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[doublycursed]

OOC Details

Player: Cosmo
Age: 18+
Pronouns: they/she/he/any
Contact: cosmonautdelta or PM
Permissions: permissions here
Writing Samples: toplevel from the TDM with threads with four different characters, and TDM reply to another toplevel

Introducing Your Character

Character Name: Izutsumi
Character Age: 17
Character Species: Human / Beastkin (artificial)
Character Canon: Dungeon Meshi
CRAU: n/a
Canon Point: post-series, just after Chapter 97

Per the Setting

Three Items: One small, roughly made doll with cotton for a body and sticks for limbs. No other items!

Grounding Item: A kunai (japanese throwing knife). She would insist there's no sentiment around it, but it resembles the weapon she was given by the latest people that owned her, and that gift marked the first taste of freedom she was allowed, however small.

Canon Abilities & Skills: Izutsumi has been cursed to have the soul of a monster intermingling with her original human soul. The monster soul she was cursed with was a Big Cat, and she visibly took on many of its aspects, like patches of fur, cat ears, cat tail, claws, fangs, and pupils. As a result, she has enhanced hearing and sight, as well as better athletic abilities than most humans, including better balance, the ability to land on her feet, and better jumping abilities. She's also been trained in combat, and has taken down multiple monsters by herself.

Due to having two souls, she's also immune to things that specifically only target humans. For instance, a succubus spell will fail to have any sway over her because she's also got the soul of a monster. It does mean, however, that she's vulnerable to anything that targets monsters, like area-of-effect spells that make them beserk or calm.

Glitched Abilities: Rather than glitch out any specific abilities she has, Izutsumi will experience glitching of the two curses she's been under during her lifetime.

The first one is the monster soul curse, which she's had as long as she can remember. This will occasionally glitch out, rendering her completely human, or changing up what monster soul she's mixed with, or switching around what abilities she's strong in.

The second was loosely referred to as a babysitter curse; a curse inked into her skin by the last people that brought her. It had to be touched every once in a while by a member of the household to reset the duration of the warning time. If she ran away, or stayed away for too long, a yamauba spirit manifested and would attempt to kill her. This curse was erased shortly after she appeared in Dungeon Meshi, but due to the glitchiness of Sweet Acres, it may occasionally be brought back.

Mental Evaluation

General Morals: Izutsumi is, broadly, a very selfish character. After a long history of never having any kind of freedom, she overcompensated, and her idea of freedom became a life where she only ever has to do what she wants to do. If she doesn't care about helping some guy fight a monster, she won't do it. If she doesn't want to bare her soul to someone in return, she won't do it. She won't even say a nice thing to someone if she's in a situation where she probably should. Social expectation became something she viewed as a weight, a shackle around her ankle. She is, however, getting slightly better at these things since the end of the series, and at understanding that sometimes she should help people or eat her vegetables or do whatever it is that doesn't seem to benefit her directly. She learned the value of friendship, though it'll be a big shock to be without those friends anymore.

She's not actively aggressive to people around her, but she is easily riled up, and prone to being temperamental. She's very okay with killing monsters, but would generally find killing people to be a horrible and heinous act. Unless she hates them, in which case she'd probably think they have it coming. She's prone to ignoring the wishes of others and just doing what benefits her, though she can be intimidated into following orders.

Relationship to Trauma: Izutsumi has a long, long history of trauma. She was made into an artificial chimera when she was six, young enough that she doesn't remember a time before that, and she was promptly captured (or given, she doesn't know) by a freak show. For years, she was tossed from owner to owner, freak show to circus, kept in cages and fed scraps like an animal. Eventually, she was brought by a new kind of owner, the head of the Nakamoto clan, who intended to make use of her as a retainer for his son, Shuro. Her years in captivity had reduced her to little more than a feral beast, and she had to be retrained to learn how to behave in civilization.

Though she was fed and housed, she wasn't much more than a slave with a curse inked around her throat like a collar, a promise that she would die if she ever tried to escape. She was with them for years, and when she spotted a chance to attach herself to another party that could remove her curse, she leapt at the chance. It was her first taste of real freedom.

As a result of this treatment, Izutsumi adapted in a way that I outlined in the above section; ferociously selfish, clinging onto this idea of freedom as never having to do anything she didn't want to. She envisioned a life where she could sleep when she wanted to, eat what she wanted to, and while those seem like very basic things most people take for granted, for Izutsumi they're like a holy grail. A golden idea of what freedom means, a desperate daydream dreamt up from a series of dirty cages. She has since started to adjust to the idea that living an independent life means sometimes having to do things you don't want to, but she's very much at the start of that journey.

She tends to be snappy and short sometimes as a result of her trauma, too, prone to having a temper about being told what to do. She never really talked to anyone about her life before, and she's especially sensitive about being called an animal or a beast – though she displays many cat-like behaviors, she hates being called out on them.

She's only just started to accept that maybe the curse that made her this way is permanent, and maybe she should get used to her body the way it is. Izutsumi does, however, experience body dysphoria, and has a lot of self-esteem issues regarding her body, thinking that she's ugly, that nobody would ever want to look at her as someone that's attractive.

Points of Confusion: The notion that her whole life was a creation is something that's particularly going to stick in Izutsumi's mind. At first, she's going to think that that's clearly a lie, but the more she thinks about it, the more she's going to wonder. Is that why her whole life was bad? Because she's a character in some experiment, and trauma makes for more interesting reactions? Were her friends just figments of a created story? What's the point of improving, then? Is there any point in trying to work past her bad habits and become a better person?

She's also going to wonder if there's some element of competition in play, and will be very hesitant to trust other people – at the same time, she's going to be desperate to make friends, because she doesn't do very well on her own.

The Daze is going to especially confuse her, because social media networks don't exist where she's from, and the concept of all of that happening inside her head is going to irk her to a great degree, and make her wonder if she's just imagining all of this.

Effects from Daisy: Izutsumi is highly suspicious of Daisy, and yet, is going to be fairly gullible when it comes to some things that Daisy announces. If Daisy says that there's a convict in the neighborhood like on the TDM, it won't even occur to Izutsumi to think she might be lying about that. She also wholeheartedly believes Daisy when she says that people are watching, and this will be a real point of horror for Izutsumi. Millions of people watching her and her horrible monster body? She hates it, thanks.

At the same time, though, if Daisy issues a direct order, like don't open the door, Izutsumi will do her contrarian best to do the exact opposite. Because that's just who she is.