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OOC Information
NAME; Malathyne
AGE; 22
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Xion
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; The Prince of All Cosmos
AGE; Equivalent of 16-20 range. I headcanon their race to be very long-lived, simply because they're rulers of the cosmos, so he's actually hundreds of years old.
CANON; Katamari Damacy
CANON POINT; post Katamari Damacy
FAMILY TYPES; Wind Guardians, Nature Spirits, Jungle Troopers, Dragon's Roar
APPEARANCE;
In his natural form, the Prince resembles a human dressed in purple tights and a long-sleeved costume. What makes him look especially strange is his head, which is in a cylinder shape, and there is a single antennae on the top of it. Oh, and let's not forget his size. In his original state, he is only five centimeters (1.96850394 inches) tall! (Image.)
As a human, he's still going to be very short, standing at 1.524 meters (five feet). His nose is small but very triangular and pointy. His eyes are black, without any real color to them, and his eyebrows are very short. His hair is the same color green as his natural body and is wildly (anime-style) spiked at the sides. He will be wearing at all times a pair of over-sized headphones (the cushion and headband are yellow, but the rest is green, but tiered in shade, matching the coloring on the side of his head in his natural form) which are decorated with a large yellow crown on the sides and also sports an antennae with a red light at the top, which glows and flashes in accordance to his emotions (blinking in curiousity or confusion, flashing wildly in surprise, etc.). The combined effect of his headphones and his linear hairline is that his face is rather square. (Outdated, remove the cowlick and replace it with an antennae on the headphones: Image. Hairstyle drawn bywingus. Headphones detail.)
When it comes to clothing, he is sporting a low v-neck long-sleeved shirt (long enough to be a short dress, even), green gloves, a green royal-styled ermine fur-lined cape, puffy purple breeches with white wavy designs, white tights, and purple shoes fashioned with an oversized yellow buckle with extra purple fabric poofing out of the middle of it. (Clothing illustration.)
PERSONALITY;
Throughout the game, the Prince is consistently referred to as being hard-working, responsible, and reliable. These are perhaps his most defining traits! This is because when all else fails, they are what drive him to keep pushing on. Letting people down is simply something he cannot do. It is his responsibility as a Prince, and, more importantly, his father holds high expectations of him.
This means two things: one, the Prince wishes dearly to earn his father's approval, and two, the Prince does not want to deal with his father's wrath and incessant bitching if he does not do as told. The Prince's relationship with the King of All Cosmos does not seem to be complicated on the surface, with the King sending him all over the Earth to clean up his messes, calling him names ("pee-wee" comes to mind), but buying him presents and praising him highly if he does well. But on the Prince's side of things, he has somewhat conflicting feelings on the subject of his father. Again, he wants his father's approval, like any child, but his father is someone who can be difficult to deal with and, in many ways, the Prince does not want to be like him. As such, he very much strives to be everything he perceives his father isn't: someone who listens, is considerate, patient, takes care of own messes, thinks before leaping, keeps himself in check, so on and so forth.
However, as much as the Prince is frustrated by his father, he feels guilty for it. It's more than the Prince knowing that his father truly does love him, and has a lot to do with how he feels about respect. Respect is something that the Prince holds in high regard, and he wants very much to respect his father. As such, he will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill about him, and he does not raise his voice or argue back to the King.
This focus on respect comes from being royalty. There is a Proper way to do things, a Proper way to speak, and, most importantly, a Proper way to treat people. The Prince makes it a point to respectful to all he comes across, but he also expects that respect in return. As such, he isn't going to take well to people who challenge his position as the Prince of All Cosmos and are snide towards him for it. He always tries very hard to keep his temper under control (going back to how he does not want to be like his father), but, should he lose that control, it is revealed that he is prone to hissy fits of a fabulous magnitude. Much like his father, if he doesn't catch himself, the Prince will get carried away by his emotions. However, if at all possible, the Prince will attempt to remove himself from the situation. He doesn't feel comfortable having arguments with people, and, given that he's prone to exploding anyway, he always tries to give himself some distance so he can calm down and come back to the situation with a level head.
The Prince makes every effort to be the kind of person he thinks he should be. He tries to keep his cool, goes out of his way to be friendly... He wants to be the kind of prince people turn to when something goes wrong. He doesn't just want to help because it's his duty. He honestly cares about the people around him and the people he is meant to look after. However, he is much more like his father than he would like to admit, from being emotional to truly caring for people but not knowing how to show it to having the same taste in fashion (oh dear). He even shares his father's sensitive pride to some degree in that his ego is very easy to fluff through compliments but equally easy to damage by ignoring him. Validation is important to the Prince, given his insecurities about his father and his secret loneliness.
