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2/3

[gantzsuit]

Personality:
A few words to describe Nishi would be confident, mysterious, cocky, rude, vulgar, sadistic, self-serving, quiet, easily provoked, scared, blunt, selfish, violent - There's a lot of layers to this little onion, but none of them could really be described pleasant. He takes pleasure in the suffering and death of others, as evidenced by the fact he'd explode cats with his X-Gun for fun, and will withhold vital information and even lie about it to ensure he gets a good show. He only seems to show interest in violent things - when a girl confessed her love to him after following him around all day and he could tell she was lying, he responded simply with a 'don't care.' He is cold, threatening, blunt and very calm, only losing his composure when he gets excited about a death and begins to ramble about it. He doesn't care for others at all, especially those playing in Gantz as Hunters. They're simply a backdrop to him, or a dancing monkey. He does not engage people in conversation of his own volition normally, unless they do something to annoy him. In any other case, he will remain silent until addressed.
He's the type not to inform you about a doomsday counter until a week before it runs out, feeling as though it wasn't really important up until then. When backed into a corner and near death, however, he becomes colicky, cowardly and openly cries for his 'mommy'. He believes he can free himself from the game of Gantz on his own and does not need any help in doing so - he just simply wants to enjoy it while he's there. He is also very self serving and kind of a dick, using the 100 points he earned in a mission to buy himself an extra Z-Gun rather than revive a fallen comrade as everyone else had wanted him to.
Nishi also deeply detests society, stating he never hated any one person, but society itself for being so fucked up and making it so difficult for him to stay on the normal track of a teenaged boy. He has no trust or hope in anyone, especially hypocrites, thinking of them only as good as cattle. He believes society has given into the media and that humans as a race had ceased and cannot think for themselves - no one could care if the people around them just dropped dead. Life has not treated him well, and he is treating it with the same regard. he believes deeply in Social Darwinism and will gladly let the 'idiots' kill themselves off, without any attempt to help get them on the right path.
He was severely bullied in school, a partial cause of why he had become as jaded as he was. At the height, the children in his class had attempted to kill him by throwing him from the classroom window. This brought back memories of how he had gotten into Gantz (seeing his mother hung in their house, then jumping from the roof in order to kill himself to be with her and inevitably waking up in the Gantz room and becoming a Hunter) and sent him off the deep end. He was so emotionally perturbed he killed everyone in the classroom, save for the one girl who was kind to him and had confessed her love to him earlier that day. This shows that he is not entirely incapable of empathy, it's just a very rare thing to draw out of him.
He has a habit of wagging his chin and letting his jaw hang when he speaks, as if to cement what he was saying and let it hang in the air longer. He also has a habit of getting in people's personal space to give the illusion that he is bigger than he actually is. His stature isn't very threatening, but with the power the suit gives him he knows he can back up his talk and is not afraid to be very very sassy with anyone close. He has absolutely no reason to live except for having fun and witnessing and causing death. Though he laments the fact he never had a normal life, he knows it is unrealistic to expect one after all he had been through and the ways it had warped him. Though there's so much he hates, he has no desire to stop living in such a detestable world. Because, to him, that's what makes it fun. After all, when you have so much power, there will always be little consequence.

Abilities/Powers: absolutely none without his weapons (unless sociopathy counts) so take a look below for a good outline of what he can do with what he's brought along.

Items/Weapons: 

