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( PLAYER INFORMATION )

Name: Leif

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )

Name/Work Name: Saiguuji Sion / Shin
Canon: Di[e]ce
Canon Point: End/before Reset, some time after Haruki arrives in court
AU/CRAU: Y. CR/Previous game AU times two
Age: 18 in canon 21iiish in AU
History: I could give you this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di(e)ce

Or I could summarize Di[e]ce as "Literally what you computer does when it runs a virus scan, as represented by murderous, homosexual teenaged AI" or I could add this history/personalty section from a previous game app:

used to be a cute fluffball but was brainwashed as a kid

grew up totally in love with Kazuki and apathetic to most else

Aather kind of did a number on him emotionally

But he also fell in love with Naoto there even as Kazuki kind of started breaking up with him

Learned how to kind of be social and like people again! Sorta.

Is still really bad at emotions and unstable

As a child Sion starts off as a shy, overly emotional crybaby. Taken at a young age from his happy home, he’s made to live with a man called Akikage and a kid who looked (almost) exactly like him named Gara to be trained as pieces in a chess-like war game known as Di[e]ce, where the ultimate goal was the elimination of the other team. Sion and Gara are raised together practically as brothers with the intent that they would one day be opponents by serving two separate “Kings”. Predictably, this led to issues.

Actually very sweet for a spoiled rich kid, when Sion tries to run away he takes Gara with him, telling Gara his mother will surely adopt Gara since Gara’s own parents don’t want him back. He cries over Gara’s pain, feels empathy, is clingy, needs reassurance... But is also surprisingly brave, having decided to leave on his own plans (simple as they are), with the memory of the road to take. Even as a small child he has strengths that might be overlooked due to his tendency to wear his heart on his sleeve and his shyness and easy tears.

During his youth it’s clear he grows more fond of Akikage, even dependant on him in a captor-bonding, or Stockholm Syndrome, way. Akikage inflicting early traumatic memories on both Sion and Gara probably helped that. It’s also apparent he loves Gara during that time, but strives much harder for Akikage’s approval with his perfectionism. A forbidden encounter with young Kazuki, his future King, only leaves Sion further enthralled. By the time they’re teenagers it’s apparent he’s been obsessing over Kazuki for a long time. Long enough to beat Kazuki’s scores in all the arcade games he plays and to know Kazuki very well without ever having directly interacted with him, despite going to the same school.

As Sion grew he took on more of Gara’s stoic traits, perhaps out of admiration for Gara, or maybe in emulation of Akikage, or just as a defense mechanism. By the time he was a teenager he passed well for a reserved, polite lineface with no emotions and a tendency to troll. It’s a lie. Despite himself, emotions often show on his face in flashes of intense feeling.

The first Di[e]ce game started in the school Sion and Haruki and Kazuki attended. It ended with Sion’s first failure at his role of “bishop” when Gara killed Kazuki. Luckily enough, King pieces can only permanently be killed by other kings, so Kazuki “reset” after his death and Sion was able to fill him and his friend Yuki in the rules of Di[e]ce.

After the games begin, it’s clear Sion took his role as guide seriously. Though he never tried to make Kazuki’s decisions for him, he did stop Kazuki from dangerous moves at times, and would provoke, bully, or criticize Kazuki if he felt it was needed by his role as guide. At the same time he deeply cared for Kazuki, and even the other players on their side. He looked after them, but was generally very quiet, voicing his opinions only when he felt especially compelled to.

As the canon progressed, various Di[e]ce games were held. Along the way Sion was killed and revived by Kazuki’s sacrifice of his own infinite life, something which affected Sion deeply as another failure. Agreeing not to die for Kazuki’s sake, Sion promised to help Kazuki end Di[e]ce, unaware that to do so Kazuki would have to suicide. So they all marched off to the final battle, Kazuki died and....

Their lives reset. Because by suiciding Kazuki ended the cycle of Di[e]ce and fixed the broken program of Saryuu, Akikage’s dead brother. Turns out they were all AI after all, and since the administrators of the program, Saryuu and Akikage, weren’t totally heartless, they revived the dead pieces, rewrote their lives, and gave them all happy endings, reseting things to a happier timeline.

Let’s take a look at Sion’s personality in the series, since we don’t get more than a brief flash or two of him after the reset.

