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✧ NAME: Lii
✧ LJ USERNAME:
derptacular
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): E-Mail | lii.lionheart@gmail.com // AIM | derpsexual // MSN | spongebob_898@hotmail.com // Plurk | tyrantrave
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: Emily Madsen, Kyle Rayner, Seras Victoria
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Yuusuke Urameshi
✧ SERIES: Yu Yu Hakusho
✧ HISTORY: * At first glance, Yuusuke Urameshi can be considered to be your stereotypical punk delinquent kid. He smokes, drinks, gambles, skips school, has shit for grades, and gets into fights just about every day. Pretty much nobody thought he'd be able to do much of anything, and he didn't honestly care. It wasn't until one day, one selfless act would change his life forever.
* After trying to cheer a kid up and keep him from playing in the street, Yuusuke ends up having to save the dumb kid when he runs into the street after his ball. He dives in the way of an oncoming car, and is struck and killed instantly, but also saving the child's life. (or so he thinks.)
* Upon dying and flipping shit at being a ghost (and who can blame him, honestly), he's greeted by Botan, an atypical version of the Grim Reaper. She then explains that his “noble sacrifice” was for nothing – the child was supposed to be struck and would've lived – the ball was to act as a cushion for him. Dumbstruck, Yuusuke starts bitching about that, to which Botan offers to allow him to come back to life. He declines, saying how “nobody would miss him”.
* Yuusuke's mind changes after he attends his wake, where people he knows pay their condolences to his mother. Atsuko (his mother) is extremely distraught about losing her son. Keiko (his classmate and eventual girlfriend) sobs uncontrollably, yelling Yuusuke's name. Kuwabara appears, angry and upset that Yuusuke died before they could finish their battles, even screaming that he should've been the one to kill Yuusuke. Understanding that he meant more to others than he let on, he decides to come back.
* Yuusuke is given an egg by Koenma, acting lord of Spirit World, and is told that it will hatch a Spirit Beast, which will help him get back to life. However, he must be a genuinely good person. If he is evil, the beast will devour him. Yuusuke sacrifices the beast to save Keiko, who had received dreams and messages from Yuusuke's ghost that he would be returning to life, and she needed to take care of his body so that he would be able to return to it. However, a fire starts in Yuusuke's home by a serial arsonist and his body runs the risk of being incinerated. Keiko runs into the fire to protect it, and is trapped in the fire. Yuusuke gave up all the power gained from his good deeds after his death to have Koenma save her. Koenma used this to put out some of the flames and opened up a path for her to escape from the fire.
Due to this incident, with Koenma directly in contact with Yuusuke's soul, he figured that the wave cycle of Yuusuke's power is extremely long (52 years) and has to meet the right time to be resurrected or he would have to wait for another 52 years before the next chance and decided to let Yuusuke return to life earlier even though the fire incident should have delayed the process since his power gained from good deeds were used up. The only way this could work was through “spiritual mouth-to-mouth”, in other words, a kiss.
You can imagine that Urameshi was less-than-pleased.
He tries to send a dream to his mother to tell her, but she was on a drinking binge – that wasn't going to stop anytime soon. He then contacts Kuwabara, but he's too wierded out by the whole thing to even think of taking it seriously. So that left Keiko. Unfortunately, her mother ended up getting ill, which was about to make the whole thing all be for nothing, but Botan possessed Keiko's mom and told her to go to Yuusuke.
She barely made it. :|
* After this, it appeared that Yuusuke has gained some powers while dead. He is able to see ghosts and youkai now, and is eventually "convinced" by Botan and Koenma to become the Reikai Tantei, protecting humanity against the threats of youkai.
* Yuusuke's first mission as the Reikai Tantei is to recover three stolen artifacts from Spirit World. It's during this time that Koenma teaches him his signature attack, the Reigun (Spirit Gun). With this new weapon and Botan's assistance, he's then sent to capture the thieves: Gouki, Kurama, and Hiei. Yuusuke defeats both Gouki and Hiei, and gets Kurama to turn himself in after once again doing something stupidly noble.
