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Other Characters Played: None!
Preferred Apartment: For everyone's sake it's probably best if he's placed in an apartment with Yuno, but outside of that anything should be fine!
Character Name: Yukiteru Amano
Canon: Mirai Nikki
Canon Point: Post-Yuno's death, but before the "proper" ending
Background/History: Future Diary on Wikipedia, which is probably the best source you can get for it.
Personality: At first appearance, Yukki is a middle school kid who's socially introverted, who's awkward, who's -- not exactly shy, but just sort of isolated from the outside world. He doesn't have many friends and doesn't really seem to know how to properly make friends, and spends most of his life shut away from the world, instead commenting on it in his diary (which is inside his cell phone) - he prefers to think of himself as an observer to the world rather than actually in it. We also see - prior to the beginning of the game - that he talks to what he thinks are imaginary friends, and doesn't see this as particularly abnormal. (Admittedly, they turn out to not be imaginary, but that's not really the point.)
For much of the game, Yukki is a simple boy with much simpler wants than a lot of other other diary holders. A lot of the other diary holders (really, all of them other than possibly Keigo) want to become God for some reason. Yukki has no interest in becoming God, though. His only interest is that he doesn't want to die. He doesn't want to manipulate people or kill people unless it's absolutely necessary, and if it were up to him he wouldn't even be playing the game. He wants a world where he can go see the stars with his parents like they promised, where they're back together again, where things are right.
By the end of the story, though, Yukki is not a nice person. It's impossible to talk about Yukki without necessarily talking about Yuno and how he uses her (and is used by her in turn) - in the early parts of Mirai Nikki Yukki is perfectly aware that Yuno is unstable and dangerous and he doesn't particularly want to be around her, but is willing enough to use her, to humor her insane obsession with him, because he doesn't want to die, and because he can use her obsession and protectiveness over him to his advantage. It's a conscious decision on his part, at least at the beginning.
There's a major change in Yukki's personality after his parents are killed, though. Yukki completely snaps, beginning to gun down the men who killed his father in a brutal, efficient way more reminiscient of Yuno. It's seeing his previous wishes torn apart, knowing that he'll never be able to go to the observatory with his parents, that no matter what he can't make things right without becoming God, that spurs him on to go from trying to avoid being killed to actively hunting down the other Diary holders. It's at this point as well that the nature of his relationship changes; rather than Yukki utilizing Yuno solely for his own ends, they become more of a codependent relationship. Just as their diaries are far more powerful together and far weaker alone, the two are much more dependent on each other than is reasonably healthy in any way.
Even prior to the death of his parents, we see that Yukki isn't stupid; he's able to use his wits and intelligence to play the game in a way a lot of other people can't, knowing the limitations of his diary. His second encounter with a diary holder - and the first that wants to kill him, the 3rd - results in him being able to think quickly enough to hurl a dart at the diary just as the 3rd checks it, destroying the diary - and the 3rd with it. Or when he saves Yuno from being gang-raped by Tsubaki's followers by hurling the handball she'd been missing - and been so attached to - just in the nick of time, and then destroying Tsubaki's diary before anything can happen to Yuno. For all that Yukki is convinced that he's reliant on Yuno, he's not completely incapable by himself, and tends to be just as responsible for the pair's success as Yuno is.
With the things that have been listed above - his wit, his intelligence, his general deviousness and (to a certain degree) manipulative...ness, Yukki is still a fourteen year old. He's incredibly emotional and has been known to let his emotions get the better of him; hell, pretty much all of his actions after his parents die are the result of that. He's naive and sometimes a little bit dumb; he trusts Tsubaki incredibly easily because she seems relatively nice and sane, even with the warnings that she's not what she appears, and trusts Keigo for quite some time too, even knowing that he's a diary holder and will need to fight them at some point. He makes a lot of poor decisions about who to believe in and who to trust, and it ends up nearly getting him killed; if it weren't for Yuno he probably WOULD be killed. This can't be driven home more than when Yukki believes Yuno when she claims he can bring back the dead when he becomes God - believing her over Hinata, Mao, Kousuke, and Akise, despite knowing (at least logically) that Yuno is incredibly mentally unstable, and he believes her to the point where he shoots all of them but Akise simply because they must be wrong and Yuno must be right.
