Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
usedfeatherdance) wrote2012-01-19 10:30 pm
usedfeatherdance) wrote2012-01-19 10:30 pm
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Player
Name: Kim
Personal Journal:wallscrolls
E-mail: livejournal[at]anigirl15[dot]com
AIM/MSN: kbb08
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: None!
Character
Name: Yoshiya “Joshua” Kiryu
Series: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Immediately post-Hachiko, post-game
Canon Resource Links: http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Joshua
Personality:
Massive TWEWY spoilers follow
The Composer: one who has a boundless love for humanity. It is the Composer’s role to run the Reaper’s Game, a harsh, cruel competition which promises a second chance at life to the recently dead... if they’re strong enough to survive it.
It’s a role which suits Joshua perfectly.
Joshua cares for people, but without getting to know him better, one would never think this. He’s snide, snotty, rude, and can be quite the jerk. He often will purposefully annoy people or provoke them, and isn’t one to pull his punches, at least verbally. He constantly makes jabs at Neku, Minamimoto, and whoever is a convenient target, even going so far as to call BJ’s crush a “tramp”. He doesn’t sugarcoat his words, or avoid topics just because they’re upsetting. When another pair of Players talks of cooperating with Joshua and Neku, Joshua outright says, “The other players aren’t your friends. They’re your competition.” He doesn’t coddle anyone, and it’s only when someone has truly earned his respect that he speaks to them like an equal, as shown by how Hanekoma and Kitaniji are the only two that he talks to without his attitude as well as the fact that by the end of their week together, he’s let up on teasing Neku somewhat. Most people, however, he keeps at a distance. Though he does care, it’s a very detached feeling: impersonal unless the person has done something to merit his attention.
However, there’s a method to what he does, and Joshua’s goal is to push at people’s boundaries. He makes people question their beliefs, leave their comfort zones, and discover things about themselves they never knew before. As a Composer, Joshua has created a Game where one must do without that which is most important to them, and they only regain it if they win. This is done so that people are forced to reexamine their values and priorities. While such a thing is impossible to do verbally, Joshua still tries the same when he’s dealing with people in person. At one point he asks Neku what’s waiting for him in the RG, and then follows the question with “You don’t have to answer. I don’t really care.” The answer isn’t important to him; its significance is in the fact that Neku needs to consider it.
Joshua is also a liar. He knows what information he wants to keep secret, and how to let out the information he wants others to know. He lies easily to keep the fact that he’s the Composer a secret, from simple lines like “I’m new at all this” all the way to pretending he was playing the Game while living to explain away the power he has. He feeds Neku information by pursuing the goal of “take down the Composer”, which serves the dual purpose of being another lie to keep the suspicion off of him and to give Neku the information he’ll need to eventually defeat the Conductor for Joshua.
His overall attitude is very carefree and joking, but deep down Joshua has a strong serious side. Most of the time Joshua seems whimsical, joking or teasing with a smile on his face. He doesn’t seem to take things seriously, even when the situation is one that most people would consider serious. However, he does have times when he stops being so capricious. These are few and far between, and usually only occur when something is going directly against his goals or his ideals. Joshua can usually cut off his emotions when he needs to.
At the beginning of TWEWY, Joshua was disheartened with Shibuya, but the change Neku underwent likewise brought about a change in Joshua. The Game is a force meant to change people for the better, and Joshua was convinced that Shibuya had too many problems to continue that. Neku began the Game a cut off, distant person. But as he went through the Game and changed, and as Joshua watched that change, he came to realize that Shibuya was still able to do what it was supposed to. For this reason, he decided not to go ahead and erase Shibuya, but let it go back to the way it was.