* Yuusuke then was sent to the compound of Master Genkai, an aged fighter who was looking for a successor to her powerful Spirit Wave technique. Beforehand, Yuusuke was warned by Botan that a powerful demon, Rando, would be participating in hopes to gain Genkai's techniques as well. Kuwabara was visiting the spiritualist in order to try and control his newly-awakened psychic abilities thanks to Yuusuke, but got dragged into the tournament. Yuusuke defeats him and finds a newfound ally in Kuwabara (grudgingly, at first).
* Yuusuke and Kuwabara then went to Maze Castle to defeat the four Saint Beasts and stop them from taking over the human race with demon parasites. Koenma sent Kurama and Hiei, who were on probation in the human world, to assist. Yuusuke fought his way to Suzaku, the leader of the group, and managed to defeat him, but at the cost of his own life energy. Only Kuwabara, the only human of the group, could save him.
* Yuusuke then goes with Kuwabara and Botan to rescue a beautiful ice apparition named Yukina, of whom Kuwabara becomes smitten. However, Yukina is actually Hiei's twin sister, a fact that Kuwabara and even Yukina herself is unaware of. Yuusuke fights all the way to the Toguro brothers. Yuusuke and Kuwabara defeat them with teamwork and rescue the maiden, but it turns out that the Toguros threw the fight on purpose. The younger Toguro brother coerces Yuusuke to join the Dark Tournament and defeat him in a real fight.
* To prepare for the Dark Tournament, Yuusuke trains with Genkai for two months. Afterward, Yuusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei, along with Genkai as 'The Masked Fighter', enter the Dark Tournament as the guest team, Team Urameshi.
* During the tournament, the others find out about the Masked Fighter actually being Genkai, and she gives Yuusuke the last of her powers, knowing that she would probably not make it past this tournament. She's right in that prediction; she dies fighting Toguro. With her last breath, she tells Yuusuke that she and Toguro used to be teammates 50 years prior, and warns him to not become like Toguro.
* In the finals, Yuusuke finally faces off against Toguro, and is pushed to the brink when he “kills” Kuwabara, summoning enough strength to even push Toguro to his limits in the ensuing battle.
* After the tournament, reports of humans gaining strange powers pop up, all centered around one place – and Yuusuke and the other find out that a tunnel to the Makai is being built, and they have little time to wait around for things to develop further.
* During this, they find out that the man behind this is none other than Shinobu Sensui, a former Reikai Tantei that had disappeared ten years ago with a videotape known as Chapter Black – a recording with hours upon hours of humanity's worst crimes upon it. Sensui used this in order to recruit newly-awakened psychics to his cause.
* Urameshi and crew were tested to their moral limits, and even pushed beyond, but eventually, after Kuwabara awakened to a new ability - the Jigentou (Dimension Sword) - Sensui kidnapped him in hopes of using his ability to rip open the kekkai (barrier) separating the Demon World from the Human World. However, they are forced to kill a young psychic in order to reach Sensui, a fact that weighs heavily on the group's mind as they continue to what lay ahead.
✧ TIMELINE: During the Chapter Black arc, prior to fighting Sensui himself
✧ PERSONALITY: On the surface, Yuusuke seems like nothing more than a punk, and that's a pretty apt description for him at first glance. He's brash, crude, and doesn't seem to care much about anything. However, after talking with him, and being around him, it's fairly obvious that despite his delinquent tendencies, he's actually a pretty decent kid. Sure, he love picking fights, but fighting's one of the few things that he knows helps him vent, and something that he knows he's good at.
But after a while, it's not just about the fights themselves – Yuusuke's got something to prove. He wants to show his opponents not only that he's a force to be reckoned with, but that if you fuck with him or those that he actually cares about, expect to feel his fists digging into your face.
He's really your typical shounen idiot hero – RAGING POWERUPS, running into any and every situation headlong, epic lucky streak and all. Yeah, he's a jerk a lot of the time, but he's a nice guy once you get past all the smartassing. It just takes time.
