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Dec. 29th, 2019 03:19 pmOOC INFORMATION
Name: Kari
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Are You Over 18?: Yep.
Other Characters: None active!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Venus
Age: 18. No canon age is given, save for "teens" and "Venus is older than the other two." Venus has never drunk before, but this is still entirely in-character for her at that age.
Canon: We Know the Devil
Canon Point: True end; shortly after the devil speaks to the three of them.
Character Information: Have this writeup I've written like five times now!
Also important is a note: Venus is a transwoman (who isn't aware at the start of the game), and her gender is an integral part of her character. It influences all her other traits, it influences the way she interacts with the world around her, and since WKTD is a game about queer teens growing up in a world that hates them, it rules her arc and in-game development. By the end of her canon, Venus has - in a very literal sense - accepted her "new self" and come to terms with her gender identity. I will be taking her very shortly before this realization, with the intent to finalize her understanding with the first set of monster changes (much like how her realization comes with the devil giving her a new body in canon). As such, I will be using "he" in IC narration/vocalization and "she" OOCly until her changes, at which point I will switch entirely to "she" much in the same way the original canon does.
Personality: Venus is awkward to interact with, or even to watch, because of her ingratiating nature. The game's narration itself says that "Venus can smile and laugh nervously through anything, and the rest of us are invisible for as long as we can endure the secondhand embarassment." She believes people who lie to her, not because she thinks they're telling the truth but because it's easier than disagreeing.
All of the above section is by choice and not nature. The truth of the matter is, Venus is easy to upset and holds onto that at pretty much all times. The first few times she openly engages with the other main characters on serious topics, bits of anger begin to slip out: "doesn't that make you angry? Doesn't that make you so mad you can't see straight?" Venus has lots of reasons to be angry: a world that wants to push her into a masculine box and a brain that doesn't want that for herself, being surrounded by a religion and culture that hates who she is and hates her friends... How could you not be resentful of it?
So how do you deal with being angry at all times without giving in to the destructive impulses society wants you to take? Simple - you cut it off, you force yourself to be as ingratiating and polite as possible, and when that doesn't work you just seem kind of smile blankly at people. Venus comes off as distant to the few people who try to get to know her better than "that awkward boy who's easy to bully," which honestly discourages most people from trying any further. She says things that could come across as cruel if there were any intent or thought behind them. At one point, a character who expresses happiness that they're friends gets a response of "Wait, we're friends?" It's not that she intends to do any of this - she just spends so much time on the balancing act of "don't be angry" and "be polite" that she forgets to work on "don't be a bitch" (as Neptune so eloquently puts it).
So why does Venus even bother with all this? The truth is, it's because she is idealistic to a fault. She is angry because she sees a world that hurts others; she is ingratiating because to do otherwise risks hurting others, and she can't stomach that. In a cast full of people who let in the devil for personal reasons, Venus's thoughts notably blur the lines between personal gain and changing the world itself. "I want to undo the division of day and night." Venus doesn't want to be shoved into a world that doesn't fit her, no, but she doesn't even want two worlds to have to exist in the first place.
Just as long as she doesn't have to get too angry to fix it, of course.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either, please!
Opt-Outs: Goblin, Wendigo, Werebear, Kelpie, Shade, Gargoyle
Roleplay Sample: TDM threads
Name: Kari
Contact:
Are You Over 18?: Yep.
Other Characters: None active!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Venus
Age: 18. No canon age is given, save for "teens" and "Venus is older than the other two." Venus has never drunk before, but this is still entirely in-character for her at that age.
Canon: We Know the Devil
Canon Point: True end; shortly after the devil speaks to the three of them.
Character Information: Have this writeup I've written like five times now!
Also important is a note: Venus is a transwoman (who isn't aware at the start of the game), and her gender is an integral part of her character. It influences all her other traits, it influences the way she interacts with the world around her, and since WKTD is a game about queer teens growing up in a world that hates them, it rules her arc and in-game development. By the end of her canon, Venus has - in a very literal sense - accepted her "new self" and come to terms with her gender identity. I will be taking her very shortly before this realization, with the intent to finalize her understanding with the first set of monster changes (much like how her realization comes with the devil giving her a new body in canon). As such, I will be using "he" in IC narration/vocalization and "she" OOCly until her changes, at which point I will switch entirely to "she" much in the same way the original canon does.
Personality: Venus is awkward to interact with, or even to watch, because of her ingratiating nature. The game's narration itself says that "Venus can smile and laugh nervously through anything, and the rest of us are invisible for as long as we can endure the secondhand embarassment." She believes people who lie to her, not because she thinks they're telling the truth but because it's easier than disagreeing.
All of the above section is by choice and not nature. The truth of the matter is, Venus is easy to upset and holds onto that at pretty much all times. The first few times she openly engages with the other main characters on serious topics, bits of anger begin to slip out: "doesn't that make you angry? Doesn't that make you so mad you can't see straight?" Venus has lots of reasons to be angry: a world that wants to push her into a masculine box and a brain that doesn't want that for herself, being surrounded by a religion and culture that hates who she is and hates her friends... How could you not be resentful of it?
So how do you deal with being angry at all times without giving in to the destructive impulses society wants you to take? Simple - you cut it off, you force yourself to be as ingratiating and polite as possible, and when that doesn't work you just seem kind of smile blankly at people. Venus comes off as distant to the few people who try to get to know her better than "that awkward boy who's easy to bully," which honestly discourages most people from trying any further. She says things that could come across as cruel if there were any intent or thought behind them. At one point, a character who expresses happiness that they're friends gets a response of "Wait, we're friends?" It's not that she intends to do any of this - she just spends so much time on the balancing act of "don't be angry" and "be polite" that she forgets to work on "don't be a bitch" (as Neptune so eloquently puts it).
So why does Venus even bother with all this? The truth is, it's because she is idealistic to a fault. She is angry because she sees a world that hurts others; she is ingratiating because to do otherwise risks hurting others, and she can't stomach that. In a cast full of people who let in the devil for personal reasons, Venus's thoughts notably blur the lines between personal gain and changing the world itself. "I want to undo the division of day and night." Venus doesn't want to be shoved into a world that doesn't fit her, no, but she doesn't even want two worlds to have to exist in the first place.
Just as long as she doesn't have to get too angry to fix it, of course.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Ingratiating
- Resentful
- Distant
- Passive
- Idealistic
- Envious
- Awkward
- Apologetic
- Sheltered
- Trusting
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either, please!
Opt-Outs: Goblin, Wendigo, Werebear, Kelpie, Shade, Gargoyle
Roleplay Sample: TDM threads
