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Apr. 18th, 2025 07:14 pmAPPLICATION
NAME: Lucifer Lovestruck (it's luc you can call me luc)
AGE: over 30
CONTACT: disco love.struck or![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
love_letters
CHARACTER(S): None
INVITED BY: Sipp!
NAME: Cater Diamond
AGE: 19 (Official work puts him at 18, but his birthday has passed by his canonpoint)
CANON: Twisted Wonderland
CANON POINT: Just after Book 7 starts, right after the Junior Internship Meeting
SUITABILITY: Quick thinking, fun, flirty, fresh, and fancy free, Cater's an influencer with highly social attitude and a personality just begging to dip into its addictive side. Thanks to his tendency to keep relationships at arms length, he can handle the convoluted relationship web that comes naturally with a setting where characters can turn to stone at any time. He's a great cr opportunity whether or not you want smut CR with him because he's so good at socially accommodating, a real extrovert who can make passing the time fun with a simple conversation.
HISTORY:
Cater was born to a very average family with a mom, dad, and two big sisters. His dad's job required them to move all around the Shaftlands, which is a confusing country that kind of seems to be like Fancy Fantasy PartofEuropeandalsoHollywoodsomewhere, or something, at least in terms of culture. As a result, Cater was never in one school for very long and never really made lasting connections with his peers despite being outgoing and sociable. His well-meaning but bossy sisters were quite imposing at this time, leading to Cater often being forced to do things such as abide to a certain standard of girly cuteness that exceeded his tastes or even to just eat the endless sweets they made once they found a passion for baking.
We don't get much information on it, but sometime during that era, Cater manifests his magical ability, and apparently shows such promise with it that he is considered a good mage prospective and is invited to Night Raven College.
Two full school years before the story starts, Cater is sorted into Heartslabyul. The housewarden is rowdy, which at first is fun— but the chaos of the house eventually starts to get exhausting. Students grades suffer with a lack of structure and support. Within weeks of his second year, all five-foot-nothing of prodigy freshman Riddle Rosehearts waltzes in and takes the Housewarden seat for himself, installing Cater's roommate, Trey Clover, as his Vice. The flip from a lawless housewarden to the most lawful one you've ever conceived of is sudden, and tough, but Heartslabyul dropouts halt immediately. A year under the tyrant, and everyone's marks are as high as they could earn, but the students feel suffocated. Still, content not to disturb the peace and enjoying his position in Riddle's blind spot, Cater overlooks Riddle's behavior. After all— they're not friends. What obligation does Cater have to the situation?
In Cater's third year a mysterious, magic-less person falls through a mirror and into their orientation ceremony alongside a magical beast (previously unassociated). While Cater thinks nothing of it at first, that person and the magical beast are accepted as one student at the school, and get involved with two Heartslabyul freshman Cater has decided are his fun little baby projects for the year. In an instant, everything is flipped on its head when the stress of enforcing rules even he doesn't want to follow causes the hotheaded Riddle Rosehearts to Overblot, endangering the lives of the students Cater has become endeared to.
Terrified and out of his element, Cater's first instinct is to want to run— to go find one of the more capable, licensed adult mages to help them, but to run nevertheless. Ace, one of the two freshmen and the real inciter of Riddle's wrath, calls him out for abandoning a 'friend', challenging Cater by essentially saying that the easy way out is the boring, cowardly way. Forced to face the growing feelings he has for the people around him, Cater summons his courage and uses his unique magic to help the mysterious new student and the other boys disarm and disable Riddle, pulling him back from the brink.
Once Riddle is subdued, has recovered, and things begin to return to normal, Cater is changed. He may still value the distance he has between himself and others, but it becomes clear that he is becoming more fond of Riddle, Trey, Ace, and Deuce. He puts more effort into bonding with Riddle and helping Riddle with his anger and stress after the Overblot, often being the one to defend Riddle's growth when others continue to call him a tyrant post-overblot.
Since then, Cater has helped in another case of Overblotting as well, present for it when Leona loses his cool over a botched, underhanded Spelldrive scheme. While he isn't present for the following Overblots, he is aware when Riddle and the other overblotters are abducted, and is a part of the effort to maintain order in Heartslabyul while Riddle is missing.
