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P L A Y E R;
NAME: Amber
AGE: 21
PLAYER JOURNAL:twistingkage
TIMEZONE: CST/CDT/UTC -5
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twistingkage, PM to my personal journal
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Hibiki Kuze
CANON: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2(/Record Breaker)
POINT IN CANON: Septentrione Arc - At the end of 4th Day - Wednesday's Changes
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: fun fact, his headphones are hidden in his hood!
CANON HISTORY: on the wiki
CANON PERSONALITY: Like most Shin Megami Tensei protagonists, Hibiki is a silent protagonist. His personality is decided by the player as the game goes along, through dialogue options and the route that the player ultimately takes. Despite this amount of variance throughout, however, there are a few aspects of his attitude that remain constants, no matter what dialogue options are picked, no matter how you choose when the routes split. As the protagonist, Hibiki is the guy who draws everyone together and unites them under one banner; he’s the guy who everyone leans on when they need it, the guy everyone can rely on. Hibiki leads everyone into battle, sees them through safely, and makes sure they’re okay afterwards.
Hibiki’s pretty good with people! He’s a friendly, easygoing guy for the most part, and he trusts easily. He’s noted by Yamato to be able to draw out the strengths of the people around him, and he does this in and out of battle. He’s got a knack for tactics and directing people in a large-scale fight, and when the dust settles and the action’s wrapped up, he’s the one going around to talk to people one-on-one. He cares about everyone’s well-being, not just for the sake of everyone’s morale, but for each individual’s sake. He’ll talk people through their problems because he wants them to become the best they can be--he enjoys helping others. Hibiki’s also something of a moodmaker for the group; he’s good at keeping people’s spirits up, usually through jokes and the like. He’s got lots of playful or goofy dialogue options, pointing towards a good (if a touch loopy) sense of humor. Hibiki’s definitely not perfect in his people skills though--he’s prone to trusting someone he just met a little too easily, for instance. Sometimes his attempts at cheering people up or lightening the mood with a joke will fall flat, either because he tried with the wrong person (Yamato or Keita, for instance) or his timing was especially poor somehow.
While Hibiki is a leader in battle, he’s not really much of a leaderly type of leader outside of it--if anything, he’s more or less the heart of a team. His kind nature and friendly personality draw people to him, where he works to keep them together as a team regardless of what comes. It’s… not always successful, considering how there is a route split in the first place, with people who want to chase different ideal worlds. What’s notable is what happens after the route split, though--he approaches the surviving allies on the teams he doesn’t choose and manages to persuade them to fight for the cause he chose (and it works, provided his bonds with them are strong enough). It’s especially significant on the Daichi routes, where he’s able to recruit Yamato and Ronaldo to fight for the same objective: the Liberator and Restorer routes are the only ones where this is possible--they will die if you join their opposing cause or if you ally with the Anguished One.
Of course, Hibiki is more than just his people skills--those traits aren’t really why Yamato takes an interest in him. For Yamato, Hibiki is the complete antithesis to everything he knows: Hibiki doesn’t have any special training to do the things he does, doesn’t have any special education, doesn’t have the money to afford any of those things, doesn’t have any natural-born ability. He’s so completely normal and yet he’s so capable in ways that people don’t expect of him. Hibiki is adaptable and resourceful, he rises to the occasion no matter what situation arises. He’s terrified of the sudden influx of demons, sure, but he never really lets on often, if at all; his main focus to start with is getting and keeping his friends (and the weirdo adult that they picked up) out of the worst of the danger. (And then they get cornered by Dubhe.) He might not have all the answers to start with, and he definitely can’t predict everything that’s going to happen, whether it’s on or off the battlefield. He’s more than capable of being caught off-guard or utterly blindsided. The important thing though is that he’s adaptable enough to roll with the punches. There’s also something to be said for his resilience--not a lot of people can take a demon invasion in stride like he can. He can keep a cool head in serious, desperate, chaotic, or downright horrifying situations.
… Although that might not always be a good thing--he’s prone to compartmentalizing his fear or discomfort in scary situations or ones where he isn’t comfortable with orders. He feels it, sure, but fear isn’t conducive to getting the job done. It’s easier if he shoves it down and doesn’t let anyone see. If the leader’s afraid, that’s not going to help morale one bit. He’s focused on keeping up that front of a good leader, everyone’s rock, a pillar of strength. Fear and doubt is shoved into a little box and shoved aside; the needs of everyone else come first.
Between his friendly demeanor, good humor, cool head, and general adaptability, Hibiki is a great leader without necessarily being the leader. When he throws his lot in for a cause he believes in, he’s content to be a follower and a rallying point for the rest of the team. He’s not the guy who makes the plans, he’s just the one who makes sure they’re carried out to the letter and that everyone’s okay with following along.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
ABILITIES: All of Hibiki's supernatural-fueled powers in-game are tied to his phone--or, more specifically, an app on his phone. Thanks to the demon summoning app, he can, well, summon demons. He can keep a stock of up to 27 at a time, fuse them via the Cathedral of Shadows program, purchase new ones via the Demon Auction, or summon ones he's fused or purchased before via the Demonic Compendium. Hibiki can only have up to two demons out at a time, and I'm willing to limit his possible demon stock to 6 or 12 if need be.