It's important to note that even when Yukki snaps, he's not completely psychotic. He's definitely no hero - he has no problems with killing people for the sake of becoming God, but he still wants to make sure everything is set back in place once he becomes God, at least while he's under the impression that people CAN be brought back to life. For him it's more a matter of the ends justifying the means; it's okay if he kills everyone because he'll fix everything, and he can't count on anyone else to fix everything. He is not a good person - but in the world of Mirai Nikki, he is probably the "best" person out of the diary holders.
Think about this. It's kind of fucked up.
Ultimately, Yukki is devious, he's clever, he's ... sometimes even witty -- but he's ultimately still a fourteen year old with a dangerous attachment to his just-as-dangerously attached girlfriend. He's overemotional, he's not very good socially outside of knowing how to deal with Yuno, he's naive, he's trusting - while he has a lot of positive qualities, many of them are outweighed by the fact that he's a fourteen year old whose life has gone to absolute shit, and he's still trying to cope with it.
Abilities/Powers: The first of these isn't really a power - more a talent - but it's important to note here. Yukki is an incredible shot with darts, in one of the few actual talents he has, having been shown to hit very specific targets like cellphones with darts; there's at least one case where he breaks one with it, and another where he would have if the person he was aiming for hadn't blocked it with their face. He hasn't shown any other real talent for combat, however; just darts.
Yukki is the holder of the Random Diary, a diary that essentially tells him the future of everything that's going to happen around him, with two major limitations. First of all, it can't tell him about things he can't perceive; if he understands something to be different from reality, the diary will work off the assumption that his perception is correct. As an example, there's a point where he sees, in the diary, that Hinata is dead because he comes across what looks like her body, and since he's completely unaware it's a dummy, he has no reason to believe it'd be anything else. The other thing is that, unlike some other peoples' diaries, it gives him no indication of what he is going to do; the only time it ever informs him about his own status is if he gets a Dead End flag, which means he's going to die unless the future changes. It will tell him directly in that case, and ONLY that case. The Diary is also a weakness, though; if the diary is broken, so is the holder, so if someone breaks his cellphone, he's dead.
I have discussed his future diary with a moderator - instead of it displaying text (as there is no text in Haven), it will be displaying video only. It does weak him in that he can read a heck of a lot faster than he can see video, and he doesn't have the exact timestamps of anything that's occuring, nor the location which would normally be included with the diary entry, but hopefully this works out for y'all!
In addition to this, from the canon point he's taken from Yukki is the winner of the second Diary Game, which means that he, quite literally, is God. It's difficult to say what the extent of his powers is, but we can at least assume that Yukki has every power Yuno was demonstrated to have as the winner of the first Diary Game, which includes (but is possibly not limited to!) telekinesis, flight, timeline jumping, creation of illusions, and being effectively unaging, as he's shown to exist for several thousand years while still looking fourteen. The only thing I believe we're explicitly told he cannot do is bring people back to life; he can bring the body back to life, but there's no soul, it's just an empty husk. I'm okay with any limitations on this, though I'd like him to keep at least some aspects of this - timeline/dimension jumping, though, should be right out even though he has no reason to leave!
Items/Weapons: A set of darts, his Future Diary, and... er, some clothes.
Sample Entry: [this phone doesn't feel right in his hands, but it's the phone he was given - his other phone, his diary (even if it doesn't work right), is kept safely in his pocket. his voice is wavering a bit, uncertain, but he's got the idea of how this works, and so he needs to ask.]
My name is Yukiteru Amano. I have a few questions...
