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app; quon midzuchi; holly heights
OOC INFORMATION
Player: January
Age: 18
Personal Journal:acperience
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Other Characters: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Quon Midzuchi
Age: 1000+, but looks to be around 13.
Canon: Towa No Quon
Canon Point: Post-Chapter 4: Crimes in a Blank Dream
Species: Human (Attractor, but he emphasizes that they're still human)
Gender: Male
Orientation: He shows no interest in romance (though he's innocently made questionable comments/gestures towards both genders), and given his real age, sexuality presumably isn’t a big deal to him, so going with no preference.
History:
One thousand years ago, Quon and his clan were discriminated against and chased out due to possessing special powers, based on the individual (the first of ‘Attractors’, as they would later be called). They chose to live on their own, embracing their unique abilities and isolating themselves from those who would hurt them. Quon, however, wasn’t especially interested in any of that. As his powers hadn’t awakened yet, he preferred to play around and slack off, compared to his younger brother, Towa, who was kind and gentle—to the point where he would even help out someone from the town, despite them being the ones who hated Quon and co.’s kind.
Quon would come to regret this for years to come, however, when one day, as his clan was preparing for a festival, he left to do his own thing, uninterested in it all. Rather than returning to a happy and warm village, though, he came back to find his entire clan murdered out of prejudice. It was then that Quon’s powers awakened, and as is common for Attractors, he lost control of them, causing him to go berserk and slaughter all of the townspeople.
Afterwards, whether he would’ve chosen to continue living or simply end his life there was irrelevant—one of his newfound powers was immortality. The ancestor of one of his present friends found him and took him in, and from there, Quon eventually vowed to dedicate his life to protecting Attractors like him in order to make up for his failure and to atone for having killed.
Flash forward to one thousand years later. Quon leads a group of Attractors, who exist to shelter those like them—primarily children—and teach them how to control their abilities, as well as give them a new life. Heavy prejudice still exists against them, with an organization known as Custos existing to capture/kill them. Consequently, as one of the only fighters, much of Quon’s time is spent locating new Attractors when they awaken and saving them before Custos can get to them. On the side, he takes care of his garden, with the Attractors’ base being disguised as an establishment known as “Fantasium Garden”, built on the land of Quon's original home and open to the public.
For the most part, Quon’s life is fairly repetitive, following the above pattern. Things go awry, however, when one of their enemies—a cyborg known as Epsilon/Shun—turns out to be an Attractor. Deciding that he’s a friend even if he previously fought against them, Quon saves his life and takes him in, despite being aware of the risks. This proves to be the base’s undoing, as Custos hacks into Shun and has him reveal the location of the base and disable the barrier surrounding it. Although Quon’s friends manage to evacuate unharmed, Fantasium Garden is destroyed via missile—and Quon is killed.
Appearance: Ta-da.
Personality:
“I want to save them all. And that won't change in a thousand years.”
So, a lot of Quon’s personality can be summed up as “want to protect everyone”. Specifically, all the Attractors. It’s not really clear whether this policy applies to all humans, given that he wasn’t really initially aware that the cyborgs had genuine consciences and the Big Bad ends up being an Attractor himself, but seeing as how his friends end up saving all of Custos—their enemies—at the end, one can assume their actions reflect what Quon himself would do. Furthermore, Quon does end up rescuing every one of them.
But yes. Dear God, does the boy have a complex about protecting people. If you’re an Attractor, he will do everything he can to save you, even if you’re a serial killer, just tried to kill his friends, etc. And should he be unable to do so, he will blame himself for it and become noticeably disheartened. It’s why one of his friends derogatorily calls him "hero" and criticizes him for it—because he can’t save everyone. It gets to the point where he comes across as a bit self-centered and self-righteous, as he treats it like it’s specifically his burden (though granted, he’s essentially the sole fighter of the team, so it’s understandable that he kind of feels like it’s all up to him). While he has no problems with receiving help, he doesn't seem comfortable leaving it all up to someone else, even if they tell him that they've got it. He’s entirely aware that he’s got a complex about it, as evident when one team member tries to stop him, and Quon replies with this:
“You know. There’s no point in trying to stop me.”
