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Name: Nerdo
IM Contact (Plurk/AIM preferred): AIM Nerdorama09
Personal Journal (optional):nerdorama. If you're PMing me, feel free to use thousand_curses if that's more convenient.
Are you okay with Canon Puncturing in regards to your character? (Having your character be told they are fictional IC)? Yes, but as a god (and an endboss), she's liable to just be smug about it.
Status Screen (Character Info)
Name: Izanami-no-Okami aka Izanami-no-Mikoto aka 伊弉冉尊
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (post-True End)
Title: Shadow Goddess
Background: Original myth, Persona 4 spoilers. Watch the OVA already!
Personality: Gods are difficult for mortals to comprehend. They have a far longer and more detached view of the world, in general, and Izanami disconnects herself further through layers of emotional masks and physical illusions, making her even less comprehensible. Very much a secretive being, she keeps her real feelings and motivations played extremely close to the chest. On the surface, she can appear to be a dutiful custodian of human souls, a wise figure of mystic knowledge, a mocking schemer, or any of a dozen other things, depending on how she wants to be perceived. In addition to death, she's a deity of fog and illusion, and happily hides herself behind veils of all sorts. After all, anyone who sees her truly is likely to go mad. Or at least vomit.
Regardless of the basis of the deception, Izanami is first and foremost a liar and a masterful manipulator in her interactions with other people, and keeps her own desires hidden. This applies whether she's speaking to mortals or other spiritual beings. When her illusions are stripped away, she becomes steadily angrier. Both her nature as a deceiver and the hideousness of her true form can bring her to violent rage when found out and pressed - the truth is almost anathema to her, despite the fact that she's convinced of a "truth" about others. She shows this rarely, however - as expressed repeatedly, she is extremely good at concealing the truth. That doesn't mean, however, that she exists only to lie...
Over the course of her most recent interaction with humans, she shows herself to be a "benevolent" god - in a cracked way that only the detached and immortal can be. Despite her death and ostracization as a representation of all things humankind considers unclean - or more likely, because of a combination of that and passive-aggressive irony - she put a great deal of effort into a complex plan to give humanking its "desires". Specifically, desires Izanami saw and judged mankind for: the desire for self-delusion and removing the boundary of image and reality, and the conflicting desires to hide oneself away and to know the true self of people around them. In her investigation and off-hand "game" to grant these desires by manipulating humans, she shows both a terrific skill in concealing herself and working through proxies as well as a fascination with humanity and its future that contrasts with her divine arrogance. In the end, she insists that she only sought to give mankind what it (on average) desired - a world without individual ego or connection to others, where we were all reduced to Jungian Shadow archetypes - and yet still congratulates the heroes proudly when they stop her. For all her assertions of divine supremacy and her adopted role of death god (and self-proclaimed role as judge), it still seems she can have a proud moment when her wayward "children" stand up to her successfully, and take those painful steps toward enlightenment. Every step of the way when she's foiled, she still seems happy about it., but in the end, she seems to accept the results of her test regardless of whether she or the upstart protagonists are proven right, indicating that she cared more about learning whether they were growing or stagnating than forcing one or the other.
Evilities:
Fog of Illusion: Izanami can produce creepy supernatural fog that is just about impossible to see through without magical aid if it gets thick enough. In addition to making it hard to see and the nasty psychosomatic effects of people not being able to see each other, the Fog also encourages what people "wish" to believe to come true. Rumors and Shadows become manifest, peoples' "True Selves" pop out when the populace at large becomes interested enough in them (and eventually become boss fights), and towns with no cows or beef importers suddenly develop amazing steak joints.
It takes a very long time for the Fog of Illusion to build up over a wide area, helped by local natural weather patterns, and this would be a plot in and of itself. However, Izanami can also emit/summon a thick bank of it in a small area in a fight, making herself near impossible to hit for a brief period.
Illusionary Self: Related to the Fog of Illusion but deserving its own entry, Izanami can disguise herself as almost anything, and indeed does so almost constantly. As a goddess of not only death, but also denial and self-deception, Izanami has Sousuke Aizen-tier illusionist abilities. Rather than looking at the goddess's true form, whenever you're speaking to her or fighting her, you are almost certainly looking at an illusory projection. She can technically appear as anyone, though she has a few favored forms - an androgynous male gas station attendant she uses as a disguise, a beautiful gray-haired woman in funerary wrappings that she uses as her "avatar" as a goddess, and a floating fully funeral-wrapped female figure she uses to impress or fight seriously. Her True Form is both hideous to behold and gigantic, so be grateful she uses these illusions to communicate with weak-stomached mortals.
