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PERSONAL
NAME: thugg
PERSONAL JOURNAL: thugg
EMAIL: hypocrisised[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM: fourth walls
WIKI NAME: n/a
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a


CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Simca
SERIES: Air Gear
CANON POINT: Chapter 354 -- when Ringo reveals all the uses of the Storm Regalia.
LOSS: Simca will lose her ability to be completely free. This means that while she is perfectly normal once she becomes adjusted enough to "fly" through the sky, when she is on the ground, she can only walk around and exert herself for periods of time before she has to return to her wheelchair. How long those periods are will alternate randomly.

ABOUT THE CHARACTER:

Air Gear is about kids with skates. Well, was. And that's what it seems at first. But in all actuality, it revolves around the concept of flying and being able to touch the sky and what exactly can go wrong with someone has too much power. Simca was part of group that originated this concept known as Gravity Children, a small picking of kids that were created as experiments underground lab where severe pressure was often and their only role was to survive this pressure and become dogs for the military (to put loosely). Two perfect roles were created (who would soon become known as Sky and Ground). They were originally a pair of male twins but were both failures, thus resulting in termination for them along as the rest of the children and a lack of names because of it. However, then the Successes were made, a pair of twins (actually DNA duplicates of one another) named Simca and Kilik. When the failures were to be terminated, the boy, Kilik, took it upon himself to break out and see the sky, and that's exactly what they did.

So once they left the lab -- the Tower, as it was so cleverly known as -- Simca and Kiric spent a year or so in Hokkaido, only to return to the Tower to form a team known as Sleeping Forest with the other Gravity Children, in order to protect the Sky Regalia which was still trapped in the clutches of one of the dead scientists. (Quite literally.) It turned into a team that consisted of Kiric and Sora (previously one of the nameless twins), Spitfire, Dontores, Black Burn, Ine (one of the scientists' daughter), and Falco. Simca was a back-up Tuner for Ine, but otherwise, was not officially part of the team. She played no real role in any of the drama that went down between Sora and Kiric, when both disagreed on what should be done about the Sky Regalia. Kiric ended up forming a new team and then attacking Sora, breaking his legs and taking away the Wind Regalia. Simca had, unfortunately, stumbled upon the scene, only to see Sora's "shadow" come and avenge his fallen brother. (For lack of a less cliched way to put it.)

And the story went away from Simca to focus on another boy of the sky.

To make an absurdly long story short, Simca played the manic pixie girl to Ikki, a boy learning to fly on technology known as A-T or Air Treks, which are amplified, motorized roller blades which allow users to literally fly. Simca created test after test for Ikki which he excelled at, and eventually, it came to discover that Air Treks weren't all fun and games, that there was this concept known as "Regalia" which are Air Treks that belonged to the twenty-eight First Generation children and are so supremely awesome that everyone wants them. Only eight remained, belonging to Kings who were masters over the Regalia and their respective Roads. And so with everyone wanting this, a tournament was created for the winner to become the Sky King.

In the process, by the way, Simca gets her legs broken by her twin brother (who was part of the opposing team that she was on), snatched away by the evil brothers that were dominating the tournament, held captive, pushed around, almost killed, but eventually came out on top when it was the final battle between Ikki and one of the evil brothers, Sora.

Honestly, this story as convoluted as it can get.

Simca is the bubbly, cheerful almost sidekick to the macho heroine. When she was first introduced, as said before, she almost settled into the manic pixie girl role, showing off her feminine wiles, her feminine traits, encouraging Ikki into using Air Treks, and being his inspiration. She's shown happy, flying, utterly ecstatic, and the ideal of flying. Simca's happiness is in the sky, and like a bird, she only finds freedom up there. Her philosophy is that those who want to fly should be allowed to, but she's grounded enough (more than likely thanks to her relationship with her brother) that she knows that something like that can be abused. A-Ts and flying is almost an obsession to her, and an utter fear to be able to lose that. The one thing she is most terrified in the world of is to be unable to fly again (something that happened to her once) which is actually what motivates her to join Sora's team in allowing everyone to fly.

This flying part of her is what sets up most of her personality. She's whimsical and carefree, doing whatever she wants whenever she wants with seemingly no thought of the consequences. This leads her to be impulsive and a big risk taker, and almost stupidly so at times, though this is often the impression she just wants to give off. She's very mischievous and devious in that way, capable of talking a smooth talk and walking a smooth walk, even bordering manipulative. Like Sora, who managed to make an entire audience to believe him to be a messiah, she is charismatic and can come off as almost idolized, her greatest skill being able to see people's strengths and "form teams". (She's observant like that)

She's hugely flirtatious and very aware of her sexual appeal, not afraid of using it to get what she wants and taking advantage of her feminine wiles and most people's weakness to that. She's confident in herself, confident in her looks, and has no shame in walking around naked or showing off the goods. In fact, she can come off as a very self-assured person, with not a fear in the world. This leads her to be almost dangerous in a way, putting herself in situations that one wrong move would end badly for her or others, even putting her own personal safety at risk. However, it should not be misunderstood that Simca is unaware of what she's doing or that she's too stupid to realize it. She's very intelligent and again, incredibly manipulative. When put into the position, she can become passive aggressive, goading people on by pressing their buttons and sharp-tongued and sarcastic. There are moments where are comments can be seen as harsh and almost cruel, though said in the sing-song tone that would make people momentarily think otherwise.

