「 Syno 」 Application
P L A Y E R;
NAME: Dana
AGE: 19
PLAYER JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sunshowered
TIMEZONE: PST
CONTACT: nyavericks @ AIM or![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
evergrace
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Ukyo
CANON: Amnesia
POINT IN CANON: Amnesia Later, Mid-New World. Just before the player makes their choice as to whom they want to see fireflies with.
AGE: 24…. ish. (He decided that his age is closest to 24 despite the fact that he has experienced multiple universes but never grown any older.)
APPEARANCE: homeless never looked so good
CANON HISTORY: Amnesia Wiki!
Now to a certain degree, Ukyo's history before he meets the heroine remains the same.
When he was young, he was very attached to his grandfather and the house that he had in Japan. However his grandfather died when he was very young so he wasn't able to inherit the house and before he knew it, his parents were whisking him off to travel the world. From there, he lived in multiple countries though he didn't stay in any of them for very long at all. As a result, his studies suffered and he's honestly not that good of a student.
Luckily, Ukyo doesn't need to be a good student! Because instead of getting a proper job, he's instead chosen to continue traveling around, taking on different photography jobs, and has actually been regarded as a famous photographer - enough that his work regularly gets published, he gets special requests from magazines, and even answers interviews. Photography had been one of his great passions in life ever since he took a picture of the sky with his father's camera - though it made such an impact on his life that he's been afraid to take a picture of the sky ever since, afraid he wouldn't be able to do it justice.
Alright, that's the concrete stuff. Let's move on to the weird things!
The nature of Amnesia’s canon is interesting in the sense that due to the fact that the (nameless) protagonist lost all her memories, she is able to choose which world she wants to enter from the very beginning of the game. There is a different scenario and background waiting for her in every world and each world has its small differences such as who she is acquainted with, who works at the café Meido no Shitsuji with her, the personality of her boss, and who she’s dating at the time. She enters each of these worlds with no recollection as to who she’s involved with but is then forced to get a grasp of what is going on as events continue. However every time she enters a world, it is on the date of August 1st.
In each of these worlds, she encounters Ukyo who manages to be completely cryptic and confusing, sometimes talking about how it’s “excellent to see you again… or maybe it’s nice to meet you?”
It’s revealed in his route (which needs to be unlocked by completing the routes for all the other datable options) that in their original world, Ukyo was the protagonist’s boyfriend. However she became fatally injured in a fire that took place in her school on August 1st, entered a coma, and then died on August 25th. During this time, Ukyo was at her side and made the wish for her to live. Neil, a goddess that is interested in humans and gathers information by granting their wishes, heard Ukyo’s wish and sought to grant it. However it was a difficult wish to grant and so Neil entered Ukyo’s body and took him to travel to a different world where the protagonist is alive.
However Ukyo found that in all the worlds where the protagonist is alive, Ukyo never lived in the first place. So the world he entered would rebel on him and he would die because the world made it a point to remove anomalies such as Ukyo’s existence. However he continued to wish to see her and Neil continued to take him to different worlds so that he could try to be with her. However their simultaneous existence was never allowed in any world and so Ukyo would constantly be killed or the protagonist would end up being killed instead, all before the date of August 25th.
After dying over and over again, Ukyo eventually developed a split personality who realized that he could live as long as the protagonist died. So in some worlds, Ukyo would snap and his alternate personality would end up killing the protagonist so that he would not have to experience death himself. This would cause the original, soft-hearted and very much in love Ukyo to feel so much guilt that he’d want to travel to yet another world to try to save her, continuing the cycle.
Just before the events of the first game of Amnesia, the goddess Neil reveals that due to the fact that Ukyo’s wish of the protagonist living past the 25th was not granted, she was running out of power. So the last world that she would take him to would be the original world that the protagonist died in, but Neil would rewind time so that Ukyo could still try to save her.
In Ukyo’s own route in the game (called the Joker World), he spends time with the heroine and tries to keep her from dying until the 25th from all the occurrences in the world that are trying to kill her. He also tries to keep himself alive so that he can guide her through the world and also because he selfishly wants to see her because more than anything else, he is still desperately in love with her. On the night of the 25th, it leads to a struggle within the protagonist’s university and just before Ukyo’s psychotic alter ego stabs her, the original personality takes hold and Ukyo instead ends up stabbing himself. The heroine lives past the 26th in this timeline and Neil pulls her away and tries to explain everything to her. If the heroine chooses to forgive Ukyo, they are able to live in this world together. If the heroine does not, Ukyo’s existence is once again erased.
In the routes for the other boys in the game, depending on if the heroine chooses to date Shin, Toma, Ikki, or Kent (World of Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs respectively), Ukyo still appears in all of the worlds. In some of the bad ends for these routes, Ukyo’s psychotic personality is actually the one to kill the heroine before the 25th. However if the heroine makes it to the good ends in any of these routes, Ukyo always mysteriously disappears by the 25th or is rumored to have died.
