Saya (Saya no Uta • Demeleier)

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Player Name: Kyuu
Player LJ: euphoriant
Contact: i see phailure @ AIM, _ayato @ plurk.
Character Number: This would be my first.

Character: Saya
Fandom: Saya no Uta

Personality:
Saya is, for all intents and purposes, a child. Despite being smarter than most humans by far and her ability to memorize and understand new things being off the charts, she is still rather naive and learning new things every day. Interacting with the humans around her is a rather fascinating experience, as she spent many of her years living in secluded rooms of houses that belonged to her "father" with little contact with the outside world, which causes her to be a little bit too trusting of her environments. This sometimes leads her to assume that the humans that see her true form would be too scared to hurt her, and that humans who see her as a young girl would be automatically kind to her.

Because of her nature as an alien, and because of her secluded upbringing, human morals tend to be something completely and utterly foreign to her. For example, she sees nothing wrong with killing intruders to feed herself, as they were stepping into places they didn't have to be in, in the first place. Following that, even her "well intentioned" actions seem to be downright wrong in the eyes of many, even though she does honestly mean them as something to make the people she cares about happy. She will feel a bit guilty if reprimanded for her actions, being a child, but in the end she has no real moral compass or anything to guide herself off and may find a loophole to excuse herself if possible. What is wrong and right is something that was completely skimmed over by Ougai during her upbringing, and this is the result.

Of course, as expected with her childish nature, Saya tends to be a bit of a troll. She is very much like a child who watches ants be burned alive with a magnifying glass, as long as the results are something that amuses her. As also mentioned in her history, while Saya was in the hospital looking for her father, she took up a habit of visiting mental patients just because nobody would believe anything they said. She would stand over them, a smile plastered on her face, and wait until they woke up so they could start screaming at her hideous appearance. In fact, she was severely disappointed when Fuminori didn't start screaming upon seeing her and almost walked out on him because he was boring and spoiled her fun for the night.

As shown by Fuminori and her father, however, Saya has a great capacity to care for humans, as long as they are kind to her and do not fear her for her real appearance. She is very much intrigued by those who care for her, and in turn, she starts to care for them too--even if her actions towards them are quite trollish in nature (that all being in good fun, of course). Because she is naive and trusting, all it takes is a little bit of affection and Saya will warm up to them immediately, considering them friends even though she is not aware of that fact. She would never do anything to harm those she cares about, placing her own happiness after theirs and doing anything to keep them at ease, even if it is something that would hurt her feelings hideously. Truth to be told, what Saya craves most of all is a world where she and Fuminori can live comfortably together, accepted by everyone.

To those she cares about, she tends to be somewhat over protective, offering to throw herself headfirst into danger just so Fuminori didn't have to and making it so he didn't have to take a step out of the house even once to get food. In order to make him comfortable, in fact, she took on duties that a normal housewife would have just to make him feel more at ease and more like he had a family. She religiously studied cooking shows and new recipes each day in hope that she could find something he could stomach (before discovering his kind of meal was also the same as what she ate), and even painted his house from top to bottom in the most grotesque colors possible so his twisted senses could perceive his surroundings as "pleasing", even though the smell of the paint made Saya the slightest bit uncomfortable. This is all without mentioning that the one time he expressed his desire for being able to have more friends and family, Saya went right ahead and got him a little "pet". She took one of his former friends, a young woman named Yoh who held a crush on Fuminori, and viciously assaulted her and then turned her into whatever Saya herself was just so Fuminori could perceive her as a human.

Why Yoh, you ask? Well, because Saya was jealous of her. She didn't like the fact that someone else out there was pinning after someone that belonged to her, and took matters into her own hands. She mocked her and made her go through a painful 20 hour long transformation (consisting of having her body slowly rot and fall apart), just because she didn't like her and perceived her as a threat to Fuminori.