Because there isn’t. He says it himself: he doesn't ever give up. As he’s been fighting for hundreds of years, Quon is an incredibly determined person. If there’s something he wants to do, then he’ll go all out to accomplish it. It does take a certain kind of will, after all, to dedicate yourself to the same ideal for presumably several lifetimes, almost entirely unwaveringly.
This all stems from his past, however. The Quon of one thousand years ago was nothing like how he is today, really. He was kind of brash. More importantly, he was a slacker who wasn’t really out to help others. From that point on, he seems to have molded his personality after his brother’s. He vowed to work as hard as he can and protect everyone to atone for having failed everyone before. At the very least, he would never repeat the mistake of his past ever again. He also decided to take upon the burden of having killed, due to his power incontinence, and dedicate his life to helping others learn to control their own abilities. His desire to protect everyone comes from severe survivor guilt on his part, as his inaction in the past may have costed him the lives of everyone he held dear.
He’s also extremely forgiving, as seen in his relationship with Epsilon/Shun. As his more cynical friends point out, Shun is an enemy. He’s captured and killed countless of their friends—so they shouldn't trust him with anything or have even saved him. Of course, Quon isn’t stupid—he’s well aware of that risk. However, as a murderer, he’s going to give a fellow murderer—and most importantly, one of their own kin—a chance. After all, as he states, if they're going to be judging people, then he himself should be the first to be judged. No matter how idealistic he's being, he says it straight to Shun, who himself points out how illogical it is—he’s choosing to trust him, even though he’s aware that Shun could easily then choose to betray that trust. Even when Shun ‘does’, Quon’s soft nature shows, as he refuses to seriously hurt Shun, knowing that he’s acting against his will.
As mentioned, Quon believes that if anyone should be criticized for being a murderer, then it should be him. Altogether, Quon doesn’t seem to hold a very high opinion of himself. While he doesn’t often go around outright deprecating himself, you would think that someone who’s saved countless lives would be a little more arrogant. Not Quon, though. It’s because of this that, when the others find out that he’s killed before and begin doubting him in spite of all that he’s done for them, Quon takes no offence. After all, he’s harder on himself than anyone else is on him. He tries to always be conscious of his burdens, never forgetting why he fights or why he cares so much for those around him, to the point where he certainly values their lives over his own. However, he never lets it get out of hand. In some ways, he sees himself as a monster, yes, but he also knows that no matter what, he’s still human.
That said, for a guy whose life revolves around helping others, Quon’s rather distant. While he's very polite and enjoys spending time with his friends, he’s more often than not seen alone. This likely stems partly from his immortality, as while it doesn’t stop him from making friends, it means that he knows that he’ll outlive them all (and as he’s had friends from the previous generations, presumably has done so many, many times). As well as that, he's not really out to socialize. He doesn’t mean to come across as cold—he’s just somewhat aloof because his life is so centered on his desire to protect everyone that it doesn’t always seem to occur to him to actually have a life.
His long life also shows up in other quirks of his. For starters, he can be a bit, well, weird, such as being kind of forward (striking up a conversation with strangers out of the blue, making comments that could easily be interpreted as flirtatious or creepy, suddenly holding people’s hands, etc.). One can assume that living for over a thousand years has not exactly done wonders for his social skills—that or he’s just learned to not care by this point, given his generally stoic nature. For that matter, he’s also very calm about most things (e.g. Yuri sticking her breasts in his face). While it’s not too difficult to fluster him once in a while, it’s not all that easy to get to someone who’s lived for a millennium either. He's also tsun-proof, much to one of his friends' misfortune.
What can cause him to lose his cool, however, are two things: one, his friends in danger, and two, Towa. He’s more prone to being emotional when his friends are being threatened, and God help you if you mess with Towa. While Quon never becomes seriously unhinged, he’s far more likely to lose his temper (because even he has one, yes) and fly into a rage. He’s even pushed to the point where he considers going against his ideals, as seen when he comes close to killing Kamishiro, the leader of Custos and a fellow Attractor, who essentially killed Towa—however, his selfless side wins over and he ultimately decides that his policy of saving all Attractors applies to him, even if he feels no sympathy towards him. His past as a whole seems to be a bit of a sore spot for him, with a friend even commenting on how, despite his age, he still hasn't quite managed to come to peace with it. Because of that and his hero complex, he's capable of being rather sorrowful and moody at times.
