Carvaka App
Oct. 2nd, 2015 02:24 amAPPLICATION
▸PLAYER
Name: McGwiggles
Means of Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
McGwiggles, or AIM, where my username is also McGwiggles
Age: (You must be 18+ to enter.) 22
Other Characters Played: None!
▸CHARACTER
Name: Rin Tezuka
Journal:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sleeveknots
Canon: Katawa Shoujo
Age: 18
Canon Point: Rin's Route, after being told about the gallery by Nomiya and encouraged by Hisao.
Background Information:
Rin is a girl born with two seriously malformed arms as the result of genetic phocomelia, which required both of her arms to be amputated just below the shoulder in infancy. (The game's concept art described her as a 'thalidomide baby' but because the game doesn't take place in a time period where thalidomide could have/would have been prescribed to a pregnant woman, it seems much more plausible that she had a genetic version of phocomelia, which was the condition that thalidomide was known to cause).
Rin was something of an odd child growing up, but fortunately her parents seem to have been supportive of her and her endeavors. As soon as she was able to pick up a pen (with her feet, obviously), she started drawing and never really stopped. She took to art like a fish to water, and although she often had difficulties translating her thoughts into words, art made it easier to communicate how she felt into a medium that other people could easily experience.
As she grew older, she had a fairly average school life, with her interests leaning heavily toward the arts. While one might think that her lack of arms would be a debilitating disability, it was the only way that Rin had ever known how to live. And while there were certain things that she struggled with (buttoning up shirts, and peeling oranges, for example), it was something she was used to and there wasn't a lot she really struggled with.
When it came time for her to go to high school, Rin was offered the chance to go to a public high school, or to stay in a school for students with disabilities. Rin was confident enough in her ability to function (both as a student and as an artist) that she had little doubts that she could do well in a public high school. Still, she opted to stay in a school for students with disabilities instead. One of her many eccentricities was “collecting people,” it seems, and Rin was interested in meeting the unique sorts of students that went to Yamaku High.
When she joined, she was placed in a room with one Emi Ibarazaki – an extroverted girl whose lower legs had been amputated in a car accident, and an aspiring track star. The two of them, although very different in personality, became fast friends. Their passions took them in different directions, but they both shared the same deep, inspired passion within themselves. For Rin, it was to express herself in better ways, and to become a better artist. For Emi, it was to run, as fast as her body could take her.
Their drive for personal improvement in their chosen mediums is something that kept them close together throughout high school. And while they weren't the type of friends that could be described as inseparable, there was little doubt that they were close.
By their senior year, Emi had become one of the stars of the school's track team, and Rin was known as an artistic prodigy by the school's art teachers. It was the second half of that year that the two of them met Hisao Nakai – a boy with a serious heart condition that had lost his direction in life. He took to the two of them fairly well (particularly Rin, though), and the three high-school students became friends relatively easily.
At the same time, though, Rin's artistic career began to take off in a way that she wasn't strictly comfortable with. It started with a mural she had been asked to paint, which she struggled to complete on time (both physically and in her time management skills). This mural was used as an example of her artwork, by her teacher, in order to entice art critics and gallery owners to take a closer look at her and her artwork. One gallery owner, a woman by the name of Sae Saionji, expressed interest and her art teacher passed the offer onto Rin herself.
This wasn't exactly the sort of thing that Rin was particularly interested in. For her, art had always been about expressing her thoughts and feelings in a way that people could understand. And while she almost certainly didn't have a solid plan for her future, the idea of having to put a gallery together to impress strangers – that she would have to sell her art in order to make a living, and how much of her future would be riding on the success of this gallery – absolutely terrifies her, and Rin expresses disinterest.
This is the canon point that I intend to take her from.
Personality:
“She has a strong personality, but if pressed to elaborate, I'm not sure I could describe it accurately. She feels like a person who is in constant conflict with herself. I never know what to expect when I talk to her.” - Hisao Nakai
Rin is a character whose personality can be a bit hard to describe. On the surface, she seems distant and dreamlike. Her eyes are often glazed over, and her mind is often a million miles away, as she thinks about any number of ideas and concepts instead of dealing with the world directly in front of her.
She is capable of realizing when a situation is serious, and focusing her mind on things that matter. It's just that she usually... doesn't do that. Unless something is going on that she feels absolutely requires her full attention (or just stresses her out a lot), she's probably got one or two other things going on in the background of her mind as well.
