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User Name/Nick: Danii
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Other Characters Currently In-Game: John Doe, Wiktor Szulski, Florian Leickenbloom, Vincent Smith; Max Thompson/William Undertown-Sheehan is going to be dropped within a few days and/or upon approval as I finish things up with him
Character Name: Jinu Saja
Series: KPop Demon Hunters
Age: 400+, looks 20
From When?: his death at the end battle, when he steps between Gui-Ma's attack and Rumi.
Inmate Justification: Jinu made mistakes in life which led to him being a demon, starting with abandoning his family to poverty while his deal with Gwi-Ma saw him well fed and cared for and popular but throughout the movie, he repeatedly gives into Gwi-Ma's manipulations and promises despite this. Even in his last moments, while he acts to save others, he still kills himself to save Rumi instead of fighting with her or allowing for the belief in a real life away from Gwi-Ma and his control, despite Rumi showing him that it was possible. He does everything in the movie, was willing to sacrifice all of humanity's souls to the demons/Gwi-Ma to get what he wanted/needed, which was to have his memories erased so he wouldn't have to live with what he'd done in life. Again, while he dies to save Rumi to save the world, this definitely falls into the category of 'still running away from his choices' and choosing oblivion instead of facing up to, living with, and building a life after processing and moving past his mistakes.
Arrival: 100% against his will; he *wants* oblivion more than anything, doesn't want to live or at least not remember who he is or what he's done.
Abilities/Powers: As a demon, he can:
In game, he's going to be nerfed to 'slightly better than human' physicality, supernatural resilience, and he'll be able to switch between a human appearance and a demonic one; while in his demonic form he will have his claws and fangs but neither of them are big enough to do much damage (they're long fingernails and canines, essentially). His teleportation is nerfed to 'within a room' and both companions are missing (weep!). He can do visual 'effects' (lights and sparkles!) but his random materialization is limited to small personal items (an instrument, the bird hat, no 'random' items like just being able to make a soda he wants or whatever) or clothes changes. His performance talents aren't 'nerfed' other than just being completely mundane (no hypnotizing people!) but that won't stop him from writing (or performing!) a real bop.
Inmate Information: Jinu started his life as a pauper with a mother and little sister who he supported with his instrument. When he couldn't make ends meet, he started to hear the whispers of Gwi-Ma, the demon king, and he made a deal with him for fame and riches and success... but that success did not include his family. He accepted this and lived a life of luxury and adoration (but also of torment) until the evil of his choices transformed him into a demon under Gwi-Ma's command. We know he's worked for Gwi-Ma off and on for 400 years, seeking a way to have the demon king remove his memory so he doesn't have to live with the knowledge of what he did to his family.
When it comes up that the Hunters are close to completing the seal against the demons, he's the one who proposes a plan to combat them using a demonic boy band to topple their pop chart success. He assembles other demons to make his band, starts breaking the girl band/Hunters from within both through public stunts and private chats with the Hunters' leader, Rumi, and even goes so far as to find out Rumi's secret to use against her at the most vital moment such that he actually breaks the band and Rumi's pain and anguish at this loss helps break the Honmoon, the barrier that has held the demons back (other than bits of rip and tear here or there) for millennia. Even after Rumi shows him that it's possible for him to be free of Gwi-Ma without doing this, that solidifying the barrier could give him freedom, he still turns his back and uses what she told him to hurt her and rip the barrier.
It's only once Rumi returns to fight the demon king and Jinu and his band alone that he changes his mind and jumps between Gwi-Ma's rage and Rumi in the last moment, sacrificing himself to save her life. Rumi, who had started to fall for him, watches him die before completing what she came here for.
He's been around for 400 years so he's going to roll pretty well with the situations that come up on board, and he's 'from' like 2025 so he's good for all modern niceties, given he was a pop star for like two weeks and clearly knew enough about the world to pull that whole thing off (and come up with the Kpop Boyband World Domination plan in the first place). He'll be annoyed by the lack of his powers but it's not a major concern of his.
Paradoxically, he will actually accept his captivity far too well. His biggest problem on board is going to be that he isn't angry about his lack of freedom. That he doesn't hate the Admiral. Instead, he might be more concerned that the Admiral is willing to 'free' terrible people at any point, because obviously, people don't get better. Once you're bad, there's no going back. If they do anything, it's get worse. After all, he never actually got through the fact that his situation was unfair; he just wanted to stop Gwi-Ma from hurting Rumi and devouring everyone. Gwi-Ma was just a bad being who wanted to hurt people who hadn't done anything wrong. Everyone here isn't an innocent so... fair game, Admiral.
