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RETURNING: One. Ravenblueshifting
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Hakuno Kishinami
SERIES: Fate/Extra
CHRONOLOGY: Right after the seventh battle against Saber/Gawain
CLASS: Hero although she’s more of a Survivalist.
BACKGROUND:
Hakuno comes from the game Fate/Extra. This game is what could be considered an “alternate reality” of the Fate/Stay Night franchise, and in a wider scope, a setting of the Type-Moon (also called Nasuverse after its creator) multiverse. The basic premise, which is actually a bit difficult to grasp unless you go and find out more about the Type-Moon setting, is that the world, referred as Gaia, possesses a great amount of “energy” (read magic, or mana) and is some sort of sentient being which is fully aware of the existence of humans. What varies with almost every other iteration of the setting is that this energy started to suddenly fade way before it should, like several hundreds of years before, if not more. This causes the world to basically stop on its tracks in terms of development, with resources slowly dying off and power being concentrated on the rich, while the poor become poorer and poorer.
The year the game starts is 2032. Allegedly.
Two years prior, humans discovered a machine called The Automaton, which had been recording all of humanity’s history since it very beginning, and used its records to pluck information of both people and “heroes”. Then they went and put that information into the “Moon Cell”, a virtual environment of sorts in which they created NPCs, as well as letting people join on their free will (all in the guise of students attending High School), and ran the Serial Phantasm (SE.RA.PH) program, which recreates the Holy Grail War from the Fate/Stay Night series; long story short, it’s a fight to death between seven Masters (magi or “wizards”) and their respective Servants (“Heroic Spirits” of heroes from the past, present, and even future), with the last Master Standing getting the chance to use the Holy Grail to “make a wish”. But this is Type-Moon, stuff; the Grail and the war are not what they seem and everything is incredibly more complicated than that. Fortunately, the recreated Holy Grail War is based on what it apparently was made for, so there’s not tricky stuff there. In a way.
But yes; 128 participants are chosen from all the candidates to take part of the War; the rest are killed. Then this 128 participants move over seven battles until only one stands, and that one gets his or her wish. Everyone dies of course, both in the “game” and in reality, as the participants are hooked up in a way that their minds or “souls” are send to the game, while their bodies remain, although linked to each other. Many of the participants are hackers, now called “magi” as they have taken the position of the former. The game starts the day the 128 “Masters” are to be chosen, and the guy we control goes and dies; up to that point, everyone has been brainwashed in some way to make them believe they were normal high school students, and as they remember themselves they need to pass a test required to participate; our guy doesn’t do too good, but it’s a good example of what happens to almost everyone inside the Moon Cell.
Enter Hakuno Kishinami!
That’s the “official” name given to the main character in the manga(s); Hakuno can be either male or female. This Hakuno is very female. We first meet her the same day the other guy gets killed, as she slowly realizes things are ridiculously off somehow. Hakuno breaks from the brainwash of sorts, only to realize she remembers nothing but her name. More by luck than anything else, Hakuno manages to follow someone who actually knows what’s going on (Leo) and faces the test to become a Master. And loses, yep. She wouldn’t probably stayed dead if it wasn’t for what can only be described as a ridiculously stubborn willpower, and manages to summon a Servant out of her inherent wish to live/plain pity, defeating the designated opponent. The game also lets you decide who she summons. This Hakuno became the Master of a Saber class Servant (who looks like a recolor of the regular F/SN Saber, with boobs). Together with Saber, Hakuno enters the Holy Grail War without having the faintest idea of what she’s doing.
Hakuno has to deal with the fact she needs to defeat and then watch how other Masters are deleted and killed in order to let her survive, as well as spend her time trying to solve the mystery of her missing memories. As time passed, Hakuno made important allies inside of the Moon Cell; the hacker Rin Tohsaka and the “homunculus” Rani VII, as well as managed to antagonize Leo B. Harway, the successor of the biggest and most powerful company on the “real world”. Hakuno finds out that she’s not so much a real person than the recollections of someone who has been in a coma and in deep freeze (because of a brain disease that caused memory loss and eventually death) for the last thirty years or so, and whose memories from the Automaton were used to create a NPC, only that Hakuno managed to break through and actually become sentient; because of the coma she’s in, there were no actual memories to use, hence her lack of memories.
Although the seven battles are all different in terms of who she’s fighting and what she’s figuring about the world and her situation, they all follow the same pattern; during the six days prior to the fight, both Masters can enter the “Arena”, a field prepared to let them train their Servants. Hakuno must retrieve two “triggers” inside of the Arena, each on one of the two generated levels, as well as gather clues about who the Servant to face is. Then they go and defeat the Master and Servant. Every Master is pretty damn…particular, making all them contrast between each other and Hakuno, and also making the whole clue finding a lot easier.
