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Isaka / Peacock Undead ([personal profile] fusionjack) wrote2020-01-20 09:49 pm

Application for Prismatica

PLAYER
HANDLE: Lampy
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] lampdevil on Plurk, or PM to the journal
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Dakki Sigal, Nero tol Scaeva

CHARACTER
NAME: Isaka/Peacock Undead
CANON: Kamen Rider Blade
CANON POINT: Episode 15, after being sealed.
AGE: approximately 10,000 years old (human guise looks 30ish.)

BACKGROUND: 10,000 years ago, a great battle was fought between 53 monsters, each a representative of a different life form on the planet Earth. These immortal monsters, known as Undead, each sought to make themselves the dominant form of life on the planet. The Human Undead, the Category Two of Hearts, triumphed in the end, thus granting humans dominion over the planet. The Jack of Diamonds, the Peacock Undead, was one of the losers of this great battle. He fought with strength and cunning, but was sealed alongside all of the others.

In the modern day, scientists from the organization BOARD (Board Of Archaeological Research Department) began research upon these ancient creatures in an effort to find the secret to human immortality. In the midst of these efforts, they accidentally freed the sealed Undead, who immediately set off to cause chaos and fight a second "Battle Fight". Thankfully, BOARD had created the Rider System, a transformation technology based off of the Joker Undead's ability to copy the powers of the other Undead. This allowed humans to transform into armored fighters able to combat the Undead on their own terms, and safely seal them into Rouse Cards.

The lower-ranking Undead were mostly feral creatures, with desires no more complicated than death, destruction, and squaring off against each other. But the Royal Club Undead such as Peacock could disguise themselves as humans and construct far more complex plans. And Peacock's plan was, in his own opinion, quite brilliant. He slipped away from the greater battle, assumed the identity of a human by the name of "Isaka", and monitored the state of the situation through mind controlling BOARD employees to tell him what he wished to know. The Rider System and the power it promised fascinated him immediately. The strength of the Undead could be granted to humans, and humans could be controlled with relative ease. When an accident at BOARD unleashed a vicious insect Undead, killing much of the staff and leaving the place a wreck, he saw this as a chance to set his own plans in motion.

Isaka took control of what surviving BOARD staff he could find, and put them to work in a smaller BOARD facility. He had them develop a new Rider System, one that would be powered by the Category Ace of Clubs. He also set them to monitoring the other riders, Blade, Garren, and Chalice. When it became necessary for his research, he sent out security teams to attempt to capture the two human riders. Of the three, Blade (Kazuma Kenzaki) was the only one successfully snatched up. Garren managed to elude him. As for Chalice? Chalice was a fellow Undead, only disguising himself as a human (Hajime Aikawa), and Isaka intended to bargain with him. He approached Chalice and extended the offer to work together. Chalice rejected the offer, seeing no reason to trust him, but Isaka at least requested that he come see "something interesting".

That interesting thing was the experimentation that was being performed on the captured Kenzaki. Isaka required more data on how the Rider System worked, and how humans were best able to sync with it. After countless medical tests and scans were finished, he threw Kenzaki into a fight with another Undead that he had captured for such a purpose, and monitored his fusion rate. Chalice soon found the whole thing to be foolish, and prepared to leave, but Isaka had more "interesting" things to show him. An agent of his was stationed at the Jacaranda, a restaurant run by the humans that Aikawa was staying with and had come to care for. Isaka showed him video of the agent planting a bomb with a remote detonator. He fully intended to keep Chalice there, for he was just as much part of the experiment. As Kenzaki's fighting spirit and energy rose when combating the captured Undead, so did Aikawa's. He went into a frenzy, transformed into Chalice, threw himself through the observation window, and set himself up on Kenzaki. The two fought, and Isaka watched it with great satisfaction. This was how the war between the Undead should be. This was true combat. Unfortunately for him, the intervention of Garren and BOARD's chief Karasuma ended the battle, and all of the Riders made a successful escape. But he had gathered more than enough data for his own satisfaction... and now he had chief Karasuma under his control, too.

