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worthdisgracing→ OOC
□ Name: Rizu
□ Age: 25
□ Contact: opheliary@gmail.com, stormcoming [plurk]
□ Journal:waxwing
□ Do you play anyone in Ariel?: no
□ Is this a re-application of a dropped character? If yes, when was the character dropped?: n/a
→ IC
□ Name: Beast
□ Journal:worthdisgracing
□ Series: Kuroshitsuji
□ Canon point: beginning of chapter 29, “That Butler, Scandalous”
□ History: Kuroshitsuji Wiki
□ Personality: The first thing people usually notice about Beast's personality is her short temper. Bellicose and domineering, her moods can change drastically based on the smallest or most well-meaning of comments. Not only fast with a foul mouth, Beast is just as quick to lash out physically when frustrated or angry, no matter the consequences. Driven by her strong emotions, only the people she considers family have much success in getting her to calm down, and even among them only Joker was shown to be able to do it skillfully. Whether it's someone she just met or even someone she's supposed to be treating well, (such as when Sebastian was masquerading as a paying customer to the Circus), she'll aim a kick when she feels it's deserved.
However, this temper and her short fuse seem to be less the product of anger and more an attempt to hide how very sensitive about certain issues she is. Beast abhors appearing weak, and as a woman with one and a third legs, she's been weak more times than she cares to recall. People bringing up her low-class background, insulting her ragtag family, and especially people who make comments about her leg or the other circus members' disabilities/disfigured features is going to find themselves on Beast's infamous bad side real quick. And once you get there, it's hard to get back on her good side- she's stubborn, bad at apologizing, and reluctant to admit wrong-doing on her part to others.
Coming from as bad a background as she has, abandoned before she can really remember to fend for herself doing child labor and living on the streets of London's East End, Beast is bitter and cynical about people in general, and has a hard time extending trust to others. She views authority figures as corrupt and uncaring, the rich as gluttons unconcerned with the plights of the poor, and the idea of a kind and loving higher power contemptible. Once her trust is earned, Beast is a friend through think and thin, willing to put her life on the line for you, but being accepted in to her circle of family and friends is not the easiest thing to achieve with how standoffish and easy to offend she can be.
Beast is rather prudish when it comes to her own person, yet wears rather scandalous leather garments for her performances. While playing her part she's sexual, confidant, but any man who makes comments about her character or clothing choices when she's outside the ring is likely to find himself with a very angry woman who is good with a whip on his hands- and not in the good way. If no one mentions it or brings attention to her, she doesn't have a problem with presenting that way, but a single word reminds her to be self-conscious or offended. A product of her times, some could say, but even for Victorian England Beast can seem a bit old-fashioned. She never had the luxury of prudishness before- she'd likely have hiked up her skirts if it meant living a better life with no hesitation back before the Baron, but now she has someone she loves, and some actual dignity in her life and she's loath to betray it.
Though she fills the role of "villain" alongside her fellow circus members in her particular story arc, Beast is not an evil woman no matter how dirty the deeds she's committed have been. What she does have is a strong desire to protect her family, the cobbled together group of street orphans who were "saved' by Baron Kelvin. With the Baron's seal stamped on the false leg she wears as a constant reminder of just who she owes her life to, Beast and the rest of the Noah's Ark Circus' core members are basically in a situation where they're both blackmailed in to and obligated to do whatever it is the Baron asks them to do, no matter how distasteful they find it. The fact that they owe the Baron everything may hang over their heads, but that alone isn't enough to motivate Beast. Of all the members, she seems the one who resents the Baron the most, most likely for what she perceives as his ill influence over Joker. But it's not just that debt- the Baron controls the workhouse where all the other kids she grew up with, kids like her, missing limbs, abused, or with abnormal bodies, live, and he's insinuated that those kids will only remain happy and healthy as long as he gets what he asks for.
So the Noah's Ark Circus kidnaps kids in the dead of night and eliminates any witnesses, delivering those children to Baron Kelvin. Only Joker among them knew exactly what fate those children met, but even Beast knew it couldn't be good, not with how strange their "Father" was growing each passing year. But she does it anyway, makes the choice to sacrifice children who grew up with families, warm, fed, for kids like her who she can save. She doesn't view what she's doing as noble, nor does she feel in any way happy about buying the lives of children she's chosen to throw her lot in with using the lives of children she's selected to be... she doesn't want to know. But she does it anyway.
