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kujikawaii) wrote2009-11-01 08:21 pm
kujikawaii) wrote2009-11-01 08:21 pm
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♬ I will never be, never ever be sure of it all
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Name: Emely
Timezone: Eastern Pacific
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Email Address: shynathetwerp@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: N/A
Character Information
Name: Rise Kujikawa
Canon Origin/Series: Persona 4
School Year: 5
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Blood status: Muggle-born
Personality:Rise Kujikawa is a girl of many faces, albeit unintentionally since even she isn't sure who she is.
One the surface she is cheerful, flirtatious, and for lack of a better term, a 'girly girl'. She likes attention, likes to play and be active, and is friendly with just about everyone. She loves spicy food, likes fashion, and is very concerned with her appearance. Sometimes she can be selfish and petty, but usually about things that don't matter. She has mounds of energy and can come off as rather air-headed at times.
As a Japanese teen idol she is forced to act in a very particular way. This 'way' is a greatly exaggerated version of her surface personality, and may indeed be responsible for the existence of that surface personality entirely. Rise has been working as an idol for a years doing commercials, singing, and she was even in line to star in a movie before she quit. Despite being new she gained popularity quite quickly which was something she had desired for a long time, but as she says, the person everyone liked was Risette (as she is called in her role) not Rise. This combined with the stress of the fast-paced life made her decide to quit and left her a rather bitter and depressed person.
In truth Rise can actually be quite shy. The reason she went into the business was in part to escape the large amounts of bullying she endured in school due to said shyness, and to escape similar troubles at home. She was also very weak-willed and a bit of a pushover since she came from a very strict family, with parents who weren't the most caring, nor the healthiest of people. She has her moments of being incredibly quiet and reserved—particularly when she is troubled by something, but when around others she tries to keep on a smile nonetheless. Rise alters her personality a lot to try and fit that of whomever she is with—even when she joins the team she says "Well, I know i sounded gloomy and all from stress, so... I-I thought you might not like me that way..."
While she isn't the brightest bulb when it comes to academics, and her impulsiveness can land her in more than one sticky spot, she isn't stupid, and one almost uncomfortable talent of hers is her ability to read others. This probably explains the nature of her Persona, Himeko/Kanzeon (who can heal, but primarily functions as a strategist and analyzes the weaknesses and abilities of enemies). Rise has a particular knack for understanding others, and how they feel, and deliver just what they need. This may have sprung from the countless types of people her job has forced her to meet, or perhaps from that fact that as a lonely child all she could ever do was observe others. Probably a combination of both. Much of Rise's poor grades have to do with lack of confidence. She thinks herself to be very stupid since she forces herself to act that way sometimes to make other feel better, and after missing two years of schooling, and much more because of her circumstances as a child, she is in fact quite behind. However since she acts as the information gatherer, analysist and strategist of the group she has more going for her than it might seem at first. She just...needs motivation.
As the representative of the Lovers Arcana, Rise is, unsurprisingly, a very loving person. She is very open-minded and forgiving; sure she'll have her childish bouts of anger towards a person, but they go as easily as they come. It's very hard for her not to like a person, or at least be curious and sympathetic with them. Despite her problems and the nastiness she has endured from many other people both due to her nature and status, she is a genuinely optimistic person and holds faith in many people. As Risette she used her status to help awareness campaigns, so she could be considered a bit of a humanitarian as well. When it comes to the well-fare of others, Rise has an incredibly powerful moral compass and she is able to put aside of her insecurities to step up and do what is right. It's the plight of others that gives her fortitude, and she will not hesitate to stand up to even friends and allies to tell them off if they are doing something wrong, or saying something inappropriate.
Like most of the other main characters of Persona 4, Rise had to face her shadow, that is, the warped and exaggerated manifestation of that which she represses. The world her shadow created was a strip club named the Marukyu Revue, and her shadow wore nothing more than a skimpy yellow bikini and threatened to 'bare it all'. She said "I'm sick of being some airhead cliche who chokes down everything she'd fed and takes it all with a smile." Her shadow's desire to strip was Rise's desire to strip away her fake personality so that people could see who she really was, something that she had been unable to do because of her job and her shyness.
