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As long as we keep moving forward for what we believe in, it will be alright.

P L A Y E R;
NAME: Daisy
AGE: 29 and that's as high as I go.
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TIMEZONE: EST
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OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu
CANON: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
POINT IN CANON: End of Chapter 4
AGE: Physically, Kuzuryuu is around 19ish. But he is unaware of this. He's had some of his memories messed with, and as far as he remembers, he's a few years younger, around 17 or so. Though he and his classmates are aware of having missing memories, they don't know the exact extent of how long they've lost.

APPEARANCE: Picture
CANON HISTORY:
Series Wikia
Character Wikia

Additional info:
Chapter Summaries
Character Specific Freetime 1
Character Specific Freetime 2
Character Specific Freetime 3
Wikipedia Entry (contains DR1 & SDR2)
Complete Translation LP (In progress, occasionally pay-walled)

[SPOILERS FOR SUPER DANGAN RONPA 2 FOLLOW]

CANON PERSONALITY:
Kuzuryuu is a character who undergoes a very drastic change in his personality and his personal morality fairly early on in his canon. To understand who he is completely though, it's important to talk about both sides of this transformation since, even if he does turn over a new leaf, the foundation of who he was does not go away.

When Kuzuryuu first appears, he is extremely antisocial and hostile. He makes no effort to mingle with any of his classmates and in fact actively tries to push them away if they are getting too close. He wants absolutely nothing to do with them whatsoever. With no explanation he is nasty and snarky, throwing around threats and insults without even stopping to consider them. He is literally the farthest thing in the world from being a team player.

Part of this is because for as long as he has been able to realize the magnitude of his family's legacy and power and his own position within that family, he has been intent to prove himself strong enough and worthy enough for it. More than that, he seems to be almost desperate to prove that he can possess that strength and achieve that worth all on his own, with no one's help. In his freetime events with Hinata he even talks about pushing aside his sister's reassurances about his abilities and strength -- though he later regrets not accepting her support. He is even extremely defensive about his physical size and appearance. Kuzuryuu lives his life like he has something to prove to everyone, friend and foe alike.

Kuzuryuu wants to stand on his own without relying on the Kuzuryuu name and family, but there is no escaping that name nevertheless. Later, after he turns over his new leaf, he admits that he has grown up among a great deal of violence, and almost seems a bit regretful. He realizes that for him it's expected for him to be used to death, but that it shouldn't be so for "normal" kids like the rest of his classmates. There's a self awareness in him that his world is not the same world as most anyone else lives in. The stakes are different. The rules are different. Everything is conflict and fighting. He talks about the weight of his family name and that it will likely mean that he will always be surrounded by death. Speaking about his parents, he says that his entire family settles things with violence, even his parents. But despite the fact that he admits that he almost died because of it, he also seems to have learned to cope with it -- though maybe not all that healthily.

So Kuzuryuu is very much the product of his upbringing and his family. He's used to life's problems being solved with violence before anything else. He's desperate to prove his own strength without the help of his family or (nearly) anyone else. Letting people in is a risk and a weakness, and he refuses to allow himself either. When he first arrives on the island, this is Kuzuryuu. He won't even talk to the protagonist anymore than he absolutely has to. (Though it is clear that he doesn't want to be as isolated as he makes himself, just "happening to be walking in the area" of a party that the other students are having that he outright refused to go to.) In a way, it's almost like he's hiding behind his stand-offish behavior and rudeness, pushing his classmates away in order to maintain the image that he thinks he has to maintain.

But that all changes. Kuzuryuu changes.

Before discussing the person that Kuzuryuu becomes, there's no talking about Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu without mentioning Pekoyama. Pekoyama is Kuzuryuu's, for lack of a better word, bodyguard. But more accurately, she is his sword and shield. The Kuzuryuu family took her in at a young age, and she grew up beside Kuzuryuu as his own personal bodyguard of sorts. The two are inseparable, though they hide their connection when they find themselves on the island with their classmates.

Kuzuryuu's relationship with Pekoyama is complicated. Despite his staunch determination to need no one, to be enough on his own, he relies on Peko heavily. He just can't admit it. All their lives, she has considered herself little more than a tool for his use when necessary. Kuzuryuu has never wanted her to be anything more than a friend by his side, but he's too stubborn and willful to admit this to her or even to himself for a very long time. But even so, Peko looks out for his best interest even above her own life. When Monobear reveals (through an overly complicated videogame) that Kuzuryuu's sister has been murdered, Kuzuryuu and Peko go looking for vengeance on Koizumi who they find out helped cover up her murder. In the end Kuzuryuu can't bring himself to kill her, even if that had been his plan. Peko murders Koizumi instead.

