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IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Louis
Canon: Beastars (the Netflix Anime)
Canon Point: Post-season 2
Background: Wiki link. Since this is an explanation of the manga, I’ll give a quick primer of what’s happened so far in the anime. In a nutshell, Louis is from a furry universe where everyone is an animal of some kind, and carnivores are always struggling with the urge to protect or eat herbivores. Louis was bred as livestock for the black market, an underground ring where people sell meat to carnivores. He wasn’t taught to speak and he was branded with a #4 on his foot as a product ID number, and he watched other children like him taken away and eaten alive. When it was his turn to be eaten alive at the age of five, he held a knife to his own throat to take himself out before the carnivores could, which impressed an adult deer who took him on as an adopted son. Since then Louis has fought tooth and nail to never feel as helpless as that again, and that has involved things like becoming the head of drama club, and then accidentally becoming a mob boss of a bunch of lions where he ate meat to prove himself before he threw it all away to chase down his dumb wolf friend and literally fed his leg to said wolf friend so he wouldn’t die in a fight with a bear.
He lost his lion surrogate dad in the process too, when surrogate dad poignantly told Louis that he’d changed his life for the better by being in it, and since Louis is leaving his life, he’s going to either eat Louis or be killed (he gave Louis a gun to kill him, but set up a failsafe by making another lion promise to shoot him, and the other lion did so).
(The moral of this story is that Louis can’t catch a fucking break.)
Suitability: Louis couldn’t stay out of plotty stuff even if he tried. He’s the kind of guy who can’t leave well enough alone and he will get himself into all sorts of trouble and somehow look like he meant to do that all along. Give him a week and he’ll be the head of the largest crime family in the Three Cities. He wants to make the world a better place, but he often does it in ruthlessly pragmatic ways, like taking over a crime organization so he can clean up their discipline and install order in the unsavory parts of town.
Powers: Louis doesn’t have magic, but he is a deer. He’s strong for his size (able to hold his own in a fist fight with a wolf), has sharp antlers, and has generally more sensitive senses than humans do. (The ability to smell a person’s meal on them an extended period of time after eating it, for example.) He’s also very durable (having no real injuries after getting into a fist fight with a very large and strong carnivore and remaining conscious with seemingly no effort after having his leg eaten off), and extremely good at masking injuries (he walked around and even performed on a broken leg for days without anyone noticing) and by extension masking discomfort or any feelings he doesn’t want to show. (He’s canonically only cried once in his life, and that was immediately after watching someone he loved die and facing down the imminent fact that another person he loved was going to die in front of him.)
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
I’m going to describe two events because to Louis, they connect directly to each other.
The seminal moment in Louis’ life was being chosen by Ogma to be a potential son. And it’s clear that that’s what Ogma had in mind, since he couldn’t have children of his own and consciously went to a livestock seller that bred herbivores of his own species. But instead of picking a kid and being done with it, he observed that Louie tried to protect his fellow children, then grabbed the five-year-old Louie, gave him a knife, and locked him in a room with a lot of hungry carnivores with only the instruction to ‘cut his way out.’ Not only are Louis’ early memories an exercise in suffering, but he was asked at an unreasonably young age to fight for his right to be alive, or even to have a dignified death.
This shaped Louis’ perspective on the world around him. His ability to connect with people is fundamentally broken because everyone is a threat. Either there’s the physical threat of carnivores maybe eating him, or there’s the emotional threat of herbivores he cares about being eaten. He’s lived every day with the branded four on the bottom of his foot, and he hasn’t breathed a word about his experience to anyone because that is weakness, and he can’t ever afford to be weak.
And then he gave Legoshi his leg.
This requires some context. In Beastars, eating meat carries spiritual, physical, and ambiguously magical significance for carnivores. Legoshi was in a fight to the death with a bear who had murdered one of their classmates, and Legoshi was losing badly. Louis tried to talk him out of continuing the fight, but not only did he fail to convince Legoshi otherwise, he realized he was watching his friend march to his death and he was going to see one of the few people he loves die.
Louis tried to respond to this as he responds to all things, and that was by pushing Legoshi away and telling him he’s an idiot and to fucking leave him out of his weird death wish shit, but while he was doing that, he started uncontrollably crying. Louis had never cried in his life, and he couldn’t stop, and Legoshi just sat with him while he did. It was the most vulnerable Louis had ever been in front of anyone, and Legoshi, a big carnivore that symbolized everything that hurt Louis in his life, just sat with him and accepted his pain.
