《 APPLICATION 》 holly heights.

[moes]

OOC INFORMATION;
Player: Pikari
Age: 19
Personal Journal: moes
Contact Info: endlesseight; high touches @ aim
Other Characters: Maya Fey

IC INFORMATION;
Characters Name: Yuri Nakamura
Age: It isn’t explicitly said in canon, though it is assumed that since it’s highly implied that she’s graduated once before she died, she is about 18 at the time that she died, though she hasn’t aged a single bit both physically and mentally since then.
Canon: Angel Beats!
Canon Point: post-”Graduation”.
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heavily leaning towards heterosexual, especially since Yuri tends to mess around with guys when it comes to flirting along with the fact that she only ever gets embarrassed with guys.

History:
♢ On Yuri as a character.
♢ On the series in general.
Appearance: Here, have some concept art. And Yuri with her hat.
Personality:
Note: This portion of the application was taken from my previous applications playing as Yuri!

❝I only have one chance to have my life, and it's right here. It's the only life I have. This is my life. I can't give it to anyone else, It can't be stolen, I can't force it on anyone, or forget it, or make it disappear, or trample on it, or laugh it away, or beautify it. I have no choice but to accept this one cruel, meaningless life! That's why I will fight, and why I will continue fighting.❞



Yuri, in a word, is strong. After seeing her younger siblings get killed right in front of her as a child, she had to become strong for her own sake. But even though she may be strong, she, too, is human, and is more than just a strong girl who's lived out her life regretting the mere fact that she, who wanted to save her younger siblings could only save herself.

Even though she does regret the things that happened in her childhood, she continued to live her life, not caring about other people's opinions, instead, just doing whatever she wants. After all, that's what she does in situations such as this. She does whatever she wants, not looking back, and not caring about anybody else. It may seem selfish of her to prioritize herself over others, but that's just the way she works. In fact, this is proven when she goes off on her own to figure out the workings of the afterlife, and to find out who exactly created that world of the afterlife. But she soon realizes that she can't always do things on her own and that she needs comrades.

Yuri's strength comes from her experiences, both in life and in the afterlife. She doesn't want to lose her memories, ever, or even replace her current life with another. That's why she decided to fight against god, if he even exists. She wanted to give him all the punches that he could handle, angry at him. For bringing him into this world of the 'afterlife', and as well as for everything that she's ever experienced when she was alive.

Being the leader of the Afterlife Battlefront (generally known as the SSS; Shinda Sekai Sensen), she has learned and grown a lot. After all, she was not always confident in her abilities as a leader, though. However, she's regained the emotion of 'love', one emotion that wasn't supposed to exist in the afterlife in the first place by being with her fellow comrades, doing missions with them, having fun with them, and fighting right beside them. Even though she sometimes seems to abuse her comrades ("I put a propulsion engine under your seat just in case you messed up."), but she only does it for kicks. In reality, she would never do anything that would actually kill her comrades, especially not in a life or death situation.

By growing up, you must first know that first and foremost, when Yuri first created the battlefront, she wasn't a natural leader, even though Hinata says otherwise. She was brash, and pretty much roped anyone who she considered as a human with a soul. She didn't care what methods she used, as long as she somehow managed to gain a member of the SSS. In fact, she even kicked Hinata off the school building just for the sake of proving her point.

Throughout the series, and especially shown in Track Zero, Yuri shows that she will use whatever means necessary to achieve her goal of meeting 'god' and giving him several good punches. In fact, she even suggests that they should murder all the NPCs in order to force god's hand and make him show up. However, Hinata, the conscience out of the two of them tells Yuri that doing such a thing is demeaning, and so Yuri changes her tactics so that she doesn't do something as horrible as killing another person, even if they are NPCs.

Yuri also contradicts herself quite often in the series as well. She says that religion is just a thing that mankind created, yet she believes that there is a 'god', and even that Kanade Tachibana is an 'angel' sent from that god.

Another thing to note is that there are two reasons for being in the afterlife. The first reason is that they have things that they regret from when they were alive. In Yuri's case, she regretted the fact that her younger siblings died and she blames herself for her death, even to the point that she is unable to be tricked easily by Naoi's hypnotism. The second reason is because almost everyone has forgotten about the concept of 'love'.

And in both the anime and in Track Zero, the prequel, Yuri learns a lot. She starts off as a girl who does whatever she wants to get what she wants. She soon learns that she can't do anything on her own and that she has to have people to support her. She can't be selfish in order to attain her goal, and that's why a lot of people in the SSS have her back.

Yuri also learns that it wasn't entirely her fault that her siblings died; she was unable to do anything to help them, and it was actually possible that she would have died along with her siblings if the police didn't come. She also figures out that love is important to her. Not only does she love her siblings who died all those years ago, she cares a lot about the SSS members because she knows that they have her back. And she can trust them.

... Though she is slightly huffy about admitting that fact.

She also has many misconceptions about Kanade Tachibana (Angel) a lot throughout the series for many reasons. One, the first time she saw Kanade use Hand Sonic to take out Chaa, she considers it as a supernatural feat, something that no ordinary human or NPC could do. And because of that, she considered her as 'special' and gave her the nickname of 'Angel'. To Yuri, Kanade was their enemy, and only in the end when Otonashi finds out the truth (that Kanade was just using the resources that were already given in order to gain these new abilities) does she know that Yuri could really have been friends with her.

