[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][CS=2][atrb=width,500,true][style=border: 5px solid #444444; border-bottom: 20px solid #444444;float:left;][bg=999999] [/style] [style=background:#444444; color: #DDDDDD; text-size: 10px; padding: 2px; text-align:justify; moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; font-size: 11px;] one God, I ask you, Which is man? Which is phantom? There's no justice. There's no glory in such a fight.) [/style] [style=color: #FFFFFF; border-right: 5px solid #444444; text-align: center; background: #444444; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: impact; moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000;]Mochida , Kariya[/style]

[atrb=style, background: #999999; border-radius:0px 0px 0px 15px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 15px;][style=width: 106px; color: #000000;] the roleplayer HANDLE: Kariya HOW DID YOU FIND US: Googled Persona RP and stumbled here. CONTACT INFO: skype: the-elusive-one OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A NOTES: Digital Artist, so if you want a drawing related to the RP, feel free to ask~ CHARACTER FACE CLAIM: [b]Fate/Zero[/b] - [i]Kariya Matou[/i] as [u]Kariya Mochida[/u] [/style]

[atrb=cellPadding,5,true][atrb=style, background: #777777; border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px;][style= color: #000000; width: 310px;] NAME: Kariya Mochida ALIAS: Kari-Kun, Mochi-chan AGE & BIRTHDATE: Eighteen years of age, June 17 GENDER: Male SEXUALITY: Heterosexual OCCUPATION: Part-time Photographer, Senior in Highschool AFFILIATION:Persona Users[/style] [atrb=cellPadding,5,true][atrb=style, background: #777777; border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px;][style= color: #000000; width: 385px; height: 124px; overflow-y:scroll;]PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: "Posing with my Camera" "My more Serious side, I guess." "It's not what you think. Ehehe." "Me and Yuka..." Kariya stands at an average height of 6' and weighs a fair 180lbs. He's fairly thin, being one of those lucky guys with a high metabolism, but never taking the opportunity to exercise. He's a healthy eater thankfully. His dark brown hair tends to curl and lift in the front and he keeps it lifted in the back to fit with the natural boyish look. He has a small strand of hair (ahoge) that lifts upward from the point where his hair parts in the front. His eyes are a dark shade of dull gray, that masks a lively personality. Outside of school, his casual attire is a dark purple sweat shirt with white stripes that trail down the shoulders and his arms and end at the wrists, paired with a pair of black trousers with a leather belt, and a pair of black sneakers. When the weather is hot, he'll discard his sweatshirt for a blue t-shirt. He also carries a camera on him at all times, as his hobby and occupation dictates he take pictures of everything that interests him. It's a fairly expensive camera, the kind you see ace photographers carrying around. [/style] [atrb=cellPadding,5,true][atrb=style, background: #777777; border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px;][style= color: #000000; width: 385px; height: 124px; overflow-y:scroll;] POSITIVES: ↑ Friendly ↑ Mellow ↑ Modest ↑ Flirty ↑ Witty NEGATIVES: ↓ Self-Destructive ↓ Forgetful ↓ Secretly Melancholy ↓ Unforgiving ↓ Co-dependent OVERALL PERSONALITY: Kariya fits the the laid-back observer archetype very well. He's happy to sit back and see how things turn out while snapping pictures with his camera. He loves to watch how things unfold between people, and sometimes, when it is particularly interesting, he'll fluidly intertwine himself into these events and record the memories with his camera. He's very calm and charming, making friends easily, and becoming the target of many high school crushes. He'd be a school idol if he wasn't so modest and able to avoid attention. His wit is something he prides himself on, as it gets him out of most situations in a pinch. Under this happy teenagers smile and calm demeanor is something much darker though. An event occurred in his past that made the above traits a facade rather than the real thing. He became melancholy, seeing everything in a dark light, especially himself. Growing to hate himself, unable to forgive his own actions, he became self destructive, throwing himself into dangerous situations, taking on severe wounds as punishment for his what he believes are his sins. He became as a wounded animal, looking for a place to die, because the one person he lived for, the only one he truly cared for died because of him. He tries to forget it, and he's good at forgetting things. Just not the thing that drives him to destruction. [/style] [atrb=cellPadding,5,true][atrb=style, background: #777777; border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px;][style= color: #000000; width: 385px; height: 124px; overflow-y:scroll;]CHARACTER TIME PERIOD: The Present Period HISTORY: Listen to this while you read Eighteen years ago, in the sprawling Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, The first born of the Mochida family, Kariya was born. He was a healthy boy, born to a school teacher for a mother, and a psychologist for a father. The two parents were ecstatic to have their first child, and it wasn't long after his birth that they began to develop him into a great person. He was given a lot, and taught to always be aware that what he had was a gift that he was lucky to have. He