At his core, Joshua isn’t a bad person. His priorities are much different from most people’s, and he has a slightly skewed sense of morals, but in the end he does what he believes will cause the greatest benefit to the most people. He’s willing to make tough decisions and takes responsibility for them, despite any resistance he might face from others. As a Composer, everything he does must be for the greater good, even when the greater good means sacrificing everything he’s done. Joshua was willing to erase Shibuya, his entire domain, because he feared it was going to damage the areas around it if he didn’t. While it’s not explained in canon exactly what this would entail, there’s rather strong indication that this would have involved sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives. Despite that, Joshua was willing to go through with it, and draw the Higher Plane’s scrutiny, because he believed it was what needed to be done in order to make everything be the best it could in the end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Joshua is very clever and intelligent. He can often pick up on things that others miss, though he won’t necessarily comment. He also knows a decent amount and is wise beyond his years (in the case of his appearance, literally: though his age is unknown, it’s most likely that he’s much older than his teenaged appearance). He also has good control over his emotions. He’s frequently able to look at the humor in a situation (even when there isn’t any) and he can ignore the parts he doesn’t like, as he often brings up things that are more amusing to him in the middle of unfavorable situations. Thanks to his experience as Composer, he is very good at making impartial decisions. Also as a Composer he has a boatload of powers. The only ones that matter in Route are that he is a mind-reader, and he has the ability to suppress his powers to change his apparent age (which is why he looks 15, as opposed to late-20s or so).
However, he is rather weak physically, and doesn’t like exerting himself. He also has the tendency to be very confident, and will underestimate other people’s abilities or potential. He thinks very highly of himself and refuses to admit that he might be wrong or have any sort of weakness. In the cases where he’s proven wrong or contradicts himself, he gets upset. He also has trouble empathizing with people, and his tendency to be a jerk can get him on people’s bad sides, even if he does know how to stop before provoking too far. He can often appear selfish, and sometimes cold or aloof if he’s making an effort to cut himself off. With the overconfidence, Joshua fears little, and that can get him into trouble.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Absol
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample:
You know, I was under the impression that Pokemon journeys started out in Pallet Town. This is the same sort of Pokemon from the games back home, correct? I’ll admit I’m only a casual fan, but I don’t quite think I’ve seen one like this before. [ Joshua shifts the camera so that it gets a good view of his newly-acquired Absol. The Absol glances to the camera, back to Joshua, then puts its head down again. Joshua giggles as he moves the camera back to himself. ]
I’d already taken a vacation recently, so here I wasn’t expecting another so soon. This is a different world from my own, I take it? Anyone care to let me in on who is responsible for that little trick? Considering the circumstances, I can’t imagine there are many possible suspects...
Hee hee, but what do I know? At least one of you should be able to give me some information. I can’t imagine everyone here is completely ignorant.
Third Person Sample:
The music, Joshua had decided, was mocking him.
It wasn’t all that unlike being back in Shibuya. The constant sound in his ears that one could never truly be rid of. But back in Shibuya, it was the sound of his city, the sound of hundreds of thousands of people going about their lives, interacting and clashing and always changing. It was a beautiful song.
This was distinctly not that song.
It would have been enough to simply not have the sound of Shibuya around him, a change from what his entire existence has been for more years than he cared to consider. But it had been replaced, replaced with a tune that was unimaginative and repetitive, mocking the sound of progress he had come to love. That was the part that Joshua found truly unforgivable.
He felt the rhythmic up-and-down motion stop, and turned to find his Absol staring at him quizzically. Joshua giggled and tilted his head. “Hmm? If you take a picture, it will last longer.”
The Absol made a sound that was almost like a snort. “You seemed upset.”
“Are you sure you’re not projecting?” He giggled again, and turned to look out over the forest path before them. “I suppose I should hope you’re not displeased. I’m not all that heavy to carry, you know. Besides, the sooner we get through this place, the sooner both of us can get back to civilization.”
How long had it been since he’d last been in a forest? Given the population of the town they’d just left, he suspected that there wasn’t anything he’d consider civilization within any sort of distance. Beyond the music, beyond the loss of his powers, beyond the loss of his city, that was probably what was going to make Joshua homesick the most. The lack of people flowing around him all the time. The lack of energy that a population like that brought to the world around them. Socializing wasn’t his strong suit, but he couldn’t deny that he loved people.
