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kanon. ([personal profile] whitelily) wrote2013-01-22 07:43 pm

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Character: Kanon
Canon: Litchi Hikari Club
Version: Manga
Canon Point: Post-Canon
Age: approximately 14
Gender: female



History: Kanon is a girl who fell in love with a robot and watched a lot of creepy boys die. No, seriously, that's basically what happened to her.
We don't get to know much about Kanon's background. Apparently she goes to an upper class all girl's school and has piano as well as swimming lessons. And that's all we get. It appears that Kanon has been raised to be a true lady, with possibly lots of expectations on her.

Basically, Kanon gets introduced to the reader when she is kidnapped. Kidnapped by who? The Hikari Club, a bunch of fanatic boys under the leadership of a self-proclaimed emperor who calls himself Zera. They detest adulthood and have some twisted beauty obsession that caused them to build a robot that kidnaps girls. Yeah. Kanon's the first of the girls Litchi, the robot, brings to them.
And for the first part of the plot she... sleeps. Even though the narcosis eventually wears off, Kanon stays asleep. This is her coping mechanism with bad situations.
Eventually she wakes up at night though and begins talking to Litchi. She asks him to bring her food and let her play the piano. Despite him being her initial kidnapper, Kanon is always friendly towards him. As a robot, Litchi doesn't know about many emotions, so Kanon ends up teaching him. While she seems to realize that he is actually a machine, she outwardly accepts his words when he tells her he is human.
This goes on, until Zera goes on a paranoia trip seeing some of the boys already betrayed him. As his black chess king is broken and seeming culprit is found, he orders Litchi to execute him. This wakes Kanon up from her half-faked sleep and she has to witness how Litchi snaps the boy's spine.
But even so, Kanon knows that Litchi acted on orders of Zera. So she just plays the dead boy a requiem and explains sadness to Litchi, saying that if he wants to be truly human he mustn't kill.
Since Litchi is programmed to be a human, he listens to Kanon and the next time he is ordered to kill two boys, he refuses.
Finding he's been deceived by so many people, Zera now decides that they don't need Kanon as a living inspirational beauty but as a machine girl, so he announces he'll kill her tomorrow to turn her into a machine - regardless of the impossibility of that.
Zera then leaves it at that and decides to let the two boys starve. When everyone but Litchi, Kanon and the boys is gone from the hideout, Kanon and Litchi try and help the two, Tamiya and Nico, who are badly burned from an unfortunate event on a burning lychee field.
Tamiya then suggests that they all run away together. Kanon agrees. But as they try to break free, Nico seemingly dies, so they have to leave the body behind. Then, as Kanon and Tamiya already climbed up to the exit, the pole that supported them breaks under Litchi's weight, leaving him unable to leave with them. Kanon then decides that leaving without Litchi isn't worth it and jumps back down to him. Tamiya is forced to run without them, but before he leaves he gives Kanon the last lychee from the lychee field - for emergencies, as the fuel Litchi runs with is lychee.

Kanon and Litchi talk and dance that night and Kanon indirectly confesses her love for him. The next day, when Zera wants to execute Kanon, Litchi refuses to kill her. Sadly, the Hikari Club still has a control device that forces Litchi to obey their command anyway. Litchi then goes and drowns Kanon - or so he thinks. This causes his programmed human heart to go crazy and he kills three of the remaining boys in the club before his fuel runs out and he stops moving. This is when Tamiya crashes the party, aiming to defeat Zera, but failing because he gets his brain blown out by Zera's possessive more-or-less boyfriend Jaibo. Jaibo then proclaims he's completely overly and utterly done with the club and Zera liking girls more and everything. So, expressing his love for Zera he threatens to mutilate Kanon's 'corpse'. But while he and Zera are busy failing to sort out their relationship, Kanon (who has actually been holding her breath) gives the last lychee to Litchi and therefore refuels him. Litchi then immediately kills Jaibo by flattening him to some sort of gory pancake, because this is how things in Litchi Hikari work.
Zera's then all like okay then, then he and Kanon are going to start things over again and once again tries to get her. To defend Kanon, Litchi tears off Zera's arm which is his doom as he was programmed to self-destruct should he harm Zera. As Litchi bursts into flames, Kanon can do nothing but watch ...... uuuuntil Nico turns out to be no as dead as supposed and uses his very last efforts to thrust a toilet through Zera's chest and kill him. Yes, this is actually what happens and I swear in context it makes at least a bit of sense.
Kanon rushes over to Litchi and kisses him before he finally 'dies'.
As everyone around her is now dead, Kanon sits down at the piano and in tears plays and sings a requiem, before leaving the hideout for good. 'Goodbye... Litchi Hikari Club.

