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Blackiris | True Remembrance | Reserved
Nickname: Albiel
Age: 20
Personal LJ/DW:
Method of Contact: AIM: Ion Lazarus
Characters Played: Kiritsugu
Character Info:
Name: Blackiris
Age: About 21.
Canon: True Remembrance
Pull Point: Post-ending.
Background Info:
History: At some point in the future, the majority of the world’s population starts exhibiting signs of severe depression. Known as the Dolor, this disease starts being recognized as serious, yet incurable. With normal psychiatric approach rendered useless, the Mnemonicide Protocol is invented. Memory killers, they assume the role of hosts and psychologists for an indeterminate amount of time, after which they decipher what is ailing their Guest, their Psyche Corrosion. They go on to dispose of it through their own unique methods. With no more than 10,000 in the world, not all of them discovered, Mnemonicides are forced to live within a special city made specifically for Dolor victims.
Blackiris was born in a dark world. Not much is known about his past, but he seems to hail from a country completely focused on creating. Smoke littered the sky, and factories, much like the one Blackiris worked in, rendered it a depressing place. His sole consolation seemed to be a friend called Maria, who shared similar aspirations, wishing to live somewhere less uncaring, less dark. Blackiris grew to have feelings for her, perhaps being inspired by such an ideal.
Early in his life, Blackiris escaped. Earning money whatever way he could, he proved to be one of the few who could survive their trial, and he fully recognized it as sheer luck. Blackiris would have died if he hadn’t started displaying Mnemonicidal capabilities, his ever more complex personality and memory-altering eyes playing a factor in such. It wasn’t long until the government found him and started training him. This allowed him to leave his situation, as well as take Maria with him.
Out of talent and determination, Blackiris excelled. Known as a cold, uncaring man for the entirety of his student years, he didn’t let anything get in his way to attain the life without fear he so desperately wanted. Making a rival out of another prodigy, he eventually came to see a man known as Rook as a friend, albeit one with a sharply contrasting personality to his. During the following years, they took to playing games together, or simply talking in a café Rook managed. Many Mnemonicides make training in 4 to 7 years. Blackiris did it in 2. Attaining the rank of Alpha, second only to the nearly non-existent Omegas, he became a highly sought Mnemonicide for Guests who entered the town. Unfortunately, it is not a path that can accommodate to a normal lifestyle. Blackiris’ superior, Dexter, opted to erase any memory of his from Maria, a fact Blackiris just had to learn to live with from then on. At the cost of the one shining light in his dark former life, Blackiris had obtained the financial, professional, independent security he always wanted, but…
He didn’t much care. Not anymore. Blackiris found that the life he wanted didn’t hold much in the way of fulfillment. Sometime after he graduated, he went so far as to contemplate killing himself. He would’ve done so, had he not been stopped by a man who suggested they did so together. Finding him amusing, in his own way, Blackiris found himself visited with more and more frequency by him. The man known as Analye, Alpha of Omegas, became something of a friend, albeit one Blackiris would have never recognized as such. It was during this time that a project of his, as he called it, wandered into Blackiris’ apartment. While he found the fact that he was keeping a girl hidden supremely suspicious, he decided to stay out of things out of what perhaps was a belief in the good will of his friend. Regardless, he still took to welcoming her whenever she came by, reading alongside her or taking care of her to the best of his ability.
Analye revealed that his whole purpose in raising the girl was to have her take upon his memories. Mnemonicides take upon the memories of those they heal, and an Omega like Analye held the worst of it. Unwilling to live with that pain any longer, he presented Blackiris with an ultimatum: kill him, or let him transfer said suffering to the girl. Despite Analye’s apparent inclination to the former, Blackiris refused. Throwing down the gun handed to him, he left. The next time he saw them, Analye had succeeded in his plan. Seeing the old man die in peace, the girl live in suffering, Blackiris offered to erase her memories, he was refused. Sadly, Dexter found out about the entire incident. He was much less accommodating, erasing any memory of it from both of them.
Blackiris spends the next few years doing his job, tending to Guests and erasing their painful memories when he found out about it. He eventually meets the girl once again, now going by the name of La. At first treating her like any other Guest, Blackiris finds the duration of her stay particularly difficult, albeit at no fault of her own. Between making Rook favors and having to deal with insurgent groups, he goes through a hard but fulfilling month, after which La attempts to erase her memories as per her original assignment, given by Dexter. Defying it, Blackiris suggests they leave the City together, barely getting out of one last confrontation with his superior alive. Shortly after leaving the city, he arrives in Prospero.
