Name: Jen Personal Journal:preternatural Contact Info:cadences/AIM: sevencoloured Other Characters Played: Feferi Peixes (cullscuttlefish) and Usagi Tsukino (eternalfuture) Preferred Housing: pending permission from Ryoma's player, 842 Goldberg - I have permission from Chez, Cappy, and Waffle already.
Character Name: Neku Sakuraba Character Series: The World Ends With You Character Age: 15 Background:Wiki!
Personality: At the beginning of the game, Neku Sakuraba is seen talking about the world in terms of 'Go away', 'I don't need you', and other such negative phrases. He closes the world out via his headphones and doesn't make eye contact with other people. He's blunt when he's called out on it, stating that other people are useless. He also argues that if you don't let anyone in, they can't hurt him.
Neku idolizes the graffiti artist CAT, and strongly believes in the motto 'do what you want, how you want, when you want'. He doesn't want to be tied down by any attachments to other people - they would just keep him from doing what he wants. So why bother with them? Better to let them do what they want and not bother.
Once he dies and starts playing in the Reapers' Game, he's forced to start opening up to other people. It's impossible to survive in the game for long without a partner, because without one, the Noise will attack and erase the player. He initially teams up with a girl named Shiki Misaki. She's constantly on his case to get him to talk to her. Initially, he refuses, with the excuse that she's just in his way. He doesn't trust her, to the point he almost erases her on the suggestion that she's talking to the Reapers.
Eventually, she convinces him to at least listen to other people. He starts to open up to them - until the death of a friend. Neku closes up again, claiming that if he hadn't started to listen to people, he wouldn't have gotten hurt. But by the end of the seven-day Game, he's started to realize that people aren't as bad as he thinks.
This becomes even more evident in the second week - even with a partner who he admits annoys him to no end. Joshua's frustrating at best and downright snotty at worst, but Neku keeps reminding himself that the important thing is to trust his partner - as far as he can trust him - and keep an open mind.
Through the course of multiple runs through the Reapers' Game, Neku shows that he's determined and focused underneath the callousness. He goes from thinking people are annoying and friendship is pointless to actively seeking out his friends. He's able to adapt, to change, to grow, and with it, change not only his own world view, but the world outside his personal bubble.
Abilities: Neku is highly adept at using 'psychs' to attack enemies. These psychs are dependent on the pins he's wearing at any given time. There are a total of 64 psychs available in the game; they are listed on the wiki.
Neku is also able to summon Noise, making him the only non-Reaper who can do so.
Sample Entry:
[There was one problem that stood out above the rest of the problems with Mayfield, according to Neku. It was annoying not to have his headphones or his regular shoes. And yeah, bad stuff happened, but he'd already died once. It didn't get a whole lot worse.
No, the problem? Boredom. You could only do so much before it started to get to you.
This is why Neku was standing outside the back door of the school gym with a few cans of spray paint.]
All right. I'm not Mr. H, but I've seen enough of his work to know what I'm doing.
[He popped the top off one of the cans, thinking for a minute before starting to spray.
He wasn't expecting a drone cop to come tap him on the shoulder.]
Yeah, I'd better bounce -
[Too late. At least painting over his own graffiti attempt was something to do.]
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Preferred Housing: pending permission from Ryoma's player, 842 Goldberg - I have permission from Chez, Cappy, and Waffle already.
Character Name: Neku Sakuraba
Character Series: The World Ends With You
Character Age: 15
Background: Wiki!
Personality: At the beginning of the game, Neku Sakuraba is seen talking about the world in terms of 'Go away', 'I don't need you', and other such negative phrases. He closes the world out via his headphones and doesn't make eye contact with other people. He's blunt when he's called out on it, stating that other people are useless. He also argues that if you don't let anyone in, they can't hurt him.
Neku idolizes the graffiti artist CAT, and strongly believes in the motto 'do what you want, how you want, when you want'. He doesn't want to be tied down by any attachments to other people - they would just keep him from doing what he wants. So why bother with them? Better to let them do what they want and not bother.
Once he dies and starts playing in the Reapers' Game, he's forced to start opening up to other people. It's impossible to survive in the game for long without a partner, because without one, the Noise will attack and erase the player. He initially teams up with a girl named Shiki Misaki. She's constantly on his case to get him to talk to her. Initially, he refuses, with the excuse that she's just in his way. He doesn't trust her, to the point he almost erases her on the suggestion that she's talking to the Reapers.
Eventually, she convinces him to at least listen to other people. He starts to open up to them - until the death of a friend. Neku closes up again, claiming that if he hadn't started to listen to people, he wouldn't have gotten hurt. But by the end of the seven-day Game, he's started to realize that people aren't as bad as he thinks.
This becomes even more evident in the second week - even with a partner who he admits annoys him to no end. Joshua's frustrating at best and downright snotty at worst, but Neku keeps reminding himself that the important thing is to trust his partner - as far as he can trust him - and keep an open mind.
Through the course of multiple runs through the Reapers' Game, Neku shows that he's determined and focused underneath the callousness. He goes from thinking people are annoying and friendship is pointless to actively seeking out his friends. He's able to adapt, to change, to grow, and with it, change not only his own world view, but the world outside his personal bubble.
Abilities: Neku is highly adept at using 'psychs' to attack enemies. These psychs are dependent on the pins he's wearing at any given time. There are a total of 64 psychs available in the game; they are listed on the wiki.
Neku is also able to summon Noise, making him the only non-Reaper who can do so.
Sample Entry:
[There was one problem that stood out above the rest of the problems with Mayfield, according to Neku. It was annoying not to have his headphones or his regular shoes. And yeah, bad stuff happened, but he'd already died once. It didn't get a whole lot worse.
No, the problem? Boredom. You could only do so much before it started to get to you.
This is why Neku was standing outside the back door of the school gym with a few cans of spray paint.]
All right. I'm not Mr. H, but I've seen enough of his work to know what I'm doing.
[He popped the top off one of the cans, thinking for a minute before starting to spray.
He wasn't expecting a drone cop to come tap him on the shoulder.]
Yeah, I'd better bounce -
[Too late. At least painting over his own graffiti attempt was something to do.]