In the New World option made available in the second game, Amnesia Later, Ukyo is a regular customer in the heroine’s workplace, Meido no Shitsuji. He is again known as a professional photographer whose work is regularly published and is acquainted with all of the staff. His experiences remain entirely the same otherwise, the primary difference in this world is that the heroine is not dating anyone when she wakes up on August 1st.
CANON PERSONALITY:
In truth, Ukyo loves the heroine more than anything.
That, above all else, fuels just about every single part of his personality and the way that it’s changed. Before he underwent the hardship of having to go through multiple worlds, dying in multiple worlds, and realizing that he gave up everything to be with a girl that fate refuses to let him have, Ukyo was actually rather average. True, he was a very kind and he even met the heroine when he was giving her directions in a town she wasn’t familiar with. But it can be said that he was a very simplistic, gentle soul who really didn’t have much in the way of future plans or ambition. He took each day at a time and was easily moved to tears, but he was never really a suspicious, sometimes cryptic person or a psychotic killer.
Now he’s both.
To strangers, Ukyo is suspicious. No one really knows much about him because he keeps a lot of information to himself, but they can sometimes come across his photography work and interviews in magazines and piece things together from there. However they have no idea what his family is like, where he goes to school, or even how old he is. True, he’s easy to strike up conversation with, especially about photography and friendships. It’s simple to draw him into very shallow conversation about his interest, because they are many in number. However then he may say something strange when he’s being questioned, such as when he doesn’t know how to express his age or he suddenly greets a person familiarly even though they’ve never met him before.
This is because Ukyo is often honest to a fault. Because instead of being afraid of saying anything strange and impacting the future of the world he’s in, that’s exactly what he wants so he doesn’t worry too much about altering timelines or worlds with his careless actions. Rather, he says very honestly to people who question his behavior, “You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you” and when explaining his age, he says “Technically if you say 24, you wouldn’t be incorrect, but I have experienced much more than my time” which makes absolutely no sense to most people since he keeps the actual world-hopping part to himself. Instead he’s the type of honest to let loose pieces of information, particularly when questioned about it.
Hence why he admits to the heroine point blank in his route, “I love you more than anyone. I treasure you more than myself. Even if you don’t remember, I’ve been looking for you.”
Even though he’s constantly been jumping from world to world and has experienced a great amount of stress on his mind, Ukyo still remains simplistic in his true desires. His wish was born out of the intense need to see his love alive again. He explains that even when he’s seen her in other worlds, where she’s dating somebody else, he understands that as long as she’s happy and alive, he doesn’t mind. And due to the fact that the two of them could not exist in the same world, he would willingly kill himself so that she could live on in that world without burden. Ukyo is caught in this constant cycle because he loves her so much and each time he would still search for a new world to go to, hoping that maybe they could be together because more than anything else, he just wants to meet her again.
Even though he has until the 25th of each August to live, he reflects on the 22nd one day that he might as well just die then. Because the sky is beautiful and he got to see the heroine, even if she was in love with someone else. With that type of resolve, he stepped in front of a bus and let himself be broken. He remembers the pain but he’s also grown so nonchalant toward it that he actually spared the time to think ‘I feel bad for bleeding on this beautiful world.’
That said, Ukyo is hardly a downer all the time. Before he ended up getting in these world hopping shenanigans, he was actually quite sociable. He had friends and family that were very important to him, just not as important as the heroine. This probably is due to the fact that his previous lifestyle required him to do a lot of traveling for photography and even before that, he was constantly on the move from country to country with his parents. Even though his studies suffered from his constant movement, his sociability did not.
Ultimately he’s a very gentle person who isn’t very good at making it clear what he wants, actually getting very flustered very quickly when he realizes the implications of his own words at times. When he finally leaves the hobo life and starts looking for furniture for his home, he loudly declares (not even entirely consciously) that he does want to get a larger bed so that eventually he and the heroine can share it together but only once they’ve reached that point in the relationship and he doesn’t want to push anything on her, really, all he wants to do is cuddle with her and kiss her and that sort of thing. All of that in the middle of a store. They left shortly after.
Due to the fact that he’s so genuine, Ukyo constantly gets wrapped up in his own feelings. Even though he’s lost most of his jealous streak when it comes to the heroine (seeing as watching her date a bunch of other guys in a multitude of different worlds was probably enough to make him re-evaluate his priorities), he still can’t stand around and watch her in a bridal gown doing a wedding photo shoot with anyone else. So his immediate solution to the problem is picking her up and running off with her. He sort of lives in that extreme and his ability to judge situations suffers from his tendency to run away with his ideas (and also the star of the photo shoot).
