Application: Vatheon
[ Player Name ] : Allie
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lelait
[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : GMT -5 (EST)
[ Other Characters ] : Ciel Phantomhive | Kuroshitsuji |pactum
[ Character's Name ] : Subaru Sumeragi
[ Character's Age ] : 25
[ Series ] : X
[ Canon Point ] : Post-Volume 19
[ History ] : There is no way for everyone to be happy.
[ Personality ] :
Subaru Sumeragi is too kind. This is a trait which has been constant throughout his life, even if other things have not been. As a child, it was because he was so kind, sweet, and pure of heart that Seishirou decided to make the bet which would change both their lives with him in the first place, citing Subaru as his polar opposite—though, at the time, he didn’t know quite how opposite they really were, being the Sumeragi and Sakurazukamori.
As Subaru grew older, his personality remained intact. By the time he was sixteen, he was caring and considerate, empathetic, open, and never judgmental. He helped others without question or hesitation. He would even feel guilty for taking time off from work in order to recuperate from stress-caused illness from working too much, saying that he couldn’t just lay around when others were in need of his help. He had to be reminded constantly and forcibly by his twin sister Hokuto that he could do nothing for others if he could not take care of himself, as well. On one occasion, for example, he entered the kitchen of his apartment at noon one day, having just woken up. Hokuto commented on the strangeness of him sleeping in, and he replied that he’d gotten back from work late, and had only gone to sleep that morning. When asked when, exactly, he went to sleep, he replied that it was around ten o’clock—meaning that he’d only actually slept for two hours. If it weren’t for Hokuto and Seishirou, he likely would have gone without food or sleep, spending all of his time helping others instead, both by doing his job and simply by being himself, striving to make other people happy no matter the situation. Selfless to the point of self-neglect, Subaru never even thought to question his own self-sacrifice; to him, the happiness of others was always more important than his own wellbeing. His sister once said of him, “He’s always had this bad habit of making other people’s emotions his own. When they’re sad, Subaru’s sad. When they suffer, Subaru suffers too. He’s not trying to be a saint. That’s just how he is. But because of his job as an onmyōji, he’s seen so many people’s bad sides and experienced so many unpleasant things…and he’s never been able to get used to it. I’m sure that Subaru remembers all the emotions of every person he’s ever dealt with. Even if they themselves forget, Subaru never will. He carries them with him. He can’t let them go.”
He was dedicated in all aspects of his life, disciplined and knowledgeable when it came to his work as an onmyōji, and constantly polite, due to his formal upbringing—sometimes a little too polite, as he had a habit of bowing even while talking over the phone.
He was also innocent and naïve, blindly believing in the good of other people. His trusting nature made it easy for Seishirou to manipulate him—and finally, after Seishirou sacrificed an eye to protect him, Subaru realized that he was in love with Seishirou, a revelation which brought him to tears. He knew he wanted to stay with Seishirou no matter what; wanting to be with Seishirou and desiring his affection was the first time Subaru had ever actually wanted something for himself. Hokuto commented on the importance of love to Subaru, saying, “I’ve always thought, ever since I was little, that Subaru won’t be able to survive in this world. He’s too pure. I’ve always been so scared that one day his heart will just break…and he’ll die…Anyway, Subaru loves everyone outside of himself. He has such a hard time being nice to himself, but to him, cherishing others is easier than breathing. But…if he ever fell in love with someone special…and that person ever betrayed him…Subaru would surely die.”
Unfortunately, this was exactly what would come to pass—very nearly, at least. Subaru realized his feelings at the most inopportune time: quite literally as soon as he’d admitted them to himself, Seishirou betrayed him and revealed his true nature. The man Subaru had fallen in love with was not real. The past year had been nothing but a lie. Seishirou was not his closest friend and confidante, but his mortal enemy. He attempted to kill Subaru, and though he failed due to Subaru’s grandmother’s intervention, he went on to kill Hokuto, Subaru’s beloved twin sister, instead. This ultimate breach of trust affected Subaru to his very core, changing him into a man almost unrecognizable from the boy he’d been. He vowed that he would kill Seishirou himself—which, coming from a boy who would feel guilty for swatting a fly, was a dramatic change indeed.