• (1) gantz suit - skin-tight bodysuit which is attuned to an individual body and can only be utilized by that specific Hunter. These suits provide the wearer with incredible strength, speed, endurance, and the ability to jump very high, as well as land without problems thanks to the shoes which are seen to release a white smoke to cushion one returning from a high jump. The suit also provides the hunter with an almost impenetrable protection to his/her body, even to the head, which is fully exposed. Large caliber bullet rounds to the face do not leave so much as a bruise. It should be noted, however, that the suit only seems to protect from conventional attacks such as bullets and punches as well as normal swords and the Gantz swords but does not seem to do anything for other slicing attacks like from a laser or certain acids. When in full use, the suits’ artificial muscles expand, making the Hunter appear larger. The suits also allow the wearer to easily lift over fifty times their weight and jump well over thirty feet high. However, the amount of damage it can sustain is limited. Should the suit receive too many powerful impacts without time to recover, the “caps” along the suit will break, releasing the essential substance that powers it, rendering it as useful as ordinary clothes. One can also attack the caps directly and release the fluid that powers it, as seen done by the Vampires and Izumi on different occasions. It should also be noted that attacks from the X-gun or X-rifle, will destroy the caps and render the suit useless. The suit limit of power also varies on the user, the stronger the person the stronger the suit. emotional stress can also damage the suit. nishi never takes his off.
• (1) controller - Called a controller in the Gantz manual, it is commonly referred to as a radar throughout the series, although it has other functions. It is a device used to track the targets, displaying the targets as well as fellow team mates on its screen. However, the marker on the radar is not very precise and has created many situations in which the Hunters ran into trouble pinpointing the exact number and location of the targets. These are found in one of the weapon racks that is revealed when the Gantz ball opens. They allow for changing of someone’s frequency, rendering them invisible to those not on the same frequency. This allows them to turn invisible to other people. Vampires can counter this effect by wearing special glasses or contacts, designed for this purpose. The boss monster in the Temple mission has been shown to be able to see a person even when they were invisible, as has a powerful alien in the Osaka mission. They also display the time left in a mission and display the boundaries of the mission area which no Hunter can pass through unharmed.
• (1) gantz sword - It is a katana-like weapon that is usually in a closed hilt-only state. When in use, an incredibly sharp blade extends from the hilt. It can extend without loss of durability and it is unknown if its length is limited; currently it has only been extended to roughly 30 feet.
  

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[gantzsuit]

Sample Entry: 

 [The city, despite its gloomy weather, was oddly humid. Taking a cue from others that his attire wasn’t completely terribly strange, Nishi had opted to wear only his sweater over the top of his suit. The tight leather breathed surprisingly well, and though it was clingy, whatever alien technology inside it made it feel far less restricting than most pairs of jeans. he found himself amazed by the suit every single day.

He felt his foot catch into something, and looked down at what it had collided with. A leg? A vagrant? A civilian? Whatever. He didn’t bother to apologize or look the person in the face. Everyone was gonna die anyway, whether he took a look at them or not. It didn’t matter. However, the man yelped in pain, causing Nishi to at least acknowledge the noise... But then the splash of red at his shoe caught Nishi’s eye and pulled a smile to his face. That was what he liked to see. He turned towards the other, looking oddly sunny about everything for what appeared to be no reason whatsoever.]

Does this belong to you? [he asked, pointing toward the blood on his boot, his chin wagging open in wait of an answer. When it didn’t come fast enough for his liking, and instead was met by demands for an apology, he laughed a choked laugh.]

Fuck apologies. Grow a backbone and do something about it, asswipe.

Sample Entry Two: 

[His hands danced along the zipper of his sweater, up his chest and to his neck. He touched at the collar of the suit he normally wore beneath his clothes, sighing in relief. He had been allowed to keep it, so that had meant…]

Ah, good! [he muttered excitedly, pawing for the Controller. Being ‘infected’ didn’t bother his time at all. He dismissed the stealth mode he had imposed on his weapons which hung outside his pants. They returned to visibility with an electric blue fizzle, and he quickly hid them away in his designated dresser. A Y-Gun, an X-Gun, and a Gantz sword were what he had managed to sneak in, and he was thankful for it. Of course, along with his Gantz suit everything had seemed to be coming up Nishi!]

Alright, [he mumbled to himself yet again, leather covered fingers raking over the handle of his Y-Gun. Though the X-Gun had been so good at causing much more devastation  the Y-Gun was always more his style. The other gun, however, could be pretty fun sometimes too. It was never not cool to see someone’s head explode after their anguished expressions during the time delays.

Lifting the gun to his mouth and tapping it on his lips, he heard something behind him and turned. Though it was far down the hall, his ear had managed to train itself to always be on alert. It sounded like another person coming…]

…

[Nishi sighed, shoving the arsenal into his dresser before they showed up. He turned to the door, looking out it coolly with his regular cocky sneer and loose jaw. He holstered the X-Gun and stealthed it before using his backside to shove the drawer shut, tilting his head toward whoever had inadvertently joined him outside his open door with his arms crossed.

The male’s yellow-brown optics scanned his company carefully. She looked all together harmless, and he internally cussed at himself when his first thought was about how she’d never make it out of a Gantz mission alive.

His eyes were sharp in more than one way. They seemed to pierce through whatever they looked at, and the spots on which his lashes met seemed to be inhumanly angular. His short lashes flicked carefully as he finished taking her in, which under his scrutinizing gaze may have felt like a long time to some, was only a few awkward seconds. His gloved hands fell out behind him, the heels of them supporting him on the edge of the dresser. She was yacking away incessantly - How he hated people like her. After what seemed like a long while, he finally decided to speak, though he voiced his disinterest quickly with just his tone alone.]

