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Name: becks
Age: 25+
Contact info: Journal PM.
Character: Nezumi
Canon: No. 6
Canon Point: Post-series. I'm being vague with the timeline so it semi-matches with Shion's, but without being tied to the Beyond post-series novel. So around a year after the end of the main novel, hence the age tweak to around 17.
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 16~17
Why do you think they can settle in a horror setting if they’re under 18?:
His whole life has literally been a sci-fi horror shit show, from having survived the genocide of his people, and his home being burned down by the executives of No. 6 who wanted the land his people lived on for themselves; scraping by when he was a kid, living in harsh conditions with the one other survivor of the Mao Massacre only to lose her when he was still very young when she tried to take revenge on No. 6 and was killed; being captured by and having to escape the dystopian government that burned his home to the ground and built over its ashes; doing this again two years later in order to purposely escape the city's clutches; seeing killer wasps crawl out of people's necks, including that of the boy who saved his life and having to make a quick decision to literally cut a wasp out of Shion's neck to save him; living in West Block and surviving all the corruption and violence there; getting shot in the stomach during an infiltration of the Correctional Facility; having to climb a pile of dead and dying bodies to escape a pit in the Correctional facility; mercy killing a man when Shion couldn't go through with the act...
He's fine.
Canon Abilities/Powers: Nezumi doesn't have any special magical powers – other than a weird connection to magical songs that may or may not come up depending on if any giant wasp gods descend to cause havoc. (Hopefully not.)
He's a talented singer and actor, making his living from acting on the stage under a pseudonym. As mentioned the singing does border on spiritual though – the Forest Folk had people known as “Singers” who were gifted with the ability to speak to the Forest God, known as Elyurias through song; an ability they used to barter a deal with Elyurias to keep humans safe from her. Nezumi was one of the people who inherited this gift, even though he was too young to really understand or use it before the executives of No. 6 wiped his home and his people out. Another character in the series notes that Nezumi's singing voice seems to be able to carry souls of the dead away without pain, so he's often asked to sing at burials. It's also shown in the series that his singing calms people.
Nezumi's also pretty self-sufficient with cooking and taking care of himself – and he's very clear that he's not a fan of relying on others if he doesn't have to. He's good with a knife as well, and knows how to fight if pushed into a situation when he has to. And sometimes it seems like he's bizarrely good with intimidation and torture techniques, especially when to comes to gathering information. As you sometimes are, y'know?
He's also handy with electronics – he has a number of pet mice in the series, some are actually real and the rest are all just... robots. Like little spy robots he uses for information gathering and the link. He maintains them himself, because of course he does. He also messes with some of the worker bots in No. 6 when rescuing Shion, breaking their programming and getting them to act out of their usual parameters and then exploding them to create a distraction.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Oh, boy can Nezumi ever hold a violent, bitter grudge. He loathes No. 6 on every possible level, and even extends his wish to see it burn to the ground to all the people that live there too, for their ignorance and willingness to turn a blind eye to people and their suffering as long as everything's okay for them in their “utopia”.
He's... unwilling to be persuaded otherwise. He'll make an exception to the rule for Shion, because well.. it's Shion, and eventually he extends this to Shion's mother, but he just plain does not give a damn about No. 6 or anyone who lives there, whether they're blameless innocents or not. He just hates No. 6 that much, and sees them all as compliant with No. 6's sketchy ways for just going along with everything. This whole hatred leaves him unwilling to get close to people, or give most of them the time of day.
Given that he's post-series though, that bitter hatred is still there and it's enough that he chooses to leave No. 6 entirely because he can't detach his hatred of the city, even though the current government has been toppled and things are more than likely going to change for the better. As things are, he can't see No. 6 as anything other than the place that inflicted a lot of suffering and pain on him.
How aware are they of this negative emotion, and how do they act on it in canon?:
Yeah, pretty aware of it. Aware enough to argue it when Shion calls him out on it, and eventually soften things at the edges. But he knows it's a Big part of him – to the point that when No. 6 in its current form DOES topple, he can't bring himself to stay around and see what it will become in the future, even knowing Shion is involved in shaping the future No. 6. He hates it and its memory that much that he choose to just up and leave, with the promise he'll return in the future, rather than stick around to see it change.
What is their greatest virtue?:
For someone who trusts pretty much no one and genuinely likes maybe two people, Nezumi is surprisingly kind. God knows you're unlikely to see it, and his way of showing kindness can be incredibly cruel and harsh, tied to his own beliefs that if you show weakness it will be taken advantage of, but... he's very much a “Jerk with a Heart of Gold” archetype.
He looks out for people, and despite his own firm beliefs in only looking out for himself he does do things that are nothing but kindness dressed up as something else. A lot of it has to do with Shion – he rescues him to repay him for saving his life when they were kids, but honestly that alone would have been enough to repay his debt. Instead he takes Shion in, houses him for as long as Shion wants to remain with him, saves his life again when it becomes clear Shion is infected with a parasite wasp, plans an infiltration of the Correctional Facility for him when it becomes clear Shion will do anything to save his friend Safu, including going alone and unprepared... he even takes a bullet for him, and does everything he can to try and keep Shion's naivety and optimism in tact because he loathes the thought of Shion becoming tainted or darkened by the realities of the world around him.