It would be dishonest and unfair to claim that Rin thinks on some sort of 'higher level' than what other people think on, but there's something about the way she thinks that... doesn't always connect to her mouth the right way. She has a lot of thoughts and opinions that she would like to share with the world - some of which are, admittedly, fairly silly, while some are serious and even insightful – but she has a very real struggle communicating those thoughts into words. As a result, Rin often feels as though she has to rely on abstract metaphors or seemingly irrelevant anecdotes to get her point across (and is often frustrated when they fail to do so).
That all being said, when something (a fact or sometimes even a question) seems obvious to Rin, she rarely hesitates to voice it. This is partly because the ability to say what she means is something she jumps at the chance to do, but also largely because she doesn't care much for politely avoiding a subject, and prefers to indulge her curiosity or patience. For example, upon meeting Hisao, she almost immediately asks what his disability is – which is often considered exceedingly rude by the rest of Yamaku's student population. Because of this, Rin is often deemed oblivious at best, and unpleasant at worst by the other students at school. Despite her proclaimed hobby of “collecting people,” Rin doesn't seem to have many friends at the school.
While on the surface, Rin can seem goofy and whimsical, telling irrelevant stories and barely paying attention, deeper down she's a lot more serious. There's her frustration with herself and with the people around her when she struggles to say what she means, of course. She also has a lot of self-doubt – second-guessing a lot of things she says and thinks and legitimately doubting whether her work is actually worth the attention she's getting. She wonders if she can actually handle the responsibilities that the people in her life (Nomiya, her art teacher, especially) seem intent on giving her.
Whether she can handle them or not, Rin knows that she doesn't want them. Change is, in Rin's own words, “the scariest thing in the world” to her. With all the flaws and faults in her current life in Yamaku, she likes the way things are. And even more than that, she has no idea what she's going to do in the future, or how she's going to support herself, or where her life is going. Which is tragic because she's nearing the end of her senior year of high school: She's going to have to move on, and figure these things out and she doesn't know what to do or if she can handle any of it.
For that reason (and many others as well), painting is a god-send to her. Although not everyone is able to take a look at one of her paintings and understand what she meant by it, it seems to satisfy something within her: She can look at a painting and remember how she felt when she painted it. Her thoughts and emotions, from her perspective, convert into color and shape very easily. She sometimes seems to view it as a way of preserving her “present-self,” as if with every painting she's memorializing who she is now so that she can remember it later. A sort of means of solidifying how she feels as she travels into an unknown future.
To Rin, art has become so much more than an interest or a hobby. It's become a means of communication, it's become a coping method that helps her deal with the inevitability that her life is changing and the uncertainty of how it is changing. Because of that, it's not really that surprising that it's become something that her life has begun to revolve around.
Appearance:
Link!
Abilities:
Nothing supernatural.
BONUS OPTIONAL SECTION:
Opt-in?: No.
▸SAMPLES:
First Person:
[The image of a teenage girl flickers on-screen. Her hair is red and her eyes are green, but the most notable fact about this girl - at least physically is the fact that her arms end a lot sooner than one might expect. Instead of hands they end in surgically amputated nubs, although those aren't visible inside her shirt sleeves, which are haphazardly tied off beneath the end of either stump.]
So... [She starts and then stops, shifting around sort of awkwardly in the seat in front of her computer, unsure of how to start this. Eventually, though, she starts up again.] ...I think I have this thing figured out. The stuff we believe becomes real, right? Or something like that.
[Well, that's a bit of a misnomer. She doesn't really have this figured out at all, really. She doesn't really get if she's always had this power, or if this a new thing given to her by those hedonist people. Also: She doesn't really understand the thing with the hedonists, either. But she does get the basic idea about reality bending to what they believe, at least, and that's something to go off of. ]
So, if that's how it works then I need to ask a favor.
[Rin's face gets really serious for a moment and her shifting stops before she speaks again.]
I need everyone to believe really hard that I didn't start my period today.
[As soon as the words come out of her mouth, her steely resolve immediately fades. She begins shifting in her seat again and she looks away from the camera, her face slightly flushed. Her facade could only last so long when such a personal matter is involve it seems.]
Um. Okay, thank you.
