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Dec. 2nd, 2012 11:54 pm[PLAYER INFO]
[CHARACTER INFO]
NAME: bluemoon
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:emeralddarkness
IM: ceruleangarnet @ aim
PLURK:emeralddarkness
E-MAIL: blue.crystalwings AT gmail DOT com
RETURNING: STARTING WITH A CLEAN SLATE!
FOR LIKE THE FIFTH TIME.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Aku, the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness
SERIES: Samurai Jack
CHRONOLOGY: What Issue/Episode/Major Event are they coming into the RP from?
CLASS: Card-carrying villain
BACKGROUND:Long agoin a distant landin SPACE there was some kind of shapeshifting ancient and powerful Eldritch abomination made of something black. This being a...pparently made a nuisance of itself, for eventually three gods rode against it - Odin, aboard Sleipnir; Re, on the back of a crocodile; and Rama - one of the avatars of Vishnu - on an elephant. There was a grand space battle, during the course of which this evil was eradicated by the holy weapons of the three gods. Or, well, almost. One small fragment was not completely incinerated by divine power, and slowly spiraled its way through space, eventually making its way all the way to a little solar system about a third of the way into the Milky Way, and thereafter to the third mostly blue planet, where it came down in a fiery blaze. Thus ended the time of the dinosaurs.
A malevolent evil that seems to have fed on the life force or possibly just the suffering of others engrained itself at the impact site of the meteor, and from this evil grew a forest of black tree spike things, in the center of a malevolent tar pit, which over millions of years crept further and further out, blighting the land it encroached upon, splitting the earth with cracks as it expanded and drowned dinosaurs and cavemen and pet dogs and such. This evil meteorite, and the tar pit it had created, eventually turned out to be somewhere in Japan, and some 65 million years after it crashed came an Emperor who decided he would not take it anymore. He put on his armor, got a magic potion (or maybe poison) and his weapons, and a whole band of samurai, and together they rode against the tar pit, to banish its evil. Said tar pit is heavily implied to have killed almost every being that went to war, except the Emperor and (probably) his mount, by impaling them with more of those fast-growing evil-spike-trees on the way there. A HEROIC DEATH FOR THE MIGHTY SAMURAI.
At last, when the Emperor found his way to the shore of the pit he dipped his arrow in the poison, (and/or magic potion - it's toxic green, so make of it as you will) shot it at this source of malice, aiming so high that apparently the sun lit it on fire, because shooting poisoned flaming arrows at tar pits is just the one way handles these things.
Unfortunately, it turns out this was a mistake.
The magic/poison and the fire fused with the evil fragment of the universal horror, or changed it, or did SOMETHING that resulted in the malevolence coalescing into the form of a demon/dragon/wizard who retained all the shapeshifting powers and evil of the being which it had been a former part of, as well as new traits of his own, like GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS, a very hammy personality, and a powerful command of magic. Aku. The newly born Aku turned on his savior immediately, quickly tying him to a tree and streaking off to lay waste to the Emperor's land.
Aku quickly set fire to most of the buildings, killed most of the soldiers, and otherwise made a nuisance of himself until the Emperor showed up again, riding a cloud and carrying a sacred sword which the three gods from the beginning had newly forged out of his pure spirit, making it one of the few weapons that could hurt Aku. A fearsome battle followed, ending in Aku's eventual defeat and subsequent sealing.
Then he spent like 5-7 years or so as an evil tree.
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PERSONALITY:
What is your character like, in at least two paragraphs? What are their dreams, their fears, their general quirks and the issues that make them who they are, and does their personality shift in any way after or before the point you are taking them from? If they are from a different or alternate universe, or if their personality radically shifts due to events during the point in time that you are taking them from, how is their new personality different from their normal one?
POWER:Aku's most noticeable power is an extreme fluid body that allows him to shapeshift into nearly anything with ease (though always maintaining the same red/black/green color scheme - indeed, there are several points when he turns into multiple separate things at once), and which renders him impervious to most (though not all) weapons. He regenerates very quickly when hurt, and due to an apparent lack of internal organs and such can eventually brush off any injury, if however much of him is left is allowed to retain strength. This means that holy weapons of one sort or another, or possibly some sort of flamethrower etc is about the only way you're going to do damage - you can cut with a sword all day, he won't care, you have to destroy or purify the shadow-stuff he's made of while you cut or he'll be laughing.
He also has some very impressive peepers, that appear to be a shortcut for his magic. In-show examples include general force blasts, incendiary blasts, alchemy, summoning, teleportation, transformation, necromancy, telekenisis and catchall spell casting. Plus, you know, being able to use his voice to rip open a time portal. That bit, at least, would probably have to go - though the spell itself may be single use, as it hasn't showed up since episode 1.
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FINAL NOTES:Something that is not exactly a power but is still relevant is that, when sick, Aku can accidentally infect people by coughing and sneezing and such - not with germs, but with evil. He doesn't. appear to actually know that he can do this, but it appears tied into his hyperfluid form and crazy regenerative powers - basically people can be possessed by scraps of him that within a matter of days mostly take them over (complete with transformation and such) and which drive them to do evil, and generally be petty, cruel, and manipulative. These possessed beings seem to work towards Aku's goals, but he does not appear to directly control them.