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grim reaper | goblin: the lonely and great god | not reserved

[personal profile] reburden 2017-02-06 04:11 am (UTC)(link)

Player



Name: Val
Age: 26
Contact: PM, valbo#0987 @ Discord
Preferred Pronouns: she/her/"hey you"
Other Characters: n/a
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[personal profile] reburden 2017-02-06 04:12 am (UTC)(link)

Character



NOTE: This app contains major spoilers for the series, particularly the latter half.

Name: Grim Reaper/Kim Woo Bin/Wang Yeo
* All names are written in Eastern order in this app
Age: ??? Technically 300-some odd years but looks mid-to-late 20s
Memory Option: 3 - Blank slate
Established Status: 2 years
Canon: Goblin: the Lonely and Great God
Canon Point: End of Episode 13

Citizenship: Westerley
Job: Apothecary assistant
* Level: N/A


Abilities: Grim repears are too OP, pls nerf. But okay, let's try to break all of these down.
MINOR
  • INVISIBILITY -- Less part of his biological set of fancy grim reaper abilities and more to do with the hat he wears in canon, he is able to become invisible to the human eye. This is in appearance only, and people would still be able to bump into him/hear him if he made any loud noises. This would make most sense as an item regain equipped with some sort of cloaking device/refractive shield rather than an ability. I'll be sure to buy this from the AC bank!
MAJOR
  • ABILITY TO CHILL/FREEZE OBJECTS -- What it says on the tin. He can lower the temperature of inanimate objects, as well as of the atmosphere around him, to the point where they are completely frozen. I'm translating this as chemicals contained in nanites that are released and subsequently consume a lot of heat as part of the reaction
  • TELEPORTATION -- He has the ability to move from location to location, almost instantaneously. For the sake of not having to deal with this headache, I'm just going to translate this as part of the whole invisibility schtick: if someone can't see him move from place to place, it looks like teleportation.
  • TELEKINESIS -- He has the ability to move objects with his mind, including other people! Pretty standard stuff. Instead of actually giving him telekinesis in OJ, I'm thinking of twisting this into a more hallucinatory effect caused by drugs/poisons contained within nanites -- the object wouldn't actually move but the other person would believe 100% that they're seeing a fork dance across the sky, or whatever.
  • MEMORY MANIPULATION -- Part of a grim reaper's arsenal of abilities, he is able to wipe parts of a person's memories, ranging from as brief as the previous few minutes to as broad and general as "everything bad that's ever happened to you." He can also implant suggestions and alternate explanations for events that have happened. The easiest way of translating this would probably be via neural biotics of some sort that interface with another person's memory and rewrite/alter existing memories.
  • COERCION -- Sort of relating to memory manipulation, he can "compel" others to act in a certain way or believe certain things, ranging from "you just saw a boar" to "you will never want to be friends with this person again." It'd be done via the same neural biotics listed in the memory manipulation part but I'm listing it separately since it's slightly different.
MAJOR**
**NOTE:I'm listing these separately since the way I'm hoping to implement them walks a fine line with regards to game mechanics. In Goblin, there's the concept of past lives - former lives someone has that they no longer remember anything of when they are reborn/reincarnated. I was wondering if it would be possible to equate 'past life' in Overjoyed to a character's 'canon life', just to be able to tie a little more into game premise and setting. I've detailed the specific abilities and their technological translations below in case they'd be permissible, if not I'm happy to nix these entirely since they won't come into play otherwise. Let me know! I really should have posted to the brainstorming meme but I literally decided to do this yesterday.
  • PAST LIFE MEMORY ABSORPTION** -- In canon, he has the ability to see a person's past life through skin-to-skin touch. The number of memories seen is determined by length of touch; the longer he touches someone, the more memories he sees. I'm translating this way more loosely in OJ and specifically targeting manifesting this as microscopic devices/nanites embedded in his fingertips that prod a random section of the cortex, scan resulting brain activity, translate that activity into loose images, and send it back to him. I'll be sure to check with other players before using this ability.
  • PAST LIFE MEMORY TRANSFER** -- Along with his ability to see snippets of a person's past (and past life), he can also transfer those memories back to a person if they've forgotten them--but with a caveat: it has to be done via kiss. As far as doing this in-game goes, it would be nerfed so that he'd return one memory per kiss (rather than someone's entire canon life) and the mechanic would be based on nanites in his saliva that provide some sort of disruption to the tech that implanted the false memories in the first place. I'd also be more than happy to check in with the mods before using this ability.
Personality:
Wang Yeo, king of Goryeo, is a man who is feared by his servants and his people, and who craves love and affection but cannot see it when it is presented to him. He is a man who demands to be the most important in the eyes of all those around him and expects all those around him to bend to his every wish and whim. But despite wanting to be adored, what he really wants is to be loved and no longer so alone, and it's those fears and anxieties regarding being alone that make him easily manipulated, to the point that he becomes nothing more than a puppet for another man.

