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□ Name: Ken
□ Age: 30
□ Contact: Jorunal PM or mugennoken @ plurk
□ Journal: mugennoken
□ Do you play anyone in Ariel?: Yuri Tsukikage
□ Is this a re-application of a dropped character? If yes, when was the character dropped?: Nope.
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□ Name: Nanami, no last name given in canon
□ Journal: http://serpent-ruin.dreamwidth.org/profile
□ Series: Digimon Savers
□ Canon point: Episode 31, just before she confronts Touma
□ History: [Nanami is what would generally be called a minor character. She's a fairly significant villain for a good 5 to 6 episodes of a 48 episode show, but in spite of being given lots of personality, just about nothing is revealed of her back story. All we really get are her actions in the present and her personality - as such, I will run down her canon actions, and then delve a little bit into headcanon.]
[CANON]
The "human world" that Nanami hails from is connected to a whole other, parallel reality called the "Digital World." The creatures of that world, Digimon, are fantastic - but intelligent - beings with amazing powers and the ability to evolve into even stronger forms. Unfortunately, there was a man who sought to undo that - a Professor named Akihiro Kurata, who went to the world when it was first discovered. There, he grew to fear these creatures but also recognize their power and potential.
An organization, DATS, was created to police these creatures as they came into the human world. It served its purpose well for many years, until Kurata was brought in as a consultant. Then, he not only used his technology - technology that could destroy a Digimon's data entirely, killing them with no chance of revival - to kill a rather powerful Digimon guarding a portal between worlds, but stage a coup within DATS. The Agents within and their Digimon partners, Digimon who had chosen to fight alongside them, were branded as fugitives and put on the run.
All the while, Kurata put forth the things he had been building up the whole time - artificial Digimon, autonomous soldiers called Gizmon, and a trio of humans he had brought under his wing. Transformed into mutants called "Bio Digimon," Nanami and her partners Kouki and Ivan were infused with the data and power of Digimon. Nanami herself could then transform from her "human" form into that of BioCoatlmon, a flying snake with the power to turn objects to stone.
As the renegade DATS officers - Masaru, Yoshino, and Touma - and their friend Ikuto tried to escape to the Digital World, the Bio Trio tried to head them off. First, Nanami and Ivan attempted to run the DATS Captain, Satsuma, off the road - although they failed to kill him. Then they were headed off from stopping the DATS agents from re-entering the Digital World via a portal created by Ikuto's father by other, remaining Agents named Miki and Megumi, with their PawnChessmon. Eventually, Nanami and Ivan are able to give chase, as Kouki heads off Masaru and the others. They battle, with the Bio Digimon seeming triumphant.
Until that is, Satsuma appears with his partner, Kudamon. Evolving into a being called Qilinmon, Kudamon is able to handily dispatch the Bio Digimon until the point they attack him and Satsuma in a rage. There's an explosion, and the results of the battle are not seen. What we do know is this: Soon after, Kouki, Ivan, and Nanami find Masaru and the others again, at a gathering of refugee Digimon that have taken shelter against Kurata's newly launched genocide campaign within the Digital World. There, the Bio Trio claim they had killed Satsuma. However, we know better as he arrives alive and well again later in the series, although there's no explanation to what exactly happened. As such it can simply be implied that the Bio Trio ALSO don't know what happened after the explosion, never confirmed the body, and were probably just lying.
During this particular battle, Masaru, Yoshino, and Touma scrape the edge of a new level of power in order to survive as the Bio Digimon wreck them left and right. However, this damages their Digivices, objects which tie them to their partners and allow them to evolve and change. The Bio Trio escape, but with their tails between their legs.
Later, the DATS crew are being trained by a mysterious fighter of the Digital World named BanchouLeomon. Really, the only one really angry at their loss is Kouki, so they hunt them down - only to find the Digimon separated from their partners, unable to evolve. Thus, they do the honorable thing and kick them while they're down. Unfortunately, this pushes the DATS crew past their limits and they obtain the Ultimate level of a Digimon's evolution in order to defeat them, sending them falling off a cliff and into the ocean.
Thus, it's back to the drawing board. That drawing board being... sticking the Bio Trio into giant test tubes, shoving more powerful Digimon data into them, and seeing what happens! After Kurata literally lets them cook for a night, screaming in agony, they all pop out fit as fiddles and ready to go kill and massacre some more.
The heroes by that point had taken up in a city on the back of a giant turtle Digimon named ElDoradimon. Kurata wanted that thing dead, but that required taking out the DATS members. Kurata sets Nanami off to confront Touma, citing them both as geniuses. She's tasked with destroying a dam that would leave ElDoradimon defenseless and lures Touma off, where she... tries to bring him over to her side. Citing their respective roles and geniuses, she very quickly becomes rather obsessed with swaying him in short order, to overthrow Kurata and pretty much everyone. She's very well convinced that together, the tow of them could become gods.
