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botspeaksalot) wrote2013-01-16 05:19 pm
botspeaksalot) wrote2013-01-16 05:19 pm
Route 29 Application.
Player
Name: Otis.
Personal Journal:dolphinsaredicks
E-mail: keyword.brainicide@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: humbugger.otis/pitch_bmhc@hotmail.com
Timezone: US Central/GMT -6.
Current Characters in Route: Hiccup Haddock (HTTYD.)
Character
Name: Philip/Raito Sonozaki.
Series: Kamen Rider W.
Timeline: Between episodes 18 and 19.
Canon Resource Links:
Philip on the Kamen Rider wiki.
Kamen Rider W/Double on the Kamen Rider wiki.
List of Kamen Rider W Episodes.
Personality:
Philip thinks very highly of himself--and why shouldn't he, when his brain is practically Google and a supercomputer rolled into one? He is used to having knowledge at his fingertips, and since he is quick to calculate a situation, Philip is rarely ever off--at least from a factual standpoint. Because of this, however, he tends to take affronts to his skills, or to his crime-fighting alter ego Kamen Rider W (Double), with annoyance, though more often than not he does not get nearly as offended as his partner, Shoutarou Hidari. Also due to the ease of which he can gather information, it really throws him off when he discovers that he can't. He becomes even more obsessive over it than usual, and makes blunders such as flubbing an attack or walking straight into a door since he's so distracted. Philip also will get more whiny the longer he is kept from what he's trying to research, and will do irresponsible things like leaving unfinished business between Kamen Rider W and the opposing Dopant as long as it means he can go back to accomplishing his goal of gaining knowledge.
With all the time he spends researching, he frequently finds regular life--and the regular people in it--rather lacking. Other people just don't have the same stimulating effect on him as his books, though with Shoutarou's emotions and Akiko's odd way of thinking he is more open to them. It's through them and Wakana Sonozaki slowly opening herself up to him through talks of being true to oneself that he learns to find humans tolerable and even sometimes a joy to be around. Even so, he is more likely at his canon point to take hard facts over joking along with some average joe, and wouldn't be afraid to tell someone that he's had enough of them.
As he learns to be more human, Philip not only comes to love the city he protects, but the people in it, as Shoutarou does. At the point he is taken from, he is still struggling with his apathy, as shown just a few episodes after the chosen canon point. When a policeman who normally detests their agency comes in with a request, Philip does for a moment find his desperation intriguing. After discovering it is simply a desire to impress a new lady around the office, he dismisses it as not worth investigating, returning to a flat, uncaring expression. The closer he is to a person, the more likely he is to take emotions into consideration when deciding if something is of interest. With Shoutarou, he will often submit to ideas he presumes will be reckless, as his partner has proven himself in the past to come through in the end. It's through that trust and curiosity that he relents more than once throughout the series, eventually coming to view this style of personality with affection.
With his childhood memories stripped from him and having been kept away from the world at both the company run by the Sonozaki family and (though at a lesser extent) the Narumi Detective Agency, it's no wonder that Philip's social skills are rather unpolished. Throughout the series he becomes more personable through his interactions with others, but he tends to lean towards the negatives of a situation or to dismiss things as 'boring' or 'in the way'. The only person he trusts blindly is Wakana, due to the feelings of a connection not having left him when his memories were taken. Even his faith in Shoutarou, his partner and the person closest to him, is sometimes tempered by circumstance, as Philip feels he is too 'half-boiled' and swayed by emotions.
Philip tends to get far too absorbed in his research, often to the point of unhealthiness. When he finds a subject to study, he exhausts the information to its fullest, ignoring other issues until then. This causes him to not only hinder the process of catching a culprit, but forget about much more mundane things like eating, sleeping, basic hygiene, and how he's not supposed to write on walls. These are things that don't particularly appeal to him, as they are such a natural process in life, and so even when he's not completely immersed, they tend to slip his mind unless forced onto him by Shoutarou or Akiko. In the same vein, when he researches how fighters get into shape--and the specific part of their routine where they lose weight--he goes into a weight loss craze until he becomes, as he claims, only 10 kg/around 22 lbs above the weight of a mosquito (entirely possible, as Philip isn't exactly a regular 'human'.) At the end of the next episode (as a case they work on takes two episodes to complete), he does the opposite, bloating up in weight due to his discovery of and subsequent studies on mochi.