Kuzuryuu is not as ruthless as he would have people believe. Though he may be used to death (and it would seem has killed before, even if he doesn't necessarily remember), he is not able to be entirely cold-blooded. At the trial, the other students all discover that it was Peko who killed Koizumi and vote for her as the guilty party. But when Peko reveals herself as a servant and tool to Kuzuryuu, she sets it up so that if he agrees with her, he will go free from the island, leaving her and the rest of the students to be executed. But Kuzuryuu can't do it. He can't say that Peko, whom he's known his entire life, who he loves like family, is just a tool. And he can't condemn the rest of his class to death. Even if it would save his own life, he can't. There's a conscience in Kuzuryuu, especially when it comes to the people that he cares about.

This becomes more clear after Peko is executed. When Kuzuryuu returns to his classmates, he immediately begins to atone for what he's done. He's genuine regretful. Instead of isolating himself and acting as though making friends would be beneath him, he slowly begins to open up. He makes an effort to greet his classmates, apologizes for what he's done, for his part in Koizumi's death. He even tries to commit seppuku to make amends (not very well). In a way, Peko's death has made him realize that in trying to be strong enough without anyone, he's made himself weaker, and made people he cares about suffer because of it. The guilt for his role in Peko's death is strong, and a huge motivator for him to become a better person, to not waste the life that she saved.

Suddenly, Kuzuryuu becomes a team player. He is still bristly and short-tempered, prone to insults. But he spends time with his classmates. He tries to help when he can, even volunteering to stay with Hinata and the other sick students when they come down with Despair Disease. In a way, he's trying to live a life worthy of having been saved, after the sacrifice that Pekoyama made for him.

Kuzuryuu also turns out to have a surprising amount of respect for rules and laws, especially given that he's the heir to a yakuza family. He gets very fussy about them driving when none of them have licenses, and seems very fixed on right and wrong at times.

It also becomes clear that Kuzuryuu has quite a few insecurities and is relatively self-aware of them after Peko's death. He knows that he turns away from help stubbornly even when it's offered by people that he loves -- like Peko and like his little sister. And there's regret in him for this. It's a hard lesson in loss.

Kuzuryuu may try to pretend he's not, but he's quite emotional. Though he's quicker to anger and annoyance than any other reaction, he's been brought to tears by Peko's death and visibly moved by his regret in front of his other classmates after her execution.

After Peko's death, Kuzuryuu grows up fast. He still remains quick-tempered and insulting, but the effort that he makes to be a part of the group changes him starkly. He even goes so far as to let people close, especially Hinata, though he seems to get along with most his classmates at least somewhat. There's no more sulking and skulking around parties that he's too cool to want to go to. Now he's learned to be part of a group, and it's done a lot to make him a stronger person.

As a quick aside, there's a part of Kuzuryuu's life that he doesn't remember. When he was part of SHSL despair and involved in the terrible acts that they committed. The Future Foundation is basically trying to reprogram him and his classmates. There's not a lot known about the kind of person that Kuzuryuu was during that time, but by now he has grown past all that, deeply affected by what happens to him on the island with his classmates. As one of the survivors, he overcomes the despair in himself, even if the choice is a hard one. His canon point is currently before he discovers this about himself, but if he is canon-updated in the future, this will be something that he must come to terms with. It's a part of him, just currently hidden away even from himself.

POINT OF DEPARTURE: End of Chapter 4, after the trial
ABILITIES:
Kuzuryuu is an ordinary human being. However, he does happen to be a Super High School Level Gangster. Because of this, he does possess a few skills that most his age might not. Since birth, Kuzuryuu has been trained and groomed to be the future leader of the Kuzuryuu yakuza family. He's seen murders and killings. He's been surrounded by a sort of professional ruthlessness that most young people aren't privy to. However, he is not quite so ruthless despite how quick he can be to drop threats on people.

Because of his family, he has a great deal of leadership skill and knowledge about the inner workings of certain organizations.

INVENTORY; Aside from the clothes on his back and his eye patch, he's coming empty handed.

ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?

S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON:
Who the hell is in charge here?!