Path to Redemption: Jinu needs to process and accept the mistakes of his first life and actually learn from and move on from those decisions; while he regrets them greatly, the fact that he's initially willing to sacrifice the entire world to Gwi-Ma just to *forget* those choices says he hasn't actually learned from them, accepted them, or grown beyond that mistake. After all, he's really just looking out for himself again! And the fact that his 'solution' involves killing himself still involves never facing those choices. It still gave him what he wanted.
On top of that, he also needs to give up the shame of who and what he's been for so long and acknowledge Gwi-Ma's part in his situation: he was tricked and he's been tormented and no, he doesn't deserve this. He made a mistake and it was a terrible mistake but it's not as if he ever really enjoyed his 'deal' given that he knew the whole time the people he loved were starving and died while he was safe and fed. We know he has dreams of his family being with him, of enjoying the luxuries he's did, so he wasn't *happy* about it. He was just caught in a spiral of self-hatred and a lack of worth and a desperate need to hide what a 'monster' he was.
The last part of his journey will be in reclaiming himself, his voice, his talents as his own and that he deserves to be seen and known and express himself. One's voice is a powerful tool to connect people or disconnect them in this canon and I don't think it's insignificant that Gwi-Ma trapped at least five musicians (he has a boyband after all!) and they were clearly some of the most powerful of the demons. His voice, who he is, his truth, is important and worthwhile and reclaiming it is going to be the last piece of what he needs to face before he's ready to graduate.
History: here!
Sample Network Entry: I've been told Gwi-Ma cannot reach this place. That his power has no dominion here, despite my tie to him.
Then why do I still hear him inside my mind?
It's not the same. I know that. I'm not foolish enough to think that this is him, that Gwi-Ma knows I'm here, that he is taunting me from my world. I know the difference. But I can't help that I still *do* hear his voice.
I hear it every time something makes me laugh, every time someone here seems kind. I hear him, reminding me of what I've done, of what I am, of what I will always be and I know that Rumi's hope was her own. Her shame... it wasn't hers to bear.
Mine is.
Sample RP: June 2025 TDM
August 2025 TDM
Special Notes: He will probably request these two quickly. They have 0 combat ability. None. They are goofy sidekicks; the tiger is for transportation and carrying messages and, honestly, emotional support.
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game: John Doe, Wiktor Szulski, Florian Leickenbloom, Vincent Smith; Max Thompson/William Undertown-Sheehan is going to be dropped within a few days and/or upon approval as I finish things up with him
Character Name: Jinu Saja
Series: KPop Demon Hunters
Age: 400+, looks 20
From When?: his death at the end battle, when he steps between Gui-Ma's attack and Rumi.
Inmate Justification: Jinu made mistakes in life which led to him being a demon, starting with abandoning his family to poverty while his deal with Gwi-Ma saw him well fed and cared for and popular but throughout the movie, he repeatedly gives into Gwi-Ma's manipulations and promises despite this. Even in his last moments, while he acts to save others, he still kills himself to save Rumi instead of fighting with her or allowing for the belief in a real life away from Gwi-Ma and his control, despite Rumi showing him that it was possible. He does everything in the movie, was willing to sacrifice all of humanity's souls to the demons/Gwi-Ma to get what he wanted/needed, which was to have his memories erased so he wouldn't have to live with what he'd done in life. Again, while he dies to save Rumi to save the world, this definitely falls into the category of 'still running away from his choices' and choosing oblivion instead of facing up to, living with, and building a life after processing and moving past his mistakes.
Arrival: 100% against his will; he *wants* oblivion more than anything, doesn't want to live or at least not remember who he is or what he's done.
Abilities/Powers: As a demon, he can:
- steal souls
- teleport (short or long range)
- has super speed
- super strength
- flight
- immortality
- supernatural resilience
- demonically enhanced ability to perform, sing and dance
- unnatural charisma to charm and manipulate people
- shapeshifting (can look like other people)
- can hide his demonic appearance and look human
- can materialize things (props, clothes, etc.) and visual effects
- commune with minor spirits (Derpy and Sussie, his tiger and bird)
In game, he's going to be nerfed to 'slightly better than human' physicality, supernatural resilience, and he'll be able to switch between a human appearance and a demonic one; while in his demonic form he will have his claws and fangs but neither of them are big enough to do much damage (they're long fingernails and canines, essentially). His teleportation is nerfed to 'within a room' and both companions are missing (weep!). He can do visual 'effects' (lights and sparkles!) but his random materialization is limited to small personal items (an instrument, the bird hat, no 'random' items like just being able to make a soda he wants or whatever) or clothes changes. His performance talents aren't 'nerfed' other than just being completely mundane (no hypnotizing people!) but that won't stop him from writing (or performing!) a real bop.
