Exsilium App (in progress)
May. 4th, 2013 01:03 pm» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Prof
Current AGE: 26
Player TIME ZONE: Pacific (Central starting in a couple months)
Personal JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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IM & SERVICE: AIM ZebulonCrispi
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Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Fujiwara no Mokou (Mokou Fujiwara for western order, the 'no' is an aristocracy thing)
Canon & MEDIUM: Touhou Project (Video game series)
Canon PULL-POINT: Following the end of Symposium of Post-Mysticism.
Character AGE: 1300 years
Character ABILITIES: Complete immortality (does not age, revives perfectly within seconds of any death). Flight. High-level fire magic. Exceptional physical strength.
Character HISTORY:
Touhou Project wiki (full series)
Imperishable Night wiki (specific game)
Mokou wiki (specific character)
In the eighth (or third in the current canonical timeline) Touhou game, Imperishable Night, a Lunarian princess named Kaguya causes an eternal night in Gensokyo, forcing the heroes to seek her out and defeat her to return the normal cycle of day and night. Later, she sends the heroes on a "trial of guts" to defeat a certain person in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. That person is Mokou.
Mokou is Kaguya's ancient sworn arch-nemesis. Both of them are immortal, and fighting Kaguya again and again is the only point of stability in her eternal life. When the heroes come to meet her at Kaguya's request, Mokou assumes that they're assassins sent by her rival, and fights them in a post-endgame bonus boss battle that serves no particular purpose.
Since then, Mokou has only existed in canon as a background character. She lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and helps lost people find their way, and caused a forest fire in one of her battles with Kaguya at one point, but otherwise she hasn't done much. There was a side story that went into more detail about her backstory and how she became immortal, but nothing more recent.
Character PERSONALITY:
Mokou was born a normal human, but then became immortal. This had some pretty major impact on her personality. The human psyche generally isn't equipped to handle that long of a life. At first, she almost mentally shut down, no longer afraid of death and no longer capable of associating with mortal humans. During this period, Mokou became incredibly introverted and apathetic, not seeing much of a point in doing anything. She spent three hundred years spiraling deeper and deeper into depression, then another three hundred years as a being of berserk madness, killing everything that crossed her path.
What started her personality changing was Kaguya. Mokou's relationship with Kaguya is extremely complex. Kaguya spited and insulted her family back when she was mortal, so at least on the surface, Mokou despises Kaguya. The insult was a relatively minor one, initially; her original plan was just to perform some minor act of revenge to spite her before she left for the moon. What happened instead was that she spent hundreds of years with nothing to do but let that slight insult fester, until it has grown into an all-encompassing obsessive loathing. However, that same hatred is also to thank for her continued sanity. As Mokou herself put it, "nothing brings a sense of motivation the way a lust for revenge does." After their reunion, Mokou and Kaguya started to try and kill each other repatedly. This started as fueled by hate or anger, but it quickly became almost as much an expression of friendship as it was of hatred. After centuries of isolation, Kaguya was the only person Mokou could relate to, and the closest to someone she could call a friend.
After meeting Kaguya and getting assimilated into society, Mokou is still fairly quiet and introverted, but much less than she used to be. With people she doesn't know very well, she is very tight-lipped about her past, simply saying that she's a health nut who owns a yakitori stand. She opens up to people more as she gets to know them. In her spare time, she lives in the forest, saving lost humans from preying Youkai and sending them on their way, not talking much even to the people she's saving. In combat her personality fires up pretty dramatically, however - she can be a bit melodramatic even when Kaguya isn't involved. When Kaguya IS involved, expect a lot of screaming and tunnel vision. The transition between normal Mokou and revenge-crazy Mokou is incredibly jarring.
Being separated from Kaguya, as she will be in Exsilium (unless we get one!), will be a source of anxiety for Mokou. Kaguya is the only constant she can rely on - in a hundred years, most of the people she knows will be dead; in a thousand years, almost all of them will. Being immortal, she'll be around to see it. This is why she has trouble getting close to other people: She doesn't want to get too attached to anyone who's going to die, leaving her alone again. Without Kaguya, she'll try harder to direct her mental energy towards other projects - for example, the liberating of the world from United Earth. Something to keep her mind stimulated for a few decades while she tries to figure out what happened to her eternal sparring partner.
