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Player name: San
Contact: Private message through the character journal, or send me an email/Google hangouts request at mingrps@gmail.com
Characters currently in-game: Paladin Danse
CHARACTER
Character Name: Sae Kurosawa
Character Age: Dead at 15. No canon age as at the events of Fatal Frame 2 but if All God's Village disappeared during the Meiji period, Sae could be more than 80 years old when Mio and Mayu Amakura were trapped inside the village.
Canon: Fatal Frame: Deep Crimson Butterfly
Canon Point: Chasing after Mio at the Earth Bridge.
History: Character Background, Character quotes, Butterfly diaries, Letter to Yae, Fluorite recordings of Sae.
Personality: In life Sae had no one else but her sister Yae and the Tachibana twins for company, and as such Sae had always been afraid that she would lose them. She's especially fearful of losing her sister Yae, to whom she is very very close to. Her fear of being separated from Yae defined her more extreme actions to the end of her life and beyond. Sae was so attached to Yae that the thought of them growing up, finding their own individuality and living their own separate lives frightened her; even if they remained close sisters, Sae could not accept anything less than them being together forever...literally.
However, Sae's love for Yae became twisted after death. When Sae was killed, her intense longing for her sister and her despair that Yae had left her combined with the Darkness in the Hellish Abyss, turning her into a murder-happy vengeful spirit. Crazed with grief and heart broken that her sister did not return to her to complete the ritual, Sae slaughters everyone in the village. She continues to wait for her sister to return to the village to complete the ritual and "merge" herself with her sister. In the meantime, any unfortunate soul that ends up in the village will be hunted down and killed by the various spirits in the village, including Sae.
It's suggested that Sae's psyche has never always been whole even when alive, but Sae turned completely insane after the failed ritual. She laughs maniacally and sports a big, crazed smile whenever she chases Mio around, over-joyed to see her "sister". She cries when Mio rejects her and refuses to join her in the ceremony, but laughs at the same time because she still sees a way for them to be together. Her longing for her sister has turned into a possessiveness, and Sae has become very ruthless in her pursuit of her sister. It is implied in one ending of the game that Mayu has been possessed by Sae ever since she was young, suggesting that Sae had wanted to complete the ritual via the Amakura twins since they were young girls.
Sae is a rather selfish person as well. For all that she loves her sister, she was very willing to put Yae through the immense psychological pain of the ritual if it meant that Sae would be together with her sister forever. In death, this translates to the above mentioned ruthlessness. Sae is very determined to get what she wants...even if it leads to the death of her sister, whom she unfortunately mistakes Mio Amakura for.
However she has her moments of compassion. Before her death she grieves incredibly when Itsuki dies, and she and Yae both try to help Seijuro Makabe escape the village. And when the fragments of Yae that had attached to Mio appeared to her sister, Sae almost immediately forgave her sister. She resolved herself to complete the ritual alone, blaming herself for Itsuki's death. And Sae is extremely sad and lonely both in life and in death. During rare moments in the game, Mio sees flashes of Sae's sadness and pain, and at one point she hears Sae's thoughts, that she no longer wants to kill anymore. Sae painfully waits for her sister to be set free of the Darkness and laid to rest. Unfortunately while these thoughts of hers may have existed in the past, the Sae that chases Mio around seems to have lost those feelings, her mind and heart broken after having to reenact the failed ritual over and over again.
Sae never lets go of the hope that her sister would return to her and complete the Crimson Ceremony. But that hope has been corrupted into a bloodthirsty desire, and Sae continues to lure souls into the village, killing any who crosses her path.
Including her sister Yae. She will never let Yae leave the village. Even if they can't become one...she'll never let her sister go, ever again.
Inventory: Nothing but the funeral clothes on her back.
Abilities:
Sae is an extremely powerful hostile spirit. Her abilities are as listed:
- Possession. Sae can possess people. Her possession is extremely powerful. One of the in-game endings show that even if she is exorcised, she can still leave parts of herself inside the people she's possessed, returning through them.
- Instant death by touch. This will be nerfed in-game to life-force drains that will leave people very weak. Sae can still kill by touch, but will need to do so over a period of time.
- Sae cannot be harmed by normal means. The only way to harm her is by using the Camera Obscura. For in-game considerations, other purification/holy items and/or spells will also work, but these items must be blessed by a priest/priestess. Even so, she cannot be fully exorcised; only reunion with her sister will allow her to rest in peace.
- Sae can obscure people's vision with a red sticky mist. The mist can be removed by using holy/purification items.
- Teleportation and intangibility. Like all ghosts, Sae can move through objects and walls. She can teleport from place to place as well.