If the player chooses to go through Rise's social link (in Persona 4 you can grow closer to certain characters by going through a series of events with them to get to know them better and help them grow) she will slowly grow to be a much more confident person. She will learn that Risette isn't a fake entity, but just another facet of who she is. Rise learns to overcome her insecurities about other people, and goes past her trust issues to finally learn how to just 'be' instead of forcing herself to cater to what she believes others want. She declares that she will return to the idol business but on her own terms—writing her own music, and continuing her campaigns.
Considering how much she likes to tease the Investigation Team throughout the game, it isn't a stretch by any means to say this is a hobby of Rise's. She can be quite the little prankster when she pleases, and really, when she actually devotes herself to something, can be quite a genius at it.
Canon Background: Rise Kujikawa was born in the small town Yasoinaba, more commonly known as Inaba in Japan. She was an only child with parents who either ignored or maltreated her, and often kept her from school. Not that she particularly objected. Rise was the kind of kid who you would almost mistake to be mute. She was rarely there, and she was barely noticed when she was making her seem very much like a ghost. When she was noticed, she was bullied in all sorts of awful ways.
This continued for a couple years with her grandmother being her only refuge. On her tenth birthday her grandmother sent in a tape of her singing to an idol audition and Rise won. She went in, auditioned live, and won the competition. She was hesitant to take up the job at first, but then thought that maybe this would be a good way for her to make friends. She trained in voice, dance, and acting lessons and made her debut at the age of thirteen. For a while Rise got what she thought she wanted until she realized that all the love her was getting was superficial, moreso it was directed to 'Risette' and not herself.
When she came to understand this she left the idol business and returned to her home town. It was covered up as a 'temporary hiatus due to health reasons' while her manager Inoue tried to get her to come back. There was something strange about Inaba this time around, however. It had always be peaceful, quiet, heck even boring but Rise knew upon returning that it had been plagued with a bout of recent and bizarre murders. When she arrived she heard a rumor about the 'Midnight Channel'. If you watched a TV turned off, at 12 am on a rainy day you would see your soulmate. Rise attempted this and saw...herself! Thus she learned she was the biggest narcissist in the world and became the first person to marry herself. No, not really. The next day some boys came by the tofu shop her grandmother ran, and that she was helping out at, and warned her that because of her appearance on the Midnight Channel they thought she might be the next victim. Turns out they were right on the dime. Rise was knocked out and when she woke up it was in a strip club with her Shadow. The shadow spoke of all the things that Rise kept hidden from even herself, and when she denied it, it attempted to kill her. Thankfully the Investigation team saved her, and given another chance Rise was finally able to confront her Shadow, and it became her Persona, Himeko.
Since then she has been part of the team as they work to try and solve the murder case in Inaba. The have learned of a dangerous world inside televisions full of shadows, some which manifest from the insecurities and fears of those who wander into it. They know that the murderer has been tossing people into this world and leaving them there to die. The others on the team are Souji, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kanji, and Teddie—after Rise, Naoto also joins and together they discover that the murderer is Adachi.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Much like her canon background, Rise was born to a small town called Frammling in Britain. It holds much of the same qualities as Inaba. Small, quiet, but a very unique and loving place. She went through much of the same troubles in her childhood—an inability to communicate, bullying, and a mother with Munchausen by proxy that kept her out of school and from interacting with her neighbors. As such Rise led a very isolated life and found refuge in musicals—music in general, really, and her grandmother. Upon seeing her talent, her grandmother began to encourage her to take voice lessons and write her own music. Of course she was still much too young to have a very mature voice, but this encouragement would lead to her producing an album later in life under the alias of Risette.
When she received her invitation to Hogwarts she was just as surprised as anyone else. Her father disapproved, but not so much that he would go against it since it satiated her attention-desperate mother—at least until she realized that she would not be able to tell any others about her daughter being a Witch. By then, however, Rise had resolved that she would go to Hogwarts and make herself into the person that she wanted to be. Hogwarts has done amazing things to her confidence. She's become particularly intrigued by the class Trace Magics and Analysis and of course Music.
It was a very hard beginning for her. She was Muggle born, and all Muggle borns have difficulty for her, but it wasn't as if her shyness had completely disappeared. Still, even she managed to make friends and over the years she finally broke out of her shell.
