Character Name: Shirayuki Canon: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the non-Disney version) Canon Point: Chapter 12, when Takeru leaves her with Souji Background/History:
Once upon a time, rocks fell and everyone died.
Well, to be accurate, two years before the story begins, meteors fell and Tokyo became an apocalyptic mess of an island as a result. At the time, the governor Kuroyuki was the only one to lend her aid to the survivors, declaring herself as their savior. But during the two years that followed, she became more of a dictator, keeping all of the districts under her control, refusing to feed those who were forced to work, neglecting the care of the ill and injured, and often taking away large groups people to 'labor camps'. This was just a cover-up for subjecting them to painful and life-threatening experiments, in order to increase her number of tekigousha (more or less people with some sort of ability centered in their right arm).
This lovely lady also just so happens to be Shirayuki's mother. One hundred or so years ago, Kuroyuki found an organic rock (the Grim Rock) in Siberia, and took it into her body, thus becoming immortal and ceasing to age. When Shirayuki was born, she inherited that immortality, but continued to grow. The problem here is that Kuroyuki sort of lost her grip on her sanity, and when Shirayuki was still very young, she experimented on her own daughter by implanting a Grim Rock inside of her. As a result of the strain, Shirayuki lost her voice completely, and the rock continued to regenerate, even if it was gouged out. She also stopped aging.
To make things even better(??), Shirayuki became the source of all tekigousha. Namely, because she could mass-produce the Grim Rock, they could then be cut out of her, and be buried into a test subject, giving them incredible abilities if they survived the whole ordeal. There was a chance that repeating the process of making an incompatible person into a tekigousha would eventually succeed, given enough tries, but most of them were just given up on and discarded, their Grim Rocks removed to use on other subjects-- two of which were saved, through Shirayuki's efforts, but more on that later.
To note, the reason for those meteors was actually (unintentionally) due to Shirayuki. The original rock inside of her body gave off a magnetic field that, when combined with a device of her mother's, could control the path of meteors, and when Kuroyuki went "WORLD DESTRUCTION IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE", the apocalypse happened. Between that and all of the atrocities her mother created, and kept creating over the years, Shirayuki understood that she needed to be stopped. With that, she left the Central Government Office building she'd never once gone outside of, to find a certain person in an attempt to put a stop to Kuroyuki's... everything.
And she found Takeru.
Personality:
"So this is... Shirayuki, the governor's very 'soul'..."
At a first glance, Shirayuki appears as no more than your average little girl, bright-eyed and inquisitive-- but unable to vocalize her thoughts, due to the aforementioned strain of getting an organic rock placed inside of her. But that doesn't stop her from conveying her intentions and emotions by expressive gestures and actions, as well as her own facial expressions. When she needs to gain someone's attention, she'll do it by tugging or flailing at them. When she's irritated, she'll deliberately shun the culprit by avoiding eye contact. She cries when she's sad or in pain (or if someone else is in pain), and she smiles brightly when she's happy. Whenever Takeru tries to hand her off to someone, so he can run off and/or risk his life, she always kicks out and protests as strongly as a little mute girl can. Like most children, she doesn't bother to hide how she's feeling.
Luckily for our heroes, Shirayuki is nothing like her mother in terms of personality and motivation. Despite it causing her immense pain, she saved Amagiya's life (as he was originally deemed incompatible) by having him gouge out a Grim Rock and subsequently making him compatible enough. She does the same with Takeru later on, when his own Grim Rock is ripped out of his arm and he loses his ability, and she pulled him out of a two-year coma just by remaining in close proximity with him. She cares strongly for others, regardless of how long she's known them, and once a connection is established, her sense of attachment is even stronger-- to the point where she cries and becomes very upset when she wakes up at one point to find most of them gone. She values life and would do anything to stop her mother-- even if it meant killing herself to stop Kuroyuki from using her as a tool. Which isn't to say that Shirayuki's reached that point of despair. For all of the pain and agony she's endured over the last hundred years (being forced to summon the meteors, having Grim Rocks gouged out via scalpel, essentially being Mommy's Little Guinea Pig, having a GPS implanted in her chest so her location would be tracked at all times), Shirayuki can still find reasons to smile. She's cheerful and affectionate, never seeming discontent with the transition of a cushy and candy-and-flower-filled life in the government building to traveling through a wasteland with a bunch of wanted guys. She manages to convey to Takeru that she didn't flee at all, bringing with her the knowledge that his older brother is still alive and that she left to at least inform him of this relevant fact. While she is still very much a kid, she understands the important things and only becomes ornery when she's highly upset or worried.
