Name: Cyndi Age: 26 Contact Info: @seaknowsall Other Characters: n/a
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Name: Rin Okumura Canon: Blue Exorcist Age: 15 Gender: male Canon Point:Canon Point: Impure King arc – the end of chapter 33 Background Link:here! Inventory: - The Koma sword (a useless old sword that might be good for hitting things) - The Kamikakushi key (a uselessly huge key) - A large (empty) travel bag - He’s wearing the clothes he slept in that day before his arrest
Personality: A kid like Rin Okumura could be easily dismissed as a hotheaded youth with too much spare time on his hands. He’s as brash as he is passionate, an empathetic young man who has a slight case of tunnel vision. In some ways, he is as typical as any fifteen-year-old in a boys’ manga: he’s starting to notice the opposite sex, his confidence is low, and he has moments when he feels as if he can do anything. He is invincible! Nothing could possibly hurt him! The world belongs to him!
Rin loves reading dramatic manga with super dramatic plot twists and engaging characters that make him cry, watching movies (like Star Wars), and listening to music (sometimes). He can (and prefers) to sleep for 10 hours a day and he has slept through class more than once. If asked to describe his study habits, he’d say something along the lines of “hands-on practical learning!” which easily means he can’t stand to be locked in a stuffy room all day long. Rin also enjoys pulling pranks on his friends, has something of a rivalry with his twin brother, and can be sarcastic when the need arises. Rin enjoys cooking, being outside, and he has a tendency to disobey direct orders. But like other kids his age, there are factors that help influence his actions, and events in his life that have shaped him into the individual he is becoming. Despite the fact that he is the son of Satan, Rin works hard to prove that he much more than just another half-demon. The results are usually mixed between the reactions of others and his own self confidence. He has learned to accept himself and how others view him, and focuses instead on becoming the best person he can be.
Rin has always been the odd one out. As a child, he felt ostracized from his peers because of his volatile temper. He would become vicious when angered, and his strength (impressive even at a young age), would lead others to label him as a demon and a monster.
It was difficult for him to understand the connection between his strength and their fear, but he knew that it was his actions and his power that alienated them. To him, their words were unfounded. He believed it had more to do with how he had been able to cause that much pain to his classmates and show no remorse (or sentience) while doing so. His temper as a child was as wild and unrestrained as the strength he displayed. These factors led to a small confrontation between Shiro Fujimoto and Rin, father and son, which damaged a few of his Fujimoto’s ribs and left Rin with a resolution he could attempt to stick to. After the incident, Rin resolved to use his strength for something good, in emulation of his father. Try as he might to abate his initial hotheaded reactions, it was his willingness to help others (whether they wanted his help or not) which proved to be his undoing. He was too strong to be seen as human by the townspeople and he often fell into trouble by causing more destruction than needed. While Rin would feel as if there was little he could do to change the image already constructed for him, he never stopped trying to find a way to be helpful to those around him. While in middle school, he helped less and less. He skipped class and barely kept his grades up. Yet his temper remained unchanged and his attitude became more rebellious. Rin no longer cared what others thought of him as the years went by. He felt as if he should just accept that being “a cool and respectable person” just wasn’t in the cards for him. No matter how much Father Fujimoto believed in him, Rin had a hard time believing in himself.
After graduating from middle school, Rin started looking for a steady job rather than pursuing higher education. He felt that schools would be better off without his personality and he doubted that he would learn anything, or be of use to anyone while inside of a classroom. A part time job seemed to Rin like a better place to start, but he soon found out that he was unable to hold down a job. It always came back to something he had done, in one way or another.
However, after the death of his father, joining an Exorcist cram school, and coming in contact with classmates he would later consider friends, his temper was put to the test. Rin found himself smiling a little more than before as he slowly began to realize how much it meant to him to finally have close connections with others. As much as it filled him with good cheer, it also greatly frightened him. Rin could not accept that he was a demon, and he wasn’t sure how his companions would react to his parentage.
Rin tried to pull back his anger (and felt it dissipate) as he grew closer to his classmates and through his studies. Yet, he would always remember who and what he was. He feared their reaction if they ever found out that he was the son of Satan. As he grew closer to his friends from the Exorcist Cram School, the calmer he began to feel. His outbursts changed from angry declarations to childish proclamations. His conflict between hiding his parentage and protecting his friends from himself came to a peak during a fight with the Earth King, Amaimon. His relation to Satan was revealed to his classmates, and soon followed their open distrust towards him.