However Ukyo really is rather sensitive. Seeing his grandfather’s home, which he had to abandon in Japan for 15 years and was certain had been torn down or remodeled, completely untouched was enough to bring him to tears. In addition, when Waka, the café owner, told Ukyo that he had a photography book left to him by his grandfather, that was enough to bring Ukyo to tears right there in the store. (It lost a bit of its impact when it was revealed that Waka made the story up.) Even when the rest of the guys that work in the café played a game of paintball with Ukyo and decided they wanted a rematch when Ukyo beat them all, the invitation was enough to make Ukyo tear up from happiness at being included. There’s no denying that he’s a bit of a crybaby.
Despite this, he’s also lost a bit of the ability to gauge social situations since he’s a bit rusty with it now. When the other love interests in the café find out that Ukyo is actually dating the heroine, they immediately respond with jealousy. Their methodology is to give Ukyo some extra food on the house under the pretense of it being a gesture of peace when it was actually laced with so much spice that it made one of their taste testers cry. However since Ukyo’s taste buds have long since dulled, he doesn’t even flinch when he eats it – even asking for more Tabasco. The other love interests immediately turn cold, evaluating him with sarcastic remarks, which greatly confuses Ukyo as he suddenly exclaims, “Wait, why are you suddenly being mean to me?!”
So it’s clear that Ukyo very much enjoys the company of other people, even though he ended up losing his own circle of friends and family when he started traveling through the worlds to be with the heroine. It’s another part of him that just manages to be incredibly self-sacrificing for her. In the end, he lacks a lot of concern for himself.
Truthfully, this is due to the fact that in the worlds that the heroine is alive, he never existed at all. So whenever he searches for her, he ends up being in a place where he has no other friends who know him or family who is familiar with him. It gives him an ultimately very lonely existence to the point that he ends up surprised when somebody worries over him, honestly commenting, “It’s been a while since someone was concerned about me.”
His lack of concern for himself extends to all his habits, including the fact that now he sleeps outside in August, even though he really does hate it. But it’s to make sure that he’s always somewhere with people so that they can stop him in case he loses control of himself. It also goes further to the point that his taste buds have dulled extremely and he can ignore a lot of the pain he feels due to the fact that he can always say “It’s not as bad as dying.” In addition, he’s grown to be rather messy and minimalist in his lifestyle. Even though he has a house, he doesn’t furnish it because he doesn’t expect to stay there for very long. When he eats, it’s often junk food. Honestly, Ukyo just isn’t very good for himself at all.
However that isn’t to say that Ukyo isn’t good. He would do anything for the happiness of the people he cares about, sacrificing his own chances at being happy and even his chances at life. He tears when people show that they care about him or ask him to hang out, because truly he is envious of people who can call themselves friends and comrades, especially since he’s seen the same group of people often flock around the heroine in each world that he visits. In each of the worlds he visits, however, he has to play a certain role.
More than anything, he has to make sure that the heroine stays alive and that often involves resolving himself to die within the month. This often leaves him unable to make the connections with people that he wants to. He spends most of his time in other routes simply warning her against dangers before dismissing himself because he sees himself as an obstacle to her happiness.
Then there are the other times when he shows up as an obstacle to her life.
Experiencing death over and over again, unable to be with the one that he loves, was too much of a burden on Ukyo and so he wasn’t able to retain his complete sanity as he continued to jump from world to world. Rather, it generated a split personality that is entirely more competent than the usual Ukyo and is basically his survival instinct personified.
Although it was previously mentioned that Ukyo would willingly kill himself, whether it’s throwing himself in front of a train or off a building, there are times where that part of his personality doesn’t win out. The part of him that grew crazy from having to experience death continuously, remembering the pain and suffering each time, is occasionally able to gain ahold of Ukyo’s body. He rationalizes himself saying, “It hurt… didn’t it? It was painful, wasn’t it?” and that he simply doesn’t want to die anymore. So in situations where it is either his life or the heroine, the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality leads the heroine into dangerous situations or actively seeks her out to kill her himself.
The psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality is incredibly inconsistent in his actions and methodology, which he explains is because he was “born from madness”. He’s generally a figure that can’t be trusted because in some moments before he kills the heroine, he will insult her and then reflect with just as much affection as the original Ukyo, “I love it. Your entire being.” And then he tosses her off a hospital building. In another situation where he impales the heroine with a steel bar, he reflects that it’s a shame that she didn’t die instantly and admits, “This will be less painful than being with me.” However in other times he openly strangles her, blaming her for the fact that he constantly has to go through this cycle of life and death and experience so much pain.
However even the unhinged Ukyo is shown to be rather rational at times. Before Neil and the original Ukyo realized that in some universes, the heroine would die even if Ukyo was gone, the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality as able to recognize it. Yet even when he realized that in some worlds where they were both doomed to die anyway, he would still kill her. He reflects upon it with great sadness, explaining that the truth behind the fact was that he simply couldn’t control himself. Because he is chaos in its purest form.