Another ability Hibiki can use via the demon-summoning app is Skill Crack--when he defeats an enemy, he 'cracks' the skill and makes it available in a library of skills for his own use--these can be Command Skills (spells such as Agi or Dia, physical skills like Multi-Hit or Anger Hit), Passive Skills (passively alter a character's capabilities, like boosting their HP, giving their basic attack the chance to inflict a status ailment, boosting their elemental defenses, or other effects), and Auto Skills (these can only be equipped onto human team leaders and have a variety of effects, from boosting stats at the start of battle, canceling the first attack of a certain element per skirmish, to casting Recarm on fallen team members at the start of a skirmish). Hibiki can equip up to three Command Skills, three Passive Skills, and a single Auto Skill at a time. If he's not in the middle of battle, he can switch these around at any time.
(Hibiki's current skills and demons are listed on this journal entry and a full list of the possible skills can be found here)
Stats-wise, Hibiki tends to favor Magic and Vitality, which emphasizes his magic (of course) and his defense, while also giving him a sizable HP pool to take the lessened damage and a good MP pool to rain down magical wrath on enemies. (After those two stats, he'll favor Agility, which ups his speed. Strength just gets left in the dust...)
Finally, on the more mundane side of things, Hibiki's fluent in Japanese. He's a decent strategist, able to pick out someone's strengths and use them to his advantage in battle. He's a passable fighter, although he has a lot of backup from his demons and the skills he's cracked. Finally, he's also good at leading others in battle, able to improvise when new developments enter the picture. Helps that he has a knack for landing on his feet regardless of what happens.
INVENTORY; The clothes on his back, his mp3 player (with headphones that he can conceal in his hoodie), his phone (specifically, a SoftBank Sharp AQUOS 943SH) with the demon summoning app installed.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Devil Survivor 2 is the most Persona non-Persona game I swear to god, there's even fricking pseudo social links
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: (what we’re looking for is how well you know the voice of your character; we’re not looking for what’s in the action/thought brackets. 8-10 sentences should do (or 100 words minimum). We also allow a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive)
PROSE SAMPLE: (here is where we’re looking for your character’s thoughts, their reactions, your writing ability; if this is your first character in the game, then we ask that you write out this sample, 250 words minimum. If this is your second or third character then you’re more than welcome to use a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive. if you need to write a new one and are looking for a prompt, check out the ones on the test drives.)
NAME: Amber
AGE: 21
PLAYER JOURNAL:
twistingkageTIMEZONE: CST/CDT/UTC -5
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Hibiki Kuze
CANON: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2(/Record Breaker)
POINT IN CANON: Septentrione Arc - At the end of 4th Day - Wednesday's Changes
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: fun fact, his headphones are hidden in his hood!
CANON HISTORY: on the wiki
CANON PERSONALITY: Like most Shin Megami Tensei protagonists, Hibiki is a silent protagonist. His personality is decided by the player as the game goes along, through dialogue options and the route that the player ultimately takes. Despite this amount of variance throughout, however, there are a few aspects of his attitude that remain constants, no matter what dialogue options are picked, no matter how you choose when the routes split. As the protagonist, Hibiki is the guy who draws everyone together and unites them under one banner; he’s the guy who everyone leans on when they need it, the guy everyone can rely on. Hibiki leads everyone into battle, sees them through safely, and makes sure they’re okay afterwards.
Hibiki’s pretty good with people! He’s a friendly, easygoing guy for the most part, and he trusts easily. He’s noted by Yamato to be able to draw out the strengths of the people around him, and he does this in and out of battle. He’s got a knack for tactics and directing people in a large-scale fight, and when the dust settles and the action’s wrapped up, he’s the one going around to talk to people one-on-one. He cares about everyone’s well-being, not just for the sake of everyone’s morale, but for each individual’s sake. He’ll talk people through their problems because he wants them to become the best they can be--he enjoys helping others. Hibiki’s also something of a moodmaker for the group; he’s good at keeping people’s spirits up, usually through jokes and the like. He’s got lots of playful or goofy dialogue options, pointing towards a good (if a touch loopy) sense of humor. Hibiki’s definitely not perfect in his people skills though--he’s prone to trusting someone he just met a little too easily, for instance. Sometimes his attempts at cheering people up or lightening the mood with a joke will fall flat, either because he tried with the wrong person (Yamato or Keita, for instance) or his timing was especially poor somehow.
While Hibiki is a leader in battle, he’s not really much of a leaderly type of leader outside of it--if anything, he’s more or less the heart of a team. His kind nature and friendly personality draw people to him, where he works to keep them together as a team regardless of what comes. It’s… not always successful, considering how there is a route split in the first place, with people who want to chase different ideal worlds. What’s notable is what happens after the route split, though--he approaches the surviving allies on the teams he doesn’t choose and manages to persuade them to fight for the cause he chose (and it works, provided his bonds with them are strong enough). It’s especially significant on the Daichi routes, where he’s able to recruit Yamato and Ronaldo to fight for the same objective: the Liberator and Restorer routes are the only ones where this is possible--they will die if you join their opposing cause or if you ally with the Anguished One.