And when he found out who was responsible for this music, he would make sure they paid dearly for it.
Name: Kim
Personal Journal:
wallscrollsE-mail: livejournal[at]anigirl15[dot]com
AIM/MSN: kbb08
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: None!
Character
Name: Yoshiya “Joshua” Kiryu
Series: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Immediately post-Hachiko, post-game
Canon Resource Links: http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Joshua
Personality:
Massive TWEWY spoilers follow
The Composer: one who has a boundless love for humanity. It is the Composer’s role to run the Reaper’s Game, a harsh, cruel competition which promises a second chance at life to the recently dead... if they’re strong enough to survive it.
It’s a role which suits Joshua perfectly.
Joshua cares for people, but without getting to know him better, one would never think this. He’s snide, snotty, rude, and can be quite the jerk. He often will purposefully annoy people or provoke them, and isn’t one to pull his punches, at least verbally. He constantly makes jabs at Neku, Minamimoto, and whoever is a convenient target, even going so far as to call BJ’s crush a “tramp”. He doesn’t sugarcoat his words, or avoid topics just because they’re upsetting. When another pair of Players talks of cooperating with Joshua and Neku, Joshua outright says, “The other players aren’t your friends. They’re your competition.” He doesn’t coddle anyone, and it’s only when someone has truly earned his respect that he speaks to them like an equal, as shown by how Hanekoma and Kitaniji are the only two that he talks to without his attitude as well as the fact that by the end of their week together, he’s let up on teasing Neku somewhat. Most people, however, he keeps at a distance. Though he does care, it’s a very detached feeling: impersonal unless the person has done something to merit his attention.
However, there’s a method to what he does, and Joshua’s goal is to push at people’s boundaries. He makes people question their beliefs, leave their comfort zones, and discover things about themselves they never knew before. As a Composer, Joshua has created a Game where one must do without that which is most important to them, and they only regain it if they win. This is done so that people are forced to reexamine their values and priorities. While such a thing is impossible to do verbally, Joshua still tries the same when he’s dealing with people in person. At one point he asks Neku what’s waiting for him in the RG, and then follows the question with “You don’t have to answer. I don’t really care.” The answer isn’t important to him; its significance is in the fact that Neku needs to consider it.
Joshua is also a liar. He knows what information he wants to keep secret, and how to let out the information he wants others to know. He lies easily to keep the fact that he’s the Composer a secret, from simple lines like “I’m new at all this” all the way to pretending he was playing the Game while living to explain away the power he has. He feeds Neku information by pursuing the goal of “take down the Composer”, which serves the dual purpose of being another lie to keep the suspicion off of him and to give Neku the information he’ll need to eventually defeat the Conductor for Joshua.
His overall attitude is very carefree and joking, but deep down Joshua has a strong serious side. Most of the time Joshua seems whimsical, joking or teasing with a smile on his face. He doesn’t seem to take things seriously, even when the situation is one that most people would consider serious. However, he does have times when he stops being so capricious. These are few and far between, and usually only occur when something is going directly against his goals or his ideals. Joshua can usually cut off his emotions when he needs to.
At the beginning of TWEWY, Joshua was disheartened with Shibuya, but the change Neku underwent likewise brought about a change in Joshua. The Game is a force meant to change people for the better, and Joshua was convinced that Shibuya had too many problems to continue that. Neku began the Game a cut off, distant person. But as he went through the Game and changed, and as Joshua watched that change, he came to realize that Shibuya was still able to do what it was supposed to. For this reason, he decided not to go ahead and erase Shibuya, but let it go back to the way it was.
