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glazedandconfused) wrote2013-04-23 02:29 am
glazedandconfused) wrote2013-04-23 02:29 am
APPLICATION: SMASH ACADEMY
Out-of-Character Information
Name: Whit
Are you over 15?: Ye
Time Zone: +5 GMT (Eastern Standard)
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Other characters in the game:
Captain Falcon | F-Zero |
raced_godZelda/Sheik | Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time |
ninjaprincessWheatley | Portal |
testgasmLink to slot request if 6th, 7th slot: N/A
Tegaki: willdrawforpocky
Anything Else?: nnnnope
In-Character Information
Name: Aoi Asahina
Game/Series: Dangan Ronpa
Teacher/Student/Other: Student
Canon Point: Post-game, some time after leaving Hope's Peak with the other survivors.
Age: 18
Grade Level/Class Taught/Job: Junior and CAMPUS LIFEGUARD
Dorm or Living Arrangement: Dorm please!
Personality: Aoi is a world-class athlete with simple pleasures. In fact, one might emphasize the "simple" to encompass a great deal of her personality. It doesn't take much to make her happy. She works hard, plays hard, and ultimately loves three things: good friends, good food, and a good, hard workout.
Most of Aoi's life revolves around sports. She's incredibly driven, always working to hone her skills and better herself. Her ambition is a force to be reckoned with no matter what the physical activity, and she proudly boasts that she was a member of six school sports clubs. Though swimming is her passion, she doesn't much care how she gets her energy out, only that she does. Sports are how Aoi expresses herself, and her motivation and fulfillment all stems from wanting to excel on the field or in the pool (especially in the pool). This does not mean, however, that Aoi is ruled by ego--she appreciates good competition, recognizes talent, greatly respects other athletes, and values her training partners. As a rule, she's excitable, outgoing, and almost overly friendly, dropping the honorifics on her fellow classmates in a too-intimate fashion. Upbeat and encouraging, Aoi enjoys working with like-minded individuals and supports their accomplishments rather than envying them.
Though as an athlete she's unparalleled--talented, determined, and competitive--Aoi is a little lacking in the brains department. She's easily one of the more clueless of her class, often confused, with major points tending to fly over her head. It would be unfair to call her stupid, because she has a large knowledge base and know-how when it comes to her interests (sports), but she's a bit air-headed, forgetful, absent-minded, and slow on the uptake. She often takes a backseat during investigations, simply because she knows the whole thing is a little beyond her. Despite the fact that she's easily swayed during trials, it's not necessarily a reflection of how smart she is or isn't. Simply put, Aoi is ruled by her heart, not her head.
As such, her reasoning and decision-making is laser-guided by her feelings. She's the element of emotion in the face of logic, driven by a personal sense of honor, justice, and what she perceives to be the "right" thing to do. What she lacks in observation skills she makes up for in loyalty and pure, unadulterated passion--she cares deeply for her friends, is quick to jump to their defense, believes in them no matter what, and won't tolerate disrespect of any kind.
However, Aoi is still a teenager, and someone so ruled by their emotions is easily overwhelmed by circumstance. During her time in the School of Mutual Killing, she is subjected to a great deal of trauma, including but not limited to a faked suicide note written explicitly to take advantage of and manipulate her. It works--Aoi at her worst is rash, and impulsive, attempting to implicate herself and the remaining students as the cause of her best friend's suicide, stating that they are all responsible and all deserve to be executed. Though she eventually realizes her mistake, Aoi during Sakura's trial is at her lowest--irrational, vengeful, desperate, and completely consumed by raw emotion.
This is one of Aoi's greatest underlying issues--a lack of regard for consequence. She certainly knows what she's getting into during the trial, but she is so driven by her emotions in the moment that she doesn't particularly care about signing six death warrants, including her own. Though this is, of course, an extreme, Aoi is known to have similar, more minor lapses in judgement. She lives in the now, and these doughnuts are great now, so she eats five and only later does she realize that her diet is ruined, that she has to work out extra hard, that she maybe shouldn't have eaten those doughnuts. After a brief panic, however, rest assured Aoi will be back to doing whatever she feels is right, consequences be damned.
