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OOC:
Name: Nao
Age: 27
Timezone: EST
Reserve link: here!
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IC:
Name: Yoshikage Kira
Age: 33
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
History: Wiki link
Canon Point: Mid-episode 22, 'Yoshikage Kira Wants to Live Quietly, Part 2' | Episode 39, 'Goodbye, Morioh Town - The Golden Heart'
Memories:
- Kira and Sheer Heart Attack vs Koichi Hirose.
- Kira vs. Jotaro, or why 'nice watch' is a terrible one-liner.
- Kosaku Kawajiri is definitely not suspicious.
- Meet new and interesting people. Then kill them.
- Kira vs. Jotaro round 2, with an assist from an ambulance.
- no really you do not get deader than yoshikage kira
Material Regains:
Stray Cat - A potted plant with the mind, personality, and behavior of a cat. Likes tuna, but hates oranges.
Nail clippers - Plain, metal, and exactly what it says on the tin.
Sheer Heart Attack - A vinyl copy of the actual Queen album.
Sandwich (renewable) - Tomato, lettuce, and croquette sandwich, in a helpfully portable bag.
The Art of Leonardo da Vinci - A book about art, including the Mona Lisa.
Basic alignment: It's difficult to place--everything Kira does no matter how terrible is, in his mind, 100% geared towards preserving a peaceful life for himself. A peaceful life where he regularly kills women with nice hands, as well as anyone who might potentially blow his cover. (No pun intended.) All things considered, I would probably put him on the scale around Neutral Evil--he's a self-serving, murderous, all-around awful person, and he's so self-centered that everyone else is the antagonist in his mind, preventing him from living his quiet life.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Fastidious and precise, Yoshikage Kira is a creature of habit above all else. His routine is planned to the letter without fail, keeping himself in excellent health to the most minute detail of even measuring the rate of his fingernails' growth. (When his routine is disrupted in any manner he deems significant, Kira's only apparent way to vent or display his frustration is to bite his nails, often until drawing blood.) Kira's attention to detail borders sharply on the (unconfirmed) obsessive-compulsive, with everything he does while out in public carefully geared towards being as unremarkable and ordinary as a person can possibly be.
His obsessive nature, however, has nothing whatsoever to do with what makes him a real threat: his murderous tendencies paired with a complete disregard for people who are not Yoshikage Kira. He doesn't kill women because of any moral reasoning and feels no guilt over it; he does it because it's what he enjoys, and he also kills anyone else that might threaten his ability to enjoy himself solely to avoid complications. Even his victims themselves are incidental; all he actually cares about are their hands, and has absolutely no interest in the women themselves.
The first time he's completely cornered by the protagonists, Kira just about immediately forces Aya Tsuji, another Stand user to switch his face with that of Kosaku Kawajiri, a completely uninvolved bystander. Following that, he kills both Aya and Kosaku. In a move that would make Nicolas Cage proud, he assimilates into his new life with an (unsuspecting) wife Shinobu and (very suspecting) son Hayato, all while viewing the whole thing as no more than a massive inconvenience he clearly thinks he does not remotely deserve. He deflects blame onto everything and everyone but himself, because Yoshikage Kira is a proper and composed person who just happens to have been born with a preference for killing women and carrying around disembodied hands. In his mind, this is a completely normal thing and everyone else needs to leave him alone, thank you very much.
That leads into his most massive, glaring, and ultimately fatal flaw: overconfidence. Kira's ego is the size of Queen's fanbase (he wears his Stand's motif on his tie for god's sake), and he is entirely convinced he has done/continues to do nothing wrong whatsoever. More specifically, he becomes so overconfident that he drops his guard, occasionally audibly monologuing on his own plans and ultimately giving himself away in accidental earshot of the main protagonist. When he does end up cornered in such situations, Kira drops his pleasant and sophisticated demeanor in an instant and instead reveals himself to be brutally violent, taking out his anger on whatever Stand user or ordinary person he sees as being the cause of his problems before either blowing them up, finding an escape route, or both.