When he reveled himself through his fight with Amaimon, his fears were realized. His friends rejected him and, in turn, Rin decided that he would rather earn their friendship and trust again than to live life without that companionship. He knew that they were afraid of him. He had dealt with other people’s apprehension before, but he had not been close to them. While his classmates were taken away for a proper explanation of Rin's condition, Rin had been taken to a religious counsel to have his fate decided. Unwilling to bend to the will of those aging exorcists, Rin fought back with his ambitions and promised to himself to train harder so that those around him were left unharmed by his flames.
But his new resolve could not convince his companions. To them he was a dangerous creature and Rin felt their animosity more acutely than he had before.
It took a memorable trip to Kyoto to help Rin see that he was a person worthy of recognition by those who wanted his attention and that he need only to accept who he was in order to take hold of his life and find meaning within himself. As the group headed to Kyoto for their mission, Rin worked on his flame control. He was able to speak to Izumo and Shima, but the fear and anger amongst the others still lingered. Rin could hardly blame them for it, but as the mission continued, it began to grate on his nerves. He had already dealt with that behavior for most of his life. He wasn’t willing to see it repeat itself with the friends he had gained.
During the Kyoto arc, Rin did what he could to redeem himself in the eyes of his companions. While the cram school gang and the other exorcists worked on the case at hand, Rin was busy with other tasks that were (initially) much more prevalent to him. He trained every day under Shura’s surveillance, performed many menial tasks, and made sure that he was as helpful as he could be. Rin was diligent in both his training and daily interactions with the others, so much so that he was able to speak to Shima as well as Suguro’s father. For a moment he even managed to gain a semblance of control, but his joy was short lived. The trouble in the Kyoto base had reached its boiling point. Rin witnessed Suguro’s argument with his father, immediately spotting the similarities between his own final words to Father Fujimoto. Rin didn’t want anyone else to suffer the same pain he had experienced that day. Rin’s words towards Father Fujimoto haunted him, even when he tried hard to move forward.
Impulsive as always, Rin rushed forward and demanded that Suguro apologized to his father. Rin reacted with anger towards Suguro’s apparent lack of concern. He didn’t know how he could possibly say the words to make Suguro understand, so he responded in the only manner he knew how. Rin revealed his flames and charged right at Suguro, breaking right through the barrier Suguro put up. As before, his behavior only got him into trouble, yet each time it happens to him, the consequences become worse and worse.
Rin believed that after his confrontation with Amaimon, he had grown and become a better person. Yet his outburst at Suguro, his inability to control himself even when he had seemed to master it, weighed heavy on his mind. His actions towards Suguro sealed his fate, and sentenced him to death. He lost complete confidence in himself after the declaration of the sentence. Though he tried to fight against it, to prove that he could still draw his sword and help others, it was a futile effort.
It was while he was in his holding cell, waiting for the death sentence did he come to terms with what he had tried so hard to push away: that he was a demon, that he was feared for his flames, that he could not control himself even when he tried to do something good, that he was afraid of himself. He was crushed by the gravity of his situation. Within that holding cell, Rin began to believe that he did deserve to die. He asked himself “Why was I saved?” but he would have to find the answer to that question himself. Shiro’s death still haunted him. His very existence haunted him. Rin didn’t want to be a monster, he didn’t choose to be the son of Satan or to be feared or hated by all who saw what he was. As much as he wished against it, he couldn’t go against what was far too true. He was a monster. It was as he was waiting to die in that cell that he was confronted by Shiemi. Her words brought him back. She showed him that she was not afraid of him – and that she was sorry for not realizing his pain sooner. Rin accepted her apology and found some confidence in her fearlessness but he could not draw his sword. Slowly but surely it gave him the courage to continue fighting, despite his lack of self-confidence.
After a grueling battle with the Impure King, Rin regained his confidence by realizing that he had to accept who and what he was. He managed to fully control his flames and rescued those he cared about. While his fears still linger he is determined to move forward. He accepted who and what he was, the son of Satan, a monster to himself and others, but a monster who wanted to help out everyone he knew. He wants to become a much better person than he is by being true to himself, rather than parading about like something he isn’t. Rin is a half-demon. He has connections with Mephisto. He understands fear. These are the tools he uses now to better himself and help those around him, even when they are not connected to the Cram School. He’s comforted by those he surrounds himself with.
