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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:01 am
Name: Nicodemus Kalyan Maxwell-Chang
Keeper: Shiromaru
Gender: Male
Species: Lop-Eared Rabbit
Born: May 25th, 2006
Birth Sign: The Lodestone
This is a private diary hosted by the Fourth Wall adoption center. Only the keeper may post unless he/she specifies otherwise. The child shown here is not for sale, trade, or otherwise so please do not ask.
Feel free to follow along, read, and enjoy! ^_^
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:01 am
o1: Shopkeeper's Post
o2: Table of Contents
o3: About Nico
o4: Nico's Family
o5: Friends and Companions
o6: House and Room
o7: Photo Album
o8: Possessions
o9: Gifts
1o: Inspiration
11: Commissions and Fanart
12: Quicklinks
13: Disclaimer
14: Other Journals
15: Requirement Checklist
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:02 am
Nickname: Nico.
Sex: Male.
Age: Infant.
Species: Lop-Eared Rabbit Fourth-Waller.
Personality: Very energetic, cheerful, loving, fearless.
Ability: Unknown.
Family: Father: Shiromaru. Mother: Trio. Sisters: Annora (Changeling siren), Etain (Changeling sylph), Makana (Fourth-Waller cat).
Diction/Accent: None.
Seiyuu: Yamaguchi Kappei.
Relationships: In development.
Places: Naturally, being an infant, Nico lives with his mother and father.
Possessions: Plushie carrot, blue blankie, plushie bunny, and other various baby things.
Hobbies: Gnawing.
Obsessions: None.
Equipment: Baby diapers.
Beliefs: Unknown.
Ambitions: Unknown.
Superstitions: None yet.
Fears: Pretty much nothing.
Positive characteristics: Sweet, friendly, energetic.
Negative characteristics: Has no concept of 'self-preservation'.
Pets: None.
Taste in books/music/etc: Unknown.
Foods: Carrots and raspberries.
Colors: Blue and yellow.
Handwriting: Unknown.
Astrological sign: Lodestone.
Languages: None yet.
Talents: Unknown.
Theme: Unknown.
Image Song: Unknown.
Companions: In development.
Special: In development.
History: In development.
Current: In development.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:03 am
Gender: Male
Gaia Arrival Date: A hundred IC years ago
Marital Status: Married (to Trio)
Height: 5'8"
Weight: Slender
Hair: Dark blue
Eyes: Gold
Distinguishing Marks: A scar that starts on his left cheek and goes across the bridge of his nose and his right eye and ends at his right temple.
Other: Shiromaru is a water demon, and sports horns and (sometimes) wings.
Personality: Formerly rather quiet, depressed and reserved, Shiro has recently discovered a wonderful reason to let out the effervescent, warm, outgoing personality he'd kept locked within. He loves people, loves music and loves the water.
History: Even Shiro himself doesn't quite know his full history, where he was born, or even his real name or who his parents were. Somewhere between the age of twenty-five and fifty, he lost his memory in an accident, and woke up in a flat, black land. He was found when he was still confused and frightened and taken to the demon realm, where he lived for fifty years. He escaped there and fled when he could to Gaia, where he has lived for the past century.
 Name: Trio Maxwell-Chang
Gender: Female
D.O.B.: Unknown
Species: Human
Equipment: angelic sash, gift bracelet from Teralinth dKalin, shining locket necklace
Relationship Status: Married (to Shiromaru)
Personality: Trio is usually cheerful and exciteable, and adores opening her home to new friends. She does have her darker moments, though she generally prefers to have them in private, disliking showing such things to others. Trio depends on the others in her household to help her out, and most of them do. Many of her companions look out for each other, although the occasional disagreements have sometimes resulted in rather strong tension.