There are also implications that, for all of his emotional strength, he still has moments of insecurity. He doesn’t like to show them, as he’s far too concerned with others than to highlight his own issues, but for all of his age and maturity? Quon is, again, still human. Even he has (something of) a breaking point, where his weariness and desperation become clearer. He’s lived for over a thousand years, after all—as should go without saying, that’s a very long time to be alive, particularly when he’s generally either criticized for what he does or taken for granted. He never asks for recognition, of course, but even he, in his weakest moments, needs reassurance. For someone who hates failing, he, deep down inside, still wants to be told that at least he tried his best.
Furthermore, as may be clear, Quon's idealism comes from his deep-rooted issues. He's not just a guy who feels compelled to save everyone. His emotional stability outright relies on him doing so. Again, it's not that Quon is so thick-headed that he can't think cynically; he purposely chooses not to because, all things considered, he might become incapable of functioning if he were to be any different. Quon is an idealist because he needs to be—because his ideals are the world to him and are what keep him going after a thousand years.
In short, he’s a pretty nice, if not aloof, guy with a bad case of Chronic Hero Syndrome.
Abilities:
Firstly, there’s his Insania form, which he can transform into. In this form, he has enhanced speed, strength, agility, and durability, as well some degree of energy manipulation—he’s seen using wings and blades made of energy. He also appears to possess some hydrokinesis and metal manipulation, though he doesn’t use those as often as regular physical combat.
As well as that, even outside of his Insania form, he also seems to have mild telepathic powers, in that he can detect other Attractors to some extent and, at one point, enters a telepathic link (albeit at great risk to himself).
His main ability is his regeneration, in that he can recover from any wound, including fatal ones and things such as removed limbs. The time it takes to heal seems to vary from wound to wound, and in some cases can be extremely painful, apparently. Because of this, while it’s possible to kill him, he won’t stay dead forever.
In a non-supernatural sense, it can be assumed that he’s still somewhat physically capable—he’s fast enough to dodge bullets at a distance and agile enough to go around on people's rooftops, at least.
And for something that has nothing to do with combat—he’s also a good gardener.
Other:
• 148 cm/4’10 tall (aka yes, he's a shorty)
• Blood type B
• Doesn't sleep much unless he's recovering—too busy patrolling otherwise
• Favourite food is instant noodles, stating that it’s “the kind of invention that only comes around every thousand years”
SAMPLES
First Person: Thread(s) in a voice-testing comm & Dear Mun post!
Third Person:
One of Quon's first thoughts upon regaining consciousness was that it didn't hurt.
Healing could be excruciating—just as painful as gaining the wounds themselves sometimes. It was a worthy price to pay for, well, not dying, but immortality didn't go as smoothly as some might imagine. Consequently, to dimly recall losing his hand and being shot repeatedly (among other injuries) only to wake up as if he'd just fallen asleep—it was a rather disconcerting sensation. By all means, he should be crying out in pain right now.
Even ignoring his body's condition, however, it was far too peaceful. He remembered fighting. The details didn't occur to him immediately, but after a few moments, they became clear. Custos attacked, and—wait, how were Shun and Yuri holding up? They were in danger—and he needed to figure out where he was, now.
He had to protect them.
After sitting up, Quon glanced around the area, which only served to confuse him further. Either his friends had decided to develop a rather strange sense of humour and dump him on a lawn chair, rather than in a bed, or he definitely wasn't where he was supposed to be. All things considered, he shouldn't have expected to wake up in Fantasium Garden—not when they had to flee—but this was still unsettling. If anything, the utter normalcy of the scene made it that much more unnerving, particularly for someone who had been rather disconnected from the ordinary for several years.
The fact that he didn't see anyone he knew made the latter case more likely (that, or few had managed to survive, but that was a possibility he didn't want to consider). This really wasn't where he should be. That said, though, he still had no idea how he'd ended up here.
"Maybe death finally caught up to me..." he murmured, getting out of the chair. He didn't know if he could even die, bullet to the head or not, but he at least knew that sitting around wasn't going to get him anywhere.