Years passed in which Subaru became singularly focused on the man who he had fallen in love with, the man who had ruined his life: Seishirou Sakurazuka. Without his sister’s care he kept an erratic sleep schedule, hardly remembering to eat. He continued to do his job as an onmyōji and head of the Sumeragi clan, and though it was with less zealousness than he had when he was younger, he remained dutiful as ever. He continued to help others, though where before he had been empathetic, he was now distant and aloof, constantly separated from other people by a wall of his own making. Even still, he could not stop himself from feeling their pain. He was not an entirely different person inside; he remained gentle and considerate, and, above all, he remained kind.
Still, he honed his skills in onmyōdō even further in order to be able to combat Seishirou, desiring to be as powerful as he could be when next they would meet: eight years later, in 1999, on the battlefield for the end of the world.
At twenty-five years old, Subaru was a bitter and broken man, going through the motions of his life, but constantly haunted by his past. His only reason for living was to see Seishirou again. But somewhere over the years, his desire had changed. He no longer wished to kill Seishirou: instead, he wished to be killed by him. He wanted desperately to be able to matter to Seishirou, even if it was only as another victim. So he became powerful in the hopes that Seishirou would see him as enough of a threat to kill. This was also the reason he involved himself initially in the fight for the end of the world: Seishirou was on the opposing side. It was an excuse to engage him in combat, and perhaps for Seishirou to kill him. As it was his wish to die, despite knowing that it would hurt others if he did so, Subaru saw himself as extremely selfish. But still, he would not abandon his Wish to die by Seishirou’s hand, one of only two things he had ever truly wanted for himself, the first being Seishirou’s love and company all those years ago.
Eventually, though, when he meets Kamui, Subaru begins to fight on the side of the Dragons of Heaven for another reason. Kamui was the first person Subaru had been able connect with since Hokuto’s death, due to their similar experiences, and he quickly began to treasure the boy, who developed a moderate crush on him in return, which Subaru may or may not have been aware of. Still, Subaru opened up to Kamui as he hadn’t to anyone else in years, and took comfort in the fact that they could understand one another. But still, he prioritized his ultimate Wish for death, though his guilt over it mounted, now knowing that it would cause Kamui great pain.
Another smaller wish of Subaru’s was to lose his right eye as Seishirou lost his protecting him; ironically, Subaru lost his while protecting Kamui, at the hand of the Kamui of the Dragons of Earth. The parallels drawn between Subaru’s loss and Seishirou’s are staggering; Subaru is even treated in the very same hospital in which Seishirou had been all those years ago. This was the beginning of the process by which Subaru was to essentially become Seishirou.
Soon after that, when Subaru and Seishirou met again for their final confrontation, Seishirou played his final card—or what seemed to be, at any rate. Rather than Seishirou killing Subaru, as Subaru had wished, the opposite happened. Believing that it was still Subaru’s Wish to kill him, Seishirou tricked Subaru into doing just that, and died in Subaru’s arms, explaining with a satisfied smile on his face that it was due to Hokuto’s final spell, which he had essentially used make Subaru kill him, maintaining that it was for Subaru’s sake, saying that Subaru was too kind to ever kill anyone of his own volition, so he arranged it for him. In fact, some of Seishirou’s last words to Subaru as he lays dying In his arms are, “You really are such a kind boy.” Of course, his very last words are the real kicker. They aren’t full stated to the audience, but what we do hear is: “Subaru-kun, I…you.” It’s generally believed that the missing word there is ‘love.’
Subaru hears the whole statement, and once again his world is shattered. “You never say the things that I expect you to say, do you?” He sobs into the shoulder of Seishirou’s corpse, which he still holds tightly in his arms. When speaking to Kamui afterwards, Subaru tells him to keep pursuing his Wish no matter what, even if it will hurt others. “There is no way that everyone can be happy,” he says; a gigantic leap from the optimistic boy he was years before, who strove to do just that. No longer able to create the kekkai of the Seven Seals because he no longer has anything he wishes to protect, he disappears without a trace, going to the Sakurazuka family home in Kanazawa, apparently having decided that he is utterly finished with the affairs of the end of the world. However, they aren’t quite finished with him; this is where Kamui of the Dragons of Earth finds him, and plays what is truly Seishirou’s final card: he Wished to erase the mark made by another man on Subaru by replacing his blind right eye with his own good one. With the eye, though, cautions Kamui, also come the powers and responsibilities of the Sakurazukamori, and the position of a Dragon of Earth, one of Kamui’s ‘Seven Angels.’
