Player name: Trudy
AIM contact: HealingPink
Alternate contacts: selphish (gTalk), selphish (Plurk)
Character name: Kaname Chidori
Source canon: Full Metal Panic!
Community tag: Kaname Chidori
Do I want a HMD: No, I'll set up my own.
Notes: The brunt of this app is reused from my app for SRTMush (
http://srtmush.wikia.com/wiki/SRT_MUSH_Wiki), where I played Kaname for several years. If you have any questions/concerns or need further clarification, let me know. Application sections that do not apply to Kaname (e.g., original canon details, information regarding a unit, etc.) has been removed from this app for further ease of reading.
Background: Kaname Chidori spent the first ten years of her life in her birthplace of Japan with her father, mother, and younger sister. Exempting the one time she ran away from home at the age of eight, she lived a seemingly perfectly normal life.
But that all changed when her father was offered the position of Environmental High Commissioner of the ESUN (United Nations in original FMP! canon). Kaname was unceremoniously moved from one side of the world to the other, and spent most of her elementary and junior high school years in suburban New York.
Her mother's health began to decline after a few years in the U.S., and at the end of the American school year, her family moved back to Japan, where she enrolled in Jindai Junior High. Shortly after the transfer, Kaname was briefly put under house arrest for malicious damage to school property. Three months later, her mother died of cancer.
Three years after the death of her mother, her father and younger sister moved back to New York; Kaname chose to stay in Japan and moved into her own apartment, where she continued her education at Jindai High School. Apart from her living arrangements (which set her several thousand miles away from her immediate family), life was back to normal for Kaname--until Sousuke Sagara transferred into her life.
Personality: In many ways, Kaname Chidori isn't a stereotypical Japanese girl; where most Japanese are passive and permissive, Kaname is their opposite: outspoken, aggressive, and temperamental. Unlike most of her peers, she isn't afraid to speak her mind, and is, at times, dangerously blunt. It is perhaps the years she spent abroad in America that helped to shape her into the antithesis of the archetypal Japanese.
Generally, Kaname is good-natured and helpful, and only a few people (namely Sousuke Sagara) are able to provoke her into aggression; when she's angry, though, she's not afraid to express it physically, be it in the form of a harisen beating or via a swift kick to the face. It is likely due to her spirited personality that Kaname has been described by her peers as "the girl that everyone likes, but no one wants to date".
Despite her forceful personality, Kaname is genuinely a responsible and selfless person, who cares about those around her in situations both life-threatening and mundane. From her stubborn refusal to escape to Mithril's submarine without Kurz and Sousuke to disguising herself as a beautiful, sophisticated older woman when Sousuke's attempt to capture the hearts of women as part of a club contest resulted in complete failure, it's easy to see that Kaname is a kind and considerate person--even if it's a facet of her personality she doesn't expose very often.
Kaname's relationship with her family is best described as complicated. After her mother's death, and likely even before it, Kaname has had a strained relationship with her father. It was due to their tense relationship that Kaname likely chose to stay in Japan in lieu of moving back to America with her father and younger sister. She does, however, stay in contact with her family via her sister Ayame, who is presumably on good terms with her, even despite their infrequent contact.
Like many civilians, Kaname isn't pleased there's a war going on, but also accepts it as a part of reality. There's no helping it, she reasons, given the massive differences between those involved in the conflict. Still, despite her dissatisfaction with the current state of events, she has no intentions of getting involved in the battle, beyond keeping up-to-date with her current events. As far as Kaname's concerned, all she wants is to live the normal life of a
normal high school student.
But it seems that outside forces are determined to prevent that.
Capabilities and Resources: Though Kaname lacks the skill to pilot a mech, she does have another ability that makes her a useful ally; she is a Whispered, a group of psychics with the ability to receive advanced technological information in the form of whispers that only she and other Whispered can hear.
Like all other Whispered, Kaname was born as a normal child, and as she grew in intellect and maturity, began to hear whispers. Those Whispers result in not only in a tangible rise of intelligence (to the point where many Whispereds can be called geniuses), but also in the occasional burble of intellect in the form of technology or situational wisdom. These whispers do not come without their detriments, as it is possible for them to overtake a Whispered and lead to a breakdown.
Aside from having access to large amounts of technology, the Whispered also have the ability to communicate with one another telepathically over great distances, and even shortly after death. However, if the Whispered resonate for too long or too deeply, it is possible that they will lose themselves completely.
However, Kaname also has a few mundane talents that make her a formidable force on the ground; she's won competitions in both swimming and track, and is extremely athletic. Any terrorist organization looking to capture this Whispered will have to be ready for a fight--or at the very least, a valiant struggle.
Type: Non-Combatant
Mission requirement: Yes -- attempted kidnapping by Gauron during her class trip to Okinawa.
Suggested Event List: - Attempted abduction of Kaname Chidori (first half of the original FMP! series).
- Attack on the Tuatha de Danaan (second half of the original FMP! series).
- Mithril's investigation into Amalgam; Sousuke's mission to protect Kaname is terminated, and he is re-assigned to the TDD-1. (FMP! TSR)
Sample post: It's after school, and fortunately, with no cleaning duties or student council meeting to keep her preoccupied, Kaname Chidori is about to head home for the day. And though Meiya and Macua are both preoccupied with their work, Kaname Chidori is not leaving school alone. Walking alongside her on her way down the hallway to the school entrance is Kyoko Tokiwa, one of Kaname's closest friends.
And close behind them is one Sousuke Sagara, who Kaname Chidori seems completely determined to ignore.
"Yeah, I can't believe it! Didn't she say she liked that other guy? The one in class 3-2 with the brown hair," Kaname says, as she pushes open the doors of the school.
"I think so," comments Kyoko. "She really seemed to like him! I wonder why she ended up going out with Morioka..."
"How can she move from one guy to the next so easily?" There's a hint of exasperation in Kaname's voice. "It's like, choose one and get it over with! You shouldn't just go out with a guy just because he asks you!"
Kyoko looks at Kaname with wide, curious eyes, her head tilted slightly to the side. "Do you speak from experience, Kaname?"
For a moment, Kaname Chidori is paralyzed; was it that obvious?! It takes a second moment before she can finally press the words forward: "O-of course not!" And with that Kaname lets out her trademark laugh--the same nervous laugh she lets out whenever they stumble upon a topic that she'd rather not talk about.
"If you say so." It's clear from Kyoko's tone of voice that she isn't quite buying Kaname's answer.
Kaname pushes the doors to the school entrance open; the two girls step out into the warm summer sun. Kaname reflexively moves her hand to her brow in an attempt to shield her eyes from its glaring rays. It's not even August yet, but the weather's already suffocatingly hot. The topic shifts to the latest episode of Kumodoushin, but the conversation draws to a halt as they do, at the school gate.
"See you tomorrow, Kyoko!"
"See you, Kaname!"
And though the boy soldier still follows close behind, Kaname begins her walk to Senkawa Station, as if he wasn't even there at all.
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