It does her no good however, and she's defeated with much more finality this time - the Digimon data inside her is ripped out, taking the form of an egg, while she's left injured and unconscious. Touma carts her out of the battlefield as hell rains down around them, and ElDoradimon is dropped into the human world via a giant gateway created by Kurata. By the time Touma rejoins his friends, Nanami is nowhere to be seen.
Kurata would win that day, incidentally - ElDoradimon died, and with the energy collected Kurata awakened an ancient destructive Demon King from his slumber. DATS would beat them both, before the Digital World's god attempted to annihilate the human world in retribution as all of Kurata's portals between worlds had made the connection between them unstable, sending them on a crash course to collide with one another.
Nanami is only seen again once, praying - of all things - and sending the light of a real Digisoul, the power of human emotions that all the heroes' possessed in order to power their Digimon, into the sky to support the DATS crew. Or maybe save her own hide. Really, both are applicable here.
[HEADCANON]
What we know about Nanami is that she is bored easily, and even greatly extravagant things tend to leave her cold, wanting more and more and more. Given she dresses rather well, ACTS like a spoiled brat, and is set up as the rival to someone (Touma) that has more money than god, I tend to assume she comes from a fairly well off family. Went to the best schools. Graduated early, per her notation as a genius on Touma's level, who graduated with doctorates at age 13. She wanted for nothing at all and had everything handed to her on a silver platter.
It works with her attitude, which I'll detail below, of being willing to grind anyone beneath her heel, and of viewing pretty much anyone beneath her. Unless she's highly compensating, it strikes me she'd need to be above people on several levels to see literally everyone as beneath her.
□ Personality:
If one were to choose one good word to describe Nanami, it would be "apathy." Now, one cannot necessarily always see this in her actions - dressed up in gothic lolita garb that makes her stand out quite a bit, always strolling onto the battlefield of a wayward genocidal war with a lackadaisical, laid back demeanor. No, it's clear she can only act like this for one simple fact: She does not care.
She does not care about Kurata's ambitions - she sought to overthrow him with the power she'd obtain by joining with Touma. She does not care about the lives of the innocent creatures they're slaughtering - never once do we see a solid hint of remorse for this, or much of anything. She does not care about LOSING to her enemies, expressly - she will be annoyed and frustrated at first, and yet after the fact be primping her eyebrows while Kouki beats up a tree in abject rage. She sits on the front lines of this conflict, witness to all of this fantastical things, and yet can see often times seem bored or disinterested.
Boredom really is her primary motivator. She has no great cause she's after - unlike Ivan, who fought to provide for his massive family - beyond delusions of grandeur when she confronted Touma. She was bored, and Kurata offered something interesting. She's not the least bit concerned over being transformed into what Kurata deems a "mutant," and indeed seems quite PROUD of this fact. When the Trio receives upgrades to these powers, while Kouki and Ivan are shown to be super enthusiastic, she just... takes it in stride. "It's all right," she says in regards to that, standing butt naked in the middle of a lab, and sounding as if she might yawn.
But when something catches her interest, when something TRULY catches her interest, she'll be all over it. In canon, that something managed to be Touma Norstein - a genius mind on her level, someone she thought she could understand, and who could actually understand her. Someone she didn't have to talk down to, and... well, she got a little carried away with herself. She showed then she can very easily become fixated and obsessed on something, if it's something she wants that does not want her back. She became bound and determined to take Touma for her own, even if that meant beating him down and/or psychically invading his mind to manipulate him. She was convinced that between the two of them, with their power and intellect, they could become GODS.
Of course, even after that defeat she still is able to get a jab in. You see, Nanami is also pretty good at reading people, even if clouded by her own desires - she was able to pick out the chinks in Touma's mental armor well enough that she could keep up a banter with him their entire fight and give him pause fairly often. As such, she very quickly realized that Touma took after Masaru Daimon's example far more than even TOUMA realized it. Up to the point that at the end of their battle, Touma throws away reason and strategy, charging head first into BioLotusmon's attack... and defeats her. Hanging on the edge of consciousness, Nanami reminds him of an important fact: He won with Masaru Daimon's power, not his own. While Nanami does not play a part in the story that follows, this is something that informs Touma's actions quite heavily for the next few episodes, as he seemingly betrays his friends in a ploy to save his sister from Kurata, an action that gets Masaru's Digimon (temporarily) killed in the process. Nanami can definitely leave a lasting impression on a person, and certainly seemed to in this case.
Still, again - place something interesting in front of her, something tangible she can obtain through out of the ordinary means, and... she'll almost definitely bite. If she can manage to get a rise out of someone along the way, all the better. After all, she clearly has little to no actual shame.