Underneath her upbeat, optimistic front, Aoi is surprisingly insecure, and perhaps overly-concerned about how others perceive her. Despite her general vapidness, she can be astutely self-aware, recognizing that people (boys she wants to date) might be intimidated by her extreme athleticism or turned off by her tomboyishness and lack of traditional femininity.
Despite her teenage anxiety and the fact that she is, by nature, an emotional creature, it doesn't take her long to bounce back from her lows (with some encouragement, of course), and she remains blindly optimistic even in the face of Murderschool and the Despairocalypse. When stepping out into a unknown world, completely uncertain of her fate, Aoi proclaims that she's going to open a doughnut shop. If society has crumbled to the point where there are no doughnut shops or even doughnuts, she vows to find a way. As long as there's flour, she can and will make doughnuts.
And in the end, that's all you really need.
Backstory: Once upon a time, there was a school.
This school was reserved for the best and brightest--the hope of Japan, all in one place, honing their abilities and working together for a shining future. The requirements for admission were simple. Students accepted to Hope's Peak were 1) high school age and 2) the most talented in their field.
Aoi Asahina was really really really really good at swimming. Like, a fifteen-year-old Olympian, that's how good. It was only natural that she was chosen to attend Hope's Peak, as part of the 78th class with the title Super High School Level Swimmer. Yes.
So she went--honestly, how could one possibly say no? On orientation day, she arrived with her things, excited for the academic adventure she was about to undertake...
...and promptly passed out.
She awoke, much as the other students did, in a classroom, her belongings gone, the only clue to what had happened a note instructing her to go to the gym for an entrance ceremony. What she found were the other students, and a weird stuffed toy bear guy.
This toy guy, Monobear, was apparently the headmaster, apparently indestructible, and he (she? it?) gleefully informed the new class that they were trapped inside the school. With no way out, there would be only one way to "graduate"--if a student wanted to leave, all they had to do was kill another student and get away with it. After that, there would be a trial. If the murderer was correctly identified, they would be executed. If not, the murderer would get out and the rest of the class would die.
What.
Aoi was, understandably, horrified. After confirming that they were, indeed, locked inside the school (albeit with their every need provided for), it was difficult not to panic. But really, they didn't have to worry--they wouldn't start killing each other over silly motives like DVDs of their families and friends and corporations dead and/or in peril! Those were obviously faked! Their families and friends and corporations were totally fine, and they'd find a way out to prove it! No one was going to get murdered that was just dumb (15/15 remain).
Except people totally did get murdered. The first victim was the SHSL Idol, Sayaka Maizono, found dead in a bathroom (14/15 remain). No one was more outraged by this turn of events than Junko Enoshima (SHSL Model), and at the assembly to discuss the murder and impending investigation, she attacked Monobear only to find herself impaled by like a billion spears from nowhere in the process (13/15 remain). Turns out attacking the Headmaster was Against the Rules.
Aoi, still horrified, knew she wouldn't be much good in an investigation, so she mostly just hung out, letting other, more suited individuals do the work while she contemplated how real shit just got. Eventually, a trial happened--turns out Sayaka, incredibly distressed by the contents of her DVD, had botched an attempt to murder Leon Kuwata (SHSL Baseball Player) and pin it on Makoto Naegi (SHSL
So shit was super real. Not only was Sayaka dead and Leon Murdered by Baseballs, Aoi was now faced with the guilt of convicting a fellow student (who was, at once, a victim of circumstance and acting in self defense), and then watching him die, unable to do anything.
SURELY, THEY COULD ALL BE SENSIBLE AND FIND A WAY OUT AND NO MORE MURDERS WOULD HAPPEN.
Things calmed down for a little while after that, to the point where she thought it might even be possible to get through this without anyone else dying. Another floor of the school opened up. Aoi found herself becoming close friends with Sakura Oogami (SHSL Martial Artist), thanks to their shared love of good workouts and protein drinks. One guy earned himself a stalker. A couple dudes went and screamed at each other in the sauna to prove their manliness or something.
Monobear would have none of it. It was time for another motive.
