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| mun |
| name | Joysweeper
| age | 25
| e-mail | joysweeper@hotmail.com
| aim/msn/other | Joysweeper @ plurk
| location/time zone | Michigan. EST
| current character(s) | N/A.
| character |
| canon | Hatoful Boyfriend
| character name | Yuuya Sakazaki
| character age | He's thirteen, but that's roughly equivalent to eighteen, and he often seems a little more mature than that. Birds develop fast and don't live as long as humans. Of course it's very hard to tell his age by looking at him.
| gem | Night!
| reason | Yuuya is a spy. Even aside from that, he's always been secretive and tends to lie or omit things when talking, and even though he's pure white he describes himself as a creature of the night.
| wings | He's a bird! His own wings are now long arms with slender, clawed fingers. They're still feathered and the feathers have the shape of small wings, like on a feathered dinosaur, but he can't fly with them, or do much more than keep his balance. Kinda like these or here
His gem-wings are extremely fuzzy and pure white. Folded against his back and partially overlapping his tail, they're easy to miss.
| personality | At a glance, Yuuya is a confident carefree flirt, a ladies’ man (hen’s cock?), talkative, and a little absurd. He knows and is friendly with everyone. Absolutely everything that happens he seems to take in stride, with the same careless, gracious cheery ease. Just under the surface Yuuya's kind of dorky and a romantic.
Despite an obvious social nature he’s oddly aloof and opaque. It’s always hard to tell what he’s really thinking about serious things. Even if accused of a murder he had something to do with he seems relaxed, and there’s not much he seems to care strongly about. He’s really more of a very extroverted loner. Yuuya has many friends and is admired, but it’s almost all on the surface.
Not-so-secretly he’s more cold-blooded, cynical, and defiant than he seems - willing to get his feathers dirty, literally or otherwise. He does have some respect for authority, but it’s on his own terms. Yuuya will answer to others easily enough, though he feels it’s often better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, or better yet just never get caught, and in the end he really answers only to himself. He's also quite impulsive in the heat of the moment.
When he isn’t coming off as cheerfully careless, he’s usually coming off as some degree or another of professional and competent. Sometimes the two attitudes are blended. If it’s called for he has a pretty good bedside manner too. Yuuya may happily show off his superspy skills if the situation calls for them, but won’t explain how he got them. Really, Yuuya withholds a lot of information if it doesn’t seem relevant. It’s not uncommon for him to say something serious in a teasing, playful way.
Deep down Yuuya’s unsure of himself and often indecisive, burdened by guilt, and despite outer appearances does not like himself much. Sometimes, he’ll show that a little to a friend. He doesn’t want to worry people, though, and he tends to lie and dissemble as he catches himself. Insults and taunting don’t bring him down much, even if his past is brought up - someone remarks that he has a heart of used tires, indestructible. Yuuya feels immense guilt and shame over what he did as a child, and knows he can’t change it, and he keeps quiet about it. Though he does often think he should tell Sakuya, that would mean revealing the lie. The least he can do is remember by himself, and carry that weight. It’s part of him. Maybe he doesn't like himself, but he's accepted what he's done and what it means about him. It drives him to try and be a better person, more forgiving, more concerned for people.
Despite that weight, Yuuya can always continue on with a smile, and not even he knows how much of it is a bluff. He's become philosophical about things, and is surprisingly wise. There is no way anyone can live without hurting anyone else. All he can do is endure everything, try to do what’s right, and keep going. It seems like he wouldn’t mind dying for a cause.
While he’s pretty fine with people not liking his little brother, Sakuya’s life and happiness mean everything to him. When he thinks Sakuya is really, pressingly threatened Yuuya loses his cool and becomes raw and desperate. Sakuya is also his weakness in that Yuuya can be blackmailed or otherwise made to do things he usually wouldn't if his brother's safety is brought up - though that doesn't mean he’ll be a good ally.
