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✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Anri Sonohara
Canon: Durarara!!
PB/Image: Fanservice is the way of all girls in Durarara!!
Info links: Anri's wiki page
Canon Point: End of Vol 6. LIKE ALL THE COOL KIDS.
Gender & Sex: Female
Age: 16 (aged up to 18)
Birthdate/Sign: October 31st, Scorpio
Tattoo: About two inches, half concealed but just visible below her skirt hemline on her upper right thigh.
Suitability: She may be young and a little innocent in some ways, but in many other ways Anri has lived through some terrible, terrible things in her life. She's learned how to adapt and survive. She would not enjoy having to worship, but she would get used to it, and like most things she doesn't enjoy, she would be detached from it. Of course, that's not to say she'd hate it, or even dislike it forever. She's a reserved, shy girl, but she's also very pragmatic. She would try to avoid forming attachments such as love, and would likely end up considering it all in an almost businesslike fashion. What CR she forms aside, she would adapt, as she always does, to survive. I won't try to say the idea of it wouldn't be weird and unpleasant to her, but she's been through trauma, degradation, humiliation, physical and verbal abuse for years... As far as breaking her, it'd be hard to do worse to her than has already been done in canon, and as I said, she'd take it all pretty practically even with the initial discomfort.
Also, since the death of her parents five years ago, she has been living on her own and fending for herself. She is quite used to having to survive without others providing for her.
Power: A demon sword literally resides in her body. As such, I would like her to keep the ability to summon it, if possible. If not, than at the very least, I want her to still hear Saika, as that's a rather important aspect of her character.
Personality: Ah where to begin. She displays many traits of a Scorpio--secretive, suspicious, reserved, loyal, discreet, prudent... But most of what you see on the surface is the reserved and shy. She is a bit awkward. Polite and mostly formal, a little spaced out a lot of the time, but not that she doesn't observe things--in fact, she observes things very keenly. She's just a bit naive and often second guesses herself, or sees no reason to bring up what she sees, or even just over-thinks things. She tries to apply logic to things when she doesn't understand them, including her own emotions, and is generally very careful and cautious in her actions and words. As someone who thinks of herself as a parasite, someone who needs others to help her exist, she allows herself to become background to others, and doesn't stand up for herself when she is verbally or physically abused, believing that it is normal and perfectly acceptable and that any abuse hurled at her is true. At least, this is her behavior around people she has no emotional attachment to; Anri is a complicated girl, with a complex way of processing her emotions and her unique situation. In most cases she lets everything roll off of her like water off a duck's back, only defending her physical well-being in extreme situations, and allowing words and minor physical abuse to rain on her without objecting.
This isn't just a coping mechanism for bullying. She started this habit to survive the trauma she received as a child--from an abusive father and a mother who eventually killed him, and herself, in front of Anri. Anri's ability not to become emotionally invested, not even riled or hurt by others, is part of her ability to not be taken over by the demon sword that possesses her. Day in and out she listens to the sword, Saika, and feels nothing for the sword's whispers to "Love" everyone, primarily because of her emotional detachment to everything and everyone around her.
This does not mean Anri is emotionless. She has emotions, but is quite unsure what to do with them, or even, often, what they are. She feels happiness and anger and pain and confusion just like anyone, but she is extremely reserved--and she tends to only feel when with her friends. When around others she's closed off. She can be uneasy or detached or nervous but she doesn't tend to feel strongly around strangers or mere acquaintances, and it's hard to become close to her. This makes her a bit of an outcast to most, combining her good looks with what most see as an aloof, standoffish, or disinterested personality. And precisely because of her detachment, her lack of reaction, she is often abused and accused of being a leech and whore, of manipulating others with her looks to protect her--something she's never done, and yet she never tries to defend herself. Because of that detachment. A detachment she can take to an extreme of being an onlooker in her own life, viewing the world as if from the other side of a picture frame, or as an onlooker from a distant planet, the coping mechanism she learned when she was abused by her father.
