♚ // Face Claim
Full name Face Claim: Takanori Matsumoto
Group/Band/Occupation: The GazettE
Nationality: Japanese
Faceclaim age: 39
♚ // Character ; Basic information
Quote: “Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
Full name character: Ruki Mizukami
Nickname: Ruki
Realm of birth(if earth, nationality): Japan, Japanese
Age: ?
Date of Birth: Spring 1877
Gender: How they identify themselves. Male Preferred Pronouns: He/Him Race: [ f.e. Mermaid, Dark Angel or Human Hunter ] Water Spirit
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
What languages does your character speak?: Japanese, Korean (intermediate; decided to try learning before heading to Korea)
What is the level of Korean and how did they learn to speak it (For non-Korean characters from other realms & other earth-countries): [ please note that we have Korean I classes for people struggling with the language! ]
♚ // Character ; Appearance
Skin Color: Pale, blueish tint.
Eye color: Left eye brown, right eye blue
Scars: None
Piercings: Two on each ear
Tattoos: Large tattoo on neck
Hair color: dark brown
Abnormalities:
Horns/ wings/ etc.: [ Only if it fits your character’s race!]
Transformed form: humanoid fish form; gills, small fins.
♚ // Character ; Personality
Six personality traits:
Dutiful - Extreme - Temperamental - Creative - Solitary - Blunt
Likes: Poetry, music, Kabuki, water, moss, chain necklaces
Dislikes: humans, salty food, structured schooling, sports, public pools Manias: No
Phobias: Heights
Animal: Jellyfish
Religion: None
Favorite song: Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine
Vice: [ pick one: Pride/Greed/Gluttony/Lust/Envy/Sloth/Wrath ]
Virtue: [ pick one : Patience/Diligence/Chastity/Temperance/Charity/Kindness/Humility ]
Personality description:
Ruki is a pretty direct man. He is angry when he is angry, happy when he is happy, sad when he is sad. Because he has had little interaction with other people, he tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve and has little ability to cloak his feelings. It’s one of the reasons he enjoys making and wearing masks so much. Ruki can be very loyal, dedicated to the things that he loves and cherishes like his twin and the waters of his home. Unfortunately this also means that he can also be very narrow-minded and stubborn.
A creative soul, Ruki very much enjoys using his artistic talent to channel emotions, but he does not like to share that talent or artistic vision with the world or any people in it. To him, the artistic process and results are very personal and thus something he prefers to keep to himself. In many ways, Ruki is an introvert only because of the way he his environment shaped him. He had no friends and there were no people around his lake that he felt trustworthy enough to attempt friendships with. A lake in rural Japan has few options
♚ // Character ; Powers Magical Powers:
Water Manipulation
Telepathy - Currently only applicable to his twin
Water Merging
Non-magical Powers: Singing, Acting, hand-to-hand combat
Weaknesses:
Heights: they make Ruki nervous and anxious.
Water Merging: Makes Ruki vulnerable physically
Physically weak: Ruki has great endurance, but brute strength is fairly low for him.
♚ // Character ; The Student
Study Style: Very undedicated. Ignores work and brushes off classes. Ruki is Intelligent but can’t be bothered with formal institutions of learning. Favorite class: Fashion History and Sewing
Least favorite class: Korean
classes (5-8) :
Korean III
Fashion History and Sewing
Music II
Theatre/Drama
Astrology
♚ // Character ; The Past
Date of Birth: Spring 1877
Date of Death: N/A
Crime Record: N/A
Has your character attended Insolitus Academy in the past?
Yes/No
Background:
Ruki has loved water since he can remember. The fact that he is a water spirit should explain the reason for that, and thus his chronically wet feet. Even when sloshing around on land, his pull to the water never wanes. He was born of water. From water. His twin brother was too. More specifically, they were born of the Shinano River in Japan, which empties into the East Sea. Despite being born of the same liquid entity, the twins did adopt such personalities that were very different. While his twin was a calm force of patience, a remnant of the Shinano river as it courses lazily around the mountains, Ruki proved to be a bubbling force of anger and hostility just like the rushing waters of the river as they flowed into the East Sea.
