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[househusband]

Player Information
Name: Gabe
Personal Journal: skaldadottir
AIM/Email: facingira | facingira@gmail.com
Plurk: skaldadottir
Age: 22
Current Characters: N/A

Character Information
Name: Ran
Canon: Clover
Canon Point: Post Fairy Park.
Age: Unknown (approx. 10-11; physically (and, to most extents, mentally) in his early twenties)
Gender: Male


History: Though Ran's family history is mostly unknown, it is known that at a young age, he and two brothers were taken in by the government of his world, ruled by five "wizards," people of great psychic power. The triplets were sorcerer children, meaning they were known to have great magical abilities.

The government project dealing with sorcerer children, called The Clover Leaf Project, ranked the children according to their power. The most powerful were the three- and four-leaf clovers. Ran and his brothers are the only three-leaf Clovers. Ran was given the letter C as a name, as he was the youngest; A was the eldest, and B the middle.

Three-leaf clovers are extremely powerful, to the point that it would take all five of the wizards to take on just one of them, and even then the results are questionable. For that reason they were placed together in a giant "cage," a horrifically plain, warehouse like structure. They could all easily escape, but chose not to, for they were too dangerous to be allowed out into the public.

Over the years, as they grew, A became extremely temperamental and possessive of Ran. It got to the point where A became so jealous of B for having any of Ran's attention that he killed the other boy. Shortly after, Ran ran away from the cage. The wizards sent a two-leaf clover by the name of Gingetsu out to track him down and bring him back.

A group of Black Ops attempted to kidnap Ran before Gingetsu got to him. Ran had slaughtered them all by the time the man got to him. However, he had used up all his energy doing so, and fainted.

Gingetsu took Ran home with him. After a conversation between Gingetsu, Ran, and the wizards, it was decided that it was too dangerous to keep A and Ran together, and Ran was allowed to stay with Gingetsu, as long as he never left. A came to find them, angry, and tried to kill Gingetsu, but Ran stopped him by threatening to kill himself. Ran convinced A that they had to live apart, because he would die if they went back to their cage. But they could not live together in the outside world, because the wizards wouldn't allow it.

A accepted it after extracting a promise that Ran would never love someone more than him, ever, and a threat that he would kill anyone Ran did.

After A left and Ran mourned what had passed between them, everything calmed down considerably. Ran started a new life (and at this point was christened Ran by Gingetsu, leaving behind the name of C). This was a moment of rebirth for him, a chance to live life (what little of it he had left, due to the condition mentioned below) as he wished to. Though it was still extremely limited, he refers to it later as being "free."

Ran never left Gingetsu's house, taking care of it while the man was away on military business. He occasionally used his powers and mechanical skills to assist Gingetsu or his friend, Kazuhiko, but mostly he was content to play househusband.

The only problem is that due to his powers, Ran ages rapidly outside of the cage, where his aging was either stunted or stopped. After two years with Gingetsu he physically aged from about age ten to his late teens, and only had three more years before he would die of old age.

Kazuhiko assumes there is a romantic relationship between Gingetsu and Ran, which the pair do not refute, though they do not ever make mention of it themselves.


Personality:
Anyone meeting Ran will find him a kind, easy-going young man. He does have a dry sense of humor, but while he teases, he never uses it to belittle anyone in an unfriendly way. He looks out for his friends, willing to help them with whatever they need.

He nearly always seems optimistic and happy, but part of that is because he hides any worry or questionable knowledge he has until confronted about it. There is also the fact that he is somewhat of a fatalist. He accepted that he would die from the moment he left the cage he and his brother were kept in. For him leaving was not a matter of extending his life so much as finding a place he was happy before he died. He does not struggle against his fate or try to lengthen his life. In living with Gingetsu, he found a cage that he was happy in, and he is content to die there in peace.

However, he does show worry when it comes to his friends. They are the one thing aside from abject unhappiness that causes him to be proactive. They are part of his happiness, and he protects that dearly.

When he comes to have affection for someone, he loves very deeply. Even though he needed to get away from A to save himself, it is obvious after A visits him that he is heartbroken to do it.

