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cultofthebodyPlayer Information
Name: K8
Age: 22
AIM SN: overideologies
email: out.of.our.sleeves@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Conditional: Activity Check Link: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Trigun
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Legato Bluesummers
Character's Age: Never stated, but I'd say he looks about thirty.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? A cellphone of simple design and taste.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: His main ability is that he's capable of using metallic threads that latch onto a person's skin and then sends electrical currents into their muscles and force them into movement. The threads come from his medulla oblongata and lead down into the skull he keeps on his arm, which serves as a dispenser. As for the limits of the threads, they're very easy to break-being only a few molecules thick and invisible to the eye. He's used them to clear out entire cities of people in the manga-and to move dead bodies. The threads can also boost a person's strength, speed, and reflexes if he wishes. He uses them on himself during his fight with Vash, and earlier when he rushes to save Knives from Zazie.
Additional Notes:
-Legato's threads work on anything with some form of nervous and muscular system, be it animal, human, alien, etc. They will not work on anything lacking the above.
-Legato has trouble managing powerful beings (Vash, Knives, etc.) and another person at the same time. Even when using them against just Vash, he has to focus a lot to keep him still.
-The threads--while impossible to see with the naked eye--are incredibly easy to break. They can be cut, they're not durable against extreme heat, and any form of electromagnetism can render them useless. Additionally, if a character possesses some form of echolocation or is capable of feeling electricity, they will most likely be able to see or sense them.
Legato's also been shown to project his thoughts and communicate telepathically. He also can use his threads to alter other people's perceptions, since when Vash brings up Legato to Meryl and Milly after their first encounter, neither of them recall seeing him. Other than that, he's extremely durable for a human being and seems to heal faster than one, but he can die.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: He does have a weapon in canon but I'd prefer for him not to bring it because 1. it's broken, 2. it's obscenely huge and 3. he's got enough super powered crap going on as it is.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Legato is one of the characters in the Trigun manga whose known background is next to nil. What we do know is that he was a sex slave—presumably for most of his life—before he joined up with Knives, and that the man who owned him before never saw a reason to name him. The manga makes no mention of where or how he obtained his abilities.
The day he meets Knives, he's managed to thread the entire town that's held him captive with his ability, intending to kill them all at the exact same moment for turning a blind eye to his predicament. However, he’s discovered through some error on his part. His owner has him beaten and rapes Legato moments before his intended execution. Suddenly, his rapist and other people within the town fall to pieces—literally. Baffled, Legato goes searching for the cause and stumbles upon Knives, who wiped out the entire town with one of his arm blades. Believing he missed Legato on accident, Knives attempts to decapitate him, but Legato uses his threads to stop Knives just moments before. Knives comes to the conclusion that hey, someone with this ability might be useful and agrees to allow the pathetic blue haired kid to follow him when Legato professes his only desire is to remain by Knives’ side. At some point, Knives gives him a name, and they eventually encounter Elendira.
The next time you see Legato is shortly after the incident in the city of July, where Knives lies near death after being blown up by Vash. Legato sees his master’s broken body and has a mental breakdown, only to see Vash sitting in the ruins. He starts to go after him, intending to kill him when he's stopped by Conrad, asking for help with Knives. Legato obeys and Knives basically tells him how he's a disgusting thing and not to touch him while his glorified manservant cries like a little baby.
Time passes, Knives recovers from his wounds, and Legato begins his game to make Vash pay for hurting his most favorite person in the universe. It doesn’t last long; at Augusta, he orders the Gung-Ho Guns (Knives' personal group of assassins) to kill him shortly after Knives has been completely healed, only to be beaten down by his master in one swift movement for daring to presume that he could kill Vash. Knives breaks almost every bone in his body, leaving him crippled and changed. Afterwords, he’s seen in a iron maiden like device that holds his body together because he can't move, and he's noticeably more unstable.