Their childhood was one of relative bliss. Misfortunes they suffered few, and unhappiness as a lasting sort didn’t dare to touch them. Their only real problem was with the constant pollution of their beloved home river. Humans were disgusting creatures who valued nothing of nature, including the water. Ruki’s violent outbursts were fueled by these carless people, especially the tourists who frequented the area. Tourists tended to muddy up his beloved water more than the locals. His twin often times attempted to calm and placate Ruki, but it couldn’t be helped. Ruki was not willing to accept such behavior or allow it to become a norm without punishment.
Ruki had always been somewhat of a loner. Friends? None, really. All he had was his twin, and for the most part, it was all he felt he needed. He held some pleasant relationships with the local fish, but all in all he was a loner.
For Ruki, his entire existence had revolved around two things: his twin and his river. Nothing else mattered quite as much as those two things, and he was content to just cater to those two things. Sure, he dallied in random pastimes amongst humans to pass the time. Singing, learning instruments such as guitar, mask-making, Kabuki performances, but all of those were simple joys that held no real importance. Protecting his river, for example, was significant to him. He would do anything to keep it clean and safe from grimy humans and their sloppy ways.
So much so, that he eventually worked his way to the first death he initiated. It was a broodish man, stalky and keen on hunting the local wildlife. Had it not been for the trail of litter that he left behind, tossing plastics and wrappers into the river, Ruki would have not cared. Ruki rose from the water enraged, and followed the man’s progress along the banks of the river. Well, when he caught up to the man, it was not swift death. From that day forward, Ruki took to experimenting in new ways to kill. His favorite method was to use his charming singing voice to lure curious travelers toward the water’s edge, where he would then drag them under and drown them. Certainly, he was no siren, but he could be mistaken for one with the way he attacked. It was curiosity that killed all those people, nothing more.
As they grew older, the twins matured. The locals developed a morbid tale of the two water demons who haunted the river, using it to warn children and bored teenagers away from the water and to treat it with respect. Without respect, the two water demons were feared to emerge and cause death. The locals knew better than to antagonize the deities who kept their water clean and functional for their local hot springs businesses. In many ways, the livelihood of the surrounding village depended on the health of the water. In this vein, the locals began a tradition that honored the two water demons, hoping to appease them and ask them for their continued protection of the waters. Ruki, of course, thought it was an idiotic sentiment. His brother, however, reveled in the celebrations with a great enthusiasm. Where his brother developed into a patient and empathetic person, Ruki was far more abrasive and skeptical.
Time passed without ceasing, like the flow of the rivers that Ruki so loved, and with time restlessness settles into the system. Not that restlessness would ever be the cause of Ruki to abandon his home, but there was some sense of needing to get away. Even for a little while. For some time now, the waters have been peaceful in his home. Fewer and fewer troublemakers pollute the river, and the life that he ends beneath the surface has likewise stagnated, now that the legend of the demons who protect the river has spread far and wide.
Yasu, his twin brother, has always had an interest in human cultures. Talking about how humans lived their lives and the different countries they inhabited. He’d even mentioned how there was a magical school somewhere near Japan that had a lake and several rivers nearby in the forests. They needed some help, for magical beings seemed as persistent in muddying natural water sources as humans. Curiosity thus had taken hold of Ruki, as he considered taking his violent form of protection to another lake in need. Yasu, he figured, would be thrilled regardless.
So, Ruki made a rather unlikely decision. He wanted to expand his horizons a little bit, offering his help and protection to a body of water in need. The people were less exciting to him, and the prospect of somehow interacting with a new culture made him weary, but what need was there for him beneath his home’s waters after so many years of peace? This gave him new purpose.
Unfortunately, when Ruki told his twin of the decision to humor his (and the Headmasters’) wishes at this magical school, Yasu became enamored with the idea of becoming a proper student enrolled in a proper school - something neither of them had ever done before. For a while, Ruki refused to hear out his twin on his desire for them both to become students. Yasu was always the more curious of the two, after all. But, as siblings tend to do with their stubborn sibling magic, he managed to wear down Ruki into agreement. Thus, Ruki was on the fast track to student enrollment at Insolitus Academy.
♚ // Roleplayer [ optional ]
Time zone: Central Standard
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