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morbirdinterest) wrote2013-11-21 10:46 am
morbirdinterest) wrote2013-11-21 10:46 am
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MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE PLOT OF HATOFUL BOYFRIEND, SPECIFICALLY THE BAD BOYS' LOVE ROUTE.
Said spoilers are much more fun when enjoyed in playthrough form, like oh sayplayerprophet's excellent playthrough, which includes all of the dating routes, extras, and minimal but on-point commentary. Do the dating routes first. Really.
Okay on to the app.
Character Name: Iwamine Shuu
Canon: Hatoful Boyfriend (from the "Bad Boys' Love" route)
Character Background:
The world of Hatoful Boyfriend is a post-apocalyptic world where birds have gained sentience and are the dominant lifeforms on earth while the human population has been decimated and lives in nature reserves. While it's currently a peaceful time, there are undercurrents of friction between birds and humans. In this post-apocalyptic wonderland was born a young Chukar partridge named (at the time) Ichijou Utsuro. Little Utsuro's parents were wealthy, well-known philanthropists and supporters of bird-human coexistence.
When Utsuro was still a chick, radical human terrorists attacked the high rise in which his family lived. He woke up in the hospital to find his parents dead, the right half of his body permanently nerve-damaged, and that he was now colorblind except for the color red. Utsuro eventually signed over his inheritance over to his relatives and vanished, resurfacing under the name Isa Souma, a young researcher in biological sciences who was a member of the radical Earth Crawlers terrorist group, which pushed for the annihilation of humans. He worked under Kawara Ryuuji, a brilliant but absent-minded scientist who he admired a great deal. Unfortunately, on a research trip Ryuuji fell sick and died. Regretting how he'd neglected his family for his work in the labs, Ryuuji made Shuu promise that, should he meet Ryuuji's son, he'd grant him a wish.
At some point after that he did in fact encounter Ryuuji's son, Ryouta, in circumstances that led Ryouta to wish for a peaceful world. Shuu, in his own morbid fashion, decided that he would grant Ryouta's wish by eradicating humans from the world. Publicly known as Iwamine Shuu, world-renowned pathologist, he worked as the school doctor in the famous St. Pigeonation's Institute, a prestigious academy. There he conducted horrible experiments on the unfortunate students, eventually refining a strain of bird flu that would kill humans through mere exposure. After inviting Ryouta to St. Pigeonation's, he secretly turned Ryouta into the vector for spreading the bird flu throughout the remnants of humankind, and then put his plan of human genocide into motion with the murder and dismemberment of Ryouta's human friend Tosaka Hiyoko (note: as the protagonist Hiyoko can technically have any name, but Tosaka Hiyoko is the default and is what I'll consider her true name).
The school was immediately enclosed in an impassable dome, and Shuu began the work of guiding Ryouta towards the fulfillment of his wish and of Shuu's plan. He manipulated Ryouta into following him to the supposedly-abandoned underground medical facility on the St. Pigeonation's grounds. There, upon learning that he had been the one to (unwittingly) kill Hiyoko, Ryouta gave in to Shuu's manipulations and agreed to his plans. He would have become the vector of human genocide had not his school friends arrived in the nick of time to save him with a sound JRPG turn-based beating. Back to his senses, he refused to go through with Shuu's plan, and Shuu acknowledged the end of his plans by showing Ryouta and his friends a safe way out of the dome for all the St. Pigeonation's students.
However, the story wasn't over yet—Nanaki Kazuaki, a seemingly harmless narcoleptic math teacher, shot Shuu several times in the left side of his body, revealing himself to be the brother of one of the students Shuu had experimented on long ago and obsessed with finding his brother's remains. Nanaki's mind was put at ease (sort of), and despite all he'd done, Shuu was eventually taken to a hospital to recuperate from his gunshot wounds, and was last seen being pushed around in a wheelchair by none other than Nanaki himself.
Character Personality:
Shuu is a creepy, morally bankrupt scientist who delights in frequently inhumane and awful research. Let's just put that on the table where everyone can see it. In his interactions with individuals he plays the creeper with gusto, with his evil laugh and penchant for casually requesting body parts for his cooperation. He keeps most people around him at arm's length out of distrust, warding people away either through his creepy demeanor or general irritability. Most people seem creeped out by him and stay away, which suits Shuu just fine. It seems that at some point in his young adult life he decided to just act like the morbid creeper he was all along without worrying about how offputting it was.
