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May. 7th, 2025
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Player Name: KJ
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Are you over the age of 18?: God yes.
Invitation Link: I'm here already.
Current Characters: Jayce Talis
Link to Permissions: Permissions. (note that the CWs will be relevant in the app!)
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Louis
Species: Red Deer
Canon: Beastars
Canon Point: Post-Canon
Character Age: 20
CRAU: No
Character Appearance: One Two Three
Powers and Abilities: N/A
What Did Your Character Wish For? For freedom.
What Potion Did They Receive? Blue
Did They Drink It? Nope
If Yes, What Element/Animal? N/A
Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Close relationships are hard to come by for Louis - he tends to keep people at an arm's length and let them in minimally. He's slow to trust people and slow to give people information about himself. People even in canon perceive him as mysterious. However, he slowly drops the walls around Legoshi throughout the series - which is why their bond is able to develop in the way that he does. Earlier on in the series, he's willing to sacrifice himself to ensure Legoshi lives, and the thought of his friend dying brought him to tears (even though he says that he's never cried
before this time). Louis cares so much about the guy that the thought of losing him brings him to tears. By the end of the series, Legoshi is the only peer that he has opened up to about his past and how he was sold on the Black Market and how he's from there, which is probably the biggest secret about himself. Louis laughs and expresses himself freely around so few people and Legoshi is among them. Legoshi's one of few who gets the full range of the Louis experience.
2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Being perceived as weak. Given the nature of a society with animals that are carnivores or herbivores, it's natural that a prey animal would want to be perceived as strong. He thinks that being seen as weak puts him in the position of others being able to have control or power over him. He thinks that if he's weak, then others around him will pay the price - he sees his own weakness as the reason he lost Ibuki - someone he cared for quite a lot. He blamed himself and his weaknesses for the man's death (even though it was ultimately Ibuki's own choices). Because of this, he hates the thought of being weak. He hates the thought that someone could have power over him and he wants to ensure that he always gives off an air of being strong and powerful - if not just for himself, for the people around him. He sees strength as a way of keeping himself, and people he cares about, safe.
3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
His emotional weaknesses come from the fact that he's so emotionally constipated that he has a difficult time expressing himself. When Legoshi is facing off against Riz and Louis fears for his friend's life, he starts to cry. For the first time in his life. He was taught no emotional regulation as a child as a way to maintain an air of strength, but the result was that when he's struck with a strong feeling - it tends to take over him to the point where he doesn't seem to know how to regain control of himself (ie: he starts crying and doesn't know how to make himself stop). He even says that he wasn't allowed to cry growing up because that's showing weakness. So he has virtually no emotional regulation when something finally cracks through - in other words, he has a real hard time stopping the tears once they start.
Mentally, he is a 20 year old so he still lacks a lot of good decision making skills. In fact, he routinely makes really brash, reckless, and bad decisions. Dropping out of school, pulling a gun on a classmate, pulling a gun on his father, leading the Shishigumi, letting Legoshi eat part of his right leg, pouring blood all over himself. In fact, he's frequently rebellious and defiant. Sometimes, he's even downright stupid. Or he might just get stupider the closer to Legoshi he stands.
Physical weaknesses are obvious at a look. He's a short, skinny deer who is missing half of his right leg. He runs slower than others (and slower than he did when he had both of his legs), is not near as strong as carnivores, and he's considered small for his species. He is only ever able to overpower people through strategy and knowledge he's gained (or guns). He is not able to rely on pure strength.
4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
There's several versions of Louis that are seen throughout the series. He's pretty good at presenting himself in a way that he wants to be perceived; however, people who are able to get close to him are able to get glimpses of who he is beneath it all. He generally has a strong, confident front - as that's how he wants to be seen by the people around him. However, inside, Louis perceives himself as someone weak and cursed. When Legoshi eats part of his right leg, he perceives what Legoshi did as "breaking his curse" (being that it took the foot that was branded from his time in the Black Market as a child). In that time with Legoshi, he calls himself a weakling and considers himself helpless to defend or help his friend (it's why he ends up offering his foot to begin with). Being perceived as weak is one of his major insecurities, which is why he tries so hard to make people believe that he is stronger than he is.
