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charmingly) wrote2021-03-04 03:10 pm
charmingly) wrote2021-03-04 03:10 pm
Zodion Application
✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal: Raisa &mustachio
Birthdate & Age: March 21 & 19
Characters played in Zodion: Malik Al-Sayf & Charles Lee
✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Tamaki Suoh
Canon: Ouran High School Host Club
PB/Image: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110902130942/ouran/images/8/80/Tamaki-suoh.jpg
Info links: http://ouran.wikia.com/wiki/Tamaki_Suoh
Canon Point: Post-anime
Gender & Sex: Male & Male
Age: 17
Birthdate/Sign: April 8th, Aries (this is canon!)
Tattoo: On his back, the upper left. About 3 inches across
Suitability:
The main reason I’d say Tamaki is suitable for this type of setting despite only being 17 is that he’s the official president of Ouran High School’s Host Club. It was his idea to start a club that focused on selling his looks and flirting with anyone and everyone who walks through the doors of the club. He doesn’t even wait to see if they’re actually there for him. He’s also very willing to flirt with anyone if he feels it will benefit him, though if anyone says anything about that he’ll claim that he’s being completely sincere. Needless to say, he’s pretty comfortable with his sexuality, even if he does get pretty nervous and downright stupid around people he likes.
He also has the ability to be extremely mature when the situation calls for it, even though he doesn’t often feel that a situation calls for maturity. When he needs to stop acting like a child, he is very capable of acting his own age.
Power: No canon powers to speak of! I will be giving him fire manipulation.
Personality:
There is one thing about Tamaki that stands out more than anything else about him - he knows his ways with the ladies. As the creator of the Host Club, it is painfully obvious that one of his favorite pastimes is entertaining women with compliments and conversation about frivolous things like teacups and dance parties and the occasional talk of what commoner life must be like and how fortunate they all are to have been blessed with such privileges. He can often be found I the center of a group of girls, wooing them with seemingly no effort whatsoever and having no shame while doing so. As one can probably imagine, someone like this would have to be more than a little conceited and it wouldn't be a false belief to think that Tamaki is no exception. He is, in fact, very conceited - the whole reason he started the Host Club was because he thinks himself (and no wrongly so) to be one of the most attractive men in the school. He even reasons that if he is unable to prove himself worthy of inheriting his family's business his looks will ensure that will be able to lead a successful life.
The next side to his personality that stands out is his extreme childishness. As he points out himself, Tamaki never had much of a childhood. The majority of his life before he moved to Japan when he was 14 was spent at his mother's bed side taking care of her while she was ill - not exactly the ideal way for a person to spend their time for fourteen years of their life. To remedy this, Tamaki has taken on a fairly childish personality to make up for this lack of one before. Unlike your typical teenager who would prefer to spend their time partying and doing things that society deems 'mature', Tamaki would rather spend his Saturday nights playing games like Red Light, Green Light or Hide-and-Seek. He knows this is a bit strange for someone his age, but see if he cares – it is fun for him so he'll continue to do it.
A true testament to his childishness would definitely be Tamaki’s extreme proneness to drastic mood swings – drastic being a vast understatement. It doesn’t matter what mood Tamaki starts out with, if the right trigger is pulled, you bet your bottom dollar he’ll be on the opposite end of the spectrum in seconds. From being the happiest man in the world to being a flailing, angry mess Tamaki is not only the king of the Host Club, but also the king of dramatics. Protip: if you ever want to try and be the trigger to one of his mood swings, be sure not to send him into his Corner of Woe. It is hell to get him out of there.
This childishness does tend to give off the impression of a complete and total idiot. This isn't entirely true, though; in reality Tamaki is simply very naive about how the world works all thanks to his sheltered upbringing. While he knows plenty about the world of the rich and famous, he knows nothing about the real world. The working class is poverty in his eyes, and the idea coffee that can be made within seconds is magical. Shopping malls are the equivalent of Narnia and doing one's own laundry is something from the Stone Age. It's this fantasy in his head that causes him to have sun a fascination with the commoner world and a need to learn and experience everything about it. Thus, the image of an idiot is born no matter how untrue that image may be.
