Post by REIKA HANAE on Oct 10, 2009 0:18:34 GMT -5
[/size][/ul]REIKA HANAE
More awesome than you
`NAME: Reika Hanae
`ALIAS: Ama--Oh wait, you meant nicknames. Eh, just call me by my full first or last name or I probably won't respond. Though, I do have a super secret super hero/villain codename. In appropriate times just call me...Amaranth.
`AGE: Sixteen
`GENDER: Female
`PREFERENCE: Asexual with a side of I really don't care
`PROFESSION: Second year at Gekkoukan High
`PERSONALITY: What is this, a form for an online dating site? I like sweets, cool nights spent in front of a fire place and kittens~ Good god, I think I'm going to gag.
I think in terms of what is effective and what is not effective. Let's take homework as an example. I personally think it's dumb and a complete waste of time. You'd think I'd think that it was "ineffective" to do my homework right? Not quite. If my grades dropped my mom would kick my ass and ground me and that would waste even more time than just doing my homework would. Therefore, it is more effective to do my homework. I'm lazy and I don't have that much free time, so it's very important to me that I use my time effectively.
I consider myself lazy, but most people that know me don't. I get things done very quickly and I'm never late, but I will always put the minimum amount of effort into things. Of course, that doesn't mean what a lot of people think it means. For example, if my mother didn't get pissed off when I didn't get good grades I would still try to get good grades? Yes. Why? Simple. Society is dumb and says that you need to go to college in order to not fail at life. In order to get into college I have to graduate from high school. In order to graduate from high school I need to pass all my classes. That means not passing means I have to take them again and that's simply no good. Of course, if I simply decide something is boring and won't help me I probably won't bother doing it. For example, a friend of mine wanted me to help her make a dress once. It sounded boring and it probably wouldn't help me so I said no.
This leads me to another werid paradox. I don't really like people. They tend to be stupid, annoying and more trouble than their worth. Or at least that's what I thought until I turned ten. Then I realized that my greatest joy also came from people. I've basically decided people are like puns. They're stupid, annoying and you hate yourself for liking them, but you can't help but love them anyway. So, I'm not at all anti-social. In fact, I'm quite talkative.
Between those two things I'm forced to face many, many things I seriously dislike. I found a way to deal with it after awhile and the solution was very simple. After awhile I just stopped taking anything seriously. Stubbed your toe? Oh you poor baby, would you like me to punch you in the shoulder to make you feel better? So, I tend to come off as snide, sarcastic and apathetic.
There was one other thing that made it abundantly clear that I couldn't take anything seriously anymore. I started to love to tell stories and I started becoming over dramatic. I have a booming-loud voice and I use it. I over act all the time and I speak with my hands. It's simply more fun to be like that.
`LIGHT:
`DARK:
`ABILITIES:
`ALLIANCE: Strega; field/battle support
`WEAPON: None. If I need to beat someone up I use my fists. I'm pretty useless at fighting though.
`PERSONA: Amaranth of the Magician arcana
`APPEARANCE: BEHOLD. Well, that seems to be her "true" form anyway...sort of. It's hard for me to tell sometimes since she rarely appears in the same form more than once. I think that's the only form I've seen her in more than once, and even then her face is rarely the same. Her expression seems to mirror what I'm thinking and/or feeling. I guess that's appropriate since the persona is supposed to the the TRUE SELF or whatever.
`ELEMENT: None
`STATUS:
Strength: Fire
Weakness: Ice
Stats: Low strength, low endurance, low magic, high agility, high luck
Abilities:I have the ability to "see" things. As long as someone is in my radius (which covers virtually the entire city) I can find them. If someone enters a much smaller radius (about the size of a large room in an average sized house) I can immediately "sense" them even if I can't see them. In order to find someone I need some kind of information about them. A name and a picture makes it easier to find them than just hobbies. If I've seen them before it's even easier. If I've spoken to them it's even easier. If I've used Full Analysis on them I can find them instantly as long as they are in the radius. Beyond that I have...
Full Analysis: Reveals the targets strengths, weaknesses, any skills they can use, their persona if they have one etc. Once I cast this on someone I can find them instantly if they are in my radius.
Red Capote: Maximizes my agility; it's like casting Sukukaja on myself four times. So, it makes me incredibly fast, incredibly hard to hit and incredibly accurate. I can only cast this on myself.