It is especially easy to bring the Prince down by focusing on his failures. He takes failure extremely seriously, as his father does not tolerate it a whit, and he expects severe repercussions and verbal beatdowns for it. Even without the King around or anyone else to give him a hard time, the Prince is likely to apply it to himself anyway. Though he knows that it isn't true, on some level, he expects that everyone will be upset with him if he fails. If he lets himself, he can be easily sucked into a spiral of negativity and insecurity about this subject.
Not that he stays down for long. The Prince carries something of a "katamari optimism": roll up everything, good and bad, and turn it into a wonderful star. This is something that is reflected in one of the songs in the Katamari soundtrack, The Moon and the Prince: I don't wanna hear any negative talk coming from your mouths! It may be tough, but we can't stop now! We'll draw a peaceful vibration in an arc across the sky! We'll create an object that won't fail to compete with this planet! This sense of unity, of believing that everything that happens, good and bad, will lead to something wonderful, is a key aspect of the Prince's attitude. Besides, if he stays upset forever, then he will never be able to fix the mistake. He must do it right the next time, that's all!
And "fixing mistakes" is something that the Prince is used to having to do, thanks to his father. This has created an urge to go in and fix everything himself if he sees something that is being done wrong. It isn't that he micromanages, but he does have a need to FIX EVERYTHING if he thinks or knows that he can do it better. When he goes into this mode, he can be huffy and bratty, due to associations with his father's frustrating behavior. But, if it is something that will help others, he will push past this phase faster than he otherwise would.
The Prince holds high expectations of those around him, as they are the same expectations he holds for himself. This isn't a conscious decision, but this can still lead to accidental snobbery ("well I know you're not a prince like me but you should still shouldn't be lazy!"). In a similar vein, the Prince is also privileged without being aware of it. This form of privilege is very closely connected to pure ignorance. He simply has not known primal fear or need, and as such, he has trouble relating to such things. Human suffering is not something he is aware of at all, and he knows little to nothing about human society, which just compounds it all. This also means that he will not have any kind of handle on how to deal with these kinds of emotions or situations in regards to himself, so he is likely to respond in childish and sheltered ways.
It should also be noted that the Prince is extremely curious! He loves to learn new things, especially about humans. Together with his parents, he keeps a detailed and organized notebook containing the weights and names of the objects and people the katamari rolls up, as well as observations. For example, the entry for a checkbook reads, "A book filled with numbers. People smile or cry reading this book. It must be a very good novel." When it comes to learning more about people, the Prince gets very excitable and hyper. However, he will also take new things at face value and in the most literal way possible.
When it comes down to it, the Prince has two modes: "katamari" mode, wherein he is curious and excited about everything, and "princely" mode, where he is proper and polite and trying very hard to be a good prince. He is an only child and has not had close contact with his cousins, so he doesn't quite know how to play well with others, and those two modes are how he knows how to deal with people. This may create a distance between himself and those around him, though he isn't likely to notice. The Prince is actually very lonely despite his family's large size, since he doesn't truly have any friends. He isn't aware of this loneliness within himself, and he doesn't know much about friendship, and as a result he will treat the friends he does have the only way he knows: as family. Between this and his desire to take care of people and make them happy, he is likely to come across as having big brother instincts.
HISTORY;
Prince at the Katamari Wikia
Katamari Damacy at the Katamari Wikia
Additional Setting Explanation
The silliness and nonsensical nature of the Katamari series can make it a difficult canon to role-play from, so this section exists to explain the headcanon that's going to be used as to how things work.
The katamari -- Typically, a ball made of unknown substance that has the ability to pick up anything smaller than it. However, considering that is possible for planets to be used as katamari (as the Earth was in We ♥ Katamari, the sequel to Katamari Damacy), it's more that katamari is a state that can be embued onto a round object that makes anything smaller than the object stick to it. If a katamari was just sticky, then the logic behind "you can only pick up things smaller than you" doesn't quite work; thus, it's more likely that katamari operates through the manipulation of gravity. The idea of using the clumping property for a game came from the King of All Cosmos during his childhood.
