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Sep. 7th, 2013 12:26 amOOC Information
NAME: Al
AGE: 25
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Beastboy, Jinx, Harley Quinn
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME: Azula
AGE: 15
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
CANON POINT: Taken from before the Promise Trilogy of comics but after her defeat at the end of the cartoon series.
FAMILY TYPES:
Dark Area: The Darkness in Azula's heart is born from her father's corruption and favoritism. In her is a deep hatred of her family, including him despite the fact that she still loves him and longs for his approval. She has done terrible things in her quest for power.
Dragons Roar: Azula has always been a take charge kind of princess. Ready willing and able to lead either by example or by asserting her dominance over others. After her mental break though she became much more rash and unable to control her temper.
Metal Empire: Before her break, Azula has shown herself to be a cold, cruel, ruthless scheming manipulator of the highest caliber. Able to focus control emotions completely she even mastered control of lightning, known to be a difficult task for those who are not in complete control.
Nightmare Soldiers: Once again we have seen Azula's dark side. A willingness to kill her brother, to aid her father in the domination of their world and mass genocide. She is ready willing and able to commit horrible deeds to get whatever she wants.
APPEARANCE:
A pale, once beautiful girl, she has not been well kept since her time locked away.
Her beautiful black silken hair is unkempt and messy, dull and dry. Her once toned and athletic body is slender and weak from lack of movement and malnutrition. Where her eyes once burned with fire and were as cold and sharp as ice, now they are dull and glassy most of the time as she drifts between hallucinations and paranoid fears. When she does focus them it's not usually for long.
When she is in control, and when she has her way she wants to look her absolute best at all times. Makeup, clothes that reflect her importance, not a hair out of place. But in her depression her vanity has fallen by the wayside.
PERSONALITY:
When she's in her right mind, Azula is a cold calculating perfectionist. She is almost entirely incapable of normal emotions and connecting with people because of how her father raised her to be a perfect deadly force of nature. He wanted the perfect children but he did too well. With the mounting pressure of realizing she would never have his approval she has become unstable, paranoid, violent and exceedingly emotional at times especially when provoked. Sometimes it doesn't take much but we all have our bad days.
She loathes her mother, blaming her for all the problems in her life. When she was young and beginning to show her cruel selfish tendencies her mother's attempts at curbing the behavior and tending to Azula's softer hearted brother made Azula believe her mother didn't care about her. She believes her mother feared and hated her and has gone out of her way to ruin Azula's life. Deep down though like with her father, all she wants is the same sort of love and affection her mother had for Zuko. And it's reached the point where even if her mother were to tell her she loved her? Azula would not believe her. How could her mother love her knowing how imperfect and monstrous she is?
Emotional and unstable Azula has drawn further into herself finding herself unable to trust even those she was closest to. She constantly fears assassination and struggles to get even a full nights sleep. She's prone to hallucinations of people from her past, her mother, father and so on. Indeed any time she has perceived that someone has made an attempt on her life no matter how inconsequential or unrelated the action might be she finds herself unable to trust them. In her own world when she was in power she banished every one that she believed she could not trust.
Deep down she has a need for vindication; a need for some kind of justification for everything she's done up to this point. She feels like she was cheated out of the rewards she was promised. Her father's approval, the respect of the entire world as she took her place at his side to rule. And the undeniable power of being Firelord. She's lost everything she ever wanted in a short space of time. She's been forced to admit that she is not perfect, and may possibly never be the perfect daughter his father wanted.
Her father raised her to have a strong sense of pride in herself and her nation. She was royal because she deserved to be royal. Her family were the leaders because some people were just better then others. And those who were poor deserved it. Bad luck came to those who weren't strong enough to make to control of their own destiny. And to fraternize with the poor and the common, the ugly and the stupid is beneath her and her family. She believes that surrounding yourself with people of culture, grace and intelligence not only looks better and makes you feel better, but keeps you sharp. And the only reason to surround yourself with lesser people is if they know their place and show you the proper amount of respect.
After her breakdown she became suspicious of so many though she could find no comfort or respite in the company of the upper class or the commoners.
At her core she is ruthless. Very few things are allowed to come between her and her goals, even her closest friends were cast aside when they stopped her from killing her brother. Interestingly enough is she didn't order them dead, only locked away. She couldn't bring herself to see them dead at the time...though now she wonders if that has changed.
Because of her strict upbringing she is awkward in some more simple social interactions, especially with teenagers her own age. If they don't know and respect her it throws her off as she's spent her whole life as a member of the most powerful royal family. She doesn't understand what normal "common" teenagers do and with only a few examples and interactions she's not entirely sure she wants to be like them. Why when she can be pampered as a princess? She enjoys the luxuries it affords and she enjoys intimidating people. Still it bothers her that she was unable to interact with other teenagers normally. She simply told herself it was because she was so much better then them and that it didn't matter.
