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[dangerouslyinlove]

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Bookie
AGE: 26
CONTACT: Plurk (bookworm12890) or Discord (Bookie#7341)
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
RESERVED? Yes

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Ryoji Mochizuki
CANON: Persona 3, female!MC route
CANON POINT: Right after he vanishes on January 1st
AGE: 19 w/ CRAU

HISTORY: Wiki link

PAST GAME MEMORIES:
A couple years back, Ryoji appeared in the city of Hex, having no idea how he got there or where it was or why any of it was happening. Then he got himself killed by sticking his nose into the business of the locals in the pursuit of trying to figure out what was going on, and when he was reborn by the God Machine his memories had been almost entirely wiped and replaced with a life lived in the walls of the city. Instead of the Thirteenth Arcana and Nyx’s Avatar, he was a Sin-Eater with a geist named Thanatos bound to his soul ever since he died and made a deal with it when he was just a child.

He made it about a year totally believing it was all true, but then he ran into a young girl named Ebru her real name is Kitty but she never actually told him that who had no idea where she was and had never heard of Hex before, which made no sense. However, he learned there were others who were the same (namely, a boy named Casper and a ghost named Lirisoir) and that there were even people who had been brought here like them and then completely forgot about it.

He might have gone thinking that it couldn’t at all apply to him, except that conversations with Tobias (a Beast) talking about the Dark Mother and Casper telling him his mom was Hel, the Norse goddess of death really stuck in his brain uncomfortably for some reason, and he began to have visions and dreams involving a boy in a baseball cap he didn’t really recognize but felt like a dear friend. Still mostly in denial about the state of his memories, Ryoji mostly pushed forward to help his friends and… really whoever else he could. But when he did allow himself to consider the possibility that the memories he had might not be real, he got the feeling he was happier not knowing about the real ones.

PERSONALITY:
On the surface, Ryoji is energetic, outgoing, and flirtatious (bordering on perverted, especially in that one part of the school trip...), quickly proving to be a favorite among the girls at his school thanks to his looks and charm. He’s very friendly and polite, and generally takes rejection well, since his flirting is hardly ever truly serious (not that the girls he's flirting with always know that). It's very much second-nature to him, and he doesn't seem to be entirely aware when he's doing it; even as he's heading out with the PC he calls some of the girls falling them 'cute,' and another time he hits on Mitsuru, and then Yukari as soon as Mitsuru left. The fact that he didn't know why that earned him a slap sort of speaks to the fact that he really doesn't think anything beyond the moment in terms of those actions. He doesn’t seem to have a lot of ability to commit, unless he really cares about the person in question, and more likely than not he’ll feel like he’s not worthy of them anyway.

He ends up finding a good friend in Junpei early on, probably due to similarities in their personality. While Ryoji's more of a charmer than Junpei is, the two of them get along well in terms of energy level, not being fans of taking something seriously unless it's really important, and perverseness, as shown by the class trip in which they 'accidentally' stayed in the hot spring during the girl's time and spied on them. (Ryoji says that even though Mitsuru made sure they paid for it, it was totally worth it. And then apologized to the PC so she wouldn't hate him.)

In the female!PC social link, it reveals a very different side of Ryoji that’s much more caring and introspective. Initially, he flirts with her like every other girl, but soon admits that when he’s around her, he feels like he needs to be more honest with her about who he is. He winds up being very romantic towards her, still using some of his flirty pickup lines but much more sincerely. He's very gentle with her, and obviously cares for her very deeply, even if she chooses not to date him. Towards the end of the month, he starts have a bit of an existential crisis (brought about by the fact that he’s going to end the world, even though he doesn’t know it yet) and feels terrible about the fact that he feels like he’s going to make her sad, even though she’s so important to him.

Once he regains his memories, Ryoji also has to deal with a lot of guilt. Not only because of things he has done, like pretty much break Aigis when she confronts him, but also because of the possibility of ending the world or making his friends suffer. Honestly, the part about his friends seems to be of bigger conflict to him- he's very fatalistic and doesn't believe the Fall can be stopped, so he desperately wants them to be able to live their last few months as if they were normal high school students, without any real cares, even though that means forgetting him and everything that allowed them to grow during the game. In that vein, he's a tad bit selfish, wanting to give up things that were so important to them, even if it's for a more selfless reason. He considers it unfortunate that they make the decision not to kill him, but still respects their decision and tries to help them (even though he's sure it won't do any good).

He’s well aware of the fact that if he hadn’t been trapped in the PC for 10 years, he would have never have learned anything about being human, and he’s very grateful to her for that, even if it does make that what he considers to be inevitable harder for him to cope with. The conflict is a big element to his character, as Shadows are meant to not feel emotion and essentially drain it from others, but the part of him that's human from the PC is very emotional. This is a balance that he usually manages pretty well (generally in favor of the human side), but when it comes to more extreme emotions he's not always sure what to do about them.

With CRAU and the memories from that, there are a few changes, but most of them stem from the fact that he (has memories of being) an actual human with an actual human life and an actual human family. As a result, he is much less naive than his straight from canon self, which will stay consistent even with the two sets of conflicting memories. His CRAU self had a better sense of self-preservation and even believed that violence was sometimes the answer, but when faced with his canon memories again those may not hold.

POWERS/ABILITIES:
Canon:
Ryoji has the ability to turn into the shadow Death (looking very much like the persona Thanatos), which serves as a beacon to Nyx and eventually turns into her Avatar. As the shadow, Ryoji has never used his powers, so really anything for that would be speculation (I usually say he's got the same spell list as the Thanatos Persona). However, Shadows in general are made up from the negative emotions of humans- Ryoji especially so, since he was made specifically from the desire to end the world. Most Shadows can only really recognize when something is stronger then them, otherwise attacking anyone that is not Transmogrified (basically, hiding in a coffin) during the Dark Hour. Because of Ryoji's human element, he has much higher processing than this and can keep his reasoning and emotion intact, even in the form of the Shadow.

As Nyx's avatar, he has the power of Death, plus the twelve other arcana SEES defeated that complete him (plus the Fool arcana, not sure how he got that but whatever). He also has fourteen different forms. How this works is that he starts off with the powers related to the Fool arcana; once his HP is gone from that, he uses 'Arcana Shift' to change to the next one (the Magician). This keeps going, all the levels having relatively low HP before he hits his true arcana, the Death arcana. At that level, he knows all the highest level element spells, in addition to being able to cast 'Moonless Gown,' preventing any damage from being dealt to him. The later only happens on the ‘promised day,’ while it seems he can turn into the Shadow form at will. He also is incapable of being killed by anyone who is not the PC.

CRAU:
Sin-Eaters, in WoD canon, are people who have died and are brought back to life by a geist, who then is kind of a tagalong on their soul and gives them powers. Ryoji’s geist is Thanatos. Ryoji can use the Phantasmal and Stigmata Keys, and the Oracle, Caul, and Marionette Manifestations (four dots in all).

SAMPLES:
Record of a Discord log- let me know if this doesn’t work
Prose
TDM

ANYTHING ELSE? If you need any more information on the AU (I tried to link where I could to WoD information), please let me know.