He’s quite slow to care about anyone else to that same degree, but he does care about people - he doesn't lose his head, but he will similarly lunge to tackle people out of the way of attacks and think nothing at all of injuries received on the way. And he has some concern for emotional hurts too. He might think derisive thoughts, but he knows better than to speak them. When talking to Ryouta about the changing nature of relationships, Yuuya was patient, fairly gentle, and even let go of one of his hard-kept personal secrets.
He will put himself at risk for others even besides his brother, if that doesn't conflict with protecting Sakuya. He loves to help and advise. Yuuya bears few grudges and will bring his characteristic unflappability to bear when helping drowning swimmers who half crush him, or soothing hostages who try to strangle him. He is better than he thinks he is. He’s just not as good as he’d have anyone who’s seen him act heroic believe.
| background | Hatoful Boyfriend takes place in a future where a disease devastated the human population. Birds became uplifted and took their place in society, though not without strife. There is continual conflict with the remains of humanity, and some bird factions wish to wipe them out.
Yuuya was born in Japan to a highly bred noblewoman and a leatherworker on society’s lowest rung. They’d eloped and were happy, but this state only lasted two years. His mother’s fiance, head of the powerful Le Bel family, caught up with them, had his father killed, and forced his mother to marry Le Bel and move to France. Le Bel would make sure young Yuuya was cared for, but only if the newly-laid egg containing Yuuya’s full brother was smashed.
His mother was distraught and Yuuya offered to smash the egg himself, but instead kept it, incubated it, waited until his mother laid a new egg with Le Bel, and covertly switched them. He smashed the new egg and saw his brother Sakuya raised up as the new Le Bel heir - as a snobbish aristocrat looking down on anyone with impure blood, especially Yuuya.
Yuuya wasn’t allowed to have much contact with him, and was sent to boarding schools and to live back in Japan. After cutting ties with the Le Bels he joined the Dove Party, a political faction that wanted to preserve the remaining humans and live in peace with them. In time he ended up as an agent in the espionage division, Heaven-Soaring Wings. They trained him, and he developed particular aptitudes for stealth and weaponry. He went out on some global missions and became well used to danger, frantic situations, and being injured.
At the appropriate age he enrolled in a prestigious high school, Saint Pigeonations’, to spy on the school’s doctor, a known agent for the anti-human Hawk Party who was suspected of experimenting on students. He was often absent on minor missions, and while he was popular he was close to no one. Yuuya volunteered in the infirmary and by his third year was trusted and capable enough to run the place when the doctor was out. He made friends with the school's single human student, and when he found that during his third and final year Sakuya would be transferred in he had the choice of leaving so familiar connections wouldn't interfere, or staying. He stayed just so he could be near his brother more, though Sakuya hated him.
By that third year he was also incautious enough that his snooping was found out. The doctor figured out that Sakuya wasn't a pure noble and blackmailed Yuuya into keeping quiet about his activities.
The Dove Party tasked Yuuya to stopping some thieves who he found were more dangerous than expected, weird hybrid creatures created by one of the doctor's deceased colleagues. The doctor took them in and seemed to mellow out a bit. In the succeeding months Yuuya helped stop a laser attack, confronted his brother's assassin butler, had the hybrid things act as his assistants in the infirmary, and messed up some plans in the criminal underworld.
Soon before graduation a number of staff and students went into a shared dream ruled over by a pain-averse ghost, who had become a kind of bizarre soul-absorbing horror. Yuuya used Inception-style tech to access the dream and helped the dreamers fight the ghost, who at one point offered to absorb Yuuya so he would feel no more guilt or pain. He refused. To help encourage a deeply troubled student who was considering the offer, Yuuya had a long talk with him, during which he revealed more of his personal philosophy and true nature than usual.
The ghost was defeated, Sakuya grudgingly admitted that Yuuya had helped, and by the time Yuuya graduated the doctor still hadn't been able to get past some dream event that had shocked him to the core.
| timeline | Post-The Night After (After)
| abilities | He is a truly enormous pigeon, and actually considered more muscular than most, so he is quite strong and possesses admirable endurance. Like a swan, Yuuya can strike with his wings hard enough to break human bones.
