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Player NAME: Aaron
Current AGE: 21
Player TIME ZONE: EST
Personal JOURNAL:portaling
IM & SERVICE: AIM; portaling
Player PLURK: seacats
Current CHARACTERS: None!
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Ushiromiya Ange
Canon & MEDIUM: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni -- I will be taking Ange from the visual novel (though there are also other versions of the series).
Canon PULL-POINT: After escaping with Erika into the Witches' Library, Ep8.
Character AGE: 18
Character ABILITIES:
Witch of Resurrection: Ange has the nebulous ability to resurrect anyone she wishes from within the 'cat box,' or within Beatrice's game board. This means that she has the ability to see her parents and brother again just as they were when she left them at the age of six, and also can summon weapons and furniture to protect her. The stipulation is that they can't do anything she isn't completely able to do herself (ie: if she can't emotionally muster up the will to kill someone then her weapons can't kill them either). This will also be a little hard since almost all of them are PCs so basically she can summon up memories of her relatives and friends for pleasant company!
Witch of the Future: Ange has the ability to discredit magical power that happened in the past using her powers as a witch of the future. (For example, if someone from the time of 1986 said "this candy appeared under this cup using magic!" and Ange said "no, it was a trick involving a sleight of hand," then her logic would be the 'correct' logic as things from the past can't stand up to the scrutiny of the future.)
Anti-magic toxin: Ange has extremely strong resistance to any magical occurrences because of her growth in the future. So she can withstand most magical attacks when operating in the world of the future (for all intents and purposes, anything that isn't Rokkenjima in October of 1986 is "the world of the future" as long as it's past this date). This works in tandem with her powers as the witch of the future.
Red and Blue Truth: Ange can use both the red truth (the ability to state the absolute truth -- a 100% true declaration -- without needing to explain the reasons behind it) and the blue truth (the ability to create a 99% true statement that acts as completely true unless destroyed using the red truth, in which case it becomes useless to the argument) in magical debates and discussions.
Mystery Novels: Ange has a basic idea of how the rules of classic mystery novels work -- she's got a basic grasp on Knox's decalogue and is average at solving closed room puzzles.
Writing: Ange is a good writer, particularly of children's novels and adventure books!
Character HISTORY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umineko:_When_They_Cry
Ange is introduced as a piece to Beatrice's board game at the very end of the third episode. Recruited by Bernkastel to help restore her brother's will to fight and to save him from the witches' dark fate, she takes on the pseudonym "Gretel" and assists him in his battle. The only rule is that she can't tell him her name -- or she'll disappear into oblivion. As the fourth battle draws closer to the end, Ange realizes (with the help of another witch, Lambdadelta) that Bernkastel doesn't actually plan on sending Battler home to her. Instead, she plans on letting this Ange die and returning Battler to a different Ange, essentially making her fight meaningless from this perspective. Still knowing that, Ange helps him anyway, restoring his will to fight, returning Beatrice to the game board after she runs away in a huff, and eventually falling into pieces of meat at his feet just to get him to understand that a little, angry girl twelve years in the future needed him to come home.
Of course, that wasn't the end of her story -- put back together, Ange found herself meeting with a famous mystery novelist, discussing another series of chapters in this writer's fanfiction about Ange's family. But the novelist was actually a witch of Theatergoing, one that had all of the records of Beatrice's game tucked away in her viewing library. Claiming Ange as her piece, her miko or reader, she allowed Ange to view the next few episodes from her comfortable witches' library. Of course, all things had to come to an end -- and Ange eventually left her behind to seek the final truth about her family's death for herself, including shooting a few awful relatives who attempted to foist her inheritance away and reviving all of her magical "furniture" as she reestablished her domain as the Witch of Resurrection.
When Battler finally allows her to join them inside of the story -- after she witnesses what Bernkastel, now truly evil, calls the "Real Truth" (or the truth where Ange's parents kill everyone and Eva barely escapes alive) -- Ange relives what happened on Rokkenjima in 1986. But it's warped -- everyone is too nice, too sweet. However, Battler reminds her that she was only six when everyone died, and that her depiction of them may have changed because she was so young and heard so many stories about them. Ange refuses to believe this, and escapes with the witch Erika Furudo and Bernkastel herself into the witches' grand library, in order to assist with a ceremony where everyone would learn the Single Truth about Rokkenjima.
Character PERSONALITY:
Ange's personality has to be derived originally from what would have been -- because a large part of Ange's entire life is shaped by the tragic murder of her family that happened when she was six. Ange is extremely bright: she loves mysteries and riddles, even from a young age; she is remarkably talented at riddling out the solutions to quizzes and trick questions. While sometimes she can get way too focused on one task and be tricked while she's not paying attention (which is something that carries over after the events of Rokkenjima), she's extremely quick to snap back from a defeat and has a remarkable sense of awareness when she's not obsessing over one particular thing.
