[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: mono
AGE: 22
JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
monopoly
IM: ERT KEY
PLURK: citizenmono
E-MAIL: monopoly210@gmail.com
RETURNING: n/a
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sergeant Major Kululu
SERIES: Sgt. Frog
CHRONOLOGY: end of episode 51
CLASS: villain
BACKGROUND:
First and foremost, I'd like to explain about how Sgt. Frog treats the fourth wall. The narrator and "Mr. Caption" (otherwise known as any caption that appears on the screen) are considered members of the cast and interact with the characters as well as the audience. For this reason the fourth wall is punctured quite often, and that is the reason for Kululu's powerset which you'll see further on in the app.
Sgt. Frog is supposedly set in ~our universe~ in the year 2009. Naturally this makes the world of Sgt. Frog one of those "just like the universe we live in but slightly different" scenarios. Here's the deal: we begin on the planet Keron, which is far away from Earth. An alien race of oversized talking frogs happens to live there. Keron is a military power, known for conquering countless other planets and enslaving the native peoples therein. So, the story begins with an F-rank platoon being sent out to conquer a planet that should be relatively easy to take over: Earth.
This platoon, unfortunately named the Advance Recon Mission Preparatory Invasion Terror (ARMPIT) Platoon, consists of five frogs. Keroro, the leader who is the opposite of street smart and tends to blow the platoon's budget on Gundam models; Tamama, the lowest ranking member of the squad whose nickname is "cannon fodder"; Giroro, the weapons specialist who shows he cares by annihilating the object of his affections with heavy weaponry; Dororo, the ninja frog that nobody ever remembers; and Kululu, the creepy nerd.
Naturally, since the ARMPIT platoon is involved, the invasion is a complete failure. The platoon is split up for plot convenience immediately upon arriving at Earth, and just to add insult to injury Keroro manages to let their most powerful weapon get into the hands of a fourteen year old Japanese schoolkid named Fuyuki. Fuyuki promptly mishandles the weapon and accidentally sends a distress signal to the rest of the Keronian fleet telling them to flee from Earth because the Earthlings are too strong to enslave. Thus begins the platoon's never-ending mission on Earth, referred to by the Keronians exclusively as "Pekopon", for whatever reason.
To make a long story slightly shorter, the platoon settles in to life in Japan. Through a series of shenanigans, Keroro manages to reunite the scattered platoon; he finds Tamama living with one of Fuyuki's schoolmates, Kululu living with one of Fuyuki's sister's schoolmates, Giroro living in the wilderness and Dororo...well, they never go looking for Dororo, he just shows up after a while. That sort of thing happens a lot in this show.
The show revolves around the five platoon members and the humans (or "Pekoponians") that they become attached to. Keroro has Fuyuki, Tamama has Momoka (a schoolgirl who also happens to belong to the richest family in the world...can you say plot convenience), Giroro has Natsumi (Fuyuki's older sister), Kululu has Mutsumi (a schoolboy who is distant from his peers and extremely intelligent), and Dororo has some ninja chick. The platoon end up living with Fuyuki's family, building a secret base underneath their house and generally getting all up in their business. While Keroro and Fuyuki are friends, Giroro is obsessed with Natsumi to an alarming degree and one of Kululu's favorite hobbies is watching Aki, Fuyuki and Natsumi's mother, shower. (Through a well-hidden spycam, of course.)
Sgt. Frog is essentially a slice-of-life series with as much absurdity as possible thrown in. Basically, in each episode Keroro tries to come up with a plan to conquer the Earth, commissioning Kululu to build some ridiculous machine in the process, and fails miserably, usually because of some small plot convenience or the meddling of Kululu (who likes to sabotage even his own friends for fun). Every now and then the platoon get threatening messages from their military commanders putting the pressure on them to get on with the invasion already.
