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Other Characters: Leon Kuwatajohnny_rotten_bench, Noodle axempress
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Aoi “Santa” Kurashiki
Age: 24
Canon: Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Canon Point: Right after the True Ending, following his and his sister’s escape from Building Q.
Character Information: Boop!
Personality: So, when you first meet Aoi, you get a very straightforward impression from him, and it’s an impression you (well, at least the player character Junpei) probably don’t find too pleasant. He’s an aggressive and obnoxious punk - short of temper, lacking in respect, and minus an indoor voice (though he does have a vocabulary full of sailor words) - and you just know that, out of the entire cast, he is going to be the most difficult person to work with. Once the Saw-esque puzzle game you’re all trapped in begins, he quickly proves that assumption correct: fitting the developer’s description of him as “a lone wolf” with “no spirit of cooperation,” he doesn’t do a whole lot to help you out of the game’s various situations, and in fact seems to be consciously doing all he can to antagonize you; he snarks at everyone, questions your decisions, complains loudly, alternates between acting flippant and berating you to hurry up and solve puzzles, makes little effort to trust you or anyone else, occasionally makes comments that are ominously cryptic or even amount to non-sequiturs (a shining example: at one lovely moment, at the mention of the Greek god Hermes, he suddenly blurts out “Hermes, herpes, whatever!” For real.), and generally behaves like a big edgy load for the rest of the cast to haul around. Clearly, he is just some asshole who was picked to be in the game at random, and there’s no way he could actually be significant to the story...right?
Yeah, no. As it turns out, he’s one of the masterminds behind the Nonary Game (so-called because of the number 9 appearing as a motif throughout: nine hours to escape, nine people trapped, nine main doors to go through…)! That whole jerkass attitude of his? Apparently, it was just a giant act of obfuscating stupidity on his part, a way to both divert suspicion and progress the game the way he saw fit. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he probably enjoyed playing you like a fiddle.
It’s also inaccurate, however, to label him a cunning bastard and this game’s equivalent of Adachi Tohru. Things just aren’t that simple here.
To start with, his above-described performance wasn’t a total lie. It was all based in traits he actually has, and he graciously drops hints all throughout the game about his hidden depths. You quickly learn he’s very intelligent, for one, as he demonstrates his knowledge of topics like science at various points; when you’re examining a thermometer in a shower, for instance, he’ll tell you that thermometers never go above 107°F because that’s when the body’s cells start to essentially hard-boil (which would happen, for example, if someone were thrown into an incinerator - yes, he says that, and it’s foreshadowing). Many of the mysterious comments he makes are ones relating to his distrust of others, showing you that this is a core issue for him: at one point, he gladly tells you that the four things he hates most in the world are hope, faith, love, and luck (in reference to the four-leafed clover’s symbolism, because this is when an image of one shows up), because they can abandon you at any time and leave you with nothing; and at another point, he flat-out advises you to not trust anyone if you don’t wanna lose this game, telling you that “the person you trust the most could turn out to be the one who stabs you in the back.” You learn at one point that he’s always tended to be stubborn and uncooperative (although in the context said information shows up in, he had good reason to be - more on that soon), and you also learn he’s a practical sort with no patience for backwards superstitions or illogical beliefs - “Maybe back in the Dark Ages that kinda crap (i.e. Junpei asking him if he's afraid of things like the apocalyptic Four Horsemen) scared people, but this is the 21st century, and I’m a 21st century guy.” (Given both the game’s backstory and the fact that this comes after his rather hypocritical “I hate four-leafed clovers because they remind me of my fears” speech, one can't help but wonder about this particular trait) Even the codename he picks for himself, Santa, foreshadows his real self and motives: yes, his main reasoning is that it matches his assigned number like everyone else’s codenames (since “san” means “three” in Japanese - in the English translation, this prompts him to ask “any of you chumps know Japanese?” to a room full of Japanese people, because this game is weird), but at the end of his explanation, he says “You know, like Santa Claus. Fits, don’tcha think?” In fact, he makes a few references to Saint Nick over the course of the game, for it’s that central to his character.