Sion’s absolute devotion to Kazuki can also be seen in the way he treated Kazuki when Kazuki was wounded trying to rescue Sion. Though Sion knew he himself was mortally wounded, he wore a composed expression to reassure Kazuki. In general, Sion has a surprising stubbornness and absolute will when it comes to his loved ones and his feelings and what he believes is his duty. He can be truly stoic. And he can be incredibly emotional, though he has a hard time expressing that, and an even harder time accepting emotions or kindness from others in any graceful way--he may crave kindness, but he doesn’t know how to handle it being offered, chiefly because, while he was never abused growing up, and while Akikage was probably kind in a distant way, Sion did not have emotional fulfillment and caring in his upbringing either. It’s left his ability to deal with open emotions incredibly stunted, and his ability to accept kindness limited and awkward, though he can still extend kindness, and even does, rather easily. His nature is rather nurturing, in that way.

And yet, for a nurturing person, he has little problem taking human life. No problem with it, in fact. He’s fairly apathetic to killing, and kills many people in canon with a stony expression and little reaction to his own deeds. This is how he was raised. He doesn’t enjoy killing, and understands life is precious, but his own life is for protecting Kazuki, and all lives in the way of Kazuki are obstacles. The proper attitude for a child raised to kill in games.

Basically Sion has a lot of issues, but underneath them he is genuinely a nice guy who is awkward and a bit emotionally stunted. Though the awkward and emotionally stunted got both better and worse in Aather. Since he does in fact try to reach out to people after reluctantly realizing he kind of likes and needs friends (at least a few) but he's just really bad at it.

He's also been dumped by Kazuki (his ~reason for existing~) quite a few times so that's left him really unstable in a way, because he's needier but more closed off. At the same time he's dating Naoto who has kind of become his emotional anchor so lack of Naoto will be really hard on him even if he thinks he wants to be here for some reason.

He also has grown kind of attached to his stupid and cute team so he's grown out of entirely needing one person ever to having. A few more people that, if he doesn't rely on them exactly he... Is comforted that they're around? And he's pretty good at accepting people who are bad at emotions because Heliodor exists and he's just as bad.

A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENED. But Sion's pretty adaptable, at least outwardly, so even if he's a mess it's hard to tell.

Personality: I touch on it a bit in the history but Sion's base personality is a very loving, fluffy, sensitive person who deeply cares about people and cries a lot and is a momma's boy. However all that changed when the fire nation attacked he was given to Akikage to raise. In part due to trauma, in part due to the nature of the role he was raised to fulfill, in part because the people he grew up with, Akikage and Gara, weren't exactly emotionally available, and Gara especially had a fatalistic stoicism Sion admired as ~strong~ and wanted to emulate.

So in canon he grew up to be kind of an ice princess, cold, and emotionally awkward.

In addition his early childhood brainwashing left him fixated on Kazuki and on his mission in Di[e]ce. However, it's been years and a lot of emotional and mental development away from canon, so I'll cover where he's at now more thoroughly than where canon left him.

In Aather he started out with some knowledge of Di[e]ce but no knowledge of Kazuki or his real fixation there. He was more vulnerable and more open to other people and he developed a few close relationships but was kind of a shy, awkward person to start with. He didn't connect with his team well for a long time and ended up fighting with Kazuki a lot which left him in weird positions of uncertainty and instability while also attempting to be a stable influence on others. Forming friendships with various people, especially Lloyd and Mithos, Naoto, Yuki, and Jason Todd, helped him settle down and actually build a base of sense of self for himself that had nothing to do with his role in Di[e]ce. Though he maintained an attitude of kill others ruthlessly in bad games in Aather for a long time, even that he slowly began to bend on, until he reached a point where ruthlessly protecting his team's safety was not as high a priority as actually listening to their wishes, even if that meant them getting hurt.

A heart game for him also deeply changed his central programming, teaching the Bishop protocol to act more human, and resulting in him breaking away from being entirely fanatically devoted to Kazuki. Though his love for Kazuki never waned it was no longer the be all and end all of his entire existence. He even fell in love with two other people in Aather, and proposed to marry one of them. By the time he earned all his memories back, he was a happy, genuinely stable individual with a sense of agency and a desire for a future without Di[e]ce and with friendship and normalcy.

All that changed when the fire nation attacked again I took him to Court RP. Since I took him there from a hypothetical Bad End AU in Aather, his happiness in Aather was shattered when the world-consuming Darkness won against the Heroes of Aather and killed everyone he loved. He left Aather alive only because they protected him, and arrived at Court broken and worn down. He spent a few backstory years in court working his way up the ranks before the game officially opened.