Sakura Rage: Increases my speed further for a short period of time, but it increases it to the point that I can't even see where I'm going anymore. When I attack using Sakura Rage I hit random targets (or nothing, that happens a lot too) inflicting a moderate amount of strike damage. It also has a chance of inflicting charm as well because I go out of my way to make this pretty. Style is important you know?
Vanity: This is my bread and butter. I can create extremely detailed illusions, and I can do it with all five senses not just sight (I can't work with the sixth sense though or any people with tracking abilities similar to my own, but I am working on fixing that). Sight and sound are the easiest for me to manipulate and touch and taste are the hardest. I actually don't use the last two as much because I mess them up more frequently. I'm also capable of making it so people looking at the same thing see different things. Because of the level of subtle detail involved to keep these believable it's very difficult to do that though. I can generally handle messing with two people like this, but it's hard to keep up with more than that without crossing my illusions and messing things up at least a little.
`HISTORY: Why do you want to know about my past? Seriously, it's not all that intersting as I am just an ordinary high school student. You still want to know? God that's creepy.
...Stalker.
I was born here on Tatsumi Port Island and I've lived here for my entire life. My family wasn't particularly rich or poor. We lived in a modest house, we ate well and we were able to afford most of the things we wanted. I was an only child, but my mom didn't have a job so I was never lonely. My father worked as a college professor, so he was able to come home on time and he made enough money to support us. Overall, we were a very happy family.
There are a lot of different types of parent. Mean ones, nice ones, ones that don't seem to care about their kids at all...Well, mine cared too much. My mother didn't go to college, my mother wasn't able to get her dream job, my mother didn't do a lot of things. She intends to experience all those things through me. My father is a lot easier to please. He just wants me to get into a decent college. Beyond that he doesn't care what I do as long as I don't get pregnant or do something else incredibly stupid. But nothing I ever do will be good enough for her. Well, I guess I shouldn't say it like that. Doing well is good enough for her, but I will never be able to do enough. I found that out the hard way.
In elementary school I joined nearly every after school club I could find. I joined everything from the shogi club to the cooking club to the ultimate frizbee club. If there was an opening in my scheduale I would fill it immediately just to please my mother. It was actually a lot of fun for a long time, but after awhile it was just too much. I never had any free time. I never got to do anything else. I never got to relax. Eventually I just got too stressed; stressed to the point of getting sick. I was able to finish off the rest of the school year without quitting any of the clubs I was in, but I only signed up for the ones I really liked the next year. My mom was dissapointed, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it.
I ended up sticking with the drama club, the art club (and later the photography club specifically), the track team and I also got interested in aikido around that time. As long as I kept my grades up she decided that was enough and I felt less terrible about making her feel bad. At this point I was only in second grade. Personally I think she was pushing me way too hard, and I still think she is, but I wasn't willing (and I'm still not) to do anything about it. Sometimes it's better to just not do anything. I figure keeping my parents happy is worth the extra work.
A lot of those clubs were fairly painful for me at first. I didn't work well with other people. I could handle criticism just fine, but when they didn't do things my way it pissed me off. If I thought their ideas would work better I would happily follow them, but most of the time their ideas were just dumb. I didn't think the same way they did; every second counting in my world. I needed to make sure to keep on top of all my activities and wasting any time at all made that completely impossible. It seriously got to me. Even outside of my clubs it was just painful to look at people, so I chose not to. It was simply inefficient to do so.
Unfortunately it wasn't that easy. There were team projects in school, I was a member of the drama club, I was on a team, I had to listen to what other people thought of my art, I had to mock fight with other people. Avoiding them completely was just impossible. So, I did the best I could. I tried to do group projects alone, I tried to make sure I was just so much faster than everyone that they would never catch up to me...The list goes on. I didn't want anything to do with them. Not only did that start getting lonely, but I started to burn out again. It was simply too much effort to avoid them completely. It was simply inefficient.
So I started to tolerate them. It was extremely painful at first, but after awhile I actually started to make friends. I denyed it at first, but part of me was enjoying being with people. As I gradually started to accept it I noticed that everything suddenly became more fun. That was a big deal for me since I didn't have all that much time to just have fun. It wasn't until I was ten that I realized that I both hated and loved people. Around that time I stopped being shy and I developed a flair for being overly-dramatic. I began to talk with my hands and I loved over exaggerating my emotions. It was around that time that I started to work extra hard to make everything I do fun. Everything. You know that you've lost all ability to take things seriously when you can turn math into a super hero comic book. Suddenly my life took a turn for the better.
