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aprilshadows) wrote2020-05-27 12:23 am
aprilshadows) wrote2020-05-27 12:23 am
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Player Info:
Name: sarah
Over 18?: yes
Contact: PM this journal/Sarah#1309 on Discord
Character Info
Name: Chikage Utsuki
Canon: A3!
Canon Point: After Part 2/Act 8 of the Main Story
Age: 26
Background: ( warning for major spoilers for Part 2 up ahead! )
Not much is known about Chikage's early life - all we know that he had a rough childhood, no real family to speak of, was picked up by August and the Organization sometime in his youth, and that for the time that he was in the Organization, he was named April. He served as an agent for the Organization together with August and December, running missions in various countries and adopting various identities each time. Prior to the start of the story, April, August and December are assigned a mission in Japan.
That particular mission goes horribly wrong - it ends up with August dead and December missing, and April vowing revenge for August's death because December's convenient disappearance paints his guilt as a traitor to the Organisation and what led to this entire fiasco.
And that's how we meet Apr-- now Chikage Utsuki in the story - presented as one of Itaru Chigasaki's seniors at work, asking to audition for a position in Mankai Company's Spring Troupe, having tracked December (now Hisoka Mikage) to Mankai Company's Winter Troupe.
Having passed the audition, Chikage is casted as the lead for Spring Troupe's fourth play. Rehearsals are underway, everything is perfectly normal, life goes on.
(Or does it.)
Consumed with rage and grief but not allowed to mourn and made to loathe instead, Chikage is set on destroying Hisoka's new family as revenge for causing Chikage to lose his. Having infiltrated Mankai Company, Chikage ends up kidnapping the Director in an attempt to destroy the emotional centre holding the entire theatre company together and thereby destroying the place that Hisoka now calls home.
When Hisoka goes to confront Chikage, the truth is eventually revealed that someone else in the Organization was probably the traitor and that August had intended for December to live instead. With this revelation, Chikage's world is completely shattered, although it doesn't take much for Hisoka and the Director both to convince Chikage to return to Mankai and stand on stage for Spring Troupe's performance.
Chikage sorts out his feelings through conversations with Sakuya and the rest of Spring Troupe, and eventually comes to terms with August's death. Having confessed to Mankai that he was responsible for the Director's disappearance earlier, but yet facing minimal condemnation from them, Chikage's relief and guilt causes him to vow to protect his new family from any danger from within and to fulfil August's last wishes - to allow Hisoka to live freely.
Following this major character arc, Chikage keeps to that promise the best that he can, getting involved with Mankai's affairs more closely, including having to fly to Zahra (a fictional vaguely-Middle Eastern kingdom) to rescue one of his Spring Troupe members and committing acts of vague criminality along the way.
Personality: When we first meet Chikage, he appears to be perfectly normal - charming, sociable and polite, with the kind of personality that allows him to connect with most people instantly. Within hours of his audition into Mankai Company, Chikage seems to have established a rapport with Spring Troupe, wowing his audience with coin tricks and general showmanship.
However, not all is as it seems - pick apart that genial, charming exterior and a much darker side of Chikage surfaces.
Arguably, the Organization, while saving him in his youth, cultivated the darker side of Chikage's personality - perfect for a secret agent masquerading as a perfectly ordinary salaryman. Manipulative and calculative, Chikage spins tall tales and lies with a smile (truth is weakness, after all), smoothly enough that no one really can tell whether he's lying or if he's telling the truth. He's been called enigmatic and mysterious, unfathomable even, but that's only because Chikage keeps people at arm's length at best and walls them off completely at worst, even if he can connect with them on a superficial level. He's the kind of person who you could be talking to for an hour and realise that you never really learned anything substantial about him at all, as Spring Troupe find out when they're interviewing Chikage about him to be able to write his character as a lead role for their play. The only thing of note that they find out is that Chikage likes curry. Seriously.
With his poison tongue and general aloofness when dealing with people, especially those who he is unfamiliar with, Chikage has difficulty with expressing emotions and empathising with people. This causes his interactions with people to sometimes seem superficial or hollow as a result as pointed out by the Director when critiquing his acting - Sakuya even makes a comment that he feels like Chikage doesn't look directly at him like he's a human when they start acting together, even though he's perfectly cordial to Sakuya during their coin toss battles. He's not the best at caring for people - words of affection are given a sharp edge by how blunt he can be, and his attempts at connecting with people are clumsy and awkward at times.
