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vengefulshades) wrote2014-01-09 12:38 pm
vengefulshades) wrote2014-01-09 12:38 pm
Application for Mask or Menace
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: GG
AGE: 28
JOURNAL:ggmoonycrisco
IM / EMAIL: FullArmoredGG / theggning @ gmail.com
PLURK: theggnator
RETURNING: YES ACTUALLY
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Yomiel (AKA The Manipulator)
CHARACTER AGE: ??? (physically appears to be in his 20s. Chronologically, in his 30s)
SERIES: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
CHRONOLOGY: Chapter 16, just prior to having his shard removed
CLASS: Anti-Villain/Villain attempting to reform but being bad at it
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine
BACKGROUND: WARNING: A few big ol' spoilers for Yomiel's involvement in Ghost Trick. Which you should play. Because it's awesome.
Yomiel was one of the top systems engineers in "this country", and he was hired by the government to design a new database for top-secret information. Unfortunately, the project was a target for dozens of criminal organizations, and it was suspected that someone on the inside was leaking information. As the designer of the core system itself, Yomiel had access to all of the information, and he was arrested on the false suspicion of being a spy.
In questioning, Yomiel was grilled by the rookie Inspector Cabanela, who was so convincing in his interrogation that Yomiel was pushed to desperation. When Cabanela left his gun in the room by mistake, Yomiel stole it and escaped from the police station, with Cabanela's partner Detective Jowd hot on his trail. Jowd followed Yomiel to Temsik Park, where the cornered Yomiel took a child hostage at gunpoint. The standoff was ended when a miracle occurred-- a strange meteorite crashed into the ground in the center of the park, and a fragment of it broke off and struck Yomiel in the back, piercing his heart and killing him instantly.
The Temsik meteorite, however, was no ordinary rock. The deceased Yomiel's spirit became a ghost and developed ghost tricks, or "powers of the dead" that allowed his soul to possess and control living creatures. Furthermore, due to the chunk of Temsik embedded in his body, Yomiel's corpse could heal from any and all injuries, even any attempt at an autopsy. After suffering from amnesia for a few days, his ghost abruptly regained the memories of his life. Possessing his own corpse, Yomiel got up and walked out of the morgue.
Unfortunately, his luck turned out to be more of a curse. In his state, as little more than a ghost steering a corpse, Yomiel could not age or die. He couldn't feel any pain, and with his name in the record as a deceased criminal, he couldn't live like a normal person anymore. To make matters worse, Yomiel's fiancee committed suicide when she heard about his death from the police. He arrived moments too late to save her. To add insult to injury, Yomiel was "posthumously" acquitted of all charges six months after the incident, too late for it to matter at all. He was alone in the world, separated from all other people by his ghostly existence.
His only comfort in the world came from a stray black kitten he found in the park where he'd died. Yomiel became deeply attached to the cat, even naming him after his dead fiancee. For ten years, Yomiel kept the cat as a pet and confidant, though a little cat couldn't heal the anger and sorrow festering away in his owner's heart.
Yomiel grew bitter and twisted as the years went by. Lonely and despising his fate, he began to long for revenge against those who had ruined his life-- Cabanela, Jowd, and even Lynne, the little girl he'd taken hostage. He developed his powers to the point where he could now control people against their will, then set out to punish his enemies, starting with the man who'd confronted him at the moment of his death.
Five years after the incident in the park, Yomiel went to Jowd's apartment and manipulated his daughter to rig up a trap, murdering Jowd's wife. In order to protect his daughter, Jowd claimed to have killed his wife himself, insisting on receiving the death penalty to end any risk that someone would look into the truth.
That was only the first of Yomiel's crimes using his new abilities. He became known as "the manipulator," for his ability to control other people against their will, though very few agencies actually believed in his existence. Only Inspector Cabanela and his Special Investigation unit studied the manipulator as a serious entity-- everything to do with the case was kept out of public knowledge in a secret prison facility. All the criminals who were suspected to have been manipulated into their crimes were kept there, including Detective Jowd. The Manipulator's other victims were not chosen randomly; their crimes were acted out according to "predictions" Yomiel had made to a foreign government ("that country"), a method of proving that he had the powers he claimed to.
