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volksdaemon) wrote2013-11-07 07:15 am
volksdaemon) wrote2013-11-07 07:15 am
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App for Proxima Beta v2
PLAYER INFORMATION
➤ NAME: Frudence.
➤ AGE: 27 (b. 1986).
➤ JOURNAL:frudence.
➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Schuldig, pronounced Shu-ru-dee-hee by the Japanese characters - i.e. not "dig" at the end, just a soft -dɪχ.
➤ SERIES: Weiss Kreuz.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 26, since he's from Gluhen which is 4 years after the series.
➤ REFERENCE: Just to avoid any confusion, this Background/History will be a modified version of my other character application from the same series, which I'm not bringing to Proxima Beta because hopefully someone else is.
His Background/History/Reference + links is located here because old canon is old and there is no good wiki out there for it.
➤ CANON POINT: End of Glühen minus that godawful redesign. Call it going back into his closet, pulling out the old wardrobe, and tossing the L'Oreal into the trash. Whether he lived or died through that explosion in canon (hey, he's had worse), he makes it to Proxima. Not like Weiss noticed a difference in canon anyway.
➤ SEXUALITY: Schuldig is sexual, we know that from canon, but he doesn't have the kind of moral hangups that would dissuade him from changing his mind on a whim. He doesn't owe an allegiance to a family, or a business, or a country that could hold sway over his life and his decisions, whether he slept with everyone or no one, of any gender, young or old, alien or human. So yes, he is a cis male attracted to women enough to flirt with them, but he's also a sociopath, so things like power and worldview will make or break a relationship with him before gender and physical sex does.
➤ PERSONALITY:
Due to being a non-native speaker of Japanese - and it's probably at least his 3rd language anyway after German and then English - his speech pattern comes out very nasally and informally clipped. On the other hand, due to being a sociopath, being informal could be one of several layers he presents to others at any given time.
The most superficial layer is an unflappable, confident young man. He can appear very charming and helpful to those he thinks are useful now or might be later. Even civilians will pick up on how attentive he is to small details, or how good his hearing is as he catches the edges of conversation; this isn't necessarily true, it's just him using his powers and civilians interpreting it in non-supernatural ways.
However, when in the presence of other psychics or people aware of the Supernatural, he will get a bit more sassy and confrontational - especially if someone is smart enough to catch him in the act. He'll goad them on about thinking they're so smart, for starters, because that's a way to be dismissive of someone who's built up their ego. In particular, while he still exudes confidence in his own abilities, he has no problems backing out of a fight in order to preserve his own life. He is not a skirmisher; he relies on using other people as meat shields, pitting opponents against each other, psychologically diminishing opponents willpower through his powers or his words alone, and other tactics reserved for someone who genuinely does not care that much about humanity as a whole. They are a sub-class of humans to him, the lot of them, not unlike how White Supremacists see non-Aryans. He does not, in reality, ever try to be decent, or caring, or moral - when he's bored he'll tease fellow Schwarz members, and prefers their company to that of regular humans, but it's not exactly friendship so much as camaraderie by circumstance. Thus, when toying with normal humans as opponents, he finds great joy - true schadenfreude - in making them mad or frustrated by pinning them in moral quandries. When someone does manage to bruise his ego (or his cheek with a golf club), he can get very prideful, spiteful, and look for revenge. It's a long, slow-burning revenge though; he and Schwarz are masters of patience to achieve an end. Resolutions to problems, for him, can and often do include kidnapping, arson, and murder.
The problem, for Schuldig, is that apart from those like Schwarz who experienced life in tandem to him, he doesn't share meaningful pieces of information about himself. By default he distrusts everyone around him and guards his own thoughts. Almost everyone around him is an open book - so he shamelessly "listens" in on conversations where he's not invited so that he can never be snuck up on or deceived. That cautiousness occupies him so much that what he hears is also a constant white noise in the back of his mind turned up to 11. It's his soundtrack to life. If he ever lost his powers, it would have the same effect as someone cutting the power to the entire city you lived in; he wouldn't crumble immediately, but it will definitely be something uncomfortably different to live with.