Yet despite his view on himself, even the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality is shown to have the ability to act rationally. Before Ukyo began his world hopping journey, he was actually a very clean person. So while the dominant part of Ukyo’s personality has become a bit of a slob who manages only enough to make sure that he survives, the crazier part of Ukyo’s personality is actually the one who makes sure that their house is livable and all the chores get done. He’s a psycho whose hobby is cleaning, basically. He makes sure that their body is fed proper nutrients instead of eating junk food all the time, too.
And even the unhinged part of Ukyo’s personality loves the heroine. When she forgives him and promises not to leave him alone, he loses a lot of his fight. Due to the fact that the world eventually makes it so that it doesn’t have to be one or the other between them, he becomes much less aggressive. Instead, he recognizes that he was born from madness – but that madness originated from Ukyo’s love from the heroine. So in a way, he was also born out of love for her.
Ukyo’s two personalities are incredibly different and even have different talents. The original Ukyo is a skilled photographer but the other half of him snorts as he recognizes that he could never recreate those same photos. The two of them often quarrel, though mostly over hygiene once everything has mellowed out, and the calmer Ukyo is incredibly distrustful of the other part of his personality. However they are able to recognize that they share a body and love for the heroine, so they eventually come to terms with each other.
ABILITIES:
• Photography: In most of the worlds, Ukyo is known to be a famous photographer and so when he suddenly disappears by August 25th, the café staff tend to assume that he took on a photography job. It’s remarked that he actually has some skill at it, seeing as he does get asked to travel and take on new photography jobs from magazines and also gets his work published on a regular basis.
• Self-Defense: Admittedly this is mostly taken on by Ukyo’s psychotic alternate personality but his survival instinct is very strong. He’s capable of moving quickly enough to overpower thugs who come at him (if he decides that he wants to live anyway). He carries around multiple self-defense items to protect himself and is capable of using them to counter anyone who assaults him.
• High Pain Threshold: Due to the fact that he’s legitimately died in multiple universes, Ukyo doesn’t really care for much general pain and is able to ignore a lot of it. Small instances of pain like walking around barefoot on gravelly paths or brain freeze after scarfing down a snow cone don’t keep him from moving because he always rationalizes to himself “it’s not as painful as death.”
• Sharp Shooter: When challenged to a game of paintball with the rest of the guys, Ukyo managed to dominate against everyone else due to the fact that hew as able to move around silently on barefoot and also has very good aim with his gun. It was to the extent that it was questioned as to whether or not he could possibly be an assassin.
• World-Hopping (by Proxy): With Neil’s presence in his body, Ukyo is able to move from world to world using the goddess’s power while also retaining all his memories from his previous experiences.
INVENTORY;
• Clothes
• Cell Phone
• Various Self-Defense Items (pepper spray, dagger, stun gun, wire)
• Handcuffs
• Digital camera
• A collection of photographs
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Amnesia's canon is so weird, let me know if anything needs further elaboration!
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON:
One || Two
THIRD PERSON:
The first thing that came to his mind as he was transported to yet another world was ‘this street is unfamiliar to me’.
Besides a furrowed brow, Ukyo did his best to maintain a neutral expression so as to not draw the attention of the other people walking along the sidewalk. Admittedly he had hit the point in his life where he no longer cared for their curious glances when he did something strange, but at the same time he would feel bad if he pulled them away from their daily affairs. Truly, he was already an outsider to this world – there was no need to increase the burden on its inhabitants.
So instead he couldn’t help but wonder why he was here.
True, the feeling of being pulled from world to world was a familiar one to him now – to the point that he could identify the pull involved… but normally Neil would have words for him before he entered another dimension.
There would be a brief discussion – an “I’m sorry” followed by a “Let us try again, so that your wish may come true” – before he would again travel.
Yet this time he managed to travel without communicating with Neil at all. Perhaps he should be concerned, especially considering the fact that this was not the same town that he normally transferred to. Rather, the signs were entirely different and most intriguingly, not in Japanese.
Would he have to take a plane to see her again?
Ukyo merely stopped at a street corner, a hand rising to his mouth as he considered his options. He didn’t even know what date it was. If it were August, would it be safer for him to stay away? Shouldn’t he just remain where he is?
(Somewhere deep within his subconscious, buried so far down that Ukyo was not even aware of its presence in this moment, a voice whispered, Stay. She will die if we do nothing. So stay.)
Coming to a decision, Ukyo squared his shoulders.
She would die if he did nothing.
So he had to go.
(And perhaps in the end, he would save her. He would jump in front of a bus. He would throw himself off a building. He would drown himself in a well. In the end, she would live and his purpose would be complete.
However he could not deny that part of his heart was only selfishly thinking ‘I want to see you again’ and the probability that that was what ultimately drove his feet to move forward.)