At which point he spent a while trying not to get emotionally invested in anyone and finally contracted with post Aather David Nassau because he respected the man. Things were fine for a while, aside from Sion being in a deep depression from losing his loved ones in Aather Bad End. But then heart games happened and he went into the heart of a man he knew named Kolya--that was the beginning of a really horrible downward spiral. He was deeply traumatized by that heart game, and shortly following it, Kolya, in combination with Sakamaki Laito, cornered him into a round of torture and forcing him to eat parts of himself and killing and reviving him with a side of sexual assault that left him pretty much unable to cope with things ever again.

There was an upside to that though, because he went through a number of mood swings, including an outright, drunken attempt at suicide, before he came to the revelation that he was really really sick and tired of being helpless and pushed around by greater powers. He decided he wanted to, instead of use Court to undo his past, he would use it to make himself an all powerful god. So he went kind of completely off the deep end but in a way having a purpose, a direction, a motivation, gave him a renewed sense of vitality and desire to carry on and push forward.

So backstory of how he got there, back to his personality. He's grown from cold, silent, and a little sarcastic, to much more obviously sarcastic, but also much more obviously caring, and more obviously tsundere. Many of his mannerisms are still subdued and subtle and his sense of humor is dry and biting, but he cares deeply about people, has a hard time not caring about people, and fluctuates between being tsundere about it and outright line-faced mother-henning people. He smiles more than he did in canon (which is a bitch to icon for I tell you) and in many ways he's more relaxed about having feelings and showing them, if in a quiet way. He gets playful sometimes though, if he trusts someone enough to be silly with them!

He also gets dark moods, and he's still willing to murder, but he has come to realize he doesn't want to, and will try to achieve a peaceful solution instead of just shanking a guy. He's also a bit more hopeless, since his experience is that almost everyone is stronger than he is, even though he's more powerful than a normal human, and that leaves him disinclined to conflict, or believing he can win if a fight does happen.

He's self-confident but has a shattered and non-existent sense of self-worth. He's caring, but has an impossible time letting others care for him. He's deeply broken and dysfunctional in a lot of ways, but one of his main defining traits, from canon and through both games, is his ability to pick himself up and keep going and act mostly okay, no matter what. A lot of his drama is internal, though sometimes, more frequently, he loses his cool and gets visibly emotional. He's someone whose surface appears calm and cold like the ice princess he pretends to be, but very quickly reveals he is a squishy marshmallow inside, but unfortunately a very misshapen badly handled marshmallow with the desire to become a god and a lot of neurotic habits.

He does have pretty intense mood fluctuations based on events with his CR, but again he's good at faking stability, and the thing is, he can usually fake it until it becomes semi-true, at least until the next blow up. He's very used to being a caretaker of very emotionally volatile people, and while he can be emotionally volatile himself, he doesn't always show it as intensely as he feels it. Once he cares for someone it's almost impossible for him to stop doing so, he's intensely loyal, and sometimes just intense. He used to be a fairly selfless person but both Aather and Court have taught him to be selfish and even emotionally manipulative at times. He also developed a heavy and unhealthy alcoholic dependence in court, to the point it was definitely an addiction and coping mechanism and that hasn't yet been dealt with or addressed. Basically he has a lot of facets and I'm sure I've forgotten to mention twenty, but most of that plays under a (generally) much calmer surface.

Debt: Get Naoto out of Court and cured. Become a god, failing that, become Queen of court to become a god.

Suitability: He wants the power or the chance at the power to be a god. His entire life, from canon to Aather to Court has been being forced into things by creatures more powerful than him, so though it angers him, he's used to it, and if it can benefit him, he'll deal with it.

Previous Game Info: I covered most of his development in his personality and history section I think but as additional notes, his major Aather CR included his castmates, but especially Yuki and Naoto. Naoto whom he proposed to and loved, Yuki who became one of his best friends. Kazuki, of course, he adored and wanted to follow, but they had a rocky relationship. Other formative CR were Lloyd Irving and Mithos Yggdrasil, who aggressively Tales Hero'd at him until he got tsun and then fell over in dere. They even managed to make him wear a beard hat, and be generally silly as fuck to them--two people he genuinely trusted so much. Ned, from Pushing Daisies was strong, if not close, CR, who got two promises out of Sion early on that formed his entire experience at Aather (please bring the team home alive from games even if you have to force it, and please stick around). David Nassau who was there often when Sion was in dire straights, and later became his master in Court. FSN Lancer who taught him the spear. Bart from Xenogears who he fell in love with and dated, who taught him the whip and told him about mech piloting.

