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App for Afterliving
C H A R A C T E R I N F O
Character Name: Nezumi
Fandom: No.6
Age/Gender: 16/male
Canon Point: After he leaves Sion in the last novel.
History: Here
Personality:
The first thing to say about Nezumi is that he’s a survivor. This is a guy that has lived through some tough crap. His everyday life is a struggle. For food, for safety, and for his own health he has had to fight for. He’s had to do everything he can just to survive and thanks to that, he has a very cool-headed approach to things. He reacts well under stressful and dangerous situations, which has definitely saved his life more than once. He values nothing more than survival and he would do anything to live. He won’t put unnecessary burdens on himself and understands how true ‘survival of the fittest’ really is. Nezumi’s a realist and has no time for dreams and fantasies. His view is a very black and white one because that’s life (at least to him). It’s not fair and he knows that. He has no problem telling it how it is and letting you know if you’re being an idiot. This view of his is very harmful for he doesn’t stop to realize the world is not that simple. Everything isn’t so cut and dry. Sad as it is this is life for Nezumi and he’s never had the chance to see different. Or he has never let himself. Nezumi is very insistent on being right.
Nezumi doesn’t let people close and in some ways purposely drives them away. The only times he is nice to someone is if he knows it’s going to get him something in return. Otherwise he won‘t bother showing anybody any manners and he doesn’t care about how other people feel towards him. Insults don’t bother him and he’ll easily laugh it off and give you one right back. It’s no wonder that not many people like him. He is very sarcastic and pretentious, a true know it all to most. It’s not very often he shows any sympathy towards people. Shown when he takes advantage of a young girl grieving her mother’s death and she starves for three days because he took most of her money. Nezumi shows no regret and offers no apology. When he knows she’s still mad at him in the future, Nezumi laughs and tells her to get over it. Nezumi uses her to get information for him and pays her well. It’s not like he never gave her money back. There’s no point in wasting the energy to Nezumi.
What you may never know about Nezumi is how his past still affects him. He never talks about it and he always acts like nothing ever bothers him. Small hints show otherwise. When Sion remembers his coworker that died and shows survivor’s guilt, Nezumi understands perfectly and is shown to be a little sympathetic. He gives Sion the advice that only victors survive and if you want to honor those that died you will keep living and spare a moment for their memory sometimes. Sion quickly notices that this seems more like advice to himself than to Sion. There are other moments where he admits to himself that if Sion died, he wouldn’t be able to bear being the ‘only one to survive again’. After we find out Nezumi’s past he tells Sion that he remembers everything and has never been able to forget. Nezumi is very much traumatized by what happened. It just doesn’t hold him back and instead he uses it as something to push him.
Unfortunately Nezumi uses his past to drive him to terrible things. You see Nezumi’s wish is to destroy No.6. Not only just the city, but the people themselves. He wants them to suffer like his people did, he wants to watch all of it and laugh as No.6 crumbles before him. This is what he works for and nobody in No.6 is the exception. It’s a dark wish and in Nezumi’s eyes? Even children deserve to die. To Nezumi there is only behind the wall and those on the other side. If you live in No.6 you are his enemy. Like said before Nezumi has a very black and white view of the world. Nezumi’s point of view does not even change until he’s told that if he lets innocent people die he is no better than the people who killed his village. When he’s told that he seems genuinely shocked. Like he had never been told that before. Importantly, after he’s told, he rethinks his ideas.
Over and over, people call Nezumi a demon. Is he? Nezumi’s biggest desire is for revenge, yes. Not to mention he tortures a man for information and wants to kills him when he decides they cannot get anything else from him. Nezumi will go to great means to get what he wants, but he is not entirely unfeeling about it. The man he almost kills is because the man could have easily had him killed. It was Nezumi trying to protect his life. He doesn’t enjoy people needlessly suffering (as long as they are not ‘enemies’) and while he will do anything to survive, he knows murder is still murder. Nezumi is not a bad person in this regard and only acts the way he does for necessity of his own safety. Not out of enjoyment. To him he has to act the way he does for survival. But his honor usually changes his actions. If Nezumi promises you something, he will do it. He does not back out on his word and often tells people that when he makes a promise. It is just not often he makes those promises since he knows they can be heavy burdens. Chances are if he has promised you something then that is the only time you’ve seen him be honest.
