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Clear| Dramatical Murder| Reserved
Player name: Anthea
Contact: Plurk: Anxinshite
Characters currently in-game: None
CHARACTER
Character Name: Clear
Character Age:Unknown
Canon: Dramatical Murder
Canon Point: After Clear’s Route (Good Ending)
History:Clear's wiki page
Clear doesn’t have much by way of history since we don’t exactly know how long he’s been “alive”. What we do know is that Clear was created in a laboratory by the orders of a man named Toue who is a rich man with the desire to take over Japan (and the world, ultimately).
Because of his abnormalities, he was going to be thrown away and destroyed, but one of the scientists who had helped create him stole him away and hid with him in an abandoned and forbidden district.
Their house looked like an oversized dingy tin can. It looked like it was made out of various scraps of metal garbage and fashioned into something house like. But even so, he had his own room fashioned and lived like a normal human being. He even started calling the man that took care of him his “Grandfather”.
Eventually, he started to forget that he wasn’t human. It wasn’t a kind of forget where the information was lost, but a sort of after thought. He lived peacefully like that up until his grandfather died in his sleep. After that, Clear put himself to “sleep” after giving his grandfather a proper burial and grieved.
Clear was awakened by Aoba Seragaki’s voice which sounded like it belonged to his “Master”. His Master was Toue, but considering that they both had the same “type” of voice, he considered it to be his own Master’s and promptly went to him.
He helped Aoba right after he was attacked by Noiz. He brought him to his place of work while he was unconscious then drifted away again. He would frequently reappear when it seemed that Aoba was in some sort of trouble and then just stuck around to help when Aoba’s Granny was kidnapped.
He helped fight the people that took Granny then went with everyone to bring her back to her house.
(This is where it splits off into different routes, so time gets weird.)
Clear accompanies Aoba to Platinum Jail where Clear tries to assist him in taking down Toue before he can take over the world.
After a series of nonsensical events, Aoba and Clear meet other members of the robot series that Clear was apart of. They both learn that Clear can’t fight against them and they’re extremely strong.
They both finally infiltrate the Oval Tower and face off against the two Alphas that they encountered earlier and Clear makes the decision to destroy the part of his brain that prevents him from fighting them.
For the Good Ending, Aoba lets Clear make that decision for himself after using scrap on him and seeing that he does have a heart and soul and Clear stabs himself in the right side of his head. After plucking out the keylock that prevents him from fighting the Alphas, he belts out a powerful song that messes up the Alphas and immobilizes them.
The Tower begins collapsing and Aoba helps drag a breaking Clear out of there and back to where they were staying while in Platinum Jail. There, Clear breaks down slowly while telling Aoba how he feels and that he has no regrets, thanking him.
After that, Aoba drags the completely broken robot back to his home and works obsessively on him, trying to fix him, but of course he’s far too complicated a machine to be fixed by an amateur. So eventually Aoba gives him to his grandma for her to take to a researcher to fix.
After six months, Clear finally returns to Aoba fixed up and begins his renewed life by his side.
Personality: Clear’s personality is a little tricky because it’s made up with parts of Artificial Intelligence as well as a sort of “Ghost in the Shell” part. (The concept, not the anime.)
Clear is a robot, so there is a lot of stuff that he doesn’t understand in terms of human experiences and emotions. His AI is programmed to respond with basic human emotions. (i.e. Laughing when something is funny, smiling when something is good, crying when something is sad, and frowning when something is bad.) Throughout his personal route, Aoba begins teaching him more of the grey areas of emotions like melancholy or wistful. He had only previously learned what he already knows from living with his “Grandfather”, but learning through only one person isn’t enough when it comes to human personality and emotions, especially when that one person is a calm and wizened old man with the relationship of “guardian”. Aoba provides a whole different range of emotions and thoughts as well as a different kind of relationship since he’s an emotional 20-something who is also still trying to learn about life.
His type of AI is designed to allow him to blend in with humanity by learning these grey areas when he sees them and respond accordingly. But what makes him different from the other Alphas in his series is that while he learns these emotions, he can actually feel them.
For example, when he tells Aoba that he loves him, he says that he knows that it’s out of nowhere, but it’s something that he feels. From what we know, Clear hadn’t had that kind of love imposed on him before, so there would be no way for him to learn what romantic love was beforehand. Aoba even asks him later to clarify what he meant and even goes as far as to make Clear distinguish his love for him as a “Master” and his love for him as Aoba. Clear has to think about it, but he is able to give an explanation that sounds very much like what a human being would say for their own reason for being in love with someone.
Another example is his decision making. The fact that he made the decision to go against his robot comrades that is completely against his mechanical programming signifies that he has more than just a robot brain.
He can also be Scrapped by Aoba. Scrapping is an ability that Aoba has to go inside someone’s heart, mind, and soul and tamper with it. He can keep someone from making a decision that could hurt them or change someone’s feelings on their memories, or even destroy their very mind to break them. The fact that he could go into Clear’s heart, mind, and soul means that Clear has a heart, mind, and a soul which isn’t something robots are capable of having. So in that regard, he is very much like a human.
Now for the personality that people can see, he comes off as a whimsical, childlike, airhead. Because he’s still learning about different emotions, they seem to swing back and forth like suddenly going from being depressed about something to happy when something nice is said. He can feel the in between feelings, but he’s still learning how to understand them or the names of such feelings.
Being so childlike, he has a strange habit of collecting shiny things. He loves things like clear bobbles, bottles, umbrellas, marbles, and things like that. He loves jellyfish, stars, and the ocean. He has no explanation for the reason why he likes those things, but it’s similar to how humans just like things because they do.