Ange's personality is warped and twisted by the massacre of her family -- and so her love of puzzles and cheerful, sassy childhood personality fades into the background a little bit. Ange as she is now is obsessive: she's completely entrenched in finding out the secret to her parents' death, especially the death of her older brother, who she is still devotedly attached to, even if he's dead. Because of her family's murder, she detaches from reality: Ange of the present is a cold, sarcastic girl who uses her vengeance as a tool to get what she wants. She's not afraid to take risks -- she jumps off of a building in canon to get to the truth, and faces down gunman with only a single plan to believe in. Ange is extremely good at logic puzzles, helping her brother with his witches' game. She's also really good at picking out fact from fiction and seeing through lies that are presented to her as truth -- she's quick to deny anything that doesn't make logical sense to her, and facts have to have a scientific basis to be believed. Her basic motto is: you can't trust anything unless it has a logical and real backing in something solid. She's a skeptic and sullen, refusing to give in to fate and just sit down in her unhappiness.
Of course, the truth behind this obsessive, sarcastic behavior is that it's not actually what it seems. Because at the heart of it, Ange is just a hurt, scared little girl who misses her parents. It's her loneliness that drives her into bitterness and melancholy, because everyone she ever loved in the world disappeared in one traumatic day. And it's her loneliness that drives her to both believe that her parents might come back for her some day, and also to reject that notion and believe that by learning the Single Truth of that day, she might finally get some rest. But her bitterness, especially towards her aunt, prevents her from being able to accept that reality. Because for Ange, who draws her own conclusions and makes her own truth, there is nothing more important than relieving herself of this awful, lonely burden that's followed her through her entire life. She just wants to be loved by her family again, to love someone again -- and this yearning twists her cheerful, intelligent personality into someone sarcastic and bitter, and makes her loneliness into a weapon that will eventually crush her too. Because who wants to live in the present when your whole family, and everything you loved, died in the past?
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Ange, at her canon point, would prefer to use her words (or "voice") as a weapon -- as Umineko is primarily text-based, a lot of the dialogue transforms itself into weapons that pierce and stab the characters. Ange's "voice" as a weapon will grow over her time here because it will be able to manifest into first the idea of an object -- so if she says "pierce and rend!" she can do damage using willpower, but not actually summoning word swords or anything -- and then into the physical shape like Battler and Beatrice can in canon, where their words turn into swords that pierce other people's bodies, and whips, and so forth.
In essence, the better she treats her voice and the more she trains, the more powerful physical attacks she can summon up using her willpower and drawing on her magic as the Witch of the Future and the Witch of Resurrection. At its highest level, her voice can actually stab people! Which is cool! But a long way off.
Character INVENTORY:
x1 set of clothing
x2 Pink hair ties
That's....it.....
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
Hmph.
[ The girl's voice sounds neutral; she almost seems bored by the proceedings, though an insightful person can probably detect a hint of annoyance in the tone, and the way she flips her hair over her shoulder. ]
...I can't say that this was a good time to pull me away. Especially for some war. If you think I'm going to suddenly become a weapons specialist to assist strangers, I can't say I'm impressed. You'd think you'd at least provide an application form for willing applicants wanting to walk to their death.
[ Yes, she's clearly annoyed. ]
...My name is Ushiromiya Ange. I'm not planning on being here long, so I won't try to get too attached if you don't.....someone should catch me up on the information about this world, for my time here. Just because I plan on making it short, doesn't mean I should live in the dark.
Third PERSON:
The idea that books could exist as digital data is completely foreign to her -- it hasn't been very long for her time in the city, but she's been scouring the library (or...the digital library) in search of some familiar reading material. A lot of the books she's found are ones she's never heard of before, but she found a few familiar topics: things that were in her brother's bookcase, and things that her parents enjoyed. Ange remembered being young, sitting in Battler's room while he was with his grandparents. As her fingers moved the screen down, continuing the mystery novel without really looking at it, she could almost feel the familiar leather covers in her hands. She could still smell the pages, a little damp (Battler never took care of his books, though he said he did), the crisp feeling of paper beneath her as she slept on the pages.
Frowning, she pushed herself away from the digital media, staring at it reproachfully. Although the words were still there -- words that, twelve years later, she now better understood -- it just wasn't the same. Happy memories of childhood, of her brother and parents, were splattered with blood. So maybe it was best not to read them. It wasn't what she wanted to hear right now, anyway; her mind was so focused on what actually happened to them, on finding the solutions to the mystery, that these fictional mysteries seemed trivial in comparison. Sherlock and Christie paled before reality, the ultimate mystery in her life. Just seeing them was like a stab to the heart. A grim reminder of her mission. And here she was, looking at digital books in a library in a city that "needed" her, when all she wanted to do was go home.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES N/A
Player NAME: Aaron
Current AGE: 21
Player TIME ZONE: EST
Personal JOURNAL:
portalingIM & SERVICE: AIM; portaling
Player PLURK: seacats
Current CHARACTERS: None!
