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E-mail: michael heroin at gee mail dot com
Other Characters: Rhys Strongfork
Character Name: Ryou Asuka
Series: Devilman
NOTE: The canon of this series is a hot mess that's been re-released and revamped a million times since it's original release in the 70's, and insanely, some of the revamps reference older versions of the show as fictional shows which exist in their universe because it's a fuckin-- cyclical universe that keeps repeating.
If it's okay, I'd like to play Ryou from the 1980's OVA's. These follow the plot of the manga closely, but as these only covered two volumes of the five volume manga, I'd like to fill in the rest from the original manga. The plot and characterization is almost identical. It's just that the Manga made some weird tonal choices when it was finding it's feet, the anime is just a bit less strange and 70's in it's mood, and I think feels more natural to write, while keeping the character very much the same.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Satan as an angelic being is depicted as having a body which is both male and female. The 1970's manga calls them a hermaphrodite, which isn't terminology that we'd use today, but it feels equally crass to act like a non-human creature without binary sexual organs is directly analagous to being intersex as a human would experience it. As it is, I'm going to mostly refer to Satan as 'he' because they take on a male form as a human, and in the manga use masculine identifiers. Soz about my shitty old canon. It was trying to do a lot of stuff back in the day...
Age: 17 / As old as the universe? Ish?
From When?: Half way through the full arc of Devilman, when Ryo is out hunting demons alone with a shotgun, before his memories of his true form have returned.
Inmate/Warden: Hard fuckin' inmate.
There are two sides of Ryou. On the one hand, he's a teenage boy with laser focus and highly violent tendencies, who is happy to kill as many humans as it takes to save the human race from demonic destruction. He acts like he is above the law, treats people as if they're disposable, and speculates on whether letting demons devour humanity is actually a solution to save us from ourselves and the inevitable destruction that progress and nuclear weapons will bring. He has broadly good intentions, but is willing to do anything and kill anyone it takes to achieve what he thinks is right, and is visibly thrilled by it.
(aka: He's a big 1980's cold war kid.)
The other side is the big twist of Devilman (50 year old spoilers:) that Ryou is actually Satan, absolute top king of all demons. He suppressed his own memories and took on the identity, heart, and mind of a human boy so that he could understand humanity well enough to eradicate it, because he wants the earth to belong to demons. (He's also a bit low key eco-fascist).
THE PROBLEM IS he stole the body and mind of a little gay who was in love with his best friend, so his subconscious satanic agenda got it's wires crossed and he ended up sort of sabotaging his own plan by convincing his bff to become a demonic hybrid that could survive the eradication of humanity.
But other than that his plan goes great! He eradicates humanity, has a massive battle against his ex bff that he's in love with, wins that battle as well, then sits with his best friend's corpse on the ruins of the planet earth talking about how nice the moon looks as the armies of heaven come down to destroy him, and the entire earth, and start the cycle over again.
In every cycle he makes the same decisions, falls in love with his bff, eradicates humanity, and kills the only person he cares about, and then waits to die. This is heavily implied to be an endless punishment for Ryo defying god which happens to get all of human existence taken down horrible with it over and over again.
BUT NOT THIS TIME...
Arrival:
Abilities/Powers:
AT FULL POWER: God what can't this asshole do? He has the ability to heal at an unnaturally fast rate, and to heal injuries in others at will, he can shape shift, he can communicate telepathically, he can fly, he can zap people with white light and heat from his hands (leaving atomic shadows behind), he has telekenesis strong enough to rip people apart, he has terrifying prescience about what people will do...
But on the Barge he'll have almost none of this!
While living as Ryou Asuka, these powers are already subdued. Instead of telepathy, he gets weird feelings, and strange dreams when his friend is in trouble. While he's still probably able to shapeshift into his true shape and fly, he never does so because he has no recollection that such a thing might be possible. He still has his full healing powers, and weird heat beam powers, but doesn't seem to understand or know that he's using them.
On the Barge, I'd like to stick pretty close to these limitations. Keeping reduced healing, weird instincts and dreams, and the shapeshifting into his real angelic form (if and when he gets to a point of remembering how to do it) while completely losing the heat beam stuff / telekenesis / prescience.
Personality:
Yeesh, okay, so...