At his canonpoint, Riddle has returned with the other overblotters and for now it seems all is settled and safe. The end of the school year approaches, and juniors like Cater have all gathered up for the internships they will spend their senior year training under. It's a normal and routine event for seniors, but Cater is treated to some surprising revelations about his classmates— and leaves the meeting just before he arrives at the casino.
ABILITIES: Cater is capable of using magic. The way I understand it, magic users in Twisted Wonderland manifest magic on their own at first, and then if they become proficient enough to be invited to a magic school, they are given a magestone that both acts as a focus and also a meter for monitoring the build up of negative energy within the user.
It's not required to use a magestone to cast every spell, and apparently not for very simple spells especially, as we hear plenty of times that untrained/unlicensed mages use minor spells. It's just dangerous to do Real Magic without it, as a mage can't monitor whether they are accumulating blot faster than normal. I would love to use this aspect of his abilities to force Cater to try to earn back his Magical Pen faster, because he can't imagine stopping using his magic but begins to fear he's accumulating blot without the magestone.
Cater seems to be pretty okay at magic— definitely not as good as Vil or Leona, who have much more dedicated training regimens, but far from the lowest in his grade and reasonably more skilled than most of his underclassmen, and is apparently considered by some classmates to be a fairly formidable magical duelist. It's possible that in some applications of magic he may be holding back a certain amount of skill, but he also does openly struggle with certain kinds of magic, specifically ones that rely on formulaic composition... and any other particular kind that doesn't hold his interest.
Though he isn't the top of his class (hard to be when your competition is literally a dragon), Cater's unique magic seems to be very unique indeed in that no other students in the cast have a spell quite like it. "Split Card" allows Cater to duplicate himself several times, similar to how a shadow clone jutsu would work in Naruto. He can't sustain the duplicates forever, but he can sustain a fair number of them. They seem to all share the same thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and aren't capable of developing their own personalities. If the duplicates are killed, they erupt into a burst of magical cards and disappear.
While the scope of all characters magical capabilities in Twisted Wonderland is wide, vague, and somewhat undefined, I only plan to ever have Cater use simple cantrips and physical manipulation magic (his favorite mastered spell involves resetting objects, such as dishes and cups, to their original storage spaces). They are able to use elemental spells in the game but in other content Cater is shown to lean toward more themed magic and is more likely to hit you with a bunch of cards than, say, blow fire magic at you or summon a cauldron to drop on your head. Twisted Wonderland may say it's possible for him to do, but the likelihood is p low, especially since Cater loves style.
VICES:
ADDICTIVE TENDENCIES: While Cater's normally pretty responsible and moderate and this isn't expressed through substance dependency, he has a somewhat casually addictive personality, the kind where you don't necessarily notice it in its infancy. The first instinct is to consider his phone, but Cater views his position as influencer as an actual job, and considers the hours he puts into his phone to be functional. But with a deeper look, while the work Cater puts in and his skill is all very real, it's plain to see he's emotionally dependent on the feedback he gets from his screen.
SELF-ISOLATING: Always being the new kid gave Cater a bit of a complex.
VIRTUES:
CONSIDERATE: No, not in the sense that Cater's polite. A direct reflection of Cater's vice of appeasement, it's more that he LITERALLY considers people almost entirely, at least to the point that he knows them. Thanks to his little information addiction, Cater is often the person to note issues about others that might be important to their comfort in situations. For instance, when an unspeakably wealthy and well known friend who has been kidnapped in the past, Kalim, comes along with Cater and some others to a theme park, another classmate immediately assumes that Cater is going to post their pictures online as they go. However, as Cater explains, that would be a risk to Kalim's safety as someone could use their photos to pinpoint his location, and he doesn't post the photos online until several days after their trip. While Cater is not an exception the the rule that NRC boys can be selfish, he is generally going to be the first person to mention the group should consider things such as including Malleus, minding Kalim's safety, or not doing things that would cause Riddle to blow his top. Even though, again, there are elements of appeasement to it, Cater also does care about the wellbeing of the people around him and thinks it's normal to do so even when you're as detached as he is, often being the one to point out when others are being cold.