Then my life took a turn for the awesome. I was a little worried about starting middle school, but it didn't end up being that bad. I ended up getting a B on a math test once (Batman failed me somehow), but I don't remember that day being too bad. In fact, I actually have weird memory loss over that time. It turns out that I was awakening to my persona, but I didn't realize that until after summer vacation of my first year of middle school.
I made an online friend. It turns out that he lived just outside of the island and he was coming to look at high schools. He was two years older than me, so he was going to be starting high school soon. He was going to have a free day, so we decided to meet each other. I was pretty excited. So, four days before school started up again, so my mother agreed to let me stay out late. He was supposed to meet me at 7 PM at the fountain at the mall. It was big enough and it was close enough to the high school he was looking at that I knew he wouldn't be able to miss it. Seven came. He wasn't there. He was new to the city, so it must have just taken him awhile to find it. Eight came. He still wasn't there. We had exchanged pictures of ourselves over the internet and I wasn't exactly wearing normal clothing so I knew he wouldn't be able to miss me. Nine came. Then ten. At that point the only reason I was still there was because I felt sorry for myself. Midnight came.
Something weird happened then. The fountain was spewing blood instead of water. The people in the mall transformed into coffins. There were pools of blood all over the ground. I was only thirteen, so I was basically scared out of my mind. I looked around, but I looked suprisingly calm even if that's not how I was feeling. Apparently this wasn't the first time that happened because someone wanted to recruit me into one of their groups. Of coruse, I didn't know that at the time, so when the poor guy (was it a guy or a girl? I don't remember) snuck up behind me and tried to talk to me I ended up punching him in the stomach out of reflex. It was just a sucker punch and it didn't look like he(?) was expecting it, so I ended up knocking the wind out of him.
Once he went down I could only think about one thing: HOLY SHIT HE'S GOT A GUN. I grabbed it before he could get back up and then I ran away. The "gun" had SEES written on it. I didn't know what that meant at the time, but I knew something else. The thing I was holding...it wasn't a gun. I have no idea how I knew, but I did. Then I got an uncontrollable urge to shoot myself in the head. I knew what was going on somehow. It's like part of me was telling me exactly what was happening. I still have yet to decide if this was stupid or not, but that feeling...I trusted it and I shot myself. That's when I first saw Ziz. Well, sort of saw. Ziz is a lazy bum, so the first thing she did was cling to my back so she didn't have to fly. Then she introduced herself as some part of me that I still don't really understand nor do I really care to.
Normal kids probably would have kept that encounter secret in fear of looking totally insane, but that's no fun at all. I told everyone I knew and even people I didn't. At that point most people in my school knew I liked to tell elaborate stories, so it was no big deal, but I knew that others had experienced the same thing because there was someone else there. The details are still a little fuzzy, but I was sure that I saw someone else and his/her not-gun was proof of that. I wanted to find other people with super powers like me. Seriously, it was like my wildest manga/math fantasies come true.
Apparently the word did get out because a few people ended up approaching me. One group wanted to eliminate the Dark Hour and I thought that was completely stupid. Another group said that they wanted to destroy that other group, so I joined them. Unfortunately the person that recruited me failed to mention that they were COMPLETELY INSANE. I could see wanting to dissolve SEES, but wanting to destroy everything and end all of humanity? That seems a wee bit extreme.
At first I considered leaving, but I was young and they kind of scared me. At that point I figured the best course of action would be to stay with them, destroy SEES and then try to convince them not to be dumb and kill everyone...Including themselves. I mean seriously, why the hell do I actually have to convince people that this is a bad idea? It's like first grade all over again. Anyway, if I fail to convince them not to be complete morons...Well I'd have to figure something else out.
`OOC INFORMATION
username: kitten4u
name: Kitten4u
contact: PMs and MSN work. Both are in my profile.
password: admin blocked
other notes: Reika's "real" name is Jamie, but I decided it wasn't azn enough for this site. If I ever call her Jamie just know I mean Reika.
I kept whoever that SEES person in her history was very, very vague. If you would like your character to be that person contact me and we can plot or something. [/blockquote]
