updated deerington application.

Character Base

• Character Name: Ange Ushiromiya
• Age: 20
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Umineko no Naku Koro ni (2010) / The end of episode 6
• Items Coming Along:

• Her original canon outfit.
• An old thick book; Maria's diary.
• The skeleton she dug up of something that seems like an odd mix of goat and human.
• The gunblade Ruby made for her.
• A frog kigurumi gifted to her by Usagi that helps you sleep better.

• Content Warnings for Character: Family loss. Suicidal ideation and suicide. Gore. Gun violence.

Original Deerington Application

• Link to Accepted Deerington Application: Here.
• Additional Adjustments to include: Adding relationships/key moments to meet the new standards. I'm also trying to reflect the changes Ange has undergone in Deerington with these examples as a special two-for-one, and also so I'm not just doubling up on the personality aspects already mentioned in the original app!

Core Relationships:

Canonical:
• Rudolf Ushiromiya & Kyrie Ushiromiya - Ange's biological parents. She's very fond of them, though they died when she was 6.
• Battler Ushiromiya - Ange's big brother. Same as the above, but Ange was able to travel through time and fight by his side once more before sacrificing herself for his sake.
• Eva Ushiromiya - Ange's aunt who adopted her after the death of her family. They had an extremely bad, abusive relationship.
• Maria Ushiromiya - Ange's slightly older cousin, who also died when Ange was 6. They used to be really close, until they had a baby fight about whether magic was real or not. Ange kept communicating with Maria's 'ghost' even after Maria died.
• Juuza Amakusa - Ange's bodyguard. His true intentions towards her are dubious, but Ange is just busy giving him the cold shoulder half of the time or tsunning at him.
• Tetsurou Okonogi - He used to work for Eva, but after she died, he temporarily took charge of the company Ange inherited in her place. Hired Amakusa to be Ange's bodyguard.
• The seven sisters of purgatory - A group of seven demons who Ange can summon as part of her witch powers. Ange's only friends back at her school, until she denied their existence being anything more than just imaginary friends. Later in canon she makes up with them and is able to summon them once more.
• Beatrice - the witch who killed Ange's family. Ange despises her for it.
• Bernkastel - the witch Ange made a contract with in order to be able to save her family, though she actually just tricked Ange into sacrificing her own life. Ange despises her too, but there's definitely fear mixed in as well.
• Featherine Augustus Aurora - another witch Ange made a contract with. She had to read something to the witch, and in return the witch promised to protect her. Ange finds her annoying, but less harmful than the other witches.

Deer CR (limited to the people mentioned below to save on length):
• Ruby - Ange's girlfriend
• Lucille - friend, also mom figure
• Amara - Big sister figure
• Fern - Friend
• Varian - Friend
• Eda - Not-so-friendly acquaintance. Mostly because she was a witch, and Ange can't stand those.
• Willow - Friend. Also a witch, but has been nicer to her, so they actually became friends.


Positive experiences:

• When Ange entered Deerington, she was serious at rock bottom. Back home she always felt like she had nothing left to live for, considering she had never managed to get over the trauma of losing her entire family at once at such a young age, only to be raised by an aunt who was abusive to her and to be surrounded by classmates who relentlessly bullied her. Ange felt like no one cared whether she lived or died, so she, too, stopped caring entirely whether she lived or died. There was no point to living anymore, to a point where she even tried to stop living by stepping off a skyscraper and falling down.

But then Deerington happened. Back home people were either cruel towards her, or she had other reasons to be suspicious of them even if they seemed to act nice - like Okonogi, who used to work for her abusive aunt. But in Deerington.. it just wasn't like that. People were nice. Even as she woke up on the Titanic, people talked to her, wanted to be friends with her. When the boat sank and they ended up in the lighthouse, Lucille took care of her and stuck with her. When they ended up in Rapture, Amara protected her from all the dangers there. Friends kept looking out for her all the time, spoke to her, made her feel appreciated.

Yet Ange didn't quite realise that maybe there was a reason to live after all until Ruby asked her out on a date - a date which she saw as a purely friendship-fun-date sort of thing, but which Ange took as a very, very romantic thing. It was then that she realised she liked Ruby, and that lead her to the thought that maybe, just maybe, she had a reason to live after all. Maybe she could live and be happy just being by the sides of all her friends, including the girl she liked. She even talked it over with some of her friends, like Fern and Varian, and that only strenghtened her resolve. Being offered the chance to actually go to a different place with so many of her friends made her make the final decision - she was going to move on to that place, and she was going to live.

Sure, it's left her with major questions that she's going to have to contend with in the new game - like what do you do when you've never planned ahead in your life because you thought you were going to die anyway? She's going to have some major life plans to think up, but at least she's got her friends by her side to help guide her.

• That's not the only positive personal growth Ange attained in Deerington though. Not only did she embrace the idea of living, but she also embraced her witch nature.

Sure, Ange already inherited her witch powers back home, but she has always had a troubled relationship with them. At first because she refused to believe in the idea of magic being real - something she considered childish, and the lack of belief showed in the way she suddenly denied the existence of her demon friends, calling them her imaginary friends, and telling them to disappear, killing them through the severence of their magical bond. Later on her relationship with magic mostly became difficult because the fact that every single witch she met back home was just such a terrible person, and Ange refused to be like that as well.

