Forum:Ruiko Takayama

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The Sorting Quiz Please Bold Your Choices

1) There are three paths. One leads to a wandering road, another to a lake, and one over a mountain. Which one?

A) None of them, I'm at home reading.

B) Lake

C) Mountain

D) Road

2) Which type of spell is most useful?

A) A Complex Spell

B) A Spell Of Control

C) A Combat Spell

D) A Healing Spell

3) How would you describe yourself?

A) Wise

B) Cunning

C) Hard-working

D) Loyal

4) Someone infuriates you in public. How do you react?

A) Shrug it off.

B) Tell them that they are worthless and to get a life, infuriate them, push them, and storm off.

C) Get up, look at them right in the eye, and walk away like it never happened. (B also applies, but only for severe cases .w.)

D) They are just joking around.

5) What is most important to you?

A) Grades.

B) Getting your way.

C) Life.

D) Friends and family.

6) Give a description of your character's personality. Personality must be at least one paragraph long. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!)

Embittered by the inexorable taint of the past, Ruiko can no longer distinguish black from white. Grey has subjugated her moral compass, and she can see a yawning abyss in place of the horizon. Out of order tear ducts only emphasize her mordant behavior and sense of humor. If you have a flair for the melodramatic, you could say her spirit's got lacerations no stitches can fix. Behind the indefatigable guise of mischief, perfecting her pranking regime is the least of the pinkette's worries. That smile of hers relays a yen to live — a stark contrast to the truth behind her heaving chest.

The facade isn't entirely composed of ersatz, however. All the years of isolation and lies has nurtured something concrete back into Ruiko. Whether or not time has palliated her psyche is a topic we can't properly tread for now. In the light, you would never see how haunted her eyes have become, and in the dark, you would never see how brightly she blazes still. No matter how many aces you play, she remains the wild card joker. It's less about tipping the scales, and more about the perspective when you're a charlatan as battered as Ruiko. Her depraved morals draw many a scandalized look, but they serve their purpose of keeping her sanity intact. You'll have an easier time shotgunning ten gallons of beer than trying to make heads or tails of her motives.

It is hard to cavil the simple and tempting first impression. Souls of the generality would choose ignorance to ease their own flimsy conscience. Quibbling about the rights and wrongs and morality's purpose will always lead to a moot point; the only good Ruiko has seen of it is the fact that it is a sure way to gyp people out of both their time and moral stability. In spite of her recurring indiscretion, she is still inherently a glib person prone to weaponizing colloquial vernacular. Once upon a time she was drawn to the frisson of debates, but her atypical repertoire has shaved off most of its novelty.

Pushing aside the price of her unfailing prescience, Ruiko is far from being as friable as the snow that broke her. The corona of her temperance huddles behind the skirts of her slyness, its light diffracted. Despite the many contusions that she has suffered over the years, she remains untrammeled and prepared to toss jaunty wisecracks at any given moment. With her penchant for inappropriately sadistic remarks, ice breakers are converted into jaw droppers. Why comport yourself when you can crown yourself? You can be a stud-muffin all you like, but Ruiko acquits herself with another kind of strength.

Ambulatory kindness is not quite Ruiko's default; defiatory blandishments are the loopholes she refrains from abusing. Instead, she prefers to content herself with a more 'basrelief' form. Take that as you may. Joshing anyone regardless of labels, she shrugs off the shrill complaints of the anal-retentive. Lacquered with tenuous mercy reserved for the hare-hearted, she is less than eager to go out on a limb for anyone. Coupled with her sense of civil duty held in abeyance, her inactions and actions are prone to causing an emeto cathartic-like effect on people.

7) Write about the history of your character. History must be at least two paragraphs long. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!)

Run. Akin to some droll fantasy TV series backstory, Kaori Arima had two goals in her life: attain freedom and don't get caught. If she was caught, it was all over. Everything her late family had broken backs on wouldn't matter if she was caught. But no amount of training and experience prepared her for Kousei Takayama.

What is love? Kaori did not know. Her family had been too focused on their legacy and their snowflakes to truly show what the common peasant called love. When a young man stood up to deliver a perfectly pitched song on the piano in the small café where Kaori was having her luncheon, she wasn't expecting to hear the most beautiful music she would ever hear in her life. Once the small performance was over and the booming applause had died down, Kaori mustered the courage to ask another customer what the pianist's name was. "Takayama Kousei. Brilliant boy, a prodigy they say. He hasn't lost a single competition. I feel like my arthritis eased after that!" The old woman had kindly replied.