Being immortal has left Mokou with a reduced appreciation for the basic necessities of life. Knowing that she won't die no matter what she does, she does an extraordinarily poor job of taking care of herself. Sometimes she doesn't eat or drink for weeks on end, or sleeps for days. She has no sense of self-preservation, because no matter how many times she dies from her own foolishness, she'll come back again unharmed.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Abstract. When using her fire-based magic, Mokou is usually surrounded by a phoenix-shaped aura. Let's give that phoenix a life of its own, and let it develop within her, enhancing her inherent powers.
Character INVENTORY: The clothes on her back, and nothing else.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[Video.]
I have to wonder what it was that led to the world becoming like this. When did it start? Has it already began in the world I lived in?
I think it has something to do with the rise of Technology. [Said with a capital T, because Mokou still kind of things of it as one monolithic thing.] When people get so much control over the world around them, they start to believe that thtey should be able to control the rest of the world as well...
[A small, self-derisive laugh.] Forgive me. Just the idle musings of an old woman set in her ways.
Third PERSON:
Like many a night, Mokou was drinking. Unlike many a night, she had two glasses with her.
Over her time in this strange world, Mokou had developed a monthly ritual. On the night of the full moon, she would have a drink by herself on the roof of the apartment. She poured two glasses - one for herself, and one to be left untouched. As she drank, her eyes seldom left the full moon.
The fight against United Earth never really hit home as hard for her as it did for some people. It felt too big and too small to be real at the same time. Could such a battle really change the shape of this world? In the end, would any of it matter? If they defeated their enemy, would peace return, or would it simply be replaced with another one?
As she darnk, more questions arose, questions that would never see answers, but also ones she would never truly find answers for. It was a cloudy day, but a proper moon viewing is undeterred by the weather - the moon persists, whether or not it can be seen. What was on that heavenly sphere in this world? Was the Lunar Capital a constant across all worlds? Was there another Kaguya here, living peacefully on the moon? Or had United Earth's influence spread even that far?
Another night of questions, another night empty of answers. With a sigh, Mokou picked up the full glass across form her, and poured its contents out on the ground. When Kaguya found her again, there would certainly be time for a night of drinking before their eternal battle continued.
Player NAME: Prof
Current AGE: 26
Player TIME ZONE: Pacific (Central starting in a couple months)
Personal JOURNAL:
profIM & SERVICE: AIM ZebulonCrispi
Player PLURK:
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Fujiwara no Mokou (Mokou Fujiwara for western order, the 'no' is an aristocracy thing)
Canon & MEDIUM: Touhou Project (Video game series)
Canon PULL-POINT: Following the end of Symposium of Post-Mysticism.
Character AGE: 1300 years
Character ABILITIES: Complete immortality (does not age, revives perfectly within seconds of any death). Flight. High-level fire magic. Exceptional physical strength.
Character HISTORY:
Touhou Project wiki (full series)
Imperishable Night wiki (specific game)
Mokou wiki (specific character)
In the eighth (or third in the current canonical timeline) Touhou game, Imperishable Night, a Lunarian princess named Kaguya causes an eternal night in Gensokyo, forcing the heroes to seek her out and defeat her to return the normal cycle of day and night. Later, she sends the heroes on a "trial of guts" to defeat a certain person in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. That person is Mokou.
Mokou is Kaguya's ancient sworn arch-nemesis. Both of them are immortal, and fighting Kaguya again and again is the only point of stability in her eternal life. When the heroes come to meet her at Kaguya's request, Mokou assumes that they're assassins sent by her rival, and fights them in a post-endgame bonus boss battle that serves no particular purpose.
Since then, Mokou has only existed in canon as a background character. She lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and helps lost people find their way, and caused a forest fire in one of her battles with Kaguya at one point, but otherwise she hasn't done much. There was a side story that went into more detail about her backstory and how she became immortal, but nothing more recent.
Character PERSONALITY:
Mokou was born a normal human, but then became immortal. This had some pretty major impact on her personality. The human psyche generally isn't equipped to handle that long of a life. At first, she almost mentally shut down, no longer afraid of death and no longer capable of associating with mortal humans. During this period, Mokou became incredibly introverted and apathetic, not seeing much of a point in doing anything. She spent three hundred years spiraling deeper and deeper into depression, then another three hundred years as a being of berserk madness, killing everything that crossed her path.