Inmate Information: Jinu started his life as a pauper with a mother and little sister who he supported with his instrument. When he couldn't make ends meet, he started to hear the whispers of Gwi-Ma, the demon king, and he made a deal with him for fame and riches and success... but that success did not include his family. He accepted this and lived a life of luxury and adoration (but also of torment) until the evil of his choices transformed him into a demon under Gwi-Ma's command. We know he's worked for Gwi-Ma off and on for 400 years, seeking a way to have the demon king remove his memory so he doesn't have to live with the knowledge of what he did to his family.
When it comes up that the Hunters are close to completing the seal against the demons, he's the one who proposes a plan to combat them using a demonic boy band to topple their pop chart success. He assembles other demons to make his band, starts breaking the girl band/Hunters from within both through public stunts and private chats with the Hunters' leader, Rumi, and even goes so far as to find out Rumi's secret to use against her at the most vital moment such that he actually breaks the band and Rumi's pain and anguish at this loss helps break the Honmoon, the barrier that has held the demons back (other than bits of rip and tear here or there) for millennia. Even after Rumi shows him that it's possible for him to be free of Gwi-Ma without doing this, that solidifying the barrier could give him freedom, he still turns his back and uses what she told him to hurt her and rip the barrier.
It's only once Rumi returns to fight the demon king and Jinu and his band alone that he changes his mind and jumps between Gwi-Ma's rage and Rumi in the last moment, sacrificing himself to save her life. Rumi, who had started to fall for him, watches him die before completing what she came here for.
He's been around for 400 years so he's going to roll pretty well with the situations that come up on board, and he's 'from' like 2025 so he's good for all modern niceties, given he was a pop star for like two weeks and clearly knew enough about the world to pull that whole thing off (and come up with the Kpop Boyband World Domination plan in the first place). He'll be annoyed by the lack of his powers but it's not a major concern of his.
Paradoxically, he will actually accept his captivity far too well. His biggest problem on board is going to be that he isn't angry about his lack of freedom. That he doesn't hate the Admiral. Instead, he might be more concerned that the Admiral is willing to 'free' terrible people at any point, because obviously, people don't get better. Once you're bad, there's no going back. If they do anything, it's get worse. After all, he never actually got through the fact that his situation was unfair; he just wanted to stop Gwi-Ma from hurting Rumi and devouring everyone. Gwi-Ma was just a bad being who wanted to hurt people who hadn't done anything wrong. Everyone here isn't an innocent so... fair game, Admiral.
Path to Redemption: Jinu needs to process and accept the mistakes of his first life and actually learn from and move on from those decisions; while he regrets them greatly, the fact that he's initially willing to sacrifice the entire world to Gwi-Ma just to *forget* those choices says he hasn't actually learned from them, accepted them, or grown beyond that mistake. After all, he's really just looking out for himself again! And the fact that his 'solution' involves killing himself still involves never facing those choices. It still gave him what he wanted.
On top of that, he also needs to give up the shame of who and what he's been for so long and acknowledge Gwi-Ma's part in his situation: he was tricked and he's been tormented and no, he doesn't deserve this. He made a mistake and it was a terrible mistake but it's not as if he ever really enjoyed his 'deal' given that he knew the whole time the people he loved were starving and died while he was safe and fed. We know he has dreams of his family being with him, of enjoying the luxuries he's did, so he wasn't *happy* about it. He was just caught in a spiral of self-hatred and a lack of worth and a desperate need to hide what a 'monster' he was.
The last part of his journey will be in reclaiming himself, his voice, his talents as his own and that he deserves to be seen and known and express himself. One's voice is a powerful tool to connect people or disconnect them in this canon and I don't think it's insignificant that Gwi-Ma trapped at least five musicians (he has a boyband after all!) and they were clearly some of the most powerful of the demons. His voice, who he is, his truth, is important and worthwhile and reclaiming it is going to be the last piece of what he needs to face before he's ready to graduate.
History: here!
Sample Network Entry: I've been told Gwi-Ma cannot reach this place. That his power has no dominion here, despite my tie to him.
Then why do I still hear him inside my mind?
It's not the same. I know that. I'm not foolish enough to think that this is him, that Gwi-Ma knows I'm here, that he is taunting me from my world. I know the difference. But I can't help that I still *do* hear his voice.
I hear it every time something makes me laugh, every time someone here seems kind. I hear him, reminding me of what I've done, of what I am, of what I will always be and I know that Rumi's hope was her own. Her shame... it wasn't hers to bear.
Mine is.
Sample RP: June 2025 TDM
August 2025 TDM
Special Notes: He will probably request these two quickly. They have 0 combat ability. None. They are goofy sidekicks; the tiger is for transportation and carrying messages and, honestly, emotional support.