- General ghost creepiness. Wherever Sae goes, the temperature drops rapidly. The darkness seems more pronounced, and the atmosphere turns heavy and oppressive. People will get the sense that they're not alone, that someone's stalking them.
Flaws:
Having been corrupted by the malevolence in the Abyss, Sae has very little moral inclinations left within her. There's no appealing to any sense of mercy, she'll simply kill everyone in sight. Behind the crazy laughter and distorted smile, Sae is rather afraid of the thought of being left alone, and that fear has driven her to manipulate those around her. Years of massive co-dependency have rendered her incredibly clingy and selfish, and instilled a desperation into her to ensure that one way or another, she and her sister will remain together. Sae's also developed a one-track mind; she's rather obsessed with the ceremony, and trying to convince her that there are other, healthier ways of remaining close sisters with Yae is a futile attempt.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
She had been in a dark place. Her sister...her sister had been right in front of her, and then she'd ran away. Why, Yae? Why did she look so frightened? Why did she not want to become one, as their fate dictates they should? It does not matter. Someday, Yae will return to her. Yae won't leave her behind in the darkness. Yae will remember their promise, and they'll complete the ritual. She'll never be parted from her sister ever again.
To Sae Kurosawa's insane mind, she's still in All God's Village. The tunnels are the very same passageways that lead to the Abyss, and although she can't find it she's certain that the Abyss is there somewhere. Where else could it be? Therefore, Yae has to be here somewhere as well. Yae can't escape from the village. And if she tries, then Sae has to follow her and bring her back. The strange box she'd found on her person slips out from her kimono, landing in the dust in the Colosseum; it can break apart from rust, it can be stomped on by a fleeing person or a monster. Sae didn't even notice that she had it on her, and therefore its loss does not register to her mind.
Trapped between a deep grief at losing her sister and a dark, excited joy that the ceremony was close to completion, Sae Kurosawa begins to roam the city of Hadriel. Men and women may glance uneasily about them, turning their collars up from the unnatural spike in the cold. Lights flicker on and off, fluctuating from bright bursts to being snuffed out.
And eventually, messages written in a sticky, shining red start to appear in the city, No matter how hard they may try try scrub off the ink (or at least, they hope it's ink), the message remains there, lingering and never fading. It's a message written with a deep sisterly love, a hope of reunion that never ends...and the obsessive desire for death.
"Yae. Don't leave me."
Player name: San
Contact: Private message through the character journal, or send me an email/Google hangouts request at mingrps@gmail.com
Characters currently in-game: Paladin Danse
CHARACTER
Character Name: Sae Kurosawa
Character Age: Dead at 15. No canon age as at the events of Fatal Frame 2 but if All God's Village disappeared during the Meiji period, Sae could be more than 80 years old when Mio and Mayu Amakura were trapped inside the village.
Canon: Fatal Frame: Deep Crimson Butterfly
Canon Point: Chasing after Mio at the Earth Bridge.
History: Character Background, Character quotes, Butterfly diaries, Letter to Yae, Fluorite recordings of Sae.
Personality: In life Sae had no one else but her sister Yae and the Tachibana twins for company, and as such Sae had always been afraid that she would lose them. She's especially fearful of losing her sister Yae, to whom she is very very close to. Her fear of being separated from Yae defined her more extreme actions to the end of her life and beyond. Sae was so attached to Yae that the thought of them growing up, finding their own individuality and living their own separate lives frightened her; even if they remained close sisters, Sae could not accept anything less than them being together forever...literally.
However, Sae's love for Yae became twisted after death. When Sae was killed, her intense longing for her sister and her despair that Yae had left her combined with the Darkness in the Hellish Abyss, turning her into a murder-happy vengeful spirit. Crazed with grief and heart broken that her sister did not return to her to complete the ritual, Sae slaughters everyone in the village. She continues to wait for her sister to return to the village to complete the ritual and "merge" herself with her sister. In the meantime, any unfortunate soul that ends up in the village will be hunted down and killed by the various spirits in the village, including Sae.
It's suggested that Sae's psyche has never always been whole even when alive, but Sae turned completely insane after the failed ritual. She laughs maniacally and sports a big, crazed smile whenever she chases Mio around, over-joyed to see her "sister". She cries when Mio rejects her and refuses to join her in the ceremony, but laughs at the same time because she still sees a way for them to be together. Her longing for her sister has turned into a possessiveness, and Sae has become very ruthless in her pursuit of her sister. It is implied in one ending of the game that Mayu has been possessed by Sae ever since she was young, suggesting that Sae had wanted to complete the ritual via the Amakura twins since they were young girls.