Name: Emely
Timezone: Eastern Pacific
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chibi_scriberPlayers Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM: RingCampana
Email Address: shynathetwerp@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: N/A
Character Information
Name: Rise Kujikawa
Canon Origin/Series: Persona 4
School Year: 5
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Blood status: Muggle-born
Personality:Rise Kujikawa is a girl of many faces, albeit unintentionally since even she isn't sure who she is.
One the surface she is cheerful, flirtatious, and for lack of a better term, a 'girly girl'. She likes attention, likes to play and be active, and is friendly with just about everyone. She loves spicy food, likes fashion, and is very concerned with her appearance. Sometimes she can be selfish and petty, but usually about things that don't matter. She has mounds of energy and can come off as rather air-headed at times.
As a Japanese teen idol she is forced to act in a very particular way. This 'way' is a greatly exaggerated version of her surface personality, and may indeed be responsible for the existence of that surface personality entirely. Rise has been working as an idol for a years doing commercials, singing, and she was even in line to star in a movie before she quit. Despite being new she gained popularity quite quickly which was something she had desired for a long time, but as she says, the person everyone liked was Risette (as she is called in her role) not Rise. This combined with the stress of the fast-paced life made her decide to quit and left her a rather bitter and depressed person.
In truth Rise can actually be quite shy. The reason she went into the business was in part to escape the large amounts of bullying she endured in school due to said shyness, and to escape similar troubles at home. She was also very weak-willed and a bit of a pushover since she came from a very strict family, with parents who weren't the most caring, nor the healthiest of people. She has her moments of being incredibly quiet and reserved—particularly when she is troubled by something, but when around others she tries to keep on a smile nonetheless. Rise alters her personality a lot to try and fit that of whomever she is with—even when she joins the team she says "Well, I know i sounded gloomy and all from stress, so... I-I thought you might not like me that way..."
While she isn't the brightest bulb when it comes to academics, and her impulsiveness can land her in more than one sticky spot, she isn't stupid, and one almost uncomfortable talent of hers is her ability to read others. This probably explains the nature of her Persona, Himeko/Kanzeon (who can heal, but primarily functions as a strategist and analyzes the weaknesses and abilities of enemies). Rise has a particular knack for understanding others, and how they feel, and deliver just what they need. This may have sprung from the countless types of people her job has forced her to meet, or perhaps from that fact that as a lonely child all she could ever do was observe others. Probably a combination of both. Much of Rise's poor grades have to do with lack of confidence. She thinks herself to be very stupid since she forces herself to act that way sometimes to make other feel better, and after missing two years of schooling, and much more because of her circumstances as a child, she is in fact quite behind. However since she acts as the information gatherer, analysist and strategist of the group she has more going for her than it might seem at first. She just...needs motivation.
As the representative of the Lovers Arcana, Rise is, unsurprisingly, a very loving person. She is very open-minded and forgiving; sure she'll have her childish bouts of anger towards a person, but they go as easily as they come. It's very hard for her not to like a person, or at least be curious and sympathetic with them. Despite her problems and the nastiness she has endured from many other people both due to her nature and status, she is a genuinely optimistic person and holds faith in many people. As Risette she used her status to help awareness campaigns, so she could be considered a bit of a humanitarian as well. When it comes to the well-fare of others, Rise has an incredibly powerful moral compass and she is able to put aside of her insecurities to step up and do what is right. It's the plight of others that gives her fortitude, and she will not hesitate to stand up to even friends and allies to tell them off if they are doing something wrong, or saying something inappropriate.
Like most of the other main characters of Persona 4, Rise had to face her shadow, that is, the warped and exaggerated manifestation of that which she represses. The world her shadow created was a strip club named the Marukyu Revue, and her shadow wore nothing more than a skimpy yellow bikini and threatened to 'bare it all'. She said "I'm sick of being some airhead cliche who chokes down everything she'd fed and takes it all with a smile." Her shadow's desire to strip was Rise's desire to strip away her fake personality so that people could see who she really was, something that she had been unable to do because of her job and her shyness.