Pigeon eyesight is known for being very good. Yuuya processes visual information much more rapidly than humans, “seeing faster”, and in strong light also sees a far wider range of colors. This highlights veins, freckles, scars, bodily fluids… On the downside, his night vision is abysmal. Yuuya also has a pigeon’s powerful sense of direction.
Thanks to his time working in the infirmary Yuuya’s got a pretty decent acquaintance with providing medical attention, especially the emergency sort. He’s also an excellent swimmer, a lifeguard, a crack shot with firearms, and can infiltrate dreams with the help of tech. Yuuya also claims he has “clever feathers”. Once, he takes apart a lethal electrocution device and creates a makeshift defibrillator while someone provides CPR to a patient.
His handler describes him as a "master of unauthorized access". Get Yuuya if you want to break into something, whether it's physical locks or computers. He's best with computers and computerized security - give him a minute and he can log in as the admin.
Yuuya has a stealth talent, too. He can move unusually quietly if he wishes and is very good at sneaking about and going unobserved. Once, he sneaks onto the grounds of a mansion, past security on alert for white intruders, and hangs out there for three days undetected, even by a trained assassin. Still, he’s not invisible and can be chased and cornered, and doesn’t always cover his tracks well.
| inventory | A harness, difficult to see with his feathers, which has pockets and holsters that unobtrusively carry the other items. In it - his wallet, bird future iPhone, and some guns.
One's a tiny pistol made for bird use, and ammunition. This is quite low caliber and only lethal to humans at close range - say, within five feet - or somewhat longer very precisely aimed. The other's disassembled rifle made for bird use, and ammunition. This takes a few minutes to assemble and is awkward to fly with once assembled. It’s more highly powered and can punch through a car door.
Dream infiltration tech - we’re never shown just what it looks like, but wires and little suction cups are involved. Attached properly to the heads of the sleeper and the infiltrator, if the infiltrator loses consciousness they can emerge into the sleeper’s dream.
| samples |
| amber entry | Test Drive one, two
| prose sample |Yuuya's long, graceful prehensile wing feathers were gone, atrophied to immobile stubs. He flexed the new fingers, pink-scaled and delicately clawed things. It was like having toes on his wings. Such a strange sensation! Was this what it was like to be human, with hands?
"I would hope the Migrant would be keeping that King fellow in line," he said to himself. "If this isn't a case like that, I am in trouble." He was even if it was another ghost trapping people in dreams, but he had an idea of what to do there, and he knew any changes worked on someone in a dream did not remain upon awakening.
He picked up the pack in his beak. Leaves, really? Hardly the most suitable material. Carefully he transferred it into what was left of his wings, holding it gingerly as he used his beak like another wing to sort through and examine it. A shiny flake of amber, a rolled-up leaf garment, a round stone. They didn't seem like they could be of much use. Dream logic, he supposed.
He wished dearly that his handler Leone would send him a message, give him objectives. Something. Without that, well, he'd just have to carry on.
When he stepped into the shaft of light Yuuya tensed to leap into the air but stopped himself in time. There was no way to fly with wings like these, he realized, and it was a cold and unpleasant feeling. No flighted bird likes to be grounded. His feathers slicked down with displeasure - he noticed that, and deliberately fluffed them into a more confident expression, just in case anyone was watching.
There were very large faceted stones here, which normally he would have cared little about as long as they were not presently being stolen. Still he found his attention drawn to them, repeatedly. The darker and less spectacular of them, especially. Eventually he came over to inspect it more closely, and decided to feel it against his... they were called palms, right?
As it moved under his touch he leaped back, instinctively curling his fingers around the slender piece that had dislodged from the whole. New though he was to not having enormous feathered wings, something still felt different - he craned his head to see, and held very still for a couple of seconds before deciding how to respond.
