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Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

Hey guys, I apologize if I'm holding things up but unfortunately I can't post until tonight. I got a really hot date and I look damn fine vuv

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I'm so stupid.

Her head down as she waited near the subway line for it to come, Karime Ochiro, better known as the Idol 'Haruka,' spoke within her own mind. The spotlessly clean subway made her feel sick. It was too clean. Too perfect. Why did everything have to perfect? Why did this society demand nothing but the best, of the best, of the best, of the best, of the... Her hands clutched a strappy purse in front of her so tightly her knuckles were white. She remembered seeing the video.

Oh it had spread like wildfire, just like her legs did in that video.

She had done a bikini-modeling photo shoot not long ago and while the photographer had been busy catching the light on the idol just right, some production assistant went and took a video of the entire process of her going through the sexy poses they commanded her to do and overlayed the audio with some less-than-pure music. Her American friends told her that the video really wasn't that bad but...

They don't fucking understand.

Everything had to be pure in the land of the rising sun. The comments of the video sneered at her, saying things like 'She probably used that disgusting pose on that art-director she slept with' and 'How desperate for attention do you really have to be to do something like this?' The masses were misinformed, as they always are. Across from her in the subway, a metal bar was propped up against the tracks, polished so much that she could easily make out her reflection with ease. Her teal eyes, peeking over her overly large sunglasses, glared back at her.

I hate you... I hate you... I hate you... I hate you... I hate you.

Behind her, she could hear two teenage boys roughhousing. From what she could gather, one was teasing the other about how he liked a girl.

It wasn't my fault! He used me... He USED me...!

But it is my fault.

It's always my fault.

You stupid whore.

From down the way, she could hear the train coming. The boys were getting closer.

I'm so worthless.

Her fans didn't even like her anymore, most of them anyway. Her music was becoming weaker as Haruka, the persona itself, was being broken. She had a mental breakdown three months ago. She started bawling on live national TV, admitting how stressed she was on the talk show and how she hated that this fame had made her into something she wasn't. Before she could be interviewed further, she ran out of the studio... and never went back. There was consideration of her return lately, and her star-bound friends had been there for her, for that she was grateful.
But it was her that wasn't there for herself anymore. Her eyes closed and she let out a sigh. All she wanted was a nice, hot bubble bath and to curl into her bed for the night. Maybe she could be nicer to herself in the morning. Then she felt someone fall into her from behind.

With a gasp, she suddenly found the subway tracks rushing up to greet her, landing with an 'oomf!' ungracefully. She picked her head up to look behind at what had pushed her. One of the boys, who had also fallen but onto the platform.

His eyes were stretched wide in horror.

Looking over towards the oncoming train, she realized, even as she struggled to get up and off the tracks, that it was too late. In those final, slow moments, everything seemed to slow down.

And she realized how badly she wanted to live. Instinctively, her hand rose up to guard her face.

Her childhood hallucination was there. Just in front of her, sneering down at her. Had she forgotten her medicine? Why would she see Himika now... of all times? The dirty-haired hallucinations eyes narrowed and her thin lips curled over blackened teeth.

"You don't deserve to live."

...huh?

And then it was over, just as she began to scream, the large metal wheel sliced cleanly down her neck, the head rolling along the tracks as the subway kept moving... the expression of horror still twisted onto the features of the fallen star, Haruka.
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...Warmth...

This wasn't so bad.

If this was death... here, floating freely in this space of blackness, surrounded by nothingness... She could live with that. But then, she couldn't because she was dead. There was nothing to worry about. She would never feel pain again and that... knowing that...

It was wonderful.

But then her body began to stir, and her eyes gently flicked open. She felt like she was just coming out of a very nice, very needed rest. Where was she anyway? She felt a bit stuffy cramped beneath whatever was over her. Wiggling, she was pleased to find that whatever was on her came off with ease, and she emerged from a sea of blankets and pillows that had been piled up in the corner of the room. She blinked as she took in the sight around her.

Some sort of dingy apartment with other people in it... and a laptop... and... Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore, She thought to herself. She didn't remove herself completely from her chysalis of blankets and pillows, finding them to be pleasantly warm, and thus kept herself half buried beneath them as she talked, a fair hand reaching up to stroke her neck. Had it been a dream?

"U-uh....H-hi... um, where am I?" She asked the people present in a confused tone.

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Name: Karime Ochiro

Alias/es: Stage name - Haruka

Age: 21

Height: 5'2

Weight: 121lbs

Complexion: Fair

Eye Color: Teal

Hair Color: Dyed Teal, Natural is black

Apparel: Stage clothing usually consists of beautifully handcrafted halter tops with large, puffy short skirts and handgloves. Wears a headset microphone and knee-high stilleto boots. Day to day she'll wear a similar outfit, with a normal, flouncy skirt and haltertop shirt. She usually wears gorgeous and expensive sunglasses and a sunhat to keep her identity under wraps from fans, and also wears pumps when walking around town. Her favorite accessory is a necklace on a thin chain around her neck, bearing a small round locket with a picture of her baby sister and her.