Hakuno also makes an important bond with her Servant, who seems to be infatuated with her. Hakuno also works hard to learn more about Saber and her real identity, that being of Emperor Nero of Rome, because half the female Servant Cast is a genderswap, yeah. Hakuno and Saber fight, in order: Rider, Archer, Caster, Lancer, Assassin, Berserker and Saber. There is a point in which Hakuno witnesses Rin and Rani fighting and is given a chance to save either of them, the other one ultimately becoming her enemy; in this “route” Hakuno saves Rin and Rani fights her with Berserker. Leo is her last opponent, also having a Saber class Servant. Hakuno comes to the City right after defeating Leo, after which comes the endgame with a fight against the person that created the Moon Cell, Twice H. Pieceman. Only after defeating him Hakuno will learn the true extent of her situation; at her pull point Hakuno is well aware she’s not a “real person” but doesn’t know where or if there is a body she can call her own.
PERSONALITY:
Hakuno is told to have a blank expression at first, partly because she was absolutely lost in the Holy Grail War. She remains a very quiet girl thorough the game, although her personality evolves as she experiences more things. Hakuno is strong willed and courageous, but tends to lock herself in sometimes overly complicated musings, considering a subject in several different ways and worrying about things instead of working on them, although once she sets her mind she doesn’t stop until she sees things through. There is no “original” personality to work on here, since Hakuno had been losing her memories since before the beginning of the game, thus making her a true Tabula Rasa.
An introvert (we are usually attacked with walls of text of pure internal monologue), Hakuno works better with small groups of people, or even just one person at the time, partly due to her tendency to overly analyze everything that’s going on around her; she’s incredibly perceptive, if a tad too naïve; she was kissed by Rin at one point and while she had serious reasons, Rin could have done it in other way, but Hakuno went as far as thinking she had probably felt something that appeared to be a kiss (she had her eyes closed), considering that Rin just wouldn’t. Same with the time Rin needed to give mana to Hakuno’s Servant, which required something that probably was intercourse, or something very close to it.
Almost inherently a pessimist when it has to do with herself, Hakuno knows her weaknesses, and she might know them a little too well, as she usually underestimates herself, giving credit to others around rather than recognizing her true value. This humility of sorts doesn’t detriment her performance though, and thorough the game we see Hakuno being a pretty sharp sleuth (and one that knows when to ask for help), a quick thinking strategist and ultimately a respectful fighter, to the point she laments every death she causes greatly, independently of who she’s defeating. Her tendency to put others before her almost gets her killed a couple of times, and if she hadn’t had the support of her Servant since early on she might have lost on purpose, as she found that without memories she didn’t know what kind of person she was, or whether her goals were as worthy of killing as the rest.
Hakuno dislikes killing, and the whole survival setting of the Grail has marked her to the point she despises violence of all kinds; finding herself free from it will give her a lot of peace, as well as a sense of guilt over ditching “her” Rin. Possessing the naiveté of someone who is just learning everything again, Hakuno is easily impressionable, and while she learns quickly, her curious nature might take the best of her at times. She has learned to be moderately distrustful of strangers, but ultimately remains openly friendly to people as long as they respond in kind.
POWER:
Digital Self: Hakuno can become a stream of digital information and travel/interact/manipulate to great extent technologic devices that way. Because of her digital “nature”, Hakuno can also exert a weak level of cyberpathy; the ability to interact with information (mostly wireless) with her mind only, but she can’t do much besides receiving/projecting.
Codecasting: Hakuno has inherited the abilities of her collection of Formal Wear, allowing her to use their skills. They still require energy, and now focus, and she can’t just spam them all whenever she wants. She’s going to have to work on them.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Hello?
Hello?????
I think there has been a mistake? Or maybe a glitch, I don’t think I’ve seen this section anywhere before. Is this a special Arena segment? I’m not exactly sure of what was supposed to happen once I defeated Leo, but appearing in a city with a robot lady telling me to be a hero was the last thing I was expecting. This really doesn’t look like something Moon Cell would do.
But anyway, I’m Hakuno Kishinami, and I guess I just won the Holy Grail War? A little hard to believe, considering I was named the most helpless Master ever, but it somehow happened. I need to find Rin to tell her! I’m sure she’ll go nuts, but I owe it to her. And Saber too, I need to find her. They couldn’t possibly have been deleted right? Right? Now I’m getting worried.