A side effect of the previously mentioned traits is that, when confronted with an extremely common issue that he doesn't know about due to his 'upbringing', Philip becomes fairly obsessive over it. Things like 'how to get assured wins while gambling' are of importance, naturally, but that's not nearly as intriguing as takoyaki. And man, St. Bernard dogs. Hey, have you heard about this fascinating place called Mt. Fuji? That's where the hype's at. With the nature of most of his research, these ordinary things are seen by him as great treasures in the quest for knowledge, as he's certain they haven't come up because they are rare. Philip is shown to be more excited about sharing these findings than what usually comes up during their cases, eager to teach those around him about what's obviously a lesser-known nugget of information. Once he is through, however, these too are likely to become mild annoyances if they are brought up in the hopes of stirring his interest. He's already learned and moved on to the next thing.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Loyal.
+ Analytic.
+ Intelligent.
+ Efficient.
+ Fast learner.
+ Quick on his feet.
+/- Prideful.
+/- Childish.
+/- Overly enthusiastic about interests.
+/- Goes with the situation that is assumed to bring the best results.
- Blunt.
- Lacks tact.
- Obsessed with research.
- Fickle in interests.
- Impatient.
- Pretty much doesn't know how to take care of himself.
- Physically weaker than others.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder.
Starter: Porygon.
Password: Scrambled Eggs.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The video function turns on with a few robotic beeps, catching the attention of the owner who spins quickly to snatch it up.]
Ah. A multi-functional communication device. Perfect. [It doesn't stop this guy from looking any less irritated, though...] There have been...things taken from me. I wish for them to be returned and for me to be sent home immediately. Additionally, if those by the names of Shoutarou Hidari and/or Akiko Narumi have been transported as well, please direct them to me.
That is all I will require.
[Then, quite simply, the device is unceremoniously dropped--and a cybernetic bird appears with a disapproving buzz. Philip, that is no way to ask for help. In a moment, that thing is Porygone and a text appears on the network.]
HELLO
ANY HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED
THANK YOU
Third Person Sample:
It really was hard to keep a job, when all your previous experience at it only involved looking up information and occasionally punching people in the face--though even that part of it was mainly Shoutarou's work. Philip had always been more the kind to dive into the Gaia Library to flip through page after page of the earth's information, narrowing down the results bit by bit until he got the answer they were looking for. The mental half.
And boy, was he sure going mental.
Philip's initial choice of working at the store hadn't gone so well, to put it lightly. Being kept out of the focus had been easy enough, but it wasn't long before working as a stock clerk had been shown to have its own drawbacks. Such as the fact that Philip was absolute rubbish at lifting heavy objects. His frequent breaks--the physical labor aggravated his already-out-of-shape back--were enough to be noticed by the boss, and not in a positive way. As easy-going as most of the residents were, these ones didn't hesitate to fire him for not pulling his weight. He was a researcher, not a lifter. Perhaps being behind a desk would be a better option for him, as unused to actually appearing in front of people he was.
So, naturally, he had applied for Cerulean Inn's front desk position.
It could be interesting, he thought; I'll gather data, he thought. As it turned out, the hotel manager didn't actually appreciate his badgering of the guests for answers. His job, as he was sternly reminded, was to answer the questions presented to him by customers of the establishment. Well, certainly that would be easy. It was what he did back home!
"These people are extremely unexciting," Philip soon found himself mumbling, slipping another bit of food down to the Porygon hiding below. It beeped--first in appreciation of the snack, and then again in a tone that suggested it agreed with him. "They do not have the same intriguing thought processes as those back home. I am beginning to see that Aki-chan was truly a genius." He'd been approached with the question 'are the breakfasts here continental' at least four times, now, and no matter how dull he found this, he still hadn't figured out what the heck it meant. Continents were masses of land--did they wish for the food at the inn to be clearly separated by spaces on the plate, as the continents were by the ocean? Perhaps it was a question of whether the food was brought in from the different regions on this strange planet. Either way, it wasn't long before the kitchen staff came to complain about how he just kept sending these people back to ask them instead.