Wishing to disappear completely, Yomiel had decided to sell himself and his abilities to the foreign government on two conditions. First, they must assist him in his revenge plot, speeding up Jowd's execution and helping Yomiel clean up the other targets who knew about Temsik. Second, he wanted a "new life"-- a physical receptacle for his soul, a loving family, and a normal identity. The foreigners agreed to the terms and scheduled to pick him up at dawn.
The night before he was to leave the country, Yomiel set about tying up his loose ends, eliminating everyone who knew about the Temsik incident through a complicated plan of murder, framing, and the manipulation of the ministry of justice. After murdering Cabanela in cold blood, Yomiel was picked up by the foreign government's submarine, where two things became apparent: firstly, that there were other ghosts roaming the city that night, unraveling Yomiel's plans piece by piece; and secondly, that he had been double-crossed by the foreign government, who intended to steal the Temsik shard from his body and leave his ghost to rot at the bottom of the ocean.
Mere seconds after this revelation, Yomiel was pulled back to Heropa.
PERSONALITY:
The man in the red suit is an enigma for the greater portion of Ghost Trick's storyline, and most of the time, he isn't even "himself." By the time Yomiel truly reveals himself, he has already spent ten years as an immortal, deathless anomaly of nature. Literally a "ghost in a shell", he has been isolated from other people due to his condition and has spent all that time completely unable to cope with his fate. Desperately lonely with no end in sight, Yomiel is an angry and vengeful person, a scheming force of chaos in search of some purpose for his unwanted eternal life.
He is the mysterious criminal known to the government as "The Manipulator," using his ghostly powers to force other people into doing his bidding without their knowledge. His crimes are not petty, however, nor are they random. Everything he does feeds into his obsession with punishing those he perceives as responsible for the deaths of his fiancee and himself, or those who get in the way of that revenge.
Yomiel is clearly a smooth customer, given his flashy style of dress, his cool personality and his sarcastic way of speaking. He is very intelligent and clever, having been a talented systems engineer and a computer programmer in life. Every move he makes is carefully plotted and fits into a larger plan. He is skilled at manipulating others, both literally (with his powers) and in a more general sense-- his cunning revenge plot involves political maneuvering, international wheeling-and-dealing, and tying the hands of important officials so that Yomiel will get what he wants.
His crimes, too, are more about brains than brawn. Any brute can point a gun and kill someone, but as part of satisfying his thirst for revenge, Yomiel adds a darkly personal touch to those he targets: making Jowd believe that his own daughter killed his wife; turning the superintendent's research project into a bomb; forcing Cabanela to walk with broken limbs and falsely outing him as a traitor; framing Lynne for murder. His pain has made him sadistic and cruel, and there's little he won't do to someone he feels deserves it.
When his carefully-laid plans fall apart, though, Yomiel appears to have difficulty handling the pressure. When cornered, he seems to lose his grasp on rationality and has the tendency to lash out. When he is falsely accused of espionage and interrogated, his calm is shattered and his ensuing rampage brands him an actual criminal. It is this fatal mistake that leads to his death in the first place, though Yomiel seems unable to admit it. Guilt and despair have clouded his judgement to where he seemingly can't take responsibility for his own part in events, throwing blame on anyone and everyone else to escape it himself. He comes off as selfish and completely delusional in this sense. His death was a "murder" when it was really just a freak accident. The authorities who pursued him "made" him take a hostage at gunpoint. He even viciously blames his hostage, a child, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yomiel feels little remorse for the lives he wrecks in his pursuit of revenge, just because his life was ruined, too.
Yet none of these wicked traits come naturally to Yomiel-- they are all the result of his ten years of loneliness, grief, and pain. There isn't much mention of what Yomiel was like before his death, given he's the villain for most of the game, but there are many clues to paint a better picture of his original personality. Most of these clues suggest a decent person. He is an animal-lover; in ten years, his only friend has been his cat, which he adopted as a stray kitten. He states that his greatest desire is to live a normal life and die a normal death, surrounded by a loving family. He also expresses regret that his powers are unable to help other people, suggesting that he considered using them like an undead superhero for a while until despair led him down a darker path.
