DDD Re-app
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poison_puppetPlayer nickname: Karakael
Player DW:karakael
Way to contact you: Plurk is probably best
Email: missing.momeg@gmail.com
AIM: thinkhive
Other: Plurk: Karakael
Are you at least 15?: Y/Y
Current Characters: Karakael , Elloran and The Visitor
Character: Kudo Himiko
Fandom: GetBackers
Character Notes:
Himiko is a bright young woman who just happens to be constantly on the run from an evil organization and has turned to crime to survive. It happens to the best of us, right? But Himiko has turned her life-long oppression into a fulfilling career in a community of colorful and intelligent individuals…most of who live on the wrong side of the law.
Background:
In an alternate universe not very different from our own, the giant companies of the Shinjuku area of Tokyo engage in corporate espionage, pulling on contacts from the seedier side of the district to do their dirty work. Just about everyone involved in this quasi-legal underworld business has some kind of strange power, whether it be a special martial art passed down for generations or a freak mutation that gives you the ability to use magic or electricity. In Shinjuku anything can be bought, if you know the right price, and the right person to talk to.
Sometimes that person can be found sitting at the quiet café called the Honky Tonk, just close enough to the looming Limitless Fortress that the rents are cheap but far enough that the customers can still pay. Most of them, that is. The GetBackers, a retrieval service run by two constantly down on their luck bums called Ban and Ginji, have a tendency to let their tab build up. No one really minds, though, since the Honky Tonk has become a bit of a hub for the not-quite legal services people like them provide. Hevn, a Negotiator, often appears with jobs for the odd clientele of the café. Retrievers, transporters, protection agents, former gang members and hackers all stop by occasionally. Together they make a loose community with no rules but a vague sense of professionalism and conflicting views of honor. They’ve all worked together before…but also have worked on opposing sides of missions. It makes the café an interesting place to hang out.
One of the regulars is a Transporter named Kudo Himiko – though she goes professionally by the pseudonym Lady Poison. At nineteen she’s the youngest of the Transporters, a group of people who make their living moving objects (whether those objects be information, packages or people) from place to place. She takes her job seriously and backs up her conviction with her own special brand of “magic”: a series of ‘perfumes’ that when inhaled have deadly effects on the victim. She has hundreds of different perfumes, though she only uses seven at a time, all of which were designed with help from her brother Yamato. But Yamato is dead, killed accidentally by his best friend Ban, and Himiko has moved on from mere thieving into professional Transport.
Of course, she still harbors quite a bit of resentment to her brother’s killer, but as time goes on, she can’t help but get the feeling that there is more to that story than she saw; more than just the man she admired turning on them suddenly. After all, Ban knows about her being a “Lost Child” and he won’t explain what that means…though it might have something to do with the fact that Yamato rescued her as a baby from being sacrificed by a crazy corporation called Bio-Net. [And the anime never explains this further.]
That corporation has pursued Himiko, and other “Lost Children” throughout their lives, making it difficult for people like her to find a normal life, or even live past infancy at all. But Himiko doesn’t mind her lot; she excels as a Transporter due to her professionalism and character and wouldn’t change her history no matter what. Despite her youth the other Transporters respect her and often defer to her when it comes to strategy or tact. In most cases this pays off: Himiko rarely lets her emotions impair her judgment – it’s only when the GetBackers are involved or a child is at risk that her heart gets in the way of her job. In general, though, she’s a reliable partner who rarely fails a mission. She’s good to have on your side and a formidable enemy to fight against.
Personality:
While on the job Himiko is usually as serious as the situation demands. While working with the other Transporters she maintains a strict professional attitude, rarely deviating from her goals while at the same time never interfering with her co-workers psychosis (for example, not complaining when Jackal horribly murders people for fun, despite the fact that she finds it disturbing). However, in different company her attitudes can change; whether that be by ratcheting up her (meager) seductive charm with Hevn to escape capture or teasing the GetBackers whenever they run into each other. Even at her most professional Himiko is certainly not an emotionless drone. She is often described as “feisty” and it is an accurate adjective for her general personality.
Given her history, there are a few things that can crack through the professional face she puts on for serious business. Children being in danger really, really bothers her and any attempt to take advantage of her or imply that she is ‘less’ than her coworkers often results in an instant verbal attack. Of course Ban constantly teases her for being young and inexperienced, both in mind and body, which frustrates her to no end and leads to a bit of an inferiority complex: she’s no match for his “genius” when it comes to tactics and fighting ability, and her lack of experience has occasionally gotten her into trouble. She hates when he has to rescue her, but can only grudgingly accept his help rather than accomplish everything on her own, as she would prefer. She simply isn’t as good a fighter, nor is she as “fast” as he is – a damning disability in some of the more high-powered battles they face. Her speed perfume can bring her closer to his level, however, and with time her fighting ability improves.
