Player Name: LuckyLadybug Contact: PM this journal Introduction: Hi, I love magical girl stories, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Radley. ;) I rather love the idea of him getting to be a magical boy, especially as I've already been tinkering with that in my fic verses.
Character Name: Radley Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
About: Radley's wealthy, society-driven family lives in the city as Spanish-American ex-pats and Radley grew up there. During a Nightmare, he awakened as a Dreamer as a teenager. He learned for a while at the Union, enough to become an Experienced Dreamer, but eventually rejected the power after a failed battle ended with an innocent party losing her memories. He blamed himself. His family disowned him for giving up being a Dreamer, as well as for his love of jewelry and motorcycles. He left the city to make his own way and experienced the approximate canon events of Crash Town (I really don't have to change much at all for this arc to fit into the real world). He became the leader of one of the two gangs vying for control of Crash Town and its mine. Unlike his rival Malcolm, Radley cared about the town and the people and didn't terrorize or bully them. He could see the danger and the evil in Malcolm's group and did whatever he felt he had to do to keep Malcolm from seizing complete control, even if that meant agreeing to Malcolm's twisted terms to have their men willingly play the Duel Monsters card game each night and the loser go to work for the boss of the winner. This at least kept Malcolm at bay and he couldn't turn the town into a chaotic totalitarian regime as he wanted. After struggling for years to protect his town, failing in the end, and being tortured by Malcolm's men in the mines after his friends abandoned him in fear, Radley returns to the city in broken despair to try to further hone his powers as a Dreamer.
Radley is an intriguing series of contrasts: philosophical yet not above immature insults and silly rhyming words ("itty-bitty"), protective yet also fond of money, very friendly but aloof about himself. He loves motorcycles, money, classic rock, black leather, jewelry, and cooking. He knows when to be serious and has a dark understanding of the worst of human nature. In spite of that, he still believes in the good about people as well and hasn't lost his hope.
Possible Content Warnings: Radley will sometimes be thinking about being tortured via a shock collar, especially if he sees someone, good or bad, with electrical powers. He will not talk about it, however, unless a situation or a person really pushes it.
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Radley is very discouraged after feeling he failed both as a Dreamer in the past and when he tried to protect Crash Town from his rival. He's suffering PTSD after being tortured in his rival's mine and is afraid of electrocution, so he will be distressed if there are any Dreamers or baddies with electric powers. He will really struggle dealing with anything like that for some time. He's also been rejected by his family and has to deal with that and being quite alone after coming back here from Crash Town. His friends joined Malcolm out of fear when Radley fell to Malcolm's brother Lawton in a fixed Duel Monsters card game, so he's also struggling with trust issues and fears further abandonment. He is still very friendly, but very aloof about himself and his past.
Long term, I hope for him to make and trust friends and come to be comfortable as a Dreamer, and perhaps to not continue to blame himself for the past.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: MY KINGDOM FOR A KALIN. I want a Kalin Kessler/Kiryu Kyousuke to interact with so bad, preferably post-Crash Town so they could really work through their canon issues (and possibly grow close??!), but I'd take any Kalin. Aside from that, I am happy to interact with any Yu-Gi-Oh! characters from any YGO series! YGO is one big happy family to me, whether I'm familiar with the specific series or not. I prefer dub names, but I totally respect others' preferences for Japanese names and mixing dub and sub names is not a deterrent to me at all. I would also love to interact with characters from other series I love, such as Sailor Moon, Princess Tutu, Tokyo Mew Mew, Full Moon wo Sagashite, etc.
Since Radley was a Dreamer before leaving, it would be interesting if he runs into people who knew him from before or knew of him, perhaps wondering why he left or knowing but not agreeing with his decision.
Radley loves to look after people, so finding someone to mentor or otherwise look after like a big brother would go a long way towards helping him heal. He also desperately needs someone he can feel is a confidante, someone to open up to about his pain. Radley thrives on being around people and does not do well when alone.
Anything Else?:
I'm sorry, lol. Radley actually makes this insult to one of Malcolm's men in the dub and it amuses me more than it should.