Of course, Hibiki is more than just his people skills--those traits aren’t really why Yamato takes an interest in him. For Yamato, Hibiki is the complete antithesis to everything he knows: Hibiki doesn’t have any special training to do the things he does, doesn’t have any special education, doesn’t have the money to afford any of those things, doesn’t have any natural-born ability. He’s so completely normal and yet he’s so capable in ways that people don’t expect of him. Hibiki is adaptable and resourceful, he rises to the occasion no matter what situation arises. He’s terrified of the sudden influx of demons, sure, but he never really lets on often, if at all; his main focus to start with is getting and keeping his friends (and the weirdo adult that they picked up) out of the worst of the danger. (And then they get cornered by Dubhe.) He might not have all the answers to start with, and he definitely can’t predict everything that’s going to happen, whether it’s on or off the battlefield. He’s more than capable of being caught off-guard or utterly blindsided. The important thing though is that he’s adaptable enough to roll with the punches. There’s also something to be said for his resilience--not a lot of people can take a demon invasion in stride like he can. He can keep a cool head in serious, desperate, chaotic, or downright horrifying situations.
… Although that might not always be a good thing--he’s prone to compartmentalizing his fear or discomfort in scary situations or ones where he isn’t comfortable with orders. He feels it, sure, but fear isn’t conducive to getting the job done. It’s easier if he shoves it down and doesn’t let anyone see. If the leader’s afraid, that’s not going to help morale one bit. He’s focused on keeping up that front of a good leader, everyone’s rock, a pillar of strength. Fear and doubt is shoved into a little box and shoved aside; the needs of everyone else come first.
Between his friendly demeanor, good humor, cool head, and general adaptability, Hibiki is a great leader without necessarily being the leader. When he throws his lot in for a cause he believes in, he’s content to be a follower and a rallying point for the rest of the team. He’s not the guy who makes the plans, he’s just the one who makes sure they’re carried out to the letter and that everyone’s okay with following along.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
ABILITIES: All of Hibiki's supernatural-fueled powers in-game are tied to his phone--or, more specifically, an app on his phone. Thanks to the demon summoning app, he can, well, summon demons. He can keep a stock of up to 27 at a time, fuse them via the Cathedral of Shadows program, purchase new ones via the Demon Auction, or summon ones he's fused or purchased before via the Demonic Compendium. Hibiki can only have up to two demons out at a time, and I'm willing to limit his possible demon stock to 6 or 12 if need be.
Another ability Hibiki can use via the demon-summoning app is Skill Crack--when he defeats an enemy, he 'cracks' the skill and makes it available in a library of skills for his own use--these can be Command Skills (spells such as Agi or Dia, physical skills like Multi-Hit or Anger Hit), Passive Skills (passively alter a character's capabilities, like boosting their HP, giving their basic attack the chance to inflict a status ailment, boosting their elemental defenses, or other effects), and Auto Skills (these can only be equipped onto human team leaders and have a variety of effects, from boosting stats at the start of battle, canceling the first attack of a certain element per skirmish, to casting Recarm on fallen team members at the start of a skirmish). Hibiki can equip up to three Command Skills, three Passive Skills, and a single Auto Skill at a time. If he's not in the middle of battle, he can switch these around at any time.
(Hibiki's current skills and demons are listed on this journal entry and a full list of the possible skills can be found here)
Stats-wise, Hibiki tends to favor Magic and Vitality, which emphasizes his magic (of course) and his defense, while also giving him a sizable HP pool to take the lessened damage and a good MP pool to rain down magical wrath on enemies. (After those two stats, he'll favor Agility, which ups his speed. Strength just gets left in the dust...)
Finally, on the more mundane side of things, Hibiki's fluent in Japanese. He's a decent strategist, able to pick out someone's strengths and use them to his advantage in battle. He's a passable fighter, although he has a lot of backup from his demons and the skills he's cracked. Finally, he's also good at leading others in battle, able to improvise when new developments enter the picture. Helps that he has a knack for landing on his feet regardless of what happens.
INVENTORY; The clothes on his back, his mp3 player (with headphones that he can conceal in his hoodie), his phone (specifically, a SoftBank Sharp AQUOS 943SH) with the demon summoning app installed.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Devil Survivor 2 is the most Persona non-Persona game I swear to god, there's even fricking pseudo social links
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: (what we’re looking for is how well you know the voice of your character; we’re not looking for what’s in the action/thought brackets. 8-10 sentences should do (or 100 words minimum). We also allow a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive)
PROSE SAMPLE: (here is where we’re looking for your character’s thoughts, their reactions, your writing ability; if this is your first character in the game, then we ask that you write out this sample, 250 words minimum. If this is your second or third character then you’re more than welcome to use a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive. if you need to write a new one and are looking for a prompt, check out the ones on the test drives.)