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Ushiromiya Ange
Canon & MEDIUM: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni -- I will be taking Ange from the visual novel (though there are also other versions of the series).
Canon PULL-POINT: After escaping with Erika into the Witches' Library, Ep8.
Character AGE: 18
Character ABILITIES:
Witch of Resurrection: Ange has the nebulous ability to resurrect anyone she wishes from within the 'cat box,' or within Beatrice's game board. This means that she has the ability to see her parents and brother again just as they were when she left them at the age of six, and also can summon weapons and furniture to protect her. The stipulation is that they can't do anything she isn't completely able to do herself (ie: if she can't emotionally muster up the will to kill someone then her weapons can't kill them either). This will also be a little hard since almost all of them are PCs so basically she can summon up memories of her relatives and friends for pleasant company!
Witch of the Future: Ange has the ability to discredit magical power that happened in the past using her powers as a witch of the future. (For example, if someone from the time of 1986 said "this candy appeared under this cup using magic!" and Ange said "no, it was a trick involving a sleight of hand," then her logic would be the 'correct' logic as things from the past can't stand up to the scrutiny of the future.)
Anti-magic toxin: Ange has extremely strong resistance to any magical occurrences because of her growth in the future. So she can withstand most magical attacks when operating in the world of the future (for all intents and purposes, anything that isn't Rokkenjima in October of 1986 is "the world of the future" as long as it's past this date). This works in tandem with her powers as the witch of the future.
Red and Blue Truth: Ange can use both the red truth (the ability to state the absolute truth -- a 100% true declaration -- without needing to explain the reasons behind it) and the blue truth (the ability to create a 99% true statement that acts as completely true unless destroyed using the red truth, in which case it becomes useless to the argument) in magical debates and discussions.
Mystery Novels: Ange has a basic idea of how the rules of classic mystery novels work -- she's got a basic grasp on Knox's decalogue and is average at solving closed room puzzles.
Writing: Ange is a good writer, particularly of children's novels and adventure books!
Character HISTORY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umineko:_When_They_Cry
Ange is introduced as a piece to Beatrice's board game at the very end of the third episode. Recruited by Bernkastel to help restore her brother's will to fight and to save him from the witches' dark fate, she takes on the pseudonym "Gretel" and assists him in his battle. The only rule is that she can't tell him her name -- or she'll disappear into oblivion. As the fourth battle draws closer to the end, Ange realizes (with the help of another witch, Lambdadelta) that Bernkastel doesn't actually plan on sending Battler home to her. Instead, she plans on letting this Ange die and returning Battler to a different Ange, essentially making her fight meaningless from this perspective. Still knowing that, Ange helps him anyway, restoring his will to fight, returning Beatrice to the game board after she runs away in a huff, and eventually falling into pieces of meat at his feet just to get him to understand that a little, angry girl twelve years in the future needed him to come home.
Of course, that wasn't the end of her story -- put back together, Ange found herself meeting with a famous mystery novelist, discussing another series of chapters in this writer's fanfiction about Ange's family. But the novelist was actually a witch of Theatergoing, one that had all of the records of Beatrice's game tucked away in her viewing library. Claiming Ange as her piece, her miko or reader, she allowed Ange to view the next few episodes from her comfortable witches' library. Of course, all things had to come to an end -- and Ange eventually left her behind to seek the final truth about her family's death for herself, including shooting a few awful relatives who attempted to foist her inheritance away and reviving all of her magical "furniture" as she reestablished her domain as the Witch of Resurrection.
When Battler finally allows her to join them inside of the story -- after she witnesses what Bernkastel, now truly evil, calls the "Real Truth" (or the truth where Ange's parents kill everyone and Eva barely escapes alive) -- Ange relives what happened on Rokkenjima in 1986. But it's warped -- everyone is too nice, too sweet. However, Battler reminds her that she was only six when everyone died, and that her depiction of them may have changed because she was so young and heard so many stories about them. Ange refuses to believe this, and escapes with the witch Erika Furudo and Bernkastel herself into the witches' grand library, in order to assist with a ceremony where everyone would learn the Single Truth about Rokkenjima.
Character PERSONALITY:
Ange's personality has to be derived originally from what would have been -- because a large part of Ange's entire life is shaped by the tragic murder of her family that happened when she was six. Ange is extremely bright: she loves mysteries and riddles, even from a young age; she is remarkably talented at riddling out the solutions to quizzes and trick questions. While sometimes she can get way too focused on one task and be tricked while she's not paying attention (which is something that carries over after the events of Rokkenjima), she's extremely quick to snap back from a defeat and has a remarkable sense of awareness when she's not obsessing over one particular thing.
