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Character Base

• Character Name: Soldier Blue
• Age: ~300
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Toward the Terra (2007), episode 17
• Items Coming Along: A tarot card
• Content Warnings for Character: Child abuse/torture, mental/emotional manipulation, augmented reality, eye trauma/injury, brainwashing/memory loss

Character Background

• History:

Soldier Blue was first called Type-Blue, the origin of the Mu phenomenon. There were no cases of psychic/psionic powers before him, and the boy he was before his power was unlocked is lost.

At the ages of 14/15, by order of the computerized law of Superior Domination, all humans are subjected to a psychological examination, designed to streamline and standardize the memories and expectations of all humankind. Childhood memories are blotted out and replaced with general feelings of nostalgia and scripted notions of family and friends, with just the faintest recollection of the truth within the haze. A standard dream of returning to Terra (Earth), the homeland of mankind, is implanted in every person to help motivate them to engaging in their future studies and careers with zeal.

While undergoing this process, the boy who would become Type-Blue had a negative reaction, and the erasure of his memories prompted a violent, psionic outburst. He was taken into military custody and spent an undisclosed amount of time in a research facility on a moon called Ganymede, where he and a collection of ever-increasing cases of the mutation - soon called "Mu" - underwent countless exams, probes, and sometimes fatal treatments.

It became too much for the boy to bear, and Type-Blue set off one more massive explosion of power -- this time it triggered a chain-reaction of destruction that destabilized the facility and even the moon itself. He and the surviving Mu children captured with him fled, escaping by commandeering one of the many space-faring ships still standing.

During this time, constantly on the run from human authorities, Type-Blue became Soldier Blue - a title given to him by his peers, as he was not only the first, but most powerful Mu, and he took it upon himself to guard and guide the small collective to safety.

As decades became centuries, the Mu and Blue in particular found they did not age the same way humans do: Blue himself looks no older than 20 and has been so for more than 200 years. More than that, their population grew: As they wandered the many colonized planets and satellites mankind thrived on, they found other cases of Mu power springing up. Blue specifically worked to find and rescue them, bringing even children as young as 3 onboard to protect and raise them before they could be detected and exterminated.

Sometime within his 250th and 300th years, Blue encountered something new hidden within a satellite education station. He found a project of human growth and development designed entirely by the computer - cells and molecules designed without any outside human samplings. One of the resulting bodies was a blind girl who had a latent capacity for fortune telling and was deemed a failure. While she wasn't a Mu in composition or full powerset, Blue was invested in her from the onset, having seen a pristine and clear vision of Terra that was unlike the one pre-scripted into his and others' minds. He stole her away and brought her to the ship, erasing her traumatic memories and asserting to his comrades that she was a Mu just like them. He called her his 'goddess,' his beacon for a new mission to find a way to return to Terra and start a life far away from Superior Domination's control.

The problem with this mission was twofold: First, no one knew how to get there. The location of Terra was a deeply-held secret within the human government, and they would risk persecution and execution if they were to try and infiltrate and find out.

Second, Blue's life was waning. Between the exertions of rescue missions and the long lapse of years, he was very certain he'd die before ever reaching their destination. This meant he needed a successor - someone as strong, if not stronger, than himself that could protect and lead the Mu to Terra. He found that successor in Jomy Marcus Shin, a boy on planet Ataraxia, whose own power signature matched his own: Type-Blue.

After following Jomy's growth and reaching out to share visions of him and Physis, his 'goddess,' Blue rushed in to rescue Jomy and plead his case. It didn't go over well, and after a tantrum that ignited his powers, Jomy was returned to his childhood home so he could discover the lies of Superior Domination himself and return of his own accord.

It didn't go as planned, and Jomy was soon pursued by military planes as he tried to escape. Blue once again set out, casing the boy out into the upper atmosphere, and made an aggressive bid for Jomy's aid by sharing with him the memories of his origin and the plight of the Mu. Doing so wiped out Blue's remaining stamina, and he plunged back to the planet unconscious, safely ferried back to the Mu by Jomy.

The toll the act took upon Blue's body was so great that he would not regain full consciousness for 15 years, during which time he had very limited capacity to telepathically interact with Jomy or those who visited his resting place. Jomy was Soldier now, and the journey to finding their way to Terra would begin in earnest through him while Blue lay dormant.