But Subaru had been obsessed with Seishirou for years. He couldn't even consider doing anything but honoring his final Wish, betraying the comrades he’d made among the Dragons of Heaven. He accepted the eye, and his new identity, replacing Seishirou in more ways than one, beginning to dress entirely in black (in both mourning and imitation), putting up even more of a cold, indifferent front than before. In fact, when informed that one of his the other Dragons of Earth, Nataku, had died, he has very little to say, and his expression hardly changes at all. Years ago, he would have been upset to the point of tears to know that someone had died, even someone that he hardly knew. As Sakurazukamori, Subaru is attempting to be as emotionless as Seishirou was.
It doesn’t work. Though he may seem apathetic, he is still as feeling and as kind as ever. Kamui notices this, as he points out that Subaru still cares for Kamui; “Not me,” he says, “the other one.” Subaru changes the subject immediately, but this is proven true later, when both sides confront one another and Kamui at last learns of Subaru’s betrayal. Even so, Subaru encourages him to realize his true Wish, still hoping for the best for Kamui, and for the world.
He can’t help it. In the end, he really is too kind.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Subaru is one of the two most powerful practitioners of onmyōdō in modern-day Japan—although, with Seishirou dead and his powers belonging to him, it’s safe to say that he is the most powerful. As such, he has extensive knowledge of the occult, as well as the spiritual practices of a variety of different religions, particularly Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he is shown to know great deal about other religions and their practices as well, though he does not utilize them. Onmyōji have a wide variety of magical skills, including divination, mediumship, and exorcism, which rely heavily on ritual. They also know about spells and curses, both how to create and deflect them. In addition, they control shikigami, which act as something of a familiar which appears each time they call for it. Subaru’s takes the form of a three-headed white crow.
In the Tokyo Babylon/X universe, onmyōji are known to be able to enter another person’s mind while they are asleep, though it is at great personal risk to themselves, and they must also put themselves into something of a dreaming trance before they do so.
As far as combat goes, in X, the onmyōji typically use talismans such as ofuda—slips of paper bearing a spell on them—to attack. These ofuda do any number of things depending on the spell, but most of the time explode, or transform into a flock of magical birds. He’s also able to create a shield in front of himself with them by positioning these ofuda in the shape of a pentagram—the traditional symbol used the Sumeragi—in the air. Likewise, by positioning these ofuda at strategic point around an area, he can effectively create a star-shaped barrier in which everything inside basically explodes.
But those are only his powers as the Sumeragi. As Sakurazukamori, having inherited Seishirou’s powers, he can assumedly do all of the things that Seishirou was capable of doing, as well—albeit likely not as well, as he did not have years of training specifically with dark onmyōdō as Seishirou did. Seishirou had this nifty teleportation trick wherein his body would essentially dissolve into cherry blossom petals (how intimidating!) and he would reappear somewhere else—usually relatively close by, so assumedly this wouldn’t work over long distances. Most importantly, though, is an infamous skill of the Sakurazukamori: the ability to create intricate and powerful illusions—spaces separate from the world itself, it seems, as nothing which happens within them affects the world outside—which can encompass an entire area; on a few occasions, Seishirou created illusions in which giant boulders rained from the sky to crush his opponents, though the illusion Seishirou favored most often is one of a simple cherry tree, always in full bloom despite the season, with deep pink petals—so likely, replacing and imitating Seishirou as he is, this would be Subaru’s typical fare as well. But as Seishirou was a master illusionist, and Subaru has no experience with such things at all, he likely wouldn't be very good at it, and these illusions not hard to break free of. In fact, I doubt he would even have any reason to use them at all in Vatheon—which goes for a lot of the powers here, actually. (Anyway, these things would be used with player permission only, and even then, very rarely, if at all.)
Lastly, there are also the general Dragon powers: accelerated healing, and being able to leap long distances, such as across rooftops and buildings. Much easier to get around Tokyo that way than by public transportation.
(Ugh I'm sorry his powers take so much explanation, they're just really...complicated.)
Subaru must still be getting used to that new right eye, so it's likely that his vision isn't the best. He can also be easily emotionally manipulated, and he's currently in very, very delicate state mentally. He also generally lets people walk all over him. He's also disinclined to violence, having opted not to act as one of the Seven Angels even if he is one in title.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
[ Sample ] :
It is the moment of truth. Kamui has the sacred sword raised above Kamui’s chest, poised to strike, and please, Subaru prays silently, please, Kamui has to realize his true Wish, otherwise—
And then the next thing he knows, he’s sopping wet and standing by a fountain. Running a gloved hand through his hair and watching water droplets scatter even as the wet leather sticks uncomfortably to his skin, he looks around. This isn’t…this isn’t anywhere he knows in Tokyo, and he’s lived in that city for years; knows it about as well as anyone can know Tokyo. And this is not it.
There’s something…clutched in his hand. Opening his palm, he realizes at once that it looks like a starfish. But it’s also…a communication device? He investigates it cautiously, never having gotten along particularly well with technology. The extent of the technology that he uses frequently at home are pagers, fax machines, and land-line telephones, so hardly anything as complicated as this. His brow furrows lightly as he fiddles with the small machine. Ultimately, he decides it may just be easier to ask someone in person.
“Excuse me,” he speaks up, voice both soft and purposeful while remaining entirely polite. He catches a man near him somewhat off guard. “I am afraid this may sound rather odd,” he prefaces, before continuing, “but I…was not here a moment ago. Where is this?”
“Oh,” says the man nonchalantly, “that happens a lot. This is Vatheon.”
That’s…new. He’s never heard of such a place before. But the man wanders away before he can question him further, but that’s fine; Subaru wouldn't want to bother him too much, anyway. He’ll just have to find answers on his own.
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : Yes, I have a concern: the ridiculous length of this app. I AM SO SORRY.
[ Personal DW ] :
lelait[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : GMT -5 (EST)
[ Other Characters ] : Ciel Phantomhive | Kuroshitsuji |
pactum [ Character's Name ] : Subaru Sumeragi
[ Character's Age ] : 25
[ Series ] : X
[ Canon Point ] : Post-Volume 19
[ History ] : There is no way for everyone to be happy.
[ Personality ] :
Subaru Sumeragi is too kind. This is a trait which has been constant throughout his life, even if other things have not been. As a child, it was because he was so kind, sweet, and pure of heart that Seishirou decided to make the bet which would change both their lives with him in the first place, citing Subaru as his polar opposite—though, at the time, he didn’t know quite how opposite they really were, being the Sumeragi and Sakurazukamori.
As Subaru grew older, his personality remained intact. By the time he was sixteen, he was caring and considerate, empathetic, open, and never judgmental. He helped others without question or hesitation. He would even feel guilty for taking time off from work in order to recuperate from stress-caused illness from working too much, saying that he couldn’t just lay around when others were in need of his help. He had to be reminded constantly and forcibly by his twin sister Hokuto that he could do nothing for others if he could not take care of himself, as well. On one occasion, for example, he entered the kitchen of his apartment at noon one day, having just woken up. Hokuto commented on the strangeness of him sleeping in, and he replied that he’d gotten back from work late, and had only gone to sleep that morning. When asked when, exactly, he went to sleep, he replied that it was around ten o’clock—meaning that he’d only actually slept for two hours. If it weren’t for Hokuto and Seishirou, he likely would have gone without food or sleep, spending all of his time helping others instead, both by doing his job and simply by being himself, striving to make other people happy no matter the situation. Selfless to the point of self-neglect, Subaru never even thought to question his own self-sacrifice; to him, the happiness of others was always more important than his own wellbeing. His sister once said of him, “He’s always had this bad habit of making other people’s emotions his own. When they’re sad, Subaru’s sad. When they suffer, Subaru suffers too. He’s not trying to be a saint. That’s just how he is. But because of his job as an onmyōji, he’s seen so many people’s bad sides and experienced so many unpleasant things…and he’s never been able to get used to it. I’m sure that Subaru remembers all the emotions of every person he’s ever dealt with. Even if they themselves forget, Subaru never will. He carries them with him. He can’t let them go.”
He was dedicated in all aspects of his life, disciplined and knowledgeable when it came to his work as an onmyōji, and constantly polite, due to his formal upbringing—sometimes a little too polite, as he had a habit of bowing even while talking over the phone.
He was also innocent and naïve, blindly believing in the good of other people. His trusting nature made it easy for Seishirou to manipulate him—and finally, after Seishirou sacrificed an eye to protect him, Subaru realized that he was in love with Seishirou, a revelation which brought him to tears. He knew he wanted to stay with Seishirou no matter what; wanting to be with Seishirou and desiring his affection was the first time Subaru had ever actually wanted something for himself. Hokuto commented on the importance of love to Subaru, saying, “I’ve always thought, ever since I was little, that Subaru won’t be able to survive in this world. He’s too pure. I’ve always been so scared that one day his heart will just break…and he’ll die…Anyway, Subaru loves everyone outside of himself. He has such a hard time being nice to himself, but to him, cherishing others is easier than breathing. But…if he ever fell in love with someone special…and that person ever betrayed him…Subaru would surely die.”
Unfortunately, this was exactly what would come to pass—very nearly, at least. Subaru realized his feelings at the most inopportune time: quite literally as soon as he’d admitted them to himself, Seishirou betrayed him and revealed his true nature. The man Subaru had fallen in love with was not real. The past year had been nothing but a lie. Seishirou was not his closest friend and confidante, but his mortal enemy. He attempted to kill Subaru, and though he failed due to Subaru’s grandmother’s intervention, he went on to kill Hokuto, Subaru’s beloved twin sister, instead. This ultimate breach of trust affected Subaru to his very core, changing him into a man almost unrecognizable from the boy he’d been. He vowed that he would kill Seishirou himself—which, coming from a boy who would feel guilty for swatting a fly, was a dramatic change indeed.
Years passed in which Subaru became singularly focused on the man who he had fallen in love with, the man who had ruined his life: Seishirou Sakurazuka. Without his sister’s care he kept an erratic sleep schedule, hardly remembering to eat. He continued to do his job as an onmyōji and head of the Sumeragi clan, and though it was with less zealousness than he had when he was younger, he remained dutiful as ever. He continued to help others, though where before he had been empathetic, he was now distant and aloof, constantly separated from other people by a wall of his own making. Even still, he could not stop himself from feeling their pain. He was not an entirely different person inside; he remained gentle and considerate, and, above all, he remained kind.
Still, he honed his skills in onmyōdō even further in order to be able to combat Seishirou, desiring to be as powerful as he could be when next they would meet: eight years later, in 1999, on the battlefield for the end of the world.
At twenty-five years old, Subaru was a bitter and broken man, going through the motions of his life, but constantly haunted by his past. His only reason for living was to see Seishirou again. But somewhere over the years, his desire had changed. He no longer wished to kill Seishirou: instead, he wished to be killed by him. He wanted desperately to be able to matter to Seishirou, even if it was only as another victim. So he became powerful in the hopes that Seishirou would see him as enough of a threat to kill. This was also the reason he involved himself initially in the fight for the end of the world: Seishirou was on the opposing side. It was an excuse to engage him in combat, and perhaps for Seishirou to kill him. As it was his wish to die, despite knowing that it would hurt others if he did so, Subaru saw himself as extremely selfish. But still, he would not abandon his Wish to die by Seishirou’s hand, one of only two things he had ever truly wanted for himself, the first being Seishirou’s love and company all those years ago.
Eventually, though, when he meets Kamui, Subaru begins to fight on the side of the Dragons of Heaven for another reason. Kamui was the first person Subaru had been able connect with since Hokuto’s death, due to their similar experiences, and he quickly began to treasure the boy, who developed a moderate crush on him in return, which Subaru may or may not have been aware of. Still, Subaru opened up to Kamui as he hadn’t to anyone else in years, and took comfort in the fact that they could understand one another. But still, he prioritized his ultimate Wish for death, though his guilt over it mounted, now knowing that it would cause Kamui great pain.
Another smaller wish of Subaru’s was to lose his right eye as Seishirou lost his protecting him; ironically, Subaru lost his while protecting Kamui, at the hand of the Kamui of the Dragons of Earth. The parallels drawn between Subaru’s loss and Seishirou’s are staggering; Subaru is even treated in the very same hospital in which Seishirou had been all those years ago. This was the beginning of the process by which Subaru was to essentially become Seishirou.