Skills and Abilities: At first, Kira seems aggressively average in nearly every possible aspect. He never ranked above third place in any kind of competition as a child, but the trick is that this is not due to a lack of ability. Kira detests being noticed or standing out, and avoids seeming remarkable as much as he can. Despite this he is intelligent for the most part, though no more than a relatively smart human; there's no superhuman intellect here, trust me. His obsessive tendencies lead to having an excellent eye for details, though usually only when things are out of place or register as incorrect: for example if someone's socks are inside-out. At which point he has to stop and make sure that gets fixed, otherwise he can't concentrate.
Additionally, though not an explicit ability is the fact that fate is very literally working in his favor almost constantly. In the JJBA universe, fate itself is a very real force acting constantly on the cast at large--when Kira starts getting backed into a corner, one thing or another causes the situation to be turned in his favor: right down to the development of Bites The Dust due to being accidentally stabbed with a Stand-granting arrow.
This ability works until it does not. At the end karma takes a sharp 180 and Kira gets run over by an ambulance. I wish I was joking.
What is actively superhuman (though completely irrelevant for murdergame purposes) about Kira is his Stand, Killer Queen. Essentially, its abilities are perfectly geared towards murder with no evidence left behind; it can turn people, objects, or even air bubbles into bombs that blow up Kira's victims directly or with the autonomous tank Sheer Heart Attack, leaving no trace behind. Addtionally, when he's completely cornered it develops the third ability 'Bites The Dust', which causes anyone that discovers Yoshikage Kira's identity (through asking Hayato Kawajiri) to explode and the day to rewind to that morning so that Kira can evade whoever might be after him.
It is, very literally, guaranteed to blow your mind.
Motives: Kira would (and has) literally killed people because a) they were annoying in his general vicinity or b) he liked their manicure. Sometimes both. But the best motive for murder when it comes to him is to threaten his appearance as an ordinary person. So much as hint that he might be up to no good or even vaguely considering murder, and the literal fireworks will start as soon as he's cornered.
Sample: test drive!
Plot Involvement:
Would you prefer that your character be a victim, a culprit, or do you have no preference? i legitimately am here to blow someone up given the opportunity.
Would you like to volunteer to have your character killed off? [laughs]
Would you be willing to have your character be a mole or a killswitch? i mean sure i could talk to myself if you want but that seems less than desirable for all involved
Name: Nao
Age: 27
Timezone: EST
Reserve link: here!
OOC Contact:
Name: Yoshikage Kira
Age: 33
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
History: Wiki link
Canon Point: Mid-episode 22, 'Yoshikage Kira Wants to Live Quietly, Part 2' | Episode 39, 'Goodbye, Morioh Town - The Golden Heart'
Memories:
- Kira and Sheer Heart Attack vs Koichi Hirose.
- Kira vs. Jotaro, or why 'nice watch' is a terrible one-liner.
- Kosaku Kawajiri is definitely not suspicious.
- Meet new and interesting people. Then kill them.
- Kira vs. Jotaro round 2, with an assist from an ambulance.
- no really you do not get deader than yoshikage kira
Material Regains:
Stray Cat - A potted plant with the mind, personality, and behavior of a cat. Likes tuna, but hates oranges.
Nail clippers - Plain, metal, and exactly what it says on the tin.
Sheer Heart Attack - A vinyl copy of the actual Queen album.
Sandwich (renewable) - Tomato, lettuce, and croquette sandwich, in a helpfully portable bag.
The Art of Leonardo da Vinci - A book about art, including the Mona Lisa.
Basic alignment: It's difficult to place--everything Kira does no matter how terrible is, in his mind, 100% geared towards preserving a peaceful life for himself. A peaceful life where he regularly kills women with nice hands, as well as anyone who might potentially blow his cover. (No pun intended.) All things considered, I would probably put him on the scale around Neutral Evil--he's a self-serving, murderous, all-around awful person, and he's so self-centered that everyone else is the antagonist in his mind, preventing him from living his quiet life.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Fastidious and precise, Yoshikage Kira is a creature of habit above all else. His routine is planned to the letter without fail, keeping himself in excellent health to the most minute detail of even measuring the rate of his fingernails' growth. (When his routine is disrupted in any manner he deems significant, Kira's only apparent way to vent or display his frustration is to bite his nails, often until drawing blood.) Kira's attention to detail borders sharply on the (unconfirmed) obsessive-compulsive, with everything he does while out in public carefully geared towards being as unremarkable and ordinary as a person can possibly be.