And despite what some might say, he actually has something of an honor code, though that in and of itself is somewhat messed up, as the fight with Chuu during the Dark Tournament arc showed. He's a self-admitted “combat junkie”, there's honestly nothing that gets him going more than a good fight. He also isn't that stupid, he's just a hell of a lot more street-smart than book-smart; he's come up with fairly creative ideas on the fly during fights in order to find a way to defeat his opponent.
His temper is incredibly short, but he can dish it out and take it – a trait that is only tempered further over the course of the series. And even though Yuusuke does mature some during the series, he's still mostly reckless, impulsive, and prefers to punch first and ask questions later.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Yuusuke's powers for the most part stem off of manipulating his ki into his body, usually into his fists. He's able to use this ability to shoot blasts from his right finger, fists, and charge his entire body with energy in order to give off a “bluff aura”. Due to his training, Yuusuke has superhuman strength, reflexes, and stronger constitution than most. Genkai tried to have him learn both offensive and defensive techniques, though he strongly leans toward the former. He aims to hit hard and fast, and isn't afraid to dip into his reserves of life energy in order to save someone that he cares about.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day
✧ MASK DESIGN:
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Genkai's Temple: At first, it just looks like a bung of stone steps leading up to a typical Japanese shrine, but once you get through the courtyard and into the temple itself, you'll find it's actually quite spacious, and even connects to a couple other compounds that branch off it, including an entire building with a makeshift arcade (coin-operated of course), and extra rooms for people to stay in. Behind the temple is a vast forested mountain range as well.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: This is getting to be a real pain, y'know that? I don't have time for anyone else's stupid delays!
[Yuusuke looks very, very annoyed right now, and no mask for him, though he's holding it up with a deep scowl.]
Look, if that bastard Sensui's got anything to do with this “dream world”, he's just giving me one more reason to beat that smug smirk right off'a his face! Dammit, this is just like what the old hag warned me about. But I didn't try anything stupid!
…
That I know of, anyway.
[He gives the feed a flat stare before looking to the mask with a disgusted look on his face.]
And this mask thing? Nuh-uh, no way, not doing it. It's stupid and I don't have time to be playing around like this when I got the future of possibly the entire human race resting on punching one idiot's lights out! So if anyone's got a handy map to the exit, that'd be just fucking brilliant.
✧ THIRD PERSON: The dark-haired youth spat, ignoring the fact that his saliva was tinged with red. Not like he hadn't bit open his cheek in a fight before, but a broken arm as well as gunshot wounds and other miscellaneous wounds from the series of beatdowns he was subjected to earlier? That was a level of pain he hadn't experienced before. It was times like these that he was glad to have a rapid recovery rate thanks to reiki. The spirit bullet wounds from Kazuya had dulled to a slow throb, and his broken arm was already beginning to knit itself back together.
A cocky smirk played upon Yuusuke's lips as he stared his opponent straight on, his eyes not even betraying a hint of hesitation.
Not like he would, anyway.
He knew now; he knew how to beat this guy.
Sure, the others might kick his ass for it...if they could. But this was the only way he knew that it would work. "I think...no, I know we'll win..." His voice broke the silence, surprising his predecessor. "Because I have the perfect strategy for kicking ass." For once, he was going to take a page from Kuwabara's book; he just hoped it would wield the same results. "I know that Sensui knows what I'm thinking....because he usually does. But, what I don't know is do you have the stones," he beckoned the ex-Tantei to come forward, "to do what you say you'll do? Or are you afraid your whole little destiny's nothin' but crap?"
Bingo.
He could sense the rage coming off Sensui in waves, but yet he didn't make the move. He didn't want to kill the teenager. At least, not at first. Come on, ya indecisive bastard, choose already. Do it or don't, we don't have all day. He stood there, unmoving, even as he sensed Kuwabara's new power being used, only to have it masked by Sensui's own energy.
I have no regrets. Kick his ass, guys. He turned his head to give the others a smirk as they broke out, rushing toward them, but he knew they wouldn't make it. Sensui would close the gap before they could get in range.
"URAMESHI, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!"
He didn't even flinch, unmoving as he felt a sharp pain in his heart, a distant thud, then...