After the platoon has spent a year on Earth, they get a message from their higher-ups revealing that they are being withdrawn. Keroro tries to think of some way to pull off the invasion at the last second, but fails, and the frogs are forced to sadly watch as Kululu uses his newest invention to erase all traces of them from the minds and lives of their human friends...only for it to be revealed a few minutes later that the platoon actually only had to report back to the home planet for their annual physicals. Shockingly enough, Kululu has a backup for everyone's memories and the show goes back to normal. This is the point at which I am pulling Kululu into the City.
What is your character’s world like? What is their role in it? In what major canon events did your character play a part, how did your character affect these events, and vice versa? If applicable, what important relationships do they have with other characters in this series?
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from. Please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
Kululu is one evil frog. Or, to be more specific, he is a cynical, sadistic, masochistic, egotistical mad genius who happens to also be a military man. And also an alien from the frog planet. Kululu is one of those types of people who was just born weird (yes, even in alien frog terms). In one episode he reminisces about how he was once suspended from school for building an armed tank and driving it to class. In another it is revealed that the reason he is yellow is that he nearly drowned in a gigantic bowl of curry. His favorite hobby is building gadgets that cause pain and suffering to other people in the most ridiculous way possible. So to summarize his basic personality, he's weird and he likes it that way.
Now, all this isn't to say that Kululu doesn't have positive aspects to his character. He may enjoy torturing small animals, spying on curvy women in the shower, and sabotaging the happiness of everyone he meets, but he can be a decent guy when he wants to be. He does consider his fellow platoon members friends, and he generally builds whatever they ask for without putting up a fuss. And he has a very good rapport with Aki Hinata (mom of the human family the platoon lives with), at least when he's not spying on her in the shower. One could optimistically state that a vast majority of his shenanigans are actually just pranks that he considers "friendly" but are actually about a hundred steps too far over the appropriate line. On the other hand, it isn't a big secret that the other characters really don't like him. In fact, he is introduced in his first episode as the guy that nobody, and they mean nobody, likes.
Kululu tends to march to the beat of his own drum. He's loyal to the military and to his platoon, but he doesn't tend to be bothered by other people's opinions and he rides the line when it comes to respectfulness. For example, he outranks his platoon leader but has to answer to him because he's so creepy and unpleasant even the higher-ups in the Keronian military don't want to put him in charge of anything. Despite all this, Kululu takes the insults his teammates and acquaintances throw at him with a surprising amount of nonchalance. Even when his plans go catastrophically wrong, he generally reacts with his signature creepy laugh and an innocent shrug. On occasion he even thanks people for insulting him as though he was paid a compliment.
Kululu has a variety of hobbies. He's a computer geek who splits his online time between building websites, hacking into things he shouldn't, looking up pictures of lolcats and taking online quizzes. He's also an inventor who loves building ridiculous machines; from de-aging ray guns to giant person-shaped mechas to satellites that allow him to control the weather, he's always working on something. He loves watching movies, his favorite genre being (surprise) science fiction. He also has an inexplicable love of afro wigs.
The one thing Kululu can't stand is innocence, and in fact in the presence of truly innocent characters and small children he tends to wither away (somewhat literally). His personality is just so ~evil~ that he can't stand it.
POWER:
1. being a frog alien - Kululu is Keronian, which means that he is basically an over-sized frog. He comes to about knee height of most average adult humans. This power also includes his Keronian headgear--the spiral on his cap activates a cloaking device that renders him invisible to anyone who doesn't already know he's a frog alien (yeah this show has a lot of plot conveniences have I mentioned that yet) and the giant domes on the side are wireless headphones.
2. technomancy - Kululu has skills with computers and building things that border on ridiculous, so I figured it probably warranted a powerslot. He doesn't communicate with machines, but he is capable of building a working model of pretty much anything he can think of. This power is naturally limited by the quantity and quality of materials he is able to get his hands on in the City; after all, he's not going to have the military funding and supplies that he does in canon. Probably.