Then there's the matter of her being perceptive. This may just be Takeru's unwavering trust in her, but a lot of the group's recruitment process has been based on Shirayuki's reaction to them. Although Fujimaru is a Ward Chief and, technically, an enemy, she runs to him, rather than Amagiya, and Takeru comments that she definitely knows that he's different. After meeting the thief brothers, Souichi and Souji, when she indicates that she didn't feel any fear regarding them, Takeru takes this as all the proof he needs to trust them-- much to Fujimaru's chagrin. It's arguable that she can actually sense whether a person is inherently good or bad, but it does seem plausible that she's got a pretty good sense of intuition, if nothing else.
Stuck between the young, innocent child she was when her mother experimented on her and having the years of immortality heaped upon her, Shirayuki is still very much a little girl who can't grow and yet was forced to grow from the experiences she was made to go through. Having spent all of her time within the government building, pampered when she wasn't being used, she still possesses a childlike mentality. She tears up and acts disgruntled when she thinks she's been left behind, and she brightens over things like chocolate. She doesn't approve of people being mean, for any reason. And as a child, you would think she'd be fine with being spoiled with flowers and candy, and yet there's no hesitation when she leaves Shinjuku in order to find Takeru. She can be pouty and unhappy with people, but she's quick to bounce back from most grumpy fits, and only becomes truly furious when someone important to her is killed and he's referred to as little more as a source of research information. It's not what's been done to her, but what others are being treated like, that angers her the most. She believes in the people around her, but also isn't above sacrificing herself, if it means Kuroyuki will be stopped. She'll put herself through excruciating pain to make herself useful to the others, with no reluctance whatsoever, and often with a strained but genuine smile at the end of it.
Because in the end, she still believes that things will somehow turn out for the best.
Abilities/Powers:
Being immortal through inheritance and not because of the Grim Rock inside of her (like her mother), Shirayuki possesses infinite regenerative qualities; she can heal from any wound. As noted before, a Grim Rock can be pulled from her, and she'll heal right back up. So long as the original remains inside of her, she also won't age, and twice, she's been able to help incompatible people to become tekigousha, thus saving their lives. While a Grim Rock was typically removed from her via scalpel when they were doing tekigousha experiments, Shirayuki can have someone draw one out of her chest via fusing her hand to theirs and having them reach in to draw it out. Of course, this can get bloody, and it hurts like hell, but it's had its uses!
She can also sense the presence of a tekigousha (and being as Fujimaru is the only one here and no one really gets it when she tugs at them until it's too late, it doesn't really help anyone else out). But it aided her in locating Takeru, instead of wandering around listlessly through all of the districts.
Items/Weapons: Her snowman plush thing, which appears to be attached to her dress, a bag of N&Ns (think M&Ms), and the clothes she's got on (along with the GPS in her chest whooo)
It wasn't too hard to understand, when Shirayuki really thought about it. Like Tokyo, Haven was crumbling all over, food was hard to come by, and looming over all of it... there were bad people, weren't there? People who didn't value life, like her mother. People who were conducting experiments on other people, also like her mother. If she thought about it like that (as much as she didn't want to), then she could get it. Those people also needed to be stopped, and because Shirayuki wasn't of any particular value to them, maybe this time... she could do something?
Because people were suffering here, too. The ones who smiled at her, the ones who yelled at her, Fujimaru-- Shirayuki didn't know their stories, not entirely, but she knew that none of them deserved this. Even the ones that no one else seemed to like. But what could she do for them? She didn't know much about the bad people behind this... she really had no connection to them at all, much to her relief. Of course, that meant that she still didn't know why she had been brought here in the first place. Could her mother track her down when she'd been brought to a place seemingly far from her reach? Should she still be trying to get back?
Growing tired of frowning, Shirayuki rested one hand on the snowman still attached to her dress and swayed thoughtfully-- until it hit her, and she brightened. She could wander Haven with less caution (so long as Fujimaru was either with her or didn't know), and she was little enough that she could probably find cans of food in smaller spaces, if she looked hard enough! If nothing else, she could do her best to make sure as many people didn't get too terribly hungry. It seemed like something that Takeru would do, and in his absence and with Fujimaru even grumpier than ever (maybe the lack of food wasn't helping), she'd just have to try even harder.
She'd return, she knew. Back home, to stop her mother. But in the meantime, she could do what she could here.
This decided, she nodded to herself-- and got to work.
