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Aya Fujimiya ([personal profile] withhername) wrote2012-12-11 05:03 pm
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City of Ariel Application

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□ Name: “Aya” Ran Fujimiya


□ Series: Weiss Kreuz


□ Canon point: Episode 17.




□ History: SHORT VERSION LINKS


Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9F_Kreuz


Episode summaries: http://www.lelola.net/archive/wk/episodes.shtml


(There are other materials that add to the WK universe, manga and drama CDs, however this application draws mostly from the TV series with some inclusion of the manga, Weiss: An Assassin and White Shaman to explain how Aya came to join Weiss. The circumstances around the Fujimiya family’s demise contradict each other between the manga and the TV series. This application uses the TV series version. Included is a tl;dr history section that stitches them together.)


Aya was born in Japan as Fujimiya Ran, the eldest child in the Fujimiya family consisting of him, his mother and father, and his younger sister Aya. Ran seemed to have grown up in a pretty stable family. His father worked in an affluent bank in Tokyo under the Takatori conglomerate; his mother stayed home and kept up the household. It was likely that Ran would soon follow in his father's footsteps, working at the bank, but in the meanwhile he worked part-time at a restaurant within the city. His main purpose in grabbing a job was to help gather the funds needed for his sister to travel overseas and study training for guide dogs. As the eldest, Ran's path was set and Aya had more freedom to pursue things outside the family. While his parents were reluctant, Ran was relentless in convincing to let Aya travel. Ran was proud of his father's high position in the bank, how hard a worker he was (even though it did take away from his presence in his family); he doted on Aya and respected his gentle mother. They were a happy family.

All of that came crashing down for him in the spring of Aya's 16th birthday. Ran was 18. The Fujimiya siblings went out to a festival nearby their house, Ran dragged along by a rather enthusiastic Aya. At the festival she talked him into buying a pair of dangling gold earrings for her birthday present. It then began to rain so the two ran home only to find their parents murdered within the safety of their own home and a gas leak set to explode seconds from when Ran noticed the timer. Aya escaped from the worst of the explosion but the force sent her out into the middle of the road outside of their house. Ran, less lucky, was trapped under the debris of his house and watched with relief and then horror as his sister stood only to be run down by a passing car- completely unable to help her. Despite the rain and the distance Ran was able to make out the face of the passenger in that car who turned and looked back at him. That face was burned into his memory and the name of that man, Takatori Reiji, became synonymous with the loss of everything Ran held dear.

When he woke up after the explosion, he found out that on top of his parents being killed his father had been framed for stealing from the bank that he worked at. Ran attempted to get the police to listen to what was obvious a set-up from his point of view, but was unsuccessful. He had no way to clear the shame slathered onto his family's name. And while Aya survived the hit-and-run, she was comatose with no signs of waking up. Over time, the bills from her care in the hospital started piling up. Without much other choice Ran took matters into his own hands and held in those hands a sword which he swore to use to kill any and everyone associated with the destruction of his family (it’s not necessarily said that this is the *best* idea) so that he could clear their name at the very least.

This path Ran set down led him to cross paths with Kritiker in a rather dramatic confrontation. Ken, a member of the team Weiss, caught sight of Ran blood-splattered and standing over a corpse of another man. When Ken drew closer Ran launched into the offensive, demanding to know everything Ken knew about what had happened to his family. In the end it took Ken and the other two members of Weiss, Yohji and Omi and a gun in his face to get Ran to cease his attack. The gun belonged to another agent of Kritiker- Birman.

She made him an offer: become their dog or die.

Then she sweetened the deal: Ran’s work for Kritiker would allow him to get the money needed to keep his sister in the hospital. He could use Kritiker and Weiss to get to his ultimate target, the man that had set up his parents and their downfall: Takatori Reiji.

It was an offer he took. And so, Ran joined Weiss.

He assumed the name Aya after Yohji teasingly called him that after overhearing Ran murmur it while unconscious. He earned that unconscious state after meeting up with Weiss in the flower shop that served as a cover for the team. Tempers flared, Ken responded to Aya’s icy aggression with a fist to the face. Aya punched back. It took some effort to stop them. But by donning her name and wearing one of the earrings he had given her, Aya swore to live on for her. The other earring was kept with his sister, clasped hands and with it her brother's hopes that one day she would open her eyes again.

