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Name: Chicklet
Age: Adult
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CHARACTER
Name: Skuld
Canon: Aa Megamisama/Ah! My Goddess!/Oh! My Goddess (Depending on the translation)
Age: Real age unknown, she looks about 14
Timeline: Chapter 218 - end. Right after she tells Sentaro she's a Goddess and lets him know it wont matter that he's moving, that nothing will change.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only relevant if Banpei and Sigel are also accepted (see below) and seen as characters in their own rights, which is questionable.
Basically, Skuld built Banpei from scratch, though Belldandy gave him an emotions circuit. He does not speak, and he is loyal to Skuld. She is always upgrading him. He has a good heart, and a big one. The only times he has disobeyed her was to save a life once, and another time... when he fell in love with an automation that welcomed people to a small shop. Skuld reworked the talking doll into a bot, though this one - Sigel - could talk, and had emotions to start.
Skuld forgot to build her to be in love with Banpei, and she told Skuld that she would obey any order other than to love him, even to self destruct. Other than issues with Banpei, she is completely loyal and mostly obedient to Skuld and acts as a helper for her.
When with Skuld, they are mostly there for comedic value, assisting her with something, or providing motivation for her to deal with something. If they do not count as characters on their own, there will be no playercrest issue.
If they do count as characters on their own and I am granted them, they will be playing on this journal, and any interactions will be handled all in one post. So they will not count for post counts for AC. I know another game ruled them as separate characters, which is why I am putting this here and leaving it to your judgement in this case. I would play Skuld without them, but would rather play her with them.
Again, Banpei cannot even speak, and when with Skuld, Sigel tends to be clingy and somewhat subservient, but Belldandy has said that both are alive, in canon, and they both do have personalities and the occasional rare adventure on their own. (Though those almost always end with Skuld involved and/or repairing them)
Personality:
Skuld's personality? Just ask, and she'll tell you. She... is a genius! And she knows it. Very much so. Her ego might be a bit of an issue for her, where by a bit I do mean "This thing that keeps getting her - and the people around her - in trouble. Because she is a genius, she tends to presume that every modification she makes, everything she builds, is automatically the best. Therefore she will modify other people's tech without asking if she could... and without warning them that she did it. When something goes wrong, clearly it's the operator's fault, because she... you guessed it... is a genius. Her plans and mods are flawless.
Well, the thing is, she is actually a genius, but she's not AS good as she thinks she is. No one could be. So people who care about her often wind up dragged into an uncomfortable place where they know that acknowledging something she did well will puff her ego too much... but how do you not admire some of what she has pulled off? She has created living androids - Banpei and Sigel - she built a baseball bat that could not miss hitting a home run, and she builds a seemingly infinite amount of explosives, that she can store down the front of her shirt without anyone ever seeing the bombs resting there.
But she is also.... childish in a lot of ways. She'll be the first to tell you she isn't a kid, but the proof is in the terribly explosive pudding. When she built the home-run bat, the pitcher called her a kid, she got tagged out easily because she argued with him rather than running the bases. At one point she builds a high powered selective "ultra-mag" to form sand from the beach into a "sand doll" that looked like a cute girl in a sailor fuku, but that got heavier and heavier the further Keiichi carried it. She might have fooled him, but the magnetic pull grabbed his keys from his pocket. When she realized she was busted - he stuck the keys to the doll's forehead, she pressed the self destruct on her remote control. Keiichi's response pretty well sums her up. "Skillfully superb execution, amateurish ending. Must be Skuld." That pretty much is who she is at this point. Brilliant, but she'd rather blow things up than be caught having built something imperfect.
But Skuld is starting to grow up. A Goddess' power is fueled by love, and she is just coming into her powers... and though she'll deny it, she is starting to fall in love with a human boy, Sentaro. The way they met is a good example of Skuld and who she is becoming as she grows up. She had been fascinated with how much fun Belldandy seemed to have riding her bike, Skuld tried to examine it as a machine to see how it worked. Bell offered to teach her, and as she started to back off, Urd played on her pride and tricked her into a bet. Now Skuld HAD to win, she HAD to master the bike. Her first idea was to build elbow and knee pads that would keep her upright. IT goes poorly. "Not quite right for this situation" is Skuld's response. Not that her tech could be flawed. So she decides to add out trigger wheels, until Keiichi points out that's like a kids' bike. That ended THAT plan. She then decided to add a gyroscope, and a motor, until it's pointed out to her that it would no longer count as riding a bike if she did all that.
She finally agrees to try it the "proper" way. And she falls. Hard. she's convinced that big sister Belldandy just wasn't fast enough to catch her. She tries again. And falls again. Again. Again. Until finally she has to admit that it isn't that Bell can't help her, it's that she wont. Certain that Belldandy has done the unthinkable and has betrayed her, is refusing to help her, Skuld quits and runs away. Belldandy, of course, explains to Keiichi why; explains that Skuld can't access her magic because she always depends on her machines or other people, that she needs to learn to depend on herself.
Off sulking, Skuld sees a bout - Sentaro - doing a bike trick that sends him flying into the air above her. He sees her, and is stunned enough that he messes up his landing and crashes. Skuld rushes over and asks "is it okay?" when he answers about how he's doing she points out that she meant the bike. Even while admitting she hates bikes, she can't help but fix his. He points out that a bike is fun because it CAN wipe out, and when she admits to not getting it, he makes her get on his bike while he stands on the back and puts his hands over hers to stabilize. He teaches her how to ride a bike that way, and when he thinks she has it... he just jumps off the back. And she realizes... that she's riding. Without thinking that this might be wrong she "borrows" his bike to show Belldandy that she can now ride. But even as she's feeling so proud of herself we get from her a "I knew I should have installed an engine" when the hill threatens to be too much. But ultimately she finds Bell, they return Sentaro's bike, and she gets a new bike of her own. But more, she learns a lot about depending on herself. It's a start.
Skuld also... has a temper, as one might have gathered from all I've said so far. Not counting her water teleportation, which she has from the moment she joins the series, her first "magic" is the ability to write insulting words on people with sheer temper. She mostly hits her sister, Urd, with this.