From katamari to starhood -- A katamari may be used to roll up living creatures. The katamari that Prince rolls is also almost always turned into something else, be it a star, planet, or island, depending on the game. This doesn't harm the living things rolled up in the katamari, though, since the Hoshino family from the first game are rolled up into a katamari used to make the Moon and are seen there on the moon "taking a lunar vacation."
The people of the King, Queen, and Prince of All Cosmos -- Mysterious beings that are not given any explanation. They simply exist, and they possess many unique features, such as some of the Cousins being made of food, the Prince's ability to roll planet-sized katamari, and the King's powers that create katamari, shoot lasers from his eyes, accidentally create a black hole, accidentally break the stars and moon, being able to turn katamari into stars and the moon, and so on. Since "Katamari Damacy" translates into "clump spirit," I'm going to be operating under the assumption that the entire family are kami-style spirits.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON;
"This is the face of complete and uttercultural incompetence innocence."
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THIRD PERSON;
It takes the Prince exactly three days and thirteen hours to realize that it does, in fact, feel very strange to not have his parents around. He spent those three days and four hours making friends, exploring this new world, and generally enjoying not having to answer to anyone but himself. But around hour thirteen of day four, he picks up a stick of takoyaki and it hits him: He wishes he could roll the katamari here. This place really is full of things, and so many of them are not in his collection. And imagine the stars that he could make! They would be truly beautiful.
But even if he did have a katamari with him, he could not turn it into a star. He is only the Prince, and his father has not taught him how to do that yet. The Prince then finds himself imagining his father with a Digimon partner, and decides that it would go one of two ways: either the King's Digimon partner would have just as hard of a time handling him as everybody else does, or the King's partner will have a personality that is similar to his, and everybody would regret it.
But, maybe it would be fun, the Prince thinks next, to have father here. He makes a face at himself. It is true that his father could not pester him about katamari, but he could pester him about other things. Maybe he would not be able to break stars here, but he could just as easily break anything else. And then the Prince would have to fix it.
Would I mind that much, though? he finds himself wondering.
The Prince stares at the takoyaki.
"Yes," he says aloud firmly. "Yes, I would."
His Digimon partner gives him an odd look, but then the Prince gives him the takoyaki, and everything goes back to the new normal.
NAME; Malathyne
AGE; 22
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Xion
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; The Prince of All Cosmos
AGE; Equivalent of 16-20 range. I headcanon their race to be very long-lived, simply because they're rulers of the cosmos, so he's actually hundreds of years old.
CANON; Katamari Damacy
CANON POINT; post Katamari Damacy
FAMILY TYPES; Wind Guardians, Nature Spirits, Jungle Troopers, Dragon's Roar
APPEARANCE;
In his natural form, the Prince resembles a human dressed in purple tights and a long-sleeved costume. What makes him look especially strange is his head, which is in a cylinder shape, and there is a single antennae on the top of it. Oh, and let's not forget his size. In his original state, he is only five centimeters (1.96850394 inches) tall! (Image.)
As a human, he's still going to be very short, standing at 1.524 meters (five feet). His nose is small but very triangular and pointy. His eyes are black, without any real color to them, and his eyebrows are very short. His hair is the same color green as his natural body and is wildly (anime-style) spiked at the sides. He will be wearing at all times a pair of over-sized headphones (the cushion and headband are yellow, but the rest is green, but tiered in shade, matching the coloring on the side of his head in his natural form) which are decorated with a large yellow crown on the sides and also sports an antennae with a red light at the top, which glows and flashes in accordance to his emotions (blinking in curiousity or confusion, flashing wildly in surprise, etc.). The combined effect of his headphones and his linear hairline is that his face is rather square. (Outdated, remove the cowlick and replace it with an antennae on the headphones: Image. Hairstyle drawn by
wingus. Headphones detail.)
When it comes to clothing, he is sporting a low v-neck long-sleeved shirt (long enough to be a short dress, even), green gloves, a green royal-styled ermine fur-lined cape, puffy purple breeches with white wavy designs, white tights, and purple shoes fashioned with an oversized yellow buckle with extra purple fabric poofing out of the middle of it. (Clothing illustration.)
PERSONALITY;
Throughout the game, the Prince is consistently referred to as being hard-working, responsible, and reliable. These are perhaps his most defining traits! This is because when all else fails, they are what drive him to keep pushing on. Letting people down is simply something he cannot do. It is his responsibility as a Prince, and, more importantly, his father holds high expectations of him.
