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May. 17th, 2012 03:35 pm
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Other Characters Played: Mirai Wakaba ([personal profile] burdenbearing, Puella Magi Kazumi Magica). Also applying for Elizabeth Middleford from Kuroshitsuji.

Housing: 1487 Kramden Road.

Character Name: Yuuko Kanoe (also known as “Yuuko-san”)
Character Series: Tasogare Otome X Amneisa / Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Character Age: She appears to be fifteen, as she looked in life, but she’s actually been around for 85 years.
Background: Yuuko Kanoe’s life is mostly shrouded in mystery, as Yuuko herself remembers almost nothing of it. The plot of the series chronicles the attempts to uncover what happened to cause her death.

Yuuko died at fifteen years old. She was killed as a sacrificial lamb to stop a plague in the early 1950’s and slowly starved to death in a cave-like room underneath her middle school. The way she died drove her to such malice and madness that once she became a ghost, Yuuko divided herself in two. One part contained all of her memories, up to and including her death. This is “Shadow Yuuko”, who continued to exist within the school, ignored by even her other half. Normal Yuuko, without the burden of these memories, continued on as a peaceful and lonely girl, invisible to most people and never leaving the school.

After approximately sixty years of this, a new student got lost in the old school building. He saw Yuuko in a mirror, and when Yuuko realized he could see her and wasn’t afraid, she acted as though she was just another student. She wanted him to treat her like a normal person for as long as possible. When she finally revealed herself as a ghost, she knew it would end badly, for all those who knew her nature began to let their fear affect how they viewed her, seeing a monstrous spirit.

However, this person did not begin to fear her. In fact, he wanted to be her companion and continued to see her as she had been in life. The boy, named Teiichi Niiya, decided to uncover the truth of her death by untangling the rumors of it that had turned into the school’s seven mysteries. Yuuko agreed to this, even though she did not really care about her life, because she wanted Teiichi to care and to keep paying attention to her for as long as possible.

Yuuko had long forgotten about her Shadow, but as Teiichi and the rest of the Paranormal Investigations Club (of which Yuuko declared herself president and included Yuuko’s grandniece, Kirie) continued to unbury long hidden secrets and rumors (along with Yuuko’s body and a working theory about her being a sacrifice), the Shadow returned to haunt Yuuko. As her past began to come to light, the Shadow had decided it was time to become one being again. She had grown tired of being alone in her madness and ugliness. The Yuuko without those memories continued to reject the Shadow, however. The first time she thought she was prepared to take the memories back, the one glimpse she saw scared her to her core. She was too afraid to see more, and she was not ready to give up the fun times she had with Teiichi, who she had come to love, to either madness or the after life. Yuuko, who both could not stand to lose Teiichi but could not bare to see him and explain her own failure, hid from him until she worked up the courage to try and follow him out of the school. From here, chapter 30, is where Yuuko will be taken to Mayfield.

Personality: Yuuko is, simply put, a very lonely ghost. She died at age 15 in an underground room of her school and has never left. For decades, the only interaction she had with people was with the occasional student, who almost universally saw her as a monstrous spirit and avoided her. As such, when people can see her for what she is, she finds herself hanging around them as much as possible, especially because she doesn’t sleep and has no real way of occupying her time other than speaking to these people. Yuuko tries to protect the people of the school as much as she can, as well. The mysteries of the school (based on accounts of Yuuko’s death) can cause such fear in people that it sometimes comes to violence. Yuuko blames herself a bit for that, and attempts to mitigate the damage by taking the blame for human misdeeds as the school’s ghost.

She enjoys the company of people very much, and even when they cannot see or hear her, she will speak to them as if they can and touch them. In a way, her isolation has made her into a rather clingy person.

On the subject of touching, Yuuko is a very physical sort of person. She hangs over people’s shoulders, sits uncomfortably close to them when there’s room enough for her to move over, and will rest her head in their lap or have them do the same in hers. Yuuko’s sense of personal space is almost non-existent, and she feels no shame or annoyance at people touching her spiritual body, even on her chest. As the body is not made of actual flesh, no matter how real it looks and feels, she doesn’t feel any need to feel embarrassed if someone sees her naked, either. Her actual corpse, of the other hand, she can’t stand being looked at even though it’s not much more than bones. To Yuuko, that’s about as naked as a person can truly get.

She particularly enjoys teasing people, especially those she takes an interest in. Such teasing has many different forms. Yuuko may simply show up in someone’s classroom, knowing only they can see her so she can surprise them and distract them in class. She may also decide to physically harass them by leaning on them and hugging them. She takes delight in occasionally telling people they’re in mortal danger when she’s bored or pretending to kiss them, as well. She’s the kind of girl who finds it funny when people get mad at her jokes, since it means they’re acknowledging her presence.

Yuuko has her dark side as well, however, even if she usually hides it beneath teasing and flirting. Yuuko cannot remember the events of her life or her death. All she knows is her existence as a ghost, which is something she chose, showing that she’s willing to trade large pieces of her life in order to maintain peace of mind. Her death was so traumatic and maddened her so much that Yuuko deliberately forgot all of this, and her fear of the memories ever returning can overwhelm her to the point that she’ll avoid even the boy she loves and who sees her as she truly is to hide from the possibility. After all, the status quo where no one has discovered much of her life has served her well so far, and she knows she forgot all of that on purpose. She’s too frightened of the truth to accept those memories back. For all of Yuuko’s cheeriness and apparent acceptance of her death, Yuuko is just as scared of it as any living human.

Abilities: Yuuko is the spirit of a girl who has been dead for sixty years. Because of this, she has a few unique traits. None of these are directly controlled by her, however.

* She is usually invisible to most people, save for a select few. Ordinary people can see her if they believe there is something to be seen, usually something scary. (It is not fully explained how and why certain people can see her. I’m interpreting to be a strong spiritual sense or ability.) However, she is not entirely intangible: even if one cannot see or touch her, she can still interact physically with the world around that person. People can also hear her, if they expect to hear something. (For example, if a person is telling a group a something and Yuuko speaks, the original person can hear her as if it were a member of the group they can see.)

* Her appearance is based on individual perception. While it’s possible for one to see her as she actually appeared in life, a pretty Japanese girl, it’s quite rare, as people are usually scared of ghosts. For example, to some people, she appears as a rotting corpse or as an intimidating figure with wild hair and a face hidden in shadow.

* She doesn’t age and cannot be killed, as she’s already dead. She also has no need to eat or sleep.

* Particularly bad memories or traumatic experiences can be cast off, giving Yuuko a kind of amnesia. The memories do not disappear, though: they collectively form a separate being known as “Shadow Yuuko”, which has its own awareness and understands that it is the unwanted memories of Yuuko.

Aside from these, Yuuko claims that if a normal person can’t do it, neither can she.

Sample Entry: A thread here and a post at dear_mun.

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