Is anyone reading this? I feel a bit stupid writing in this thing.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
She had asked where she was, and the (partly) nice people on the network had answered. Hakuno had gotten out of the building rooftop with relative ease, and now walked around what was Central Park, a bit startled by the sights. It was all real, they said, and she was very much made of flesh and bone, although she had to admit it didn’t feel all that different from the way she had felt inside the Moon Cell. Could they be wrong? She had no reason to doubt then other than the extremely bizarre situation she was now; apparently things were just frozen in time back at her world, and she would eventually return to get on with whatever it was left to do. Or at least that was the idea, since nobody had been able to tell her just how did the whole travelling between worlds worked.
One day she could be walking by the park like she was at the moment, and the next second she might be back in her world, Saber at her side. It was very bizarre, and yet, Hakuno had gone through way stranger things in the last seven weeks; she felt like she could deal with it, or at least no outright consider it insane. In order to generate such a complex scenario, the Moon Cell would need to use so many resources it hardly seemed convenient. She couldn’t have possibly made a wish and not remember it, could she?
“No, of course not,” muttered Hakuno as she stopped and looked some kids run in the grass, always under the watchful glance of who probably was their mother; even if she had wished to have a normal life, there was no reason for her to be separated from her friends, and there was certainly no way she could have come with such a complex world, considering things had been happening way before she arrived. She sat on a bench, and closed her eyes; the wind hit her on the face, long brown hair flipping everywhere. It felt good, better than anything she had felt so far. She couldn’t have created such a world, she didn’t even know if such a wish could be granted. At any rate, Hakuno’s only wish, if it could be called one was to learn more about herself and to find a way to save herself from ending up deleted. Maybe that had been her wish? But I would remember she thought, and that made sense to her, therefore she had been brought to the City before she had a chance to see what happened once Saber and Leo were defeated; something to look after whenever she went back, Hakuno decided.
That was then though, now she was in a new place, full of new people…anything could happen. Opening her eyes, Hakuno decided to take this weird event in the best possible way; she would eventually find her way back, but for now she had a lot of things to do. “Starting with…housing,” muttered as she checked the metal plates she had been given. Standing up, Hakuno took a confident step forward…and then realized she had no idea where the nearest exit was. Still, she decided to walk in straight line until she got out of there. “But how big could Central Park be, right?”
FINAL NOTES: N/A
NAME: Aura
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:
archerkoIM: triskellions
PLURK:
E-MAIL: malaphors@gmail.com
RETURNING: One. Raven
blueshifting[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Hakuno Kishinami
SERIES: Fate/Extra
CHRONOLOGY: Right after the seventh battle against Saber/Gawain
CLASS: Hero although she’s more of a Survivalist.
BACKGROUND:
Hakuno comes from the game Fate/Extra. This game is what could be considered an “alternate reality” of the Fate/Stay Night franchise, and in a wider scope, a setting of the Type-Moon (also called Nasuverse after its creator) multiverse. The basic premise, which is actually a bit difficult to grasp unless you go and find out more about the Type-Moon setting, is that the world, referred as Gaia, possesses a great amount of “energy” (read magic, or mana) and is some sort of sentient being which is fully aware of the existence of humans. What varies with almost every other iteration of the setting is that this energy started to suddenly fade way before it should, like several hundreds of years before, if not more. This causes the world to basically stop on its tracks in terms of development, with resources slowly dying off and power being concentrated on the rich, while the poor become poorer and poorer.
The year the game starts is 2032. Allegedly.
Two years prior, humans discovered a machine called The Automaton, which had been recording all of humanity’s history since it very beginning, and used its records to pluck information of both people and “heroes”. Then they went and put that information into the “Moon Cell”, a virtual environment of sorts in which they created NPCs, as well as letting people join on their free will (all in the guise of students attending High School), and ran the Serial Phantasm (SE.RA.PH) program, which recreates the Holy Grail War from the Fate/Stay Night series; long story short, it’s a fight to death between seven Masters (magi or “wizards”) and their respective Servants (“Heroic Spirits” of heroes from the past, present, and even future), with the last Master Standing getting the chance to use the Holy Grail to “make a wish”. But this is Type-Moon, stuff; the Grail and the war are not what they seem and everything is incredibly more complicated than that. Fortunately, the recreated Holy Grail War is based on what it apparently was made for, so there’s not tricky stuff there. In a way.
