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Portrayed as an old man in a dark place or cave, holding up a lantern, the Hermit is associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches.
Ritsuko's connection with The Hermit Arcana is explored through her retreat from the greater world in order to evade the government who would lock her up, her pessimistic wisdom as a result of her twisted past, and her general loner tendencies and issues with trust.
Place of Residence: Vista Square Academy Semester: N/A Class: N/A
Sorority: N/A
Full Time Job: Musician/Tailor at Shimaki Cleaners. Ritsuko works a run of the mill minimum wage job at a Japanese-run alterations shop in-between paying music venues.
Appearance: Not the largest adult, Ritsuko stands at a measly 5'4" and weighs 107lbs soaking wet. Her figure would best be described as "petite" or "twiggy" depending on how generous you're feeling. Skinny jeans to Ritsuko are just normal jeans and one can almost wrap their entire hand around her bicep if they tried. Her skin is a step above pale, which is shockingly a great improvement from her ghostly white complexion back when she was a little girl. Over a decade without real sunlight tends to do that to a person.
Her eyes are dark brown and icy, nearly empty, which only seems to enhance her trademark Death Glares she's fond of giving out. Ritsuko suffers from terminal dark circles under eyes and despite her young age, undereye lines are starting to form as a negative impact from smoking. Her expression is nearly always blank with a somewhat agitated look, her slightly furrowed and slanting brow giving her a rabid case of resting-bitch-face. Both her ears are pierced along with her left nostril, normally holding a silver stud and whatever earrings she prefers at the moment. Ritsuko's most defining feature, however, is her hair. She posseses a raven black mane (dyed, not natural) of wavy, slightly curly hair. The length of it runs down to the small of her back and curls out in some places as if she doesn't attempt to take care of it. Make no mistake, she actually doesn't. Ritsuko has already learned that her incredibly long hair will do what it wants no matter what she tries and has since stopped fighting it.
Her sense of style is a mix of punk, delinquent, and goth on occasion, and she gravitates toward graphic tees with favored bands or shirts with some sort of abnormal design or silhoutte to them. Normally she will pair this with another upper body garment such as a collared shirt, vest, or jacket, but in the summer she tends to avoid this for obvious reasons. She'll wear jeans of different styles, cargo pants if she wants something more comfortable, and shorts if the weather's nice enough, but skirts are rare and dresses are right out. Ritsuko has never worn a pair of heels in her lifetime and doesn't see the point in ever doing so. She'll always find a way to work in an accessory to stand out from the crowd a little, no matter what she wears to mix things up. A hat with buttons, a few wristbands, multiple wallet chains, sunglasses, you name it. More often than not she has a pair of headphones with her, if only to seem unapproachable to others. Ritsuko never dresses formally because frankly, she doesn't know how. Formal attire is for someone who can afford it.
Alternate Appearance: Ritz's appearance becomes much more dark and menacing when Aoide is channeling her spirit through her corporeal form. Ritsuko dons a well-worn grey leather trench coat with the sleeves ripped off and a stiff collar, its tail trailing off to mid-thigh with clips instead of buckles, long spikes adorning the shoulders, and a motif of a weeping angel with skeletal wings stitched minimally into the back in white highlight. Her forearms sport studded braces over long, fingerless gloves that run past her elbow. She becomes taller by just a few inches, although that may be the thick heel of her biker boots underneath dark grey cargos. Her upper torso is covered by a halter top with the rest of her visible skin wrapped up in fishnet that trails to fraying around her belt line.
Of what can be seen her skin is absolutely covered with brands of various designs intermingling with legitimate scars, although it's difficult to tell where the scars end and the brands begin. The most prominent of these is a visible heart-shaped area on her chest free of scarring save for an X in the center, but this isn't always visible. Studs run along the rims of her ears where her long hair is swept behind. Her messy hair is dyed on the ends and slowly changes color over the course of time, along with a solid strip from her bangs that hangs over her mask: a tragedy theatre mask. This theatre mask holds an anguished countenance with one widened eye that allows Ritz's glowing yellow one to be seen clearly behind it. Almost seemingly randomly this eye will weep a black, inky substance that drips along the ground only to disappear after a few moments and mask seems to float in front of her face with no obvious support to hold it to her head.
Ritsuko Alternate Appearance:
Ritsuko's voice also changes to a haunting tone. Her words are interspersed with a melody of echoes whispers, screams, laughter, growls, and singing that shift slightly to fit her current mood. Aoide will similarly take on a different appearance when influencing Ritsuko. Her body will morph to become more like a true weapon, an unsettling mix between an axe, a halberd, and a club to allow strikes from her wielder to be landed more effectively and hide her real-world association.
Aoide Alternate Appearance:
Personality: To the say the very least, Ritsuko is not a positive person at all. Cynical, dour, and jaded, she's been through enough hardship in her lifetime to expect the worst from every situation. She can be incredibly cold and hostile to strangers, acting passive-aggressive at least and confrontational at most. She has a cornucopia of trust issues and refuses to let other people in to her life, burning bridges easily and building them much slower. She rarely ever makes an attempt to reach out to the people she cares for and sees herself as a rolling stone avoiding personal conflict that complicates her already complicated life.
That being said, this negative behavior has made her more mature and prepared for life's hardships. Because she's always prepared for the worst, Ritsuko is always prepared and is rarely disappointed. She's gained wisdom into the dealings of the world and will impart this knowledge to anyone willing to put up with her icy demeanor for any length of time. Despite her frosty outlook she's incredibly passionate. Ritsuko sees and understands the beauty in people and in life, she simply feels she can never be a part of it. While difficult to get to know, Ritsuko is fiercely loyal to those that get on her good side. Well, "less bad" side.
She lives for herself and can be incredibly selfish at times, putting her lower on the sliding scale of morality. Ritsuko is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and shatter the rules for her own survival, although there's no maliciousness in it. To her, breaking the system to achieve what she sees necessary is payback for her perceived mistreatment in life, and she refrains from doing so when it involves anything personal. She's incredibly lax and seemingly doesn't care about anything until it directly involves her, but can become incredibly aggressive when one of her personal lines are crossed
The Potential
Strengths: (Anything your character is skilled in, such as Martial Arts/ Drawing/ etc? You are allowed a maximum of five strengths and a minimum of three.)
—Strength Name: Unassuming —Description: Due to the nature of her Demon Weapon and her easily-hidden firearm, it is incredibly difficult to mark Ritsuko as a threat or suspect unless one were to actively search her for her gun or analyze her with a Persona, and perhaps not even then under certain circumstances. Her weapon is a guitar opposed to more traditional weapons like swords or knives and her sidearm isn't noticeable by nearly any means until unholstered. Few people in their right state of mind consider a short woman with a guitar "dangerous", Ritsuko banks on this little detail to get by unnoticed.
—Strength Name: In Tune —Description: Ritsuko lives in world of expression and harmony, speaking through her music and understanding people through their intentions, despite the picture their words may paint. Her default method of understanding others is through not what they say, but the way the say things, their posture, and their emotions. Understanding will gain points twice as fast.
