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Eastbound is primarily an invite-only game — each existing player can currently invite up to one person per month, or get in touch about further invites. Existing players can hold two characters in game. A third character can be applied, if players can prove they have met activity requirements for two consecutive months with their existing two characters and have stayed engaged with the game. If you don't have an invite, somehow stumbled upon this neck of the woods, and you’d like to stay, drop the mod journal a line — we'll try to figure it out.
As of Oct. 1, cast/game caps are off. Please note, as of Dec. 1, Eastbound only has 3-4 months of gameplay left.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN BE APPLIED?
YES: canon and original characters, if they have a solid and consistent personality and background. Characters brought in after they've died are a-okay. For characters taken from a time point just as they're in the process of dying, please read below on meeting medical requirements.
NO (at this time): real people, original characters set in a canon environment, characters from canons or canon instalments that have been released for less than one month, characters with imported development from other games (CRAU), alternate universe, or gender-swapped versions of canon characters.
Children or characters with very specific medical/magical/environment needs: appable, but please make a note of how your character will ICly meet their requirements and stay alive. Likewise, if you are applying for a character taken just as they're dying, provide a suggestion for how they can be kept alive on arrival (this might be easier in some app cycles than others). You can bend the world a little to make miracles happen (ex: a substitute for the medication your character needs to survive can be found for a high price at certain apothecaries, etc.)
Characters that were dropped or swept by activity checks: yes, but they’ll come back without their previous memories, if they are applied in by a different player.
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Ken Kaneki || Tokyo Ghoul
CONTACT: vilani @ plurk
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Once upon a time i used to play here
CHARACTER: Ken Kaneki
CANON: Tokyo Ghoul
CANON POINT: 121
BACKGROUND: History (contains cannibalism, violence, death, torture and other horrible things)
ABILITIES | POWERS:
- Ghouls are human-looking creatures that predate on humans as it's the only thing they can subside on; they can also eat each other. Half-ghouls are extremely rare, but it's possible for humans and ghouls to have offspring together and ghoul organs can be transplanted onto humans, which is what happened to Kaneki. Because of this, Kaneki is unable to eat anything but human flesh (also coffee, it's unknown why coffee is the exception), and he won't be able to digest anything but that.A ghoul doesn't have to consume meat as often as humans, but Kaneki is a binge eater and honestly he's is always hungry because his powers are demanding.
- Ghouls have specific organs, which is what was transferred into Kaneki to turn him into a half-ghoul. This organ is called Kakuhou, which will store a special kind of cells that ghouls obtain from eating humans. These cells (called RC cells) can be used by the ghoul's body for different things such as giving them above normal strength, reflexes, agility, speed; they also provide the ghoul with a body tougher than most regular solid materials which means bullets can't kill a ghoul and a normal human can't damage a ghoul so easily. These cells also accumulate on the ghoul's eye whenever the ghoul is hungry or excited, and it will turn the eye red and the sclera black. Since Kaneki is a half-ghoul, he only has one reactive eye.
- Another ability of these RC cells is regeneration. Thanks to them and as long a ghoul has adequate food supply, a ghoul can heal wounds in seconds; grave wounds may take days, but they'll still heal faster than any human could ever heal their wounds.
- The final and most important ability RC cells provide is fusing together and forming another extra organ which will be coming out of the Kakuhou and will use the stored cells it has. This organ is called kagune and it's used by ghouls to hunt, fight and defend. The type of Kagune formed differs depending on the type of ghoul; Kaneki is a Rinkaku type and it looks like four red scaled tentacles with a scary striking power and has powerful regenerative abilities. because Kaneki sought power so desperately, he learned to reshape his kagune and now it can take different forms such as claws, hands, blades, etc. Forming all these shapes cause a higher RC cell consumption (so Kaneki has to eat more).
- Kakuja is another power. Kakujas are those ghouls who have a mutated kagune thanks to the continued cannibalizing of other ghouls and after eating so many other ghouls, naturally Kaneki's kagune became mutated. It's not "permanently on" and it often happens when Kaneki needs an extra boost of power (it's a bit like a Dragon ball's sayan form). Kakuja works as some sort of armor that engulfs the ghoul’s body, amplifies their strength and resilience, their powers and their abilities. In exchange for this, the user will lose their mind, which makes it hard for them to actually control the kakuja as they please. Kaneki’s Kakuja is not complete (Half-Kakuja or Incomplete Kakuja) and it’s formed by twin arms/tails that are shaped like centipede bodies; these protrude from his lower back, and go up towards the shoulder blades. A mask is also formed, and it has a hole for his left eye and a beak that runs along the middle of his face. Visual, cw for body horror
- Ghouls do have limitations. Their weak points are membranes, such as eyes, lips and so on, and these can be easily pierced. Also, ghouls are always dependent on how much they eat and thus how many RC cells they have; if a ghoul doesn't feed enough or uses his powers too much, they won;t be able to keep going and their abilities will be crippled. While they can face most weapons, anything with enough impact could damage a ghoul, such as metal beams falling on them. Elements such as fire, water, ice, drought - those can all affect a ghoul as well, so it IS possible for example to burn a ghoul alive as long they are not given the opportunity to heal. Magic most likely will also have impact.
PERSONALITY:
At the beginning, Kaneki was a very kind, polite young man, extremely introvert and without many friends (he only has one, in fact). Very intelligent, and due to leading a very lonely life, Kaneki relied on books in order to learn and to be closer to his father who had passed away when he was still young. However, all of this hid how lonely Kaneki truly was, and worse: it hid how much he had been abused by his own mother, who was unable to get over her husband’s death and physically abused her own son in order to release her frustration. This same woman while taking care of her kid was also overworking herself to death in order to help her own terrible sister, and eventually she passed away from exhaustion.
