Name: Ena Personal Journal:ena Contact Info: AIM: luthienabler / Plurk: enabeans Other Characters Played: Cain Knightlord, Alphonse Elric (also applying for Nabuca this round). Preferred Housing: N/A - but please could he be housed with Schierke if she is apped this round (she would be in a child slot).
Character Name: Vash the Stampede Character Series: Trigun Character Age: 131 Background:Here
Personality: What can be said about Vash? On the surface he appears to be nothing more than an idiot with a penchant for pretty ladies and an uncanny ability to get himself into trouble, but the 'sixty billion double dollar man' has more than a few facets to his personality.
The first is the face that he shows the world, the one of the harmless and melodramatic idiot. He is just as liable to scream in terror when faced with enemies and sob like a baby if his food is taken away from him. He often makes light of the situations he finds himself in; indeed, he sometimes appears to be oblivious to the fact he's in danger at all. He appears oblivious and naive, falling for outrageous sob stories hook, line and sinker, and always seems willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. His escapes from being injured seem to be dumb luck most of the time, only narrowly avoiding the bullets that would have killed him because he happened to be falling over his own feet at the time. However, these exaggerated smiles are not all that they seem, and Wolfwood is the first to notice that it's just empty behind them.
He is carrying a heavy burden of guilt for horrible incidents in his past, including feeling partially responsible for Knives killing the crew and Rem, as well as what happened in July and Augusta. These two cities were decimated and their populations left homeless and tearing one another apart, because an ability of Vash's (the angel arm) was activated and destroyed everything. Even though he didn't mean to cause destruction either of those times, he still blames himself fully for what happened and even apologises to one of the survivors that he couldn't die to fulfil her revenge - the only reason he cites, is that if he had died in an explosion, other people would have been hurt too and he couldn't allow that.
He deeply cares for everyone around him - friend, enemy and stranger - and would do anything he possibly could to save a life. This is partially because of a promise he made to the memory of a woman he loved - Rem believed that nobody ever had the right to take another life, and that there was always another way. Vash has taken this lesson completely to heart and absolutely will not take a life; as a consequence his body is littered with patchwork scars and wounds, but this is a price he gladly pays. He becomes visibly distressed when people die around him, angry at those who kill and demanding why they would do such a thing, as well as crying genuine tears over even the corpses of strangers. Near the end of the series, Vash is forced into an impossible choice of watching two of his closest companions die, or killing himself. He chose to pull the trigger and end a life for the first time, which left him so devastated that he became almost inconsolable.
In many ways he is a childish coward, running from the things that hurt and frighten him. He is terrified to let people get close to him because destruction and pain follow on his heels, as well as frightened to let them know the truth of his past, so he hides everything behind foolishness and smiles. After the second incident with the angel arm in Augusta, he is so ashamed of himself that he shucks his identity and goes into hiding as 'Eriks', going to ground until Wolfwood shows up and forces him to realise that he can't hide forever. Vash is a deeply compassionate man who wants to save 'the spiders and the butterflies', even if that is an idealistic way to think, and he thinks death by any means is the worst tragedy there is.
Abilities: As a Plant, Vash ages differently and seems to have frozen in his mid twenties over the last century. He has exceptional abilities with the 'Lost Technology' of his world (namely the plants, who are like his brethren), it was also canonly stated that both he and his twin brother possessed genius intellect surpassing human capability. His reflexes and senses are perfectly attuned and he is easily capable of dodging a spray of bullets, as well as hearing and seeing things too quiet or far away for others to notice.
Having been practising gunplay for the last century, he is also an expert marksman and always hits his target. He is more durable than humans, though he doesn't possess a 'healing ability' per se, he just tends to heal a little faster. Inside his gun, one of a pair that were manufactured by Knives, there is a weapon called the Angel Arm. This connects with his right arm and expands to create light energy, which is then released in a powerful beam capable of decimating entire cities and even putting a hole in the moon. He is also missing his left arm, which has been replaced by a cybernetic replacement with a hidden gun compartment.