Because deep inside, underneath that mask, Simca can be an incredibly cruel person like the rest of the Gravity Children. She's not afraid to take advantage of people's weaknesses, to manipulate them into failure, or to emotionally wound and harm them. At times like this, it may seem that she nas no morals, but in fact, like her shame, she's willing to put it aside as a means to meet the end. In this way, it should be noted that she's very similar to her brother. Though their personalities are pretty much polar opposites, she is capable of doing whatever she can to get what she wants and to get that end, no matter who she uses in the process. However, Kilik is cold, shut off, and logical, while Simca is spontaneous, flamboyant, and runs with her heart instead of her brains.

And to continue about this mask, it is certainly something that holds up in all situations. She's seen to be the cool head in a storm, her smile never waning except in extreme situations, and even then, in a private place where no one can see her frown. She has only truly broken down twice, both on her own and only for a few moments. Simca's rare to cry, rare to get depressed, though her personality has mellowed out relatively since she's cut her hair (though by much). Because of her own emotional insecurities and flaws, she's quite aware of the failures emotionally of people around her, which adds to the fact that she's observant when it comes to other people (and chooses just to ignore her own downsides). Again, good leader, forming teams, etc.

Because of said masks and barriers, she's rare to react to anything in a non-flamboyant sort of matter. Weaknesses? No one sees them. Part of it is because she plays herself off as some sort of ideal, dream girl that all boys should chase and all the other girls want to be. In fact, this has become so natural to her that she's completely unused to chasing others. While this may make her seem shallow, Simca's anything but that. She honestly loves and she loves so much. She loves to laugh and she loves to smile and she loves to be happy and that's why she loves the sky so much. She loves the sky because that's what it brings her and everyone should have that. So despite her supposed selfishness, in the end, she's motivated by what other people should have.

Despite all of this though, it shouldn't be misunderstood that Simca is a bad person, because she's quite the opposite. She's a good person who's often, like the others, blinded by her own ideals and her own beliefs, regardless of how good-intentioned they are. But sometimes, it can be that she's living in a dream of some sort of idealized fantasy, and while her head's always in the sky, her feet will sometimes be on the ground.

ABILITIES:

Simca rides the Ring Road, as a former member of Tool Toul To. It's a mostly non-offensive support role that circles around the concept of "tuning", in that, the ability to create anything mechanically and tie riders with their Air Treks. It focuses on sound and the rider with their rhythm, and because of this, those who ride the Ring Road are exceptionally skilled hearing-wise and almost integrated with sound and the vibrations thereof. They can also take apart and put back anything mechanically, though it mostly focuses on Air Treks.

Simca also has the ability to be the Pledge King.

And as a Gravity Child, she is physiologically different from a normal human being, capable of withstanding enormous amounts of pressure and being relatively stronger in most aspects than humans. But most notably from being a Gravity Child are her Twinkle Eyes -- cross-shaped pupils that she wears contacts over. This is because of modification within her "cerebral cortex known as the Solid Sense Type and Biomass Gyroscope. Collectively, these enhancements grant them superlative ability in riding A·T. This allows them to see 3D scales of their surroundings."

THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:

She often wondered how Mess-chan would fair in a place like this. And then she would realize how sad it was that she was thinking this, and that maybe her dear swallow didn't deserve to be where she was, because he did nothing wrong and he was only in the wrong place at the wrong time, and even then, that wasn't completely accurate. He was a sweet thing and he certainly wasn't crazy as she (could birds be crazy? there were odd birds, of course, but they certainly weren't insane.) and so that was fine. After all, he was already in one cage, so why should he be in another?

And she thought about laughing at that, about how appropriate that was. And how ironic. Definitely ironic.

But irony wasn't important here. And neither were her beliefs. It was a cage with bars and a pretty little perch for her to sit on and even the master who would come and feed her from time to time and play with her to keep her happy.

It was awfully accurate to a bird cage.

But they were everywhere she looked, it seemed. She was born in a cage, raised in a cage, grew up in a cage, escaped from the cage, only to return to another and another and another.

There was a small smile (maybe one filled with bitterness or happiness, she didn't know) and fingers laced on her lap, leaning back in the wheelchair with pink locks curling around her neck. And then she couldn't help but wonder how Crow was doing and she missed him, she did. And he was her precious baby bird with his growing wings and he was flying, flying!, and she was missing it. But she missed everything except the awful sound of water that still made her shiver at the thought, heart pounding in her ears. Things like that didn't bode well in a place where white walls always closed in. Made her seem a little crazy.

She laughed out loud. Not because it was funny. But because it was true. And truth was often hilarious. There was a moment's shifting, and she thought a bit more. (all she did was think. not that there was actually much for her to do.)

Mess-chan wouldn't do well here, she decided. After all, it wasn't fair to move a bird from one cage to another.

The bird's wings would eventually stiffen and it would have no will to escape.

And she supposed that was exactly what they wanted.

FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:

[ the journal picks up a long whistle of a tune before a giggle and a humming voice speaks up. ]

Hello? Is this thing on? Oh, woe is me! A poor girl trapped in a big, dark castle with no knight in shining armor at her side. Whatever shall she do? What scary monster will come gobble her up as she sits defenseless and terrified?

[ another laugh and the dramatics stop. for all of a second. ]

Isn't this rude? Just interrupting me in the middle of my su-uuper important stuff to wind up in some silly alternate dimension with not even a please or thank you! Someone should teach this mean ol' castle some manners! Or at least a lesson in proper etiquette towards a wo ~ man ~

Mmn! It's pretty warm in here too! Maybe I should get a little com ~ for ~ ta ~ ble ~

[ ♥]

Oh my! Don't peak, naughty!

INTENT:

y do u hate me