and had an idea that they would do the joke on Narusa themselves. They ran faster than Nerumi could. The moment Nerumi arrived at the courtyard, they already beat up Narusa half to death and ran in fear of Nerumi reporting them to officials. Extremely guilty of what was essentially her fault, Nerumi called the hospital for an emergency and Narusa got saved right on time. Since that day, Nerumi was anxiously waiting for Narusa's return and was thinking of a way she can apologize.
Due to a misunderstanding, Narusa performed the final act that would tear their family apart. Her parents believed that the curse was truly existent within Narusa, and that she had just brought the family's downfall. She remained in their house for a few more weeks. She found out about the misunderstanding from a close friend of Nerumi's and since that day was haunted by the guilt of killing her innocent twin sister. A day before Nerumi's funeral, thinking that Narusa is extremely dangerous, her parents sent her to Tempest Academy, the place where they know will take in the cursed child of the Nisei so she can never be seen again. There, she decided that she wants to prove that she is not a curse. She wanted to start over in life and escape from her past that constantly haunts her. She obsessed herself over studies and trying to increase her intellect in order to try and block her memories out, but she keeps getting plagued by nightmares of killing her sister.
No matter how hard she tried, it seemed like the blood on her hands can never be cleansed.
O After the Academy: She still obsesses over studies, and still keeps on getting haunted by her sister's death. Now, she tries to avoid forming any connections with anyone in a fear of bringing the same fate to them as she did to her own family. Because of her weakened heart from surgery, she experiences chest pains and tries to avoid strenuous activity as much as possible. She has grown worse at handling stress, to the point that she completely breaks down and goes in a violent outburst when stress becomes too much.
✗—MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION:
O Dialogue Colour: Brown
O OOC Name: DJ Nemu
O Face Claims: Madotsuki from Yume Nikki