She has a lack of empathy in the sense that while she believes she understands how people work, and indeed she is great at manipulating people, she has difficulty imagining how they feel for herself. On some level she simply doesn't care or see why she should show concern for other inferior imperfect people. Survival of the fittest and let the weak suffer and serve those more worthy.
Because of all of this, her failures, her breakdown, her coming to the realization that her father used and abandoned her has drudged up some deeply harbored guilt inside her that she's held at bay with her iron will. It's this guilt that allows her to freely admit that she is a monster, sometimes in a joking manner but more often then not lately with complete seriousness. Often this guilt will manifest in the hallucinations of her mother who tries to comfort Azula and sooth her the way Azula imagines a mother should act.
She loves her nation, the culture of it, even the people. She believes everything she did was to better her nation but she also believes they have betrayed her by allowing Zuko to take the throne. She suspects the nation simply allowed her to be swept under the rug and hopefully forgotten like a bad nightmare.
Given the state of her mental condition, her irrational and paranoid attitude, her lust for power and perfection, she is not the most friendly or warm chosen to arrive in the digital world. But losing her fire bending has taken alot of the steam out of her. While she is far from defenseless thanks to years of training, fire bending was her strongest weapon and most prided skill. It will force her to try and focus herself once more.
As such she will be even more afraid of death since she lacks her greatest defense. Once she is aware that she's too weak to hurt even the weaker level digimon she will be wary of them, even her partner. But with enough time and being forced to interact with normal people should go a long way to her healing...provided her partner can keep her under control. First she will need to learn to trust others and accept her imperfections as being acceptable. She will need to learn that needing others isn't a weakness.
Finally and most importantly, she will need to learn there are more important things in life then power.
Of course it helps that she is separated from all the people from her world that would trigger her into a rage. Without her family, or those who overthrew her and her father she will be able to put some distance between herself and the situation. Perhaps gain some perspective that she would not otherwise have while in a treatment facility.
Should they arrive before she has made significant progress it is likely she would plot against them. At worst she might lash out, attack them, but given the nature of power in the Digital World the worst that may come from that is a dark evolution of her own partner. Even if her plot were to succeed finding out that they wouldn't stay dead would make the effort in killing them an act of futility and luxury, only affording her temporary pleasure and costing her far too much in the process if the citizens were to turn on her and decide she was too dangerous to leave loose.
The world of Terminal Tokyo will prove a test of Azula's will, to become the person she once was and claims to want to be again, or to become something new and better. Only time and the influences of this world will tell.
HISTORY:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Azula
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON:
1.) If you could make any reality at all, what would you make?
The reality that SHOULD HAVE BEEN! The world as it should be, with Father as the Phoenix King ruling over all, and I...the Fire Lord. First female Firelord. Respected. Feared. Worshiped! And my traitorous brother would have gotten what he deserved!
Yes...lock him away! Lock him away like he did me. Bound, unable to move. Having to be fed like a child, to drink like a animal! To be forgotten by everyone! A shadow in the back of our minds. A foot note on the glorious history of our nation!
And our nation would be strong! Under my rule with the King's guidance the world will be as it always should have been. Four nations united under two rulers.
And he would be so proud.
*****************************************************
2.) What would you say is your greatest strength?
Strength? HA!
Look at me. The disposed ruler of a nation of sheep. They forgot about me the moment he stepped to the throne. Months I've waited. Where are the cries of protest? Was there no one loyal to their true ruler?
I was a war hero, I completed vital missions for the Fire Lord that would have won us the war! I KILLED THE AVATAR! ME! No one else! With my strategy and skill! No one could match me in fire bending! No one could control the lightning as easily as I could. I worked EVERY DAY to perfect myself. Like a knife for father to slice out his enemies heart.
...and all it took was a moment of weakness. To let my guard down. And those closest to me took all that away.
My plans? Ruined. My skills? Useless. That one moment of betrayal and I was doomed.
My greatest strength was an illusion. Nothing more.
*******************************************************
6.) What would make up your ideal friend?
Friends are a weakness to be exploited.
I had friends once! The only two people I ever met who I could respect like a member of my family. We grew up together, climbing through the ranks of the academy. Destroying any who even dared to oppose us. We learned about each other helped one another. I learned much from them and they from me.
And when the time came for us to serve the nation? We were unstoppable.
And we had so much fun.
Until when I needed them most? They betrayed me. Left me helpless and screaming on the ground as they undid months...YEARS of work.
My ideal friends? Nothing but a memory.