Due to her intelligence, she sees pretty much everyone she meets as beneath her. They're nothing to her, and she won't think twice about talking down to someone, except maybe where she can get her way. Maybe not even then, it depends. Either way, she never VIEWS anyone as superior to her. Not even Kurata. Still, she does have tolerances - if there are people who are going along with her goals, she can effectively get along with them. In spite of the thought of surpassing him, she never seemed to have any PROBLEMS with Kurata. Kouki's tantrums may have made her roll her eyes, and Ivan's lack of a mental filter to what he says may have irritated her... but for the most part, she appeared to get along with the rest of the Bio Digimon Trio. In fact, they were a rather good team, able to coordinate and battle people that had been a team for far, far longer than them. They may have had superior power at the time, but they were definitely effective.
At the end of the series, we see her praying as the DATS crew battles the god of the Digital World, Yggdrasil. She's able to summon her own Digisoul then, as is much of the population of the world. Little context is given, but looking back at her in the series itself - has she turned over a new leaf, or is she just praying for her own salvation? Honestly, I'd have to lean towards the latter. She DOES show in her battle with Touma certain moments of hesitation - she may not be pure evil, but rather a really mentally imbalanced individual. With the attempt, there may even be the chance that one COULD get through to her, perhaps set her down a different path, and while Touma saved her physically from the Digital World after her defeat...
No one's really yet gotten THROUGH to her, not completely beyond those little moments of pause. So in the end, one has to lean towards "personal salvation" on that one.
After all, if the world went away, that'd be pretty boring, wouldn't it?
□ Age: No canon age. She appears anywhere potentially from late teens to early twenties, considering Savers' design philosophy and their perchance for older female characters. So for simplicity's sake, we'll say she's 18.
□ Gender: Female.
□ Appearance: Nanami is a slightly short, Japanese young woman with long, blonde hair that actually has quite a lot of bounce and body to it. Judging by her eyebrows, it may or may not be dyed, it just depends on how one wants to interpret the art style - especially considering we have people in this series with naturally pink and blue hair. Beyond that, her skin is fair, her eye lashes thick and long, and her eyes a very stark pink that really stands out on her face. She always appears with lipstick on, and always maintains a certain image there, even carrying such things into the wilderness of an alternate reality.
Speaking of image, one thing that makes her stand out is the fact she is constantly wearing gothic lolita-styled dress. Primarily, an outfit in red and black - over her shoulders she wears a red & black shawl with a ribbon tied at her chest, and then a black dress - with another large ribbon tied at her back - that goes down to her knees, large frills running along the hem of the skirt. Socks with yet more frills at the top of them go to just below that, while her shoes are raised up off the ground just enough to make her height slightly more deceptive than it would be otherwise. She wears black gloves from just below her elbow down, and on her left arm, there is a wrist mounted, rectangular device that activates her Hyper Bio Evolution.
Lastly, topping her head, she always wears a tiny top hat that is tilted to the side, and somehow manages to stay on even as she's fighting constantly. Always carried with her as well is a red and black-frilled parasol.
It should be noted that all of this can have the effect of making her appear a bit younger than she might be, even if her age is basically a guess - one can't tell as easily when she's wearing everything, but she has a notable enough figure beneath it all to make ti clear she is more than likely an adult, judging by the show's art style.
As BioLotusmon, on the other hand - she is a giant, plain and simple. She towers well over any normal human, able to grasp their entire body in her palm. Her skin is a light violet, her hair blonde on the sides, and puffy, while on the center of her head that hair is green and takes the shape of a flower, actually covering her eyes. From there she wears not... a white ROBE, but more like PIECES of one, unattached sleeves and shoulder portions flowing off her body, the tail skirt attached to her hips and streaming off and around her legs. She wears high-healed shoes, while her legs are covered in a sort of scale-like, dark purple stocking that runs up to her thighs. Her chest is covered by armor, which still manages to leave her cleavage prominent and her stomach exposed. In either hand she wields a scepter - in her left, a golden one with black and white snakes twisted up its length, which will move and react as she attacks. In her right hand, a silver scepter with a flower-like topper.
□ Abilities/Powers:
*INTELLIGENCE: Nanami is highly intelligent, even to the point she is acknowledged by someone (Kurata) who is also a genius in his own right, even if it was to get his way. She's viewed on the level of Touma Norstein, a teenager who before the series, graduated with prestige from college at the age of 13. She can be very tactically minded, and is also very good at reading people when not blinded by her own ambitions.
*FIGHTER: Nanami is, in fact, an EXCELLENT hand-to-hand fighter. Though assisted by her power as far as strength went, she's able to fight Touma and his Digimon, Gaomon, hand-to-hand for a considerable amount of time without transforming into a Digimon, generally besting them the entire time.
