{"This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.β }
-Pete Wentz
Paper Cut || Cigarettes || Slip Out The Back || High Road || Remember The Name || Kenji
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Miyazaki Ruka
|{Nickname}|
Rue
|{Birthday}|
December Third
|{Ethnicity}|
Japanese American
|{Sexuality}|
Bisexual
|{Role}|
Rebel
|{Mentality}|
Out of nothing but a passionate loyalty to her own kind, Ruka is incredibly defensive and harbors a great and extreme hatred for angels. They dared attack her species and like hell is she going to let that fly. She's pretty militant about it, too.
{"The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.β }
-Pete Wentz
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βͺ Emotional processing includes messing with her hair for Rue βͺ Sweet tooth βͺ Always has a gun βͺ Can't stay still if there's music βͺ Very expressive βͺ Always on time βͺ Very good sense of direction βͺ Ambidextrous βͺ Identifies plants on sight βͺ Clenches jaw when thinking or angry βͺ Always has mace and an arsenal of self defense weaponry βͺ Insomniac βͺ Smokes once in a while, drinks more regularly, doesn't touch drugs βͺ
|{Talents || Strengths || Skills}|
βͺPassionateβͺ
Something impossible for Rue to hide is her fiery feelings about literally everything. It's improbable for her to feel ambivalent about anything and she's incessantly lively about everything that crosses her path. Intense is an understatement for her.
βͺMarksman and Combatantβͺ
With hours at the gun range and more working for the police force, Rue has become very good at combat, especially gun-range combat. She's a good shot, and of a bit above average in strength. Trained in martial arts and self defense, with more practical experience than she really needed, she's well equipped to take down a man bigger than her now.
βͺLoyalβͺ
Courageous for those she loves or cares about, Rue is fiercely loyal and will protect anyone she thinks needs it if they're in such a position that they can't provide themselves with it. She is slow to break
|{Flaws || Weakness}|
βͺStubbornβͺ
With a drastic inability to let anything go, Rue is one to hold grudges and remember every detail. This means a lot of trouble for her when she's in group settings, and working on the force it's caused her more than a few problems with her higher-ups, not to mention it means she's all too often caught up in her own anger and resentment of people, leading her to seek revenge where none might be necessary.
βͺMeanβͺ
To anyone who has wronged her or any of her own, Rue is mercilessly mean and not afraid to fight dirty to make them miserable, preferably more miserable than they made her or her own. She has no honor for people who've hurt anyone she cares about.
βͺOverly Defensiveβͺ
Always paranoid, Rue is quick to spring to violent and defensive action in place of giving anyone a chance to hurt her.
βͺEasily Readβͺ
While passion is one of Rue's greatest strengths, she absolutely cannot hide any of her emotions, which makes her incredibly easily read and an absolutely terrible liar. She's good at intimidation, but can't bluff her way out of anything. She wears her heart on her sleeve.
|{Hobbies}|
βͺ Reading βͺ Watching television βͺ Gardening βͺ Going to the gun range βͺ Shopping in import shops βͺ Video games βͺ Martial Arts βͺ Going to the zoo βͺ Botany βͺ
|{Fears}|
βͺ Dogs βͺ Cloying darkness βͺ Trusting the wrong person βͺ The angels' victory βͺ Someone she cares about dying βͺ Being firedβͺ Angelsβͺ Having control of her own being taken away βͺ Large bodies of water/drowning βͺ
|{Secrets}|
βͺAssaultβͺ
Between the ages of ten and fourteen, Rue was sexually assaulted some twelve times by a close friend of her father's. This has been her only sexual history to date, and she has used it to an extent as the fuel she uses to drive herself into defense of herself and anyone she loves, but it has also caused her incredible periods of dissociation and hardship as well.
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{"Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.β }
-Pete Wentz
βͺ Stubborn βͺ Reckless βͺ Loyal βͺ Brave βͺ Empathetic βͺ Optimistic βͺ Controlling βͺ Possessive βͺ Protective βͺ
Before the angels touched down, Rue was a sharp shooting, bull-headed LAPD cop with no worries beyond what she was going to eat for breakfast and keeping her and her partners safe on the bad streets of LA. But even then, she was just as belligerent as she always was. What pushes Ruka into action is very rarely logic, but much moreoften what her heart pushes her to do. Irrational and reckless, she has a strong sense of both loyalty, and blind, illogical bravery. Quick to trust, and quicker to fall in love, swaying Rue is easy, and she lacks the real comprehension of middle ground, and while it's easy to become her best friend, it's equally easy to become her worst enemy, and once she's been wronged, it's near impossible for her to forgive.
Rue is fond of plants, and feels the need to ground herself to the soil frequently, and she loves the way California feels but loathes the ocean for its vastness. Flight mystifies her but her loathing of the angels outweighs any love for their wings. They pose a threat to her and her entire species and while she's sure they could be nice under the right circumstance, Ruka cannot give the angels any sympathy until they no longer pose that threat. Her mind is militaristic and defensive.
Enamored with young children, Rue is not nearly so good with animal and has been known to be skittish around dogs. She was raised speaking Japanese and English, but she's a fair bit worse at Japanese having been out of practice for the recent years. At twenty-three, Rue has been on the police force for four and a half years, and absolutely loves it to this day. Although she was interested in going into the military, Ruka is scared of travelling away from her continent, and is terrified of leaving the things she knows and trusts. The unknown is terrifying to her, but she will still gladly face it head on and with a gun in hand.
