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miraculess) wrote2013-12-04 05:18 pm
miraculess) wrote2013-12-04 05:18 pm
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Name: Opalinesque
Preferred Pronouns: She/her/etc.
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Other Characters: N/A
Character
Name: Kaiko Kagamine/Eve (although she was never told the first, and no longer uses the second)
Fandom: Vocaloid (based off of the songs "warum" and "KOKORO/KISEKI")
Age: Appears to be in her early twenties, acts like she's in her late teens, is actually 5 1/2. IT'S COMPLICATED.
Type: OU
History:
Once, a lonely scientist named Lenka Kagamine created a robot. She was extremely advanced, capable of interacting with humans and solving complex problems— far beyond anything else that had been made before. However, there was one thing the scientist was not able to give her: emotions. The scientist was unable to code a complex enough program to act as a heart for her robotic child, something which she despaired over.
Eventually, though, Lenka had an idea. She might not be able to create a heart from scratch... but what if she had a reference? If there was some way to record the data from a human heart, and use that as the basis for an artificial one for her daughter...
Unfortunately, a living human couldn't survive having the necessary recording equipment implanted. So, the decision was made to create a frame from medical cadavers and reanimate it afterward, instead; a sort of modern-day Frankenstein's monster. The scientist enlisted an old friend, a skilled surgeon she had known in college, and together they pieced together her second daughter: "Kaiko."
Despite misgivings from other members of the laboratory staff, the media, and even a few of the scientist's sponsors, everything proceeded smoothly. The day eventually came that Kaiko would be born into the world.
...however, as she was being awoken, something went wrong. Kaito opened her eyes for the first time— and the first thing she saw was her mother turning and fleeing to the sound of alarms.
There was nothing wrong with her, mind you. However, her impatient mother had made the decision to run some tests on her sister's robotic body at the same time as Kaiko's awakening, in the hopes that she could get both of her children fully up and running as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the combined power draw caused a fire to break out elsewhere in the laboratory.
Kaiko didn't know that, though. All she knew was that the person she recognized as being a parent—the one who should be fixing things and making things better—was running away. And that it was loud. And that when she tried to leave loud strangers grabbed at her and tried to hold her back, and really, all she wanted was to find her mother.
She didn't mean to kill that lab assistant, just shove them out of the way. She didn't even realize they were dead until later, after fleeing from the laboratory into the nearby forest in a panic because she knew enough to realize that she had done something wrong.
With such inauspicious beginnings, things were only bound to get worse. She found the forest itself hospitable enough, since she didn't require much in the way of food and wasn't affected by the cold the way a human would have been; but after finding and then following a river running through it, she came upon a child. The boy was playing in the water, and while Kaiko watched he tripped and fell in, hitting his head. So Kaiko did what anyone would have done; she scrambled in after and tried to get him out, and then tried to get him breathing again— which was when the boy's mother found her. Since she was a hunter, she had a gun; and since a monster was apparently attacking her son, she used it. She shot Kaiko in the shoulder, triggering the first attack of what would become Kaiko's primary defense: blind, berserker rage. In her fury, Kaiko killed the woman... only to become horrified and guilt-stricken by her own actions when she returned to her senses.
She avoided humans for as long as she could after that, but eventually winter, hunger, and curiosity drove her out of the forest when she came to the edge of a small, remote town. There, she was caught stealing from a garden by the older woman who tended it— and instead of being punished, she was given the closest thing to a childhood she would ever know. The woman, an ex-soldier by the name of Gakuko Kamui, overlooked her scarred features and feral behavior and took Kaiko in, not only teaching her such basics as how to talk and write, but doing her best to instill a sense of honorable behavior and morals into the girl.
Two happy years passed that way, and more would have come if it weren't for several nosy neighbors and the fact that Kaiko was still being searched for by both her mother and the police. Two officers came to question Gakuko regarding the matter of Kagamine's monster, in light of some suspicious reports they'd received from people living nearby. Frightened, Kaiko listened in from a hiding spot in the house... and when one of the officers threatened her beloved teacher with jailtime for lack of cooperation, her already frayed nerves snapped.