There were people who needed him, after all.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Nope.
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yep!
Player: January
Age: 18
Personal Journal:
acperienceContact Info:
Other Characters: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Quon Midzuchi
Age: 1000+, but looks to be around 13.
Canon: Towa No Quon
Canon Point: Post-Chapter 4: Crimes in a Blank Dream
Species: Human (Attractor, but he emphasizes that they're still human)
Gender: Male
Orientation: He shows no interest in romance (though he's innocently made questionable comments/gestures towards both genders), and given his real age, sexuality presumably isn’t a big deal to him, so going with no preference.
History:
One thousand years ago, Quon and his clan were discriminated against and chased out due to possessing special powers, based on the individual (the first of ‘Attractors’, as they would later be called). They chose to live on their own, embracing their unique abilities and isolating themselves from those who would hurt them. Quon, however, wasn’t especially interested in any of that. As his powers hadn’t awakened yet, he preferred to play around and slack off, compared to his younger brother, Towa, who was kind and gentle—to the point where he would even help out someone from the town, despite them being the ones who hated Quon and co.’s kind.
Quon would come to regret this for years to come, however, when one day, as his clan was preparing for a festival, he left to do his own thing, uninterested in it all. Rather than returning to a happy and warm village, though, he came back to find his entire clan murdered out of prejudice. It was then that Quon’s powers awakened, and as is common for Attractors, he lost control of them, causing him to go berserk and slaughter all of the townspeople.
Afterwards, whether he would’ve chosen to continue living or simply end his life there was irrelevant—one of his newfound powers was immortality. The ancestor of one of his present friends found him and took him in, and from there, Quon eventually vowed to dedicate his life to protecting Attractors like him in order to make up for his failure and to atone for having killed.
Flash forward to one thousand years later. Quon leads a group of Attractors, who exist to shelter those like them—primarily children—and teach them how to control their abilities, as well as give them a new life. Heavy prejudice still exists against them, with an organization known as Custos existing to capture/kill them. Consequently, as one of the only fighters, much of Quon’s time is spent locating new Attractors when they awaken and saving them before Custos can get to them. On the side, he takes care of his garden, with the Attractors’ base being disguised as an establishment known as “Fantasium Garden”, built on the land of Quon's original home and open to the public.
For the most part, Quon’s life is fairly repetitive, following the above pattern. Things go awry, however, when one of their enemies—a cyborg known as Epsilon/Shun—turns out to be an Attractor. Deciding that he’s a friend even if he previously fought against them, Quon saves his life and takes him in, despite being aware of the risks. This proves to be the base’s undoing, as Custos hacks into Shun and has him reveal the location of the base and disable the barrier surrounding it. Although Quon’s friends manage to evacuate unharmed, Fantasium Garden is destroyed via missile—and Quon is killed.
Appearance: Ta-da.
Personality:
So, a lot of Quon’s personality can be summed up as “want to protect everyone”. Specifically, all the Attractors. It’s not really clear whether this policy applies to all humans, given that he wasn’t really initially aware that the cyborgs had genuine consciences and the Big Bad ends up being an Attractor himself, but seeing as how his friends end up saving all of Custos—their enemies—at the end, one can assume their actions reflect what Quon himself would do. Furthermore, Quon does end up rescuing every one of them.
But yes. Dear God, does the boy have a complex about protecting people. If you’re an Attractor, he will do everything he can to save you, even if you’re a serial killer, just tried to kill his friends, etc. And should he be unable to do so, he will blame himself for it and become noticeably disheartened. It’s why one of his friends derogatorily calls him "hero" and criticizes him for it—because he can’t save everyone. It gets to the point where he comes across as a bit self-centered and self-righteous, as he treats it like it’s specifically his burden (though granted, he’s essentially the sole fighter of the team, so it’s understandable that he kind of feels like it’s all up to him). While he has no problems with receiving help, he doesn't seem comfortable leaving it all up to someone else, even if they tell him that they've got it. He’s entirely aware that he’s got a complex about it, as evident when one team member tries to stop him, and Quon replies with this:
Because there isn’t. He says it himself: he doesn't ever give up. As he’s been fighting for hundreds of years, Quon is an incredibly determined person. If there’s something he wants to do, then he’ll go all out to accomplish it. It does take a certain kind of will, after all, to dedicate yourself to the same ideal for presumably several lifetimes, almost entirely unwaveringly.
