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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Hydok
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Age: 30+
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Chuuta Kokonose (and Drew)
Assigned Nickname The Host
Age: 14
Canon: ēlDLIVE (manga)
Canon point: Volume 8 (immediately before the final conflict with Heavensiders)
Character Information: wiki, the wiki is pretty lacking in content, please let me know if you want anything else in terms of info (and I can of course go into extensive detail about his powers if that becomes necessary).
Personality:
► (the) Incident
For Chuuta, you have to start here. You have to start with four best friends sneaking away from the rest of their class on a first grade field trip. You have to start with a landslide and a desperate attempt to grab a hand and a missed step and one little boy at a funeral while his best friend's mother screamed at him about how he should have died instead of her son. You have to start with the Incident because there's a big part of Chuuta that never recovered from it. He was always a little weird before it (after all, he talks out loud to a voice in his head) but afterwards he shut down, he stopped trying to make friends and started pushing people away, he stopped trusting himself to be able to help anyone (he stopped trusting the voice in his head to know what to do). He's working on getting past that, he's started making friends again, he's learning how to take action and trust his own judgement and help people without freezing up, but he's still deeply impacted by it.
Drew was also impacted by this incident. Not as badly as Chuuta was, because Drew is an alien AI built to research planets and there isn't much room to fit trauma into his programming. But he learned a lot about how Chuuta reacted, and learned a lot about how not to communicate with his host (it was sort of Drew's fault that the rockslide happened, and he's careful to phrase everything he says to make sure Chuuta won't misunderstand him ever again).
► Love
Chuuta is someone who loves so much, and in so many different ways.
He loves people, just in general, because every life is precious and he wants to protect every precious life. It's maybe a little bit too much, but Chuuta is someone who literally has no will to live and only lives in order to protect other people, so it works for him.
He loves his aunt, who's his only family and who raised him. Sometimes that looks like handling all the cooking and cleaning because he's good at it and she isn't. Sometimes it looks like lying to her about the danger he's in and hiding any sign that he isn't doing okay because he doesn't want her to worry.
He's in love, sort of accidentally, with the cutest girl in his class who also turns out to be a space cop. She's cute, and she's super cool, and he'd die for her and maybe even kill for her if he needed to. Also she can't decide if she likes him or hates him, and he doesn't really mind that (tusnderes are cute if it's her).
And then of course, Chuuta loves Drew. Drew is his most important person, the person who's always been there with him and who he can always rely on, who helps him keep going when he's ready to give up. He also gets super distracted talking to Drew and ends up looking weird, and sometimes Drew's sense of humor is just annoying, but that's just what basically being brothers is about.
Drew isn't programmed to love. He's a research symbiote, his main emotion should be curiosity with a dash of self-preservation. But there's always been something a little glitchy about Drew, and as he and Chuuta have grown up together they've constantly grown closer. Monitaliens aren't supposed to even let their hosts know they exist, and yet Drew talks to Chuuta almost constantly. He helps Chuuta out with information, he tries to cheer Chuuta up when he's feeling down, he and Chuuta work together to use Drew's powers for fighting. When they were both fatally injured, Drew asked Chuuta to help him overcome his programming so that they could stay together. They're a little co-dependent but it's probably fine.
► Power
The thing to get out of the way first is that it's canon that Chuuta and Drew can adapt to and overpower any opponent, or survive any situation if given the time to process and respond to it. And when most people look at Chuuta, that's what they see. Unlimited power, not being used "properly", a kid from a backwater planet that's somehow got his hands on ancient technology and has figured out how to use it in ways that shouldn't be possible.
The fact that they have any power at all is where canon starts hinting that something more than just "an Earthling and the slightly rogue data-collecting AI attached to him" is happening. There's a bunch of stuff going on plot-wise with the Mother God Computer and alien civilizations that ended billions of years ago and brainwashing and child sacrifice and the end of the universe, but none of that is really relevant to how Chuuta and Drew think about power.