Skuld tries to focus that temper on defending the people she loves, though, and channels a lot of it into building weapons systems the guard against the Demon Mara. That was why she built the first full Banpei, the one that is the Banpei we know and love today, and yet isn't.
It's confusing, and involves a fire, and an internal memory wipe from a critically low battery. It takes him a long time to rebuild his emotions chip after that, and the personality that comes after is a new one. Similar, but different enough to be as a new person.
Like her sister Urd, Skuld also has... focus issues. This gets worse, not better as she gets older. When they are trying to get Velsper to let them know the name he chose for his familiar, she and Urd both lost track of why they wanted Velsper and they both tried to just... catch him. When they were hunting for Bell and Keiichi, Skuld sets up satellite surveillance, then gives a started cry, making Urd fear the worst. The reason for the cry? Skuld found a new ice cream place near the temple!
Skuld hates to build useless machines. She likes to build machines that DO something productive. Thus Urd's favorite punishment for her is to make her build machines that do nothing of value whatsoever. "Now build me one that does nothing but goes in circles!"
Urd and Skuld have a complex relationship, they love each other, but show it very.. oddly. Mostly by being violently competitive with each other. As much as Skuld would claim that Urd had no hand in how she grew up, the fact is that much of her reliance upon brute force destructive impulses probably came from Urd. The two get into constant arguments, usually ending with them outside, Urd trying to hit Skuld with lighting bolts, and Skuld retaliating with bombs. This may even be why most of Skud's devices (actually, the probability is that it is ALL of her devices) have a self destruct option. Their main competition, however, seems to be over the television. Keiichi even finds them a second TV once, and they both tell him that the point isn't watching TV, it's beating someone else for the right to watch TV.
Skuld has a passion for ice cream, and for a while, we never quite know why. We know that Bell loves tea and Urd loves booze, but it's not until the Yggdrasil main computer crashes that we see these things have an actual effect. Since the emblems on their foreheads control their connection to the system, and the programs that keep their bodies functioning on Earth, they all started to... alter. Belldandy couldn't maintain her full size, not awake. Urd, the norn of the past kept regressing into childhood, and Skuld, the norn of the future sped ahead towards adulthood. But when Skuld ate ice cream, and Urd drank booze, these effects slowed. So there may be a reason that Skuld seems to do her best thinking while munching down a tub of ice cream. She can eat it at an alarming rate without getting ill.
Skuld is the youngest of the three daughters of the Almighty, and magically the weakest, though she shows strong potential. Some how this lead not only to the fierce competition with her eldest half-sister Urd, but also to her being so clingy about the middle sister, Belldandy. Skuld goes back and forth on if she hates Keiichi or not, and the tipping point is usually how close he's getting with Bell. She usually leaves Banpei on attack mode when she has to go back to Yggdrasil - did I mention she's the best system debugger they have and that everything the Goddesses do and are runs on that computer? - so that if Keiichi tries to kiss Belldandy, he will be attacked. When their hands get stuck together because Bell programed a spell when she was drunk and can't figure out how to decompile it, Skuld suggests "Skuld's basic mater separator" which is a sharp kitchen knife. It's clear she does not intend to cut Bel.....
If not for how close he gets, and blaming him for "stealing" her away, she would actually like him. He's one of the few humans who will test her machines, he doesn't get TOO angry at her when she "borrows" the inside of his TV, or computer, or radio, or whatever it was that had the parts she needed.... But he tries to take up all of Big Sister Bell's time, so he must be stopped.
I think one of the best things about Skuld... is how complex her feelings are for the people she loves, and how complex her ways of handling those emotions can be. Even with Sentaro who is new to her, in so many ways... she complains that he shows up every day, but she's glad that he does too. She uses how she feels for him to help her learn her magic, but she doesn't understand him. They argue, they bicker, they hang out and chat,t hey push at each other...
But Skuld doesn't feel things in a single flat dimension. Even Mara and Hild aren't just shoved in the "enemy" column, never to be considered again. She gets that they're people too, and that they have dimensions and facets, even if she isn't consciously aware of it. So even though she can come off as abrasive, especially to those she loves, it's never all of what she feels.
And stop treating her like a kid!
Background:
Manga scan queued up to her entrance
Wiki
Short version (mostly in order, somethings overlap, and somethings the order is just hard to remember even though I JUST reread it AGAIN) :
Belldandy goes down to earth as part of the Goddess Assistance Helpline to grant a wish.
Keiichi Morisato wishes "that a lovely Goddess like you would stay with me, always."
Surprisingly the wish processes through the computers and is accepted.
Manga hijinks get him kicked out of the dorm and they move into an old temple.
Urd gets bored and wanders to earth claiming Keiichi needs to get intimate with Bell to reset her system. Gets busted. Stays on Earth with them.
Skuld gets lonely with both her sisters gone, goes to earth. Hijinks ensue where we learn that bugs in the Yggdrasil system can manifest physically and have horrible consequences. Skuld fails to convince Belldandy to return so builds a device that eats the bugs.
Keiichi's sister sees Skuld fixing a bike, criticizes her design, becomes her great rival, they have an epic monster battle that ends in Skuld self destructing both robots.
The Demon Mara attacks trying to seal away Belldandy.
After a narrow victory, Skuld builds Banpei to defend against Mara.
Belldandy gives Banpei an emotions circuit.
Banpei "dies" saving a cat. Skuld rebuilds him, but admits he will never be the same.
Hijinks enmasse.
Yggdrasil crashes badly, turning Skuld to a young adult. Moon rocks are the cure.
Hijinks.
The fourth Goddess, Peorth, arrives to grant Keiichi's wish. Winds up a regular guest and vies for the TV. Also steals Skuld's manga.
Banpei falls in love with a talking doll
Skuld upgrades doll into a "real girl". You know, with rocket fists and rocket skate shoes. Like all real girls have, right?
Skuld spends countless hours repairing them both.
Skuld meets Sentaro
Skuld accidentally eats an angel egg. Nobel Scarlet is born from her soul, but Skuld lacks the power and maturity to keep her. She goes back to sleep inside of Skuld.
Skuld and Urd have to return home to try and fox a virus that threatens to destroy time.
The demon who created the virus, Velspar, comes to live with them as a cat. His spell which turned Peorth into a child has not reversed.