This kindness extends to other people, but he hides it under unpleasant aspects of his personality – he's willing to sing for Inukashi's dogs when they die, but claims he needs paying first. He leaves Inukashi alone for a little longer than necessary with an executive from No. 6, but notably doesn't leave the room and steps in when she's really in trouble. He's also very willing to torture and torment the guy for information for Shion's sake, something Shion calls him out on, telling him not to push himself to do these things for his sake.
(If it sounds like I'm saying he's a bit tsundere, he sort of is. Only one with more knives and sarcasm, and only willing to admit he likes one person on certain days when he feels like it.)
How aware are they of their virtue, and how do they act on it in canon?:
Probably more aware of it than he wants to be. Nezumi purposely puts up boundaries and often balances his moments of kindness with moments of sharp-tongue, purposefully aimed cruelty, like he's maintaining a very strict balance with himself. Which... isn't an inaccurate way of putting it. West Block runs under very dog-eat-dog rules, and as one of the other members of the series' cast puts it – when you have something to lose, you've lost. Nezumi has been a solid and mostly untouchable presence in West Block for a number of years, but he suddenly has a huge weak spot – Shion – and it's one he can't really hide away, because Shion is just … so very Shion, with all his soft, enduring and painfully honest ways of going about life that Nezumi has to counter and protect him from.
And people notice his softer side around him – the way Nezumi talks and acts, so he has to back up his new weaknesses by being more in control, more intimidating, and stronger in literal and metaphorical fights for power as well. So, yes. He's aware than he's not been able to stamp out all his kindness, and he's aware than being around Shion puts it more on display, and he takes steps to counter that.
Items:
Superfiber cloak – I mean, it... in canon it lets him deflect bullets and protect himself and anyone wrapped in the cloak too from explosions. Please nerf this it's so stupid, but if it can be a decently durable cloak that'd be cool?
Pocket knife – self explanatory, really.
Robomouse – YEAH. I'm fine with this just being able to run around and not do all the ridiculous spy things like display blueprints and maps and the like, but if short recordings are okay that would be pretty fun? Or if it's okay for the robomouse to... actually do all those things, then that's fine too?
Samples: Over here!
Special Notes: Gently picks Nezumi up, opens a trash can, and puts him inside.
Age: 25+
Contact info: Journal PM.
Character: Nezumi
Canon: No. 6
Canon Point: Post-series. I'm being vague with the timeline so it semi-matches with Shion's, but without being tied to the Beyond post-series novel. So around a year after the end of the main novel, hence the age tweak to around 17.
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 16~17
Why do you think they can settle in a horror setting if they’re under 18?:
His whole life has literally been a sci-fi horror shit show, from having survived the genocide of his people, and his home being burned down by the executives of No. 6 who wanted the land his people lived on for themselves; scraping by when he was a kid, living in harsh conditions with the one other survivor of the Mao Massacre only to lose her when he was still very young when she tried to take revenge on No. 6 and was killed; being captured by and having to escape the dystopian government that burned his home to the ground and built over its ashes; doing this again two years later in order to purposely escape the city's clutches; seeing killer wasps crawl out of people's necks, including that of the boy who saved his life and having to make a quick decision to literally cut a wasp out of Shion's neck to save him; living in West Block and surviving all the corruption and violence there; getting shot in the stomach during an infiltration of the Correctional Facility; having to climb a pile of dead and dying bodies to escape a pit in the Correctional facility; mercy killing a man when Shion couldn't go through with the act...
He's fine.
Canon Abilities/Powers: Nezumi doesn't have any special magical powers – other than a weird connection to magical songs that may or may not come up depending on if any giant wasp gods descend to cause havoc. (Hopefully not.)
He's a talented singer and actor, making his living from acting on the stage under a pseudonym. As mentioned the singing does border on spiritual though – the Forest Folk had people known as “Singers” who were gifted with the ability to speak to the Forest God, known as Elyurias through song; an ability they used to barter a deal with Elyurias to keep humans safe from her. Nezumi was one of the people who inherited this gift, even though he was too young to really understand or use it before the executives of No. 6 wiped his home and his people out. Another character in the series notes that Nezumi's singing voice seems to be able to carry souls of the dead away without pain, so he's often asked to sing at burials. It's also shown in the series that his singing calms people.
Nezumi's also pretty self-sufficient with cooking and taking care of himself – and he's very clear that he's not a fan of relying on others if he doesn't have to. He's good with a knife as well, and knows how to fight if pushed into a situation when he has to. And sometimes it seems like he's bizarrely good with intimidation and torture techniques, especially when to comes to gathering information. As you sometimes are, y'know?
