destructoplush @ 2009-09-25T21:55:00

2009-09-26T05:56:15Z

HMD POST

Have a problem with my portrayal of Shiki, or with me as a mun? Please let me know here. ♥ IP logging off and anon on as soon as lj lets me at it. :)

I can also be contacted on AIM as Sushiflop. My personal journal is senri. PMs for this journal are also enabled.

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2009-09-26T05:55:15Z

1 | Intro | ♥

rosenhanclinic activity logs

2009-07-24T04:24:01Z

1 | First stitch | ♥
1.1 | Staff | ♥
1.2 | Who is Orochimaru? | ♥
1.3 | Carrot | ♥
1.4 | Jiraiya | ♥
1.5 | On the beach | ♥

2 | Second stitch | ♥
2.1 | Sasuke | ♥
2.2 | Jo | ♥
2.3 | Who's harassing Edgeworth? | ♥
2.4 | Cool it, Carrot | ♥

3 | Third stitch | ♥

4 | Fourth stitch | ♥

[St. Edelweiss Activity Logs]

2009-03-31T18:29:41Z

1 | First Design | ♥
1.1 | Listing the accused | ♥
1.2 | Murder most foul?! | ♥
1.3 | Vincent Valentine | ♥
1.4 | Bella | ♥
1.5 | Yoite | ♥
1.6 | Jack | ♥
1.7 | Carrot | ♥
1.8 | Madoka | ♥

2 | Second Design | ♥
2.1 | Naruto | ♥

3 | Third Design | ♥
3.1 | Check in | ♥

4 | Fourth Design | ♥
4.1 | Lavi | ♥
4.2 | First laundry day | ♥
4.2.1 | Huey | ♥

5 | Fifth Design | ♥
5.1 | Claire | ♥

6 | Sixth Design | ♥

OOC: St. Edelweiss Application

2009-03-29T06:56:25Z

PLAYER
NAME: Senri
AGE: 20
PREFERRED PRONOUN: She
PERSONAL LJ: senri
TIMEZONE:
EMAIL/MESSENGER(S): undead.invader@gmail.com / Sushiflop
EXPERIENCE RPing: Since August at paradisa; since October or so here.

CHARACTER
NAME: Shiki Misaki
AGE: 15
GENDER: Female
ROLE IN CANON: Protagonist and supporting character; partner to the main character Neku
FANDOM: The World Ends With You
FANDOM MEDIUM: Vidyagame
TIMELINE PERIOD: After the end of the first week, when she thought she was being returned to life in Shibuya
ABILITIES: An ability known as a "psych", which relies on the stuffed cat "Mr.Mew" that she sewed as a child. Her psych only works on Mr.Mew, however; she uses him as a weapon to battle Noise. Basically, she just levitates him towards the enemy and Mr.Mew just kind of "does his own thing", which Shiki doesn't seem to find all that surprising. A little odd, given that at the ultimate fusion level Mr.Mew expands into a monstrous stuffed cat that shoots lasers from his eyes and is big enough to allow Shiki and Neku to sit like canaries on his shoulders, but that's Shiki for you.

She's also a mean seamstress. Sews her own clothes and all. =)
CHARACTER HISTORY: Shiki lived a regular life for basically fifteen years. She wasn't the most self-confident or outgoing of girls, but she did have friends and she had a dream: Shiki wanted to be a great fashion designer whose clothes would take the people of Shibuya by storm. The one problem in this dream is that honestly, Shiki didn't have much of a design sense. However, she was a mean seamstress, and with a needle and thread she could give life to designs beyond even what they had on the page.

The designs, however, came from her best friend and arguably the most important person in Shiki's life: Eri. Eri was the designer to Shiki's seamstress, the self-confident, outgoing, intelligent, bubbling girl to Shiki's shyer wallflower personality. She was everything Shiki wasn't, everything Shiki wanted to be, and the two girls were basically inseparable.

However, things weren't perfect in paradise. Shiki was jealous of Eri; her personality and her design talent, the way things in life seemed to come so easily to her while Shiki had to struggle and fight for everything. She didn't allow this jealousy to poison her relationship with Eri, but it did make her sensitive and rather bitter, and when Eri told Shiki that she wasn't cut out to be a designer, Shiki took the words as a hurtful insult rather than the rather misguided attempt at comfort that they were: what Eri meant was that Shiki was meant to be a seamstress, that her talent in this area was amazing, and that she was as necessary a part of the creative process as Eri herself.

But Shiki didn't see that way, and she left feeling terribly hurt. And the next day, she died, and found herself in the Reaper's game, in the body of her friend Eri, forced to play and win if she wanted to return to life again. And Shiki did want to live, and she found herself - slightly surprisingly - prepared to fight as hard as she damn well could for the right.

She found a partner in the form of the reclusive, bitter, and almost totally asocial Neku, who for all his personality flaws was an expert user of psychs in the form of pins. Together they formed a pact, and agreed to take on the game forever - or, well, Shiki decided that this was the goal, and Neku didn't exactly fight hard enough to drive her away even though he wasn't enthusiastic.

And through the game, Shiki realized that she liked herself, found her own inner strength and personality, and even began to draw out Neku. When they ran into her friend Eri on one of the game days and heard her talking about Shiki and how Eri valued their friendship and Shiki's talent, this bolstered Shiki's budding confidence in herself even more - enough to totally dissipate her jealousy and endow her with a new appreciation for her own body, talent, and personality.

It was with this renewed sense of purpose that Shiki accompanied Neku to take on the week's Game Master, and the two fought and defeated him. Shiki, Beat and Neku were the only three players surviving, and Shiki was - although it may have been a farce, as Beat and Neku were Producer and Composer's proxies, respectively - the highest-scoring player in the game, and thus the one approved to return to life.