5. What would make them happiest and why?
To be with the Shishigumi would probably make him the happiest Throughout the series Louis lost a couple of people really dear to him - Ibuki (former Shishigumi) and Oguma (his father), but even after leaving the Shishiguimi he found himself returning to them. He sees them as a source of comfort in trying times (difficulties in his relationship with his fiance) and they bring him a lot of peace. He drops his guard around them a lot and he fully trusts and embraces them. It's with the Shishigumi that we see one of the truest versions of himself. He drops his guard a lot and doesn't feel the need to always be so guarded with them - even making jokes at his own expense and giving them details of his life that he wouldn't give to people he trusts. And they return that same care and affection towards him.
6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
Louis is canonly married and wishes to be left alone on any romantic front. He also really just is not a great guy for a romantic relationship as even his marriage is founded on a business relationship. But, as a companion, he prefers the company of carnivores, though he'd deny it's that specific - it's absolutely a strong preference for him. He enjoys the power and strength they bring to a dynamic, and he tends to prefer someone who isn't afraid to embrace what they are and show their strength. He also, unfortunately, tends to gravitate towards people who he considers "dumb" or "reckless" and though he'd deny it - they are both qualities he definitely finds attractive.
7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
He has a missing part of his right leg that says he would. There's not a lot of people that he would make sacrifice for since he's particular about his friendships. When he's confronted with the thought of Legoshi going back to a fight and risking his life, he has to deal with the fact that he feels like a weakling who can't make any contribution. As such, he sees that his leg is a contribution to the cause. He would make a sacrifice if he felt that it was his way of contributing to something meaningful. In this case, he felt like he was giving Legoshi strength to capture someone who had eaten a classmate of theirs (seeing it as "evening the score"). He's not someone who will sacrifice for just anyone, though. They have to earn a spot with him
8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
He would tell his younger self that it will be worth it all, he'll be strong and get to fight back. He would tell him to persist and not give up. He'd also make sure that he understands that the losses he's experienced are terrible, but things will improve and he will have a family. As a child who was born into a situation where he'd be sold as food on the black market, he'd given up hope in himself before the age of four. And though he had a couple of friends he'd seen disappear and be sold, the idea that he'd have close friendships would be something foreign to him. He needs to make sure his younger self knows that he has something to live for and to keep going forward - as if he does, the curse he has will be broken and he'll get to live a decent life.
9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
Despite being a deer, he never fawns. However, it depends on the circumstances! Physical encounters are often met with him fighting, even to his own detriment. Louis is not threatened by animals who are much larger than him, sometimes even seen overpowering them with use of weapons or learned skills (ie: pulling their tail). Part of this is him trying to make sure that others perceive him as strong, the other part of him is doing it to prove to himself that he's strong despite the cards he was dealt as a small herbivore.
In an emotional conflict, Louis actually tends to flee. This is either a literal flee from the situation (ie: running off, leaving school for awhile, and taking over a gang) or an emotional flee from the situation (dodging answers to questions, avoiding the problem in general). This is likely due to being taught virtually no emotional regulation growing up so he just runs from the problems instead. Good job, Oguma.
10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
It has a lot of layers to it. For Louis, freedom means having the ability to be unburdened by obligation and commitment to legacy. After his father's death, Louis felt obligated to take over and do exactly what his father had wanted of him. This meant getting married to another red deer for the sake of business – to live "normally". This also meant him maintaining the outward appearance of a businessman who only does dealings with herbivores - meaning he cut the carnivores out of his life, too. Freedom for him also means that appearances don't meant anything and he can do both - run Horns Conglomerate and fulfill his father's wishes of taking over, as well as pursue his friendships and relationships with people he wants to. He misses the carnivores in his life - as they were all important to his development into adulthood. But he maintains his distance for the sake of image that he feels tied to for the sake of legacy.
