out of sight, out of mind!

Player Information

Name: Gira
Personal LJ: bossbattles
Age: 15
Contact Info: plurk = giragiragira, email = [email protected], Skype hoshidoragon (text chats only plzu), and occasionally AIM = giratinium
Other Characters Played: Ienzo

Character Information

Character Name: Mao

Character Series: Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice

Character Age: 1578. Yup.

Character Gender: Male

Original Canon

Canon Point: Shortly after post-game, Good Ending; time spent in ruined world during his drop-time hasn't done good things for his "Hero" status

Background Link: Here!

Personality: First and foremost, Mao is insane. No matter what else he is, a combination of growing up in the demonic world and people tampering with his brain as a child has pretty much caused him to totally jump off the deep end. He makes no attempt to hide this, either; people around him can usually tell that he practically radiates crazy. Abrupt mood swings and a sudden change of inflection or tone of voice are not uncommon for him, usually accompanied with some distressing subject matter for the conversation.

Usually, this subject matter has to do with frankly terrifying ‘experiments’ that Mao wants to perform on some unfortunate schmuck. Whenever he thinks about this, he will begin drooling and breathing unevenly, excited at the idea of someone to experiment on. He is not ashamed to stop whatever he was previously doing and chase after a subject he deems ‘interesting’. Much ado in the series is brought to the fact that his behavior is akin to that of a pervert, but as a matter of fact it is just clueless innuendo — he has almost no concept of sexual lust, acting completely confused at the ‘tingling feeling’ when a scantily-clad, busty demoness flies through the room. So when he said he wants to turn your skin to rock and put rocket launchers in your kneecaps, don’t worry — he actually does.

…Okay, maybe you should worry anyway. But. Moving on.

He doesn’t have much of a social life at all, much preferring to lock himself up in a total pigsty of a room and do ‘research’ all day. And by ‘research’, of course, we mean read manga and play Conclusive Delusions XIII on his Slaystation. Mao is an avid collector of manga/comics, video games, and cartoons of all varieties, but since such things generally involve heroes to some degree or another (which are severely looked down upon in his Netherworld), he tries to justify himself by calling it research. On some detached level he may actually be reading it for research purposes, though — it is shown that he is genre savvy, having cited the ‘infallible rule’ that heroes always defeat villains, or Overlords — so in order to defeat his father, which he cites as one of his major goals, Mao resolves to become a hero. He doesn’t quite get the concept of being a hero, though; he mugged the title from somebody else (in the Disgaea universe, titles are like objects that can be changed or stolen) and rages constantly about how he does not understand this ‘love’ and ‘justice’ nonsense that seems to make up a hero’s power.

Mao rarely becomes outright sad; he more often reverts right to angry, because pity and remorse for anyone (including himself) have always been presented as ‘heroic’ and therefore wrong concepts. Anger, however, is seen as much more respectable, and whenever Mao gets truly angry, it is encouraged. You know, the “Feel your anger! Let it become your power!” schtick. That one is in full effect. As a matter of fact, he has an absolutely terrifying power/alter ego that only comes out when he’s well and truly mad (see below).

Futhermore, he is one of the demons of Evil Academy who makes the most use of the Heart Bank. The Heart Bank stores physical items, sure, but it also stores pieces of a demon’s heart — essentially their morality. Without this, demons are free to live the unrestricted lifestyle they desire. However, while hearts are the centers of morality, they would need to be something else important as well, or else everyone would have their entire heart in the Heart Bank… and obviously, everyone doesn’t. For this reason, it can be supposed that hearts are also the centers of personality. So by putting enough of his heart in the bank, Mao gave rise to a number of different Maos in his Heart Bank, each of which is a palette swap of him — and they range from important to inane. Mao’s True Heart is green and seems to be the rational part of his mind (who of course was the first to go), while the Saucy Maos are orange and appear to represent his, erm, love of hot sauce. I told you they were inane. But anyway, by leaving so much of his morality and personality in the Heart Bank, Mao becomes even more maniacal and deranged.

Mao’s got something of an ego — well, okay, not something of an ego. It is the size of Russia, you guys. He is No. 1 Honor Student of Evil Academy and he will tell you so… though it isn’t uncommon for someone out of the Disgaea loop to question why. Since Evil Academy’s view of teaching is a little skewed when compared to human schools, he has obtained the title by never attending a single class in his life and recklessly abducting other students for his experiments. It also may have something to do with the fact that the headmaster is his father (and an almighty demon called an Overlord), but he will deny that if you bring him up. As far as Mao is concerned, his father absolutely despises him.