*BIO DIGIMON (HUMAN FORM): Nanami is not considered to be "fully" human anymore, and is called a "mutant" who has had Digimon data or DNA spliced into her body. As such, it also has an effect to how she is normally. In her human form, Nanami is actually extraordinarily stronger, faster, and more agile than a human. She can block a Digimon like Gaomon's punch without flinching, and in spite of his speed dodge his attacks AND be able to harm him. She's strong enough to leap considerable distances, and land without any harm.
*BIO DIGIMON (DIGIMON FORM): Using the device granted to her by Kurata - which is unnamed, but we will call the "Bio Digivice" for simplicity, which fits in with the naming schemes well enough - she summons a field of particles that resemble Digisoul, which I will get to a bit further, but it can be seen as an "artificial" Digisoul. Utilizing that, her form changes into BioLotusmon, a Digimon in its final stage of evolution, an Ultimate-level. Ultimates are considered almost god-like in their powers, and BioLotusmon is no joke - she is supremely strong, fast enough to blur out of sight, and able to take considerable punishment. She also comes with a few unique powers:
--*SEVEN'S FANTASIA: A rainbow colored blast which can have an effect of making her opponent lose the will to fight, and can create euphoric fantasies. Generally, this can just take the form of a general energy blast as well, but it has the potential to affect an opponent's mind on some capacity.
--*SERPENT RUIN: A blast of dark energy from the black snake on her serpent staff.
--*SERPENT CURE: Not shown in the anime, but a power of a normal Lotusmon and thus one that would apply to her. This releases a white aura from the white snake on her serpent staff, and can be used to heal.
--*MIND INVASION: Not explicitly an attack, nor is it named anywhere, but with extensive contact to a person, BioLotusmon has the power to invade their mind and make them see whatever she wishes. In Touma's case, this was a bunch of naked Nanamis with snake bodies from the waist down, while he was wrapped up in... snakes. (She might be a little messed up in the head, if you haven't noticed.) She can't mentally CONTROL someone, but she can do all sorts of unseemly things to their subconscious. However, she must maintain contact for this: If her concentration is broken by anything, so too can her illusion.
----*NOTE: BioLotusmon is a giant. She's very, very, VERY tall. As such, if it is more conducive to the game at hand, when obtained she very well could be shrunk down if that's a necessity. (And in fact would probably make things easier, but I will leave that to moderator discretion.)
*DIGISOUL: Put simply, Digisoul is the power of human emotions, tied to the Digital World and the Digimon that live there. It manifests itself as a pixelized aura of one color or another, depending on its user, and that power can be utilized to evolve a Digimon. It can also be used to strengthen its user, for them to preform superhuman feats of strength and durability, and the aura itself can have a physical effect. Nanami is seen manifesting one in the final episode of the series, in a silent cameo - as such, if she is ever to obtain this in-game, it will come at a later date on learning how to do it herself.
□ Personal Items: Her normal gothic lolita outfit, her Bio Digivice, parasol, make-up, and... not much else, honestly.
□ First Person Sample:
[The video clicks up to see a blonde woman staring into the mirror of a small make-up compact. Handy for this, wouldn't you think? She looks a little bored, as she's primping one set of eyelashes. In spite of that boredom, she still carries a current of being rather... haughty.]
I guess it really shouldn't surprise me that people take this whole ordeal so seriously. Parts of the world are so caught up in their own ideals of purity and chastity, that flung into this place, I SUPPOSE some types would get all up in arms over what to do...
[She flicks a look directly at the mirror now, and a smirk starts to form on her red lips.]
Not that it matters truly, in the end, does it? We ARE stuck here, so it strikes me us newcomers aren't helping either us or anyone else by fretting over the little things. There is opportunity here, is there not?
[She gives a derisive little laugh, ceases her primping, and shakes her head.]
Though I guess if there is that fretting, that just leaves more such opportunity for the rest of us~ I am very, very CURIOUS as to where such things can take us in this world, and since I'm used to a little bit more than what this place wants to give us out of the gate... It certainly is an entertaining way to move up in the world, isn't it? At the very least, it can't possibly be BORING.
[That smirk goes as wide as possible, while she leans in towards the mirror.]
I do rather wish we'd been informed of everything this chip did from the get-go, however - surprises are fun, and while I'm used to having strange things inserted into my body, it would have been a lot MORE fun to know from the beginning everything I have at my disposal to facilitate things. After all, if they want us to DO such things... I'll be more than happy to oblige, with what I'm due to get in turn.