Ryou Asuka was a real teenager, living in Japan in the 1970's and 80's. He died in a car crash two days before the canon of Devilman begins. This Ryou Asuka is what you get if you take all of that teenager's memories and feelings, and shine the cold demonic light of an unfeeling celestial being through them, both the young man and the demon are changed by this in ways which are unavoidable.
As Satan, he was calculating, vengeful, and ruthless. He regards humanity as insects who have infested a planet to which he and his people are the rightful heirs. He doesn't feel any specific or personal hatred for them, but a distant irritable contempt. He operates with far more of an instinctual lizard brain, looking for patterns and opportunities to ensure his survival, rather than engaging with higher emotions.
The higher emotions which he does experience are arrogance, anger, and a lust for power, but he does also seem to have some sense of fairness, if not empathy. Before humanity existed, he was an Archangel, and he defied god when he found out that god intended to exterminate the race of demons which he had created. Whether he did this out of empathy for the demons, or admiration for their power, the result was still an act of hubris which made him - temporarily, the king of all demons, ruling over a prehistoric earth. His desire to wipe out humanity doesn't strike him as cruel or kind, but as a fair retaking of a planet which belongs to demons, and which humans have infested and don't deserve. He is also - unknowingly - in a cycle of re-enacting the genocide which God intended to commit against him and his demons.
His calculating nature is at the core of his actions, and even is what sparks the action of the series. It is his awareness of his own limitations and lack of understanding of humanity which makes him decide to take on the consciousness and memories of a human, so that he will be able to better understand their weaknesses. In the nuclear age, he can tell that humanity - if informed and organized, could potentially form a credible threat to demons, so he pulls some five dimensional chess to stop that from happening.
What he failed to predict was the fact that once he had taken on human consciousness, he would never be able to fully separate himself from the knowledge.
As Ryou Asuka, with his memories erased and rewritten to believe that he is a young man who had just stumbled upon the existence of demons, the first and most intense feeling which Satan experienced was heart wrenching, bone chilling fear.
It isn't always obvious. Certainly, upon first meeting him, Ryou comes across as an intensely serious, somewhat pretentious youth, prone to ruminating on dark thoughts, lengthy philosophising and dramatic turns of phrase, but make no mistake, he is only ever a hair trigger away from panic and violence.
Ryou Asuka is driven, desperate, and at times near feral in his battle against demons coming to earth, because Ryou Asuka is terrified. All of his first steps taken in facing the demons who threaten the world are taken with supreme reluctance. He talks about the terrible legacy that his father left for him, in the notes and knowledge of demons, and he apologises deeply to his best friend Akira, for asking him to shoulder such an awful task with him.
It isn't just fear that he experiences though. He also feels a sense of duty and determination to protect the earth. He feels that now that he knows about the existence of demons, the only thing he can do with his knowledge is to try and use it to fight back and arm humanity. As such, he spends a lot of time permanently on edge, permanently locked into a state of fight or flight. He is intensely and constantly paranoid, knowing that demons could at any moment overtake anyone around him, and kill him horribly, this makes normal human dangers, such as getting beaten up or arrested feel small and insignificant to him, so he engages in extremely high risk activities. He drives recklessly, takes drugs, carries weapons and is quick to threaten or hurt others who get in his way.
Another strange trait of Ryou's, which is explained by his nature as an inhuman entity trying to think with a human brain, is that there's often a disconnect between himself and his own emotions. He often exists in a dualistic state where he doesn't fully understand himself or his own intentions. For example, the real, living human Ryou was in love with his best friend Akira, but when Satan takes on his personality and memories, and is exposed to feelings of love for the first time, the feeling is warped by Satan's tendencies towards posessiveness and control. Ryou becomes intensely jealous and hostile towards Akira's human love interest, and subconsciously changes his plans to manipulate Akira into giving up part of his humanity, so that he will be able to survive the end of the world. Consciously, all Ryou thinks that he is doing is reaching out to his friend for help in a desperate gambit.
This is a running theme throughout the series. Ryou consciously thinks that his growing emotional distance from other people, and callousness towards human life is rooted in knowing about something so much bigger and more terrible than any human could conceive in, while really it's just an aspect of his ancient, inhuman self shining through him.
