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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Tsume
Canon: Wolf's Rain
Canon Point: Post Episode 26.

In-Game Tattoo Placement: This under the fur on his lower back before his tail starts. In his human illusion, it'll look like a tramp stamp on his lower back.
Current Health/Status: Pretty healthy given everything that's happened to him
Age: About 2 by wolf standards, looks 17 as a human
Species: Wolf, able to create human illusion

Content Warnings: End of the world apocalypse scenario, grievous injuries done to animals, death of animals

History: Here!

Personality: At first, Tsume is your stereotypical lone wolf. First and foremost, he tries to push everyone away. He feels that the only way he can keep from getting hurt is by keeping everyone at arm's length. He's often lonely, but he feels this is better than opening his heart, and possibly ending up with it broken. He says it plainly in an early episode that he doesn't trust anyone and that means no one has to trust him. But to quote another series, "The lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Part of staying away from anyone else means that he simply finds he can't relate to human beings very well. Once he ends up surrounded by more fellow wolves, he reluctantly comes to rely on them for friendship, guidance, and trust. At the point he's being taken from, he's come to realize the power of having those around he can be loyal to.

On that note, Tsume's loyalty is not easily gained. It takes a lot of time for him to see his fellow wolves as his pack and he ends up fighting with them more often than not in the early episodes, but once he does soften up and starts caring for them, he will do whatever he can to protect them. For those younger or weaker than he is, like Toboe and Cheza, he shows a soft spot, willing to do whatever he can to make sure they're alright. When he meets both of them, Tsume feels suspicion and anger towards them, an armor he wears to make sure he doesn't get too close to them. But it doesn't last for long in either case.

With Toboe, he starts off viewing him as a weak little runt but after several adventures together comes to realize he's got a true friend in the pup, and comes to view him with feeling of love, though whether they're platonic or romantic is left up to the viewer. With Cheza, given she's a Flower Maiden and the wolves are attracted to her right away, he already sees her as someone who needs protection despite the initial rocky start where he calls her 'it' and sneers she's just a creation of the Nobles. Though he tries to maintain a gruff facade, next to Kiba, he's the wolf most seen jumping to her defense or trying to protect her once he feels he can trust her. Her kindness towards him also doesn't go unnoticed by him, such as when he falls asleep to her lullaby and sleeps so soundly by her side he's the last wolf to wake up, though he tries to play off any relaxation that gave him.

This doesn't extend to almost all humans, and despite running a whole gang of them in the early episodes, he's one of the wolves shown interacting the least with people. Having grown up raised by his pack rather than people as the other four are shown to have done, he views people with suspicion and contempt. Just as humans see wolves as something alien and strange, he sees people in the same light. Even later on, when several people join them on their journey to Paradise, Tsume hardly talks to them or interacts with them at all. He doesn't show any hatred or malice towards them, he just sees humans as not worth bothering with unless they have something to offer him.

Tsume is a born cynic and is definitely the most disbelieving of the wolves when it comes to Paradise. Where Kiba is a blind zealot, Tsume questions this belief at every turn, always the one to ask why they're heading towards a place that might not even exist. He tells Kiba in an early episode that they'll just die out there if they look for it, but Kiba responds if you don't have anything to live for, you might as well be dead inside already. As their journey continues, Tsume comes to realize heading for Paradise is far better than any alternative, given that the other wolves they meet along their journey have given up all hope and pride in themselves. Eventually, when he lays dying, he reveals the true reason for his cynicism: he'd always known he wasn't the "Chosen One", the wolf destined to open Paradise. This is why he'd lived the way he did, pushing people away and choosing not to believe in the journey the wolves were undertaking.

Tsume also is very sarcastic. He always has a smartass or sharp comment ready at every turn. Usually, it's at the expense of someone else, so that he further distance himself by making fun of them, and therefore not having to care about them. A prime example is when the wolves are hungry, so he suggests eating the others one by one, starting with either the weak little runt of the four members of the pack, or maybe the fattest one instead. He clearly does this just to get a rise out of the others and piss them off. It generally works best on Hige and they continue to butt heads quite a bit throughout the series, though even Kiba isn't shown to to be immune to the occasional jab.

