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[hierophany]

▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: chesca
CONTACT: oglops
OVER 18? yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Trish Una, Trevor Belmont

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Noriaki Kakyoin
CANON: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
CANON POINT: the battle with Dio. He's on a water tower having a real bad time.
AGE: 17
BACKGROUND: But I'm different.

PERSONALITY: Can you say 'overcompensation'?

Kakyoin has been able to spell it since he was five, in Japanese and English. He can tell you the etymology of the word in four different languages and how and in which classical texts it's been used through history. He can play it in scrabble even though it's one letter too long for a scrabble board and it'll cover all three triple word score squares on one side and please, please like him. He doesn't know who he is if you don't like him. He's trying so hard.

It's not easy to maintain the image of perfection but Kakyoin has been maintaining it for a long, long time. Around most people, it's all he is. Clever, rehearsed, polite, well-groomed perfection is what he retreats into when he's uncomfortable, when he feels isolated, and he's felt isolated all his life. Born with a power known as a 'stand', he's always had a part of him belong to a world his peers and family can't see. Faced with having to come to the conclusion that either he is less than human or they are, he chose to believe that those without this power were beneath him. That if people refused to see him as he is then they should see him as perfect instead. It was a cycle. His isolation drove him to become proud. His pride drove him into isolation. He polished himself into the most shining example of a disaster that ever was. Perfected himself all the way into the grasp of a manipulative villain because the second he realised that he was only human and that there were things that he had never seen before, that he wasn't even close to the strongest thing in the world, he broke down.

He did terrible things under Dio's control, and very few of them can be blamed solely on Dio. Other characters maintained their nobility when under his influence. He had none to maintain, only the ragged remains of the idea that he was perfect and others were lesser.

And then that cycle of pride and isolation was broken. Once again he found people stronger than him, leaving his pride in ruins for the second time. But unlike Dio, they didn't want to manipulate him. He wasn't alone any more. For the last 50 days he's been trying to navigate what the hell that means for him. After seventeen years, he's encountered people who can see him as he really is and that means he has to define 'what he really is' in a hurry.

The first thing that he really is? Truly loyal. His thoughts are always of his newfound friends. Even when it's unclear whether he'll keep his eyesight. Even when he feels betrayed by those same friends. Even on the brink of death. His friends, especially his first friend, are the most important thing to him and he's willing to both die and kill for their sakes. The second thing follows on from this - he's desperate to be liked by the first people who've mattered to him. Having found people who he cares about, his immediate priority is to try to impress them with animal trivia, with knowledge of local customs of the places they visit, with creative uses of his powers and with his sheer ability to endure pain and hard work and not complain.

The third is that he's not the eternally pleasant, unshakable bastion of perfection that he's spent most of his life shaping himself into. He's actually kind of weird at best and capable of genuine cruelty and ruthlessness at worst. On the lighter side of things, this manifests most clearly in his relationship with his friend Polnareff. He's rude toward him, often unnecessarily, and sometimes borders on cruel. But he's also more casual with him than anyone else, feeling at his most comfortable with imperfection, childishness and generally acting like the teenager he is around him. On the darker side of things, this manifests in the ruthless way he faces villains. He's the first of the crusaders to kill in part 3 and he does so without so much as flinching. When he can't bring himself to kill, he's not above cruel and unusual punishment up to and including feeding a baby his own shit. He knows that this side of him exists, though he tends to assign blame for it elsewhere. First to Dio's control and then to his stand. It's noteworthy that Hierophant's onscreen actions largely consist of posing, looking concerned and holding on to other characters and yet Kakyoin describes him as something horrible and disgusting that takes joy in inflicting pain.

(Which is not to say he does not love his stand. He cares deeply for Hierophant Green. He just also makes a convenient scapegoat.)

As time goes on, his pride returns in a new, mostly healthier form. Though he'd happily have fought Dio just for the sake of his newfound friends, it's that that drives him when things get difficult. He submitted to fear once, and because of that he hurt the only people who've ever truly known him. It won't happen again.

POWERS/ABILITIES:

Hierophant Green

Kakyoin is a stand user, which means he possesses a cool imaginary friend known as a stand. His stand, Hierophant Green, is invisible to normal people and has a frankly ill-defined power set that involves-

-It's made of tentacles
Despite being humanoid in shape by 'default', Hierophant's true form is a whole lot of tentacles. It can unravel itself to form traps, investigate wide areas quickly, spiderman around and generally control an area. While it's not strictly canon, I'm also gonna say they can be used for LEWD THINGS because this is a kissing game.

-Possession
Hierophant can crawl into people's bodies and just kind of hang out there and puppet them around. It's gross. Initially he claimed that he couldn't withdraw himself without harming the victim, but later he demonstrated that he could totally do this and he's just a filthy liar.

-Creates and throws rocks
Hierophant can use an attack that Kakyoin called Emerald Splash. He doesn't have to pose while doing this but usually feels the need to do so anyway. Emerald Splash creates emeralds and throws them at things. It's not one of the stronger attacks in Jojo, but it can be combined with Hierophant's unravelled form to create traps that shoot rocks when triggered.

Outside of his stand's abilities, he's clever, athletic, full of random facts about any possible subject, makes excellent pancakes and he's also pretty good at video games.

INVENTORY:
-Rad gamer shades
-A very menacing creepy doll of himself
-A knife, apparently smaller than a very small penis
-One very fashionable scarf to be worn in two episodes and never seen again
-Very cleavage-y pajamas

MOONBLESSING: Iris

▶ SAMPLES

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