—Strength Name: Musically Gifted —Description: Being spiritually linked to a Greek Muse, Ritsuko is attuned to the arts like no other. Her skill with the guitar is nearly unmatched from her demonic association, training, and experience, and she's skilled in playing many different forms like the bass guitar or acoustic. She can play by ear with ease and create songs on the spot or play along with songs she hears expertly with zero difficulty. Ritsuko is also an accomplished song-writer, although she is loathe to share her songs with people very often.
—Strength Name: Contemplative —Description: Ritsuko spends a lot of time in her own head, taking her time in forming opinions, thoughts, and ideas. She always thinks twice and its in this meditative state she feels most comfortable. When Ritsuko rests or takes the Guard action in combat, she gains double the SP as she normally would (10% and 20% respectively).
—Strength Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)
—Floating Strength Name: —Description:
Weaknesses: (You must have the same amount of weaknesses as strengths. These weaknesses pertain to you and not your Persona. IE: Physically Weaker, lack of attention span, etc.)
—Weakness Name: The Beauty in Life is Lost —Description: Aoide has a strong grip over Ritsuko's emotions, feeding off of them and using them as a catalyst to create and give art to the world. If Ritsuko is separated from Aoide by a distance over 10 meters, she begins to lose the ability to feel positive emotions and takes a sever decline in willpower and motivation. After a handful of hours, this will begin to manifest in suicidal ideations. After half a day, she's most likely attempted to act out one of these. Ritsuko has never been away from Aoide for over three days which hasn't ended with her in the hospital after a suicide attempt or in a similar situation.
—Weakness Name: Antisocial —Description: Having seen and been through not the happiest of lives has left Ritsuko a bit of a cynic. She's incredibly negative, sarcastic, and hostile towards people she doesn't know well. Which is nearly everyone at this point. Ritsuko detests the presence of others and would much rather be left alone, and this is easily apparent upon the first sentence out of her mouth. Charisma grows at half the rate as normal.
—Weakness Name: Sensitivity —Description: Ritsuko has what is known as a "stormy personality". It is incredibly easy to upset her or send her on the warpath with slights only she perceives. Her ire is easy to gain and her trust or even basic conscientiousness difficult to obtain. Certain topics or actions will immediately set off the ticking time bomb that is her anger, but these are too numerous or too spontaneous to list.
—Weakness Name: Fiercely Independent —Description: Being the loner she is, Ritsuko isn't fond of accepting help from others. She doesn't like to admit that she can't do something alone. When receiving healing from a healing skill, Ritsuko recovers 10% less than she would normally recover.
—Weakness Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)
—Floating Weakness Name: —Description:
Demon Weapon:((This is the both a Weapon and a Shadow/Demon. You have a parasitic relationship with this Shadow/Demon, and as such you will always want it near you as it is the source of your power. Unlike Soulbound Weapons, this Shadow/Demon Weapon cannot be summoned and will always remain active, meaning you'll have to keep it on you at all times.))
Weapon Name: Aoide Weapon Description: An Epiphone-brand Elitist Coronet electric guitar. This guitar features a classic, rounded, rock-a-billy look to it straight from the 50's with a Gibson Soapbar for a unique sound. The laquer is impermeable to scratches and nicks, the light blue smoky color reflecting the inner void of the soul... Bashes heads in just as good as any other blunt object, albeit with a much more satisfying "twang" to it. Aoide weighs a solid 8 pounds and has a length of 44" from the top of the head to the tip of the body with the widest portion of the body being around 1'3" across in her combat form.
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Weapon Attack Type: Strike Weapon Element: N/A
Side-Arm Weapon:
Side-Arm Name: Saturday Night Special Side-Arm Description: A snub-nosed revolver of the .38 caliber variety, this side-arm is small and easily hidden in jacket, coat, pair of pants, or a even a skirt. A gun so small can even be comfortably hidden in a boot if the occasion necesitates it. A short chrome revolver with leather grip, the weapon has no identifying markings or patterns. The serial number has even been shaved off. All the easier to hide...
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Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun Side-Arm Style: Revolver - Single Shot - Accuracy is increased by 20%. Consumes only one type of ammo per use. Can shoot only one enemy at a time.
The Background
History: Ritsuko Zayusa was born a normal, healthy baby girl to an upper-middle class family in the suburbs of Osaka. She was well provided and cared for, recieving plenty of attention and love from two doting parents. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom who loved playing with her adorable daughter. Her father an a accountant, who would read to her every chance he got and always before bedtime. Of course, none of this matters. Not a bit.
At the age of three years old little Ritsuko was kidnapped while playing in the park. Her parents filed a report to no avail, and Ritsuko become yet another statistic. In all reality, an underground organization had stolen her from the life she could have had and rolled her up into their newest science expirement: attempting to fuse humans and Shadows together. She was just young enough and they were desperate for test subjects.
Ritsuko didn't see real sunlight for over a decade. Her "foster parents" kept her deep within their facility in a clandestine Endymion research facility after performing a then-experimental method in order to splice her with something already barely understood. The experiment did not prove fruitful, yet Ritsuko continued to be experimented on in order to salvage or justify their method. They subjected her to myriad physical and psychological experiments in order to understand her symbiosis with her Shadow Weapon. It became apparent in short time that playing her guitar, the Shadow Aoide, resulted in supernatural phenomena... so play she did. Whether she liked it or not.
In between cruel breaches of basic human rights and basic tutoring, Ritsuko played her soul-bonded guitar. She played until her fingers calloused over and bled, until she could no longer feel the blood in her hands, until every chord and pluck of a string was agonizing, she played. For science. For the ascension of humanity. One fateful day this all came crashing down. The Eternal Divide, they called it. As demons began to assault the facility the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons were mobilized and all hands were on deck. Ritsuko, 16 years old at the time and being one of few able to defend herself and the facility from total annihilation, was instructed to play her guitar. And so she did. And as the scientists were slaughtered around her, men ripped in half, screaming women torn limb from limb, Ritsuko never stopped playing. But a little girl can only do so much.
She faltered as her stamina left her, fingers dripping blood on a pristine six-string, and death encroached. But it wasn't meant to be. In the chaos and destruction the demons turned on each other just as it seemed hopeless, and they spoke to her. They told her to leave and run away. Ritsuko did not hesitate. Her first time seeing the stars since she'd been kidnapped was in a ruined business street, surrounded by corpses, clad in a bloody hospital gown. It wouldn't be until much later when she learned that she had been rescued by a Devil Summoner, albeit inadvertently.
Ritsuko was taken into foster care shortly after the disaster along with many other children having lost their families in the massacre. After all of her experiences and traumas, foster care was just as harsh as the rest of her life had been. As a result of her treatment and the unbelievably true story she recounted, Ritsuko was diagnosed with mental disorders and ended up skipping around 7 foster homes in under two years until she was finally released into society as an adult.
The first year out was the worst. Possessing no formal education and without a home, she found herself beneath the poverty line and spent many nights sleeping in alleys in neighboring cities, moving around as often as possible to keep her distance from her past. As time went on she became wiser and more experienced, better able to find odd jobs to pay for food and shelter and better at cheating the system when that wasn't available to her. Today she finds herself back in Endymion, drawn to the recovering city after the tragedy five years ago. While causing heartache, she feels it will give her a sense of closure. Ritsuko has her suspicions that the current lordship over modern-day Endymion is at least partially responsible for ruining her life and childhood, and she's desperate enough to seek answers in the lion's den.
