Permissions for City Of Rot
PERMISSIONS FOR YOU
OOC
backtagging: Yes!
threadhopping: if it's a public thread, then sure.
canon puncture/fourthwalling: iirc game rules forbid this one anyway? But I would personally be ok with it.
offensive subjects: none I can think of.
IC
hugging: ...you can try. You will probably not get a good reaction, particularly if you don't ask first. He's not fond of being touched.
kissing: Again, you can try... but he will definitely not take it well. (Unless you're Takada, but she's not here.Or Light >_>)
flirting: Sure, but don't expect him to flirt back. Or realise, probably.
fighting: Yes, but contact me so we can work out how it goes.
injuring: See fighting.
killing: Can't happen in-game anyway, so... see injuring, I guess?
using telepathy/mind reading: Go for it. Let me know if you need more details.
PERMISSIONS FOR ME
Same thing as Light and Misa, here. He has a death note. When or if he gets it back, it won't be able to kill anyone, but it can cause non-fatal heart attacks or whatever other cause of death might be written in it. Or have some other unpleasant effect, like an advanced case of rot. Or not work at all. Basically, let me know what you'd like to have happen if he tries to use it on your character? (Assuming they're human. If not it won't work at all anyway.)
Teru also has the shinigami eyes, so, like Misa, he can see any human's name and remaining lifespan above their head when he looks at their face. If you really don't want him knowing your character's name, tell me - we can assume that since the death note doesn't work properly, the eyes might not, either. And again, this only applies to humans. Although that does mean he'd be able to tell when a character who looks human isn't, so again, let me know if that's a problem and we'll work something out.
And I think that's everything. Thanks!
OOC
backtagging: Yes!
threadhopping: if it's a public thread, then sure.
canon puncture/fourthwalling: iirc game rules forbid this one anyway? But I would personally be ok with it.
offensive subjects: none I can think of.
IC
hugging: ...you can try. You will probably not get a good reaction, particularly if you don't ask first. He's not fond of being touched.
kissing: Again, you can try... but he will definitely not take it well. (Unless you're Takada, but she's not here.
flirting: Sure, but don't expect him to flirt back. Or realise, probably.
fighting: Yes, but contact me so we can work out how it goes.
injuring: See fighting.
killing: Can't happen in-game anyway, so... see injuring, I guess?
using telepathy/mind reading: Go for it. Let me know if you need more details.
PERMISSIONS FOR ME
Same thing as Light and Misa, here. He has a death note. When or if he gets it back, it won't be able to kill anyone, but it can cause non-fatal heart attacks or whatever other cause of death might be written in it. Or have some other unpleasant effect, like an advanced case of rot. Or not work at all. Basically, let me know what you'd like to have happen if he tries to use it on your character? (Assuming they're human. If not it won't work at all anyway.)
Teru also has the shinigami eyes, so, like Misa, he can see any human's name and remaining lifespan above their head when he looks at their face. If you really don't want him knowing your character's name, tell me - we can assume that since the death note doesn't work properly, the eyes might not, either. And again, this only applies to humans. Although that does mean he'd be able to tell when a character who looks human isn't, so again, let me know if that's a problem and we'll work something out.
And I think that's everything. Thanks!
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Player Name: Phoebe
Are you over 17? Yes
Currently Played at City of Rot? n/a
Character: Teru Mikami
Series / Canon: Death Note
Character Age: 27
Abilities / Powers:
Teru owns a death note, which allows him to kill any human by writing their name in it while picturing their face. The time and circumstances of death can be specified, providing the death happens within 23 days of the name being written and the cause of death is actually possible. (Of course since no one dies in Cibola, the note won't be able to actually kill anyone, and that's assuming he earns it back...)
He also has the 'shinigami eyes', which give him the ability to see any human's name and remaining lifespan when he looks at their face. This power lasts for as long as he officially owns the death note. If he doesn't manage to earn it back within 490 days he would lose ownership, which would also remove any memory he had that the death note existed.