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Name: Cyndi
Age: 26
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Character Information
Name: Rin Okumura
Canon: Blue Exorcist
Age: 15
Gender: male
Canon Point: Canon Point: Impure King arc – the end of chapter 33
Background Link: here!
Inventory:
- The Koma sword (a useless old sword that might be good for hitting things)
- The Kamikakushi key (a uselessly huge key)
- A large (empty) travel bag
- He’s wearing the clothes he slept in that day before his arrest
Personality: A kid like Rin Okumura could be easily dismissed as a hotheaded youth with too much spare time on his hands. He’s as brash as he is passionate, an empathetic young man who has a slight case of tunnel vision. In some ways, he is as typical as any fifteen-year-old in a boys’ manga: he’s starting to notice the opposite sex, his confidence is low, and he has moments when he feels as if he can do anything. He is invincible! Nothing could possibly hurt him! The world belongs to him!
Rin loves reading dramatic manga with super dramatic plot twists and engaging characters that make him cry, watching movies (like Star Wars), and listening to music (sometimes). He can (and prefers) to sleep for 10 hours a day and he has slept through class more than once. If asked to describe his study habits, he’d say something along the lines of “hands-on practical learning!” which easily means he can’t stand to be locked in a stuffy room all day long. Rin also enjoys pulling pranks on his friends, has something of a rivalry with his twin brother, and can be sarcastic when the need arises. Rin enjoys cooking, being outside, and he has a tendency to disobey direct orders. But like other kids his age, there are factors that help influence his actions, and events in his life that have shaped him into the individual he is becoming. Despite the fact that he is the son of Satan, Rin works hard to prove that he much more than just another half-demon. The results are usually mixed between the reactions of others and his own self confidence. He has learned to accept himself and how others view him, and focuses instead on becoming the best person he can be.
Rin has always been the odd one out. As a child, he felt ostracized from his peers because of his volatile temper. He would become vicious when angered, and his strength (impressive even at a young age), would lead others to label him as a demon and a monster.
It was difficult for him to understand the connection between his strength and their fear, but he knew that it was his actions and his power that alienated them. To him, their words were unfounded. He believed it had more to do with how he had been able to cause that much pain to his classmates and show no remorse (or sentience) while doing so. His temper as a child was as wild and unrestrained as the strength he displayed. These factors led to a small confrontation between Shiro Fujimoto and Rin, father and son, which damaged a few of his Fujimoto’s ribs and left Rin with a resolution he could attempt to stick to. After the incident, Rin resolved to use his strength for something good, in emulation of his father. Try as he might to abate his initial hotheaded reactions, it was his willingness to help others (whether they wanted his help or not) which proved to be his undoing. He was too strong to be seen as human by the townspeople and he often fell into trouble by causing more destruction than needed. While Rin would feel as if there was little he could do to change the image already constructed for him, he never stopped trying to find a way to be helpful to those around him. While in middle school, he helped less and less. He skipped class and barely kept his grades up. Yet his temper remained unchanged and his attitude became more rebellious. Rin no longer cared what others thought of him as the years went by. He felt as if he should just accept that being “a cool and respectable person” just wasn’t in the cards for him. No matter how much Father Fujimoto believed in him, Rin had a hard time believing in himself.
After graduating from middle school, Rin started looking for a steady job rather than pursuing higher education. He felt that schools would be better off without his personality and he doubted that he would learn anything, or be of use to anyone while inside of a classroom. A part time job seemed to Rin like a better place to start, but he soon found out that he was unable to hold down a job. It always came back to something he had done, in one way or another.
However, after the death of his father, joining an Exorcist cram school, and coming in contact with classmates he would later consider friends, his temper was put to the test. Rin found himself smiling a little more than before as he slowly began to realize how much it meant to him to finally have close connections with others. As much as it filled him with good cheer, it also greatly frightened him. Rin could not accept that he was a demon, and he wasn’t sure how his companions would react to his parentage.
Rin tried to pull back his anger (and felt it dissipate) as he grew closer to his classmates and through his studies. Yet, he would always remember who and what he was. He feared their reaction if they ever found out that he was the son of Satan. As he grew closer to his friends from the Exorcist Cram School, the calmer he began to feel. His outbursts changed from angry declarations to childish proclamations. His conflict between hiding his parentage and protecting his friends from himself came to a peak during a fight with the Earth King, Amaimon. His relation to Satan was revealed to his classmates, and soon followed their open distrust towards him.