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Zayasu Ritsuko
"Whatever you want, make it quick and leave me alone. I've got better things to do."
Portrayed as an old man in a dark place or cave, holding up a lantern, the Hermit is associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches.
Ritsuko's connection with The Hermit Arcana is explored through her retreat from the greater world in order to evade the Yachiru Group, her pessimistic wisdom as a result of her twisted past, and her general loner tendencies and issues with trust.
Place of Residence: Vista Square Academy Semester: N/A Class: N/A
Sorority: N/A
Full Time Job: Grifter/Street Performer/Musician. Ritsuko survives on a day-to-day basis by taking odd jobs, playing her guitar on the street at the mercy of the wallets of passersby, or more optimistically performing a music gig in one of the seedier joinst of Vista Square. While not technically a job, taking what she gets puts food in her mouth and a roof over her head.
Appearance: Not the largest adult, Ritsuko stands at a measly 5'4" and weighs 90lbs soaking wet. Her figure would best be described as "petite" or "twiggy" depending on how generous you're feeling. Skinny jeans to Ritsuko are just normal jeans and one can almost wrap their entire hand around her bicep if they tried. Her skin is a step above pale, which is shockingly a great improvement from her ghostly white complexion back when she was a little girl. Over a decade without real sunlight tends to do that to a person.
Her eyes are dark brown and icy, nearly empty, which only seems to enhance her trademark Death Glares she's fond of giving out. Ritsuko suffers from terminal dark circles under eyes and despite her young age, undereye lines are starting to form as a negative impact from smoking. Her expression is nearly always blank with a somewhat agitated look, her slightly furrowed and slanting brow giving her a rabid case of resting-bitch-face. Both her ears are pierced along with her left nostril, normally holding a silver stud and whatever earrings she prefers at the moment. Ritsuko's most defining feature, however, is her hair. She posseses a raven black mane (dyed, not natural) of wavy, slightly curly hair. The length of it runs down to the small of her back and curls out in some places as if she doesn't attempt to take care of it. Make no mistake, she actually doesn't. Ritsuko has already learned that her incredibly long hair will do what it wants no matter what she tries and has since stopped fighting it.
Her sense of style is a mix of punk, delinquent, and goth on occasion, and she gravitates toward graphic tees with favored bands or shirts with some sort of abnormal design or silhoutte to them. Normally she will pair this with another upper body garment such as a collared shirt, vest, or jacket, but in the summer she tends to avoid this for obvious reasons. She'll wear jeans of different styles, cargo pants if she wants something more comfortable, and shorts if the weather's nice enough, but skirts are rare and dresses are right out. Ritsuko has never worn a pair of heels in her lifetime and doesn't see the point in ever doing so. She'll always find a way to work in an accessory to stand out from the crowd a little, no matter what she wears to mix things up. A hat with buttons, a few wristbands, multiple wallet chains, sunglasses, you name it. More often than not she has a pair of headphones with her, if only to seem unapproachable to others. Ritsuko never dresses formally because frankly, she doesn't know how. Formal attire is for someone who can afford it.
Alternate Appearance: Psyche Terroist: Ritsuko stays away from choosing sides in the conflict gripping the city, but she's prepared in case it's needed. Her Psyche Terrorist appearance isn't mystical or related to Persona, but mundane. If she anticipates joining a group of Psyche Terrorists for an endeavor, she'll take a gray leather jacket with her to better conceal her firearm and other tools of the trade. Her mask is a plain white theatre mask, a frowning and anguished face that stands for the Tragedy of theatre.
Personality: To the say the very least, Ritsuko is not a positive person at all. Cynical, dour, and jaded, she's been through enough hardship in her lifetime to expect the worst from every situation. She can be incredibly cold and hostile to strangers, acting passive-aggressive at least and confrontational at most. She has a cornucopia of trust issues and refuses to let other people in to her life, burning bridges easily and building them much slower. She rarely ever makes an attempt to reach out to the people she cares for and sees herself as a rolling stone avoiding personal conflict that complicates her already complicated life.
That being said, this negative behavior has made her more mature and prepared for life's harships. Because she's always prepared for the worst, Ritsuko is always prepared and is rarely disappointed. She's gained wisdom into the dealings of the world and will impart this knowledge to anyone willing to put up with her icy demeanor for any length of time. Despite her frosty outlook she's incredibly passionate. Ritsuko sees and understands the beauty in people and in life, she simply feels she can never be a part of it. While difficult to get to know, Ritsuko is fiercely loyal to those that get on her good side. Well, "less bad" side.
She lives for herself and can be incredibly selfish at times, putting her lower on the sliding scale of morality. Ritsuko is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and shatter the rules for her own survival, although there's no maliciousness in it. To her, breaking the system to achieve what she sees necessary is payback for her perceived mistreatment in life, and she refrains from doing so when it involves anything personal. She's incredibly lax and seemingly doesn't care about anything until it directly involves her, but can become incredibly aggressive when one of her personal lines are crossed
The Potential
Strengths: (Anything your character is skilled in, such as Martial Arts/ Drawing/ etc? You are allowed a maximum of five strengths and a minimum of three.)
—Strength Name: Unassuming —Description: Due to the nature of her Shadow Weapon and her easily-hidden firearm, it is incredibly difficult to mark Ritsuko as a threat or suspect unless one were to actively search her for her gun or analyze her with a Persona, and perhaps not even then under certain circumstances. Ritsuko banks on this little detail to get by unnoticed.
—Strength Name: In Tune —Description: Ritsuko lives in world of expression and harmony, speaking through her music and understanding people through their intentions, despite the picture their words may paint. Her default method of understanding others is through not what they say, but the way the say things, their posture, and their emotions. Understanding will gain points twice as fast.
—Strength Name: Artistically Gifted —Description: Being spiritually linked to a Greek Muse, Ritsuko is attuned to the arts like no other. While obviously more than good at playing the electric guitar, she can also pick up backup guitar or bass just as easily. Something not as widely broadcasted, Ritsuko is also a proficient writer, poet, lyricist, and photographer, but she rarely ever dips into these hobbies. Ritsuko is normally loathe to share her creations with the people she knows.
—Strength Name: Contemplative —Description: Ritsuko spends a lot of time in her own head, taking her time in forming opinions, thoughts, and ideas. She always thinks twice and its in this meditative state she feels most comfortable. When Ritsuko rests or takes the Guard action in combat, she gains double the SP as she normally would (10% and 20% respectively).
—Strength Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)
—Floating Strength Name: —Description:
Weaknesses: (You must have the same amount of weaknesses as strengths. These weaknesses pertain to you and not your Persona. IE: Physically Weaker, lack of attention span, etc.)
—Weakness Name: The Beauty in Life is Lost —Description: Aoide has a strong grip over Ritsuko's emotions, feeding off of them and using them as a catalyst to create and give art to the world. If Ritsuko is separated from Aoide by a distance over 10 meters, she begins to lose the ability to feel positive emotions and takes a sever decline in willpower and motivation. After a handful of hours, this will begin to manifest in suicidal ideations. After half a day, she's most likely attempted to act out one of these. Ritsuko has never been away from Aoide for over three days which hasn't ended with her in the hospital after a suicide attempt or in a similar situation.