□ Third Person Sample: http://theloonybin.dreamwidth.org/28694.html?thread=17019158#cmt17019158
□ Name: Ken
□ Age: 30
□ Contact: Jorunal PM or mugennoken @ plurk
□ Journal: mugennoken
□ Do you play anyone in Ariel?: Yuri Tsukikage
□ Is this a re-application of a dropped character? If yes, when was the character dropped?: Nope.
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□ Name: Nanami, no last name given in canon
□ Journal: http://serpent-ruin.dreamwidth.org/profile
□ Series: Digimon Savers
□ Canon point: Episode 31, just before she confronts Touma
□ History: [Nanami is what would generally be called a minor character. She's a fairly significant villain for a good 5 to 6 episodes of a 48 episode show, but in spite of being given lots of personality, just about nothing is revealed of her back story. All we really get are her actions in the present and her personality - as such, I will run down her canon actions, and then delve a little bit into headcanon.]
[CANON]
The "human world" that Nanami hails from is connected to a whole other, parallel reality called the "Digital World." The creatures of that world, Digimon, are fantastic - but intelligent - beings with amazing powers and the ability to evolve into even stronger forms. Unfortunately, there was a man who sought to undo that - a Professor named Akihiro Kurata, who went to the world when it was first discovered. There, he grew to fear these creatures but also recognize their power and potential.
An organization, DATS, was created to police these creatures as they came into the human world. It served its purpose well for many years, until Kurata was brought in as a consultant. Then, he not only used his technology - technology that could destroy a Digimon's data entirely, killing them with no chance of revival - to kill a rather powerful Digimon guarding a portal between worlds, but stage a coup within DATS. The Agents within and their Digimon partners, Digimon who had chosen to fight alongside them, were branded as fugitives and put on the run.
All the while, Kurata put forth the things he had been building up the whole time - artificial Digimon, autonomous soldiers called Gizmon, and a trio of humans he had brought under his wing. Transformed into mutants called "Bio Digimon," Nanami and her partners Kouki and Ivan were infused with the data and power of Digimon. Nanami herself could then transform from her "human" form into that of BioCoatlmon, a flying snake with the power to turn objects to stone.
As the renegade DATS officers - Masaru, Yoshino, and Touma - and their friend Ikuto tried to escape to the Digital World, the Bio Trio tried to head them off. First, Nanami and Ivan attempted to run the DATS Captain, Satsuma, off the road - although they failed to kill him. Then they were headed off from stopping the DATS agents from re-entering the Digital World via a portal created by Ikuto's father by other, remaining Agents named Miki and Megumi, with their PawnChessmon. Eventually, Nanami and Ivan are able to give chase, as Kouki heads off Masaru and the others. They battle, with the Bio Digimon seeming triumphant.
Until that is, Satsuma appears with his partner, Kudamon. Evolving into a being called Qilinmon, Kudamon is able to handily dispatch the Bio Digimon until the point they attack him and Satsuma in a rage. There's an explosion, and the results of the battle are not seen. What we do know is this: Soon after, Kouki, Ivan, and Nanami find Masaru and the others again, at a gathering of refugee Digimon that have taken shelter against Kurata's newly launched genocide campaign within the Digital World. There, the Bio Trio claim they had killed Satsuma. However, we know better as he arrives alive and well again later in the series, although there's no explanation to what exactly happened. As such it can simply be implied that the Bio Trio ALSO don't know what happened after the explosion, never confirmed the body, and were probably just lying.
During this particular battle, Masaru, Yoshino, and Touma scrape the edge of a new level of power in order to survive as the Bio Digimon wreck them left and right. However, this damages their Digivices, objects which tie them to their partners and allow them to evolve and change. The Bio Trio escape, but with their tails between their legs.
Later, the DATS crew are being trained by a mysterious fighter of the Digital World named BanchouLeomon. Really, the only one really angry at their loss is Kouki, so they hunt them down - only to find the Digimon separated from their partners, unable to evolve. Thus, they do the honorable thing and kick them while they're down. Unfortunately, this pushes the DATS crew past their limits and they obtain the Ultimate level of a Digimon's evolution in order to defeat them, sending them falling off a cliff and into the ocean.
Thus, it's back to the drawing board. That drawing board being... sticking the Bio Trio into giant test tubes, shoving more powerful Digimon data into them, and seeing what happens! After Kurata literally lets them cook for a night, screaming in agony, they all pop out fit as fiddles and ready to go kill and massacre some more.
The heroes by that point had taken up in a city on the back of a giant turtle Digimon named ElDoradimon. Kurata wanted that thing dead, but that required taking out the DATS members. Kurata sets Nanami off to confront Touma, citing them both as geniuses. She's tasked with destroying a dam that would leave ElDoradimon defenseless and lures Touma off, where she... tries to bring him over to her side. Citing their respective roles and geniuses, she very quickly becomes rather obsessed with swaying him in short order, to overthrow Kurata and pretty much everyone. She's very well convinced that together, the tow of them could become gods.