When Saya doesn't like someone, it simply means she abhors them. She takes "passive aggressive" and makes it an art, even to those she has never met and only knows of because someone she cares about mentioned them in passing. Of course she won't take every person she dislikes to the same extreme as Yoh or Oumi, as she has the ability to be subtle, but she is capable of being quite nasty without it ending in death for them. It could range from simple, passive aggressive text messages, to contrived accidents and slip-ups that could end up being harmful to the other person, but not quite enough to be lethal. If it is someone who merely harmed her directly, then they might find a couple of rude texts in their inboxes or a couple of rotting dead animals on their front door. If they harmed someone she cares about, however, it would be best to hope they are fire retardant just in case, because that is something Saya will never forgive and forget.

In the end, although Saya did not initially posses emotions, the ones she did eventually develop and very much human. And this, along with her abilities, is what makes her so frightening to those who end up on the wrong side of her approval.

History: Saya no Uta @ Wikipedia. That is the general gist of the story from Fuminori's eyes, since it is his point of view that we follow for most of the game. However, since there is a bit of background info on Saya that is only discovered through files in the second and third ending, I've written down what isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia page.

When Saya first arrived on Earth, she was essentially a blank. She had no personality and no sense of self, but possessed an unlimited amount of curiosity for everything around her. Somewhere along the way she meets an eccentric medical scientist named Masahiko Ougai who she would later on come to regard as her father, and Ougai, not repulsed or disturbed by her appearance at all (as he already had a few screws loose), is more than just eager to take in this new undiscovered species. He takes her in and raises her just as he would a child, educating her in basic subjects such as Math before Saya began to express a marked interest in other subjects, such as biology and human reproduction. Although Ougai first considers her a male, Saya soon declares herself a female and creates her own "human" identity, immersing herself further in the subject of human reproduction by reading romance novels and deducting that love must be the objective of all human reproduction. Impressed by her progress, Ougai one day decides to give her a present--her name, which had previously belonged to a pet cat he had which he regarded fondly.

Although the details of what exactly happened are not quite clear, Saya suddenly finds herself alone again after she and Ougai became separated. Confused and lonely due to the fact that her father had suddenly stopped coming home, Saya set out to find him. She took residence in the hospital where he worked at, and remained there for a while, eating spare organs and strays that were wondering around the area, and making use of the nurse's night shifts to sneak around the hospital without being noticed. Soon enough, she became weary of not being able to find her father, and decided to entertain herself in her spare time. Using a list of mental patients she had found, she would sneak into their rooms during the middle of the night in order to stare down at them until they started screaming, and thus giving an origin to a series of ghost stories set inside the hospital.

One night, however, during her little routine of scaring mental patients for her own amusement, she suddenly finds one patient who doesn't seem to be afraid of her presence at all--in fact, he almost welcomed it. His name was Sakisaka Fuminori, a college student who had suffered a terrible accident that nearly killed him, and the operation to fix the trauma and lesions he had taken to his brain had left him with a condition that caused him to see the world around him differently. Because Saya was already different from everybody else, however, Fuminori sees her as a cute, petite girl instead of the abomination she truly is. Sometime after this meeting, Saya becomes Fuminori's reason for living and, after he offers to help her look for her father, they move in together into his house.

During this time, they develop an intimate relationship which causes a drastic change in Fuminori's personality. He becomes cold to those who used to be his friends, and reserves all of his smiles for Saya, who is the only one he doesn't seem as an abomination. Although, Saya is glad to have Fuminori to herself and to see him so happy to be around her (as affection is something Saya craves, she also became scared of how much he was changing because of her, which would later cause another problem entirely. For now, however, one of Fuminori's former friends named Oumi comes to confront him in his own house, angered by how coldly he had treated another one of their friends, but finds that the door is unlocked with no one inside.

No one except Saya, of course.

Not taking well to intruders in their home, Saya decides to kill and eat Oumi instead of taking any unnecessary risks. As Saya eats her "diner", Fuminori arrives home and decides to sneak up on Saya as she ate--as he had never seen her eat before and was quite curious about the wonderful fragrance coming from the living room. It is with this that both of them discover that the only food Fuminori's stomach could handle without regurgitating was human (or simply raw) meat, although he wasn't aware he was eating a human at the time, much less Oumi.