3. fourth wall cognizance - Sgt. Frog is a show where the characters regularly communicate with the narrator, read the captions on the screen, and even occasionally talk directly to the camera. So, while Kululu won't walk around telling people they're fictional, he is aware of the meta-ness of the situation. Anyway, even if the opportunity to torment someone about their fictionalness arose Kululu would probably think it was funnier to be as infuriatingly vague as possible. This power is less about fourth wall breaking and more about not having to figure out how to play with Kululu suddenly forgetting that he argues with an invisible narrator over the script to the TV show that is his life every day.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[voice]
Hello, Pekopon!~ I did a little research and the results showed that it's traditional for newcomers to introduce themselves on these quaint little forums.
[the voice in question is deep, slightly lispy, and on his accents it almost sounds like he's trying to be sultry and failing horribly. and then there's his laugh--]
Ku ku ku!
[--which sounds like a cough gone wrong. what a guy.]
Personally I think it's a little dull, but better this than hearing one more brainless idiot pull the "where am I?? what is happening to me??" spiel, riiight?
[he clears his throat.]
My name is Sergeant Major Kululu and I enjoy long walks on the beach, kicking small animals and taking online quizzes. Is that enough e-harmony for all of you? Kukukuku!
[there's a little pause as his laugh tapers off into an embarrassing actual cough, but he quickly regains his equilibrium.]
So anyway, now that that business is out of the way, what does an honest guy have to do around here to bring in more than two hundred bucks a month?? That's just unacceptable! There's no way I'll be able to support all my outrageously expensive hobbies on this budget.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Living in the MAC, Kululu thought, had its ups and downs. It was a private space, which was nice. And plenty of room for computers, assuming he ever managed to find some kind of extra income to buy computer parts with. Plus--and on this point he snickered out loud to himself--there were enough weirdos around that he would have plenty of fodder for experiments. In fact, thinking about that would be a lot more fun than wallowing in depression over the state of his bank account, so why not go on a tangent. Maybe he would even jot a few notes down for further use.
Flopping onto his back and crossing his legs, a leering grin appeared on Kululu's face as he plotted internally. He could turn on his cloaking device, leave the door cracked and call for help from inside. Surely some goodie-goodie would come to investigate and then he would have them in his froggy little hands. Or no! He would save up his money and buy the components for an elaborate trap that would pull any schlup who made the mistake of walking past his apartment into his waiting makeshift laboratory, and soon through gratuitous and mostly unnecessary human experimentation he would have the means to conquer Pekopon!! Except...
What was the point in that? There was no Keron to honor by conquering planets and enslaving races. No Sarge, Giroro or Tamama to torment. No accolades to receive for enslaving the Pekoponians. After all, he was just the nerdy tech guy, right? He wanted to build things and torture people and let somebody else deal with the actual work.
Kululu leapt up suddenly and clutched his head while staggering around the living room of his apartment. What was he thinking? This was a perfect opportunity for a vacation! Forget his friends and his cushy life in the Hinata household. He could make this work and he would. Resolute, he whipped out his communicator and browsed to eBay. It was time to get to work on being the best (or at least the most annoying) frog he could possibly be!
FINAL NOTES:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? Inventory, status of health, etc? This field is optional.
NAME: mono
AGE: 22
JOURNAL:
monopolyIM: ERT KEY
PLURK: citizenmono
E-MAIL: monopoly210@gmail.com
RETURNING: n/a
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sergeant Major Kululu
SERIES: Sgt. Frog
CHRONOLOGY: end of episode 51
CLASS: villain
BACKGROUND:
First and foremost, I'd like to explain about how Sgt. Frog treats the fourth wall. The narrator and "Mr. Caption" (otherwise known as any caption that appears on the screen) are considered members of the cast and interact with the characters as well as the audience. For this reason the fourth wall is punctured quite often, and that is the reason for Kululu's powerset which you'll see further on in the app.
Sgt. Frog is supposedly set in ~our universe~ in the year 2009. Naturally this makes the world of Sgt. Frog one of those "just like the universe we live in but slightly different" scenarios. Here's the deal: we begin on the planet Keron, which is far away from Earth. An alien race of oversized talking frogs happens to live there. Keron is a military power, known for conquering countless other planets and enslaving the native peoples therein. So, the story begins with an F-rank platoon being sent out to conquer a planet that should be relatively easy to take over: Earth.