Which is a nice crossover into another part of his personality. Mao has a very messed-up relationship with his father, the Overlord and total ruler of the Netherworld. When we first saw him, Mao was irritated with the Overlord for accidentally crushing his Slaystation and all of his games, which he had spent 5 million hours on. (Mao apparently decided to ignore the fact that the Overlord appears to be several stories tall, and therefore probably crushed more than his Slaystation.) However, right after Mao had finished with his fit of wrathful teenage fury, he ran into a Super Hero named Aurum who was passing by, asking him if he knew where the Overlord was so he could kill him. Mao, being the secret hero fanboy that he is (as well as being totally pissed with his father anyway) told Aurum where he was, as well as a way to defeat him — in exchange for an autograph. Which he never got. Aurum ended up actually killing the Overlord like he set out to do, and all of a sudden Mao was shocked — crushed, pretty much, because even though he had been angry with the Overlord, he didn’t really want him to die. Mao spent the rest of the game thinking that his father hated him, because he was the indirect cause of his death, and at this canon point he doesn’t know any different.

This belief was probably spurred along by Geoffrey, his unbelievably skilled and talented butler for the past 200 years — actually Aurum in disguise. Now that he had defeated the strongest Overlord, Aurum found himself without anyone to fight against, and instead of being satisfied that he was stronger than all the Overlords he felt nothing but empty inside. So he took a new body and a job as Mao’s personal servant and primary caretaker, in actuality planning to turn him into the evilest, most despicable Overlord the universe had ever known… and he would have the exclusive rights to kill him. It was Aurum/Geoffrey who took the mind-broken Mao and rebuilt him from the ground up, turning him into the deranged but pitifully clueless evildoer we see today.

Abilities: Mao is a demon, and therefore has some handy abilities which most humans would find out of their reach. Along with the standard skill with swords, battle-axes or staffs, Mao is boss with Ice magic and can easily whip your sorry ass with them, because he powerleveled in the beginning of the game.

Oh, there’s another thing — Mao’s canon is notable for breaking the fourth wall. In other words, they all seem to know it’s a video game. Mao is aware of the presence of a supernatural entity who controls everything he says and frequently does extremely stupid things (i.e., his mun, Gira, me). But on the off-chance that he happens to mention it, everyone will likely dismiss it as another quirk of his apparent insanity.

(If you ever need a baseline for his voice, think Tamaki Suoh gone nucking futs, and that should do you just fine.)

Furthermore, he has a list of special attacks. ‘Blast Finger’ is a mid-range (eight-foot range) energy attack wherein Mao leaps into the air, channels some sort of lime green demonic energy into one hand, grabs the enemy, and releases it in a single energy beam to the face. Alternatively, he can bitch-slap that mofo, which does just as much damage. Even worse is ‘Shine Beam’, in which Mao temporarily discards his weapon to summon a number of white energy beams, that proceed to skewer the three spaces (or six feet) in front of him. They increase in power and size, until onlookers become temporarily blinded. After the attack is over, Mao catches the weapon he threw in the air, and the enemies fall to the ground. The last attack is the strongest, but the simplest: ‘Vasa Aergun’ has him simply summon a giant demon, who will punch and roar and fire energy beams. This is exactly as awesome as it sounds.

Mao’s twisted psyche has been given life in the form of Dark Mao, who comes out when his normal self is too furious or sad to contain him any longer. Dark Mao dismisses what little reservations regular Mao had towards how to act in modern society, and is essentially a purple-tinted jerkass who will kill people just because he can. It is implied that Dark Mao is the humanoid form of the giant demon featured in Vasa Aergun.

Also, he is an advocate of SCIENCE, though he prefers the MAD MOTHERLOVIN’ SCIENCE variety. He can and will experiment on you if you’re not careful. He also has a 1.8 million E.Q. (treated the same as an I.Q. in human terms), so make of that what you will.

Sample Entry: 
Oh. It was... this place again...

He had been here, what was it, a few months ago? Only for a short time. Even though it had only been a while, after he returned, Mao had found himself wishing many times that he could be back in this tower, with all of the stupid people and lack of room for research. It was much preferable to the alternative, staying in his own world; mostly because his own world was all but reduced to dust. It hadn't been so bad at first -- he just assumed that some other Netherworld had sent over an army and was trying to take over the place. Their forces would be out in a matter of days and everything would be alright.

That was what he assumed.

The reality was, the forces weren't there; nothing was. Even the Heart Bank -- the Heart Bank! -- had been reduced to a pile of rubble. He kept all his important things in there, ugh! And what's worse, all of his research material, all of his supplies, his experiments... all gone! Poof! Like that! Mao was mad enough about that as it was, and coupled with the fact that he had found himself once again in the stupid tower, it was more than enough to simply make him rage about his new room for a while.

Of course, this couldn't last forever -- and after a while, he sat down again, having worn himself out. It was only then that he came upon the real horror of the situation.

It was all destroyed. His minions, his empire, his father. Destroyed.

Now that, that floored the Overlord-to-be for a good long time.



Alternatively, for a more 'normal' depiction of Mao's personality, there's this.

Mao
Like 1500 years old or something idek, looks fifteenish
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice -- OU
Room 1-08
Indigo collar


Threadjacking/hopping: Sure.
Fourth walling: Go nuts. Mao was aware he was in a video game, and he is now aware that he is in an RP.
Fighting/Injury/Death: Talk first plzu?
Hugging/Kissing: Not suggested if you value your life.
Flirting: He won't even pick up on it.