Personality: Kanon is a very accepting person. While this can be definitely be interpreted as tolerance, it goes far beyond that. Kanon has the ability to accept about any given situation without panicking or begging or even questioning much. When she's kidnapped, she doesn't make a big fuss about it. When Litchi tells her he is human, despite that obviously not being the case, she goes with it. And ultimately, even when Zera tells her she'll be reborn as a machine, she accepts that just as well.

While a great degree of naivety plays into that, Kanon isn't stupid. From the beginning on she realizes very well that Litchi is a machine. She's doubtful at their first meeting and asks about it multiple times, but when her question is always answered with 'I am human' she accepts it, even though later when she worries about him becoming wet it becomes clear that she never believed it to be the factual truth.
I think Kanon is very used to listening to what people tell her and take these words for the truth. With a 'perfect noble daughter' childhood she most likely had, it has been trained into her that she should not question too much. So Kanon really doesn't. She keeps her intuition to herself after her assumptions are denied, despite not abandoning them.
Life is also much easier like that for her. Kanon doesn't like when things get complicated. Once Litchi begins talking about his programming she cuts him off, saying she wouldn't understand such things anyway.
Kanon is generally an avoidant person. 'Unhappy times go by faster when I'm sleeping' she says ... and sleeps through most of the canon. Kanon likes to keep her world small and limited, even in the craziest situation, so she's perfectly fine with ignoring the things she can't do anything about. Especially by sleeping, which is her preferred coping mechanism, alongside all the others.

But despite this accepting and almost submissive nature, Kanon is not afraid to speak up and tell people what she wants if necessary. She directly asks Litchi for all the things she needs and even bends Zera's words in order for Litchi to help her out. 'You're like a child, taking things literally' she tells him, which shows that she's really not afraid to put herself and her knowledge over that of others, when it's about something she actually requires.
She's also slightly flirtatious at times, but it seems more like an expected habit than something she herself desires. This becomes clear when she refuses to hear any romantic things from someone who she believes can't be fully certain about it. Kanon is a romantic girl and she wants nothing but true love. To her love is about being protected and wanting to protect. All the other fake affection is not for her, especially as she is sure everybody will grow tired of her and eventually hate her. Kanon doesn't want to be hurt this way, so she blocks even the attempt. (She is however, not above initiating that romance herself when she feels it's actually worth it, as she also teaches Litchi how to be romantic and nice toward her out of her own accord)

Kanon still likes to be noticed, especially as a person instead of some random beauty. When she's alone with Litchi she starts telling him completely context-less facts about herself. Kanon really desires to be perceived as herself rather than the lady she is forced to be.
But despite despising having to be 'such a missy', to put it in her own words, the things she learned like that are important to her. When kidnapped, her first thought is not to save herself, but to continue practicing playing the piano before the break affects her skills. The piano is more than a noble daughter instrument to her. Kanon expresses her own true feelings through the music. She will play a hymn in times of relief and a requiem when she is sad. Despite being a very honest person in speech, this is still the way Kanon can best convey what she actually feels.

But it's not just the piano that is more important to her than freeing herself. Kanon shows generally low impulses of self-protection. It appears that her life isn't worth the effort of truly struggling to get free. Kanon is almost eerily unaffected by the thought of dying and being turned into a machine. Actually, she almost welcomes it. Kanon wonders if she'd be happier like that and most importantly if she wouldn't have to be the trained young lady anymore. 'Then maybe people wouldn't grow to hate me' she says, which indicates that her text book perfection alienates her from other people and ultimately led to Kanon loathing herself for being so unlikeable. Kanon does not desire her death directly though. If it was to come, she would accept it without much struggle, but she prefers surviving and living on in order to one day find the fairytale reality her head lives in. If there is an option for her to live on or if she has a reason to continue living, like staying with someone, then she takes opportunities to ensure her survival.
(We do not get to see how she would react to the thought of being killed and not reborn as a machine, but I think she'd react only very little more scared. While becoming a machine that does not have to be hated sounds good to her, she really doesn't seem to value her old life much anyway as she also never prioritizes breaking free from being held hostage.)

Kanon is also a very kind person. If she blames someone, she makes sure to put all blame and guilt in the right places. Despite knowing Litchi is her kidnapper and witnessing him kill several people, Kanon always knows that it's not his fault and treats him accordingly. Instead of getting scared or angry, she just slowly teaches him better. She even compliments him on not killing Nico and Tamiya, because she knows that in comparison to the past state of obedience that is progress.
Kanon might appear like a merciful angel, to an extent that is worrisome naivety. She also takes care of Nico and Tamiya who she has never seen doing anything truly good. She doesn't even hesitate. When someone is in need, Kanon will attempt and help. Her definition of humanity to Litchi is 'If you want to be truly human, you mustn't kill people' and alike to her definition of love, it shows that protecting and being protected is a main focus of Kanon's personality.
Even for the Hikari Club in general, not just for Litchi who she loved but also the boys who did her wrong, she plays a pain-filled requiem that displays her compassion.