Personality: While Blackiris is not evil, to put it bluntly, he still has some quirks born of his social ineptness that are not easy to stand. He is painfully straight-to-the-point, often correcting people if he thinks they’re not expressing themselves properly, and sometimes even unconsciously pointing out other’s faults, even outright trying to get a rise out of someone now and then (even if it’s La -- especially if it’s La). To be fair, he will try to rectify things if he thinks he’s gone too far. He’s the sort of person who handles opposition much better than compliance, as that is the only way he’s able to get his own way with emotional ease. While Blackiris can make use of an exceptional poker face, he will often smile mischievously when something amuses him, but this amusement with people doesn’t stop him from shutting himself in his house whenever he gets the chance. All of these faults are fully recognized by him, as he does possess a decent degree of self-awareness. This self-awareness does not extend to his true thoughts, however, as he repeatedly states he doesn’t care about others, even though it’s clear that’s not entirely true. It’s still a good mask to have in his profession.
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He likes his quiet. He spends a good part of his time reading, and states that he wouldn’t mind moving to one of the more isolated parts of the city. Sizeable buildings intimidate him, perhaps due to his place of birth. However, coming from such a background did give him a variety of unsavory abilities, such as being a subtle pickpocket, an expert at lockpicking and, after his guard duties in the City, an above-average shot.
Blackiris just so happens to be a doctor, having graduated at a particularly young age. Though his particular brand of treatment is not feasible in this world, he’s still deeply knowledgeable about the inner workings of a human mind, and is able to pass for a reasonably good psychiatrist, albeit one that’s not going to get a lot of repeat patients. This is just as well, since Blackiris never wanted anything more out of his job than being able to attain it (a goal he pursued far too fiercely). Now that he’s lost interest, he has a much more bearable personality. Still, while he is not fantastic in many respects regarding the social requirements of being a Mnemonicide, Blackiris does adhere to a strict professional code, and often comes into mild conflict with La due to refusing to let her do any work. He’s not exactly keen on adhering to the code, being fully willing to shoot others if his Guest is in danger, but he will certainly avoid killing when possible, and will most certainly not try to take away the life of someone he knows well.
Blackiris is not proud of his profession. At its heart, it still remains killing the memories of people. The building blocks of a person. Mnemonicides are sanctioned killers that destroy a person so another may live in its place. The fact that he has to cook and clean up after others does not help, as Blackiris, while decently competent in those fields, does not enjoy or believe himself to excel at them. It pays, though, and that’s about the only reason Blackiris puts up with it. At first, at least. As of late, Blackiris has found a new inspiration to carry on in the form of La, who he is determined to protect and care of from now on.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Hermit
Justification: Blackiris has all of one friend. He’s not big on social interaction, and has stated that his ideal calling in life would have been something that allowed him to stay home. Doing nothing. So, not much of a calling at all. However, he also fits the introspective facet of this Arcana. Blackiris does not do things without thinking about them. He will analyze his own state of mind, as well as that of others, to perhaps too great a degree. His ability to fool the minds of others would be indicative of the Fool, if it weren’t from the fact it stems from his own abnormalities – his continued isolation from normal thought.
Samples:
First Person Sample: Right... I don’t know if whoever set this up is part of a terrorist organization, or some sort of fringe government operation. I don’t know, and quite frankly, I don’t particularly care. So long as I am not stopped from leaving this place, I don’t have much in the way of questions. However, given the circumstances, I’d say you owe me at least one: there was a girl with me before I was taken here. Where is she?
I should inform you that she happens to be in my care, thank you very much. If I’m to find that any harm has come upon her, you will not only have to deal with my superiors, but more importantly, me.
Third Person Sample: Let it never be said Dr. Blackiris isn’t a diligent man.
He isn’t, mind. Not by a long shot. Adhering to a lifestyle with clocks for the first time in five years has been hard on him, and it shows on his tired demeanor and clothes, ill-suited for warm weather. Having lived within the confines of a different world within a different world, he’s one degree further than the typical culture-shock-stricken arrivals to Prospero.
But he’s good at faking it. Sometimes. Today just so happens to be one of those times, as he searches the streets of Prospero for a girl appearing in his phone’s contact list. There aren’t many with that name, so he has high hopes, but he can’t help but feel a desire to speak his mind to whoever brought them here after this. It would have to wait. La’s safety was priority number one. In this state, Blackiris was even able to brush off how the surroundings made him feel, so he just kept searching for the distinctive shade of silver in this dark world.
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