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Name: Kurenai Gai Door: Right Canon: Ultraman Orb Canon Point: End of episode 10 Age: Thousands of years old, looks late 20s. Appearance: here History: is here. An important thing to note re Gai is that the main series, Ultraman Orb, came out first. Then the prequel series, Ultraman Orb Origin, came out. Then two movies and a clip show set post the main series. There are also multiple other (so far unfilmed) chapters in between all of that, and it's all canonical. So the timeline is a little confusing. At the point I'm taking him from (end of episode 10 of the main series), we as viewers knew far less about him than he did. Personality: Self-blame: To an extremely unhealthy degree, especially when it comes to someone he cares about being injured. He loses control, sometimes in rage, sometimes grief, sometimes both. He blames himself massively whether or not he has actually made avoidable errors. Before this series, he spent time with a woman, Natasha, in Russia. They grew close. One time when he had to fight as Ultraman Orb, the resulting battle wiped out half the forest, including where she was cowering. He believed her dead and then lost control of himself. He caused a lot of destruction in his grief. It is quite possible that other innocents died because of him. He sealed away a large part of his power because it'd been used to hurt Natasha. In the in-between canon information, there is also information about a boy, Shorty, who travelled with him for a while. He died while fighting with Gai, to save people who were in danger because of a scheme of Gai's ex-partner, Juggler. Gai shortly afterwards nearly kills Juggler because of it. He also hates himself for not being able to fix things with Juggler. They used to be partners (see Ultraman Orb Origin), and while things weren't perfect, they mostly got on well and helped each other. Then Gai received the power of Ultraman Orb, when they'd both expected it to be Juggler (the superior fighter). Things went gradually to hell between them. They continued to help each other. But Juggler grew increasingly insecure about his place in the universe, and in Gai's life, now that Gai's fighting ability was growing so quickly (something he and Juggler used to train about, frequently) and now that Gai could fight as an Ultraman (something Juggler can't do for Orb Origin or for most of the main series). Gai didn't catch a lot of his insecurity. Didn't realise how badly his friend was suffering. Sometimes this was justifiable as there was always something going on; they fought for their lives and for the lives of others frequently. The times that Gai did try to say something positive, generally Juggler either brushed it off or it came out wrong. E.g. telling Juggler to not go up against a foe because it'd kill him, which he phrased badly. Juggler took it as meaning that Gai thought Juggler was weak, even though Juggler had only just saved Gai's ass and fought in various other ways too, so Juggler had every right to be exhausted and injured. In the main series, things have been bad between them for hundreds, thousands of years. Juggler pops up to cause havoc and to make pointed remarks at Gai about how much he sucks. Gai blames himself for not being able to fix it now by either killing him or saying exactly the right thing to him, and he blames himself for not managing to arrest what had gone wrong all those years ago. He blames himself for the people Juggler hurts now. He especially blames himself for still caring about Juggler. Closed off emotionally: He's a wanderer by nature, but that used to not quite be the case. Back in Ultraman Orb Origin he was basically attached to the hip with Juggler. They did spend time apart now and then, occasionally went on separate missions or dealt with separate tasks, but they always found each other again very quickly. Back then he was not great at thinking too hard. He'd sometimes say to Juggler "that's too difficult, I'm not going to think about it any more". He was similar about emotions. He was affectionate, he was kind, he wanted to save people, he admired his seniors, he wanted to follow orders from his queen, but he didn't really delve too deeply into anything else. With all the difficulties with Juggler at the end of Origin, and then the inbetween canon information, and then the pre-series loss of Natasha, he is much more closed off in the main series of Ultraman Orb. He doesn't let himself commit to being with anyone, even in a non-romantic sense. He has a pull to companionship. He will settle himself in parks, he'll enjoy watching children play, he'll leap up from whatever he's doing to help someone. He begins to do that a bit more with the main group of humans in the main series of Ultraman Orb. But he's a wanderer, he doesn't tell people his emotions, he doesn't tell people about his past traumas. (He gets a LITTLE better about this over the course of the main series... but he still moves on from the main group of humans at the end of it. Still wanders.) Bitter: This is especially true re Juggler, but when contrasting his behaviour in the main series vs Orb Origin, it's also generally true. In a physical fight, he has confidence that he can continue to fight, can find a way to defeat whatever it is. It might hurt him, even considerably, and it might take multiple attempts. But he has confidence that he'll get through it. With Juggler, he doesn't even have that. Juggler has been his sticking point for a long, long time. They don't understand each other (at least, not outwardly) any more. He is quite literally stuck re him. He can't say anything positive or affectionate because Juggler wouldn't believe it (though to be fair, he doesn't really try any more). He can't defeat Juggler in sarcasm or insults or physically. They're too well matched. Generally, because of his experiences, he knows that things can go to hell at any time and good people can die. He is bitter and desperate because of that. He manages to put his bitterness aside for the most part when dealing with other people. He's polite and kind and wants to help people. But it's always there, underneath. Determination: He's not immortal. And he's seen some of the worst that humans, and various other species in various universes, have to offer. But he keeps on going. He tries to lift other people's spirits, and he keeps fighting, even though there is often collateral damage when he fights and presumably that includes people's lives. He's been fighting for thousands of years, he's seen things go bad frequently, and he still keeps going. He still cares about individual people who'll only live to 70, or 90, which is a tiny fraction of his own life. He allows himself to dip into their lives just enough to understand and care (even if he gives them very little of his own backstory, as above). He is very, very determined. It's very easy to read this as occasionally being too much for him. As devolving into unhealthiness, into grimly putting one foot in front of the other because he doesn't know how to do anything else. But when he focuses on the now, on the life/lives in front of him, he finds some happiness here and there. Powers and Abilities: To everyday eyes, he looks like a human in his late 20s, and he acts similar to one. He has some additional / enhanced abilities as a human: - travels miles in a freezer truck with no impact - excellent hand to hand fighter - can produce chi blasts in human form - can take a lot of punishment - some psychic ability; he's able to feel some items below ground, always seems to know when Juggler's close, can sometimes sense trouble from a distance, arguably can communicate psychically with Juggler He's far from unstoppable, but he's a lot stronger and more skilled than most humans. In Ultraman form, he grows giant and has multiple abilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultraman_Orb_characters#Gai_Kurenai/Ultraman_Orb Inventory: Orbnica: This is what it looks like. It's basically a harmonica, that he uses to play his theme. Sometimes he plays it as he enters a scene, or as he's relaxing. He doesn't play it every time he does either thing. It's the same theme that plays during some of his transformation sequences. Orb Ring: http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Orb_Ring Card holder and cards: http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Ultra_Fusion_Card_Holder (if this counts as more than 1 item, then just the empty card holder please) Samples: https://stray-musings.dreamwidth.org/25186.html?thread=734562#cmt734562 and https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/4567767.html?thread=2038662103#cmt2038662103 and https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/4537395.html?thread=2030260531#cmt2030260531