You look pathetic, [Nishi raised his voice for clarity, his eyebrows lifting under his bangs. He pushed himself from the dresser, moving himself to stand chest to chest with her. To instill a sense of ‘bigness’ and intimidation, he was used to doing this. Curse his genes for making him so slender and short. His mouth hung open for a while before it began to move again. As he spoke, he tilted his head this way and that, moving in unpredictable and close ways to grind on her comfort.] This whole place is full of shit, huh? I haven’t seen much of it myself yet, but I pretty much fucking hate it here already, you know?

[A chuckle that ground in his throat bubbled to his lips; it was boyish with a scratching quality. He shoved his hands into the pockets of his grey sweatshirt, shouldering past her in his doorway. The sound of loose change fumbled nosily in his pockets and between his fingers.]

Try and be useful, [a mocking tone rang to her ears again.] Where’s the food hiding?

Re: 3/3

[havenmods]

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on March 29th

-> REVISE

[havenmods]

We would like to request a revise for the personality and the third person sample, please. While the personality touches on the basic points, we would like to see more about his flaws, his inner thoughts, his goals, and more detail about how major events changed him (such as his mother's death and his attempted suicide).

The second sample is not in third person format, nor do we feel that it accurately shows Joichiro's personality. Third person format is prose style, and examples of this can be found in any of the sample applications linked at the top. Please also be mindful of paragraph spacing and line breaks.

We apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions, thank you.

Re: -> REVISE

[gantzsuit]

oh my goodness i apologize at how terrible at apps and disorganized i am, and for not quite getting the samples right all the time. orz newbie woes! im always thankful for the help and feedback the mod team gives me! :) hopefully this'll be okay but it again might be lacking as ive been pouring over a source material that is in a language i'm not fluent in.

Personality Addendum:
(below i have created paragraphs referring to the suggested information for easy reading without inclusion of the old information you may have already read. you can everything personality wise together over here [including the previous stuff] if that's better for you!)

flaws - He is physically weak, scared, and cowardly without a shield to hide behind. Luckily for him, the Gantz suit provides him enough shelter from his many weaknesses and allows him to keep them under wraps. He is also very emotionally vulnerable and will act recklessly without consideration for the consequences. When the Tanaka Alien destroys the plugs on his suit, rendering it useless, he breaks down into sobs and cries, trying feebly to do anything to scurry away and yelling for help. When he does die, the only thing he can do to save himself is to be manipulative. He asks Kurono to gain 100 points to bring him back to life, claiming he has information that would be valuable to everyone about Gantz later. This turned out not to be as much as he had made it seem to be - His lies normally catch up with him. He's good at the act of lying, but very poor at keeping up a charade over any amount of time. He is very reluctant to share information about himself or Gantz, but more so himself. It is proven he doesn't really know much about Gantz at all and only has a history with it, but he never speaks of his life outside the game. (That'd get him killed anyway! Gantz rules!) He keeps a blog about his exprieneces within Gantz, however, being careful not to breach the rules about talking about the game. However, he's not a super duper careful person, and his blog has caused trouble for other team mates, such as when he had posted Kurono's name there. (In short, a news reporter approached him and bombarded him with questions.)

his inner thoughts - Nishi possesses a God complex which is simply there to mask his fear of only being an ant or a weakling, which he certainly is without his suit and weaponry. He looks down on everyone and it is impossible to earn his respect. He does appreciate when others do things for him, however, as he had become slightly less hostile towards the Tokyo team after his revival, despite the fact he could not give the information he provided. When not spoken to, he is completely silent and very thoughtful. He sees things in metaphors and sometimes shares them (thinking of people as cattle, the world as media puppets). He also openly detests those who lie, as they remind him of his father's infidelity and what it had done to his mother. When he first meets Katou and sees him as a hypocrite, he is quick to call him on it, even getting violent. He does not think of himself as a liar and rarely does lie - he is simply someone who does not speak the whole truth.