Still preoccupied by for Fuminori and how hard it must be for him to be stuck seeing the world so different, as well as the drastic sanity slippage, Saya decides to conduct a small experiment. She sneaks into the hospital once again to steal Fuminori's charts, and studies all of them from top to bottom, understanding them perfectly with the knowledge her father had given her. After discovering that the source of Fuminori's problem is something she (a alien) can fix with ease, given some practice, she decides to test out her hypothesis. She would take their next door neighbor, Yousuke, and alter his brain in the same way as Fuminori's. Then, if Fuminori wanted her to, all she had to do was try to do the inverse to fix him.

Unfortunately for Saya, the shock from having the world changed around him so suddenly (unlike Fuminori, who did not regain all of his senses and had more time to adjust) drives Yousuke insane, and he ends up assaulting Saya. She is saved by Fuminori, who proceeded to carve up their neighbor until he wasn't even recognizable as a human being, Fuminori comes to realize that Saya is not quite human. Saya begins to explain her true nature to Fuminori as a being specifically designed to manipulate the anatomy of others, but before Fuminori can admit his feelings for her, Saya stops him, knowing that the moment he said that, it would be too late. She asks if he would like to return to the world he once knew, knowing that this meant they would never be together again, or if he would prefer to stay the way he is.

Her fears are confirmed as soon as Fuminori mindlessly says that, yes, it would be nice for everything to go back to normal, and even though it pains her, she simply keeps on smiling and kisses him on the lips. In a few seconds, Fuminori passes out and Saya "fixes" him. This would be the last time Saya and Fuminori would meet face to face.

After this, Saya "speaks" to him again through after he is taken to a psychiatric hospital, and then leaves to search for her father once again, hoping to also find some way to return from where she came.

Timeline: Taken from Ending #1, aka the "psychiatric hospital" ending.
Abilities:
Being made from some strange, super expandable substance, Saya is able to heal from any wound immediately, making her incredibly hard to harm unless you use a bit of common sense and just literally punch her out. In order to kill her, however, things are a bit more complicated. In-canon, two characters had to team up to take her on, one of them spilling liquid nitrogen to stop her regenerative abilities and the other shooting the part of her body that was frozen off with a shotgun (which caused a wound too big to heal in time before all of her internal organs started to pour out). Also due to the substance her body is made of, Saya can easily slip into small spaces like underneath a couch, although this is probably aided by the fact that she is about the same size and height as any other normal child.

Saya's body is specifically designed for altering the mind and body of any living organism. As long as she has a proper understanding of how to alter the mind of that organism, and the "blueprint" for their body (in other words, the sperm of the male from that species), Saya can alter both of them in any way she sees fit.

The process for altering a being's mind is much less complicated and painful. In fact, Saya is even capable of placing the organism in question to sleep in order to make the changes, demonstrated as she kisses Fuminori to force him asleep before fixing him. If you do not have the virtue of having Saya like you enough to prepare you for this beforehand, though, the process is quite horrifying and capable of driving others insane unless they pass out from sheer terror. She has only used this ability of hers twice before, and it isn't something she will use unless it's too help somebody she cares about or as a test or her abilities in some shape or another.

Altering the body, on the other hand, is extremely painful, slow, and the nature of it alone keeps the victim from falling asleep during it. This forces them to watch in agonizing detail as their body slowly rots and falls apart for a minimum of 20 hours, driving them insane just from the horror of watching their body parts fall out and even turning the one person who was shown to be subjected to it into a mindless zombie, incapable of even coherent speech. There are two ways for Saya to achieve this result, and both of them are not particularly pretty. One of them entails Saya entering the body herself in order to change it, while the other consists of Saya releasing a series of spores all across the world that would change all humans into the same species she is. The last one would cause Saya to die, however, and is only possible when she had collected enough human DNA to change a whole planet.

Aside from all of that, Saya can also secrete some sort of liquid capable of melting anything it touches. She usually uses this to soften her food a little, as it would be too difficult to chew otherwise, and also for less conventional uses--like making a small hole in a glass pane to break into a house.

