[hider=Naoki Lee Yagami][color=cadetblue][h3][b][u]Basic Information[/u][/b][/h3]
[b]Name:[/b][/color]
[indent]Naoki Lee Yagami
(夜神・李・直希, [i]Yagami-Lee Naoki[/i])[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Other Names:[/b][/color]
[list][*][i]Lǐ Zhìxī[/i] --- in Mandarin
[*][i]Meng You[/i] (梦游, lit. "Dream Walker") --- callsign in Polaris[/list]
[color=cadetblue][b]Gender:[/b][/color]
[indent]Male[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Age:[/b][/color]
[indent]16[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Height:[/b][/color]
[indent]5' 5"[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Weight:[/b][/color]
[indent]131 lbs[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Home District:[/b][/color]
[indent]From out of town.[/indent]

[color=cadetblue][h3][b][u]Appearance[/u][/b][/h3]
[b]Hair Color:[/b][/color]
[indent]Natural Brown[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Eye Color:[/b][/color]
[indent]Dark Brown[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Ethnicity:[/b][/color]
[indent]Japanese & Chinese[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Physical Description:[/b][/color]
[indent]Naoki is pretty much like a younger version of his Japanese father: short and skinny build, pale complexion, and androgynous facial feature - diamond-shaped face, almond-shaped eyes, small nose, and thin lips. The only physical trait he has inherited from his mother is the natural wavy hair, though with how he usually keeps his hair fairly short it looks more like the hair is sticking out at odd angles, which gives it an unruly appearance. He is near-sighted but only slightly, so he can go with or without his glasses (which is oval with thin, black wire frame). As a member of Polaris, he has a black dragon tattoo (the color of Yin) that can be found on the back of his left shoulder.[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Attire:[/b][/color]
[indent]Naoki likes to wear clothes following the theme of "monochrome" - the different shades of gray, including white and black. He is most often seen in long sleeve shirts, dark jeans and sneakers (and no, he isn't into goth... at all). He often makes sure he keeps his tattoo out of anyone's nosy sight, for it's something that he feels shameful about.[/indent]

[color=cadetblue][h3][b][u]Personality[/u][/b][/h3]
[b]Innate & Outward Personality:[/b][/color]
[indent]First of all, Naoki is a shy and quiet person; he is quite introverted, maybe even bordering autistic. Throughout his whole life he is constantly sheltered under the watchful eyes of his protective parents, which very much restricted his opportunity to interact with people, not even the cult kids of his age. Also, living in fear under the regime of the ruthless Polaris has made him paranoid about the people in the cult (sans his own parents, obviously). His parents has taught him not to trust people too readily, to always guard himself against people who are out to use his power for their greedy personal gain. Due to his upbringing and the kind of environment he has grown up in, he may come off as somewhat calculative and scrupulous, but he feels that it is the only way he can protect himself from those who may do him harm. As such, he despises liars and hypocrites: if you break his trust, you aren't going to get it back, [i]ever[/i].

Another thing about Naoki is that he has a lot of patience - he is a hard worker (and quite a perfectionist), and he doesn't mind spending days or even months to practice on the same thing repeatedly in order to achieve mastery of what he has been doing. At times his attention can be so focused on his work that he completely ignores his surroundings, and anyone who tries to disrupt his concentration will be surprised to get a very unfriendly snap from the normally mild-mannered boy. Other than his desire to polish and refine his techniques, he does have a creative flair, so he is skilled in adding his own style into his calligraphic art as much as simply copying the strokes exactly how they are shown.
 
Beneath the loner mask, Naoki is a conflicted person. While he is reluctant to reach out to others, he can't help feeling intrigued by the little things they do, such as their body language, the changes in their facial expressions, their tone, even some quirks that they may not be aware of. No, this doesn't make him damn good at reading people - he just watches them to entertain himself, and understands enough to make the appropriate reaction, that's all. Also, though he is pretty independent and isn't fond of seeking help from others, deep down he does want someone to rely on; he does know that there are many things in life that he cannot accomplish all alone. He is paranoid about making friends, yet he wants to have a friend of sorts whom he can bond with and trust in.