Sae is a rather selfish person as well. For all that she loves her sister, she was very willing to put Yae through the immense psychological pain of the ritual if it meant that Sae would be together with her sister forever. In death, this translates to the above mentioned ruthlessness. Sae is very determined to get what she wants...even if it leads to the death of her sister, whom she unfortunately mistakes Mio Amakura for.
However she has her moments of compassion. Before her death she grieves incredibly when Itsuki dies, and she and Yae both try to help Seijuro Makabe escape the village. And when the fragments of Yae that had attached to Mio appeared to her sister, Sae almost immediately forgave her sister. She resolved herself to complete the ritual alone, blaming herself for Itsuki's death. And Sae is extremely sad and lonely both in life and in death. During rare moments in the game, Mio sees flashes of Sae's sadness and pain, and at one point she hears Sae's thoughts, that she no longer wants to kill anymore. Sae painfully waits for her sister to be set free of the Darkness and laid to rest. Unfortunately while these thoughts of hers may have existed in the past, the Sae that chases Mio around seems to have lost those feelings, her mind and heart broken after having to reenact the failed ritual over and over again.
Sae never lets go of the hope that her sister would return to her and complete the Crimson Ceremony. But that hope has been corrupted into a bloodthirsty desire, and Sae continues to lure souls into the village, killing any who crosses her path.
Including her sister Yae. She will never let Yae leave the village. Even if they can't become one...she'll never let her sister go, ever again.
Inventory: Nothing but the funeral clothes on her back.
Abilities:
Sae is an extremely powerful hostile spirit. Her abilities are as listed:
- Possession. Sae can possess people. Her possession is extremely powerful. One of the in-game endings show that even if she is exorcised, she can still leave parts of herself inside the people she's possessed, returning through them.
- Instant death by touch. This will be nerfed in-game to life-force drains that will leave people very weak. Sae can still kill by touch, but will need to do so over a period of time.
- Sae cannot be harmed by normal means. The only way to harm her is by using the Camera Obscura. For in-game considerations, other purification/holy items and/or spells will also work, but these items must be blessed by a priest/priestess. Even so, she cannot be fully exorcised; only reunion with her sister will allow her to rest in peace.
- Sae can obscure people's vision with a red sticky mist. The mist can be removed by using holy/purification items.
- Teleportation and intangibility. Like all ghosts, Sae can move through objects and walls. She can teleport from place to place as well.
- General ghost creepiness. Wherever Sae goes, the temperature drops rapidly. The darkness seems more pronounced, and the atmosphere turns heavy and oppressive. People will get the sense that they're not alone, that someone's stalking them.
Flaws:
Having been corrupted by the malevolence in the Abyss, Sae has very little moral inclinations left within her. There's no appealing to any sense of mercy, she'll simply kill everyone in sight. Behind the crazy laughter and distorted smile, Sae is rather afraid of the thought of being left alone, and that fear has driven her to manipulate those around her. Years of massive co-dependency have rendered her incredibly clingy and selfish, and instilled a desperation into her to ensure that one way or another, she and her sister will remain together. Sae's also developed a one-track mind; she's rather obsessed with the ceremony, and trying to convince her that there are other, healthier ways of remaining close sisters with Yae is a futile attempt.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
She had been in a dark place. Her sister...her sister had been right in front of her, and then she'd ran away. Why, Yae? Why did she look so frightened? Why did she not want to become one, as their fate dictates they should? It does not matter. Someday, Yae will return to her. Yae won't leave her behind in the darkness. Yae will remember their promise, and they'll complete the ritual. She'll never be parted from her sister ever again.
To Sae Kurosawa's insane mind, she's still in All God's Village. The tunnels are the very same passageways that lead to the Abyss, and although she can't find it she's certain that the Abyss is there somewhere. Where else could it be? Therefore, Yae has to be here somewhere as well. Yae can't escape from the village. And if she tries, then Sae has to follow her and bring her back. The strange box she'd found on her person slips out from her kimono, landing in the dust in the Colosseum; it can break apart from rust, it can be stomped on by a fleeing person or a monster. Sae didn't even notice that she had it on her, and therefore its loss does not register to her mind.
Trapped between a deep grief at losing her sister and a dark, excited joy that the ceremony was close to completion, Sae Kurosawa begins to roam the city of Hadriel. Men and women may glance uneasily about them, turning their collars up from the unnatural spike in the cold. Lights flicker on and off, fluctuating from bright bursts to being snuffed out.
And eventually, messages written in a sticky, shining red start to appear in the city, No matter how hard they may try try scrub off the ink (or at least, they hope it's ink), the message remains there, lingering and never fading. It's a message written with a deep sisterly love, a hope of reunion that never ends...and the obsessive desire for death.
"Yae. Don't leave me."