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CHARACTER
Name: Moro
Canon: Princess Mononoke
Gender: Female
Age: ??? (Running in the 300-400 range or "old as shit")
Wing Color: Aged grey-white feathers, matching her fur.
Canon Point: End of the film
Canon Point Explanation: I will be bringing Moro back with her Luceti memories, and this was her arrival point before.
History: Wiki page for the movie.
Personality: Moro's most immediate and notable character trait is her unfathomable rage. As a god, she is fueled by deep, passionate rage and hatred against those who defile what she is meant to protect. All who stand in her way fall before the physical might she has - until Eboshi found a way to fight back, that is. Moro's anger runs deep, and she holds very deadly grudges, fighting in the face of death in order to kill that which enrages her.
But it doesn't come from nothing. Moro is unwilling to compromise on the humans' desire to unearth all of the iron in the mountain, no matter how much they need it. And this is because there isn't anything that can be compromised. The Forest Spirit laid claim to the mountain, in need of its depths to roam during the day and the pool for it to use for its transformations at night. As a great, powerful god, it cannot be reasoned with. The mountain is a very important part of its function, and cannot change rapidly. Nature itself is very slow to change, for as chaotic as it seems, and Moro understands this very well. Human change is violent, sudden, and dangerous. Her hatred for humanity is based in their actions against this sacred balance, and she resorts very quickly to lethal means in order to protect it.
Despite how little leeway she gives humans (and how abruptly she will kill a human that does wrong instead of warning them away), and despite being extremely difficult to ever reach compromise due to sheer stubborn willpower, Moro is incredibly perceptive of the world around her. By comparison, the boar gods are even more hot-blooded than any of the wolves: Moro proves herself very rational as she speaks with San about the boar's suicidal charge at the humans. She is able to recognize a trap clearly when she sees one, and she does not believe that dying so pointlessly will serve anyone - and she's proven right, when the trap gives humans a chance to follow Okkoto to the pool of the Forest Spirit. She will take the chances that she knows are worthwhile, and she drops in front of Eboshi earlier in the film... but she also is clever enough to be sure that a failure on her behalf does not cost the forest its safety or its other gods (in her pups).
In the end, what makes her different from humans is how she views the world and what she considers the most important. Whereas humans find their own survival and wellbeing very important, it is the survival of the forest and the wellbeing of the natural balance that matters more to Moro than her own life. Living to fight another battle is a matter of being most useful for the right cause, rather than the importance of one's life. She is not ignorant of humans, either, and can understand their motivations - it's simply that she loathes them for it and finds their choices detestable. Her greatest disgust comes from the selfish actions of San's parents, that threw their infant child to the wolves in order to save themselves; it's so unfathomably selfish in Moro's eyes that it paints her perception of humans long before the conflict truly begins. It is enormously difficult for her to understand the concept of an individual's worth over the worth of the many, especially when that 'selfishness' comes at the cost of some other being's life. In her centuries of life, Moro has seen and experienced a great many things, and has collected the wisdom from it... and she has lived so long with no need to change her manner of thinking radically or change her behaviors until humans became the enemy. And though she was completely willing to fight to the death, she recognized that the war against humans would ultimately be a losing one. Not to say that her wisdom and rationality keep her from bias. Moro may be calm and composed compared to the other gods (even her own pups), but she will still hold onto anger and hatred until her last breath.
Moro is most dutiful towards the wellbeing of the Forest Spirit's mountain, but she also is a very loving and devoted mother. She is gentle and patient with her pups, explaining things to them without getting irritable of their ignorance. Moro is not ignorant of her children's needs, either: she is very aware of what San has to experience given her situation and she feels very sympathetic for her. It's a sorrowful point, because she loves San very dearly and has no issue proclaiming the human as her daughter, but she also knows better than to ignore or deny that San is a human. She is very possessive of her daughter, wanting to spare her from pain as much as is reasonable (hence why she doesn't initially trust San to Ashitaka, but concedes when it's clear enough that San is in love with him). Her love of her child is stronger even than the deep grudge against Eboshi: instead of using her last strength to kill Eboshi as she intended, she saves San's life even when things are looking grim. She was willing to accept and trust that Ashitaka might do what was best for San, and even for the forest.
