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earthsend( PLAYER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Kiwi
- ★ CONTACT: starbeams @ plurk/PM
- ★ CURRENT CHARACTERS: Elincia Ridell Crimea (Fire Emblem Tellius)
★ NAME: Enma Kozato
- ★ AGE: 14
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! During the Arcobaleno arc, after the Vindice send Enma and co to the hospital
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: http://reborn.wikia.com/wiki/Kateky%C5%8D_Hitman_Reborn!
- ★ PERSONALITY:
Enma is a complicated kid to say the least. Where a stranger will see one thing, those close to him will see another. Being victimised for the vast majority of his life he's learned to be suspicious and rarely gets close with anyone outside of his family and so very few get to see Enma in all aspects of life: the part of him that’s gloomy and shy, the part of him that’s kind and sweet and even the part of him that’s tough as nails, ready to do all that it takes to protect his own. All of these aspects are genuine parts of Enma, even if some show up more easily than others.
At the beginning of the series, Enma is a clumsy, gloomy, negative and extremely shy boy who is apparently an even bigger loser than the series' protagonist, Tsuna (who is a pretty big loser to begin with). It doesn't even take one day after Enma's transfer to Namimori Junior High for the school's bullies to make Enma their favorite new punching bag. He gets beaten up and his clothes and textbooks get torn apart and he's forced to limp towards the river and patch up his own clothes (which he also fails to do) and injuries and so he can feed the stray cats in the area. Later on, we learn that Enma isn't just a victim of bullies, he's also a victim of dogs that love to chase him down and maybe steal his takoyaki if he has any on him. Enma is a loser and has more than enough self awareness to recognise it. When Tsuna tries to approach him, one of the first things he says to Tsuna is that "if you hang around me, you'll be bullied again" - he is under no illusions about what kind of person he is and the kind of people he likes to attract.
However, despite knowing he'll always be beaten up by bullies, Enma is very independent and refuses to hide behind his family, rejecting their offer to walk home with him to keep him safe. Even though he loves his family and they love him back equally (despite a few of them preferring to be frustrated by his lack of willingness to fight back), Enma is the kind of person who prefers to bury his worries and emotions deep down to avoid burdening his loved ones with his problems. He’ll also take on the burden of being the boss of his family, even if he doesn’t want anything to do with the position and always thinks of running away. He’ll take on anything for his family - including their sins. When one of his family members mistakenly almost kills someone, he incorporates it into his plans, pretending it was all because of him.
His gloomy and negative view of the world isn’t without reason; aside from the bullies he attracts like honey to flies, Enma’s life has always been very harsh and difficult. When he was much younger, his parents and his little sister, were murdered right in front of him by Daemon Spade (who had taken on the guise of Iemitsu, Tsuna’s father) and this traumatised him for life and he has to live with the knowledge that he was too weak to do anything to help anyone, including his little sister. From there, it is death after death for Enma’s life as more and more of his family are murdered around him, until it’s only him and six other lonely children brought together by their shared bond of despair and misfortune. There has been very little reprieve for Enma’s life. Being a weak family means bigger mafia families like to torture his and hassle him, shaping the way Enma sees the world. Being trodden on for all his life and finding no kindness in anyone outside of his family, Enma can’t help but be miserable, shy, suspicious and closed off to the world while nursing some serious anger issues.
That is, until he meets and becomes friends with Tsuna.
It’s not that he makes friends with Tsuna straight away, not at all. Before he meets Tsuna, what he pictures in his head is some scary mafia boss who is good at everything and has the power to hurt him. It’s what he’s experienced all his life with people in power and he has no issues projecting it onto this boy he’s never met. So when he finally does meet Tsuna, he is not prepared for a kid who is as much of a loser as he is and just as clumsy to boot. Initially thinking Tsuna was just another bully or someone who would just end up making fun of him, he spends most of his time avoiding Tsuna and tries to keep his distance. His first clear words to Tsuna are “I’m clumsy, go ahead and laugh” after he figures out he sewed his pants wrong. Although Tsuna keeps reaching out to him with kindness, he keeps pushing Tsuna away, telling him that “Starting tomorrow you should just leave me alone. If you hang around me, you’ll be bullied again”.