His obsessive nature, however, has nothing whatsoever to do with what makes him a real threat: his murderous tendencies paired with a complete disregard for people who are not Yoshikage Kira. He doesn't kill women because of any moral reasoning and feels no guilt over it; he does it because it's what he enjoys, and he also kills anyone else that might threaten his ability to enjoy himself solely to avoid complications. Even his victims themselves are incidental; all he actually cares about are their hands, and has absolutely no interest in the women themselves.
The first time he's completely cornered by the protagonists, Kira just about immediately forces Aya Tsuji, another Stand user to switch his face with that of Kosaku Kawajiri, a completely uninvolved bystander. Following that, he kills both Aya and Kosaku. In a move that would make Nicolas Cage proud, he assimilates into his new life with an (unsuspecting) wife Shinobu and (very suspecting) son Hayato, all while viewing the whole thing as no more than a massive inconvenience he clearly thinks he does not remotely deserve. He deflects blame onto everything and everyone but himself, because Yoshikage Kira is a proper and composed person who just happens to have been born with a preference for killing women and carrying around disembodied hands. In his mind, this is a completely normal thing and everyone else needs to leave him alone, thank you very much.
That leads into his most massive, glaring, and ultimately fatal flaw: overconfidence. Kira's ego is the size of Queen's fanbase (he wears his Stand's motif on his tie for god's sake), and he is entirely convinced he has done/continues to do nothing wrong whatsoever. More specifically, he becomes so overconfident that he drops his guard, occasionally audibly monologuing on his own plans and ultimately giving himself away in accidental earshot of the main protagonist. When he does end up cornered in such situations, Kira drops his pleasant and sophisticated demeanor in an instant and instead reveals himself to be brutally violent, taking out his anger on whatever Stand user or ordinary person he sees as being the cause of his problems before either blowing them up, finding an escape route, or both.
Skills and Abilities: At first, Kira seems aggressively average in nearly every possible aspect. He never ranked above third place in any kind of competition as a child, but the trick is that this is not due to a lack of ability. Kira detests being noticed or standing out, and avoids seeming remarkable as much as he can. Despite this he is intelligent for the most part, though no more than a relatively smart human; there's no superhuman intellect here, trust me. His obsessive tendencies lead to having an excellent eye for details, though usually only when things are out of place or register as incorrect: for example if someone's socks are inside-out. At which point he has to stop and make sure that gets fixed, otherwise he can't concentrate.
Additionally, though not an explicit ability is the fact that fate is very literally working in his favor almost constantly. In the JJBA universe, fate itself is a very real force acting constantly on the cast at large--when Kira starts getting backed into a corner, one thing or another causes the situation to be turned in his favor: right down to the development of Bites The Dust due to being accidentally stabbed with a Stand-granting arrow.
This ability works until it does not. At the end karma takes a sharp 180 and Kira gets run over by an ambulance. I wish I was joking.
What is actively superhuman (though completely irrelevant for murdergame purposes) about Kira is his Stand, Killer Queen. Essentially, its abilities are perfectly geared towards murder with no evidence left behind; it can turn people, objects, or even air bubbles into bombs that blow up Kira's victims directly or with the autonomous tank Sheer Heart Attack, leaving no trace behind. Addtionally, when he's completely cornered it develops the third ability 'Bites The Dust', which causes anyone that discovers Yoshikage Kira's identity (through asking Hayato Kawajiri) to explode and the day to rewind to that morning so that Kira can evade whoever might be after him.
It is, very literally, guaranteed to blow your mind.
Motives: Kira would (and has) literally killed people because a) they were annoying in his general vicinity or b) he liked their manicure. Sometimes both. But the best motive for murder when it comes to him is to threaten his appearance as an ordinary person. So much as hint that he might be up to no good or even vaguely considering murder, and the literal fireworks will start as soon as he's cornered.
Sample: test drive!
Would you prefer that your character be a victim, a culprit, or do you have no preference? i legitimately am here to blow someone up given the opportunity.
Would you like to volunteer to have your character killed off? [laughs]
Would you be willing to have your character be a mole or a killswitch? i mean sure i could talk to myself if you want but that seems less than desirable for all involved