Luceti Character Development:
Since Moro was in Luceti for almost three years before, she had a very long time to grow and change. She gradually lessened the grip she had on hatred against all humans, learning to coexist with those trapped in Luceti to a fair degree. She found that many humans still were quite like Ashitaka, and held onto old views of respecting the land around them and carried it out in action, and so she began to give many the benefit of the doubt.
This extended, however, to make her extremely possessive of the humans that were serving the forest. When the Kin'Corans were forced into the enclosure, she was remarkably violent against them, tearing them apart at their attempts to pull resources out of the forest and threatening those causing mischief in the village. In a sense, the residents of Luceti became an aspect of the natural balance within the enclosure, and all that disrupt it were liable to be hunted down and murdered by Moro. This also meant that Moro had a thorough respect of territorial lines: she put an ultimatum up to the humans regarding the forest, and as such did not encroach upon the village nearly at all in order to respect their space.
She actually grew fond of a couple humans that were persistent in being kind and generous to her. There's no inherent loyalty, but she would be hard-pressed to attack them (these are people like Luffy, Ginko, Silver - mostly people who aren't in game right now aside from the small handful still around). Upon return, these memories would be faint and fuzzy (she's been brought back from the dead for... the third time? Fourth?), but the bonds would not be hard to rebuild and Moro is only more likely to find a handful more to tolerate.
Strengths
Physical: She's a wolf just under the size of an elephant, and as such is extraordinarily powerful. She has a very heavy, stocky build (likely due to her size) and she is fast. Her jaws are powerful, and can easily tear through flesh or throw a full grown oxen effortlessly. It is very difficult to stop her momentum when she is charging down prey or a foe with determination; Eboshi had to use a gun that was effectively a handheld cannon (it shot slugs that were the size of golf balls and made of solid iron) to strike her, and it wasn't the bullet but the face full of flame that caused Moro to stop and fall over the cliff. The best display of her power in the film is her introduction, when she drops onto the humans climbing through the cliff and tears through their ranks in an effort to kill Lady Eboshi.
Mental: She's exceptionally wise, given her age and experience, and she's quite smart. She recognizes a losing situation and is able to gauge an upcoming battle as it's being set up, accurately determining the likely victor. She has good judgment in that particular vein, not engaging in things that would result in pointless death. Her wisdom shows more often in the film, where she speaks to Ashitaka or to San in moments of pause.
Emotional: Very strong of heart, Moro is not one to experience doubt or be fooled into double-guessing herself. She is fearless, which is no weakness given that she is not stupid. She knows what must be done and she is willing to go to the ends to meet it.
Supernatural: When she dies, her head will detach itself and wiggle around to keep biting at things.
Weaknesses
Physical: She is still of flesh and bone. Terrifyingly large and difficult to kill though she is, she is very mortal. She carries in her body the bullet that Eboshi shot at her, and the heavy iron slug continues to do damage and weaken her as it gives her iron poisoning. This is the cause of her slow, painful death in the movie.
Mental: Moro is very unlikely to change her mind about anything. It makes her stubborn and impossible to negotiate with, especially in regards to things that she must protect. Working in absolutes, she makes things difficult, and when she penalizes those who do wrong with violence she only encourages people to work against her, no matter how valid her concerns. She has a narrow world view, and not only can't understand other views, but won't understand them.
Emotional: Moro is filled with rage or indifference, and it is very difficult to evoke an emotion besides those two from her. She has love for her pups, the forest spirit and the mountain she lives on, but such things are almost never spared to others. Her prior time in Luceti had her open up, but it was still a very narrow window - most were met with snarls and indifference.