Despite his helpful, gentle demeanor, Ran has a darker side as well. Once he has been pushed to the point that he is forced to act, he becomes extremely stubborn and cannot be dissuaded from his path. This shows most readily when after A kills B, he runs away from the cage. Not even A, the person he loves most, can keep him from leaving, even though he asks him to. When faced with people coming after him and trying to take him back, he takes no argument.

He shows no emotion in killing the Black Ops that come after him. If he perceives someone as a threat, he will kill easily and without guilt. His concern and protectiveness are reserved for those he loves or feels otherwise connected to, such as the other Clovers.

Though not naive by any means, Ran can be quite obviously unexperienced. For most of his life, his only company was his brothers; after the initial Clover project was completed, they were set in a cage by themselves and outside contact was rare.

Though his world opened up somewhat after he ran away, it was still nothing like freedom (though, to him, it was so different that he refers to it by the name). He could not leave Gingetsu's house. His only face-to-face contact with others was with Gingetsu himself or, on rare occasion, the people he brought to visit. His time with Gingetsu is rare, in and of itself, due to Gingetsu's military position, though he is at least often in contact with him during missions as a technical back-up.

He was not kept from sources such as the internet, however, which allowed him to experience much of the world by proxy. Basically this causes him to be a very extreme case of book-smarts over street-smarts, as he has plenty of knowledge but little applicable experience.


Abilities Information
Fighter or Sacrifice?: Sacrifice.
His reasons for being a sacrifice are two-fold: though he is mentioned as being a fatalist, when he makes decisions they are firm and unwavering; the other is that by nature and by choice he will choose to sacrifice himself over innocents. The first is seen when he runs away from the cage and refuses to return; the other is seen not long after, both when he tells the wizards that A wishes to attack them, and when he threatens to kill himself to keep A from killing Gingetsu.

Canon abilities: The abilities of a Clover are not completely explained in canon, but Ran and A (as A has identical abilities, as explicitly stated in canon):
able to hack and control almost any mechanical device.
can create functioning mechanical devices or items such as electrical lines out of thin air.
Teleporation of himself or others
highly-enhanced hearing
an emotional connection between Ran and his brother, A (allows them to feel whatever emotions the other is at any point in time, and also to track each other's movements).
Name: Thirdless


Samples
First Person:
Good afternoon.

I realize there are more important things to ask for, but as it seems we will be trapped here for a while: has anyone found a place that sells radios? The normal kind: I only want to be able to pick up stations. I don't have anything to trade, but I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thank you.


Third Person:
The process of getting “settled in,” as the guard had called it, had been a whirlwind for Ran. He had accepted it all quietly, taking in what information he could about the place he found himself. The entire situation had left him disoriented in more ways than one: the magic that had sung in his blood since he had been born had suddenly been dampened; he had been unaware of just how fully it had affected his interactions with the world until it was taken away. Everything sounded muffled, and from time to time he stumbled like someone having to relearn how to walk.

That, and he could not feel A.

The guard left him alone, rubbing at his left shoulder, in the small room that was to be his new home. He explored the small confines, testing the stove, the desktop, everything he could find, until there was nothing left to do but sit on the bed.

He had sat there for some time before it finally occurred to him that he could actually leave the room. In all of the rules that had been listed out for him, nothing said he had to stay here. Only that he had to stay within the confines of Gora.

His hand trembled ever so slightly as he turned the knob of his bedroom door, opening it a crack to peek out. There was no one in the hall. He slipped out, feeling somewhat as if he was doing something he knew was wrong, though it was a foolish reaction. Choosing a direction at random, he started to walk.

Ran explored the halls, occasionally passing other people, sometimes with guards, other times alone. It was strange to be in the presence of people he did not know; he was not normally shy, but he could think of nothing to say, so he kept to himself.

In the end his explorations brought him to the front door. His hands shuddered much worse than they had at his bedroom as he placed them on the bar that would open it, looking out of the glass set inside.

There was nothing stopping him from going outside, from standing in the sunshine, experiencing the cool winter air on his face.

They're not for me. Not ever.

He remembers the words he had spoken to Gingetsu as he stared out at the city below them.

Yet now...they could be.


Anything Else?
I'm just curious about the changes to his abilities (they'll be highly cut back, I'm sure), and how his rapid growth would be affected.