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Post by youhei ikeuchi on Feb 25, 2017 1:22:35 GMT -6
YOUHEI / KYUUREM
APP ■ FOURTEEN ■ MALE ■ UNDECIDED ■ HOST/LEGENDARY
At this rate, the world I live in will become overwhelmingly sad.
DRAWN BY THE INNOCENCE OF A FOUR-YEAR-OLD, Kyurem invaded a young Youhei’s body, but instead of destroying or assimilating with his soul, Kyurem attached to it like a parasite. This caused Youhei’s body to change drastically and neither his parents know what caused it and how to deal with it. Kyurem had been mostly dormant throughout Youhei’s life, leaving Youhei to deal with a freezing aura he couldn’t control. Despite being immune to freezing to death, Youhei always sought to keep himself warm, often making use of his Pokemon to do so.
Though Kyurem may be the embodiment of cold and emptiness, Youhei, being a teenager, is full of positive and negative emotions. It’s these emotions that actually help him control his powers a bit. When he’s being indifferent, everything around him literally freezes up. Unless he’s dreaming, sleeping is the worst; he wakes up with snow in his room and ice all over the floor.
FRIENDSHIPS
Youhei can be quite hurtful with his choice of words. He doesn’t mean them…well, maybe not completely. He wants friends. The whole ordeal with his parents abandoning him and being a genetic monster kind of just puts him in a bad mood most of the time. Most people also unintentionally annoy him when they make comments about how cold it is every time they’re around him. He doesn’t appreciate that, but he can’t exactly tell them the true reason why. He wants loads of validation. He’s lost his trust with adults, so he’s turning to his peers for approval. Just expect an annoying amount of sass and occasional bipolarity.
HATESHIPS
Hate is a strong word and man does Youhei use it a lot. He hates his parents, his new home, this city; he hates that loud kid in the park because he complains too much. Also hates the cold for obvious reason. A few of the list Youhei legitimately resents but most of the time, he’s just being a grouchy old man.
He’s not personally involved in the current affairs of the region, but having been educated in Irisia, he’s become a supporter of Parallax. He probably thinks that those against their ways are stupid, uninformed, or too traditional. He’s just borrowing the words of others, thinking they’re his own.
LOVESHIPS
Youhei is a very smart kid. He has gained so much knowledge that he thinks he’s mentally superior and more mature than kids his age. But he lacks self-awareness. In truth, he’s still a lot like child, hoping to spend his days just having fun. He’s never thought of romantic relationships or attraction because…it just hasn’t crossed his troubled life yet. His life before being abandoned was just to live happily with his parents. Afterwards, it’s all about regaining confidence in himself and wanting to feel like he’s worth something (abandonment issues and all that.)
AND SO, I WOULD TOTALLY LOVE TO HAVE LOVESHIPS. I mean, friends are great, BUT LOVE IS GREAT TOO. Youhei is still undecided and I figure I’ll just let him discover his own preference on that matter.
YO, TAO TRIO BRO. I apologize in advance for asking Youhei to put up with this mess of a woman, but when there is a Kyurem to plot my Reshiram with, I simply cannot refuse. Legendaries kind of have a sense for where the others are – in addition to generally knowing who decided to go to where and into what body by means of verbal communication – but to be entirely truthful, Victoria didn't exactly pay too close attention to the activities and whereabouts of the others in favor of doing her own thing. Heck, she probably didn't even know that Kyurem took on a human host at all until these two actually bump into each other (or shortly before? who knows?). When she does, though, she's definitely not going to be very subtle about it. Unlike Zekrom, who she's more than a little envious of and angry toward, Kyurem's done nothing to evict itself from her good graces, and being one of the two closest people to family she's got, she'll definitely waste no time trying to get back in contact with him. Unfortunately, when you try to pair up a drunken twenty-something-year-old with an overly intelligent barely-even-a-teenager, things don't exactly tend to turn out so great. Read more specifically: Stranger Danger. It probably won't help Tori's image at all when she's very insistent that he's secretly a god (while simultaneously downing, like, three bottles of alcohol over the course of twenty minutes). You said that Kyurem sort of latched onto Youhei's personality, so I dunno exactly how much control over him that would give it, but I honestly think it would be hilarious to, for at least their first encounter or so to be spent with him thinking that this crazy homeless lady is trying to kidnap him or something. She only wants to look after him, though (maybe even feels/tries to act a little motherly around him? coddling as well as someone who's poo faced can coddle, I suppose), so whether a ghostly voice from the back of his mind tells him that this lady's chill or she just proves how not creepy she actually is through some GRANDIOUS ACT OF HEROISM, I do hope these two can end up on good terms. Maybe even as friends. Er, well, again, as much of friends as a grown adult and a child can be.