Silence.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: N/A
✧ NAME: Lii
✧ LJ USERNAME:
derptacular✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): E-Mail | lii.lionheart@gmail.com // AIM | derpsexual // MSN | spongebob_898@hotmail.com // Plurk | tyrantrave
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: Emily Madsen, Kyle Rayner, Seras Victoria
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Yuusuke Urameshi
✧ SERIES: Yu Yu Hakusho
✧ HISTORY: * At first glance, Yuusuke Urameshi can be considered to be your stereotypical punk delinquent kid. He smokes, drinks, gambles, skips school, has shit for grades, and gets into fights just about every day. Pretty much nobody thought he'd be able to do much of anything, and he didn't honestly care. It wasn't until one day, one selfless act would change his life forever.
* After trying to cheer a kid up and keep him from playing in the street, Yuusuke ends up having to save the dumb kid when he runs into the street after his ball. He dives in the way of an oncoming car, and is struck and killed instantly, but also saving the child's life. (or so he thinks.)
* Upon dying and flipping shit at being a ghost (and who can blame him, honestly), he's greeted by Botan, an atypical version of the Grim Reaper. She then explains that his “noble sacrifice” was for nothing – the child was supposed to be struck and would've lived – the ball was to act as a cushion for him. Dumbstruck, Yuusuke starts bitching about that, to which Botan offers to allow him to come back to life. He declines, saying how “nobody would miss him”.
* Yuusuke's mind changes after he attends his wake, where people he knows pay their condolences to his mother. Atsuko (his mother) is extremely distraught about losing her son. Keiko (his classmate and eventual girlfriend) sobs uncontrollably, yelling Yuusuke's name. Kuwabara appears, angry and upset that Yuusuke died before they could finish their battles, even screaming that he should've been the one to kill Yuusuke. Understanding that he meant more to others than he let on, he decides to come back.
* Yuusuke is given an egg by Koenma, acting lord of Spirit World, and is told that it will hatch a Spirit Beast, which will help him get back to life. However, he must be a genuinely good person. If he is evil, the beast will devour him. Yuusuke sacrifices the beast to save Keiko, who had received dreams and messages from Yuusuke's ghost that he would be returning to life, and she needed to take care of his body so that he would be able to return to it. However, a fire starts in Yuusuke's home by a serial arsonist and his body runs the risk of being incinerated. Keiko runs into the fire to protect it, and is trapped in the fire. Yuusuke gave up all the power gained from his good deeds after his death to have Koenma save her. Koenma used this to put out some of the flames and opened up a path for her to escape from the fire.
Due to this incident, with Koenma directly in contact with Yuusuke's soul, he figured that the wave cycle of Yuusuke's power is extremely long (52 years) and has to meet the right time to be resurrected or he would have to wait for another 52 years before the next chance and decided to let Yuusuke return to life earlier even though the fire incident should have delayed the process since his power gained from good deeds were used up. The only way this could work was through “spiritual mouth-to-mouth”, in other words, a kiss.
You can imagine that Urameshi was less-than-pleased.
He tries to send a dream to his mother to tell her, but she was on a drinking binge – that wasn't going to stop anytime soon. He then contacts Kuwabara, but he's too wierded out by the whole thing to even think of taking it seriously. So that left Keiko. Unfortunately, her mother ended up getting ill, which was about to make the whole thing all be for nothing, but Botan possessed Keiko's mom and told her to go to Yuusuke.
She barely made it. :|
* After this, it appeared that Yuusuke has gained some powers while dead. He is able to see ghosts and youkai now, and is eventually "convinced" by Botan and Koenma to become the Reikai Tantei, protecting humanity against the threats of youkai.
* Yuusuke's first mission as the Reikai Tantei is to recover three stolen artifacts from Spirit World. It's during this time that Koenma teaches him his signature attack, the Reigun (Spirit Gun). With this new weapon and Botan's assistance, he's then sent to capture the thieves: Gouki, Kurama, and Hiei. Yuusuke defeats both Gouki and Hiei, and gets Kurama to turn himself in after once again doing something stupidly noble.