Clear doesn’t like violence. While his robot series are humanoid weapons used to tamper with peoples’ brainwaves and harm them if need be, he’s learned to be non-violent. (In fact, his own song for messing with humans is used for peaceful purposes). It’s not completely known if it’s because it’s apart of his “personality” or if it was something taught to him by his grandfather. But he’s seen multiple times in the Main Route saying “Please stop!” when there’s a fight happening, or running away when faced with conflict, or taking punches rather than giving them. The only times he throws a crushing blow is when it’s absolutely necessary. He also kind of goes overboard when someone caused harm to Aoba, nearly beating the man to death until Aoba told him to stop. (This part is a bit contradicting since he didn’t understand why Aoba scolded him later for defending him.) Other than those few times, he’s not a violent person.
A lot of science fiction androids are portrayed by highly logical and intelligent beings, but this definitely isn’t the case for Clear. He’s seen doing a lot of nonsensical things throughout his route. There are a plethora of examples, but to name a few:
He carries around a clear umbrella in his deep pockets for really no reason whatsoever. He simply just likes to have it and will open it up rain or shine. Since it’s clear, it provides no protection from the sun and he had to be reminded that it was primarily used for rain in the first place until Aoba had to tell him that it was strange to have when it wasn’t raining.
Another example is when he mistook Overr Tower for Oval Tower. He thought he had successfully infiltrated Oval Tower all on his own, being a bit help to his Master! But he had gotten the location and tower name all confused. Human beings and hyper intelligent androids alike would have been able to figure out that such an easy infiltration, lack of dangerous security, and simply looking at the giant sign a few feet away meant that the tower wasn’t the right one. It was also in a completely different direction. Of course, he was chided by Aoba and he felt awful.
One more example is not knowing that dressing up naked in an apron isn’t appropriate behavior for non-lovers. He had just learned that it’s an Ultimate Man’s Fantasy, but he didn’t stop to think that maybe it’s not Aoba’s fantasy or the plain and simple fact that they weren’t “like that”.
But despite being pretty naive about a lot of things, he is sincere in learning. He loves learning everything that he can and can learn very quickly! He adapts to new information, soaking it up like a sponge. He is quick to ask why certain things are the way they are even going as far as to ask existential questions. At one point, he even asks Aoba what the meaning of life is. He wonders why not all humans are scared of going to sleep since his own Grandfather passed away in his sleep. He will ask questions until he is satisfied with the answer then will happily thank the person for their explanation. The problem with being so accepting, however, someone can steer him in the wrong direction. If someone is good enough at lying, they could go as far as make him believe anything that they say.
Thankfully, his Grandfather seemed to teach him to be a good boy. Clear is a kind, caring individual. He is quick to make himself useful and eager to help in anyway he can! He is easily disheartened when he messes something up, though. Since he wears his heart on his sleeves, he visibly sags and slumps when he’s disappointed in himself and requires a bit of cheering up or else he’ll continue beating himself up.
Clear seems to have a general fear of being disliked. He keeps his face hidden from people because he fears that if people look at it, they’ll hate him. He has no idea what his face looks like and the fear that it’s monstrous or hideous keeps it planted squarely on his face. His Grandfather is the one that forbade him from taking it off to help hide Clear from Toue and getting recognized as an Alpha model, but Clear’s mind is the one that invented the idea that his face is disgusting. The only reason he had removed it was because Aoba reassured him that he wouldn’t hate him just for his face because Clear is a kind person, a sort of “It’s what’s on the inside, not the outside” lesson that the robot learns from the gesture. But even after revealing is rather beautiful face, he still gets butterflies being exposed.
He is also scared of human mortality. His grandfather passed away gently in his sleep, so he would watch Aoba sleep to make sure he didn’t drift away just like his Grandfather. He knows that all humans die and he’s destined to live on passed them forever because he’s a machine, but that notion makes him uneasy. He cares so deeply for the fragile humans that he befriends that he worries about their well being more than his own.
Clear still strives to be as humanlike as he can. He is happy to know that he has a heart and soul so that he can have the same connection to humans as they do with each other. He knows that even though his body is a machine, he is capable of so much more because of his heart and takes pride in that.
Inventory: His clear umbrella, marbles, gas mask, and a jack knife.
Abilities: Clear’s abilities are superhuman strength and speed. He has a self-recovery function in his brain that repairs him constantly whether it’s with his hardware or his software. He has the power of “Dye Music” which is being able to tamper with human brainwaves to control them. But his own “Dye Music” is like an antidote to his Alpha brethrens’. Instead of using it to control people, he uses it to soothe people and dispel the ill effects of harsh “Dye Music”. (In addition to this, he has a lovely voice.)
He has fantastic hearing normally, but since he stabbed himself in his right ear and broke it beyond normal repair, it doesn’t work as well as his left. He can jump from rooftop to rooftop. He is a fast learner and can also cook very well!
Flaws: He is extremely naive. There are a lot of situations, feelings, and facts that he doesn’t understand, so that could get him or other people hurt. He’s a bit clumsy. He could also get himself broken for rash decisions that he makes to protect someone. He actually does so a few times during his route. He let himself get beaten up for Aoba, acid thrown on his face, and stabbed himself in the head with a knife. The latter resulted in him breaking down completely.
The way he reacts in a crisis, however, also all depends on the crisis. He can either face things bravely (Like he did against the Alphas) or he could flail around in a panic if he truly doesn’t know what he can do. (Like he did when having to save Granny Tae).
He can also lose control of his own strength. This ranges from accidentally breaking doors when trying to get in somewhere to nearly beating someone to death for hurting someone he loves.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
Yura yura!
Fuwa Fuwa!
Pika Pika!
Kira Kira
ACCEPTED!
Re: ACCEPTED!