As much as Nezumi shuts people out and doesn’t want anybody close, Sion manages to become close to him and with him around Nezumi is no longer his aloof self. He gets angry and frustrated with Sion, which is a big contrast to how he usually acts with people. Sion is everything Nezumi was taught not to be and in the beginning does not see how they can ever agree. He shows how black and white he views things when he tells Sion because they cannot agree, they’ll be enemies one day. It’s extreme but to Nezumi, there is no middle ground. But Sion saved his life and Nezumi knows he‘s alive because of him. Nezumi does cherish that and saves his life in return four years later. He insults Sion and talks down to him, laughing at what he considers weaknesses. But he cares a lot about him and though he tries to deny it at first, he knows that he could never let Sion die. Not that Nezumi likes this and accepts it easily. Caring about someone and knowing you would risk your own life repeatedly for someone is a scary thing to Nezumi.
Through all of Nezumi’s roughness, he’s very big into literature and arts. His hobbies are reading and acting. Acting is actually his job and he’s good enough at it that he actually has fans. He’s very intelligent and can quote different books easily. Reciting lines from Faust or Macbeth? No problem to him. If you don’t know the classics, he thinks that’s horrible and will suggest you go ahead and acquaint yourself to them. Nezumi grew up in an abandoned library. Books were a free entertainment he took advantage of. He’s also smart enough that he builds robotic mice installed with cameras and holograms. Nezumi’s not dumb and has a brain to back up his survival instinct.
Summing Nezumi up, he’s simply just a guy who’s had it rough and is what he is because he’s found that to be the best way to survive. In the end, all he wants to do is live because he won’t allow himself to die. Not without a fight.
How did your character die? After Nezumi left a few weeks later, far from civilization, he got a very bad cut in his leg which stopped mobility. With no help and no antibiotics, he died.
Special Abilities: Nezumi is great at self-defense! Nezumi knows just the right spots to momentarily paralyze you and all sorts of ways go get out of a hold. While I wouldn’t say he’s one of the best fighters ever, I would say he could hold his own and throw a great punch. In canon
Nezumi survives four gunshot wounds so this is a guy that really can go through a lot of wear and tear.
Great at acting as well. He’s got a lot of fans where he lives and his voice is special. Nezumi is a mimic and not only that he can speak to Elyurias, some being that is close to a god. The ‘singers’ (there’s no real official term here sorry) were chosen to speak with Elyurias. They are the only ones and so Nezumi is the only one in his world who can speak to a giant godly bee. His voice also has ‘magical properties’ in that it has the power to soothe anybody. Hearing his voice people remark it’s like “you’re being carried away by the wind”. People will pay him to sing to those who are dying so they won’t die in complete agony.
Nezumi is plenty smart. He can build mechanic mice with cameras and holograms. You could hazard a guess that he learned from a book, but yes, he can do that.
Character Name: Nezumi
Fandom: No.6
Age/Gender: 16/male
Canon Point: After he leaves Sion in the last novel.
History: Here
Personality:
The first thing to say about Nezumi is that he’s a survivor. This is a guy that has lived through some tough crap. His everyday life is a struggle. For food, for safety, and for his own health he has had to fight for. He’s had to do everything he can just to survive and thanks to that, he has a very cool-headed approach to things. He reacts well under stressful and dangerous situations, which has definitely saved his life more than once. He values nothing more than survival and he would do anything to live. He won’t put unnecessary burdens on himself and understands how true ‘survival of the fittest’ really is. Nezumi’s a realist and has no time for dreams and fantasies. His view is a very black and white one because that’s life (at least to him). It’s not fair and he knows that. He has no problem telling it how it is and letting you know if you’re being an idiot. This view of his is very harmful for he doesn’t stop to realize the world is not that simple. Everything isn’t so cut and dry. Sad as it is this is life for Nezumi and he’s never had the chance to see different. Or he has never let himself. Nezumi is very insistent on being right.
Nezumi doesn’t let people close and in some ways purposely drives them away. The only times he is nice to someone is if he knows it’s going to get him something in return. Otherwise he won‘t bother showing anybody any manners and he doesn’t care about how other people feel towards him. Insults don’t bother him and he’ll easily laugh it off and give you one right back. It’s no wonder that not many people like him. He is very sarcastic and pretentious, a true know it all to most. It’s not very often he shows any sympathy towards people. Shown when he takes advantage of a young girl grieving her mother’s death and she starves for three days because he took most of her money. Nezumi shows no regret and offers no apology. When he knows she’s still mad at him in the future, Nezumi laughs and tells her to get over it. Nezumi uses her to get information for him and pays her well. It’s not like he never gave her money back. There’s no point in wasting the energy to Nezumi.
What you may never know about Nezumi is how his past still affects him. He never talks about it and he always acts like nothing ever bothers him. Small hints show otherwise. When Sion remembers his coworker that died and shows survivor’s guilt, Nezumi understands perfectly and is shown to be a little sympathetic. He gives Sion the advice that only victors survive and if you want to honor those that died you will keep living and spare a moment for their memory sometimes. Sion quickly notices that this seems more like advice to himself than to Sion. There are other moments where he admits to himself that if Sion died, he wouldn’t be able to bear being the ‘only one to survive again’. After we find out Nezumi’s past he tells Sion that he remembers everything and has never been able to forget. Nezumi is very much traumatized by what happened. It just doesn’t hold him back and instead he uses it as something to push him.