For Chikage's general inability to express emotions, that's not to say that Chikage is emotionless. He can be prone to displays of emotions in his most unguarded moments, when the emotions well up to be a force stronger than what he can hold back behind his mask. Despite how impassive he can come across as, how he treats people as variables for his plans, there's no denying that Chikage is driven by extreme emotion - grief and hate in the wake of losing both August and December in one fell swoop, for instance; guilt and the desire for penance in the wake of returning to Mankai Company - and any subsequent rational thoughts or decisions that Chikage makes is governed by that emotion.
Admittedly, Chikage's training as an Organization operative has also instilled in him a ruthless side, one that culminates in his plan to kidnap the Director and destroy Mankai Company. On the flip side, for the select few that have managed to break through his walls and gained his trust, that ruthless nature manifests itself as a fiercely protective one, and you can bet that Chikage can and will go through hell and high water to protect them, even if it means being one with the shadows and doing Questionable Things. One of the values that August taught him and that Chikage now holds closely to his heart is that the happiness of his family is more important than his own. It's why he's willing, even if it's awkward, to try and indulge his other troupemates, such as picking up and playing through an RPG game so that he can talk about it with Itaru, or making triangle-shaped onigiri for Misumi even though he thinks that Misumi's triangle obsession is kind of bizarre.
Ultimately, though, Chikage is a broken man who is learning how to heal and finding where he belongs, and Mankai is only the beginning of that journey.
Powers: Chikage is a normal human being with no supernatural powers whatsoever.
(Haha, maybe.)
Jokes aside, Chikage is probably a little bit more hardy and durable than a normal human being by virtue of his training as an agent from the Organization. Known skills that he has exhibited in-canon include:
→ Hand-to-hand combat
→ Specialization in information gathering and observation
→ Infiltration and assumption of fictitious identities
→ General knowledge of machinery, enough to be able to fix items that are broken
→ Amateur magic/sleight of hand tricks
→ Knowing multiple languages (including Japanese and Zahran)
→ Code breaking
Itaru says that Chikage is an OP Level 100 Cheat Character and I absolutely agree.
Inventory:
→ a packet of Zahran spices
→ his laptop
→ a pocket knife that's definitely much sharper than it looks
→ his phone
Name: sarah
Over 18?: yes
Contact: PM this journal/Sarah#1309 on Discord
Character Info
Name: Chikage Utsuki
Canon: A3!
Canon Point: After Part 2/Act 8 of the Main Story
Age: 26
Background: ( warning for major spoilers for Part 2 up ahead! )
Not much is known about Chikage's early life - all we know that he had a rough childhood, no real family to speak of, was picked up by August and the Organization sometime in his youth, and that for the time that he was in the Organization, he was named April. He served as an agent for the Organization together with August and December, running missions in various countries and adopting various identities each time. Prior to the start of the story, April, August and December are assigned a mission in Japan.
That particular mission goes horribly wrong - it ends up with August dead and December missing, and April vowing revenge for August's death because December's convenient disappearance paints his guilt as a traitor to the Organisation and what led to this entire fiasco.
And that's how we meet Apr-- now Chikage Utsuki in the story - presented as one of Itaru Chigasaki's seniors at work, asking to audition for a position in Mankai Company's Spring Troupe, having tracked December (now Hisoka Mikage) to Mankai Company's Winter Troupe.
Having passed the audition, Chikage is casted as the lead for Spring Troupe's fourth play. Rehearsals are underway, everything is perfectly normal, life goes on.
(Or does it.)
Consumed with rage and grief but not allowed to mourn and made to loathe instead, Chikage is set on destroying Hisoka's new family as revenge for causing Chikage to lose his. Having infiltrated Mankai Company, Chikage ends up kidnapping the Director in an attempt to destroy the emotional centre holding the entire theatre company together and thereby destroying the place that Hisoka now calls home.
When Hisoka goes to confront Chikage, the truth is eventually revealed that someone else in the Organization was probably the traitor and that August had intended for December to live instead. With this revelation, Chikage's world is completely shattered, although it doesn't take much for Hisoka and the Director both to convince Chikage to return to Mankai and stand on stage for Spring Troupe's performance.
