Name: Rae Main Journal:aircrash Contact Info: AIM @ last laugh blues; gmail.com @ themeansbywhichallisrevealed; or LJ Message! Played Characters: nooooobody yet! c: AC Reminders: LJ Message @ aircrash would be fine!
Name: Beyond Birthday [aliases: B, Backup, Rue Ryuzaki, etc. - thinks of himself as B; usually introduces himself as Ryuzaki]] Age: Never specified in canon; estimated around 20 years. Species: Human, with minor shinigami traits.
Series: Death Note - Another Note [spinoff novel detailing events referenced in both the manga and anime versions of Death Note] OU/AU: OU Canon Point: August 22, 2002, just after parting ways with Naomi Misora to begin the “stakeout.”
History: There are articles at both Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_characters#Beyond_Birthday) and the Death Note Wiki (http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Birthday), but neither is terribly complete or accurate; my own canon history write-up follows:
There are not many specific facts known about Beyond Birthday from the text of Another Note before the events of the story in question. What is known, however, is that both of his parents were killed when he was quite young - his father was murdered by a thug, his mother died in a train crash - and he was eventually brought to the Wammy’s House orphanage in Winchester, England, to participate in a rigorous detective training program as B - Backup for the genius detective L.
B was the second candidate enrolled in the program, a child with a brilliant mind and an eccentric demeanor; the first candidate, A, was unable to cope with the various pressures of the intense training program and committed suicide. B excelled in the program for many years, yet ultimately was not chosen as L’s successor, for reasons not specified. It is speculated, however, that the first generation of trainees was perhaps meant to act as prototypes for the program, never intended to actually succeed as a successor to L. B disappeared from the House around May of 2002 - again, for reasons not specified - shortly before orchestrating what would come to be known as the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases in July and August of that same year.
The series of elaborate, grisly killings involved three victims, each seemingly unrelated to the next, save for the fact that each was found in a room locked from the inside, a decreasing number of Wara Ningyo dolls was nailed to the walls of the rooms where the victims were found, and each victim’s first and last name began with the same letter. Believe Bridesmaid, a 44-year-old freelance writer, was drugged and asphyxiated to death with a rope, with post-mortem cuts made on his chest, a code designed to indicate the second victim. Quarter Queen, a 13-year-old girl, was drugged and killed via blunt force trauma to her head; her eyes were crushed in post-mortem. Backyard Bottomslash, a 28-year-old bank worker, died from severe blood loss when her left arm and right leg were hacked off; the arm was never recovered.
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Name: Rae
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Contact Info: AIM @ last laugh blues; gmail.com @ themeansbywhichallisrevealed; or LJ Message!
Played Characters: nooooobody yet! c:
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Name: Beyond Birthday [aliases: B, Backup, Rue Ryuzaki, etc. - thinks of himself as B; usually introduces himself as Ryuzaki]]
Age: Never specified in canon; estimated around 20 years.
Species: Human, with minor shinigami traits.
Series: Death Note - Another Note [spinoff novel detailing events referenced in both the manga and anime versions of Death Note]
OU/AU: OU
Canon Point: August 22, 2002, just after parting ways with Naomi Misora to begin the “stakeout.”
History: There are articles at both Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_characters#Beyond_Birthday) and the Death Note Wiki (http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Birthday), but neither is terribly complete or accurate; my own canon history write-up follows:
There are not many specific facts known about Beyond Birthday from the text of Another Note before the events of the story in question. What is known, however, is that both of his parents were killed when he was quite young - his father was murdered by a thug, his mother died in a train crash - and he was eventually brought to the Wammy’s House orphanage in Winchester, England, to participate in a rigorous detective training program as B - Backup for the genius detective L.
B was the second candidate enrolled in the program, a child with a brilliant mind and an eccentric demeanor; the first candidate, A, was unable to cope with the various pressures of the intense training program and committed suicide. B excelled in the program for many years, yet ultimately was not chosen as L’s successor, for reasons not specified. It is speculated, however, that the first generation of trainees was perhaps meant to act as prototypes for the program, never intended to actually succeed as a successor to L. B disappeared from the House around May of 2002 - again, for reasons not specified - shortly before orchestrating what would come to be known as the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases in July and August of that same year.
The series of elaborate, grisly killings involved three victims, each seemingly unrelated to the next, save for the fact that each was found in a room locked from the inside, a decreasing number of Wara Ningyo dolls was nailed to the walls of the rooms where the victims were found, and each victim’s first and last name began with the same letter. Believe Bridesmaid, a 44-year-old freelance writer, was drugged and asphyxiated to death with a rope, with post-mortem cuts made on his chest, a code designed to indicate the second victim. Quarter Queen, a 13-year-old girl, was drugged and killed via blunt force trauma to her head; her eyes were crushed in post-mortem. Backyard Bottomslash, a 28-year-old bank worker, died from severe blood loss when her left arm and right leg were hacked off; the arm was never recovered.