Wonderful Worlds App (in progress)

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Player

Name: Bookie
Personal Journal: sozettaslow
Contact Info: email: wizard23229@yahoo.com; aim: bookworm1208; plurk: bookworm12890
Timezone: EST
Characters Played: N/A

Character

Name: Neku Sakuraba
Source: The World Ends With You (OU)
Type: Reaper (Going with the idea that the ban from future Games actually counted so it was Reaperdom or Erasure. If that doesn't work, let me know!)
Canon Point: Post secret-ending.
History: http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Neku_Sakuraba
Personality:
One of the most obvious traits Neku possesses is that he’s a loner. At the beginning of the game, he doesn’t play well with others, doesn’t trust them, doesn’t want to get to know them, and certainly doesn’t want to be around them. This changes through the course of the Game- he learns to open up to others, figures out he has to rely on and trust them, and manages to make friends. However, his patience for stupidity and general annoyances is still pretty low, and he isn’t about to go out and befriend everyone in Shibuya.

Related to this is the fact that Neku can seem abrasive to people. He puts up a cold front most of the time, and even when people get to know him what he says and how he says things can make him very standoff-ish. That fact that he is remarkably stubborn can either hurt him or help him too. On the one hand, if he wants to get something done, he will do almost anything (just short of killing a friend) in order to make that happen. On the other hand, it can just add to his abrasiveness, especially when the aim is to get someone to leave him alone.

One of the biggest themes in the game is trust, which is something Neku initially had a lot of trouble with. Now, however, it’s very important to him. He still doesn’t trust easily, but when you get that trust from him it’s unbreakable. He is fiercely loyal to the people he cares about. This doesn’t stop him from wanting to kill them when they do things he doesn’t like, but if someone is one of those few people they could say ‘do you trust me?’ and shut him up pretty quickly.

Something touched on (remarkably briefly) in the game is that Neku is very intelligent. (He has the square root of 3 memorized.) He’s also very appreciative of the arts, though he sometimes uses that to isolate himself from other people, namely by blasted music through his headphones.

Overall, Neku has a good heart, and when given reason to care, will act. Even though he gets annoyed with stupidity quickly, he’s willing to put up with and tolerate more than he would have before entering the Game. He doesn’t like a lot of people, but still respects that they have their own right to exist and have their own beliefs and dreams. He values his friends very highly, and ‘trust your partner’ has become a sort of mantra for him. He’s not perfect yet, not by any means, but is more willing than he once was to let his world grow, which he knows he can only do by opening up to others.

Abilities:
Neku is a 'psych genius,' meaning he can use all the pins ever. No, seriously. He also has a Player Pin, which has three main uses: scanning for Noise (monsters), reading people’s surface thoughts, and ‘imprinting’ a word or idea into people’s heads to get them to think about it. It also protects him from having his thoughts read or being imprinted on. (Not sure if he'd still have that since. Reaper. But he got that extra one from Josh, so maybe?) He’s a pretty smart kid, and after three weeks of being in a life-or-death game, he has decent running stamina. He also really appreciates the arts, and may idolize his favorite artist and want to be able to do all the things he does. Maybe. He's not a raging fanboy or anything, promise.

Entry Fee: His sanity N/A

Starting Pin: If he doesn't get to keep his massive pin collection (which would be sad, but hey, he knows where to get everything now), then he'll start with Blue Blood Burns Blue. Yay, setting things on fire. Blue fire.

Samples:
In which Neku is a good friend (though he doesn't realize how much).