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Player
Name: Picaro
E-mail: devilsfugue[at]gmail[dot]com
Preferred Contact: PM here or ironykills on Plurk
Timezone: GMT+1
Current Characters in Victory Road: none
Character
Name: IV aka. Thomas Arclight
Series: Yu-Gi-OH! Zexal
Timeline: episode 58: "Swimming With Sharks", after he collapsed next to the bed of his little brother
Canon Resource Links: Wiki link here. Disclaimer that the wiki entry tends to concentrate on the English Dub version of the series, which shows in the use of some changed names and the harmless-talking of some events in the series that happened in the English version of it.
Personality:
(Disclaimer that this focuses mainly on the way things are during season one, since that's the canon point I'm taking him from.)
Depending on who you ask, people will describe IV's personality wildly different. To his fans, IV is the Asia Champion; a very popular Pro Duelist who is well-known and loved for being basically the embodiment of a modern noble knight, to the point where he is nicknamed “the Gentleman Duelist.” As such he is famous for being humble, patient, empathic and approachable - a person with a sweet smile who is as genteel outside the playing field as he is a merciless opponent when he does fight. Truly a man to whom 'fanservice' is more than just a word, and one who would see even those who did him wrong rather be given the chance to realize their mistakes and grow from them than to see them punished.
To his older brother, IV is the black sheep of the family, a good for nothing who lost any trace of good he had in him a long time ago. The IV Christopher knows is a hotheaded, childish bully who is prone to grudges and who takes out his frustrations on those most vulnerable to him: his own fans. It's an open secret in the Arclight family that IV has a nasty habit of inviting some random 'lucky' fans to one-on-one meetings with special "fanservice" provided by yours truly, which will inevitably devolve into IV crushing them both mentally and physically as violently as possible. IV is unsavory, but he is also good at what he does and has every reason to be loyal to his family, which makes him in turn useful to keep around, even when they clash at every turn.
To his enemies, IV is an egoistical narcissist, merciless, ruthless and shameless all alike, a vile con-man and coward if there ever was one. IV is a snake in the grass who adds insult to injury by having a bite that's as nasty as his lies when one actually manages to corner him.
On the other hand, IV's younger brother Michael will tell a vastly different story. To Michael, IV is still his big brother Thomas: the rowdy middle sibling who'd steal his cards when he felt like he wasn't being given enough attention, but who'd also return them the moment Michael'd get truly upset. IV is the brother that always looked out for and stuck with him, even if it meant getting hurt while picking a fight with all the bullies in the orphanage at once, just to get Michael’s toy back. Michael sees both the good and the bad in IV. He knows about IV's violence toward his fans, his penchant for coming off as arrogant and egoistical as possible - all those are traits that IV never tried to hide from him. But Michael also knows how much it takes for IV to constantly keep up the act. He knows that IV has loving and vulnerable sides, that he’s doing everything only for them, and that his brother is stretching himself far further out to be what his family needs him to be than what IV can actually bear. It wouldn't be fair to judge a man who's coming apart by his seams when he’s doing it all for you, would it?
To his father, IV is merely a handy tool. His son's good acting and dueling skills has made it easy to have both the monetary needs and influence to enact his revenge covered. With his violence and manipulating, IV is both Tron's attack dog and his bait, ready to be sacrificed to haul in the one bigger one. IV is something to be dismissed, laughed at and used and discarded, no matter how much his son growls at him, because in the end IV is still foolishly loyal and harbors an idealistic dream for seeing their family whole again.
And to IV? IV is basically the human equivalent of a dog turned bad by those who own him, and he knows it.
His bragging and boisterous self-importance is as much a personal trait as it's a defense mechanism to hide the fact that he's the let-down between the three siblings, and has been made over and over aware of that fact for a long time. In the same vein, his abuse of his fans is in a way both venting and a desperate shoutout in response to just how much he has been driven into a desperate corner -- having to put on an act and deny himself constantly to be worth something in the eyes of the world on one side, act as the ruthless henchman without a conscience in a feeble attempt to restore his father back to his right mind and save their family on the other. All while the same father only laughs at him, his older brother retreats into acting like an emotionless robot and his baby brother putting on the pressure by keeping up the hopes for their lost messed-up nut job of a family finding a way to put them back together alright again. And IV is straight in the middle of it all.
He is observant enough to know that all this isn't going to come to a good end, and that the twisted monster that became of their father doesn't care for them at all. He knows that there's no real chance to have things ever turn back to how they once were. And yet he still can't turn his back on it. IV can't stop longing for the love of a father that might as well no longer exist, nor is he capable to turn his back on a chance to restore their family, no matter how abysmal it logically is. That's why he grudgingly does all the terrible things his father bids him to do.
Once everything is said and done, IV still retains a decent sense of morals. While he loves toeing the line, he refuses to go too far (except for against Shark), as evidenced when he accepted getting seriously hurt in order to safe Shark's sister. He might be a bad human who takes a stubborn sense of pride in being what he is, but in the end he’s still only human ...which becomes his undoing over and over again.