* Yuusuke then was sent to the compound of Master Genkai, an aged fighter who was looking for a successor to her powerful Spirit Wave technique. Beforehand, Yuusuke was warned by Botan that a powerful demon, Rando, would be participating in hopes to gain Genkai's techniques as well. Kuwabara was visiting the spiritualist in order to try and control his newly-awakened psychic abilities thanks to Yuusuke, but got dragged into the tournament. Yuusuke defeats him and finds a newfound ally in Kuwabara (grudgingly, at first).
* Yuusuke and Kuwabara then went to Maze Castle to defeat the four Saint Beasts and stop them from taking over the human race with demon parasites. Koenma sent Kurama and Hiei, who were on probation in the human world, to assist. Yuusuke fought his way to Suzaku, the leader of the group, and managed to defeat him, but at the cost of his own life energy. Only Kuwabara, the only human of the group, could save him.
* Yuusuke then goes with Kuwabara and Botan to rescue a beautiful ice apparition named Yukina, of whom Kuwabara becomes smitten. However, Yukina is actually Hiei's twin sister, a fact that Kuwabara and even Yukina herself is unaware of. Yuusuke fights all the way to the Toguro brothers. Yuusuke and Kuwabara defeat them with teamwork and rescue the maiden, but it turns out that the Toguros threw the fight on purpose. The younger Toguro brother coerces Yuusuke to join the Dark Tournament and defeat him in a real fight.
* To prepare for the Dark Tournament, Yuusuke trains with Genkai for two months. Afterward, Yuusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei, along with Genkai as 'The Masked Fighter', enter the Dark Tournament as the guest team, Team Urameshi.
* During the tournament, the others find out about the Masked Fighter actually being Genkai, and she gives Yuusuke the last of her powers, knowing that she would probably not make it past this tournament. She's right in that prediction; she dies fighting Toguro. With her last breath, she tells Yuusuke that she and Toguro used to be teammates 50 years prior, and warns him to not become like Toguro.
* In the finals, Yuusuke finally faces off against Toguro, and is pushed to the brink when he “kills” Kuwabara, summoning enough strength to even push Toguro to his limits in the ensuing battle.
* After the tournament, reports of humans gaining strange powers pop up, all centered around one place – and Yuusuke and the other find out that a tunnel to the Makai is being built, and they have little time to wait around for things to develop further.
* During this, they find out that the man behind this is none other than Shinobu Sensui, a former Reikai Tantei that had disappeared ten years ago with a videotape known as Chapter Black – a recording with hours upon hours of humanity's worst crimes upon it. Sensui used this in order to recruit newly-awakened psychics to his cause.
* Urameshi and crew were tested to their moral limits, and even pushed beyond, but eventually, after Kuwabara awakened to a new ability - the Jigentou (Dimension Sword) - Sensui kidnapped him in hopes of using his ability to rip open the kekkai (barrier) separating the Demon World from the Human World. However, they are forced to kill a young psychic in order to reach Sensui, a fact that weighs heavily on the group's mind as they continue to what lay ahead.
✧ TIMELINE: During the Chapter Black arc, prior to fighting Sensui himself
✧ PERSONALITY: On the surface, Yuusuke seems like nothing more than a punk, and that's a pretty apt description for him at first glance. He's brash, crude, and doesn't seem to care much about anything. However, after talking with him, and being around him, it's fairly obvious that despite his delinquent tendencies, he's actually a pretty decent kid. Sure, he love picking fights, but fighting's one of the few things that he knows helps him vent, and something that he knows he's good at.
But after a while, it's not just about the fights themselves – Yuusuke's got something to prove. He wants to show his opponents not only that he's a force to be reckoned with, but that if you fuck with him or those that he actually cares about, expect to feel his fists digging into your face.
He's really your typical shounen idiot hero – RAGING POWERUPS, running into any and every situation headlong, epic lucky streak and all. Yeah, he's a jerk a lot of the time, but he's a nice guy once you get past all the smartassing. It just takes time.
