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Blue | Wolf's Rain | Not Reserved
Contact Info: impossumblerp@gmail.com (email), awkwardpossum (plurk), thesnarkypossum (AIM).
Other Characters Played: N/A
Requested apartment: N/A
Character Name: Blue
Canon: Wolf’s Rain
Canon Point: After the pack is separated during the showdown at Darcia’s Keep.
Background/History:
http://wolfsrain.wikia.com/wiki/Blue
Personality:
Being a dog, Blue is first and foremost, you guessed it, loyal. She is incredibly loyal to Quent Yaiden in particular, who was her ‘owner’ throughout the entirety of her life prior to meeting Cheza and discovering her wolf half. The bond they have seems to be unbreakable. Through most of the beginning of the series, you almost never see Quent without Blue at his side. If he goes somewhere that dogs aren’t allowed, she waits patiently outside, keeping watch for any danger. She is essentially his partner in wolf hunting, a faithful companion and a useful tool, with her unusual knack for tracking down and seeing through the human guises of wolves. For years after the destruction of their home town of Kyrios, and the loss of the rest of their family (Quent’s wife and young son), the two of them have carried on out in the wastelands together, seeking out and putting an end to the creatures that Quent believes to be responsible for the death of their loved ones. His fellow humans (and the wolves that they pursue) may have seen Quent as obsessed and dangerous, but Blue never saw him that way, even going so far as to defend him from the verbal barbs of her new pack members when he was brought up in conversation.
Among the wolves of Wolf’s Rain, humans as a whole are a divisive presence. Most pure wolves (with the exception of Toboe) are shown to not trust humans, or see them as dangerous or inferior. Blue, of course, having grown up with them, is partial to their company and respects the struggles and challenges they face in living in the harsh environment that all living things share. Even after discovering her wolf half, she is never overtly or unnecessarily cruel to humans, even occasionally choosing to appear as her true self to humans to safely approach them and show that she and her pack are not a threat. This makes her the target of some ire from other wolves who disdainfully refer to her as a domesticated pet, but when confronted with these insults she does not actively argue for or against them.
She of course, has many traits other than loyalty. For one thing she is incredibly level headed under pressure and rarely balks from danger. Many times throughout the series we see her in the line of direct physical harm, but she never flinches in the face of it. She is threatened by large groups of men who wish to harm her, beaten by a solider with his gun, and otherwise assaulted by various other enemies, but she shrugs this all off with a surprising ease. That’s not to say that she doesn’t feel sadness or pain, but she is just generally very good at hiding it. The only times we really see her become distressed are when those who she cares about are threatened in some way or another, or if they are threatening to cut ties with her. For example, when Hige starts acting strangely and separates from her to head into what is likely certain danger where she cannot follow, or when Quent is mortally wounded.
She also does harbor a certain amount of self-doubt, though she does not often show it, and does not bring it up unless asked. Since the wolf in her awoke, she has been uncertain of her place in the world. A natural way to feel, considering that the discovery basically involved her finding out that she was half descended from the supposed monsters which she has been hunting all her life. She still feels loyalty to Quent, who is her only family, but does not know if she can trust him with the truth until she understands for herself what she is, or knows what it means to be a wolf. For this reason she runs away to find the other wolves and Cheza, in search of answers about herself. She cares enough about Quent that she would prefer to avoid conflict by removing herself from his presence than to selfishly stay at his side and risk an actual fallout.
All the serious internal dilemmas and whatnot aside, Blue is also fairly easy going. She doesn’t seem to get angry very easily, and is occasionally seen cracking jokes with Hige or reacting excitedly to things like an eager pup (which is a significant rarity in an anime that seems to pride itself on being dark and gritty almost 100% of the time).
Abilities/Powers:
Blue is a canine, so she has all of the basic abilities you might associate with that. Decent night vision and hearing, speed, an excellent sense of smell. However, being half wolf, she has a handful of significant additional abilities, because the wolves in Wolf’s Rain are some kind of absurd mythological super wolves. She can take a pretty hefty amount of physical punishment (she’s frequently shot and receives head trauma throughout the series and walks it off like it’s nothing). She possesses the wolf’s ability to leap vertically to great heights, speed and reaction time beyond what one would expect of a regular old canis lupus, and the ability to accelerate healing and extend the amount of time she can go without food by basking in the moonlight. Most importantly she has the capability to cast a sort of illusion upon humans, causing them to perceive her as one of them.