For most of the manga he harasses Vash and friends from a distance—presumably because he wishes to prove his loyalty to Knives by remaining crippled when he could force his body to move. About halfway through Trigun Maximum he decides to personally intervene with Vash and Wolfwood's fight with two of the Gung-Ho Guns, but only because he knows they're planning on betraying Knives. He’s forcefully brought back by Elendira, but not until he nearly makes Vash destroy another city and kills the two traitors. A few volumes later, Knives has captured Vash and entrusted Legato with keeping him still until Knives is finished destroying the world. They spend the next six months in a battle of wills that's only interrupted when Wolfwood rushes in to save Vash from the Ark. He is shot and nearly dies, remaining on a respirator for two volumes. It isn’t until Zazie the Beast tries to kill Knives that he springs into action and forcefully tears his way out of the iron maiden, finally seen walking upright once again.
The last volumes of the series center mostly around his drawn out fight with Vash, which he loses. Unable to accept that he’ll be nothing more than another human to Knives, he forces Vash to make a decision; kill him, or watch as Wolfwood's friend Livio dies as Legato has Elendira's corpse strangle him to death. Vash makes his choice and Legato dies from a shot to the head.
Point in Canon: Post death. Over the last few volumes, Legato has made up his mind that the only way to make Knives see him as more than just another human is to fight against Vash, beat him and presumably kill him. If he fails, Vash kills him and puts him out of his misery.. They have a long, obscenely drawn out fight that has Legato come very close to winning, right up until Vash's automated defenses kick in and kick Legato's ass. No longer able to move, he gives up on his will to live and waits for Vash to kill him, but of course the guy refuses. Enraged, he gives him the choice of killing him or watching Livio die—the guy Wolfwood (Vash's best friend) gave his life to keep alive—as Legato has Elendira's broken body choke him to death. Vash makes the only decision he can, and Legato's brains are splattered all over the pavement.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: On the surface, Legato Bluesummers seems a relatively distant, well-manner, quiet and aloof pretty boy, but in reality, he's much darker. He's an almost text book example of someone suffering from antisocial personality disorder; the lack of the ability to empathize, inflated self appraisal, and, to an extent, superficial charm.
Though Legato is human himself, he believes he is above them in all forms and expresses disgust towards everything they do. Though he claims to hate humanity, he doesn't seem to have a problem being around them. He displays apathy towards them as a whole the few times he's seen out in public unless he's being antagonized or he's under orders by Knives. Apart of his belief of extreme self worth comes the thought that he is superior to Vash the Stampede. He believes that Vash thinks and acts like humans do, unlike Knives-thus he should be able to kill him just as easily. Shame that logic doesn't actually pan out the way he wants.
Before being crippled, Legato showed the ability to attract people to him without the use of force; he managed to convince a young, weary girl to approach him and take his sandwich (though that might've just been because she was that hungry), and even drew the looks of battered, broken sex slaves abused by the Roderick gang. He's a good looking guy and knows it, but he's not the kind of person to use it for anything. Since the incident with Knives, however, he's become less charming and more mentally unbalanced. As Hoppered puts it, he got worse. Before he was a mostly calm, serene individual who was incredibly hard to rile up and usually planned his actions ahead of time, and now... Not so much. His impulsiveness, recklessness, aggression, and belief of self entitlement are all far more apparent, along with his fanatical devotion towards Knives. It's like he lost control of whatever was keeping him in line. Cruelty also seems to be his new big thing; he no longer disposes of people in the most logical but violent fashion, instead favoring pain and drawn out deaths.
The only thing that really seems to matter to Legato is ultimate loyalty to Knives. He becomes enraged at the idea of people betraying his master, or aiming to hurt him and will do anything to guarantee his safety, even if it means dying himself. He also goes to great lengths to punish those who betray him. If I thought Legato was capable of having feelings like 'love,' he'd probably feel it towards Knives. The guy saved him, however unintentionally it was, and basically took care of him. Yeah, he treats him like shit, but Legato will never see it that way.
His ultimate goal in life is to make Vash the Stampede experience eternal pain and suffering, which is another thing he'll go to great lengths to see happen. He truly hates Vash with every fiber of his being, and would love nothing more than to kill him, but because Knives wants him alive, he follows his master's orders. However, when situations arise that involve Vash, he frequently forgets how he should be behaving and takes matters into his own hands. This never goes well for Legato.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Legato has one canon mate in game already-Wolfwood-who he's most likely going to go gunning for, at least until he realizes the guy isn't from the same point in canon as he is. I'd also like to see him develop without a Knives and Vash around, try to function under his own orders for a while, at least until he finds something worthwhile to catch his attention.
