App for ryslig

[foo_toplankton]

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Mordrid
Contact: MomeMordrid
Age: 30+
Other Characters: the Ring-Spirit

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: "F.F." Foo Fighters
Age: unknown; physically appears ~20s
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Canon Point: post-death | end Chapter 95
Character Information: JJBA wiki; spoiler warning: while the manga was finished back in 2003, the anime only got to Foo's canon point by Sept-1 of this year; precious little changes between manga and anime in Stone Ocean, so I think 2003 is enough time to allow an app? If I'm wrong though please let me know and I'll reapp at a later round.

Personality:
What Foo has always most prized is her "intellect", and it's at her pull point that she's finally both nailed down exactly what she means when using the word and felt at peace and fully secure in the "intellect" that she had. What Foo meant when she said "intellect" wasn't "intelligence" or even "sapience" - smarts or the capacity for self-awareness - but a defined "self". Turns out when you give sapience to a colony of plankton and then provide little more than a single duty to perform, they don't start off with a very solid sense of identity. They know they're a person, but they don't really know what "being a person" involves.

Originally Foo lived solely to guard Whitesnake's cache of stolen stand-discs. That was what she was given her "intellect" for, and she wasn't given much understanding beyond what she needed to do her job. Looking back on her life during this period of time, she remembers it as being mechanical, feeling robotic. She guarded the discs, and that was it. Despite not having been given much understanding to start off with, she clearly could reason things out well enough, because when she first meets Jolyne and Hermes she's like "ah, ok, I see why you would do x thing instead of this other more logical thing", and when Jolyne ultimately decides to save her rather than finish her off, Foo can't understand Jolyne's reasoning - and thus is intrigued by it, and wants to know more so that she can understand. She explains her own reasoning a number of times in ways that show she examines her own thought processes - for example, when deciding to defect to Jolyne's side, she explains that she’d been beaten so thoroughly she figured there wasn't any point in trying to resist further anyway, in addition to her curiosity (partially out of gratitude to Jolyne too, but there was definitely a hearty dose of "but why tho?? I must know"). Foo's introspection is best demonstrated by her dying farewell to Jolyne - it shows all the thought she's given to what personhood means to her. Her inquisitive side is also likewise well displayed when she first goes to live in the prison - she has a lot of new concepts to learn (such as playing games like catch) and she applies herself to the task eagerly.

Speaking of new concepts to learn - Foo doesn't start off particularly adjusted to "society" or "acting human". She has memories from her host body to draw on, but there's a lot of nuance she doesn't immediately grok - such as having to first be told to use a cup rather than simply slurping water directly off the floor. When she first starts life as a female inmate, she uses "ore" for herself - a very masculine form of "I", masculine to the point of macho-osity - before quickly adjusting to instead the more feminine "atashi" that Jolyne uses. She has to be coached through how to toss a baseball, since she defaults to a very strange stance. She remains somewhat rough around the edges as far as manners go even with time and practice - when someone spits into her drink, she's pleased to have more liquid. She also brings an odd viewpoint to everything she does, such as when she realizes that her host hadn't been well-liked, and decides to fix that by "doing everything the opposite" - letting people cut in line before her, drinking tea rather than coffee, using her left hand instead of her right, even getting into a spirited discussion with the cafeteria lady as to what the opposite of pork might be... She never lets the challenges of trying to blend in daunt her however, fearlessly approaching every task head on with an upbeat attitude. She never lets herself get depressed over "can't"s - she simply decides to turn them into "can"s one way or another.

She can be very determined and resourceful in her efforts. While her capacity for determination is well demonstrated by the lengths she's willing to go to in guarding the cache of discs, it's a slightly iffy example of her resourcefulness as she eventually panics and chases the discs across a wide expanse of soft absorbent soil with no backup plan, nearly drying herself up. However, before that point she'd managed to keep Jolyne and Hermes very busy with her abilities both to split herself up and to absorb/commandeer corpses - ultimately, she nearly kills them far more times than they manage to corner her. It's just that the one time they manage it she's gone all out and thus loses completely. A somewhat better example of both her determination and resourcefulness though is her standoff with Pucci: when he restrains her, she takes advantage of her ability to spread to other bodies, killing her current host to escape that body and infect/kill the body of the stand user who was targeting her friends; she then uses her fluid nature to escape that body as well and slither out of the back of the truck into the front seat. When Pucci interrupted that escape attempt, she took advantage of the fact she could divvy herself up in order to distract him by having her head keep him talking while her legs made a break for a nearby spigot (with no host body she needed more water). And when Pucci finally manages to genuinely incapacitate her - it turns out she'd earlier swiped a radio from the truck to contact Weather Control; and when she’s unable to answer his reply Weather realizes something's going wrong and sends rain, which revives her enough to continue onwards to warn Jolyne. Pucci only gets the upper hand because no one knew his stand could shapeshift and so they didn't know to suspect imposters.

Her manner is quite energetic. She approaches every task and activity with energy, applying herself with more drive than just what is strictly necessary, and shows a vibrant enthusiasm for everything it means to be alive. Even when she dies, it's with a deep appreciation for the fact that she has a "self" who was able to be, and that in dying she proves that she is indeed a person: a being with intellect.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
* Energetic
* Resourceful
* Upbeat
* Introspective
* Inquisitive
* Bold
* Oddball
* Uncouth
* Determined
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits
Opt-Outs:
Demon, Vampire, Simulacrum, Nephilim, Lich (+Harpy [the Ring-Spirit])

Roleplay Sample:
TDM post
+ additional thread