Application for Teru Mikami from Death Note

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

((This application was approved by the other Death Note muns. Contains spoilers for the end of the series. More ooc information inside cut.))

((Mikami is taken from the final volume/episode, right after he writes everyone's name down but before finding out that the notebook he has is fake. This was purely so he'd know who Light and Near are.

He has the shinigami eyes. If he looks at someone's face, he can see their name and remaining lifespan. He probably won't mention this out loud, but if your character is dead, immortal, using an alias or has some other weirdness going on, please leave an OOC note so I can have him react to it. Thanks.))

He flung open the door of the Sorting Room, the manic grin on his face quickly vanishing as he realised that something was wrong. This was not the warehouse. This was not where he'd expected to be. More importantly, it wasn't where God had instructed him to be.

Unless this was a part of the plan he hadn't been told about, which was possible. God had never spontaneously transported him anywhere before, but that didn't mean it wasn't within his power. Or maybe this was the work of the enemy Nate River. Mikami hadn't been told anything to suggest that he had this kind of power, but it wouldn't be wise to rule it out completely.

The Notebook was still in his hand. He hastily slipped it into an inner pocket of his coat, disguising the gesture by taking his glasses out of the same pocket and putting them back on. He felt more secure with them anyway, even though he didn't need them to see any more.

Now, where was he? He looked round the room, keeping his expression carefully blank. There was a table in the centre of the room, with a quill and a sheet of paper resting on it. He walked over, and read the first question.

1. What is your favorite cheese? Why is it your favorite?

He frowned. "Emmenthal, I suppose, but what does that have to do with anything...?"

He trailed off as the quill stood up and began writing down his words. Well, he'd already known there were supernatural forces at work here. This just confirmed it.

2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop?

...were they mocking him?

It could be a test. If God was still unable to move freely he might send a message this way, using the apparent absurdity of the question as a smokescreen. Or it could be a trap set by his enemies, waiting to see how Mikami would react, what he might give away. He'd have to be cautious.

"I'd like to make it clear that I have no intention of committing murder." Perfectly true. Execution wasn't murder. "But in the hypothetical event of my having to choose, Carrottop. Barney at least aspires to some educational value."

3. What time is it where you are?

He answered without looking at his watch. "1:34 pm." And at least forty seconds, by now...

4. If you were Albus Dumbledore returned from the dead, which member of the Order of the Phoenix would you sexually harass? How would you harass them? If you are Albus Dumbledore, please answer as if you were Sirius Black.

For a second, for just a second, Mikami's neutral expression vanished, shock and disgust and rage all at once twisting his features. He shut his eyes, breathing deeply, forcing himself to regain control. It was vital that he didn't show weakness. This was clearly the work of God's enemies, a deliberate attempt to provoke him, and a reaction like that would play straight into their hands.

(but how dare they, how dare they insinuate that he would do that, he was God's right hand, he was pure and righteous and chosen and they were the ones who...)

"I would not," he answered, voice quiet but cold, "ever commit such an act. And I have no idea who this 'Albus Dumbledore' is." But by the sound of things, he'd earned his death.

5. If you are pushing to be in:

A. Slytherin - please state the clever, witty name of the bar in which you bartend, in the dark.

"...I don't drink." Moving on.

B. Gryffindor – Debate whether Harry should ultimately end up married to Fred or George. Use examples from a variety of world mythologies to bolster your argument.

"I don't know who any of those people are either. And I'm not interested in their personal lives."

C. Ravenclaw – You guys are supposed to be smart. Explain why my desk is inundated with paperwork at all times, even though I’m constantly disposing of it.

At least this one seemed to have a sensible answer. He frowned. "Either your job is one that simply requires you to deal with constant paperwork, or you're hopelessly inefficient and don't have a proper routine for managing it. Or both. Either way, I suggest you stop whining and get on with it."

D. Hufflepuff – Prove you are not useless.

He smiled, briefly, a strange, distant look in his eyes. Oh, he was far from useless. God had seen how he'd fought for righteousness, how he'd been taunted and humiliated and abused and never, never given in, and he had come to the earth to purify it, to eliminate all the scum who thought it their right to harm the innocent. And out of all Kira's followers God had chosen him, chosen Teru Mikami to help him in his work. God had granted him divine power...