Personality: While Karime off the stage is very private, shy, and lacking in self confidence, her stage persona, Haruka, is the complete opposite. For the fans and the cameras, Haruka is brimming with self confidence and happiness, always pledging to be fashion forward and reaching for the stars in more ways than one. Karime, on the other hand, is often hard to talk to. She's twitchy, always looking over her shoulder in paranoia and when she feels pressured, breaks down. She shuts down in the face of difficulty or problems, with intense social anxiety that makes her hardly able to function.

History:
Karime Ochiro was born in Kyoto, Japan with the aid of a midwife. Ever since she was little, she loved to sing to herself and found herself too shy to try to show others--until she met Himika. Himika was a neighbor girl that loved picking flowers with Karime and telling stories about how they had traveled all over Japan before coming to move near Karime. Karime spent every moment she could with Himika between classes, studying and chores, which her parents always watched her play fondly with. However, once Karime turned 8, her parents became concerned and confronted Karime about her friendship with Himika. Naturally, in confusion, Karime defended her friend, clueless as to why her parents would suddenly take issue with her being around. The argument became heated, her parents throwing confusing sentences at her like "You're too old for an imaginary friend." and "Himika isn't real, you need to make friends with other children."

A little later, Karime was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Able to receive necessary treatment, she was told to take prescription medication in order to make her hallucinations go away. She was hesitant, and most of all distraught. She told Himika, in tears, that her parents said they couldn't be friends anymore. While the hallucination initially laughed it off, she later became angry when Karime persisted in what she was saying, and then violent. While Karime took her pills as instructed, Himika's persona became distorted, vengeful, telling Karime to kill herself, to hurt her parents and other children... and eventually she disappeared. The attacks left Karime in a depression, and as she advanced into middle school, she became a loner.

One day, having had to stay after class to help clean up the classroom, Karime thought she was alone and began singing along to a soft ballad. However, one of the girls had come back to retrieve a forgotten item and heard her. She applauded when Karime had finished singing, leaving Karime incredibly embarassed, but she was quickly told not to worry about it, and that her singing was amazing. The girl pointed her to Idol auditions in the area and, with much pushing, she nervously went to try out. Shakily, she walked into see the board of directors that she would perform for. With wobbling knees, she belted out the best song she knew, and as she took on an audience, a feeling of confidence bloomed in her chest, causing her showmanship to improve tenfold naturally in front of them. Stunned by her performance, she was immediately signed a contract and began her career as an Idol under the name "Haruka."

After being transformed with a new look, Haruka immediately began travelling all over Japan doing concerts, going onto television shows, reality show segments, guest starring on films, the whole shebang. After years upon years of high stardom, her rise has began to crumble after a recent scandal revealing her relationship with a talent director that had seduced her at a party when she was nineteen years old. She still has very many loyal fans regardless and has manage to make very many other starry-eyed friends. But when the lights go down and the fans go home, she's left alone on stage in the darkness. That depression she felt as a teen never really went away and with the slander coming her way, she started having more mental breakdowns off camera and one on camera that made her lose even more fans, and caused her to escape the spotlight entirely out of her persona for a solid three months now. Then, as Karime, she was trying to go back to her penthouse by using the subway when a group of rough housing boys accidentally pushed her onto the subway tracks. Though she scrambled to get up, it was too late. The subway decapitated her as she let out a choked scream and left her head rolling down the tunnels, the expression of horror still left on her face. In her final moments, she saw a twisted, older version of Himika grinning at her in front of the train.

The Idol Haruka was deemed missing.

Other:
Some of her music that topped Japans charts and some that went international
https://youtu.be/fByFORDcNLA?t=47

Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

Okay but I'm seriously disappointed in your life choices. You could have had BABY CHOCOBOS running that floaty wheelchair and you just... you didn't make the cut dude. Such disappointment. Oh the humanity v-v

This is just joking plzdontfeelbad

Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

I was under the impression that since the majority of the ships we see float anyway like those hoverbikes we see the Al Bhed use, then other airships that transport the crew later and can be seen around the blitzball tournament were run on machinery. I mean... you say white magic but... i recall you get to go on an airship (or was it a boat? You got on a lot of different forms of transport in-game) where you go into the engine room and its just a chocobo running on the equivalent of a hamster wheel keeping the thing going.

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@rivaan I love that you made the chair with a hover instead of having it earthbound on wheels. It's very creative and perfect for the uneven terrain of Spira. Though, wouldn't it make more sense for the chair to be mechanical since that's the direction Spira is going? Not to mention it would be really exhausting for someone of her condition to have to charge it every day.

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@Firecracker_ Deadlands... Ah, I dont recall being a scientist. I thought I was a Parkour scout? Even so, It's good to see an old face :)

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@Cinderella Man
First of all how dare you

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@Experiment 249 senpai will never notice me *sob*

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@Firecracker_ I'm sorry... ah, have we met? o3o