[his fingers grip a little bit tighter onto it. he's not sure he should bring up everything, but it seems like nobody knows who or what he is here, so it's fine, isn't it?]
What happened to all of... the writing? My phone should be able to display text, but it can't. [deeply concerning when for a while, your entire life was based on being able to read your phone.] And I haven't seen any signs or anything like that around here, either.
And...
[he shouldn't ask, he knows. but he has to.] Has anyone here seen a girl with pink hair, in twintails? A girl named Yuno Gasai?
[there's no reason to expect that, is there? he sighs, assuming he knows the answer already, but... he needs to know. if this is another chance for him, it might be another chance for her, and even with everything going on, if it's another chance for them, he needs that knowledge, more than anything else.]
If you've seen her, please tell me. [swallow.] Thank you.
Sample Entry Two: For a moment, his phone had vibrated, and for an even briefer moment, the text on the phone had changed from "Yuno died." to something different. Even with his ability to read quickly (something he'd had to learn in the Diary Game), it was too fast for him to comprehend before everything went... different, for a lack of other way to put it. From emptiness to... well, things around him; from the only other entities in existence being Murmur and a stack of shoujo manga to... a lot more.
He awoke.
That was the first change. Yukki hadn't slept in years; waking up was a concept that he was aware of, but had forgotten, sort of like forgetting how to ride a bicycle until you actually did. There were beds - beds with other people. People who weren't Murmur. His heart leapt for a moment, hoping that something somehow had changed, that things were different now, that the people he wanted were back - but a quick inspection of the others told him that they weren't Yuno, weren't his parents, weren't Akise or Hinata or Mao or even Kousuke. They weren't anyone he knew.
The second change was that he had not one, but two phones. Immediately his hands go to his, to check what the diary said, and that was a far more startling change. There weren't letters on the keys. There wasn't a text function anymore. He was God, and yet something had changed his diary. That was far, far more terrifying, and he could feel his stomach turning into knots, in a way it hadn't in forever. Before everything else had happened.
What was going on here?
Contact Info:
Other Characters Played: None!
Preferred Apartment: For everyone's sake it's probably best if he's placed in an apartment with Yuno, but outside of that anything should be fine!
Character Name: Yukiteru Amano
Canon: Mirai Nikki
Canon Point: Post-Yuno's death, but before the "proper" ending
Background/History: Future Diary on Wikipedia, which is probably the best source you can get for it.
Personality: At first appearance, Yukki is a middle school kid who's socially introverted, who's awkward, who's -- not exactly shy, but just sort of isolated from the outside world. He doesn't have many friends and doesn't really seem to know how to properly make friends, and spends most of his life shut away from the world, instead commenting on it in his diary (which is inside his cell phone) - he prefers to think of himself as an observer to the world rather than actually in it. We also see - prior to the beginning of the game - that he talks to what he thinks are imaginary friends, and doesn't see this as particularly abnormal. (Admittedly, they turn out to not be imaginary, but that's not really the point.)
For much of the game, Yukki is a simple boy with much simpler wants than a lot of other other diary holders. A lot of the other diary holders (really, all of them other than possibly Keigo) want to become God for some reason. Yukki has no interest in becoming God, though. His only interest is that he doesn't want to die. He doesn't want to manipulate people or kill people unless it's absolutely necessary, and if it were up to him he wouldn't even be playing the game. He wants a world where he can go see the stars with his parents like they promised, where they're back together again, where things are right.
By the end of the story, though, Yukki is not a nice person. It's impossible to talk about Yukki without necessarily talking about Yuno and how he uses her (and is used by her in turn) - in the early parts of Mirai Nikki Yukki is perfectly aware that Yuno is unstable and dangerous and he doesn't particularly want to be around her, but is willing enough to use her, to humor her insane obsession with him, because he doesn't want to die, and because he can use her obsession and protectiveness over him to his advantage. It's a conscious decision on his part, at least at the beginning.