This means two things: one, the Prince wishes dearly to earn his father's approval, and two, the Prince does not want to deal with his father's wrath and incessant bitching if he does not do as told. The Prince's relationship with the King of All Cosmos does not seem to be complicated on the surface, with the King sending him all over the Earth to clean up his messes, calling him names ("pee-wee" comes to mind), but buying him presents and praising him highly if he does well. But on the Prince's side of things, he has somewhat conflicting feelings on the subject of his father. Again, he wants his father's approval, like any child, but his father is someone who can be difficult to deal with and, in many ways, the Prince does not want to be like him. As such, he very much strives to be everything he perceives his father isn't: someone who listens, is considerate, patient, takes care of own messes, thinks before leaping, keeps himself in check, so on and so forth.
However, as much as the Prince is frustrated by his father, he feels guilty for it. It's more than the Prince knowing that his father truly does love him, and has a lot to do with how he feels about respect. Respect is something that the Prince holds in high regard, and he wants very much to respect his father. As such, he will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill about him, and he does not raise his voice or argue back to the King.
This focus on respect comes from being royalty. There is a Proper way to do things, a Proper way to speak, and, most importantly, a Proper way to treat people. The Prince makes it a point to respectful to all he comes across, but he also expects that respect in return. As such, he isn't going to take well to people who challenge his position as the Prince of All Cosmos and are snide towards him for it. He always tries very hard to keep his temper under control (going back to how he does not want to be like his father), but, should he lose that control, it is revealed that he is prone to hissy fits of a fabulous magnitude. Much like his father, if he doesn't catch himself, the Prince will get carried away by his emotions. However, if at all possible, the Prince will attempt to remove himself from the situation. He doesn't feel comfortable having arguments with people, and, given that he's prone to exploding anyway, he always tries to give himself some distance so he can calm down and come back to the situation with a level head.
The Prince makes every effort to be the kind of person he thinks he should be. He tries to keep his cool, goes out of his way to be friendly... He wants to be the kind of prince people turn to when something goes wrong. He doesn't just want to help because it's his duty. He honestly cares about the people around him and the people he is meant to look after. However, he is much more like his father than he would like to admit, from being emotional to truly caring for people but not knowing how to show it to having the same taste in fashion (oh dear). He even shares his father's sensitive pride to some degree in that his ego is very easy to fluff through compliments but equally easy to damage by ignoring him. Validation is important to the Prince, given his insecurities about his father and his secret loneliness.
It is especially easy to bring the Prince down by focusing on his failures. He takes failure extremely seriously, as his father does not tolerate it a whit, and he expects severe repercussions and verbal beatdowns for it. Even without the King around or anyone else to give him a hard time, the Prince is likely to apply it to himself anyway. Though he knows that it isn't true, on some level, he expects that everyone will be upset with him if he fails. If he lets himself, he can be easily sucked into a spiral of negativity and insecurity about this subject.
Not that he stays down for long. The Prince carries something of a "katamari optimism": roll up everything, good and bad, and turn it into a wonderful star. This is something that is reflected in one of the songs in the Katamari soundtrack, The Moon and the Prince: I don't wanna hear any negative talk coming from your mouths! It may be tough, but we can't stop now! We'll draw a peaceful vibration in an arc across the sky! We'll create an object that won't fail to compete with this planet! This sense of unity, of believing that everything that happens, good and bad, will lead to something wonderful, is a key aspect of the Prince's attitude. Besides, if he stays upset forever, then he will never be able to fix the mistake. He must do it right the next time, that's all!
And "fixing mistakes" is something that the Prince is used to having to do, thanks to his father. This has created an urge to go in and fix everything himself if he sees something that is being done wrong. It isn't that he micromanages, but he does have a need to FIX EVERYTHING if he thinks or knows that he can do it better. When he goes into this mode, he can be huffy and bratty, due to associations with his father's frustrating behavior. But, if it is something that will help others, he will push past this phase faster than he otherwise would.
The Prince holds high expectations of those around him, as they are the same expectations he holds for himself. This isn't a conscious decision, but this can still lead to accidental snobbery ("well I know you're not a prince like me but you should still shouldn't be lazy!"). In a similar vein, the Prince is also privileged without being aware of it. This form of privilege is very closely connected to pure ignorance. He simply has not known primal fear or need, and as such, he has trouble relating to such things. Human suffering is not something he is aware of at all, and he knows little to nothing about human society, which just compounds it all. This also means that he will not have any kind of handle on how to deal with these kinds of emotions or situations in regards to himself, so he is likely to respond in childish and sheltered ways.