So Louis, accepting that he loves this dumb wolf and he won’t let him die, demanded that Legoshi eat his branded leg so he’d get the ambiguous meat power boost that would allow him to fight the bear. Legoshi, understanding the significance of Louis’ vulnerability and his offer, accepts. By devouring the leg that had Louis’ brand from childhood, and by allowing Louis to recontextualize vulnerability, weakness, the act of devouring, and his relationship with carnivores as something mutual and an act of love… Louis finally feels like he can put his past to rest. The Louis after this experience is a calmer, happier, more open Louis than the Louis of before.
(Yes, the moral of season 2 was ‘consensual vore is the best vore’.)
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Louis’ code is… hard to really put a finger on. He has standards, but those standards change between carnivores and herbivores, and sometimes they even change in between individuals. At a time when he’s regularly eating meat just to prove a point and he’s surrounded by meat-eating lions, he acts utterly disgusted with Legoshi when he thinks Legoshi ate meat because Legoshi is supposed to be against meat-eating.
Louis’ is uncomfortable with acts of cruelty and violence, but he consciously never visibly reacts to them and will participate in them if he sees the need. But he makes a clear point that order matters to him, and senseless violence has no place where he’s in charge. He wants to create a better world with less suffering, but he does it in the most ruthlessly pragmatic ways possible.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Louis admires integrity the most. He admires a person who is honest about who and what they are, and who follows through on their word. This is why he admires Legoshi and Haru so much—they’re both direct and honest people, and they have no ulterior motives for caring about him. Louis has had precious few relationships in his life where someone just cared without wanting anything from him.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Louis, despite thinking that his actions are necessary, clearly does not like himself by the end of season 2, and maybe he never did. He’s committed atrocities, and he understands that. He also after a fashion understands that he is a broken person who can’t love or be loved in an uncomplicated way. He considers himself a bad person for the things he’s done and the things he’d still be willing to do when push comes to shove, but he thinks that the things he does are necessary if he’s ever going to make a better world.
What is their sign, and why?
Death. Louis wants a world where herbivores aren’t murdered in their schools, where there aren’t any livestock cages or helplessly lonely carnivores fighting a losing battle with themselves. He’s working towards that world every day… with the knowledge that he’d have no place living in it. He is a broken person who doesn’t understand how to live without constant threats hanging over his head and who doesn’t know how to connect with happy people. Nonetheless, he still works towards that goal in varying ways throughout the series, changing tactics as he grows and more information reveals itself, but ultimately always striving towards that same long-term goal.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: Top level in the TDM!
Arrival Scenario: Welcome!
Player Name: Smurf
Are you over 18?: Yep
Contact:
Other Characters in Game: Phoenix Wright
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Louis
Canon: Beastars (the Netflix Anime)
Canon Point: Post-season 2
Background: Wiki link. Since this is an explanation of the manga, I’ll give a quick primer of what’s happened so far in the anime. In a nutshell, Louis is from a furry universe where everyone is an animal of some kind, and carnivores are always struggling with the urge to protect or eat herbivores. Louis was bred as livestock for the black market, an underground ring where people sell meat to carnivores. He wasn’t taught to speak and he was branded with a #4 on his foot as a product ID number, and he watched other children like him taken away and eaten alive. When it was his turn to be eaten alive at the age of five, he held a knife to his own throat to take himself out before the carnivores could, which impressed an adult deer who took him on as an adopted son. Since then Louis has fought tooth and nail to never feel as helpless as that again, and that has involved things like becoming the head of drama club, and then accidentally becoming a mob boss of a bunch of lions where he ate meat to prove himself before he threw it all away to chase down his dumb wolf friend and literally fed his leg to said wolf friend so he wouldn’t die in a fight with a bear.
He lost his lion surrogate dad in the process too, when surrogate dad poignantly told Louis that he’d changed his life for the better by being in it, and since Louis is leaving his life, he’s going to either eat Louis or be killed (he gave Louis a gun to kill him, but set up a failsafe by making another lion promise to shoot him, and the other lion did so).
(The moral of this story is that Louis can’t catch a fucking break.)
Suitability: Louis couldn’t stay out of plotty stuff even if he tried. He’s the kind of guy who can’t leave well enough alone and he will get himself into all sorts of trouble and somehow look like he meant to do that all along. Give him a week and he’ll be the head of the largest crime family in the Three Cities. He wants to make the world a better place, but he often does it in ruthlessly pragmatic ways, like taking over a crime organization so he can clean up their discipline and install order in the unsavory parts of town.
Powers: Louis doesn’t have magic, but he is a deer. He’s strong for his size (able to hold his own in a fist fight with a wolf), has sharp antlers, and has generally more sensitive senses than humans do. (The ability to smell a person’s meal on them an extended period of time after eating it, for example.) He’s also very durable (having no real injuries after getting into a fist fight with a very large and strong carnivore and remaining conscious with seemingly no effort after having his leg eaten off), and extremely good at masking injuries (he walked around and even performed on a broken leg for days without anyone noticing) and by extension masking discomfort or any feelings he doesn’t want to show. (He’s canonically only cried once in his life, and that was immediately after watching someone he loved die and facing down the imminent fact that another person he loved was going to die in front of him.)