SUIT REQUESTS:
DIAMONDS - The obvious request, because he's Cater Diamond. Actually, both of my suit requests are based in canon dialogue with Cater; he explains that the Housewarden chooses suits for the freshmen when they join Heartslabyul's dorm, and that he was praying for a Diamond or Heart... because he would have rather not switched up his normal makeup routine to pick up black makeup. He would have been fine with the others, too, but those matched his aesthetic.
On the deeper side of it, there's two reasons to request diamond; The first being that Leona and Vil are already diamonds. While they're in the same class year, there is no real solidarity between them; Cater is lower ranking, they're all in different houses, etc. Sharing a suit would tug on Cater's hidden desire for belonging and deeper companionship, and of course he's personally inclined toward the shape anyway, so he'd be more likely to engage with Leona, Vil, and sharers of the Diamond suite.
On the activation side, Diamond has features that I'm confident in writing, and that I'm confident would probably spur Cater into action. While less so than Hearts, the symptoms are ones that would require Cater to seek out intimacy in a way he doesn't normally.
HEARTS- As above again Cater was happy to get assigned either Hearts or Diamonds in Heartslabyul, though it would seem he took the aesthetic more seriously. There's a chance that had he been assigned Hearts like Ace, he would be harping on the motif even more; hearts are so cute for social applications, after all. He'd totally do some kind of pose over his heart and be like, "like and subscribe~" even if that heart was a sex-inducing suit.
My request for Hearts is less on the Cater-would-want-it side and more on the side that the suit requires things of Cater that he normally isn't eager to seek. Cheap, casual intimacy is fine, but the Hearts symptoms often call for a need to satisfy emotional needs in addition to the physical ones. Cater would rather keep people distant and not get attached, and being forced to actually address the need for deeper relationships by his suit would be really interesting. It would happen either way, but more intensely so with Hearts suit symptoms.
RANK REQUESTS: I have no particular request. I'm biased toward things that are at least a little bit funny in context but considering who his castmates are it'll be silly and fun no matter where he ends up, so I'm really good with anything.
SAMPLES: LINK SAMPLES.
OOC
NAME: Lucifer Lovestruck (it's luc you can call me luc)
AGE: over 30
CONTACT: disco love.struck or
CHARACTER(S): None
INVITED BY: Sipp!
IC
NAME: Cater Diamond
AGE: 19 (Official work puts him at 18, but his birthday has passed by his canonpoint)
CANON: Twisted Wonderland
CANON POINT: Just after Book 7 starts, right after the Junior Internship Meeting
SUITABILITY: Quick thinking, fun, flirty, fresh, and fancy free, Cater's an influencer with highly social attitude and a personality just begging to dip into its addictive side. Thanks to his tendency to keep relationships at arms length, he can handle the convoluted relationship web that comes naturally with a setting where characters can turn to stone at any time. He's a great cr opportunity whether or not you want smut CR with him because he's so good at socially accommodating, a real extrovert who can make passing the time fun with a simple conversation.
HISTORY:
Cater was born to a very average family with a mom, dad, and two big sisters. His dad's job required them to move all around the Shaftlands, which is a confusing country that kind of seems to be like Fancy Fantasy PartofEuropeandalsoHollywoodsomewhere, or something, at least in terms of culture. As a result, Cater was never in one school for very long and never really made lasting connections with his peers despite being outgoing and sociable. His well-meaning but bossy sisters were quite imposing at this time, leading to Cater often being forced to do things such as abide to a certain standard of girly cuteness that exceeded his tastes or even to just eat the endless sweets they made once they found a passion for baking.
We don't get much information on it, but sometime during that era, Cater manifests his magical ability, and apparently shows such promise with it that he is considered a good mage prospective and is invited to Night Raven College.