Appearance/PB: Here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[ It takes some time before it occurs to Legato to turn the device on, and much longer before he's worked out how to use it; a few test videos coming and going in flickers. Eventually, he seems to get the hang of it the first site the video feed shows that isn't broken images of long, delicate hands is a pale man with yellow eyes and blue hair, staring into the screen. His face, hair, skin are all caked in dried blood but he seems largely unconcerned.
He leans closer to the screen, his face expressionless.]
The landscape has changed but one thing remains the same. A wretched stink of desperation, like rats before a flood. Clawing and maiming and killing to reach higher ground-not one of them aware that they're already dead.
[A beat.]
I've already accepted my fate, though it seems many of you still believe there's hope. What do you hope to accomplish by surviving in such a desolate place?
It's pointless.
Third Person Sample
A scream, a heart beat, one gunshot later and Legato's desperate pleas for this life to be ended are finally answered.
Or so he believes, right up until he awakens on his back in the dirt, an unfamiliar cityscape in the distance. He takes a steady breath, flexing long fingers and toes curiously; there is no pain, no injuries despite the blood still caking his face and clothing. It takes a moment but he eventually pulls himself into a sitting position as sharp, yellow eyes assess his surroundings.
This isn't my world.
It's a thought so foolish, so incredibly ludicrous that it's banished the second it enters his mind but there's no other immediate logical explanation for his current environment; the trees, the grass, the weather that is significantly cooler than that of his own planet. He knows he died, he's sure of it...
Legato has never been one to entertain asinine notions of an afterlife and it certainly isn't occurring to him now as he stands with some difficulty. It has been years since he could move without the use of his threads-an appropriate punishment for his rash behavior and insolence at the time-and the physical limitations of this body are an unwelcome reminder. He curls his right hand into a fist as he thinks, trying to come to some rational conclusion to explain his sudden presence in this place.
Knives is not here and neither is Vash the Stampede. It is no trick, no illusion constructed so the gunman might escape making a decision that would crush his very spirit. Then what? The hallucination of a dying man who has failed at all he hoped to accomplish?
He almost sneers at that, turning angered eyes towards the distance. Legato might hold no answers, but he was certain someone out there had a viable explanation.
Name: K8
Age: 22
AIM SN: overideologies
email: out.of.our.sleeves@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Conditional: Activity Check Link: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Trigun
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Legato Bluesummers
Character's Age: Never stated, but I'd say he looks about thirty.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? A cellphone of simple design and taste.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: His main ability is that he's capable of using metallic threads that latch onto a person's skin and then sends electrical currents into their muscles and force them into movement. The threads come from his medulla oblongata and lead down into the skull he keeps on his arm, which serves as a dispenser. As for the limits of the threads, they're very easy to break-being only a few molecules thick and invisible to the eye. He's used them to clear out entire cities of people in the manga-and to move dead bodies. The threads can also boost a person's strength, speed, and reflexes if he wishes. He uses them on himself during his fight with Vash, and earlier when he rushes to save Knives from Zazie.
Additional Notes:
-Legato's threads work on anything with some form of nervous and muscular system, be it animal, human, alien, etc. They will not work on anything lacking the above.
-Legato has trouble managing powerful beings (Vash, Knives, etc.) and another person at the same time. Even when using them against just Vash, he has to focus a lot to keep him still.
-The threads--while impossible to see with the naked eye--are incredibly easy to break. They can be cut, they're not durable against extreme heat, and any form of electromagnetism can render them useless. Additionally, if a character possesses some form of echolocation or is capable of feeling electricity, they will most likely be able to see or sense them.
Legato's also been shown to project his thoughts and communicate telepathically. He also can use his threads to alter other people's perceptions, since when Vash brings up Legato to Meryl and Milly after their first encounter, neither of them recall seeing him. Other than that, he's extremely durable for a human being and seems to heal faster than one, but he can die.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: He does have a weapon in canon but I'd prefer for him not to bring it because 1. it's broken, 2. it's obscenely huge and 3. he's got enough super powered crap going on as it is.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Legato is one of the characters in the Trigun manga whose known background is next to nil. What we do know is that he was a sex slave—presumably for most of his life—before he joined up with Knives, and that the man who owned him before never saw a reason to name him. The manga makes no mention of where or how he obtained his abilities.