Underneath the surface of Tamaki rests a very different person from the ladies man and the mental child. Underneath the surface is a much more serious person that not many would expect from Tamaki, a part of his personality that stems from his less than ideal family situation. With his grandmother harboring a deep hatred of him for most of his life and his mother a sickly woman who could barely make it out of bed most days, it would be hard for him to say that he is always honestly as happy as he seems. Family is the most important thing in the world in Tamaki's mind and his grandmother's disdain takes a real toll him. The fact that he is prohibited from ever seeing his mother and has no idea how her health is or where is even his is also a source of great pain for him. It's for this reason that he chooses to give the Host Club familial titles. In this way, Tamaki can pretend to have what he's always wanted while keeping the reality of the situation in the background. This stops later in the series, and even becomes unnecessary towards the end of the series when his family all begin to get along.
Friends are second to family, but still extremely important to Tamaki. When his friends are unhappy, he is unhappy and that really doesn't have a chance of changing anytime soon. His friends are his surrogate family and as long as his family isn't hurt in some way he would do anything for them. Even those terrible twins who just love to get their amusement from causing him pain.
When it comes to feelings and emotions, Tamaki is pretty dumb, at least where his own emotions and feelings are concerned. When it comes to other people, Tamaki can read them fairly well (certainly not to the degree of, say, Kyouya) and often knows exactly what to do when someone comes to him for emotional advice (or when he deems them in need of his help). In canon, he’s shown helping to solve many problems between couples and even families because he is able to tell exactly what is bothering them. The part that makes him an emotional idiot is that he has no idea how to read his own emotions. When it comes to his own love life and his own family troubles, Tamaki just can’t seem to solve the problems as easily as he did for some of the other characters in the series (i.e. Kanako and Tohru with their relationship troubles in the beginning and Mei and Misuzu and their inability to get along after Misuzu’s divorce). His problem with reading his own emotions is so big that he mistakes is romantic feelings for Haruhi for the feelings that a father would have for a daughter – not exactly the sort of thing one would expect from the guy who founded the Host Club.
Overall, Tamaki is a genuinely good guy with an extremely big heart (proven by the fact that he holds no ill will toward his grandmother despite everything she’s done to him). When trying to decide whether or not he actually wants to have any part in the family business, one of the main things that eventually helped him come to his decision is his desire to help as many people as he can. Helping others is one of his main motivations throughout his life, even going as far back as when he was a small child spending most of his time in doors so that he could help take care of his mother. Actually, it can be reasoned that this is exactly why helping others is his main motivation. His mother is a very big influence on Tamaki even when they are thousands of miles apart.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:
This is an outrage! How dare you kidnap the kingly me and bring me to such a dreadful place! I demand that I be brought back to my home at once or there will be dire consequences! [There are no consequences. He just wants to make a point, and it wouldn’t be very Tamaki like if he weren’t dramatic while doing so.]
I was in the middle of something very important and I will not stand being absent for one second of it! if it is money that you are after, then you may name your price. My family is extremely wealthy and they will not hesitate to pay any amount in order to make certain that I return home safely! Yes, I can almost picture the tragic sigh now! Everybody gathered around the table, worried and waiting for news of my well-being. [It’s a gift, really, to be as dramatic and over the top as Tamaki is.]
I must admit, however, that I am flattered to have been chosen by the gods themselves to help them this world! In fact, with my god-like looks, who else would be a better fit for a job like this than I? Why, my looks are already heaven sent! This must be just another way of bestowing other gifts on me!
Ah, but it is almost cruel that I have been blessed with such great beauty and wealth in a world where so many have neither! It is really no wonder that anyone would desire to hold someone captive when I have had the fortune to be born into such marvelous circumstances. My captors must have been awed by me and that is why they choose to capture me like this! Perhaps catching even the slightest glimpse of my wonder probably provides even the smallest satisfaction for them – it must comfort them to know that it is possible for someone like me to exist in the world, and maybe, just maybe, some of my greatness will rub off on them.
[Someone clearly has no idea what he's talking about.]
Yes, I have decided! That is exactly what must have happened and now that I know this, perhaps I may be able to rest just a little easier as I wait for this terrible punishment to end.
"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:
“The Black Magic Club must be behind this! It’s the only explanation!”
It’s really no surprise that Tamaki’s initial reaction to this sudden change in location was to panic with no shortage of flailing and yelling for any possible passerby to notice. He would never fall asleep in a place like this! How could anyone possibly sleep in such a dark and dreadful place? And while lacking a comfortable bed, no less! No, he most certainly would have never fallen asleep here. He doesn’t even remember coming to a place like this. Predictably, this train of thought does nothing to make the situation any less frightening for him and he runs through the list of people who might be behind his sudden appearance in this strange place. His first suspects, as one can probably tell already from the prior statement, are the members of the Black Magic Club.