Because of this, Kaneki grew up thinking that he had to hurt if he wanted to be loved. He believed by trying to speak up about his issues, his mind and his opinions, he was being selfish and that meant others would not love him. Kaneki was taught to sacrifice his own happiness and this is why he was quiet and would prefer to be hurt rather than hurting someone else. And he believed he had to help everyone all the time because that’s what his mother always did and that made her look like the kindest person, in his eyes. Kaneki always held on to the things his mother taught him through abuse, but he never really saw that as something bad.
Then he became a ghoul. Thanks to a crazy scientist, Kaneki became someone who had to consume others in order to survive and that caused him a lot of distress because it goes right against what he believed. However, through this, he was able to recognize the world is not black and white, ghouls are not just monster, and also was able to recognize his own weaknesses: he was unable to protect the ones he loves by just sitting around and hope everything got magically fixed. The first part of the manga focuses on that. And then he was kidnapped by a terrorist ghoul group called Aogiri Tree and he was tortured to extremes.
This leads to something changing within Kaneki. he realized the world is wrong, messed up. He admitted to himself his mother was weak for being unable to choose between her son and her sister, admitted he was weak too and that if he did want to protect his people, he had to go to extremes and eradicate anyone who’d threaten them; to be strong meant to eat others. Only this way he’d be able to protect his loved ones and be loved in turn, and so he would not be lonely because Kaneki can't stand loss and isn't able to live with loss.
So he went on rampage. He took upon himself to pluck out (kill and eat) bad ghouls, eradicate Aogiri Tree and the doctor who turned him into this. During this, his power grew out of control and Kaneki's mental health deteriorated so much that he became suicidal and started seeking death: he hoped to die as a hero and after sleep forever, because that was the only way for him to ever be forgiven or fixed. Kaneki is the epitome of tragedy and he shows us that his good intentions were very destructive.
Kaneki's core didn't change; he is a sweet, kind person who loves his friends and who'd do anything for them, and he doesn't like to hurt people. However as he became much more driven and obsessed with gaining power in order to protect said friends that sometimes, Kaneki started to jump from his gentle demeanor into a vicious state in just a few seconds.
In Kaneki’s mind, he was finally doing something and becoming merciless towards “bad ghouls” and consuming them had to be done so he could protect everyone. But Kaneki is not a cruel and vicious person by nature. Rather than being a repressed sadist, Kaneki's trauma twisted him into something he doesn't recognize, and in response he did exactly what his traumatic experiences taught him: be violent in return. He spiraled, violence and madness turned him numb, and suddenly he was relishing on other's pain.
And he hated it. He was scared of it, and he thought of himself as a monster for it. Kaneki’s violence came back to haunt him every time and ate away at his sanity, and devoured him from within. And he finally reached a point where he realized he was doing everything wrong: leaving his friends so he could protect them, going on rampage so he could become stronger, and even hurting his own friends with that power he always sought after – all of that was wrong. But he also came to realize a lot of what he has done was so he would not be lonely.
In the end, Kaneki realized a lot of things and decided to redo them, but Kaneki’s mind is broken. He is suffering from mental illness that drives him to do horrible things, and he still doesn’t know how to fix it other than hoping for death.
SAMPLE: TDM
INVENTORY: Battlesuit and mask
NOTES: Kaneki will be chewing on the undead for food, rather than on real people. He may also raid cemeteries if the opportunity presents itself.
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NOTES
Kaneki arrives during the coup event, and his test drive threads can remain game canon unless otherwise agreed with players.
As one of the party’s most especial recruits, Kaneki is entrusted by the Merchant with an additional task that can be handled at any point before, during or right after the coup. Whether alone or — ideally, for his own sake — by gathering some of his fellow recruits, Kaneki is told to visit the Spina hunting grounds. Previously, visitors to the desolate and well-fenced territory found it eerily barren, haunted at night by the rehomed undead remnants of Lord Arha’s armies, killed during a failed attempt to give siege to Taravast over the years prior. The undead housed within the grounds were first banished by donna Vannozza, then summoned to follow the Huntress during the recent invasion &mash; leaving the vast hunting territory emptied of all inhuman presence.
Kaneki is provided a lone, rusted key — which, sadly, doesn’t operate the tall spiked walls of the hunting forests, good luck scaling — and instructions to seek out and return the heart of the grounds. Prepare for an atypical walk in the woods: Kaneki and any other dead or necromancy-prone character who might accompany him will find that, in the absence of the ‘white noise’ of the previous undead inhabitants, they can now feel a certain pull, a call to find, obey, unearth and free. They’re not alone: undead humans might have fled the territory, but it seems that whatever beasts the hunting grounds held — from wolves to bears and hawks — that once perished, have once more risen to firmer strength and stamina. The animals will try to block the party’s progress, but if Kaneki and friends (?) persist, they will be pulled by the supernatural call to dig. Inevitably, their grubby little hands can dig out a small, chained wooden box from the soil, eaten by time, filth and organic decay. Kaneki's key works here: inside the box, because the Merchant is nothing if not a literal creature, lies an actual, still pulsing human (?) heart.
If you proceed with threading out (network posts, logs, whatever suits) this beautiful endeavour and discover the heart, drop the Merchant a line.
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If Kaneki is able to distinguish granular details through scent or sight, he can also notice that the heart is:
— animal, in the sense that it is not mechanical and that it once belonged to an organism
— reanimated
— functioning even now, in the absence of a system that would keep it operational