There's a major change in Yukki's personality after his parents are killed, though. Yukki completely snaps, beginning to gun down the men who killed his father in a brutal, efficient way more reminiscient of Yuno. It's seeing his previous wishes torn apart, knowing that he'll never be able to go to the observatory with his parents, that no matter what he can't make things right without becoming God, that spurs him on to go from trying to avoid being killed to actively hunting down the other Diary holders. It's at this point as well that the nature of his relationship changes; rather than Yukki utilizing Yuno solely for his own ends, they become more of a codependent relationship. Just as their diaries are far more powerful together and far weaker alone, the two are much more dependent on each other than is reasonably healthy in any way.
Even prior to the death of his parents, we see that Yukki isn't stupid; he's able to use his wits and intelligence to play the game in a way a lot of other people can't, knowing the limitations of his diary. His second encounter with a diary holder - and the first that wants to kill him, the 3rd - results in him being able to think quickly enough to hurl a dart at the diary just as the 3rd checks it, destroying the diary - and the 3rd with it. Or when he saves Yuno from being gang-raped by Tsubaki's followers by hurling the handball she'd been missing - and been so attached to - just in the nick of time, and then destroying Tsubaki's diary before anything can happen to Yuno. For all that Yukki is convinced that he's reliant on Yuno, he's not completely incapable by himself, and tends to be just as responsible for the pair's success as Yuno is.
With the things that have been listed above - his wit, his intelligence, his general deviousness and (to a certain degree) manipulative...ness, Yukki is still a fourteen year old. He's incredibly emotional and has been known to let his emotions get the better of him; hell, pretty much all of his actions after his parents die are the result of that. He's naive and sometimes a little bit dumb; he trusts Tsubaki incredibly easily because she seems relatively nice and sane, even with the warnings that she's not what she appears, and trusts Keigo for quite some time too, even knowing that he's a diary holder and will need to fight them at some point. He makes a lot of poor decisions about who to believe in and who to trust, and it ends up nearly getting him killed; if it weren't for Yuno he probably WOULD be killed. This can't be driven home more than when Yukki believes Yuno when she claims he can bring back the dead when he becomes God - believing her over Hinata, Mao, Kousuke, and Akise, despite knowing (at least logically) that Yuno is incredibly mentally unstable, and he believes her to the point where he shoots all of them but Akise simply because they must be wrong and Yuno must be right.
It's important to note that even when Yukki snaps, he's not completely psychotic. He's definitely no hero - he has no problems with killing people for the sake of becoming God, but he still wants to make sure everything is set back in place once he becomes God, at least while he's under the impression that people CAN be brought back to life. For him it's more a matter of the ends justifying the means; it's okay if he kills everyone because he'll fix everything, and he can't count on anyone else to fix everything. He is not a good person - but in the world of Mirai Nikki, he is probably the "best" person out of the diary holders.
Think about this. It's kind of fucked up.
Ultimately, Yukki is devious, he's clever, he's ... sometimes even witty -- but he's ultimately still a fourteen year old with a dangerous attachment to his just-as-dangerously attached girlfriend. He's overemotional, he's not very good socially outside of knowing how to deal with Yuno, he's naive, he's trusting - while he has a lot of positive qualities, many of them are outweighed by the fact that he's a fourteen year old whose life has gone to absolute shit, and he's still trying to cope with it.
Abilities/Powers: The first of these isn't really a power - more a talent - but it's important to note here. Yukki is an incredible shot with darts, in one of the few actual talents he has, having been shown to hit very specific targets like cellphones with darts; there's at least one case where he breaks one with it, and another where he would have if the person he was aiming for hadn't blocked it with their face. He hasn't shown any other real talent for combat, however; just darts.