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Character Name: Shirayuki
Canon: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the non-Disney version)
Canon Point: Chapter 12, when Takeru leaves her with Souji
Background/History:
Once upon a time, rocks fell and everyone died.
Well, to be accurate, two years before the story begins, meteors fell and Tokyo became an apocalyptic mess of an island as a result. At the time, the governor Kuroyuki was the only one to lend her aid to the survivors, declaring herself as their savior. But during the two years that followed, she became more of a dictator, keeping all of the districts under her control, refusing to feed those who were forced to work, neglecting the care of the ill and injured, and often taking away large groups people to 'labor camps'. This was just a cover-up for subjecting them to painful and life-threatening experiments, in order to increase her number of tekigousha (more or less people with some sort of ability centered in their right arm).
This lovely lady also just so happens to be Shirayuki's mother. One hundred or so years ago, Kuroyuki found an organic rock (the Grim Rock) in Siberia, and took it into her body, thus becoming immortal and ceasing to age. When Shirayuki was born, she inherited that immortality, but continued to grow. The problem here is that Kuroyuki sort of lost her grip on her sanity, and when Shirayuki was still very young, she experimented on her own daughter by implanting a Grim Rock inside of her. As a result of the strain, Shirayuki lost her voice completely, and the rock continued to regenerate, even if it was gouged out. She also stopped aging.
To make things even better(??), Shirayuki became the source of all tekigousha. Namely, because she could mass-produce the Grim Rock, they could then be cut out of her, and be buried into a test subject, giving them incredible abilities if they survived the whole ordeal. There was a chance that repeating the process of making an incompatible person into a tekigousha would eventually succeed, given enough tries, but most of them were just given up on and discarded, their Grim Rocks removed to use on other subjects-- two of which were saved, through Shirayuki's efforts, but more on that later.
To note, the reason for those meteors was actually (unintentionally) due to Shirayuki. The original rock inside of her body gave off a magnetic field that, when combined with a device of her mother's, could control the path of meteors, and when Kuroyuki went "WORLD DESTRUCTION IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE", the apocalypse happened. Between that and all of the atrocities her mother created, and kept creating over the years, Shirayuki understood that she needed to be stopped. With that, she left the Central Government Office building she'd never once gone outside of, to find a certain person in an attempt to put a stop to Kuroyuki's... everything.
And she found Takeru.
Personality:
At a first glance, Shirayuki appears as no more than your average little girl, bright-eyed and inquisitive-- but unable to vocalize her thoughts, due to the aforementioned strain of getting an organic rock placed inside of her. But that doesn't stop her from conveying her intentions and emotions by expressive gestures and actions, as well as her own facial expressions. When she needs to gain someone's attention, she'll do it by tugging or flailing at them. When she's irritated, she'll deliberately shun the culprit by avoiding eye contact. She cries when she's sad or in pain (or if someone else is in pain), and she smiles brightly when she's happy. Whenever Takeru tries to hand her off to someone, so he can run off and/or risk his life, she always kicks out and protests as strongly as a little mute girl can. Like most children, she doesn't bother to hide how she's feeling.
Luckily for our heroes, Shirayuki is nothing like her mother in terms of personality and motivation. Despite it causing her immense pain, she saved Amagiya's life (as he was originally deemed incompatible) by having him gouge out a Grim Rock and subsequently making him compatible enough. She does the same with Takeru later on, when his own Grim Rock is ripped out of his arm and he loses his ability, and she pulled him out of a two-year coma just by remaining in close proximity with him. She cares strongly for others, regardless of how long she's known them, and once a connection is established, her sense of attachment is even stronger-- to the point where she cries and becomes very upset when she wakes up at one point to find most of them gone. She values life and would do anything to stop her mother-- even if it meant killing herself to stop Kuroyuki from using her as a tool. Which isn't to say that Shirayuki's reached that point of despair. For all of the pain and agony she's endured over the last hundred years (being forced to summon the meteors, having Grim Rocks gouged out via scalpel, essentially being Mommy's Little Guinea Pig, having a GPS implanted in her chest so her location would be tracked at all times), Shirayuki can still find reasons to smile. She's cheerful and affectionate, never seeming discontent with the transition of a cushy and candy-and-flower-filled life in the government building to traveling through a wasteland with a bunch of wanted guys. She manages to convey to Takeru that she didn't flee at all, bringing with her the knowledge that his older brother is still alive and that she left to at least inform him of this relevant fact. While she is still very much a kid, she understands the important things and only becomes ornery when she's highly upset or worried.