Hild, CEO of the demons, and Urd's mom comes and helps - for a price.
Enjoying herself on Earth, Hild starts more trouble.
The Valkyrie Lind comes to earth to defend the Goddesses from the Angel Eater. Skuld is informed she is of no use, cannot be of help, even as bait.
New plan requires the rebirth of Nobel Scarlet to save the day. Skuld learns that the power of an angel, and the ability to hold one comes not from wanting her, but from NEEDING her.
Sentaro informs Skuld he has to move, she informs him it wont matter, because he has a bike... and she's a Goddess.
Abilities:
#1 debugger in Yggdrasil - Like Urd, there is not a computer system Skuld can't figure out, and she's insanely good at fixing them.
Genius inventor - With very little in the way of suplies, Skuld can build almost anything she can imagine. Contrary to what she'll tell you, however, these inventions do not always work as intended... or at all. Almost all of them will eventually blow up.
Ice cream stamina - Who needs sleep when there are 31 flavors?
Water Teleportation - She can move through bodies of water. She rarely ends up where she means to be, often with comical results.
Nobel Scarlet - She can summon her angel. In theory Scarlet can help her with spells/singing. In practice she mostly just holds and carries things, trying to be helpful. She's a very small little angel.
Neo Skuld bombs - She seems to have an unlimited supply of these, and apparently has a pocket inside her shirt that is bigger on the inside. This is never explained. These generall do damage that is more comedic than painful, though they can bust buildings and structures.
Small magics - she is learning small magics and spells. As of now she can levitate really small things, make a flower bloom... things like that. While attempting to make butterflies of water dance in the air, she accidentally soaked herself as if she were Sokka and Katara both in season one of Airbender.
As she grows - If she continues learning while in RC, she will eventually learn larger magics, like flight and other means of teleportation. That... will probably take a while.
Secure phone line - unless the Yggdrasil system has completely crashed, it is impossible for her to pick up a phone and not be connected to someone there if she wants to be. However she almost never likes what she hears, and in RC? It'll be the Almighty telling her to stay put. She will not be happy. The Almighty can also call her on any phone she happens to be near.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[The camera would come up on the young Goddess in her new workshop. She was pretty horrified by the lack of tech here, but by the Almighty, she was going to help upgrade the city. And she could do it too. Why? Because she is a genius! Hence this open video. She is facing the screen, the emblems on her forehead and cheeks half hidden by her dark hair.]
"Okay, people, I'm Skuld and I'm going to help fix things up around here! So bring me anything that's broken or can't be used any more. If you want me to build something, bring me parts... and ice cream! I can build anything with the right parts. Why? Because I am a genius!"
[She grinned brightly at the camera and tried to subtly use her magic to turn the watch off. And failed. She tried to hold the smile in place as she tried again. Again. Again. The smile wobbled. She tried thinking about how she floated that nut for the first time. This wasn't heavier, pressing the button. So how had she done that...? Oh... Right... Sentaro was talking about loving his bike....]
[The feed cut off just as her eyes went wide and she started to flush from the memory, and the power that even the thought of the word love had on her heart.]
Prose Log Sample:
Skuld stretched her arms over her head, then rolled her shoulders and her neck. Ice cream, check. New clothes, check. Tools, check. She was ready to roll.
Belldandy had to be here too. That's what she realized. This had to be another test for he Goddess qualifications. Maybe they even wanted to bump her to Goddess first class already! Urd had failed the test twice now.. if Skuld could do it before her...
Scarlet slid out from Skuld's back and gave her a thumbs up. Skuld grinned. She needed the encouragement. And if her Angel, who was part of her, believed in her, that meant that she believed in herself. She could do this! She could find Belldandy!
Scarlet slipped into Skuld's back again and out of sight as Skuld headed out the front door. She touched the necklace that Sentaro gave her and felt something warm build in her chest. She could do this! She was Skuld! Goddess Second class limited! She was a genius. She was....
Since when was there an ice cream shop THERE?
All else was forgotten as Skuld rushed inside, long dark hair flapping behind her like a flag....
(Also: A TDM sample from another game. )
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Banpei and Sigel -
I am not sure if they will count as things/Familiars like Kaylin's dragon-thing, and thus be allowed as extensions of her, of one will be allowed, if nether will be allowed, of they can be allowed as separately apped characters sharing her journal, or how you want to handle it. So I am including a mini app for each of them below. I can elaborate on them if possible.
If they are allowed in, please let me know if they are coming in as things/familiars or if they will need their own AC. I would prefer them as things/familiars, since very often they are more window dressing than characters in their own right. However, since they do have some sentience and emotions, I can understand if they are considered as separate characters. Again, wasn't sure how they would be handled, so erring on the side of overkill and giving you info for them both as if they were characters.
If they will be characters, please let me know if they need RP samples. I am fine with them not coming in at the same time as Skuld if this is the case, though I would not like them in without her, if that makes sense. They're kind of pointless, to me, without their creator.
CHARACTER
Name: Banpei
Age: That's what he looks like in his base form. Age is somewhat of a non-issue with him
Timeline:Same as Skuld
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: See my explanation under Skuld.
Personality:
Banpei cares. He loves. He feels strongly. Unable to speak, however, he tries to express himself through pantomime, action, and by drawing on his own face with sharpie. He tries to protect those he cares about and the only person or thing that means more to him than Skuld is Sigel. HE is in love with her and cannot comprehend that she does not love him.
Or rather, he does not want to. His weakness will always be rushing off to the rescue of one of those two, and that he will sacrifice himself for another life.
That's about it. He is alive, he as a personality of sorts, he has emotions, but he's fairly simple and straight forward. He gets ticked when someone hurts Sigel, and is willing to self destruct if that's what it takes to save her.
Background: Skuld built him to fight against Mara, but powering him up used up all the power in the house, so she kept shutting him back down. Belldandy felt sorry for him, so she gave him more power of his own and the ability to feel. Skuld kept improving him, and used him to trap the Urd clone. They put the two halves of Urd back together, leaving them the skin of the clone.
Told he looked too odd to go shopping with Belldandy - whom he had fallen in love with - he stayed behind. Until he saw she had forgotten to take the bento she had made. so he pulled on the fake Urd skin and went to find them, doing good deeds wordlessly along the way.