It does her no good however, and she's defeated with much more finality this time - the Digimon data inside her is ripped out, taking the form of an egg, while she's left injured and unconscious. Touma carts her out of the battlefield as hell rains down around them, and ElDoradimon is dropped into the human world via a giant gateway created by Kurata. By the time Touma rejoins his friends, Nanami is nowhere to be seen.
Kurata would win that day, incidentally - ElDoradimon died, and with the energy collected Kurata awakened an ancient destructive Demon King from his slumber. DATS would beat them both, before the Digital World's god attempted to annihilate the human world in retribution as all of Kurata's portals between worlds had made the connection between them unstable, sending them on a crash course to collide with one another.
Nanami is only seen again once, praying - of all things - and sending the light of a real Digisoul, the power of human emotions that all the heroes' possessed in order to power their Digimon, into the sky to support the DATS crew. Or maybe save her own hide. Really, both are applicable here.
[HEADCANON]
What we know about Nanami is that she is bored easily, and even greatly extravagant things tend to leave her cold, wanting more and more and more. Given she dresses rather well, ACTS like a spoiled brat, and is set up as the rival to someone (Touma) that has more money than god, I tend to assume she comes from a fairly well off family. Went to the best schools. Graduated early, per her notation as a genius on Touma's level, who graduated with doctorates at age 13. She wanted for nothing at all and had everything handed to her on a silver platter.
It works with her attitude, which I'll detail below, of being willing to grind anyone beneath her heel, and of viewing pretty much anyone beneath her. Unless she's highly compensating, it strikes me she'd need to be above people on several levels to see literally everyone as beneath her.
□ Personality:
If one were to choose one good word to describe Nanami, it would be "apathy." Now, one cannot necessarily always see this in her actions - dressed up in gothic lolita garb that makes her stand out quite a bit, always strolling onto the battlefield of a wayward genocidal war with a lackadaisical, laid back demeanor. No, it's clear she can only act like this for one simple fact: She does not care.
She does not care about Kurata's ambitions - she sought to overthrow him with the power she'd obtain by joining with Touma. She does not care about the lives of the innocent creatures they're slaughtering - never once do we see a solid hint of remorse for this, or much of anything. She does not care about LOSING to her enemies, expressly - she will be annoyed and frustrated at first, and yet after the fact be primping her eyebrows while Kouki beats up a tree in abject rage. She sits on the front lines of this conflict, witness to all of this fantastical things, and yet can see often times seem bored or disinterested.
Boredom really is her primary motivator. She has no great cause she's after - unlike Ivan, who fought to provide for his massive family - beyond delusions of grandeur when she confronted Touma. She was bored, and Kurata offered something interesting. She's not the least bit concerned over being transformed into what Kurata deems a "mutant," and indeed seems quite PROUD of this fact. When the Trio receives upgrades to these powers, while Kouki and Ivan are shown to be super enthusiastic, she just... takes it in stride. "It's all right," she says in regards to that, standing butt naked in the middle of a lab, and sounding as if she might yawn.
But when something catches her interest, when something TRULY catches her interest, she'll be all over it. In canon, that something managed to be Touma Norstein - a genius mind on her level, someone she thought she could understand, and who could actually understand her. Someone she didn't have to talk down to, and... well, she got a little carried away with herself. She showed then she can very easily become fixated and obsessed on something, if it's something she wants that does not want her back. She became bound and determined to take Touma for her own, even if that meant beating him down and/or psychically invading his mind to manipulate him. She was convinced that between the two of them, with their power and intellect, they could become GODS.
Of course, even after that defeat she still is able to get a jab in. You see, Nanami is also pretty good at reading people, even if clouded by her own desires - she was able to pick out the chinks in Touma's mental armor well enough that she could keep up a banter with him their entire fight and give him pause fairly often. As such, she very quickly realized that Touma took after Masaru Daimon's example far more than even TOUMA realized it. Up to the point that at the end of their battle, Touma throws away reason and strategy, charging head first into BioLotusmon's attack... and defeats her. Hanging on the edge of consciousness, Nanami reminds him of an important fact: He won with Masaru Daimon's power, not his own. While Nanami does not play a part in the story that follows, this is something that informs Touma's actions quite heavily for the next few episodes, as he seemingly betrays his friends in a ploy to save his sister from Kurata, an action that gets Masaru's Digimon (temporarily) killed in the process. Nanami can definitely leave a lasting impression on a person, and certainly seemed to in this case.
Still, again - place something interesting in front of her, something tangible she can obtain through out of the ordinary means, and... she'll almost definitely bite. If she can manage to get a rise out of someone along the way, all the better. After all, she clearly has little to no actual shame.
