[7dead] application

[arsenist]

PLAYER: Yama
CONTACT: Yamadori
OVER 18?: yes!
OTHER CHARACTERS: n/a

CHARACTER NAME: Akira Kurusu
CANON: Persona 5 Royal
CANON POINT: post-canon
AGE: 16-17 (Akira doesn't have a canon birthday, but since the game ends at the end of the high school year, I'd like to say that he's 17 if that's okay!)
HISTORY: here!

VICES & VIRTUES:

• Patience: One of Akira's strongest qualities is his ability to watch and wait to see what happens. His teammates and friends remark on his ability to "keep a cool head" multiple times throughout the game, even when the pressure is on and the rest of the world has mistakenly been led to believe that the Phantom Thieves are killers. When Akira is first introduced, his patience is presented in a more self-damaging way, because it leads him to be quietly accepting of his probation and bottling up all the painful feelings he has surrounding it. But after spending more time as Joker, he's honed it into something that can be wielded to weather through the difficult situations he must often face.

• Charity: Sometimes he can be a little too selfless about it, but a big portion of Akira's probation is spent on doing things for others. Favors here and there, helping out at one of his many part-time jobs, or just being the sounding board that others need - nothing is too big or too small if he can be of use to someone. Sometimes it strays into people pleasing tendencies, or even to the point of giving of himself without any regard to his own well-being, but Akira genuinely thrives on doing what he can to help others.

• Pride: While Akira is a little too selfless for some of the negative qualities of Pride, it can certainly be said that he takes a great deal of joy in doing his job as a Phantom Thief well. In the Metaverse he's able to feel more capable than anywhere else, but there's a particular delight that can be found in uprooting the rotten adults that he encounters during his time in Tokyo. This extends to other areas of his life as well, such as his honors student status in school or working at his busy beef bowl job where he must man the restaurant alone - he learns his task diligently, and then is able to indulge in a celebratory gesture such as a fist pump when it's accomplished. Akira's pride is a quite one, but it still burns brightly.

• Wrath: As with Pride, Akira doesn't indulge in the negative qualities of Wrath too often. But its positive ones could be said to be the root of how he Awakened his Persona in the first place. More than anything else, Akira cannot abide by those with power wielding it in a cruel or unjust way, and he'll do anything within his power to stop it... even if it might not always be the most morally correct way to go about it. His anger burned so hot in his heart that it awoke Arsène, who alluded to both the positive and negative traits of Akira's Wrath in a single statement: "Thou who art willing to perform all sacrilegious acts for thine own justice!" It's a justice that he's not afraid to carry out on his own either, given that law and authority figures have yet to do much that's positive for him in his life. He'll nearly always wield it for good... but even the possibility of a cruel person's death isn't enough to stop him from carrying out his own justice.

SUITABILITY: Though Akira is a high school student, Persona 5 Royal is a canon that deals with a lot of themes that are similar to the concepts of 7dead's vices and virtues, while still allowing him to be challenged in new and fresh ways. He's had the weight of many lives on his shoulders before, had to lead a team through mental landscapes that were sometimes disturbing or even frightening, and has gone through enough difficulties - from being forced into probation by the lies of a corrupt politician to having to stop a god from brainwashing all of humanity - that I feel he's well equipped to handle whatever the game can throw at him.

POWERS:

Third Eye: An ability received from Igor, this allows Akira to scan the area around him for things that are out of place. It gives a glow to things that are of notice, such as searchable objects, gaps that can be jumped across, dangerous or interactable areas (pitfalls for the former or vent openings for the latter), or how dangerous an enemy may be. It also seems to have an effect on certain activities, such as slowing down shots in baseball for better timed hits, indicating different breeds of fish with one of the aforementioned glows, or improving accuracy while playing darts.

Persona: Throughout the Persona series, Personas themselves are generally beings that are a person's personality and feelings given form, but each one manifests a little bit differently throughout the games. In 5/Royal, Persona users harness the painful feelings of being taken advantage of, or of others/themselves being wronged, and rebel against it - that form is their "rebellious heart", so to speak. Akira is a unique Persona user because he's a "Wild Card", capable of using multiple Personas (unlike most, who are only capable of using one).
If possible, I'd like for Akira to have only one Persona for now and possibly regain others later. (if you'd rather he only has what he starts with, though, that's totally fine with me!) I'd like for him to at least have Raoul, one of the three Personas that are considered his true ones, and whose skills I'll list briefly below (with some descriptions adjusted for what feels more appropriate for rp terminology):

• Phantom Show: High chance to inflict Sleep on all targets.
• Eigaon: Heavy curse damage to one target.
• Ali Dance: Reduces hit rate of all incoming attacks by half.
• Maeigaon: Heavy curse damage to all targets.
• Heat Riser: Increases the attack, defense and agility of one ally for a short time.
• Curse Amp: Strengthens curse attacks by 50%.
• Concentrate: Next magical attack inflicts 2.5x damage for Raoul.
• Life Aid: Restores some health and spirit (or mental fortitude) after defeating a target.

INVENTORY:

• Silver Dagger: A silver blade resplendent in its ornamentation.
• Tkachev: Model gun typically seen in mafia films.
• Akechi's Glove: A challenge that was accepted.

PREFERENCE: My top preference is for Wrath & Patience. Otherwise aside from the one I'm opting out of, I'm more than happy to be assigned any of the other pairs! I think there's something fun in all of them for Akira to play around with.
OPT-OUTS: I would like to opt out of just Envy & Gratitude for Akira.

SAMPLES: ONE (random scenario from bakerstreet) and TWO (log thread from austice)