Anything else?: Moro will be returning with memories from her time in Luceti. And as such, she will have a large amount of the character development from that time. Luceti had her calmed and willing to negotiate with humans to a fair degree, save for times that endangered Luceti's forest. She was hesitantly willing to let humans act as they once had in her past, giving her tribute and treating the forest with respect. She allowed a degree of trust with a large number of Luceti residents, most of whom proved good to their word. In exchange, Moro extended her protection to people like those in Luceti, fighting for them in drafts and even helping them learn more about the forest altogether. Of course, Moro will not be exceptionally kind to those she doesn't know yet, but she never was such a way regardless unless they weren't human.
SAMPLES
First Person: Training Wings post.
Third Person: Thoughts raced through the mind, very quickly and very suddenly. Memories came in short, violent bursts. Glimpses of her detached head biting down on Eboshi's arm, or the world going dark as the Forest Spirit granted her the peace she sought. That moment had been a great relief. But then she remembered hunger, greater and more terrible than anything she had felt before. The desire to tear everything apart, to devour it all whole, the bottomless need to consume all in her path... and the blinding pain when her reason was gone. How many times had she died?
Moro's eyes opened, again. There was an ache, a familiar pain. She felt the wings flutter once more on her back, and felt the itch of the tattoo on the back of her neck. Luceti, once again. She lifted herself, her body stiff and still cold, though she could feel her heart pumping furiously to compensate. She was brought back to life yet again, and it filled her with a bitter anger. As she regained the circulation in her legs, she hauled herself upright, feeling the weight of the slug still in her chest - the favored way for the Malnosso to keep her from being too active. Still stiff and sore, she growled deeply, heart filled with nothing but murderous intent for the "scientists" as they were called.
She stiffly walked through the trees, inhaling deeply the scent of the small, frail forest. The world had cooled and was reaching winter. Was she dead for such a short while? She recalled faintly that it was still crisp when she went into battle and became mad with illness. But the scents were so very different. Had so many new people come into the territory in her absence? And there were several that she could smell no longer, though perhaps her memory was weak and the identities behind each scent misremembered. She rounded a corner and saw a statue... of herself? Of a wolf, certainly. Made of the earth itself, not at all disturbing the scenery around it.
Moro snorted. She didn't expect to have died as a "hero" to these humans. She certainly remembered the boiling as her blood erupted from her body...
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Current Characters at Luceti: N/A
CHARACTER
Name: Moro
Canon: Princess Mononoke
Gender: Female
Age: ??? (Running in the 300-400 range or "old as shit")
Wing Color: Aged grey-white feathers, matching her fur.
Canon Point: End of the film
Canon Point Explanation: I will be bringing Moro back with her Luceti memories, and this was her arrival point before.
History: Wiki page for the movie.
Personality: Moro's most immediate and notable character trait is her unfathomable rage. As a god, she is fueled by deep, passionate rage and hatred against those who defile what she is meant to protect. All who stand in her way fall before the physical might she has - until Eboshi found a way to fight back, that is. Moro's anger runs deep, and she holds very deadly grudges, fighting in the face of death in order to kill that which enrages her.
But it doesn't come from nothing. Moro is unwilling to compromise on the humans' desire to unearth all of the iron in the mountain, no matter how much they need it. And this is because there isn't anything that can be compromised. The Forest Spirit laid claim to the mountain, in need of its depths to roam during the day and the pool for it to use for its transformations at night. As a great, powerful god, it cannot be reasoned with. The mountain is a very important part of its function, and cannot change rapidly. Nature itself is very slow to change, for as chaotic as it seems, and Moro understands this very well. Human change is violent, sudden, and dangerous. Her hatred for humanity is based in their actions against this sacred balance, and she resorts very quickly to lethal means in order to protect it.