Due to her intelligence, she sees pretty much everyone she meets as beneath her. They're nothing to her, and she won't think twice about talking down to someone, except maybe where she can get her way. Maybe not even then, it depends. Either way, she never VIEWS anyone as superior to her. Not even Kurata. Still, she does have tolerances - if there are people who are going along with her goals, she can effectively get along with them. In spite of the thought of surpassing him, she never seemed to have any PROBLEMS with Kurata. Kouki's tantrums may have made her roll her eyes, and Ivan's lack of a mental filter to what he says may have irritated her... but for the most part, she appeared to get along with the rest of the Bio Digimon Trio. In fact, they were a rather good team, able to coordinate and battle people that had been a team for far, far longer than them. They may have had superior power at the time, but they were definitely effective.
At the end of the series, we see her praying as the DATS crew battles the god of the Digital World, Yggdrasil. She's able to summon her own Digisoul then, as is much of the population of the world. Little context is given, but looking back at her in the series itself - has she turned over a new leaf, or is she just praying for her own salvation? Honestly, I'd have to lean towards the latter. She DOES show in her battle with Touma certain moments of hesitation - she may not be pure evil, but rather a really mentally imbalanced individual. With the attempt, there may even be the chance that one COULD get through to her, perhaps set her down a different path, and while Touma saved her physically from the Digital World after her defeat...
No one's really yet gotten THROUGH to her, not completely beyond those little moments of pause. So in the end, one has to lean towards "personal salvation" on that one.
After all, if the world went away, that'd be pretty boring, wouldn't it?
□ Age: No canon age. She appears anywhere potentially from late teens to early twenties, considering Savers' design philosophy and their perchance for older female characters. So for simplicity's sake, we'll say she's 18.
□ Gender: Female.
□ Appearance: Nanami is a slightly short, Japanese young woman with long, blonde hair that actually has quite a lot of bounce and body to it. Judging by her eyebrows, it may or may not be dyed, it just depends on how one wants to interpret the art style - especially considering we have people in this series with naturally pink and blue hair. Beyond that, her skin is fair, her eye lashes thick and long, and her eyes a very stark pink that really stands out on her face. She always appears with lipstick on, and always maintains a certain image there, even carrying such things into the wilderness of an alternate reality.
Speaking of image, one thing that makes her stand out is the fact she is constantly wearing gothic lolita-styled dress. Primarily, an outfit in red and black - over her shoulders she wears a red & black shawl with a ribbon tied at her chest, and then a black dress - with another large ribbon tied at her back - that goes down to her knees, large frills running along the hem of the skirt. Socks with yet more frills at the top of them go to just below that, while her shoes are raised up off the ground just enough to make her height slightly more deceptive than it would be otherwise. She wears black gloves from just below her elbow down, and on her left arm, there is a wrist mounted, rectangular device that activates her Hyper Bio Evolution.
Lastly, topping her head, she always wears a tiny top hat that is tilted to the side, and somehow manages to stay on even as she's fighting constantly. Always carried with her as well is a red and black-frilled parasol.
It should be noted that all of this can have the effect of making her appear a bit younger than she might be, even if her age is basically a guess - one can't tell as easily when she's wearing everything, but she has a notable enough figure beneath it all to make ti clear she is more than likely an adult, judging by the show's art style.
As BioLotusmon, on the other hand - she is a giant, plain and simple. She towers well over any normal human, able to grasp their entire body in her palm. Her skin is a light violet, her hair blonde on the sides, and puffy, while on the center of her head that hair is green and takes the shape of a flower, actually covering her eyes. From there she wears not... a white ROBE, but more like PIECES of one, unattached sleeves and shoulder portions flowing off her body, the tail skirt attached to her hips and streaming off and around her legs. She wears high-healed shoes, while her legs are covered in a sort of scale-like, dark purple stocking that runs up to her thighs. Her chest is covered by armor, which still manages to leave her cleavage prominent and her stomach exposed. In either hand she wields a scepter - in her left, a golden one with black and white snakes twisted up its length, which will move and react as she attacks. In her right hand, a silver scepter with a flower-like topper.
□ Abilities/Powers:
*INTELLIGENCE: Nanami is highly intelligent, even to the point she is acknowledged by someone (Kurata) who is also a genius in his own right, even if it was to get his way. She's viewed on the level of Touma Norstein, a teenager who before the series, graduated with prestige from college at the age of 13. She can be very tactically minded, and is also very good at reading people when not blinded by her own ambitions.
*FIGHTER: Nanami is, in fact, an EXCELLENT hand-to-hand fighter. Though assisted by her power as far as strength went, she's able to fight Touma and his Digimon, Gaomon, hand-to-hand for a considerable amount of time without transforming into a Digimon, generally besting them the entire time.