In terms of how he presents himself to others, aside from his overall creepiness, Shuu has a tendency to claim and present himself as a researcher. He says openly that research is the only thing he cares about and is implied to care very little about mundane concerns such as his living space, salary, or any kind of ethical boundary whatsoever so long as his superiors continue to fund whatever research he may wish to undertake, and he is definitely a workaholic. He is largely uncaring of what happens as a result of his research, preferring the purity of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, and will not shy away from brutally murdering anyone who threatens to expose his research or plans. Still, when the opportunity presents itself, he's perfectly fine with a bit of good old-fashioned blackmail or manipulation to secure the cooperation of individuals who might otherwise prove to be problems.
For the most part, Shuu's claims of being interested only in research and the pursuit of knowledge are true...unless someone he cares about gets concerned. For a person Shuu cares about deeply, he is moved to do extraordinary things—spend years attempting genocide, throw away that year-long attempt at genocide in order to commit suicide with his beloved (in his part of the dating portion of the game), allow himself to be constantly annoyed by hyperactive abominations of genetic engineering (in an AU side story)... Once someone manages to batter their way into Shuu's heart, they are seemingly there for good, and he will move heaven and earth to fulfill what he perceives as his obligation to that person (whether there is room in his heart for more than one person is debatable).
Shuu's feelings about his own capacity of feelings are self-awareness but also a kind of self-deprecation. The sense is that he would, perhaps, prefer not to have so many feelings about people, and that he would really, really, love to be the emotionless researcher that he claims to be and so often manages to be. Just as he is aware that he's a creeper, he's aware that the lengths to which he goes for loved ones are immense, but also rather pathetic in their own way, and can't stand to be pitied for how long he spent living in the shadow of his devotion to Ryuuji.
Overall, Shuu is a consciously creepy, morbid individual without any morals or ethics whatsoever, paranoid and mistrustful and really just kind of a manipulative dick, but his capacity for love is as terrifying in its depth as it is pathetic in its breadth.
Effects of memory loss:
Without memories, Shuu will be more like how he was when he was using the "Isa Souma" name—fussy, workaholic, grumpy but ultimately the responsible adult type and not overtly a terrible person. There'd be a couple differences: one is that he would naturally be missing a lot of barriers he'd put up between himself and others, and would attach to people much more easily (though not necessarily as extremely as he does to Ryuuji in canon). He'd also be lacking any filter or self-consciousness with regard to expressing creepy or morbid sentiments (i.e. he might casually state that he hopes to have the opportunity to dissect nonhuman teammates one day).
Personal area/item:
Item: butcher's cleaver
Area: a patch of millet or other seed-heavy grass (for feeding purposes) or, if this doesn't count as a building, a small modern infirmary, such as might be seen in a school, with or without supplies.
Sample:
It was quiet in the infirmary, which was how he preferred it. The medicines in their rows, the illegal, experimental medicines in their own rows, and no patients to annoy him or mess up his neat, pristine office.
The only sound of significance was Ryouta sleeping. Or rather, Ryouta lying unconscious and drugged as Shuu waited for his unfortunate human friend to arrive in search of him. He had gulped down the sedative without complaint, believing that it had merely been a new medicine Shuu had devised for his stomach. It was true, in a manner of speaking; the concoction was just the first step in Shuu's plan, which would ultimately result in Ryouta's stomach never bothering him again.
Ryouta tossed and turned in his sleep, wracked by uneasy dreams. Despite himself, Shuu found his thoughts drifting to Ryuuji's last days; his dull feathers, the persistent cough. Unlike his son, though, Ryuuji's final sleep in a hospital bed had been marked by the terrifying stillness of someone whose body was too weak to carry on.
Shuu shook off his thoughts. Now was not the time for maudlin reminisces, not with Operation Hatoful's completion so close at hand. Much depended on this afternoon. He busied himself with checking Ryouta's vital signs and then the time. School would almost be out for the day. Soon everything would be complete. Soon his obligation to Ryuuji would be fulfilled.
There was a knock on the infirmary door, the distinctly sharp, impatient knock and muffled shout that could only belong to a certain human girl, a specific Miss Tosaka. Shuu brushed a wing over Ryouta's forehead and allowed himself a private smile of anticipation as Miss Tosaka opened the door.
