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| Satoko Yoshida; There is an amazingly tight knot in your chest... | |
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| Puppeteer Mask | Jun 27 2013, 06:23 AM Post #1 |
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Sight. Shoot. Reload.
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Name: Satoko Yoshida Age: 17 Gender: Female School/Occupation: Kasuhayashi High, Class 2-3 (Was held back a yeardue to the... incident. She's very touchy about it and finds it unfair.) Clubs/Interests/Hobbies: Satoko has devoted most of her time towards the literature and drama clubs at Kasuhayashi, seeing them as a natural expansion upon her interests in books and mysteries. She has a small side project underway to develop a school paper, but has made little headway on it. She is also on the Track and Field team, but only seems to be on it as an excuse to run on the school track on a regular basis. Appearance: Satoko is a very lean and fit young woman. A great deal of the time she spent out of school was spent on keeping herself as healthy as possible, although admittedly her exercise regime was one based more on intense boredom than a need to improve herself. The girl, however, has also always been a bit of a recluse who would be just as happy to curl up with a book than run about.As if to throw even more confusion on top of that, Satoko also used to be something of a social butterfly that felt the need to stay on top of the latest news and trends. As a result, the girl's wardrobe can't quite seem to decide if it's bookish, sporty or fashionable, instead opting for some bizarre mishmash of all three that is altered on a day to day basis, if only a little. What remains the same, however, is Satoko's glasses and hair. Aside from the occasional use of clip on sunglasses Satoko's mature and snappy looking eyeglasses have remained the same for years. Satoko's hair is the same vivid purple it was since she began high school. No matter what particularl look she's going for, it always remains in a firm, neat ponytail that goes just a little bit past Satoko's shoulders. Something that Satoko doesn't seem to pay as much attention to is her actual facial features. She never wears makeup, and there are constant dark rings under her eyes indicative of poor sleep habits. Satoko's overall features are somewhat rigid and angular, giving her a bit of a more stern and mature appearance than her generally softer classmates. The effect would probably look nice if it weren't for the youthful features that Satoko does have. Overall, it looks like even her body is trying to fool others into thinking she's something she's not. Ironically, this has a lot more to do with attitude and personality than most might think. The girl's general rigidness and sternness really comes through when she's expressing some sort of negative expression, like the faint sense of disgruntled annoyance that shadows her face most of the time. When she eases up and genuinely relaxes and smiles, her features soften up significantly, and that hard edge she always has looks a lot more like it truly belongs instead of being forced upon her. At school, Satoko wears a (resized) Mitadake uniform instead of a Kasuhayashi one, consisting of a dark blue jacket and skirt along with a white blouse and a black ribbon to tie it. Personality: Satoko has the unfortunate habit of seeming far too dour and serious for anyone's tastes. Indeed, the girl appears to find humour in little and doesn't suffer fools gladly. A lapse of common sense in Satoko's presence causes her to scowl at the offender with a whithering glare, choosing to remain deathly silent unless she absolutely has to point out the misstep. This is a full-on knee jerk reaction for Satoko, having had some... poor experiences with the foolish in the past. Despite this seemingly impenetrable wall of ice, Satoko has a softer centre that one can easily come in contact with should they take the right steps. Behind her stoic facade, Satoko is a very accomadating person and actually does have the capacity for laughter and cheer. However, a great deal of Satoko's humour is rather dark; her ability to find laughter in the bleakest situations comes off more as frightening than refreshing. She also has a tendency to be a bit more snide and sarcastic than she intends to be, with her tone often dipping into the realm of condescension when it's the least appropriate. Past experiences and mistakes have made Satoko something of a distrusting person at heart. It is one matter to befriend a person and enjoy their company, it is another entirely to entrust them with even the most trifling thing. She's particularly critical of those that try to force themselves into protective or authoritative positions towards her. As far as Satoko is concerned, the only person that you can truly trust, rely and depend on is yourself, the sooner one learns that hard lesson the better. Despite this cynical outlook on life, Satoko seems set on helping others even at her own expense. The girl seems to ignore the hypocrisy in this, brushing off any sort of criticism of the fact. In addition to this cynicism, Satoko walked away from her past... "incident" with a rather harsh case of claustrophobia. Satoko was a lover of mysteries and criminal dramas prior to the Mitadake incident, and since then has only been even more knowledgeable on the genre and how it ties into real life. History: Satoko has never fought magical monsters in an eldritch realm borne of the hearts of men. She's never used magic before, and she has not seen the power of friendship overcome all odds. However, she has already had an adventure of her own before moving to Yumegawa. And while some might try to call her the "hero" of her story, as far as she is concerned the only heroic thing she did was kill the bad guy. Satoko was a first year student in another city. The school she went to, Mitadake, was a fairly well off private school. Its biggest boast is its high tech security system, and it frequently touted itself as the "safest school in Japan". Parents left their