Tamaki paces back and forth, grumbling about how terrible it is that they would do something like that can only satisfy him for a few seconds before his common sense sets back in and he realizes that this couldn’t have possibly been the fault of someone from home. He hasn’t even seen any of his classmates since leaving the school with Éclair and she certainly doesn’t have the ability to send him to a place like this. That realization only helps to calm him for a moment. If it wasn’t the Black Magic Club playing a horrible prank on him, who—or what in the world could be behind this? What foul creature would possibly think to leave him behind in this unknown, ugly place?
Tamaki slumps to the ground, slowly losing the more dramatic thoughts as the seconds pass and none of his friends appear to reveal the joke and take him home. There’s a lump in his throat that he struggles to swallow as serious fear sets in and he looks around, trying to find something to indicate that he’s at least close by to familiar territory. As he calms down, the stinging at his back becomes much more noticeable and he reaches one arm around to try and find the cause of that horrible feeling. Nothing. Not even a bug bite, as far as he can feel.
Even with the help of the mirror, he has to turn his neck in a strange and uncomfortable fashion to get a glimpse of what it is exactly that’s causing the discomfort and he’s even more frightened than before to see the mark glowing beneath his clothes. That fright doesn’t go away when he removes his jacket and shirt to fully see the tattoo on his back.
Who in the world is responsible for this? Who marked him like this without his permission? He is not cattle to be branded without consent! He rubs at it until his skin turns red in the hopes that that by some miracle this glowing mark will go away to no avail.
It takes full minutes before Tamaki gives up on trying to get the tattoo off and he walks back to the stone bed, sulking, and wanting nothing more than to go home. In all of his wildest dreams he would have never imagined something like this could happen.
Tamaki’s sulking is interrupted when he unceremoniously bumps into the stone podium and falls over. He’s quick to sit up, looking around angrily as though there was someone else there who could have tripped him. His shoulders slump again when he remembers that he’s alone here and once he’s on his feet he looks at the items on top of the podium.
Had these been any other circumstances, he might have complained that the phone is far too ugly for him to use and someone like him deserves something far better than this! But these are not other circumstances, so he sets the phone aside in favor of the letter.
Hopefully this will have some answers.
Name & DW Journal: Raisa &
mustachioBirthdate & Age: March 21 & 19
Characters played in Zodion: Malik Al-Sayf & Charles Lee
✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Tamaki Suoh
Canon: Ouran High School Host Club
PB/Image: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110902130942/ouran/images/8/80/Tamaki-suoh.jpg
Info links: http://ouran.wikia.com/wiki/Tamaki_Suoh
Canon Point: Post-anime
Gender & Sex: Male & Male
Age: 17
Birthdate/Sign: April 8th, Aries (this is canon!)
Tattoo: On his back, the upper left. About 3 inches across
Suitability:
The main reason I’d say Tamaki is suitable for this type of setting despite only being 17 is that he’s the official president of Ouran High School’s Host Club. It was his idea to start a club that focused on selling his looks and flirting with anyone and everyone who walks through the doors of the club. He doesn’t even wait to see if they’re actually there for him. He’s also very willing to flirt with anyone if he feels it will benefit him, though if anyone says anything about that he’ll claim that he’s being completely sincere. Needless to say, he’s pretty comfortable with his sexuality, even if he does get pretty nervous and downright stupid around people he likes.
He also has the ability to be extremely mature when the situation calls for it, even though he doesn’t often feel that a situation calls for maturity. When he needs to stop acting like a child, he is very capable of acting his own age.
Power: No canon powers to speak of! I will be giving him fire manipulation.
Personality:
There is one thing about Tamaki that stands out more than anything else about him - he knows his ways with the ladies. As the creator of the Host Club, it is painfully obvious that one of his favorite pastimes is entertaining women with compliments and conversation about frivolous things like teacups and dance parties and the occasional talk of what commoner life must be like and how fortunate they all are to have been blessed with such privileges. He can often be found I the center of a group of girls, wooing them with seemingly no effort whatsoever and having no shame while doing so. As one can probably imagine, someone like this would have to be more than a little conceited and it wouldn't be a false belief to think that Tamaki is no exception. He is, in fact, very conceited - the whole reason he started the Host Club was because he thinks himself (and no wrongly so) to be one of the most attractive men in the school. He even reasons that if he is unable to prove himself worthy of inheriting his family's business his looks will ensure that will be able to lead a successful life.