This one's not as obvious, but I do have another legendary who won't be nearly as upfront about being a legendary as Victoria and falls closer to Youhei's age group, being just a year younger. Marley's occupation is as student, since I'm assuming there's school in the Pokemon World (albeit more optional than in our's? at the very least, college is a canon thing, so it stands to reason that there would be school prior to that...). Assuming Youhei also attends school, they could be schoolmates? Heck, maybe even classmates if we pull a whole “kid enters school a year earlier/later than most” for one of 'em. /waves hand dismissively Since he's one smart cookie and she couldn't be bothered to do the work material even if she was under threat of death/just generally doesn't understand these human studies, maybe a teacher saddles her onto him in hopes that he'll help catch her up? Just, like. Help her out with math homework or something. Just so that “F” turns into a “D”. (And then later, he can be all, “Some drunk lady told me I was a god”, and very nonchalantly Marley can be all, “Are you only just now realizing this??”) At the very least, they've got being empty in common – Youhei in that he's innocent, Marley in that she's one hundred percent dead inside. Really, it's practically the same thing.
VICRORIA + YOUHEI: ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO KIDNAP HIM INTO YOUR DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY?
Kyurem is just chilling wow that pun inside Youhei and has mostly been dormant. It can take control whenever it wants, and it has a few times, which Youhei has no recollection of. It has never spoken to Youhei though. Probably because it just never thought it was necessary, not even to tell him, "Hey, I didn't want to mess with your soul, so I'm just gonna hang around here. Don't worry about all these weird powers you're getting. Totally normal." Don't ask Kyurem for advice on how to make friends...
So I've thought hard about how Kyurem may react to its beloved halves. I think they're definitely triggers, but I guess unlike before, Kyurem is no longer actively seeking them out. Kyurem's like a socially awkward adult who just doesn't know what to say. No interests to share, no defining personality. All it does is make things bad and cold for Youhei. I imagine when it does come out - probably in time of great need or something or when Reshiram and Zekrom are arguing again- it would completely ignore Victoria and just poof again once the danger has passed. So Kyurem's sending the wrong message xD And I think it's pretty intimidated by how Reshiram is behaving in human flesh. Reshiram seemed completely human while Kyurem is still the same, empty and indifferent, and it actually bothers it a lot. Both Reshiram and Zekrom managed to find themselves fine champions in the past and they seemed to understand the human heart so much that they have no problem behaving as one. Kyurem might have already given up on the prospect of finding its own "heart" and was content just by being an observer.
And so, with Kyurem being like this, we are definitely going with the STRANGER DANGER route which I bloody want anyway. I believe in Victoria's ability to pull through and convince Youhei that she isn't as crazy as she appears. Just slightly less crazy. But what you said about family is really nice though and fits really well. Youhei is longing for one and I wonder how much Victoria might personally care about Kyurem's host since they're technically two separate entities at the moment. At the distant future when Youhei does feel like he could trust Victoria, he'd also have to decide if her affection for him is just because of Kyurem and then come in terms with the fact (should be learn of this knowledge) that Kyurem can get rid of him permanently anytime it felt like it. If he realizes the true position that he's in, Youhei would be pretty terrified.
I DO HOPE THAT THEY BECOME FRIENDS. TBH, Victoria is the perfect person to start dragging Youhei into this Legendary business and down the drama of it. I think it would be funnier if Victoria didn't know Kyurem had picked a host, just to emphasize how no one reembers Kyurem rip. Would Victoria be walking around drunk in Irisia though? Because Youhei is practically stuck there. Once he fully believes Victoria's story, he would jump onto her arms and ask her to take him away asap.
MARLEY + YOUHEI: lmao 100% dead inside. I actually forgot what I settled on about school so I'm just going to reinvent it in the spot. Youhei probably insisted that he go to school because man he's desperate to have friends. But because he has to excuse/absent himself often because of his whacko powers, he is known to be the sick, fragile girl boy in the class BUT IS STILL ON THE HONOR ROLL SOMEWHOW. How long ago has Mew taken its host? It might be that Youhei actually knew the original Marley. If not the teacher pushing the failing Marley to Youhei, Youhei might be the one offering to help her. Imagine if the real Marley was actually one of the few friends Youhei had... Thanks, Mew.
Also, Mew may also draw out Kyurem from Youhei since Mew is the "Mother Of Dragons All" and Kyurem would probably like to ask why something as unnecessary as it was born. What if they're the ones that become friends. WHAT IS THIS.