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bokukotantei) wrote2013-12-30 01:59 pm
bokukotantei) wrote2013-12-30 01:59 pm
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Application for Ruby City
PLAYER
Name: Stark
Age: 26
Personal Journal:starkxravingxmad
E-mail: caster023@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc:
AIM: caster023@gmail.com
Plurk: starkxravingxmad
CHARACTER
Name: Naoto Shirogane (Western order)
Canon: Persona 4
Age: 15
Timeline: October, after the School Festival and all of the silliness, but before the plot picks up again.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Ever cool and professional, it's often hard to remember that, for all of her public notoriety and experience working in the field, Naoto Shirogane is still very much a young woman underneath her distant, boyish cover. She has all of the same insecurities that any young woman would have, with the addition of several extra layers laid on top because of her choice in career and lifestyle. As a young person working amongst adults and the sole heir of a long line of famous detectives, Naoto has needed to be firmer and tougher than many of her peers just to be respected and treated on equal terms while working out in the field. With her passion for the career and her love of the mystery and action media genres in mind, concsciously or not, Naoto started to model herself after the archetypal cool, hardboiled detective in order to achieve this.
In effect, she was trying to play a man's role in a male-dominanted career-- and succeeded. Though she earned the title 'Detective Prince' from the media, she never once tried to correct them or deny it. She had her respect, and she could practice her trade on equal terms with everyone else. There were few problems...until her respect for the truth and her drive to find it became involved.
The case of the bizarre murders taking place in Inaba during the main storyline brought this into the foreground, as it threw Naoto into a professional conflict with the local police departments. While she was called in as an advisor, it was clear that the locals were unnerved by the Detective Prince and everything she represented. Furthermore, she preferred taking measures to act on her own, without any assistance or collaboration with them. Her only desire was to find the truth, no matter what it took. While acting on her own, she deduced the involvement of the game's protagonist and the other characters independently. However, without any evidence to properly investigate them, Naoto found-- to her frustration-- that her hands were tied. When the investigation took a turn and a student from the local high school was arrested as a suspect, Naoto refused to just leave the case alone. The facts, as they were at that point in time, didn't add up-- her frustrations mounted and, with the threat of being removed from the case entirely because her role was done, she acted on a carefully crafted hypothesis.
She was just fortunate that her hunch was right.
Her encounter with her Shadow inside of the television threw many of Naoto's flaws into the foreground. Her passion, her cool professionalism, and her drive had effectively left her disconnected from society and without any close relationship outside of her family. Her ploy to be a cool detective was a shield for her own insecurities...and, her problem with herself was never one about her gender, but about how her dream of being herself and being a cool detective conflicted with the reality. She never truly wanted to be a man, even though she portrayed herself as male in the workplace.
She was just afraid of being rejected by the very thing that she dreamed of becoming.
However, accepting herself as she is didn't change everything. She is still very stubborn and linear minded, preferring to focus on the facts of the matter rather than how another person's emotions and wellbeing can be affected by it. And, when people are hurt, Naoto then internalizes her shame and blames herself for not being able to prevent it from happening. It's a childish reaction coming from one of the more mature members of the Investigation Team, but its important to note that Naoto isn't one to just throw things away-- be it mementos of her childhood or her own mistakes.
Also, despite her apparent maturity, it should be noted that Naoto does shy away from attention in certain respects. Having the truth of her gender outed to the rest of the high school embarrasses her, as does the attention she recieves from both the male and female student population. And, although she is noted for her potential to be quite attractive underneath all of her layers, she is so embarrassed by the thought of being seein in a bikini that she drops out of the school's beauty pageant....which, by grace of her popularity, she still wins.
She is also not as skilled or 'cool' as she tries to be in a few regards: ghost stories unnerve her enough to throw off her cool, she is easily flustered when her gender and age are brought up, and she is barely able to stay upright on her skis without assistance.
Background: Here is a link to her article on the SMT Wiki.
Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.
First Person: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp. Commonly known as bracket spam, it is usually third person present tense. We are expecting a well-written sample, at the MINIMUM eight sentences.
Third Person: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs. This sample will be in third-person past tense, at least three well-written paragraphs, 3-4 sentences per paragraph, which will show your understanding of your character, how they think, feel, react, etcetera. One should consider spelling, grammar and tense when doing all samples.
