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Natsuno Yuuki // Shiki // Not Reserved

[personal profile] jinrailtracer 2013-06-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Auria
Contact Info: [plurk.com profile] AuriaTetsukai // AuriaTetsukai (AIM)
Other Characters Played: Ib ([personal profile] roseinyourheart
Preferred Apartment: Preferred not to be rooming with Megumi Shimizu.

Character Name: Natsuno Yuuki
Canon: Shiki (anime)
Canon Point: Episode 18 -- after Tatsumi's conversation but before Chizuru's death

Background/History: Sotoba is, as certain characters will narrate at you ad nauseam, a village surrounded by death. The village tapers to a point at the north and flattens out towards the south; the northern, western, and eastern sides are flanked by thick forests of fir trees. The trees are harvested by the villagers to make grave markers and coffins, and not much else. So when one would say that Sotoba is surrounded by death, they might mean it in a figurative, more poetic sense.

Unfortunately, the sentiment becomes a bit more literal when the Kirishikis move into the village and its residents begin dropping like flies.

It quickly becomes apparent to anyone who's watched even a single horror movie or read 'Salem's Lot that the Kirishikis are a family of vampires and they're feeding on the villagers at an alarming rate. Many of Sotoba's residents, however, have probably never even watched an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, so they remain blissfully ignorant. Only a handful of villagers become aware of the vampiric presence in their town and actively fight against it. Natsuno Yuuki is one of these people.

He would rather not be, of course. Natsuno was forcibly uprooted from his average city life when his dad thought moving to a shitty isolated village would be good for the family's collective souls. From day one, Natsuno resented the quaint, quiet village. He planned to ace a university's -- any university's -- entrance exams and get the hell out as soon as possible.

Instead, his somewhat accidental discovery of vampires makes him a target of the Kirishikis, and he's forced to fight for the survival of a village he doesn't particularly care about. At first this is out of self-preservation: he is specifically targeted by Megumi Shimizu, a girl who stalked him in life and now pursues him after rising up as a vampire. But he soon allies with Kaori and Akira Tanaka, two kids genre-savvy enough to recognize a vampire assault when they see one, and Natsuno's motivation becomes protecting them as well as himself. (Among other reasons; see personality.)

His role in the series is somewhat diminished after dying and becoming a shiki. This is probably for the best, since the rest of the humans become the monsters they're fighting in a metaphorical sense and everyone gradually becomes horrible. So Natsuno actually kind of lucks out in that regard.
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[personal profile] jinrailtracer 2013-06-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Personality: Natsuno grew up with a distinct resentment towards his parents. They were still in college when he was conceived, and didn't get married (and still haven't). They seem to have used their surnames interchangeably with Natsuno growing up; his mother's last name is the one on the family register (so he is officially Natsuno Koide), but for the most part, he prefers using Yuuki. (A more secure and well-adjusted person might have opted to use their first name to avoid confusion, but Natsuno dislikes his first name and generally leaves it up to other people which last name they use to refer to him.)

The name stuff was only the beginning of his problems with his parents. While not outright hippies, they do like to flaunt social norms and have a definite quirkiness about them. Natsuno's father (who has no first name and will henceforth be referred to as Yuuki) is self-employed as an atelier, and his mother Azusa acts mainly as a housewife. They don't care that they aren't married and make no secret of this fact, something that embarrasses Natsuno. The icing on the annoyance cake was when Yuuki decided to up and move the family to Sotoba for nothing but a change of scenery and some fresh air. Natsuno never even gave the village a chance; the mere fact that Yuuki had selected it as their new home made it terrible on principle. Thus, when he arrives in Sotoba, he is a surly teenager who has no intention of making friends or becoming any sort of presence in the village.

Natsuno is prickly and standoffish towards most people, stemming from his desire to not integrate into Sotoba. He doesn't go out of his way to be polite to people, and he doesn't seek out any friends. He gains a lovestruck stalker in Megumi Shimizu, who is enamored by the very detached behavior Natsuno uses to push people away. There is also Masao Murasako, a classmate a year older than him who intensely dislikes him. But where someone might ask Megumi to knock her shoujo protagonist bullshit off, or tell Masao to stop being horrible, Natsuno deals with their more personal attacks the same way he deals with everyone else: by completely ignoring them.

That doesn't stop a classmate, Tohru Mutou, from showing interest in Natsuno and sort of...forcibly interacting with him. His tenacity pays off and they eventually become friends, with Natsuno later acknowledging that Tohru was a good influence on him and made life in Sotoba more bearable. This is all despite Natsuno employing the same distancing tactics he uses on everyone else; Tohru is simply persistent enough to break through his barriers.

Natsuno does demonstrate a certain amount of loyalty towards those who put up with him and genuinely does value the few friendships he has, with Tohru being the most important case -- when Tohru rises as a shiki and is sent to attack him, Natsuno demonstrates zero survival instincts by leaving his house and following him. He ends up being bitten and continues to let Tohru feed on him for the next few nights, hoping that they will come up with a solution where they can leave Sotoba. The idea of Tohru continuing to live and be happy despite being a shiki is more important to Natsuno than his own survival.