But this too changed in Deerington. The most direct experience where this is shown is her battle with Eda - or rather, the fake evil Eda, conjured up by one of the doubleganger flowers around town. This version of Eda was attacking Ruby, which made Ange quickly jump in to defend the other girl. Considering Eda was a strong witch, Ange had no choice but to use her own magic powers in order to defend Ruby, actually being able to defeat the fake Eda with said powers.

It was in that moment that Ange realised her witch powers could be used for good. She could protect people with them - and more importantly, she could protect her friends with them and keep them safe. Ange realised that she only becomes a bad witch like the ones back home if she makes a conscious choice to do so, and that she can be a good witch if she just uses her powers for good.

It means that she has embraced her powers, and her witch nature along with it. She even talked about it with Willow, a witch - and friend! - she actually trusts, and has promised to learn more magic from her in this new place.


Negative experiences:

• However, this power euphoria has come alongside a different, slightly later realisation. Even though Ange has realised that it's okay to embrace her powers as a witch since she can protect her friends with it, she also had to realise that she can't always protect the people she cares about, even with those powers.

The main experience where this realisation set in - or rather, the first time it happened - was when Amara died. Ange wasn't present for this, but she still blames herself for not having saved her big sister figure from that death, even though she has the powers to try and protect others.

Part of the reason behind this guilt is that Ange has a terrible time coping with loss. It's already seen in canon, considering that it's been twelve years since her family died, and yet it's all she seems to think about. Constantly. Ange can't move on from loss, because it just hits her so incredibly hard. This also shows in the way she reacted to Amara's death. Amara has special Siren powers that she can transfer on to someone else after her death, and she transferred them to Ange. Which means that Ange suddenly found herself extremely hurt by the loss and powered up at the same time - and she immediately went on an emotional rampage with it. The sense of loss of someone important is enough to emotionally upset Ange to her extremes.

• And while the positive experiences may make it sound like Ange has suddenly turned into a super friendly person who's all about friendship, that's not quite true. Even in Deerington, Ange's negative social tendencies have persisted. She often doesn't know how to behave in a 'normal' social way, leaving her to act like a total wallflower at the prom, or suddenly getting awkward mid-conversation with people. Sure, she cares about her friendships she has right now, but she's still not too great at making new ones out of nowhere.

Not to mention that she still doesn't fully trust people. She's a little more willing to open up than she was back home, just because so many people have proven themselves to be good and kind, but Ange is still naturally withdrawn and suspicious, keeping her walls up around people she doesn't know well - a trait that's only further engraved in her by negative experiences she's had. Eda, who has been mentioned above, was an example of someone who initially just super frustrated her and made her believe even more that witches just suck across the entire multiverse.

But the strongest example of this was during last October, when it was practically impossible to be out on the streets. Because Ange still wasn't using her witch powers back then, she decided to stick somewhere safe, which means she ended up in the library. With the library being one of the few, if not only, safe places, there were way too many people hiding out there, making tensions run high. Ange started off a conversation with Ichigo, but as he was acting slightly grumpy towards her, the conversation quickly turned cold and angry, and the two ended up shouting at each other over very little. It's perhaps exactly because Ange has learned how nice people can be in Deerington that she takes any betrayal of that fact as a huge slight, getting extra angry or annoyed with people who act towards her the way people back home used to do.

Chapter 2 Attributes

• Canon Powers: Ange will have her canonical abilities! Her witch powers have become more powerful/extensive since her stay in Deerington, considering she decided to accept her witch side compared to when she first arrived in Deerington. Considering that her abilities fit right in with the darkblood abilities (moving things around and reality warping), I will consider her canon and blood abilities to be a collective ability, further elaborated upon in the blood power manifestation part.
• Blood Type: Darkblood
• Omen: An eagle (more specifically, a golden eagle)
• Blessed Day: March 1st. Since February to March of the last year in Deerington really marked the point where Ange decided that she wants to live, I thought March 1st was a good point for her blessed day, since it's practically a whole rebirth of her mindset.
• Patron Pthumerian: The Moss King. Considering that he is very similar to the witches she had to deal with back home - acting distant towards humans and only being willing to help them if they're amusing enough - she is not going to be too happy about this initially when she finds out what he's like, but I'm so interested in developing this and seeing where it can go from there. So yes, at the very least she will initially feel strongly about this!
• Blood Power Manifestation: Ange's blood power will mostly manifest as part of her witch abilities, enhancing the power that's already there. The magic that Ange inherited as a witch is called 'endless magic', which is magic that's able to restore things temporarily. For example, if you'd knock over a vase and break it, you could completely restore it to its original, unbroken state with that magic, but five minutes later a cat will sneak into your house and knock it over and break it again. It mostly uses the reality shifting aspects of darkblood, but it kind of goes with the 'altering time' aspect of that blood in that sense too. The magic basically restores something to its original state, though it will inevitably end up broken again through some other means. It can be used on objects or on people to heal injuries, even though something will inevitably cause said injuries again after a while.

I'm interested in playing around with Ange's growth in these powers - starting her off as only able to restore small things, and then being able to use her powers on bigger and bigger things as she gets more used to using it, perhaps even being able to extend the time period a little before what she has fixed/reverted breaks again.

Canonically this power is even able to revert people who just died back to a living state for a temporary amount of time, but I understand if that is too big, game-breaking or even lore-breaking! I'm assuming this part of her power won't work, but if it fits in the game after all because of its very temporary nature, please let me know.

The Player

• Player Name: Jelle
• Player Age: 29
• Player Contact: queeningsquare or through a PM to this account.
• Permissions: Here.

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