"Wings for wings, hmm? I see. Well, my friend, don't think that makes us even!" All the same, his heart was lighter. Perhaps he wasn't grounded after all.
| mun |
| name | Joysweeper
| age | 25
| e-mail | joysweeper@hotmail.com
| aim/msn/other | Joysweeper @ plurk
| location/time zone | Michigan. EST
| current character(s) | N/A.
| character |
| canon | Hatoful Boyfriend
| character name | Yuuya Sakazaki
| character age | He's thirteen, but that's roughly equivalent to eighteen, and he often seems a little more mature than that. Birds develop fast and don't live as long as humans. Of course it's very hard to tell his age by looking at him.
| gem | Night!
| reason | Yuuya is a spy. Even aside from that, he's always been secretive and tends to lie or omit things when talking, and even though he's pure white he describes himself as a creature of the night.
| wings | He's a bird! His own wings are now long arms with slender, clawed fingers. They're still feathered and the feathers have the shape of small wings, like on a feathered dinosaur, but he can't fly with them, or do much more than keep his balance. Kinda like these or here
His gem-wings are extremely fuzzy and pure white. Folded against his back and partially overlapping his tail, they're easy to miss.
| personality | At a glance, Yuuya is a confident carefree flirt, a ladies’ man (hen’s cock?), talkative, and a little absurd. He knows and is friendly with everyone. Absolutely everything that happens he seems to take in stride, with the same careless, gracious cheery ease. Just under the surface Yuuya's kind of dorky and a romantic.
Despite an obvious social nature he’s oddly aloof and opaque. It’s always hard to tell what he’s really thinking about serious things. Even if accused of a murder he had something to do with he seems relaxed, and there’s not much he seems to care strongly about. He’s really more of a very extroverted loner. Yuuya has many friends and is admired, but it’s almost all on the surface.
Not-so-secretly he’s more cold-blooded, cynical, and defiant than he seems - willing to get his feathers dirty, literally or otherwise. He does have some respect for authority, but it’s on his own terms. Yuuya will answer to others easily enough, though he feels it’s often better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, or better yet just never get caught, and in the end he really answers only to himself. He's also quite impulsive in the heat of the moment.
When he isn’t coming off as cheerfully careless, he’s usually coming off as some degree or another of professional and competent. Sometimes the two attitudes are blended. If it’s called for he has a pretty good bedside manner too. Yuuya may happily show off his superspy skills if the situation calls for them, but won’t explain how he got them. Really, Yuuya withholds a lot of information if it doesn’t seem relevant. It’s not uncommon for him to say something serious in a teasing, playful way.
Deep down Yuuya’s unsure of himself and often indecisive, burdened by guilt, and despite outer appearances does not like himself much. Sometimes, he’ll show that a little to a friend. He doesn’t want to worry people, though, and he tends to lie and dissemble as he catches himself. Insults and taunting don’t bring him down much, even if his past is brought up - someone remarks that he has a heart of used tires, indestructible. Yuuya feels immense guilt and shame over what he did as a child, and knows he can’t change it, and he keeps quiet about it. Though he does often think he should tell Sakuya, that would mean revealing the lie. The least he can do is remember by himself, and carry that weight. It’s part of him. Maybe he doesn't like himself, but he's accepted what he's done and what it means about him. It drives him to try and be a better person, more forgiving, more concerned for people.
Despite that weight, Yuuya can always continue on with a smile, and not even he knows how much of it is a bluff. He's become philosophical about things, and is surprisingly wise. There is no way anyone can live without hurting anyone else. All he can do is endure everything, try to do what’s right, and keep going. It seems like he wouldn’t mind dying for a cause.
While he’s pretty fine with people not liking his little brother, Sakuya’s life and happiness mean everything to him. When he thinks Sakuya is really, pressingly threatened Yuuya loses his cool and becomes raw and desperate. Sakuya is also his weakness in that Yuuya can be blackmailed or otherwise made to do things he usually wouldn't if his brother's safety is brought up - though that doesn't mean he’ll be a good ally.