It's also worth mentioning his relationship to Kaori and Akira, two local kids who also accidentally discover what's going on. Since they were born and raised in Sotoba, Natsuno has every reason to ignore or resent them just like he does everyone else, but he ends up caring about them a lot more than one would anticipate. When Natsuno is bitten, he tells Kaori and Akira to leave the village, since the fact that he was targeted means they're both in extreme danger as well. And despite his newfound jinrou status requiring him to stay on the downlow, he puts himself at risk by saving Akira from certain death.

All of this begs the question, why would Natsuno defend Sotoba, a village he doesn't even care about? Yes, he has people there he cares about, but why not simply smuggle them all out, and leave Sotoba to dwindle? Simple: because Natsuno fucking hates the shiki and wants them all to die. He hates them for disrupting his normal life, for turning him into one of them, and most importantly, for making it a certainty that he can never leave Sotoba.

And that desire for their destruction also extends to himself.


Teenagers.

Abilities/Powers: Normal shiki are pretty standard vampires. They sleep during the day and suck blood at night, they have a healing factor beyond that of normal humans (and are effectively immortal), and have no pulse or other vital signs if inspected closely. Some shiki have certain amplified abilities, like Nao, who is seen jumping up to a second-story window, and an unnamed elderly shiki with superhuman speed. This doesn't seem to be the norm, though.

All shiki also have the ability to perform hypnosis on their victims. This is primarily used to gain entrance into a home: shiki will bite their victims outside, then instruct the victims to let them inside whenever they come to feed. At first, it appears that only the first shiki to bite someone can use hypnosis on them, but later it's established that two shiki can imprint on the same victim. It's likely that the first shiki's hypnosis is more effective than any subsequent ones, though this is never stated.

Despite their healing factor, though, shiki can still be killed. If their circulatory system is disrupted in a catastrophic way, such as by decapitation or destruction of the heart, then their healing factor won't be enough to save them. Sunlight will also kill them by boiling their skin off, though this is a much slower, drawn-out death. They also suffer from certain aversions. They can't be near religious icons or symbols, and they can't enter a house (not even their own!) without an invitation from the owner. They also don't sleep of their own free will; their sleep is more like a coma that automatically comes upon them when the sun is about to rise. If they happen to be outside when this happens, they're as good as dead.

At this point in canon, Natsuno has died and risen as a jinrou, a specific kind of shiki. Jinrou are essentially the same as shiki but better -- they have pulses, sunlight doesn't affect them, and they can survive on normal food instead of sucking blood. They even have strength and reflexes beyond that of a regular shiki. They also don't fall asleep; in fact, they don't need to sleep at all. But for all intents and purposes, they appear to be normal humans.

However, they have all the same drawbacks of shiki. They can still be killed by decapitation or destruction of the circulatory system. They can't enter a household unless invited, and although this is never shown on-screen, they presumably have the same aversion to religious icons and symbols that normal shiki do. And despite being able to eat human foods, they must still drink blood in order to maintain their superhuman strength and abilities. Natsuno has never fed, so by jinrou standards, he is severely weak.
Edited 2013-06-21 22:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] jinrailtracer 2013-06-21 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Items/Weapons: Nothing but the clothes on his back.

Sample Entry: Here.

Sample Entry Two: It's been some time since he last slept.

Natsuno lost count of the days very quickly -- somewhere between the fifth sleepless night and the sixth restless day, he forgot how long it had been since he'd risen up. At one point, he'd marveled at how he no longer felt any sort of exhaustion, but the feeling had been quickly replaced by a depressed resignation towards his status as one of the undead.

But this is certainly new. He can't remember falling asleep recently, and yet here he is, in a bed, opening his eyes with that distinct feeling of having slept. His memory is a little hazy, like he'd been dreaming, but he can't remember anything specific. Alas, he doesn't feel particularly well-rested. It seems whatever sleep he had didn't do him much good.

What could possibly have caused him to fall asleep? Was that, perhaps, one of the drawbacks of not feeding? That wouldn't be so bad, really; he does miss sleeping, and it would make him feel a bit more...human. But then he sits up, and a quick glance around the room confirms there is something deeper going on at work here. Not only has he fallen asleep for no reason, but he's been transported somewhere that definitely isn't Sotoba, and apparently without a struggle.

He leans forward and rests his head in one hand, trying to remember what he'd been doing before. The Kirishiki's butler, the other jinrou, had come by...did he have something to do with this? Natsuno can remember being attacked by him, but nothing after that. It seems likely, then, that he's responsible for taking Natsuno out of the village. Just another threat being removed from the equation, right? Great.

But he can't be far. If someone had to have transported him, they would have also needed time to get back to Sotoba. If Natsuno leaves now, he might be able to get back before too much damage has been done.

Right?
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Re: -> ACCEPTED

[personal profile] swedge 2013-06-22 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
That's not a problem at all! Jo's gonna freak a little, but hey, that's even more fun right? c: Thank you so much!
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Re: -> ACCEPTED

[personal profile] unluckless 2013-06-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! He'll just arrive with the pocket knife then. :)