Both officers died in the resulting fight... and so did Gakuko, for trying to stand in Kaiko's way.
It was this that finally made Kaiko understand what the truth of what she was— a monster. What else could she be, with what she'd done? In despair, Kaiko set out to take her own life in an attempt to somehow make up for her crimes. However, this turned out to be easier said than done; drowning had no effect on her beyond instilling in her a phobia of deep water, attempting to undo her stitches only left her with unusable limbs... Eventually, she realized that if she had any hope of removing her stain from the earth, she would require "help," of a sort.
She found it in the underbelly of the nearest city. It was easy enough to pick fights there in hopes of finding someone who could take her down, and feel justified in it; even if she won, those she attacked invariably deserved defeat. Surrounded by small cruelty and criminals, her opinion of humans dipped lower even as her mistrust grew, driving her to greater violence— until one day, she picked the wrong person to rob, and was shot again... this time through the heart.
It was exactly what she had wanted— or would have been, if it had worked. Somehow, her body persisted without a heartbeat, although the lack of it left her weak, ill, and unable to fend for herself. Since she apparently wasn't even to be allowed the peace of death, she grudgingly lived, eventually accepting the aid of a nearby soup kitchen in keeping herself fed as she healed.
There, she met Miku, a young theology student who was volunteering as a server. Although Kaiko initially didn't want anything to do with the overly-friendly girl, she reluctantly changed her mind in order to rescue her from a few low-lifes who thought it would be fun to hassle her on her way home from the kitchen. A good deal of gentle hassling and several heated religious and philosophical discussions later, and Kaiko—or rather, "Eve," as Miku had named her—found herself settling into what would grow into a friendship.
The two of them grew closer as Eve healed; progressing from simply sitting together at the soup kitchen and talking, to Miku wheedling Eve into joining her at a resteraunt for a proper dinner, to play dates at a nearby amusement park... to finally moving in together. Slowly, under the barrage of Miku's acceptance, Eve began to wonder if maybe she was wrong— she felt like a person around Miku, after all, not a monster. Maybe she had just made some admittedly terrible mistakes. Maybe she could be forgiven for them.
One day, though, Miku pulled her aside. There had been something she'd been meaning to tell Eve for a while, and had finally gotten up the nerve to do so. She'd noticed that Eve was jumpy and seemingly unused to physical contact... so she told her that she wanted to show her something people did when they loved one another; and when Eve hesitantly accepted, she hugged her.
Gakuko had never been overly openly affectionate with her charge. It was the first physical contact Eve had ever had that wasn't a blow or an attack, and the first time she had ever heard that someone loved her. In a fit of overwhelmed emotion and desperation, she returned Miku's embrace with all the strength in her arms— and crushed nearly every bone in Miku's body.
It wasn't until after the funeral (which she couldn't even attend) that she started to feel something beyond the haze of grief and self-hatred that had settled on her: anger. It was true, that blood was on her hands... but those hands wouldn't have been able to deal death at all if it weren't for her creator. She might have killed, but it was her creator who had brought a monster into the world and then abandoned it to do so. It was her creator's fault that all she had ever loved was dead.
There was nothing left for her but vengeance and death... and this time, she would have them both, no matter what it took.
Personality:
Although she takes pains to project the air of someone mature and in control of herself, Kaiko is at heart a bitter, angry child. Like her spiritual "ancestor," Frankenstein's creation, she tends to negative emotional extremes— sinking into despair and self-hatred or throwing what are essentially very wordy (and occasionally very violent) temper tantrums at the drop of a hat. Her grasp on her own feelings is tenuous, as well; while she can identify what sort of emotion she's feeling, she often has much more trouble understanding why, if the reasons are at all complicated.
All of this adds up to a cycle of self-defeating behavior, where she drives away all that could make her happy out of misplaced anger and often willful ignorance of what she really wants. (See: the decision to kill her creator, rather than even consider reconciliation). Part of this is also because she blames herself for her own problems; she's a monster, after all, so she doesn't deserve happiness— especially since it inevitably comes with a price taken in the pain of others.