This time, the incentive to kill came in the form of individualized envelopes, each containing the deepest, darkest secret of each student, which would (of course) be revealed to the world if someone didn't die soon. Aoi's was somewhat innocuous--certainly nothing to kill over, but still kind of embarrassing, and the other students' unwillingness to come clean meant she wasn't going to, either.
WHATEVER. Aoi decided that the best solution was work out with Sakura some more. They even invited Chihiro Fujisaki (SHSL Programmer) to work out with them, as a confrontation with much stronger, intimidating students like Byakuya Togami (SHSL Heir) had left the tiny girl feeling weak and unable to defend herself. Surprisingly, Chihiro declined Aoi and Sakura's offer and went off on her own.
Which meant that the next day, she was found dead of blunt trauma, her body strung up in the girl's weight room (11/15 remain).
What should have been a straightforward case was complicated by the following, revealed over the course of the trial:
1) Togami fucked with the crime scene for shits and giggles, pinning the blame on
2) Genocider Syo, who was, in fact, an alternate personality of Touko Fukawa (SHSL Literary Girl)
3) Chihiro was a dude and
4) Mondo Oowada (SHSL Bike Horns) did it in a fit of blind rage, having been reminded of the circumstances surrounding his brother's death (but that, friends, is another manpain for another time).
Naegi and Kirigiri (SHSL TOTALLY NOT A DETECTIVE, GUYS) solved the case, of course. Mondo was put to death. Everyone had to watch. Kiyotaka Ishimaru (SHSL Prefect) screamed a lot (10/15 remain).
Though Ishimaru took Mondo's death the hardest, it wasn't easy on Aoi, either as she suffered her first
THE GLOWING GREEN GHOST OF CHIHIRO FUJISAKI'S DISEMBODIED HEAD IN A LOCKER
They were already in Murderschool, and now it turns out the place was HAUNTED!?? Fuck that shit. Aoi was quick to cry all over Sakura, afraid of what she saw and afraid the others wouldn't believe her. Luckily, they did, and everyone ran to investigate. It was not, in fact, the glowing green ghost of Chihiro Fujisaki's disembodied head in a locker--at least not in the traditional sense. The programmer had left behind a piece of himself in the form of an Artificial Intelligence called Alter Ego. This was it. This was their ace in the hole. All they had to do was keep it a secret from Monobear.
What should have been very simple proved very difficult as a custody battle ensued between Hifumi Yamada (SHSL Neckbeard) and Ishimaru (now Ishida, having suffered a heroic BSOD and subsequently gone off the fucking deep end).
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT HAPPENED GO ON GUESS
The laptop went missing and they both turned up dead (8/15 remain).
OR DID THEY...? While the structural integrity (or lack thereof) of Ishimaru's skull wasn't really up for debate, Yamada turned out to be Not Quite There Yet. His body mysteriously moved itself and by the time they located it, Aoi was well and done with Togami's shit, chastising him for taking their situation so lightly and cradling Yamada's dead self in her arms. Tonight. It must have been something she said.
He was brought back to life with the power of one single genki girl tear, whispered "Yasuhiro", and died in boobs.
All clues pointed to Yasuhiro Hagakure (SHSL Fortune Teller)--when there are pictures of a guy molesting people in a robot suit and then you turn up in a robot suit that fits you and only you and then one of the victims whispers your name, it's a pretty done deal, sorry bro. Naegi and Kirigri, however, weren't so sure, and uncovered a dastardly plot by Celestia Ludenberg (SHSL Gambler). She hadn't been able to stand the thought of being trapped in a school for the rest of her life and stole Alter Ego, using it as leverage to spur Yamada into killing Ishimaru. With the dirty work done, she killed Yamada in turn and framed Hagakure to finish the job.
That did not, however, explain how Yamada knew Celes' real name--Taeko Yasuhiro. Weird. And it seemed the other students wouldn't get an answer, because Monobear crashed a firetruck into her and she died (7/15 remain).
THAT WAS IT
THAT WAS TOTALLY IT NO MORE PEOPLE DYING OKAY THEY MEANT IT FOR REAL THIS TIME
Except this was apparently not enough teenage death for Monobear, who decided to shake things up a little more. With paranoia mounting, he called the remaining students together and revealed that he'd employed a mole this entire time--and that mole was Sakura Oogami.
