{application | ruby city}

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PLAYER
Name: Crystal
Age: 25
Personal Journal: nerdangel
E-mail: octoberrain08 [at] gmail
AIM/MSN/etc: thesubrosa

CHARACTER
Name: Rohan Kishibe
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
Age: 20
Timeline: Post-Goodbye Morioh! Golden Heart (Vol. 47, Ch. 439)
Items with character at canon point: Aside from the clothes on his back, a sketchpad + pen so he doesn't have a conniption. ...Or so he has a smaller conniption anyway.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Rohan is an asshole. That's the short answer. The longer answer is that they are from the same canon, but they don't know each other from canon since they are from separate parts. Thus, it's kinda like coming from separate canons as far as they're concerned.

Rohan does not really actively seek to talk with people, much less be friends with them. So even if he does end up with overlapping CR, he's not about to ask about their friends/go looking to make friends with their friends. Knowing how Rohan is, with overlapping CR, they might bitch to Bruno about him, but Bruno's not gonna be like "hey, I should go be friends with that asshole." Basically, there's no real incentive for either one of them to interact with each other. They could pass each other on the street a million times and never speak.

Personality:

If there is one thing that is very important to understand about Rohan, it is that he is incredibly selfish and self-centered. As such, this means that Rohan does not typically get involved in the business of others unless there is something for him to gain from it personally. Typically, it's some form of inspiration for his manga, but there have been other self-motivated reasons for getting involved such as clearing his debt to Reimi since she sacrificed her life for his when he was a child. It can also simply be self-satisfaction and affirmation in his own abilities. Whatever the reason for helping, there just almost always is something in it for him or else he likely will look the other way.

Rohan's self-absorbed nature also manifests itself into arrogance. In other words, Rohan doesn't just think about himself, but he's in love with himself as well. And it's not completely unfounded for him to be this way. Rohan is incredibly clever, a talented artist, and found success at a very young age. He is just unfortunately very aware of all that and thus is an obnoxious asshole about it. He boasts about his talents frequently, both in bombastic and subtle ways. When he's being more obvious in his bragging, it's usually long rambling philosophizing about art, inspiration, creativity, reality, etc. When he's being a little more subtle, he tends to just say it without any grandeur, maybe toss in a line or two about how he supposedly doesn't care. And speaking of things he doesn't care about, although he claims not to care about money or fame, that has never stopped Rohan from being materialistic and owning more than one vehicle, ridiculously expensive (and pretentious) furniture, or a Gucci watch. And whether Rohan will admit it or not, he thrives on attention from others and/or disparaging them. He has incredibly high standards that are essentially impossible for others to meet, giving him a means to act and talk as though he is superior in every way imaginable.

But even though Rohan does have a tendency to be mean-spirited towards others, he is one of those people who typically says the opposite of what he means. (In case you missed that part.) For example, he really resents and doesn't like Josuke all that much, but he probably wouldn't spend so much time hating him if he didn't have a modicum of respect for the kid. Likewise, towards the end, he does actually say some positive things about Koichi and Reimi both. So, it's not that he can't make friends or that he always look down on people, but Rohan has a very ass-backwards means of showing that he cares and he is furthermore not quite as self-centered as he presents. Which isn't to say that it's all a facade. Rohan Kishibe is definitely very up his own butt. He just crawls out sometimes to do a good deed after some coaxing.

The other important thing about Rohan to understand is his passion for his art. Rohan is more or less addicted to his art and the attention he gets for it. Although he has a tendency to be dismissive of fans, it would not sit well with Rohan to have his genius ignored or misunderstood (which is part of the reason why his comics aren't translated into English as he feels Americans just "wouldn't get it"). To achieve his great art, Rohan has an obsessive need to capture reality. He wants to tell stories that connect with people on a deeper level, that have a rawness to them that cannot be duplicated. At the same time though, because of Rohan's need to be noticed (and liked), he is still very selective about what meets that criteria and he is rapacious when it comes to finding new material.

This means that Rohan will go to any lengths for that new inspiration, including abusing his Stand abilities to either read about or outright steal memories from people. Rohan has no qualms about this because although he's capable of making friends through some small miracle, he is relatively unaware when it comes to people outside of himself. He doesn't see it as a bad thing or even morally questionable to be so invasive. He is furthering his art, which by his estimation is a gift unto the world in the first place. Initially, even though he knows full well taking too much from people can and will kill them, Rohan doesn't see it as such a bad thing. The way he sees it, they're contributing something greater than they possibly could have otherwise. No big deal, right? Fortunately, Rohan learns his lesson and while he will still absolutely open people up to look at their personal business, he has gotten out of the habit of just tearing pages out.