It doesn't help that once she's formed an opinion, it'd take hell and high water to even get her to consider changing it... and that most of her opinions and decisions are based off of her emotions, with logic and facts only entering the picture if she needs to provide some sort of explanation for her behavior (and usually only after they'd been twisted to meet her needs). With her level of stubbornness, it's no surprise that she holds onto grudges like a miser holds onto riches, taking refuge in familiar patterns of blame and hate.
In addition, years of repeated rejection and loss have taken their toll, and so she's built walls around herself in attempt to protect herself from feeling any more hurt than she already does. Underneath them, however, she still can't stop herself from yearning after the acceptance and love that she's largely been denied. While she's not what anyone could call sociable, her own buried desires keep her from being completely withdrawn— and despite everything, there's still enough empathy left in her that she has a hard time turning her back on the truly innocent or weak.
Abilities:
Strength: Her musculoskeletal system has been replaced/augmented by mechanical parts, such as gears in her joints and metal bones. This was originally done to provide greater stability to the computer housed in her midsection, but has the side effect of making her both stronger and more durable. She's somewhat more vulnerable to concussions, though.
Durability: This is a mix of several things. Besides having most of her skeleton replaced with metal, she feels very little pain due to her nerves mostly not functioning; and since she was originally designed to be essentially brought back from the dead she's got several systems in place to facilitate that (such as an internal pacemaker, a backup brainstem, etc.) These are designed to keep life functions going regardless of what's happened to her— whether she wants them to or not. However, she does not have any sort of accelerated healing ability to go along with this; if anything her ability to heal is slower than your average human's due to a slower, still-healing metabolism.
TL;DR: She's capable of surviving things that would kill a regular person (such as drowning, being shot through the heart, poisoning, etc), but only heals from them at a slower than normal rate.
Sample:
Test Drive meme threads: 1 2 3
Name: Opalinesque
Preferred Pronouns: She/her/etc.
Personal Journal:
opalinesque Contact Info: I'm most easily reached via opalinesque @ gmail or
Other Characters: N/A
Character
Name: Kaiko Kagamine/Eve (although she was never told the first, and no longer uses the second)
Fandom: Vocaloid (based off of the songs "warum" and "KOKORO/KISEKI")
Age: Appears to be in her early twenties, acts like she's in her late teens, is actually 5 1/2. IT'S COMPLICATED.
Type: OU
History:
Once, a lonely scientist named Lenka Kagamine created a robot. She was extremely advanced, capable of interacting with humans and solving complex problems— far beyond anything else that had been made before. However, there was one thing the scientist was not able to give her: emotions. The scientist was unable to code a complex enough program to act as a heart for her robotic child, something which she despaired over.
Eventually, though, Lenka had an idea. She might not be able to create a heart from scratch... but what if she had a reference? If there was some way to record the data from a human heart, and use that as the basis for an artificial one for her daughter...
Unfortunately, a living human couldn't survive having the necessary recording equipment implanted. So, the decision was made to create a frame from medical cadavers and reanimate it afterward, instead; a sort of modern-day Frankenstein's monster. The scientist enlisted an old friend, a skilled surgeon she had known in college, and together they pieced together her second daughter: "Kaiko."
Despite misgivings from other members of the laboratory staff, the media, and even a few of the scientist's sponsors, everything proceeded smoothly. The day eventually came that Kaiko would be born into the world.
...however, as she was being awoken, something went wrong. Kaito opened her eyes for the first time— and the first thing she saw was her mother turning and fleeing to the sound of alarms.
There was nothing wrong with her, mind you. However, her impatient mother had made the decision to run some tests on her sister's robotic body at the same time as Kaiko's awakening, in the hopes that she could get both of her children fully up and running as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the combined power draw caused a fire to break out elsewhere in the laboratory.