Bento delivered, his police scanner picked up a report about a fire. He flew off to help, and sensed a life form inside that the fire department missed. He flew into the fire, despite Skuld telling him not to... to rescue the cat. The effort took the last of his energy and the hear fried the Urd skin.
He lost his memory files, and his emotional circuit went dormant.
Skuld continued to improve on him, build him attachments and modes, and eventually the emotions circuit self repaired. The memory files never returned, so he built new memories and new emotions.
He fell in love with a beautiful robot girl that said "Welcome, thank you for coming". He stole her away for a date and kissed her, and watched, wide eyed, as her owner removed her top to repair her. He hid those memory files from Skuld. The first real betrayal. When she tried to "repair" the error... he ran away.
But Skuld was a smart girl, and she brought the doll home and gave her the ability to walk, and talk and think....
He leaned in for a kiss... and took a rocket fist to the face.
Still, true love would not be deterred...
Abilities:
Skuld built him first as a weapon. As he is a creature of Skuld's he DOES have explosives and rocket launchers, but most of his weapons were built to combat Mara...who has 2 weaknesses, Disco music and good luck charms. Most of his ammo are various good luck charms, and he has a loud speaker in his hat that plays nothing but discos... and a few Austrian polkas just in case Urd gets on Skuld's nerves.
He has a bike mode, so that Skuld can ride him, and rocket boosters in his feet so he can fly. He can self upgrade by adding parts Skuld has already built for him, and do a limited amount of self repair.
He also has a lot of internal sensors and arrays. He can sense a demon even through walls and roofs, pick up radio and UHF frequencies, and gains a lot of information from a momentary scan.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[He turned on Skuld's watch and held up a crudely drawn picture of Sigel he did in sharpie. He moved the picture closer to and further from the watch, so that everyone could see it. Then he set it down and lifted a paper with a big sharpie question mark on it. Then he set that down and drew a tear drop under one of his eyes and a frown over his mouth. He put his "hands" together imploringly and tilted his head to look pathetic. Then he turned off the watch.]
Prose Log Sample:
(not sure I can get 250 for him, without Skuld or Sigel, but I'll do my best.)
He looked at the sleeping form of Skuld, the Goddess who made him, and pulled the blanket around her more firmly. Internal thermometers registered that it will get cold as the night progresses.
That done, he went to find Sigel. She had to be here somewhere. He looked in every old well he could find. He looked under bushes. He went back inside and looked to see if she was hiding on Skuld's head. No where. He couldn't find her anywhere.
He rolled around outside, drawing tear drops on his face, miserable.
He felt a hand on his power switch on his back. A familiar hand. A hand he loved but not there. He felt the violent twist as Sigel shut him down, and felt himself lower to the ground with a decompressing hiss as his systems powered off, leaving him helpless once again.
But she had touched him. Willingly. So he didn't regret it for a moment.
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CHARACTER
Name: Sigel
Age: She looks about 10 or so. Sigel
Timeline: Same as Skuld and Banpei.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: See my answer above, on Skuld's app.
Personality:
Like Banpei, her personality is fairly simple and basic, though with the ability to speak, she can express herself more clearly. She loves Skuld with all her heart and will do anything for her... anything except love Banpei. She finds him creepy and gross and disgusting.
"How would you feel if you woke up someday and found someone claiming he was in love with you?"
And yet, when she's in trouble, it's not Skuld she thinks of, not Skuld she expects to save her... it's Banpei. But every time he does something to impress her a little, she discovers something he did that makes her hate him more. Like when he saved her from the well and was willing to self destruct to do so. She came up with a better way for them both to escape, despite being damaged, and she even kissed his cheek after, impressed. Until Skuld checked her batteries and discovered they were at full. Which meant Banpei recharged her after they died. Which means he undressed her. Which means she hates him worse than ever.
She does not have to call "ROCKET PUNCH" when she shoots her fists at people...but she enjoys doing it. She also seems to enjoy "running" from Banpei by skating along the walls and ceilings, and hiding on Keiichi's head.
Belldandy said she was alive, and gave her her name, and she keeps the fact of her life, and her name close and dear to her mechanical heart.
Background:
Her first awareness is of Skuld working so hard for so long to bring her to life. Then she came out and everyone praised her, and praised Skuld... until that freak Banpei tried to kiss her. EW GROSS!
Then began the endless war between her and Banpei.
During all that they got kidnapped by a professor at Keiichi's school who was obsessed with learning how she walked. He was a pervert and a creep, and worse than getting caught by him was that she had hoped for Banpei to save her. Which he did.
Hard to hate him after that, but she was still going to try!
Abilities:
Rocket skates, charging and data ports on her chest, rocket fists. She seems to be able to slightly defy gravity. Self destruct mechanism. And unlike Banpei, she can talk and alter her expression without marker.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[She made sure that Skuld was asleep before sneaking off with her watch. She'd seen Skuld use it, and knew that it could contact lots of people at once. So she turned it on.]
[The camera would show a young girl, she looked to be about 10, maybe a little older, in pig tails and a cute dress, hands on her hips.]
"Okay, so there is a total creepy pervert guy chasing me around! Skuld doesn't want him destroyed, but he wont leave me alone. And I'm not allowed to blow him up. Does anyone out there want to come and be Skuld's friend so you're here to protect me?"
[She caught a glimpse of familiar red coming around the hall. With a small little girl scream she fled the room on roller skates, dropping the watch to the ground.]
Prose Log Sample:
She turned Banpei off! HEE! What fun! Skuld was asleep, so wouldn't notice for HOURS! She was free! for hours and hours she was free. No Banpei! It was wonderful!
Good Goddess it was boring. She considered waking up Skuld, but then Skuld would want to wake up the idiot, and that's no good. Well, maybe if she got ice cream for Skuld, then she'd be so distracted, she'd forget about old round hat.
Except Skuld ordered her not to leave on her own.
She flopped down, sitting in front of Banpei, staring at him, trying to decide just how bored she was....
