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[moes]

PLAYER
Name: Len
Age: 20
Personal Journal: moes
E-mail: tsunderbolts@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc:

( AIM ) hightouches
( PLURK ) endlesseight

CHARACTER
Name: Iori Nagase
Canon: Kokoro Connect (light novel)
Age: 17
Timeline: post-Michi Random.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: --

Personality:

❝ "Live your own life".
His words left me completely stunned,
I didn't even know what I liked or what I wanted to do with my life
because after trying to live for somebody else,
well, I completely forgotten who I even was. ❞

Ever since she was a little girl, Iori Nagase has always attempted to present herself as the "perfect girl"; one who didn't live her life for herself, but for the sake of other people. And because of that, she sometimes comes off as a rather bold, yet easygoing girl.

The reason Iori acts like this is simple - she's always had to live her life adapting to the conditions that changed around her, especially with her second father, who tended to get violent. When she slowly realized that if she could play the role of someone who could do anything her parents asked to appease them, she slowly learned that this was good and that it worked. Because it worked, she decided to continue on doing exactly that - being able to carefully adjust her personality depending on who she was with, becoming that type of "Iori Nagase" towards them, and therefore, giving people a strong impression of what kind of girl she was. Basically, the type of girl that she came off to be was the type of person who was agreeable; completely and utterly likable, a person whom anybody could become friends with.

However, to Iori, living a life like that is difficult, especially when things crash and burn. She's the type of person who believes that she's intuitive - that she can see underneath people's personalities and then act like anything to match, having the ability to change her "masks", or rather, her own personality to benefit other people. But if she can't see through people - for example, she was unable to notice Yui's androphobia even though Inaba did - she finds herself stuck, visibly upset because she's unable to do something that she's most proud of.

❝ Just be free. Do whatever you like.
Since that's what I was told, it's what I did, but...
What was it I wanted to do?
What was it that I liked?
Which one... was the real me again? ❞

When it comes down to it, Iori is a girl with a personality crisis; she doesn't know who the real "her" is, what she likes, what she doesn't like, so she believes that it's just best to do what she's been doing all along, which is to go along with the crowd. The problem with this is the fact that when two groups conflict - like for example in Kako Random, where she knows she shouldn't leave the abandoned building due to the phenomenon, but she has to go save her mother - she finds herself unable to make a decision, which leads her to almost break down.

Iori soon finds out the truth behind her personality - in the words of her good friend, Inaba Himeko, she is a dualist; a person who splits things in two distinct categories, 'can do it' and 'cannot do it'. But with that realization, she finds that she doesn't have to pretend to be someone else. That if she cannot do something, she doesn't have to switch from her "ideal self" to her "horrible self". All she has to do is be herself.

But what is the true Nagase Iori like? It's true that her personality does change who she's with regardless of it all; she can make really bad jokes that sometimes have innuendos, that she can be cheerful around her friends to the point where she'll yell "Yahoo!" in the middle of class, that she's a bold girl with a can-do attitude, willing to do whatever whatever it takes to protect not only her mother, but her really close friends as well. She's also a rather good mediator, even though she honestly admits that it's not a fun position to be in.

In truth, Nagase Iori is simply that: a normal girl who wants to have a normal life. She absolutely abhors all supernatural phenomena, especially if it affects her, or her friends. Even though she may come out as a tough girl at times, it's just an act to reassure others when she's scared. Iori's honestly just a fun girl to be around - she's energetic, loves to play around with other people, and be honestly friendly to most people. That is, as long as they don't do anything horrible to her.

Besides, all you really need to know about Iori is that she's an unpredictable girl who'll simply go with the flow, no matter what happens. There may be many puzzle pieces to this girl, but she is who she is because of the past, and because of the relationships she's made. And that makes her all the more stronger for it. It's her life. She's going to do whatever she wants with it. She may have some trouble down the road which may cause her to slip back into the habits of who she used to be - but that's only because she hasn't truly figured out who she is yet, and that's something she's bound to figure out.

Background: Here.

Abilities: She's a normal human, so she doesn't have any special abilities at all whatsoever.

First Person: one + two from a previous game I had her at, feel free to ask for more if needed.

Third Person:

"Maybe it's this way? No, that way."

Iori's head turned frantically left and right as she brought her hand above her brow, lifting her heels to see through the fog. She had already exited the train hours prior, seeing if she could somehow get onto another train back, but was now pacing around the station, wondering which way she should go. Should she go left? Should she go right? Forward? Backward?

She wasn't sure.

Humming as she finally stopped in her tracks, her hand under her chin as she hummed inquisitively, thinking to herself. Although she was scared, this wasn't the time to show it. If she showed it on her face now, people might think she let her guard down and possibly attack her. She just helped save Inaba from such a thing. She didn't want to go through it herself. "I guess I'll just flip a coin." It was a pretty risky thing to do, going all YOLO on something so important, but it wasn't as if there was anything better. Besides, it's her life. She's going to do whatever she wants.

Rummaging through her pockets, she found something that wasn't there before. That wasn't supposed to be there before. That didn't exist before. That shouldn't exist.

"What..." Her voice cut off as they escaped her lips; she knew exactly what it was. It was a pocketwatch. It was an unexpected development. Her grip on it loosened as she dropped it onto the floor with a clink!

With wobbly legs, she took a step back. One, then two, shaking her head profusely. Could this be another one of Heartseed's tricks? Another phenomenon? She thought that now that the school year was over, she'd finally get rid of him. She was sick of this, she couldn't take it anymore.

So why did she have to deal with something like this again?