He couldn't put that on the form, of course.

"I'm a sucessful prosecuting attorney." He paused, and when he spoke again his voice was different, softer, genuine passion in his words. "I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of justice."

6. Offer a bribe to the members of this community so that they will not squib you. Items used in bribery do not necessarily have to belong to the person offering the bribe. Do not threaten us rather than offering a bribe. A threat indicates you either don't really want to be here, or don't have enough sense to answer the question properly. The hat will automatically squib you, regardless of other votes, if you do.

He didn't bother trying to hide his anger this time. This was ridiculous. "Given that your organisation is so blatantly corrupt, I rather think I don't want to be here. In any case, all I have on me is my wallet, my cellphone, and a pen." And the Notebook, but he'd write his own name in it before he gave that up.

"I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG. _Teru Mikami_
I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them. _Teru Mikami_.
I agree to be a good sport and not get my knickers in a bunch. _Teru Mikami_.
One day, marmalade justice will rule the world. _Teru Mikami_"

"Now, would somebody please explain to me where I am?"

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[i-am-an-hero.livejournal.com]

A had noticed the moment of rage at the fourth question and approved; it was a filthy, nasty thing to ask.

"It's a school," he said softly. "A school called Hogwarts. For magic. And I don't think you have to be here."


((OOC: Yep, A's dead all right.))

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

((OOC: Dead means the name's struck out, right?))

"I see. Well, then..." Mikami turned to face the young man as he spoke, and completely lost track of the sentence when he saw his name. That wasn't normal...

He shook his head. Must stay focused. "I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted. I was... brought here rather unexpectedly. You say there's a way out?" He tried to open the door, but couldn't. "That wasn't locked when I came in."

[edomedpeddler.livejournal.com]

((Kusuriyuri isn't exactly human. Other shinigami players have been playing that his name isn't legible, written in something resembling archaic Japanese, but not quite, and his age is a very large number. Kusuriyuri is an occupational title meaning medicine seller/peddler))

It has been a while since Kusuriyuri returned to the room that deposited him in this strange world, a world devoid of mononoke and filled with many other dangers. This newcomer's focus was intent. "Pardon my forwardness," he asked softly, "but, what is the truth of justice?" His world still revolved around three factors, truth, form, and reason. He wanted to know what this newcomer meant by justice and if it were something that would be worth his interest.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

He looked at the name for a second, puzzled. It looked Japanese, if very archaic, but he couldn't seem to read it, and as for that lifespan... surely no human being could...

He blinked, hoping he could pass off the momentary distraction as him trying to arrange his thoughts. "Justice... Justice is what is right. Doing one's duty to society, protecting the innocent, punishing those who do harm."

[red-eyed-l.livejournal.com]

(Stone fucking dead, and also has shinigami eyes)

"Well, well, well, now this is peculiar. No lifespan, but you're still alive. Care to explain, Teru Mikami?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

He actually jumped back in shock. "I - have no idea what you're talking about."

[ringo-raver.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hey, it's you. Huh. Must have been while you have the Death Note, when you came, then, you're alive and you have no lifespan."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"...shinigami?" God had sent his messenger. This was such a relief to Mikami that he didn't really take in the actual words. He glanced round at the gathering crowd, and lowered his voice. "Are you sure we should be speaking to each other here?"

Presumably they couldn't see Ryuk, but they'd notice if he started talking to the air.

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

(He's an ex-Soichiro (Monty Python joke, stfu). Next tag, can he punch Mikami? Cause a) he can tell that Mikami's a Death Note user, and B) he found out the gritty details from Near.)

"Wha...YOU!" He lunged forward, intending to do something to him.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

((Sure he can.))

"Who -?" Mikami began, then leapt back as the man lunged for him - should have been more prepared for that, but he hadn't been physically attacked in years and maybe his reflexes weren't quite as sharp as they'd been. And he was distracted by the name. Not the strikethrough, the Yagami. It was a common enough name, but still...