The grim reaper, nameless envoy for deceased souls, is a different man, despite being the reincarnation of Wang Yeo. He is a stoic man who works long hours for little pay, treats all those around him with respect, and is content being one out of many in a sea of other grim reapers. Which is not to say they're all made out of the same mold--the reincarnation of Wang Yeo (let's call him Grim Reaper with both words capitalized) has his own individual quirks and annoyances. He doesn't enjoy being teased or made fun of by those he doesn't know, and has a childish petty streak that runs surprisingly deep when it comes to getting even for any supposed slight. He can hold his own quite well, refusing to be swayed by anyone who challenges his decisions. When it comes to the souls he's sending on to their next life, he is surprisingly compassionate and just, allowing lovers separated by years and distance to reunite once again while delivering punishment to any who believe they are exempt from the universal rules of life and death. But for the most part, Grim Reaper has no particular desire to remember who he used to be or even become anyone

Until he meets a woman named Sunny on the street one day and cries at the sight of her.

It's then that he finds himself drawn towards human culture and human individuality and it's then that we see for all that he is a supernatural being, Grim Reaper is surprisingly human at heart, subject to the same woes and emotions any other person might go through. He fixates on Sunny and how best to woo her, and spends an inordinate amount of time quizzing a fellow housemate on how best to appeal to women. He panics when Sunny takes an interest in his unofficial landlord Deok Hwa and assumes it's because Deok Hwa has a business card and he doesn't, whereupon he subsequently hounds multiple people on whether they have business cards and where he might be able to obtain a business card. He gets jealous and protective when a strange man approaches Sunny one day and promptly abuses his reaper powers without a second thought to get him to go away. He spends an inordinate amount of time stressing over coming up with a perfect name - he later settles on 'Kim Woo Bin' - whether or not he has a religion, what he supposedly likes as Kim Woo Bin. It's a bit awkward and definitely raises more than a few eyebrows, but for a while Sunny's charmed by it and Grim Reaper is, for probably the first time in his life, happy, giving in to his own selfish desires rather than operating as a unit part of a larger whole. He loosens up, smiles more, and even offers advice to his reaper coworkers despite his previous penchant to remain strictly professional. Everything is fine, more than fine.

Until it isn't.

His quest to become a man with whom Sunny can be happy with eventually stutters to halt, roadblocked by uncomfortable revelations that he might have been someone who caused Sunny - and his reluctant friend-slash-landlord-slash-housemate Kim Shin the goblin - a lot of pain in a previous life. For the first time, he's plagued by worry and self-doubt and fear that things might not work out between him and Sunny, and that his uneasy friendship with the goblin might slowly be crumbling apart. He spends too much time wondering how he can make their lives happier and better, even though they play no role in the work duties he's supposed to carry out. Speaking of work, he starts disregarding the rules carefully put in place: requesting name cards of impending deaths for personal reasons rather than professional and abusing his memory wipe powers in order to help a friend out. Slowly, he begins to value the friendships he's made rather than the important duty he's been given.

Because though he is a different man shaped by different experiences, the one thing he does share with his former self is a deep desire to form relationships with others and be accepted by those he likes. With the gobin, once his enemy and then his friend and now back to being his enemy again. With Ji Eun-tak, the missing soul he was supposed to report 19 years ago but to whom he now regularly goes to for advice. With Sunny, the woman destined to be his love interest no matter which life he's in. And it's those relationships that have the most impact on him, changing him from a cog in the neat and punctual cycle of life and death to an individual, a man able to recognize his own desires and connect with others on a personal level.
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[personal profile] reburden 2017-02-06 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
AU History:
What does one do when one wakes up in a strange room in a strange country with no recollection of what happened or any sort of relevant personal detail? One goes out in a frantic search for answers, bumps into too many irritable Westies to count, and promptly gets mugged and almost killed in a back alley.

That's exactly what happens to the grim reaper his first day in Westerley, and if it hadn't been for one kind-hearted citizen lugging his bleeding body to an apothecary at the edge of Old Town, he probably would have died as little more than an afterthought. Instead, he's patched up and given bedrest - though neither his rescuer nor the old man pouring tincture down his throat really expect him to survive. But survive he does, and once he's well enough to hobble around the small shop and give his thanks, the apothecary gives him an offer: to work as as his assistant in exchange for room and board.