Said spoilers are much more fun when enjoyed in playthrough form, like oh say
playerprophet's excellent playthrough, which includes all of the dating routes, extras, and minimal but on-point commentary. Do the dating routes first. Really.Okay on to the app.
Character Name: Iwamine Shuu
Canon: Hatoful Boyfriend (from the "Bad Boys' Love" route)
Character Background:
The world of Hatoful Boyfriend is a post-apocalyptic world where birds have gained sentience and are the dominant lifeforms on earth while the human population has been decimated and lives in nature reserves. While it's currently a peaceful time, there are undercurrents of friction between birds and humans. In this post-apocalyptic wonderland was born a young Chukar partridge named (at the time) Ichijou Utsuro. Little Utsuro's parents were wealthy, well-known philanthropists and supporters of bird-human coexistence.
When Utsuro was still a chick, radical human terrorists attacked the high rise in which his family lived. He woke up in the hospital to find his parents dead, the right half of his body permanently nerve-damaged, and that he was now colorblind except for the color red. Utsuro eventually signed over his inheritance over to his relatives and vanished, resurfacing under the name Isa Souma, a young researcher in biological sciences who was a member of the radical Earth Crawlers terrorist group, which pushed for the annihilation of humans. He worked under Kawara Ryuuji, a brilliant but absent-minded scientist who he admired a great deal. Unfortunately, on a research trip Ryuuji fell sick and died. Regretting how he'd neglected his family for his work in the labs, Ryuuji made Shuu promise that, should he meet Ryuuji's son, he'd grant him a wish.
At some point after that he did in fact encounter Ryuuji's son, Ryouta, in circumstances that led Ryouta to wish for a peaceful world. Shuu, in his own morbid fashion, decided that he would grant Ryouta's wish by eradicating humans from the world. Publicly known as Iwamine Shuu, world-renowned pathologist, he worked as the school doctor in the famous St. Pigeonation's Institute, a prestigious academy. There he conducted horrible experiments on the unfortunate students, eventually refining a strain of bird flu that would kill humans through mere exposure. After inviting Ryouta to St. Pigeonation's, he secretly turned Ryouta into the vector for spreading the bird flu throughout the remnants of humankind, and then put his plan of human genocide into motion with the murder and dismemberment of Ryouta's human friend Tosaka Hiyoko (note: as the protagonist Hiyoko can technically have any name, but Tosaka Hiyoko is the default and is what I'll consider her true name).
The school was immediately enclosed in an impassable dome, and Shuu began the work of guiding Ryouta towards the fulfillment of his wish and of Shuu's plan. He manipulated Ryouta into following him to the supposedly-abandoned underground medical facility on the St. Pigeonation's grounds. There, upon learning that he had been the one to (unwittingly) kill Hiyoko, Ryouta gave in to Shuu's manipulations and agreed to his plans. He would have become the vector of human genocide had not his school friends arrived in the nick of time to save him with a sound JRPG turn-based beating. Back to his senses, he refused to go through with Shuu's plan, and Shuu acknowledged the end of his plans by showing Ryouta and his friends a safe way out of the dome for all the St. Pigeonation's students.
However, the story wasn't over yet—Nanaki Kazuaki, a seemingly harmless narcoleptic math teacher, shot Shuu several times in the left side of his body, revealing himself to be the brother of one of the students Shuu had experimented on long ago and obsessed with finding his brother's remains. Nanaki's mind was put at ease (sort of), and despite all he'd done, Shuu was eventually taken to a hospital to recuperate from his gunshot wounds, and was last seen being pushed around in a wheelchair by none other than Nanaki himself.
Character Personality:
Shuu is a creepy, morally bankrupt scientist who delights in frequently inhumane and awful research. Let's just put that on the table where everyone can see it. In his interactions with individuals he plays the creeper with gusto, with his evil laugh and penchant for casually requesting body parts for his cooperation. He keeps most people around him at arm's length out of distrust, warding people away either through his creepy demeanor or general irritability. Most people seem creeped out by him and stay away, which suits Shuu just fine. It seems that at some point in his young adult life he decided to just act like the morbid creeper he was all along without worrying about how offputting it was.