Vash the Stampede | Trigun | Reserved
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Contact Info: AIM: luthienabler / Plurk: enabeans
Other Characters Played: Cain Knightlord, Alphonse Elric (also applying for Nabuca this round).
Preferred Housing: N/A - but please could he be housed with Schierke if she is apped this round (she would be in a child slot).
Character Name: Vash the Stampede
Character Series: Trigun
Character Age: 131
Background: Here
Personality: What can be said about Vash? On the surface he appears to be nothing more than an idiot with a penchant for pretty ladies and an uncanny ability to get himself into trouble, but the 'sixty billion double dollar man' has more than a few facets to his personality.
The first is the face that he shows the world, the one of the harmless and melodramatic idiot. He is just as liable to scream in terror when faced with enemies and sob like a baby if his food is taken away from him. He often makes light of the situations he finds himself in; indeed, he sometimes appears to be oblivious to the fact he's in danger at all. He appears oblivious and naive, falling for outrageous sob stories hook, line and sinker, and always seems willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. His escapes from being injured seem to be dumb luck most of the time, only narrowly avoiding the bullets that would have killed him because he happened to be falling over his own feet at the time. However, these exaggerated smiles are not all that they seem, and Wolfwood is the first to notice that it's just empty behind them.
He is carrying a heavy burden of guilt for horrible incidents in his past, including feeling partially responsible for Knives killing the crew and Rem, as well as what happened in July and Augusta. These two cities were decimated and their populations left homeless and tearing one another apart, because an ability of Vash's (the angel arm) was activated and destroyed everything. Even though he didn't mean to cause destruction either of those times, he still blames himself fully for what happened and even apologises to one of the survivors that he couldn't die to fulfil her revenge - the only reason he cites, is that if he had died in an explosion, other people would have been hurt too and he couldn't allow that.
He deeply cares for everyone around him - friend, enemy and stranger - and would do anything he possibly could to save a life. This is partially because of a promise he made to the memory of a woman he loved - Rem believed that nobody ever had the right to take another life, and that there was always another way. Vash has taken this lesson completely to heart and absolutely will not take a life; as a consequence his body is littered with patchwork scars and wounds, but this is a price he gladly pays. He becomes visibly distressed when people die around him, angry at those who kill and demanding why they would do such a thing, as well as crying genuine tears over even the corpses of strangers. Near the end of the series, Vash is forced into an impossible choice of watching two of his closest companions die, or killing himself. He chose to pull the trigger and end a life for the first time, which left him so devastated that he became almost inconsolable.
In many ways he is a childish coward, running from the things that hurt and frighten him. He is terrified to let people get close to him because destruction and pain follow on his heels, as well as frightened to let them know the truth of his past, so he hides everything behind foolishness and smiles. After the second incident with the angel arm in Augusta, he is so ashamed of himself that he shucks his identity and goes into hiding as 'Eriks', going to ground until Wolfwood shows up and forces him to realise that he can't hide forever. Vash is a deeply compassionate man who wants to save 'the spiders and the butterflies', even if that is an idealistic way to think, and he thinks death by any means is the worst tragedy there is.
Abilities: As a Plant, Vash ages differently and seems to have frozen in his mid twenties over the last century. He has exceptional abilities with the 'Lost Technology' of his world (namely the plants, who are like his brethren), it was also canonly stated that both he and his twin brother possessed genius intellect surpassing human capability. His reflexes and senses are perfectly attuned and he is easily capable of dodging a spray of bullets, as well as hearing and seeing things too quiet or far away for others to notice.
Having been practising gunplay for the last century, he is also an expert marksman and always hits his target. He is more durable than humans, though he doesn't possess a 'healing ability' per se, he just tends to heal a little faster. Inside his gun, one of a pair that were manufactured by Knives, there is a weapon called the Angel Arm. This connects with his right arm and expands to create light energy, which is then released in a powerful beam capable of decimating entire cities and even putting a hole in the moon. He is also missing his left arm, which has been replaced by a cybernetic replacement with a hidden gun compartment.
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