The next side to his personality that stands out is his extreme childishness. As he points out himself, Tamaki never had much of a childhood. The majority of his life before he moved to Japan when he was 14 was spent at his mother's bed side taking care of her while she was ill - not exactly the ideal way for a person to spend their time for fourteen years of their life. To remedy this, Tamaki has taken on a fairly childish personality to make up for this lack of one before. Unlike your typical teenager who would prefer to spend their time partying and doing things that society deems 'mature', Tamaki would rather spend his Saturday nights playing games like Red Light, Green Light or Hide-and-Seek. He knows this is a bit strange for someone his age, but see if he cares – it is fun for him so he'll continue to do it.
A true testament to his childishness would definitely be Tamaki’s extreme proneness to drastic mood swings – drastic being a vast understatement. It doesn’t matter what mood Tamaki starts out with, if the right trigger is pulled, you bet your bottom dollar he’ll be on the opposite end of the spectrum in seconds. From being the happiest man in the world to being a flailing, angry mess Tamaki is not only the king of the Host Club, but also the king of dramatics. Protip: if you ever want to try and be the trigger to one of his mood swings, be sure not to send him into his Corner of Woe. It is hell to get him out of there.
This childishness does tend to give off the impression of a complete and total idiot. This isn't entirely true, though; in reality Tamaki is simply very naive about how the world works all thanks to his sheltered upbringing. While he knows plenty about the world of the rich and famous, he knows nothing about the real world. The working class is poverty in his eyes, and the idea coffee that can be made within seconds is magical. Shopping malls are the equivalent of Narnia and doing one's own laundry is something from the Stone Age. It's this fantasy in his head that causes him to have sun a fascination with the commoner world and a need to learn and experience everything about it. Thus, the image of an idiot is born no matter how untrue that image may be.
Underneath the surface of Tamaki rests a very different person from the ladies man and the mental child. Underneath the surface is a much more serious person that not many would expect from Tamaki, a part of his personality that stems from his less than ideal family situation. With his grandmother harboring a deep hatred of him for most of his life and his mother a sickly woman who could barely make it out of bed most days, it would be hard for him to say that he is always honestly as happy as he seems. Family is the most important thing in the world in Tamaki's mind and his grandmother's disdain takes a real toll him. The fact that he is prohibited from ever seeing his mother and has no idea how her health is or where is even his is also a source of great pain for him. It's for this reason that he chooses to give the Host Club familial titles. In this way, Tamaki can pretend to have what he's always wanted while keeping the reality of the situation in the background. This stops later in the series, and even becomes unnecessary towards the end of the series when his family all begin to get along.
Friends are second to family, but still extremely important to Tamaki. When his friends are unhappy, he is unhappy and that really doesn't have a chance of changing anytime soon. His friends are his surrogate family and as long as his family isn't hurt in some way he would do anything for them. Even those terrible twins who just love to get their amusement from causing him pain.
When it comes to feelings and emotions, Tamaki is pretty dumb, at least where his own emotions and feelings are concerned. When it comes to other people, Tamaki can read them fairly well (certainly not to the degree of, say, Kyouya) and often knows exactly what to do when someone comes to him for emotional advice (or when he deems them in need of his help). In canon, he’s shown helping to solve many problems between couples and even families because he is able to tell exactly what is bothering them. The part that makes him an emotional idiot is that he has no idea how to read his own emotions. When it comes to his own love life and his own family troubles, Tamaki just can’t seem to solve the problems as easily as he did for some of the other characters in the series (i.e. Kanako and Tohru with their relationship troubles in the beginning and Mei and Misuzu and their inability to get along after Misuzu’s divorce). His problem with reading his own emotions is so big that he mistakes is romantic feelings for Haruhi for the feelings that a father would have for a daughter – not exactly the sort of thing one would expect from the guy who founded the Host Club.
Overall, Tamaki is a genuinely good guy with an extremely big heart (proven by the fact that he holds no ill will toward his grandmother despite everything she’s done to him). When trying to decide whether or not he actually wants to have any part in the family business, one of the main things that eventually helped him come to his decision is his desire to help as many people as he can. Helping others is one of his main motivations throughout his life, even going as far back as when he was a small child spending most of his time in doors so that he could help take care of his mother. Actually, it can be reasoned that this is exactly why helping others is his main motivation. His mother is a very big influence on Tamaki even when they are thousands of miles apart.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:
This is an outrage! How dare you kidnap the kingly me and bring me to such a dreadful place! I demand that I be brought back to my home at once or there will be dire consequences! [There are no consequences. He just wants to make a point, and it wouldn’t be very Tamaki like if he weren’t dramatic while doing so.]