Kaiko didn't know that, though. All she knew was that the person she recognized as being a parent—the one who should be fixing things and making things better—was running away. And that it was loud. And that when she tried to leave loud strangers grabbed at her and tried to hold her back, and really, all she wanted was to find her mother.
She didn't mean to kill that lab assistant, just shove them out of the way. She didn't even realize they were dead until later, after fleeing from the laboratory into the nearby forest in a panic because she knew enough to realize that she had done something wrong.
With such inauspicious beginnings, things were only bound to get worse. She found the forest itself hospitable enough, since she didn't require much in the way of food and wasn't affected by the cold the way a human would have been; but after finding and then following a river running through it, she came upon a child. The boy was playing in the water, and while Kaiko watched he tripped and fell in, hitting his head. So Kaiko did what anyone would have done; she scrambled in after and tried to get him out, and then tried to get him breathing again— which was when the boy's mother found her. Since she was a hunter, she had a gun; and since a monster was apparently attacking her son, she used it. She shot Kaiko in the shoulder, triggering the first attack of what would become Kaiko's primary defense: blind, berserker rage. In her fury, Kaiko killed the woman... only to become horrified and guilt-stricken by her own actions when she returned to her senses.
She avoided humans for as long as she could after that, but eventually winter, hunger, and curiosity drove her out of the forest when she came to the edge of a small, remote town. There, she was caught stealing from a garden by the older woman who tended it— and instead of being punished, she was given the closest thing to a childhood she would ever know. The woman, an ex-soldier by the name of Gakuko Kamui, overlooked her scarred features and feral behavior and took Kaiko in, not only teaching her such basics as how to talk and write, but doing her best to instill a sense of honorable behavior and morals into the girl.
Two happy years passed that way, and more would have come if it weren't for several nosy neighbors and the fact that Kaiko was still being searched for by both her mother and the police. Two officers came to question Gakuko regarding the matter of Kagamine's monster, in light of some suspicious reports they'd received from people living nearby. Frightened, Kaiko listened in from a hiding spot in the house... and when one of the officers threatened her beloved teacher with jailtime for lack of cooperation, her already frayed nerves snapped.
Both officers died in the resulting fight... and so did Gakuko, for trying to stand in Kaiko's way.
It was this that finally made Kaiko understand what the truth of what she was— a monster. What else could she be, with what she'd done? In despair, Kaiko set out to take her own life in an attempt to somehow make up for her crimes. However, this turned out to be easier said than done; drowning had no effect on her beyond instilling in her a phobia of deep water, attempting to undo her stitches only left her with unusable limbs... Eventually, she realized that if she had any hope of removing her stain from the earth, she would require "help," of a sort.
She found it in the underbelly of the nearest city. It was easy enough to pick fights there in hopes of finding someone who could take her down, and feel justified in it; even if she won, those she attacked invariably deserved defeat. Surrounded by small cruelty and criminals, her opinion of humans dipped lower even as her mistrust grew, driving her to greater violence— until one day, she picked the wrong person to rob, and was shot again... this time through the heart.
It was exactly what she had wanted— or would have been, if it had worked. Somehow, her body persisted without a heartbeat, although the lack of it left her weak, ill, and unable to fend for herself. Since she apparently wasn't even to be allowed the peace of death, she grudgingly lived, eventually accepting the aid of a nearby soup kitchen in keeping herself fed as she healed.
There, she met Miku, a young theology student who was volunteering as a server. Although Kaiko initially didn't want anything to do with the overly-friendly girl, she reluctantly changed her mind in order to rescue her from a few low-lifes who thought it would be fun to hassle her on her way home from the kitchen. A good deal of gentle hassling and several heated religious and philosophical discussions later, and Kaiko—or rather, "Eve," as Miku had named her—found herself settling into what would grow into a friendship.
The two of them grew closer as Eve healed; progressing from simply sitting together at the soup kitchen and talking, to Miku wheedling Eve into joining her at a resteraunt for a proper dinner, to play dates at a nearby amusement park... to finally moving in together. Slowly, under the barrage of Miku's acceptance, Eve began to wonder if maybe she was wrong— she felt like a person around Miku, after all, not a monster. Maybe she had just made some admittedly terrible mistakes. Maybe she could be forgiven for them.