Two full school years before the story starts, Cater is sorted into Heartslabyul. The housewarden is rowdy, which at first is fun— but the chaos of the house eventually starts to get exhausting. Students grades suffer with a lack of structure and support. Within weeks of his second year, all five-foot-nothing of prodigy freshman Riddle Rosehearts waltzes in and takes the Housewarden seat for himself, installing Cater's roommate, Trey Clover, as his Vice. The flip from a lawless housewarden to the most lawful one you've ever conceived of is sudden, and tough, but Heartslabyul dropouts halt immediately. A year under the tyrant, and everyone's marks are as high as they could earn, but the students feel suffocated. Still, content not to disturb the peace and enjoying his position in Riddle's blind spot, Cater overlooks Riddle's behavior. After all— they're not friends. What obligation does Cater have to the situation?
In Cater's third year a mysterious, magic-less person falls through a mirror and into their orientation ceremony alongside a magical beast (previously unassociated). While Cater thinks nothing of it at first, that person and the magical beast are accepted as one student at the school, and get involved with two Heartslabyul freshman Cater has decided are his fun little baby projects for the year. In an instant, everything is flipped on its head when the stress of enforcing rules even he doesn't want to follow causes the hotheaded Riddle Rosehearts to Overblot, endangering the lives of the students Cater has become endeared to.
Terrified and out of his element, Cater's first instinct is to want to run— to go find one of the more capable, licensed adult mages to help them, but to run nevertheless. Ace, one of the two freshmen and the real inciter of Riddle's wrath, calls him out for abandoning a 'friend', challenging Cater by essentially saying that the easy way out is the boring, cowardly way. Forced to face the growing feelings he has for the people around him, Cater summons his courage and uses his unique magic to help the mysterious new student and the other boys disarm and disable Riddle, pulling him back from the brink.
Once Riddle is subdued, has recovered, and things begin to return to normal, Cater is changed. He may still value the distance he has between himself and others, but it becomes clear that he is becoming more fond of Riddle, Trey, Ace, and Deuce. He puts more effort into bonding with Riddle and helping Riddle with his anger and stress after the Overblot, often being the one to defend Riddle's growth when others continue to call him a tyrant post-overblot.
Since then, Cater has helped in another case of Overblotting as well, present for it when Leona loses his cool over a botched, underhanded Spelldrive scheme. While he isn't present for the following Overblots, he is aware when Riddle and the other overblotters are abducted, and is a part of the effort to maintain order in Heartslabyul while Riddle is missing.
At his canonpoint, Riddle has returned with the other overblotters and for now it seems all is settled and safe. The end of the school year approaches, and juniors like Cater have all gathered up for the internships they will spend their senior year training under. It's a normal and routine event for seniors, but Cater is treated to some surprising revelations about his classmates— and leaves the meeting just before he arrives at the casino.
ABILITIES: Cater is capable of using magic. The way I understand it, magic users in Twisted Wonderland manifest magic on their own at first, and then if they become proficient enough to be invited to a magic school, they are given a magestone that both acts as a focus and also a meter for monitoring the build up of negative energy within the user.
It's not required to use a magestone to cast every spell, and apparently not for very simple spells especially, as we hear plenty of times that untrained/unlicensed mages use minor spells. It's just dangerous to do Real Magic without it, as a mage can't monitor whether they are accumulating blot faster than normal. I would love to use this aspect of his abilities to force Cater to try to earn back his Magical Pen faster, because he can't imagine stopping using his magic but begins to fear he's accumulating blot without the magestone.
Cater seems to be pretty okay at magic— definitely not as good as Vil or Leona, who have much more dedicated training regimens, but far from the lowest in his grade and reasonably more skilled than most of his underclassmen, and is apparently considered by some classmates to be a fairly formidable magical duelist. It's possible that in some applications of magic he may be holding back a certain amount of skill, but he also does openly struggle with certain kinds of magic, specifically ones that rely on formulaic composition... and any other particular kind that doesn't hold his interest.
Though he isn't the top of his class (hard to be when your competition is literally a dragon), Cater's unique magic seems to be very unique indeed in that no other students in the cast have a spell quite like it. "Split Card" allows Cater to duplicate himself several times, similar to how a shadow clone jutsu would work in Naruto. He can't sustain the duplicates forever, but he can sustain a fair number of them. They seem to all share the same thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and aren't capable of developing their own personalities. If the duplicates are killed, they erupt into a burst of magical cards and disappear.