History: Wikipedia and DN wiki.
Personality:
To the outside world, Teru Mikami is simply a dedicated young prosecutor. He's focused and persistent - if he sets his mind on something, it's going to get done - and intelligent, though he's not on the hyper-genius level of so many characters in Death Note. Negative traits? Fairly reserved, without much of a life outside work, and he isn't good with change, or spontaneity - this is a man who joined a hotel gym so that he wouldn't have to change the day he went if it fell on a holiday one week. Also stubborn and judgemental as hell, if you get on the wrong side of him, which is easy to do since he's the type who refuses to believe he could be wrong about anything.
...and there's the fact that he thinks that anyone with a criminal record deserves to die. Not just them, even. Anyone who 'doesn't contribute to society'. But in a world where criminals everywhere have been spontaneously dying of heart attacks for years, and more and more governments are beginning to accept Kira's judgement as legitimate... that's not actually unusual. Teru's open about being a Kira supporter, but he's not stupid about it - we see him reflecting that it still looks odd for a news anchor to be explicitly pro-Kira, and he can't have gone around admitting to approving of mass-murder back when that could have got him disbarred at the very least. His beliefs might have been extremist and shocking once upon a time, but in his own world, he really doesn't look like a raving fanatic - at one point, the secret agent tailing him comments that he just seems too normal to be working for Kira.
Behind closed doors, though, a fanatic is exactly what he is. When he sits down to write in the death note, it's a ritual - the chant of 'delete, delete, delete' is much more subdued in the manga scenes than his manic pen-slashing in the anime, but even then he's wide-eyed, with an eerie smile on his face that it's hard to call anything other than divine ecstasy. He manages to be more of a hardline Kira supporter than Kira himself, wanting to kill off anyone who's ever committed a crime in the past (and while Light agrees with him on the need to dispose of lazy people too, he feels that's going too far too fast.) This makes sense when it's explained in flashback that he thought this way before Kira's appearance, and took Kira's rise as proof that he was right all along - God must have always been watching over him...
He'd say that it's not about him, that while he is God's chosen right hand, being 'special' isn't what matters, only bringing Kira's justice to the world. Deep down, though, he's always cast himself as a hero, a warrior against evil, and while he's convinced he's working for the good of humanity, he doesn't like individual people much - at worst they're evil and worthless, at best it's still not really safe to trust them. Anyone can end up betraying you, even your own mother... We only see one person in canon who Teru might consider a friend, and it's Kiyomi Takada, who he ends up (trying to) sacrifice for the greater good.
That said, he'll risk himself for that same greater good. He had no problem with trading away half his remaining life for the ability to see strangers' names, for example. He still has genuine good intentions, they're just very, very warped.
Everything comes back to that car crash, the one that wiped out the people he rejected - the four bullies, and his mother - all at once. It's why he can't compromise, can't see people in any other terms than 'good' or 'evil' - justice didn't make any exceptions for his mother, so there can't be any. If that's not true, then he just killed her because he was angry, which would make him the monster - or the whole thing was just a coincidence and didn't mean anything, which might even be worse. There has to be order in his world. He can't tolerate chaos, or the idea that things might just happen. Especially not now, when he's built his whole life on the assumption that there's a reason. He clings on to control of everything he can because otherwise something might go wrong and that's the end of the world. We see this even at the very start of his flashback, when as a class president in elementary school he's determined to make his class not only the best in the school, but the best in the whole of Japan.
It's telling that when we briefly see him talking about why he became a prosecutor, he refers to 'the physical and emotional abuse I witnessed as a child' - 'witnessed', not 'endured'. 'Endured' would mean seeing himself as a victim, as damaged somehow, which of course he is - but all the anger and hatred and pain and fear are pushed far below the surface, only showing when he's busy 'deleting'. But if he or his faith are put under strain - as we see at the end of the series, when Kira's finally captured and it's Teru's own mistake that lead to it - that control is going to slip. Despite all appearances, his beliefs are ultimately shown to be quite fragile. Present him with clear evidence that his black and white, good versus evil worldview is wrong, and he'll shatter. In the manga, this is clearly what happens to him at the end, when he breaks down and rejects Light after seeing him defeated. In the anime version of the scene it's less clear why he kills himself, but it's unlikely that his faith survived.
