Zodion threadtracking

2011-09-16T10:23:09Z

This is for keeping track of network threads Elliot has commented to, since his tag won't be added to that...

Earliest at the top, latest at the bottom.

With Yubel - 110915
With Kamina - 111001
With Arthur - 111012
With Break - 111021
With Maxxie - 111102

With Hermione - 111105
With Yosuke - 111109
With Fred - 111120
With Orihime - 111121
With Faize - 111124

With GLaDOS - 111212
With Maxxie - 111213
With Serph - 111217

Languishment Relationships

2011-07-17T15:46:27Z

RELATIONSHIPS

♥ Treasure you the most - love / bff / family
♥ Fine I care for you - close friends
♥ You are not my friend - totally friends
♥ Don't really care for you, you just don't listen that's all - like / growing (into) friendship

♣ Would take any chance to talk to you - intrigued
♣ Sure whatever - acquaintance / neutral

# Just shut up already - unsure of / minor dislike
# Keeping an eye on you - wary of / (minor) dislike
# Don't talk to me - dislike
# Don't make me draw my sword - hate

Ω It's complicated

Canonmates

Leo ♥ ♣ Ω
"There's still enough room here for Elliot too!"
TBA

	Oz Vessalius ♥ # Ω
	"It's hard to say. Do you think it would be easier to fight the inevitable or give in when it's already happened once before?"
TBA

Gilbert Nightray ♥ # # Ω
"Elliot, I really want to be a better brother to you..."
TBA

	Vincent Nightray ♥ # # Ω
	”But sometimes what people want isn't always what's best for them."
TBA

Alice ”B. Rabbit” ♥ ♣ Ω
"...I can't sleep, Yelliot. It's too quiet."
TBA

	Xerxes Break # #
	”Honestly I wonder why everyone has such cold shoulder greetings towards my humble person. You might make me think you guys hate me~"
TBA

Charlotte "Lotti" Baskerville # #
"You're so much more handsome without that constipated look on your face, anyways."
TBA

Panfandom

Inoue Orihime ♥ #
"...Elliot-san gives me too much credit."
TBA

	Aerith Gainsborough ♥ # ♣ Ω
	"You just need to learn how to observe your surroundings a little more. You can a lot of the world that way."
TBA

Asano Rin ♥ ♣
"I don't know, I'd like to eat. Not eating sucks."
TBA

	Allen Walker ♥ ♣
	"I don't care about 'dealing' with it because people I haven't met before tell me I should."
TBA

Fai D. Flourite ♥ ♣ # Ω
"You tell me, young sir, since you seem to know who I am."
TBA

	Meguro Gau ♥ # Ω
	"I hope we can get along well here, then, if we knew each other there."
TBA

Fluttershy ♥ ♣
"Right. We shouldn't let people tell us what to do."
TBA

	Cain # #
	"I didn't really ask his permission."
TBA

Snow Villiers # ♣
"Hey, hey, easy now. You're not ashamed, got it."
TBA

	Yuu Kanda #
	"And they came back just as they were? Nothing different or off?"
TBA

Ginko ♣ ♣
"I've never met Gods that powerful before. Did you ever manage to see one?"
TBA

	Karkat Vantas # ♣
	"BECAUSE IF I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING THEN I'D HAVE DOUCHENOZZLES BOTHERING ME LEFT AND FUCKING RIGHT BECAUSE THEIR THINKPANS ARE TOO FUCKING CRACKED TO UNDERSTAND THE SIMPLE MEANING OF LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE."
TBA

Oerba Dia Vanille ♣
"We should give them the benefit of the doubt, yeah?"
TBA

	Bela Talbot ♣
	"I have a feeling that this is only the beginning of the crap the rulers are going to throw at us."
TBA

Lenalee Lee ♣
"Even? But I thought the mark would be removed."
TBA

	Warrior of Light ♣
	"...Thank you. It is good to know."
TBA

Kurosaki Ichigo ♣ ♣
"I just don't like not knowing what I'm up against."
TBA

	Havoc ♣
	"It isn't ideal... but it's an improvement from the last world I was in."
TBA

Liquid Snake # ♣
"If you don't come back, you're ending your life right there. Do you have nothing to live for?"
TBA

Taken from here

Languishment application

2011-06-04T22:31:16Z

Warning for spoilers in the abilities section and last paragraph of weaknesses.