While the scope of all characters magical capabilities in Twisted Wonderland is wide, vague, and somewhat undefined, I only plan to ever have Cater use simple cantrips and physical manipulation magic (his favorite mastered spell involves resetting objects, such as dishes and cups, to their original storage spaces). They are able to use elemental spells in the game but in other content Cater is shown to lean toward more themed magic and is more likely to hit you with a bunch of cards than, say, blow fire magic at you or summon a cauldron to drop on your head. Twisted Wonderland may say it's possible for him to do, but the likelihood is p low, especially since Cater loves style.
VICES:
ADDICTIVE TENDENCIES: While Cater's normally pretty responsible and moderate and this isn't expressed through substance dependency, he has a somewhat casually addictive personality, the kind where you don't necessarily notice it in its infancy. The first instinct is to consider his phone, but Cater views his position as influencer as an actual job, and considers the hours he puts into his phone to be functional. But with a deeper look, while the work Cater puts in and his skill is all very real, it's plain to see he's emotionally dependent on the feedback he gets from his screen.
SELF-ISOLATING: Always being the new kid gave Cater a bit of a complex.
VIRTUES:
CONSIDERATE: No, not in the sense that Cater's polite. A direct reflection of Cater's vice of appeasement, it's more that he LITERALLY considers people almost entirely, at least to the point that he knows them. Thanks to his little information addiction, Cater is often the person to note issues about others that might be important to their comfort in situations. For instance, when an unspeakably wealthy and well known friend who has been kidnapped in the past, Kalim, comes along with Cater and some others to a theme park, another classmate immediately assumes that Cater is going to post their pictures online as they go. However, as Cater explains, that would be a risk to Kalim's safety as someone could use their photos to pinpoint his location, and he doesn't post the photos online until several days after their trip. While Cater is not an exception the the rule that NRC boys can be selfish, he is generally going to be the first person to mention the group should consider things such as including Malleus, minding Kalim's safety, or not doing things that would cause Riddle to blow his top. Even though, again, there are elements of appeasement to it, Cater also does care about the wellbeing of the people around him and thinks it's normal to do so even when you're as detached as he is, often being the one to point out when others are being cold.
SUIT REQUESTS:
DIAMONDS - The obvious request, because he's Cater Diamond. Actually, both of my suit requests are based in canon dialogue with Cater; he explains that the Housewarden chooses suits for the freshmen when they join Heartslabyul's dorm, and that he was praying for a Diamond or Heart... because he would have rather not switched up his normal makeup routine to pick up black makeup. He would have been fine with the others, too, but those matched his aesthetic.
On the deeper side of it, there's two reasons to request diamond; The first being that Leona and Vil are already diamonds. While they're in the same class year, there is no real solidarity between them; Cater is lower ranking, they're all in different houses, etc. Sharing a suit would tug on Cater's hidden desire for belonging and deeper companionship, and of course he's personally inclined toward the shape anyway, so he'd be more likely to engage with Leona, Vil, and sharers of the Diamond suite.
On the activation side, Diamond has features that I'm confident in writing, and that I'm confident would probably spur Cater into action. While less so than Hearts, the symptoms are ones that would require Cater to seek out intimacy in a way he doesn't normally.
HEARTS- As above again Cater was happy to get assigned either Hearts or Diamonds in Heartslabyul, though it would seem he took the aesthetic more seriously. There's a chance that had he been assigned Hearts like Ace, he would be harping on the motif even more; hearts are so cute for social applications, after all. He'd totally do some kind of pose over his heart and be like, "like and subscribe~" even if that heart was a sex-inducing suit.
My request for Hearts is less on the Cater-would-want-it side and more on the side that the suit requires things of Cater that he normally isn't eager to seek. Cheap, casual intimacy is fine, but the Hearts symptoms often call for a need to satisfy emotional needs in addition to the physical ones. Cater would rather keep people distant and not get attached, and being forced to actually address the need for deeper relationships by his suit would be really interesting. It would happen either way, but more intensely so with Hearts suit symptoms.
RANK REQUESTS: I have no particular request. I'm biased toward things that are at least a little bit funny in context but considering who his castmates are it'll be silly and fun no matter where he ends up, so I'm really good with anything.
SAMPLES: LINK SAMPLES.
