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Player: Shikki
Contact: fetchmodus @ plurk
Age: 23
Current Characters: N/A
Character: Shuri Oak
Age: 16
Canon: 07GHOST
Canon Point: Directly after Antwort
Background: Wiki link.
Personality:
Charismatic, charming, attractive, popular - Shuri's got the makings of a protagonist in a shoujo manga. Indeed, Shuri is an impressive specimen. He's calm and charismatic, attracting all the attention in the room when he walks in. He's capable of giving great inspirational speeches and stirring people, and has a great many followers in school. He tests we ll, he's skilled in magic, he's at the top of all his classes - certainly this must mean he's absolutely brimming with excellent qualities!
While you'd think that at first, Shuri's Golden Boy persona is rather tarnished and this quickly becomes painfully apparent if you are not at or above his current social standing. That kind, handsome face twists into a sneer when he lays eyes on any person who he feels threatened by or feels is beneath him. Teito Klein is one such example, and is the source of much contempt and frustration. Though equal (and most likely above) him in skill, Teito's background as a slave is not something that Shuri can overlook. Indeed, his shallow personality prevents him from even attempting to befriend the boy and he instead ridicules him constantly. Mikage too, when the other boy decided to befriend the taciturn boy. Being in a very highschool like setting, Shuri's attitude never really earned him any real bad reputation from any of the people around him, nor was ever reprimanded, and considering High Society, never really grasped what empathy really meant. He's completely full of himself, in a constant state of bliss and pride and complete ignorance of people's feelings. He's very casual and fails to speak respectfully to those superior to him (something that shocked the Black Hawks), but at least displayed a willingness to serve.
Image is everything, after all.
As the son of a wealthy, noble military family, he's always been surrounded by people willing to do whatever it takes to please him. If he did wrong? There was always someone to clean up the mess and pat him on the back. He was coddled and protected all his life, spoiled rotten, loved whole-heartedly and never suffered a day in his life. Shuri is nothing if not a dutiful son who followed his father's every order without question. And Shuri is very much a Daddy's boy - a useless one at that - and follows all of his father's orders unquestioningly and with perfect trust. His resolve in battle is weak, at best, and one might wonder if this is because he's never really ever had to decide what he's fighting for or do anything other than score perfect grades.
Rich, studious, strong and bustling with energy, he could pass for a hero fighting valiantly against evil! And with such perfect grades in school, one must expect him to be a powerhouse of a fighter! It's debatable as to how strong he actually is, as his weak resolve makes him a coward in battle. There's a good chance that the boy had never seen a dead body before his first battle - his reaction to it was so strong that he ended up in a state of hysteria and cried on Konatsu's shoulder when the danger had passed. Shuri's greatest fault is how sheltered he has been. He doesn't want to die as he has everything to live for, and without being willing to lay down his life in order to accomplish something he does not have what it takes to be anything in the military.
Despite all of this, Shuri is not a bad person. Though he's rude, intolerant, and often classist towards Teito Klein, much of it comes from the fact that it was how he was brought up. This, combined with how much he hates the spotlight being taken away from him, culminates in Shuri doing all he can to harass Teito. Considering that Shuri and Mikage were also quite close as children, Shuri was extremely jealous of the close friendship Teito and Mikage began to share. No matter what he did, he could never get what they had - and his attempts to drive them apart only alienated Mikage from him. Shuri deals with negativity poorly and is shown time and time again to fail to find the proper outlet for his feelings, especially when surrounded by other people he is meant to impress. He shows his affection to people he considers on his level the same way he shows his ire - through insults, false modesty, and passive-aggressive jibs. To people he considers above him, he is nothing but eager to please and constantly praising them for even the smallest accomplishments.
Shuri is also not nearly as weak as some may think. Though emotionally dependent on his father and devastated by his loss, Shuri is capable of recovering and appearing in the public eye very shortly after his funeral (although, it seems that he needed more than a few glasses of wine to cope with why he was there in the first place). He also displays a surprising level of self-awareness - when listing off the traits he wanted in an ideal woman, he mentioned that he would like her to be "even stupider than he is" so as to look better in comparison, or at least not as bad as he currently does. He is capable of playing his cards close to his chest, as he remains civil to all of the people at his father's funeral and only thinks poorly of them in his own head.
While still trying to find his way, Shuri is a good person at heart. All he wants is to be appreciated (and praised!) and to be looked upon with fondness and kindness.
Abilities:
Zaiphon. The wiki gives a pretty good rundown of what exactly it is, but I'll explain in a slightly more concise way. Zaiphon is emotion channeled into physical manifestations of power. It can take many different forms, but Shuri's (while not shown, is strongly implied to be) the attacking type. This means he's able to channel his thoughts and feelings into a weapon, which manifests itself as a ring of glowing blue words.
Shuri also has had extensive military training and is said to have excelled in simulated battles, although the real thing causes him to freeze and panic. He's in fit condition and seems to have some skill with both his zaiphon and a sword.
Alignment: [Choose from one of the following: Aiada, Daimonia, Elios, Peromei, Piphron, Sosyne, or Thras. Refer to the proper info page for more information and be sure to include a very brief reason why you chose the alignment.]
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