But yes; 128 participants are chosen from all the candidates to take part of the War; the rest are killed. Then this 128 participants move over seven battles until only one stands, and that one gets his or her wish. Everyone dies of course, both in the “game” and in reality, as the participants are hooked up in a way that their minds or “souls” are send to the game, while their bodies remain, although linked to each other. Many of the participants are hackers, now called “magi” as they have taken the position of the former. The game starts the day the 128 “Masters” are to be chosen, and the guy we control goes and dies; up to that point, everyone has been brainwashed in some way to make them believe they were normal high school students, and as they remember themselves they need to pass a test required to participate; our guy doesn’t do too good, but it’s a good example of what happens to almost everyone inside the Moon Cell.
Enter Hakuno Kishinami!
That’s the “official” name given to the main character in the manga(s); Hakuno can be either male or female. This Hakuno is very female. We first meet her the same day the other guy gets killed, as she slowly realizes things are ridiculously off somehow. Hakuno breaks from the brainwash of sorts, only to realize she remembers nothing but her name. More by luck than anything else, Hakuno manages to follow someone who actually knows what’s going on (Leo) and faces the test to become a Master. And loses, yep. She wouldn’t probably stayed dead if it wasn’t for what can only be described as a ridiculously stubborn willpower, and manages to summon a Servant out of her inherent wish to live/plain pity, defeating the designated opponent. The game also lets you decide who she summons. This Hakuno became the Master of a Saber class Servant (who looks like a recolor of the regular F/SN Saber, with boobs). Together with Saber, Hakuno enters the Holy Grail War without having the faintest idea of what she’s doing.
Hakuno has to deal with the fact she needs to defeat and then watch how other Masters are deleted and killed in order to let her survive, as well as spend her time trying to solve the mystery of her missing memories. As time passed, Hakuno made important allies inside of the Moon Cell; the hacker Rin Tohsaka and the “homunculus” Rani VII, as well as managed to antagonize Leo B. Harway, the successor of the biggest and most powerful company on the “real world”. Hakuno finds out that she’s not so much a real person than the recollections of someone who has been in a coma and in deep freeze (because of a brain disease that caused memory loss and eventually death) for the last thirty years or so, and whose memories from the Automaton were used to create a NPC, only that Hakuno managed to break through and actually become sentient; because of the coma she’s in, there were no actual memories to use, hence her lack of memories.
Although the seven battles are all different in terms of who she’s fighting and what she’s figuring about the world and her situation, they all follow the same pattern; during the six days prior to the fight, both Masters can enter the “Arena”, a field prepared to let them train their Servants. Hakuno must retrieve two “triggers” inside of the Arena, each on one of the two generated levels, as well as gather clues about who the Servant to face is. Then they go and defeat the Master and Servant. Every Master is pretty damn…particular, making all them contrast between each other and Hakuno, and also making the whole clue finding a lot easier.
Hakuno also makes an important bond with her Servant, who seems to be infatuated with her. Hakuno also works hard to learn more about Saber and her real identity, that being of Emperor Nero of Rome, because half the female Servant Cast is a genderswap, yeah. Hakuno and Saber fight, in order: Rider, Archer, Caster, Lancer, Assassin, Berserker and Saber. There is a point in which Hakuno witnesses Rin and Rani fighting and is given a chance to save either of them, the other one ultimately becoming her enemy; in this “route” Hakuno saves Rin and Rani fights her with Berserker. Leo is her last opponent, also having a Saber class Servant. Hakuno comes to the City right after defeating Leo, after which comes the endgame with a fight against the person that created the Moon Cell, Twice H. Pieceman. Only after defeating him Hakuno will learn the true extent of her situation; at her pull point Hakuno is well aware she’s not a “real person” but doesn’t know where or if there is a body she can call her own.
PERSONALITY:
Hakuno is told to have a blank expression at first, partly because she was absolutely lost in the Holy Grail War. She remains a very quiet girl thorough the game, although her personality evolves as she experiences more things. Hakuno is strong willed and courageous, but tends to lock herself in sometimes overly complicated musings, considering a subject in several different ways and worrying about things instead of working on them, although once she sets her mind she doesn’t stop until she sees things through. There is no “original” personality to work on here, since Hakuno had been losing her memories since before the beginning of the game, thus making her a true Tabula Rasa.
An introvert (we are usually attacked with walls of text of pure internal monologue), Hakuno works better with small groups of people, or even just one person at the time, partly due to her tendency to overly analyze everything that’s going on around her; she’s incredibly perceptive, if a tad too naïve; she was kissed by Rin at one point and while she had serious reasons, Rin could have done it in other way, but Hakuno went as far as thinking she had probably felt something that appeared to be a kiss (she had her eyes closed), considering that Rin just wouldn’t. Same with the time Rin needed to give mana to Hakuno’s Servant, which required something that probably was intercourse, or something very close to it.