The only character that Schuldig has canonically been in bed with is reeeeally unlikely to ever show up as she was a Drama CD-only character: Sylvia of Farblos. That being said, he's probably not straight in the classic sense - if anything he's probably sexual but aromantic. Romance once again demands a kind of morality and caring about another person on at least the same level as yourself and that's going to be darn near impossible for anyone outside of Schwarz to achieve without dedication - and that's before sex even enters the equation. Any members of Weiss will definitely know how to get under his skin in terms of annoyance, but they still didn't exactly part as friends; they've never hung out and gone for coffee. Anyone who does try to hook up with him will definitely have to be able to hold their own in verbal sparring or at least take everything Schuldig can dish out. He has said before that people's thoughts taste like honey, so anyone with different thought patterns could prove entertaining to him at least, enough to catch his attention. Actual psychic blockades might even frustrate him enough to want to tear them down; he does enjoy a challenge. Lastly, Ouka and the Takatoris are kind of like children to him, even Reiji - they think on a much more mundane level than he and Schwrz do; they think on the scale of individual relationships and countries, but Schwarz is concerned with the whole world and humanity's next level. In that sense, Schuldig can thus miss the forest for the trees, so to speak. Schuldig is also aware of Nagi's crush on Töt, which he thinks is adorable in the naïve sense that it'll never work out.
All that being said - Schwarz is literally all Schuldig's ever known for most of his memorable life. It's hard to believe Schuldig is just a bit older than many people who graduate from secondary education at a college or university. For all his worldliness and travels at the behest of Eszett and Schwarz, he is the epitome of mastering one skillset at the expense of all else. Especially without Crawford around, Schuldig will not have the fallback plan of "Whaddaya wanna do tonight, Brain?"
Speaking of - Schuldig is easily the most well-adjusted of Schwarz only because he's constantly being updated on the zeitgeist, the popular culture, by his own personal radios every time he steps outside. It helps him play nice with his toys, after all, to be able to appear as normal as possible to them. Thank whatever gods exist in Proxima Beta or he'd be unbeatable at Trivial Pursuit.
➤ POWERS:
➤ SUITABILITY: Schuldig is an adult in every sense, so at the very least he's not unsuitable. However, I think with how intimate sexuality is - even with one-night stands - on a psychological level, it's a very good setting to encourage some character development over months instead of years for a character so firmly set on the side of an antagonist in his canon.
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE:
Quite the voyeurs our jailers must be... All the glamor of a show and none of the staff to bring you coffee. Bums me out, you know? Here I was hoping to be a fabulous movie star one day.
Well, if that's the case... I wonder... Hmmm... What would happen if I just turned off one of those cameras? 'S not like the Director's here to bark orders for being a Prima Donna. Or maybe I'll just play the runaway fiancé and go off to the Eastern Tropics for awhile, paparazzi following all the way.
Will anyone be waiting for the runaway there? Who knows. Only one person would be and he's not dumb enough to get trapped in this place - not that I expect him to rescue the princess, either.
So, how about it, paparazzi? Wanna race? If you beat me there you can interview the Rising Star.
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE:
Schuldig didn't like scientists as a rule - too much experience and too little rewards. They operated in ways that were too rigid for someone who knew the malleable, inconsistent nature of the mind very well. More than an individual on the island, he didn't like the amount of power they had over him at this very moment in time - something had changed. Something had quieted the voices that were always in the forefront of his mind as he walked the streets; someone had taken his sweet honey away. This was different than when Crawford suggested they go away to a remote location in the Alps where the only things with thoughts for 100 miles were Schwarz and animals. Schuldig could walk past people here and it was like his transmitter was broken - video killed the radio star, baby.
It frustrated him, but it was also a good thing to be occupied by. It was a game to play and the scientists or whoever else were controlling this place were, as far as he was concerned, no different than the old farts at Eszett, the gang from Rosenkrüs, or the Takatoris - their egos would be their downfall. Ah, Herr Freud would be so proud.
He'd been bluffing of course about trying to evade anyone. All he needed was a small mob of people blissfully unaware that Mastermind was around, so that he could sup in peace and maybe even find a golden nugget of intel on his jailers. That led him to the village on the coast of Eastern Tropics where he'd heard - listened, what's the difference - people say there was a hot spring. The Japanese loved their hot springs, he had learned of late, and their tourists loved them too; it wouldn't be a bad place to start at all even if this was a fishbowl worlds away from Nihon, or even Deutschland. And since he had absolutely no intention of paying the bill, he started looking for someone... unattached. Someone in need of another willing body, if only for a little while. If they had no pretention of romance, so much the better.
"Komm ganz nah heran... Tanz auf dem Vulkan..." He whispered, alternating with humming the verses he couldn't remember.* "Komm ganz nah heran... Tanz auf dem Vulkan..." Oh and that reminded him; the #1 trait he'd have to look for: obviously his powers had to work on them. They wouldn't be a very fun toy if he couldn't even play with them.
*Lyrics
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➤ NAME: Frudence.
➤ AGE: 27 (b. 1986).
➤ JOURNAL:
frudence.➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Schuldig, pronounced Shu-ru-dee-hee by the Japanese characters - i.e. not "dig" at the end, just a soft -dɪχ.
➤ SERIES: Weiss Kreuz.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 26, since he's from Gluhen which is 4 years after the series.
