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devilofajob) wrote2010-06-17 09:49 pm
devilofajob) wrote2010-06-17 09:49 pm
[OOC] State of the Union and Anything Goes Meme
State of the union stuff for Raidou:
IC: Currently re-adjusting to being his proper age again after spending a week and a half as a seven-year-old. Might possibly have developed a slight aversion to camp's cornfields.
Plot: Raidou has been pretty busy over the last few months, between canon-updating to post-Lucifer, the camp anniversary event, and most recently being reverted to childhood. He is still coming to terms with that last in particular; he doesn't like being vulnerable (and he's still smarting over the camp anniversary event somewhat, for much the same reason) and while he's grateful that so many people were willing to look out for him and everything, he's not sure he really wants to talk about it with anyone. Mostly, he's embarrassed about it. There's also the fact that Raidou essentially had to cast off his former identity to become Raidou, and suddenly being reverted to the person he was before was... unsettling. Raidou does not think of himself as Jouhei; that chapter of his life is over with.
Before his de-aging, he'd stepped up his training regimen so he wouldn't be caught again the way he was during the cultists' invasion. He was extremely displeased at his poor showing and can't help but think Gouto would be appalled. To say nothing of the elders/his predecessors. He is still crushing on Narumi (and to a lesser extent Dante) but does his level best to ignore said crushes and mostly wishes they'd just go away.
OOC: Raidou has had problems with OOC-ness and veering into excessive angst (Anon, I am really sorry I never got back to you, but I am very grateful for the concrit). I've been trying to cut back on that, but I'm not sure it's been all that effective, since he tends to veer towards serious business in general. Otherwise, I'm still having a lot of fun playing him; reverting him to Jouhei was a particular highlight. The demons are also a tremendous amount of fun to play, but I still feel like I'm getting away with things I shouldn't by having them in camp.
Drop likelihood: Since he's my only character, that would result in dropping camp, and I'd rather not.
Meanwhile! Raidou hit 15,000 comments sometime last month, so have an Anything Goes meme! Essays, relationships (hypothetical and non-), first impressions, threading suggestions, whatever, demons included. I will try to answer in a more timely fashion this time.
IC: Currently re-adjusting to being his proper age again after spending a week and a half as a seven-year-old. Might possibly have developed a slight aversion to camp's cornfields.
Plot: Raidou has been pretty busy over the last few months, between canon-updating to post-Lucifer, the camp anniversary event, and most recently being reverted to childhood. He is still coming to terms with that last in particular; he doesn't like being vulnerable (and he's still smarting over the camp anniversary event somewhat, for much the same reason) and while he's grateful that so many people were willing to look out for him and everything, he's not sure he really wants to talk about it with anyone. Mostly, he's embarrassed about it. There's also the fact that Raidou essentially had to cast off his former identity to become Raidou, and suddenly being reverted to the person he was before was... unsettling. Raidou does not think of himself as Jouhei; that chapter of his life is over with.
Before his de-aging, he'd stepped up his training regimen so he wouldn't be caught again the way he was during the cultists' invasion. He was extremely displeased at his poor showing and can't help but think Gouto would be appalled. To say nothing of the elders/his predecessors. He is still crushing on Narumi (and to a lesser extent Dante) but does his level best to ignore said crushes and mostly wishes they'd just go away.
OOC: Raidou has had problems with OOC-ness and veering into excessive angst (Anon, I am really sorry I never got back to you, but I am very grateful for the concrit). I've been trying to cut back on that, but I'm not sure it's been all that effective, since he tends to veer towards serious business in general. Otherwise, I'm still having a lot of fun playing him; reverting him to Jouhei was a particular highlight. The demons are also a tremendous amount of fun to play, but I still feel like I'm getting away with things I shouldn't by having them in camp.
Drop likelihood: Since he's my only character, that would result in dropping camp, and I'd rather not.
Meanwhile! Raidou hit 15,000 comments sometime last month, so have an Anything Goes meme! Essays, relationships (hypothetical and non-), first impressions, threading suggestions, whatever, demons included. I will try to answer in a more timely fashion this time.
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...that's all I got, really |D
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...I am assuming we're not travelling in Oboroguruma here.
Raidou spent much of the time Robin was de-aged worrying about her and trying really hard not to spook her. Now that she's back to adulthood, he's more curious about her past, but she strikes him as a very private individual so he's reluctant to pry. He is not outwardly treating her any differently now that he's met baby Robin, but... he hasn't forgotten the way she acted then; it's always at the back of his mind.
Reverse me? What does Robin think now that she's met tinyRaidou?
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Robin will probably never ever talk about her childhood. :( But meeting tiny!Raidou didn't really change how she saw him, but it did confirm a lot of what she suspected, for example, Raidou not being his first name, that underneath all the politeness he can really be a bit of a brat, etc. Mostly, it's simply more fodder for mockery!
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(In the manga, Raidou's sole contribution to driving is to slam his foot down on Narumi's - and thus the brake - thereby causing some of the demonic/possessed motorcyclists chasing them to ram into the back of the car. Then the roof gets smashed off and Raidou jumps out of the car to kill things. I am not certain that this sort of behavior should be encouraged.)
Raidou figures teasing from Robin is pretty much inevitable.
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...Actually, I'm curious as to how Alice's thoughts on Raidou might have changed now that she's met him as Jouhei.