Turned out Naegi already knew, because he was Naegi, but Aoi sure didn't. Sakura explained the situation and begged for forgiveness and Aoi, having grown incredibly attached to her very best friend, was quick to jump to her defense. Sakura had been put between a rock and a hard place--Monobear had threatened her family's prized dojo in an attempt to strongarm her into initiating the murders in the event the other students were too chickenshit to get the ball rolling. Despite this, Sakura hadn't made good on her promise and was, in fact, fighting with Monobear to call it quits as far as her service was concerned. For Aoi, that was enough, but not so much for Togami, Hagakure, and Fukawa, who instantly turned on Sakura.
Aoi was so insulted by some of the things they were saying about her very best friend that she punched Togami in the face and it felt so good.
Later, Sakura asked Aoi to meet with her, and the swimmer didn't hesitate. She explained that she'd be sending messages to Togami, Hagakure, and Fukawa, asking them to come talk and reconcile. Aoi was pretty sure this was a great idea. It would not end in disaster at all.
When Aoi found Sakura later that night, bloodied, it became clear that instead of letting Sakura explain herself, the other students had tried to get rid of her. Enraged but still incredibly concerned for her friend, she complied with Sakura's request to get her some protein, because protein fixes everything.
But upon Aoi's return, all she found was a locked door, a dead best friend (6/15 remain), and a suicide note explaining that Sakura was driven to death by the other students' hatred and refusal to reconcile.
This was the part where Aoi snapped a little.
With the knowledge that Sakura had killed herself, she proceeded to fuck with evidence and steer the trial in all sorts of confusing directions--Fukawa admitted to killing Sakura, Hagakure admitted to killing Sakura, and then she admitted to killing Sakura. Ultimately, however, that was her point--they'd all had a hand in killing Sakura, if not directly, than by driving her to suicide. Any culprit they'd settled on would be incorrect (because Sakura had killed herself), and they'd all die because of it, just like Aoi had decided they deserved.
Naegi and Kirigiri, however, were quick to see through her poorly-conceived plan and planted evidence, uncovering the truth of Sakura's suicide. It would have been very easy for the remaining students to band together against Aoi and execute her, but instead they chose to do something different.
To her surprise, they banded together against Monobear, refusing to convict anyone, as none of them had directly killed Sakura. Temporarily beaten, their captor revealed that even the suicide note was faked in a bid to manipulate Aoi--the real final message was not about despair and hatred, rather, Sakura made it abundantly clear that her death was to give them a chance to fight and escape. She'd left them one final gift.
Newly empowered, the six remaining students declared that they would not be playing Monobear's game any more.
Which was too bad, because the bear had an execution all ready. He used it on Alter Ego instead. What could have been a victory became a crushing (ha ha) defeat as the students' ace in the hole was smashed to smithereens before their very eyes.
With each subsequent trial, another floor of the school was unlocked, and Sakura's death meant that the most of the complex was available to them--her "final gift" came in the form of her busting down the door to the Headmaster's office. Since they were no longer concerned about murdering each other and entirely focused on taking Monobear down, the group proceeded to launch into investigation mode. They found some crazy creepy stuff, like a classroom covered in blood. A shut-down Monobear that they pulled apart to reveal a robotic interior. A dead body. A glaring lack of Kirigiri. A big-ass knife that Fukawa handed over to Naegi and certainly would never be a murder weapon in any capacity whatsoever.
WAIT SORRY, I said a dead body, didn't I?
There was a dead body. In the greenhouse. Nobody had any idea who it could possibly be, because it blew up as soon as they got close, rendering the corpse unrecognizable. It couldn't have been the headmaster. It couldn't have been the mastermind. What's more, it had been stabbed with Naegi's big-ass knife.
WELL.
The good thing is that they scored some sweet loot and sweet clues off the body, the first of which was a key and the latter of which was a strange tattoo on the corpse's hand. They began to entertain the thought that the body belonged to a sixteenth student, perhaps one Mukuro Ikusaba (SHSL Soldier? SHSL Despair??? Thanks Naegi, and your strange ability to protagonist cryptic information out of Kirigiri).