He shows a simultaneous horror and lust for violence all the way through the series, simultaneously terrified of battling demons, while at the same time experiencing a giddy, joyful rush of bloodlust every time he fights one. Even as a fragile human, he catches himself sneaking out alone to hunt demons, unable to keep himself from smiling even while he's shaking with fear at putting himself in danger.
The most obvious expression of this disconnection, comes from his doomsaying and paranoia. While Ryou is always relatively pessimistic and able to question humanity's own actions and value, early on he is explicitly on the side of humanity. As the series goes on, he becomes increasingly hopeless and negative, and begins to foretell how humanity will react out of fear to earth's growing demonic presence. Increasingly, he describes to Akira exactly how humanity is dooming itself, and his hopelessness slowly warps into a kind of nihilistic delight. Even as he describes his own helplesness and future death, he laughs uncontrollably, as if this doomed pattern awaiting them is the most hilarious thing he can imagine.
At first this looks like an intelligent young man in an impossible situation, embracing the bleak humour of his situation, but as his predictions become more detailed and specific, and his amusement uglier and sharper, Akira points out to him that he's being kind of a gross creep, and that he wasn't always this bad. This causes Ryou to realise that he doesn't actually know why he's laughing, or why he feels so certain of the events ahead of them.
In the manga, this realisation that something isn't right with him, and his urgent desire to still do something to help fight the demons pushes him to go back to his family home, where the same demon who helped him alter his memories to learn about humanity restores them completely.
He becomes Satan again, and he continues in his mission of provoking humanity to destroy itself without too many interruptions, although his actions are still shaped by the human emotions that he now can't entirely extricate from himself. His feelings are so intense and present, that he compromises and changes his plans, constantly hoping to be reunited with Akira, until everything he has hoped for is in ruins. Both demons and humanity are wiped out, and Satan has to finally kill Akira, before sitting peacefully with his dead body, crying about it as the heavenly host descends to destroy the earth and restart the cycle.
Barge Reactions:
Ryou will show up from the middle of one of these cycles, in a time where more and more demons are appearing across Japan, and with no idea that he is anyone other than Ryou Asuka, best friend of Devilman, bent on saving humanity.
He's gonna be big mad about being an inmate.
He's gonna be big mad at all the vampires.
He's gonna be big mad at anyone who smells like demon.
He's gonna be big mad that he doesn't have a shotgun.
He's gonna be big big mad, and potentially prone to acts of violence.
But also he's gonna be super behind on technology and like, totally bemused by the communicators because what are mobile devices???
I think he'd potentially have a really interesting relationship with psychic characters, and characters like Jon who would simultaneously be able to tell that there is something inhuman and Not Right about him, while also being able to tell that he's not actually lying about it or trying to hide it.
I also think it would be really interesting to do a slower / less clean and easy reuniting of his two identities, as this is part of what leads to his doom in his own cyclical reality.
Path to Redemption:
Part of Ryou's problem is that he's unable to see the cycle that he's a part of, but this information would absolutely be in his file. It's probably about a thousand pages long and details a very long boring, confusing demonic history, retold nineteen times because it keeps happening.
He's also, in a very real way, broken the back of making himself redeemable by taking on a human consciousness. He has deliberately made himself capable of love, remorse, regret, and empathy. He just didn't make himself very good at all of them.
Part of what allowed his crimes was the fact that he was able to plan over millennia, and that even as a human, he was subconsciously acting out a larger plan to end humanity. This means that when he regained his memories, he had so much sunk cost fallacy into his stupid 5d chess plan that he didn't stop to consider whether it was even really what he wanted anymore. He just drove ahead with it until there were no pieces left on the board.
I really think that a slower integration of his memories, with time and space to examine why he was doing what he was doing, and the ability to JUST DO IT JUST EAT THE WORLD taken away, would get him past the biggest obstacles to redemption. Even if he can't ever fully be human, he needs to think more about how to coexist with humanity - including the humanity that is now part of him. The Barge feels like a good place to learn how to do that.
History: Here's his history, but if I were you I would absolutely swerve reading it, it's just long anime nonsense as compiled from twenty different versions of the canon, exclusively by nerds.
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice and must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in journal style.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in 3rd person/logs style.]