I was in the middle of something very important and I will not stand being absent for one second of it! if it is money that you are after, then you may name your price. My family is extremely wealthy and they will not hesitate to pay any amount in order to make certain that I return home safely! Yes, I can almost picture the tragic sigh now! Everybody gathered around the table, worried and waiting for news of my well-being. [It’s a gift, really, to be as dramatic and over the top as Tamaki is.]
I must admit, however, that I am flattered to have been chosen by the gods themselves to help them this world! In fact, with my god-like looks, who else would be a better fit for a job like this than I? Why, my looks are already heaven sent! This must be just another way of bestowing other gifts on me!
Ah, but it is almost cruel that I have been blessed with such great beauty and wealth in a world where so many have neither! It is really no wonder that anyone would desire to hold someone captive when I have had the fortune to be born into such marvelous circumstances. My captors must have been awed by me and that is why they choose to capture me like this! Perhaps catching even the slightest glimpse of my wonder probably provides even the smallest satisfaction for them – it must comfort them to know that it is possible for someone like me to exist in the world, and maybe, just maybe, some of my greatness will rub off on them.
[Someone clearly has no idea what he's talking about.]
Yes, I have decided! That is exactly what must have happened and now that I know this, perhaps I may be able to rest just a little easier as I wait for this terrible punishment to end.
"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:
“The Black Magic Club must be behind this! It’s the only explanation!”
It’s really no surprise that Tamaki’s initial reaction to this sudden change in location was to panic with no shortage of flailing and yelling for any possible passerby to notice. He would never fall asleep in a place like this! How could anyone possibly sleep in such a dark and dreadful place? And while lacking a comfortable bed, no less! No, he most certainly would have never fallen asleep here. He doesn’t even remember coming to a place like this. Predictably, this train of thought does nothing to make the situation any less frightening for him and he runs through the list of people who might be behind his sudden appearance in this strange place. His first suspects, as one can probably tell already from the prior statement, are the members of the Black Magic Club.
Tamaki paces back and forth, grumbling about how terrible it is that they would do something like that can only satisfy him for a few seconds before his common sense sets back in and he realizes that this couldn’t have possibly been the fault of someone from home. He hasn’t even seen any of his classmates since leaving the school with Éclair and she certainly doesn’t have the ability to send him to a place like this. That realization only helps to calm him for a moment. If it wasn’t the Black Magic Club playing a horrible prank on him, who—or what in the world could be behind this? What foul creature would possibly think to leave him behind in this unknown, ugly place?
Tamaki slumps to the ground, slowly losing the more dramatic thoughts as the seconds pass and none of his friends appear to reveal the joke and take him home. There’s a lump in his throat that he struggles to swallow as serious fear sets in and he looks around, trying to find something to indicate that he’s at least close by to familiar territory. As he calms down, the stinging at his back becomes much more noticeable and he reaches one arm around to try and find the cause of that horrible feeling. Nothing. Not even a bug bite, as far as he can feel.
Even with the help of the mirror, he has to turn his neck in a strange and uncomfortable fashion to get a glimpse of what it is exactly that’s causing the discomfort and he’s even more frightened than before to see the mark glowing beneath his clothes. That fright doesn’t go away when he removes his jacket and shirt to fully see the tattoo on his back.
Who in the world is responsible for this? Who marked him like this without his permission? He is not cattle to be branded without consent! He rubs at it until his skin turns red in the hopes that that by some miracle this glowing mark will go away to no avail.
It takes full minutes before Tamaki gives up on trying to get the tattoo off and he walks back to the stone bed, sulking, and wanting nothing more than to go home. In all of his wildest dreams he would have never imagined something like this could happen.
Tamaki’s sulking is interrupted when he unceremoniously bumps into the stone podium and falls over. He’s quick to sit up, looking around angrily as though there was someone else there who could have tripped him. His shoulders slump again when he remembers that he’s alone here and once he’s on his feet he looks at the items on top of the podium.
Had these been any other circumstances, he might have complained that the phone is far too ugly for him to use and someone like him deserves something far better than this! But these are not other circumstances, so he sets the phone aside in favor of the letter.
Hopefully this will have some answers.