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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

Profile

Men can be pushed in strange directions by what Fate hands to them. Once he was a prominent scientist, with a wife, a home, a life. Once he was working towards the salvation of humanity. Ten years ago, that was all ripped away in one hour of chaos and terror. Now, the broken, lonely wreck that was Kazuo Kagayama skulks in the darkness of Port Island, clinging to the only things he has left: Time and his own pain. He always wanted to make the world a better place, a safe place, and in a weird way, he still does. Even in the grip of his Shadow, he hunts the wicked. But with your eyes clouded by darkness, it can be so difficult to tell who is the predator and who is the victim...

Skills

Tick Tock, Feed the Croc, Fallen from Grace, Ravaged Heart, Shattered Dreams, Pride Goeth, Like Sands Through the Hourglass, Time is Precious, I Can Hear My Thoughts Touching Every Second, Almost An Enemy, Darkness Will Swallow All Life In Its Own Pain, Time is Fleeting, Devourer of the Dead, Moments Lost Though Time Remains, Eater of Hearts, Got Your Scent, Eat Your Bones, Broken

Social Stats

• Courage: Middling
• Diligence: Distractable
• Expression: It Comes and Goes
• Understanding: Potato
• Knowledge: Extremely High

Contacts

GET IN MAH BELLEH

*bestial roar of hunger*

Strange Math

"It's string based... similar to our Calabi-Yau model, but we failed to factor in the dark energy equations..."

Insane Stare

@_____@

Sympathy

"We are not so very different, you and I..."

Scraps and Shards

This section is designed to be a sort of 'RP-hooks' repository as well as a collection of trivia. Basically a collection of notes to myself. Constant work in progress, suggestions and questions welcome.

• When he's calm or focused, Kazuo speaks in a markedly educated mode.
  • Conversely, if his more 'animal' emotions are in ascension (fear, hunger, rage, etc), his speech loses coherence and cohesion, though is usually still understandable. Usually.
  • On the extreme far end of this, if the Lurker Beneath takes full hold, its speech is remarkably coherent, though it's hardly much of a conversationalist. It has full access to Kazuo's intellect and memories, and applies them directly and brutally to fulfilling its needs (usually hunger).
  • There are times when the damage to Kazuo's mind proves too great even for his Shadow to work through, leaving the man nearly comatose, or beset by delusions and flashbacks. During these periods, if he responds to outside stimuli at all, it is usually in a confused and/or confusing manner.
• Known to frequent the Port Island train station in particular, but has also been sighted at similar facilities around the area. Apparently something about the trains themselves interests him.
• Though the trail has long gone cold, someone with determination and connections might be able to track Kazuo back to the handful of survivors from the Port Island Kirijo disaster.
• Kazuo's Shadow, the Lurker Beneath, is an inversion of the Egyptian demon Ammut. Presumably, if he could be freed from the grip of his Shadow, it would revert to a proper Persona.
  • In Egyptian mythology, Ammut was closely associated (in a subservient role) with Ma'at, the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. In its currently inverted state, this expresses as a fear and avoidance of things enforcing a "lawful" effect (i.e. constraining its hunger), most notably police and similar officials.
• It is a very real possibility that Strega and/or the NWO know of Kazuo's existence, if not the details of his condition.
  • Strega, for one, has probably encountered him or signs of him down in the sewers.
  • The NWO may have retained enough interest in him to keep track of Kazuo after the Kirijo Disaster.

Relationships

Hinata Itoh

Nice girl. Good girl. Bright and shining and hopeful. She mustn't see us. Soft and scared, prey NO leave her alone...

Kanon Itoh

She's strong, and a fighter. A difficult hunt, if it comes to that.

Masumi Hayashi

Almost! Again! Hhhhhhhhhhrrr...

Sayaka Takuma

Damn stormwitch. Next time... yes, next time...

Wataru Hoshimoto

Broken, empty, and thus prey. But he smelled like he might have some fight in him. Invader of territory.

Resonance

Kazuo's Resonance is of a very dark sort. Dark and heavy and somewhat cold, like the air in a tunnel that is not reached by the sun. Violence lurks around the edges, but also a sort of thin, breathy fear, threaded throughout the whole works. Like the quickened breathing and widened eyes of someone desperately certain that a predator has their trail.

The Lurker Beneath

The Lurker is, at its base, a predator. It tends to regard most things as food, and is usually able to make those things see its point of view. The Lurker is a very large part of how Kazuo has managed to survive for the 10 years since the Incident, not only because of its ability to eat nearly anything but also keeping him safe (directly or otherwise) from the predations that many homeless have to fear.

As of now, Kazuo does not identify the Lurker as a separate being, though sometimes he unconsciously uses the plural tense to refer to himself. If the Lurker comes to the fore, Kazuo frequently has a "blackout" period, or hazy memories at best, like one might recall a bad dream. During these periods the Shadow physically manifests through Kazuo's body, assuming a monstrous (and rather large) battle form.

Soundtrack

Constant work in progress, suggestions welcome

The Lurker

• Apocalyptica - Path YouTube
• Apocalyptica - Until It Sleeps YouTube
• HalfLife OST - Cavern Ambiance YouTube (The Lair of the Lurker Beneath)
• Jesper Kyd - Wetlands Escape YouTube
• R3FORGED - Omen YouTube
• Sonic Mayhem - Noize Purge YouTube
• Static-X - Night Terrors YouTube

Kazuo

• Assemblage 23 - Infinite YouTube (Past events)
• Mediaeval Baebes - Kinderly YouTube (Look up the translated lyrics, trust us)
• Metallica - Until It Sleeps YouTube
• Nightwish - For the Heart I Once Had YouTube
• Sarah Brightman - Fleurs Du Mal YouTube
• Vast - Touched YouTube (His lost wife)
• VNV Nation - Beloved (Grey Dawn) YouTube (Another one for his wife)