{"Life will not tear us apart this time, our hearts will see to it.β }
-Pete Wentz
|{Likes}|
β² Reading β² Gin β² Policework β² Wildflowers β² Early mornings β² Television β² Loud rock and roll β² People with warm hands β² Spring β² Daffodils β² Naps β² Driving β² Kids β² LA β² Gardening β² Rolling the windows down in the summer β² The feel of rice β² Being labeled a rebel β² Zoos β² Guns β² Martial Arts β² Mountains β² Being punctual β² Being strong β² Defending herself β²
{"We are not going to be back here for a good, long while. We have prior engagements. We have the money in a duffel bag. We have no shame. Fuck guilt. Back to life.β }
-Pete Wentz
|{Dislikes}|
βΌ The ocean βΌ Gardena βΌ Small towns βΌ Angels βΌ Dogs βΌ Being harassed βΌ Being flirted with intensely βΌ Being looked at too long βΌ Gumdrops βΌ Shakespeare βΌ Pickles βΌ Lightning βΌ The taste of blood βΌ Teenagers βΌ Nonfiction books βΌ Paperwork βΌ Speeding tickets βΌ Wine βΌ Bees βΌ
{"Iβm not just taking trips down memory lane; Iβm broken down on it.β }
-Pete Wentz
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Gardena, California
|{History}|
Ruka's grandparents on both sides were first generation Japanese immigrants who lasted out stays in the internment camps of World War II, but her parents were in a considerably better position when she was born. They lived in Gardena, California in an upper middle class home and began teaching her from a young age. She was an only child, treated with the full weight of the household on her back. Her father worked at a mobile phone company, and her mother taught homeschool kids creative writing, but neither of them saw much potential from their daughter in her early years. She attended private school as soon as she was able and was given a good education; one her parents didn't have. In return, Ruka was expected to belligerently succeed in every single place where her parents had failed in their adolescence.
By circumstance, this was more than difficult, when her father's friend came to stay with them between when she was ten and fourteen, and he spent all of the wrong kind of attention on her. She learned his ways, but couldn't stop him, or tell her parents, for the threats he gave her and the knowledge that he knew all too well how to fulfill them. Eventually, he left, and she fell into dissociations and escapisms, which only made her failings more glaring to her parents.
Ruka meeting her parents' standards quickly became something both them and her became incredibly tired of fighting over. From then on, Ruka and her parents were somewhat distant from one another, while she grew closer with people at her high school and in Sophomore year moved to public school at her request due to dramatic fallouts of the cliques she'd been in. While it was scary and upsetting at the time, in hindsight it seemed little more than petty bullshit when she looked back at it later. When she went to public school she continued making friends, and did fine on her own. The rift between her and her family grew, but she didn't mind.
Ruka's parents had a son when she turned seventeen and she tried to take care of him and learn to care about him but at that point the disconnect from her familial ties was simply too vast and after graduating she left for police academy promptly, and without any guilt for leaving her years younger sibling behind. Police academy did her good, and Ruka took to it better than to most things. She truly felt she had found her calling.
|{Family Tree}|
Miyazaki Gou - Father β Paternal Blood Relation - Neutral Terms β Alive
Miyazaki Ai β Mother β Maternal Blood Relation - Neutral Terms β Alive
Miyazaki Aoi β Brother β Blood Sibling - Neutral Terms β Alive
{"My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe...β }
-Pete Wentz
βI guess
That this is where we've come to
If you don't want to
Then you don't have to believe me
But I won't be there when you go down
Just so you know now
You're on your own now believe me
I don't want to be the one to blame
You like fun and games
Keep playing em
I'm just saying
Think back then
We was like one and the same
On the right track
But I was on the wrong train
Just like that
Now you've got a face to pain
And the devil's got a fresh new place to play
In your brain like a maze you can never escape the rain
Every damn day is the same shade of grey
Hey
I used have a little bit of a plan
Used to
Have a concept of where I stand
But that concept slipped right out of my hands
Now I don't really even know who I am
Yo, what do I have to say
Maybe I should do what I have to do to break free
What ever happens to you, we'll see
But it's not gonna happen with me
I guess
That this is where we've come to
If you don't want to
Then you don't have to believe me
But I won't be there when you go down
Just so you know now
You're on your own now believe me
Back then, I thought you were just like me
Somebody who could see all the pain I see
But you proved to me unintentionally
That you would self-destruct eventually
Now I'm thinking like the mistake I made doesn't hurt
But it's not gonna work
Cause it's really much worse than I thought
I wished you were something that you were not
And now this guilt is really all that I got
You turned your back
And walked away in shame
All you got is a memory of pain
Nothing makes sense so you stare at the ground
I hear your voice in my head when no one else is around
What do I have to say
Maybe I should do what I have to do to break free
What ever happens to you, we'll see
But it's not gonna happen with me
I guess
That this is where we've come to
If you don't want to
Then you don't have to believe me
But I won't be there when you go down
Just so you know now
You're on your own now believe me
I guess
That this is where we've come to
If you don't want to
Then you don't have to believe me
But I won't be there when you go down
Just so you know now
You're on your own now believe me
Do what i have to do
You're on your own now believe me
What ever happens to you
You're on your own now believe me
What do I have to say
You're on your own now believe me
It's not gonna happen with me
You're on your own now believe meβ
{"I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.β }
-Pete Wentz
Face Claim || Kiko Mizuhara
Other || TBAdded when applicable