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
I’m going to describe two events because to Louis, they connect directly to each other.
The seminal moment in Louis’ life was being chosen by Ogma to be a potential son. And it’s clear that that’s what Ogma had in mind, since he couldn’t have children of his own and consciously went to a livestock seller that bred herbivores of his own species. But instead of picking a kid and being done with it, he observed that Louie tried to protect his fellow children, then grabbed the five-year-old Louie, gave him a knife, and locked him in a room with a lot of hungry carnivores with only the instruction to ‘cut his way out.’ Not only are Louis’ early memories an exercise in suffering, but he was asked at an unreasonably young age to fight for his right to be alive, or even to have a dignified death.
This shaped Louis’ perspective on the world around him. His ability to connect with people is fundamentally broken because everyone is a threat. Either there’s the physical threat of carnivores maybe eating him, or there’s the emotional threat of herbivores he cares about being eaten. He’s lived every day with the branded four on the bottom of his foot, and he hasn’t breathed a word about his experience to anyone because that is weakness, and he can’t ever afford to be weak.
And then he gave Legoshi his leg.
This requires some context. In Beastars, eating meat carries spiritual, physical, and ambiguously magical significance for carnivores. Legoshi was in a fight to the death with a bear who had murdered one of their classmates, and Legoshi was losing badly. Louis tried to talk him out of continuing the fight, but not only did he fail to convince Legoshi otherwise, he realized he was watching his friend march to his death and he was going to see one of the few people he loves die.
Louis tried to respond to this as he responds to all things, and that was by pushing Legoshi away and telling him he’s an idiot and to fucking leave him out of his weird death wish shit, but while he was doing that, he started uncontrollably crying. Louis had never cried in his life, and he couldn’t stop, and Legoshi just sat with him while he did. It was the most vulnerable Louis had ever been in front of anyone, and Legoshi, a big carnivore that symbolized everything that hurt Louis in his life, just sat with him and accepted his pain.
So Louis, accepting that he loves this dumb wolf and he won’t let him die, demanded that Legoshi eat his branded leg so he’d get the ambiguous meat power boost that would allow him to fight the bear. Legoshi, understanding the significance of Louis’ vulnerability and his offer, accepts. By devouring the leg that had Louis’ brand from childhood, and by allowing Louis to recontextualize vulnerability, weakness, the act of devouring, and his relationship with carnivores as something mutual and an act of love… Louis finally feels like he can put his past to rest. The Louis after this experience is a calmer, happier, more open Louis than the Louis of before.
(Yes, the moral of season 2 was ‘consensual vore is the best vore’.)
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Louis’ code is… hard to really put a finger on. He has standards, but those standards change between carnivores and herbivores, and sometimes they even change in between individuals. At a time when he’s regularly eating meat just to prove a point and he’s surrounded by meat-eating lions, he acts utterly disgusted with Legoshi when he thinks Legoshi ate meat because Legoshi is supposed to be against meat-eating.
Louis’ is uncomfortable with acts of cruelty and violence, but he consciously never visibly reacts to them and will participate in them if he sees the need. But he makes a clear point that order matters to him, and senseless violence has no place where he’s in charge. He wants to create a better world with less suffering, but he does it in the most ruthlessly pragmatic ways possible.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Louis admires integrity the most. He admires a person who is honest about who and what they are, and who follows through on their word. This is why he admires Legoshi and Haru so much—they’re both direct and honest people, and they have no ulterior motives for caring about him. Louis has had precious few relationships in his life where someone just cared without wanting anything from him.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Louis, despite thinking that his actions are necessary, clearly does not like himself by the end of season 2, and maybe he never did. He’s committed atrocities, and he understands that. He also after a fashion understands that he is a broken person who can’t love or be loved in an uncomplicated way. He considers himself a bad person for the things he’s done and the things he’d still be willing to do when push comes to shove, but he thinks that the things he does are necessary if he’s ever going to make a better world.
What is their sign, and why?
Death. Louis wants a world where herbivores aren’t murdered in their schools, where there aren’t any livestock cages or helplessly lonely carnivores fighting a losing battle with themselves. He’s working towards that world every day… with the knowledge that he’d have no place living in it. He is a broken person who doesn’t understand how to live without constant threats hanging over his head and who doesn’t know how to connect with happy people. Nonetheless, he still works towards that goal in varying ways throughout the series, changing tactics as he grows and more information reveals itself, but ultimately always striving towards that same long-term goal.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: Top level in the TDM!
Arrival Scenario: Welcome!