He truly was horrible at this whole 'employment' thing, it seemed.
Name: Otis.
Personal Journal:
dolphinsaredicksE-mail: keyword.brainicide@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: humbugger.otis/pitch_bmhc@hotmail.com
Timezone: US Central/GMT -6.
Current Characters in Route: Hiccup Haddock (HTTYD.)
Character
Name: Philip/Raito Sonozaki.
Series: Kamen Rider W.
Timeline: Between episodes 18 and 19.
Canon Resource Links:
Philip on the Kamen Rider wiki.
Kamen Rider W/Double on the Kamen Rider wiki.
List of Kamen Rider W Episodes.
Personality:
Philip thinks very highly of himself--and why shouldn't he, when his brain is practically Google and a supercomputer rolled into one? He is used to having knowledge at his fingertips, and since he is quick to calculate a situation, Philip is rarely ever off--at least from a factual standpoint. Because of this, however, he tends to take affronts to his skills, or to his crime-fighting alter ego Kamen Rider W (Double), with annoyance, though more often than not he does not get nearly as offended as his partner, Shoutarou Hidari. Also due to the ease of which he can gather information, it really throws him off when he discovers that he can't. He becomes even more obsessive over it than usual, and makes blunders such as flubbing an attack or walking straight into a door since he's so distracted. Philip also will get more whiny the longer he is kept from what he's trying to research, and will do irresponsible things like leaving unfinished business between Kamen Rider W and the opposing Dopant as long as it means he can go back to accomplishing his goal of gaining knowledge.
With all the time he spends researching, he frequently finds regular life--and the regular people in it--rather lacking. Other people just don't have the same stimulating effect on him as his books, though with Shoutarou's emotions and Akiko's odd way of thinking he is more open to them. It's through them and Wakana Sonozaki slowly opening herself up to him through talks of being true to oneself that he learns to find humans tolerable and even sometimes a joy to be around. Even so, he is more likely at his canon point to take hard facts over joking along with some average joe, and wouldn't be afraid to tell someone that he's had enough of them.
As he learns to be more human, Philip not only comes to love the city he protects, but the people in it, as Shoutarou does. At the point he is taken from, he is still struggling with his apathy, as shown just a few episodes after the chosen canon point. When a policeman who normally detests their agency comes in with a request, Philip does for a moment find his desperation intriguing. After discovering it is simply a desire to impress a new lady around the office, he dismisses it as not worth investigating, returning to a flat, uncaring expression. The closer he is to a person, the more likely he is to take emotions into consideration when deciding if something is of interest. With Shoutarou, he will often submit to ideas he presumes will be reckless, as his partner has proven himself in the past to come through in the end. It's through that trust and curiosity that he relents more than once throughout the series, eventually coming to view this style of personality with affection.
With his childhood memories stripped from him and having been kept away from the world at both the company run by the Sonozaki family and (though at a lesser extent) the Narumi Detective Agency, it's no wonder that Philip's social skills are rather unpolished. Throughout the series he becomes more personable through his interactions with others, but he tends to lean towards the negatives of a situation or to dismiss things as 'boring' or 'in the way'. The only person he trusts blindly is Wakana, due to the feelings of a connection not having left him when his memories were taken. Even his faith in Shoutarou, his partner and the person closest to him, is sometimes tempered by circumstance, as Philip feels he is too 'half-boiled' and swayed by emotions.
Philip tends to get far too absorbed in his research, often to the point of unhealthiness. When he finds a subject to study, he exhausts the information to its fullest, ignoring other issues until then. This causes him to not only hinder the process of catching a culprit, but forget about much more mundane things like eating, sleeping, basic hygiene, and how he's not supposed to write on walls. These are things that don't particularly appeal to him, as they are such a natural process in life, and so even when he's not completely immersed, they tend to slip his mind unless forced onto him by Shoutarou or Akiko. In the same vein, when he researches how fighters get into shape--and the specific part of their routine where they lose weight--he goes into a weight loss craze until he becomes, as he claims, only 10 kg/around 22 lbs above the weight of a mosquito (entirely possible, as Philip isn't exactly a regular 'human'.) At the end of the next episode (as a case they work on takes two episodes to complete), he does the opposite, bloating up in weight due to his discovery of and subsequent studies on mochi.