This platoon, unfortunately named the Advance Recon Mission Preparatory Invasion Terror (ARMPIT) Platoon, consists of five frogs. Keroro, the leader who is the opposite of street smart and tends to blow the platoon's budget on Gundam models; Tamama, the lowest ranking member of the squad whose nickname is "cannon fodder"; Giroro, the weapons specialist who shows he cares by annihilating the object of his affections with heavy weaponry; Dororo, the ninja frog that nobody ever remembers; and Kululu, the creepy nerd.
Naturally, since the ARMPIT platoon is involved, the invasion is a complete failure. The platoon is split up for plot convenience immediately upon arriving at Earth, and just to add insult to injury Keroro manages to let their most powerful weapon get into the hands of a fourteen year old Japanese schoolkid named Fuyuki. Fuyuki promptly mishandles the weapon and accidentally sends a distress signal to the rest of the Keronian fleet telling them to flee from Earth because the Earthlings are too strong to enslave. Thus begins the platoon's never-ending mission on Earth, referred to by the Keronians exclusively as "Pekopon", for whatever reason.
To make a long story slightly shorter, the platoon settles in to life in Japan. Through a series of shenanigans, Keroro manages to reunite the scattered platoon; he finds Tamama living with one of Fuyuki's schoolmates, Kululu living with one of Fuyuki's sister's schoolmates, Giroro living in the wilderness and Dororo...well, they never go looking for Dororo, he just shows up after a while. That sort of thing happens a lot in this show.
The show revolves around the five platoon members and the humans (or "Pekoponians") that they become attached to. Keroro has Fuyuki, Tamama has Momoka (a schoolgirl who also happens to belong to the richest family in the world...can you say plot convenience), Giroro has Natsumi (Fuyuki's older sister), Kululu has Mutsumi (a schoolboy who is distant from his peers and extremely intelligent), and Dororo has some ninja chick. The platoon end up living with Fuyuki's family, building a secret base underneath their house and generally getting all up in their business. While Keroro and Fuyuki are friends, Giroro is obsessed with Natsumi to an alarming degree and one of Kululu's favorite hobbies is watching Aki, Fuyuki and Natsumi's mother, shower. (Through a well-hidden spycam, of course.)
Sgt. Frog is essentially a slice-of-life series with as much absurdity as possible thrown in. Basically, in each episode Keroro tries to come up with a plan to conquer the Earth, commissioning Kululu to build some ridiculous machine in the process, and fails miserably, usually because of some small plot convenience or the meddling of Kululu (who likes to sabotage even his own friends for fun). Every now and then the platoon get threatening messages from their military commanders putting the pressure on them to get on with the invasion already.
After the platoon has spent a year on Earth, they get a message from their higher-ups revealing that they are being withdrawn. Keroro tries to think of some way to pull off the invasion at the last second, but fails, and the frogs are forced to sadly watch as Kululu uses his newest invention to erase all traces of them from the minds and lives of their human friends...only for it to be revealed a few minutes later that the platoon actually only had to report back to the home planet for their annual physicals. Shockingly enough, Kululu has a backup for everyone's memories and the show goes back to normal. This is the point at which I am pulling Kululu into the City.
What is your character’s world like? What is their role in it? In what major canon events did your character play a part, how did your character affect these events, and vice versa? If applicable, what important relationships do they have with other characters in this series?
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from. Please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
Kululu is one evil frog. Or, to be more specific, he is a cynical, sadistic, masochistic, egotistical mad genius who happens to also be a military man. And also an alien from the frog planet. Kululu is one of those types of people who was just born weird (yes, even in alien frog terms). In one episode he reminisces about how he was once suspended from school for building an armed tank and driving it to class. In another it is revealed that the reason he is yellow is that he nearly drowned in a gigantic bowl of curry. His favorite hobby is building gadgets that cause pain and suffering to other people in the most ridiculous way possible. So to summarize his basic personality, he's weird and he likes it that way.