Name: Chicklet
Age: Adult
Personal Journal:Chicklet
E-mail: Dwlogs@writeme.com
AIM/MSN/etc: P: ChickletLARP, aim: Bardess ookami, Y!: Chicklet_Royal
CHARACTER
Name: Skuld
Canon: Aa Megamisama/Ah! My Goddess!/Oh! My Goddess (Depending on the translation)
Age: Real age unknown, she looks about 14
Timeline: Chapter 218 - end. Right after she tells Sentaro she's a Goddess and lets him know it wont matter that he's moving, that nothing will change.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only relevant if Banpei and Sigel are also accepted (see below) and seen as characters in their own rights, which is questionable.
Basically, Skuld built Banpei from scratch, though Belldandy gave him an emotions circuit. He does not speak, and he is loyal to Skuld. She is always upgrading him. He has a good heart, and a big one. The only times he has disobeyed her was to save a life once, and another time... when he fell in love with an automation that welcomed people to a small shop. Skuld reworked the talking doll into a bot, though this one - Sigel - could talk, and had emotions to start.
Skuld forgot to build her to be in love with Banpei, and she told Skuld that she would obey any order other than to love him, even to self destruct. Other than issues with Banpei, she is completely loyal and mostly obedient to Skuld and acts as a helper for her.
When with Skuld, they are mostly there for comedic value, assisting her with something, or providing motivation for her to deal with something. If they do not count as characters on their own, there will be no playercrest issue.
If they do count as characters on their own and I am granted them, they will be playing on this journal, and any interactions will be handled all in one post. So they will not count for post counts for AC. I know another game ruled them as separate characters, which is why I am putting this here and leaving it to your judgement in this case. I would play Skuld without them, but would rather play her with them.
Again, Banpei cannot even speak, and when with Skuld, Sigel tends to be clingy and somewhat subservient, but Belldandy has said that both are alive, in canon, and they both do have personalities and the occasional rare adventure on their own. (Though those almost always end with Skuld involved and/or repairing them)
Personality:
Skuld's personality? Just ask, and she'll tell you. She... is a genius! And she knows it. Very much so. Her ego might be a bit of an issue for her, where by a bit I do mean "This thing that keeps getting her - and the people around her - in trouble. Because she is a genius, she tends to presume that every modification she makes, everything she builds, is automatically the best. Therefore she will modify other people's tech without asking if she could... and without warning them that she did it. When something goes wrong, clearly it's the operator's fault, because she... you guessed it... is a genius. Her plans and mods are flawless.
Well, the thing is, she is actually a genius, but she's not AS good as she thinks she is. No one could be. So people who care about her often wind up dragged into an uncomfortable place where they know that acknowledging something she did well will puff her ego too much... but how do you not admire some of what she has pulled off? She has created living androids - Banpei and Sigel - she built a baseball bat that could not miss hitting a home run, and she builds a seemingly infinite amount of explosives, that she can store down the front of her shirt without anyone ever seeing the bombs resting there.
But she is also.... childish in a lot of ways. She'll be the first to tell you she isn't a kid, but the proof is in the terribly explosive pudding. When she built the home-run bat, the pitcher called her a kid, she got tagged out easily because she argued with him rather than running the bases. At one point she builds a high powered selective "ultra-mag" to form sand from the beach into a "sand doll" that looked like a cute girl in a sailor fuku, but that got heavier and heavier the further Keiichi carried it. She might have fooled him, but the magnetic pull grabbed his keys from his pocket. When she realized she was busted - he stuck the keys to the doll's forehead, she pressed the self destruct on her remote control. Keiichi's response pretty well sums her up. "Skillfully superb execution, amateurish ending. Must be Skuld." That pretty much is who she is at this point. Brilliant, but she'd rather blow things up than be caught having built something imperfect.
But Skuld is starting to grow up. A Goddess' power is fueled by love, and she is just coming into her powers... and though she'll deny it, she is starting to fall in love with a human boy, Sentaro. The way they met is a good example of Skuld and who she is becoming as she grows up. She had been fascinated with how much fun Belldandy seemed to have riding her bike, Skuld tried to examine it as a machine to see how it worked. Bell offered to teach her, and as she started to back off, Urd played on her pride and tricked her into a bet. Now Skuld HAD to win, she HAD to master the bike. Her first idea was to build elbow and knee pads that would keep her upright. IT goes poorly. "Not quite right for this situation" is Skuld's response. Not that her tech could be flawed. So she decides to add out trigger wheels, until Keiichi points out that's like a kids' bike. That ended THAT plan. She then decided to add a gyroscope, and a motor, until it's pointed out to her that it would no longer count as riding a bike if she did all that.
She finally agrees to try it the "proper" way. And she falls. Hard. she's convinced that big sister Belldandy just wasn't fast enough to catch her. She tries again. And falls again. Again. Again. Until finally she has to admit that it isn't that Bell can't help her, it's that she wont. Certain that Belldandy has done the unthinkable and has betrayed her, is refusing to help her, Skuld quits and runs away. Belldandy, of course, explains to Keiichi why; explains that Skuld can't access her magic because she always depends on her machines or other people, that she needs to learn to depend on herself.
Off sulking, Skuld sees a bout - Sentaro - doing a bike trick that sends him flying into the air above her. He sees her, and is stunned enough that he messes up his landing and crashes. Skuld rushes over and asks "is it okay?" when he answers about how he's doing she points out that she meant the bike. Even while admitting she hates bikes, she can't help but fix his. He points out that a bike is fun because it CAN wipe out, and when she admits to not getting it, he makes her get on his bike while he stands on the back and puts his hands over hers to stabilize. He teaches her how to ride a bike that way, and when he thinks she has it... he just jumps off the back. And she realizes... that she's riding. Without thinking that this might be wrong she "borrows" his bike to show Belldandy that she can now ride. But even as she's feeling so proud of herself we get from her a "I knew I should have installed an engine" when the hill threatens to be too much. But ultimately she finds Bell, they return Sentaro's bike, and she gets a new bike of her own. But more, she learns a lot about depending on herself. It's a start.
Skuld also... has a temper, as one might have gathered from all I've said so far. Not counting her water teleportation, which she has from the moment she joins the series, her first "magic" is the ability to write insulting words on people with sheer temper. She mostly hits her sister, Urd, with this.
