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Name: Rikimaru
Personal Journal: rikimaru
Contact Info: Sonichero91 (AIM), rikimaruhitori
Other Characters Played: Chen (spinningorange), Django (sunnydwithagun), Reimu Hakurei (paradisemiko), Twilight Sparkle (magicalrealist), Kreutzer Wilhelm XIII (suicidoll), AM (hatefulcircuits), Dante (strawberryredgrave)
Preferred Housing: 7135 Brooks Street. I have permission from all of the muns to move her there.

Character Name: Asagi
Character Series: Disgaea
Character Age: 17
Background: Side characters get around, man.
Personality: Asagi’s most noteworthy positive trait is her incredible determination. For years, she’s been told that she’ll one day become the main character of her own game and become famous for it…unfortunately for her, that was approximately seven years ago. So what has she done in all of that time? Simply put, she’s been making cameos in almost every single game released by Nippon Ichi ever since her first appearance in Makai Kingdom (US release date 2005). In these cameos, she reminds the protagonist and the players of how her role as main character is constantly dangled out of her reach, but even after all of this time, she continues to hold strong to her will and her vow to never give up and to fight until her game finally gets released.

Following this up is Asagi’s most noteworthy negative trait: her reckless abandon. She was once a cute and timid young girl, but after forced apprenticeship under Overlord Zetta, she became one of the cockiest and most destructive of Nippon Ichi’s characters. Sure it made her much more powerful, but it made her ego grow to match in size. Thanks to this, she’s convinced herself that if she were to ever one day defeat a game’s main character, she could take the title for herself and push her game that much closer to a release date. However, this has often lead to some very…disastrous results. The worst example was when the game’s protagonist chose to ignore her, she not only killed the final boss in one attack, she also destroyed the world just to keep his attention on her and provoke a fight. She lost, of course, which meant that the protagonist had to start the game all over again.

As is sometimes the case in those with huge egos, the layer underneath is something much more sensitive and weaker. For Asagi, this is her intense insecurity. Each defeat is followed by a very melodramatic speech about incompetency and how she’ll forever remain a side character, saying she’ll “grow old and gray and die” before she ever becomes a true main character. Her insecurities are only made worse by the fact that Nippon Ichi’s developers purposely deny her game’s release since so many find it amusing to watch Asagi struggle for it to happen…and she’s completely aware of this fact. At the very least, it justifies her constant desire to do better and keep up the fight until she wins. Does it justify blowing up worlds or harassing main characters? No, but she’ll do it anyway in her one-woman crusade to have her game released.

Like all of Nippon Ichi’s characters, Asagi is very much aware of the fourth wall and can refer to it casually in conversation. Unlike the other characters, she smashes it harsher and more often, her primary offenses include actually meeting the developers at Nippon Ichi and being able to hack into her own stats to make herself level 9999 (the highest level the game allows). This translates into her personality by demonstrating her lack of respect for boundaries; her insecurities make her feel like she’s trapped in a vicious cycle of cameo hell, so she’ll do just about anything she possibly can to break away from her restraints and do what she really wants to do.

But as mentioned before with her reckless abandon, this will oftentimes mean putting others at risk at first, she really won’t care. As such, she can sometimes be seen as unlikeable or too self-centered for her own good, but honestly…she is. Spending seven years chasing down a promise means most of the time, she doesn’t stop to catch her breath and appreciate what she already has: more appearances than almost any other character, more popularity than almost any other character and more importantly, respect. Others have noted how harshly she gets beaten down sometimes (especially when getting one-hit killed with an attack that does 2 billion damage), but even with times at their worst and the entire world against her, she’ll still stand back up and fight for what she believes in, gaining a bit more wisdom each time. So could she make friends with others? Probably. They just have to keep her in line and kick her ass when needed.
Abilities: Asagi is very talented with guns, proving to be incredibly skilled as a marksman, especially when wielding two at once. Since Disgaea logic is very much above and beyond, her firing rate is inhuman, pulling triggers faster than most can even comprehend. That said, she does possess two handguns (with unlimited ammo, apparently) that she always carries with her.

Her gunner skills, in addition to being able to fire damaging and explosive magical shots, revolve around Disgaea’s weapon skill system, meaning her shots are capable of serious damage, whether they involve firing lasers from point blank range, elemental shots or even bullets equivalent to that of a miniature atomic bomb. I wish I was kidding. (gun skills at 5:40)

She also has in her possession a large ball and chain she can wield effortlessly, being able to smash it through walls and spin it fast enough to form a tornado. Also, she has a spaceship with a laser powerful enough to destroy the world…which she also uses to sign her autograph on it. Sometimes.

And as a Disgaea character, she can learn skills from other weapons, but guns are her primary weapon, followed by bows.
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