One further side effect of this is that when you're looking at Izanami...you're not really looking at Izanami. This makes fighting her without some artifact-tier magical ability to pierce illusions and attack her True Form completely fucking pointless, though for the sake of pretending Disgaea has game balance nuking an illusionary avatar should probably inconvenience her somehow.
Falsified Status Screen: One final adaptation of her ability to shroud the senses and disguise herself that she applies in the Netherworld is the ability to falsify information on her Status Screen when in disguise, generally appearing as "Gas Station Attendant" with a title of "NPC" and negligible other information, or whatever is appropriate to her specific guise. As this is an extension of her ability to fool the senses, anything that would normally see through her illusions would reveal her real Status Screen, as would in theory hacking by a Fourth Wall-aware character.
Magic: Izanami can throw out Omega-tier elemental damage spells of all kinds, including Almighty (which I guess they call Star here) pretty much nonstop. When she goes True Form, this also includes a wide variety of status and debuff magic.
True Form: Izanami-no-Okami herself, the true Goddess and not just the illusions she normally projects herself through, is one of the creator gods of Japan and the ruler of its afterlife. If she fights in her True Form with no illusions, she is essentially a giant undead monstrosity with storyline-endboss-level strength, speed, and magic. She also has the ability to cause random statuses, sap the health of her foes, and if she feels like it just plain declare a mortal opponent dead, no save, unless he has serious plot powers that make him more than just a single mortal (also this might be an illusion - the game's not super clear - but the fact is you're as dead as you think you are). The tradeoff for all of this is that when she's in her True Form, she's not protecting herself with illusionary duplicates and can actually be defeated in a fight. Thus, she is never going to use any of this unless forced to, because getting killed hurts even when you're the god of the dead.
Also, instant death is probably less effective in the Netherworld since reincarnations are a dime a dozen (dood), but it's still within her ability.
Inventory: None. She's a dead god. What does she need stuff for?
Notes: Izanami is powerful, but I honestly don't see her ever fighting at full capacity. Hopefully "balance" isn't a concern in this game, but if it is, I'm willing to accept a nerf like being stuck at humanoid avatar levels of strength (basically crossing off her last Evility up there). This is a crack game, not a PvP contest, after all.
Also she is a walking spoiler for a game that keeps getting new adaptations/rereleases, so let me know if I should cut things or anything.
Sample Post: http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/62036.html
Name: Nerdo
IM Contact (Plurk/AIM preferred): AIM Nerdorama09
Personal Journal (optional):
nerdorama. If you're PMing me, feel free to use thousand_curses if that's more convenient.Are you okay with Canon Puncturing in regards to your character? (Having your character be told they are fictional IC)? Yes, but as a god (and an endboss), she's liable to just be smug about it.
Status Screen (Character Info)
Name: Izanami-no-Okami aka Izanami-no-Mikoto aka 伊弉冉尊
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (post-True End)
Title: Shadow Goddess
Background: Original myth, Persona 4 spoilers. Watch the OVA already!
Personality: Gods are difficult for mortals to comprehend. They have a far longer and more detached view of the world, in general, and Izanami disconnects herself further through layers of emotional masks and physical illusions, making her even less comprehensible. Very much a secretive being, she keeps her real feelings and motivations played extremely close to the chest. On the surface, she can appear to be a dutiful custodian of human souls, a wise figure of mystic knowledge, a mocking schemer, or any of a dozen other things, depending on how she wants to be perceived. In addition to death, she's a deity of fog and illusion, and happily hides herself behind veils of all sorts. After all, anyone who sees her truly is likely to go mad. Or at least vomit.
Regardless of the basis of the deception, Izanami is first and foremost a liar and a masterful manipulator in her interactions with other people, and keeps her own desires hidden. This applies whether she's speaking to mortals or other spiritual beings. When her illusions are stripped away, she becomes steadily angrier. Both her nature as a deceiver and the hideousness of her true form can bring her to violent rage when found out and pressed - the truth is almost anathema to her, despite the fact that she's convinced of a "truth" about others. She shows this rarely, however - as expressed repeatedly, she is extremely good at concealing the truth. That doesn't mean, however, that she exists only to lie...