And despite what some might say, he actually has something of an honor code, though that in and of itself is somewhat messed up, as the fight with Chuu during the Dark Tournament arc showed. He's a self-admitted “combat junkie”, there's honestly nothing that gets him going more than a good fight. He also isn't that stupid, he's just a hell of a lot more street-smart than book-smart; he's come up with fairly creative ideas on the fly during fights in order to find a way to defeat his opponent.
His temper is incredibly short, but he can dish it out and take it – a trait that is only tempered further over the course of the series. And even though Yuusuke does mature some during the series, he's still mostly reckless, impulsive, and prefers to punch first and ask questions later.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Yuusuke's powers for the most part stem off of manipulating his ki into his body, usually into his fists. He's able to use this ability to shoot blasts from his right finger, fists, and charge his entire body with energy in order to give off a “bluff aura”. Due to his training, Yuusuke has superhuman strength, reflexes, and stronger constitution than most. Genkai tried to have him learn both offensive and defensive techniques, though he strongly leans toward the former. He aims to hit hard and fast, and isn't afraid to dip into his reserves of life energy in order to save someone that he cares about.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day
✧ MASK DESIGN:
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Genkai's Temple: At first, it just looks like a bung of stone steps leading up to a typical Japanese shrine, but once you get through the courtyard and into the temple itself, you'll find it's actually quite spacious, and even connects to a couple other compounds that branch off it, including an entire building with a makeshift arcade (coin-operated of course), and extra rooms for people to stay in. Behind the temple is a vast forested mountain range as well.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: This is getting to be a real pain, y'know that? I don't have time for anyone else's stupid delays!
[Yuusuke looks very, very annoyed right now, and no mask for him, though he's holding it up with a deep scowl.]
Look, if that bastard Sensui's got anything to do with this “dream world”, he's just giving me one more reason to beat that smug smirk right off'a his face! Dammit, this is just like what the old hag warned me about. But I didn't try anything stupid!
…
That I know of, anyway.
[He gives the feed a flat stare before looking to the mask with a disgusted look on his face.]
And this mask thing? Nuh-uh, no way, not doing it. It's stupid and I don't have time to be playing around like this when I got the future of possibly the entire human race resting on punching one idiot's lights out! So if anyone's got a handy map to the exit, that'd be just fucking brilliant.
✧ THIRD PERSON: The dark-haired youth spat, ignoring the fact that his saliva was tinged with red. Not like he hadn't bit open his cheek in a fight before, but a broken arm as well as gunshot wounds and other miscellaneous wounds from the series of beatdowns he was subjected to earlier? That was a level of pain he hadn't experienced before. It was times like these that he was glad to have a rapid recovery rate thanks to reiki. The spirit bullet wounds from Kazuya had dulled to a slow throb, and his broken arm was already beginning to knit itself back together.
A cocky smirk played upon Yuusuke's lips as he stared his opponent straight on, his eyes not even betraying a hint of hesitation.
Not like he would, anyway.
He knew now; he knew how to beat this guy.
Sure, the others might kick his ass for it...if they could. But this was the only way he knew that it would work. "I think...no, I know we'll win..." His voice broke the silence, surprising his predecessor. "Because I have the perfect strategy for kicking ass." For once, he was going to take a page from Kuwabara's book; he just hoped it would wield the same results. "I know that Sensui knows what I'm thinking....because he usually does. But, what I don't know is do you have the stones," he beckoned the ex-Tantei to come forward, "to do what you say you'll do? Or are you afraid your whole little destiny's nothin' but crap?"
Bingo.
He could sense the rage coming off Sensui in waves, but yet he didn't make the move. He didn't want to kill the teenager. At least, not at first. Come on, ya indecisive bastard, choose already. Do it or don't, we don't have all day. He stood there, unmoving, even as he sensed Kuwabara's new power being used, only to have it masked by Sensui's own energy.
I have no regrets. Kick his ass, guys. He turned his head to give the others a smirk as they broke out, rushing toward them, but he knew they wouldn't make it. Sensui would close the gap before they could get in range.
"URAMESHI, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!"
He didn't even flinch, unmoving as he felt a sharp pain in his heart, a distant thud, then...
Silence.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: N/A