children at Mitadake knowing that they were safe in the hands of some of the most capable teachers in the nation and the allegedly best monitoring system around... And then somebody went and murdered a teacher. The event triggered a reaction of the security system, locking down the school until authorities could arrive on the scene. Ideally, this meant trapping the culprit alone for the mere moments that the police would take to arrive. But something clearly went wrong. Instead, the killer was locked in for almost eight hours with fifteen other students. Satoko was one of the sixteen students forced into this closed circle. At first the group was united, working together to solve the mystery. Soon, however, suspision, panic, and the need to prove oneself innocent than to find the truth began to take hold. The students rapidly splintered, although Satoko managed to keep several of them under her guidance. Every failure to convince a student to not go on their own felt like a failure to keep them alive, and eventually it was. After a couple hours, even Satoko's faction had dwindled down to almost nothing, and the accusations and weapons started flying everywhere. Nobody was safe from being accused of being the killer, and a lack of evidence against a student did little to protect them from a deluded classmate thinking they were meting out justice. Some students died when they couldn't fight off the one judging them. Some students were killed by the ones they meant to kill. One student even convinced himself he was the killer and slit his own throat to repent. Satoko's schoolmates dropped like flies, succumbing to death and sometimes insanity before it. When the police finally arrived on the scene, Satoko was the only one left alive, standing over the killer's corpse with a comprehensive listing of each and every event that had occured during the night. The girl, of course, was immediately considered a suspect herself, but every investigation put into the event proved her to be little more than a poor innocent soul who was only guilty of perhaps a desperate act of self defense. Even with her innocence proven, Satoko spent the following year haunted by The Incident. Her friends at school treated her like an entirely different person, some acting as though she had gotten away with mass murder, while others treated her like a shell shocked war vetern that could crack at the slightest provocation. Even her own family treated her differently, and often Satoko found herself worrying that even her own parents thought that she really was the killer of that night. Between trials and investigations and counselling, The Incident lasted over a year instead of a day for Satoko. Finally, she was deemed "safe" enough to go back to school. Perhaps they were worried about some sort of murder relapse, or perhaps they wanted Satoko as far away as possible, but the girl's parents decided that they would arrange for Satoko to live in an apartment in Yumegawa and go to the comparatively ramshackle Kasuhayashi High instead of the prestigious Tenshihishou. It is a downward spiral down from decadence and luxury if there ever was one, but Satoko repeatedly insists to herself that she doesn't resent her parents for their decision. It, like many other things she tries to tell herself, does a very poor job of convincing her otherwise. Weapons/Equipment/Combat Skill: Satoko is far more familiar with combat than she'd like. She used a few different improvised weapons during The Incident, including a baseball bat and cans of spray paint. By the end of the night, however, she was forced to switch to the far more lethal billhook cleaver. Much to her disgust, she was very effective with it. Unbeknownst to her, she will undoubtedly become reacquainted with the weapon very soon... While Satoko has more combat experience than most of her classmates, her battles during The Incident were won through guile and a primal desperation to keep on living. She has no formal training to speak of. Initial Persona: - Name: Kelemvor - Arcana: Tower - Drain: - Reflect: - Null: Darkness - Resist: - Weak: Electricity, Ice - Initial Skills: Rakukaja, Dia, Mudo The god of Death in Dungeon and Dragons' Forgotten Realms universe, Kelemvor is far more benevolent than most Death gods in common media and mythology. The protective ward of the dead, Kelemvor's teachings state that Death is a natural part of life's cycle and should not be something to be feared. However, Kelemvor is nonetheless a grim and daunting figure that views many of his duties with little joy. Kelemvor is a young god, relatively speaking, with much to experience and achieve before becoming truly attuned to his divinity. The persona represents Satoko's self-hate and anger at her inability to save anyone during The Incident and the volatile cocktail of mixed feelings she has about death. She is aware that death is a natural part of human life, and that sometimes death cannot be avoided and can only be approached with a strong spirit and lack of fear... this doesn't mean that she accepts these ideas gladly. Kelemvor appears to Satoko as a grim, androgynous figure garbed in fine armour and a fur cloak. The ensemble would cut a rather dashing figure were it not for the fact that the Persona seems to be lacking any sort of real colour or energy. The Persona holds a crude looking longsword with a ragged looking blade that bears several similarities to a billhook cleaver, discoloured and rusted from long-since dried blood. Kelemvor is flanked by fifteen different ghosts lights. The light they cast is pale and dreary, but they are nonetheless the most colourful aspect of the Persona, giving the fact that they are almost all a different colour. Whenever the Persona uses a spell, Kelemvor kneels and one of the wisps briefly shows the faint image of one of Satoko's slain classmates, resting peacefully under Kelemvor's watchful protection. |
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| The One True Nobody | Jun 27 2013, 06:33 AM Post #2 |
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
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