A lot of his thoughts center on violence, as he enjoys killing aliens, people, and even stray animals. When he makes posts on his blog, they are incredibly gorey in detail and he revels in the comments he gets calling him a 'sick bastard' or people saying 'even if this is fiction it should be removed from the web.' He appears to enjoy being detested by society, as he begins to up the ante by posting pictures of dead cats, squished and spread apart by his Z-Guns. The even more outraged comments really pleased him! He has been shown to read them aloud and laugh about them, spitting back insults at the poster in his head and moving on. He has also been shown to indulge in dirty magazines, though never been shown to have any romantic interests towards a girl. He thinks a lot about the bodies of girls, both in-tact and blown apart, and is only able to feel sexual about them. He is a teen aged boy, after all! He also has a bit of a misogynistic streak and a general distrust of women.

his goals - Nishi has never touched base on having any goals, within visible thoughts, dialogue, nor had he been asked. He lives on a simply day by day basis, amusing himself in whichever ways he can by killing, enjoying pornography, and shocking others. he has no desire to leave Gantz, but he claims if he did he could do it on his own. He simply wishes to relieve his anger and hatred on anything that moves, with no real desires. He knows there is no saving him or giving him a normal life after the things he'd seen and done. He's just too afraid of death to stop living. He's been there a few times before, and he never ever wants to go again.

major events (such as his mother's death and his attempted suicide) - Unfortunately the spin-off Gantz/Minus is largely untranslated in English and my Japanese isn't the best, but as I can get out of it, he as a normal kid rushes to her to show her a good grade on a writing work from school as it would make her smile, and next he sees her, she's hung herself. It is implied she found out her husband has a lover and that Nishi was a mostly normal kid beforehand. The loss of his beloved mother drives him completely over the edge, and without much detail we learn Nishi has landed in a splatter. He previously had lived to make his mother happy, but not much is known of her aside from these two details. It is assumed he used to make very good grades in school and had a very good relationship with his mother, making her the only noteworthy relationship that had had any impact on his life. Any other major events of his past are never touched upon as the author likes to keep him as a mysterious character with dubious motives - In the manga and movie there were no flashbacks or explanations to the way he acts. He is also implied to have been a bit of a scaredy cat when he first became a Hunter for Gantz, but he's been involved so long that it seems to have jaded him completely. The combination of the loss of the person who cared for him most mixed with the violence entrenched in his formative teenage years have completely warped his perspective of everything around him.

Sample Entry 2 Take 2:
Nishi watched himself fizzle into existence, a hand stretched before him sparking in and out of vision. Small, blue cracks of lightning snapped all around his body, but he felt not pain. It was simply the teatrics of the Controller. Though it granted him total invisibility from the human eye, and, yes, it was very advanced alien technology, he could tell that it seemed to be some trash the aliens who sent Gantz to them thought would suit the humans down here better. He had always had a hunch there were better things - That he was being held out on. For now, he was thankful for what they allowed him to have. It was satisfying, with so little work. The way things busted apart so suddenly... The fear in their faces as they waited out the time lag... -- No. There was no time to get worked up about it. He'd see it soon enough.

In his hand he held the Y-Gun he'd always trusted, the leather of the suit's glove meshing pleasantly between his finger and the trigger. He whet his lips, his mouth hanging open with a tight smirk to one side. His finger clashed on the trigger swiftly, the unforgiving energy netting he'd shot off wrapping tightly around the enemy. He dropped the muzzle of the gun to the ground slowly, a laugh of satisfaction leaking out. The anchors dug deep into the concrete, the alien tossing this way and that, unable to break the lines. Nishi stepped forward, tucking the Y-Gun in the holster at his left thigh. From the right he produced an X-Gun, his finger itching at the trigger. He barely managed to point it at the target without grinning, observing its vitals and heat signatures through the built-in radar.

"You shouldn't move so slow if you don't want to be caught so easily. The mission still has 10 minutes left," His demeanor was blank, as though tired, but the playfulness and excitement was evident in his eyes and twitching lips. He didn't expect the alien to return his banter, or to even understand it. He just wanted to evoke fear in the creature - To show how calm and casual he was about killing it. When he got the stirring, fearful reaction he had wanted, he smirked again.

"They way your eyes are looking at me... It feels great." At the final symbol of his murmuring, he locked his arm in place, his finger squeezed back both triggers. Without looking behind him, he took a few steps back, not really feeling like getting all full of gore that night. When he was out of the splash zone, he simply stood and watched, chunks and gore flying every which way after a short time lag. It was beautiful - The only sight in the world that could help him stop the scowling for 5 minutes. He felt elated. He felt as though the spray bursting through the air was a symbol of his elation. He couldn't wait to get home and blog about it.
 

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