Your name: Bookie Your journal:sozettaslow Contact: aim: bookworm1208 Other characters played at Passing: N/A
Character name: Yoshiya ‘Joshua’ Kiryu Character fandom: The World Ends With You Version: V1 Canon point: Post-secret ending Importing development from old game? No. Background:http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Joshua
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality: Joshua is, as Neku so eloquently puts it, a ‘jerkface.’ He’s arrogant, condescending, and really doesn’t seem to give a damn about anyone. He is clever, and uses it to manipulate people. Most of the time they don’t realize they’ve been used until it’s over. This is partly because he rarely gives a direct lie- he just knows what conclusions people will jump to if he says the right things. He can play innocent until the final moment, even though most people can tell before that he’s at least up to something.
When he’s not being cryptic, he’s usually teasing (spending a decent amount of time during the game semi-flirting with the main male character), but he himself is very hard to rile. This attitude in general makes him seem very condensending, which in ways he is, but part of it is just that he’s not great at communicating on a personal level. It’s stated that’s been alone most of his life (and presumably, death) and he’s never really had many friends. He is completely capable, if usually not willing, to communicate on a professional level, but when it comes to friendship he’s a bit out of the loop. When it comes to people in general, prior to his Game with the Conductor he was very cynical, and was growing bitter with the people and their waste of talent in his city. However, after dealing with Neku, he has become more open and more willing to see the good in others. (Even if he still acts like a jerk.)
The select few that manage to get past the exterior don’t get much in terms of a nicer personality. In fact, it usually leads to more teasing and more pushing. Joshua’s way of getting people to change isn’t to gently push, but more forcibly shove and force them to face the things they don’t want to. It helps that he’s such a jerk that people usually want to prove him wrong. However, he will work to protect the people he cares about, even though as the Composer he can’t spend time with them like a normal person.
Overall, Joshua is kind of a jerk, especially to people he doesn’t care about. However, he’s got a soft spot for people he cares about and really does understand that people as a whole are worth it.
Abilities: As Composer, Joshua has a lot of powers, some of which are probably left out. In his RG (teenage) form, he can use his cellphone to drop large objects on people’s heads, and summon beams of light while levitating. When fighting with Neku, he can also use fusion attacks, using either large objects, fire and ice, or the freaking moon. As the Composer (his older form), he has the power to bring people back to life and to change forms (both into a teenager and a little ball of light). In both forms he can also ‘scan’ people, or read their current thoughts. Since many people (lower in rank) in the series can, it is assumed he also has wings and a noise form, but neither of these are confirmed.
His cellphone has its own abilities. It can take pictures of the past, imprint ‘memes’ on to people (force a word into their head), and track people’s power.
Writing sample: Today, Joshua had decided to take a stroll around the streets of Shibuya. These was odd for a variety of reasons. One, Joshua did not stroll. He wasn’t terribly fond of physical activity except under some very specific circumstances, and him taking walks around a crowded city wasn’t exactly common. Two, he wasn’t the type to procrastinate. He usually just got his work done, and that was that. Right now, however, he frankly just didn’t feel like it.
Three, and possibly the most distinct oddity, was that said walk was in the RG.
It was rare that the Composer ventured outside of his direct domain. There were many reasons behind that- younger form, more limited powers (slightly, but still limited), having to deal with the hassel of the living. Mostly, however, it was because there wasn’t much of a connection there. The dead and the living- there was a fairly obvious line, and Joshua just smirked knowingly as people ran through the crossing, jabbering on their phones as if that was the most important thing in their lives, with no idea of the Game under their noses.
So that left an obvious question- why? He could make excuses all he wanted, but Joshua knew the real reason. Nostalgia wasn’t something he liked to admit to, especially with his own ‘life’ being so far behind him. But that life wasn’t the reason today.
He passed by the statue of Hachiko, watching from a distance and hidden well in the crowd as a group of teenagers (plus one younger girl) met up. One was Joshua’s main interest, the headphoned boy rushing towards the already assembled group, bending over to catch his breathe before smiling up at his friends. Neku had ‘thought’ quite clearly at him that he’d wanted to see Joshua, and that his former partner didn’t have to completely vanish from his life.
Well, it was a good thing Joshua had never really intended to leave him alone, then.
Voice sample:Here. Still going, but I think it’s got enough to show how I play him.