Special Notes:
User DW: n/a
E-mail: michael heroin at gee mail dot com
Other Characters: Rhys Strongfork
Character Name: Ryou Asuka
Series: Devilman
NOTE: The canon of this series is a hot mess that's been re-released and revamped a million times since it's original release in the 70's, and insanely, some of the revamps reference older versions of the show as fictional shows which exist in their universe because it's a fuckin-- cyclical universe that keeps repeating.
If it's okay, I'd like to play Ryou from the 1980's OVA's. These follow the plot of the manga closely, but as these only covered two volumes of the five volume manga, I'd like to fill in the rest from the original manga. The plot and characterization is almost identical. It's just that the Manga made some weird tonal choices when it was finding it's feet, the anime is just a bit less strange and 70's in it's mood, and I think feels more natural to write, while keeping the character very much the same.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Satan as an angelic being is depicted as having a body which is both male and female. The 1970's manga calls them a hermaphrodite, which isn't terminology that we'd use today, but it feels equally crass to act like a non-human creature without binary sexual organs is directly analagous to being intersex as a human would experience it. As it is, I'm going to mostly refer to Satan as 'he' because they take on a male form as a human, and in the manga use masculine identifiers. Soz about my shitty old canon. It was trying to do a lot of stuff back in the day...
Age: 17 / As old as the universe? Ish?
From When?: Half way through the full arc of Devilman, when Ryo is out hunting demons alone with a shotgun, before his memories of his true form have returned.
Inmate/Warden: Hard fuckin' inmate.
There are two sides of Ryou. On the one hand, he's a teenage boy with laser focus and highly violent tendencies, who is happy to kill as many humans as it takes to save the human race from demonic destruction. He acts like he is above the law, treats people as if they're disposable, and speculates on whether letting demons devour humanity is actually a solution to save us from ourselves and the inevitable destruction that progress and nuclear weapons will bring. He has broadly good intentions, but is willing to do anything and kill anyone it takes to achieve what he thinks is right, and is visibly thrilled by it.
(aka: He's a big 1980's cold war kid.)
The other side is the big twist of Devilman (50 year old spoilers:) that Ryou is actually Satan, absolute top king of all demons. He suppressed his own memories and took on the identity, heart, and mind of a human boy so that he could understand humanity well enough to eradicate it, because he wants the earth to belong to demons. (He's also a bit low key eco-fascist).
THE PROBLEM IS he stole the body and mind of a little gay who was in love with his best friend, so his subconscious satanic agenda got it's wires crossed and he ended up sort of sabotaging his own plan by convincing his bff to become a demonic hybrid that could survive the eradication of humanity.
But other than that his plan goes great! He eradicates humanity, has a massive battle against his ex bff that he's in love with, wins that battle as well, then sits with his best friend's corpse on the ruins of the planet earth talking about how nice the moon looks as the armies of heaven come down to destroy him, and the entire earth, and start the cycle over again.
In every cycle he makes the same decisions, falls in love with his bff, eradicates humanity, and kills the only person he cares about, and then waits to die. This is heavily implied to be an endless punishment for Ryo defying god which happens to get all of human existence taken down horrible with it over and over again.
BUT NOT THIS TIME...
Arrival:
Abilities/Powers:
AT FULL POWER: God what can't this asshole do? He has the ability to heal at an unnaturally fast rate, and to heal injuries in others at will, he can shape shift, he can communicate telepathically, he can fly, he can zap people with white light and heat from his hands (leaving atomic shadows behind), he has telekenesis strong enough to rip people apart, he has terrifying prescience about what people will do...
But on the Barge he'll have almost none of this!
While living as Ryou Asuka, these powers are already subdued. Instead of telepathy, he gets weird feelings, and strange dreams when his friend is in trouble. While he's still probably able to shapeshift into his true shape and fly, he never does so because he has no recollection that such a thing might be possible. He still has his full healing powers, and weird heat beam powers, but doesn't seem to understand or know that he's using them.
On the Barge, I'd like to stick pretty close to these limitations. Keeping reduced healing, weird instincts and dreams, and the shapeshifting into his real angelic form (if and when he gets to a point of remembering how to do it) while completely losing the heat beam stuff / telekenesis / prescience.
Personality:
Yeesh, okay, so...