It should also be noted that the Prince is extremely curious! He loves to learn new things, especially about humans. Together with his parents, he keeps a detailed and organized notebook containing the weights and names of the objects and people the katamari rolls up, as well as observations. For example, the entry for a checkbook reads, "A book filled with numbers. People smile or cry reading this book. It must be a very good novel." When it comes to learning more about people, the Prince gets very excitable and hyper. However, he will also take new things at face value and in the most literal way possible.
When it comes down to it, the Prince has two modes: "katamari" mode, wherein he is curious and excited about everything, and "princely" mode, where he is proper and polite and trying very hard to be a good prince. He is an only child and has not had close contact with his cousins, so he doesn't quite know how to play well with others, and those two modes are how he knows how to deal with people. This may create a distance between himself and those around him, though he isn't likely to notice. The Prince is actually very lonely despite his family's large size, since he doesn't truly have any friends. He isn't aware of this loneliness within himself, and he doesn't know much about friendship, and as a result he will treat the friends he does have the only way he knows: as family. Between this and his desire to take care of people and make them happy, he is likely to come across as having big brother instincts.
HISTORY;
Prince at the Katamari Wikia
Katamari Damacy at the Katamari Wikia
Additional Setting Explanation
The silliness and nonsensical nature of the Katamari series can make it a difficult canon to role-play from, so this section exists to explain the headcanon that's going to be used as to how things work.
The katamari -- Typically, a ball made of unknown substance that has the ability to pick up anything smaller than it. However, considering that is possible for planets to be used as katamari (as the Earth was in We ♥ Katamari, the sequel to Katamari Damacy), it's more that katamari is a state that can be embued onto a round object that makes anything smaller than the object stick to it. If a katamari was just sticky, then the logic behind "you can only pick up things smaller than you" doesn't quite work; thus, it's more likely that katamari operates through the manipulation of gravity. The idea of using the clumping property for a game came from the King of All Cosmos during his childhood.
From katamari to starhood -- A katamari may be used to roll up living creatures. The katamari that Prince rolls is also almost always turned into something else, be it a star, planet, or island, depending on the game. This doesn't harm the living things rolled up in the katamari, though, since the Hoshino family from the first game are rolled up into a katamari used to make the Moon and are seen there on the moon "taking a lunar vacation."
The people of the King, Queen, and Prince of All Cosmos -- Mysterious beings that are not given any explanation. They simply exist, and they possess many unique features, such as some of the Cousins being made of food, the Prince's ability to roll planet-sized katamari, and the King's powers that create katamari, shoot lasers from his eyes, accidentally create a black hole, accidentally break the stars and moon, being able to turn katamari into stars and the moon, and so on. Since "Katamari Damacy" translates into "clump spirit," I'm going to be operating under the assumption that the entire family are kami-style spirits.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON;
"This is the face of complete and utter
(It's recommended to view this thread while logged in to any account, since otherwise you'll be looking at it in the comm's layout instead of dreamwidth default.)
THIRD PERSON;
It takes the Prince exactly three days and thirteen hours to realize that it does, in fact, feel very strange to not have his parents around. He spent those three days and four hours making friends, exploring this new world, and generally enjoying not having to answer to anyone but himself. But around hour thirteen of day four, he picks up a stick of takoyaki and it hits him: He wishes he could roll the katamari here. This place really is full of things, and so many of them are not in his collection. And imagine the stars that he could make! They would be truly beautiful.
But even if he did have a katamari with him, he could not turn it into a star. He is only the Prince, and his father has not taught him how to do that yet. The Prince then finds himself imagining his father with a Digimon partner, and decides that it would go one of two ways: either the King's Digimon partner would have just as hard of a time handling him as everybody else does, or the King's partner will have a personality that is similar to his, and everybody would regret it.
But, maybe it would be fun, the Prince thinks next, to have father here. He makes a face at himself. It is true that his father could not pester him about katamari, but he could pester him about other things. Maybe he would not be able to break stars here, but he could just as easily break anything else. And then the Prince would have to fix it.
Would I mind that much, though? he finds himself wondering.
The Prince stares at the takoyaki.
"Yes," he says aloud firmly. "Yes, I would."
His Digimon partner gives him an odd look, but then the Prince gives him the takoyaki, and everything goes back to the new normal.