NAME: Dana
AGE: 19
PLAYER JOURNAL:
sunshoweredTIMEZONE: PST
CONTACT: nyavericks @ AIM or
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Ukyo
CANON: Amnesia
POINT IN CANON: Amnesia Later, Mid-New World. Just before the player makes their choice as to whom they want to see fireflies with.
AGE: 24…. ish. (He decided that his age is closest to 24 despite the fact that he has experienced multiple universes but never grown any older.)
APPEARANCE: homeless never looked so good
CANON HISTORY: Amnesia Wiki!
Now to a certain degree, Ukyo's history before he meets the heroine remains the same.
When he was young, he was very attached to his grandfather and the house that he had in Japan. However his grandfather died when he was very young so he wasn't able to inherit the house and before he knew it, his parents were whisking him off to travel the world. From there, he lived in multiple countries though he didn't stay in any of them for very long at all. As a result, his studies suffered and he's honestly not that good of a student.
Luckily, Ukyo doesn't need to be a good student! Because instead of getting a proper job, he's instead chosen to continue traveling around, taking on different photography jobs, and has actually been regarded as a famous photographer - enough that his work regularly gets published, he gets special requests from magazines, and even answers interviews. Photography had been one of his great passions in life ever since he took a picture of the sky with his father's camera - though it made such an impact on his life that he's been afraid to take a picture of the sky ever since, afraid he wouldn't be able to do it justice.
Alright, that's the concrete stuff. Let's move on to the weird things!
The nature of Amnesia’s canon is interesting in the sense that due to the fact that the (nameless) protagonist lost all her memories, she is able to choose which world she wants to enter from the very beginning of the game. There is a different scenario and background waiting for her in every world and each world has its small differences such as who she is acquainted with, who works at the café Meido no Shitsuji with her, the personality of her boss, and who she’s dating at the time. She enters each of these worlds with no recollection as to who she’s involved with but is then forced to get a grasp of what is going on as events continue. However every time she enters a world, it is on the date of August 1st.
In each of these worlds, she encounters Ukyo who manages to be completely cryptic and confusing, sometimes talking about how it’s “excellent to see you again… or maybe it’s nice to meet you?”
It’s revealed in his route (which needs to be unlocked by completing the routes for all the other datable options) that in their original world, Ukyo was the protagonist’s boyfriend. However she became fatally injured in a fire that took place in her school on August 1st, entered a coma, and then died on August 25th. During this time, Ukyo was at her side and made the wish for her to live. Neil, a goddess that is interested in humans and gathers information by granting their wishes, heard Ukyo’s wish and sought to grant it. However it was a difficult wish to grant and so Neil entered Ukyo’s body and took him to travel to a different world where the protagonist is alive.
However Ukyo found that in all the worlds where the protagonist is alive, Ukyo never lived in the first place. So the world he entered would rebel on him and he would die because the world made it a point to remove anomalies such as Ukyo’s existence. However he continued to wish to see her and Neil continued to take him to different worlds so that he could try to be with her. However their simultaneous existence was never allowed in any world and so Ukyo would constantly be killed or the protagonist would end up being killed instead, all before the date of August 25th.
After dying over and over again, Ukyo eventually developed a split personality who realized that he could live as long as the protagonist died. So in some worlds, Ukyo would snap and his alternate personality would end up killing the protagonist so that he would not have to experience death himself. This would cause the original, soft-hearted and very much in love Ukyo to feel so much guilt that he’d want to travel to yet another world to try to save her, continuing the cycle.
Just before the events of the first game of Amnesia, the goddess Neil reveals that due to the fact that Ukyo’s wish of the protagonist living past the 25th was not granted, she was running out of power. So the last world that she would take him to would be the original world that the protagonist died in, but Neil would rewind time so that Ukyo could still try to save her.
In Ukyo’s own route in the game (called the Joker World), he spends time with the heroine and tries to keep her from dying until the 25th from all the occurrences in the world that are trying to kill her. He also tries to keep himself alive so that he can guide her through the world and also because he selfishly wants to see her because more than anything else, he is still desperately in love with her. On the night of the 25th, it leads to a struggle within the protagonist’s university and just before Ukyo’s psychotic alter ego stabs her, the original personality takes hold and Ukyo instead ends up stabbing himself. The heroine lives past the 26th in this timeline and Neil pulls her away and tries to explain everything to her. If the heroine chooses to forgive Ukyo, they are able to live in this world together. If the heroine does not, Ukyo’s existence is once again erased.
In the routes for the other boys in the game, depending on if the heroine chooses to date Shin, Toma, Ikki, or Kent (World of Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs respectively), Ukyo still appears in all of the worlds. In some of the bad ends for these routes, Ukyo’s psychotic personality is actually the one to kill the heroine before the 25th. However if the heroine makes it to the good ends in any of these routes, Ukyo always mysteriously disappears by the 25th or is rumored to have died.