Ryou Asuka was a real teenager, living in Japan in the 1970's and 80's. He died in a car crash two days before the canon of Devilman begins. This Ryou Asuka is what you get if you take all of that teenager's memories and feelings, and shine the cold demonic light of an unfeeling celestial being through them, both the young man and the demon are changed by this in ways which are unavoidable.
As Satan, he was calculating, vengeful, and ruthless. He regards humanity as insects who have infested a planet to which he and his people are the rightful heirs. He doesn't feel any specific or personal hatred for them, but a distant irritable contempt. He operates with far more of an instinctual lizard brain, looking for patterns and opportunities to ensure his survival, rather than engaging with higher emotions.
The higher emotions which he does experience are arrogance, anger, and a lust for power, but he does also seem to have some sense of fairness, if not empathy. Before humanity existed, he was an Archangel, and he defied god when he found out that god intended to exterminate the race of demons which he had created. Whether he did this out of empathy for the demons, or admiration for their power, the result was still an act of hubris which made him - temporarily, the king of all demons, ruling over a prehistoric earth. His desire to wipe out humanity doesn't strike him as cruel or kind, but as a fair retaking of a planet which belongs to demons, and which humans have infested and don't deserve. He is also - unknowingly - in a cycle of re-enacting the genocide which God intended to commit against him and his demons.
His calculating nature is at the core of his actions, and even is what sparks the action of the series. It is his awareness of his own limitations and lack of understanding of humanity which makes him decide to take on the consciousness and memories of a human, so that he will be able to better understand their weaknesses. In the nuclear age, he can tell that humanity - if informed and organized, could potentially form a credible threat to demons, so he pulls some five dimensional chess to stop that from happening.
What he failed to predict was the fact that once he had taken on human consciousness, he would never be able to fully separate himself from the knowledge.
As Ryou Asuka, with his memories erased and rewritten to believe that he is a young man who had just stumbled upon the existence of demons, the first and most intense feeling which Satan experienced was heart wrenching, bone chilling fear.
It isn't always obvious. Certainly, upon first meeting him, Ryou comes across as an intensely serious, somewhat pretentious youth, prone to ruminating on dark thoughts, lengthy philosophising and dramatic turns of phrase, but make no mistake, he is only ever a hair trigger away from panic and violence.
Ryou Asuka is driven, desperate, and at times near feral in his battle against demons coming to earth, because Ryou Asuka is terrified. All of his first steps taken in facing the demons who threaten the world are taken with supreme reluctance. He talks about the terrible legacy that his father left for him, in the notes and knowledge of demons, and he apologises deeply to his best friend Akira, for asking him to shoulder such an awful task with him.
It isn't just fear that he experiences though. He also feels a sense of duty and determination to protect the earth. He feels that now that he knows about the existence of demons, the only thing he can do with his knowledge is to try and use it to fight back and arm humanity. As such, he spends a lot of time permanently on edge, permanently locked into a state of fight or flight. He is intensely and constantly paranoid, knowing that demons could at any moment overtake anyone around him, and kill him horribly, this makes normal human dangers, such as getting beaten up or arrested feel small and insignificant to him, so he engages in extremely high risk activities. He drives recklessly, takes drugs, carries weapons and is quick to threaten or hurt others who get in his way.
Another strange trait of Ryou's, which is explained by his nature as an inhuman entity trying to think with a human brain, is that there's often a disconnect between himself and his own emotions. He often exists in a dualistic state where he doesn't fully understand himself or his own intentions. For example, the real, living human Ryou was in love with his best friend Akira, but when Satan takes on his personality and memories, and is exposed to feelings of love for the first time, the feeling is warped by Satan's tendencies towards posessiveness and control. Ryou becomes intensely jealous and hostile towards Akira's human love interest, and subconsciously changes his plans to manipulate Akira into giving up part of his humanity, so that he will be able to survive the end of the world. Consciously, all Ryou thinks that he is doing is reaching out to his friend for help in a desperate gambit.
This is a running theme throughout the series. Ryou consciously thinks that his growing emotional distance from other people, and callousness towards human life is rooted in knowing about something so much bigger and more terrible than any human could conceive in, while really it's just an aspect of his ancient, inhuman self shining through him.