Naturally, aside from questionable actions like that, this arrogance and near-willful ignorance about others also leads Rohan to overestimate himself and underestimate others. So, things don't always go his way. And when that happens? Rohan gets childish and he gets spiteful. For example, in playing a game of dice with Josuke, he is absolutely certain Josuke is cheating. But he can't quite figure out how. The obvious solution in this situation is to nearly stab off his own finger with a pen and refuse to let Josuke heal it until he's figured out how Josuke is cheating. You might be wondering why he didn't just use Heaven's Door then to solve it, but when Rohan feels his own abilities are being questioned or challenged, he has to answer them without the use of his Stand. Rohan is also incredibly vengeful and whenever a Stand user is handing him his own ass, he makes pretty steep promises of revenge. And sometimes he follows through such as when he writes "I will go to Hell" on the Stand Cheap Trick when Cheap Trick is being dragged away by creepy hands reaching in the spirit realm, dragging it off to who the heck knows where.

In short, Rohan is indeed arrogant and self-serving. He looks down upon others, seeing them as inferior and does not hesitate to point that out to them when the opportunity arises as he is often very mean-spirited. He becomes petty, spiteful, and vindictive when he is being challenged or feels he's losing. His passion lies only with his art and he is willing to do most anything for the sake of said art, including (and certainly not limited to) abusing his Stand abilities to violate the privacy of others. However, Rohan also understands right from wrong. He has learned a few boundaries here and there and ultimately stands on the side of good regardless of how he goes about it or why he decides to do it in the first place. Moreover, even with his usual flagrant disregard for others, Rohan has a tendency to say the opposite of what he means when it comes to people he knows. He doesn't have any problem in lying or being mean to them, and he may somewhat put himself first, but he does actually have a few caring bones in his body. Just don't try to point them out or he'll accuse you of being a filthy liar and probably make fun of your hair or something like the grown-ass adult he is.

Background:

Rohan Kishibe

Diamond is Unbreakable

Stands

Heaven's Door

Abilities:

Rohan is what's known as a Stand user. Canon is a little inconsistent as to the exact nature of Stands--whether it's spiritual energy or what--but the basic gist is that a Stand gives users special powers, can only been seen by other Stand users, can only be damaged by another Stand, and is connected to their user. With regards to that last item, if a Stand is destroyed, then its user dies and vice versa. Rohan's Stand is called Heaven's Door. Heaven's Door is not very useful in a fight, but it has good speed, durability, and average precision with a range of approximately 50 meters (164 feet). (Note: The further away from his Stand Rohan is, the weaker Heaven's Door is. Given that he doesn't use it much for fighting, this isn't all that important, but it should still be noted.)

Heaven's Door's main abilities are activated when individuals see an image of the Stand drawn by Rohan (it can be on paper or even drawn in the air with a finger) or see the Stand itself. More than one person can be affected at a time. It can also affect animals.

The first of its abilities is Book Transmutation. This essentially turns his target's body into pages from a book. It's freaky body horror where faces flip open or limbs/bodies can unfurl. People are often varying degrees of awareness while turned into books. Some people are awake and know what's happening (while being unable to do much about it), others pass out. The pages display information about the target that is absolutely true. It can be anything from what they look like to memories and thoughts to personality traits or information on special abilities. People literally become open books to Rohan which allows him to enact Memory Removal and Write-In Command as he sees fit. The former is fairly straightforward. Rohan yanks out pages and targets lose memories as well as lose body mass (without actually losing height or shape). Take too much and they die. The latter ability is also straightforward as he just writes in whatever he wants, allowing him to alter memories or create commands. Rohan cannot use these abilities on himself nor can he access memories for which he was present (because duh...).

He's also inhumanly fast at working on his comic series and is able to churn out pages at a ridiculous speed when he's feeling incredibly inspired such as drawing and inking 19 new pages overnight without anyone to help him. He still moves at a stupidly fast pace even when not inspired though.

...His eyeliner game is also really strong. Don't fuck with him.

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