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knifedancesIzaya just loves humans. Human observation is his 'hobby' and his all-consuming interest, something that's evidenced right down to his career as an information broker (a position he 'fell' into quite naturally because of his in-depth knowledge of people and Tokyo's underworld even from high-school age). He possesses genius-level intellect and is able to determine a wealth of information about a person based entirely on subtle cues such as body-language and tone of voice. In canon he also sits at the center of a complicated web of information, utilising myriad sources within the city of Tokyo who all report back to him. In games he either won't have the use of his extensive information network or it'll take time for him to build one back up (something he'll certainly attempt to do) but he will be able to determine a lot of information simply from observation, holding conversations with people, through stalking the network and reading through other people's conversations, sometimes in-person covert stalking etc. He won't always be doing this with everyone (though he's likely to casually look over all conversations and retain or discard information depending on whether he finds it useful or not) but because the world of RP is a shared hobby and not everyone will be down with this kind of behaviour, consider this an opt-out (or opt-in! whatever you like!) post.
I'll never use information that I haven't been given permission to use before-hand, and there will have to be a discernible way for him to get his hands on it. For example, if you describe your character's emotional state in the action brackets, Izaya could pick it up from subtle cues in tone of voice/facial expression/wording of a sentence etc. He'll never just ~*~magically~*~ pull information from thin air, there has to be a physical source of some kind (if it's extensive information eg. history of a character he's discerning we'd need to plot out before-hand how he gathered the information!).
Also, he's not a nice guy, he may love humans but the situations he most loves to see them in are ones that instigate trauma/emotional disturbance/unsettled dispositions. He'll do things to disconcert and unsettle your characters if he can get away with it/just for fun.
SO I understand completely if you'd rather avoid this kind of interaction. Just give me a heads-up here if you'd rather Izaya didn't do these things with your characters or if you'd rather avoid interaction with him entirely. Alternatively, feel free to tell me here if you'd especially like to have some less-than-pleasant interaction with Izaya!
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:00 pm (UTC)I think that covers everything???
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Date: 2012-01-02 11:46 pm (UTC)I wish him luck, though. Caesar, behind the eye-rolling and frumpiness, is a sharp mind trained in all manner of warfare, manipulation, and similar douchebaggery, haha. He's just learned to channel it into more productive things? xD
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Date: 2012-01-03 11:09 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm always good for things to be made hard for him, he has it too easy most of the time!
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Date: 2012-02-24 01:00 am (UTC)Anyway TL;DR I would love to plot stuff out with you if you're interested.
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Date: 2012-02-24 01:15 am (UTC)Is there anything in particular you were thinking of? Any weaknesses, things that would work particularly well for her, stuff like that?
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Date: 2012-02-24 04:58 am (UTC)Mello's decent at computer security, though not amazing. If you want Izaya to hack something, let's talk?
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Date: 2012-02-24 08:26 am (UTC)And sure! I'd never get him to hack anything without asking anyway (unless explicitly stated as hackable XD)
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Date: 2012-02-25 03:09 am (UTC)He's decent at computers but not the most tech-savvy person in his canon, so pretty much everything he posts should be open to Izaya. He definitely has stuff he'd rather people not know, but the biggest secret he's likely to find is that the troll has some weird hangup about his own blood.
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Date: 2012-02-26 03:11 am (UTC)Also I just want to say that I'm so glad we have an Izaya again. I really love throwing Rose against him, sob.
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Date: 2012-02-26 03:34 am (UTC).///. ah, hopefully I'll be able to do him justice then. I still get anxious about my characterisation of him even after 9 months of playing him lol
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Date: 2012-10-31 04:26 pm (UTC)CREEPERS GONNA CREEP, Venom will probably creep in turn, so hooray!
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:51 am (UTC)Though, Ninurta is rather visibly not human (horns and ears and all) so idk if that puts a wrench in things or not. Either way, though, I'm chill with however it pans out.
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Date: 2012-11-01 10:23 am (UTC)He'd have a detached kind on interest at the very least.
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Date: 2012-11-08 06:36 pm (UTC)He can be as much of a jerk as he wants to Ulquiorra, but he's unlikely to get a reaction beyond 'trash' unless he goes all the way to attacking someone important to him. He'll also probably have a hard time reading Ulqui at first because what is body language.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:15 pm (UTC)And lmao thanks, I'll bear all this in mind!
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Date: 2012-11-09 09:41 am (UTC)He's actually been a little careful; never sending his coordinates out on the network. That'll just probably barely delay Izaya in knowing these things, though. That and he has a cat... named Yuuhei. Eventually he'll figure these things out, so how long it takes is up to you!
I'm actually fine with pretty much everything with Botan and Lily, too. Just watch out for getting too close, physically, to anywhere she spends a lot of time. It's a wee bit toxic and could make someone a touch loopy after a while.
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Date: 2012-11-09 09:56 am (UTC)And cool, I'll bear that in mind!!
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Date: 2012-11-09 05:57 pm (UTC)Plus she wears her heart on her sleeve, so she's laughably easy to read.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:31 pm (UTC)But no, seriously. My answer to this should be obvious.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:40 pm (UTC)so idk, he'd be pretty easy to read and mess with.
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Date: 2012-11-09 09:11 pm (UTC)and while i don't think she'd ever intentionally harm another person, i think if pushed, she'd react desperately enough to sic her demons on him, so... :x
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Date: 2012-11-09 09:16 pm (UTC)And awesome, I like playing out repercussions keke~
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