—Weakness Name: Antisocial —Description: Having seen and been through not the happiest of lives has left Ritsuko a bit of a cynic. She's incredibly negative, sarcastic, and hostile towards people she doesn't know well. Which is nearly everyone at this point. Ritsuko detests the presence of others and would much rather be left alone, and this is easily apparent upon the first sentence out of her mouth. Charisma grows at half the rate as normal.
—Weakness Name: Soft Spots —Description: While coming across as passive-aggressive or stone-faced to most strangers, a few topics can cause Ritsuko to become furious and confront someone. These topics include: her artform (specifically stupid requests like "Wonderwall" or "Freebird", but also music in general), The Eternal Divide, vitriol directed against Rogues or the Forgotten, the cadets, and blind faith in the government.
—Weakness Name: Fiercely Independent —Description: Being the loner she is, Ritsuko isn't fond of accepting help from others. She doesn't like to admit that she can't do something alone. When receiving healing from a healing skill, Ritsuko recovers 10% less than she would normally recover.
—Weakness Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)
—Floating Weakness Name: —Description:
Demon Weapon:((This is the both a Weapon and a Shadow/Demon. You have a parasitic relationship with this Shadow/Demon, and as such you will always want it near you as it is the source of your power. Unlike Soulbound Weapons, this Shadow/Demon Weapon cannot be summoned and will always remain active, meaning you'll have to keep it on you at all times.))
Weapon Name: Aoide Weapon Description: An Epiphone-brand Elitist Coronet electric guitar. This guitar features a classic, rounded, rock-a-billy look to it straight from the 50's with a Gibson Soapbar for a unique sound. The laquer is impermeable to scratches and nicks, the light blue smoky color reflecting the inner void of the soul... Bashes heads in just as good as any other blunt object, albeit with a much more satisfying "twang" to it.
Weapon Image:
Spoiler:
Weapon Attack Type: Strike Weapon Element: N/A
Side-Arm Weapon:
Side-Arm Name: Saturday Night Special Side-Arm Description: A snub-nosed revolver of the .38 caliber variety, this side-arm is small and easily hidden in jacket, coat, pair of pants, or a even a skirt. A gun so small can even be comfortably hidden in a boot if the occasion necesitates it. A short chrome revolver with leather grip, the weapon has no identifying markings or patterns. The serial number has even been shaved off. All the easier to hide...
Side-Arm Image:
Spoiler:
Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun Side-Arm Style: Revolver - Single Shot - Accuracy is increased by 20%. Consumes only one type of ammo per use. Can shoot only one enemy at a time.
The Background
History: Ritsuko Zayusa was born a normal, healthy baby girl to an upper-middle class family in the suburbs of Osaka. She was well provided and cared for, recieving plenty of attention and love from two doting parents. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom who loved playing with her adorable daughter. Her father an a accountant, who would read to her every chance he got and always before bedtime. Of course, none of this matters. Not a bit.
At the age of three years old little Ritsuko was kidnapped while playing in the park. Her parents filed a report to no avail, and Ritsuko become yet another statistic. In all reality, an underground organization had stolen her from the life she could have had and rolled her up into their newest science expirement: attempting to fuse humans and Shadows together. She was just young enough and they were desperate for test subjects.
Ritsuko didn't see real sunlight for over a decade. Her "foster parents" kept her deep within their facility in a clandestine Endymion research facility after performing a then-experimental method in order to splice her with something already barely understood. The experiment did not prove fruitful, yet Ritsuko continued to be experimented on in order to salvage or justify their method. They subjected her to myriad physical and psychological experiments in order to understand her symbiosis with her Shadow Weapon. It became apparent in short time that playing her guitar, the Shadow Aoide, resulted in supernatural phenomena... so play she did. Whether she liked it or not.
In between cruel breaches of basic human rights and basic tutoring, Ritsuko played her soul-bonded guitar. She played until her fingers calloused over and bled, until she could no longer feel the blood in her hands, until every chord and pluck of a string was agonizing, she played. For science. For the ascension of humanity. One fateful day this all came crashing down. The Eternal Divide, they called it. As demons began to assault the facility the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons were mobilized and all hands were on deck. Ritsuko, 16 years old at the time and being one of few able to defend herself and the facility from total annihilation, was instructed to play her guitar. And so she did. And as the scientists were slaughtered around her, men ripped in half, screaming women torn limb from limb, Ritsuko never stopped playing. But a little girl can only do so much.
She faltered as her stamina left her, fingers dripping blood on a pristine six-string, and death encroached. But it wasn't meant to be. In the chaos and destruction the demons turned on each other just as it seemed hopeless, and they spoke to her. They told her to leave and run away. Ritsuko did not hesitate. Her first time seeing the stars since she'd been kidnapped was in a ruined business street, surrounded by corpses, clad in a bloody hospital gown. It wouldn't be until much later when she learned that she had been rescued by a Devil Summoner, albeit inadvertently.
Ritsuko was taken into foster care shortly after the disaster along with many other children having lost their families in the massacre. After all of her experiences and traumas, foster care was just as harsh as the rest of her life had been. As a result of her treatment and the unbelievably true story she recounted, Ritsuko was diagnosed with mental disorders and ended up skipping around 7 foster homes in under two years until she was finally released into society as an adult.
The first year out was the worst. Possessing no formal education and without a home, she found herself beneath the poverty line and spent many nights sleeping in alleys in neighboring cities, moving around as often as possible to keep her distance from her past. As time went on she became wiser and more experienced, better able to find odd jobs to pay for food and shelter and better at cheating the system when that wasn't available to her. Today she finds herself back in Endymion, drawn to the recovering city after the tragedy five years ago. While causing heartache, she feels it will give her a sense of closure. Ritsuko has her suspicions that the current lordship over modern-day Endymion is at least partially responsible for ruining her life and childhood, and she's desperate enough to seek answers in the lion's den.
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Subject: Re: Zayasu Ritsuko [Endymion] [Finished. Ready for review!] Sat Nov 12, 2016 1:53 pm
Alright, here's the changes I made:
Ritsuko's New App:
Ritsuko wrote:
Zayasu Ritsuko
Character Portrait:
"Whatever you want, make it quick and leave me alone. I've got better things to do."
Portrayed as an old man in a dark place or cave, holding up a lantern, the Hermit is associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches.
Ritsuko's connection with The Hermit Arcana is explored through her retreat from the greater world in order to evade the government who would lock her up, her pessimistic wisdom as a result of her twisted past, and her general loner tendencies and issues with trust.
Place of Residence: Vista Square Academy Semester: N/A Class: N/A
Sorority: N/A
Full Time Job: Musician/Tailor at Shimaki Cleaners. Ritsuko works a run of the mill minimum wage job at a Japanese-run alterations shop in-between paying music venues.
Appearance: Not the largest adult, Ritsuko stands at a measly 5'4" and weighs 90lbs soaking wet. Her figure would best be described as "petite" or "twiggy" depending on how generous you're feeling. Skinny jeans to Ritsuko are just normal jeans and one can almost wrap their entire hand around her bicep if they tried. Her skin is a step above pale, which is shockingly a great improvement from her ghostly white complexion back when she was a little girl. Over a decade without real sunlight tends to do that to a person.