He’s quite slow to care about anyone else to that same degree, but he does care about people - he doesn't lose his head, but he will similarly lunge to tackle people out of the way of attacks and think nothing at all of injuries received on the way. And he has some concern for emotional hurts too. He might think derisive thoughts, but he knows better than to speak them. When talking to Ryouta about the changing nature of relationships, Yuuya was patient, fairly gentle, and even let go of one of his hard-kept personal secrets.
He will put himself at risk for others even besides his brother, if that doesn't conflict with protecting Sakuya. He loves to help and advise. Yuuya bears few grudges and will bring his characteristic unflappability to bear when helping drowning swimmers who half crush him, or soothing hostages who try to strangle him. He is better than he thinks he is. He’s just not as good as he’d have anyone who’s seen him act heroic believe.
| background | Hatoful Boyfriend takes place in a future where a disease devastated the human population. Birds became uplifted and took their place in society, though not without strife. There is continual conflict with the remains of humanity, and some bird factions wish to wipe them out.
Yuuya was born in Japan to a highly bred noblewoman and a leatherworker on society’s lowest rung. They’d eloped and were happy, but this state only lasted two years. His mother’s fiance, head of the powerful Le Bel family, caught up with them, had his father killed, and forced his mother to marry Le Bel and move to France. Le Bel would make sure young Yuuya was cared for, but only if the newly-laid egg containing Yuuya’s full brother was smashed.
His mother was distraught and Yuuya offered to smash the egg himself, but instead kept it, incubated it, waited until his mother laid a new egg with Le Bel, and covertly switched them. He smashed the new egg and saw his brother Sakuya raised up as the new Le Bel heir - as a snobbish aristocrat looking down on anyone with impure blood, especially Yuuya.
Yuuya wasn’t allowed to have much contact with him, and was sent to boarding schools and to live back in Japan. After cutting ties with the Le Bels he joined the Dove Party, a political faction that wanted to preserve the remaining humans and live in peace with them. In time he ended up as an agent in the espionage division, Heaven-Soaring Wings. They trained him, and he developed particular aptitudes for stealth and weaponry. He went out on some global missions and became well used to danger, frantic situations, and being injured.
At the appropriate age he enrolled in a prestigious high school, Saint Pigeonations’, to spy on the school’s doctor, a known agent for the anti-human Hawk Party who was suspected of experimenting on students. He was often absent on minor missions, and while he was popular he was close to no one. Yuuya volunteered in the infirmary and by his third year was trusted and capable enough to run the place when the doctor was out. He made friends with the school's single human student, and when he found that during his third and final year Sakuya would be transferred in he had the choice of leaving so familiar connections wouldn't interfere, or staying. He stayed just so he could be near his brother more, though Sakuya hated him.
By that third year he was also incautious enough that his snooping was found out. The doctor figured out that Sakuya wasn't a pure noble and blackmailed Yuuya into keeping quiet about his activities.
The Dove Party tasked Yuuya to stopping some thieves who he found were more dangerous than expected, weird hybrid creatures created by one of the doctor's deceased colleagues. The doctor took them in and seemed to mellow out a bit. In the succeeding months Yuuya helped stop a laser attack, confronted his brother's assassin butler, had the hybrid things act as his assistants in the infirmary, and messed up some plans in the criminal underworld.
Soon before graduation a number of staff and students went into a shared dream ruled over by a pain-averse ghost, who had become a kind of bizarre soul-absorbing horror. Yuuya used Inception-style tech to access the dream and helped the dreamers fight the ghost, who at one point offered to absorb Yuuya so he would feel no more guilt or pain. He refused. To help encourage a deeply troubled student who was considering the offer, Yuuya had a long talk with him, during which he revealed more of his personal philosophy and true nature than usual.
The ghost was defeated, Sakuya grudgingly admitted that Yuuya had helped, and by the time Yuuya graduated the doctor still hadn't been able to get past some dream event that had shocked him to the core.
| timeline | Post-The Night After (After)
| abilities | He is a truly enormous pigeon, and actually considered more muscular than most, so he is quite strong and possesses admirable endurance. Like a swan, Yuuya can strike with his wings hard enough to break human bones.