PLAYER INFO
Name |
Tossino
Personal Journal |
tossino
Contact |
AIM: thetossedone | Plurk: Tossino | e-mail/MSN: the_tossed_one@hotmail.com
Current Character(s) |
N/A

CHARACTER INFO
Name |
Elliot Nightray
Series |
Pandora Hearts, manga
Canon Point |
End of chapter 50
Reference |
Here. Do take it with a grain of salt; it’s a wiki.
Age |
16
Gender |
Male both physically and mentally.
Appearance |
Elliot won’t change a great deal. He will be taller, around 180 cm, and his features will obviously be more mature, but otherwise he will look basically the same. Sharp, blue eyes, light brown (bordering on dark blond) short hair with a big cowlick on the right side, average build.

He will be wearing the clothes on this page at arrival. Black pants, a black coat, white shirt underneath and a blue ribbon.
Personality |
In typical Nightray fashion, Elliot is harsh, brutally honest (in some ways), loud and with an ego pretty much too big for his own good. Add a terribly short temper to that and you basically have an explosive little brat who will blow up with the slightest nudge. Proceed with caution. Or, you know, amuse yourself with it, plenty do that.

He is definitely not intimidating, more on the cute side if anything although looking older ought to take away at least some of that. His loudness and short temper makes him ridiculous rather than impressive but frankly he doesn’t care enough to work on said temper, or doesn’t notice. Pissing him off isn’t hard; insult him, insult his friends or family, do anything that in general annoys him… He’s not the kind to suppress any growing anger at all aside from some few situations or certain subjects. These are rather hard to think of at the top of the head and might be completely unexpected, but in particular when it comes to dealing with more serious things when even he knows blowing up is going to help nothing.

And just as quickly as he can anger, he can calm down. The switches are rapid and unpredictable and he may go from smiling at you to scowling and yelling in literally the blink of an eye. All it takes is one word. Though this also makes him predictable and thus way too easy to make fun of if you should want to.

He does, however, even with his temper, have the ability to be calm and rational if need be and he is intelligent. He can deal with tricky situations if he really puts his mind to it; he’s just more likely to lose his cool first.

But despite how stupid he may look sometimes, through anything Elliot has his pride and ego and he keeps his head high no matter what. While this means he doesn’t really work on his flaws, it also means that he believes a lot in himself as a person and what he can do and what he’s worth, and what others are worth. He believes more in the strength and worth of human beings than anything else, he believes most everyone has a worth to live and should fight to live.

He hates sacrifice more than anything else, most likely due to the death of his siblings. While he may not easily befriend people, he always thinks everyone is worth something at least for starters and he wants everyone to know they are worth something. And even while coincidence probably helped with it, that’s a big reason why he could end up dismissing his family’s hatred towards the Vessalius family as he got to know one Oz Vessalius, despite how this was preached to him by his family that he treasures so much.

While he may deny it to put up a tough front, he cares, especially for his family and friends, but for anyone he thinks deserves it. He’s called gentle for a reason; he is, even while his harshness and rudeness isn’t really an act. It takes time to make him admit he cares because no way would the tough Elliot Nightray care about anyone, but he can admit it. Just don’t expect to hear it often. He might give hints in other ways though. Which are kind of worse because they’re likely to end up being rather cheesy.

Actually, any way he admits such things are likely to be a little cheesy. Maybe. Either that or grumbled under his breath.

But god forbid you tease him for any of it; he’ll smack you.

He’ll be coming in from another game; Kannagara. Due to his canon point, he arrived very shaken and furious at Break, who only managed to make him even more so afterwards, but definitely more towards the shaken side. The point in canon he was taken from was the very moment Break accused him of being the murderer of his own family, and he got even angrier when the Break in Kannagara, even while not from that time, still seemed to believe he was. But the worst was that on top of that Break managed to make Elliot doubt his innocence on that case. So that has been on his mind since then.

However, all of this changed his attitude towards one person; Gilbert, his adoptive brother who left the Nightrays to protect them (at least Elliot and Vincent, the other adoptive brother) against the murderer who was after their family, Headhunter, because he seemed to be its next target. Elliot has been rather furious and felt betrayed at Gilbert for this, but with him having been the only one aside from Break there when Elliot arrived and the fact that he stood up for Elliot against Break, Elliot realised pretty quickly that Gilbert was someone he could rely on, and that was the most important thing. He’s still bitter now, but not on the same level.