At his core, Joshua isn’t a bad person. His priorities are much different from most people’s, and he has a slightly skewed sense of morals, but in the end he does what he believes will cause the greatest benefit to the most people. He’s willing to make tough decisions and takes responsibility for them, despite any resistance he might face from others. As a Composer, everything he does must be for the greater good, even when the greater good means sacrificing everything he’s done. Joshua was willing to erase Shibuya, his entire domain, because he feared it was going to damage the areas around it if he didn’t. While it’s not explained in canon exactly what this would entail, there’s rather strong indication that this would have involved sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives. Despite that, Joshua was willing to go through with it, and draw the Higher Plane’s scrutiny, because he believed it was what needed to be done in order to make everything be the best it could in the end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Joshua is very clever and intelligent. He can often pick up on things that others miss, though he won’t necessarily comment. He also knows a decent amount and is wise beyond his years (in the case of his appearance, literally: though his age is unknown, it’s most likely that he’s much older than his teenaged appearance). He also has good control over his emotions. He’s frequently able to look at the humor in a situation (even when there isn’t any) and he can ignore the parts he doesn’t like, as he often brings up things that are more amusing to him in the middle of unfavorable situations. Thanks to his experience as Composer, he is very good at making impartial decisions. Also as a Composer he has a boatload of powers. The only ones that matter in Route are that he is a mind-reader, and he has the ability to suppress his powers to change his apparent age (which is why he looks 15, as opposed to late-20s or so).
However, he is rather weak physically, and doesn’t like exerting himself. He also has the tendency to be very confident, and will underestimate other people’s abilities or potential. He thinks very highly of himself and refuses to admit that he might be wrong or have any sort of weakness. In the cases where he’s proven wrong or contradicts himself, he gets upset. He also has trouble empathizing with people, and his tendency to be a jerk can get him on people’s bad sides, even if he does know how to stop before provoking too far. He can often appear selfish, and sometimes cold or aloof if he’s making an effort to cut himself off. With the overconfidence, Joshua fears little, and that can get him into trouble.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Absol
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample:
You know, I was under the impression that Pokemon journeys started out in Pallet Town. This is the same sort of Pokemon from the games back home, correct? I’ll admit I’m only a casual fan, but I don’t quite think I’ve seen one like this before. [ Joshua shifts the camera so that it gets a good view of his newly-acquired Absol. The Absol glances to the camera, back to Joshua, then puts its head down again. Joshua giggles as he moves the camera back to himself. ]
I’d already taken a vacation recently, so here I wasn’t expecting another so soon. This is a different world from my own, I take it? Anyone care to let me in on who is responsible for that little trick? Considering the circumstances, I can’t imagine there are many possible suspects...
Hee hee, but what do I know? At least one of you should be able to give me some information. I can’t imagine everyone here is completely ignorant.
Third Person Sample:
The music, Joshua had decided, was mocking him.
It wasn’t all that unlike being back in Shibuya. The constant sound in his ears that one could never truly be rid of. But back in Shibuya, it was the sound of his city, the sound of hundreds of thousands of people going about their lives, interacting and clashing and always changing. It was a beautiful song.
This was distinctly not that song.
It would have been enough to simply not have the sound of Shibuya around him, a change from what his entire existence has been for more years than he cared to consider. But it had been replaced, replaced with a tune that was unimaginative and repetitive, mocking the sound of progress he had come to love. That was the part that Joshua found truly unforgivable.
He felt the rhythmic up-and-down motion stop, and turned to find his Absol staring at him quizzically. Joshua giggled and tilted his head. “Hmm? If you take a picture, it will last longer.”
The Absol made a sound that was almost like a snort. “You seemed upset.”
“Are you sure you’re not projecting?” He giggled again, and turned to look out over the forest path before them. “I suppose I should hope you’re not displeased. I’m not all that heavy to carry, you know. Besides, the sooner we get through this place, the sooner both of us can get back to civilization.”
How long had it been since he’d last been in a forest? Given the population of the town they’d just left, he suspected that there wasn’t anything he’d consider civilization within any sort of distance. Beyond the music, beyond the loss of his powers, beyond the loss of his city, that was probably what was going to make Joshua homesick the most. The lack of people flowing around him all the time. The lack of energy that a population like that brought to the world around them. Socializing wasn’t his strong suit, but he couldn’t deny that he loved people.
And when he found out who was responsible for this music, he would make sure they paid dearly for it.