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fridgeninjaYour name: Matt
Your journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: matt-doyle"]
Contact: c.matthew.smit@gmail.com, mattnificent @ plurk
Other characters played at Passing: none (yet)
Character name: Seta Souji
Character fandom: Persona 4
Version: V1
Canon point: post-True End
Importing development from old game? no.
Background: here
Personality: Souji is calm, affable, and a little distant the majority of the time. Before coming to Inaba, frequent moves had taught him not to get attached, so despite his intuitive talent for understanding and empathizing with the people around him, he often seems shallow and aloof to strangers.
The truth is, Souji cares about people, and he cares about answers. That compassionate curiosity is the cornerstone of his personality. Years of distant people-watching have lead him to be very insightful about more or less everyone around him, because he does his best not to judge or jump to conclusions, but simply to watch, listen, and treat each new acquaintance as a totally unique and individual case, rather than comparing them to other people, stereotypes, rumors or preconceptions. And whether he understands right away or not, if he sees someone having trouble, he'd like to help. Every problem, like every person, poses its own questions, and Souji's enough of a perfectionist that no matter what else is going on, he wants to find the answer. It isn't ego that makes him put himself in the center of events, but a pre-occupation with any job, problem, or mystery he stumbles across.
The tendency toward being an analytical observer often makes Souji seem like a cipher to the people around him. While his easygoing manner, attentive concern, and seeming tirelessness are constants, Souji is a social chameleon, taking on the traits of anyone he spends time with -- but also taking on the traits they expect him to have. Relationships are just another sort of puzzle to solve, and while his emotion is genuine, Souji is a people-pleaser, and he'd like live up to others' expectations. To an insecure friend who feels cut off from his old life in the big city, Souji is urbane and confident, understated. To a fastidious detective, Souji adapts his own curious nature to become a sidekick. To a girl who thinks everyone sees her as an artificial construction instead of her genuine self, he opens up a little, showing how natural it is to play different parts with different people.
So, who is the real Souji? What's under that watchful demeanor? Souji is a methodical puzzle-solver with a bleeding heart. He stays calm because he's dealt with unknowns all his life, and they make him curious rather than afraid. He's a growing kid who's ravenously hungry, and hunger combined with curiosity means he'll eat almost literally anything (once). He likes attention, likes seeing the people around him happy, and he'll push himself to extremes to make that happen without admitting any complaints -- it isn't that he's trying to be stoic, just that he thinks the effort is worth it. He has a dry, goofy sense of humor, and the closest thing he has to a deep secret is that, really, he loves and needs absolutely all the people around him just as badly as they need him.
Abilities: Beyond being smart, athletic, and charming, Souji has the ability to summon Personas. While most people have only one Persona at a time, Souji can hold a great many within his mind, and (with help) can combine and recombine them in many ways, losing or unlocking various skills. Having close relationships with different sorts of people fuels this ability, and having an active Persona of the same Arcana, or archetype, as a friend enables him to understand them better.
Like any RPG protagonist, Souji is hyper-competent and much more powerful than his peers. If anything sounds too powerful the way I described it, I'm more than willing to tone it down -- it's less important that Souji succeed at everything, and more important that he constantly tries to do everything.
Writing sample: Revised writing sample here.
Souji's phone chirped at him, and he dusted the flour off his hands before checking it. It was just about time to leave the dough to rise for an hour or two, anyway. He flipped it open, and saw the memo he'd left himself: he had just enough time to feed the stray cat down by the river on his way to his tutoring job. He'd have to bike if he wanted to get there and back quickly enough to finish the baking he was doing, but that was okay. He gathered a few odds and ends from the fridge, nibbling idly before he realized that these were the leftovers he was planning on feeding to the cat.
Well, that was okay. There were enough for both of them.
Voice sample: ONE
TWO
Let me know if anything more is needed here; I admittedly haven't been playing Souji very long.
Your journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: matt-doyle"]
Contact: c.matthew.smit@gmail.com, mattnificent @ plurk
Other characters played at Passing: none (yet)
Character name: Seta Souji
Character fandom: Persona 4
Version: V1
Canon point: post-True End
Importing development from old game? no.
Background: here
Personality: Souji is calm, affable, and a little distant the majority of the time. Before coming to Inaba, frequent moves had taught him not to get attached, so despite his intuitive talent for understanding and empathizing with the people around him, he often seems shallow and aloof to strangers.
The truth is, Souji cares about people, and he cares about answers. That compassionate curiosity is the cornerstone of his personality. Years of distant people-watching have lead him to be very insightful about more or less everyone around him, because he does his best not to judge or jump to conclusions, but simply to watch, listen, and treat each new acquaintance as a totally unique and individual case, rather than comparing them to other people, stereotypes, rumors or preconceptions. And whether he understands right away or not, if he sees someone having trouble, he'd like to help. Every problem, like every person, poses its own questions, and Souji's enough of a perfectionist that no matter what else is going on, he wants to find the answer. It isn't ego that makes him put himself in the center of events, but a pre-occupation with any job, problem, or mystery he stumbles across.
The tendency toward being an analytical observer often makes Souji seem like a cipher to the people around him. While his easygoing manner, attentive concern, and seeming tirelessness are constants, Souji is a social chameleon, taking on the traits of anyone he spends time with -- but also taking on the traits they expect him to have. Relationships are just another sort of puzzle to solve, and while his emotion is genuine, Souji is a people-pleaser, and he'd like live up to others' expectations. To an insecure friend who feels cut off from his old life in the big city, Souji is urbane and confident, understated. To a fastidious detective, Souji adapts his own curious nature to become a sidekick. To a girl who thinks everyone sees her as an artificial construction instead of her genuine self, he opens up a little, showing how natural it is to play different parts with different people.
So, who is the real Souji? What's under that watchful demeanor? Souji is a methodical puzzle-solver with a bleeding heart. He stays calm because he's dealt with unknowns all his life, and they make him curious rather than afraid. He's a growing kid who's ravenously hungry, and hunger combined with curiosity means he'll eat almost literally anything (once). He likes attention, likes seeing the people around him happy, and he'll push himself to extremes to make that happen without admitting any complaints -- it isn't that he's trying to be stoic, just that he thinks the effort is worth it. He has a dry, goofy sense of humor, and the closest thing he has to a deep secret is that, really, he loves and needs absolutely all the people around him just as badly as they need him.
Abilities: Beyond being smart, athletic, and charming, Souji has the ability to summon Personas. While most people have only one Persona at a time, Souji can hold a great many within his mind, and (with help) can combine and recombine them in many ways, losing or unlocking various skills. Having close relationships with different sorts of people fuels this ability, and having an active Persona of the same Arcana, or archetype, as a friend enables him to understand them better.
Like any RPG protagonist, Souji is hyper-competent and much more powerful than his peers. If anything sounds too powerful the way I described it, I'm more than willing to tone it down -- it's less important that Souji succeed at everything, and more important that he constantly tries to do everything.
Writing sample: Revised writing sample here.
Souji's phone chirped at him, and he dusted the flour off his hands before checking it. It was just about time to leave the dough to rise for an hour or two, anyway. He flipped it open, and saw the memo he'd left himself: he had just enough time to feed the stray cat down by the river on his way to his tutoring job. He'd have to bike if he wanted to get there and back quickly enough to finish the baking he was doing, but that was okay. He gathered a few odds and ends from the fridge, nibbling idly before he realized that these were the leftovers he was planning on feeding to the cat.
Well, that was okay. There were enough for both of them.
Voice sample: ONE
TWO
Let me know if anything more is needed here; I admittedly haven't been playing Souji very long.