➤ REFERENCE: Just to avoid any confusion, this Background/History will be a modified version of my other character application from the same series, which I'm not bringing to Proxima Beta because hopefully someone else is.
His Background/History/Reference + links is located here because old canon is old and there is no good wiki out there for it.
➤ CANON POINT: End of Glühen minus that godawful redesign. Call it going back into his closet, pulling out the old wardrobe, and tossing the L'Oreal into the trash. Whether he lived or died through that explosion in canon (hey, he's had worse), he makes it to Proxima. Not like Weiss noticed a difference in canon anyway.
➤ SEXUALITY: Schuldig is sexual, we know that from canon, but he doesn't have the kind of moral hangups that would dissuade him from changing his mind on a whim. He doesn't owe an allegiance to a family, or a business, or a country that could hold sway over his life and his decisions, whether he slept with everyone or no one, of any gender, young or old, alien or human. So yes, he is a cis male attracted to women enough to flirt with them, but he's also a sociopath, so things like power and worldview will make or break a relationship with him before gender and physical sex does.
➤ PERSONALITY:
Due to being a non-native speaker of Japanese - and it's probably at least his 3rd language anyway after German and then English - his speech pattern comes out very nasally and informally clipped. On the other hand, due to being a sociopath, being informal could be one of several layers he presents to others at any given time.
The most superficial layer is an unflappable, confident young man. He can appear very charming and helpful to those he thinks are useful now or might be later. Even civilians will pick up on how attentive he is to small details, or how good his hearing is as he catches the edges of conversation; this isn't necessarily true, it's just him using his powers and civilians interpreting it in non-supernatural ways.
However, when in the presence of other psychics or people aware of the Supernatural, he will get a bit more sassy and confrontational - especially if someone is smart enough to catch him in the act. He'll goad them on about thinking they're so smart, for starters, because that's a way to be dismissive of someone who's built up their ego. In particular, while he still exudes confidence in his own abilities, he has no problems backing out of a fight in order to preserve his own life. He is not a skirmisher; he relies on using other people as meat shields, pitting opponents against each other, psychologically diminishing opponents willpower through his powers or his words alone, and other tactics reserved for someone who genuinely does not care that much about humanity as a whole. They are a sub-class of humans to him, the lot of them, not unlike how White Supremacists see non-Aryans. He does not, in reality, ever try to be decent, or caring, or moral - when he's bored he'll tease fellow Schwarz members, and prefers their company to that of regular humans, but it's not exactly friendship so much as camaraderie by circumstance. Thus, when toying with normal humans as opponents, he finds great joy - true schadenfreude - in making them mad or frustrated by pinning them in moral quandries. When someone does manage to bruise his ego (or his cheek with a golf club), he can get very prideful, spiteful, and look for revenge. It's a long, slow-burning revenge though; he and Schwarz are masters of patience to achieve an end. Resolutions to problems, for him, can and often do include kidnapping, arson, and murder.
The problem, for Schuldig, is that apart from those like Schwarz who experienced life in tandem to him, he doesn't share meaningful pieces of information about himself. By default he distrusts everyone around him and guards his own thoughts. Almost everyone around him is an open book - so he shamelessly "listens" in on conversations where he's not invited so that he can never be snuck up on or deceived. That cautiousness occupies him so much that what he hears is also a constant white noise in the back of his mind turned up to 11. It's his soundtrack to life. If he ever lost his powers, it would have the same effect as someone cutting the power to the entire city you lived in; he wouldn't crumble immediately, but it will definitely be something uncomfortably different to live with.
The only character that Schuldig has canonically been in bed with is reeeeally unlikely to ever show up as she was a Drama CD-only character: Sylvia of Farblos. That being said, he's probably not straight in the classic sense - if anything he's probably sexual but aromantic. Romance once again demands a kind of morality and caring about another person on at least the same level as yourself and that's going to be darn near impossible for anyone outside of Schwarz to achieve without dedication - and that's before sex even enters the equation. Any members of Weiss will definitely know how to get under his skin in terms of annoyance, but they still didn't exactly part as friends; they've never hung out and gone for coffee. Anyone who does try to hook up with him will definitely have to be able to hold their own in verbal sparring or at least take everything Schuldig can dish out. He has said before that people's thoughts taste like honey, so anyone with different thought patterns could prove entertaining to him at least, enough to catch his attention. Actual psychic blockades might even frustrate him enough to want to tear them down; he does enjoy a challenge. Lastly, Ouka and the Takatoris are kind of like children to him, even Reiji - they think on a much more mundane level than he and Schwrz do; they think on the scale of individual relationships and countries, but Schwarz is concerned with the whole world and humanity's next level. In that sense, Schuldig can thus miss the forest for the trees, so to speak. Schuldig is also aware of Nagi's crush on Töt, which he thinks is adorable in the naïve sense that it'll never work out.