But beneath the gruff, sarcastic surface, Tsume actually feels things very deeply, and can be quite emotional. He holds onto things for a long time, such as considering himself a coward for running away when his first pack was attacked by wolf hunters, earning him the scar on his chest and exile from the surviving members of the pack. This is long after he's proven in the present that he has the ability to be brave. Losing one of his packmates at the end of the series emotionally devastates to the point where he starts crying, something he's shown at no other point doing, and when Hige asks him to mercy kill him, he's shown to be extremely shook up by the act.

Lastly, Tsume holds other people to as high a standard as he does, and if they wrong him, he doesn't easily forgive. He can hold a grudge like no other. Blue hunts him when she still considered herself a dog and he's the least forgiving when she joins the pack, reminding everyone else of the fact she'd tried to kill almost all of them before. When she begins to show that she's left her wolf-hunting ways behind her for good, Tsume begins to finally accept her as a member of the pack. Even though he was brainwashed at the time, he still is the most angry with and refuses to let go of the fact Hige unknowingly betrayed them all, though this eventually starts to fade away once he realizes that Hige is obsessed with making things right even unto the point of dying himself. So while he will stay angry with someone, if they try to balance the scales out with him again, he can find it in himself to forgive them.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: -Human illusion: The greatest power that wolves possess is the ability to project the illusion of a human being. The illusion resembles a human being entirely except for scent, and while it does age as the wolf ages, the clothing they seem to wear never changes. Since this is only an illusion, physical signs and limitations still remain. Any injuries sustained in their wolf form reflect on their human illusion. Paw prints remain in the ground, shadows and reflections in mirrors show a wolf rather than an animal, and any attempt made by Tsume to touch someone results in them feeling teeth rather than a hand. It is shown at certain points that certain parts of the wolf bleed through the illusion when the wolf is feeling emotional, as Tsume is shown at several points in the series to be possessing sharp, wolf-like teeth when upset or distressed rather than his human ones.

All animals and certain people can see through this, usually those who have put their minds into another state. Those who have consumed enough alcohol, those who have a mental illness which affects the way they perceive things like dementia, and people who have gotten a physical brain injury like a concussion. It is also shown Jaguara's soldiers have a special visor that allows them to see through the wolf illusion, though it's unclear what makes this piece of equipment special. It's shown that people specifically looking for wolves have a greater chance of being able to see through the illusion, but this requires a great deal of concentration, and doesn't always work.

-Communication: The wolves in the show are shown to have a form of one-way projected telepathy to communicate with humans and other animals. They can use it even if their mouth is physically occupied.

-Animal communication: Building off the above, it's shown that they can communicate with all animals in the show, including ravens, owls, horses, dogs, and cats.

-Moon powers: The wolves are linked closely to the moon and have some abilities connected to them. They have an almost innate sense of finding lunar flowers, able to scent them even secondhand off a human being. They also can use the moon's light to keep themselves from getting hungry, able to do this for up to a month if they bask every night, and it does seem being in the light of it helps to heal their injuries faster. When it come to lunar flowers and the Flower Maiden, they can fall asleep when listening to Cheza's song and can have their pain alleviated by her touch.

- The abilities of the wolves on the show are shown to be far beyond that which normal wolves in the real world would be able to achieve, so it's fair to say they're "super wolves" even accounting for things like anime physics. They can jump far higher and farther than regular wolves and with a level of physicality Spider-Man would be proud of, are tough enough to survive bullet injuries that would kill a normal animal, with the epitome being when one of them literally gets impaled with a sword so hard he was pinned to the floor and manage to survive (though that one did prove to be a crippling injury that never healed right). Even the smallest wolf manages to kill a walrus the size of a sixteen-wheeler just through sheer determination and refusing to give up or let go when the walrus was ramming itself through ice sheets and dragging hm underwater.

- Each of the wolves in the series is shown to have a special physical talent. Kiba has the strongest jaws and bite, Toboe has the best hearing, Hige has the best sense of smell. Tsume's is his speed, for he's the fastest wolf, and has better stamina than almost anyone besides Kiba.

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OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Shade
Player Age: 30
Player Contact: Light_shade or Lightshade#4738 on Discord.

Other Characters In Game: Darth Maul, Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Tsume: Shade
Permissions for Character: Here!
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Very much so! He's already got personality issues, what's a few more making him believe his life has all been preordained by a horrible creator on top of it all?
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Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Nope!
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