Now let us look at her personality when with her friends. If someone breaks through her emotional shell, steps "over the picture frame" into her world, becomes someone that isn't an outsider to her, things are different. A million people can tell her the same thing and it won't have the same impact of a few words from someone she considers a friend. She trusts and cares deeply about her friends, and she has very few of them, for very few people try to reach out to her until they reach her. She treasures her friends and takes her relationships with them very, very seriously. Harsh words from a friend will get a reaction, and genuinely, truly, upset and hurt her. Emotions she feels towards a friend will be analyzed and agonized over, as she tries very hard to make the best decisions to maintain her friendships. She worries about her friends. She worries about upsetting the harmony with them. She even worries about when it's appropriate to scold them. She's very awkward at friendship, but very sincere. She may view herself as a parasite and not worth much, she may have a very vague and unspecified idea of what she wants for her life, and she may be passive and reserved in most areas. But to her friends she will speak up, she will become involved, she will take an active and even aggressive role to protect and defend and support them, even if it's in her polite way, she will not waver or even hesitate to jump into a fight or perilous situation to protect a friend, where she would never lift a finger or raise her voice to defend herself (unless it was truly life threatening, in which case she does defend herself from attack).
Put another way, Anri is the survivor of a great lot of trauma, and in possession of a demon sword that tries to take over her mind constantly, the result of which has left her with a shrewd intellect and absolutely no self-worth and very limited understanding of emotions, a rather naive mindset on some things, but a deep and fierce need to protect her few, important, precious friends.
Some examples of her different friendships: Her oldest friend, Harima Mika, was a friendship of convenience. Anri knew Mika was using her to make Mika look good, but Anri was using Mika for protection. Anri considered herself a parasite in that relationship. Even after Mika more or less dumps her though, Anri still has very strong feelings for Mika, and listens to her words whenever they do occasionally talk.
Mikado and Masaomi, on the other hand, reach out to her. It puzzles her. They both seem to have feelings for her, and she cares for them and tries very hard not to favor one over the other. It's a conscious effort to make no encouragement romantically to either, because she doesn't understand love, and her friendship with them is extremely precious to her--she thinks on her feelings for them a lot, and is very careful about how she responds to them. For both of their sakes she has put herself in dangerous situations, recklessness she only tends to display for them.
Celty, someone who later befriends Anri, Anri sort of had a crush on! But she also trusts and relies on Celty, looking up to her a bit like an older sister. Where she has to be careful with Mikado and Kida, Anri is more open with Celty.
Name: Anri Sonohara
Canon: Durarara!!
PB/Image: Fanservice is the way of all girls in Durarara!!
Info links: Anri's wiki page
Canon Point: End of Vol 6. LIKE ALL THE COOL KIDS.
Gender & Sex: Female
Age: 16 (aged up to 18)
Birthdate/Sign: October 31st, Scorpio
Tattoo: About two inches, half concealed but just visible below her skirt hemline on her upper right thigh.
Suitability: She may be young and a little innocent in some ways, but in many other ways Anri has lived through some terrible, terrible things in her life. She's learned how to adapt and survive. She would not enjoy having to worship, but she would get used to it, and like most things she doesn't enjoy, she would be detached from it. Of course, that's not to say she'd hate it, or even dislike it forever. She's a reserved, shy girl, but she's also very pragmatic. She would try to avoid forming attachments such as love, and would likely end up considering it all in an almost businesslike fashion. What CR she forms aside, she would adapt, as she always does, to survive. I won't try to say the idea of it wouldn't be weird and unpleasant to her, but she's been through trauma, degradation, humiliation, physical and verbal abuse for years... As far as breaking her, it'd be hard to do worse to her than has already been done in canon, and as I said, she'd take it all pretty practically even with the initial discomfort.
Also, since the death of her parents five years ago, she has been living on her own and fending for herself. She is quite used to having to survive without others providing for her.
Power: A demon sword literally resides in her body. As such, I would like her to keep the ability to summon it, if possible. If not, than at the very least, I want her to still hear Saika, as that's a rather important aspect of her character.
Personality: Ah where to begin. She displays many traits of a Scorpio--secretive, suspicious, reserved, loyal, discreet, prudent... But most of what you see on the surface is the reserved and shy. She is a bit awkward. Polite and mostly formal, a little spaced out a lot of the time, but not that she doesn't observe things--in fact, she observes things very keenly. She's just a bit naive and often second guesses herself, or sees no reason to bring up what she sees, or even just over-thinks things. She tries to apply logic to things when she doesn't understand them, including her own emotions, and is generally very careful and cautious in her actions and words. As someone who thinks of herself as a parasite, someone who needs others to help her exist, she allows herself to become background to others, and doesn't stand up for herself when she is verbally or physically abused, believing that it is normal and perfectly acceptable and that any abuse hurled at her is true. At least, this is her behavior around people she has no emotional attachment to; Anri is a complicated girl, with a complex way of processing her emotions and her unique situation. In most cases she lets everything roll off of her like water off a duck's back, only defending her physical well-being in extreme situations, and allowing words and minor physical abuse to rain on her without objecting.