A side effect of the previously mentioned traits is that, when confronted with an extremely common issue that he doesn't know about due to his 'upbringing', Philip becomes fairly obsessive over it. Things like 'how to get assured wins while gambling' are of importance, naturally, but that's not nearly as intriguing as takoyaki. And man, St. Bernard dogs. Hey, have you heard about this fascinating place called Mt. Fuji? That's where the hype's at. With the nature of most of his research, these ordinary things are seen by him as great treasures in the quest for knowledge, as he's certain they haven't come up because they are rare. Philip is shown to be more excited about sharing these findings than what usually comes up during their cases, eager to teach those around him about what's obviously a lesser-known nugget of information. Once he is through, however, these too are likely to become mild annoyances if they are brought up in the hopes of stirring his interest. He's already learned and moved on to the next thing.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Loyal.
+ Analytic.
+ Intelligent.
+ Efficient.
+ Fast learner.
+ Quick on his feet.
+/- Prideful.
+/- Childish.
+/- Overly enthusiastic about interests.
+/- Goes with the situation that is assumed to bring the best results.
- Blunt.
- Lacks tact.
- Obsessed with research.
- Fickle in interests.
- Impatient.
- Pretty much doesn't know how to take care of himself.
- Physically weaker than others.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder.
Starter: Porygon.
Password: Scrambled Eggs.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The video function turns on with a few robotic beeps, catching the attention of the owner who spins quickly to snatch it up.]
Ah. A multi-functional communication device. Perfect. [It doesn't stop this guy from looking any less irritated, though...] There have been...things taken from me. I wish for them to be returned and for me to be sent home immediately. Additionally, if those by the names of Shoutarou Hidari and/or Akiko Narumi have been transported as well, please direct them to me.
That is all I will require.
[Then, quite simply, the device is unceremoniously dropped--and a cybernetic bird appears with a disapproving buzz. Philip, that is no way to ask for help. In a moment, that thing is Porygone and a text appears on the network.]
HELLO
ANY HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED
THANK YOU
Third Person Sample:
It really was hard to keep a job, when all your previous experience at it only involved looking up information and occasionally punching people in the face--though even that part of it was mainly Shoutarou's work. Philip had always been more the kind to dive into the Gaia Library to flip through page after page of the earth's information, narrowing down the results bit by bit until he got the answer they were looking for. The mental half.
And boy, was he sure going mental.
Philip's initial choice of working at the store hadn't gone so well, to put it lightly. Being kept out of the focus had been easy enough, but it wasn't long before working as a stock clerk had been shown to have its own drawbacks. Such as the fact that Philip was absolute rubbish at lifting heavy objects. His frequent breaks--the physical labor aggravated his already-out-of-shape back--were enough to be noticed by the boss, and not in a positive way. As easy-going as most of the residents were, these ones didn't hesitate to fire him for not pulling his weight. He was a researcher, not a lifter. Perhaps being behind a desk would be a better option for him, as unused to actually appearing in front of people he was.
So, naturally, he had applied for Cerulean Inn's front desk position.
It could be interesting, he thought; I'll gather data, he thought. As it turned out, the hotel manager didn't actually appreciate his badgering of the guests for answers. His job, as he was sternly reminded, was to answer the questions presented to him by customers of the establishment. Well, certainly that would be easy. It was what he did back home!
"These people are extremely unexciting," Philip soon found himself mumbling, slipping another bit of food down to the Porygon hiding below. It beeped--first in appreciation of the snack, and then again in a tone that suggested it agreed with him. "They do not have the same intriguing thought processes as those back home. I am beginning to see that Aki-chan was truly a genius." He'd been approached with the question 'are the breakfasts here continental' at least four times, now, and no matter how dull he found this, he still hadn't figured out what the heck it meant. Continents were masses of land--did they wish for the food at the inn to be clearly separated by spaces on the plate, as the continents were by the ocean? Perhaps it was a question of whether the food was brought in from the different regions on this strange planet. Either way, it wasn't long before the kitchen staff came to complain about how he just kept sending these people back to ask them instead.
He truly was horrible at this whole 'employment' thing, it seemed.