The day he meets Knives, he's managed to thread the entire town that's held him captive with his ability, intending to kill them all at the exact same moment for turning a blind eye to his predicament. However, he’s discovered through some error on his part. His owner has him beaten and rapes Legato moments before his intended execution. Suddenly, his rapist and other people within the town fall to pieces—literally. Baffled, Legato goes searching for the cause and stumbles upon Knives, who wiped out the entire town with one of his arm blades. Believing he missed Legato on accident, Knives attempts to decapitate him, but Legato uses his threads to stop Knives just moments before. Knives comes to the conclusion that hey, someone with this ability might be useful and agrees to allow the pathetic blue haired kid to follow him when Legato professes his only desire is to remain by Knives’ side. At some point, Knives gives him a name, and they eventually encounter Elendira.
The next time you see Legato is shortly after the incident in the city of July, where Knives lies near death after being blown up by Vash. Legato sees his master’s broken body and has a mental breakdown, only to see Vash sitting in the ruins. He starts to go after him, intending to kill him when he's stopped by Conrad, asking for help with Knives. Legato obeys and Knives basically tells him how he's a disgusting thing and not to touch him while his glorified manservant cries like a little baby.
Time passes, Knives recovers from his wounds, and Legato begins his game to make Vash pay for hurting his most favorite person in the universe. It doesn’t last long; at Augusta, he orders the Gung-Ho Guns (Knives' personal group of assassins) to kill him shortly after Knives has been completely healed, only to be beaten down by his master in one swift movement for daring to presume that he could kill Vash. Knives breaks almost every bone in his body, leaving him crippled and changed. Afterwords, he’s seen in a iron maiden like device that holds his body together because he can't move, and he's noticeably more unstable.
For most of the manga he harasses Vash and friends from a distance—presumably because he wishes to prove his loyalty to Knives by remaining crippled when he could force his body to move. About halfway through Trigun Maximum he decides to personally intervene with Vash and Wolfwood's fight with two of the Gung-Ho Guns, but only because he knows they're planning on betraying Knives. He’s forcefully brought back by Elendira, but not until he nearly makes Vash destroy another city and kills the two traitors. A few volumes later, Knives has captured Vash and entrusted Legato with keeping him still until Knives is finished destroying the world. They spend the next six months in a battle of wills that's only interrupted when Wolfwood rushes in to save Vash from the Ark. He is shot and nearly dies, remaining on a respirator for two volumes. It isn’t until Zazie the Beast tries to kill Knives that he springs into action and forcefully tears his way out of the iron maiden, finally seen walking upright once again.
The last volumes of the series center mostly around his drawn out fight with Vash, which he loses. Unable to accept that he’ll be nothing more than another human to Knives, he forces Vash to make a decision; kill him, or watch as Wolfwood's friend Livio dies as Legato has Elendira's corpse strangle him to death. Vash makes his choice and Legato dies from a shot to the head.
Point in Canon: Post death. Over the last few volumes, Legato has made up his mind that the only way to make Knives see him as more than just another human is to fight against Vash, beat him and presumably kill him. If he fails, Vash kills him and puts him out of his misery.. They have a long, obscenely drawn out fight that has Legato come very close to winning, right up until Vash's automated defenses kick in and kick Legato's ass. No longer able to move, he gives up on his will to live and waits for Vash to kill him, but of course the guy refuses. Enraged, he gives him the choice of killing him or watching Livio die—the guy Wolfwood (Vash's best friend) gave his life to keep alive—as Legato has Elendira's broken body choke him to death. Vash makes the only decision he can, and Legato's brains are splattered all over the pavement.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: On the surface, Legato Bluesummers seems a relatively distant, well-manner, quiet and aloof pretty boy, but in reality, he's much darker. He's an almost text book example of someone suffering from antisocial personality disorder; the lack of the ability to empathize, inflated self appraisal, and, to an extent, superficial charm.
Though Legato is human himself, he believes he is above them in all forms and expresses disgust towards everything they do. Though he claims to hate humanity, he doesn't seem to have a problem being around them. He displays apathy towards them as a whole the few times he's seen out in public unless he's being antagonized or he's under orders by Knives. Apart of his belief of extreme self worth comes the thought that he is superior to Vash the Stampede. He believes that Vash thinks and acts like humans do, unlike Knives-thus he should be able to kill him just as easily. Shame that logic doesn't actually pan out the way he wants.