This isn't just a coping mechanism for bullying. She started this habit to survive the trauma she received as a child--from an abusive father and a mother who eventually killed him, and herself, in front of Anri. Anri's ability not to become emotionally invested, not even riled or hurt by others, is part of her ability to not be taken over by the demon sword that possesses her. Day in and out she listens to the sword, Saika, and feels nothing for the sword's whispers to "Love" everyone, primarily because of her emotional detachment to everything and everyone around her.
This does not mean Anri is emotionless. She has emotions, but is quite unsure what to do with them, or even, often, what they are. She feels happiness and anger and pain and confusion just like anyone, but she is extremely reserved--and she tends to only feel when with her friends. When around others she's closed off. She can be uneasy or detached or nervous but she doesn't tend to feel strongly around strangers or mere acquaintances, and it's hard to become close to her. This makes her a bit of an outcast to most, combining her good looks with what most see as an aloof, standoffish, or disinterested personality. And precisely because of her detachment, her lack of reaction, she is often abused and accused of being a leech and whore, of manipulating others with her looks to protect her--something she's never done, and yet she never tries to defend herself. Because of that detachment. A detachment she can take to an extreme of being an onlooker in her own life, viewing the world as if from the other side of a picture frame, or as an onlooker from a distant planet, the coping mechanism she learned when she was abused by her father.
Now let us look at her personality when with her friends. If someone breaks through her emotional shell, steps "over the picture frame" into her world, becomes someone that isn't an outsider to her, things are different. A million people can tell her the same thing and it won't have the same impact of a few words from someone she considers a friend. She trusts and cares deeply about her friends, and she has very few of them, for very few people try to reach out to her until they reach her. She treasures her friends and takes her relationships with them very, very seriously. Harsh words from a friend will get a reaction, and genuinely, truly, upset and hurt her. Emotions she feels towards a friend will be analyzed and agonized over, as she tries very hard to make the best decisions to maintain her friendships. She worries about her friends. She worries about upsetting the harmony with them. She even worries about when it's appropriate to scold them. She's very awkward at friendship, but very sincere. She may view herself as a parasite and not worth much, she may have a very vague and unspecified idea of what she wants for her life, and she may be passive and reserved in most areas. But to her friends she will speak up, she will become involved, she will take an active and even aggressive role to protect and defend and support them, even if it's in her polite way, she will not waver or even hesitate to jump into a fight or perilous situation to protect a friend, where she would never lift a finger or raise her voice to defend herself (unless it was truly life threatening, in which case she does defend herself from attack).
Put another way, Anri is the survivor of a great lot of trauma, and in possession of a demon sword that tries to take over her mind constantly, the result of which has left her with a shrewd intellect and absolutely no self-worth and very limited understanding of emotions, a rather naive mindset on some things, but a deep and fierce need to protect her few, important, precious friends.
Some examples of her different friendships: Her oldest friend, Harima Mika, was a friendship of convenience. Anri knew Mika was using her to make Mika look good, but Anri was using Mika for protection. Anri considered herself a parasite in that relationship. Even after Mika more or less dumps her though, Anri still has very strong feelings for Mika, and listens to her words whenever they do occasionally talk.
Mikado and Masaomi, on the other hand, reach out to her. It puzzles her. They both seem to have feelings for her, and she cares for them and tries very hard not to favor one over the other. It's a conscious effort to make no encouragement romantically to either, because she doesn't understand love, and her friendship with them is extremely precious to her--she thinks on her feelings for them a lot, and is very careful about how she responds to them. For both of their sakes she has put herself in dangerous situations, recklessness she only tends to display for them.
Celty, someone who later befriends Anri, Anri sort of had a crush on! But she also trusts and relies on Celty, looking up to her a bit like an older sister. Where she has to be careful with Mikado and Kida, Anri is more open with Celty.