If the player chooses to go through Rise's social link (in Persona 4 you can grow closer to certain characters by going through a series of events with them to get to know them better and help them grow) she will slowly grow to be a much more confident person. She will learn that Risette isn't a fake entity, but just another facet of who she is. Rise learns to overcome her insecurities about other people, and goes past her trust issues to finally learn how to just 'be' instead of forcing herself to cater to what she believes others want. She declares that she will return to the idol business but on her own terms—writing her own music, and continuing her campaigns.
Considering how much she likes to tease the Investigation Team throughout the game, it isn't a stretch by any means to say this is a hobby of Rise's. She can be quite the little prankster when she pleases, and really, when she actually devotes herself to something, can be quite a genius at it.
Canon Background: Rise Kujikawa was born in the small town Yasoinaba, more commonly known as Inaba in Japan. She was an only child with parents who either ignored or maltreated her, and often kept her from school. Not that she particularly objected. Rise was the kind of kid who you would almost mistake to be mute. She was rarely there, and she was barely noticed when she was making her seem very much like a ghost. When she was noticed, she was bullied in all sorts of awful ways.
This continued for a couple years with her grandmother being her only refuge. On her tenth birthday her grandmother sent in a tape of her singing to an idol audition and Rise won. She went in, auditioned live, and won the competition. She was hesitant to take up the job at first, but then thought that maybe this would be a good way for her to make friends. She trained in voice, dance, and acting lessons and made her debut at the age of thirteen. For a while Rise got what she thought she wanted until she realized that all the love her was getting was superficial, moreso it was directed to 'Risette' and not herself.
When she came to understand this she left the idol business and returned to her home town. It was covered up as a 'temporary hiatus due to health reasons' while her manager Inoue tried to get her to come back. There was something strange about Inaba this time around, however. It had always be peaceful, quiet, heck even boring but Rise knew upon returning that it had been plagued with a bout of recent and bizarre murders. When she arrived she heard a rumor about the 'Midnight Channel'. If you watched a TV turned off, at 12 am on a rainy day you would see your soulmate. Rise attempted this and saw...herself! Thus she learned she was the biggest narcissist in the world and became the first person to marry herself. No, not really. The next day some boys came by the tofu shop her grandmother ran, and that she was helping out at, and warned her that because of her appearance on the Midnight Channel they thought she might be the next victim. Turns out they were right on the dime. Rise was knocked out and when she woke up it was in a strip club with her Shadow. The shadow spoke of all the things that Rise kept hidden from even herself, and when she denied it, it attempted to kill her. Thankfully the Investigation team saved her, and given another chance Rise was finally able to confront her Shadow, and it became her Persona, Himeko.
Since then she has been part of the team as they work to try and solve the murder case in Inaba. The have learned of a dangerous world inside televisions full of shadows, some which manifest from the insecurities and fears of those who wander into it. They know that the murderer has been tossing people into this world and leaving them there to die. The others on the team are Souji, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kanji, and Teddie—after Rise, Naoto also joins and together they discover that the murderer is Adachi.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Much like her canon background, Rise was born to a small town called Frammling in Britain. It holds much of the same qualities as Inaba. Small, quiet, but a very unique and loving place. She went through much of the same troubles in her childhood—an inability to communicate, bullying, and a mother with Munchausen by proxy that kept her out of school and from interacting with her neighbors. As such Rise led a very isolated life and found refuge in musicals—music in general, really, and her grandmother. Upon seeing her talent, her grandmother began to encourage her to take voice lessons and write her own music. Of course she was still much too young to have a very mature voice, but this encouragement would lead to her producing an album later in life under the alias of Risette.
When she received her invitation to Hogwarts she was just as surprised as anyone else. Her father disapproved, but not so much that he would go against it since it satiated her attention-desperate mother—at least until she realized that she would not be able to tell any others about her daughter being a Witch. By then, however, Rise had resolved that she would go to Hogwarts and make herself into the person that she wanted to be. Hogwarts has done amazing things to her confidence. She's become particularly intrigued by the class Trace Magics and Analysis and of course Music.
It was a very hard beginning for her. She was Muggle born, and all Muggle borns have difficulty for her, but it wasn't as if her shyness had completely disappeared. Still, even she managed to make friends and over the years she finally broke out of her shell.