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Also what instrument would Raidou play if he had the time/inclination? Would he be any good at it? (BRING HONOR TO YOUR FAMILY, MASTER THIS POWER CHORD AND BE THE CHAMPION)
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ZEX remains one of Raidou's absolute best friends in camp. He worries about ZEX a lot, especially after the mess with the cultists, although he knows logically that ZEX is perfectly capable of taking care of himself, if not always considering self-preservation a priority (which Raidou can relate to, as he behaves similarly on occasion; he's very aware that if something happens to him, another Raidou will take his place). He is a little worried that ZEX seems to treat Taiki like a porcelain doll because he suspects that may become a problem at some point. He doesn't mind keeping an eye out for Taiki, as he likes him as well, but worries that there may come a point where he's caught between ZEX's need to motherhen and Taiki's need to, well, not be motherhenned.
Jouhei did not really think of ZEX as a "daddy" so much as an uncle (and I really wish we had some information about Raidou's family life, but I digress). He was a little bewildered at ZEX's hovering, although he didn't necessarily mind it.
He was somewhat confused at ZEX's not "feeling" like a demon even though he was clearly not human, but wasn't sure it was polite to ask about that, and in any case ZEX seemed perfectly nice, if slightly overbearing at times, so it didn't seem that important. He was very, very curious about ZEX in general, though.
Reverse?
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Raidou is totally awesome, that has not changed. When ZEX met him when he was Jouhei, though, he came to like the idea of the Kuzunohas even less. He's such a polite, almost repressed boy! He had obviously been under-socialized, probably didn't have many friends, and was just...very tiny and delicate. ZEX couldn't help but hover, and toyed with the idea of trying to be more of an influence in Raidou's young life, but he couldn't bring himself to do more than think guiltily about it. They are not ZEX's choices to make.
Hahahah oh ZEX on Taiki. ZEX doesn't try to use Raidou as a go-between, but he sees Raidou as very trustworthy and calming, and just good for Taiki in general. He hopes they become good friends, because that would be a lot less worry some than ~*~certain other friends~*~ both ZEX and Taiki have.
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On a less selfish and more general note, how exactly does Raidou view demons in comparison to himself? I'm kinda curious.
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Raidou is more and more suspicious of Rika's cute and innocent act. He is reasonably sure there is more going on with her than she pretends and was not fooled in the slightest when she pretended not to know what the beer she was drinking was. He otherwise gets along with her and enjoys being around her; on some level she reminds him a bit of himself. (Minus the repeated horrible deaths, but then he doesn't know about those.) He appreciated her keeping her cool in Masque's basement.
As far as Raidou's views on demons... He is very aware of the power dynamics inherent in being a summoner. My headcanon is that he occasionally used to play with stray demons in the forest as a very young child - relatively weak ones, like pixies and poltergeists, along with the occasional Jack Frost - and he's more comfortable in general with nonhumans in any case, because he doesn't need to pretend to be someone he isn't, with them. But being a human and (especially) a summoner, he is very aware that there's a divide between them. He needs to be able to command demons in the field, and that requires a certain amount of detachment, since it could conceivably lead to the death of the demon. In practice, he finds this extremely difficult.
The fact that his demons can and will die for him - while he cannot do the same for them - bothers him, as it runs counter to his sense of fairness. He wants to do right by his demons; he makes sure to treat them well and that they know he appreciates what they do for him. At the same time, he knows he can't let them run roughshod and do whatever they want; that way leads to Orochi trying to eat female campers and Raiho... being Raiho, only in ways that wreak even more havoc, and... no. The pacts he forms with them mean they are subservient to him, which he did see early on as more of a fact of life than an ethical issue, but he's more aware of the implications now, especially when talking to other demons in camp. It's a tricky issue for him, and the fact that he needs the demons to help him do his job complicates matters for him somewhat. His entire identity is, after all, bound up in his being Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, Devil Summoner, and without that, he doesn't know who he'd even be.
(A number of his demons think he worries too much about these things, but still.)
He does not like demon fusion. He knows it's necessary - and Gdon's resistance to ice is a result of fusion - but it bothers him tremendously. He doesn't think it can possibly be pleasant for the demons, although they do try to reassure him that it doesn't bother them ("NEXT TIME ME WALK ON TWO LEGS," "Fuse me with a fine young filly," etc.). Also, Victor creeps him out.
On a more minor note, Raidou uses the word "people" to mean pretty much any sort of entity, human and otherwise. He would not mind having another word that didn't imply "humans" in the way "people" can - some demons in particular can get touchy about this, and he suspects many humans miss the nuance - but for now, this is the best he can come up with. For all the power issues inherent in being a demon summoner, he doesn't really see demons as "less."
I don't know; does that make any sense at all?
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Raidou likes talking to Batwoman. He's not sure he trusts her completely, but he's aware that this goes both ways; after all, he's reasonably sure Batwoman isn't her real name. He doesn't quite get the costume, but he figures it must work for her back home, and given Batman's similar costume there is clearly a theme of some sort. That Batwoman is also a protector of her city, in a way not dissimilar to Raidou's own role back home, gives him a weird sense of kinship with her. He does wonder about her relationship to Batman (and would probably be wondering about Steph as well, if he ever met her); he's curious as to whether it works like the Four Great Summoners in his own family. Someday if they ever get to that level of professional respect/trust, he would like to compare notes.
Reverse me?
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Raidou is actually rather embarrassed by the whole thing. Not that he doesn't realize beating Lucifer is a major achievement - he just doesn't feel all that comfortable discussing it.