In terms of how he presents himself to others, aside from his overall creepiness, Shuu has a tendency to claim and present himself as a researcher. He says openly that research is the only thing he cares about and is implied to care very little about mundane concerns such as his living space, salary, or any kind of ethical boundary whatsoever so long as his superiors continue to fund whatever research he may wish to undertake, and he is definitely a workaholic. He is largely uncaring of what happens as a result of his research, preferring the purity of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, and will not shy away from brutally murdering anyone who threatens to expose his research or plans. Still, when the opportunity presents itself, he's perfectly fine with a bit of good old-fashioned blackmail or manipulation to secure the cooperation of individuals who might otherwise prove to be problems.
For the most part, Shuu's claims of being interested only in research and the pursuit of knowledge are true...unless someone he cares about gets concerned. For a person Shuu cares about deeply, he is moved to do extraordinary things—spend years attempting genocide, throw away that year-long attempt at genocide in order to commit suicide with his beloved (in his part of the dating portion of the game), allow himself to be constantly annoyed by hyperactive abominations of genetic engineering (in an AU side story)... Once someone manages to batter their way into Shuu's heart, they are seemingly there for good, and he will move heaven and earth to fulfill what he perceives as his obligation to that person (whether there is room in his heart for more than one person is debatable).
Shuu's feelings about his own capacity of feelings are self-awareness but also a kind of self-deprecation. The sense is that he would, perhaps, prefer not to have so many feelings about people, and that he would really, really, love to be the emotionless researcher that he claims to be and so often manages to be. Just as he is aware that he's a creeper, he's aware that the lengths to which he goes for loved ones are immense, but also rather pathetic in their own way, and can't stand to be pitied for how long he spent living in the shadow of his devotion to Ryuuji.
Overall, Shuu is a consciously creepy, morbid individual without any morals or ethics whatsoever, paranoid and mistrustful and really just kind of a manipulative dick, but his capacity for love is as terrifying in its depth as it is pathetic in its breadth.
Effects of memory loss:
Without memories, Shuu will be more like how he was when he was using the "Isa Souma" name—fussy, workaholic, grumpy but ultimately the responsible adult type and not overtly a terrible person. There'd be a couple differences: one is that he would naturally be missing a lot of barriers he'd put up between himself and others, and would attach to people much more easily (though not necessarily as extremely as he does to Ryuuji in canon). He'd also be lacking any filter or self-consciousness with regard to expressing creepy or morbid sentiments (i.e. he might casually state that he hopes to have the opportunity to dissect nonhuman teammates one day).
Personal area/item:
Item: butcher's cleaver
Area: a patch of millet or other seed-heavy grass (for feeding purposes) or, if this doesn't count as a building, a small modern infirmary, such as might be seen in a school, with or without supplies.
Sample:
It was quiet in the infirmary, which was how he preferred it. The medicines in their rows, the illegal, experimental medicines in their own rows, and no patients to annoy him or mess up his neat, pristine office.
The only sound of significance was Ryouta sleeping. Or rather, Ryouta lying unconscious and drugged as Shuu waited for his unfortunate human friend to arrive in search of him. He had gulped down the sedative without complaint, believing that it had merely been a new medicine Shuu had devised for his stomach. It was true, in a manner of speaking; the concoction was just the first step in Shuu's plan, which would ultimately result in Ryouta's stomach never bothering him again.
Ryouta tossed and turned in his sleep, wracked by uneasy dreams. Despite himself, Shuu found his thoughts drifting to Ryuuji's last days; his dull feathers, the persistent cough. Unlike his son, though, Ryuuji's final sleep in a hospital bed had been marked by the terrifying stillness of someone whose body was too weak to carry on.
Shuu shook off his thoughts. Now was not the time for maudlin reminisces, not with Operation Hatoful's completion so close at hand. Much depended on this afternoon. He busied himself with checking Ryouta's vital signs and then the time. School would almost be out for the day. Soon everything would be complete. Soon his obligation to Ryuuji would be fulfilled.
There was a knock on the infirmary door, the distinctly sharp, impatient knock and muffled shout that could only belong to a certain human girl, a specific Miss Tosaka. Shuu brushed a wing over Ryouta's forehead and allowed himself a private smile of anticipation as Miss Tosaka opened the door.