Also tellingly, Yomiel was engaged to be married before the accident. His fiancee is so devoted to him that she commits suicide upon hearing about his death, not knowing of his strange condition. Yomiel is the one to discover her body, mere moments too late, and her loss is the thing that truly drives him over the edge. Deep down, her death infuriates him even more than his own does, and his heartbreak over losing her is the fuel for much of his anger.
As much as his actions depict a heartless and bitter monster, it's reasonable to assume that Yomiel is still capable of being saved. He seems emotionally unable (on top of being literally unable) to strike out at Sissel even when he realizes that he's the one upending Yomiel's plans on the long night. He later feels touched when Lynne expresses her empathy for his plight. He will listen to reason if it's offered by a sympathetic person, and even a few friends could go a long way in soothing his hatred. After ten years of darkness, Yomiel is drawn to light wherever he can find it; whether it's genuine kindness towards him or the twisted, distorted kind he creates through revenge.
ADDENDUM: Yomiel is a returning character to MoM. His first time around, he started off trying to lay low, but then conducted an elaborate scheme to get to the Porter and use his manipulation powers to control it, in the hopes that he could use it to bring his dead fiancee back to life-- or find a way to permanently off himself with it. In the process, he forced half a dozen people to commit crimes for his sake, and later framed someone for murder.
Later, in another half-baked attempt to try to end his crappy unlife, he took multiple people hostage and threatened to kill one per hour unless one person per hour came and tried to kill him. This ended in failure and he was arrested and jailed in a special cell that wouldn't allow his ghost to pass through it.
In between all his tantrums and bullshit, he befriended several other characters, including Greed and Shinjiro Aragaki, and the empathy of the latter particularly gave him some second thoughts about his tantrums and bullshit.
Returning to his canon at the exact instant he left it, Yomiel continued his murderous revenge plot, and had only just realized he had been betrayed by "that country" before zapping back into Heropa. This betrayal will remind him of the futility of his tantruming murder plots in solving his problems, but will also make him more amenable to trying to do things straight and narrow this time.
POWER:
Thanks to the accident that killed him, Yomiel has a shard of the Temsik meteorite embedded in his body. This shard pierced his heart and "killed" him, though also granted him incredible supernatural abilities known as the powers of the dead, or "ghost tricks."
Immortality:
Due to the meteorite embedded inside him, Yomiel's body has become immortal. He constantly hovers in the moments between life and death, so is technically neither alive nor dead. He doesn't eat, sleep, breathe or perform any other living functions. He feels no pain and does not age. We see him lean on barbed wire and hold his hand on a burning stove without any reaction whatsoever. In fact, Yomiel's body has the ability to regenerate itself almost instantaneously from any sort of damage. He is unsuccessfully autopsied, shot, impaled, and caught in an explosion over the course of the game, and within seconds he's back on his feet as though it never happened.
Possession:
As a ghost, Yomiel is able to separate his soul from his body. Leaving his corpse behind, he can possess inanimate objects and manipulate them. For instance, he can make a door open, turn on a light, roll a chair across the floor... typical ghost stuff. This ability is actually the method by which he moves his body, a corpse. He seems to have greater, more powerful control over inanimate objects than other ghosts we see in the game, even controlling multiple objects at once-- he is able to construct and manipulate a complex "body" out of junk when he loses his own. He also seems to be able to control objects around him while still manipulating his body to stand-- if his ghost goes too far, his body will collapse like the corpse it is.
Yomiel's ghost is also able to travel long-distances through phone lines. He cannot move "wirelessly," only through physical cables and land lines.
Manipulation:
Yomiel is also able to possess and manipulate living things, either animals or human beings. It is shown that people who are manipulated by Yomiel seem to lose consciousness while they're being controlled, and often have hazy memories of what happened afterwards with little recollection of what they were doing. It is possible to fight his control to some extent, but no one is observed being able to deny his influence completely. (Obviously, his abilities will come along with a permissions post.)
Any characters with ghost or death-related powers will be able to "see" his ghost, inside or out of his body.
FINAL NOTES:
In life, Yomiel was a renowned computer programmer and systems engineer, one of the very best in the industry. He was personally sought out and hired by the government to help reorganize their data storage, so it's safe to say that he is very talented with computers and technology. He is an excellent hacker and can figure out most electronic devices with ease.