Noah's Ark Circus hides a lot of secrets, and all of the members are pretty skilled at putting on shows and acts, for the secrets if not for the fact that they make their living as performers. Beast can hold on to the act in the ring, in her persona as the Circus' star performer, the wild animal tamer, strong, sexy, brilliant, smiling, but she has difficulties outside the big top with lying straight faced. In front of an audience she can control her character crafted to please, but she's remarkably easy to read when she's not careful, which is another reason she hides behind that explosive temper of hers. Just like she doesn't want people seeing how sensitive she can be, she also has a vested interest in making sure they can't tell she's lying or hiding something.
One of the things she tries hard to hide, (and seriously fails at hiding), is her unrequited love for the circus ring leader, Joker. She's felt affection for him different from how she feels about the rest of their family since their Renbon Workhouse days, and it's she who notices most how what they do affects Joker. She notes how his smiles have grown more fake, how he's pulled away and grown more distant as they serve Father, and he the favored son. It's her love for him, hating to see him like that, that prompts her to suggest to him that they finally break free from Father, take the circus and make their own living- even if it means abandoning his patronage and protection. It's her love for him that makes her weak and left wanting when he all but rejects her, choosing duty to Father and the children over her pleas for a freer life, perfect prey for a demon who wants names and locations and the truth about the circus.
Beast, had she been given the opportunity, given a body not lacking as hers is, had the potential to grow in to a strong, gruff, but caring woman, capable of living a normal life. But all those are impossibilities now. She's wracked by guilt, at what they do for Father, more recently, at the fact that she accidentally betrayed her family's activities to "Black" in a moment of weakness taken advantage of after the man she loves refused her. She lashes out at the world and people around her who offend her to try and hide how weak she truly is, to cover up what a bad liar she can be and hide her secrets. She loves, knowing that her love may never be returned because of "Father", duty, the truth of the horrible things they do. She is driven by the desire to survive, to live, to one day make it to that idea of "over the hills and far away", some vague, longed for place where people like her can achieve happiness.
Even though she fears that over the hills is too far off for any of them to ever reach.
□ Age: ~24
□ Gender: Female
□ Appearance: For images, you can check out here and here. Curvaceous by any estimation, Beast accentuates her body type with corsets and skirt made up gaudily and bright to match the theme of a circus act. She takes some stock in her appearance, and she does strive to be beautiful, not only to match her reputation as the star of the show, but to attract the attentions of the man she loves. Some point out the scandalous nature of her attire, the short skirt, fish nets, and revealing cuts, but that’s only met with scorn- she’s a bit prudish by nature, and only dresses as she does as more part of the act than anything. Her hair is dark and done up in tight curls, and she usually wears a lot of make-up, once again, more for her job than anything else. When not working she tends to cover up more with longer skirts and dresses and higher collars, with less make-up. The important thing to note, however, is that Beast’s left leg ends just above the knee and she wears a rather high-quality prosthetic limb made of strong ceramic-like material crafted akin to a doll’s with a ball joint for knee, ankles, and even toes. But she hides most of it in tall boots and stockings, and the tone is a near match to her skin, so you’d have to take more than a passing glance to notice right off.
□ Abilities/Powers: Gifted with no supernatural powers nor particularly noteworthy abilities, Beast is an average woman. Likely stronger than the average expected for a woman of her height and build, but that is merely a needed trait of her job, from being used to manual labor and making her living as an animal tamer. She is somewhat disadvantaged by the fact that she only had about a third of her left leg, which ends at mid thigh. While wearing her prostheses, which is high quality for her time period, she operates on a normal enough level, but without it, obviously, she would encounter great difficulty when it came to mobility and self-sufficiency.
□ Personal Items: [1] prosthetic leg, [1] circus bullwhip, [1] scarf, [2] circus outfits, [2] sets of street clothes, [1] make-up set, [2] family photographs
□ First Person Sample: Sample from Haven
□ Third Person Sample: Sample from Haven. (If you need a more "normal" situation, though, this might suffice?)