He shows a simultaneous horror and lust for violence all the way through the series, simultaneously terrified of battling demons, while at the same time experiencing a giddy, joyful rush of bloodlust every time he fights one. Even as a fragile human, he catches himself sneaking out alone to hunt demons, unable to keep himself from smiling even while he's shaking with fear at putting himself in danger.
The most obvious expression of this disconnection, comes from his doomsaying and paranoia. While Ryou is always relatively pessimistic and able to question humanity's own actions and value, early on he is explicitly on the side of humanity. As the series goes on, he becomes increasingly hopeless and negative, and begins to foretell how humanity will react out of fear to earth's growing demonic presence. Increasingly, he describes to Akira exactly how humanity is dooming itself, and his hopelessness slowly warps into a kind of nihilistic delight. Even as he describes his own helplesness and future death, he laughs uncontrollably, as if this doomed pattern awaiting them is the most hilarious thing he can imagine.
At first this looks like an intelligent young man in an impossible situation, embracing the bleak humour of his situation, but as his predictions become more detailed and specific, and his amusement uglier and sharper, Akira points out to him that he's being kind of a gross creep, and that he wasn't always this bad. This causes Ryou to realise that he doesn't actually know why he's laughing, or why he feels so certain of the events ahead of them.
In the manga, this realisation that something isn't right with him, and his urgent desire to still do something to help fight the demons pushes him to go back to his family home, where the same demon who helped him alter his memories to learn about humanity restores them completely.
He becomes Satan again, and he continues in his mission of provoking humanity to destroy itself without too many interruptions, although his actions are still shaped by the human emotions that he now can't entirely extricate from himself. His feelings are so intense and present, that he compromises and changes his plans, constantly hoping to be reunited with Akira, until everything he has hoped for is in ruins. Both demons and humanity are wiped out, and Satan has to finally kill Akira, before sitting peacefully with his dead body, crying about it as the heavenly host descends to destroy the earth and restart the cycle.
Barge Reactions:
Ryou will show up from the middle of one of these cycles, in a time where more and more demons are appearing across Japan, and with no idea that he is anyone other than Ryou Asuka, best friend of Devilman, bent on saving humanity.
He's gonna be big mad about being an inmate.
He's gonna be big mad at all the vampires.
He's gonna be big mad at anyone who smells like demon.
He's gonna be big mad that he doesn't have a shotgun.
He's gonna be big big mad, and potentially prone to acts of violence.
But also he's gonna be super behind on technology and like, totally bemused by the communicators because what are mobile devices???
I think he'd potentially have a really interesting relationship with psychic characters, and characters like Jon who would simultaneously be able to tell that there is something inhuman and Not Right about him, while also being able to tell that he's not actually lying about it or trying to hide it.
I also think it would be really interesting to do a slower / less clean and easy reuniting of his two identities, as this is part of what leads to his doom in his own cyclical reality.
Path to Redemption:
Part of Ryou's problem is that he's unable to see the cycle that he's a part of, but this information would absolutely be in his file. It's probably about a thousand pages long and details a very long boring, confusing demonic history, retold nineteen times because it keeps happening.
He's also, in a very real way, broken the back of making himself redeemable by taking on a human consciousness. He has deliberately made himself capable of love, remorse, regret, and empathy. He just didn't make himself very good at all of them.
Part of what allowed his crimes was the fact that he was able to plan over millennia, and that even as a human, he was subconsciously acting out a larger plan to end humanity. This means that when he regained his memories, he had so much sunk cost fallacy into his stupid 5d chess plan that he didn't stop to consider whether it was even really what he wanted anymore. He just drove ahead with it until there were no pieces left on the board.
I really think that a slower integration of his memories, with time and space to examine why he was doing what he was doing, and the ability to JUST DO IT JUST EAT THE WORLD taken away, would get him past the biggest obstacles to redemption. Even if he can't ever fully be human, he needs to think more about how to coexist with humanity - including the humanity that is now part of him. The Barge feels like a good place to learn how to do that.
History: Here's his history, but if I were you I would absolutely swerve reading it, it's just long anime nonsense as compiled from twenty different versions of the canon, exclusively by nerds.
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice and must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in journal style.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in 3rd person/logs style.]
Special Notes:
