From Sailor Moon Flash!
| Jadeite | |
|---|---|
 Toshiro (Relia) | |
| Profile | |
| Name: | Giou Toshiro |
| Birthday: | July 31 |
| Age: | 19 |
| Affiliation: | Terrans |
| Powers: | Summer, Illusions |
| Player: | Steph |
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Contents |
The Basics
Name: Giou Toshiro (技王俊朗).
Position: Freelance actor/director/stage manager/terror of local theatre. King of Summer, Lord of Illusion, Jadeite of the Terran Shitennou.
Appearance: Tall, willowy, drop-dead gorgeous. His hair is impossibly-well-behaved and will take whatever abuse he can throw at it in the way of dyes, waves, curls, whatnot. It is naturally the color of sun-ripened wheat, but he'll change it on a whim and tomorrow it might be magenta, to match his eyebrows. His eyes are a deep honey-gold, almond-shaped and slanted exotically. It does not matter what he looks like, because he can and will change himself, and he can look like anyone or anything he wants to, by virtue of being a genius with makeup and a terrifyingly gifted actor. His wardrobe is that of a wealthy gypsy, and grows or shrinks from borrowing and lending; his makeup kit is astonishing; his mask-making skills defy description.
Basically, Toshiro's appearance is: whatever he wants you to see at that particular moment.
Age/Birthday/Astrological Whatnot:
SNAPPY ASTROLOGY:
Mundane Life
Friends and Family:
Usual Daily Routine:
Background:
A Little More Specific
Quirks:
Darkest Secret: His deepest, most secret fear is that if you strip away all the layers, every single one of them, even the one he's erected from himself, you might not find anything that's real, at all.
Reactions to Sudden Hugs: His subsequent actions will change according to whomever has just glomped him, but his initial reaction is WHOA, WATCH THE HAIR.
Virtues and Vices: If one were looking at the Seven Deadly Sins, Toshiro's fall would come from Pride.
Badassery
Power Sphere: Summer, Illusions.
Asswhoopery:
Part of being a Terran is canon twinkery: teleportation, levitation, and the ability to use Shitennou powers at all times, without requiring a henshin.
Greatest Weakness: Much like Zoisite, Jadeite is not really meant to be a melee fighter; his attacks are mostly ranged away from the target, and his physical prowess is not exactly phenomenal (stick-fu nonewithstanding). As noted, he can hit people with sticks and has the basic training behind that, but the fact remains, if you can find him and get close enough to hit him, he'll go down like a sack of rocks if you manage to tussle with him physically.
Attacks
Mirage Heat causes the air to move and bends light. This is why the hoods of cars have a shimmer around them in the summer, why freeways in August look wet, and why mirages exist at all. "Mirage" works on these concepts. It is a narrow-based illusion that affects only one person. The temperature raises about ten degrees, thinking is impaired, energy level drops slowly and steadily, peripheral vision is nearly nonexistent, and the intended victim will Move Into The Light like a moth to a bug zapper. Jadeite can't provide the bug zapper end of the deal, of course... but he really, really likes to make the bad guys think that lamppost is the girl of their dreams. Like any mirage, it vanishes when confronted outright with reality. The cessation of the mirage leaves the target slightly confused and mildly disoriented, and it is the target's subconscious, not Jadeite, that determines what the mirage looks like. Only the target can see the mirage: everyone else sees the lamppost. Keeping one mirage going is fun, and he can perform this attack five times if he goes after one person at a time. Keeping two going at the same time is more difficult, as it takes both more power and more concentration. He can do this twice if he snags people in sets of two. Two people caught in "Mirage" at once will not see the same mirage.
Labyrinth Well, first Jadeite runs offstage to get some tight pants and turns into David Bowie- okay, no. Sadly. What "Labyrinth" does is turn everything inside a set area into an illusion. It can be an illusion of a field full of happy butterflies and bunnies, it can be the set of Evil Dead, it can be anything. Since it is the physical location and not the people in it that are affected directly by the illusion, it is possible to simply walk out of it.
Of course, it isn't that simple. "Labyrinth" confuses all but the sternest supernatural senses of direction. One can literally walk in little circles for hours, believing one has been turning left and right and even reversing direction. Your visual, aural, and tactile senses are LYING TO YOU. "Labyrinth" is one of the few illusions that possesses both a shadow and a reflection (but only from the inside). It is also the only illusion capable of containing sound. Those inside the labyrinth cannot hear what goes on outside the labyrinth, and vice versa. What seems like an endless desert, for example, could really be a twenty by twenty foot square, and Jadeite has merely been controlling his illusion so finely that you can't walk in a long enough straight line to leave. Sound obeys the laws of the illusion, too. If you cannot see someone in the illusion with you, it doesn't matter if you're actually standing six inches away from them. They cannot hear you. Echoes obey the illusion, too. One of the creepiest labyrinths is formless, shapeless, randomly echoing fog.
From Jadeite's perspective he's seeing two or more images superimposed upon each other. One is what everyone on the outside sees, and the rest are the illusion itself through the eyes of those in it. On the down side, those outside the illusion can walk into it, and only Jadeite can see exactly where it starts. From the outside it looks like the rest of the scenery, perhaps with people wandering in funny circles, but that's about it. Friend or foe, anyone who wanders into Jadeite's "Labyrinth" is stuck there. He can let people find each other in the labyrinth or keep them separated. Even if he isn't trying to keep you there, until he shuts down the entire thing the only way to get out is to close your eyes and just walk, no matter what your ears tell you.
Jadeite can create one labyrinth per battle, but he can keep it operational for hours. The thing is that it is difficult to attack someone in a labyrinth without ALSO being in the labyrinth. Projectile attacks, even when fired from outside, obey the laws of the labyrinth (which is probably really entertaining to watch from the outside). It is easiest to create the labyrinth in advance and use it as a trap, but when push comes to shove he could snap one up around a battlefield, snagging multiple people at once. Lying between those two scenarios in difficulty is to set up a labyrinth in advance, but not to activate it until there are people in the target area. The more people wander around in the thing, the more power it takes. Jadeite can keep one person busy all day, assuming the person is less powerful than Jadeite. The more powerful someone is the more effort it takes to fool his senses. If power was calculated in points, then if the total number of power points for everyone trying to escape the labyrinth determines how long Jadeite can keep it up. If that number is twice Jadeite's power, for example, he could keep the labyrinth for a few hours, but it would leave him useless for anything else. Including getting himself home and moving out of the way of incoming projectiles. Keeping it for fifteen minutes would allow him to dodge, assuming he noticed in the first place. The power of those trapped influences his ability to maintain the labyrinth, but the number of people is what influences how much of his attention he needs to devote to keeping the trapped ones separated and confused.
Decoy and Deviation Illusion is, as I'm sure you've realized by now, Jadeite's specialty. "Decoy and Deviation" is the casting of simple illusions, i.e. making it look like a tree is growing out of a manhole or that his hair has blue polka dots. Aside from his stick-whacking skills, Jadeite has no way to attack and no means to defend himself besides dodging. What he does instead is to distract and outright fool those who want to wreak harm upon his body by creating illusions of himself. There can be sixteen Jadeites running around the battlefield or there could be just one. Either way, they're all illusions. Chances are if you only see one Jadeite, the real Jadeite is standing three feet to the left. He can create decoys of anyone, not just himself, but those are generally short-lived and he cannot hide anyone but himself and substitute an illusion the way he can with the "three feet to the left" thing. Well, he CAN, but that's something else. Jadeite's pod people look and move and act just like the real thing, aside from the teeny little detail of being INTANGIBLE. The fewer the illusions, the closer to perfect each one is. A single illusion is an exact visual replica, down to the pores. Well, assuming Jadeite knows the placement of your pores. If you've got a secret birthmark he doesn't know about, an illusion he spins of you will (surprise!) be missing said birthmark. Another tidbit? These illusions (pod people! Pod people!) are the easiest to cast of all those listed in "powers," but they are intangible, they vanish when hit with an energy attack, they cast no shadows, and they have no reflections. It was mentioned up in "Special Skills: Chameleon" that little Jeddy can make himself look, magically, like other people. He can. Thing is, if he casts an illusion on himself, and that illusion is shorter than he is� well, should he put on a hat it'd rest on his real head, not the illusory one. Same goes for taller, fatter, thinner, and all other physical discrepancies. Likewise, his real eyes and mouth will not match up with the illusory ones. To wear sunglasses he'd have to put them on, hide them along with himself, then put illusory sunglasses on his disguise illusion. AND the illusion, like all others except "Labyrinth," casts no shadow and no reflection! Just in case you're wondering why Sailor Moon has Toshiro's shadow attached to her feet.
Smoke and Mirrors This is the part where Jadeite hides other people, and it's really quite simple. He casts an illusion over the entire area, and it's a simple illusion. There's nobody here. After all, you can't SEE anyone, can you? The larger the area he has to remove people from, the harder it is and the more power it takes. Hiding himself and two other people in an alley or dark corner is easy. He can use an illusion to make look like there IS no alley or corner, make it darker, etc. Casting an illusion that will empty a marketplace, now, that's something hard. Really hard. People move. They talk. They bump into each other. There are a hundred thousand things that can go wrong with an illusion like that, and it would wipe him out to do it. Maybe if he convinced all those people to shut up and hold still...
Connections
The Terrans
Endymion: Takawa Daichi The Prince is THE PRINCE, and nothing is too hard or too personal to do for his sake. For the Prince, Toshiro will drop all of his masks. For Daichi, Daichi himself, Toshiro will gladly tell him the whole and complete truth, and let him see any secret he wants, because Daichi is trustworthy. Toshiro doesn't even mind that Daichi is just that little bit cooler than he himself is.
Kunzite: Amakusa Kenrou Jadeite will of course obey his Captain immediately and without question. Giou-kun will of course obey his elder immediately and without question. ^_^
Nephrite: Susuki Binshou The official faction handbook (which Toshiro will one day find AND THEN DESTROY) may say that Nephrite is the vice-captain, but what Toshiro feels actually happens is that Jadeite is the one who actually executes the plans and makes it do. This underestimation of Nephrite's leadership may not last past the first time Nephrite gets over his wee voice in order to drop a Surya.
As for Binshou and his walking google-fu, Toshiro wouldn't mind having someone to spout facts and trivia; he can grab hold of them to spin into his own wards and facades.
Zoisite: Shunran Teaki Teaki is the little brother that Toshiro always wanted: someone to protect, help, and save from the Wrath of Kunzite. Someone annoying whom only he is allowed to beat up.
The Kinmoku
Kakyuu: Mitsu Hanako On the one hand, she's Hanako. On the other hand, she can peer deeply into his soul and know exactly who he is, and he can't hide. He'd go WAUGH! if she were not so ... trustworthy.
Fighter: Hideaki Katsuko At least fifty percent of his interactions with Katsuko will be informed by the knowledge that she could kick his ass... if she can ever find him to kick it. Massive use of illusion and dodgery will, therefore, come into play.
Seeker: Celeste deVoie ... Heh. That's all, at the moment. Just mild bemusement and the notation that if she ever gets curious about him, he'll be happy to invent all sorts of interesting masks for her to pry at.
The Lunars
Serenity: Kakureru Kyouri You cannot not love Kia, and still have a soul. Toshiro has a soul, although Rin would debate this point, and so he loves Kia-chan. He respects her art, he feels secure around her, and he's really glad that she exists because she really makes Daichi's hard life worth it.
Venus: Ashikaseno Anrui Anrui is just a girl who plays sports, and there's not really that much th - oh ho really! Toshiro would be fooled by her carefree attitude on first glance, but he's perceptive enough to see the subtle distance she keeps, and he's probably going to be able to hazard some decent guesses as to why. She will probably come to his attention as being someone who cast a few crushful glances at his Prince, and then as someone who plays pranks with Teaki.
Mercury: Mokushi Oki He's really glad that Kenrou draws more of Mokushi's ire than Toshiro ever will, because Toshiro does not really want to deal.
Mars: Naien Atarimae WAUGH MAKE HER STOP LOOKING AT MY SOUL. Toshiro will throw up all of his masks and barriers and acts and defenses, and be terrified that none of them are working. Itako training and insight suck. Luckily Atarimae-sama belongs to Kia, and therefore none of her knowledge of his inner self will be used for evil. ... Right? waugh!
Jupiter: Shizenkai Misao FINALLY, SOMEONE SANE AND RESTFUL AND NOT SCARY. Until the first time she does an Oak Revolution and then he'll be slightly more respectful.
Saturn: Shoumetsu Yuriko ... Well, Saturn is really badass. Not sure how Toshiro feels about Yuriko herself.
Uranus: Futekino Kyouko Wince. Kyouko is entertaining to watch from a distance, but she won't do what he orders (thusly raising his hackles), and she's a little um vulgar, which is not cool when it's not Toshiro doing it for a specific reaction.
Neptune: Seno Atsumi Toshiro likes having Atsumi around, because she's beautiful and refined and soothing to look at. Toshiro hates having Atsumi around, because she gets a lot of attention that should rightfully be his, and she makes it look easy. Jadeite also rather resents Neptune's Aqua Mirror, because she can cut right through any illusion he can throw, and that's not fair.
Pluto: Sokei Ninmae He's so, so happy he got out of Chuou before the current principal's assistant came in, because she gives the distinct impression that she can be as hard and glacial as Kenrou, without Kenrou's concomitant favor. And as Pluto, he will never, ever mess with her in any way, because it's never a good idea to annoy someone who could conceivably wipe you out of Time itself, vanished like an illusion.
The Galactics
Galaxia: Ishino Chikara Toshiro is smart enough to know that crossing Ishino means that not only will he be broken bodily, but then Kenrou will go ^_^ in icy disappointment at him, and that's just too much; it's easier to bite his tongue and disagree with Ishino-san only inside his own head. ... Besides, she's right a lot of the time, and he can respect that, but he's really glad she's not his Royal.
Coronis: Kansou Rin There are many words that can be used to describe the essential dynamic between Toshiro and Rin, but they all boil down to violent hatred. Toshiro's got a pretty sweet deal in that Kenrou will get his back against Rin in civvies, but when it's Jadeite sassing Coronis, Jadeite knows he will be a very very sad Shitennou if he and Kunzite ever have to have the "What do we not do to Captains, Jadeite?" "... ._. sass them." conversation.
Mermaid: Utakou Arumi There will be sundaes galore for Arumi-chan, because she's wicked adorable, and also because it annoys Rin to see Arumi be soiled with that wretched Giou's company. At this point Arumi is mostly a tool to get under Rin's skin, but that might change.
Mau: Tetsuya Bijiko Toshiro loves bitchy housecats, and Bijiko is ... a bitchy housecat. They are like pancakes and powdered sugar, but Toshiro may get exhausted from keeping up the mirror to Bijiko's whims.
The Elementals
Yu-Huang: Tatsuji Akira Aside from the obvious fact that Yu-Huang could kill him by blinking, Toshiro would be thrown for a loop by the idea that Yu-Huang is not fooled by any of his masks. None. At all. In the slightest way. This would probably deeply offend and terrify Toshiro if he were not already gibbering in terror at, yanno, Yu-Huang being A GOD.
An: Ying Li-Nian Not really a storyhook per se, but Toshiro and Li-Nian stuck in a room together would be terrible, and also hilarious, and also awful, since they are both chameleon-mirrors.
Guang: Lucien Hakano Lucien is a goddamned little punk, and that's going to raise all of Toshiro's dictatorial hackles. Also, Toshiro is a really pretty girl, and Lucien feels that really pretty girls should, of course, recognize his greatness.
Di: Ebba Koch I think they first meet when Di puts the hurt to Jadeite and Nephrite. Check the archive, stat!
Kong: Arcelia Hernandez Arcelia making up stories about Toshiro would seriously mess with Toshiro's head, because the thing about Arcelia is, she believes her stories to the point where an actor of Toshiro's caliber might start believing them, too. AWESOME!
Sui: Trijntje Van Motreën ... there's no way this could end well.
Huo: Dante Chiesa A motion has been put forth that one day Dante will sear the flesh from Toshiro's dorsal regions, as punishment for not actually being the lovely lady his features and actions promise. Seems only right.
Shang: Tacey Graham Toshiro's enough of a brat to press all of Tacey's buttons just because it seems funny at the time, and then he'll regret it.
Xin: Eugene Clemens Do not under any circumstances permit Toshiro or Jadeite to be alone against Xin. Ever.