Skuld tries to focus that temper on defending the people she loves, though, and channels a lot of it into building weapons systems the guard against the Demon Mara. That was why she built the first full Banpei, the one that is the Banpei we know and love today, and yet isn't.
It's confusing, and involves a fire, and an internal memory wipe from a critically low battery. It takes him a long time to rebuild his emotions chip after that, and the personality that comes after is a new one. Similar, but different enough to be as a new person.
Like her sister Urd, Skuld also has... focus issues. This gets worse, not better as she gets older. When they are trying to get Velsper to let them know the name he chose for his familiar, she and Urd both lost track of why they wanted Velsper and they both tried to just... catch him. When they were hunting for Bell and Keiichi, Skuld sets up satellite surveillance, then gives a started cry, making Urd fear the worst. The reason for the cry? Skuld found a new ice cream place near the temple!
Skuld hates to build useless machines. She likes to build machines that DO something productive. Thus Urd's favorite punishment for her is to make her build machines that do nothing of value whatsoever. "Now build me one that does nothing but goes in circles!"
Urd and Skuld have a complex relationship, they love each other, but show it very.. oddly. Mostly by being violently competitive with each other. As much as Skuld would claim that Urd had no hand in how she grew up, the fact is that much of her reliance upon brute force destructive impulses probably came from Urd. The two get into constant arguments, usually ending with them outside, Urd trying to hit Skuld with lighting bolts, and Skuld retaliating with bombs. This may even be why most of Skud's devices (actually, the probability is that it is ALL of her devices) have a self destruct option. Their main competition, however, seems to be over the television. Keiichi even finds them a second TV once, and they both tell him that the point isn't watching TV, it's beating someone else for the right to watch TV.
Skuld has a passion for ice cream, and for a while, we never quite know why. We know that Bell loves tea and Urd loves booze, but it's not until the Yggdrasil main computer crashes that we see these things have an actual effect. Since the emblems on their foreheads control their connection to the system, and the programs that keep their bodies functioning on Earth, they all started to... alter. Belldandy couldn't maintain her full size, not awake. Urd, the norn of the past kept regressing into childhood, and Skuld, the norn of the future sped ahead towards adulthood. But when Skuld ate ice cream, and Urd drank booze, these effects slowed. So there may be a reason that Skuld seems to do her best thinking while munching down a tub of ice cream. She can eat it at an alarming rate without getting ill.
Skuld is the youngest of the three daughters of the Almighty, and magically the weakest, though she shows strong potential. Some how this lead not only to the fierce competition with her eldest half-sister Urd, but also to her being so clingy about the middle sister, Belldandy. Skuld goes back and forth on if she hates Keiichi or not, and the tipping point is usually how close he's getting with Bell. She usually leaves Banpei on attack mode when she has to go back to Yggdrasil - did I mention she's the best system debugger they have and that everything the Goddesses do and are runs on that computer? - so that if Keiichi tries to kiss Belldandy, he will be attacked. When their hands get stuck together because Bell programed a spell when she was drunk and can't figure out how to decompile it, Skuld suggests "Skuld's basic mater separator" which is a sharp kitchen knife. It's clear she does not intend to cut Bel.....
If not for how close he gets, and blaming him for "stealing" her away, she would actually like him. He's one of the few humans who will test her machines, he doesn't get TOO angry at her when she "borrows" the inside of his TV, or computer, or radio, or whatever it was that had the parts she needed.... But he tries to take up all of Big Sister Bell's time, so he must be stopped.
I think one of the best things about Skuld... is how complex her feelings are for the people she loves, and how complex her ways of handling those emotions can be. Even with Sentaro who is new to her, in so many ways... she complains that he shows up every day, but she's glad that he does too. She uses how she feels for him to help her learn her magic, but she doesn't understand him. They argue, they bicker, they hang out and chat,t hey push at each other...
But Skuld doesn't feel things in a single flat dimension. Even Mara and Hild aren't just shoved in the "enemy" column, never to be considered again. She gets that they're people too, and that they have dimensions and facets, even if she isn't consciously aware of it. So even though she can come off as abrasive, especially to those she loves, it's never all of what she feels.
And stop treating her like a kid!
Background:
Manga scan queued up to her entrance
Wiki
Short version (mostly in order, somethings overlap, and somethings the order is just hard to remember even though I JUST reread it AGAIN) :
Belldandy goes down to earth as part of the Goddess Assistance Helpline to grant a wish.
Keiichi Morisato wishes "that a lovely Goddess like you would stay with me, always."
Surprisingly the wish processes through the computers and is accepted.
Manga hijinks get him kicked out of the dorm and they move into an old temple.
Urd gets bored and wanders to earth claiming Keiichi needs to get intimate with Bell to reset her system. Gets busted. Stays on Earth with them.
Skuld gets lonely with both her sisters gone, goes to earth. Hijinks ensue where we learn that bugs in the Yggdrasil system can manifest physically and have horrible consequences. Skuld fails to convince Belldandy to return so builds a device that eats the bugs.
Keiichi's sister sees Skuld fixing a bike, criticizes her design, becomes her great rival, they have an epic monster battle that ends in Skuld self destructing both robots.
The Demon Mara attacks trying to seal away Belldandy.
After a narrow victory, Skuld builds Banpei to defend against Mara.
Belldandy gives Banpei an emotions circuit.
Banpei "dies" saving a cat. Skuld rebuilds him, but admits he will never be the same.
Hijinks enmasse.
Yggdrasil crashes badly, turning Skuld to a young adult. Moon rocks are the cure.
Hijinks.
The fourth Goddess, Peorth, arrives to grant Keiichi's wish. Winds up a regular guest and vies for the TV. Also steals Skuld's manga.
Banpei falls in love with a talking doll
Skuld upgrades doll into a "real girl". You know, with rocket fists and rocket skate shoes. Like all real girls have, right?
Skuld spends countless hours repairing them both.
Skuld meets Sentaro
Skuld accidentally eats an angel egg. Nobel Scarlet is born from her soul, but Skuld lacks the power and maturity to keep her. She goes back to sleep inside of Skuld.
Skuld and Urd have to return home to try and fox a virus that threatens to destroy time.