Her eyes are dark brown and icy, nearly empty, which only seems to enhance her trademark Death Glares she's fond of giving out. Ritsuko suffers from terminal dark circles under eyes and despite her young age, undereye lines are starting to form as a negative impact from smoking. Her expression is nearly always blank with a somewhat agitated look, her slightly furrowed and slanting brow giving her a rabid case of resting-bitch-face. Both her ears are pierced along with her left nostril, normally holding a silver stud and whatever earrings she prefers at the moment. Ritsuko's most defining feature, however, is her hair. She posseses a raven black mane (dyed, not natural) of wavy, slightly curly hair. The length of it runs down to the small of her back and curls out in some places as if she doesn't attempt to take care of it. Make no mistake, she actually doesn't. Ritsuko has already learned that her incredibly long hair will do what it wants no matter what she tries and has since stopped fighting it.
Her sense of style is a mix of punk, delinquent, and goth on occasion, and she gravitates toward graphic tees with favored bands or shirts with some sort of abnormal design or silhoutte to them. Normally she will pair this with another upper body garment such as a collared shirt, vest, or jacket, but in the summer she tends to avoid this for obvious reasons. She'll wear jeans of different styles, cargo pants if she wants something more comfortable, and shorts if the weather's nice enough, but skirts are rare and dresses are right out. Ritsuko has never worn a pair of heels in her lifetime and doesn't see the point in ever doing so. She'll always find a way to work in an accessory to stand out from the crowd a little, no matter what she wears to mix things up. A hat with buttons, a few wristbands, multiple wallet chains, sunglasses, you name it. More often than not she has a pair of headphones with her, if only to seem unapproachable to others. Ritsuko never dresses formally because frankly, she doesn't know how. Formal attire is for someone who can afford it.
Alternate Appearance: Ritz's appearance becomes much more dark and menacing when Aoide is channeling her spirit through her corporeal form. Ritsuko dons a well-worn grey leather trench coat with the sleeves ripped off and a stiff collar, its tail trailing off to mid-thigh with clips instead of buckles, long spikes adorning the shoulders, and a motif of a weeping angel with skeletal wings stitched minimally into the back in white highlight. Her forearms sport studded braces over long, fingerless gloves that run past her elbow. She becomes taller by just a few inches, although that may be the thick heel of her biker boots underneath dark grey cargos. Her upper torso is covered by a halter top with the rest of her visible skin wrapped up in fishnet that trails to fraying around her belt line.
Of what can be seen her skin is absolutely covered with brands of various designs intermingling with legitimate scars, although it's difficult to tell where the scars end and the brands begin. The most prominent of these is a visible heart-shaped area on her chest free of scarring save for an X in the center, but this isn't always visible. Studs run along the rims of her ears where her long hair is swept behind. Her messy hair is dyed on the ends and slowly changes color over the course of time, along with a solid strip from her bangs that hangs over her mask: a tragedy theatre mask. This theatre mask holds an anguished countenance with one widened eye that allows Ritz's glowing yellow one to be seen clearly behind it. Almost seemingly randomly this eye will weep a black, inky substance that drips along the ground only to disappear after a few moments and mask seems to float in front of her face with no obvious support to hold it to her head.
Ritsuko Alternate Appearance:
Ritsuko's voice also changes to a haunting tone. Her words are interspersed with a melody of echoes whispers, screams, laughter, growls, and singing that shift slightly to fit her current mood. Aoide will similarly take on a different appearance when influencing Ritsuko. Her body will morph to become more like a true weapon, an unsettling mix between an axe, a halberd, and a club to allow strikes from her wielder to be landed more effectively and hide her real-world association.
Aoide Alternate Appearance:
Personality: To the say the very least, Ritsuko is not a positive person at all. Cynical, dour, and jaded, she's been through enough hardship in her lifetime to expect the worst from every situation. She can be incredibly cold and hostile to strangers, acting passive-aggressive at least and confrontational at most. She has a cornucopia of trust issues and refuses to let other people in to her life, burning bridges easily and building them much slower. She rarely ever makes an attempt to reach out to the people she cares for and sees herself as a rolling stone avoiding personal conflict that complicates her already complicated life.
That being said, this negative behavior has made her more mature and prepared for life's harships. Because she's always prepared for the worst, Ritsuko is always prepared and is rarely disappointed. She's gained wisdom into the dealings of the world and will impart this knowledge to anyone willing to put up with her icy demeanor for any length of time. Despite her frosty outlook she's incredibly passionate. Ritsuko sees and understands the beauty in people and in life, she simply feels she can never be a part of it. While difficult to get to know, Ritsuko is fiercely loyal to those that get on her good side. Well, "less bad" side.
She lives for herself and can be incredibly selfish at times, putting her lower on the sliding scale of morality. Ritsuko is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and shatter the rules for her own survival, although there's no maliciousness in it. To her, breaking the system to achieve what she sees necessary is payback for her perceived mistreatment in life, and she refrains from doing so when it involves anything personal. She's incredibly lax and seemingly doesn't care about anything until it directly involves her, but can become incredibly aggressive when one of her personal lines are crossed
The Potential
Strengths: (Anything your character is skilled in, such as Martial Arts/ Drawing/ etc? You are allowed a maximum of five strengths and a minimum of three.)
—Strength Name: Unassuming —Description: Due to the nature of her Shadow Weapon and her easily-hidden firearm, it is incredibly difficult to mark Ritsuko as a threat or suspect unless one were to actively search her for her gun or analyze her with a Persona, and perhaps not even then under certain circumstances. Ritsuko banks on this little detail to get by unnoticed.
—Strength Name: In Tune —Description: Ritsuko lives in world of expression and harmony, speaking through her music and understanding people through their intentions, despite the picture their words may paint. Her default method of understanding others is through not what they say, but the way the say things, their posture, and their emotions. Understanding will gain points twice as fast.
—Strength Name: Artistically Gifted —Description: Being spiritually linked to a Greek Muse, Ritsuko is attuned to the arts like no other. While obviously more than good at playing the electric guitar, she can also pick up backup guitar or bass just as easily. Something not as widely broadcasted, Ritsuko is also a proficient writer, poet, lyricist, and photographer, but she rarely ever dips into these hobbies. Ritsuko is normally loathe to share her creations with the people she knows.
—Strength Name: Contemplative —Description: Ritsuko spends a lot of time in her own head, taking her time in forming opinions, thoughts, and ideas. She always thinks twice and its in this meditative state she feels most comfortable. When Ritsuko rests or takes the Guard action in combat, she gains double the SP as she normally would (10% and 20% respectively).
—Strength Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)
—Floating Strength Name: —Description:
Weaknesses: (You must have the same amount of weaknesses as strengths. These weaknesses pertain to you and not your Persona. IE: Physically Weaker, lack of attention span, etc.)
—Weakness Name: The Beauty in Life is Lost —Description: Aoide has a strong grip over Ritsuko's emotions, feeding off of them and using them as a catalyst to create and give art to the world. If Ritsuko is separated from Aoide by a distance over 10 meters, she begins to lose the ability to feel positive emotions and takes a sever decline in willpower and motivation. After a handful of hours, this will begin to manifest in suicidal ideations. After half a day, she's most likely attempted to act out one of these. Ritsuko has never been away from Aoide for over three days which hasn't ended with her in the hospital after a suicide attempt or in a similar situation.