Notes: She has many Gaians she cares for, but few ever penetrate far enough into her defenses to be truly and fully trusted. Even her closest friends do not know the full story of her past, and none have met her family, though it's obvious that she adores her fathers.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:04 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:05 am
Nicodemus' room:
Trio's and Shiromaru's house:
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:05 am
Nicodemus as an infant. He is, naturally, the cutest bunny ever.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:06 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:07 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:08 am
~*~*~*~
Your Name: Shiromaru
The Adoptive Parent's Name If different from the name above: N/A
What Drew You To Fourth Wall?: Originally, Makana; then, the other children and the story behind the Fourth Wallers. The art is beautiful, the concept is wonderful, the RP requirements are nice and accomodating... what isn't there to like?
Why Would You Like To Foster One Of Our Children?: Shiromaru loves children and has always wanted a large family. With the addition of Trio, Annora and Etain into his life, and now Makana, it seems like that wish is coming true, but to him, there is always room for more children in his life.
What animal will you choose if you win?: Lop-eared rabbit.
Provide a link to a reference picture you'd like me to work from when drawing your child if you win: Picture One; Picture Two
Is your chosen species of any personal significance to you? If so, what? Okay, this is going to sound silly, but... when I was a child, the Serendipity books were always my favorites. I never liked the company of people much, so I always preferred to read about the adventures of various animals, and it certainly helped that the art was beautiful. I grew up to become a fan of the Redwall books because of the Serendipity series. But one of my favorite characters in the series was always Buttermilk, so because of that, rabbits -- especially buttercream-colored ones -- have always held a soft spot in my heart.
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C. Your child is beginning to show an aptitude for magic and has made it their hobby to pursue their budding powers. While out in public with them, another child runs up to your Fourth Waller, teases them, pulls their tail/flipper/whatever and is generally a little pest. You are about to intervene when suddenly your child has summoned their power to knock their aggressor back against a tree. Nose bloodied and frightened, the bully runs away screaming. While you appreciate your child standing up for themselves, you know that this was a clear abuse of their gods-given talent. Roleplay out the ensuing aftermath of the incident.
"NICODEMUS KALYAN MAXWELL-CHANG!"
"...I'm in trouble," the little rabbit declared to the air, his tone somewhere between alarmed and theatrically dismayed, and took off like a shot for the protection of the nearest tree. Unfortunately for him, that tree happened to be the very one he'd (accidentally! It was an accident, honest!) slammed the bully back against. As he watched the glowering water demon approach (why was this becoming a familiar sight?) Nico immediately started to babble, his big blue eyes wide and his gaze earnest as he clasped his paws together and hoped like hell that a halo had magically appeared above his head. "It wasn't my fault really Dad didn't you see that the big mean bully was picking on me? Look, look, I have a red spot on my ear now -- " Desperately, he looked at his ear, then found the red mark on the tip, thrusting it triumphantly forth for his father's inspection. " -- where he was tugging on it! It hurt! I didn't mean to hurt the other boy really! It was an accident!"
Shiromaru dutifully inspected the red mark -- it did, indeed, look like finger marks -- then sighed softly and knelt in front of his son, the move making him have to look up at the child. "You really could have hurt him, badly. I know he was picking on you, but Nico, you're really starting to make a habit of getting into trouble, and this time it's just gone way too far! What if you'd broken his nose? Huh?"
Nicodemus squeaked and bowed his head, his ears drooping forward dejectedly. At least he certainly hoped he looked dejected, his father had a particular weakness for 'dejected bunny' that never failed to get Nicodemus out of the more serious punishments that surely would have been heaped onto the boy by that point. It wasn't Nico's fault that he was a trouble magnet! It just sort of... gravitated to him! Magically! "Sorry, Dad. It won't happen again."
"It never does happen again," Shiro said quietly, his tone turning grave. "But that's just the problem. You always seem to come up with new and interesting ways of getting into trouble." And Shiromaru never had any idea what to expect. It was a mercy he wasn't going grey. "What's going to happen next time if you can't learn to control this power?"
"I hang somebody upside down over a lake for an hour or two?" the child said, hopefully.
"Nico!"
Nicodemus eeped, squeaking again. "Okay okay I won't hang anybody upside down over a lake!"
Shiromaru nodded softly, patting the 'wounded' spot on Nicodemus' ear gently. "Good. See that you don't."