Over the course of her most recent interaction with humans, she shows herself to be a "benevolent" god - in a cracked way that only the detached and immortal can be. Despite her death and ostracization as a representation of all things humankind considers unclean - or more likely, because of a combination of that and passive-aggressive irony - she put a great deal of effort into a complex plan to give humanking its "desires". Specifically, desires Izanami saw and judged mankind for: the desire for self-delusion and removing the boundary of image and reality, and the conflicting desires to hide oneself away and to know the true self of people around them. In her investigation and off-hand "game" to grant these desires by manipulating humans, she shows both a terrific skill in concealing herself and working through proxies as well as a fascination with humanity and its future that contrasts with her divine arrogance. In the end, she insists that she only sought to give mankind what it (on average) desired - a world without individual ego or connection to others, where we were all reduced to Jungian Shadow archetypes - and yet still congratulates the heroes proudly when they stop her. For all her assertions of divine supremacy and her adopted role of death god (and self-proclaimed role as judge), it still seems she can have a proud moment when her wayward "children" stand up to her successfully, and take those painful steps toward enlightenment. Every step of the way when she's foiled, she still seems happy about it.
Evilities:
Fog of Illusion: Izanami can produce creepy supernatural fog that is just about impossible to see through without magical aid if it gets thick enough. In addition to making it hard to see and the nasty psychosomatic effects of people not being able to see each other, the Fog also encourages what people "wish" to believe to come true. Rumors and Shadows become manifest, peoples' "True Selves" pop out when the populace at large becomes interested enough in them (and eventually become boss fights), and towns with no cows or beef importers suddenly develop amazing steak joints.
It takes a very long time for the Fog of Illusion to build up over a wide area, helped by local natural weather patterns, and this would be a plot in and of itself. However, Izanami can also emit/summon a thick bank of it in a small area in a fight, making herself near impossible to hit for a brief period.
Illusionary Self: Related to the Fog of Illusion but deserving its own entry, Izanami can disguise herself as almost anything, and indeed does so almost constantly. As a goddess of not only death, but also denial and self-deception, Izanami has Sousuke Aizen-tier illusionist abilities. Rather than looking at the goddess's true form, whenever you're speaking to her or fighting her, you are almost certainly looking at an illusory projection. She can technically appear as anyone, though she has a few favored forms - an androgynous male gas station attendant she uses as a disguise, a beautiful gray-haired woman in funerary wrappings that she uses as her "avatar" as a goddess, and a floating fully funeral-wrapped female figure she uses to impress or fight seriously. Her True Form is both hideous to behold and gigantic, so be grateful she uses these illusions to communicate with weak-stomached mortals.
One further side effect of this is that when you're looking at Izanami...you're not really looking at Izanami. This makes fighting her without some artifact-tier magical ability to pierce illusions and attack her True Form completely fucking pointless, though for the sake of pretending Disgaea has game balance nuking an illusionary avatar should probably inconvenience her somehow.
Falsified Status Screen: One final adaptation of her ability to shroud the senses and disguise herself that she applies in the Netherworld is the ability to falsify information on her Status Screen when in disguise, generally appearing as "Gas Station Attendant" with a title of "NPC" and negligible other information, or whatever is appropriate to her specific guise. As this is an extension of her ability to fool the senses, anything that would normally see through her illusions would reveal her real Status Screen, as would in theory hacking by a Fourth Wall-aware character.
Magic: Izanami can throw out Omega-tier elemental damage spells of all kinds, including Almighty (which I guess they call Star here) pretty much nonstop. When she goes True Form, this also includes a wide variety of status and debuff magic.
True Form: Izanami-no-Okami herself, the true Goddess and not just the illusions she normally projects herself through, is one of the creator gods of Japan and the ruler of its afterlife. If she fights in her True Form with no illusions, she is essentially a giant undead monstrosity with storyline-endboss-level strength, speed, and magic. She also has the ability to cause random statuses, sap the health of her foes, and if she feels like it just plain declare a mortal opponent dead, no save, unless he has serious plot powers that make him more than just a single mortal (also this might be an illusion - the game's not super clear - but the fact is you're as dead as you think you are). The tradeoff for all of this is that when she's in her True Form, she's not protecting herself with illusionary duplicates and can actually be defeated in a fight. Thus, she is never going to use any of this unless forced to, because getting killed hurts even when you're the god of the dead.
Also, instant death is probably less effective in the Netherworld since reincarnations are a dime a dozen (dood), but it's still within her ability.
Inventory: None. She's a dead god. What does she need stuff for?
Notes: Izanami is powerful, but I honestly don't see her ever fighting at full capacity. Hopefully "balance" isn't a concern in this game, but if it is, I'm willing to accept a nerf like being stuck at humanoid avatar levels of strength (basically crossing off her last Evility up there). This is a crack game, not a PvP contest, after all.
Also she is a walking spoiler for a game that keeps getting new adaptations/rereleases, so let me know if I should cut things or anything.
Sample Post: http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/62036.html