Going beyond his awkward and aloof personality, Naoki is pretty intelligent and quick-witted. He isn't afraid to use any resources available at hand or within reach to solve a problem - from as simple as a mere puzzle game, to even life-threatening situations. He has a strong survival instinct, and he'll never consider the option of suicide to escape from his current circumstances (he can be easily mistaken as a sore loser at times). Morally I'd say Naoki is Lawful Neutral - while he believes in the importance of rules and regulations so as to ensure the some form of order and fairness, he isn't a heroic type who is willing to go out of his way to help someone in need, especially not at the expense of his own safety/life.[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Hobbies/Interests:[/b][/color]
[list][*][i]People-Watching[/i] --- As mentioned previously, Naoki enjoys studying about people's behavior, to satisfy his curiosity about human nature.[/list]
[list][*][i]Sleeping/Napping/Daydreaming[/i] --- Given the nature of his power (which I'll go into details about it later), Naoki likes to sleep a lot. Sometimes to just chill out in his own dream world, while other times just, well, sleep. He can easily zone out or doze off no matter the environment he's in.[/list]
[list][*][i]Writing[/i] --- He absolutely loves writing, be it in terms of the literature i.e. story creation, or in terms of the art form i.e. penmanship and calligraphy, and so far he's better in the latter. He has also picked up graffiti-styled lettering.[/list]
[list][*][i]Board & Puzzle Games[/i] --- There is limited sources of entertainment in the cult base, so other than observing people he also plays some board or puzzle games to pass time. Sometimes just by himself, sometimes against his father (whom he always loses to).[/list]
[list][*][i]Divination Arts[/i] --- Possibly due to an effect from his ability, he is very curious about the various fortune-telling methods, such as card reading, arithmancy and astrology, to name a few.[/list]
[color=cadetblue][b]Skills/Talents:[/b][/color]
[list][*][i]Languages[/i] --- Naoki is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and the Chinese dialect Min. His English is only at intermediate level - that is, he can get by with standard everyday conversations, but he will have a hard time trying to understand classy English vocabs and slang words. He also has an accent when he speaks English, where some words sound like they are pronounced using Mandarin or Japanese intonation.[/list]
[list][*][i]Art: Calligraphy & Penmanship[/i] --- He is capable of writing in many different styles, whether cursive or not. In fact, he can even copy off most font types available in computers (MS Word, Photoshop, etc), including graffiti-styled letters. On a secondary level he can also forge signatures and handwriting of others with ease, but that's not something he feels proud of.[/list]
[list][*][i]Keen Observation[/i] --- Less about understanding people but more about the ability to replicate what he exactly sees into his artwork; it also makes him seem like a quick learner... sometimes.[/list]
[color=cadetblue][b]Goals/Motivations:[/b][/color] 
[list][*][i]Freedom[/i] --- Naoki wants his family to be freed from Polaris' rule, to leave the underground hell, and live a happy life without fearing for their lives on the surface world.[/list]
[list][*][i]Social Life[/i] --- He also wishes to be able to connect with others and make some friends who will accept him into their circle, despite his... peculiar past.[/list]
[color=cadetblue][b]History:[/b][/color]
[indent]Before we get to Naoki's [s]oh-so-angsty[/s] backstory, I'll need to explain his parents' backstory first.

Lee You-Hwee was the next in line to succeed the Lee family in Taiwan, a clan which originated from Suilan and it's known to produce "dream-seers" - the ability to predict the future through dreams - for generations; more importantly, the clan served as the vessel for the position of Yin in a secretive cult called Polaris. You-Hwee had seen enough of the evil deeds the clan did for the cult; she despised her family's superiority towards those who have no superpowers, and was horrified at how they abused their foretelling ability to blackmail people into working for Polaris.

Once she had reached adulthood, she was chosen to be to Japan to recruit more Japanese Metahumans into the cult, to further the organization's expansion beyond China to the other parts of Asia (their goal was to the whole world). The young You-Hwee received quite a cultural shock at that time, for she had been living a rather hermit-like life throughout her younger days (basically, whatever she knew about the world was the propaganda Polaris had been feeding the children living in the cult's base, but she knew enough basic social norms to avoid attracting too much unwanted attention to herself). She met a man by the name of Reiji Yagami by chance, when she saved him from a near-death accident at the train station with her foresight.