Really what's important is that it is Chuuta and Drew when it comes to this bullet point. It's Drew's power source, shaped by Chuuta's mental image, controlled by both of them working in unison. It's not one of them working alone, and like Chuuta says at a later canonpoint it's not him calling all the shots on how they use their abilities (despite how it may look to an outsider), it is and always has to be a cooperative effort by two equal wills working in sympathy. It doesn't mean they always get along perfectly, or that they never argue, or that they always have the same idea all the time. They have to talk things through a lot of the time, have to make sure they're on the same page when coming up with new attacks during a fight, and sometimes one of them gets pushy and tries to take control, but they always manage to talk things out and come back to a point where they're working together.
► Responsibility
This ties back in to all of the previous paragraphs, really.
Chuuta is someone who takes on a lot of responsibility, even when he doesn't need to. He does all the cooking and cleaning and mending at home, because his aunt isn't good at it and he likes housework, so he's decided to make that like 90% of his personality (he's The Guy Who Does Home-Ec Stuff). He's responsible for Drew, of course, because he's Drew's host, and that responsibility includes everything from making sure to communicate info from Drew to other people, to picking up a fighting style that involves mostly dodging and running away to keep from getting injured (since any injuries to Chuuta are copied onto Drew and vice versa), to just generally checking in and making sure that Drew's doing well.
He takes responsibility for other things too. The apparent death of his friends in a hiking accident when they were in first grade? That's Chuuta's fault, in his mind, and he carries that with him for the rest of his life. (Does it matter that it turns out two of his three friends were actually aliens and no one actually died in that landslide they just got kidnapped by different aliens? No, because the whole thing happened because of the plot around Chuuta and Drew, so he still thinks it was his fault.) Someone gets hurt in a fight? Chuuta should have been faster to help them. It doesn't mean that he always jumps in right away (after all, he's spent most of his life feeling like when he tries to help he just makes things worse), but it does mean he feels terrible about it afterwards.
Drew is, well, responsible for Chuuta. Sort of. If everything were working exactly as programmed for a Monitalien, Drew would be responsible for just observing. That's the job of a Monitalien, land on a planet, hop from one life form to another when the former host dies, gather data and send it back to the home planet. It's what Drew's been doing for billions of years. Things got a little weird when he met up with Chuuta though (because Drew's not just a Monitalien, there's all that plot stuff going on in the background), and Drew likes Chuuta, he wants to stay in symbiosis with Chuuta, he doesn't want Chuuta to die. That sense of responsibility for Chuuta is actually how Drew's powers developed the way they do in canon, because Drew takes a powerset that should only be for protection-of-the-Monitalien and extends that to protection-of-the-Monitalien-and-its-host-and-everyone-else-the-host-wants-to-protect.
► Happiness
Chuuta is bad at happiness . He shouldn't be, his personality at its core is someone who should be in a baseline good mood (Drew is almost always in a baseline good mood, he's not built for extremes of emotion other than curiosity, and he's very content with his current situation). But then when Chuuta was little, there was the Incident, and he went from excited and cheerful and outgoing to traumatized and withdrawn. And then as he recovered from that, he didn't have friends and he started talking with Drew more, and that basically tanked any possibility for positive interactions at school. No one wants to hang out with the weird gloomy loner kid who spaces out and talks to himself like he's having an actual conversation with a voice in his head. He stopped being happy and settled for fine, or content or on bad days just making sure no one worries about him, on a good day even cheerful.
But he's working on it. Being kidnapped by space cops and getting conscripted into the space police was actually the best thing that's ever happened to him. He's got friends now, and he's learning how to get along with people who aren't Drew and how to talk to other people his own age. The adults who are responsible for him on the station are friendly and encouraging (for the most part) and many of them are actively invested in helping the kids improve. He made food for a work birthday party and got so many compliments he cried. He's finally been able to reach out his hands and maybe grab on to happiness.
And then, the events of canon happen, and in the hours before Chuuta's canonpoint the entire crew of the space cops station he works on got wiped out by an alien plague, and his direct supervisor came back from being locked up and then Chuuta had to kill him, and things are just going to get worse from there. For a second, he almost had it. He almost managed to exist in a world where his life doesn't suck. But the theme of Chuuta's existence is seeing happiness slip out of your fingers and continuing on despite that, so he's going to keep going.
Roommates?: I'm up for any amount of random roommates!
Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?: please avoid detailed/extensive descriptions of chronic joint pain
RP SAMPLES: TDM with Peter
Name: Hydok
Contact:
Permissions: permissions
Age: 30+
Other characters?: n/a
Who Invited you?: mod invite
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Chuuta Kokonose (and Drew)
Assigned Nickname The Host
Age: 14
Canon: ēlDLIVE (manga)
Canon point: Volume 8 (immediately before the final conflict with Heavensiders)
Character Information: wiki, the wiki is pretty lacking in content, please let me know if you want anything else in terms of info (and I can of course go into extensive detail about his powers if that becomes necessary).
Personality:
► (the) Incident
For Chuuta, you have to start here. You have to start with four best friends sneaking away from the rest of their class on a first grade field trip. You have to start with a landslide and a desperate attempt to grab a hand and a missed step and one little boy at a funeral while his best friend's mother screamed at him about how he should have died instead of her son. You have to start with the Incident because there's a big part of Chuuta that never recovered from it. He was always a little weird before it (after all, he talks out loud to a voice in his head) but afterwards he shut down, he stopped trying to make friends and started pushing people away, he stopped trusting himself to be able to help anyone (he stopped trusting the voice in his head to know what to do). He's working on getting past that, he's started making friends again, he's learning how to take action and trust his own judgement and help people without freezing up, but he's still deeply impacted by it.
Drew was also impacted by this incident. Not as badly as Chuuta was, because Drew is an alien AI built to research planets and there isn't much room to fit trauma into his programming. But he learned a lot about how Chuuta reacted, and learned a lot about how not to communicate with his host (it was sort of Drew's fault that the rockslide happened, and he's careful to phrase everything he says to make sure Chuuta won't misunderstand him ever again).
► Love
Chuuta is someone who loves so much, and in so many different ways.
He loves people, just in general, because every life is precious and he wants to protect every precious life. It's maybe a little bit too much, but Chuuta is someone who literally has no will to live and only lives in order to protect other people, so it works for him.
He loves his aunt, who's his only family and who raised him. Sometimes that looks like handling all the cooking and cleaning because he's good at it and she isn't. Sometimes it looks like lying to her about the danger he's in and hiding any sign that he isn't doing okay because he doesn't want her to worry.
He's in love, sort of accidentally, with the cutest girl in his class who also turns out to be a space cop. She's cute, and she's super cool, and he'd die for her and maybe even kill for her if he needed to. Also she can't decide if she likes him or hates him, and he doesn't really mind that (tusnderes are cute if it's her).
And then of course, Chuuta loves Drew. Drew is his most important person, the person who's always been there with him and who he can always rely on, who helps him keep going when he's ready to give up. He also gets super distracted talking to Drew and ends up looking weird, and sometimes Drew's sense of humor is just annoying, but that's just what basically being brothers is about.
Drew isn't programmed to love. He's a research symbiote, his main emotion should be curiosity with a dash of self-preservation. But there's always been something a little glitchy about Drew, and as he and Chuuta have grown up together they've constantly grown closer. Monitaliens aren't supposed to even let their hosts know they exist, and yet Drew talks to Chuuta almost constantly. He helps Chuuta out with information, he tries to cheer Chuuta up when he's feeling down, he and Chuuta work together to use Drew's powers for fighting. When they were both fatally injured, Drew asked Chuuta to help him overcome his programming so that they could stay together. They're a little co-dependent but it's probably fine.
► Power
The thing to get out of the way first is that it's canon that Chuuta and Drew can adapt to and overpower any opponent, or survive any situation if given the time to process and respond to it. And when most people look at Chuuta, that's what they see. Unlimited power, not being used "properly", a kid from a backwater planet that's somehow got his hands on ancient technology and has figured out how to use it in ways that shouldn't be possible.
The fact that they have any power at all is where canon starts hinting that something more than just "an Earthling and the slightly rogue data-collecting AI attached to him" is happening. There's a bunch of stuff going on plot-wise with the Mother God Computer and alien civilizations that ended billions of years ago and brainwashing and child sacrifice and the end of the universe, but none of that is really relevant to how Chuuta and Drew think about power.