Before being crippled, Legato showed the ability to attract people to him without the use of force; he managed to convince a young, weary girl to approach him and take his sandwich (though that might've just been because she was that hungry), and even drew the looks of battered, broken sex slaves abused by the Roderick gang. He's a good looking guy and knows it, but he's not the kind of person to use it for anything. Since the incident with Knives, however, he's become less charming and more mentally unbalanced. As Hoppered puts it, he got worse. Before he was a mostly calm, serene individual who was incredibly hard to rile up and usually planned his actions ahead of time, and now... Not so much. His impulsiveness, recklessness, aggression, and belief of self entitlement are all far more apparent, along with his fanatical devotion towards Knives. It's like he lost control of whatever was keeping him in line. Cruelty also seems to be his new big thing; he no longer disposes of people in the most logical but violent fashion, instead favoring pain and drawn out deaths.
The only thing that really seems to matter to Legato is ultimate loyalty to Knives. He becomes enraged at the idea of people betraying his master, or aiming to hurt him and will do anything to guarantee his safety, even if it means dying himself. He also goes to great lengths to punish those who betray him. If I thought Legato was capable of having feelings like 'love,' he'd probably feel it towards Knives. The guy saved him, however unintentionally it was, and basically took care of him. Yeah, he treats him like shit, but Legato will never see it that way.
His ultimate goal in life is to make Vash the Stampede experience eternal pain and suffering, which is another thing he'll go to great lengths to see happen. He truly hates Vash with every fiber of his being, and would love nothing more than to kill him, but because Knives wants him alive, he follows his master's orders. However, when situations arise that involve Vash, he frequently forgets how he should be behaving and takes matters into his own hands. This never goes well for Legato.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Legato has one canon mate in game already-Wolfwood-who he's most likely going to go gunning for, at least until he realizes the guy isn't from the same point in canon as he is. I'd also like to see him develop without a Knives and Vash around, try to function under his own orders for a while, at least until he finds something worthwhile to catch his attention.
Appearance/PB: Here.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[ It takes some time before it occurs to Legato to turn the device on, and much longer before he's worked out how to use it; a few test videos coming and going in flickers. Eventually, he seems to get the hang of it the first site the video feed shows that isn't broken images of long, delicate hands is a pale man with yellow eyes and blue hair, staring into the screen. His face, hair, skin are all caked in dried blood but he seems largely unconcerned.
He leans closer to the screen, his face expressionless.]
The landscape has changed but one thing remains the same. A wretched stink of desperation, like rats before a flood. Clawing and maiming and killing to reach higher ground-not one of them aware that they're already dead.
[A beat.]
I've already accepted my fate, though it seems many of you still believe there's hope. What do you hope to accomplish by surviving in such a desolate place?
It's pointless.
Third Person Sample
A scream, a heart beat, one gunshot later and Legato's desperate pleas for this life to be ended are finally answered.
Or so he believes, right up until he awakens on his back in the dirt, an unfamiliar cityscape in the distance. He takes a steady breath, flexing long fingers and toes curiously; there is no pain, no injuries despite the blood still caking his face and clothing. It takes a moment but he eventually pulls himself into a sitting position as sharp, yellow eyes assess his surroundings.
This isn't my world.
It's a thought so foolish, so incredibly ludicrous that it's banished the second it enters his mind but there's no other immediate logical explanation for his current environment; the trees, the grass, the weather that is significantly cooler than that of his own planet. He knows he died, he's sure of it...
Legato has never been one to entertain asinine notions of an afterlife and it certainly isn't occurring to him now as he stands with some difficulty. It has been years since he could move without the use of his threads-an appropriate punishment for his rash behavior and insolence at the time-and the physical limitations of this body are an unwelcome reminder. He curls his right hand into a fist as he thinks, trying to come to some rational conclusion to explain his sudden presence in this place.
Knives is not here and neither is Vash the Stampede. It is no trick, no illusion constructed so the gunman might escape making a decision that would crush his very spirit. Then what? The hallucination of a dying man who has failed at all he hoped to accomplish?
He almost sneers at that, turning angered eyes towards the distance. Legato might hold no answers, but he was certain someone out there had a viable explanation.