THIRD PERSON:
http://mirage-universe.dreamwidth.org/24546.html?thread=2391010#cmt2391010
NAME: Al
AGE: 25
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Beastboy, Jinx, Harley Quinn
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME: Azula
AGE: 15
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
CANON POINT: Taken from before the Promise Trilogy of comics but after her defeat at the end of the cartoon series.
FAMILY TYPES:
Dark Area: The Darkness in Azula's heart is born from her father's corruption and favoritism. In her is a deep hatred of her family, including him despite the fact that she still loves him and longs for his approval. She has done terrible things in her quest for power.
Dragons Roar: Azula has always been a take charge kind of princess. Ready willing and able to lead either by example or by asserting her dominance over others. After her mental break though she became much more rash and unable to control her temper.
Metal Empire: Before her break, Azula has shown herself to be a cold, cruel, ruthless scheming manipulator of the highest caliber. Able to focus control emotions completely she even mastered control of lightning, known to be a difficult task for those who are not in complete control.
Nightmare Soldiers: Once again we have seen Azula's dark side. A willingness to kill her brother, to aid her father in the domination of their world and mass genocide. She is ready willing and able to commit horrible deeds to get whatever she wants.
APPEARANCE:
A pale, once beautiful girl, she has not been well kept since her time locked away.
Her beautiful black silken hair is unkempt and messy, dull and dry. Her once toned and athletic body is slender and weak from lack of movement and malnutrition. Where her eyes once burned with fire and were as cold and sharp as ice, now they are dull and glassy most of the time as she drifts between hallucinations and paranoid fears. When she does focus them it's not usually for long.
When she is in control, and when she has her way she wants to look her absolute best at all times. Makeup, clothes that reflect her importance, not a hair out of place. But in her depression her vanity has fallen by the wayside.
PERSONALITY:
When she's in her right mind, Azula is a cold calculating perfectionist. She is almost entirely incapable of normal emotions and connecting with people because of how her father raised her to be a perfect deadly force of nature. He wanted the perfect children but he did too well. With the mounting pressure of realizing she would never have his approval she has become unstable, paranoid, violent and exceedingly emotional at times especially when provoked. Sometimes it doesn't take much but we all have our bad days.
She loathes her mother, blaming her for all the problems in her life. When she was young and beginning to show her cruel selfish tendencies her mother's attempts at curbing the behavior and tending to Azula's softer hearted brother made Azula believe her mother didn't care about her. She believes her mother feared and hated her and has gone out of her way to ruin Azula's life. Deep down though like with her father, all she wants is the same sort of love and affection her mother had for Zuko. And it's reached the point where even if her mother were to tell her she loved her? Azula would not believe her. How could her mother love her knowing how imperfect and monstrous she is?
Emotional and unstable Azula has drawn further into herself finding herself unable to trust even those she was closest to. She constantly fears assassination and struggles to get even a full nights sleep. She's prone to hallucinations of people from her past, her mother, father and so on. Indeed any time she has perceived that someone has made an attempt on her life no matter how inconsequential or unrelated the action might be she finds herself unable to trust them. In her own world when she was in power she banished every one that she believed she could not trust.
Deep down she has a need for vindication; a need for some kind of justification for everything she's done up to this point. She feels like she was cheated out of the rewards she was promised. Her father's approval, the respect of the entire world as she took her place at his side to rule. And the undeniable power of being Firelord. She's lost everything she ever wanted in a short space of time. She's been forced to admit that she is not perfect, and may possibly never be the perfect daughter his father wanted.
Her father raised her to have a strong sense of pride in herself and her nation. She was royal because she deserved to be royal. Her family were the leaders because some people were just better then others. And those who were poor deserved it. Bad luck came to those who weren't strong enough to make to control of their own destiny. And to fraternize with the poor and the common, the ugly and the stupid is beneath her and her family. She believes that surrounding yourself with people of culture, grace and intelligence not only looks better and makes you feel better, but keeps you sharp. And the only reason to surround yourself with lesser people is if they know their place and show you the proper amount of respect.
After her breakdown she became suspicious of so many though she could find no comfort or respite in the company of the upper class or the commoners.
At her core she is ruthless. Very few things are allowed to come between her and her goals, even her closest friends were cast aside when they stopped her from killing her brother. Interestingly enough is she didn't order them dead, only locked away. She couldn't bring herself to see them dead at the time...though now she wonders if that has changed.
Because of her strict upbringing she is awkward in some more simple social interactions, especially with teenagers her own age. If they don't know and respect her it throws her off as she's spent her whole life as a member of the most powerful royal family. She doesn't understand what normal "common" teenagers do and with only a few examples and interactions she's not entirely sure she wants to be like them. Why when she can be pampered as a princess? She enjoys the luxuries it affords and she enjoys intimidating people. Still it bothers her that she was unable to interact with other teenagers normally. She simply told herself it was because she was so much better then them and that it didn't matter.