Soon after that, when Subaru and Seishirou met again for their final confrontation, Seishirou played his final card—or what seemed to be, at any rate. Rather than Seishirou killing Subaru, as Subaru had wished, the opposite happened. Believing that it was still Subaru’s Wish to kill him, Seishirou tricked Subaru into doing just that, and died in Subaru’s arms, explaining with a satisfied smile on his face that it was due to Hokuto’s final spell, which he had essentially used make Subaru kill him, maintaining that it was for Subaru’s sake, saying that Subaru was too kind to ever kill anyone of his own volition, so he arranged it for him. In fact, some of Seishirou’s last words to Subaru as he lays dying In his arms are, “You really are such a kind boy.” Of course, his very last words are the real kicker. They aren’t full stated to the audience, but what we do hear is: “Subaru-kun, I…you.” It’s generally believed that the missing word there is ‘love.’
Subaru hears the whole statement, and once again his world is shattered. “You never say the things that I expect you to say, do you?” He sobs into the shoulder of Seishirou’s corpse, which he still holds tightly in his arms. When speaking to Kamui afterwards, Subaru tells him to keep pursuing his Wish no matter what, even if it will hurt others. “There is no way that everyone can be happy,” he says; a gigantic leap from the optimistic boy he was years before, who strove to do just that. No longer able to create the kekkai of the Seven Seals because he no longer has anything he wishes to protect, he disappears without a trace, going to the Sakurazuka family home in Kanazawa, apparently having decided that he is utterly finished with the affairs of the end of the world. However, they aren’t quite finished with him; this is where Kamui of the Dragons of Earth finds him, and plays what is truly Seishirou’s final card: he Wished to erase the mark made by another man on Subaru by replacing his blind right eye with his own good one. With the eye, though, cautions Kamui, also come the powers and responsibilities of the Sakurazukamori, and the position of a Dragon of Earth, one of Kamui’s ‘Seven Angels.’
But Subaru had been obsessed with Seishirou for years. He couldn't even consider doing anything but honoring his final Wish, betraying the comrades he’d made among the Dragons of Heaven. He accepted the eye, and his new identity, replacing Seishirou in more ways than one, beginning to dress entirely in black (in both mourning and imitation), putting up even more of a cold, indifferent front than before. In fact, when informed that one of his the other Dragons of Earth, Nataku, had died, he has very little to say, and his expression hardly changes at all. Years ago, he would have been upset to the point of tears to know that someone had died, even someone that he hardly knew. As Sakurazukamori, Subaru is attempting to be as emotionless as Seishirou was.
It doesn’t work. Though he may seem apathetic, he is still as feeling and as kind as ever. Kamui notices this, as he points out that Subaru still cares for Kamui; “Not me,” he says, “the other one.” Subaru changes the subject immediately, but this is proven true later, when both sides confront one another and Kamui at last learns of Subaru’s betrayal. Even so, Subaru encourages him to realize his true Wish, still hoping for the best for Kamui, and for the world.
He can’t help it. In the end, he really is too kind.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Subaru is one of the two most powerful practitioners of onmyōdō in modern-day Japan—although, with Seishirou dead and his powers belonging to him, it’s safe to say that he is the most powerful. As such, he has extensive knowledge of the occult, as well as the spiritual practices of a variety of different religions, particularly Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he is shown to know great deal about other religions and their practices as well, though he does not utilize them. Onmyōji have a wide variety of magical skills, including divination, mediumship, and exorcism, which rely heavily on ritual. They also know about spells and curses, both how to create and deflect them. In addition, they control shikigami, which act as something of a familiar which appears each time they call for it. Subaru’s takes the form of a three-headed white crow.
In the Tokyo Babylon/X universe, onmyōji are known to be able to enter another person’s mind while they are asleep, though it is at great personal risk to themselves, and they must also put themselves into something of a dreaming trance before they do so.
As far as combat goes, in X, the onmyōji typically use talismans such as ofuda—slips of paper bearing a spell on them—to attack. These ofuda do any number of things depending on the spell, but most of the time explode, or transform into a flock of magical birds. He’s also able to create a shield in front of himself with them by positioning these ofuda in the shape of a pentagram—the traditional symbol used the Sumeragi—in the air. Likewise, by positioning these ofuda at strategic point around an area, he can effectively create a star-shaped barrier in which everything inside basically explodes.