His negativity about himself and the people around him is pretty intense and he seems confused by the way Tsuna responds by mentioning all of his own failures with a smile. Enma understands his own failings better than anyone else and he’s too suspicious and closed off to understand why Tsuna would talk about his own failures like that. Who would willingly give away their own failures to anyone? Not Enma, not when it can be used against them. It’s not until Tsuna’s room gets blown up by tiny assassins and they get buried in a sea of Tsuna’s failed tests that Enma realises Tsuna was telling the truth. From that, we get to see Enma’s first genuine laugh in the series and one thing is clear - Enma might be incredibly cynical and shy but deep, deep down, all he wants is one thing: a friend that can laugh with him over mistakes and failures.
Of course, with as many trust issues as Enma has, sharing just one moment together isn’t enough to win his trust and faith. The next day, he is as shy as ever and runs away straight away when someone scary approaches. When he sees one of his family members getting involved in a big incident at school, he seems confused as to why Tsuna keeps dragging him around, forcing him to get involved, showing how Enma isn’t the kind of person to put himself forward or get involved in anyone’s business, even if it means trouble for everyone later. Even though he’s the boss of the Shimon, he prefers to let Adel (his older sister figure) make all the decisions. He just doesn’t see what he can do so he doesn’t do anything at all and mentions that he’s always thinking of running away. But he’s a little too apathetic to the world to do much about that. The only time he shows a measure of confidence is when he correctly reads a sign when Tsuna fails to do so and, when he cynically says to Tsuna: "When humans have power they use it rashly. School bullies, the mafia…they're all like that…What about you?" While Enma seems to have little faith in anything else, if there’s one thing Enma does know without a doubt, it’s that people in power use theirs to oppress the weak. What he doesn’t know, however is how Tsuna will handle power. Despite his absolute faith in people being scum of the earth, he isn’t too sure about Tsuna and wants to know how he will be.
And, over the week, Enma shows more and more glimpses of the boy that lies beneath the cynical and lonely exterior. He takes to Tsuna’s pet lion instantly, doesn’t seem to mind the chaos that goes on around him and gradually finds himself taking more and more to Tsuna. He smiles more, he seems a tiny bit more chipper and generally he seems to enjoy himself. He can’t bring himself to hate Tsuna when Tsuna is just like him. And he wants to trust him. He really, really does. So when Tsuna seemingly breaks that trust and fails the small test Enma set up for him to test the strength of their friendship, something in Enma snaps and we see how much anger and hatred for the world he’s been keeping locked up inside of himself all along.
During the Shimon Arc, it becomes increasingly clear Enma cares very little for anyone outside of his own family. He’ll do anything for them - stain his hands in blood, lie, cheat, hurt innocent people, kidnap poor girls and fight, even if he hates fighting - because for him, losing his comrades would be worse than doing any of those other things. His view of justice is pretty warped, as long as he thinks he and his family are in the right, he’ll do anything and it becomes increasingly clear that he’s less concerned about justice and entirely aiming for vengeance. He wants people to suffer the way he suffered, the way his family suffered for so long. When he gets this upset, he can’t see the pain of anyone else but his own. He refuses to. Because seeing that pain would mean he’s doing something wrong and he can’t accept that. He can’t afford to because that would mean that he based his pride on the wrong thing. It’s not that Enma is completely cruel - his kindness to his family (and cats!!) is genuine. His budding friendship with Tsuna had been genuine. It’s just that his ability to extend kindness to just anyone is extremely limited. So when he finds himself angry and feeling betrayed, he embraces that feeling wholeheartedly in order to exact his revenge properly.
And slowly, but surely, this anger and hate tear away at him, leaving him lost in his own madness as his power corrupts him. In it, we see how deep his fear of loneliness runs as that’s all he can think of when he’s at his worst. He’s fatalistic to a fault: he doesn’t think anyone can save him. But once again, Tsuna proves him wrong when he comes rushing in to save Enma. And that? That secures Enma’s friendship forever. Because even though Enma had hurt so many people close to Tsuna and attempted to kill Tsuna on several occasions, Tsuna just shrugs it off and forgives him. Because they’re friends and that’s all that ever mattered to Tsuna. And for Enma, who spent all his life being abused and beaten, who found himself feeling only anger and suspicion for the world at large, this is a miracle. By all rights, Tsuna should have hated Enma. But he didn’t. He gave Enma everything Enma thought he didn’t deserve. So this time, when Tsuna extends his hand, Enma takes it. And for the first time in Enma’s life, he finds himself caring about someone who isn’t his family and is willing to give his life for that very person.
