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acts_her_age) wrote2012-01-28 10:35 pm
acts_her_age) wrote2012-01-28 10:35 pm
[ooc] app post!
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Character: Shiho Miyano/"Ai Haibara"
Series: Detective Conan
Character Age: appears 7 (actually around 18)
Canon: Brilliant but arrogant teenage detective Shinichi Kudo was doing pretty well for himself, until one day he got in over his head and found himself overpowered and drugged by the shady fellows he was tailing. Miraculously, the drug failed to kill him and instead reverted him to his seven-year-old body. Now calling himself Conan Edogawa, Shinichi has to keep his identity secret from the people around him and track down the men who tried to kill him... not to mention solve all the murders that seem to happen whenever he steps foot outside his front door.
Ai Haibara comes into things as another victim of the drug that shrank Shinichi, with a twist: she's also the one who created it. A science prodigy who was raised in the ranks of a criminal organization, she took her own drug to escape the organization through death, and found herself escaping to a new life instead. However, Ai is still very much the product of her upbringing. She's collected, self-sufficient, and focuses on self-preservation. She cultivates a quiet and mysterious image, but her occasional speaking out will reveal her nature of dry sarcasm, sly wit, and maybe a little bit too much dwelling on the more morbid details of life. While "morbid" may be a good way to describe a lot about her, from her sense of humor to her worldview, she does have a soft side. She's fond and protective of her new caretaker and her first grade classmates, loves animals, and is gaining an appreciation for justice after teaming up with Shinichi. She might still assume the worst of everyone and think it's funny to pretend to threaten someone at gunpoint, but she's shuffling her way towards being a good person, and finding herself okay with that.
Sample Post:
The Director really is cruel, isn't she? Imprisoning people and experimenting on them, giving them only the hope that one day they'll be able to return to their homes and families... Raising the dead and forcing them to live in eternal hunger, experiencing the hardships of life without the sweet reprieve of death. Watching callously as people try to cope with the changes to their minds or bodies, not knowing when they'll return to their true selves...
It's impressive, but isn't it all a little tasteless? Unethical research does sometimes yield the best results, but turning some of Earth's most intelligent creatures purple is just juvenile. One also has to wonder about the intentions of a woman experimenting with how to change one's age, entire identity, and place in the animal kingdom... If her research really is a symptom of her nostalgia for her lost love, maybe the world is better off without Stephan Debussey. Or at least, perhaps in this case it would be best for a woman's heart to remain a mystery. However, whatever her intentions, no one could deny that the Director has truly accomplished some amazing things. I don't think I'd like to meet her myself, but she's certainly worthy of respect. Chasing after her goal so persistently, and creating the research that she has... It's beyond anything that I've seen or done myself. But, I have plenty of years to live before I'm as old as the Director.
While hopefully I'll be out of this place before I get to that point, in the meantime, studying the "age-up" virus should be a particularly valuable experiment. The Director may be more interested in making her prisoners prepubescent than she is in making them adults, but there are a few documented cases where it seems as if she tired of spring chicken in favor of something better-aged. Even if it's rare, any data I'm able to gather should be of use, as a week-long effect with no notable instances of causing immunization is better than what I've been able to accomplish... If the virus really is airborne and potentially contagious, it would be too dangerous to replicate exactly, but--
Oh, my... This is unfortunate, isn't it? A small girl like me, cornered by one of those tragic undead monsters. It was kind of the Director to supply me with a laptop and youth shotgun, but it's not like I would know how to handle a gun...
...Just kidding. ♫
Character: Shiho Miyano/"Ai Haibara"
Series: Detective Conan
Character Age: appears 7 (actually around 18)
Canon: Brilliant but arrogant teenage detective Shinichi Kudo was doing pretty well for himself, until one day he got in over his head and found himself overpowered and drugged by the shady fellows he was tailing. Miraculously, the drug failed to kill him and instead reverted him to his seven-year-old body. Now calling himself Conan Edogawa, Shinichi has to keep his identity secret from the people around him and track down the men who tried to kill him... not to mention solve all the murders that seem to happen whenever he steps foot outside his front door.
Ai Haibara comes into things as another victim of the drug that shrank Shinichi, with a twist: she's also the one who created it. A science prodigy who was raised in the ranks of a criminal organization, she took her own drug to escape the organization through death, and found herself escaping to a new life instead. However, Ai is still very much the product of her upbringing. She's collected, self-sufficient, and focuses on self-preservation. She cultivates a quiet and mysterious image, but her occasional speaking out will reveal her nature of dry sarcasm, sly wit, and maybe a little bit too much dwelling on the more morbid details of life. While "morbid" may be a good way to describe a lot about her, from her sense of humor to her worldview, she does have a soft side. She's fond and protective of her new caretaker and her first grade classmates, loves animals, and is gaining an appreciation for justice after teaming up with Shinichi. She might still assume the worst of everyone and think it's funny to pretend to threaten someone at gunpoint, but she's shuffling her way towards being a good person, and finding herself okay with that.
Sample Post:
The Director really is cruel, isn't she? Imprisoning people and experimenting on them, giving them only the hope that one day they'll be able to return to their homes and families... Raising the dead and forcing them to live in eternal hunger, experiencing the hardships of life without the sweet reprieve of death. Watching callously as people try to cope with the changes to their minds or bodies, not knowing when they'll return to their true selves...
It's impressive, but isn't it all a little tasteless? Unethical research does sometimes yield the best results, but turning some of Earth's most intelligent creatures purple is just juvenile. One also has to wonder about the intentions of a woman experimenting with how to change one's age, entire identity, and place in the animal kingdom... If her research really is a symptom of her nostalgia for her lost love, maybe the world is better off without Stephan Debussey. Or at least, perhaps in this case it would be best for a woman's heart to remain a mystery. However, whatever her intentions, no one could deny that the Director has truly accomplished some amazing things. I don't think I'd like to meet her myself, but she's certainly worthy of respect. Chasing after her goal so persistently, and creating the research that she has... It's beyond anything that I've seen or done myself. But, I have plenty of years to live before I'm as old as the Director.
While hopefully I'll be out of this place before I get to that point, in the meantime, studying the "age-up" virus should be a particularly valuable experiment. The Director may be more interested in making her prisoners prepubescent than she is in making them adults, but there are a few documented cases where it seems as if she tired of spring chicken in favor of something better-aged. Even if it's rare, any data I'm able to gather should be of use, as a week-long effect with no notable instances of causing immunization is better than what I've been able to accomplish... If the virus really is airborne and potentially contagious, it would be too dangerous to replicate exactly, but--
Oh, my... This is unfortunate, isn't it? A small girl like me, cornered by one of those tragic undead monsters. It was kind of the Director to supply me with a laptop and youth shotgun, but it's not like I would know how to handle a gun...
...Just kidding. ♫