sei (secretly a neckbeard brony)

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2016-11-04T20:25:11Z

SCRAP

Sei posses an ability he was born with called SCRAP, seemingly a form of telepathy. His power is in his eyes, allowing him to mix his consciousness with that of another persons as long as a.) their eyes meet for a few seconds and b.) they have not had their eyes replaced/altered to be immune to the effect. At the time this is occurring on a deeper level (the save/destroy aspect of SCRAP, which I'll cover later) neither person is aware of anything occurring outside of the mindscape.

SCRAP allows him to do multiple things:

Influence. Though at times SCRAP seems to be a form of control (and I've referred to it as such), it's more of a strong influence than anything. We've seen this aspect of it primarily through Aoba, Sei's brother, who holds the power in his voice rather than his eyes, and can even influence people into making purchases over the phone. For Sei, this works more along the lines of him looking someone in the eye and requesting they do something for him, and them being overcome with the feeling that they want or should do this. The influence is in no way absolute or unbeatable, however. If the person is aware they are being influenced by something outside of themselves, they can shake it off. If their eyes have been altered/are fake (such as Sei's "keepers", Trip and Virus, who were purposely given new eyes Sei could not effect) they will be completely immune to it.

Save/Destroy. This is the stranger aspect of SCRAP, and one in which the line in what Sei and Aoba can each do is harder to draw. Essentially, the mixing of consciousness goes beyond simple influence: Sei's consciousness goes directly into someone's subconscious. Whether this creates the mindscape seen, or the mindscape already exists is never really clarified, but one appears either way. The person's subconscious issues, complexes, fears, and desire manifest themselves in this mindscape. How it appears and how it is handled varies from person to person. For example, Koukaju's mindscape involved simply choosing the right words that he needs to hear. On the other hand, Mink's involves choosing to alter or not alter/interfere with the remembered events occurring and Clear's is choosing what decision Clear should make or if you should even influence that decision at all. (Spoilers: If you like Aoba with all his limbs, don't.)

This aspect is both tremendously helpful and incredibly dangerous. It can allow the user to help emotionally and mentally repair the receiver, working through deep-rooted issues and come to healing realizations...or, if done wrong/maliciously, it can absolutely destroy the receiver. Depending on how bad the damage is, the user can even be trapped inside the receiver's consciousness forever, enduring their horrific visions and illusions. It's even implied in one ending that dying in the mindscape leads to death in real life.

As with the influence, there's a caveat here too, one that disables the ability to enter one's mind: if the person is "empty inside". This is seen only once, in a bad route in which Aoba attempts to SCRAP the two who have kidnapped him and are holding him captive. Both are sociopaths, doing what they do only for their own momentary enjoyment. As such, there are no worries and anxieties or anything of that nature for SCRAP to affect. There are no concerns for it to grab onto.

Conscious Diffusion

Possibly related to SCRAP, Sei has the ability to break apart his consciousness, placing "pieces" of himself into technology. No specifics of it are really divulged and it's never shown how he does it, though it has been shown that they hold sentience, or at least the memory of Sei's thoughts and feelings. Essentially, it can be assumed that he sends these fragments through electrical impulses and radio waves, or something of the sort. This allows him to mentally escape the Oval Tower, observing the internet, sending messages to COILs (a futuristic bracelet/phone type thing), and even project his voice through other "experiments". It has also allowed him to alter the running of Oval Tower, setting it to self-destruct and opening doors for Aoba.

He can even manifest a faint image of himself if something in which he has placed a piece of himself in is nearby, such as when he appears in a flash to Aoba as he passes by a Rhyme match that Usui (a projection based off of Sei) is overseeing.

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2016-11-04T02:51:57Z

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fedoration @ 2015-09-17T23:52:00

2015-09-18T04:00:33Z

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Kazu
Are you 16 or older: Yep.
Contact: plurk: mackens | aim: satellitehearted
Current Characters: n/a.
Tag: sei

IN CHARACTER
Name: Sei
Canon: DRAMAtical Murder
Canon Point: Post-true route.
Age: 23

History: Wiki Page

Personality: Given that Sei is a minor character in the case of screen-time and doesn't appear until later in the game initially all there is to rely on for what he's like is the words of others. When we do finally meet Sei, it turns out that Virus and Trip were being honest in how the described him: Doll-like and fragile, living as if he were already dead.