To cut the long [s]retarded romance[/s] story short, they eventually fell in love with each other and got married... and this was where their true nightmare began.

You-Hwee chose to take on her husband's surname and changed her name to [i]Yui Yagami[/i], much to the horror of her family. Her clan attempted to interfere with their newlywed relationship, but they couldn't get past Reiji's strong and complex psychic shield inside his mind to blackmail him. Knowing that they were up against an extremely powerful cerebral-type Metahuman, they used Yui as a bargaining chip to get Reiji not only to join Polaris, but also to force the couple to return back to China. Upon returning to the cult's base, Yui was made the Spirit of Yin.

A year later, Yui gave birth to a son, and they named him Naoki. Naoki was born with his power - the couple could feel their mind being pulled towards the young child whenever he was asleep, and they knew Polaris would make him to become Yui's successor once he was of age. They lied to the cult that their son had no powers whatsoever, while they secretly helped to train Naoki to better control his ability in order to continue keeping his power hidden from Polaris.

Under the protection of his paranoid parents, Naoki grew up away from the other cult children, and was forbidden to have contact with anyone within Polaris. This caused him to became a recluse and equally fearful of the people around him like his parents, though he also felt curious about the things around him - so much so that he couldn't help questioning the propaganda nonsense the cult had been teaching its members, and he yearned to explore the "surface world" that he had heard so much about from his parents.

Of course his parents were well aware that this twisted life was too cruel for their bright, growing child. Reiji and Yui were beginning to feel desperate - even if the chance of them breaking out of this goddamned place was almost zero, they would still do whatever it takes to free their son from the Hell that he didn't belong. The chance they had been waiting for finally came... but sadly, it was a trap set up by Yui's mother, Hwee-Suan, to stop them from freeing Naoki from Polaris.

Hwee-Suan imprisoned Naoki's parents and forced Naoki to replace his own mother as the new Spirit of Yin; she also used his parents' fate as a leash to keep Naoki from defying the cult's orders. Naoki has been chained up in the Yin chamber since then, but he refuses to give up to despair, trying to find a way to escape with his family, no matter the cost...[/indent]

[color=cadetblue][h3][b][u]Relationships[/u][/b][/h3]
[b]Family:[/b][/color]
[indent][hider=][b]Reiji Yagami - Father[/b]
[indent]Reiji was supposedly to be married [i]into[/i] Yui's family, but Yui chose to do the reverse instead, which caused her clan to hate him, accusing him for Yui's rebellion. Reiji is an extremely powerful telepath who is capable of forcibly bending the will of others and taking over the control of their mind, but he had never wanted to go that far - in fact, deep down he hated his ability for denying the basic privacy that people should have. He chose to create psychic blocks within his mind to lock his power away, at the same time also to defend himself from external cerebral intrusions. Naoki is much closer to him than Yui, but he loves them both equally.[/indent]
[b]Yui Yagami/Lee You-Hwee - Mother[/b]
[indent]Yui came from a long line of "dream seers", and her clan had been part of Polaris for generations. She met Reiji when she was sent to Japan to recruit the Japanese Metahumans into the cult; eventually their relationship blossomed and she knew that he was the one for her. As she was the strongest seer in Polaris at that time, no one could contest her position as the legitimate leader of Yin. She was later replaced by her own son upon her betrayal to the cult.[/indent]
[b]Lee Hwee-Suan - Grandmother[/b]
[indent]Hwee-Suan is Yui's mother, and the previous Spirit of Yin. Although her dream premonition ability has slipped greatly due to her old age, she still retains enough to foresee important warning signs that have helped to keep her alive all these while. She is extremely loyal to the clan and the cult, so much so that she is willing to shed her own family's blood to preserve the Lee name and the cult's honor.[/indent][/hider][/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Dynamics:[/b][/color]
[indent][hider=][h3]{Name}[/h3][b]| {Good/Mixed/Bad} | {Relationship Status} | [i]"..."[/i] |[/b]
[indent]{Description here.}[/indent][/hider][/indent]