[Without another word, the feed shuts off.]
Third Person:
Test Drive Thread.
▸PLAYER
Name: McGwiggles
Means of Contact:
Age: (You must be 18+ to enter.) 22
Other Characters Played: None!
▸CHARACTER
Name: Rin Tezuka
Journal:
sleeveknotsCanon: Katawa Shoujo
Age: 18
Canon Point: Rin's Route, after being told about the gallery by Nomiya and encouraged by Hisao.
Background Information:
Rin is a girl born with two seriously malformed arms as the result of genetic phocomelia, which required both of her arms to be amputated just below the shoulder in infancy. (The game's concept art described her as a 'thalidomide baby' but because the game doesn't take place in a time period where thalidomide could have/would have been prescribed to a pregnant woman, it seems much more plausible that she had a genetic version of phocomelia, which was the condition that thalidomide was known to cause).
Rin was something of an odd child growing up, but fortunately her parents seem to have been supportive of her and her endeavors. As soon as she was able to pick up a pen (with her feet, obviously), she started drawing and never really stopped. She took to art like a fish to water, and although she often had difficulties translating her thoughts into words, art made it easier to communicate how she felt into a medium that other people could easily experience.
As she grew older, she had a fairly average school life, with her interests leaning heavily toward the arts. While one might think that her lack of arms would be a debilitating disability, it was the only way that Rin had ever known how to live. And while there were certain things that she struggled with (buttoning up shirts, and peeling oranges, for example), it was something she was used to and there wasn't a lot she really struggled with.
When it came time for her to go to high school, Rin was offered the chance to go to a public high school, or to stay in a school for students with disabilities. Rin was confident enough in her ability to function (both as a student and as an artist) that she had little doubts that she could do well in a public high school. Still, she opted to stay in a school for students with disabilities instead. One of her many eccentricities was “collecting people,” it seems, and Rin was interested in meeting the unique sorts of students that went to Yamaku High.
When she joined, she was placed in a room with one Emi Ibarazaki – an extroverted girl whose lower legs had been amputated in a car accident, and an aspiring track star. The two of them, although very different in personality, became fast friends. Their passions took them in different directions, but they both shared the same deep, inspired passion within themselves. For Rin, it was to express herself in better ways, and to become a better artist. For Emi, it was to run, as fast as her body could take her.
Their drive for personal improvement in their chosen mediums is something that kept them close together throughout high school. And while they weren't the type of friends that could be described as inseparable, there was little doubt that they were close.
By their senior year, Emi had become one of the stars of the school's track team, and Rin was known as an artistic prodigy by the school's art teachers. It was the second half of that year that the two of them met Hisao Nakai – a boy with a serious heart condition that had lost his direction in life. He took to the two of them fairly well (particularly Rin, though), and the three high-school students became friends relatively easily.
At the same time, though, Rin's artistic career began to take off in a way that she wasn't strictly comfortable with. It started with a mural she had been asked to paint, which she struggled to complete on time (both physically and in her time management skills). This mural was used as an example of her artwork, by her teacher, in order to entice art critics and gallery owners to take a closer look at her and her artwork. One gallery owner, a woman by the name of Sae Saionji, expressed interest and her art teacher passed the offer onto Rin herself.
This wasn't exactly the sort of thing that Rin was particularly interested in. For her, art had always been about expressing her thoughts and feelings in a way that people could understand. And while she almost certainly didn't have a solid plan for her future, the idea of having to put a gallery together to impress strangers – that she would have to sell her art in order to make a living, and how much of her future would be riding on the success of this gallery – absolutely terrifies her, and Rin expresses disinterest.
This is the canon point that I intend to take her from.
Personality:
“She has a strong personality, but if pressed to elaborate, I'm not sure I could describe it accurately. She feels like a person who is in constant conflict with herself. I never know what to expect when I talk to her.” - Hisao Nakai
Rin is a character whose personality can be a bit hard to describe. On the surface, she seems distant and dreamlike. Her eyes are often glazed over, and her mind is often a million miles away, as she thinks about any number of ideas and concepts instead of dealing with the world directly in front of her.
She is capable of realizing when a situation is serious, and focusing her mind on things that matter. It's just that she usually... doesn't do that. Unless something is going on that she feels absolutely requires her full attention (or just stresses her out a lot), she's probably got one or two other things going on in the background of her mind as well.