—Weakness Name: Antisocial —Description: Having seen and been through not the happiest of lives has left Ritsuko a bit of a cynic. She's incredibly negative, sarcastic, and hostile towards people she doesn't know well. Which is nearly everyone at this point. Ritsuko detests the presence of others and would much rather be left alone, and this is easily apparent upon the first sentence out of her mouth. Charisma grows at half the rate as normal.
—Weakness Name: Soft Spots —Description: While coming across as passive-aggressive or stone-faced to most strangers, a few topics can cause Ritsuko to become furious and confront someone. These topics include: her artform (specifically stupid requests like "Wonderwall" or "Freebird", but also music in general), The Eternal Divide, vitriol directed against Rogues or the Forgotten, the cadets, and blind faith in the government.
—Weakness Name: Fiercely Independent —Description: Being the loner she is, Ritsuko isn't fond of accepting help from others. She doesn't like to admit that she can't do something alone. When receiving healing from a healing skill, Ritsuko recovers 10% less than she would normally recover.
—Weakness Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)
—Floating Weakness Name: —Description:
Demon Weapon:((This is the both a Weapon and a Shadow/Demon. You have a parasitic relationship with this Shadow/Demon, and as such you will always want it near you as it is the source of your power. Unlike Soulbound Weapons, this Shadow/Demon Weapon cannot be summoned and will always remain active, meaning you'll have to keep it on you at all times.))
Weapon Name: Aoide Weapon Description: An Epiphone-brand Elitist Coronet electric guitar. This guitar features a classic, rounded, rock-a-billy look to it straight from the 50's with a Gibson Soapbar for a unique sound. The laquer is impermeable to scratches and nicks, the light blue smoky color reflecting the inner void of the soul... Bashes heads in just as good as any other blunt object, albeit with a much more satisfying "twang" to it.
Weapon Image:
Spoiler:
Weapon Attack Type: Strike Weapon Element: N/A
Side-Arm Weapon:
Side-Arm Name: Saturday Night Special Side-Arm Description: A snub-nosed revolver of the .38 caliber variety, this side-arm is small and easily hidden in jacket, coat, pair of pants, or a even a skirt. A gun so small can even be comfortably hidden in a boot if the occasion necesitates it. A short chrome revolver with leather grip, the weapon has no identifying markings or patterns. The serial number has even been shaved off. All the easier to hide...
Side-Arm Image:
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Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun Side-Arm Style: Revolver - Single Shot - Accuracy is increased by 20%. Consumes only one type of ammo per use. Can shoot only one enemy at a time.
The Background
History: Ritsuko Zayusa was born a normal, healthy baby girl to an upper-middle class family in the suburbs of Osaka. She was well provided and cared for, recieving plenty of attention and love from two doting parents. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom who loved playing with her adorable daughter. Her father an a accountant, who would read to her every chance he got and always before bedtime. Of course, none of this matters. Not a bit.
At the age of three years old little Ritsuko was kidnapped while playing in the park. Her parents filed a report to no avail, and Ritsuko become yet another statistic. In all reality, an underground organization had stolen her from the life she could have had and rolled her up into their newest science expirement: attempting to fuse humans and Shadows together. She was just young enough and they were desperate for test subjects.
Ritsuko didn't see real sunlight for over a decade. Her "foster parents" kept her deep within their facility in a clandestine Endymion research facility after performing a then-experimental method in order to splice her with something already barely understood. The experiment did not prove fruitful, yet Ritsuko continued to be experimented on in order to salvage or justify their method. They subjected her to myriad physical and psychological experiments in order to understand her symbiosis with her Shadow Weapon. It became apparent in short time that playing her guitar, the Shadow Aoide, resulted in supernatural phenomena... so play she did. Whether she liked it or not.
In between cruel breaches of basic human rights and basic tutoring, Ritsuko played her soul-bonded guitar. She played until her fingers calloused over and bled, until she could no longer feel the blood in her hands, until every chord and pluck of a string was agonizing, she played. For science. For the ascension of humanity. One fateful day this all came crashing down. The Eternal Divide, they called it. As demons began to assault the facility the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons were mobilized and all hands were on deck. Ritsuko, 16 years old at the time and being one of few able to defend herself and the facility from total annihilation, was instructed to play her guitar. And so she did. And as the scientists were slaughtered around her, men ripped in half, screaming women torn limb from limb, Ritsuko never stopped playing. But a little girl can only do so much.
She faltered as her stamina left her, fingers dripping blood on a pristine six-string, and death encroached. But it wasn't meant to be. In the chaos and destruction the demons turned on each other just as it seemed hopeless, and they spoke to her. They told her to leave and run away. Ritsuko did not hesitate. Her first time seeing the stars since she'd been kidnapped was in a ruined business street, surrounded by corpses, clad in a bloody hospital gown. It wouldn't be until much later when she learned that she had been rescued by a Devil Summoner, albeit inadvertently.
Ritsuko was taken into foster care shortly after the disaster along with many other children having lost their families in the massacre. After all of her experiences and traumas, foster care was just as harsh as the rest of her life had been. As a result of her treatment and the unbelievably true story she recounted, Ritsuko was diagnosed with mental disorders and ended up skipping around 7 foster homes in under two years until she was finally released into society as an adult.
The first year out was the worst. Possessing no formal education and without a home, she found herself beneath the poverty line and spent many nights sleeping in alleys in neighboring cities, moving around as often as possible to keep her distance from her past. As time went on she became wiser and more experienced, better able to find odd jobs to pay for food and shelter and better at cheating the system when that wasn't available to her. Today she finds herself back in Endymion, drawn to the recovering city after the tragedy five years ago. While causing heartache, she feels it will give her a sense of closure. Ritsuko has her suspicions that the current lordship over modern-day Endymion is at least partially responsible for ruining her life and childhood, and she's desperate enough to seek answers in the lion's den.
Here's what I changed in a nutshell -Changed the name in the title to how I've been spelling it everywhere else. -Put character image and theme song in spoiler tags to make the app easier to read. -Got rid of a reference to the Yachiru Group I missed the first time. -Changed job from "Street Performer/Odd Jobs" to "Musician/Tailor" to reflect where I want to have her keep a stable job. -COMPLETELY changed Alternate Appearance before Awakening, added pictures.
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Subject: Re: Zayasu Ritsuko [Endymion] [Finished. Ready for review!] Sat Nov 12, 2016 2:18 pm
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Subject: Re: Zayasu Ritsuko [Endymion] [Finished. Ready for review!] Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:06 pm
Daichi wrote:
Zayasu Ritsuko
Character Portrait:
"Whatever you want, make it quick and leave me alone. I've got better things to do."
Portrayed as an old man in a dark place or cave, holding up a lantern, the Hermit is associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches.
Ritsuko's connection with The Hermit Arcana is explored through her retreat from the greater world in order to evade the government who would lock her up, her pessimistic wisdom as a result of her twisted past, and her general loner tendencies and issues with trust.
Place of Residence: Vista Square Academy Semester: N/A Class: N/A
Sorority: N/A
Full Time Job: Musician/Tailor at Shimaki Cleaners. Ritsuko works a run of the mill minimum wage job at a Japanese-run alterations shop in-between paying music venues.