In the New World option made available in the second game, Amnesia Later, Ukyo is a regular customer in the heroine’s workplace, Meido no Shitsuji. He is again known as a professional photographer whose work is regularly published and is acquainted with all of the staff. His experiences remain entirely the same otherwise, the primary difference in this world is that the heroine is not dating anyone when she wakes up on August 1st.
CANON PERSONALITY:
In truth, Ukyo loves the heroine more than anything.
That, above all else, fuels just about every single part of his personality and the way that it’s changed. Before he underwent the hardship of having to go through multiple worlds, dying in multiple worlds, and realizing that he gave up everything to be with a girl that fate refuses to let him have, Ukyo was actually rather average. True, he was a very kind and he even met the heroine when he was giving her directions in a town she wasn’t familiar with. But it can be said that he was a very simplistic, gentle soul who really didn’t have much in the way of future plans or ambition. He took each day at a time and was easily moved to tears, but he was never really a suspicious, sometimes cryptic person or a psychotic killer.
Now he’s both.
To strangers, Ukyo is suspicious. No one really knows much about him because he keeps a lot of information to himself, but they can sometimes come across his photography work and interviews in magazines and piece things together from there. However they have no idea what his family is like, where he goes to school, or even how old he is. True, he’s easy to strike up conversation with, especially about photography and friendships. It’s simple to draw him into very shallow conversation about his interest, because they are many in number. However then he may say something strange when he’s being questioned, such as when he doesn’t know how to express his age or he suddenly greets a person familiarly even though they’ve never met him before.
This is because Ukyo is often honest to a fault. Because instead of being afraid of saying anything strange and impacting the future of the world he’s in, that’s exactly what he wants so he doesn’t worry too much about altering timelines or worlds with his careless actions. Rather, he says very honestly to people who question his behavior, “You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you” and when explaining his age, he says “Technically if you say 24, you wouldn’t be incorrect, but I have experienced much more than my time” which makes absolutely no sense to most people since he keeps the actual world-hopping part to himself. Instead he’s the type of honest to let loose pieces of information, particularly when questioned about it.
Hence why he admits to the heroine point blank in his route, “I love you more than anyone. I treasure you more than myself. Even if you don’t remember, I’ve been looking for you.”
Even though he’s constantly been jumping from world to world and has experienced a great amount of stress on his mind, Ukyo still remains simplistic in his true desires. His wish was born out of the intense need to see his love alive again. He explains that even when he’s seen her in other worlds, where she’s dating somebody else, he understands that as long as she’s happy and alive, he doesn’t mind. And due to the fact that the two of them could not exist in the same world, he would willingly kill himself so that she could live on in that world without burden. Ukyo is caught in this constant cycle because he loves her so much and each time he would still search for a new world to go to, hoping that maybe they could be together because more than anything else, he just wants to meet her again.
Even though he has until the 25th of each August to live, he reflects on the 22nd one day that he might as well just die then. Because the sky is beautiful and he got to see the heroine, even if she was in love with someone else. With that type of resolve, he stepped in front of a bus and let himself be broken. He remembers the pain but he’s also grown so nonchalant toward it that he actually spared the time to think ‘I feel bad for bleeding on this beautiful world.’
That said, Ukyo is hardly a downer all the time. Before he ended up getting in these world hopping shenanigans, he was actually quite sociable. He had friends and family that were very important to him, just not as important as the heroine. This probably is due to the fact that his previous lifestyle required him to do a lot of traveling for photography and even before that, he was constantly on the move from country to country with his parents. Even though his studies suffered from his constant movement, his sociability did not.
Ultimately he’s a very gentle person who isn’t very good at making it clear what he wants, actually getting very flustered very quickly when he realizes the implications of his own words at times. When he finally leaves the hobo life and starts looking for furniture for his home, he loudly declares (not even entirely consciously) that he does want to get a larger bed so that eventually he and the heroine can share it together but only once they’ve reached that point in the relationship and he doesn’t want to push anything on her, really, all he wants to do is cuddle with her and kiss her and that sort of thing. All of that in the middle of a store. They left shortly after.
Due to the fact that he’s so genuine, Ukyo constantly gets wrapped up in his own feelings. Even though he’s lost most of his jealous streak when it comes to the heroine (seeing as watching her date a bunch of other guys in a multitude of different worlds was probably enough to make him re-evaluate his priorities), he still can’t stand around and watch her in a bridal gown doing a wedding photo shoot with anyone else. So his immediate solution to the problem is picking her up and running off with her. He sort of lives in that extreme and his ability to judge situations suffers from his tendency to run away with his ideas (and also the star of the photo shoot).