The key allowed them access to the previously locked data processing room, where Hagakure was able to use his shaman powers to pick up a signal on a television.
It was them. They were on TV. They were TV stars.
Monobear was quick to inform them that this School Life of Mutual Killing was being broadcast ALL OVER JAPAN for ALL TO SEE. After all, what was more despairing than watching the Hope of the entire country ruthlessly killing each other? The stakes were much higher than they originally thought, and are brought even higher when Monobear reminds them that they would soon be conducting a trial for the murder of Mukuro Ikusaba.
In a last-ditch attempt to turn the students against each other, Monobear gave Aoi, Togami, Hagakure, Fukawa, and Naegi pictures of the Hope's Peak class in apparent happier times--swimming in the pool, at gym class, in a classroom. The catch was that Aoi's picture didn't have her in it (Togami's didn't have him in it, Hagakure didn't have him in it, etc.), inciting suspicion that permeated the entire trial.
Naegi and Kirigiri didn't have alibis. Still, the identity of the culprit came down to Naegi. Since all signs pointed to Kirigiri, that's who they voted for. The SHSL Detective was executed. There were no more murders. The five remaining students lived out the rest of their lives in the school. Aoi had everyone's kids--
NO
WAIT
Naegi knew Kirigiri was innocent and took the fall himself, and the remaining students looked on as he was sent to his death, only to be
SAVED AT THE LAST SECOND BY ALTER EGO WHO WAS NOT DEAD AND HAD MANAGED TO FIND ITS WAY INTO THE MAINFRAME YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
While Naegi had a garbage chute adventure and Kirigiri went after him and revealed all sorts of exciting stuff that we already knew (she is the SHSL Detective, she is the dead headmaster's daughter, etc. etc.), Aoi and the others worried their butts off topside. When the SHSL Dynamic Duo finally returned (much to everyone's surprise), it was with the caveat that they'd all be engaging in a redo of Mukuro Ikusaba's trial--if the students solved her death as well as the other mysteries of the school, they'd live and go free. If not, they'd die. Monobear unlocked every door in the school to allow them a thorough investigation.
The final six comb the school. Aoi in particular found the mechanism by which Monobear was controlled, helping Naegi draw the conclusion that the Mastermind could not operate Monobear and watch the security cameras at the same time. Other inexplicable curiosities abounded, eventually revealed during the trial, which included
1) Kirigiri and Hagakure's belongings, implying they'd been at the school for much longer than Monobear's Murder Party
2) DVDs of every member of their class agreeing to live out their entire lives in the school.
The trial began. Obviously, none of the remaining six students had killed Mukuro, despite Monobear's repeated attempts to convince them otherwise. The body was definitely Mukuro's, but the injuries matched those of Junko Enoshima, who had been killed before the first trial. There could be only one solution, which Naegi was quick to point out. Junko was never Junko. Junko was her twin sister Mukuro the entire time, and the real Junko was the mastermind.
Having solved that particular mystery, Junko revealed herself, and proceeded to explain that they had all been in the school for two entire years. Their first year had been relatively normal--going to class, making friends, doing normal high school kid things, but then the Event happened. The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Event in the History of Mankind.
It was basically the apocalypse. See, SHSL Despair wasn't just Junko and Mukuro, exactly. It was an entire organization bent on bringing Despair to the entire world--which they did. In an effort to preserve the future of humanity, Kirigiri's father the Headmaster convinced the class (their class) to live locked away in the school to protect them. What he didn't know was that SHSL Despair was within the very walls. After a year of living inside a bunker of their own devising, the students fell into Junko's game--she killed the headmaster, wiped her classmates' memories of the past two years, betrayed Mukuro and set them to murdering, televising the exploits of former friends brutally killing each other in order to drive them and the entire world deep into despair.
With her secrets blown wide open, Junko offered an ultimatum--execute Naegi and continue to live inside the school, protected and cared for, or face the unknowns of a post-apocalyptic world. Aoi and the others almost chose the former.
And would have, too, if it weren't for Naegi, who encouraged them not to lose hope. Deep in her heart of hearts, Aoi knew that he was right, and the six survivors of the school's 78th class banded together to defeat Junko, who, having lost, sent herself off to execution, leaving behind the means to escape the school.