Sei spent all twenty-three years of his life being "treasured beyond reach" by Toue, meaning he was subject to cruel experimentation with no regard for his pain or wishes. Aoba --serving as the audience surrogate-- theorizes in one of his bad endings that he became docile and complaint for the simple fact that he knew no one was coming to save him, and if he did what he was wanted of him, he would not be hurt. Because he knew that he would never be saved he opted to do nothing and feel nothing, giving up all hope and falling into despair, eventually coming to wish only for his own destruction.

Regardless, Sei is not so much a death seeker as simply worn-out, left with too little of himself to continue existing. Under Toue's control he would never be able to bring an end to his own life, so instead he lived only for the day when Aoba would come to destroy him instead.

Being experimented on and having his consciousness gradually dispersed, Sei has a weak sense of self and little "will". However, what will he does has seems to be stubborn. He longed so much for freedom from Toue and his experiments that he eventually began to scatter his consciousness into pieces, moving it through the technology around him. It was likely this that allowed Toue to begin using that ability for his own gains. Regardless, it was in this he found the freedom he wanted so badly, at the cost of his body and mind deteriorating and becoming even weaker.

Perhaps because he grew up in an environment where he had no ability to assert himself, Sei grew to be more than simply "docile": he's a gentle person, soft-spoken and polite. Even when Aoba attempts to refuse his requests to be destroyed, Sei doesn't raise his voice or get angry. He only smiles sadly and repeats his brother's name. He doesn't seem to be given to grudges and anger, as he says he does not resent Toue for what he was put through, even if it was painful every single day. He claims that no one truly knows right from wrong, and it is up to each person to decide what they are.

At an unknown point, Sei learned of Aoba's existence and began to long to meet the brother taken from him at birth. It may be because they truly were "one person" before birth, and that being genetically engineered 'designer' maybe gave them a more literal connection than a normal set of twins, but Sei clearly cares deeply for Aoba despite only truly meeting him in the tower near the end of the game. When Aoba asks for them to run away together, Sei admits that he wants to and he's happy that Aoba even asks to, though he's far too weak do so at this point. He loves Aoba enough that he even lets Ren, a part of Aoba's personality that has become it's own separate person, take over his body so Ren and Aoba can remain together. This is his "final gift" to Aoba, something that he knows will make the two of them happy.

He urges Aoba to accept the "other Aoba", the part of himself that controls his Scrap ability. Sei insists the other Aoba isn't a bad person, and only wants to be accepted. He does this with no clear benefit aside from simply resolving an issue Aoba has been struggling with for the entire game.

Nonetheless, Sei appears to be the sort of person who accepts things for what they are, and as they come. He says that he always wanted to meet Aoba, but if he couldn't, he'd be alright with that too. Despite this, it's hinted that Sei was lonely without Aoba, and he theorizes that he resorts to the form he and Aoba took at birth in his mind because that is the "time [he] always wanted to return to". At the start of the game, some of his consciousness materializes very quickly, simply to touch Aoba's cheek almost sentimentally before disappearing.

Sei shows himself to be, at the very least, concerned about others if not a compassionate person. In all of Dramatical Murder's good endings he carries out the destruction of Oval Tower, even when Aoba has not showed up to "free" him, successfully stopping Toue's attempt at brainwashing the entire population of Midorijima into following his will. It's also pointed out in each of the endings that around the time Sei's face appeared on all of the monitors in the building, a notice had been sent out to everyone within the tower warning them to get out before the tower's fall and preventing any innocent deaths whatsoever. He regards the destruction of the tower as his "duty" and his last struggle as someone who was powerless in his life, but doesn't seem to want to cause any unnecessary casualties doing so.

In a life of constant pain and being nothing more than a test subject to the people around him, he managed to hold onto his good nature, even if only long enough to have his brother end his life.

Abilities/Skills: Sei naturally was born with the power of "Scrap" which allows him to do two things: He has the ability to control and influence people, however, as opposed to using his voice as Aoba does, Sei's power instead lies in his eyes.

Whether his ability to go inside people's heads works the same way that Aoba's does (Aoba can see their "mental worlds" and destroy their minds, if he chooses.) is never really divulged.

Additionally, he has the ability to scatter his consciousness and inject it into technology by using radio waves.

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2014-03-02T19:58:26Z

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