Ban, in turn, gives Himiko much needed space and doesn’t bother her too much…though that does mean that she spent most of her teenage years hating him while having to survive completely alone. But despite Ban’s abandonment and betrayal Himiko managed to survive and build a name for herself. Despite all the troubles her life has given her, she still retains some of her pre-brother-death positive outlook. It’s not that Himiko is naïve; unlike many people her age she knows that life is short and death is a very real danger. She doesn’t go out of her way to avoid danger or coddle others, but she does avoid killing as much as possible, protects those who she thinks deserve it (like children), and tries to enjoy life as much as possible between missions.
She might be professional while on the job, but outside of work she is polite and cheerful, with a bit of a mischievous streak that only really appears when dealing with close friends and colleagues. She teases Ban and Ginji when she can, chats with Natsumi and Paul, and bickers with Hevn about bust size. Her cheerful nature is hardly an act; rather she revels in the freedom to be happy, knowing that it is a gift rather than a privilege.
Other:
Since this is a re-app it would be pertinent to mention that Himiko spent a little less than four years on the com. Over that time it became her primary social group, offering her a chance to interact with people who wouldn’t judge her for her job or her powers. The community offered her a place to talk about her problems and find friends – neither of which she had access to on her own world due to her upbringing. The com gave her an opportunity to be normal, which taught her a lot about what she values in herself and brought her to terms with her powers, it gave her opportunities to see her co-workers mature and gain families, and it offered tutors that helped her get her high school diploma. In many respects she grew up on the community. It took her from sixteen to nineteen, gave her a first crush and her first friends and opened her mind to broader worlds. To her, losing her access would have been a terrible loss of friendship and a “home”.
To write all of that away and let her forget her time on DramaDramaDuck would be a disservice to both the character and the others on the community who have interacted with her. But there are some shifts in minor details: the first time she was apped she was eighteen and didn’t grow. I intend to ret-con this into her gaining her connection at sixteen, the age she was in the manga, and growing into nineteen, the age she is in the anime. Should she ever go through her coming of age arc from the manga (unlikely, as she is primarily pulled from the anime of Getbackers rather than the manga) she would be aged-up accordingly.
While she remembers most everything that has happened on the com, she only has hazy memories of the other GetBackers characters; while Akabane’s loss of connection became a large part of her characterization, the knowledge of who his daughter was and the details of their relationship has been forgotten. Similarly, Ban and Rider have disappeared almost completely from her mind, though her friendships with people from other worlds are remembered and remain the same.
Additional Links:
Hark! A wiki!
First Person (entry type):
(As seen here)
You know, the longer I'm here, the more I wonder about people. I mean, we're all talking across huge amounts of space, time, and dimensions, and we still manage to have all our deepest fears and worries be about who killed who and relationships. Mostly the latter.
I mean, I get that they're stressful and all that, but is it really that important that half our secrets are about them? What’s the point in even trying to have community relationships, if people just forget you in a few months anyways? Or don't speak your language, or are already dating someone from their own world, or any number of different problems.
So I guess...I'm just kind of curious as to what other people think. Or you could just give me dating advice. That'd be cool too.
Third Person:
(As seen here)
The feed shows the workroom in Himiko's apartment. It’s a mess, as always, plants and perfumes scattered around her "lab". A window looks out on the Limitless Fortress and there is a quiet drone of bees from the hives on her roof.
Himiko can be seen in the corner of the room wearing her Transporters uniform. Her hands have been bound with bandages, a necessity as she is beating on her hanging punching bag. There is a rhythmic thump thump thump as her hands and feet smack the thick cloth. After around fifteen minutes of non-stop, high-velocity battle with the bag she collapses backwards onto the floor, her hair sweaty and her knuckles bleeding slightly.
For the first time her face can be seen. It looks like she's been crying.
She squeezes her eyes shut and then glances at a picture frame on her desk. "Well, brother. Is he right? Is this all just an 'excuse'?" She sits up and buries her face in her knees. "Should I just give up and be some goodie-little-two-shoes and leave everything and everyone I care about behind?" A pause, and then she laughs sadly. "Who am I kidding. I'd much rather bust a felon out of prison than say that Bio-Net is right. Let the rest of the world be 'normal'."