But those are only his powers as the Sumeragi. As Sakurazukamori, having inherited Seishirou’s powers, he can assumedly do all of the things that Seishirou was capable of doing, as well—albeit likely not as well, as he did not have years of training specifically with dark onmyōdō as Seishirou did. Seishirou had this nifty teleportation trick wherein his body would essentially dissolve into cherry blossom petals (how intimidating!) and he would reappear somewhere else—usually relatively close by, so assumedly this wouldn’t work over long distances. Most importantly, though, is an infamous skill of the Sakurazukamori: the ability to create intricate and powerful illusions—spaces separate from the world itself, it seems, as nothing which happens within them affects the world outside—which can encompass an entire area; on a few occasions, Seishirou created illusions in which giant boulders rained from the sky to crush his opponents, though the illusion Seishirou favored most often is one of a simple cherry tree, always in full bloom despite the season, with deep pink petals—so likely, replacing and imitating Seishirou as he is, this would be Subaru’s typical fare as well. But as Seishirou was a master illusionist, and Subaru has no experience with such things at all, he likely wouldn't be very good at it, and these illusions not hard to break free of. In fact, I doubt he would even have any reason to use them at all in Vatheon—which goes for a lot of the powers here, actually. (Anyway, these things would be used with player permission only, and even then, very rarely, if at all.)
Lastly, there are also the general Dragon powers: accelerated healing, and being able to leap long distances, such as across rooftops and buildings. Much easier to get around Tokyo that way than by public transportation.
(Ugh I'm sorry his powers take so much explanation, they're just really...complicated.)
Subaru must still be getting used to that new right eye, so it's likely that his vision isn't the best. He can also be easily emotionally manipulated, and he's currently in very, very delicate state mentally. He also generally lets people walk all over him. He's also disinclined to violence, having opted not to act as one of the Seven Angels even if he is one in title.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
- When Subaru was younger, he wanted to be a veterinarian, and then a zookeeper. Even now, he still loves animals.
- He used to wear gloves over his hands at all times when he was younger, in order to hide the marks on the backs of his hands that Seishirou made when he marked him as ‘prey.’ He stopped wearing them after Seishirou revealed himself to be the Sakurazukamori, but now, for the first time in more than eight years, wears them again—not to hide the marks, but to hide the fact that since Seishirou is dead, the marks aren’t there anymore.
- His eyes are mismatched. The left one is green, as it has always been. The right one is a light brown/amber shade; it was originally Seishirou’s left eye.
[ Sample ] :
It is the moment of truth. Kamui has the sacred sword raised above Kamui’s chest, poised to strike, and please, Subaru prays silently, please, Kamui has to realize his true Wish, otherwise—
And then the next thing he knows, he’s sopping wet and standing by a fountain. Running a gloved hand through his hair and watching water droplets scatter even as the wet leather sticks uncomfortably to his skin, he looks around. This isn’t…this isn’t anywhere he knows in Tokyo, and he’s lived in that city for years; knows it about as well as anyone can know Tokyo. And this is not it.
There’s something…clutched in his hand. Opening his palm, he realizes at once that it looks like a starfish. But it’s also…a communication device? He investigates it cautiously, never having gotten along particularly well with technology. The extent of the technology that he uses frequently at home are pagers, fax machines, and land-line telephones, so hardly anything as complicated as this. His brow furrows lightly as he fiddles with the small machine. Ultimately, he decides it may just be easier to ask someone in person.
“Excuse me,” he speaks up, voice both soft and purposeful while remaining entirely polite. He catches a man near him somewhat off guard. “I am afraid this may sound rather odd,” he prefaces, before continuing, “but I…was not here a moment ago. Where is this?”
“Oh,” says the man nonchalantly, “that happens a lot. This is Vatheon.”
That’s…new. He’s never heard of such a place before. But the man wanders away before he can question him further, but that’s fine; Subaru wouldn't want to bother him too much, anyway. He’ll just have to find answers on his own.
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : Yes, I have a concern: the ridiculous length of this app. I AM SO SORRY.