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𝒜𝔭𝔭𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫
OOC:
Player Name: Kippie
Age: 27
Contact: On discord, Kippie#8495
IC:
Name: Reigen Arataka
Canon: Mob Psycho 100
Canon Point: End of the manga (Chapter 101!)
Age: 29
Spoken language(s): Japanese
Username: saltsplash
To the Mods: Reigen's a normal person so he doesn't need anything!
History: Wiki Link!
Personality: Reigen is a force of personality that few people can truly contend with. With the raw charisma to waltz right into the secret base of an organization of people that are hell-bent on world domination, and to walk in with such bravado that they mistake him for their boss, it’s easy to see how someone like Reigen is able to run such a successful con in his day to day life. He proudly boasts of his ability to debate people and to talk them in circles until he wins the argument. He’s extremely sharp, able to identify the holes in people’s ideas and catch the slightest slip up of their speech to find their deceptions or their weak points. Naturally, he’s extremely confident of this incredible talent, and is able to use it to also convince people that he has far more extraordinary powers besides his talent for persuasion.
For most people, he sells a performance. For others, a placebo. But at the end of the day, he intends to have a happy customer every time. After all, sometimes people coming in that are certain that they must be cursed…. but all they need is a good massage. Reigen recognizes that some people will refuse treatment because they are certain that they are being assailed by the supernatural - why not slip in the cure to someone’s ills in the snake oil they’re insisting on buying? And for everything else, for the real supernatural stuff, Reigen has Mob, Serizawa and even Dimple, at times.
Even with the willingness to con people out of their money with fake exorcisms, he refuses to take cases that are harmful or mean-spirited. He doesn’t usually take cases to curse others, and he won’t force the people he’s responsible for (or especially the people he cares most about) to suffer for their work. More often than not, in fact, Reigen will respond to people’s suffering by shouldering the burden himself. He injects himself into these dangerous situations even despite his lack of powers. He steps in, claiming that he’s responsible as an adult in a given situation. He has no qualms or hesitations about accepting responsibilities like that, and it makes him an extremely trustworthy sort of man, and that confidence and intelligence are just as potent a tool for Reigen as psychic powers are for other people.
Despite his impressive strengths, Reigen is still a very domineering presence. That confidence can easily inflate to overconfidence, leading to missed judgment of an emergency situation. And his forceful, overly energized personality often pushes around the meeker people around him, easily the sort of thing that can accidentally push those who aren’t ready to be pushed or might push him back. He can be blunt, rude, and demeaning to people who the people around him regardless of whether or not he likes or respects them. This also means that due to his air of authority, he is actually quite bad at making real friends, and his only real friend happens to be a socially awkward middle schooler.
After a serious falling out with Mob, Reigen’s separation from him made him step back and realize that he was being too controlling and that he was using Mob too much. He recognized his selfishness, and began to reform himself, working to make the community better under his own power and influence so that he could become popular that way. More than anything, just like the awkward teenager he helped through tough times, Reigen just wants to be well-liked by the people around him. He’s anxious and fears rejection, and all of those talents and tools of his ultimately come down to Reigen’s drive to be loved by the people around him instead of feeling listless and lonely. The final conflict, and the moment that Reigen was able to see Mob's "other self", Reigen finally came to terms with the fact that he'd been dishonest with his friend and finally admitted it straightforwardly. He's still the ridiculous conman he was before, but he's made great strides in his personal development.
Abilities/Skills: Reigen Arataka is a normal human, but he is metaphorically blessed with the gift of gab! And after a certain point in the Mob Psycho canon (after he was imbued with Mob's power for a time), he became able to see ghosts and spirits unless they were powerful enough to obscure themselves. The latter ability will likely have more relevance to the setting than the former!
Samples: Network type post from when he was in Recolle and log style on this TDM!
Player Name: Kippie
Age: 27
Contact: On discord, Kippie#8495
IC:
Name: Reigen Arataka
Canon: Mob Psycho 100
Canon Point: End of the manga (Chapter 101!)
Age: 29
Spoken language(s): Japanese
Username: saltsplash
To the Mods: Reigen's a normal person so he doesn't need anything!
History: Wiki Link!
Personality: Reigen is a force of personality that few people can truly contend with. With the raw charisma to waltz right into the secret base of an organization of people that are hell-bent on world domination, and to walk in with such bravado that they mistake him for their boss, it’s easy to see how someone like Reigen is able to run such a successful con in his day to day life. He proudly boasts of his ability to debate people and to talk them in circles until he wins the argument. He’s extremely sharp, able to identify the holes in people’s ideas and catch the slightest slip up of their speech to find their deceptions or their weak points. Naturally, he’s extremely confident of this incredible talent, and is able to use it to also convince people that he has far more extraordinary powers besides his talent for persuasion.
For most people, he sells a performance. For others, a placebo. But at the end of the day, he intends to have a happy customer every time. After all, sometimes people coming in that are certain that they must be cursed…. but all they need is a good massage. Reigen recognizes that some people will refuse treatment because they are certain that they are being assailed by the supernatural - why not slip in the cure to someone’s ills in the snake oil they’re insisting on buying? And for everything else, for the real supernatural stuff, Reigen has Mob, Serizawa and even Dimple, at times.
Even with the willingness to con people out of their money with fake exorcisms, he refuses to take cases that are harmful or mean-spirited. He doesn’t usually take cases to curse others, and he won’t force the people he’s responsible for (or especially the people he cares most about) to suffer for their work. More often than not, in fact, Reigen will respond to people’s suffering by shouldering the burden himself. He injects himself into these dangerous situations even despite his lack of powers. He steps in, claiming that he’s responsible as an adult in a given situation. He has no qualms or hesitations about accepting responsibilities like that, and it makes him an extremely trustworthy sort of man, and that confidence and intelligence are just as potent a tool for Reigen as psychic powers are for other people.
Despite his impressive strengths, Reigen is still a very domineering presence. That confidence can easily inflate to overconfidence, leading to missed judgment of an emergency situation. And his forceful, overly energized personality often pushes around the meeker people around him, easily the sort of thing that can accidentally push those who aren’t ready to be pushed or might push him back. He can be blunt, rude, and demeaning to people who the people around him regardless of whether or not he likes or respects them. This also means that due to his air of authority, he is actually quite bad at making real friends, and his only real friend happens to be a socially awkward middle schooler.
After a serious falling out with Mob, Reigen’s separation from him made him step back and realize that he was being too controlling and that he was using Mob too much. He recognized his selfishness, and began to reform himself, working to make the community better under his own power and influence so that he could become popular that way. More than anything, just like the awkward teenager he helped through tough times, Reigen just wants to be well-liked by the people around him. He’s anxious and fears rejection, and all of those talents and tools of his ultimately come down to Reigen’s drive to be loved by the people around him instead of feeling listless and lonely. The final conflict, and the moment that Reigen was able to see Mob's "other self", Reigen finally came to terms with the fact that he'd been dishonest with his friend and finally admitted it straightforwardly. He's still the ridiculous conman he was before, but he's made great strides in his personal development.
Abilities/Skills: Reigen Arataka is a normal human, but he is metaphorically blessed with the gift of gab! And after a certain point in the Mob Psycho canon (after he was imbued with Mob's power for a time), he became able to see ghosts and spirits unless they were powerful enough to obscure themselves. The latter ability will likely have more relevance to the setting than the former!
Samples: Network type post from when he was in Recolle and log style on this TDM!