[The voice is laced through with fury and so is the owner of that voice.] I don't know what kind of joke this is, but I am done with this being kidnapped to weird places. If this is another of that bastard bear's tricks, I swear I will find him and slice him open with my bare hands if I have to.

[Definitely fury. Of course, Kuzruyuu can't manage to be quite as intimidating as those words might call for given his stature and his regrettably babyish face.]

Tch. As if it weren't bad enough to be stuck on that island, at least the others were still around. [This is muttered to himself before it's back to demands.] Has anyone seen a group of people from Hope's Peak Academy? They're all... [Weirdos.] One of them is really ordinary looking. Hair sticks up. And then there's a girl who's probably falling asleep mid conversation. And oh! Right. A really obnoxious guy too with the brightest pink hair you've ever seen.

[Can't miss his classmates. He'll even leave the princess and the gymnast undescribed for now.] Doesn't anyone have any useful answers?!

THIRD PERSON:
Kuzuryuu never expected that he could be homesick. But as he sat staring out a window at a street in no city he knew, no place he recognized from memory or history or anything, he could feel the stirrings of that longing. The way he grew up, the constant struggle and violence in his family, it wasn't that he missed that. But that hadn't been all that his family was about. There were good times. There had been his sister and how talented she was at driving him crazy, how fearless and unstoppable she was. And there had been Peko, who had always been there, ever in his shadow even if he would have rather she just be beside him.

But Peko wasn't here. That was the hardest part, sometimes. When he'd woken up on that ridiculous island, she'd been there. Even now, something ached in him when he went to turn, expecting to see her standing there only to find empty space instead. Peko was gone. His sister was gone. And he was on his own in a strange place.

Very strange. That horrible island hadn't been this strange, hadn't felt so completely separated and far from home.

But he was a Kuzuryuu, and he had to get through this. Wherever his classmates were -- back on the island? Or had they escaped by now, the ones that were left? -- he wanted to get back to them, to make sure they were okay. But no, here he was, dropped and plucked and dropped in world after world, not entirely sure what the hell was even going on half the time. Not that he couldn't handle it. He'd figure it out. He was a Kuzuryuu, and he had to be strong. There was his pride too, pride in being a Kuzuryuu, the drive to be strong enough to deserve that name, to become the head of his family. He'd changed his thoughts on those stances too though, realizing how much pride had cost him.

Those same mistakes, he couldn't make them again. Even while he was caught in this odd cycle of... whatever it was. He'd learned that lesson by now, hadn't he? But it was harder not to just draw in on himself, bar the rest of the world to keep it at bay. It wouldn't do him any good. That wasn't strength. It was cowardice, and Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko would not be a coward. With a sigh, he flopped back onto a bed that wasn't his and glowered at the ceiling. All right. He could do this. Not that he actually had a choice.

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Also, I've just noticed that you have a strict policy on telepathy. Although Kevin is not a telepath himself, I'm perfectly fine with capping or blocking all his mental tricks (or any other ability).

Edited 2014-05-04 23:36 (UTC)

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As far as the mental tricks - we'll be powercapping either 4 or 5 of Kevin's powers. Powers 2, 8, & 9 will be capped, but you may pick up to 3 skills off our list of Telepathic Network Skills to replace them. Power 14 will be capped, and you may choose one skill off of the Liminal Skills list to replace it.

The one we're confused about is #11. 'Not being trapped by the concept of time' could simple be a metaphor or a way of understanding the world, and not necessarily subject to capping. It could be a means of extrasensory perception, and treated as a telepathic skill. It could be some means of cross-dimensional perception, and treated as a Liminal Skill! The ambiguous wording makes it very tricky.

Our default decision would be to cap it, and give you the option of selecting another skill from either the Telepathic or Liminal Skill lists, but what we do with it is open to discussion if you have a preference.

Once you've chosen your skills, be sure to report them on the Acquired Skills page.

Edited 2014-05-05 00:15 (UTC)

Because we have a strict rule about capping various telepathic powers or extrasensory perceptions, we'll be capping his ability to perceive the sould of Akuma. However, in compensation, he can select one free Telepathic Network Skill and report it on the Acquired Skills page. If you feel we're misinterpreting the nature of this power, please let us know.

Also, as the app is written, we're assuming that being the owner of Noah's Ark wouldn't give him any special ability to access it in-game. If he has a specific canon ability that would imply he could still do so, let us know!

Hello, thanks for applying! Your application looks great so far, we just have some requests before finishing our decision, if you don't mind.

expansion on Helena's personality

a second first person sample

Oh, thank you!