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
Here
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Here
NAME: GG
AGE: 28
JOURNAL:
ggmoonycriscoIM / EMAIL: FullArmoredGG / theggning @ gmail.com
PLURK: theggnator
RETURNING: YES ACTUALLY
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Yomiel (AKA The Manipulator)
CHARACTER AGE: ??? (physically appears to be in his 20s. Chronologically, in his 30s)
SERIES: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
CHRONOLOGY: Chapter 16, just prior to having his shard removed
CLASS: Anti-Villain/Villain attempting to reform but being bad at it
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine
BACKGROUND: WARNING: A few big ol' spoilers for Yomiel's involvement in Ghost Trick. Which you should play. Because it's awesome.
Yomiel was one of the top systems engineers in "this country", and he was hired by the government to design a new database for top-secret information. Unfortunately, the project was a target for dozens of criminal organizations, and it was suspected that someone on the inside was leaking information. As the designer of the core system itself, Yomiel had access to all of the information, and he was arrested on the false suspicion of being a spy.
In questioning, Yomiel was grilled by the rookie Inspector Cabanela, who was so convincing in his interrogation that Yomiel was pushed to desperation. When Cabanela left his gun in the room by mistake, Yomiel stole it and escaped from the police station, with Cabanela's partner Detective Jowd hot on his trail. Jowd followed Yomiel to Temsik Park, where the cornered Yomiel took a child hostage at gunpoint. The standoff was ended when a miracle occurred-- a strange meteorite crashed into the ground in the center of the park, and a fragment of it broke off and struck Yomiel in the back, piercing his heart and killing him instantly.
The Temsik meteorite, however, was no ordinary rock. The deceased Yomiel's spirit became a ghost and developed ghost tricks, or "powers of the dead" that allowed his soul to possess and control living creatures. Furthermore, due to the chunk of Temsik embedded in his body, Yomiel's corpse could heal from any and all injuries, even any attempt at an autopsy. After suffering from amnesia for a few days, his ghost abruptly regained the memories of his life. Possessing his own corpse, Yomiel got up and walked out of the morgue.
Unfortunately, his luck turned out to be more of a curse. In his state, as little more than a ghost steering a corpse, Yomiel could not age or die. He couldn't feel any pain, and with his name in the record as a deceased criminal, he couldn't live like a normal person anymore. To make matters worse, Yomiel's fiancee committed suicide when she heard about his death from the police. He arrived moments too late to save her. To add insult to injury, Yomiel was "posthumously" acquitted of all charges six months after the incident, too late for it to matter at all. He was alone in the world, separated from all other people by his ghostly existence.
His only comfort in the world came from a stray black kitten he found in the park where he'd died. Yomiel became deeply attached to the cat, even naming him after his dead fiancee. For ten years, Yomiel kept the cat as a pet and confidant, though a little cat couldn't heal the anger and sorrow festering away in his owner's heart.
Yomiel grew bitter and twisted as the years went by. Lonely and despising his fate, he began to long for revenge against those who had ruined his life-- Cabanela, Jowd, and even Lynne, the little girl he'd taken hostage. He developed his powers to the point where he could now control people against their will, then set out to punish his enemies, starting with the man who'd confronted him at the moment of his death.
Five years after the incident in the park, Yomiel went to Jowd's apartment and manipulated his daughter to rig up a trap, murdering Jowd's wife. In order to protect his daughter, Jowd claimed to have killed his wife himself, insisting on receiving the death penalty to end any risk that someone would look into the truth.
That was only the first of Yomiel's crimes using his new abilities. He became known as "the manipulator," for his ability to control other people against their will, though very few agencies actually believed in his existence. Only Inspector Cabanela and his Special Investigation unit studied the manipulator as a serious entity-- everything to do with the case was kept out of public knowledge in a secret prison facility. All the criminals who were suspected to have been manipulated into their crimes were kept there, including Detective Jowd. The Manipulator's other victims were not chosen randomly; their crimes were acted out according to "predictions" Yomiel had made to a foreign government ("that country"), a method of proving that he had the powers he claimed to.