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Introduction: Hi, I love magical girl stories, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Radley. ;) I rather love the idea of him getting to be a magical boy, especially as I've already been tinkering with that in my fic verses.
Character Name: Radley
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
About: Radley's wealthy, society-driven family lives in the city as Spanish-American ex-pats and Radley grew up there. During a Nightmare, he awakened as a Dreamer as a teenager. He learned for a while at the Union, enough to become an Experienced Dreamer, but eventually rejected the power after a failed battle ended with an innocent party losing her memories. He blamed himself. His family disowned him for giving up being a Dreamer, as well as for his love of jewelry and motorcycles. He left the city to make his own way and experienced the approximate canon events of Crash Town (I really don't have to change much at all for this arc to fit into the real world). He became the leader of one of the two gangs vying for control of Crash Town and its mine. Unlike his rival Malcolm, Radley cared about the town and the people and didn't terrorize or bully them. He could see the danger and the evil in Malcolm's group and did whatever he felt he had to do to keep Malcolm from seizing complete control, even if that meant agreeing to Malcolm's twisted terms to have their men willingly play the Duel Monsters card game each night and the loser go to work for the boss of the winner. This at least kept Malcolm at bay and he couldn't turn the town into a chaotic totalitarian regime as he wanted. After struggling for years to protect his town, failing in the end, and being tortured by Malcolm's men in the mines after his friends abandoned him in fear, Radley returns to the city in broken despair to try to further hone his powers as a Dreamer.
Radley is an intriguing series of contrasts: philosophical yet not above immature insults and silly rhyming words ("itty-bitty"), protective yet also fond of money, very friendly but aloof about himself. He loves motorcycles, money, classic rock, black leather, jewelry, and cooking. He knows when to be serious and has a dark understanding of the worst of human nature. In spite of that, he still believes in the good about people as well and hasn't lost his hope.
Possible Content Warnings: Radley will sometimes be thinking about being tortured via a shock collar, especially if he sees someone, good or bad, with electrical powers. He will not talk about it, however, unless a situation or a person really pushes it.
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Radley is very discouraged after feeling he failed both as a Dreamer in the past and when he tried to protect Crash Town from his rival. He's suffering PTSD after being tortured in his rival's mine and is afraid of electrocution, so he will be distressed if there are any Dreamers or baddies with electric powers. He will really struggle dealing with anything like that for some time. He's also been rejected by his family and has to deal with that and being quite alone after coming back here from Crash Town. His friends joined Malcolm out of fear when Radley fell to Malcolm's brother Lawton in a fixed Duel Monsters card game, so he's also struggling with trust issues and fears further abandonment. He is still very friendly, but very aloof about himself and his past.
Long term, I hope for him to make and trust friends and come to be comfortable as a Dreamer, and perhaps to not continue to blame himself for the past.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: MY KINGDOM FOR A KALIN. I want a Kalin Kessler/Kiryu Kyousuke to interact with so bad, preferably post-Crash Town so they could really work through their canon issues (and possibly grow close??!), but I'd take any Kalin. Aside from that, I am happy to interact with any Yu-Gi-Oh! characters from any YGO series! YGO is one big happy family to me, whether I'm familiar with the specific series or not. I prefer dub names, but I totally respect others' preferences for Japanese names and mixing dub and sub names is not a deterrent to me at all. I would also love to interact with characters from other series I love, such as Sailor Moon, Princess Tutu, Tokyo Mew Mew, Full Moon wo Sagashite, etc.
Since Radley was a Dreamer before leaving, it would be interesting if he runs into people who knew him from before or knew of him, perhaps wondering why he left or knowing but not agreeing with his decision.
Radley loves to look after people, so finding someone to mentor or otherwise look after like a big brother would go a long way towards helping him heal. He also desperately needs someone he can feel is a confidante, someone to open up to about his pain. Radley thrives on being around people and does not do well when alone.
Anything Else?:
I'm sorry, lol. Radley actually makes this insult to one of Malcolm's men in the dub and it amuses me more than it should.