Faced with the great unknown, they went.
It was, just as Junko had said, pretty terrible and despairing out there. Society had crumbled, the world was in chaos, but the televising of their ordeal had caught the attention of several resistance groups who were quick to squirrel away the surviving Hope of mankind.
Aoi didn't need to be told twice to join the resistance, and worked for some time after the events of Hope's Peak in an effort to rebuild society. Naegi went off to find places untouched by the Event, and not long after that, Togami started talking about how if Naegi could do it, he could too. Not entirely fond of the heir but certainly recognizing that someone was going to have to keep an eye on those boys, Aoi volunteered to accompany him on the trip to Final Destination City.
Everything went swimmingly until they reached customs. Apparently the entire place was under some form of robot martial law and though Togami was able to scoot through just fine, Aoi found herself detained.
By robots
for like
two months
and Togami never came back for her because he was SHSL Douchenozzle.
Soon enough, however, they'd forgiven her trespass of trying to bring unwrapped food (doughnuts) across the border, and let her through. She made a beeline for
GO ON GUESS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHERE SHE WENT
Smash Academy.
Anything Else?:
>> 5'3", 110 pounds, second-biggest tits in the game.
>> Despite this, she is an Olympic-level swimmer. She's also Very Serious about Pool Rules and Pool Safety and Pool Things in general. You can bet she's going to lifeguard the heck outta everyone.
>> You know That Girl who can eat like ten pounds of doughnuts and a three course meal and then ten more pounds of doughnuts and still be hungry and also gain absolutely no weight? That's Aoi, Aoi's That Girl.
>> Aoi looooooves to work out and can keep pace with the best of the best WEIGHT ROOM WATCH OUT.
>> She will also probably assert her supreme dominance over the lake and be best friends with Mr. Fish.
In-Character 1st person sample:
[SOMEONE seems to have forgotten to adjust the laptop's camera before she started recording. Viewers are briefly treated to the sight of a red sleeve in their view before it withdraws to reveal someone who really needs to cut back on the pep.]
I'm here! I'm here! It took longer than I thought but I'm finally out!
[Out from where, Aoi?]
I actually got here a little while ago, but they wouldn't let me in. They told me I wasn't allowed to bring, um. What was it? Unsealed food through customs. I wad detained by robots. Robots! Real ones! Can you believe that?
[She doesn't seem to be too broken up by her ordeal, at the very least, waving excitedly into the camera.]
It's been a while since I've been to school, but I didn't think there were robots, usually. Real ones. [She tilts her head slightly and touches her index finger to her bottom lip, pondering.] I think I saw Justice Robo? But maybe they just had the same paint job.
Anyway! I came here with a friend! Or I was supposed to come here with a friend, but I got stuck, so I'm not sure if he's still here. If anyone knows Byakuya Togami--glasses, blonde hair, really snooty--you can't miss him. I owe him a punch in the face.
[And with a biiiiiiiig smile, she's off.]
In-Character 3rd person sample:
THERE WAS A LAKE.
They had a pool, too, which was great in itself, but had Aoi really hyped was the lake. A big, glistening, gleaming expanse of water, all ready to swim in. She'd barely deposited her belongings in her room before shimmying into her swimsuit, grabbing a towel, and sprinting towards the water's edge.
Though she'd been out in the world for some time now, it had been completely changed. There was nothing that Aoi remembered, as society had been destroyed beyond recognition. So to find a place that was so pristine, so untouched, a place that still had a lake--it was more than she could have ever hoped for.
There was guilt, of course, that she was here enjoying a place untouched by the Event while her friends were still in what was home, fighting to fix a world consumed by Despair. There was still so much to do before she could be proud of herself and her accomplishments--before she could safely say that Sakura's death wasn't in vain.
For now, though, the water sure looked inviting, and who was Aoi to resist? She was the Super High School Level Swimmer for a reason, wasn't she? Besides, reversing the apocalypse was hard work. Surely no one would blame her if she took a little break.
She dipped her toes into the water and smiled.
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did i find the babe
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babe is here, babe
babe
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