Which brings us to his motive. Why did he orchestrate the Nonary Game? Actually, none of it was his idea. He himself explains it thusly: “I’m really more of an...assistant. Like a secretary. But an assistant’s only an assistant. I didn’t come up with all this. All I did was follow Zero’s orders.” He helped the true mastermind, Zero, set all of this up without ever once questioning, and that was because Zero is his sister - fellow player Akane.
She is probably the only person, maybe even the only thing, he truly cares about. They share a very deep bond, because starting at an early age, all they had in the world was each other - their parents died when Aoi was eight and Akane five (a car accident, they were told, but in reality, Dad was wrongfully executed and Mom committed suicide - it’s possible that Aoi knew the truth, but never told Akane to preserve her innocence), leaving him to act as her parental figure. And despite their loneliness and poverty, they were extremely happy in their life together: Aoi worked tirelessly to ensure his sister was happy, even though this often left him with nothing, and every Christmas, he’d act as Santa Claus for her - telling her to write a letter to the North Pole, reading it once she thought it had sent, and then saving up enough money to get her the present she wanted. He would do anything - risk anything or anyone, including himself - to ensure at least her safety and happiness, if not theirs together.
So, when they were kidnapped alongside fourteen other kids and forced to perform life-or-death experiments in order to test some bullshit pseudoscience, and she got burned to a crisp due to one particular doctor’s ruthlessness? He was completely broken, full of grief and rage beyond all human understanding. And when it turned out she actually partially survived, thanks to said bullshit pseudoscience actually being real and lobbing her into an alternate timeline? He was determined to find a way not only to save her, but also to get revenge on the ones who harmed her. So the Siblings Kurashiki plotted together, weaving an elaborate scheme that lasted nine long years and involved, among other things, forming a secret organization and getting rich in the stock market. They identified seven people who were somehow connected to the incident - the doctor who killed Akane, an associate of his, two other kids who got kidnapped, the mother of two other such kids, a cop who worked on the case, and (most importantly) Akane’s childhood friend and one true love who, according to Akane’s esper powers, was going to save her - got all of the equipment and environments set up, and were eventually able to recreate that first Nonary Game; and rather than testing Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphogenetic fields, they were instead going to move everyone along to a point where Junpei (said childhood friend/love interest) could save past!Akane and close the time paradox, and where Aoi could finally get revenge on that ruthless doctor.
Akane came up with every part of this grand scheme, and Aoi never once questioned her as he helped her realize that vision. She was everything he had left, everything that made him happy; and for a Type Seven (yes, that’s canon - each of the main characters is based off of one of the Enneagram types, in keeping with the “9” motif), being trapped and deprived of happiness is the worst thing that could ever happen. And if this was what she wanted (even if he wasn’t burning for vengeance and didn’t want it himself)? Dammit, he was gonna make it happen. Or, as his final words before leaving the rest of the group and disappearing into the blue with Akane (taking the doctor at gunpoint with them) put it: “Didn’t I tell you? I’m Santa Claus. It’s time for me to go make a wish come true.”
So, that’s Aoi, everyone - a punk-ass jerk with hidden depths who’s motivated by loyalty! Oh, and as for the customary personality typings: if you ask me, he’s an ISTP, a 7w8 (with a tritype of 478, and he’s definitely sp/sx), a Slytherpuff, and his daemon would be some kind of mustelid, maybe a polecat or badger (for they fit his antisocial and gruff nature, as well as his lack of trust for anyone except a select few Very Important People).
5-10 Key Character Traits:
-Brash, Loud
-Rude
-Uncooperative, Defiant
-A Loner
-Intelligent
-Distrustful
-Practical, Realistic
-Devoted, Loyal
-Determined
-Vengeful
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits, please n’ thanks!
Opt-Outs: Minotaur (Leon), Goblin (Noodle)
Roleplay Sample: Here ya go!