First-Person Sample:
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Log Sample:
This could not be a coincidence.
That was the main conclusion Teru had come to, now that his initial panic had subsided enough to let him think. He was sitting alone at a quiet table in a corner of the Mission Bell, right hand gripping a cup of black coffee that he occasionally pretended to drink from. He hadn't yet dared to actually taste it. From what he'd observed of the other tables, no one else seemed to be taking the same precaution, and nobody was showing any ill effects from the food and drink here. So far.
But he couldn't be too careful. The fact that this was happening now, right after Kira had seen him, chosen him and granted him power, actually spoken to him - whoever or whatever had brought him here must have a reason, and he couldn't imagine it was in Kira's interest to have his proxy spirited away to a place like this.
On the other hand, all of this couldn't only be for him. Unless the other 'guests' were part of some elaborate trick to make him let his guard down. He couldn't rule that possiblity out, but it seemed unlikely. Names and numbers were floating over many of their heads. Whatever else they were, those people must be human...
...or his new eyes were lying to him. Teru sighed, fingers massaging his temples as his head began to ache. Sitting here and speculating with no evidence was getting him nowhere. He needed to talk to someone. Find out what he could about this place. Come up with a plan.
There was no more time to waste. The world needed him.
Notes: n/a
Are you over 17? Yes
Currently Played at City of Rot? n/a
Character: Teru Mikami
Series / Canon: Death Note
Character Age: 27
Abilities / Powers:
Teru owns a death note, which allows him to kill any human by writing their name in it while picturing their face. The time and circumstances of death can be specified, providing the death happens within 23 days of the name being written and the cause of death is actually possible. (Of course since no one dies in Cibola, the note won't be able to actually kill anyone, and that's assuming he earns it back...)
He also has the 'shinigami eyes', which give him the ability to see any human's name and remaining lifespan when he looks at their face. This power lasts for as long as he officially owns the death note. If he doesn't manage to earn it back within 490 days he would lose ownership, which would also remove any memory he had that the death note existed.
History: Wikipedia and DN wiki.
Personality:
To the outside world, Teru Mikami is simply a dedicated young prosecutor. He's focused and persistent - if he sets his mind on something, it's going to get done - and intelligent, though he's not on the hyper-genius level of so many characters in Death Note. Negative traits? Fairly reserved, without much of a life outside work, and he isn't good with change, or spontaneity - this is a man who joined a hotel gym so that he wouldn't have to change the day he went if it fell on a holiday one week. Also stubborn and judgemental as hell, if you get on the wrong side of him, which is easy to do since he's the type who refuses to believe he could be wrong about anything.
...and there's the fact that he thinks that anyone with a criminal record deserves to die. Not just them, even. Anyone who 'doesn't contribute to society'. But in a world where criminals everywhere have been spontaneously dying of heart attacks for years, and more and more governments are beginning to accept Kira's judgement as legitimate... that's not actually unusual. Teru's open about being a Kira supporter, but he's not stupid about it - we see him reflecting that it still looks odd for a news anchor to be explicitly pro-Kira, and he can't have gone around admitting to approving of mass-murder back when that could have got him disbarred at the very least. His beliefs might have been extremist and shocking once upon a time, but in his own world, he really doesn't look like a raving fanatic - at one point, the secret agent tailing him comments that he just seems too normal to be working for Kira.