Then there's the matter of her being perceptive. This may just be Takeru's unwavering trust in her, but a lot of the group's recruitment process has been based on Shirayuki's reaction to them. Although Fujimaru is a Ward Chief and, technically, an enemy, she runs to him, rather than Amagiya, and Takeru comments that she definitely knows that he's different. After meeting the thief brothers, Souichi and Souji, when she indicates that she didn't feel any fear regarding them, Takeru takes this as all the proof he needs to trust them-- much to Fujimaru's chagrin. It's arguable that she can actually sense whether a person is inherently good or bad, but it does seem plausible that she's got a pretty good sense of intuition, if nothing else.
Stuck between the young, innocent child she was when her mother experimented on her and having the years of immortality heaped upon her, Shirayuki is still very much a little girl who can't grow and yet was forced to grow from the experiences she was made to go through. Having spent all of her time within the government building, pampered when she wasn't being used, she still possesses a childlike mentality. She tears up and acts disgruntled when she thinks she's been left behind, and she brightens over things like chocolate. She doesn't approve of people being mean, for any reason. And as a child, you would think she'd be fine with being spoiled with flowers and candy, and yet there's no hesitation when she leaves Shinjuku in order to find Takeru. She can be pouty and unhappy with people, but she's quick to bounce back from most grumpy fits, and only becomes truly furious when someone important to her is killed and he's referred to as little more as a source of research information. It's not what's been done to her, but what others are being treated like, that angers her the most. She believes in the people around her, but also isn't above sacrificing herself, if it means Kuroyuki will be stopped. She'll put herself through excruciating pain to make herself useful to the others, with no reluctance whatsoever, and often with a strained but genuine smile at the end of it.
Because in the end, she still believes that things will somehow turn out for the best.
Abilities/Powers:
Being immortal through inheritance and not because of the Grim Rock inside of her (like her mother), Shirayuki possesses infinite regenerative qualities; she can heal from any wound. As noted before, a Grim Rock can be pulled from her, and she'll heal right back up. So long as the original remains inside of her, she also won't age, and twice, she's been able to help incompatible people to become tekigousha, thus saving their lives. While a Grim Rock was typically removed from her via scalpel when they were doing tekigousha experiments, Shirayuki can have someone draw one out of her chest via fusing her hand to theirs and having them reach in to draw it out. Of course, this can get bloody, and it hurts like hell, but it's had its uses!
She can also sense the presence of a tekigousha (and being as Fujimaru is the only one here and no one really gets it when she tugs at them until it's too late, it doesn't really help anyone else out). But it aided her in locating Takeru, instead of wandering around listlessly through all of the districts.
Items/Weapons: Her snowman plush thing, which appears to be attached to her dress, a bag of N&Ns (think M&Ms), and the clothes she's got on (along with the GPS in her chest whooo)
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Sample Entry Two:
It wasn't too hard to understand, when Shirayuki really thought about it. Like Tokyo, Haven was crumbling all over, food was hard to come by, and looming over all of it... there were bad people, weren't there? People who didn't value life, like her mother. People who were conducting experiments on other people, also like her mother. If she thought about it like that (as much as she didn't want to), then she could get it. Those people also needed to be stopped, and because Shirayuki wasn't of any particular value to them, maybe this time... she could do something?
Because people were suffering here, too. The ones who smiled at her, the ones who yelled at her, Fujimaru-- Shirayuki didn't know their stories, not entirely, but she knew that none of them deserved this. Even the ones that no one else seemed to like. But what could she do for them? She didn't know much about the bad people behind this... she really had no connection to them at all, much to her relief. Of course, that meant that she still didn't know why she had been brought here in the first place. Could her mother track her down when she'd been brought to a place seemingly far from her reach? Should she still be trying to get back?
Growing tired of frowning, Shirayuki rested one hand on the snowman still attached to her dress and swayed thoughtfully-- until it hit her, and she brightened. She could wander Haven with less caution (so long as Fujimaru was either with her or didn't know), and she was little enough that she could probably find cans of food in smaller spaces, if she looked hard enough! If nothing else, she could do her best to make sure as many people didn't get too terribly hungry. It seemed like something that Takeru would do, and in his absence and with Fujimaru even grumpier than ever (maybe the lack of food wasn't helping), she'd just have to try even harder.
She'd return, she knew. Back home, to stop her mother. But in the meantime, she could do what she could here.
This decided, she nodded to herself-- and got to work.