Chikage sorts out his feelings through conversations with Sakuya and the rest of Spring Troupe, and eventually comes to terms with August's death. Having confessed to Mankai that he was responsible for the Director's disappearance earlier, but yet facing minimal condemnation from them, Chikage's relief and guilt causes him to vow to protect his new family from any danger from within and to fulfil August's last wishes - to allow Hisoka to live freely.
Following this major character arc, Chikage keeps to that promise the best that he can, getting involved with Mankai's affairs more closely, including having to fly to Zahra (a fictional vaguely-Middle Eastern kingdom) to rescue one of his Spring Troupe members and committing acts of vague criminality along the way.
Personality: When we first meet Chikage, he appears to be perfectly normal - charming, sociable and polite, with the kind of personality that allows him to connect with most people instantly. Within hours of his audition into Mankai Company, Chikage seems to have established a rapport with Spring Troupe, wowing his audience with coin tricks and general showmanship.
However, not all is as it seems - pick apart that genial, charming exterior and a much darker side of Chikage surfaces.
Arguably, the Organization, while saving him in his youth, cultivated the darker side of Chikage's personality - perfect for a secret agent masquerading as a perfectly ordinary salaryman. Manipulative and calculative, Chikage spins tall tales and lies with a smile (truth is weakness, after all), smoothly enough that no one really can tell whether he's lying or if he's telling the truth. He's been called enigmatic and mysterious, unfathomable even, but that's only because Chikage keeps people at arm's length at best and walls them off completely at worst, even if he can connect with them on a superficial level. He's the kind of person who you could be talking to for an hour and realise that you never really learned anything substantial about him at all, as Spring Troupe find out when they're interviewing Chikage about him to be able to write his character as a lead role for their play. The only thing of note that they find out is that Chikage likes curry. Seriously.
With his poison tongue and general aloofness when dealing with people, especially those who he is unfamiliar with, Chikage has difficulty with expressing emotions and empathising with people. This causes his interactions with people to sometimes seem superficial or hollow as a result as pointed out by the Director when critiquing his acting - Sakuya even makes a comment that he feels like Chikage doesn't look directly at him like he's a human when they start acting together, even though he's perfectly cordial to Sakuya during their coin toss battles. He's not the best at caring for people - words of affection are given a sharp edge by how blunt he can be, and his attempts at connecting with people are clumsy and awkward at times.
For Chikage's general inability to express emotions, that's not to say that Chikage is emotionless. He can be prone to displays of emotions in his most unguarded moments, when the emotions well up to be a force stronger than what he can hold back behind his mask. Despite how impassive he can come across as, how he treats people as variables for his plans, there's no denying that Chikage is driven by extreme emotion - grief and hate in the wake of losing both August and December in one fell swoop, for instance; guilt and the desire for penance in the wake of returning to Mankai Company - and any subsequent rational thoughts or decisions that Chikage makes is governed by that emotion.
Admittedly, Chikage's training as an Organization operative has also instilled in him a ruthless side, one that culminates in his plan to kidnap the Director and destroy Mankai Company. On the flip side, for the select few that have managed to break through his walls and gained his trust, that ruthless nature manifests itself as a fiercely protective one, and you can bet that Chikage can and will go through hell and high water to protect them, even if it means being one with the shadows and doing Questionable Things. One of the values that August taught him and that Chikage now holds closely to his heart is that the happiness of his family is more important than his own. It's why he's willing, even if it's awkward, to try and indulge his other troupemates, such as picking up and playing through an RPG game so that he can talk about it with Itaru, or making triangle-shaped onigiri for Misumi even though he thinks that Misumi's triangle obsession is kind of bizarre.
Ultimately, though, Chikage is a broken man who is learning how to heal and finding where he belongs, and Mankai is only the beginning of that journey.
Powers: Chikage is a normal human being with no supernatural powers whatsoever.
(Haha, maybe.)
Jokes aside, Chikage is probably a little bit more hardy and durable than a normal human being by virtue of his training as an agent from the Organization. Known skills that he has exhibited in-canon include:
→ Hand-to-hand combat
→ Specialization in information gathering and observation
→ Infiltration and assumption of fictitious identities
→ General knowledge of machinery, enough to be able to fix items that are broken
→ Amateur magic/sleight of hand tricks
→ Knowing multiple languages (including Japanese and Zahran)
→ Code breaking
Itaru says that Chikage is an OP Level 100 Cheat Character and I absolutely agree.
Inventory:
→ a packet of Zahran spices
→ his laptop
→ a pocket knife that's definitely much sharper than it looks
→ his phone