was one of those few children fated to have good luck. Kariya was one of the happiest people you could ever know. He was friendly, artistic, and always eager to help people in need. He was the pride and joy of his mother and father, who wanted him to be whoever he wanted to be. But truth be told, all he wanted to be was someone who could take care of the people he loved, namely his little sister Yuka, Who had been born Seven years after him. He cared for her more than he did himself, and felt lost without her as his prime motivator. The two were bonded in a way akin to twins. Taking up photography as a hobby, and eventually becoming his desired career choice, Kariya loved to bring his camera everywhere, taking pictures of everything. His parents ended up buying him a professional grade camera when he was fourteen, and within a couple of years, he had achieved a couple of awards for his work. The days seemed bright as the family grew happily together, but fate had something else in mind for this family. It seemed that the families great luck had finally run out on one fateful day. Kariya was taking his sister out to a city park, watching her play while he took pictures of her for a project. It was a bright, sunny day and they were both laughing together. It seemed like just another happy day. But that was the day happiness came to an end. On their way home, the older brother and younger sister were talking absently, losing track of time as they took the long way home. Unfortunately, the long way home had a building under construction. As Kariya led his sister by the hand down the side walk, a loud noise came from far above. Kariya looked away from his sister for only a moment to see metal beams falling straight down towards them. Fear struck him as he pulled his sister along, desperately trying to get them both away from the falling death, but fate deigned that someone die that day. A scream, a tug, and a pool of red stopped Kariya in his tracks. His body turned to face and look down at Yuka and remained petrified as he stared down at his sister, whose lower body was crushed under the weight of a metal beam. A scream tried to escape from Kariya's mouth, but he found himself choking on his own words, falling on his knees into the pool of his siblings blood. He held onto her hand tightly, begging whatever god was out there for help. Kariya wasn't sure how long it took for him to scream. All he knew was that his life was destroyed at that moment. There was no hope of bringing her back. Her body was destroyed and her short, innocent life was gone forever. His parents were distraught, unable to cope with the loss of their little girl, they cried for so long. Kariya only remained silent, he remained silent for an entire year. Doctors had diagnosed that the trauma had rendered him temporarily mute. After the accident, Kariya drifted from everyone, including his parents. The family had drifted apart after the accident. His mother became almost as dead inside as him, going through the motions of life as if nothing was real anymore. His father took to remaining in his office most of the time, drowning himself in alcohol to cope. While his parents tried to pretend it didn't happen, Kariya dealt with the reality, letting it fester inside his voiceless body. He became bitter, a former shadow of himself. He left the house at the age of seventeen, wishing to live a life of solitude. His parents didn't accept it at first, but gave in, knowing that he would leave whether they liked it or not. He moved to Iwatodai, his parents paying for his dorm. He spent his junior year avoiding human contact, building a reputation as the silent, mysterious type that the girls always loved. He didn't care about that, or anyone. He just put on a facade of mellowness and gave a fake smile to people so he could get away from them. Up until now anyway. It took almost a year for Kariya to fully regain his voice. No amount of therapy could have fixed the damage caused by the sight of your own sister being killed in such a way. He slowly began to talk again, and when he did, it was as if nothing happened. He went from withdrawing from the world into living at the center, throwing up walls around himself. He faked happiness in order to get through the day. This year, Kariya's senior year, He finally began to regain a semblance of his former self. He began to interact with people a bit more, trying to become the fake self he had projected throughout his junior year, but his darker thoughts still hold sway over him. He desperately tries to throw this shadow self away, but it still takes control of him from time to time. So at night, he often goes out, spurred by suicidal thoughts, to start fights with street punks, hoping one of them will pull a knife and end him once and for all. [/style]

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][CS=2][atrb=width,500,true][style=border: 5px solid #444444; border-bottom: 20px solid #444444;float:left;][bg=999999] [/style] [style=background:#444444; color: #DDDDDD; text-size: 10px; padding: 2px; text-align:justify; moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; font-size: 11px;] one God, tell me now, Who is mad? Who is conscious now? Everything falls in the blue dark [/style] [style=color: #FFFFFF; border-right: 5px solid #444444; text-align: center; background: #444444; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: impact; moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000;]Fortuna[/style]