Within those years, Jomy took a risk to try and appeal to humanity up front by projecting a psionic message to humans near them. So startling and terrifying the intrusion was (as humans outside of the government were not informed that Mu were real), that the reaction was not to broker dialogue, but instead created a swell of fear-based hatred. This made the actions of the government trying to hunt down and exterminate the Mu a more public affair, and so their movements were no longer covert. The Mu had to rush to find safety, and they did so by finding a failed colony on a planet they came to call Nazca.

Nazca was a brief refuge from endless travel and hiding, and soon many of the young Mu found themselves attached to something of a home. Families began to spring up, and attachments to the land created a divide between the elders of the Ganymede disaster and the children of Nazca. Before any resolution could be made, humanity discovered their settlement: A human named Keith Anyan became captive to the Mu when his scouting ship was drawn to the planet, and Physis, the Mu's 'goddess,' soon discovered he was like her - an artificial human.

The threat of the humans coming to take Keith back and wreak havoc on Nazca triggered something very peculiar: One of the children of Nazca, a toddler named Tony, came before the captured Keith and unleashed a sudden violent burst of psionic energy in hopes to kill him. It failed, and Keith took both the child and Physis hostage in a bid to make an escape from the Mu. Physis' peril is what finally rouses Blue from sleep, and he wakes and moves in time to confront Keith and save Tony...at the cost of Physis being held hostage.

After Jomy recovers Physis from Keith and the human rescue crew, Keith leaves...only to return with a world-ending battalion of weaponry and soldiers. A super weapon called Meggido, capable of firing a high-intensity beam to destabilize and destroy Nazca, is fired, and Blue sends himself out into space to intercept it with the remainder of his willpower. He is joined by Jomy, Tony...and a few other children of Nazca, all of whom turn out to possess the same Type-Blue abilities Blue himself has. Their combined efforts manage to dilute the beam, but not enough to stop imminent destruction -- only time enough to evacuate as many as they can.

To facilitate the rescue, Blue advances onboard Meggido and starts to sabotage it from the inside. He is confronted by Keith Anyan, who shoots his eye out and is set to kill him outright before Blue unleashes one last burst of energy - an echo of his explosive display on Ganymede - and destroys Meggido.

And himself.

• Core Relationships:

The Survivors of Ganymede: His original Mu brethren - those who were with him and endured the same cruelties at the hands of Superior Domination and humanity. They are the closest thing to family he has as reference, and often leans on them for wisdom and support. They function as kind of a 'council of elders' type situation, but do show softer sides to him and each other in private.

The Mu onboard Shangri-La: The children Blue rescues throughout his lifetime. He has a strong, protective compassion for them, and wants to see them grow up happier and safer than he did. They see him as something of a legendary figure or superhero, someone they don't interact often with directly but admire as their guardian.

Jomy Marcus Shin: His chosen successor. Blue deeply regrets having had to basically trauma-dump on a 14-year old boy, but he's certain there was no other choice. He cares for Jomy as a force greater than he and an aspiring leader, while Jomy sees Blue as something of an unattainable ideal he's struggling to reach.

Physis: His 'goddess.' He depends on her for focus and support more than even other Mu, despite her not being one. They share a mutual, codependent affection that is rather imbalanced by the fact Blue erased her memories prior to her rescue. Even so, when he unlocks her memory and perishes, Physis doesn't appear to resent him for what he did, and in fact mourns him more than any other, wishing he were still alive to see the journey through to the end.

Keith Anyan: His enemy, made unique by his physiological connection to Physis. Blue wasted no time trying to read Keith's mind and heart to understand his intentions, and was very willing to do him mental harm to protect Physis. Yet he doesn't resent Keith, either; he knows he is a product of a very fucked-up system. They both are.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

o1. Fortune telling
After discovering and making contact with the blind girl named Physis, Blue becomes infatuated with her and her special vision of Terra. Instead of simply taking this dream for his own and abandoning her, he visits her often as she grows, becoming something of a Peter Pan-like companion who flies in to play and leave without her caretakers noticing.

