PLAYER: Cocoa
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: Yes
CONTACT: lupical / precious fried shrimp#2226

CHARACTERS PLAYED: Dosei

NAME: Luchino Diruse
CANON: Identity V
CANON REFERENCE: Where the lore is poor and the players are brittle / Luchino's wiki page
CANON POINT: Roughly 4-ish months since arrival.
CRAU HISTORY:N/A
AGE: 35
APPEARANCE:
his in-game appearance, however it's mostly stylized. he's far more human-looking, like here.

CONTRACT PAYMENT: The unrestrained ability to experiment to his heart's content, and an abundance of research materials to accompany it.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

● How do you define "success"? What is something you're ambitious about?

Success is the achievement. The breakthroughs. The rush of adrenaline. It has many meanings, but the rush of euphoria upon seeing the fruits of your labor is what Luchino finds to be success. Even if the end result is not necessarily complete, if one learns from it and satisfies their curiosity, it can be considered a success as well. After all, science is filled with trial and error. Only by failing and learning can one continue to climb higher and higher, and the ceiling is ever extending.

Luchino desires knowledge, to know the origin of people, and in the end ended up learning more about their evolution instead. He desires to know how people tick, how they change, both physically and emotionally. Most importantly, however, he desires to know where people will go, and this has to do with his recent physical changes. Citing lizards as having answers for the human origin, his recent transformations have given him a new incite into humanity's future. He wants to know the limits of his own new body, how to replicate it, how it could effect the future as a whole....biology could reach new heights, if he is given the chance to explore it future. Inhibitions are largely unnecessary, when faced with the bigger picture.

● What is your favorite diversion? Hobbies, indulgences, vices? Would you put off important things for that diversion, or would you be more strict about how you spend your time and/or money?

Luchino is a scholar and an academic- when not satisfying his own curiosity with experiments or research, he chooses to bury himself in books. Fiction and non-fiction, although he has a preference for scientific texts. He is ever craving knowledge, and is a wealth of scientific knowledge in areas even outside his area of expertise.

He does consider knowledge, and his current research into human evolution, the most important thing, so he is willing to put off things to continue it- perhaps at the detriment of himself at times, but he is usually in his own mind enough to know when the cons heavily outweigh the pros. he would not actively sabotage how he looks in other people's eyes, unless in an experimentation-induced fit of mania, and knows how important appearances can be to help one's own agenda, but most people can tell in the back of their minds there's something rather off about the man. He should be more strict with himself, limiting his intake of poisonous substances and attempting to tamper down on his thirst for knowledge, but he more often than not prefers not to.

● How do you define "failure"? How do you deal with the consequences of failure, from light to severe?

Try again. Luchino has, naturally, failed many a times in the past, as is the habit of those in the science industry. It is filled with trial and error, as some things are just impossible to achieve on the first try. He has earned the great concern of his colleagues for his tendency to use himself as a test subject, and due to the occasional self-poisoning, has put himself out of commission for a while. One cannot learn without first making mistakes, and picking apart the rights and wrongs are what make the path to the truth all the more fascinating.

Luchino tends to take things in stride, as there is always another chance. It's part of growth, to make yourself stronger and smarter. Another game, another sample, another opportunity. All you have to do is make the best of it, and try, try again.

● You've worked with your Faction awhile now and you feel like the reward of your contract is within reach. But at the last moment, you are told you have even more service to pay beforehand, an obscure clause in the contract being exploited to keep you under your boss's thumb even longer. Your Faction Leader hasn't spoken on this, and might be able to dispute it. Do you go to your leader? Do you argue the dispute yourself? Do you begrudgingly accept the additional work? Something else?

Is there much other choice? Truthfully, Luchino will find Jigoku-cho a wealth of knowledge and materials waiting to be played with, and thus the longer he gets to spend there, the more he gets to test with things he simply cannot back where he comes from- back at the manor. While the limitless options of his contract are tantalizing, he is not a fool to attempt to argue over it and back himself in a corner. After all, he's done loop after loop back in Eurydice, what is a bit more work? As long as he is duly compensated at the end of it...of course, should they try to bring it up again after this, he may have to bring it to the Leader. He is a reasonable man, certainly, but even he has his limits. You can only yank a man around so much before he tires of it.


POWERS & ABILITIES: While Luchino is, somewhat, a human man, he possesses a lot of key differences. After being bitten by a abnormal lizard-like creature he was studying, he began to experience physical changes to his body. This, in his future, will mutate him into a reptilian creature. However, in Jigoku-cho, his changes will stagnate with the bodily changes he currently has.

Luchino has started growing scales in small patches over his body, namely on parts of his arms, his head, his neck, and also his legs. He is capable of hardening these scales on occasion, which will reflect normal weapons and blows off them as they possess an unnatural quality. He's also far more sensitive to smells, and his stamina has improved to be far better than the average man. Naturally, this comes with some drawbacks, such as a sensitivity to cold due to the cold-blooded nature of lizards.