Wishing to disappear completely, Yomiel had decided to sell himself and his abilities to the foreign government on two conditions. First, they must assist him in his revenge plot, speeding up Jowd's execution and helping Yomiel clean up the other targets who knew about Temsik. Second, he wanted a "new life"-- a physical receptacle for his soul, a loving family, and a normal identity. The foreigners agreed to the terms and scheduled to pick him up at dawn.
The night before he was to leave the country, Yomiel set about tying up his loose ends, eliminating everyone who knew about the Temsik incident through a complicated plan of murder, framing, and the manipulation of the ministry of justice. After murdering Cabanela in cold blood, Yomiel was picked up by the foreign government's submarine, where two things became apparent: firstly, that there were other ghosts roaming the city that night, unraveling Yomiel's plans piece by piece; and secondly, that he had been double-crossed by the foreign government, who intended to steal the Temsik shard from his body and leave his ghost to rot at the bottom of the ocean.
Mere seconds after this revelation, Yomiel was pulled back to Heropa.
PERSONALITY:
The man in the red suit is an enigma for the greater portion of Ghost Trick's storyline, and most of the time, he isn't even "himself." By the time Yomiel truly reveals himself, he has already spent ten years as an immortal, deathless anomaly of nature. Literally a "ghost in a shell", he has been isolated from other people due to his condition and has spent all that time completely unable to cope with his fate. Desperately lonely with no end in sight, Yomiel is an angry and vengeful person, a scheming force of chaos in search of some purpose for his unwanted eternal life.
He is the mysterious criminal known to the government as "The Manipulator," using his ghostly powers to force other people into doing his bidding without their knowledge. His crimes are not petty, however, nor are they random. Everything he does feeds into his obsession with punishing those he perceives as responsible for the deaths of his fiancee and himself, or those who get in the way of that revenge.
Yomiel is clearly a smooth customer, given his flashy style of dress, his cool personality and his sarcastic way of speaking. He is very intelligent and clever, having been a talented systems engineer and a computer programmer in life. Every move he makes is carefully plotted and fits into a larger plan. He is skilled at manipulating others, both literally (with his powers) and in a more general sense-- his cunning revenge plot involves political maneuvering, international wheeling-and-dealing, and tying the hands of important officials so that Yomiel will get what he wants.
His crimes, too, are more about brains than brawn. Any brute can point a gun and kill someone, but as part of satisfying his thirst for revenge, Yomiel adds a darkly personal touch to those he targets: making Jowd believe that his own daughter killed his wife; turning the superintendent's research project into a bomb; forcing Cabanela to walk with broken limbs and falsely outing him as a traitor; framing Lynne for murder. His pain has made him sadistic and cruel, and there's little he won't do to someone he feels deserves it.
When his carefully-laid plans fall apart, though, Yomiel appears to have difficulty handling the pressure. When cornered, he seems to lose his grasp on rationality and has the tendency to lash out. When he is falsely accused of espionage and interrogated, his calm is shattered and his ensuing rampage brands him an actual criminal. It is this fatal mistake that leads to his death in the first place, though Yomiel seems unable to admit it. Guilt and despair have clouded his judgement to where he seemingly can't take responsibility for his own part in events, throwing blame on anyone and everyone else to escape it himself. He comes off as selfish and completely delusional in this sense. His death was a "murder" when it was really just a freak accident. The authorities who pursued him "made" him take a hostage at gunpoint. He even viciously blames his hostage, a child, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yomiel feels little remorse for the lives he wrecks in his pursuit of revenge, just because his life was ruined, too.
Yet none of these wicked traits come naturally to Yomiel-- they are all the result of his ten years of loneliness, grief, and pain. There isn't much mention of what Yomiel was like before his death, given he's the villain for most of the game, but there are many clues to paint a better picture of his original personality. Most of these clues suggest a decent person. He is an animal-lover; in ten years, his only friend has been his cat, which he adopted as a stray kitten. He states that his greatest desire is to live a normal life and die a normal death, surrounded by a loving family. He also expresses regret that his powers are unable to help other people, suggesting that he considered using them like an undead superhero for a while until despair led him down a darker path.
