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Player Name: Katie
Player Age: 26
Player Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Player/Character HMD: Here
Other characters in game: N/A
IC Information
Character Name: Bai (real name: Xing)
Character Canon: Darker than Black (anime)
Character Age/Gender: 14, female
Canon Point: Technically pre-series; after she makes the decision to use her power to destroy Heaven's Gate but before she actually does so
Character Canon History: Bai | Darker than Black wiki
Character Personality: The first thing you need to know about Bai is that she is a Contractor.
If Contractors were human beings, they would be called sociopaths. They don't experience emotion the way humans do; they don't really feel happiness or sadness, anger or affection. They lack the capacity for empathy. They are creatures of pure rational self-interest.
This, at least, is the common belief about Contractors, even amongst themselves. Like most broad generalizations, it is not entirely true.
Bai has an extremely limited capacity for empathy. She has killed thousands of people, human and Contractor alike, and she feels neither compunction nor guilt. Both she and her older brother Hei were raised as child soldiers, human weapons, but Hei is haunted by the people he kills while Bai is not at all bothered. She had to kill them, so she did.
But she is not completely without the ability to care. She loves her brother completely and unequivocally. It doesn't bother her to kill, but she hurts every time he kills because she knows it hurts him. She doesn't want him to suffer.
Her mannerisms are very sweet and childlike, even for 14. She does not behave the way you would expect a child who has grown up in battle. This is a deliberate presentation on her part. When she first became a Contractor, she frightened Hei with her lack of feeling. (This is not something we see in flashbacks; however, it can be inferred by his reaction to Mai, a girl Bai's age who becomes a Contractor.) Because she wants her brother to be happy, Bai acts sweet, cheerful, and innocent, even as she's slaughtering people on the battlefield. It's a facade, but not one that she finds difficult or tiring.
At first, Hei is the only person Bai cares about, just as other Contractors only care about themselves. But as time passes, they begin to evolve. They start forming personal bonds, and to care about themselves as a species. Not all Contractors, certainly, but many of them, including Bai.
Bai is not only powerful, but extremely smart and perceptive. She is the first person to realize that the Syndicate, the organization they ostensibly work for, actually intends to eradicate all Contractors, using a device called Hell's Gate. Bai is the only person with the ability to destroy the Gate - an action that would kill millions of humans and destroy South America. It would also destroy her.
Bai is cold-hearted enough to sacrifice those millions to save the few thousand Contractors in the world -- a sacrifice that her human brother, who grew up surrounded by Contractors, could not make when he was faced with the same decision at Heaven's Gate. But she is tender-hearted enough to sacrifice herself to save her fellow Contractors, and to hide this from Hei so that he would not have to choose between humans and Contractors. She also becomes part of him, giving him her Contractor power so that he can protect himself.
She doesn't just die to save her species. She dies because she knows that Hei only kills in order to protect her, and that makes him desperately unhappy. More than anything else, she wants her brother to be free from the life her Contractor abilities forced them both into.
AU Information: N/A
Character Abilities: She has the ability to alter matter on a quantum level. Usually she uses this to generate and discharge electricity, but she can also use it to actually change molecules. (More details are in her wiki linked above). Like all Contractors, the use of her ability comes at a price, and hers is sleeping. She is one of the most frighteningly powerful Contractors in existence, but every time she uses her powers, she passes out afterwards, leaving her vulnerable.
Character Inventory: Just the clothes on her back
Samples:
It's not in Bai's nature to brood. Proper brooding requires a capacity to feel that she simply doesn't possess. If there's a problem, she finds a solution. If there's no solution to be found, she lives with it. It's not that she's incapable of feeling emotional pain. What she lacks is a sense that things shouldn't hurt.
She misses her brother desperately, but the pain is no more remarkable to her than the beating of her heart.
Sometimes, though, when sleep eludes her, she climbs onto the roof of the tallest building and looks up at the night sky. Her back safe against a wall, she traces shapes in the stars and makes up stories about them like her brother used to tell her, back when their world had real stars. She memorizes every one so that she can share them with him if she gets the chance. It's not exactly hope. She has no reason to think they'll bring him here. Nor any reason to think they won't. It's best to be prepared for every possibility.
She wonders if he could be happy here. A city not in the midst of war, a place where he wouldn't have to kill - just hug. He could get a job as a cook. And maybe Amber could come too, and they could all get an apartment together. Surely he could be happy then and leave Heaven's War behind.
It's a pointless fantasy, but she enjoys it anyway. (Perhaps a part of her is trying to ease her own pain after all. Being a Contractor doesn't make her wise, or change the fact that she's only fourteen. She wouldn't be the first person - human or Contractor - to believe something that isn't true.)
Many nights she'll fall asleep, hidden in a corner of the roof, soaking in real starlight, but not tonight. She has a mark she needs to hit, another victim of another street fight (it's too small, too laughable, to call it a war.)
She fixes her ponytail and heads back down the stairs to do what she does best.