Appearance: Not the largest adult, Ritsuko stands at a measly 5'4" and weighs 90lbs soaking wet. Her figure would best be described as "petite" or "twiggy" depending on how generous you're feeling. Skinny jeans to Ritsuko are just normal jeans and one can almost wrap their entire hand around her bicep if they tried. Her skin is a step above pale, which is shockingly a great improvement from her ghostly white complexion back when she was a little girl. Over a decade without real sunlight tends to do that to a person.
Her eyes are dark brown and icy, nearly empty, which only seems to enhance her trademark Death Glares she's fond of giving out. Ritsuko suffers from terminal dark circles under eyes and despite her young age, undereye lines are starting to form as a negative impact from smoking. Her expression is nearly always blank with a somewhat agitated look, her slightly furrowed and slanting brow giving her a rabid case of resting-bitch-face. Both her ears are pierced along with her left nostril, normally holding a silver stud and whatever earrings she prefers at the moment. Ritsuko's most defining feature, however, is her hair. She posseses a raven black mane (dyed, not natural) of wavy, slightly curly hair. The length of it runs down to the small of her back and curls out in some places as if she doesn't attempt to take care of it. Make no mistake, she actually doesn't. Ritsuko has already learned that her incredibly long hair will do what it wants no matter what she tries and has since stopped fighting it.
Her sense of style is a mix of punk, delinquent, and goth on occasion, and she gravitates toward graphic tees with favored bands or shirts with some sort of abnormal design or silhoutte to them. Normally she will pair this with another upper body garment such as a collared shirt, vest, or jacket, but in the summer she tends to avoid this for obvious reasons. She'll wear jeans of different styles, cargo pants if she wants something more comfortable, and shorts if the weather's nice enough, but skirts are rare and dresses are right out. Ritsuko has never worn a pair of heels in her lifetime and doesn't see the point in ever doing so. She'll always find a way to work in an accessory to stand out from the crowd a little, no matter what she wears to mix things up. A hat with buttons, a few wristbands, multiple wallet chains, sunglasses, you name it. More often than not she has a pair of headphones with her, if only to seem unapproachable to others. Ritsuko never dresses formally because frankly, she doesn't know how. Formal attire is for someone who can afford it.
Alternate Appearance: Ritz's appearance becomes much more dark and menacing when Aoide is channeling her spirit through her corporeal form. Ritsuko dons a well-worn grey leather trench coat with the sleeves ripped off and a stiff collar, its tail trailing off to mid-thigh with clips instead of buckles, long spikes adorning the shoulders, and a motif of a weeping angel with skeletal wings stitched minimally into the back in white highlight. Her forearms sport studded braces over long, fingerless gloves that run past her elbow. She becomes taller by just a few inches, although that may be the thick heel of her biker boots underneath dark grey cargos. Her upper torso is covered by a halter top with the rest of her visible skin wrapped up in fishnet that trails to fraying around her belt line.
Of what can be seen her skin is absolutely covered with brands of various designs intermingling with legitimate scars, although it's difficult to tell where the scars end and the brands begin. The most prominent of these is a visible heart-shaped area on her chest free of scarring save for an X in the center, but this isn't always visible. Studs run along the rims of her ears where her long hair is swept behind. Her messy hair is dyed on the ends and slowly changes color over the course of time, along with a solid strip from her bangs that hangs over her mask: a tragedy theatre mask. This theatre mask holds an anguished countenance with one widened eye that allows Ritz's glowing yellow one to be seen clearly behind it. Almost seemingly randomly this eye will weep a black, inky substance that drips along the ground only to disappear after a few moments and mask seems to float in front of her face with no obvious support to hold it to her head.
Ritsuko Alternate Appearance:
Ritsuko's voice also changes to a haunting tone. Her words are interspersed with a melody of echoes whispers, screams, laughter, growls, and singing that shift slightly to fit her current mood. Aoide will similarly take on a different appearance when influencing Ritsuko. Her body will morph to become more like a true weapon, an unsettling mix between an axe, a halberd, and a club to allow strikes from her wielder to be landed more effectively and hide her real-world association.
Aoide Alternate Appearance:
Personality: To the say the very least, Ritsuko is not a positive person at all. Cynical, dour, and jaded, she's been through enough hardship in her lifetime to expect the worst from every situation. She can be incredibly cold and hostile to strangers, acting passive-aggressive at least and confrontational at most. She has a cornucopia of trust issues and refuses to let other people in to her life, burning bridges easily and building them much slower. She rarely ever makes an attempt to reach out to the people she cares for and sees herself as a rolling stone avoiding personal conflict that complicates her already complicated life.
That being said, this negative behavior has made her more mature and prepared for life's harships. Because she's always prepared for the worst, Ritsuko is always prepared and is rarely disappointed. She's gained wisdom into the dealings of the world and will impart this knowledge to anyone willing to put up with her icy demeanor for any length of time. Despite her frosty outlook she's incredibly passionate. Ritsuko sees and understands the beauty in people and in life, she simply feels she can never be a part of it. While difficult to get to know, Ritsuko is fiercely loyal to those that get on her good side. Well, "less bad" side.
She lives for herself and can be incredibly selfish at times, putting her lower on the sliding scale of morality. Ritsuko is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and shatter the rules for her own survival, although there's no maliciousness in it. To her, breaking the system to achieve what she sees necessary is payback for her perceived mistreatment in life, and she refrains from doing so when it involves anything personal. She's incredibly lax and seemingly doesn't care about anything until it directly involves her, but can become incredibly aggressive when one of her personal lines are crossed
The Potential
Strengths: (Anything your character is skilled in, such as Martial Arts/ Drawing/ etc? You are allowed a maximum of five strengths and a minimum of three.)
—Strength Name: Unassuming —Description: Due to the nature of her Shadow Weapon and her easily-hidden firearm, it is incredibly difficult to mark Ritsuko as a threat or suspect unless one were to actively search her for her gun or analyze her with a Persona, and perhaps not even then under certain circumstances. Ritsuko banks on this little detail to get by unnoticed.
—Strength Name: In Tune —Description: Ritsuko lives in world of expression and harmony, speaking through her music and understanding people through their intentions, despite the picture their words may paint. Her default method of understanding others is through not what they say, but the way the say things, their posture, and their emotions. Understanding will gain points twice as fast.
—Strength Name: Artistically Gifted —Description: Being spiritually linked to a Greek Muse, Ritsuko is attuned to the arts like no other. While obviously more than good at playing the electric guitar, she can also pick up backup guitar or bass just as easily. Something not as widely broadcasted, Ritsuko is also a proficient writer, poet, lyricist, and photographer, but she rarely ever dips into these hobbies. Ritsuko is normally loathe to share her creations with the people she knows.
—Strength Name: Contemplative —Description: Ritsuko spends a lot of time in her own head, taking her time in forming opinions, thoughts, and ideas. She always thinks twice and its in this meditative state she feels most comfortable. When Ritsuko rests or takes the Guard action in combat, she gains double the SP as she normally would (10% and 20% respectively).
—Strength Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)
—Floating Strength Name: —Description:
Weaknesses: (You must have the same amount of weaknesses as strengths. These weaknesses pertain to you and not your Persona. IE: Physically Weaker, lack of attention span, etc.)
