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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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Rise Kujikawa | Persona 4 | Reserved
Name: Rhi
Age: 32
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Cissnei
Character Information
Name: Rise Kujikawa
Canon: Persona 4 plus spinoffs
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Post Dancing All Night story mode
Background Link: Here
As the link only goes so far into Dancing All Night canon: Once the four members of Kanamin Kitchen are rescued, Rise and her team go to meet with Yu and the other upperclassmen. Along the way they feel something like an earthquake which in fact is the Midnight Stage reforming itself for its next 'performer' - the manager of Kanamin Kitchen, Ms Ochimizu. The now reunited team set out to rescue her, despite Ochimizu seeming willing to sacrifice herself to allow the team and the Kanamin Kitchen girls to escape and find out that a lot of Ochimizu's behaviour now stems from her trying to deal with the death of Yuko Osada, an idol who had been under Ochimizu's care back while Ochimizu worked for Takura Productions.
Moreover, Ochimizu reveals that the song used to try to brainwash everyone into accepting the culprit's bonds is a corrupted version of Calystigia, one of Yuko Osada's songs which Kanamin Kitchen have taken on as their new song. The connection goes deeper that that, however, as it's revealed that Kanami is the one who found Yuko's body and that she has repressed the memories in a sort of coping mechanism.
As they are recovering from this revelation, the culprit alerts them to the fact that, back in the real world, Kanami has been forced to reassess her memories due to investigation by Ryotaro Dojima, who has been helping her try to solve the mystery behind the others' disappearance. Kanami is then pulled into the Midnight Stage along with the entirety of the audience for the Love Meets Bonds Festival currently underway. There, the culprit tries to draw Kanami into its web but fails as, between Yu's team and the reassurances of the other Kanamin Kitchen girls, Kanami breaks free of her own accord.
The culprit then reveals itself as Mikuratana-no-Kami, who claims to act for a collective desire of people who want an eternal bond without pain or suffering. She claims that the only way to achieve this is to reject the true self in favour of the 'self' other people wish someone to be and her ribbons and the song she uses sought to convert others who yearned for bonds to this way of thinking. Undeterred, Rise calls on the support of her fellow idols in order to allow her Persona to transport them to the Sea of Souls; Himiko then serves as the stage for the final dance as Yu and his team, along with Kanami, seek to prove that people can express their true selves and still forge bonds.
With Mikuratana-no-Kami defeated, everyone is returned to the real world and the real Love Meets Bond Festival. In the final chapter, which takes place shortly after, while awaiting her slot for a TV broadcast, Rise confesses to the gathered team that she thinks she might have been what had seen the group initially pulled into the Midnight Stage, that it had been her insecurity and jealousy over the bonds between Kanamin Kitchen that had sparked things. After reassurance from her friends that they don't hold it against her, Rise is called to perform - and asks all of her friends, plus Kanamin Kichen and Ochimizu, to join her.
Inventory: Rise will arrive in this outfit, with everything it entails - including the headphones and the single glove. Beyond that she won't be carrying anything.
Personality:
Rise Kujikawa is, on the surface, everything you might expect a popular idol to be: cheerful, outgoing and playful with a thousand-watt smile and a love of the spotlight. And it is true that she has this side to her. She's very much an extrovert, never afraid to be centre of attention and flirty to a point where Chie calls her "dangerous" because she is nigh-fearless in approaching others. She rarely shies away from the attention given to her by virtue of being an idol, particularly noticeable during the beauty pageant where she is the only one of the four girls of the Investigation Team to really get into the spirit of the contest.
This is at least in part because she has a strong competitive streak and this, in turn, stems from the insecurities of a girl who was once a nobody, bullied by her peers until she became Risette and then only spoken to by those who wanted the kudos of befriending a popular celebrity. This often manifests in the less positive traits she displays at times - she can be incredibly boastful, childish and petty, resorting to emotional manipulation and catty remarks if things aren't going her way and sometimes even when they are. She can also be rather possessive of the people she cares about - Yu tends to bear the brunt of this even where they are not actually a couple, but she has shown it with others too such as when she tells Teddie off for buying another idol's photograph while with her at the summer festival.