(Also, sorry, forgot a subject line the first time. :|;)
Yoshiya 'Joshua' Kiryu | The World Ends With You
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Contact: aim: bookworm1208
Other characters played at Passing: N/A
Character name: Yoshiya ‘Joshua’ Kiryu
Character fandom: The World Ends With You
Version: V1
Canon point: Post-secret ending
Importing development from old game? No.
Background: http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Joshua
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality:
Joshua is, as Neku so eloquently puts it, a ‘jerkface.’ He’s arrogant, condescending, and really doesn’t seem to give a damn about anyone. He is clever, and uses it to manipulate people. Most of the time they don’t realize they’ve been used until it’s over. This is partly because he rarely gives a direct lie- he just knows what conclusions people will jump to if he says the right things. He can play innocent until the final moment, even though most people can tell before that he’s at least up to something.
When he’s not being cryptic, he’s usually teasing (spending a decent amount of time during the game semi-flirting with the main male character), but he himself is very hard to rile. This attitude in general makes him seem very condensending, which in ways he is, but part of it is just that he’s not great at communicating on a personal level. It’s stated that’s been alone most of his life (and presumably, death) and he’s never really had many friends. He is completely capable, if usually not willing, to communicate on a professional level, but when it comes to friendship he’s a bit out of the loop. When it comes to people in general, prior to his Game with the Conductor he was very cynical, and was growing bitter with the people and their waste of talent in his city. However, after dealing with Neku, he has become more open and more willing to see the good in others. (Even if he still acts like a jerk.)
The select few that manage to get past the exterior don’t get much in terms of a nicer personality. In fact, it usually leads to more teasing and more pushing. Joshua’s way of getting people to change isn’t to gently push, but more forcibly shove and force them to face the things they don’t want to. It helps that he’s such a jerk that people usually want to prove him wrong. However, he will work to protect the people he cares about, even though as the Composer he can’t spend time with them like a normal person.
Overall, Joshua is kind of a jerk, especially to people he doesn’t care about. However, he’s got a soft spot for people he cares about and really does understand that people as a whole are worth it.
Abilities:
As Composer, Joshua has a lot of powers, some of which are probably left out. In his RG (teenage) form, he can use his cellphone to drop large objects on people’s heads, and summon beams of light while levitating. When fighting with Neku, he can also use fusion attacks, using either large objects, fire and ice, or the freaking moon. As the Composer (his older form), he has the power to bring people back to life and to change forms (both into a teenager and a little ball of light). In both forms he can also ‘scan’ people, or read their current thoughts. Since many people (lower in rank) in the series can, it is assumed he also has wings and a noise form, but neither of these are confirmed.
His cellphone has its own abilities. It can take pictures of the past, imprint ‘memes’ on to people (force a word into their head), and track people’s power.
Writing sample:
Today, Joshua had decided to take a stroll around the streets of Shibuya. These was odd for a variety of reasons. One, Joshua did not stroll. He wasn’t terribly fond of physical activity except under some very specific circumstances, and him taking walks around a crowded city wasn’t exactly common. Two, he wasn’t the type to procrastinate. He usually just got his work done, and that was that. Right now, however, he frankly just didn’t feel like it.
Three, and possibly the most distinct oddity, was that said walk was in the RG.
It was rare that the Composer ventured outside of his direct domain. There were many reasons behind that- younger form, more limited powers (slightly, but still limited), having to deal with the hassel of the living. Mostly, however, it was because there wasn’t much of a connection there. The dead and the living- there was a fairly obvious line, and Joshua just smirked knowingly as people ran through the crossing, jabbering on their phones as if that was the most important thing in their lives, with no idea of the Game under their noses.
So that left an obvious question- why? He could make excuses all he wanted, but Joshua knew the real reason. Nostalgia wasn’t something he liked to admit to, especially with his own ‘life’ being so far behind him. But that life wasn’t the reason today.
He passed by the statue of Hachiko, watching from a distance and hidden well in the crowd as a group of teenagers (plus one younger girl) met up. One was Joshua’s main interest, the headphoned boy rushing towards the already assembled group, bending over to catch his breathe before smiling up at his friends. Neku had ‘thought’ quite clearly at him that he’d wanted to see Joshua, and that his former partner didn’t have to completely vanish from his life.
Well, it was a good thing Joshua had never really intended to leave him alone, then.
Voice sample: Here. Still going, but I think it’s got enough to show how I play him.
(Also, sorry, forgot a subject line the first time. :|;)