Player DW:
karakaelWay to contact you: Plurk is probably best
Email: missing.momeg@gmail.com
AIM: thinkhive
Other: Plurk: Karakael
Are you at least 15?: Y/Y
Current Characters: Karakael , Elloran and The Visitor
Character: Kudo Himiko
Fandom: GetBackers
Character Notes:
Himiko is a bright young woman who just happens to be constantly on the run from an evil organization and has turned to crime to survive. It happens to the best of us, right? But Himiko has turned her life-long oppression into a fulfilling career in a community of colorful and intelligent individuals…most of who live on the wrong side of the law.
Background:
In an alternate universe not very different from our own, the giant companies of the Shinjuku area of Tokyo engage in corporate espionage, pulling on contacts from the seedier side of the district to do their dirty work. Just about everyone involved in this quasi-legal underworld business has some kind of strange power, whether it be a special martial art passed down for generations or a freak mutation that gives you the ability to use magic or electricity. In Shinjuku anything can be bought, if you know the right price, and the right person to talk to.
Sometimes that person can be found sitting at the quiet café called the Honky Tonk, just close enough to the looming Limitless Fortress that the rents are cheap but far enough that the customers can still pay. Most of them, that is. The GetBackers, a retrieval service run by two constantly down on their luck bums called Ban and Ginji, have a tendency to let their tab build up. No one really minds, though, since the Honky Tonk has become a bit of a hub for the not-quite legal services people like them provide. Hevn, a Negotiator, often appears with jobs for the odd clientele of the café. Retrievers, transporters, protection agents, former gang members and hackers all stop by occasionally. Together they make a loose community with no rules but a vague sense of professionalism and conflicting views of honor. They’ve all worked together before…but also have worked on opposing sides of missions. It makes the café an interesting place to hang out.
One of the regulars is a Transporter named Kudo Himiko – though she goes professionally by the pseudonym Lady Poison. At nineteen she’s the youngest of the Transporters, a group of people who make their living moving objects (whether those objects be information, packages or people) from place to place. She takes her job seriously and backs up her conviction with her own special brand of “magic”: a series of ‘perfumes’ that when inhaled have deadly effects on the victim. She has hundreds of different perfumes, though she only uses seven at a time, all of which were designed with help from her brother Yamato. But Yamato is dead, killed accidentally by his best friend Ban, and Himiko has moved on from mere thieving into professional Transport.
Of course, she still harbors quite a bit of resentment to her brother’s killer, but as time goes on, she can’t help but get the feeling that there is more to that story than she saw; more than just the man she admired turning on them suddenly. After all, Ban knows about her being a “Lost Child” and he won’t explain what that means…though it might have something to do with the fact that Yamato rescued her as a baby from being sacrificed by a crazy corporation called Bio-Net. [And the anime never explains this further.]
That corporation has pursued Himiko, and other “Lost Children” throughout their lives, making it difficult for people like her to find a normal life, or even live past infancy at all. But Himiko doesn’t mind her lot; she excels as a Transporter due to her professionalism and character and wouldn’t change her history no matter what. Despite her youth the other Transporters respect her and often defer to her when it comes to strategy or tact. In most cases this pays off: Himiko rarely lets her emotions impair her judgment – it’s only when the GetBackers are involved or a child is at risk that her heart gets in the way of her job. In general, though, she’s a reliable partner who rarely fails a mission. She’s good to have on your side and a formidable enemy to fight against.
Personality:
While on the job Himiko is usually as serious as the situation demands. While working with the other Transporters she maintains a strict professional attitude, rarely deviating from her goals while at the same time never interfering with her co-workers psychosis (for example, not complaining when Jackal horribly murders people for fun, despite the fact that she finds it disturbing). However, in different company her attitudes can change; whether that be by ratcheting up her (meager) seductive charm with Hevn to escape capture or teasing the GetBackers whenever they run into each other. Even at her most professional Himiko is certainly not an emotionless drone. She is often described as “feisty” and it is an accurate adjective for her general personality.
Given her history, there are a few things that can crack through the professional face she puts on for serious business. Children being in danger really, really bothers her and any attempt to take advantage of her or imply that she is ‘less’ than her coworkers often results in an instant verbal attack. Of course Ban constantly teases her for being young and inexperienced, both in mind and body, which frustrates her to no end and leads to a bit of an inferiority complex: she’s no match for his “genius” when it comes to tactics and fighting ability, and her lack of experience has occasionally gotten her into trouble. She hates when he has to rescue her, but can only grudgingly accept his help rather than accomplish everything on her own, as she would prefer. She simply isn’t as good a fighter, nor is she as “fast” as he is – a damning disability in some of the more high-powered battles they face. Her speed perfume can bring her closer to his level, however, and with time her fighting ability improves.