Pigeon eyesight is known for being very good. Yuuya processes visual information much more rapidly than humans, “seeing faster”, and in strong light also sees a far wider range of colors. This highlights veins, freckles, scars, bodily fluids… On the downside, his night vision is abysmal. Yuuya also has a pigeon’s powerful sense of direction.
Thanks to his time working in the infirmary Yuuya’s got a pretty decent acquaintance with providing medical attention, especially the emergency sort. He’s also an excellent swimmer, a lifeguard, a crack shot with firearms, and can infiltrate dreams with the help of tech. Yuuya also claims he has “clever feathers”. Once, he takes apart a lethal electrocution device and creates a makeshift defibrillator while someone provides CPR to a patient.
His handler describes him as a "master of unauthorized access". Get Yuuya if you want to break into something, whether it's physical locks or computers. He's best with computers and computerized security - give him a minute and he can log in as the admin.
Yuuya has a stealth talent, too. He can move unusually quietly if he wishes and is very good at sneaking about and going unobserved. Once, he sneaks onto the grounds of a mansion, past security on alert for white intruders, and hangs out there for three days undetected, even by a trained assassin. Still, he’s not invisible and can be chased and cornered, and doesn’t always cover his tracks well.
| inventory | A harness, difficult to see with his feathers, which has pockets and holsters that unobtrusively carry the other items. In it - his wallet, bird future iPhone, and some guns.
One's a tiny pistol made for bird use, and ammunition. This is quite low caliber and only lethal to humans at close range - say, within five feet - or somewhat longer very precisely aimed. The other's disassembled rifle made for bird use, and ammunition. This takes a few minutes to assemble and is awkward to fly with once assembled. It’s more highly powered and can punch through a car door.
Dream infiltration tech - we’re never shown just what it looks like, but wires and little suction cups are involved. Attached properly to the heads of the sleeper and the infiltrator, if the infiltrator loses consciousness they can emerge into the sleeper’s dream.
| samples |
| amber entry | Test Drive one, two
| prose sample |Yuuya's long, graceful prehensile wing feathers were gone, atrophied to immobile stubs. He flexed the new fingers, pink-scaled and delicately clawed things. It was like having toes on his wings. Such a strange sensation! Was this what it was like to be human, with hands?
"I would hope the Migrant would be keeping that King fellow in line," he said to himself. "If this isn't a case like that, I am in trouble." He was even if it was another ghost trapping people in dreams, but he had an idea of what to do there, and he knew any changes worked on someone in a dream did not remain upon awakening.
He picked up the pack in his beak. Leaves, really? Hardly the most suitable material. Carefully he transferred it into what was left of his wings, holding it gingerly as he used his beak like another wing to sort through and examine it. A shiny flake of amber, a rolled-up leaf garment, a round stone. They didn't seem like they could be of much use. Dream logic, he supposed.
He wished dearly that his handler Leone would send him a message, give him objectives. Something. Without that, well, he'd just have to carry on.
When he stepped into the shaft of light Yuuya tensed to leap into the air but stopped himself in time. There was no way to fly with wings like these, he realized, and it was a cold and unpleasant feeling. No flighted bird likes to be grounded. His feathers slicked down with displeasure - he noticed that, and deliberately fluffed them into a more confident expression, just in case anyone was watching.
There were very large faceted stones here, which normally he would have cared little about as long as they were not presently being stolen. Still he found his attention drawn to them, repeatedly. The darker and less spectacular of them, especially. Eventually he came over to inspect it more closely, and decided to feel it against his... they were called palms, right?
As it moved under his touch he leaped back, instinctively curling his fingers around the slender piece that had dislodged from the whole. New though he was to not having enormous feathered wings, something still felt different - he craned his head to see, and held very still for a couple of seconds before deciding how to respond.
"Wings for wings, hmm? I see. Well, my friend, don't think that makes us even!" All the same, his heart was lighter. Perhaps he wasn't grounded after all.