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

Konata grinned. "You can keep your stuff, but only if I get a picture in return," she said, holding up the camera Mello sent her.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

He glared. "You're trying to blackmail me?"

[wright-phoenix.livejournal.com]

"Prosecutor? I hope you're not like Franziska."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know who Franziska is, so I couldn't say."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Near allowed himself a small, tight smile.

"So it's the late Teru Mikami. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised."



((OOC: Manga version of Near, so that's the version of events he remembers.))

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"You..."

This couldn't be happening. The others, he could accept, but not this.

"You. You, you're... you're dead!"

[misoramassacre.livejournal.com]

((At her last point Naomi was controlled by the Death Note but not actually dead; it's been played before that this equates to "dead" in shinigami-eye view))

Pursuit of justice. Huh. Despite her success at her former job, Naomi had not been particularly committed to any great principle as such. Perhaps this was part of why she'd acquiesced to leaving when Raye suggested it.

She'd seen and overheard just enough so that when she approached she was somewhat on her guard. "I'm not interested in your cell phone-" Not, that is, in the taking-it-as-a-bribe sense. In the "survey" sense, now... "-but does it work here?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Another dead one? But not with a name he recognised. That was something.

He took the phone out of his pocket. "...the battery's charged, but I don't seem to have a signal."

[darkwithoutme.livejournal.com]

"Mikami," he reads from the application.

So, this is the man that was there for Kira's failure, but due to the time warp that goes on it's too early to assume exactly when Teru was taken from. Light assesses Teru through the application and way he carries himself, allowing the other man to react to his presence.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

...and he turns, and sees him, and almost, almost falls to his knees, but not here. Not in front of all of them. He bows instead, lower than would be considered normal, and murmurs "My Lord," so that only God can hear.

It's going to be all right now, isn't it?

[caprica-6.livejournal.com]

((I'd imagine that Caprica's "true name" would just be 6, as that is her designation and Caprica is really just a nickname. And I have no idea how that would appear since she's a Cylon and technically biomechanical, so... go wild :-P ))

"What do you consider justice to be?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

((I don't know either... presumably if she can die she has a lifespan of some sort? *shrug*))

Her name was 6?

...that wasn't even the strangest thing he'd seen.

"You're the second person to ask me that. I didn't realise it was so hard to define."

[twoswordpsycho.livejournal.com]

((Drizzt also isn't human, so his true name would probably look like a script Mikami likely has never seen before. Mikami will probably also notice that Drizzt is around 75 but might have a lifespan of several hundred years...or not depending))

Drizzt was most impressed by the application. A fighter for justice, eh? But then fighters for justice could also be completely evil. Drizzt was intrigued enough to see if he was Gryffindor material or best watched out for.

"What does justice mean for you," Drizzt said. "How do you define it and how do you search or fight for it?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami was getting better at reacting to this kind of thing, and barely even blinked. He wondered whether this was a similar kind of being to Kusuriyuri. The medicine peddler had looked human though, mostly...

"How do I define it?" Why did everyone keep asking him that? "It's a question of doing one's duty, to the world and to society. Protecting the innocent, and punishing those who do harm."

[carriesapurse.livejournal.com]

(( you wrote: "if your character is dead, immortal, using an alias or has some other weirdness going on, please leave an OOC note so I can have him react to it. Thanks." Tinky Winky is a Teletubby, is probably immortal or demonic in origin, has a disembodied invisible Narrator following him everywhere ... Oh, and television shows can appear on his stomach. Also he has a magical handbag. Probably most of that is not relevant to your char ... hm, let's see: Mikami can definitely know his name is Tinky Winky but there is probably no lifespan data available. Also, I'm reposting this comment for pronoun errors.))

A large purple beast with a dead-white face lumbered into the Sorting Room, the ruby-red handbag over his arm swaying and sagging as though something heavy weighed it down.

His stiff mouth curved in an uncomfortable and insipid smile.

"Eh-oh!" lowed the purple beast.

