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Nobita Nobi | Doraemon | Not Reserved, Re-app

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Player
Name: GrayGriffin/Gray
Personal Journal: graygriffin
E-mail: doom.griffin@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: None
Timezone: GMT-8
Current Characters in Route: None

Character
Name: Nobita Nobi
Series: Doraemon
Timeline: After the 24th movie
Canon Resource Links:
Wikipedia page
Fan-made wiki
TV Tropes page (has info on the various movies)

Personality: Most of the traits you get from Nobita at first glance are certainly negative ones. He doesn't like to fight at all, and mostly tries to run away from bullies. He's often late to school, and sleeps in class a lot, so he naturally gets low grades. And his attempts to run away from bullies or get to school on time are hindered by his natural clumsiness and lack of athletic ability.

However, Nobita actually has an adventurous streak, as well as a courage one would not expect of him. When his friends are threatened, he immediately steps up to protect them. Not only that, but he has also been known to stand up to the local bully when the safety of others is at stake, or he is just angry enough. Once he gets into protective mode, his cowardliness seems to disappear almost like magic, and he will act almost fearless in defense of his friends-especially Shizuka, his love interest.

Nobita is also not as stupid as he looks. While he's definitely lazy, he can actually do quite well on his schoolwork if properly motivated, possibly by one of Doraemon's gadgets. He's also shown an ability to think up clever plans for dealing with various enemies, from alien viruses capable of possessing all sorts of objects to evil demons from alternate dimensions.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
Shooting: Nobita is a really, really good shot. In one of the movies, he shot a single tin can with all six bullets from one gun. Unfortunately, this skill isn't really useful in his daily life.

Cat's Cradle: Nobita is also very skilled with the Cat's Cradle game. This is even more useless, but he has used it to endear him to others several times.

Falling asleep: Nobita can fall asleep anytime, anywhere, just by counting to three. Yeah...it's still useful at times though, considering all the weird places he's been.

Used to dealing with weird things: After all the weird things he's seen in the movie stories, he's less likely to be surprised by anything. Sure, he may still be frightened, but he now knows how to deal with all sorts of dangers.

Adventurous: Nobita actually loves adventure a lot. Sure, he loves it even more when nothing dangerous actually happens, but there's just a part of him that loves exploring.

Loyalty: Nobita is extremely loyal to his friends. Threaten one of them, and he will do his best to stop that threat. This applies to everyone, even people he's just met who seem nice.

Sense of justice: Nobita has a strong sense of right and wrong, and when given the choice, will always choose the path of right. He'll never do questionable moral acts, no matter the gain to him.

Befriending animals: Nobita seems to be very good at befriending animals of all sorts. He just acts kind to them, and they usually repay him.

Weaknesses
Laziness: A lot of the things Nobita decides not to do, he decides not to do because he's too lazy to. He'd rather just sleep or lie around and read comics, thank you very much.

Cowardice: Most of the time, Nobita is a coward, who would rather run away from a threat than face it. However...see "Loyalty," above.

Clumsiness: Nobita is clumsy all the time. If there is something that can be tripped over, he will trip over it.

Dependence on Doraemon: Most of the time, Nobita will ask Doraemon for a solution to any problem that appears. He has shown the ability to be independent, but most of the time prefers to rely on the futuristic robotic cat.

Tenderheartedness: Nobita is rather tenderhearted, and he can't resist helping an animal in trouble, even if he ends up in trouble for his assistance.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Absol
Password: Scrambled Eggs

Samples
First Person Sample:
[The video that appears on screen shows nothing but blackness. However, Nobita's voice can be clearly heard.]

Tamashii! I thought I'd never see you again! I couldn't stop thinking about you, and Piisuke, and Sobo, and Horu, and Piikayu! Wait...why are only you here?

[There is the sound of sudden rustling, and the Pokegear is pulled out of Nobita's pocket and held so that viewers can see his face.]

Hi everyone! Nobi Nobita is back! [He strikes a pose to show just how cool he is.]

And has anyone seen my other Pokemon? They must be so scared and alone right now! I'd be so happy if you could help!

Third Person Sample:
Nobita tapped his foot impatiently at the console. His Pokemon were going to be sent over! At last! Part of him wondered why he didn't miss his friends as much anymore. Maybe because this time he knew there was a way back? Even if he still wasn't quite sure what that way actually was.

However, right now, the friends he wanted to see were his Pokemon friends. As he waited impatiently, a set of Pokeballs finally appeared, and he quickly grabbed them, before running outside to release them. Immediately, he was almost completely buried in a swarm of affection.