Samples:
TDM
Network
Player Name: KJ
Pronoun Preferences: they/them
Contact:
Are you over the age of 18?: God yes.
Invitation Link: I'm here already.
Current Characters: Jayce Talis
Link to Permissions: Permissions. (note that the CWs will be relevant in the app!)
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Louis
Species: Red Deer
Canon: Beastars
Canon Point: Post-Canon
Character Age: 20
CRAU: No
Character Appearance: One Two Three
Powers and Abilities: N/A
What Did Your Character Wish For? For freedom.
What Potion Did They Receive? Blue
Did They Drink It? Nope
If Yes, What Element/Animal? N/A
Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Close relationships are hard to come by for Louis - he tends to keep people at an arm's length and let them in minimally. He's slow to trust people and slow to give people information about himself. People even in canon perceive him as mysterious. However, he slowly drops the walls around Legoshi throughout the series - which is why their bond is able to develop in the way that he does. Earlier on in the series, he's willing to sacrifice himself to ensure Legoshi lives, and the thought of his friend dying brought him to tears (even though he says that he's never cried
before this time). Louis cares so much about the guy that the thought of losing him brings him to tears. By the end of the series, Legoshi is the only peer that he has opened up to about his past and how he was sold on the Black Market and how he's from there, which is probably the biggest secret about himself. Louis laughs and expresses himself freely around so few people and Legoshi is among them. Legoshi's one of few who gets the full range of the Louis experience.
2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Being perceived as weak. Given the nature of a society with animals that are carnivores or herbivores, it's natural that a prey animal would want to be perceived as strong. He thinks that being seen as weak puts him in the position of others being able to have control or power over him. He thinks that if he's weak, then others around him will pay the price - he sees his own weakness as the reason he lost Ibuki - someone he cared for quite a lot. He blamed himself and his weaknesses for the man's death (even though it was ultimately Ibuki's own choices). Because of this, he hates the thought of being weak. He hates the thought that someone could have power over him and he wants to ensure that he always gives off an air of being strong and powerful - if not just for himself, for the people around him. He sees strength as a way of keeping himself, and people he cares about, safe.
3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
His emotional weaknesses come from the fact that he's so emotionally constipated that he has a difficult time expressing himself. When Legoshi is facing off against Riz and Louis fears for his friend's life, he starts to cry. For the first time in his life. He was taught no emotional regulation as a child as a way to maintain an air of strength, but the result was that when he's struck with a strong feeling - it tends to take over him to the point where he doesn't seem to know how to regain control of himself (ie: he starts crying and doesn't know how to make himself stop). He even says that he wasn't allowed to cry growing up because that's showing weakness. So he has virtually no emotional regulation when something finally cracks through - in other words, he has a real hard time stopping the tears once they start.
Mentally, he is a 20 year old so he still lacks a lot of good decision making skills. In fact, he routinely makes really brash, reckless, and bad decisions. Dropping out of school, pulling a gun on a classmate, pulling a gun on his father, leading the Shishigumi, letting Legoshi eat part of his right leg, pouring blood all over himself. In fact, he's frequently rebellious and defiant. Sometimes, he's even downright stupid. Or he might just get stupider the closer to Legoshi he stands.
Physical weaknesses are obvious at a look. He's a short, skinny deer who is missing half of his right leg. He runs slower than others (and slower than he did when he had both of his legs), is not near as strong as carnivores, and he's considered small for his species. He is only ever able to overpower people through strategy and knowledge he's gained (or guns). He is not able to rely on pure strength.
4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
There's several versions of Louis that are seen throughout the series. He's pretty good at presenting himself in a way that he wants to be perceived; however, people who are able to get close to him are able to get glimpses of who he is beneath it all. He generally has a strong, confident front - as that's how he wants to be seen by the people around him. However, inside, Louis perceives himself as someone weak and cursed. When Legoshi eats part of his right leg, he perceives what Legoshi did as "breaking his curse" (being that it took the foot that was branded from his time in the Black Market as a child). In that time with Legoshi, he calls himself a weakling and considers himself helpless to defend or help his friend (it's why he ends up offering his foot to begin with). Being perceived as weak is one of his major insecurities, which is why he tries so hard to make people believe that he is stronger than he is.