This is a turning point in Enma’s personality. It’s not that he’s any less angry and cynical. It’s not that he’s learned to trust and love people the way Tsuna seems to do so in a way that seems effortless. It’s just that Tsuna is Enma’s first friend and this improves Enma’s personality for the better. He finally has someone he can trust without a doubt that isn’t his family member. No longer does he skulk in a corner, flinching at every little thing and staring people down with suspicion. He still prefers to let others take the lead, he still gets bullied, he still gets chased by dogs, he still doesn’t like school, he’s still painfully shy and he still gets really, really angry when people attack him or his loved ones. But he smiles more easily, he laughs, he gets into shenanigans. He learns to love life a little more (especially now that he doesn’t have to carry the burden of killing people) and he’s learned the value of having faith in someone. That’s what saved him after all. (and he even ends up making one friend outside of Tsuna! It helps that friend is a) a baby so now Enma can be even more like Tsuna and b) happy to feed cats which earns people many, many points in Enma’s book).
★ COURT ALLIANCE: Unseelie because while Enma would hate the whole “picking on the weak” part of the Unseelie, Enma doesn’t have much regard for laws or codes of honour. He’s pretty much an “eye for an eye” sort of guy except he’ll take out both eyes and a tongue if angry enough. He’s a good kid, mostly but he’s angry and cynical and has no faith in codes and laws that are supposedly in place to “protect” the weak. He also doesn’t actually care about anyone but his loved ones and he’d gladly to sacrifice the whole world if it means keeping his loved ones safe. And although he hates fighting, if he thinks it’s the only thing that’ll keep his family safe, he’ll be glad to get his hands dirty.
★ ABILITIES:
In which Enma defies all laws of gravity and rejects how gravity and stars actually work.
In his dying will mode, he has increased physical strength, speed and endurance. He also seems to behave more confidently with it.
On a basic level, he can basically manipulate gravity through his earth flames. Throw people around, crush them, lift objects, mounds of dirt etc. It can be easily mistaken for some sort of psychokinesis. He’s more than capable of leveling battalions of soldiers and rooms of people without even blinking. However, despite his strength, he needs his arms to aim otherwise he loses control over his own abilities.
He can great giant black spheres with the gravity of a star that can change the trajectory of enemy or ally attacks and mess with their ability to move around. He can also create giant black holes by collapsing these spheres to suck people in and immobilise them.
He can also fly.
EACHDRAIDH SPECIFIC MODIFICATIONS (IMPORTANT!!!):
+ We're going to downgrade his black hole formation/gravity manipulation to a general psychokinesis, for which we'll need a pretty exhaustive permissions post. Assume he can only use this power to affect large furniture/up to 6 individuals at a time, and that he experiences the use of this power as a great strain when used against other shardholders.
+ He can still create dark spheres, but imagine it more as shadow elemental magic: these spheres will do physical damage against opponents on contact and physically slow them down.
★ INVENTORY:
His shimon ring.
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
[VIDEO/OTA]
Th-they’re trying to eat me-!
[The video spins wildly around as Enma flails around, kicking at the imps that have gotten a good hold on his legs, crawling away frantically. Apparently Enma had spent a little too long laying around trying to pretend it was all a dream because the imps have forgotten what they originally there for and throw a sack on Enma just as he escapes.]
How do I--
[Surprised by the sudden darkness, Enma yelps and continues running, his locket swinging back and forth in his hands. He’s just a boy in a sack and he’d like to go home now and put on some clothes that actually keep him warm. There’s another cry as the video manages to capture Enma with a sack over his head, taking a tumble down the stairs. It ends just as the imps all launch themselves at him, ready to make him dinner--
but a perceptive eye might notice that before everything goes dark, a strange force seems to be throwing them back]
- ★ LOG SAMPLE:
http://fairynuff.dreamwidth.org/2859.html?thread=1768235#cmt1768235
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http://fairynuff.dreamwidth.org/2859.html?thread=1770795#cmt1770795