□ Name: Rizu
□ Age: 25
□ Contact: opheliary@gmail.com, stormcoming [plurk]
□ Journal:
waxwing□ Do you play anyone in Ariel?: no
□ Is this a re-application of a dropped character? If yes, when was the character dropped?: n/a
→ IC
□ Name: Beast
□ Journal:
worthdisgracing□ Series: Kuroshitsuji
□ Canon point: beginning of chapter 29, “That Butler, Scandalous”
□ History: Kuroshitsuji Wiki
□ Personality: The first thing people usually notice about Beast's personality is her short temper. Bellicose and domineering, her moods can change drastically based on the smallest or most well-meaning of comments. Not only fast with a foul mouth, Beast is just as quick to lash out physically when frustrated or angry, no matter the consequences. Driven by her strong emotions, only the people she considers family have much success in getting her to calm down, and even among them only Joker was shown to be able to do it skillfully. Whether it's someone she just met or even someone she's supposed to be treating well, (such as when Sebastian was masquerading as a paying customer to the Circus), she'll aim a kick when she feels it's deserved.
However, this temper and her short fuse seem to be less the product of anger and more an attempt to hide how very sensitive about certain issues she is. Beast abhors appearing weak, and as a woman with one and a third legs, she's been weak more times than she cares to recall. People bringing up her low-class background, insulting her ragtag family, and especially people who make comments about her leg or the other circus members' disabilities/disfigured features is going to find themselves on Beast's infamous bad side real quick. And once you get there, it's hard to get back on her good side- she's stubborn, bad at apologizing, and reluctant to admit wrong-doing on her part to others.
Coming from as bad a background as she has, abandoned before she can really remember to fend for herself doing child labor and living on the streets of London's East End, Beast is bitter and cynical about people in general, and has a hard time extending trust to others. She views authority figures as corrupt and uncaring, the rich as gluttons unconcerned with the plights of the poor, and the idea of a kind and loving higher power contemptible. Once her trust is earned, Beast is a friend through think and thin, willing to put her life on the line for you, but being accepted in to her circle of family and friends is not the easiest thing to achieve with how standoffish and easy to offend she can be.
Beast is rather prudish when it comes to her own person, yet wears rather scandalous leather garments for her performances. While playing her part she's sexual, confidant, but any man who makes comments about her character or clothing choices when she's outside the ring is likely to find himself with a very angry woman who is good with a whip on his hands- and not in the good way. If no one mentions it or brings attention to her, she doesn't have a problem with presenting that way, but a single word reminds her to be self-conscious or offended. A product of her times, some could say, but even for Victorian England Beast can seem a bit old-fashioned. She never had the luxury of prudishness before- she'd likely have hiked up her skirts if it meant living a better life with no hesitation back before the Baron, but now she has someone she loves, and some actual dignity in her life and she's loath to betray it.
Though she fills the role of "villain" alongside her fellow circus members in her particular story arc, Beast is not an evil woman no matter how dirty the deeds she's committed have been. What she does have is a strong desire to protect her family, the cobbled together group of street orphans who were "saved' by Baron Kelvin. With the Baron's seal stamped on the false leg she wears as a constant reminder of just who she owes her life to, Beast and the rest of the Noah's Ark Circus' core members are basically in a situation where they're both blackmailed in to and obligated to do whatever it is the Baron asks them to do, no matter how distasteful they find it. The fact that they owe the Baron everything may hang over their heads, but that alone isn't enough to motivate Beast. Of all the members, she seems the one who resents the Baron the most, most likely for what she perceives as his ill influence over Joker. But it's not just that debt- the Baron controls the workhouse where all the other kids she grew up with, kids like her, missing limbs, abused, or with abnormal bodies, live, and he's insinuated that those kids will only remain happy and healthy as long as he gets what he asks for.
So the Noah's Ark Circus kidnaps kids in the dead of night and eliminates any witnesses, delivering those children to Baron Kelvin. Only Joker among them knew exactly what fate those children met, but even Beast knew it couldn't be good, not with how strange their "Father" was growing each passing year. But she does it anyway, makes the choice to sacrifice children who grew up with families, warm, fed, for kids like her who she can save. She doesn't view what she's doing as noble, nor does she feel in any way happy about buying the lives of children she's chosen to throw her lot in with using the lives of children she's selected to be... she doesn't want to know. But she does it anyway.