[atrb=style, background: #999999; border-radius:0px 0px 0px 15px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 15px;][style=width: 106px; color: #000000;] the stats WEAPON OF CHOICE: Tantou (Dagger) ORIENTATION: Magic BATTLE STATS: FP: 60 SP: 120 SUMMONING: KAFIR watch PERSONA FACE CLAIM: [/li][li][b]Fortuna[/b] - [i]Initial[/i] Persona of [u]Kariya Mochida[/u] [/style]

[atrb=cellPadding,5,true][atrb=style, background: #777777; border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 15px 0px;][style= color: #000000; width: 360px;] ARCANA The existence known as Kariya is bound to the Persona known as Fortuna, goddess of luck and fate, and a member of the Fortune arcana. the Fortune Arcana symbolizes Fate and varying luck, fortunes and opportunities. What goes up will go down, what goes down will go up. The Fortune Arcana is associated myth-figures related to Fate and Time. Kariya has experienced both sides of Fortune, having had everything he could want, and then losing what was most precious to him. His luck is downright terrible really, and he's more than a little bitter about it. There was never a balance for him. He can either be extremely lucky, or have horrifying misfortune. PERSONA: Fortuna Fortuna is the roman goddess of Fate and Fortune, and is the one who spins the wheel of fate for all living things. She represents the entire spectrum of Kariya's luck, and the fate that is meant for him. This shows that he is a slave to fortune, and that his happiness is not in his own hands. However, when he gains control of this persona, he gains the ability to change fate that fate, and determine one for himself. Spinning the wheel himself, you could say. HIGH AFFINITY: Garu/Bufu/Hama LOW AFFINITY: Mudo/Physical/Agi SKILLS: Garu/Bufu/Dia/Rakukaja [/style]

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HOLD IT--!

First, about Kariya's History. If a metal beam fell from overhead... I'm not sure it'd impale Yuka. To be impaled means to be pierced through, usually thrust up. She might've been hit on the head instead and it would've killed her on impact, if not leave her brain damaged.

After Yuka's death, the mourning period was brushed aside almost entirely. A year is a reasonable amount of time to mourn a sibling, but there's no mention of mourning actually taking place. There's only a brief mention of him not talking to anyone, thus distancing himself from his family. Skipping that raises a lot of questions that aren't answered and makes the events that happened afterwards a little rushed and difficult to understand. There's no mention of him receiving any sort of help after such a tragic incident, or for his suicidal urges, yet he seems to be back on his feet and more or less acting normal after just a year of silence.

Concerning his Arcana, The Fool doesn't seem to fit him. A common interpretation for The Fool is someone starting off on a journey, a new beginning. While that might feel right for Kariya, there's also the assumption that The Fool is innocent and has faith in that his journey will be one of learning and adventure; this is another thing I can't see for Kariya due to his Overall Personality and History. The Fool is fresh, open and spontaneous, unaware of the hardships of life as he ventures into a bright new world. Based on his History, Kariya has already experienced the joys of the world and more recently, its harshness. It's difficult to imagine someone being bright-eyed and hopeful about life after an accident like that, and without insight of how Kariya dealt with it and his suicidal urges, we're lead to believe he hasn't found a way to deal with the events.

You'll need to either change the Arcana, elaborate on how it fits or make some changes the character.[/center]

HOLD IT--!

As previously noted, I don't understand how a falling metal beam could impale a person walking below it, least of all through their stomach. For it to pierce through a body, the beam would have to be falling from a very great height and/or be extremely sharp on the edge. In addition to that, to pierce her stomach, she would have to be lying prone or close to it - if she was walking, the beam would have struck her shoulders or head. Getting impaled through her middle would require the pipe to be flying at her at an angle that breaks laws of physics.

The arcana change is an improvement, but I'd like to see more of a connection to it than just "bad luck". Here are some of the meanings associated with Fortune:

Turning point; Opportunities; Possibilities
Destiny; Fate; Superior Forces; Movement
Development; Activity; Surprises; Expansion
Sudden Events; Speed; New Developments; Life Cycles
Interpretation; Sudden Change; Dissension; Approachability

There are other aspects of fortune that seem applicable to him, I would like you to try to elaborate on them a bit further.

As it follows, I don't see a strong connection to Kariya and his Persona besides Fortuna being a goddess of luck - from my perspective, what you'd written could apply to anyone who'd experienced ups and downs in their life. Either you could elaborate on why fate and the turns of luck applies to him explicitly or you can choose a different one. If you need help with either, feel free to ask the staff by PM or in the cbox.[/center]