*BIO DIGIMON (HUMAN FORM): Nanami is not considered to be "fully" human anymore, and is called a "mutant" who has had Digimon data or DNA spliced into her body. As such, it also has an effect to how she is normally. In her human form, Nanami is actually extraordinarily stronger, faster, and more agile than a human. She can block a Digimon like Gaomon's punch without flinching, and in spite of his speed dodge his attacks AND be able to harm him. She's strong enough to leap considerable distances, and land without any harm.
*BIO DIGIMON (DIGIMON FORM): Using the device granted to her by Kurata - which is unnamed, but we will call the "Bio Digivice" for simplicity, which fits in with the naming schemes well enough - she summons a field of particles that resemble Digisoul, which I will get to a bit further, but it can be seen as an "artificial" Digisoul. Utilizing that, her form changes into BioLotusmon, a Digimon in its final stage of evolution, an Ultimate-level. Ultimates are considered almost god-like in their powers, and BioLotusmon is no joke - she is supremely strong, fast enough to blur out of sight, and able to take considerable punishment. She also comes with a few unique powers:
--*SEVEN'S FANTASIA: A rainbow colored blast which can have an effect of making her opponent lose the will to fight, and can create euphoric fantasies. Generally, this can just take the form of a general energy blast as well, but it has the potential to affect an opponent's mind on some capacity.
--*SERPENT RUIN: A blast of dark energy from the black snake on her serpent staff.
--*SERPENT CURE: Not shown in the anime, but a power of a normal Lotusmon and thus one that would apply to her. This releases a white aura from the white snake on her serpent staff, and can be used to heal.
--*MIND INVASION: Not explicitly an attack, nor is it named anywhere, but with extensive contact to a person, BioLotusmon has the power to invade their mind and make them see whatever she wishes. In Touma's case, this was a bunch of naked Nanamis with snake bodies from the waist down, while he was wrapped up in... snakes. (She might be a little messed up in the head, if you haven't noticed.) She can't mentally CONTROL someone, but she can do all sorts of unseemly things to their subconscious. However, she must maintain contact for this: If her concentration is broken by anything, so too can her illusion.
----*NOTE: BioLotusmon is a giant. She's very, very, VERY tall. As such, if it is more conducive to the game at hand, when obtained she very well could be shrunk down if that's a necessity. (And in fact would probably make things easier, but I will leave that to moderator discretion.)
*DIGISOUL: Put simply, Digisoul is the power of human emotions, tied to the Digital World and the Digimon that live there. It manifests itself as a pixelized aura of one color or another, depending on its user, and that power can be utilized to evolve a Digimon. It can also be used to strengthen its user, for them to preform superhuman feats of strength and durability, and the aura itself can have a physical effect. Nanami is seen manifesting one in the final episode of the series, in a silent cameo - as such, if she is ever to obtain this in-game, it will come at a later date on learning how to do it herself.
□ Personal Items: Her normal gothic lolita outfit, her Bio Digivice, parasol, make-up, and... not much else, honestly.
□ First Person Sample:
[The video clicks up to see a blonde woman staring into the mirror of a small make-up compact. Handy for this, wouldn't you think? She looks a little bored, as she's primping one set of eyelashes. In spite of that boredom, she still carries a current of being rather... haughty.]
I guess it really shouldn't surprise me that people take this whole ordeal so seriously. Parts of the world are so caught up in their own ideals of purity and chastity, that flung into this place, I SUPPOSE some types would get all up in arms over what to do...
[She flicks a look directly at the mirror now, and a smirk starts to form on her red lips.]
Not that it matters truly, in the end, does it? We ARE stuck here, so it strikes me us newcomers aren't helping either us or anyone else by fretting over the little things. There is opportunity here, is there not?
[She gives a derisive little laugh, ceases her primping, and shakes her head.]
Though I guess if there is that fretting, that just leaves more such opportunity for the rest of us~ I am very, very CURIOUS as to where such things can take us in this world, and since I'm used to a little bit more than what this place wants to give us out of the gate... It certainly is an entertaining way to move up in the world, isn't it? At the very least, it can't possibly be BORING.
[That smirk goes as wide as possible, while she leans in towards the mirror.]
I do rather wish we'd been informed of everything this chip did from the get-go, however - surprises are fun, and while I'm used to having strange things inserted into my body, it would have been a lot MORE fun to know from the beginning everything I have at my disposal to facilitate things. After all, if they want us to DO such things... I'll be more than happy to oblige, with what I'm due to get in turn.
□ Third Person Sample: http://theloonybin.dreamwidth.org/28694.html?thread=17019158#cmt17019158
