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Name: Raile
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Other Characters: N/A (Previously played Epsilon, Machi Tobaye, etc)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Reiji Akaba
Age: 16
Canon: Yu Gi Oh Arc-V
Canon Point: End of Season 2
Character Information: He's called Declan in the dub, but I'm using his Japanese name (Reiji) in keeping with the rest of the cast. Anyway here's some card games.
Personality:Reiji Akaba, 16 year old billionaire CEO, card genius, and heir to the Akaba empire is known for his cool demeanour and stony expression. Always one step ahead of his enemies, his allies, and even the world, the famously aloof and secretive man is moved by nothing, predicted by no one.
What's his secret?
Well.
It's all bullshit.
The fact of the matter is that Reiji doesn't even talk a big game, because that would require knowing enough about what's going on to actually say something. He just acts like he knows what's going on, or rather doesn't react react to what's going on, and everyone falls in line, assuming he has things under control. He declares a direction, and others follow. He announces a goal, and others aim to achieve it. But he rarely even does that, and instead follows events as they unfold, waiting--hoping, probably--to be able to make the right call when the time to call things comes.
Surprisingly, this actually works for most of his canon.
Less surprisingly, it eventually bites him in the ass. At the very climax of his canon, someone plays their hand, and instead of playing his cards in return... Reiji is revealed to have no hand at all.
Also, that someone is his own absent father.
His family kind of sucks, actually.
It's not that Reiji is stupid; it's that he's 16 years old, and the collateral damage of a dimensional war he knows very little about, a war of conquest waged by his own father for which he and his mother were abandoned with no explanation at all. He's actually quite sharp--sharp enough to run an entire company that dominates the card-based economy in his own world, sharp enough to win at the ever-more-complex games of cards that dictate who wins and loses in his universe, sharp enough to get away with his faker's game for as long as he does.
But he starts out holding two cards, which are the knowledge that multiverses exist and that his father, Leo Akaba, is the one conquering them.
Before long, those are facts everyone knows--and from then on he's surviving (and leading) entirely on his ability to look like he's in control.
What's really impressive is the fact that he keeps everyone believing it for that long.
Most of Reiji's motives are centered around his issues with his father; it took Reiji years to track Leo down, eventually finding him in another dimension entirely. Unfortunately, Leo had no interest in Reiji, and essentially evicted him back to his own dimension, which lead Reiji to the events of canon. In a way, Reiji is attempting to put his family together, or even just a family together, though it's not explicitly clear what he plans to do once he has that.
He does accomplish this in a small way. Prior to canon, his mother, who is a basket case and not an endearing one, effectively buys herself a child soldier and brainwashes the poor kid to be a card duel machine, which Reiji makes it clear he disapproves of. He can't exactly override his mother, but he takes Reira with him when he leaves across dimensions, and they grow a little more personlike together. Reiji begins the series expressing himself in an extremely detached way, limited only to gestures like a hand placed atop Reira's head. By mid-series, he's actually holding her hand, as well as forcing Reira to express herself only to turn around and make a point of accommodating her wishes. At the end of the second season, he receives a hug from her, and even hugs her back (more or less, he kind of catches her really.)
Other than the dubious skills of money and bullshitting, the only thing Reiji really doesn't suck at is cards. (And maths and business, apparently, though we don't see as much of that, so we're taking it on faith since his business didn't burn to the ground and instead has the money to develop interdimensional teleporters and shit.) He is able to immediately grasp, predict, and emulate Yuya's brand-new Pendulum cards, and can anticipate more potential in their uses than Yuya himself. (This happens... repeatedly, actually.) He is responsible for creating dozens of new cards through the series, often basing them on personal interests--medieval knights, classical scientists (Kepler, etc), and the kind of mythological beings that every nerd kid goes through a stage of interest in: cerberus, lamia, and so on.
In series, he's capable of multi-type summoning, which is considered a particularly difficult and rare skill (it's actually extremely difficult in the irl version of the game, so props to him I guess.) The actual canon protag never manages to defeat Reiji until the Ending (though he does categorically lose, and effectively loses before that), and in that case he... really loses to Zarc, not Yuya. So he's functionally undefeated. At one point, an anachronistic French man tries to lock him in an eternal virtual reality loop that successfully takes down a character who previously established as such a fierce duelist that they're... BASICALLY something of a decorated soldier, Reiji locks our weirdo au francais in his own loop, and actually makes it look effortless.
Whether or not that last bit is due to his skill at cards and strategy or his skill at sheer unmitigated bullshit is... unclear. Which is just how it ison this bitch of an earth with Reiji; it's very difficult to tell where the actual skill and knowledge ends and the bullshit begins. He's so skilled at bluffing that it actually duped the audience for the vast majority of the series. There is no situation too complex or too simple for this adolescent business duellist (dear canon: why) to fake mastery over.
Of course, he's still 16, so many of his cards have... really terrible names. One card is just a pun. The phrase 死偉王 shiiō ("Death Great King") in this card's Japanese name is a pun on "CEO" (Chief Executive Officer), which is pronounced identically in Japanese. Another is called 'D Super Doom King Purplish Armageddon.' It's bad. He's bad at this.