In Yu-Gi-Oh the theme and used dueling strategies of a character reflect their personality. In a family where he is surrounded with personal dueling themes like Heraldic Beasts, High-tech Sci-Fi Space Stations and Conquerors and Ancient Aliens IV's theme are broken, cursed dolls. This speaks a lot about what kind of person IV is and sees himself as, since he created that deck.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Rockruff (regular), Magicarp (Rocket extra starter)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
Sample 1 - Thread on Fortanon, Dare Meme
Sample 2 - Link for easier reading
Name: Picaro
E-mail: devilsfugue[at]gmail[dot]com
Preferred Contact: PM here or ironykills on Plurk
Timezone: GMT+1
Current Characters in Victory Road: none
Character
Name: IV aka. Thomas Arclight
Series: Yu-Gi-OH! Zexal
Timeline: episode 58: "Swimming With Sharks", after he collapsed next to the bed of his little brother
Canon Resource Links: Wiki link here. Disclaimer that the wiki entry tends to concentrate on the English Dub version of the series, which shows in the use of some changed names and the harmless-talking of some events in the series that happened in the English version of it.
Personality:
(Disclaimer that this focuses mainly on the way things are during season one, since that's the canon point I'm taking him from.)
Depending on who you ask, people will describe IV's personality wildly different. To his fans, IV is the Asia Champion; a very popular Pro Duelist who is well-known and loved for being basically the embodiment of a modern noble knight, to the point where he is nicknamed “the Gentleman Duelist.” As such he is famous for being humble, patient, empathic and approachable - a person with a sweet smile who is as genteel outside the playing field as he is a merciless opponent when he does fight. Truly a man to whom 'fanservice' is more than just a word, and one who would see even those who did him wrong rather be given the chance to realize their mistakes and grow from them than to see them punished.
To his older brother, IV is the black sheep of the family, a good for nothing who lost any trace of good he had in him a long time ago. The IV Christopher knows is a hotheaded, childish bully who is prone to grudges and who takes out his frustrations on those most vulnerable to him: his own fans. It's an open secret in the Arclight family that IV has a nasty habit of inviting some random 'lucky' fans to one-on-one meetings with special "fanservice" provided by yours truly, which will inevitably devolve into IV crushing them both mentally and physically as violently as possible. IV is unsavory, but he is also good at what he does and has every reason to be loyal to his family, which makes him in turn useful to keep around, even when they clash at every turn.
To his enemies, IV is an egoistical narcissist, merciless, ruthless and shameless all alike, a vile con-man and coward if there ever was one. IV is a snake in the grass who adds insult to injury by having a bite that's as nasty as his lies when one actually manages to corner him.
On the other hand, IV's younger brother Michael will tell a vastly different story. To Michael, IV is still his big brother Thomas: the rowdy middle sibling who'd steal his cards when he felt like he wasn't being given enough attention, but who'd also return them the moment Michael'd get truly upset. IV is the brother that always looked out for and stuck with him, even if it meant getting hurt while picking a fight with all the bullies in the orphanage at once, just to get Michael’s toy back. Michael sees both the good and the bad in IV. He knows about IV's violence toward his fans, his penchant for coming off as arrogant and egoistical as possible - all those are traits that IV never tried to hide from him. But Michael also knows how much it takes for IV to constantly keep up the act. He knows that IV has loving and vulnerable sides, that he’s doing everything only for them, and that his brother is stretching himself far further out to be what his family needs him to be than what IV can actually bear. It wouldn't be fair to judge a man who's coming apart by his seams when he’s doing it all for you, would it?
To his father, IV is merely a handy tool. His son's good acting and dueling skills has made it easy to have both the monetary needs and influence to enact his revenge covered. With his violence and manipulating, IV is both Tron's attack dog and his bait, ready to be sacrificed to haul in the one bigger one. IV is something to be dismissed, laughed at and used and discarded, no matter how much his son growls at him, because in the end IV is still foolishly loyal and harbors an idealistic dream for seeing their family whole again.
And to IV? IV is basically the human equivalent of a dog turned bad by those who own him, and he knows it.
His bragging and boisterous self-importance is as much a personal trait as it's a defense mechanism to hide the fact that he's the let-down between the three siblings, and has been made over and over aware of that fact for a long time. In the same vein, his abuse of his fans is in a way both venting and a desperate shoutout in response to just how much he has been driven into a desperate corner -- having to put on an act and deny himself constantly to be worth something in the eyes of the world on one side, act as the ruthless henchman without a conscience in a feeble attempt to restore his father back to his right mind and save their family on the other. All while the same father only laughs at him, his older brother retreats into acting like an emotionless robot and his baby brother putting on the pressure by keeping up the hopes for their lost messed-up nut job of a family finding a way to put them back together alright again. And IV is straight in the middle of it all.