Then along came Oz, who, to Elliot’s annoyance, was from before they met and thus had no idea who Elliot was. And Oz having been a self-sacrificing idiot that Elliot chewed out for it and changed a little on that point… Elliot wasn’t happy to discover that because it meant he had to start all over.

Around this time, everything went to hell in Kannagara and the natives became very hostile. As a result, several Other-Worlders as they were called were captured. Furious, Elliot decided to join a rescue operation, but he didn’t tell anyone else and ended up being gone for a whole night, which worried Gilbert greatly and got him grounded (grounded! Grr). He was escorted home in the morning by Fai D. Flourite, who he ended up arguing with on the way about hiding your pain behind smiles for your loved ones as not to burden them. Because this wasn’t anything Elliot agreed with at all.

It pinged him badly (Fai kind of has a habit of pinging him), but Fai managed to get something across to him and he has since then wondered if maybe he burdens people by not hiding his pain. He doesn’t want to think so, but the worry is in the back of his mind and he hates it.

Shortly after this, Elliot had a dream about Leo, his servant and best friend who he really misses, that was broadcasted on the network. Oz came to him in the kitchen after that, but Oz didn’t bring up the dream and instead asked if Elliot would like to plant a garden with him as a surprise for Gilbert and the others, to which he agreed (see; gentle).

And Vincent, who had arrived the day before, offered to help him make a deal with the gods that ruled the world to bring Leo there. It fitted well in with his plans, so he tossed Elliot the bait, and this was grabbed pretty eagerly. So Elliot is kind of a part of one of Vincent’s schemes, which might turn out bad. But with this, it has so far only seemed like Vincent cares for Elliot and nothing else, and thus he’s a little torn about his adoptive brother because wariness has always been there but there hasn’t really been anything to be wary of in Kannagara. So he’s a little unsure, but he trusts Vincent more now than he did before.

Due to a dream Vincent had the day after that has also made him wonder about his family and the effect their… rather horrid attitude towards Gilbert and Vincent actually had on them. And even while he loves his family, no doubt, he still wonders how he should actually take all of it. But it also strengthened his stance on, well… how to treat others, or something along that line.

After having one of his reoccurring dreams that he’s not sure what it’s supposed to be, Break seemed to become even more suspicious and while he tries not to think about it, it still bothers him sometimes.

Another talk with Fai made him think about names and kicked up the issues of Nightrays and Vessalius in his mind again, which resulted in a dream where a good chance to smack some sense into Oz finally appeared.

During a festival, he ended up dancing with Alice who arrived not long ago, which led to him coming to the decision that despite that she is a Chain she is… surprisingly human. So in a way, they became friends that day, which confuses him because… she’s a Chain. So he has begun wondering just what Chains are, in a way.

He also met Touya, a fellow piano player who he decided to join efforts with to buy a piano from the summoning shop, and at the same time promised to help with building a free lodging for new arrivals in the village that is the friendliest towards outsiders. He will arrive to Attollo the first day of this construction, after he has worked, come home and cleaned up. And he will not be happy.
Possessions |
The sword he was given by his family and treasures greatly, the clothes stated in the appearance section, and… that would be it.
Character Abilities/Powers |
Elliot is what in the world of Pandora Hearts is called a contractor (an illegal one on top of that), someone who has formed a contract with a creature of the Abyss, called a Chain. It wasn’t his choice, and he doesn’t remember it happening, and so he never knowingly controls it. A Chain is a creation of Abyss (an alternate dimension that the manga has shown as a vast wasteland but that some claim to be a paradise that they need to go to) and can take on any shape and have any kind of power, and they need a contractor to be able to stay outside of the Abyss for a longer time. Why they want this is generally because they want to eat humans, but there are special ones that have other purposes.

Elliot’s Chain, Humpty Dumpty, needs to be close to the soul of Glen Baskerville (who supposedly was the cause of the country’s capital being thrown into the Abyss a hundred years ago) because it was created from Glen’s body and thus they have a bond, and that’s why it needs to stay outside of Abyss; to protect Glen’s new body (in this case Leo) and reassure his reincarnation or something.