The demon who created the virus, Velspar, comes to live with them as a cat. His spell which turned Peorth into a child has not reversed.
Hild, CEO of the demons, and Urd's mom comes and helps - for a price.
Enjoying herself on Earth, Hild starts more trouble.
The Valkyrie Lind comes to earth to defend the Goddesses from the Angel Eater. Skuld is informed she is of no use, cannot be of help, even as bait.
New plan requires the rebirth of Nobel Scarlet to save the day. Skuld learns that the power of an angel, and the ability to hold one comes not from wanting her, but from NEEDING her.
Sentaro informs Skuld he has to move, she informs him it wont matter, because he has a bike... and she's a Goddess.
Abilities:
#1 debugger in Yggdrasil - Like Urd, there is not a computer system Skuld can't figure out, and she's insanely good at fixing them.
Genius inventor - With very little in the way of suplies, Skuld can build almost anything she can imagine. Contrary to what she'll tell you, however, these inventions do not always work as intended... or at all. Almost all of them will eventually blow up.
Ice cream stamina - Who needs sleep when there are 31 flavors?
Water Teleportation - She can move through bodies of water. She rarely ends up where she means to be, often with comical results.
Nobel Scarlet - She can summon her angel. In theory Scarlet can help her with spells/singing. In practice she mostly just holds and carries things, trying to be helpful. She's a very small little angel.
Neo Skuld bombs - She seems to have an unlimited supply of these, and apparently has a pocket inside her shirt that is bigger on the inside. This is never explained. These generall do damage that is more comedic than painful, though they can bust buildings and structures.
Small magics - she is learning small magics and spells. As of now she can levitate really small things, make a flower bloom... things like that. While attempting to make butterflies of water dance in the air, she accidentally soaked herself as if she were Sokka and Katara both in season one of Airbender.
As she grows - If she continues learning while in RC, she will eventually learn larger magics, like flight and other means of teleportation. That... will probably take a while.
Secure phone line - unless the Yggdrasil system has completely crashed, it is impossible for her to pick up a phone and not be connected to someone there if she wants to be. However she almost never likes what she hears, and in RC? It'll be the Almighty telling her to stay put. She will not be happy. The Almighty can also call her on any phone she happens to be near.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[The camera would come up on the young Goddess in her new workshop. She was pretty horrified by the lack of tech here, but by the Almighty, she was going to help upgrade the city. And she could do it too. Why? Because she is a genius! Hence this open video. She is facing the screen, the emblems on her forehead and cheeks half hidden by her dark hair.]
"Okay, people, I'm Skuld and I'm going to help fix things up around here! So bring me anything that's broken or can't be used any more. If you want me to build something, bring me parts... and ice cream! I can build anything with the right parts. Why? Because I am a genius!"
[She grinned brightly at the camera and tried to subtly use her magic to turn the watch off. And failed. She tried to hold the smile in place as she tried again. Again. Again. The smile wobbled. She tried thinking about how she floated that nut for the first time. This wasn't heavier, pressing the button. So how had she done that...? Oh... Right... Sentaro was talking about loving his bike....]
[The feed cut off just as her eyes went wide and she started to flush from the memory, and the power that even the thought of the word love had on her heart.]
Prose Log Sample:
Skuld stretched her arms over her head, then rolled her shoulders and her neck. Ice cream, check. New clothes, check. Tools, check. She was ready to roll.
Belldandy had to be here too. That's what she realized. This had to be another test for he Goddess qualifications. Maybe they even wanted to bump her to Goddess first class already! Urd had failed the test twice now.. if Skuld could do it before her...
Scarlet slid out from Skuld's back and gave her a thumbs up. Skuld grinned. She needed the encouragement. And if her Angel, who was part of her, believed in her, that meant that she believed in herself. She could do this! She could find Belldandy!
Scarlet slipped into Skuld's back again and out of sight as Skuld headed out the front door. She touched the necklace that Sentaro gave her and felt something warm build in her chest. She could do this! She was Skuld! Goddess Second class limited! She was a genius. She was....
Since when was there an ice cream shop THERE?
All else was forgotten as Skuld rushed inside, long dark hair flapping behind her like a flag....
(Also: A TDM sample from another game. )
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Banpei and Sigel -
I am not sure if they will count as things/Familiars like Kaylin's dragon-thing, and thus be allowed as extensions of her, of one will be allowed, if nether will be allowed, of they can be allowed as separately apped characters sharing her journal, or how you want to handle it. So I am including a mini app for each of them below. I can elaborate on them if possible.
If they are allowed in, please let me know if they are coming in as things/familiars or if they will need their own AC. I would prefer them as things/familiars, since very often they are more window dressing than characters in their own right. However, since they do have some sentience and emotions, I can understand if they are considered as separate characters. Again, wasn't sure how they would be handled, so erring on the side of overkill and giving you info for them both as if they were characters.
If they will be characters, please let me know if they need RP samples. I am fine with them not coming in at the same time as Skuld if this is the case, though I would not like them in without her, if that makes sense. They're kind of pointless, to me, without their creator.
CHARACTER
Name: Banpei
Age: That's what he looks like in his base form. Age is somewhat of a non-issue with him
Timeline:Same as Skuld
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: See my explanation under Skuld.
Personality:
Banpei cares. He loves. He feels strongly. Unable to speak, however, he tries to express himself through pantomime, action, and by drawing on his own face with sharpie. He tries to protect those he cares about and the only person or thing that means more to him than Skuld is Sigel. HE is in love with her and cannot comprehend that she does not love him.
Or rather, he does not want to. His weakness will always be rushing off to the rescue of one of those two, and that he will sacrifice himself for another life.
That's about it. He is alive, he as a personality of sorts, he has emotions, but he's fairly simple and straight forward. He gets ticked when someone hurts Sigel, and is willing to self destruct if that's what it takes to save her.
Background: Skuld built him to fight against Mara, but powering him up used up all the power in the house, so she kept shutting him back down. Belldandy felt sorry for him, so she gave him more power of his own and the ability to feel. Skuld kept improving him, and used him to trap the Urd clone. They put the two halves of Urd back together, leaving them the skin of the clone.