Noah's Ark Circus hides a lot of secrets, and all of the members are pretty skilled at putting on shows and acts, for the secrets if not for the fact that they make their living as performers. Beast can hold on to the act in the ring, in her persona as the Circus' star performer, the wild animal tamer, strong, sexy, brilliant, smiling, but she has difficulties outside the big top with lying straight faced. In front of an audience she can control her character crafted to please, but she's remarkably easy to read when she's not careful, which is another reason she hides behind that explosive temper of hers. Just like she doesn't want people seeing how sensitive she can be, she also has a vested interest in making sure they can't tell she's lying or hiding something.
One of the things she tries hard to hide, (and seriously fails at hiding), is her unrequited love for the circus ring leader, Joker. She's felt affection for him different from how she feels about the rest of their family since their Renbon Workhouse days, and it's she who notices most how what they do affects Joker. She notes how his smiles have grown more fake, how he's pulled away and grown more distant as they serve Father, and he the favored son. It's her love for him, hating to see him like that, that prompts her to suggest to him that they finally break free from Father, take the circus and make their own living- even if it means abandoning his patronage and protection. It's her love for him that makes her weak and left wanting when he all but rejects her, choosing duty to Father and the children over her pleas for a freer life, perfect prey for a demon who wants names and locations and the truth about the circus.
Beast, had she been given the opportunity, given a body not lacking as hers is, had the potential to grow in to a strong, gruff, but caring woman, capable of living a normal life. But all those are impossibilities now. She's wracked by guilt, at what they do for Father, more recently, at the fact that she accidentally betrayed her family's activities to "Black" in a moment of weakness taken advantage of after the man she loves refused her. She lashes out at the world and people around her who offend her to try and hide how weak she truly is, to cover up what a bad liar she can be and hide her secrets. She loves, knowing that her love may never be returned because of "Father", duty, the truth of the horrible things they do. She is driven by the desire to survive, to live, to one day make it to that idea of "over the hills and far away", some vague, longed for place where people like her can achieve happiness.
Even though she fears that over the hills is too far off for any of them to ever reach.
□ Age: ~24
□ Gender: Female
□ Appearance: For images, you can check out here and here. Curvaceous by any estimation, Beast accentuates her body type with corsets and skirt made up gaudily and bright to match the theme of a circus act. She takes some stock in her appearance, and she does strive to be beautiful, not only to match her reputation as the star of the show, but to attract the attentions of the man she loves. Some point out the scandalous nature of her attire, the short skirt, fish nets, and revealing cuts, but that’s only met with scorn- she’s a bit prudish by nature, and only dresses as she does as more part of the act than anything. Her hair is dark and done up in tight curls, and she usually wears a lot of make-up, once again, more for her job than anything else. When not working she tends to cover up more with longer skirts and dresses and higher collars, with less make-up. The important thing to note, however, is that Beast’s left leg ends just above the knee and she wears a rather high-quality prosthetic limb made of strong ceramic-like material crafted akin to a doll’s with a ball joint for knee, ankles, and even toes. But she hides most of it in tall boots and stockings, and the tone is a near match to her skin, so you’d have to take more than a passing glance to notice right off.
□ Abilities/Powers: Gifted with no supernatural powers nor particularly noteworthy abilities, Beast is an average woman. Likely stronger than the average expected for a woman of her height and build, but that is merely a needed trait of her job, from being used to manual labor and making her living as an animal tamer. She is somewhat disadvantaged by the fact that she only had about a third of her left leg, which ends at mid thigh. While wearing her prostheses, which is high quality for her time period, she operates on a normal enough level, but without it, obviously, she would encounter great difficulty when it came to mobility and self-sufficiency.
□ Personal Items: [1] prosthetic leg, [1] circus bullwhip, [1] scarf, [2] circus outfits, [2] sets of street clothes, [1] make-up set, [2] family photographs
□ First Person Sample: Sample from Haven
□ Third Person Sample: Sample from Haven. (If you need a more "normal" situation, though, this might suffice?)