A clearly audible voice, masculine in timbre, spoke unseen somewhere near its antennaed head. "One day in Hogwartstubbyland, Tinky Winky said hello to a new friend."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"...gahhh!" Mikami leapt back, almost crashing into the sorting table. Okay, he was getting better at dealing with the ones who looked mostly human. He wasn't prepared for this. There was only one creature he'd seen that looked even vaguely like that, and he didn't notice at first that this one had a visible name.

"...sh-shinigami?"

((I. LOVE. YOU.))

[lady-thujone.livejournal.com]

She only attended sortings on occasion, but this one got her attention. The uptight ones were always fun to tease, and even more fun to corrupt.

"Well, hello handsome," she purred, slinking up to him. "Not even a little drink? It's not healthy to be wound up too tightly, you know. You can snap that way. Why don't you let me help you relax?"


((OOC - La Fee Verte is the anthropomorphic personification of absinthe, and won't have a lifespan.))

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Another non-human. He barely even noticed by now. At least she wasn't enormous and purple.

"I don't think so."

[noseymaddie.livejournal.com]

So, having been intoxicated properly and recovered, Maddie is ready to try and get home again. Being utterly logical, she returns to the room she began in.

Or, at least she tells herself this is logical. She's trying to ignore the fact that she's been told it's not possible to leave. But, she would not be herself if she didn't try.

However, there is now a new person here. "Oh, hello," she murmurs, hiding her dismay at finding the room populated. She had hoped to pound on the walls without being observed. Nevertheless she smiles winningly. "New here? A bit barmy, this place." She holds out her hand, "Maddie Magellan."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"I think that's an understatement." He shakes her hand. "Teru Mikami. Pleased to meet you."

He is, kind of. She gave him her real name, and she's not dead. This is an improvement.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt reads the application before he actually spots Mikami, and it sounds alright. A little intense, maybe, but considering the two people he's closest to are L and Mello, he's used to that. And the 'pursuit of justice' thing isn't exactly something he's never encountered before.

It when he sees the applicant that it clicks.

"... this is getting kind of ridiculous now." Matt leans against the wall and lights a cigarette. "You were on Kira's Kingdom."

((EEEEEEEEEEEE and of course Matt's dead, so now lifespan and all that.))

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

Mikami gives him a disgusted look, that's only partly related to the cigarette. "I see. Another one."

((Hiii. :D))

[dinosaurman.livejournal.com]

"The pen, please, if you still have it," Grant said, holding out his hand. Pens were good to have here.

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

"That wasn't intended as an actual offer. I was simply pointing out that I have very little on me which could be used as a bribe."

He does have a spare pen. Two, in fact. He just likes the one he's using.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

((OOC note: Kurama is a demon in a human body, and without going into too many boring details, he'd be shown as having two names, and possibly two lifespans.))

His own sorting had lulled, so Kurama decided to wander over and see what the other potential students were up to. This one in particular caught his attention, someone so obsessive and nervously uptight that he could smell it across the room.

Glancing at the application, he turned his head to this 'Teru Mikami' and gave him a curious look.

"You're quite enamored with your occupation, aren't you."

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

He almost expected the bizarre names and lifespans by now, but two? That was quite disturbing. Although nowhere near as disturbing as the encounter with Tinky Winky.

It took him a second to process what the question had been. "It was always my ambition," he explained. "My purpose in life, to bring justice to evil."

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

A prosecuting attorney, and a successful one at that, might have his uses in the Hat's regime.

"What are your thoughts on refrigeration? For or against?"

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

It was a good thing Mikami had been warned about the Hat, or he might have yelped. As it was, he just blinked very rapidly.

"Refrigeration? ...well, as a means of preserving perishable foodstuffs, then for. If you meant something else then you'll have to be more specific."

...he couldn't quite believe he'd just answered that.

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

Count yourself lucky, Sassy McSasserson. There are those who could suit more than one House, and I have decided to be kind. You can bunk down with the wolf-riding koalas or something.

Welcome to Hufflepuff!

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

[Soichiro-mun here, I'm interested in popping Beyond in order to play Matt. He'd remember some things from Hogwarts, though not all. Just want to get your opinion/blessing/what have you.]

[righteous-pen.livejournal.com]

[That's cool with me! I'll miss Beyond, though. ;)]