However Ukyo really is rather sensitive. Seeing his grandfather’s home, which he had to abandon in Japan for 15 years and was certain had been torn down or remodeled, completely untouched was enough to bring him to tears. In addition, when Waka, the café owner, told Ukyo that he had a photography book left to him by his grandfather, that was enough to bring Ukyo to tears right there in the store. (It lost a bit of its impact when it was revealed that Waka made the story up.) Even when the rest of the guys that work in the café played a game of paintball with Ukyo and decided they wanted a rematch when Ukyo beat them all, the invitation was enough to make Ukyo tear up from happiness at being included. There’s no denying that he’s a bit of a crybaby.
Despite this, he’s also lost a bit of the ability to gauge social situations since he’s a bit rusty with it now. When the other love interests in the café find out that Ukyo is actually dating the heroine, they immediately respond with jealousy. Their methodology is to give Ukyo some extra food on the house under the pretense of it being a gesture of peace when it was actually laced with so much spice that it made one of their taste testers cry. However since Ukyo’s taste buds have long since dulled, he doesn’t even flinch when he eats it – even asking for more Tabasco. The other love interests immediately turn cold, evaluating him with sarcastic remarks, which greatly confuses Ukyo as he suddenly exclaims, “Wait, why are you suddenly being mean to me?!”
So it’s clear that Ukyo very much enjoys the company of other people, even though he ended up losing his own circle of friends and family when he started traveling through the worlds to be with the heroine. It’s another part of him that just manages to be incredibly self-sacrificing for her. In the end, he lacks a lot of concern for himself.
Truthfully, this is due to the fact that in the worlds that the heroine is alive, he never existed at all. So whenever he searches for her, he ends up being in a place where he has no other friends who know him or family who is familiar with him. It gives him an ultimately very lonely existence to the point that he ends up surprised when somebody worries over him, honestly commenting, “It’s been a while since someone was concerned about me.”
His lack of concern for himself extends to all his habits, including the fact that now he sleeps outside in August, even though he really does hate it. But it’s to make sure that he’s always somewhere with people so that they can stop him in case he loses control of himself. It also goes further to the point that his taste buds have dulled extremely and he can ignore a lot of the pain he feels due to the fact that he can always say “It’s not as bad as dying.” In addition, he’s grown to be rather messy and minimalist in his lifestyle. Even though he has a house, he doesn’t furnish it because he doesn’t expect to stay there for very long. When he eats, it’s often junk food. Honestly, Ukyo just isn’t very good for himself at all.
However that isn’t to say that Ukyo isn’t good. He would do anything for the happiness of the people he cares about, sacrificing his own chances at being happy and even his chances at life. He tears when people show that they care about him or ask him to hang out, because truly he is envious of people who can call themselves friends and comrades, especially since he’s seen the same group of people often flock around the heroine in each world that he visits. In each of the worlds he visits, however, he has to play a certain role.
More than anything, he has to make sure that the heroine stays alive and that often involves resolving himself to die within the month. This often leaves him unable to make the connections with people that he wants to. He spends most of his time in other routes simply warning her against dangers before dismissing himself because he sees himself as an obstacle to her happiness.
Then there are the other times when he shows up as an obstacle to her life.
Experiencing death over and over again, unable to be with the one that he loves, was too much of a burden on Ukyo and so he wasn’t able to retain his complete sanity as he continued to jump from world to world. Rather, it generated a split personality that is entirely more competent than the usual Ukyo and is basically his survival instinct personified.
Although it was previously mentioned that Ukyo would willingly kill himself, whether it’s throwing himself in front of a train or off a building, there are times where that part of his personality doesn’t win out. The part of him that grew crazy from having to experience death continuously, remembering the pain and suffering each time, is occasionally able to gain ahold of Ukyo’s body. He rationalizes himself saying, “It hurt… didn’t it? It was painful, wasn’t it?” and that he simply doesn’t want to die anymore. So in situations where it is either his life or the heroine, the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality leads the heroine into dangerous situations or actively seeks her out to kill her himself.
The psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality is incredibly inconsistent in his actions and methodology, which he explains is because he was “born from madness”. He’s generally a figure that can’t be trusted because in some moments before he kills the heroine, he will insult her and then reflect with just as much affection as the original Ukyo, “I love it. Your entire being.” And then he tosses her off a hospital building. In another situation where he impales the heroine with a steel bar, he reflects that it’s a shame that she didn’t die instantly and admits, “This will be less painful than being with me.” However in other times he openly strangles her, blaming her for the fact that he constantly has to go through this cycle of life and death and experience so much pain.
However even the unhinged Ukyo is shown to be rather rational at times. Before Neil and the original Ukyo realized that in some universes, the heroine would die even if Ukyo was gone, the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality as able to recognize it. Yet even when he realized that in some worlds where they were both doomed to die anyway, he would still kill her. He reflects upon it with great sadness, explaining that the truth behind the fact was that he simply couldn’t control himself. Because he is chaos in its purest form.