This all stems from his past, however. The Quon of one thousand years ago was nothing like how he is today, really. He was kind of brash. More importantly, he was a slacker who wasn’t really out to help others. From that point on, he seems to have molded his personality after his brother’s. He vowed to work as hard as he can and protect everyone to atone for having failed everyone before. At the very least, he would never repeat the mistake of his past ever again. He also decided to take upon the burden of having killed, due to his power incontinence, and dedicate his life to helping others learn to control their own abilities. His desire to protect everyone comes from severe survivor guilt on his part, as his inaction in the past may have costed him the lives of everyone he held dear.
He’s also extremely forgiving, as seen in his relationship with Epsilon/Shun. As his more cynical friends point out, Shun is an enemy. He’s captured and killed countless of their friends—so they shouldn't trust him with anything or have even saved him. Of course, Quon isn’t stupid—he’s well aware of that risk. However, as a murderer, he’s going to give a fellow murderer—and most importantly, one of their own kin—a chance. After all, as he states, if they're going to be judging people, then he himself should be the first to be judged. No matter how idealistic he's being, he says it straight to Shun, who himself points out how illogical it is—he’s choosing to trust him, even though he’s aware that Shun could easily then choose to betray that trust. Even when Shun ‘does’, Quon’s soft nature shows, as he refuses to seriously hurt Shun, knowing that he’s acting against his will.
As mentioned, Quon believes that if anyone should be criticized for being a murderer, then it should be him. Altogether, Quon doesn’t seem to hold a very high opinion of himself. While he doesn’t often go around outright deprecating himself, you would think that someone who’s saved countless lives would be a little more arrogant. Not Quon, though. It’s because of this that, when the others find out that he’s killed before and begin doubting him in spite of all that he’s done for them, Quon takes no offence. After all, he’s harder on himself than anyone else is on him. He tries to always be conscious of his burdens, never forgetting why he fights or why he cares so much for those around him, to the point where he certainly values their lives over his own. However, he never lets it get out of hand. In some ways, he sees himself as a monster, yes, but he also knows that no matter what, he’s still human.
That said, for a guy whose life revolves around helping others, Quon’s rather distant. While he's very polite and enjoys spending time with his friends, he’s more often than not seen alone. This likely stems partly from his immortality, as while it doesn’t stop him from making friends, it means that he knows that he’ll outlive them all (and as he’s had friends from the previous generations, presumably has done so many, many times). As well as that, he's not really out to socialize. He doesn’t mean to come across as cold—he’s just somewhat aloof because his life is so centered on his desire to protect everyone that it doesn’t always seem to occur to him to actually have a life.
His long life also shows up in other quirks of his. For starters, he can be a bit, well, weird, such as being kind of forward (striking up a conversation with strangers out of the blue, making comments that could easily be interpreted as flirtatious or creepy, suddenly holding people’s hands, etc.). One can assume that living for over a thousand years has not exactly done wonders for his social skills—that or he’s just learned to not care by this point, given his generally stoic nature. For that matter, he’s also very calm about most things (e.g. Yuri sticking her breasts in his face). While it’s not too difficult to fluster him once in a while, it’s not all that easy to get to someone who’s lived for a millennium either. He's also tsun-proof, much to one of his friends' misfortune.
What can cause him to lose his cool, however, are two things: one, his friends in danger, and two, Towa. He’s more prone to being emotional when his friends are being threatened, and God help you if you mess with Towa. While Quon never becomes seriously unhinged, he’s far more likely to lose his temper (because even he has one, yes) and fly into a rage. He’s even pushed to the point where he considers going against his ideals, as seen when he comes close to killing Kamishiro, the leader of Custos and a fellow Attractor, who essentially killed Towa—however, his selfless side wins over and he ultimately decides that his policy of saving all Attractors applies to him, even if he feels no sympathy towards him. His past as a whole seems to be a bit of a sore spot for him, with a friend even commenting on how, despite his age, he still hasn't quite managed to come to peace with it. Because of that and his hero complex, he's capable of being rather sorrowful and moody at times.