Yukki is the holder of the Random Diary, a diary that essentially tells him the future of everything that's going to happen around him, with two major limitations. First of all, it can't tell him about things he can't perceive; if he understands something to be different from reality, the diary will work off the assumption that his perception is correct. As an example, there's a point where he sees, in the diary, that Hinata is dead because he comes across what looks like her body, and since he's completely unaware it's a dummy, he has no reason to believe it'd be anything else. The other thing is that, unlike some other peoples' diaries, it gives him no indication of what he is going to do; the only time it ever informs him about his own status is if he gets a Dead End flag, which means he's going to die unless the future changes. It will tell him directly in that case, and ONLY that case. The Diary is also a weakness, though; if the diary is broken, so is the holder, so if someone breaks his cellphone, he's dead.
I have discussed his future diary with a moderator - instead of it displaying text (as there is no text in Haven), it will be displaying video only. It does weak him in that he can read a heck of a lot faster than he can see video, and he doesn't have the exact timestamps of anything that's occuring, nor the location which would normally be included with the diary entry, but hopefully this works out for y'all!
In addition to this, from the canon point he's taken from Yukki is the winner of the second Diary Game, which means that he, quite literally, is God. It's difficult to say what the extent of his powers is, but we can at least assume that Yukki has every power Yuno was demonstrated to have as the winner of the first Diary Game, which includes (but is possibly not limited to!) telekinesis, flight, timeline jumping, creation of illusions, and being effectively unaging, as he's shown to exist for several thousand years while still looking fourteen. The only thing I believe we're explicitly told he cannot do is bring people back to life; he can bring the body back to life, but there's no soul, it's just an empty husk. I'm okay with any limitations on this, though I'd like him to keep at least some aspects of this - timeline/dimension jumping, though, should be right out even though he has no reason to leave!
Items/Weapons: A set of darts, his Future Diary, and... er, some clothes.
Sample Entry: [this phone doesn't feel right in his hands, but it's the phone he was given - his other phone, his diary (even if it doesn't work right), is kept safely in his pocket. his voice is wavering a bit, uncertain, but he's got the idea of how this works, and so he needs to ask.]
My name is Yukiteru Amano. I have a few questions...
[his fingers grip a little bit tighter onto it. he's not sure he should bring up everything, but it seems like nobody knows who or what he is here, so it's fine, isn't it?]
What happened to all of... the writing? My phone should be able to display text, but it can't. [deeply concerning when for a while, your entire life was based on being able to read your phone.] And I haven't seen any signs or anything like that around here, either.
And...
[he shouldn't ask, he knows. but he has to.] Has anyone here seen a girl with pink hair, in twintails? A girl named Yuno Gasai?
[there's no reason to expect that, is there? he sighs, assuming he knows the answer already, but... he needs to know. if this is another chance for him, it might be another chance for her, and even with everything going on, if it's another chance for them, he needs that knowledge, more than anything else.]
If you've seen her, please tell me. [swallow.] Thank you.
Sample Entry Two: For a moment, his phone had vibrated, and for an even briefer moment, the text on the phone had changed from "Yuno died." to something different. Even with his ability to read quickly (something he'd had to learn in the Diary Game), it was too fast for him to comprehend before everything went... different, for a lack of other way to put it. From emptiness to... well, things around him; from the only other entities in existence being Murmur and a stack of shoujo manga to... a lot more.
He awoke.
That was the first change. Yukki hadn't slept in years; waking up was a concept that he was aware of, but had forgotten, sort of like forgetting how to ride a bicycle until you actually did. There were beds - beds with other people. People who weren't Murmur. His heart leapt for a moment, hoping that something somehow had changed, that things were different now, that the people he wanted were back - but a quick inspection of the others told him that they weren't Yuno, weren't his parents, weren't Akise or Hinata or Mao or even Kousuke. They weren't anyone he knew.
The second change was that he had not one, but two phones. Immediately his hands go to his, to check what the diary said, and that was a far more startling change. There weren't letters on the keys. There wasn't a text function anymore. He was God, and yet something had changed his diary. That was far, far more terrifying, and he could feel his stomach turning into knots, in a way it hadn't in forever. Before everything else had happened.
What was going on here?