"What about right-side up over a lake?"
"NICO!"
"Sorry, sorry...!"
"There will be no hanging anybody over a lake. Or hanging anybody anywhere," Shiro amended smoothly, well-used to his son's ways of trying to find the loopholes in everything. "You're going to get some help learning how to control your powers before anybody else gets hurt. Do you understand me?" He rose to his full height, his arms folded across his chest as he regarded Nicodemus sternly.
Well now, that wasn't so bad! Training in using his newfound powers -- that wasn't much of a punishment at all, Nico decided, brightening visibly. "Okay!" he agreed cheerfully, and started to trot away from the tree.
"And -- "
Nico froze.
" -- you will apologize to that young man for hurting him."
Nicodemus whirled on his father, stricken. The shame! The horror! The embarrassment!
"Awww, Dad, do I HAVE to?!"
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C. From your standpoint after getting an angry phone call from school that your child is "nipping" his/her classmates.
"Blast it, Nico! Sit down," Shiromaru hissed at the frantically-wriggling rabbit, then sighed and planted the child into his walker. The experts who said that walkers were bad for the development of children obviously never had been parents themselves -- because while the walkers may not have been doing anything for Nicodemus, they certainly were helping Shiro.
Once Nico was settled into place and babbling to himself as he scooted around in the walker, Shiro sighed and sank down gratefully onto the sofa, finding his journal and opening it to his last used page. Finding his pencil (he erased far too much to use pen), he curled up and started to write.
Dear Diary:
I really need to give you a name. I'm getting tired of relaying all my 'Nico' adventures to some shapeless mass named 'Diary'. Maybe I should call you Clementine.
The Nico Adventures continue. His daycare teacher told me -- okay, she 'informed me very emphatically' -- today he's been nipping at and trying to gnaw on his classmates. Now, I know he's been teething, and I've been trying to help that along. He is a rabbit, for crying out loud. But I also know that he has sharp front teeth, and he could really hurt somebody if he decided to snap his teeth at someone!
Shiro squawked as Nico slammed into the sofa, and lukewarm coffee spilled over part of the page. Groaning, he dried the liquid quickly, then carefully pushed the madly-giggling bunny away. "One of these days," he muttered, "that child is going to be the death of me."
Ignore the coffee stain, it was another Attack Of Nico. I'm amazed the entire book isn't full of them. But his teacher was so pissed off, I thought she was going to reach through the phone and strangle me with the non-existant cord. That was... fairly disturbing actually. But she has a good point -- we're both afraid that Nico's going to n** somebody and actually really hurt one of the other kids. What should I do? Pull him from school? It's daycare, this is a good age, he needs to be around other children, but I can't have him hurting the other children. Not only is that just a massive lawsuit waiting to happen, it's just... wrong for him to be biting other people.
Is there something I should be doing? Did I do something wrong already, raising him? Where'd I screw up? Or is it just a rabbit thing? Maybe I should pull him just long enough for him to finish teething completely and then take him back. But what if I can't break him of this habit? I don't know what to do. Shiromaru sighed, tapping his pencil absently against the journal's pages, then glanced up to check on his wayward son before smiling faintly at the sight of Nicodemus gnawing violently on a cold carrot. Anatoli must have given it to the child.
I hope this doesn't mess up his chances of making friends. Not that he's doing so well to begin with. He runs me ragged, and he's fast! And he seems to have absolutely no sense of self-preservation. Or preservation of others, apparently. Need to drill it into his thick skull that he can't bite other people, somehow.
Just as soon as I pick the carrot bits out of the tatami.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:09 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:10 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:11 am
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:12 am
Annora's Journal.
Etain's Journal.
Makana's Journal.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:13 am
Baby To Toddler Stage
Baby for at least a month: June 25th
Three dear-diary journal entries: 3/3
One RP: 1/1
Toddler to Kid Stage
Toddler for at least a month: --
Three dear-diary journal entries: o/3
One solo RP: o/1
One public RP: o/1
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