Told he looked too odd to go shopping with Belldandy - whom he had fallen in love with - he stayed behind. Until he saw she had forgotten to take the bento she had made. so he pulled on the fake Urd skin and went to find them, doing good deeds wordlessly along the way.
Bento delivered, his police scanner picked up a report about a fire. He flew off to help, and sensed a life form inside that the fire department missed. He flew into the fire, despite Skuld telling him not to... to rescue the cat. The effort took the last of his energy and the hear fried the Urd skin.
He lost his memory files, and his emotional circuit went dormant.
Skuld continued to improve on him, build him attachments and modes, and eventually the emotions circuit self repaired. The memory files never returned, so he built new memories and new emotions.
He fell in love with a beautiful robot girl that said "Welcome, thank you for coming". He stole her away for a date and kissed her, and watched, wide eyed, as her owner removed her top to repair her. He hid those memory files from Skuld. The first real betrayal. When she tried to "repair" the error... he ran away.
But Skuld was a smart girl, and she brought the doll home and gave her the ability to walk, and talk and think....
He leaned in for a kiss... and took a rocket fist to the face.
Still, true love would not be deterred...
Abilities:
Skuld built him first as a weapon. As he is a creature of Skuld's he DOES have explosives and rocket launchers, but most of his weapons were built to combat Mara...who has 2 weaknesses, Disco music and good luck charms. Most of his ammo are various good luck charms, and he has a loud speaker in his hat that plays nothing but discos... and a few Austrian polkas just in case Urd gets on Skuld's nerves.
He has a bike mode, so that Skuld can ride him, and rocket boosters in his feet so he can fly. He can self upgrade by adding parts Skuld has already built for him, and do a limited amount of self repair.
He also has a lot of internal sensors and arrays. He can sense a demon even through walls and roofs, pick up radio and UHF frequencies, and gains a lot of information from a momentary scan.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[He turned on Skuld's watch and held up a crudely drawn picture of Sigel he did in sharpie. He moved the picture closer to and further from the watch, so that everyone could see it. Then he set it down and lifted a paper with a big sharpie question mark on it. Then he set that down and drew a tear drop under one of his eyes and a frown over his mouth. He put his "hands" together imploringly and tilted his head to look pathetic. Then he turned off the watch.]
Prose Log Sample:
(not sure I can get 250 for him, without Skuld or Sigel, but I'll do my best.)
He looked at the sleeping form of Skuld, the Goddess who made him, and pulled the blanket around her more firmly. Internal thermometers registered that it will get cold as the night progresses.
That done, he went to find Sigel. She had to be here somewhere. He looked in every old well he could find. He looked under bushes. He went back inside and looked to see if she was hiding on Skuld's head. No where. He couldn't find her anywhere.
He rolled around outside, drawing tear drops on his face, miserable.
He felt a hand on his power switch on his back. A familiar hand. A hand he loved but not there. He felt the violent twist as Sigel shut him down, and felt himself lower to the ground with a decompressing hiss as his systems powered off, leaving him helpless once again.
But she had touched him. Willingly. So he didn't regret it for a moment.
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CHARACTER
Name: Sigel
Age: She looks about 10 or so. Sigel
Timeline: Same as Skuld and Banpei.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: See my answer above, on Skuld's app.
Personality:
Like Banpei, her personality is fairly simple and basic, though with the ability to speak, she can express herself more clearly. She loves Skuld with all her heart and will do anything for her... anything except love Banpei. She finds him creepy and gross and disgusting.
"How would you feel if you woke up someday and found someone claiming he was in love with you?"
And yet, when she's in trouble, it's not Skuld she thinks of, not Skuld she expects to save her... it's Banpei. But every time he does something to impress her a little, she discovers something he did that makes her hate him more. Like when he saved her from the well and was willing to self destruct to do so. She came up with a better way for them both to escape, despite being damaged, and she even kissed his cheek after, impressed. Until Skuld checked her batteries and discovered they were at full. Which meant Banpei recharged her after they died. Which means he undressed her. Which means she hates him worse than ever.
She does not have to call "ROCKET PUNCH" when she shoots her fists at people...but she enjoys doing it. She also seems to enjoy "running" from Banpei by skating along the walls and ceilings, and hiding on Keiichi's head.
Belldandy said she was alive, and gave her her name, and she keeps the fact of her life, and her name close and dear to her mechanical heart.
Background:
Her first awareness is of Skuld working so hard for so long to bring her to life. Then she came out and everyone praised her, and praised Skuld... until that freak Banpei tried to kiss her. EW GROSS!
Then began the endless war between her and Banpei.
During all that they got kidnapped by a professor at Keiichi's school who was obsessed with learning how she walked. He was a pervert and a creep, and worse than getting caught by him was that she had hoped for Banpei to save her. Which he did.
Hard to hate him after that, but she was still going to try!
Abilities:
Rocket skates, charging and data ports on her chest, rocket fists. She seems to be able to slightly defy gravity. Self destruct mechanism. And unlike Banpei, she can talk and alter her expression without marker.
Network/Actionspam Sample:
[She made sure that Skuld was asleep before sneaking off with her watch. She'd seen Skuld use it, and knew that it could contact lots of people at once. So she turned it on.]
[The camera would show a young girl, she looked to be about 10, maybe a little older, in pig tails and a cute dress, hands on her hips.]
"Okay, so there is a total creepy pervert guy chasing me around! Skuld doesn't want him destroyed, but he wont leave me alone. And I'm not allowed to blow him up. Does anyone out there want to come and be Skuld's friend so you're here to protect me?"
[She caught a glimpse of familiar red coming around the hall. With a small little girl scream she fled the room on roller skates, dropping the watch to the ground.]
Prose Log Sample:
She turned Banpei off! HEE! What fun! Skuld was asleep, so wouldn't notice for HOURS! She was free! for hours and hours she was free. No Banpei! It was wonderful!
Good Goddess it was boring. She considered waking up Skuld, but then Skuld would want to wake up the idiot, and that's no good. Well, maybe if she got ice cream for Skuld, then she'd be so distracted, she'd forget about old round hat.
Except Skuld ordered her not to leave on her own.
She flopped down, sitting in front of Banpei, staring at him, trying to decide just how bored she was....