Humpty Dumpty is capable of doing damage if needed, but mostly it uses the contractor’s body. Its contractor goes by the name of Headhunter because the murdered people’s heads were cut off (by its tongue or something like that). This is, though, only a way for Elliot to be able to blame it on someone else instead of himself, because Humpty Dumpty erases its contractor’s painful memories. The fact that Elliot was the one that killed his family is definitely a painful memory, so Humpty Dumpty erases it, as well as making Elliot blind to the fact that he had a seal on his chest, something every illegal contractor has.

Humpty Dumpty will make Elliot do anything needed to protect Glen’s vessel.

Its last known ability is that it can make copies of itself, so several people can contract with it and the burden of the contraction is split up. This way, the limited time illegal contractors have to live is prolonged (the seal is a countdown of this time, and when it runs out, the contractor is cast into the Abyss along with the Chain).

If you could actually call it Elliot’s abilities is debatable, especially since unlike most contractors he never knowingly uses it, but the Chain is a part of him so it’s close enough.

Aside from that, he’s very capable in handling a sword and he’s great at piano and composing.
Weaknesses/Fears |
Elliot has few fears, really, and even then he is too stubborn to let them affect him so much, but those he does have are big ones. Such as losing even more of what little family he has left (mother, father and adoptive brothers, what family he has that is known in canon and that are alive as far as he is aware), and friends in general but especially his family, because he really doesn’t want to lose all of them. While he has managed to stick through losing so many, if he loses all of them he does honestly fear what he will do.

While on the topic of his family; it’s a truly suffocating fear for him that maybe he actually is their murderer. What if he is? As much as he tells himself that it just can’t be, that he simply would never do such a thing, there are moments where the question of “what if” comes up in his mind. He tries to ignore it, he tries really hard, but he can’t quite do it. As much as he strongly believed that he just can’t be, before, it’s hard for him to believe it as strongly, even if he saw with his own eyes that there is no contractor seal on his chest. And he blames it all on Break.

These are the only really big fears he has, but he also on some level fears death. Both when it comes to it happening to others and himself. He found it a rather great relief that death isn’t permanent in Kannagara (and he thinks that it’s the least those gods can do after shoving them there against their will). He definitely doesn’t want to leave people behind, and the fact that if he dies he won’t be able to do anything about it, which is something that makes him very uncomfortable. It’s the very point of no return, and he doesn’t like it at all. But it’s not something that bothers him much at all, there is that at least.

And if anything, this fear makes him even more stubborn to fight for life until he just can’t fight anymore. To his very last breath.

It’s easy to get to Elliot and he’s more likely to act before he thinks and only seriously consider the situation after he has jumped headfirst into it. Even while he knows when to retreat and when to fight, most of the time, and he will do either if he has to if he knows there’s a chance it will keep him alive (if the danger is life-threatening), this is an issue because he jumps into things without hesitation even if he has no real idea how to deal with it. Not only because he’s rash and perhaps a little stupid on that point, but because he cares. If someone is in danger he’ll help, no matter what anyone says.

Plus, he can very much lose his temper and jump into things only because of this and it’s very much something that you can take advantage of. Although it’s rare that he’s actually affected by his own temper on such a level that it lowers his ability to fight.

If it comes down to it, he can’t choose between friends and family. If either of them needs to die for the other to live, he wouldn’t be able to choose, and giving him such an ultimatum is a way to break him. He will, no matter what, try to work out any other way to make sure both of them live because there is no other option in his eyes. He will not choose.

Even if he has fairly good control of himself, everything considering, his pride can get the better of him. It’s fairly rare in a serious situation where it will do harm more than just make him look stupid, but it can happen.

Anything that can relate to his family’s death isn’t anything he would like to hear and it might have pretty bad effects on him depending on what it is. It could range from just making him want to go away as quickly as possible to practically breaking him, or it might not have any real effect at all. This can’t really be predicted.

On a lighter note: Elliot is a bit of a prude and he will most certainly be very flustered at the very idea of the place. Good luck getting anything from him easily. He’s rather easily flustered in general, especially if people point out that oh my god he’s caring about another person, but sex and anything that has to do with it really, really embarrasses him. It will take a long while before he gets over that.

And back to more serious things.