He is also capable of shedding his scales, after injecting himself with a poisonous drug he's made himself. This has an adverse reaction on his mental faculties however, driving him to madness for the while it's coursing through his system. The effect will fade quickly enough, but it's likely a bit unnerving to see.

SUITABILITY: Those from the Manor are caught in an seemingly never-ending cycle of violent games, experiencing death over and over and over in the process. He has died many times- by suffocation, by bleeding out, and more. Unlike some, however, Luchino has no qualms with the games themselves. It's harder for him to experiment, yes, and perhaps that's why he's grateful to be out...but he is not entirely sound of mind, and has been witnessed laughing in the midst of these death games, either when hitting the hunter or when he perishes tied to the rocket chair. He would find Hell to be an opportunity, to see new things and commit new experiments he hasn't had a chance to do for a while, most of them on himself. Considering the man injects himself willingly with poisonous substances, the concept of drugs doesn't bother him in passing, and he's old enough that sex is simple a part of life. Nothing that would particularly get under his skin.

FACTION SUITABILITY:

● SHUTEN - While not a very physical, violent man by any right, Luchino does subscribe to the prospect of Survival of the Fittest. It's not the animal kingdom works, with the strongest on top of the food chain, and it'd a natural part of life. It's a philosophy he can inevitably get behind, and he knows that despite his changes, he's far from the strongest person out there, so having to defer is only natural.

That being said, he's neither a hard partier or a hard drinker- his wilder college days are over. He's also not the type to throw himself into a fistfight for the entertainment of others- if anything, he'd rather watch and observe. He'd love to see what type of strength marks the members of Shuten different. However...he isn't the most honorable or honest of people. He'd not afraid to embellish or fib here and there, and mentally, he's not all there...if necessity permits stabbing someone in the back, he'd most certainly do it than go for the honorable method. He's not a warrior, after all, and would rather not beholden himself to all their codes.

● TAMAMO - Luchino is nothing if not a bit of a cunning man, willing to pick at and learn what's making other people tick. He can respect those who thrive off the subtle manipulation and intimate workings of their opponents, playing at their weaknesses to throw off even the stronger predators in their midst. While pleasure may be not one of his biggest priorities, he is a bit looser with his inhibitions thank to his willingness to delve into places most people are not, as well as the fact the man has been injecting himself with dubious poisons for a long while which have had a bit of an adverse effect on his psyche. At the very least, he would hardly be bothered much by the goings on within Tamamo territory.

Freedom is, to him, something he does crave after in a sense- freedom to experiment to his heart's content, to find and learn the truth he's been searching for and then go further beyond. Most people may be unnerved by his obviously intense dedication to such a goal, to the point of causing possible harm to himself, but science can not be completed with sacrifice, and he would be more than willing to dedicate himself to someone willing to grant him the freedom to do as he pleases while free from scrutiny. If more people could understand the importance, the sheer dedication...well, that would certainly be wonderful, wouldn't it?

● SUTOKU - Information is knowledge, and knowledge is power. Luchino loves digging into people, learning their weaknesses and their strengths, what makes them different, how they operate...it all fits in with his fascination with the human origin and evolution, and his burning need to know. He'd be more than willing to chip at people to learn things for the benefit of both himself and Sutoku as a whole, and despite his somewhat...off disposition, he is enough of a polite and well-mannered man he can pull it off. Even if he does prefer to moreso observe than actively and enthusiastically participate in a conversation (that doesn't quite pertain to his specific interests), he's more than capable as coming off as a welcoming enough person.

While survival of the fittest is a thing he does believe in, brains do also play a part in leading. He's learned that well, over the course of his studies and his time in the manor- only with planning and learning the habits of your enemies can you prove triumphant, even if the adrenaline coursing through your veins doesn't hurt. Individual people have individual strengths, and these can all be of value. Even a cornered animal can bite back, and he would find the struggle of the underdog to be a fascinating place to be in- he is not a man of piety in the religious sense, but he has faith in science, and finds faith to be an exceptional thing most people cannot do without. That much, he can respect. In addition, the financial sector seems like it would be most beneficial to his desire for research and experimentation, and he could offer his teaching experience if needed.

● ENMA - 'Justice' is not something Luchino is necessarily concerned with, in the long run...his inhibitions are a bit looser, his morals dipping into a far more grey territory. Order, on the flip side, is something even the animal kingdom has. It has hierarchies, some that can be challenged, but something going off can toss the whole ecosystem into a form of upset. In that sense, he can realize the importance...but he would thrive just seeing things go wrong, just as well. It means more data, more insight into the workings of the factions and Hell itself. Oh, he would definitely the work requested, yes....but he would not go too far out of his way to act like a respectable law-abiding member of the system, either.

If anything, he would be one of the ones gently testing the limits of the law. Bending them, ever so slightly, to see what he can get away with. He's not out to forge a life of hard crime, no, but he's moreso interested in seeing people's reactions and what use they can be rather than keeping the status quo. After all, if the system cannot be corrupt, than who's to say what goes? Rather than a civil servant, Luchino has more expertise in teaching, so being placed in a position with more information to access and/or hand out would be better suited to his tastes.

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