In the course of the fight, he had seen that Sakuya Tachibana, the Rider known as Garren, couldn't form a proper fusion with his Rider System due to fear and anxiety. It was slowly tearing the man apart, and would eventually kill him. Seeing an opportunity, he approached Tachibana and offered to help him overcome his body's weakness. That Tachibana refused was of no importance; he beat the man senseless and took him away to his facility, where he suspended the man in a tank full of water and rare ancient seaweed. It acted as a drug that stabilized his condition and made him the capable fighter that he was before. But he would need ongoing treatments to maintain his condition. And now with Tachibana so deeply in his debt, he set the man to work for him. Isaka had Tachibana fight Blade for him, and hunt down the Spider Undead, the Category Ace of Clubs, which would be the key component to his newly-built, improved Rider System. In the meanwhile, he used his mind-controlled employees to capture and detain candidates for user of the new Rider System.

Tachibana's condition wasn't stable. Those treatments were also making him excessively aggressive, and taking a toll on his health. Isaka approached Kenzaki and made the same offer to him that he did to Tachibana, which was violently refused. But it made Kenzaki and his associates curious. Tachibana's girlfriend Sayoko found a bit of the seaweed still clinging to him, and had it analyzed. As luck would have it, Sayoko and Kenzaki met and began to work together. And Sayoko insisted upon trying to get Tachibana to go back to his normal self. All of this immensely displeased Isaka. He came to her medical office, blew out the window, and warned her not to do anything "unnecessary". It didn't stop her, however. Her analysis of the seaweed was already finished. It was found that it was a drug favored by the Undead in ancient times, that would eventually completely burn out a human's nervous system. Sayoko found Tachibana, went to him, told him of this, and pleaded with him to stop all of this fighting and just live a simple life with her. Blinded by the drugs and his own pride, he refused, and insisted that they could no longer see each other. He drove away on his motorcycle. Sayoko was, of course, determined to go after him, but Isaka reached her first. He mortally wounded her in the countryside and left her for dead.

This decision was what proved to be Isaka's undoing. After sealing the Category Ace of Clubs, Tachibana refused to hand the card over to him. Remembering Sayoko's words, he knew that he had no obligation to continue taking orders from such a monster. Isaka took it in stride, pointed out that his latest treatment was about to wear off, and beat Tachibana soundly. He took the card, told the man that he had never been a credible threat to him, and kept the offer open that he could always come crawling back if he wanted more power. Tachibana retreated from the scene of the battle... and soon came across Sayoko on death's doorstep. He held her in his arms as she died. And that, tragic as it was, was what made Tachibana conquer the fear that gripped him. He returned to Isaka and learned that it was him that killed her. In his rage, Tachibana destroyed the tank containing the ancient seaweed, shot Isaka in the face, and challenged him to a fight to the end. Isaka felt confident that he'd win, having always bested the man before. But he hadn't fought the man when he was gripped by such rage and such certainty. Tachibana wounded him and forced him to escape. Still, Isaka had other plans that were still in motion. There was still a need for possible candidates for the new Rider System. But it was during one of these kidnappings that Kenzaki and Tachibana came across him and his staff. While Isaka was having little trouble fending off Blade, Garren was another matter. He beat Isaka mercilessly into submission and sealed him in a Rouse Card.

A very bare-bones description of his part in the series is available here.

PERSONALITY: Being an Undead, Isaka is not very experienced with human emotions. He is aware that they exist, and he thinks very little of them, seeing them as something that makes humans weak, irrational, and easy to manipulate... or possibly unpredictably volatile. Other beings, whether human or Undead, exist for him to use, for the sole reason for his existence is to win the "Battle Fight". He has had no desire to form bonds with others, or forge alliances of anything other than convenience. He understands anger and the need to fight best of all, but other impulses are foreign to him. Everything else is currently affectation and imitation, to better manipulate others. And he doesn't bother to affect very much, as it's usually much more expedient to just mind control those he wishes to use. He has an easy-going, faintly affable air to him, and tends to offer the carrot before harshly applying the stick. He has a functional idea of how to manipulate people, but not a complete one. He's far too arrogant in what minor knowledge that he has. Lacking a complete understanding of love, he killed Tachibana's girlfriend, without understanding the full and long-reaching consequences of doing so.

While all Undead are easily seized by violent urges, Isaka is able to exert a larger measure of control over his impulses than the lower-ranked ones. He's able to delay gratification, and sit back and let others fight for him. He fought more directly in the original Battle Fight, and that ended in him being defeated and sealed. This time around, he's taking a more cautious approach. It's even pointed out by other Undead that this "let's you and him fight" nature is new for him. He's enjoying it, though, and enjoying the fact that he enjoys it so much. There's vicarious fun to be found in watching others fight. And he seems to take a cruel pleasure in doing awful things to others, as much as he may rationalize the necessity of those things. But he still prizes being able to step into the fray himself, and he fights with absolute confidence in his power and skill. As an Undead, it's what he was made for. To him, what's finest in life is to triumph over one's enemies, and to do it with incomparable grace and force.

