Difference between revisions of "Kazuo Kagayama"
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* VNV Nation - Beloved (Grey Dawn) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrOUOJ9_POw YouTube] (Another one for his wife) | * VNV Nation - Beloved (Grey Dawn) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrOUOJ9_POw YouTube] (Another one for his wife) | ||
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| Slinks =At the moment, largely all of Kazuo's "relationships" are more the Lurker declaring this person or another as known threats and/or prey. | | Slinks =At the moment, largely all of Kazuo's "relationships" are more the Lurker declaring this person or another as known threats and/or prey. | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 25 September 2010
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| Full Name: | Kazuo Kagayama |
| Arcana: | Tower Reversed |
| Nature: | Shadow Possessed |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | Early 40s |
| Faction: | Unaffiliated |
| Team: | Civilians |
| Eyes: | Gray |
| Hair: | Gray (was black) |
| Height: | 5'6" |
| Voice Actor: | Fred Tatasciore |
| Persona: | The Lurker Beneath |
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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility." | |
| Profile And Skills |
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| Men can be pushed in strange directions by what Fate hands to them. Once he was a prominent scientist, with a wife, a home, a life. Once he was working towards the salvation of humanity. Ten years ago, that was all ripped away in one hour of chaos and terror. Now, the broken, lonely wreck that was Kazuo Kagayama skulks in the darkness of Port Island, clinging to the only things he has left: Time and his own pain. He always wanted to make the world a better place, a safe place, and in a weird way, he still does. Even in the grip of his Shadow, he hunts the wicked. But with your eyes clouded by darkness and loss, it can be so difficult to tell who is the predator and who is the victim... |
| Skills: Tick Tock, Feed the Croc, Fallen from Grace, Ravaged Heart, Shattered Dreams, Pride Goeth, Like Sands Through the Hourglass, Time is Precious, I Can Hear My Thoughts Touching Every Second, Almost An Enemy, Darkness Will Swallow All Life In Its Own Pain, Time is Fleeting, Devourer of the Dead, Moments Lost Though Time Remains, Eater of Hearts, Got Your Scent, Eat Your Bones, Broken, Twice Scourged |
| Personality | |
| Kazuo's overall personality is difficult to describe, these days. Most of the time, he's nervous, twitchy, and easily startled, with what appears to be a badly shortened attention span. Most, if not all, of this stems from the fact that his input-filter is so badly damaged as to be completely useless. Where most people become accustomed to certain inputs over time, Kazuo does not have this luxury. If, however, he can be calmed sufficiently, more and more of the man's original personality will show itself. He has long ago lost the cheerful energy from before the Disaster, but he remains a warm, caring individual.
On the other hand, if stressors (be they sounds, emotions, even things like physical hunger) mount to the point where his damaged filter cannot handle them, Kazuo's personality erodes, sometimes to the point of catatonia. Or, more often, a retreat behind the Lurker, who is better equipped to deal with outside stimuli, if only in that it makes them go away (one way or another). | |
| Persona | |
| Resonance: Kazuo's Resonance is of a very dark sort. Dark and heavy and somewhat cold, like the air in a tunnel that is not reached by the sun. Violence lurks around the edges, but also a sort of thin, breathy fear, threaded throughout the whole works. Like the quickened breathing and widened eyes of someone desperately certain that a predator has their trail. | |
| Originally a manifestation of fury at that which had caused his loss, namely the Shadows, Kazuo's nascent Persona was stirred by the mental and spiritual trauma of not only witnessing the Port Island Disaster from practically Ground Zero (and losing his dearly loved wife in the same incident), but also being thrust into a Dark Hour still reverberating with the birth-cries of the Arcana Shadows. Fear mixed with rage and was fueled by the hunger that comes to all the homeless eventually. In a way, the Lurker is a very primal darkness, more directly Kazuo's id than most peoples' Shadows tend to be. Its desires are very basic and very direct: food, shelter, safety. There is very little else within the Lurker's "mind," though it has full access to all of Kazuo's intellect.
The Lurker is, at its base, a predator. It tends to regard most things as food, and is usually able to make those things see its point of view. The Lurker is a very large part of how Kazuo has managed to survive for the 10 years since the Incident, not only because of its ability to eat nearly anything (and we mean anything) but also keeping him safe (directly or otherwise) from the predations that many homeless have to fear. | |
| Combat Info | |
| Inversion of Ammut. Designed around the idea of the Crocodiles In The Sewers meme/thoughtform. Very strong, very tough, capable of startling bursts of speed (but otherwise slow), but definitely not the brightest crayon in the box. Doesn't bother with magic for the most part, is more likely to rip your leg off or drag you down into the darkness to drown.
If Kazuo's insanity is ever cured (or at least brought to heel) there's a good chance his Possession will revert to the Persona Ammut (provided there's sufficient support available to help him externalize, confront and subdue his Shadow), in which case the stats will become more balanced, and the attacks will focus more around fire, stat damagers, and Cost-Up effects (reflecting the Second Death of having your unworthy heart eaten by the Great of Death). Instead of being a hate- and pain-driven destroyer and devourer, she (Ammut is female, and to some extent the last legacy of Kazuo's dead wife) would be a fiercely determined scourge against evil and corruption. |
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| Miscellaneous | |
When he's calm or focused, Kazuo speaks in a markedly educated mode.
Known to frequent the Port Island train station in particular, but has also been sighted at similar facilities around the area. Apparently something about the trains themselves interests him. Though the trail has long gone cold, someone with determination and connections might be able to track Kazuo back to the handful of survivors from the Port Island Kirijo disaster. Kazuo's Shadow, the Lurker Beneath, is an inversion of the Egyptian demon Ammut. Presumably, if he could be freed from the grip of his Shadow, it would revert to a proper Persona.
It is a very real possibility that some factions know of Kazuo's existence, if not the details of his condition.
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At the moment, largely all of Kazuo's "relationships" are more the Lurker declaring this person or another as known threats and/or prey.
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Constant work in progress, suggestions welcome
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