In Weiss Aya found the structure he needed in pursuing his ultimate goal. With that he hit a more even keel and ended up assimilating as a field leader for the team, taking on the codename of Abyssinian in suit with the rest of Weiss's feline aliases (taken completely seriously, we should note). Weiss functions as a group of four assassins assigned targets of those outside or beyond the reach of the police. Each job brought Aya the money to keep his sister safe and a step closer to Takatori.

During one particular mission in which Weiss was infiltrating a human chess ring, Aya caught sight of Takatori. This caused him to nearly throw the mission completely. He landed, sword drawn, just in front of Weiss's target, but ignored her completely in favor for going after Reiji with the memories of his sister's injury burning in the front of his mind. Reiji got away with the help of one conveniently placed helicopter and his personal bodyguard.

If he could have willed himself to fly he probably would have, but Aya settled with the frustration scathing him at being so close yet missing his chance- in throwing his katana at the helicopter. A warning. Certainly a show of that recklessness he'd displayed before he joined Weiss was still firmly there. It was noticed and Omi placed a firmer eye on Abyssinian.

Shortly after Aya was on his own on his way to see his sister in the hospital when he caught sight of his sister, or someone who looked freakishly like her on the other side of the street from him. Desperate, even with the mere idea that Aya could be up and walking again he dashed into traffic, again rather recklessly- though luck was with him again and he avoided getting run over even if he did lose sight of the girl. But it turned out she was Tomoe Sakura, a victim in a string of organ stealing kidnappings happening around Tokyo, and her kidney had been stolen. Aya took to Sakura with no little fascination because she did remind him eerily of his sister. With firm, unyielding support Aya helped Sakura deal with the media hounding her and her inability to run like she had before her kidney was removed.

However this didn't mean Aya was above using Sakura to get the mission complete for Weiss and stop the one responsible for the kidnappings. He set a tracker on Sakura and let her be taken before heading off on his own mission without contacting Weiss first. Sakura recovered and Weiss ended up with enough clues to track down and eliminate the mastermind of the ring. Sakura continued to hang around Aya, pulling out that brotherly instinct whenever she was around.

After this things started to grow dark for Weiss. Aya found that the Takatori clan had their claws much deeper in the events of his past and current life much more than he thought. From Omi being a Takatori himself to Persia, the man who led Weiss being revealed as the brother of Takatori Reiji. On top of that Reiji was elected Prime Minister of Japan and Weiss had to deal with their names being put out to the public as the culprits of random terrorists attacks. Unable to deal with taking orders from a Takatori and worried about the safety of his sister Aya left Weiss, going after Reiji himself. His departure was brief, as Weiss incomplete couldn’t deal with everything Takatori Reiji threw at them. Aya on his own failed to be enough to go against Takatori single-handedly. Persia, also known as Takatori Shuichi, brought Aya back to Weiss just in time to save them from the special police deployed by Reiji to eliminate the team.

Weiss went after Reiji, losing Persia to his brother along the way. Aya finally killed Reiji in a dramatic rooftop duel and with it finally got his sister's revenge.

Their mission complete, Weiss disbanded. Aya went to work by the sea as a construction worker spending his days in routine monotony between visiting his sister in the hospital and work. One night he went to sit with her only to find the door open, his sister gone, and a cross carved into the bed. Aya returned to Tokyo to find her and the rest of Weiss returned as well, reforming the team to go against Schreient, the all-female group of bodyguards who had protected Takatori Masafumi, Eszett, a cult-like group bent on awakening their personal god, and Schwarz, the team of psychics that had been assigned to Takatori Reiji as guards before his untimely death.

After their first initial meeting Aya disappeared once more without word addressing if he was going to stay with Weiss or not- far more concerned with finding his sister. He’s followed by Botan, another one of Kritiker’s agents and that would be about the point he ends up in Ariel…

□ Personality:
At first most people are put off by Aya's closed off, icy demeanor. He's far from the friendliest kitten in the litter of Weiss, yet that thick ice is only covering up the strong tide underneath. A steady, driven, unyielding current is what makes up the core of this young man. It seems impenetrable and even to his teammates and Aya certainly doesn’t do anything to ease the distance between him and those he works with, but in truth it boils down to the fact Aya is a man no longer living for himself. You can tell there was always that selfless streak in him when it comes to his sister (how many older brothers would take a job solely to raise money for their sibling's education?). However in the aftermath of almost losing his entirely, this is jacked up to an obsessive degree. The guilt that he feels in not being able to protect his sister or his parents is deep-seated. Aya is a person who pushes himself, demands nothing short of sheer perfection when it comes to saving what little he has left. He knows that his parents would be horrified to know their eldest has become a paid killer, but it gets the job done.