"Sobo! Horu! You've grown so much! You're not babies anymore, are you?" he cooed affectionately at the Darumaka clinging to his chest and the Diglett snuggled against his knee. "You're such good children, waiting for me all this time!"

A pair of stingers tapped his shoulder lightly, while a damp weight laid itself on his other shoulder. "Hehe!" he laughed. "Don't worry, Piikayu, Piisuke, I haven't forgotten about you either! You looked after each other, right? I'm so glad..." Tears were visibly trickling down his face now, and he didn't even care.

"Oh, I missed you. I missed all of you so much..."

Tamashii, who had been sitting somewhat to the side, also moved closer now, and Nobita happily pulled her into the cuddle-pile. He was back. And he had an adventure to go on too!

"Come on guys! There's still so much stuff we didn't do before the first time I disappeared! And now we need to hurry up and get it done!" He straightened himself up, his Pokemon slowly disentangling themselves from his body. After replacing Piisuke in his Pokeball, the boy grinned and set out on the next path. It was surprising, how different it was to return to a place, even if your method of arrival had been exactly the same.

PENDING

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Before we let Nobita back in, we'd like to see a revised personality section. We know there's more to him than meets the eye, so we'd like you to expand a bit more on what makes him tick, especially since his series has gone on for so long. Currently you've touched on his laziness, loyalty and his hidden intelligence, but we'd like you to go deeper, mainly to show his motivations, his thoughts and feelings about himself and the world around him. You have one week to complete this request until the character is available again.

REVISED PERSONALITY SECTION

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Most of the traits you get from Nobita at first glance are certainly negative ones. He doesn't like to fight at all, and mostly tries to run away from bullies. He's often late to school, and sleeps in class a lot, so he naturally gets low grades. And his attempts to run away from bullies or get to school on time are hindered by his natural clumsiness and lack of athletic ability.

However, Nobita actually has an adventurous streak, as well as a courage one would not expect of him. When his friends are threatened, he immediately steps up to protect them. Not only that, but he has also been known to stand up to the local bully when the safety of others is at stake, or he is just angry enough. Once he gets into protective mode, his cowardliness seems to disappear almost like magic, and he will act almost fearless in defense of his friends-especially Shizuka, his love interest.

Shizuka can also be a motivator for more mundane things. Plenty of times, he has done ridiculous stuff to impress her, even if his attempts backfire at times. At other times, he can end up promising to do something ridiculous simply due to being unwilling to back down on something simple, or bragging too hard about his own skills. For example, an argument about whether or not there were wolf packs in Japan once ended up with him going up into the mountains to hunt wolves on his own. From this, it can be seen that he does have some pride, and will try to keep any promises he makes, unless doing so would hurt more people. To continue the previous example, upon discovering that the wolves were just trying to keep their family intact, he immediately stopped his attempts.

Nobita is also not as stupid as he looks. While he's definitely lazy, he can actually do quite well on his schoolwork if properly motivated, possibly by one of Doraemon's gadgets. He's also shown an ability to think up clever plans for dealing with various enemies, from alien viruses capable of possessing all sorts of objects to evil demons from alternate dimensions. He does seem to do poorer with regards to book-based knowledge, but pointing out this fact tends to upset him a lot.

All of Nobita's friends are very important to him, whether they are the ones he has grown up with or ones he encounters on his journeys. Despite some friction at times, he still considers Gian and Suneo, the neighborhood bullies, to be his friends, and is usually willing to offer help to them when they ask. In fact, the one he is least likely to offer help to would actually be Dekisugi, his possibly unaware rival for Shizuka's attentions. As for those he befriends on his journeys, he has always promised to remember them, and has considered all of them just as precious, no matter if they are human, robot, or animal, and no matter if he ever sees them again or not.

Nobita's neighborhood in general is very precious to him as well. He has been shown to get upset whenever the wild areas near it are threatened, and has always tried to either drive the encroachers off or preserve what he can. Nobita has a great love for nature in general, and is often seen trying to befriend animals. He is usually successful.

Since Nobita can time travel, he has gotten to see several historic events and people up close and personal. However, this has often resulted in great sorrow for him, since he and his friends are apparently unable to change great events in the past-when they went back in time to the Titanic, it still ended up sinking, even though they defeated the extradimensional monster causing it to sink. However, because of this, he is often motivated by those events-he once met a great Japanese baseball player who would later die in a war bombing attack, and was actually able to win a baseball game thanks to said baseball player's encouragement, and his own determination. Also, it seems that he can change little things, as he was able to resurrect Shizuka's dead dog. Because of this, he hasn't completely despaired on time travel yet, and still hasn't taken the pessimistic view that "some things can't be changed." If he thinks he can help, he will.

ACCEPTED

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