Name: Zephyr
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camelopardsOther Characters: Leon Kuwata
johnny_rotten_bench, Noodle axempressCHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Aoi “Santa” Kurashiki
Age: 24
Canon: Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Canon Point: Right after the True Ending, following his and his sister’s escape from Building Q.
Character Information: Boop!
Personality: So, when you first meet Aoi, you get a very straightforward impression from him, and it’s an impression you (well, at least the player character Junpei) probably don’t find too pleasant. He’s an aggressive and obnoxious punk - short of temper, lacking in respect, and minus an indoor voice (though he does have a vocabulary full of sailor words) - and you just know that, out of the entire cast, he is going to be the most difficult person to work with. Once the Saw-esque puzzle game you’re all trapped in begins, he quickly proves that assumption correct: fitting the developer’s description of him as “a lone wolf” with “no spirit of cooperation,” he doesn’t do a whole lot to help you out of the game’s various situations, and in fact seems to be consciously doing all he can to antagonize you; he snarks at everyone, questions your decisions, complains loudly, alternates between acting flippant and berating you to hurry up and solve puzzles, makes little effort to trust you or anyone else, occasionally makes comments that are ominously cryptic or even amount to non-sequiturs (a shining example: at one lovely moment, at the mention of the Greek god Hermes, he suddenly blurts out “Hermes, herpes, whatever!” For real.), and generally behaves like a big edgy load for the rest of the cast to haul around. Clearly, he is just some asshole who was picked to be in the game at random, and there’s no way he could actually be significant to the story...right?
Yeah, no. As it turns out, he’s one of the masterminds behind the Nonary Game (so-called because of the number 9 appearing as a motif throughout: nine hours to escape, nine people trapped, nine main doors to go through…)! That whole jerkass attitude of his? Apparently, it was just a giant act of obfuscating stupidity on his part, a way to both divert suspicion and progress the game the way he saw fit. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he probably enjoyed playing you like a fiddle.
It’s also inaccurate, however, to label him a cunning bastard and this game’s equivalent of Adachi Tohru. Things just aren’t that simple here.
To start with, his above-described performance wasn’t a total lie. It was all based in traits he actually has, and he graciously drops hints all throughout the game about his hidden depths. You quickly learn he’s very intelligent, for one, as he demonstrates his knowledge of topics like science at various points; when you’re examining a thermometer in a shower, for instance, he’ll tell you that thermometers never go above 107°F because that’s when the body’s cells start to essentially hard-boil (which would happen, for example, if someone were thrown into an incinerator - yes, he says that, and it’s foreshadowing). Many of the mysterious comments he makes are ones relating to his distrust of others, showing you that this is a core issue for him: at one point, he gladly tells you that the four things he hates most in the world are hope, faith, love, and luck (in reference to the four-leafed clover’s symbolism, because this is when an image of one shows up), because they can abandon you at any time and leave you with nothing; and at another point, he flat-out advises you to not trust anyone if you don’t wanna lose this game, telling you that “the person you trust the most could turn out to be the one who stabs you in the back.” You learn at one point that he’s always tended to be stubborn and uncooperative (although in the context said information shows up in, he had good reason to be - more on that soon), and you also learn he’s a practical sort with no patience for backwards superstitions or illogical beliefs - “Maybe back in the Dark Ages that kinda crap (i.e. Junpei asking him if he's afraid of things like the apocalyptic Four Horsemen) scared people, but this is the 21st century, and I’m a 21st century guy.” (Given both the game’s backstory and the fact that this comes after his rather hypocritical “I hate four-leafed clovers because they remind me of my fears” speech, one can't help but wonder about this particular trait) Even the codename he picks for himself, Santa, foreshadows his real self and motives: yes, his main reasoning is that it matches his assigned number like everyone else’s codenames (since “san” means “three” in Japanese - in the English translation, this prompts him to ask “any of you chumps know Japanese?” to a room full of Japanese people, because this game is weird), but at the end of his explanation, he says “You know, like Santa Claus. Fits, don’tcha think?” In fact, he makes a few references to Saint Nick over the course of the game, for it’s that central to his character.