[color=cadetblue][h3][b][u]Abilities[/u][/b][/h3]
[b]Power Class:[/b][/color]
[indent]Cerebral[/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Power:[/b][/color]
[indent][i]"Dream Scape" - Dream Telepathy & Premonition[/i]
Naoki's ability is rather unique, evolved from combining both of his parents' powers. His dream universe, which he calls "Scape", is an abstract world completely submerged in water, with nothing but white-outlined ground grids in its base appearance. He can alter or add on things into Scape freely (for example, a mind ‌labyrinth or maze‌), limited only by his own imagination and creativity.
[list][*][i]Mode: Telepathy[/i] --- He can do this by mentally linking up with the minds of those he wishes to communicate with and "invite" them into Scape; just imagine a chat room but inside your head, within a dream.
[*][i]Mode: Premonition[/i] --- He can predict the future by "activating" the grid the person is standing/sitting on, causing it to flash blue; this allows him to dive into the person's dream and experience the most likely outcome presented to him momentarily before he returns back to Scape.
[*][i]Cerebral Power Resistance[/i] --- With some help from his father, he has created psychic blocks around his Scape world to defend it against possible intrusion from other cerebral Metahumans; think of it as a mental firewall of sorts. Those who are inside Scape will also enjoy this protection. He also has a second layer of mental shield that protects his whole brain in general, giving him some form of resistance against average-level cerebral powers who may try to take control over him through psychic means.[/list][/indent]
[color=cadetblue][b]Limits:[/b][/color]
[list][*]While range is of insignificant issue to Naoki (if you seriously want a figure of sorts then the radius is roughly about a mile), he can only invite up to a maximum of four people into Scape. The duration for each meeting is capped at two hours, and he can only do this twice a day (so in total, up to four hours per day).
[*]He's nowhere as powerful as his father to perform domination-level feat like mind-control (or in his case, dream-control), only enough to temporarily "intrude" the dreams of others in order for him to establish a mental link with them before starting a Scape session.
[*]Five days is the furthest time span he can foresee. He also can't control the visions he wishes to see, and there are times they are too vague for him to understand. Well, he's nowhere as skilled as his own mother (the method his mother used to predict the future is actually quite different from his - just to take note).
[*]Adding to the point above, experiencing the visions can be pretty agonizing to him (such as getting bad migraines), so he can only perform Premonition once every three days to give himself some time to recover. (If possible, he doesn't want to do this, at all.)
[*]As he's still young and inexperienced, a powerful cerebral-type Metahuman may be able to easily overwhelm him and mentally attack his mind. Vice versa, people with strong resistance against mental-type powers may not be able to establish the dream link with him well.[/list]
[color=cadetblue][b]Weaknesses/Drawbacks:[/b][/color] 
[list][*]Naoki has to go into a trance-like state naturally in order for his power to manifest. Knocking him out by force - such as using strong sedatives - won't allow him to activate his ability (I mean, he'd be completely unconscious to even dream, duh).
[*]Once he allows the people he linked up with into Scape, he is vulnerable to mental attacks from within his dream world... especially if one of them has a cerebral-type ability like telepathy or empathetic manipulation.
[*]He has to invite the person into Scape first in order to perform Premonition on that particular individual. See the point above for the disadvantage of allowing Trojans into his dream world.
[*]If he's forcibly woken up while Scape is in session, anyone linked up with him will be immediately kicked out of his dream world. Not only that, but everyone - including himself - will experience a terrible headache from the feedback.[/list]

[color=cadetblue][b]Others:[/b][/color]
[list][*][hider=Theme Song][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4poryDakX0[/youtube][/hider][/list]
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[hider=Polaris | Beidou Qixing][h3]Polaris[/h3][indent]Also known by its Chinese name [i]Běidǒu Qīxīng[/i] (北斗七星) or [i]Hokuto Shichisei[/i] in Japan, Polaris is a secretive organization based in Asia, dating as far back as the Chinese Civil War period. Originated from Suilan, its influence has spread beyond China, with followers from all over Asia. The cult is headed by seven leaders, called Spirits: at the very top, Yin and Yang, followed by [i]Wu Xing[/i], or the Five Elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth). While records about this shadowy group are scarce, there are numerous rumors about them, such as some of the top Chinese government officials may be descendants of the cult, suspected of performing 'rituals' or 'dark magic' (inhuman experiments) to create a powerful Metahuman army of their own, even having absolute control over the Asian underworld.[/indent][/hider][/hider]