One day, though, Miku pulled her aside. There had been something she'd been meaning to tell Eve for a while, and had finally gotten up the nerve to do so. She'd noticed that Eve was jumpy and seemingly unused to physical contact... so she told her that she wanted to show her something people did when they loved one another; and when Eve hesitantly accepted, she hugged her.
Gakuko had never been overly openly affectionate with her charge. It was the first physical contact Eve had ever had that wasn't a blow or an attack, and the first time she had ever heard that someone loved her. In a fit of overwhelmed emotion and desperation, she returned Miku's embrace with all the strength in her arms— and crushed nearly every bone in Miku's body.
It wasn't until after the funeral (which she couldn't even attend) that she started to feel something beyond the haze of grief and self-hatred that had settled on her: anger. It was true, that blood was on her hands... but those hands wouldn't have been able to deal death at all if it weren't for her creator. She might have killed, but it was her creator who had brought a monster into the world and then abandoned it to do so. It was her creator's fault that all she had ever loved was dead.
There was nothing left for her but vengeance and death... and this time, she would have them both, no matter what it took.
Personality:
Although she takes pains to project the air of someone mature and in control of herself, Kaiko is at heart a bitter, angry child. Like her spiritual "ancestor," Frankenstein's creation, she tends to negative emotional extremes— sinking into despair and self-hatred or throwing what are essentially very wordy (and occasionally very violent) temper tantrums at the drop of a hat. Her grasp on her own feelings is tenuous, as well; while she can identify what sort of emotion she's feeling, she often has much more trouble understanding why, if the reasons are at all complicated.
All of this adds up to a cycle of self-defeating behavior, where she drives away all that could make her happy out of misplaced anger and often willful ignorance of what she really wants. (See: the decision to kill her creator, rather than even consider reconciliation). Part of this is also because she blames herself for her own problems; she's a monster, after all, so she doesn't deserve happiness— especially since it inevitably comes with a price taken in the pain of others.
It doesn't help that once she's formed an opinion, it'd take hell and high water to even get her to consider changing it... and that most of her opinions and decisions are based off of her emotions, with logic and facts only entering the picture if she needs to provide some sort of explanation for her behavior (and usually only after they'd been twisted to meet her needs). With her level of stubbornness, it's no surprise that she holds onto grudges like a miser holds onto riches, taking refuge in familiar patterns of blame and hate.
In addition, years of repeated rejection and loss have taken their toll, and so she's built walls around herself in attempt to protect herself from feeling any more hurt than she already does. Underneath them, however, she still can't stop herself from yearning after the acceptance and love that she's largely been denied. While she's not what anyone could call sociable, her own buried desires keep her from being completely withdrawn— and despite everything, there's still enough empathy left in her that she has a hard time turning her back on the truly innocent or weak.
Abilities:
Strength: Her musculoskeletal system has been replaced/augmented by mechanical parts, such as gears in her joints and metal bones. This was originally done to provide greater stability to the computer housed in her midsection, but has the side effect of making her both stronger and more durable. She's somewhat more vulnerable to concussions, though.
Durability: This is a mix of several things. Besides having most of her skeleton replaced with metal, she feels very little pain due to her nerves mostly not functioning; and since she was originally designed to be essentially brought back from the dead she's got several systems in place to facilitate that (such as an internal pacemaker, a backup brainstem, etc.) These are designed to keep life functions going regardless of what's happened to her— whether she wants them to or not. However, she does not have any sort of accelerated healing ability to go along with this; if anything her ability to heal is slower than your average human's due to a slower, still-healing metabolism.
TL;DR: She's capable of surviving things that would kill a regular person (such as drowning, being shot through the heart, poisoning, etc), but only heals from them at a slower than normal rate.
Sample:
Test Drive meme threads: 1 2 3