(note! if there is anything that needs nerfing, feel free to give me the heads up, since i know some of her abilities are pretty over the top.)

Link to an image of the character: THIS IS WHAT FUMINORI SEES and this is what is actually going on. Of course, the last picture isn't of Saya herself and just of another member of her species, but it helps for reference's sake.

I will point out here that Saya will be apped with a glamour placed over her. She will be felt and perceived as a normal, human girl by everyone, and will be heard and "smelled" as one as well (since she normally smells like "piles of fish guts left to rot", and her normal voice is gurgled and with strange inflections). Other characters can see her true form with the rowan crowns, but since this is something that would affect any possible CR greatly I'll leave it to their own discretion, since I'm sure neither the mun nor the characters would appreciate taking a peek at loli cthulhu without proper plotting and all. Saya will also see herself as human when she isn't using the rowan crown, unless the mods have anything against this.

(note! samples are generic, recycled and slightly altered from other rps. i hope this is alright.)
Sample writing:
She had expected it, Fuminori answering yes to her little question, but that didn't make it any less painful. She had made the offer, after all, and it was probably what he had always wanted since the accident. She shouldn't have a problem with that. Even though he was now stuck in that place, it was his decision, and Saya should be supportive of him. He would be far safer than he ever would be if he remained with her, and perhaps this is why Saya stopped him before he went too far. This is why she should be happy for him, and she was.

But it was more of a forced feeling than anything else.

Perhaps this was why she had decided to suddenly visit him in his cell one day, despite staying hidden all the time and only communicating through a cellphone passed in the space between the door and floor, far too scared of what his reaction would be to hearing what she really sounded like. Perhaps, all she really wanted was to hear what he had wanted to tell her that last time, even though she knew he would surely change his mind should he know the real her--should he know that the Saya he remembers is not the Saya that exists at all.

In the end, she did get to hear what he had wanted to tell her, but it wouldn't make a difference anymore. They would never meet again, and Saya would have to go back to searching for her father alone in hopes that he would know how to send her back to wherever it was she belonged. But, for now, there were more pressing issues for her to take care of. More pressing matters at hand, along the lines of wondering why she was in this place she had never seen before.

She blinks, confused and slightly disorientated at the sudden change of surroundings. This wasn't where she remembered being last, and it didn't seem to be anywhere she remembered, not even from photographs she had been shown by the books or Fuminori. She almost stands up to investigate, but then, looking down at her body, this wasn't how she was meant to look at all.

Saya holds her hand in front of her face (her slim, pale, human hand), and cocks her head to the right. Lifting what appears to be her now equally as human arm to eye level, she then proceeds examine the rest of her body. This was a female human body without a doubt, and nothing like what she usually looked like in the slightest. It wasn't nearly as appealing as the other female human bodies she had seen before, but it was certainly many times more appealing to the eye than her true form--which left a very big question to ask.

Was she dreaming? Perhaps. It was the only reasonable explanation she could think of, seeing as how humans lacked the capacity to change others as she did, and no other option seemed logical. Maybe she was experiencing one of those so-called lucid dreams she had once read about while studying with her father, but if that was the case, then she would have needed to make an effort to remain asleep; one she is obviously not making at this very moment.

"Mm~ Let’s see," she hums, rising from her spot on the ground to stand on her own two, human legs. Unsurprisingly, they both give a slight wobble as she does, before Saya manages to steady herself on the spot. "I'll guess I'll just have to find out for myself, then!"

And with that, if this was truly a dream, she would simply have to test it out.

Sample journal entry:
[[ voice ]]

[Click, click. This is the sound of Saya toying around with the buttons on her device, either not realizing it was recording or either not caring in the slightest, before she sighs and begins to speak.]

I have a question for the humans in this place, and... Anybody else who's willing to answer, too!

I heard there are lots of people in this place who come from worlds where things like magic or vampires are really common, but I don't know what their worlds are like. I heard there are a lot of different versions of Earth, so I want to know about them, too.

[Pauses.] My Earth wasn't really all that interesting, and most of the humans there didn't have anything special about them at all! It was really boring.