Really what's important is that it is Chuuta and Drew when it comes to this bullet point. It's Drew's power source, shaped by Chuuta's mental image, controlled by both of them working in unison. It's not one of them working alone, and like Chuuta says at a later canonpoint it's not him calling all the shots on how they use their abilities (despite how it may look to an outsider), it is and always has to be a cooperative effort by two equal wills working in sympathy. It doesn't mean they always get along perfectly, or that they never argue, or that they always have the same idea all the time. They have to talk things through a lot of the time, have to make sure they're on the same page when coming up with new attacks during a fight, and sometimes one of them gets pushy and tries to take control, but they always manage to talk things out and come back to a point where they're working together.
► Responsibility
This ties back in to all of the previous paragraphs, really.
Chuuta is someone who takes on a lot of responsibility, even when he doesn't need to. He does all the cooking and cleaning and mending at home, because his aunt isn't good at it and he likes housework, so he's decided to make that like 90% of his personality (he's The Guy Who Does Home-Ec Stuff). He's responsible for Drew, of course, because he's Drew's host, and that responsibility includes everything from making sure to communicate info from Drew to other people, to picking up a fighting style that involves mostly dodging and running away to keep from getting injured (since any injuries to Chuuta are copied onto Drew and vice versa), to just generally checking in and making sure that Drew's doing well.
He takes responsibility for other things too. The apparent death of his friends in a hiking accident when they were in first grade? That's Chuuta's fault, in his mind, and he carries that with him for the rest of his life. (Does it matter that it turns out two of his three friends were actually aliens and no one actually died in that landslide they just got kidnapped by different aliens? No, because the whole thing happened because of the plot around Chuuta and Drew, so he still thinks it was his fault.) Someone gets hurt in a fight? Chuuta should have been faster to help them. It doesn't mean that he always jumps in right away (after all, he's spent most of his life feeling like when he tries to help he just makes things worse), but it does mean he feels terrible about it afterwards.
Drew is, well, responsible for Chuuta. Sort of. If everything were working exactly as programmed for a Monitalien, Drew would be responsible for just observing. That's the job of a Monitalien, land on a planet, hop from one life form to another when the former host dies, gather data and send it back to the home planet. It's what Drew's been doing for billions of years. Things got a little weird when he met up with Chuuta though (because Drew's not just a Monitalien, there's all that plot stuff going on in the background), and Drew likes Chuuta, he wants to stay in symbiosis with Chuuta, he doesn't want Chuuta to die. That sense of responsibility for Chuuta is actually how Drew's powers developed the way they do in canon, because Drew takes a powerset that should only be for protection-of-the-Monitalien and extends that to protection-of-the-Monitalien-and-its-host-and-everyone-else-the-host-wants-to-protect.
► Happiness
Chuuta is bad at happiness . He shouldn't be, his personality at its core is someone who should be in a baseline good mood (Drew is almost always in a baseline good mood, he's not built for extremes of emotion other than curiosity, and he's very content with his current situation). But then when Chuuta was little, there was the Incident, and he went from excited and cheerful and outgoing to traumatized and withdrawn. And then as he recovered from that, he didn't have friends and he started talking with Drew more, and that basically tanked any possibility for positive interactions at school. No one wants to hang out with the weird gloomy loner kid who spaces out and talks to himself like he's having an actual conversation with a voice in his head. He stopped being happy and settled for fine, or content or on bad days just making sure no one worries about him, on a good day even cheerful.
But he's working on it. Being kidnapped by space cops and getting conscripted into the space police was actually the best thing that's ever happened to him. He's got friends now, and he's learning how to get along with people who aren't Drew and how to talk to other people his own age. The adults who are responsible for him on the station are friendly and encouraging (for the most part) and many of them are actively invested in helping the kids improve. He made food for a work birthday party and got so many compliments he cried. He's finally been able to reach out his hands and maybe grab on to happiness.
And then, the events of canon happen, and in the hours before Chuuta's canonpoint the entire crew of the space cops station he works on got wiped out by an alien plague, and his direct supervisor came back from being locked up and then Chuuta had to kill him, and things are just going to get worse from there. For a second, he almost had it. He almost managed to exist in a world where his life doesn't suck. But the theme of Chuuta's existence is seeing happiness slip out of your fingers and continuing on despite that, so he's going to keep going.
Roommates?: I'm up for any amount of random roommates!
Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?: please avoid detailed/extensive descriptions of chronic joint pain
RP SAMPLES: TDM with Peter