Ban, in turn, gives Himiko much needed space and doesn’t bother her too much…though that does mean that she spent most of her teenage years hating him while having to survive completely alone. But despite Ban’s abandonment and betrayal Himiko managed to survive and build a name for herself. Despite all the troubles her life has given her, she still retains some of her pre-brother-death positive outlook. It’s not that Himiko is naïve; unlike many people her age she knows that life is short and death is a very real danger. She doesn’t go out of her way to avoid danger or coddle others, but she does avoid killing as much as possible, protects those who she thinks deserve it (like children), and tries to enjoy life as much as possible between missions.
She might be professional while on the job, but outside of work she is polite and cheerful, with a bit of a mischievous streak that only really appears when dealing with close friends and colleagues. She teases Ban and Ginji when she can, chats with Natsumi and Paul, and bickers with Hevn about bust size. Her cheerful nature is hardly an act; rather she revels in the freedom to be happy, knowing that it is a gift rather than a privilege.
Other:
Since this is a re-app it would be pertinent to mention that Himiko spent a little less than four years on the com. Over that time it became her primary social group, offering her a chance to interact with people who wouldn’t judge her for her job or her powers. The community offered her a place to talk about her problems and find friends – neither of which she had access to on her own world due to her upbringing. The com gave her an opportunity to be normal, which taught her a lot about what she values in herself and brought her to terms with her powers, it gave her opportunities to see her co-workers mature and gain families, and it offered tutors that helped her get her high school diploma. In many respects she grew up on the community. It took her from sixteen to nineteen, gave her a first crush and her first friends and opened her mind to broader worlds. To her, losing her access would have been a terrible loss of friendship and a “home”.
To write all of that away and let her forget her time on DramaDramaDuck would be a disservice to both the character and the others on the community who have interacted with her. But there are some shifts in minor details: the first time she was apped she was eighteen and didn’t grow. I intend to ret-con this into her gaining her connection at sixteen, the age she was in the manga, and growing into nineteen, the age she is in the anime. Should she ever go through her coming of age arc from the manga (unlikely, as she is primarily pulled from the anime of Getbackers rather than the manga) she would be aged-up accordingly.
While she remembers most everything that has happened on the com, she only has hazy memories of the other GetBackers characters; while Akabane’s loss of connection became a large part of her characterization, the knowledge of who his daughter was and the details of their relationship has been forgotten. Similarly, Ban and Rider have disappeared almost completely from her mind, though her friendships with people from other worlds are remembered and remain the same.
Additional Links:
Hark! A wiki!
First Person (entry type):
(As seen here)
You know, the longer I'm here, the more I wonder about people. I mean, we're all talking across huge amounts of space, time, and dimensions, and we still manage to have all our deepest fears and worries be about who killed who and relationships. Mostly the latter.
I mean, I get that they're stressful and all that, but is it really that important that half our secrets are about them? What’s the point in even trying to have community relationships, if people just forget you in a few months anyways? Or don't speak your language, or are already dating someone from their own world, or any number of different problems.
So I guess...I'm just kind of curious as to what other people think. Or you could just give me dating advice. That'd be cool too.
Third Person:
(As seen here)
The feed shows the workroom in Himiko's apartment. It’s a mess, as always, plants and perfumes scattered around her "lab". A window looks out on the Limitless Fortress and there is a quiet drone of bees from the hives on her roof.
Himiko can be seen in the corner of the room wearing her Transporters uniform. Her hands have been bound with bandages, a necessity as she is beating on her hanging punching bag. There is a rhythmic thump thump thump as her hands and feet smack the thick cloth. After around fifteen minutes of non-stop, high-velocity battle with the bag she collapses backwards onto the floor, her hair sweaty and her knuckles bleeding slightly.
For the first time her face can be seen. It looks like she's been crying.
She squeezes her eyes shut and then glances at a picture frame on her desk. "Well, brother. Is he right? Is this all just an 'excuse'?" She sits up and buries her face in her knees. "Should I just give up and be some goodie-little-two-shoes and leave everything and everyone I care about behind?" A pause, and then she laughs sadly. "Who am I kidding. I'd much rather bust a felon out of prison than say that Bio-Net is right. Let the rest of the world be 'normal'."