5. What would make them happiest and why?
To be with the Shishigumi would probably make him the happiest Throughout the series Louis lost a couple of people really dear to him - Ibuki (former Shishigumi) and Oguma (his father), but even after leaving the Shishiguimi he found himself returning to them. He sees them as a source of comfort in trying times (difficulties in his relationship with his fiance) and they bring him a lot of peace. He drops his guard around them a lot and he fully trusts and embraces them. It's with the Shishigumi that we see one of the truest versions of himself. He drops his guard a lot and doesn't feel the need to always be so guarded with them - even making jokes at his own expense and giving them details of his life that he wouldn't give to people he trusts. And they return that same care and affection towards him.
6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
Louis is canonly married and wishes to be left alone on any romantic front. He also really just is not a great guy for a romantic relationship as even his marriage is founded on a business relationship. But, as a companion, he prefers the company of carnivores, though he'd deny it's that specific - it's absolutely a strong preference for him. He enjoys the power and strength they bring to a dynamic, and he tends to prefer someone who isn't afraid to embrace what they are and show their strength. He also, unfortunately, tends to gravitate towards people who he considers "dumb" or "reckless" and though he'd deny it - they are both qualities he definitely finds attractive.
7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
He has a missing part of his right leg that says he would. There's not a lot of people that he would make sacrifice for since he's particular about his friendships. When he's confronted with the thought of Legoshi going back to a fight and risking his life, he has to deal with the fact that he feels like a weakling who can't make any contribution. As such, he sees that his leg is a contribution to the cause. He would make a sacrifice if he felt that it was his way of contributing to something meaningful. In this case, he felt like he was giving Legoshi strength to capture someone who had eaten a classmate of theirs (seeing it as "evening the score"). He's not someone who will sacrifice for just anyone, though. They have to earn a spot with him
8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
He would tell his younger self that it will be worth it all, he'll be strong and get to fight back. He would tell him to persist and not give up. He'd also make sure that he understands that the losses he's experienced are terrible, but things will improve and he will have a family. As a child who was born into a situation where he'd be sold as food on the black market, he'd given up hope in himself before the age of four. And though he had a couple of friends he'd seen disappear and be sold, the idea that he'd have close friendships would be something foreign to him. He needs to make sure his younger self knows that he has something to live for and to keep going forward - as if he does, the curse he has will be broken and he'll get to live a decent life.
9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
Despite being a deer, he never fawns. However, it depends on the circumstances! Physical encounters are often met with him fighting, even to his own detriment. Louis is not threatened by animals who are much larger than him, sometimes even seen overpowering them with use of weapons or learned skills (ie: pulling their tail). Part of this is him trying to make sure that others perceive him as strong, the other part of him is doing it to prove to himself that he's strong despite the cards he was dealt as a small herbivore.
In an emotional conflict, Louis actually tends to flee. This is either a literal flee from the situation (ie: running off, leaving school for awhile, and taking over a gang) or an emotional flee from the situation (dodging answers to questions, avoiding the problem in general). This is likely due to being taught virtually no emotional regulation growing up so he just runs from the problems instead. Good job, Oguma.
10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
It has a lot of layers to it. For Louis, freedom means having the ability to be unburdened by obligation and commitment to legacy. After his father's death, Louis felt obligated to take over and do exactly what his father had wanted of him. This meant getting married to another red deer for the sake of business – to live "normally". This also meant him maintaining the outward appearance of a businessman who only does dealings with herbivores - meaning he cut the carnivores out of his life, too. Freedom for him also means that appearances don't meant anything and he can do both - run Horns Conglomerate and fulfill his father's wishes of taking over, as well as pursue his friendships and relationships with people he wants to. He misses the carnivores in his life - as they were all important to his development into adulthood. But he maintains his distance for the sake of image that he feels tied to for the sake of legacy.
Samples:
TDM
Network