As it turns out, Old Man Eugene's in a bit of bind: his former assistant's run off and gotten himself killed trying to thieve from a particularly well-off Companyman, and his bones just aren't what they used to be to run shop all by himself. ("Besides," he says with a tooth-gapped grin, "place might be less lonely with your chattering self around." It's a joke.) But the grim reaper accepts all the same, because even though Eugene's a bit of an odd duck at times, the work's stable, something he desperately needs in a sea of the otherwise unfamiliar and unknown.

Mostly it's treating a lot of old and terminally ill people, those without funds or any real hope of survival looking for something to ease the pain until they close their eyes for the last time. He learns to be comfortable in the presence of death—and also learns that he's supposed to be a man named Kim Woo Bin. ("Got the info from a guy I know," says Eugene.) It turns out his mother, father, older brother are all dead, taken by illness years ago. He supposes the man who was Kim Woo Bin is dead too, in a way, and starts going simply by 'Kim'.

It's not a bad life—or wasn't, up until the pandemic hit. Now he's just working overtime and wishing he could take some sort of vacation.

CRAU: No

Original History:
Once upon a time, there lived a lonely prince named Wang Yeo. His father was dead, his mother gone mad, and his brother was too busy ruling the country to pay much attention to him. All he had as a companion was a single man by the name of Park Joong-heon, who served as his playmate, his instructor, his surrogate father.

As the child grew, those around him started dying of illness, one by one. Unbeknownst to the child, Part Joong-heon had been poisoning all those in line for the crown. Because it was not out of kindness and charity that Park Joong-heon brought it upon himself to raise the young prince. The advisor craved power and kingship over an entire nation, and if he could not have that directly, then he would rule indirectly through his child king. He is successful. Almost.

The young prince's older brother, the king, catches onto Park Joong-heon's plan, and before he dies he commands his friend Kim Shin to protect the young prince and bequeath his sister Kim Sun's hand in marriage to Wang Yeo, hoping the two of them might be able to negate Park Joong-heon's corrupt influence.

Ultimately, while this stalls Park Joong-heon's plans, it serves as only a momentary thorn in his side. Though Wang Yeo finds himself besotted with Kim Sun and happily agrees to marry her, the devotion she holds to her brother ends up becoming the wedge that Park Joong-heon uses to drive the king apart from Kim Sun. It doesn't help matters that Kim Shin is quickly becoming lauded as a hero, able to win wars that should not have been won. Wang Yeo is quickly becoming second to Kim Shin - both in the eyes of his people and in the eyes of his queen. The only solution is to kill Kim Shin.

So it is when Kim Shin returns from one of these unwinnable wars that Wang Yeo takes a stand and convicts him of treason. He orders Kim Shin to stand down and to leave the castle. Kim Shin does not. So Wang Yeo has a series of deaths ordered. First those of Kim Shin's men, mowed down by a frenzy of arrows outside the palace gates. Then that of Kim Sun, shot through the heart with a well-placed arrow. Then all of Kim Shin's family, tied and beheaded, and then finally Kim Shin himself, stabbed through the heart with his own blade. Kim Shin is given no proper burial; instead his body is dragged out and left to rot in a field far in the outskirts. (Later, much later, the deity is kind enough to grant Kim Shin a second chance and an immortal life, but that is a story for a different day.)

In the end Park Joong-heon wins, though it is mostly a hollow victory. Wang Yeo, bereft of everyone who had truly loved him, slowly loses his will to live. He spends the majority of his last weeks furiously painting a picture of Kim Sun, his queen, and pouring into it every last ounce of emotion held deep within his heart. Once he finishes, he kills himself, ironically with the same poison that had killed all his relatives so many years ago.

Wang Yeo is later brought back as a grim reaper, stripped of all his past memories in punishment for committing the ultimate sin: taking his own life.

Silently, he carries out his duties over collecting deceased souls and sending them off to their next life, and for 300 years, work continues without a hitch. Then the deity decides to interfere, and the grim reaper's life turns upside down.

He becomes a tenant of Kim Shin, the Goblin, the very same man who'd promised to protect him as Wang Yeo and who he'd killed without a second thought. Instead of becoming enemies, they become reluctant friends, brought together by their shared connection to Ji Eun-tak, the goblin's bride and the missing soul the grim reaper was supposed to collect 19 years ago. He meets and lives alongside Ji Eun-tak, and begins to rely on her for advice, particularly advice pertaining to women. Perhaps mostly importantly, he meets Sunny, Ji Eun-tak's boss, and cries the first time he sees her on the street.

