Boomtown Yuui App

[misfortunes_fool]

Player's Name: Laure
Are you over 16? Yup.
Characters Played Here: N/A

Character: Yuui Fluorite
Series/Canon: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles
From When? Pre-Series, as the adolescent seen from his flashbacks to his childhood

History: Valeria country was once a rich and prosperous country, ruled by a beloved Emperor whose line was secure in the Crown Prince and his princess wife, who was pregnant. Thus, the birth of the Crown Prince's heir was highly anticipated by not only the royal family, but the people of Valeria Country as well. However, after the birth of the twin princes, Fai and Yuui, and the sudden death of their father from an unexpected illness, the whispers began. The birth of twins in that country was believed to be a bad omen, which lead many to blame the children for the increase in misfortunes upon the country - bad crops, water becoming impure, even the Crown Prince's death.

Twins of misfortune, they were called by the citizens and nobles alike. Whispers of the curse they carried followed the newborn twins wherever they went. But when their own mother took her own life out of guilt for giving birth to such children…

The Emperor decided it was time to act against the twins.

Especially when his advisers warned that even as infants, their combined magical power was already enough to rival the Emperor's and that as adults, they'd quite surpass him. However, they also warned that if the twins were killed, the calamities that would befall their country would become even greater.

With this knowledge, the Emperor gave them a choice - either one of them had to kill the other or they would be forced to spend a lifetime in misery, banished to a place where they will simply 'continue to exist' until the world's destruction. For the young princes, there was no choice. As one they chose imprisonment, too young to understand the hardships yet unable to take the life of the other. They appear to be no more than around eight at the most.

Kept imprisoned separately yet alive in a valley that nullifies magic, with Fai in a tower high in the sky and Yuui in the snow-covered pit below, where time flows differently for them, both were condemned to live in misery so that the rest of the country could continue to prosper and find happiness.

That valley, however, was more than just a place that renders magic unusable - it was also the dumping grounds for those deemed 'sinners'. A place where the body neither rots nor decays - where they simply remain where they land, slowly covered in never melting snow, forever denied rest.

How long Yuui sat huddled in the snow dressed in nothing but sinner's rags he didn't know, but slowly the realization dawned that if they could only get out of that valley, they had the combined power to rival their grandfather. They could go anywhere, be free. He resolved to get out right then, to save his brother and leave that place together and never return. Every day, Yuui piled high the corpses that were thrown into the pit and bloodied his fingers and toes trying to climb to his brother, always falling, never reaching him.

And when the bodies began to fall in mass dumps, dozens upon dozens at a time, dressed not in the clothes of the condemned sinners but that of citizens and even nobles, from infants to the elderly, one even carrying a missive for aid against the mad emperor, Yuui realized that he needed to hurry. That something was indeed quite wrong outside their valley.

More importantly, he still wanted to help the very citizens that had thrown them in their to begin with.

His resolve hardened that much more, to get out of the valley and free Fai, then find out what happened in Valeria, before going to someplace away from Fai - where their presence couldn't combine to bring further misfortune to the innocent.

The last body to fall was that of their grandfather, the Emperor. Fai could only watch from the tower as the Emperor told Yuui that all the misfortunes for their country were the fault of the twin's birth, both boys screaming when the Emperor slit his own throat in front of Yuui, leaving the two imprisoned in a dead country as Yuui screamed out his pain, confusion, and fright.

For Yuui, that was simply the last straw. His own determined nature had carried him that far, but with one last condemnation and the stroke of a sword, his resolve and will had shattered completely.

The boys, fearing their mere presence would cause the cycle to repeat, even if they went to separate worlds, fell still to despair, lost what hope they had. Their bodies grew shriveled, gaunt, with the snow piling on Yuui's still form down below and Fai only able to watch from above, wanting to die - but only after getting someone to save Yuui.

Eventually, Fei-Wang Reed appeared through a dimensional rift before Fai and offered to free one of them, explaining that one had to die so that the other could leave. Fai chooses to save Yuui, resulting in Fai being thrown from the tower to his death in the valley below. It wasn't so simple for Yuui, however, as Reed then tampered with Yuui's memory to make him think that he had selfishly chose saving his own life over Fai's.

Reed implied that he knew of a way to turn back time so that Yuui could trade his life for Fai's instead if he so wanted, so it was with that wish locked firmly in his heart - to return Fai's life back to him - Yuui agreed to become Reed's pawn. Reed, in turn, bestowed two curses upon Yuui.

The first being that, 'That curse that has separated both of you for a long time, when someone who can deal with such strong magic appears, you have to kill that person'; the second being forced to use his own magic to collapse the world around them, should he fail to kill his king, Ashura-ou, by himself when the time comes. This last curse he was made to forget entirely.

Reed told him then about Syaoran, Sakura, and even Kurogane - and warned that should Kurogane, the witch's own pawn, stand in his way as he works to protect Sakura's body from harm through their travels, then he was to kill him as well.

He was soon found thereafter by Ashura-ou, still clutching the frozen body of his brother.

Yuui took on his brother's identity and introduced himself as Fai to the king - who took him to Ruval castle, the seat of his throne in Celes Country, and tutored him in magic. Fai soaked up attack spells like a sponge, worked his way through memorizing every spell-book and tome in the castle, yet was disheartened by the fact that he was incapable of using healing spells.