Ange's personality is warped and twisted by the massacre of her family -- and so her love of puzzles and cheerful, sassy childhood personality fades into the background a little bit. Ange as she is now is obsessive: she's completely entrenched in finding out the secret to her parents' death, especially the death of her older brother, who she is still devotedly attached to, even if he's dead. Because of her family's murder, she detaches from reality: Ange of the present is a cold, sarcastic girl who uses her vengeance as a tool to get what she wants. She's not afraid to take risks -- she jumps off of a building in canon to get to the truth, and faces down gunman with only a single plan to believe in. Ange is extremely good at logic puzzles, helping her brother with his witches' game. She's also really good at picking out fact from fiction and seeing through lies that are presented to her as truth -- she's quick to deny anything that doesn't make logical sense to her, and facts have to have a scientific basis to be believed. Her basic motto is: you can't trust anything unless it has a logical and real backing in something solid. She's a skeptic and sullen, refusing to give in to fate and just sit down in her unhappiness.
Of course, the truth behind this obsessive, sarcastic behavior is that it's not actually what it seems. Because at the heart of it, Ange is just a hurt, scared little girl who misses her parents. It's her loneliness that drives her into bitterness and melancholy, because everyone she ever loved in the world disappeared in one traumatic day. And it's her loneliness that drives her to both believe that her parents might come back for her some day, and also to reject that notion and believe that by learning the Single Truth of that day, she might finally get some rest. But her bitterness, especially towards her aunt, prevents her from being able to accept that reality. Because for Ange, who draws her own conclusions and makes her own truth, there is nothing more important than relieving herself of this awful, lonely burden that's followed her through her entire life. She just wants to be loved by her family again, to love someone again -- and this yearning twists her cheerful, intelligent personality into someone sarcastic and bitter, and makes her loneliness into a weapon that will eventually crush her too. Because who wants to live in the present when your whole family, and everything you loved, died in the past?
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Ange, at her canon point, would prefer to use her words (or "voice") as a weapon -- as Umineko is primarily text-based, a lot of the dialogue transforms itself into weapons that pierce and stab the characters. Ange's "voice" as a weapon will grow over her time here because it will be able to manifest into first the idea of an object -- so if she says "pierce and rend!" she can do damage using willpower, but not actually summoning word swords or anything -- and then into the physical shape like Battler and Beatrice can in canon, where their words turn into swords that pierce other people's bodies, and whips, and so forth.
In essence, the better she treats her voice and the more she trains, the more powerful physical attacks she can summon up using her willpower and drawing on her magic as the Witch of the Future and the Witch of Resurrection. At its highest level, her voice can actually stab people! Which is cool! But a long way off.
Character INVENTORY:
x1 set of clothing
x2 Pink hair ties
That's....it.....
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
Hmph.
[ The girl's voice sounds neutral; she almost seems bored by the proceedings, though an insightful person can probably detect a hint of annoyance in the tone, and the way she flips her hair over her shoulder. ]
...I can't say that this was a good time to pull me away. Especially for some war. If you think I'm going to suddenly become a weapons specialist to assist strangers, I can't say I'm impressed. You'd think you'd at least provide an application form for willing applicants wanting to walk to their death.
[ Yes, she's clearly annoyed. ]
...My name is Ushiromiya Ange. I'm not planning on being here long, so I won't try to get too attached if you don't.....someone should catch me up on the information about this world, for my time here. Just because I plan on making it short, doesn't mean I should live in the dark.
Third PERSON:
The idea that books could exist as digital data is completely foreign to her -- it hasn't been very long for her time in the city, but she's been scouring the library (or...the digital library) in search of some familiar reading material. A lot of the books she's found are ones she's never heard of before, but she found a few familiar topics: things that were in her brother's bookcase, and things that her parents enjoyed. Ange remembered being young, sitting in Battler's room while he was with his grandparents. As her fingers moved the screen down, continuing the mystery novel without really looking at it, she could almost feel the familiar leather covers in her hands. She could still smell the pages, a little damp (Battler never took care of his books, though he said he did), the crisp feeling of paper beneath her as she slept on the pages.
Frowning, she pushed herself away from the digital media, staring at it reproachfully. Although the words were still there -- words that, twelve years later, she now better understood -- it just wasn't the same. Happy memories of childhood, of her brother and parents, were splattered with blood. So maybe it was best not to read them. It wasn't what she wanted to hear right now, anyway; her mind was so focused on what actually happened to them, on finding the solutions to the mystery, that these fictional mysteries seemed trivial in comparison. Sherlock and Christie paled before reality, the ultimate mystery in her life. Just seeing them was like a stab to the heart. A grim reminder of her mission. And here she was, looking at digital books in a library in a city that "needed" her, when all she wanted to do was go home.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES N/A