Neat card, though.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Distant, precise, just, stubborn, calculating, (over) confident, adaptive, direct, pragmatic, industrious.Dumbass
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? EITHER
Opt-Outs: Nymph, arachne, demon, simulacrum, vampire, lich
Roleplay Sample: TDM
Name: Raile
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Other Characters: N/A (Previously played Epsilon, Machi Tobaye, etc)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Reiji Akaba
Age: 16
Canon: Yu Gi Oh Arc-V
Canon Point: End of Season 2
Character Information: He's called Declan in the dub, but I'm using his Japanese name (Reiji) in keeping with the rest of the cast. Anyway here's some card games.
Personality:Reiji Akaba, 16 year old billionaire CEO, card genius, and heir to the Akaba empire is known for his cool demeanour and stony expression. Always one step ahead of his enemies, his allies, and even the world, the famously aloof and secretive man is moved by nothing, predicted by no one.
What's his secret?
Well.
It's all bullshit.
The fact of the matter is that Reiji doesn't even talk a big game, because that would require knowing enough about what's going on to actually say something. He just acts like he knows what's going on, or rather doesn't react react to what's going on, and everyone falls in line, assuming he has things under control. He declares a direction, and others follow. He announces a goal, and others aim to achieve it. But he rarely even does that, and instead follows events as they unfold, waiting--hoping, probably--to be able to make the right call when the time to call things comes.
Surprisingly, this actually works for most of his canon.
Less surprisingly, it eventually bites him in the ass. At the very climax of his canon, someone plays their hand, and instead of playing his cards in return... Reiji is revealed to have no hand at all.
Also, that someone is his own absent father.
His family kind of sucks, actually.
It's not that Reiji is stupid; it's that he's 16 years old, and the collateral damage of a dimensional war he knows very little about, a war of conquest waged by his own father for which he and his mother were abandoned with no explanation at all. He's actually quite sharp--sharp enough to run an entire company that dominates the card-based economy in his own world, sharp enough to win at the ever-more-complex games of cards that dictate who wins and loses in his universe, sharp enough to get away with his faker's game for as long as he does.
But he starts out holding two cards, which are the knowledge that multiverses exist and that his father, Leo Akaba, is the one conquering them.
Before long, those are facts everyone knows--and from then on he's surviving (and leading) entirely on his ability to look like he's in control.
What's really impressive is the fact that he keeps everyone believing it for that long.
Most of Reiji's motives are centered around his issues with his father; it took Reiji years to track Leo down, eventually finding him in another dimension entirely. Unfortunately, Leo had no interest in Reiji, and essentially evicted him back to his own dimension, which lead Reiji to the events of canon. In a way, Reiji is attempting to put his family together, or even just a family together, though it's not explicitly clear what he plans to do once he has that.
He does accomplish this in a small way. Prior to canon, his mother, who is a basket case and not an endearing one, effectively buys herself a child soldier and brainwashes the poor kid to be a card duel machine, which Reiji makes it clear he disapproves of. He can't exactly override his mother, but he takes Reira with him when he leaves across dimensions, and they grow a little more personlike together. Reiji begins the series expressing himself in an extremely detached way, limited only to gestures like a hand placed atop Reira's head. By mid-series, he's actually holding her hand, as well as forcing Reira to express herself only to turn around and make a point of accommodating her wishes. At the end of the second season, he receives a hug from her, and even hugs her back (more or less, he kind of catches her really.)
Other than the dubious skills of money and bullshitting, the only thing Reiji really doesn't suck at is cards. (And maths and business, apparently, though we don't see as much of that, so we're taking it on faith since his business didn't burn to the ground and instead has the money to develop interdimensional teleporters and shit.) He is able to immediately grasp, predict, and emulate Yuya's brand-new Pendulum cards, and can anticipate more potential in their uses than Yuya himself. (This happens... repeatedly, actually.) He is responsible for creating dozens of new cards through the series, often basing them on personal interests--medieval knights, classical scientists (Kepler, etc), and the kind of mythological beings that every nerd kid goes through a stage of interest in: cerberus, lamia, and so on.
In series, he's capable of multi-type summoning, which is considered a particularly difficult and rare skill (it's actually extremely difficult in the irl version of the game, so props to him I guess.) The actual canon protag never manages to defeat Reiji until the Ending (though he does categorically lose, and effectively loses before that), and in that case he... really loses to Zarc, not Yuya. So he's functionally undefeated. At one point, an anachronistic French man tries to lock him in an eternal virtual reality loop that successfully takes down a character who previously established as such a fierce duelist that they're... BASICALLY something of a decorated soldier, Reiji locks our weirdo au francais in his own loop, and actually makes it look effortless.
Whether or not that last bit is due to his skill at cards and strategy or his skill at sheer unmitigated bullshit is... unclear. Which is just how it is
Of course, he's still 16, so many of his cards have... really terrible names. One card is just a pun. The phrase 死偉王 shiiō ("Death Great King") in this card's Japanese name is a pun on "CEO" (Chief Executive Officer), which is pronounced identically in Japanese. Another is called 'D Super Doom King Purplish Armageddon.' It's bad. He's bad at this.
Neat card, though.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Distant, precise, just, stubborn, calculating, (over) confident, adaptive, direct, pragmatic, industrious.
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? EITHER
Opt-Outs: Nymph, arachne, demon, simulacrum, vampire, lich
Roleplay Sample: TDM