Still, Ashura-ou was the first person to offer the brother kindness. He took 'Fai' in and gave him a home, took the real Fai's body and encased it in crystal before placing it in the bottom of a pool within the palace until such a time that 'Fai' could fulfill his wish to restore his brother to life. He even placed the braid of cut hair from Fai's head, along with a stone of fluorite (where the twins received their last name as a protection and Ashura-ou had hidden one of Sakura's feathers) with the body so that Fai could remain 'connected' with his twin until the day they were properly reunited.


Personality: Reed had taken away the only thing that mattered to Yuui, made him believe that he had done it with his own hand, and then dangled what Yuui saw as salvation before him in one fell swoop. So while his birth had shaped his life as a condemned twin, it was this that shaped his life outside Valeria in every way.

Because for Yuui… Yuui no longer exists. Yuui hasn't the right to exist. From the moment that Ashura-ou had reached out his hand, the boy had made the conscious choice to erase the younger, lesser twin from all memory and history as he didn't even deserved to be acknowledged. Outside dead Valeria, Yuui simply didn't and wouldn't exist.

No one would know him, or remember him, or speak his name.

This body that he held and this face that he presented… it was all Fai. Fai was the one that people would admire in Celes. Fai was the obedient child their King had adopted. He was soft-spoken and hard working, gentle and fiercely loyal to their savior. Yuui was the dead one encased in crystal beneath the water's surface so far as he was concerned. And so, while he was truly grateful for the home and acceptance he'd found in Celes, he was careful to always remember that it wasn't his - it was Fai's. All of his work and all of his resolve was now focused not for escape or happiness for himself or even them together, but in achieving the ultimate atonement:

To give his twin a life that Fai could be proud to inherit, where he would find acceptance and security, safety and trust waiting for him. Fai would be the one to inherit Ashura-ou's will. Fai would then have everything he's always deserved and would have had, had Yuui's birth never happened.

Because had Yuui, the younger twin, never been born, Fai would have lived a life of comfort and joy, the beloved darling of a nation. He would have grown into a wise and compassionate ruler, so far as Yuui was concerned.

He was the mistake that had brought down a nation and killed the only person that had ever loved and accepted him and it was time for him to take responsibility for that and correct the mistake of his birth.

Because of this mindset, however, Yuui has completely lost the mindset of a child. He's never known the happiness of being accepted by others, of what it feels like to play with someone other than his twin, and so even with freedom achieved, he doesn't understand how to pursue it.

For that matter, he can't even remember how to smile.

Everything he does now, is to gain knowledge that he can pass on for Fai, or to be useful to their savior, Ashura-ou. Outside of that, he's scared to push the boundaries of acceptance given to him not only by the people of Celes, but most especially from Ashura-ou as well. Because no matter what, he has to keep that general good-will intact so that it's waiting for Fai's real return. He's absolutely petrified of losing that little bit of security and thus blinded to how deep the feelings of Ashura-ou and the citizens of Celes actually run for him.

For someone who feels the pain of separation from his twin every moment of every day, who refuses to allow the kindness offered him in Celes to weaken his resolve to exchange places with his beloved twin, his only option was to create walls between his heart and everything else.

As Yuui, he set the strict rule that he wasn't allowed to love or form any attachment to anyone or anything as a punishment and preparation for the exchange, but as Fai he was the sweet yet shy and withdrawn child that was beginning to unconsciously charmed the nobility and citizens alike.

Thus, aside from the broken and skewed mentality already outlined, Yuui has a few other weaknesses that have developed. For example, for every compliment, word of praise or encouragement, he's quick to find fault in the circumstance for his action. Yes, he's memorized every magical tome within Ashura-ou's vast libraries, but that doesn't matter because he's incapable of using the healing spells he's memorized. He's terrified that he'll be seen as a burden and so does everything he can to be of use, to be helpful, and to never ask for anything that would inconvenience the adults around him. So if he accidentally studies through a meal, he's content to go hungry rather than ask for something like food out of turn.

Like his twin, he's got a frighteningly high tolerance to hunger pains; however unlike Fai, only understands the cold. He doesn't fear it - because so far as he knows, all the worlds are as cold as Valeria and Celes.

He positively wilts under a sharp tongue, and gives the appearance of complete contrition… and yet a part of him is always assessing how he earned that moment of ire, how he probably deserved it, and is already contriving ways to avoid repeating that same mistake. He doesn't understand that children are allowed to make mistakes - he just knows that if he does it too much, or bad enough, he'll lose what acceptance he's gained and that that in turn jeopardizes the safe haven he's trying to establish for Fai.

Why do you think your character would work in this setting? And that is, too, his motivation for accepting the offer for Boomtown. With Fei Wong Reed, he would have to wait years and years, possibly even centuries, before restoring Fai to his rightful life. Here, however, he could serve a much shorter time and then request them send him back to a time in Valeria's history that would let him either stop his own birth, or let him make the right choice in that valley so that Fai could be the one to go free. He's sure they could do it - he just has to convince them to do so!

Therefore, he'll face the setting with an open-minded resolution. Because his own loneliness, or discomfort, or pain is irrelevant. If he has to slave away in harsh conditions, well, he's lived through worse. All that matters is achieving his end goal of reaching back to give Fai the life he's always deserved.

Inventory: The staff given to him from Ashura-ou to focus his magic, a small bag of robes and shoes and gloves, and both his inner jacket and thicker outer robes that mark his station as Ashura-ou's ward.