He is observant enough to know that all this isn't going to come to a good end, and that the twisted monster that became of their father doesn't care for them at all. He knows that there's no real chance to have things ever turn back to how they once were. And yet he still can't turn his back on it. IV can't stop longing for the love of a father that might as well no longer exist, nor is he capable to turn his back on a chance to restore their family, no matter how abysmal it logically is. That's why he grudgingly does all the terrible things his father bids him to do.
Once everything is said and done, IV still retains a decent sense of morals. While he loves toeing the line, he refuses to go too far (except for against Shark), as evidenced when he accepted getting seriously hurt in order to safe Shark's sister. He might be a bad human who takes a stubborn sense of pride in being what he is, but in the end he’s still only human ...which becomes his undoing over and over again.
In Yu-Gi-Oh the theme and used dueling strategies of a character reflect their personality. In a family where he is surrounded with personal dueling themes like Heraldic Beasts, High-tech Sci-Fi Space Stations and Conquerors and Ancient Aliens IV's theme are broken, cursed dolls. This speaks a lot about what kind of person IV is and sees himself as, since he created that deck.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Rockruff (regular), Magicarp (Rocket extra starter)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
Sample 1 - Thread on Fortanon, Dare Meme
Sample 2 - Link for easier reading
Sample for VR
III, this is IV. I'm here as well. Contact me as soon as you see this, because I fucking refuse to believe that I'm the only one gettig "a second chance" here! Call me, you bastard!!
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[Text Message to All, not quite 10 minutes after the first one was posted]
Christopher, I swear to God, if I find out that you're somehow behind all of this I'm going to rip out all your hair and stuff a pillow with it! And THEN I'll stuff that pillow down your throat or into your favorite computer or whatever technical toy you actually hide your humane heart in and then I'll set that ON FIRE, DO YOU FUCKING GET ME
I DON'T CARE WHATEVER SICK GAME YOU PLAY WITH ME, BUT IF YOU DARE DRAG -OUR LITTLE BROTHER- INTO THIS, THEN I'LL END YOU, FAMILY OR NOT!!!
....and don't you huff at me with that smug mug of yours, I gd know where the caps lock button is, this is me screaming at you!! If I find out you or that bastard harmed even one hair of him I'll make sure you all pay!! For real this time!!
[Video, roughly 2 hours later]
Ahem, does this work? [The youth being shown shifts awkwardly for a second before he seems to gather himself and smiles sheepishly at the camera.]
Hello there. This is IV. Some might know me as the Asia Champion, but if you don't that's quite alright ---- you definitely know me as the idiot who spammed those embarrassing texts on the whole network just earlier. For which I want to apologize.
[Another awkward smile that quickly turns sheepish as he shifts. Eventually, he gives in and runs a hand through his hair. It's obvious that he started with a good idea of what he wanted to say when he started making this post, but not that he's at it, he's lost not even two steps in. After another awkward pause, he pulls his shoulders back and faces the camera directly. No running away now.]
I let my fear and worry get the better of me when I made those posts, I’m very sorry for that. Usually my manners are way better.
[A deep, slightly shaky breath. Seems he hasn't got himself quite as well under control as he seems to want to appear.]
I was separated from my brother when we were both in pretty dire states. If you have seen a young boy of about 15 years, short, slightly curly red hair and green eyes, then please let me know. You might know him as either Michael or III, and he is generally very friendly and polite.
The other person I'm looking for is very tall and wears a dark cloak. Cold blue eyes and a constant mightier-than-you air about him. He likes to wear blue, while III prefers reds.
They are both family I'd like to find, or to at least know if they're doing alright. Any help you could give me finding them - or figuring out how I'm supposed to fight with nothing but a flopping fish for defense, this place really has a strange sense of humor - will be much appreciated. Thanks for lending me your time.
[The video cuts off with a hopeful wave.]
[action]
[IV frowns as he looks through the posts he has prepared while he was stuck in training hell with this so-called 'Team Rocket.' Feh, it figures that they'd peg him a 'bad one' even here, although the ones called evil here seem to be more of a bunch of sorry jokes than real threats to anybody.
His hand wanders idly to pet his pokemon partner as IV moves the screen to show his little act in 3 stages to it.]
What do you think? I think the first two look good, but something about the end of the third one doesn't feel right yet. It's too disjointed. Forced. Ugh, figuring out how to pander to total stranger nobodies just so that they'll feed me information and maybe some useful contacts is a pain! At least give me a clue whether I need to be more of a worried big brother or a sorry having mis-stepped idol!
.....
Fuck it, I’ll just put it out! It's bound to catch at least one goodhearted idiot to dupe anyway.... !
[People love helping, after all. Almost as much as they like being appreciated. It will be easy to pretend to be a new arrival and blend into the throng, with his worry about his siblings drawing the attention away from any overly curious questions about himself. Maybe he can even really get any information on his siblings. This will be child's play.
His nails bite into his palm.
IV failed because he was careless the last time. He let his emotions and need to be seen as valuable by others cloud his judgement. But this time will be different. It simply has to-!]