Aather teammates he had the strongest bonds with were Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Jason Todd, Serin, Dirk Strider, Aradia, Seragaki Aoba, Mamori, Sora, Milla Maxwell, and I might be drawing a blank on some. Other people who deeply influenced him in Aather included Tsuyukusa, Nia, Katou Yue, The Lady of the Lake, the Dog who always Dies at the End and anyone else I am forgetting. Most of these people either got him to open up to caring more, or showed him they themselves cared about him. Some of them he found easy to talk to, some, like Milla, started the relationship with him threatening to kill them and ended up in mutual respect and liking. All of them influenced his development and view on liking others.

In Court his CR was pretty diverse. David Nassau became his master, and while he had many castmates, including Aather Naoto and canon Gara, Kazuki was the one he took as a servant immediately. He knew some OCs, like Kaori, who were kind and good to him, she was like a mother to him when they first met while he was deaged. And other OCs with whom he developed intensely unhealthy relationships, Yvain, and more notably, Kolya. Kolya, especially, needs to be mentioned for the continued and lasting psychological damage his heart did to Sion, and that he did to Sion with Laito, deliberately, in a pretty gross thread of gore, vore and violence. That particularly broke Sion and has continued to influence Sion forever after.

Other major CR include William Twinning, Kevin Cecil, Dantalion, Sitri and Camio of Makai Ouji. Sion fell in love with both Kevin and Dantalion, and while that was awkward it was... interesting. He gained summon seals from Camio, Dantalion and Kevin, and friendship, though begrudging, from both William and Sitri. He developed a relationship with PG Tsuyukusa, and with Mikogami Hayato. He fucked his way through half of court because sex game okay. But beyond that he also had a really deep friendship with CFUD Itachi, who was a stable and calming influence on him the entire time. He was tsundere at Captain America, friends with Nishinoya's OC facetwin Ellil, and even slowly building a calm friendship with AU Tokiomi. He influenced Mikado into buying a gun, he gave Laito drugged coffee, he made fun of Gilgamesh, he got himself maimed a lot and killed occasionally and in general led a very interesting and exciting life with a lot of diverse CR.

One important thing to note: in Aather he did a quest to extend his healing ability to anyone he has bonds with, that carried over to court and I'd carry it over to Forest Covered as well. Likewise, my cast allowed me to headcanon he has touch empathy, and while that's not specifically stated in canon, it's become a major part of his character as I play him and would also continue in this AU.

Inventory: A nice white outfit, high heels, like five knives, a katana, a bag of odds and ends including: a pair of handcuffs that can reduce the powers of the person they're put on to nothing but human, two pairs of white gloves, a first aid kit, a few hair ties and clips, a seal of Camio, a seal of Dantalion, a pendant with the seal of Uriel, a flask of whiskey, a laptop, a small digital camera.

Abilities, Strengths, and Weaknesses: Abilities: He's stronger, faster and more skilled than a human could hope to be. He's programmed that way, as a "human" chess piece in the simulation game Di[e]ce. Though he's an AI he functions as a normal human, mostly. He does have certain powers, the speed to look like he's teleporting short distances, the ability to heal his king (expanded in aather to "anyone he has close bonds with") with his touch, the ability to read emotions with skin contact, and a whole host of weapon skills: at the least exceptional hand to hand, knife fighting, sword wielding, archery, whip, spear and lance, and gun use. He is also an expert with technology, able to hack and set up surveillance at a professional level, as well as modify equipment for communication to make it better (faster, stronger). His hobby is literally information gathering, and he's learned other skills like cooking, food preserving, sewing, metal-working, foraging, animal husbandry, carpentry, and other survival or low-tech skills in aather.

Strengths: he's empathic, literally, and cares deeply for people. He's got a swiss army knife of a skill set in both combat and non-combat situations. Emotionally he can fake being okay even when he's falling apart, and he can focus on and read others intensely at an intuitive level not even using empathy. He's incredibly sharp, observant, and intellectually intelligent.

Weaknesses: he can be emotionally fragile. He takes things deeply to heart and things that hurt him emotionally tend to linger and fester. He isn't as strong as most powered people, despite being stronger than normal humans, and he has way way way too much pride, which prevents him from relying on others when he should. He's grown dependent on alcohol to cope with bad situations, he's learned to be sort of fatalistic though he tries to maintain hope despite it, and he's just a whole host of issues. So. Many. Issues. He's really dumb that way.