Despite how little leeway she gives humans (and how abruptly she will kill a human that does wrong instead of warning them away), and despite being extremely difficult to ever reach compromise due to sheer stubborn willpower, Moro is incredibly perceptive of the world around her. By comparison, the boar gods are even more hot-blooded than any of the wolves: Moro proves herself very rational as she speaks with San about the boar's suicidal charge at the humans. She is able to recognize a trap clearly when she sees one, and she does not believe that dying so pointlessly will serve anyone - and she's proven right, when the trap gives humans a chance to follow Okkoto to the pool of the Forest Spirit. She will take the chances that she knows are worthwhile, and she drops in front of Eboshi earlier in the film... but she also is clever enough to be sure that a failure on her behalf does not cost the forest its safety or its other gods (in her pups).
In the end, what makes her different from humans is how she views the world and what she considers the most important. Whereas humans find their own survival and wellbeing very important, it is the survival of the forest and the wellbeing of the natural balance that matters more to Moro than her own life. Living to fight another battle is a matter of being most useful for the right cause, rather than the importance of one's life. She is not ignorant of humans, either, and can understand their motivations - it's simply that she loathes them for it and finds their choices detestable. Her greatest disgust comes from the selfish actions of San's parents, that threw their infant child to the wolves in order to save themselves; it's so unfathomably selfish in Moro's eyes that it paints her perception of humans long before the conflict truly begins. It is enormously difficult for her to understand the concept of an individual's worth over the worth of the many, especially when that 'selfishness' comes at the cost of some other being's life. In her centuries of life, Moro has seen and experienced a great many things, and has collected the wisdom from it... and she has lived so long with no need to change her manner of thinking radically or change her behaviors until humans became the enemy. And though she was completely willing to fight to the death, she recognized that the war against humans would ultimately be a losing one. Not to say that her wisdom and rationality keep her from bias. Moro may be calm and composed compared to the other gods (even her own pups), but she will still hold onto anger and hatred until her last breath.
Moro is most dutiful towards the wellbeing of the Forest Spirit's mountain, but she also is a very loving and devoted mother. She is gentle and patient with her pups, explaining things to them without getting irritable of their ignorance. Moro is not ignorant of her children's needs, either: she is very aware of what San has to experience given her situation and she feels very sympathetic for her. It's a sorrowful point, because she loves San very dearly and has no issue proclaiming the human as her daughter, but she also knows better than to ignore or deny that San is a human. She is very possessive of her daughter, wanting to spare her from pain as much as is reasonable (hence why she doesn't initially trust San to Ashitaka, but concedes when it's clear enough that San is in love with him). Her love of her child is stronger even than the deep grudge against Eboshi: instead of using her last strength to kill Eboshi as she intended, she saves San's life even when things are looking grim. She was willing to accept and trust that Ashitaka might do what was best for San, and even for the forest.
Luceti Character Development:
Since Moro was in Luceti for almost three years before, she had a very long time to grow and change. She gradually lessened the grip she had on hatred against all humans, learning to coexist with those trapped in Luceti to a fair degree. She found that many humans still were quite like Ashitaka, and held onto old views of respecting the land around them and carried it out in action, and so she began to give many the benefit of the doubt.
This extended, however, to make her extremely possessive of the humans that were serving the forest. When the Kin'Corans were forced into the enclosure, she was remarkably violent against them, tearing them apart at their attempts to pull resources out of the forest and threatening those causing mischief in the village. In a sense, the residents of Luceti became an aspect of the natural balance within the enclosure, and all that disrupt it were liable to be hunted down and murdered by Moro. This also meant that Moro had a thorough respect of territorial lines: she put an ultimatum up to the humans regarding the forest, and as such did not encroach upon the village nearly at all in order to respect their space.