Yet despite his view on himself, even the psychotic part of Ukyo’s personality is shown to have the ability to act rationally. Before Ukyo began his world hopping journey, he was actually a very clean person. So while the dominant part of Ukyo’s personality has become a bit of a slob who manages only enough to make sure that he survives, the crazier part of Ukyo’s personality is actually the one who makes sure that their house is livable and all the chores get done. He’s a psycho whose hobby is cleaning, basically. He makes sure that their body is fed proper nutrients instead of eating junk food all the time, too.
And even the unhinged part of Ukyo’s personality loves the heroine. When she forgives him and promises not to leave him alone, he loses a lot of his fight. Due to the fact that the world eventually makes it so that it doesn’t have to be one or the other between them, he becomes much less aggressive. Instead, he recognizes that he was born from madness – but that madness originated from Ukyo’s love from the heroine. So in a way, he was also born out of love for her.
Ukyo’s two personalities are incredibly different and even have different talents. The original Ukyo is a skilled photographer but the other half of him snorts as he recognizes that he could never recreate those same photos. The two of them often quarrel, though mostly over hygiene once everything has mellowed out, and the calmer Ukyo is incredibly distrustful of the other part of his personality. However they are able to recognize that they share a body and love for the heroine, so they eventually come to terms with each other.
ABILITIES:
• Photography: In most of the worlds, Ukyo is known to be a famous photographer and so when he suddenly disappears by August 25th, the café staff tend to assume that he took on a photography job. It’s remarked that he actually has some skill at it, seeing as he does get asked to travel and take on new photography jobs from magazines and also gets his work published on a regular basis.
• Self-Defense: Admittedly this is mostly taken on by Ukyo’s psychotic alternate personality but his survival instinct is very strong. He’s capable of moving quickly enough to overpower thugs who come at him (if he decides that he wants to live anyway). He carries around multiple self-defense items to protect himself and is capable of using them to counter anyone who assaults him.
• High Pain Threshold: Due to the fact that he’s legitimately died in multiple universes, Ukyo doesn’t really care for much general pain and is able to ignore a lot of it. Small instances of pain like walking around barefoot on gravelly paths or brain freeze after scarfing down a snow cone don’t keep him from moving because he always rationalizes to himself “it’s not as painful as death.”
• Sharp Shooter: When challenged to a game of paintball with the rest of the guys, Ukyo managed to dominate against everyone else due to the fact that hew as able to move around silently on barefoot and also has very good aim with his gun. It was to the extent that it was questioned as to whether or not he could possibly be an assassin.
• World-Hopping (by Proxy): With Neil’s presence in his body, Ukyo is able to move from world to world using the goddess’s power while also retaining all his memories from his previous experiences.
INVENTORY;
• Clothes
• Cell Phone
• Various Self-Defense Items (pepper spray, dagger, stun gun, wire)
• Handcuffs
• Digital camera
• A collection of photographs
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Amnesia's canon is so weird, let me know if anything needs further elaboration!
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON:
One || Two
THIRD PERSON:
The first thing that came to his mind as he was transported to yet another world was ‘this street is unfamiliar to me’.
Besides a furrowed brow, Ukyo did his best to maintain a neutral expression so as to not draw the attention of the other people walking along the sidewalk. Admittedly he had hit the point in his life where he no longer cared for their curious glances when he did something strange, but at the same time he would feel bad if he pulled them away from their daily affairs. Truly, he was already an outsider to this world – there was no need to increase the burden on its inhabitants.
So instead he couldn’t help but wonder why he was here.
True, the feeling of being pulled from world to world was a familiar one to him now – to the point that he could identify the pull involved… but normally Neil would have words for him before he entered another dimension.
There would be a brief discussion – an “I’m sorry” followed by a “Let us try again, so that your wish may come true” – before he would again travel.
Yet this time he managed to travel without communicating with Neil at all. Perhaps he should be concerned, especially considering the fact that this was not the same town that he normally transferred to. Rather, the signs were entirely different and most intriguingly, not in Japanese.
Would he have to take a plane to see her again?
Ukyo merely stopped at a street corner, a hand rising to his mouth as he considered his options. He didn’t even know what date it was. If it were August, would it be safer for him to stay away? Shouldn’t he just remain where he is?
(Somewhere deep within his subconscious, buried so far down that Ukyo was not even aware of its presence in this moment, a voice whispered, Stay. She will die if we do nothing. So stay.)
Coming to a decision, Ukyo squared his shoulders.
She would die if he did nothing.
So he had to go.
(And perhaps in the end, he would save her. He would jump in front of a bus. He would throw himself off a building. He would drown himself in a well. In the end, she would live and his purpose would be complete.
However he could not deny that part of his heart was only selfishly thinking ‘I want to see you again’ and the probability that that was what ultimately drove his feet to move forward.)