He's also handy with electronics – he has a number of pet mice in the series, some are actually real and the rest are all just... robots. Like little spy robots he uses for information gathering and the link. He maintains them himself, because of course he does. He also messes with some of the worker bots in No. 6 when rescuing Shion, breaking their programming and getting them to act out of their usual parameters and then exploding them to create a distraction.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Oh, boy can Nezumi ever hold a violent, bitter grudge. He loathes No. 6 on every possible level, and even extends his wish to see it burn to the ground to all the people that live there too, for their ignorance and willingness to turn a blind eye to people and their suffering as long as everything's okay for them in their “utopia”.
He's... unwilling to be persuaded otherwise. He'll make an exception to the rule for Shion, because well.. it's Shion, and eventually he extends this to Shion's mother, but he just plain does not give a damn about No. 6 or anyone who lives there, whether they're blameless innocents or not. He just hates No. 6 that much, and sees them all as compliant with No. 6's sketchy ways for just going along with everything. This whole hatred leaves him unwilling to get close to people, or give most of them the time of day.
Given that he's post-series though, that bitter hatred is still there and it's enough that he chooses to leave No. 6 entirely because he can't detach his hatred of the city, even though the current government has been toppled and things are more than likely going to change for the better. As things are, he can't see No. 6 as anything other than the place that inflicted a lot of suffering and pain on him.
How aware are they of this negative emotion, and how do they act on it in canon?:
Yeah, pretty aware of it. Aware enough to argue it when Shion calls him out on it, and eventually soften things at the edges. But he knows it's a Big part of him – to the point that when No. 6 in its current form DOES topple, he can't bring himself to stay around and see what it will become in the future, even knowing Shion is involved in shaping the future No. 6. He hates it and its memory that much that he choose to just up and leave, with the promise he'll return in the future, rather than stick around to see it change.
What is their greatest virtue?:
For someone who trusts pretty much no one and genuinely likes maybe two people, Nezumi is surprisingly kind. God knows you're unlikely to see it, and his way of showing kindness can be incredibly cruel and harsh, tied to his own beliefs that if you show weakness it will be taken advantage of, but... he's very much a “Jerk with a Heart of Gold” archetype.
He looks out for people, and despite his own firm beliefs in only looking out for himself he does do things that are nothing but kindness dressed up as something else. A lot of it has to do with Shion – he rescues him to repay him for saving his life when they were kids, but honestly that alone would have been enough to repay his debt. Instead he takes Shion in, houses him for as long as Shion wants to remain with him, saves his life again when it becomes clear Shion is infected with a parasite wasp, plans an infiltration of the Correctional Facility for him when it becomes clear Shion will do anything to save his friend Safu, including going alone and unprepared... he even takes a bullet for him, and does everything he can to try and keep Shion's naivety and optimism in tact because he loathes the thought of Shion becoming tainted or darkened by the realities of the world around him.
This kindness extends to other people, but he hides it under unpleasant aspects of his personality – he's willing to sing for Inukashi's dogs when they die, but claims he needs paying first. He leaves Inukashi alone for a little longer than necessary with an executive from No. 6, but notably doesn't leave the room and steps in when she's really in trouble. He's also very willing to torture and torment the guy for information for Shion's sake, something Shion calls him out on, telling him not to push himself to do these things for his sake.
(If it sounds like I'm saying he's a bit tsundere, he sort of is. Only one with more knives and sarcasm, and only willing to admit he likes one person on certain days when he feels like it.)
How aware are they of their virtue, and how do they act on it in canon?:
Probably more aware of it than he wants to be. Nezumi purposely puts up boundaries and often balances his moments of kindness with moments of sharp-tongue, purposefully aimed cruelty, like he's maintaining a very strict balance with himself. Which... isn't an inaccurate way of putting it. West Block runs under very dog-eat-dog rules, and as one of the other members of the series' cast puts it – when you have something to lose, you've lost. Nezumi has been a solid and mostly untouchable presence in West Block for a number of years, but he suddenly has a huge weak spot – Shion – and it's one he can't really hide away, because Shion is just … so very Shion, with all his soft, enduring and painfully honest ways of going about life that Nezumi has to counter and protect him from.
And people notice his softer side around him – the way Nezumi talks and acts, so he has to back up his new weaknesses by being more in control, more intimidating, and stronger in literal and metaphorical fights for power as well. So, yes. He's aware than he's not been able to stamp out all his kindness, and he's aware than being around Shion puts it more on display, and he takes steps to counter that.
Items:
Superfiber cloak – I mean, it... in canon it lets him deflect bullets and protect himself and anyone wrapped in the cloak too from explosions. Please nerf this it's so stupid, but if it can be a decently durable cloak that'd be cool?
Pocket knife – self explanatory, really.
Robomouse – YEAH. I'm fine with this just being able to run around and not do all the ridiculous spy things like display blueprints and maps and the like, but if short recordings are okay that would be pretty fun? Or if it's okay for the robomouse to... actually do all those things, then that's fine too?
Samples: Over here!
Special Notes: Gently picks Nezumi up, opens a trash can, and puts him inside.