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Player Name: Katie
Player Age: 26
Player Contact:
Player/Character HMD: Here
Other characters in game: N/A
IC Information
Character Name: Bai (real name: Xing)
Character Canon: Darker than Black (anime)
Character Age/Gender: 14, female
Canon Point: Technically pre-series; after she makes the decision to use her power to destroy Heaven's Gate but before she actually does so
Character Canon History: Bai | Darker than Black wiki
Character Personality: The first thing you need to know about Bai is that she is a Contractor.
If Contractors were human beings, they would be called sociopaths. They don't experience emotion the way humans do; they don't really feel happiness or sadness, anger or affection. They lack the capacity for empathy. They are creatures of pure rational self-interest.
This, at least, is the common belief about Contractors, even amongst themselves. Like most broad generalizations, it is not entirely true.
Bai has an extremely limited capacity for empathy. She has killed thousands of people, human and Contractor alike, and she feels neither compunction nor guilt. Both she and her older brother Hei were raised as child soldiers, human weapons, but Hei is haunted by the people he kills while Bai is not at all bothered. She had to kill them, so she did.
But she is not completely without the ability to care. She loves her brother completely and unequivocally. It doesn't bother her to kill, but she hurts every time he kills because she knows it hurts him. She doesn't want him to suffer.
Her mannerisms are very sweet and childlike, even for 14. She does not behave the way you would expect a child who has grown up in battle. This is a deliberate presentation on her part. When she first became a Contractor, she frightened Hei with her lack of feeling. (This is not something we see in flashbacks; however, it can be inferred by his reaction to Mai, a girl Bai's age who becomes a Contractor.) Because she wants her brother to be happy, Bai acts sweet, cheerful, and innocent, even as she's slaughtering people on the battlefield. It's a facade, but not one that she finds difficult or tiring.
At first, Hei is the only person Bai cares about, just as other Contractors only care about themselves. But as time passes, they begin to evolve. They start forming personal bonds, and to care about themselves as a species. Not all Contractors, certainly, but many of them, including Bai.
Bai is not only powerful, but extremely smart and perceptive. She is the first person to realize that the Syndicate, the organization they ostensibly work for, actually intends to eradicate all Contractors, using a device called Hell's Gate. Bai is the only person with the ability to destroy the Gate - an action that would kill millions of humans and destroy South America. It would also destroy her.
Bai is cold-hearted enough to sacrifice those millions to save the few thousand Contractors in the world -- a sacrifice that her human brother, who grew up surrounded by Contractors, could not make when he was faced with the same decision at Heaven's Gate. But she is tender-hearted enough to sacrifice herself to save her fellow Contractors, and to hide this from Hei so that he would not have to choose between humans and Contractors. She also becomes part of him, giving him her Contractor power so that he can protect himself.
She doesn't just die to save her species. She dies because she knows that Hei only kills in order to protect her, and that makes him desperately unhappy. More than anything else, she wants her brother to be free from the life her Contractor abilities forced them both into.
AU Information: N/A
Character Abilities: She has the ability to alter matter on a quantum level. Usually she uses this to generate and discharge electricity, but she can also use it to actually change molecules. (More details are in her wiki linked above). Like all Contractors, the use of her ability comes at a price, and hers is sleeping. She is one of the most frighteningly powerful Contractors in existence, but every time she uses her powers, she passes out afterwards, leaving her vulnerable.
Character Inventory: Just the clothes on her back
Samples:
It's not in Bai's nature to brood. Proper brooding requires a capacity to feel that she simply doesn't possess. If there's a problem, she finds a solution. If there's no solution to be found, she lives with it. It's not that she's incapable of feeling emotional pain. What she lacks is a sense that things shouldn't hurt.
She misses her brother desperately, but the pain is no more remarkable to her than the beating of her heart.
Sometimes, though, when sleep eludes her, she climbs onto the roof of the tallest building and looks up at the night sky. Her back safe against a wall, she traces shapes in the stars and makes up stories about them like her brother used to tell her, back when their world had real stars. She memorizes every one so that she can share them with him if she gets the chance. It's not exactly hope. She has no reason to think they'll bring him here. Nor any reason to think they won't. It's best to be prepared for every possibility.
She wonders if he could be happy here. A city not in the midst of war, a place where he wouldn't have to kill - just hug. He could get a job as a cook. And maybe Amber could come too, and they could all get an apartment together. Surely he could be happy then and leave Heaven's War behind.
It's a pointless fantasy, but she enjoys it anyway. (Perhaps a part of her is trying to ease her own pain after all. Being a Contractor doesn't make her wise, or change the fact that she's only fourteen. She wouldn't be the first person - human or Contractor - to believe something that isn't true.)
Many nights she'll fall asleep, hidden in a corner of the roof, soaking in real starlight, but not tonight. She has a mark she needs to hit, another victim of another street fight (it's too small, too laughable, to call it a war.)
She fixes her ponytail and heads back down the stairs to do what she does best.
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