Unfortunately Nezumi uses his past to drive him to terrible things. You see Nezumi’s wish is to destroy No.6. Not only just the city, but the people themselves. He wants them to suffer like his people did, he wants to watch all of it and laugh as No.6 crumbles before him. This is what he works for and nobody in No.6 is the exception. It’s a dark wish and in Nezumi’s eyes? Even children deserve to die. To Nezumi there is only behind the wall and those on the other side. If you live in No.6 you are his enemy. Like said before Nezumi has a very black and white view of the world. Nezumi’s point of view does not even change until he’s told that if he lets innocent people die he is no better than the people who killed his village. When he’s told that he seems genuinely shocked. Like he had never been told that before. Importantly, after he’s told, he rethinks his ideas.
Over and over, people call Nezumi a demon. Is he? Nezumi’s biggest desire is for revenge, yes. Not to mention he tortures a man for information and wants to kills him when he decides they cannot get anything else from him. Nezumi will go to great means to get what he wants, but he is not entirely unfeeling about it. The man he almost kills is because the man could have easily had him killed. It was Nezumi trying to protect his life. He doesn’t enjoy people needlessly suffering (as long as they are not ‘enemies’) and while he will do anything to survive, he knows murder is still murder. Nezumi is not a bad person in this regard and only acts the way he does for necessity of his own safety. Not out of enjoyment. To him he has to act the way he does for survival. But his honor usually changes his actions. If Nezumi promises you something, he will do it. He does not back out on his word and often tells people that when he makes a promise. It is just not often he makes those promises since he knows they can be heavy burdens. Chances are if he has promised you something then that is the only time you’ve seen him be honest.
As much as Nezumi shuts people out and doesn’t want anybody close, Sion manages to become close to him and with him around Nezumi is no longer his aloof self. He gets angry and frustrated with Sion, which is a big contrast to how he usually acts with people. Sion is everything Nezumi was taught not to be and in the beginning does not see how they can ever agree. He shows how black and white he views things when he tells Sion because they cannot agree, they’ll be enemies one day. It’s extreme but to Nezumi, there is no middle ground. But Sion saved his life and Nezumi knows he‘s alive because of him. Nezumi does cherish that and saves his life in return four years later. He insults Sion and talks down to him, laughing at what he considers weaknesses. But he cares a lot about him and though he tries to deny it at first, he knows that he could never let Sion die. Not that Nezumi likes this and accepts it easily. Caring about someone and knowing you would risk your own life repeatedly for someone is a scary thing to Nezumi.
Through all of Nezumi’s roughness, he’s very big into literature and arts. His hobbies are reading and acting. Acting is actually his job and he’s good enough at it that he actually has fans. He’s very intelligent and can quote different books easily. Reciting lines from Faust or Macbeth? No problem to him. If you don’t know the classics, he thinks that’s horrible and will suggest you go ahead and acquaint yourself to them. Nezumi grew up in an abandoned library. Books were a free entertainment he took advantage of. He’s also smart enough that he builds robotic mice installed with cameras and holograms. Nezumi’s not dumb and has a brain to back up his survival instinct.
Summing Nezumi up, he’s simply just a guy who’s had it rough and is what he is because he’s found that to be the best way to survive. In the end, all he wants to do is live because he won’t allow himself to die. Not without a fight.
How did your character die? After Nezumi left a few weeks later, far from civilization, he got a very bad cut in his leg which stopped mobility. With no help and no antibiotics, he died.
Special Abilities: Nezumi is great at self-defense! Nezumi knows just the right spots to momentarily paralyze you and all sorts of ways go get out of a hold. While I wouldn’t say he’s one of the best fighters ever, I would say he could hold his own and throw a great punch. In canon
Nezumi survives four gunshot wounds so this is a guy that really can go through a lot of wear and tear.
Great at acting as well. He’s got a lot of fans where he lives and his voice is special. Nezumi is a mimic and not only that he can speak to Elyurias, some being that is close to a god. The ‘singers’ (there’s no real official term here sorry) were chosen to speak with Elyurias. They are the only ones and so Nezumi is the only one in his world who can speak to a giant godly bee. His voice also has ‘magical properties’ in that it has the power to soothe anybody. Hearing his voice people remark it’s like “you’re being carried away by the wind”. People will pay him to sing to those who are dying so they won’t die in complete agony.
Nezumi is plenty smart. He can build mechanic mice with cameras and holograms. You could hazard a guess that he learned from a book, but yes, he can do that.