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these_balls) wrote2010-04-27 11:40 pm
these_balls) wrote2010-04-27 11:40 pm
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Understand the secrets and have some fun
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Character
Name: Snake
Series: Kuroshitsuji
Timeline: Chapter 52, right after he's told that he should “Straighten up and have some confidence”.
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Kuroshitsuji
Personality: Snake is extremely shy. It takes him time to warm up to people, having gotten used to people seeing him as nothing more than a freak. He doesn't give his trust very easily to people because he has been hurt so many times in the past. Once he does decide to put his faith into someone he is loyal, even if he won't open up completely. He also doesn't always share everything he knows. He doesn't warn the rest of the first-tier members when Ciel and Sebastian look through the tents, and when the first-tier members go missing, he doesn't offer much information to the other members, letting them figure what to do on their own. He was grieving and dislikes being relied on by others, so he left instead of answering their questions well. He can also be playful at times. He sometimes comes off as sarcastic, and he even flirts with Dagger through Emily.
He has never had a great number of friends besides his snakes, so when he does have a friend, they are that much more precious to him. He feels awkward in front of strange people and in busy places. He's extremely self-conscious because of his appearance and believes that he won't fit into normal society because of it. While it might not deeply upset him, he does wish he could be accepted by people for who he is. Because of how shy he is, almost every time he says something, he is actually speaking for one of his snakes. His snakes are loyal to him, and help him out by being his voice as much as their own voice. Each one of his snakes also has a simple, if distinct, personality of their own as I will expand on in "anything else".
Snake does speak for himself a few times, including when he says, "It's lonely being by yourself...." Even when accompanied by his snakes, without a human connection he feels extremely lonely. This loneliness and his loyalty was serious enough that the next story arc- a lock-door murder mystery- was actually set off because Snake had sent in one of his snakes to try to kill Ciel. Normally he is shy and reserved, but that loss was strong enough to drive Snake to attempt murder. Two of the other few times he has spoken for himself, it has been about how good the food on the ship tasted, showing his own personal appreciation for the luxury of fine food, as well as his kindness and how loyal he is to his snakes when he decides to share it with them.
Even with the hardships he has had, he keeps hope alive, even if it falters sometimes. He would rather take action than just lay back and let things happen. The one problem with that is that he doesn't always go out of his way to ask what is going on, so he is easily left out of things.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Snake has a very strong sense of compassion and loyalty. He can easily be fooled into doing things by people, but he also has a sense of right and wrong. Sometimes his loyalty and sense of right and wrong will not line up, and he tends to lean towards inaction over trying things. He waits for the right moment before doing something, but that can also get him in trouble. His patience is also a strength, as he won’t rush things that shouldn’t be.
He also is capable of speaking to snakes in Kuroshitsuji (as speaking with animals is the only ability able to be carried over), but, as discussed above, he rarely speaks for himself, so his own opinions and thoughts are often overshadowed and hard to discern. He is also excellent with espionage-style work. He is good at moving silently, and with his history in the circus he has related skills. Also, because of the nature of his life on the road he is rather used to travel. He slept in a rather nice private tent, but he is shown to once have no more than a cage to live in and perfectly comfortable with travelling across England with ease. He can also understand his snakes and get covert reports from them. He is also well-read, preferring to name his snakes after the names of famous authors.
Having scaled skin also means most superficial blemishes will not last long and instead be shed, but his scales can also get irritated by certain clothes or if he lets his skin get too dry (but that is only likely to happen if he needs to wear clothes that irritate him too much, as his skin creates oils like everyone elses’). He doesn’t seem to have much in the way of fears, aside from concern about his friends getting hurt, but that ties in closely with his loyalty. His eyes also have slit-irises that allow him to see better in low light. These physical abnormalities also make him very recognizable. (I should note that there is no direct evidence for how easily irritated his scales get, but I consider the patches to be a simplified drawing method and the scales to cover all of his skin as his skin tone, making them not as obvious as they would be if patterned. Having scales in that manner would mean they are likely to function in the same way a snake’s scales would. I would also suspect venom would not affect him very much, but I hope to not need to consider that until canon gives a hint one way or the other on the subject.)
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Ekans@ Lvl 15, Seviper @ Lvl 5
Password: Ginger Snaps
Samples
First Person Sample: [Snake looks at the device curiously. He still isn’t used to the idea of it, but he’d heard that it was useful for interacting with people. He was worried how people would react to him still, but with an Ekans draped around his shoulders and a Seviper protectively coiled around him he felt a great deal more confidant.
It still takes him a while to decide what to say, and he listens carefully to each of his pokemon before finally saying something.]
“Why do people have pokemon battles? Do other pokemon really like battles?” asks Ruskin.
[He might not have said it yet, but the Seviper’s nickname was Ruskin. He wasn’t planning on giving any further explanation about his speaking habits, or who he is either, at least not until he is asked. He was always a little vague with whether he was just translating, or if he was expressing his own thoughts using the names of his friends to hide how shy he was.]
Third Person Sample: It had been three weeks since he arrived. Three long weeks. Two training, one desperately trying to figure out how to leave this wretched group, but a snake larger than him was thrilled with the team. Excited about their missions. Encouraging him in their search for sufficient Pokèmon to give to their boss. Ruskin, his Seviper, was far more interested in finding Zangoose to fight and even sometimes eat.
He preferred Ruskin's line of thought to his Ekans', John, but to survive he would need to do just that, or it seemed that way. If having an upset snake that could eat you whole wasn't bad enough, he would end up having trouble for his entire time here if he betrayed the group, the jail time only a part of the trouble. He would have told the police if his Ekans wasn't so good at warning him about their every approach.
Time was growing close to the due date and he hadn't yet had the heart to steal from anyone. All the trainers he found loved their Pokèmon too much. He couldn't bare to part them, even if he didn't completely agree with the methods of training. At least John and Ruskin both seemed eager to get into battles and have fun with them, even though they'd get hurt.
He just needed to find someone with freshly caught Pokèmon that they did not yet have connections with, or even a snake Pokèmon he could convince to join him. Maybe with John he could at least catch his own, but John was pretty insistent on stealing one.
It hurt him that somehow his dear Ekans seemed so cheerful about the horrible things they wished of him, stealing poor pokemon from poor people that loved them. It was despicable, but he could only wonder what he could do to escape their grasp. He would do what he must, hunt what he needed to, but only until he could find some way that was better than this. Some way to help John, maybe even the other pokèmon trained by the rockets. Whatever it was he could do. But he would need to wait to do that.
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