This clingy behaviour is likely down to the fact that prior to meeting the investigation team, Rise didn't have any real friends. As a child she was painfully shy and a victim of bullying, which continued until she won the contest that transformed her from shy nobody Rise Kujikawa to the popular idol Risette. Hoping that this would finally allow her to make the friends she'd always longed for, she became disillusioned when she realised that people were only nice to her because she was Risette - Risette was all they cared about and this likely contributed to the disconnect between her Risette personality and her true self.
This, ultimately, was the root of the issues that created her Shadow - rather than seeing the Risette persona as part of who she really was, she had assumed there was a divide between the cheerful extrovert idol and the friendless introvert she'd been before. But in truth, Risette just allowed her to find sides of herself she'd never cared to look for - yes, it had changed her but not in the fake sense she'd always thought. And no-one summed this up better than her grandmother, who describes her as being like tofu - apparently weak but resilient, able to stand out but also able to mix in easily with all kinds. (This might also tie into her Persona, which is the only non-combat Persona and yet provides a crucial role in navigating battles within the TV world) Ultimately, she comes to recognise that she chases different "roles" trying to find the one that fits, when the truth is all the roles she takes are hers.
And for all she appears shallow, there is a lot more to her than that. When it comes to the people she's closest to, she's unendingly loyal. As befits the Lovers arcana that she's associated with, she is warm and affectionate if informal at times, and for all she can seem flighty - particularly when it comes to her studies, which she appears not to take too seriously although she isn't exactly stupid - she fully commits to the murder investigation once she becomes a part of it. Yes, she sometimes takes this too far but ultimately her heart is in the right place. That said, she won't open herself fully to just anyone - there are few who will see her more insecure nature, largely because she's used to being alone, or at least was, and is therefore used to keeping things to herself. Thus, when she does find someone she can open up to or lean on, she tends to be clingy even when she knows she's being selfish. And this reflects even half a year on, where her insecurities over returning to the spotlight as an idol is what drives her to ask the rest of the Investigation Team to appear in the Love Meets Bonds Festival with her - the thought of being on stage alone with the Kanamin Kitchen group scares her, makes her fear that she'll no longer be accepted, and thus she turns to the true friends she finally has to get her through.
Overall, Rise does her best to portray herself as a mature, worldly-wise extrovert who's older than her years, but at heart she still has a little maturing to do and still has some way to go to reconcile all of her different sides within herself, but she has at least made peace with the fact that she can be a flirty, playful extrovert and still have a more serious, more emotionally mature side. She still has some growing to do, but she's comfortable in her own skin now and it shows.
Flavor Abilities: Though she will be unable to actively use any of her powers, her Persona will remain a part of her and Himiko's influence will allow for very subtle improvement in how Rise adapts to Norfinbury. The main impact will be a better recognition of Norfinbury as not part of the world she knows, though nothing more than that; everything else (better memory for monster strengths/weaknesses/qualities; better awareness of her surroundings) will manifest as instinct to anyone who doesn't know she has a Persona.
Suitability: Although Rise is young and might not seem best equipped for a place like Snowblind, her experiences with the Midnight Channel and the Midnight Stage mean she's used to adversity and to tackling challenges head-on. Because she knows she's not really a fighter, she'll look to see what she can do to support others as she does her friends in the Investigation Team (with or without the telling people who are quite capable of seeing three monsters that there are three monsters left). She'll be eager to find a way out but also eager to make herself useful, because she refuses to be a typical damsel in distress.
Her first order of business, though? Warmer clothes. Stage outfits aren't designed for nigh-freezing conditions.
RP Samples:
Action (6) + Action + network starter (9)
If I may, I'd like to contribute the second prompt in the second link as my network sample, with the combined threads as action.
ACCEPTED, NOTE
This house has a lived-in feel even though it's abandoned. Most of the rooms are wallpapered, and the bedroom on the first floor has an especially large, fairly high bed. There are places on the walls for many, many pictures, to the point it seems like they would cover most of the walls in the hallways and bedroom, and the way the wallpaper has faded around them it's obvious some hung there for quite some time, but they're no longer there. Aside from the bedroom, there's a kitchen, dining room, two empty rooms upstairs, and two working bathrooms, one upstairs and one downstairs. The downstairs one has a shower with a ledge you can sit on, while the upstairs one has a claw-footed bathtub.
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NOTE: Rise's ability to memorize monster weaknesses and note her surroundings must be limited to peak human ability (but they can be at that peak).
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And for the note, that's absolutely fine! That's what I was aiming for, apologies if that didn't come across.