Almost inherently a pessimist when it has to do with herself, Hakuno knows her weaknesses, and she might know them a little too well, as she usually underestimates herself, giving credit to others around rather than recognizing her true value. This humility of sorts doesn’t detriment her performance though, and thorough the game we see Hakuno being a pretty sharp sleuth (and one that knows when to ask for help), a quick thinking strategist and ultimately a respectful fighter, to the point she laments every death she causes greatly, independently of who she’s defeating. Her tendency to put others before her almost gets her killed a couple of times, and if she hadn’t had the support of her Servant since early on she might have lost on purpose, as she found that without memories she didn’t know what kind of person she was, or whether her goals were as worthy of killing as the rest.
Hakuno dislikes killing, and the whole survival setting of the Grail has marked her to the point she despises violence of all kinds; finding herself free from it will give her a lot of peace, as well as a sense of guilt over ditching “her” Rin. Possessing the naiveté of someone who is just learning everything again, Hakuno is easily impressionable, and while she learns quickly, her curious nature might take the best of her at times. She has learned to be moderately distrustful of strangers, but ultimately remains openly friendly to people as long as they respond in kind.
POWER:
Digital Self: Hakuno can become a stream of digital information and travel/interact/manipulate to great extent technologic devices that way. Because of her digital “nature”, Hakuno can also exert a weak level of cyberpathy; the ability to interact with information (mostly wireless) with her mind only, but she can’t do much besides receiving/projecting.
Codecasting: Hakuno has inherited the abilities of her collection of Formal Wear, allowing her to use their skills. They still require energy, and now focus, and she can’t just spam them all whenever she wants. She’s going to have to work on them.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Hello?
Hello?????
I think there has been a mistake? Or maybe a glitch, I don’t think I’ve seen this section anywhere before. Is this a special Arena segment? I’m not exactly sure of what was supposed to happen once I defeated Leo, but appearing in a city with a robot lady telling me to be a hero was the last thing I was expecting. This really doesn’t look like something Moon Cell would do.
But anyway, I’m Hakuno Kishinami, and I guess I just won the Holy Grail War? A little hard to believe, considering I was named the most helpless Master ever, but it somehow happened. I need to find Rin to tell her! I’m sure she’ll go nuts, but I owe it to her. And Saber too, I need to find her. They couldn’t possibly have been deleted right? Right? Now I’m getting worried.
Is anyone reading this? I feel a bit stupid writing in this thing.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
She had asked where she was, and the (partly) nice people on the network had answered. Hakuno had gotten out of the building rooftop with relative ease, and now walked around what was Central Park, a bit startled by the sights. It was all real, they said, and she was very much made of flesh and bone, although she had to admit it didn’t feel all that different from the way she had felt inside the Moon Cell. Could they be wrong? She had no reason to doubt then other than the extremely bizarre situation she was now; apparently things were just frozen in time back at her world, and she would eventually return to get on with whatever it was left to do. Or at least that was the idea, since nobody had been able to tell her just how did the whole travelling between worlds worked.
One day she could be walking by the park like she was at the moment, and the next second she might be back in her world, Saber at her side. It was very bizarre, and yet, Hakuno had gone through way stranger things in the last seven weeks; she felt like she could deal with it, or at least no outright consider it insane. In order to generate such a complex scenario, the Moon Cell would need to use so many resources it hardly seemed convenient. She couldn’t have possibly made a wish and not remember it, could she?
“No, of course not,” muttered Hakuno as she stopped and looked some kids run in the grass, always under the watchful glance of who probably was their mother; even if she had wished to have a normal life, there was no reason for her to be separated from her friends, and there was certainly no way she could have come with such a complex world, considering things had been happening way before she arrived. She sat on a bench, and closed her eyes; the wind hit her on the face, long brown hair flipping everywhere. It felt good, better than anything she had felt so far. She couldn’t have created such a world, she didn’t even know if such a wish could be granted. At any rate, Hakuno’s only wish, if it could be called one was to learn more about herself and to find a way to save herself from ending up deleted. Maybe that had been her wish? But I would remember she thought, and that made sense to her, therefore she had been brought to the City before she had a chance to see what happened once Saber and Leo were defeated; something to look after whenever she went back, Hakuno decided.
That was then though, now she was in a new place, full of new people…anything could happen. Opening her eyes, Hakuno decided to take this weird event in the best possible way; she would eventually find her way back, but for now she had a lot of things to do. “Starting with…housing,” muttered as she checked the metal plates she had been given. Standing up, Hakuno took a confident step forward…and then realized she had no idea where the nearest exit was. Still, she decided to walk in straight line until she got out of there. “But how big could Central Park be, right?”
FINAL NOTES: N/A