So basically, here's the short (and hopefully, understandable) version of how Yuri changed throughout the series. At first, Yuri was a girl who had lingering regret over the past, even though many years had passed since they died. In order to compensate for that loss in the afterlife, she decided to rebel against the so-called god who ruled over the afterlife, and this is what fueled her determination against fighting the laws and rules of life.

As a leader, Yuri was selfish and did whatever she had to in order to achieve the desired results, even to the point where she was hurting others (in fact, she plays beach volleyball on a place . Of course, this changed later on, as she became more and more understanding of others, though she does still do her own thing (for example, she blows people's chairs up because everyone is a complete idiot), but she isn't the type of person to sacrifice others, especially when it comes to the end of the series.

That's why Yuri's considered as the 'perfect leader' for the SSS, because she's someone that can be looked up to.

Of course, even though she has been accepted as the best leader out of everyone in the afterlife, she has made mistakes in the missions that she's been through.

Naturally, Yuri tries to come prepared, and she even goes to extreme measures just in case something goes entirely wrong - for example, she gets propellers when she realizes that her idiot brigade are too stupid to distract the class. She also gives Otonashi a walkie-talkie just in case something goes wrong. ... And things do go wrong.

Even so, she didn't realize that she saw the problems of this world wrong.When she made Kanade fail all her tests and get booted off the student council, what she didn't realize was that Kanade wasn't exactly the real problem in the afterlife. The fact that she had a misconception of how the world worked from the very beginning is what led her into making decisions prematurely, which led into making things a lot worse in the world that was meant to be for helping people.

Which means that sometimes Yuri over-prepares for certain situations. And sometimes she doesn't think about the consequences for her decisions, which leads to her mistakes. However, even with these mistakes, Yuri is always determined to stick to her team and to her friends until the end.

Sure, she did joke about death in the beginning of the series, and even more so in Track Zero (i.e: "You wanna die?!") and even doesn't care about hurting others in order to prove that either she's right or she's pissed off for some reason (i.e: Dehydrating the entire SSS as a penalty game), but near the end of the series she realizes that laughing about dying is like throwing away the concept that they were actual living beings, that they had actual lives.

After all, fighting in order to tell the 'god' of the afterlife is all what drove Yuri right until the end. She would do whatever she wanted until she reached that goal. However, that goal is never reached due to the fact that her lingering regrets began to fade away since she had really close friends who she knew cared about her. They were all important to her and she knew that they had her back just like she had theirs.

Long story short, Yuri grew a lot. At first, she was a brash, selfish girl who didn't care about anyone but herself. All she wanted to do was get more people (for her own personal reasons, not for anyone else's) in order to fulfill her mission, since it would be illogical to do something so big on her own.

She still had many lingering regrets which made her somewhat distant from other people, even though she did her best to not come off that way for the sake of others. In fact, she didn't even tell anyone about the huge regret she had from her life until Otonashi came along.

But she soon learned that people can be trusted. That love can exist. And Yuri managed to move on from what her regrets and learn that even though she couldn't help her siblings, it didn't mean that she could blame herself for their deaths.

She also shows quite a lot of intelligence, as she manages to create a new program for the Angel Player, which is only in English, a language that Yuri has not mastered, as well as being able to come up with operations, operations names, as well as being able to build guns from the ground up as well as several other things.

Yuri also does not want to become god, even if she could. She knows that kind of power would destroy her as well as well as hurt the friends she's learned to care about. She even realizes in episode twelve that the troubles that were bothering her were slowly going away because of the friends she's made together.

And even though Yuri tends to act like a leader around huge groups of people, when she's around her friends, she actually shows a more girly side to herself: she actually would want to be friends with Angel (Kanade Tachibana), go clothes shopping with her. She is even a little huffy, and is even slightly in denial about the fact that her troubles were going away because she is and was the leader of the SSS.

Abilities:

Yuri, being already dead, as well as having lived in the afterlife, cannot die again. This means that she has pseudo-immortality, meaning that she can still get injured, feel pain, and almost die, but she’ll still be alive after all that.

She is also quite athletic and is skilled with various weapons: guns, knives, what have you. Yuri also has high school knowledge of English and tends to name all her operations in English over Japanese. Yuri also knows how to create objects via atomic restructuring.
Other:



SAMPLES;
First Person: From the test drive meme!

Third Person:

(This portion is from an old application for another game; if this isn't sufficient, I'll write up another sample!)

— Why was she here?

That was the biggest question on her mind right now. Even though she had 'graduated', she didn't know why she was here, in this place. Was this supposed to be her reincarnation? But if that was so, then why was she still wearing the same uniform that she disappeared in?

It didn't make any sense. Was she in a new afterlife? She had to know. If something changed, then she would have to figure out several things: why was she here? She no longer had regrets about her life. This should have been all over.

Did God change the rules?

Yuri laughed to herself, almost as if she were the villain of her own life story. This couldn't be happening all over again. But if it was, she would have to fight once again.

But first, she needed to gain more information about this world. If this place really was the afterlife, it was a lot different than the one she remembered.

That's when she heard the voice, calling out to her, "Welcome to Exsilium, there is much to discuss." Of course, she honestly didn't want to be talking to one of the NPCs, but if she was going to get information, she might as well deal with it. For the time being, anyway.

Oh, well.

Guess she'll have to play her role until she decides to rebel against the god who set this up.

OTHER;
Housing Request?: Nope, though I would really appreciate it if she were housed with at least one other family member!
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