Shiki and Neku agreed to meet at the statue of Hachiko the next week, assuming that he'd win the game again; and Shiki appeared to dissipate into the air, although really the Producer Kitaniji was putting her into cold storage, as over the course of the week she had become the thing that Neku valued the most, and thus was his price for playing the game the next week.

However, instead of being restored to life or put into storage in the Shibuya River... Shiki wakes up in St.Edelweiss.
CHARACTER PERSONALITY: Shiki grows a lot over her round playing the Reaper's Game. Fighting for her life forces her to grow to her full potential, and although at first she's putting on a mask and acting as much like her best friend Eri as she possibly can, as the days go by she acts more and more like herself, and the personality of Shiki is likeable all on her own. Shiki is probably a little more intense than Eri, determined and focused, but she does her best to bolster up Neku too, and the other friends she meets in the game. She acts as a restraining figure when Neku gets a chip on his shoulder, pushes for the partnership when Neku is prepared to walk, and is basically a source of common sense when one is needed.

This is not to say that Shiki doesn't have her own moments of relative crazy. This basically comes out when Mr.Mew comes in to the picture. I don't think any perfectly normal person would be so nonchalant about finding out that the cat plushie they'd sewed as a child apparently has a mind of its own and is capable of fighting monsters. Of totally fucking monsters over, in fact. This seems indicative to me that she has her own special kind of crazy, and an almost inhuman ability to take things in stride even when they're totally bugfuck insane.

She has a pushy side, too, and if something bugs her, she'll let the person getting on her nerves know. However, she's more likely to keep this under wraps for at least the preliminary stages of a friendship; it's only as time goes by that people will realize how she's actually rather strange. She wouldn't show her strangeness right away, and I think that this would be true even for the newly more self confident Shiki; she doesn't have to show her entire personality right at the first gasp, and she's not panting after the approval of other people anymore, either. She does her own thing, she likes what she likes and who she likes, and she doesn't need to prove herself to everyone she meets in order to feel like a worthwhile person. She might have ditzy moments, but at heart she's a pretty sensible, self-confident girl.
HOW IS THIS CHARACTER APPROPRIATE FOR THIS SETTING: Shiki fought her way through a game where the prize was death and the consequence for failure was erasure. She's used to life-or-death pressure, and also accustomed to supporting other people through trials.
WHAT WILL THEIR DIAGNOSIS BE: Body Dysmorphic Disorder - An extreme case, as what Shiki will be concerned with is not a minor flaw in her features but her entire face and body, which actually belong to her best friend Eri. By the seventh day of her chapter, Shiki likes herself and wants her own body back, and it will be extremely distressing to her to still have Eri's shape.

Anorexia Nervosa - well, just look at her.
PREDICTED PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS: She's definitely going to be shaken. Shiki is just not the kind of girl that is impervious to everything. But she's got her own kind of strength, too, and although what she likes and her passions might appear shallow to other people, when she's under pressure her strength comes out. She'll bend, but she won't break - she knows that part of her strength stems from reaching out to other people, and although she's bound to be hit hard, she can weather the storm.
PREDICTED BEHAVIOR/PLANS: It's just another game, right? One that she has to win in order to return to her life in Shibuya. With the support of other patients, Shiki will probably remain determined that she is who she believes she is, and she'll probably try to find other people to 'partner' with in order to survive. Without Mr.Mew as an active psych, she doesn't have much in the way of offensive powers, so she'd have to play more of a support role, probably making an effort to pick up as much medical know-how as she could, and the like. She's not the kind of girl who just sits back when there are things to be done.
DANGER LEVEL: 1

SAMPLES

THIRD PERSON:

Ofttimes in the past, Shiki had played the second fiddle, and a great deal of that had been her own choice. Eri was the shining one, after all; the star of the stage, the belle of the ball, center of attention, even though she'd always had time for Shiki - as much time as Shiki had ever needed, after all. And even when she'd wondered why, Shiki had appreciated that, that someone as wonderful as Eri had seen something bright in Shiki.

Eri, Mr. Mew - relics of her old life, which seemed far more distant than a single week and a few days in an insane asylum could possibly account for. She'd never spent so much time cold, or dirty, or lonely before - even Neku, back when he was still almost completely silent and cold with her, had been better than this. He'd been a partner, someone who wouldn't just abandon her to die, at least - he'd been somebody to talk to. It was hard to sneak a word in edgewise, here. It was hard to be brave without a timer burning on her hand, a message coming in on her phone, a mission to complete -

But no. She did have a mission. She had to have one, didn't she? She'd made a promise to Neku, and she had to fill that promise. That was her mission now.

And just like before, she couldn't do it alone.

Shiki rubbed her face hard. There wasn't a mirror in the room, so she straightened her hair as best she could just by feel. The rags she'd been given couldn't have been presentable even after hours of work with a needle and thread, but she pulled at them anyway, trying to make them sit comfortably on her still-angular frame. Eri was all legs and bone. Why hadn't she seen it before...?

None of that, now, girl. Best foot forward.

Shiki moved to where the intercom buzzed at the wall, and leaned close to it.

"Hello...?"

FIRST PERSON:

Hey! Producer, whoever you are - you messed up! This is not Shibuya! Eugh, and if that's mold - this doesn't even look like the twenty-first century! I won the game and I made a promise to Neku! So send me back, already!

I want my clothes too. And where's Mr. Mew?!

NOTES: Activity check is here: Hidan and Rin.