She's not an all-forgiving person though. Kanon does have the ability to dislike and get angry, she just rarely uses it. But she definitely does think Zera is insane and dislikes him, for she can clearly see that he is the one behind all the cruelties happening.
Despite usually being rather polite, she also voices her dislike in rather colloquial language ('That Zera kid has a screw loose'). It makes her angry, that Litchi has to obey him, because she genuinely thinks he's an awful person, which she is not afraid to tell him either. 'Litchi is much more humanly than you' she tells him, which reveals a number of things. First off, to her being human is more of a mental than a physical thing after all. Second, she is really really brave and like about everything else in her personality it borders to stupidity.
Maybe insulting her captor like that is not the smartest choice, but Kanon certainly shows how little afraid of him she is. She won't take shit from someone who she dislikes, as rare as that occurs.

It might be just because of how avoidant she is, but Kanon is mentally very strong. Despite being kidnapped, threatened and witnessing the gory death of lots of people, Kanon never panics and cries very little. Just a few tears when a boy dies, nothing more. Kanon is sad, but not afraid. The only time she's crying hard and actually full of heavy negative emotion is at Litchi's death, not at her own near-death-situation. Kanon cares so much more about others than about anything about her. Like she chooses staying with Litchi over her own freedom, she will always choose those who she likes above her own physical and mental health. (We can also conclude that before the plot, she didn't have anybody who was truly close to her, as she doesn't seem to be set on returning to someone.)

When she's not in a life-or-death situation like the ones I most had to base her personality on, then she's a friendly, curious, sometimes slightly demanding girl. She's naive, she doesn't like complicated things and greatly enjoys dreamy scenes. She laughs and has fun, when she can spend time with someone she likes. Pretty ordinary, actually.



Fears: Kanon is afraid of being disliked. She has a strong belief that every human will sooner or later grow to hate her, so one might say her biggest fear is herself, her own nature. Kanon is apparently also afraid of being deceived, as apparent by her reaction to flirting. (She scolds Litchi for 'flirting with her' as in her opinions these are things that shouldn't be said light-heartedly. This probably means that because of her beauty, she's had a lot of shallow moves made on her.)
What's amazing about Kanon is her lack of fear regarding her own death. More than that she fears that something happens to other people in front of her. Threatening her won't do anything, but she gets scared when others are in danger. (Though even here, her strength in enduring silently is very high.)

Weaknesses: Kanon is an ordinary human. She's not strong, she can't defend herself well. Also she's extremely naive and forgiving, so she'd probably easily be deceived by a manipulator. So yeah, basically everything that is not explained as a strength above, could be taken for a weakness.

Mundane Strengths/Abilities: Kanon plays the piano beautifully and has a nice singing voice. Seeing there is no canon comparison, the reader can't tell if she's a prodigy at either, but it's safe to assume she's above average.
Aside from that, she can swim very well and hold her breath for a very long time.
She also can dance a basic waltz and knows basic first-aid.

Sensitivity/Magical Ability: None. Her ability to sleep for long times when something scares her, maybe, but not really, huh?

Supply List: Her school uniform. Yes, Kanon is well equipped for this.

Game Transfers: None.

Sample RP post:
It was the second time in her life now, that Kanon woke up somewhere completely unfamiliar. This place looked better than the hideout if 'better' could be defined as 'not completely ruined'. Kanon still immediately liked it less. The strictness was unappealing and after all that happened to her it felt almost too strangely conventional. Once again, she couldn't remember how she ended up in a place like this, but it didn't worry her a lot. This time at least she was not bound by anything and free to move however she wanted. The girl looked around carefully, but nobody else was to be seen. It was both unsettling and relieving, so Kanon decided to not focus on it any longer.
For a while she just remained in the room, thinking about nothing in particular. After walking aimlessly through the streets, it was a comfortable resting place at least. She was exhausted. Pictures of the recent massacre danced ghostly through her thoughts, never quite in focus and never quite out of view either. Kanon didn't know what she would have told her parents about where she had been the last days, so the further delay was almost appreciated.
Kanon didn't know how long exactly she had been sitting when she finally felt rested and up to exploring. She straightened her skirt and finally left the room.

To a stranger she would seem oddly composed and yet slightly disoriented, as she walked through the hall without a true destination. She wasn't specifically looking for people, but she supposed that should she find someone it would be nice to know where she was. It certainly didn't look like Keikou anymore, the rich look was completely opposed to the industrial poverty of that city. All the other rooms she glanced into were of the same elegant if not pompous flair. Kanon knew how to behave around such places, but right now she'd rather be elsewhere. She'd much rather be with Litchi, under his protection, too, but that was an entirely different thing and the sadness about it did not leave her chest.

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