—Weakness Name: The Beauty in Life is Lost —Description: Aoide has a strong grip over Ritsuko's emotions, feeding off of them and using them as a catalyst to create and give art to the world. If Ritsuko is separated from Aoide by a distance over 10 meters, she begins to lose the ability to feel positive emotions and takes a sever decline in willpower and motivation. After a handful of hours, this will begin to manifest in suicidal ideations. After half a day, she's most likely attempted to act out one of these. Ritsuko has never been away from Aoide for over three days which hasn't ended with her in the hospital after a suicide attempt or in a similar situation.
—Weakness Name: Antisocial —Description: Having seen and been through not the happiest of lives has left Ritsuko a bit of a cynic. She's incredibly negative, sarcastic, and hostile towards people she doesn't know well. Which is nearly everyone at this point. Ritsuko detests the presence of others and would much rather be left alone, and this is easily apparent upon the first sentence out of her mouth. Charisma grows at half the rate as normal.
—Weakness Name: Soft Spots —Description: While coming across as passive-aggressive or stone-faced to most strangers, a few topics can cause Ritsuko to become furious and confront someone. These topics include: her artform (specifically stupid requests like "Wonderwall" or "Freebird", but also music in general), The Eternal Divide, vitriol directed against Rogues or the Forgotten, the cadets, and blind faith in the government.
—Weakness Name: Fiercely Independent —Description: Being the loner she is, Ritsuko isn't fond of accepting help from others. She doesn't like to admit that she can't do something alone. When receiving healing from a healing skill, Ritsuko recovers 10% less than she would normally recover.
—Weakness Name: —Description:
----- ((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)
—Floating Weakness Name: —Description:
Demon Weapon:((This is the both a Weapon and a Shadow/Demon. You have a parasitic relationship with this Shadow/Demon, and as such you will always want it near you as it is the source of your power. Unlike Soulbound Weapons, this Shadow/Demon Weapon cannot be summoned and will always remain active, meaning you'll have to keep it on you at all times.))
Weapon Name: Aoide Weapon Description: An Epiphone-brand Elitist Coronet electric guitar. This guitar features a classic, rounded, rock-a-billy look to it straight from the 50's with a Gibson Soapbar for a unique sound. The laquer is impermeable to scratches and nicks, the light blue smoky color reflecting the inner void of the soul... Bashes heads in just as good as any other blunt object, albeit with a much more satisfying "twang" to it.
Weapon Image:
Spoiler:
Weapon Attack Type: Strike Weapon Element: N/A
Side-Arm Weapon:
Side-Arm Name: Saturday Night Special Side-Arm Description: A snub-nosed revolver of the .38 caliber variety, this side-arm is small and easily hidden in jacket, coat, pair of pants, or a even a skirt. A gun so small can even be comfortably hidden in a boot if the occasion necesitates it. A short chrome revolver with leather grip, the weapon has no identifying markings or patterns. The serial number has even been shaved off. All the easier to hide...
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Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun Side-Arm Style: Revolver - Single Shot - Accuracy is increased by 20%. Consumes only one type of ammo per use. Can shoot only one enemy at a time.
The Background
History: Ritsuko Zayusa was born a normal, healthy baby girl to an upper-middle class family in the suburbs of Osaka. She was well provided and cared for, recieving plenty of attention and love from two doting parents. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom who loved playing with her adorable daughter. Her father an a accountant, who would read to her every chance he got and always before bedtime. Of course, none of this matters. Not a bit.
At the age of three years old little Ritsuko was kidnapped while playing in the park. Her parents filed a report to no avail, and Ritsuko become yet another statistic. In all reality, an underground organization had stolen her from the life she could have had and rolled her up into their newest science expirement: attempting to fuse humans and Shadows together. She was just young enough and they were desperate for test subjects.
Ritsuko didn't see real sunlight for over a decade. Her "foster parents" kept her deep within their facility in a clandestine Endymion research facility after performing a then-experimental method in order to splice her with something already barely understood. The experiment did not prove fruitful, yet Ritsuko continued to be experimented on in order to salvage or justify their method. They subjected her to myriad physical and psychological experiments in order to understand her symbiosis with her Shadow Weapon. It became apparent in short time that playing her guitar, the Shadow Aoide, resulted in supernatural phenomena... so play she did. Whether she liked it or not.
In between cruel breaches of basic human rights and basic tutoring, Ritsuko played her soul-bonded guitar. She played until her fingers calloused over and bled, until she could no longer feel the blood in her hands, until every chord and pluck of a string was agonizing, she played. For science. For the ascension of humanity. One fateful day this all came crashing down. The Eternal Divide, they called it. As demons began to assault the facility the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons were mobilized and all hands were on deck. Ritsuko, 16 years old at the time and being one of few able to defend herself and the facility from total annihilation, was instructed to play her guitar. And so she did. And as the scientists were slaughtered around her, men ripped in half, screaming women torn limb from limb, Ritsuko never stopped playing. But a little girl can only do so much.
She faltered as her stamina left her, fingers dripping blood on a pristine six-string, and death encroached. But it wasn't meant to be. In the chaos and destruction the demons turned on each other just as it seemed hopeless, and they spoke to her. They told her to leave and run away. Ritsuko did not hesitate. Her first time seeing the stars since she'd been kidnapped was in a ruined business street, surrounded by corpses, clad in a bloody hospital gown. It wouldn't be until much later when she learned that she had been rescued by a Devil Summoner, albeit inadvertently.
Ritsuko was taken into foster care shortly after the disaster along with many other children having lost their families in the massacre. After all of her experiences and traumas, foster care was just as harsh as the rest of her life had been. As a result of her treatment and the unbelievably true story she recounted, Ritsuko was diagnosed with mental disorders and ended up skipping around 7 foster homes in under two years until she was finally released into society as an adult.
The first year out was the worst. Possessing no formal education and without a home, she found herself beneath the poverty line and spent many nights sleeping in alleys in neighboring cities, moving around as often as possible to keep her distance from her past. As time went on she became wiser and more experienced, better able to find odd jobs to pay for food and shelter and better at cheating the system when that wasn't available to her. Today she finds herself back in Endymion, drawn to the recovering city after the tragedy five years ago. While causing heartache, she feels it will give her a sense of closure. Ritsuko has her suspicions that the current lordship over modern-day Endymion is at least partially responsible for ruining her life and childhood, and she's desperate enough to seek answers in the lion's den.
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Subject: Re: Zayasu Ritsuko [Endymion] [Finished. Ready for review!] Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:20 pm
Edited. Summary of changes:
- Upped weight from 90lbs to 107lbs because let's be honest, 90lbs for a woman of 5'4" is unrealistic. - Minor typo fixes - Added dimensions to Ritsuko's Demon Weapon that were never there pre-approval - Explained the "Unassuming" Strength and what it means exactly - Changed "Artistically Gifted" Strength to "Musically Gifted". It's essentially been changed from dabbling in many arts to being especially good at guitar and song-writing. - Completely changed the "Soft Spots" Weakness to the less-specific "Sensitivity" Weakness. Instead of going off on certain subjects, Ritsuko goes off at the drop of a hat like I've been playing her allowing me to properly invoke this Weakness more often.
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