What started her personality changing was Kaguya. Mokou's relationship with Kaguya is extremely complex. Kaguya spited and insulted her family back when she was mortal, so at least on the surface, Mokou despises Kaguya. The insult was a relatively minor one, initially; her original plan was just to perform some minor act of revenge to spite her before she left for the moon. What happened instead was that she spent hundreds of years with nothing to do but let that slight insult fester, until it has grown into an all-encompassing obsessive loathing. However, that same hatred is also to thank for her continued sanity. As Mokou herself put it, "nothing brings a sense of motivation the way a lust for revenge does." After their reunion, Mokou and Kaguya started to try and kill each other repatedly. This started as fueled by hate or anger, but it quickly became almost as much an expression of friendship as it was of hatred. After centuries of isolation, Kaguya was the only person Mokou could relate to, and the closest to someone she could call a friend.
After meeting Kaguya and getting assimilated into society, Mokou is still fairly quiet and introverted, but much less than she used to be. With people she doesn't know very well, she is very tight-lipped about her past, simply saying that she's a health nut who owns a yakitori stand. She opens up to people more as she gets to know them. In her spare time, she lives in the forest, saving lost humans from preying Youkai and sending them on their way, not talking much even to the people she's saving. In combat her personality fires up pretty dramatically, however - she can be a bit melodramatic even when Kaguya isn't involved. When Kaguya IS involved, expect a lot of screaming and tunnel vision. The transition between normal Mokou and revenge-crazy Mokou is incredibly jarring.
Being separated from Kaguya, as she will be in Exsilium (unless we get one!), will be a source of anxiety for Mokou. Kaguya is the only constant she can rely on - in a hundred years, most of the people she knows will be dead; in a thousand years, almost all of them will. Being immortal, she'll be around to see it. This is why she has trouble getting close to other people: She doesn't want to get too attached to anyone who's going to die, leaving her alone again. Without Kaguya, she'll try harder to direct her mental energy towards other projects - for example, the liberating of the world from United Earth. Something to keep her mind stimulated for a few decades while she tries to figure out what happened to her eternal sparring partner.
Being immortal has left Mokou with a reduced appreciation for the basic necessities of life. Knowing that she won't die no matter what she does, she does an extraordinarily poor job of taking care of herself. Sometimes she doesn't eat or drink for weeks on end, or sleeps for days. She has no sense of self-preservation, because no matter how many times she dies from her own foolishness, she'll come back again unharmed.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Abstract. When using her fire-based magic, Mokou is usually surrounded by a phoenix-shaped aura. Let's give that phoenix a life of its own, and let it develop within her, enhancing her inherent powers.
Character INVENTORY: The clothes on her back, and nothing else.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[Video.]
I have to wonder what it was that led to the world becoming like this. When did it start? Has it already began in the world I lived in?
I think it has something to do with the rise of Technology. [Said with a capital T, because Mokou still kind of things of it as one monolithic thing.] When people get so much control over the world around them, they start to believe that thtey should be able to control the rest of the world as well...
[A small, self-derisive laugh.] Forgive me. Just the idle musings of an old woman set in her ways.
Third PERSON:
Like many a night, Mokou was drinking. Unlike many a night, she had two glasses with her.
Over her time in this strange world, Mokou had developed a monthly ritual. On the night of the full moon, she would have a drink by herself on the roof of the apartment. She poured two glasses - one for herself, and one to be left untouched. As she drank, her eyes seldom left the full moon.
The fight against United Earth never really hit home as hard for her as it did for some people. It felt too big and too small to be real at the same time. Could such a battle really change the shape of this world? In the end, would any of it matter? If they defeated their enemy, would peace return, or would it simply be replaced with another one?
As she darnk, more questions arose, questions that would never see answers, but also ones she would never truly find answers for. It was a cloudy day, but a proper moon viewing is undeterred by the weather - the moon persists, whether or not it can be seen. What was on that heavenly sphere in this world? Was the Lunar Capital a constant across all worlds? Was there another Kaguya here, living peacefully on the moon? Or had United Earth's influence spread even that far?
Another night of questions, another night empty of answers. With a sigh, Mokou picked up the full glass across form her, and poured its contents out on the ground. When Kaguya found her again, there would certainly be time for a night of drinking before their eternal battle continued.