Interest piqued, the young vagabond followed every single performance of his. It wasn't easy for a woman in her situation, but she managed and ignored the nagging voices of her late elders. Perchance the music had resurrected her stillborn rebellion. While sightseeing, she soon became acquainted with Kousei himself. He had taken note of the enigmatic figure who had become a constant to his recitals and was obliged to at least exchange names. Unprecedented, their relationship teetered on the line of platonic and romantic in the most extraordinary of ways.

Secrets - everyone has them, whether they are aware or not. Secrets - the two friends shared them on a constant basis. His mother was deaf. Her life was in eternal danger. He didn't want the fame. She longed to stop running. So many more were whispered and traded, with knowing smiles and stifled laughter. Choice, not fate, intertwined their lives into a single, endless thread. But one pivotal day, Kaori lied. "I don't love you."

Ah, but this is not their story I am to tell. It is their eldest daughter's. Though short-lived, Kaori and Kousei's happiness together bloomed as strength in their children. When Kousei was brutally taken from them, Kaori fled to the farthest hinterlands of Japan. Too late did she realize that isolating herself from her family would be the only way to truly protect them. Every now and then she would backtrack to where she had left her children, but never stayed for long.

As if to challenge nature itself, Ruiko and Haruhi Takayama dared to flourish in the harsh, icy environment among the mountains. In the beginning, they were alone in the protected cabin. Days wriggled by, and the two children struggled to keep themselves amused and occupied. Their mother's next visit provided a solution in the form of a bunch of scraggly kids. Without being prompted, Kaori explained that they were victims of human trafficking and regarded the authorities with suspicion. Under the unyielding protection of the Fidelius charm, they remained undetected and safe. Provisions were easy to come by, for Kaori left more than enough for all of them during each short visit.

Happy and secure in their mountain home, they failed to acknowledge that danger was eternally prevalent. The avalanche came, and the barriers Kaori had set up crumbled. Ruiko awoke to find herself alone and cold. While she had managed to grab hold of her little sister moments before the disaster, Haruhi was colder. Haruhi was gone, and so were the rest of Ruiko's siblings. Everything was blurry after she gasped out the sobs that came.

Presumably someone, quite possibly daring mountaineers, found and saved the unresponsive girl. When she regained consciousness, she was in a hospital bed and hooked up to an IV-whatsit. Ruiko had to undergo plenty of meticulous therapy, but not all of it helped. The doctor who was in charge of her eventually decided to adopt her and bring her to Britain in order to further study her. Fate still wasn't done with her yet, and not soon after they arrived, her adoptive mother died of an accidental overdose.

When she came across the body, Ruiko's magic was triggered for the first time since the avalanche. Everyone within a mile's radius of her started at the invisible explosion that sent their eardrums reeling. Authorities were sent to investigate and found the two. The Ministry stepped in not soon afterwards, and Ruiko was promptly dropped off at Lil Bundles.

8) Write about your character's appearance. How do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here!

She's modeled by Hirai Momo from TWICE.

9) Are you Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!)

She's half blood, no notable magical relations.

10) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as veela, vampire, werewolf or the likes? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have an "exotic" characters as your first two characters!)

Psychic abilities run in the fam. She's clairvoyant (retrocognition and remote viewing.)

11) What year is your character in?

Upcoming first year

Any House You DO NOT Want to Be In? (No Promises, Sorry)

Ravenclaw

Any House You REALLY Want to Be In? (Sorry, Again, No Promises)

Slytherin

Out of Character Questions (These do not affect which House you'll be sorted into)

1. How much time will you have to participate on this RP site? (This does not affect which House you'll be sorted into).


 * A) I have a lot of other responsibilities, and although I really want to be a part of this wiki, there may be days on end I won't be able to participate in anything.


 * B) Although I do have some other responsibilities, and there may be times I'll be absent, I should be able to participate on a weekly basis, around my other schedule.


 * C) I should be able to participate at least some every day.


 * D) I have loads of free time, and don't see participation to be a problem at all.

2. Is this your first character?


 * A) This is my first character


 * B) This is NOT my first character.

3. If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"?

I dropped a lot of them into the limbo box, currently like 4 are fully active. Overall have 3 other exotics.

4. Please post your time zone in relation with the UTC time zone (ex. Eastern Standard Time is -4), but if you don't understand how to calculate that then please simply put the name of your time zone below.

+8 UTC

Number of A's:

Number of B's: 1

Number of C's: 2

Number of D's: 2