[bg=b0b0b0][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, padding: 15px; border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; -moz-border-radius: 15px 15px 15px 15px;][atrb=width,480,true] My femme fatale my darling fraudulent angel once caught her changing the batteries in her halo receipt for her wings and everything that she paid for Even though it hurts to make a wish I received the courage to fight from you burn my D R E A D CALL ME: Kaori Landau. ALTERNATIVELY: "Ri-Ri" (not really in use anymore - Noa used say it when she was little and couldn't say "Kaori", and sometimes, rarely still uses it. Anyone else is violently frowned upon.), Ka-chan I HAVE LIVED: 19, May 31. DEEP DOWN, I AM: Very Female ...MY PREFERENCE? Heterosexual I WORK AS: Student, messenger... YOU'LL SEE ME WITH: Persona-User. I won't forget your kind smile Or your eyes hidden with sorrow the path is O P E N HEIGHT: 5'5" WEIGHT: 129 lbs HAIR: Long, dark, purple. what is with me and violettes?. EYES: Blue. GENERAL STYLE: Anything that's cute, now, in, sexy - simply put she always dresses to impress, and is off the mindset that, "If you've got it, flaunt it." EXTRAS: n/a At the last moment their souls sing Along haunting voices of lone shadows deep breath deep B R E A T H POSITIVES: - Street-smart - Doesn't easily back down - Determined - Protective - Straight-forward NEGATIVES: - Forgetful - Narcissistic - Liar - Unreliable - Doesn't have a lot of regard for others/feelings OVERALL PERSONALITY: In just a few words, Kaori likes to have fun. To enjoy herself. She's something of a hedonist, but that doesn't mean she won't work hard to live comfortably, the way she wants. Other people aren't really on her radar for much more than distractions, but beneath it all, she's felt for a long time that she's simply a disappointment, and there's little other reason for her to change it after being such a constant, promising screw-up. Guilt goes in one ear and out the other though. She's not quite a sociopath, she does feel badly, but is quick to flutter on and suppress it, to move on with her life and hope everyone else she might have unwittingly wronged does too. She can be loud, obnoxious, and in-your-face flirtatious, and doesn't seem to care what people really think about her at all. Of course, deep down she is highly insecure, covering it up with flashy clothes and make-up... Her natural narcissism helps, it just doesn't take care of all the problems. She likes to think she can hold herself above 'emotional needs', but craves love and affection to the point of it being a downfall. She looks for love in all the wrong places, thinks she knows best, and on some level, realizes she doesn't. CHARACTER TIME PERIOD: Current. HISTORY: When Kaori was still little, and Noa even younger, she read a note in her mothers baby book. An innocent note in the differences between children; "Noa is more affectionate than Kaori was at her age." Somehow this changed something in Kaori from that early age. A jealousy, and uncertainty, an insecurity with herself. As she grew up, she looked upon her precious, loving sister with a twisting feeling... Yes, Noa was more affectionate, naturally spirited and kind, a little light that everyone loved. It wasn't that they didn't dote on Kaori any less, but to her eyes, the 'favorite' was obvious. So Kaori instead looked outside her family for her own certainty. She played sports, got good grades, was generally a good child, but to her it seemed, and maybe it was to some extent true, that the younger sibling had to try so much less to recieve so much more. Noa closed herself indoors and read books, had a few close friends [weirdos, most of them], while Kaori was popular, successful... And yet, Noa was guiltless. She had never done anything but dearly love her "Ri-Ri", and so Kaori couldn't stomach her own jealousy. When high school came along, it was easy for her to get pulled into the 'wrong crowd'. Recieving 'love' from a boy with nothing to offer was fine with her - she liked doting on him, pampering him, being relied on by him. She felt needed, wanted, everything she craved. She followed him to troubled areas, started lying to her parents about money, where she was, and stayed out late past curfews, staying with him under the guise of being with friends. She stayed in abandoned houses, hearing gunshots at night, stayed with people who dealt drugs, or who got caught up in gang wars and killed... But she also saw people who were close to each other, good to each other. Family took care of family. Despite all the bad her decisions may have caused ultimately, it was a lesson she never let go of. One night, after being 'grounded' when her parents discovered the true nature of her sudden misbehavior, she snuck out through her window and drove her mothers car to her boyfriends. When daylight came the next day, she didn't know what to do, knowing that this time, she'd seriously fucked up. Out of fear, she ended up 'missing' for nearly a week. At the end of that week, the car was found, crashed, and riddled with bullet holes. Her boyfriend had drove it while she stayed at a friends, and a rival gang came for revenge for someone her boyfriends brother had killed. A brother for a brother. He survived, and not shortly after that, Kaori was home... Bad luck comes in threes they say. In Japan around that time, their grandmother they hardly knew passed away, and the family flew to attend the funeral. It wasn't a hard-pressed decision when the option to stay came up, though Kaori herself was broken. Everything she knew was in America. Her life, her friends, her accomplishments, however inferior they might have seemed, especially in compare to her blunders. Japan was so... different, she couldn't fit in at all. Noa didn't seem to have very much trouble, and her parents were happy for the change and new adjustments; happy she couldn't do anymore harm. Her mother encouraged her to join a club to relieve her frustrations, and she found ultimately that she had an alarming penchant for kendo. Despite all her other good grades, her high school years had slowly plummeted her, and she was made to repeat a year, a year in which she made only the minimal requirements apart from kendo, and otherwise spent all her time learning of the seedy back-alleys and gangs she became exceedingly familiar with. It almost seemed small-time and innocent to her, but as she made a rather notorious name for herself, she learned the depths of an underworld could go so, so much deeper... She's also been aware of her Potential almost as long as she's been in Iwatodai. Dark Hour was hell, and she only honed her skills even more sharply because of it, but there were a few times in which she recalled hearing a voice... Those nights, though, are mostly little more than blurs. The nightly dance of bleeding swords Reminds me that I still live mass D E S T R U C T I O N ORIENTATION: All-Rounder WEAPON OF CHOICE: Katana, also keeps a small knife on her. BATTLE STATS: 35/35. ARCANA: Wheel of Fortune PERSONA: Cassandra - Daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, Apollo thought her beautiful and, in some tales blessed her with the gift of prophecy... In other stories, when she slept in his temple, the snakes licked her ears and passed on the secrets of prophecy. Yet when she turned Apollo down, he cursed her so that none would ever believe any of her prophecies. She was ultimately raped, and later murdered by Clytemnestra. SUMMONING: Watch. HIGH AFFINITY: Wind, Electricity, Water. LOW AFFINITY: Dark, Fire. SKILLS: Cleave, Dia, Zio, Garu Every man's gotta fight the fear I'm the first to admit it want to be C L O S E FAMILY: Mother and Father, sister, Noa Landau. ACQUAINTANCES/FRIENDS: Of course, tons. RIVALS/ENEMIES: Probably a few. ROMANTIC INTEREST: She doesn't usually tie down to one guy for long... OTHER: n/a The light of the morning shines again All over my sight, on this world memories of Y O U HANDLE: Yume/Ryoji OTHER CHARACTERS: ...a lot. @ A @ HOW'D YOU FIND US? <3 CONTACT INFO: <3. NOTES: Deliciously amused. Seriously. Did not intend to make this character but... could not resist. It all just flowed on the wings of muses. *oo* FACE CLAIM: Kaori Landau looks like Saeko Busujima from High School of the Dead TEMPLATE MADE BY SAGI FOR BRAND NEW DAYS

* Accepted!

Welcome Kaori~! Let's hope you'll step out of your sister's shadow and into the light.