She has a lack of empathy in the sense that while she believes she understands how people work, and indeed she is great at manipulating people, she has difficulty imagining how they feel for herself. On some level she simply doesn't care or see why she should show concern for other inferior imperfect people. Survival of the fittest and let the weak suffer and serve those more worthy.
Because of all of this, her failures, her breakdown, her coming to the realization that her father used and abandoned her has drudged up some deeply harbored guilt inside her that she's held at bay with her iron will. It's this guilt that allows her to freely admit that she is a monster, sometimes in a joking manner but more often then not lately with complete seriousness. Often this guilt will manifest in the hallucinations of her mother who tries to comfort Azula and sooth her the way Azula imagines a mother should act.
She loves her nation, the culture of it, even the people. She believes everything she did was to better her nation but she also believes they have betrayed her by allowing Zuko to take the throne. She suspects the nation simply allowed her to be swept under the rug and hopefully forgotten like a bad nightmare.
Given the state of her mental condition, her irrational and paranoid attitude, her lust for power and perfection, she is not the most friendly or warm chosen to arrive in the digital world. But losing her fire bending has taken alot of the steam out of her. While she is far from defenseless thanks to years of training, fire bending was her strongest weapon and most prided skill. It will force her to try and focus herself once more.
As such she will be even more afraid of death since she lacks her greatest defense. Once she is aware that she's too weak to hurt even the weaker level digimon she will be wary of them, even her partner. But with enough time and being forced to interact with normal people should go a long way to her healing...provided her partner can keep her under control. First she will need to learn to trust others and accept her imperfections as being acceptable. She will need to learn that needing others isn't a weakness.
Finally and most importantly, she will need to learn there are more important things in life then power.
Of course it helps that she is separated from all the people from her world that would trigger her into a rage. Without her family, or those who overthrew her and her father she will be able to put some distance between herself and the situation. Perhaps gain some perspective that she would not otherwise have while in a treatment facility.
Should they arrive before she has made significant progress it is likely she would plot against them. At worst she might lash out, attack them, but given the nature of power in the Digital World the worst that may come from that is a dark evolution of her own partner. Even if her plot were to succeed finding out that they wouldn't stay dead would make the effort in killing them an act of futility and luxury, only affording her temporary pleasure and costing her far too much in the process if the citizens were to turn on her and decide she was too dangerous to leave loose.
The world of Terminal Tokyo will prove a test of Azula's will, to become the person she once was and claims to want to be again, or to become something new and better. Only time and the influences of this world will tell.
HISTORY:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Azula
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON:
1.) If you could make any reality at all, what would you make?
The reality that SHOULD HAVE BEEN! The world as it should be, with Father as the Phoenix King ruling over all, and I...the Fire Lord. First female Firelord. Respected. Feared. Worshiped! And my traitorous brother would have gotten what he deserved!
Yes...lock him away! Lock him away like he did me. Bound, unable to move. Having to be fed like a child, to drink like a animal! To be forgotten by everyone! A shadow in the back of our minds. A foot note on the glorious history of our nation!
And our nation would be strong! Under my rule with the King's guidance the world will be as it always should have been. Four nations united under two rulers.
And he would be so proud.
*****************************************************
2.) What would you say is your greatest strength?
Strength? HA!
Look at me. The disposed ruler of a nation of sheep. They forgot about me the moment he stepped to the throne. Months I've waited. Where are the cries of protest? Was there no one loyal to their true ruler?
I was a war hero, I completed vital missions for the Fire Lord that would have won us the war! I KILLED THE AVATAR! ME! No one else! With my strategy and skill! No one could match me in fire bending! No one could control the lightning as easily as I could. I worked EVERY DAY to perfect myself. Like a knife for father to slice out his enemies heart.
...and all it took was a moment of weakness. To let my guard down. And those closest to me took all that away.
My plans? Ruined. My skills? Useless. That one moment of betrayal and I was doomed.
My greatest strength was an illusion. Nothing more.
*******************************************************
6.) What would make up your ideal friend?
Friends are a weakness to be exploited.
I had friends once! The only two people I ever met who I could respect like a member of my family. We grew up together, climbing through the ranks of the academy. Destroying any who even dared to oppose us. We learned about each other helped one another. I learned much from them and they from me.
And when the time came for us to serve the nation? We were unstoppable.
And we had so much fun.
Until when I needed them most? They betrayed me. Left me helpless and screaming on the ground as they undid months...YEARS of work.
My ideal friends? Nothing but a memory.
THIRD PERSON:
http://mirage-universe.dreamwidth.org/24546.html?thread=2391010#cmt2391010