Also tellingly, Yomiel was engaged to be married before the accident. His fiancee is so devoted to him that she commits suicide upon hearing about his death, not knowing of his strange condition. Yomiel is the one to discover her body, mere moments too late, and her loss is the thing that truly drives him over the edge. Deep down, her death infuriates him even more than his own does, and his heartbreak over losing her is the fuel for much of his anger.
As much as his actions depict a heartless and bitter monster, it's reasonable to assume that Yomiel is still capable of being saved. He seems emotionally unable (on top of being literally unable) to strike out at Sissel even when he realizes that he's the one upending Yomiel's plans on the long night. He later feels touched when Lynne expresses her empathy for his plight. He will listen to reason if it's offered by a sympathetic person, and even a few friends could go a long way in soothing his hatred. After ten years of darkness, Yomiel is drawn to light wherever he can find it; whether it's genuine kindness towards him or the twisted, distorted kind he creates through revenge.
ADDENDUM: Yomiel is a returning character to MoM. His first time around, he started off trying to lay low, but then conducted an elaborate scheme to get to the Porter and use his manipulation powers to control it, in the hopes that he could use it to bring his dead fiancee back to life-- or find a way to permanently off himself with it. In the process, he forced half a dozen people to commit crimes for his sake, and later framed someone for murder.
Later, in another half-baked attempt to try to end his crappy unlife, he took multiple people hostage and threatened to kill one per hour unless one person per hour came and tried to kill him. This ended in failure and he was arrested and jailed in a special cell that wouldn't allow his ghost to pass through it.
In between all his tantrums and bullshit, he befriended several other characters, including Greed and Shinjiro Aragaki, and the empathy of the latter particularly gave him some second thoughts about his tantrums and bullshit.
Returning to his canon at the exact instant he left it, Yomiel continued his murderous revenge plot, and had only just realized he had been betrayed by "that country" before zapping back into Heropa. This betrayal will remind him of the futility of his tantruming murder plots in solving his problems, but will also make him more amenable to trying to do things straight and narrow this time.
POWER:
Thanks to the accident that killed him, Yomiel has a shard of the Temsik meteorite embedded in his body. This shard pierced his heart and "killed" him, though also granted him incredible supernatural abilities known as the powers of the dead, or "ghost tricks."
Immortality:
Due to the meteorite embedded inside him, Yomiel's body has become immortal. He constantly hovers in the moments between life and death, so is technically neither alive nor dead. He doesn't eat, sleep, breathe or perform any other living functions. He feels no pain and does not age. We see him lean on barbed wire and hold his hand on a burning stove without any reaction whatsoever. In fact, Yomiel's body has the ability to regenerate itself almost instantaneously from any sort of damage. He is unsuccessfully autopsied, shot, impaled, and caught in an explosion over the course of the game, and within seconds he's back on his feet as though it never happened.
Possession:
As a ghost, Yomiel is able to separate his soul from his body. Leaving his corpse behind, he can possess inanimate objects and manipulate them. For instance, he can make a door open, turn on a light, roll a chair across the floor... typical ghost stuff. This ability is actually the method by which he moves his body, a corpse. He seems to have greater, more powerful control over inanimate objects than other ghosts we see in the game, even controlling multiple objects at once-- he is able to construct and manipulate a complex "body" out of junk when he loses his own. He also seems to be able to control objects around him while still manipulating his body to stand-- if his ghost goes too far, his body will collapse like the corpse it is.
Yomiel's ghost is also able to travel long-distances through phone lines. He cannot move "wirelessly," only through physical cables and land lines.
Manipulation:
Yomiel is also able to possess and manipulate living things, either animals or human beings. It is shown that people who are manipulated by Yomiel seem to lose consciousness while they're being controlled, and often have hazy memories of what happened afterwards with little recollection of what they were doing. It is possible to fight his control to some extent, but no one is observed being able to deny his influence completely. (Obviously, his abilities will come along with a permissions post.)
Any characters with ghost or death-related powers will be able to "see" his ghost, inside or out of his body.
FINAL NOTES:
In life, Yomiel was a renowned computer programmer and systems engineer, one of the very best in the industry. He was personally sought out and hired by the government to help reorganize their data storage, so it's safe to say that he is very talented with computers and technology. He is an excellent hacker and can figure out most electronic devices with ease.
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
Here
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Here