She actually grew fond of a couple humans that were persistent in being kind and generous to her. There's no inherent loyalty, but she would be hard-pressed to attack them (these are people like Luffy, Ginko, Silver - mostly people who aren't in game right now aside from the small handful still around). Upon return, these memories would be faint and fuzzy (she's been brought back from the dead for... the third time? Fourth?), but the bonds would not be hard to rebuild and Moro is only more likely to find a handful more to tolerate.
Strengths
Mental: She's exceptionally wise, given her age and experience, and she's quite smart. She recognizes a losing situation and is able to gauge an upcoming battle as it's being set up, accurately determining the likely victor. She has good judgment in that particular vein, not engaging in things that would result in pointless death. Her wisdom shows more often in the film, where she speaks to Ashitaka or to San in moments of pause.
Emotional: Very strong of heart, Moro is not one to experience doubt or be fooled into double-guessing herself. She is fearless, which is no weakness given that she is not stupid. She knows what must be done and she is willing to go to the ends to meet it.
Supernatural: When she dies, her head will detach itself and wiggle around to keep biting at things.
Weaknesses
Mental: Moro is very unlikely to change her mind about anything. It makes her stubborn and impossible to negotiate with, especially in regards to things that she must protect. Working in absolutes, she makes things difficult, and when she penalizes those who do wrong with violence she only encourages people to work against her, no matter how valid her concerns. She has a narrow world view, and not only can't understand other views, but won't understand them.
Emotional: Moro is filled with rage or indifference, and it is very difficult to evoke an emotion besides those two from her. She has love for her pups, the forest spirit and the mountain she lives on, but such things are almost never spared to others. Her prior time in Luceti had her open up, but it was still a very narrow window - most were met with snarls and indifference.
Anything else?: Moro will be returning with memories from her time in Luceti. And as such, she will have a large amount of the character development from that time. Luceti had her calmed and willing to negotiate with humans to a fair degree, save for times that endangered Luceti's forest. She was hesitantly willing to let humans act as they once had in her past, giving her tribute and treating the forest with respect. She allowed a degree of trust with a large number of Luceti residents, most of whom proved good to their word. In exchange, Moro extended her protection to people like those in Luceti, fighting for them in drafts and even helping them learn more about the forest altogether. Of course, Moro will not be exceptionally kind to those she doesn't know yet, but she never was such a way regardless unless they weren't human.
SAMPLES
First Person: Training Wings post.
Third Person: Thoughts raced through the mind, very quickly and very suddenly. Memories came in short, violent bursts. Glimpses of her detached head biting down on Eboshi's arm, or the world going dark as the Forest Spirit granted her the peace she sought. That moment had been a great relief. But then she remembered hunger, greater and more terrible than anything she had felt before. The desire to tear everything apart, to devour it all whole, the bottomless need to consume all in her path... and the blinding pain when her reason was gone. How many times had she died?
Moro's eyes opened, again. There was an ache, a familiar pain. She felt the wings flutter once more on her back, and felt the itch of the tattoo on the back of her neck. Luceti, once again. She lifted herself, her body stiff and still cold, though she could feel her heart pumping furiously to compensate. She was brought back to life yet again, and it filled her with a bitter anger. As she regained the circulation in her legs, she hauled herself upright, feeling the weight of the slug still in her chest - the favored way for the Malnosso to keep her from being too active. Still stiff and sore, she growled deeply, heart filled with nothing but murderous intent for the "scientists" as they were called.
She stiffly walked through the trees, inhaling deeply the scent of the small, frail forest. The world had cooled and was reaching winter. Was she dead for such a short while? She recalled faintly that it was still crisp when she went into battle and became mad with illness. But the scents were so very different. Had so many new people come into the territory in her absence? And there were several that she could smell no longer, though perhaps her memory was weak and the identities behind each scent misremembered. She rounded a corner and saw a statue... of herself? Of a wolf, certainly. Made of the earth itself, not at all disturbing the scenery around it.
Moro snorted. She didn't expect to have died as a "hero" to these humans. She certainly remembered the boiling as her blood erupted from her body...
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