Application for Emp

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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Luna
Contact: AppleBlossoms
Age: 22
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Ryuutaro Fukami
Age: not specified, but around 12-13
Canon: Metal Fight Beyblade
Canon Point: Episode 43, after he loses his battle with Ginga and rips his fan apart

Background: Akki taisan!

Personality:

Ryuutaro is a fortune teller and structures his entire identity around that. Gifted with the ability to make accurate future predictions, he always thought of fate as something unchangeable. To him, the world was always full of certainty. The future is decided and he has the privilege of knowing these decisions beforehand and being able to act accordingly. It's a skill he is very proud of and has thus turned into his profession (because in Beyblade pre-teens sometimes do that). He is introduced as a traveling fortune-teller, though later in the movie he describes himself as a follower of the way of yin and yang, an onmyoji. Onmyodo is a rather old form of occultism and this directly ties to one of the first things people may notice about Ryuutaro: a lot of him seems outdated.
He wears modernized versions of traditional clothes and speaks in a rather archaic fashion (using 'ware' for 'I' and 'sonata' for 'you'). All of him is meant to project the appearance of a dignified and cultured Japanese person. The look is completed by a fan, which he uses excessively to accentuate his speech, opening and closing it for effect.... basically all the time.

When he interacts with people in the fortune telling context, Ryuutaro is like a performer who knows what to say and do to make himself appear 'accidentally' intimidating. For example, when challenged to a Beyblade battle he makes a point to just... do a backflip jumping over his opponent beforehand, which startled the poor guy understandably.
Yet Ryuutaro masks his dominant nature and even arrogance with humble speech and sweet smiles. This appears... more or less believable, given he still grins a lot as well and shushes people who interrupt him with his fan pretty habitually. Ryuutaro does not take well to disrespect and he has a thing for being backhanded in his friendly act.

However, there are two contexts in which Ryuutaro drops this humble and friendly attitude almost completely. The first one is situations of extreme tension. As a rule of thumb, the more upset Ryuutaro gets the more honest and direct he gets. (As a bonus, he also starts stuttering). When his own safety is at stake, he hardly smiles anymore and even says outright that he is afraid.
The other time he'll drop his attitude is when faced with someone he considers annoying (loud, hotheated, non-refined types) – that is when he will stop being 'friendly' and backhanded and instead drop some real insults. He likes things nice and tidy and quiet, thank you very much.

But despite being conceited and sort of a dick, Ryuutaro is far from a bad person. He's on the positive neutral side of the moral spectrum. Since he primarily acts on the assumption that the future can't be changed, he is not particularly concerned with doing the right thing, but he also doesn't enjoy hurting people's feelings. And while he does inflict some physical pain during his beyblade battles, he is clearly hesitant and regretful at using the moves that cause more pain than normal headaches.
While in canon, Ryuutaro winds up dragged into an evil organization, he eventually finds himself disagreeing heavily with the principles and argueing with the leader. In the end, he still fights for them though as to try and fight for his own self-preservation. That basically illustrates the kind of person he is: he may put himself first, but he is not interested in truly damaging other people or seeing them hurt.

At the canonpoint Ryuutaro is from, he is at a decisive moment in his life. While I previously detailed his complete reliance on the idea that fate is static, he is taken from directly after experiencing the first time a vision changed. Whether or not the initial vision of destruction or the changed vision of hope will hold true won't be known to him during his time in Emp. As such he'll be in a state of uncertainty, where he actively wants to believe in his world view being wrong because this would mean the prevention of destruction... but also isn't really capable of just letting go of his old truths. “Afraid to hope, but also unwilling to be hopeless” basically describes the state he's in at this time.

And now that we went through the basics of Ryuutaro's personality and what makes him unique as a character, time for the obligatory parapraph that most every Beyblade character shares in common: Ryuutaro really loves Beyblading. While fortune telling is what defines him, Beyblading is the sport and hobby he loves dearly. The idea of a world without it is dreary and unbearable to him.
Even if he feels that he can predict the outcomes of battles beforehand, he enjoys the experience of competing (and winning) all the same. Clearly he puts a lot of effort into developing his techniques and further improving them. This earns him a rank as the 8th strongest blader in Japan.

Abilities: Ryuutaro is a fortune teller whose abilities are tragically ill-defined in canon.
We see him predict vague outcomes by watching the pattern of petals falling into a water bowl (once they literally spell out a kanji), but there is nothing to indicate that he gets specific visions on a daily basis. The specific visions only seem to happen in situations that have much at stake and they display the future in a symbolized language (so people are represented by the animal they are associated with and such). What's important about his fortune telling is that while it usually holds true, what Ryuutaro sees is not an unavoidable future and can still change. It's just a likely outcome, not ultimate fate.

Visions, if allowed in the game at all, will likely not come into play a lot if at all. For smaller fortune-tellings, I'd be happy if Ryuutaro were allowed to keep making predictions. It would only give him a general sense of “go east and things will be nice” or yes/no/maybe types of answers to questions – no specific scenarios would get predicted.

Other than fortune telling, Ryuutaro himself has no exceptional abilities. He is athletic and that's... it?

But his Beyblade Pisces has another ability worth mentioning. Namely, this battle use spinning top can manipulate the air pressure in ways that hypnotize people. At Ryuutaro's whim, anyone within a limited perimeter around the Bey may hallucinate standing inside a vortex and feel a heavy headache. Further, Ryuutaro can also make people think they are freezing or burning.


Alignment: Peromei. As a fortune-teller, Ryuutaro constantly deals with expectations for the future, thus despair and hope as expressions of these expectations seem like a good fit. Plus at his canon point he is stuck between the despair of believing destruction inevitable and the very newly found and weak hope that maybe the future can change away from that after all.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

General Sample: Here!

Emotion Sample: I hope this is sufficient!


Questions: As hinted in the ability section, I'd like to know how much of Ryuutaro's fortune telling ability could be kept in the game!