This is not an actual transformation; she is still very much a wolf 100% of the time. She can also communicate in human speech regardless of whether she has this illusion activated or not. Note:
The series itself is pretty unclear about how interacting with various objects that would require hands with thumbs to operate works, so I’m just opting to interpret the ability in the game as literally as I described. Having the illusion of human appearance active does not grant her the ability to do people things like type or handle a gun.
Items/Weapons: Absolutely nothing!
Sample Entry:
I don’t understand how it took me so long to realize it... I should have known from the beginning that I was always something more than just a dog. A kind of... I don’t know, a primal energy that was always deep inside me. I think Pops always knew it; I could tell from the way he looked at me sometimes. Or maybe he only knows it deep down but didn’t want to admit it to himself. Will he realize now...? He must hate me for leaving... or maybe he expected this all along. Maybe he’s been waiting for me to go wild and finally leave his side.
I don’t want to leave him, but I can’t stay either. I can’t stay at his side knowing that half of me is something that he hates more than anything in the world... not without understanding what it means for me first. I need to find Cheza. She saw me for what I really am and woke me up. maybe she can help me.
Sample Entry Two:
This so called “haven” isn’t actually too different from the world Blue originally hailed from, so adapting to living here is surprisingly easy. She’s pretty accustomed to creepy and desolate surroundings, to the suffocating omnipresent silence. What she isn’t really used to is hunting for herself and being on her own.
She thinks back to home, that planet that by all accounts is a miserable plane of existence made worth while by the ones she loves. For a while she thought that perhaps she may have been beginning to sort things out. The rest of Hige’s pack, save for Toboe, hadn’t really seemed thrilled about welcoming her into the group, but she’d been confident that she would be able to win them over eventually. Even if she couldn’t, she would have moved on. This problem, this internal dilemma and crisis of identity was entirely her own. She didn’t need this particular pack to accept her to feel whole again. Still, it might have been nice...
It doesn’t matter now, she supposes. Somehow she’s wound up in a completely different world, from what she can gather, and it certainly isn’t the Paradise that they had all been searching for. There’s an unsettling lack of prey here, even more so than out in the wastes at home. It doesn’t take long before she gives up on trying to pick up a scent and turns in for the night. If she wants to eat, she may have to use her wits to look elsewhere...
-> REVISE
The first person sample should be written while keeping in mind that it could be possibly something your character would put onto the network for the public, if written from scratch. There doesn't seem to be anyone addressed and it borders on being an introspective monologue.
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Re: -> REVISE
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[ [Video to the network. The image flickers to show a dark skinned woman with piercing blue eyes and short, wavy black hair. She appears to be rather perplexed by the network device, brow furrowed in concentration.] ]
is this thing on? Hello? Hell. There we go...
My name is... well you can just call me Blue.
[ [She hesitates. It’s fairly clear that she definitely isn’t used to addressing an audience or anything like that, even if she doesn't exactly appear frightened or anything. Just uncomfortable.] ]
I was told this thing can get a message out to all the other humans here. I’m looking for some friends. And family, too. Hige, if you’re here, hopefully you’ll just see this yourself and come find me. I’m guessing if Pops is here too he probably won’t have any idea how to work this thing...
[ [Honestly she’s kind of surprised she was able to get it working at all, too. It had taken her quite a bit.] ]
In the meantime I’ll just take a look around for myself. To anyone else who sees this, please tell me if you see an older man with a trench coat who probably smells really strongly of alcohol. Don’t worry if your sense of smell isn’t that good, it’s pretty hard to miss. He might be a bit gruff with you, but please, just be nice to him. It’s really important that I find him him soon. Thanks...
[ [She fumbles with the camera again for an awkward moment or so and then the camera shuts off, ending the transmission there.] ]
-> ACCEPTED