Perhaps as an aspect of being the Peacock Undead, Isaka is somewhat vain. The human form that he has chosen for himself is good-looking, well-groomed, and well-dressed. He has his mind-controlled servants drive him around in a limousine. He went to the effort to figure out what was appropriately classy and professional for the era that he was unsealed in, because it mattered to him. He does nothing on a small scale. He has a sense of drama and timing to his scheming, and tries to make it all look as effortless as possible. He considers himself to be a superior being of enormous power and intellect, and he carries himself as such. He does not take well to others questioning his superiority, and is very likely to lose his temper and instigate a fight in response.

For all that he considers himself brilliant and clever, he is not very good at thinking on his feet when interacting with humans. If he has not had the chance to observe habits at a distance, or cannot mentally manipulate someone, he stands a good chance of revealing himself as socially awkward at best, and a monstrous entity wearing a human face at the worst. There are also many aspects of human society that he hasn't bothered to familiarize himself with, having thought them to be irrelevant or beneath him. In a new setting where his goal is no longer to win the most serious game of 52-pickup ever, he will likely apply himself to learning such things... and likely get just as much wrong as he does get right. But he will apply himself. He is inherently driven towards victory, and if his "victory" must be redefined, then he will redefine it.

On the whole, Isaka has only done a minimum of thinking about how to operate outside of the context he was created for. His second chance in the human world has changed him, introducing him to new ideas and concepts... but he still fundamentally tried to change the world around himself to better participate in the second Battle Fight. As deeply as he desires to remake the world in his image, he has no choice but to desire that. He has found amusement in human fashion and human cunning, and could easily find amusement in other human pursuits, given the chance.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Isaka is a being known as an Undead. Rather than a reanimated corpse, he's a creature that can't die. He can be sealed away by special means, but is functionally immortal. He has a monstrous form, his internal anatomy is likely a fair bit different from a human's, and he bleeds green blood. He has superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes, and is sensitive to the presence of other Undead and Undead-like sources of power. When in the presence of other Undead for prolonged periods of time, he'll find himself becoming more aggressive and violent towards them. Undead do not need to eat or sleep in the same way that a human might. Sleep is mostly used to recover from serious injuries. Eating is an optional diversion, one that Isaka hasn't much bothered with.

His powers specific to being the Peacock Undead are are as follows:

Human Form - Like the other Royal Undead, Isaka can assume a human form, and has a human-level intellect.
Telepathy - He can project his voice into the heads of others, and can read minds.
Telekinesis - He can levitate objects, crush and grasp things, levitate himself, and fire off bursts of extremely powerful telekinetic force. With enough effort, those bursts of force can even ignite into fireballs.
Mind Control - He is capable of manipulating the minds of regular humans, and possibly some lesser ranked Undead. Strong people (such as the Rider System users) seem to be outside of his capacity to control directly. He can give orders that must be followed and obeyed immediately, but that blank out the person's free will entirely. He can also give more subtle and manipulative suggestions, to have people do his bidding in the long term while still retaining their own intelligence and initiative. The latter is more difficult.
Weapon Manifestation - He can summon a sword to fight with.
Feather Missiles - He can detach the feathers of his Undead form, charge them with energy, and shoot them at opponents in a destructive barrage.

Nerfing note - I would like to have Isaka's immortality nerfed in the following way: When physically damaged to the point that he would be declared to have "lost" the Battle Fight and something or someone would seal him, he will instead be forced into his human guise, with human-level strength and vulnerability. Further physical damage that would be sufficient to kill a regular human being would then kill him. (I rationalize that since Prismatica does not have the inherent force that comes along and seals Undead, his body is reacting of its own accord/having a psychosomatic reaction to the "loss".) He can restore himself to regular power by accumulating enough Chroma.

I also have an opt-out post already available for Isaka's mind control abilities.

INVENTORY: Sunglasses, clothing, keycards, wallet, handkerchief stained with green blood.

MOONBLESSING: Sanguis (he is already prone to aggression and violence, so this should push him towards being more willing to Moonlace along with that.)

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