All that being said - Schwarz is literally all Schuldig's ever known for most of his memorable life. It's hard to believe Schuldig is just a bit older than many people who graduate from secondary education at a college or university. For all his worldliness and travels at the behest of Eszett and Schwarz, he is the epitome of mastering one skillset at the expense of all else. Especially without Crawford around, Schuldig will not have the fallback plan of "Whaddaya wanna do tonight, Brain?"
Speaking of - Schuldig is easily the most well-adjusted of Schwarz only because he's constantly being updated on the zeitgeist, the popular culture, by his own personal radios every time he steps outside. It helps him play nice with his toys, after all, to be able to appear as normal as possible to them. Thank whatever gods exist in Proxima Beta or he'd be unbeatable at Trivial Pursuit.
➤ POWERS:
- Empathy+Telepathy - Schuldig is able to read not just thoughts, but feelings too. Implanting thoughts and feelings is much harder, but he has done it in canon with weak-willed minor characters from a great distance - through a video conference of all things. What he is best at is catching the superficial thoughts that rush through a person's mind as a knee-jerk reaction to something shocking or crazy they encounter. Deeper thoughts and complex opinions are tougher to unravel, especially if the person is just walking by and he doesn't have enough time to probe. Additionally, with enough teamwork or willingness, he can create a kind of psychic link between several people so they can all talk to each other without speaking - and without blindly sharing all of their thoughts too.
- Agility - Schuldig is quite fast and dextrous on his own, but in the context of combat he also looks supernaturally fast to his opponents - this is actually due to utilizing his telepathy to anticipate his opponents movements and get out of the way before they can strike him or his allies.
- Strength - This is much more in the realm of human possibility, but it's worth noting - Schuldig has enough upper body strength to snap a man's neck.
➤ SUITABILITY: Schuldig is an adult in every sense, so at the very least he's not unsuitable. However, I think with how intimate sexuality is - even with one-night stands - on a psychological level, it's a very good setting to encourage some character development over months instead of years for a character so firmly set on the side of an antagonist in his canon.
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE:
Quite the voyeurs our jailers must be... All the glamor of a show and none of the staff to bring you coffee. Bums me out, you know? Here I was hoping to be a fabulous movie star one day.
Well, if that's the case... I wonder... Hmmm... What would happen if I just turned off one of those cameras? 'S not like the Director's here to bark orders for being a Prima Donna. Or maybe I'll just play the runaway fiancé and go off to the Eastern Tropics for awhile, paparazzi following all the way.
Will anyone be waiting for the runaway there? Who knows. Only one person would be and he's not dumb enough to get trapped in this place - not that I expect him to rescue the princess, either.
So, how about it, paparazzi? Wanna race? If you beat me there you can interview the Rising Star.
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE:
Schuldig didn't like scientists as a rule - too much experience and too little rewards. They operated in ways that were too rigid for someone who knew the malleable, inconsistent nature of the mind very well. More than an individual on the island, he didn't like the amount of power they had over him at this very moment in time - something had changed. Something had quieted the voices that were always in the forefront of his mind as he walked the streets; someone had taken his sweet honey away. This was different than when Crawford suggested they go away to a remote location in the Alps where the only things with thoughts for 100 miles were Schwarz and animals. Schuldig could walk past people here and it was like his transmitter was broken - video killed the radio star, baby.
It frustrated him, but it was also a good thing to be occupied by. It was a game to play and the scientists or whoever else were controlling this place were, as far as he was concerned, no different than the old farts at Eszett, the gang from Rosenkrüs, or the Takatoris - their egos would be their downfall. Ah, Herr Freud would be so proud.
He'd been bluffing of course about trying to evade anyone. All he needed was a small mob of people blissfully unaware that Mastermind was around, so that he could sup in peace and maybe even find a golden nugget of intel on his jailers. That led him to the village on the coast of Eastern Tropics where he'd heard - listened, what's the difference - people say there was a hot spring. The Japanese loved their hot springs, he had learned of late, and their tourists loved them too; it wouldn't be a bad place to start at all even if this was a fishbowl worlds away from Nihon, or even Deutschland. And since he had absolutely no intention of paying the bill, he started looking for someone... unattached. Someone in need of another willing body, if only for a little while. If they had no pretention of romance, so much the better.
"Komm ganz nah heran... Tanz auf dem Vulkan..." He whispered, alternating with humming the verses he couldn't remember.* "Komm ganz nah heran... Tanz auf dem Vulkan..." Oh and that reminded him; the #1 trait he'd have to look for: obviously his powers had to work on them. They wouldn't be a very fun toy if he couldn't even play with them.
*Lyrics
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