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[Cake-Chan!]

So I'm different. At least that's what I pride myself in being. I don't like following the flock. I'm a black sheep. So with this in mind I decided to say screw good and make a character that supports the Storm that's destroying everything. One problem:

I don't have so much as a solid backstory to even go on.

When trying to think of a character, I only get two images: A guy telling people to "Back off" as he casts forms of magic, and that same guy visiting his sick mom. Because of Squeaky pointing out that it sounded like a sympathetic villain, I tried making a backstory off of mostly the second image. Here's what I got:

The world sucks.

That was a lesson learned long ago. A little boy growing up in a booming town full of people with just one person in his life caring for him, this little boy was born to love the world. He was to be taught that even though life had its hardships that people were to be cared about. A lesson this boy could’ve followed if it hadn’t happened. Little Yuki had a mom but no dad. The father vanished before he was born. Nothing was ever said about him. His mother was kind and loving towards him and nurtured him as he grew up. He couldn’t stay in his mom’s arms forever though.

The kid had reached the age where he was to go out and see the world. It was not yet time for him to fully leave home, only to go out and play with the other kids and go to school and whatnot. Well that didn’t work out well. The boy was very quiet and did not speak much. Therefore everyone made fun of him and refered to him as a simple-minded mute. In reality, he was intelligent and would get good grades. He just refused to speak. During this rough time of not fitting in more concerning matters happened. His mother became ill.

For a long time his mom was the one supporting him and herself and paying the bills. She worked just so Yukimura could be a kid. However, an unknown illness fell upon her. It weakened her every day. Yuki could see it. His mother was not only sick, she was tired. The world was overbearing on her. His father had left her all the responsibilities and took none of his own. Now she was caving into the pressure. Slowly those lessons about caring for other people drained away as the tax collectors hassled her for money and she grew more ill.

It went to the point where she couldn’t walk anymore. She had to lay down in bed for the whole day. It was too much. Because of this, teenager Yuki had started working and started trying to help his mother and find a cure. However, every doctor had given up. They simply stated that she was going to die and didn’t bother helping her. His fury grew as his mom was denied help left and right. He started to not give a shit anymore. All he cared about now was helping his mom live. Questions filled his head. Why did his mom had to die and not someone else? Why did SHE have to get sick and let herself wither away? Why did he have to stand for this? Why did he have to care for anyone else if everyone was going to disregard his mom?

They would all know his mother’s pain.

And so out of this crazed fury he began studying magic. He studied the black arts all just so he could bring pain and agony to others. If his mom was going to die, EVERYONE would die. No exceptions. He, with time and practice, was then able to acquire skills that would help in his plan to bring pain to everyone around him. Then the Storm came. Perfect. The Storm would most certainly help. He then realized through that that other worlds existed beyond Radiant Garden. So then his plans became broader. He would help this Storm destroy every world. All for his dying mother.

Now it's rather vague and doesn't give much and I don't like it. I want something more to Yuki then "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL BECAUSE MY MOTHER'S DYING", but I honestly at this point have rewritten this profile a thousand and one times and it's not getting any better. So with this I have to say one thing: I NEED YUR HALP.

[NiNeLiVeS]

Hmmm, I first need to ask if the 'destroying the world' ambition is central to the character. There are ways where you can work that into a character and still make it deep and twisty (for instance: instead of his mother's death at the hands of an uncaring world being the cause, the truth is that she was physically and emotionally abusive; the years before she died Yukimura invented his ideal mother figure and at a certain point his imagination overtook reality and he began to believe in it - yadda yadda repressed pain, yadda yadda dealing with reality, etc. for character development).

However. However, if the 'destroying the world' part of your character isn't central I would suggest reconsidering it. His mother's death is something somber but at the same time an inspiration for him to better the world. He has truly taken her 'kindness' to heart - it just so happens he believes that it is impossible for society as it stands to function. So it must be torn down. Thus he supports the anomalies - but at the same time is truly noble in that he will stand up for the downtrodden and heal the sick and so on as much as he is able. But this character requires legitimate grievances with the system as well as real suggestions for improvement.

The third route that I see open is to go with the idea of a world 'killing' his mom... but for him to be enraged for a reason that extends beyond impersonal tax collectors. Let's say he did everything in his power to make her feel better. Let's say he found hope - genuine hope - in the form of some bigshot name (if Radiant Garden is the world you want, I'd suggest speaking to Crazy about involving Ansem)... and then somehow he was let down. Betrayed. This devastated him: made him bitter and so on. It's a lot harder to juggle since the initial 'issue' (if I can put it that way) with the character is that he kind of comes off as... petulant rather than enraged and you can't really justify 'world destruction' without a seriously good sob story.

[Cake-Chan!]

Hm...I like these ideas. 1 is one crazy twist thing plus would require a character that's nuts which I have been proven to be able to do. Plus it's fun. I'm not entirely sure how I would get Mr. Crazy to then start wanting the world to be destroyed though. 2 is also great for it provides this shades of grey effect which I like, but I'm not entirely sure if I could properly RP such a character. Lastly, 3 makes it more broad and more connected to the plot in a way, but then I don't want to bother people about involving such big figures in my history. With all these ideas at hand I'm thinking of mixing 1 and 2: He sees the Anomaly as a way to correct society instead of an evil threat, but at the same time he's insane. Could that work as something?

[NiNeLiVeS]

Oooh, that's actually pretty sneaky - if Yukimura realizes the 'truth' you can choose to have him to go into a mental breakdown moment where his repressed memories return - or to appear like he's about to choose to help the heroes before going completely off the deep-end and blowing up everything within sight doing the mad cackle and all that. It actually might work better - he's been working so hard to a goal that he discovers is essentially hollow and made-up, much like a fantasy. The friends he's made trying to achieve it try to convince him that no, it's good, it's reasonable but then he goes - 'really?' in that creepy monotone of someone who's just about to break... 'perhaps I'll show you why the fantasy was necessary...'

And things start exploding. It's actually pretty delicious. Hero-ish antagonist devolves into insane super-villain.

...it says something about me that I find that sort of character super-interesting, doesn't it? >_>

[Cake-Chan!]

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Finally I have an idea and direction for my character. Thank you very much. >D Now I can actually work on the bio now that I know just exactly what I want to do...