For Telepathic skills, I'd choose sensory livestreaming, psychic protection and sensory eavesdropping. As for Liminal Skills, I'd go for Stationary Portal Creation, if that is okay.

Haha, yeah. #11 is a weird one. Since the wording is ambiguous and canon is not very clear about what it means yet, we could keep it as a metaphor until the authors decide what to do with ( I wouldn't do anything with it either). If you prefer to cap right away, I would say it feels more like a Liminal Skill, since the source material the authors are basing their story on (the Kabbalah, the Golden Dawn and other occultist systems) sometimes states that angels exist outside time.

Let's keep it as a metaphor for now, then, and you can update us as canon updates.

Those are fine skill choices! Be sure to report them on the Acquired Skills pages itself; we try to keep all our record-keeping in one place for ease of reference.

Oh, it's not a problem, of course!

The fact still stands that Helena's been largely isolated for the entirety of her life, and as such, 'feral' has been a descriptor of her. It's not a necessarily inaccurate one. She doesn't quite know how to act "normal" around people, as evidenced by the few times she has ventured outside of her small circle of acquaintances on the show. People tend to not be thorough, three-dimensional humans to her - they're more just things to be tested. She doesn't think of consequences to her actions very much. She just plays with them.

It's more out of fascination than anything. She enters a police station dressed as Elizabeth Childs, playing her role and acting like what she thinks a cop would be like, barking orders and reveling in the feeling of being behind a desk, even rearranging the pictures on a victim's case file so that the body parts of her kill are built into a person again. She makes a paper fortune teller for a little boy after she stitches herself up and leaves blood streaked all over his bathroom, plays with him and talks with him (she identifies herself to him as an "angry angel" at the time) even as she's severely injured. She even dances at a club surrounded by other people, and there's an abandon to the way she does it.

It's not that Helena doesn't like people, in which case, or even that she doesn't want to interact with them; she just doesn't necessarily know how to do it beyond the juvenile sort of flippancy she has for so many other things. She still has her manners (she apologizes when she burps, she uses 'please' and 'thank you', she excuses herself for getting blood all over the floor in a hospital even when she's got a bullet in her), and she's still got that warped concept of treating others the way she'd like to be treated, it's just that she's got a very stilted idea of affection because of her years of abuse.

That ended up longer than I meant for it to, sorry about that! ~~one paragraph my ass, right~~

As for the sample, is there anything in particular that you're looking for? A network post sort of deal or some kind of interaction with an NPC to get a feel for how she acts around people?

Thank you! Doing that now.

Hello! (and goodness, never be sorry for length!)

A network post would be great such as how she would generally address the other travelers when using the telepathic network to communicate with them or her reaction to the ending of a jaunt/investigation or even the beginning of one, for example, but it doesn't have to be in game, either. We're not going to be particularly picky on the subject matter so long as it's more her mannerisms towards others/more outward speaking rather than introspection since you've already demonstrated that very well. Alternatively, if you're having difficultly thinking of something to properly convey what you'd like, I can direct you to the Test Drive and thread a situation with you, if all else fails!

Okay! Sounds good. I hope this sample works in lieu of the other one! If this isn't long enough (though Helena does tend to be short-spoken!) or something, I'd be glad to thread something on the Test Drive itself, but! For now, using Prompt #9 from the Test Drive:

I have found a baby bunny.

[ Found, snared, they're one in the same. There's a gap in time while she considers the condition of the rabbit before she projects again, admits almost flippantly: ] She's mostly dead. Her neck is broken, the sweet thing. Yet she breathes and she hops. She is afraid of herself because of it. Poor baby bunny.

[ Someone, apparently, can speak dead rabbit. Or she seems to think so, at least, going quiet as she tries to stroke admittedly ragged (and probably damn stanky) fur. ]

You would like your mother, wouldn't you? You would hide away in your home and forget this treacherous day, yes? Snap the string, creature. Resist. No?

Then what shall I name the beautiful baby bunny?

- cheers!

Sgt. James Barnes is the only howling commando to give his life for his country

[Ed note- Hi! I'm sorry about this, I'm on a google chrome book and trying to copy and paste and drag things is difficult with my mouse pad. I hope this is okay!]

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You app seems to be locked, so we cannot read it :-(

Should be unlocked now! So embarassed rn you do not even know

happens to us all sometimes!

Reign over the frozen heavens.

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