In that time, he helps her learn to read tarot. There is a moment where, upon turning the card for Death in its front-facing state causes Physis to startle. Blue gently lays his hand over hers and helps her finish the reading, radiating nothing but gentle confidence, trusting in her abilities, not willing to let her fear her own fortunes.

Physis is an element somewhat outside the human/Mu conflict, and Blue seemed to be drawn to that facet, comforted by having befriended someone human untouched by the bias of the machines. While it's overall positive to have formed a mutually beneficial bond, the power imbalance does make it troubling in a way, as Blue does eventually erase her memories of her traumatic time in a growth tube and convinces her she's a Mu through and through - up until he burns her death card and gives the memories back on his way to getting killed.


o2. Coma-based Mentoring
The effort it took to rescue Jomy resulted in Blue falling into a 15-year coma. During that period, Jomy, only 14 at the onset, needed to take on the heavy burden of a Soldier's leadership role and guardian duties.

As he slept, Jomy would often visit and sit at his bedside and air his concerns and grievances. Though unable to move, Blue could listen and respond telepathically, and would often provide Jomy with some grounding insight and support. He poured out as much confidence and assurance as he could to help Jomy get his feet under him and move forward in his own vision for the Mu's future. The willingness to let Jomy strike his own path as Soldier is in contrast to the wishes of his fellow elders, who wanted something of a clone of their injured Soldier, but Blue was adamant that Jomy is his own person with his own power and should be free to act as such.

(2+) Negative Experiences:

o1. Hostage Negotations
When Keith Anyan attempts his escape off of the Mu vessel, he takes Physis and toddler Tony with him as hostages. Blue manages to make it to the escape ship first to confront him, fully intending to pierce through his mind to immobilize or otherwise harm him enough to free the hostages - something that Physis blocks by her own will. Blue is completely caught off-guard by this, but after willfully forcing his mind into Keith's, he finds the same pure vision of Terra as Physis, and is quick to connect the dots that the two of them are of the same make - siblings, in a sense.

He's not able to save Physis, having to catch Tony from a fatal fall, so while Keith makes his getaway with Physis, Blue broadcasts the happening out to those who can do something about it - namely Jomy. He won't let them get away if he can help it.

o2. Changing of the Guard
(It's more bittersweet than wholly negative, but Blue perceives this moment as something he regrets, so.)

Jomy, having awakened to his power, goes berserk and rockets out into the upper atmosphere, trying to get away from the military jets chasing and shooting at him. Blue chases as well, managing to catch up and grab the panicked boy before he can fall fully into the vacuum of space, urging him to calm down. It's a hard pitch: Everything Jomy grew up knowing has been obliterated, he's awoken to a power guaranteed to make him an enemy to the society he yearned to stay a part of, and now this scary albino bogeyman is demanding his compliance.

Fearing he will burn himself out entirely and expire, Blue forces his memories directly into Jomy's psyche, making him relive the events that led Blue to awakening as a Mu himself, the experiments in Ganymede, and the exile. It's basically a trauma dump speedrun any%, and it shocks Jomy out of his panic.

That's all Blue could've hoped for, and with a sincere apology for having done what he did, Blue's consciousness fades and he falls. The rest is on Jomy to sort out.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Telepathy, empathy, telekinesis, flight, dreamwalking, psychic projection, psychic barriers/bullets, mindreading, memory manipulation
• Blood Type: Paleblood
• Omen: Lion
• Blessed Day: Feb 7
• Patron Pthumerian: Doorway
• Blood Power Manifestation: Paleblood will invigorate his physical form when he engages with others with his psionic abilities (a kind of vampiric effect that will rekindle burnt-out stamina). He will be able to amplify some of his abilities in small spurts by drawing on the mental/emotional energies of those near him, consciously and unconsciously (with other player permissions in play, naturally).

Writing Samples

One: Here
Two: Here
Cws apply for both: Mental/emotional manipulation, memory loss, augmented reality

The Player

• Player Name: Elle
• Player Age: 34
• Player Contact: whyellewhy
• Permissions: Here.

Link to your reserve for this character: Here.

Other Characters

Link to Character 1 overall AC: Manabu Yuuki (Deerington legacy character)