It would be dishonest and unfair to claim that Rin thinks on some sort of 'higher level' than what other people think on, but there's something about the way she thinks that... doesn't always connect to her mouth the right way. She has a lot of thoughts and opinions that she would like to share with the world - some of which are, admittedly, fairly silly, while some are serious and even insightful – but she has a very real struggle communicating those thoughts into words. As a result, Rin often feels as though she has to rely on abstract metaphors or seemingly irrelevant anecdotes to get her point across (and is often frustrated when they fail to do so).
That all being said, when something (a fact or sometimes even a question) seems obvious to Rin, she rarely hesitates to voice it. This is partly because the ability to say what she means is something she jumps at the chance to do, but also largely because she doesn't care much for politely avoiding a subject, and prefers to indulge her curiosity or patience. For example, upon meeting Hisao, she almost immediately asks what his disability is – which is often considered exceedingly rude by the rest of Yamaku's student population. Because of this, Rin is often deemed oblivious at best, and unpleasant at worst by the other students at school. Despite her proclaimed hobby of “collecting people,” Rin doesn't seem to have many friends at the school.
While on the surface, Rin can seem goofy and whimsical, telling irrelevant stories and barely paying attention, deeper down she's a lot more serious. There's her frustration with herself and with the people around her when she struggles to say what she means, of course. She also has a lot of self-doubt – second-guessing a lot of things she says and thinks and legitimately doubting whether her work is actually worth the attention she's getting. She wonders if she can actually handle the responsibilities that the people in her life (Nomiya, her art teacher, especially) seem intent on giving her.
Whether she can handle them or not, Rin knows that she doesn't want them. Change is, in Rin's own words, “the scariest thing in the world” to her. With all the flaws and faults in her current life in Yamaku, she likes the way things are. And even more than that, she has no idea what she's going to do in the future, or how she's going to support herself, or where her life is going. Which is tragic because she's nearing the end of her senior year of high school: She's going to have to move on, and figure these things out and she doesn't know what to do or if she can handle any of it.
For that reason (and many others as well), painting is a god-send to her. Although not everyone is able to take a look at one of her paintings and understand what she meant by it, it seems to satisfy something within her: She can look at a painting and remember how she felt when she painted it. Her thoughts and emotions, from her perspective, convert into color and shape very easily. She sometimes seems to view it as a way of preserving her “present-self,” as if with every painting she's memorializing who she is now so that she can remember it later. A sort of means of solidifying how she feels as she travels into an unknown future.
To Rin, art has become so much more than an interest or a hobby. It's become a means of communication, it's become a coping method that helps her deal with the inevitability that her life is changing and the uncertainty of how it is changing. Because of that, it's not really that surprising that it's become something that her life has begun to revolve around.
Appearance:
Link!
Abilities:
Nothing supernatural.
BONUS OPTIONAL SECTION:
Opt-in?: No.
▸SAMPLES:
First Person:
[The image of a teenage girl flickers on-screen. Her hair is red and her eyes are green, but the most notable fact about this girl - at least physically is the fact that her arms end a lot sooner than one might expect. Instead of hands they end in surgically amputated nubs, although those aren't visible inside her shirt sleeves, which are haphazardly tied off beneath the end of either stump.]
So... [She starts and then stops, shifting around sort of awkwardly in the seat in front of her computer, unsure of how to start this. Eventually, though, she starts up again.] ...I think I have this thing figured out. The stuff we believe becomes real, right? Or something like that.
[Well, that's a bit of a misnomer. She doesn't really have this figured out at all, really. She doesn't really get if she's always had this power, or if this a new thing given to her by those hedonist people. Also: She doesn't really understand the thing with the hedonists, either. But she does get the basic idea about reality bending to what they believe, at least, and that's something to go off of. ]
So, if that's how it works then I need to ask a favor.
[Rin's face gets really serious for a moment and her shifting stops before she speaks again.]
I need everyone to believe really hard that I didn't start my period today.
[As soon as the words come out of her mouth, her steely resolve immediately fades. She begins shifting in her seat again and she looks away from the camera, her face slightly flushed. Her facade could only last so long when such a personal matter is involve it seems.]
Um. Okay, thank you.
[Without another word, the feed shuts off.]
Third Person:
Test Drive Thread.