When he reveled himself through his fight with Amaimon, his fears were realized. His friends rejected him and, in turn, Rin decided that he would rather earn their friendship and trust again than to live life without that companionship. He knew that they were afraid of him. He had dealt with other people’s apprehension before, but he had not been close to them. While his classmates were taken away for a proper explanation of Rin's condition, Rin had been taken to a religious counsel to have his fate decided. Unwilling to bend to the will of those aging exorcists, Rin fought back with his ambitions and promised to himself to train harder so that those around him were left unharmed by his flames.
But his new resolve could not convince his companions. To them he was a dangerous creature and Rin felt their animosity more acutely than he had before.
It took a memorable trip to Kyoto to help Rin see that he was a person worthy of recognition by those who wanted his attention and that he need only to accept who he was in order to take hold of his life and find meaning within himself. As the group headed to Kyoto for their mission, Rin worked on his flame control. He was able to speak to Izumo and Shima, but the fear and anger amongst the others still lingered. Rin could hardly blame them for it, but as the mission continued, it began to grate on his nerves. He had already dealt with that behavior for most of his life. He wasn’t willing to see it repeat itself with the friends he had gained.
During the Kyoto arc, Rin did what he could to redeem himself in the eyes of his companions. While the cram school gang and the other exorcists worked on the case at hand, Rin was busy with other tasks that were (initially) much more prevalent to him. He trained every day under Shura’s surveillance, performed many menial tasks, and made sure that he was as helpful as he could be. Rin was diligent in both his training and daily interactions with the others, so much so that he was able to speak to Shima as well as Suguro’s father. For a moment he even managed to gain a semblance of control, but his joy was short lived. The trouble in the Kyoto base had reached its boiling point. Rin witnessed Suguro’s argument with his father, immediately spotting the similarities between his own final words to Father Fujimoto. Rin didn’t want anyone else to suffer the same pain he had experienced that day. Rin’s words towards Father Fujimoto haunted him, even when he tried hard to move forward.
Impulsive as always, Rin rushed forward and demanded that Suguro apologized to his father. Rin reacted with anger towards Suguro’s apparent lack of concern. He didn’t know how he could possibly say the words to make Suguro understand, so he responded in the only manner he knew how. Rin revealed his flames and charged right at Suguro, breaking right through the barrier Suguro put up. As before, his behavior only got him into trouble, yet each time it happens to him, the consequences become worse and worse.
Rin believed that after his confrontation with Amaimon, he had grown and become a better person. Yet his outburst at Suguro, his inability to control himself even when he had seemed to master it, weighed heavy on his mind. His actions towards Suguro sealed his fate, and sentenced him to death. He lost complete confidence in himself after the declaration of the sentence. Though he tried to fight against it, to prove that he could still draw his sword and help others, it was a futile effort.
It was while he was in his holding cell, waiting for the death sentence did he come to terms with what he had tried so hard to push away: that he was a demon, that he was feared for his flames, that he could not control himself even when he tried to do something good, that he was afraid of himself. He was crushed by the gravity of his situation. Within that holding cell, Rin began to believe that he did deserve to die. He asked himself “Why was I saved?” but he would have to find the answer to that question himself. Shiro’s death still haunted him. His very existence haunted him. Rin didn’t want to be a monster, he didn’t choose to be the son of Satan or to be feared or hated by all who saw what he was. As much as he wished against it, he couldn’t go against what was far too true. He was a monster. It was as he was waiting to die in that cell that he was confronted by Shiemi. Her words brought him back. She showed him that she was not afraid of him – and that she was sorry for not realizing his pain sooner. Rin accepted her apology and found some confidence in her fearlessness but he could not draw his sword. Slowly but surely it gave him the courage to continue fighting, despite his lack of self-confidence.
After a grueling battle with the Impure King, Rin regained his confidence by realizing that he had to accept who and what he was. He managed to fully control his flames and rescued those he cared about. While his fears still linger he is determined to move forward. He accepted who and what he was, the son of Satan, a monster to himself and others, but a monster who wanted to help out everyone he knew. He wants to become a much better person than he is by being true to himself, rather than parading about like something he isn’t. Rin is a half-demon. He has connections with Mephisto. He understands fear. These are the tools he uses now to better himself and help those around him, even when they are not connected to the Cram School. He’s comforted by those he surrounds himself with.