And that's all that matters.

Aya can be moody. If you strike right, usually anything having to do with his sister, you'll get a reaction. A possibly impulsive and reckless one: traffic-dodging, mission-throwing, sword-throwing Aya. He can be confrontational if you get in his way. When he first joined Weiss this was plain to see, and he jolted from stubborn silence to slug-matches with Ken and hostile words with Yohji when prompted. It should go without saying that such determination doesn't come without a healthy dose of stubbornness. Over his time in Weiss he got better control of what was displayed and what isn't. Aya became a fine journeyman of the stoic front. Only a journeyman, because as it's been said- it's not impossible to crack at the fire underneath, just difficult unless you know what track to use.

But despite all that, the person he was, Fujimiya Ran, is still there underneath the layers of ice. He has a sense of humor, though it's quiet and largely cynical on the rare occasion that it slips out, tainted by the loss of his innocent world view. When it comes to his sister or sister-substitutes, because Sakura becomes largely this, there's a gentle tenderness that shows softer but no less impassioned person he was before everything changed. But even still he keeps those people at a distance. He firmly rebukes Sakura’s romantic crush on him, though later entrusts her with information about his sister and tells her his real name.


Aya can hold a grudge, though, and keep it tight like no other. Reiji Takatori was responsible for taking away his family and anything that the man touches becomes poisoned by this grudge. It extends so far that he nearly rejects Omi completely when he finds out his blood ties link him as Reiji’s son even though the boy was stolen away from that family when he was a child and raised, essentially, by Kritiker. It takes most of his will not to blindly hate Omi because of this fact but eventually he grudgingly reaches a point of acceptance- if for nothing else than the fact he needs to continue cooperating with Weiss to reach his goal.


And while he’s utterly selfless when it comes to his sister, throwing himself into doing all that he can to provide from her that doesn’t make him anything near a saint. He has no allegiance to Weiss; when it looks like they aren’t going to help his ultimate goal (Must Provide and Protect Sister) he bails. If what he’s gunning (Say, a certain Takatori he’s sworn revenge on) for is over on the right and he’s been told he needs to keep with the group and go to the left? He bails. That sort of single-mindedness does smack of some sort of selfishness and no doubt, leads to tension in Weiss but he doesn’t take the time to care. In true reality TV-show style, Aya isn’t there to make friends. Later as the series progresses he does develop some attachment and loyalty to his teammates but at the moment- not so much. He has tunnel-vision loyalty and drive on the purpose he vowed himself to.


At least his devotion is admirable?


□ Age: 20


□ Gender: Male


□ Appearance: Aya is about 5'10'', a more than respectable height for a Japanese man, though his coloring would make you think twice about his heritage. Pale skin, vividly red hair cut short other than two long tails in front of his ears and eyes an intense shade of purple Aya stands out with his reasonably exotic looks. His body-type is lithe but strong, toned from his work with Weiss. He dresses mostly in an assortment of short sleeved shirts and normal pants, casual and not really showing he has much care for current fashion styles. The most remarked upon part of wardrobe would be a bright orange sweater.


□ Abilities/Powers: As a trained assassin Aya is skilled with various types of weaponry but shows true innate skill with his katana. He's got a mean right hook as well and isn't afraid to engage in hand-to-hand combat and a working knowledge of firearms, which includes types and how to use them. Aya also has keen observational skills that he's honed while being in Weiss.


□ Personal Items:
-1 gold earring
- 1 eye searingly orange sweater
- his katana
-photograph of all of Weiss working in the flower shop
-his mission jacket

□ First Person Sample:


[VIDEO]


[If it happens you haven’t traveled to the edges of the city, more specifically one of the gates that bars the outside from the lush civilization kept behind those tall, stone walls- here’s a good view. The focus is on the gate, the southern one to be exact, and the guards that are set to either side.


Whoever is broadcasting this view is silent for a few moments. Then the view narrows along with their eyes.


The voice that speaks is deep, brisk.]



They say we’re free to go if we want.


Has anyone tried?


[He wants to know if he should even waste his time.]


□ Third Person Sample:


Going to offer some past threads, hopefully they’ll suffice. If not I can definitely provide a full sample:


http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/121979.html?thread=88675707#cmt88675707


http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/121979.html?thread=88629115#cmt88629115