Name: Stark
Age: 26
Personal Journal:
starkxravingxmadE-mail: caster023@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc:
AIM: caster023@gmail.com
Plurk: starkxravingxmad
CHARACTER
Name: Naoto Shirogane (Western order)
Canon: Persona 4
Age: 15
Timeline: October, after the School Festival and all of the silliness, but before the plot picks up again.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Ever cool and professional, it's often hard to remember that, for all of her public notoriety and experience working in the field, Naoto Shirogane is still very much a young woman underneath her distant, boyish cover. She has all of the same insecurities that any young woman would have, with the addition of several extra layers laid on top because of her choice in career and lifestyle. As a young person working amongst adults and the sole heir of a long line of famous detectives, Naoto has needed to be firmer and tougher than many of her peers just to be respected and treated on equal terms while working out in the field. With her passion for the career and her love of the mystery and action media genres in mind, concsciously or not, Naoto started to model herself after the archetypal cool, hardboiled detective in order to achieve this.
In effect, she was trying to play a man's role in a male-dominanted career-- and succeeded. Though she earned the title 'Detective Prince' from the media, she never once tried to correct them or deny it. She had her respect, and she could practice her trade on equal terms with everyone else. There were few problems...until her respect for the truth and her drive to find it became involved.
The case of the bizarre murders taking place in Inaba during the main storyline brought this into the foreground, as it threw Naoto into a professional conflict with the local police departments. While she was called in as an advisor, it was clear that the locals were unnerved by the Detective Prince and everything she represented. Furthermore, she preferred taking measures to act on her own, without any assistance or collaboration with them. Her only desire was to find the truth, no matter what it took. While acting on her own, she deduced the involvement of the game's protagonist and the other characters independently. However, without any evidence to properly investigate them, Naoto found-- to her frustration-- that her hands were tied. When the investigation took a turn and a student from the local high school was arrested as a suspect, Naoto refused to just leave the case alone. The facts, as they were at that point in time, didn't add up-- her frustrations mounted and, with the threat of being removed from the case entirely because her role was done, she acted on a carefully crafted hypothesis.
She was just fortunate that her hunch was right.
Her encounter with her Shadow inside of the television threw many of Naoto's flaws into the foreground. Her passion, her cool professionalism, and her drive had effectively left her disconnected from society and without any close relationship outside of her family. Her ploy to be a cool detective was a shield for her own insecurities...and, her problem with herself was never one about her gender, but about how her dream of being herself and being a cool detective conflicted with the reality. She never truly wanted to be a man, even though she portrayed herself as male in the workplace.
She was just afraid of being rejected by the very thing that she dreamed of becoming.
However, accepting herself as she is didn't change everything. She is still very stubborn and linear minded, preferring to focus on the facts of the matter rather than how another person's emotions and wellbeing can be affected by it. And, when people are hurt, Naoto then internalizes her shame and blames herself for not being able to prevent it from happening. It's a childish reaction coming from one of the more mature members of the Investigation Team, but its important to note that Naoto isn't one to just throw things away-- be it mementos of her childhood or her own mistakes.
Also, despite her apparent maturity, it should be noted that Naoto does shy away from attention in certain respects. Having the truth of her gender outed to the rest of the high school embarrasses her, as does the attention she recieves from both the male and female student population. And, although she is noted for her potential to be quite attractive underneath all of her layers, she is so embarrassed by the thought of being seein in a bikini that she drops out of the school's beauty pageant....which, by grace of her popularity, she still wins.
She is also not as skilled or 'cool' as she tries to be in a few regards: ghost stories unnerve her enough to throw off her cool, she is easily flustered when her gender and age are brought up, and she is barely able to stay upright on her skis without assistance.
Background: Here is a link to her article on the SMT Wiki.
Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.
First Person: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp. Commonly known as bracket spam, it is usually third person present tense. We are expecting a well-written sample, at the MINIMUM eight sentences.
Third Person: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs. This sample will be in third-person past tense, at least three well-written paragraphs, 3-4 sentences per paragraph, which will show your understanding of your character, how they think, feel, react, etcetera. One should consider spelling, grammar and tense when doing all samples.