There are also implications that, for all of his emotional strength, he still has moments of insecurity. He doesn’t like to show them, as he’s far too concerned with others than to highlight his own issues, but for all of his age and maturity? Quon is, again, still human. Even he has (something of) a breaking point, where his weariness and desperation become clearer. He’s lived for over a thousand years, after all—as should go without saying, that’s a very long time to be alive, particularly when he’s generally either criticized for what he does or taken for granted. He never asks for recognition, of course, but even he, in his weakest moments, needs reassurance. For someone who hates failing, he, deep down inside, still wants to be told that at least he tried his best.
Furthermore, as may be clear, Quon's idealism comes from his deep-rooted issues. He's not just a guy who feels compelled to save everyone. His emotional stability outright relies on him doing so. Again, it's not that Quon is so thick-headed that he can't think cynically; he purposely chooses not to because, all things considered, he might become incapable of functioning if he were to be any different. Quon is an idealist because he needs to be—because his ideals are the world to him and are what keep him going after a thousand years.
In short, he’s a pretty nice, if not aloof, guy with a bad case of Chronic Hero Syndrome.
Abilities:
Firstly, there’s his Insania form, which he can transform into. In this form, he has enhanced speed, strength, agility, and durability, as well some degree of energy manipulation—he’s seen using wings and blades made of energy. He also appears to possess some hydrokinesis and metal manipulation, though he doesn’t use those as often as regular physical combat.
As well as that, even outside of his Insania form, he also seems to have mild telepathic powers, in that he can detect other Attractors to some extent and, at one point, enters a telepathic link (albeit at great risk to himself).
His main ability is his regeneration, in that he can recover from any wound, including fatal ones and things such as removed limbs. The time it takes to heal seems to vary from wound to wound, and in some cases can be extremely painful, apparently. Because of this, while it’s possible to kill him, he won’t stay dead forever.
In a non-supernatural sense, it can be assumed that he’s still somewhat physically capable—he’s fast enough to dodge bullets at a distance and agile enough to go around on people's rooftops, at least.
And for something that has nothing to do with combat—he’s also a good gardener.
Other:
• Blood type B
• Doesn't sleep much unless he's recovering—too busy patrolling otherwise
• Favourite food is instant noodles, stating that it’s “the kind of invention that only comes around every thousand years”
SAMPLES
First Person: Thread(s) in a voice-testing comm & Dear Mun post!
Third Person:
One of Quon's first thoughts upon regaining consciousness was that it didn't hurt.
Healing could be excruciating—just as painful as gaining the wounds themselves sometimes. It was a worthy price to pay for, well, not dying, but immortality didn't go as smoothly as some might imagine. Consequently, to dimly recall losing his hand and being shot repeatedly (among other injuries) only to wake up as if he'd just fallen asleep—it was a rather disconcerting sensation. By all means, he should be crying out in pain right now.
Even ignoring his body's condition, however, it was far too peaceful. He remembered fighting. The details didn't occur to him immediately, but after a few moments, they became clear. Custos attacked, and—wait, how were Shun and Yuri holding up? They were in danger—and he needed to figure out where he was, now.
He had to protect them.
After sitting up, Quon glanced around the area, which only served to confuse him further. Either his friends had decided to develop a rather strange sense of humour and dump him on a lawn chair, rather than in a bed, or he definitely wasn't where he was supposed to be. All things considered, he shouldn't have expected to wake up in Fantasium Garden—not when they had to flee—but this was still unsettling. If anything, the utter normalcy of the scene made it that much more unnerving, particularly for someone who had been rather disconnected from the ordinary for several years.
The fact that he didn't see anyone he knew made the latter case more likely (that, or few had managed to survive, but that was a possibility he didn't want to consider). This really wasn't where he should be. That said, though, he still had no idea how he'd ended up here.
"Maybe death finally caught up to me..." he murmured, getting out of the chair. He didn't know if he could even die, bullet to the head or not, but he at least knew that sitting around wasn't going to get him anywhere.
There were people who needed him, after all.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Nope.
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yep!