Behind closed doors, though, a fanatic is exactly what he is. When he sits down to write in the death note, it's a ritual - the chant of 'delete, delete, delete' is much more subdued in the manga scenes than his manic pen-slashing in the anime, but even then he's wide-eyed, with an eerie smile on his face that it's hard to call anything other than divine ecstasy. He manages to be more of a hardline Kira supporter than Kira himself, wanting to kill off anyone who's ever committed a crime in the past (and while Light agrees with him on the need to dispose of lazy people too, he feels that's going too far too fast.) This makes sense when it's explained in flashback that he thought this way before Kira's appearance, and took Kira's rise as proof that he was right all along - God must have always been watching over him...
He'd say that it's not about him, that while he is God's chosen right hand, being 'special' isn't what matters, only bringing Kira's justice to the world. Deep down, though, he's always cast himself as a hero, a warrior against evil, and while he's convinced he's working for the good of humanity, he doesn't like individual people much - at worst they're evil and worthless, at best it's still not really safe to trust them. Anyone can end up betraying you, even your own mother... We only see one person in canon who Teru might consider a friend, and it's Kiyomi Takada, who he ends up (trying to) sacrifice for the greater good.
That said, he'll risk himself for that same greater good. He had no problem with trading away half his remaining life for the ability to see strangers' names, for example. He still has genuine good intentions, they're just very, very warped.
Everything comes back to that car crash, the one that wiped out the people he rejected - the four bullies, and his mother - all at once. It's why he can't compromise, can't see people in any other terms than 'good' or 'evil' - justice didn't make any exceptions for his mother, so there can't be any. If that's not true, then he just killed her because he was angry, which would make him the monster - or the whole thing was just a coincidence and didn't mean anything, which might even be worse. There has to be order in his world. He can't tolerate chaos, or the idea that things might just happen. Especially not now, when he's built his whole life on the assumption that there's a reason. He clings on to control of everything he can because otherwise something might go wrong and that's the end of the world. We see this even at the very start of his flashback, when as a class president in elementary school he's determined to make his class not only the best in the school, but the best in the whole of Japan.
It's telling that when we briefly see him talking about why he became a prosecutor, he refers to 'the physical and emotional abuse I witnessed as a child' - 'witnessed', not 'endured'. 'Endured' would mean seeing himself as a victim, as damaged somehow, which of course he is - but all the anger and hatred and pain and fear are pushed far below the surface, only showing when he's busy 'deleting'. But if he or his faith are put under strain - as we see at the end of the series, when Kira's finally captured and it's Teru's own mistake that lead to it - that control is going to slip. Despite all appearances, his beliefs are ultimately shown to be quite fragile. Present him with clear evidence that his black and white, good versus evil worldview is wrong, and he'll shatter. In the manga, this is clearly what happens to him at the end, when he breaks down and rejects Light after seeing him defeated. In the anime version of the scene it's less clear why he kills himself, but it's unlikely that his faith survived.
First-Person Sample:
1 | 2
Log Sample:
This could not be a coincidence.
That was the main conclusion Teru had come to, now that his initial panic had subsided enough to let him think. He was sitting alone at a quiet table in a corner of the Mission Bell, right hand gripping a cup of black coffee that he occasionally pretended to drink from. He hadn't yet dared to actually taste it. From what he'd observed of the other tables, no one else seemed to be taking the same precaution, and nobody was showing any ill effects from the food and drink here. So far.
But he couldn't be too careful. The fact that this was happening now, right after Kira had seen him, chosen him and granted him power, actually spoken to him - whoever or whatever had brought him here must have a reason, and he couldn't imagine it was in Kira's interest to have his proxy spirited away to a place like this.
On the other hand, all of this couldn't only be for him. Unless the other 'guests' were part of some elaborate trick to make him let his guard down. He couldn't rule that possiblity out, but it seemed unlikely. Names and numbers were floating over many of their heads. Whatever else they were, those people must be human...
...or his new eyes were lying to him. Teru sighed, fingers massaging his temples as his head began to ache. Sitting here and speculating with no evidence was getting him nowhere. He needed to talk to someone. Find out what he could about this place. Come up with a plan.
There was no more time to waste. The world needed him.
Notes: n/a