Which brings us to his motive. Why did he orchestrate the Nonary Game? Actually, none of it was his idea. He himself explains it thusly: “I’m really more of an...assistant. Like a secretary. But an assistant’s only an assistant. I didn’t come up with all this. All I did was follow Zero’s orders.” He helped the true mastermind, Zero, set all of this up without ever once questioning, and that was because Zero is his sister - fellow player Akane.
She is probably the only person, maybe even the only thing, he truly cares about. They share a very deep bond, because starting at an early age, all they had in the world was each other - their parents died when Aoi was eight and Akane five (a car accident, they were told, but in reality, Dad was wrongfully executed and Mom committed suicide - it’s possible that Aoi knew the truth, but never told Akane to preserve her innocence), leaving him to act as her parental figure. And despite their loneliness and poverty, they were extremely happy in their life together: Aoi worked tirelessly to ensure his sister was happy, even though this often left him with nothing, and every Christmas, he’d act as Santa Claus for her - telling her to write a letter to the North Pole, reading it once she thought it had sent, and then saving up enough money to get her the present she wanted. He would do anything - risk anything or anyone, including himself - to ensure at least her safety and happiness, if not theirs together.
So, when they were kidnapped alongside fourteen other kids and forced to perform life-or-death experiments in order to test some bullshit pseudoscience, and she got burned to a crisp due to one particular doctor’s ruthlessness? He was completely broken, full of grief and rage beyond all human understanding. And when it turned out she actually partially survived, thanks to said bullshit pseudoscience actually being real and lobbing her into an alternate timeline? He was determined to find a way not only to save her, but also to get revenge on the ones who harmed her. So the Siblings Kurashiki plotted together, weaving an elaborate scheme that lasted nine long years and involved, among other things, forming a secret organization and getting rich in the stock market. They identified seven people who were somehow connected to the incident - the doctor who killed Akane, an associate of his, two other kids who got kidnapped, the mother of two other such kids, a cop who worked on the case, and (most importantly) Akane’s childhood friend and one true love who, according to Akane’s esper powers, was going to save her - got all of the equipment and environments set up, and were eventually able to recreate that first Nonary Game; and rather than testing Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphogenetic fields, they were instead going to move everyone along to a point where Junpei (said childhood friend/love interest) could save past!Akane and close the time paradox, and where Aoi could finally get revenge on that ruthless doctor.
Akane came up with every part of this grand scheme, and Aoi never once questioned her as he helped her realize that vision. She was everything he had left, everything that made him happy; and for a Type Seven (yes, that’s canon - each of the main characters is based off of one of the Enneagram types, in keeping with the “9” motif), being trapped and deprived of happiness is the worst thing that could ever happen. And if this was what she wanted (even if he wasn’t burning for vengeance and didn’t want it himself)? Dammit, he was gonna make it happen. Or, as his final words before leaving the rest of the group and disappearing into the blue with Akane (taking the doctor at gunpoint with them) put it: “Didn’t I tell you? I’m Santa Claus. It’s time for me to go make a wish come true.”
So, that’s Aoi, everyone - a punk-ass jerk with hidden depths who’s motivated by loyalty! Oh, and as for the customary personality typings: if you ask me, he’s an ISTP, a 7w8 (with a tritype of 478, and he’s definitely sp/sx), a Slytherpuff, and his daemon would be some kind of mustelid, maybe a polecat or badger (for they fit his antisocial and gruff nature, as well as his lack of trust for anyone except a select few Very Important People).
5-10 Key Character Traits:
-Brash, Loud
-Rude
-Uncooperative, Defiant
-A Loner
-Intelligent
-Distrustful
-Practical, Realistic
-Devoted, Loyal
-Determined
-Vengeful
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits, please n’ thanks!
Opt-Outs: Minotaur (Leon), Goblin (Noodle)
Roleplay Sample: Here ya go!