He has blackouts occasionally, and that’s usually what signals that Humpty Dumpty might be taking control. It’s usually coupled with flashes of the memories that have been buried, though he can never really make them out. They’re rare, but they happen, and pretty much never mean anything good. If not blackouts, he gets hit by dizziness sometimes. This is also something that might happen if anything reminds him of a past that has been forgotten; he can momentarily feel dizzy and a little sick or actually seriously black out, but if it goes that far then it would be wisest to move away; any threats to his life will be taken care of by Humpty Dumpty.
Requested Village |
Muir
NPC mini-plot |
All good!

SAMPLES
First-person |
Alright!

[The tone is sharp and angry and the face that shows up on the screen is scrunched together in a scowl. And if his cheeks seem a little red, that’s not your imagination; they are. And he puts the device down, tilted, so you can still see him as he backs off.

Elliot Nightray is pretty enraged right now, and he’s going to yell your ears off.]

So what’s the story this time?! Another place with stuck up gods who think they can yank people around however they like?! And this thing about a mark--!!

[He doesn’t finish that, and as his cheeks flush deeper he immediately turns his head away to hide it. And he thought dreams being broadcasted was bad! This is so damn ridiculous--]

I-it has to be a joke! What kind of thing is that to decide?! I--

[Rapidly, he shakes his head and marches back to snatch the device from its perch.]

I demand answers!

[The feed cuts off.]

Third-person |

That damn thing is for real.

Elliot had been, foolishly perhaps, hoping that it had all been a trick, nothing more than a damn joke, but no. The damn thing is there, it exists, and at second thought it makes sense that the leaders of another world that takes whoever it likes just for the hell of it would want to mess with people like this too, just like at Kannagara (damn gods), so of course it exists.

The mark. That accursed x-shaped mark that the bastard talked about when he woke up here.

He scowls at the mirror, presses his fingers against his cheek to cover it, as if that could make the accursed thing disappear. But of course it doesn’t, because it’s still there, not so dark yet but still way too dark in his eyes (it shouldn’t exist at all), taunting.

He narrows his eyes at it, glares with all the hatred he can muster, his lips pressing together and hands clenching as he stands, trembling from anger, for a moment. This is just so… How can they demand that people just… It’s so. Unbelievable that he doesn’t even know. What to do with himself, what to do with the way his blood boils and his heart beats in his ears. And he hates the way the heat makes his cheeks turn red in front of his eyes at the very thought of what he apparently has to do to get rid of this damn thing--

He resists the urge to punch the mirror as he instead turns around rapidly to slam his fist into the wall and let out all the frustration and fury in one loud curse that he has never, ever used (nobles simply don’t use those kind of words), but heard used a few times by now. And the fact that hitting the wall hurt adds to it as well.

“FUCK!”

..and then he proceeds to bury his face in his hands, slump against the wall as it strikes him just how appropriate that is right now. Appropriate in a bad way.

“Damn it…”

Never mind what he actually has to do… Where should he even go for it? No way is he going to any of those… brothels. He is never going to stoop that low, ever. But doing it with someone he knows-- How to even approach the subject? And what would it do to that relationship if…? He doesn’t want to ruin anything, it’s too important for that, no matter who he goes to. But he can’t just walk around with this on his cheek, it’s embarrassing--

People will be able to tell if he has done it recently or--

Oh. He groans loudly and drags his fingers through his hair, in a way that kind of hurts actually, but he doesn’t care, and as his palms are pressed to the back of his head he sinks to the floor with a heavy sigh. Looking back at it, it actually wasn’t so bad back in Kannagara. Even with all the shit happening there…

It was better than this.

Though, really…

…

Who says he has to do what they want anyway? Who cares what people suggest? What bad is going to happen if he doesn’t do anything? He’ll probably find out but… It’s not going to make any difference back home anyway so even if it kills him…

What does that matter?

…no, okay, if it means death not to do it then he will, but if it’s not that much…

He would much rather be seen as someone who refuses to do it than the opposite.

“..fine,” he says, and a dry grin spreads on his face as he tilts his head back to look up at the ceiling. “Fine! This is a challenge! Let’s see what you can do!”

And he hops back onto his feet, straightens out his coat and snorts as he marches for the doorway. Whatever happens if he refuses it… he doesn’t care. If he ends up having to do it anyway, then fine, but then he can at least think that he tried, and that’s better than nothing.

He’s not going to let this place push him around quite so easily.

After all, he is Elliot Nightray.