It is as he interacts more and more with the three of them that he learns about Kim Shin and Kim Sun's tragic fate. He slowly pieces together that Sunny may be the reincarnation of Kim Sun, and that he may have been someone linked to the both of them in his previous life. Though grim reapers are told not to worry about their previous life - after all, grim reapers are "made" from people who commit great sins in their past life, and who wants to reclaim such painful memories - the grim reaper finds himself fixated on what connection he has to Kim Shin and Sunny and begins to investigate as much as he can. However, the more he digs, the more he realizes he is most likely Wang Yeo, a fact that begins to strain his friendship with Kim Shin and chip away at any possibility of a happy ending between him and Sunny.

That fact is all but confirmed when the ghost of Park Joong-heon reappears for seemingly no reason and reveals to Kim Shin that the man he's lived alongside for the past year is none other than the former king Wang Yeo. This fractures the remainder of the good relationship between the grim reaper and Kim Shin, and the grim reaper finds himself more distraught than ever, still lacking any memory of the man he once was despite being told outright of his past sins.

As it turns out though, he doesn't have to worry about missing his memories for long; he receives a visit from the internal audit team at Grim Reapers Inc (not its actual name, of course), who inform him that as punishment for abusing his powers, he's to be given all the memories of his previous life back -- his previous life as Wang Yeo.

By then it's too late to make amends. Park Joong-heon has set into motion his plan to kill Kim Shin, for good this time, and while he does not succeed and dies in the effort, his death comes at the cost of Kim Shin's life. Wang Yeo can only stand as he watches Kim Shin die a second time, once again unable to protect any of those close to him.

Inventory:
  • A jade ring with intricate carvings on the surface
  • A wristwatch, perfectly on time
  • A very nice hat* + coat
    * Comes with handy dandy refractive light mechanism to make him appear invisible. I don't anticipate actually using this particular ability until he's regained some memories.
Samples:
* I'm using the events of last chapter as a sample basis, hopefully that's okay!
The storefront's quiet, devoid of Westies hobbling in and out. In his bed, Eugene wheezes, the small bowl of porridge from lunch earlier resting mostly untouched on the nightstand.

The symptoms had settled in early yesterday morning and while there'd been no certainty that it was P43X - Eugene is old, after all, and prone to any mix of fatigue and dizziness on any given day - but tensions are running high and rumors flying wild, and the overwhelming influx of patients had slowed noticeably the next day. It's a welcome break, and enough time to reorganize the shelves of vials and powders in the backroom, and enough time to sweep the floors and replace a few old screws. Still, Kim finds his nerves still jangled despite the downtime, kept tense and discordant by the sight of Eugene lying restless in his bed, breath shallow as his head tosses to and fro. What if it gets worse? It's Eugene that has all the connections, knows how to sway the Companymen that occasionally come 'round and barter for supplies all the way from Leith when their stocks run low. What if he doesn't get better? What if—

Downstairs, the bell jingles. (Kim remembers a customer scoffing at the piece of tarnished copper hanging above the door, claiming the thing to be "far too old fashioned" and "completely useless". Eugene had simply smiled as he always did and asked him to please hand over his joy.) He excuses himself, and climbs down the rickety steps to the main floor of the shop.

A girl, half his height and surely no more than a third of his age, stands just inside, face pale and fingers worrying divots into the the fabric of her jacket hem. "It's Mom. She…" her voice trails off, starts again in fits and spurts, "she keeps saying that she sees Dad but—Dad died last year."

It's not a good sign. Hallucinations mean the later stages of illness, mean that without some sort of official cure chances of recovery are low. It's a bleak outlook, especially for a child with no one else to care for her, and the impassive lines of his face soften a touch as he instructs her to wait there while he heads for the back room. The tonic he mixes is simple - to treat pain, fever, and help her sleep. It's not certainly not a cure and it might not even do anything to slow the progression of the infection, but it's the best he can do.

He doesn't tell her any of that as he hands the tonic over, merely gives her instructions on how to administer it and to come back if she needs more. Death comes for anyone, at any time without warning. Those who live in Westerley learn that lesson quick. He'd learned that lesson quick.

The girl bobs in thanks and scurries out the door, leaving Kim with the remainder of his cleaning—and the worries that still rest heavy in his mind.

Miscellaneous Notes: This is the longest app I've ever written. Here is a cat gif in apology.
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