Now, all this isn't to say that Kululu doesn't have positive aspects to his character. He may enjoy torturing small animals, spying on curvy women in the shower, and sabotaging the happiness of everyone he meets, but he can be a decent guy when he wants to be. He does consider his fellow platoon members friends, and he generally builds whatever they ask for without putting up a fuss. And he has a very good rapport with Aki Hinata (mom of the human family the platoon lives with), at least when he's not spying on her in the shower. One could optimistically state that a vast majority of his shenanigans are actually just pranks that he considers "friendly" but are actually about a hundred steps too far over the appropriate line. On the other hand, it isn't a big secret that the other characters really don't like him. In fact, he is introduced in his first episode as the guy that nobody, and they mean nobody, likes.
Kululu tends to march to the beat of his own drum. He's loyal to the military and to his platoon, but he doesn't tend to be bothered by other people's opinions and he rides the line when it comes to respectfulness. For example, he outranks his platoon leader but has to answer to him because he's so creepy and unpleasant even the higher-ups in the Keronian military don't want to put him in charge of anything. Despite all this, Kululu takes the insults his teammates and acquaintances throw at him with a surprising amount of nonchalance. Even when his plans go catastrophically wrong, he generally reacts with his signature creepy laugh and an innocent shrug. On occasion he even thanks people for insulting him as though he was paid a compliment.
Kululu has a variety of hobbies. He's a computer geek who splits his online time between building websites, hacking into things he shouldn't, looking up pictures of lolcats and taking online quizzes. He's also an inventor who loves building ridiculous machines; from de-aging ray guns to giant person-shaped mechas to satellites that allow him to control the weather, he's always working on something. He loves watching movies, his favorite genre being (surprise) science fiction. He also has an inexplicable love of afro wigs.
The one thing Kululu can't stand is innocence, and in fact in the presence of truly innocent characters and small children he tends to wither away (somewhat literally). His personality is just so ~evil~ that he can't stand it.
POWER:
1. being a frog alien - Kululu is Keronian, which means that he is basically an over-sized frog. He comes to about knee height of most average adult humans. This power also includes his Keronian headgear--the spiral on his cap activates a cloaking device that renders him invisible to anyone who doesn't already know he's a frog alien (yeah this show has a lot of plot conveniences have I mentioned that yet) and the giant domes on the side are wireless headphones.
2. technomancy - Kululu has skills with computers and building things that border on ridiculous, so I figured it probably warranted a powerslot. He doesn't communicate with machines, but he is capable of building a working model of pretty much anything he can think of. This power is naturally limited by the quantity and quality of materials he is able to get his hands on in the City; after all, he's not going to have the military funding and supplies that he does in canon. Probably.
3. fourth wall cognizance - Sgt. Frog is a show where the characters regularly communicate with the narrator, read the captions on the screen, and even occasionally talk directly to the camera. So, while Kululu won't walk around telling people they're fictional, he is aware of the meta-ness of the situation. Anyway, even if the opportunity to torment someone about their fictionalness arose Kululu would probably think it was funnier to be as infuriatingly vague as possible. This power is less about fourth wall breaking and more about not having to figure out how to play with Kululu suddenly forgetting that he argues with an invisible narrator over the script to the TV show that is his life every day.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[voice]
Hello, Pekopon!~ I did a little research and the results showed that it's traditional for newcomers to introduce themselves on these quaint little forums.
[the voice in question is deep, slightly lispy, and on his accents it almost sounds like he's trying to be sultry and failing horribly. and then there's his laugh--]
Ku ku ku!
[--which sounds like a cough gone wrong. what a guy.]
Personally I think it's a little dull, but better this than hearing one more brainless idiot pull the "where am I?? what is happening to me??" spiel, riiight?
[he clears his throat.]
My name is Sergeant Major Kululu and I enjoy long walks on the beach, kicking small animals and taking online quizzes. Is that enough e-harmony for all of you? Kukukuku!
[there's a little pause as his laugh tapers off into an embarrassing actual cough, but he quickly regains his equilibrium.]
So anyway, now that that business is out of the way, what does an honest guy have to do around here to bring in more than two hundred bucks a month?? That's just unacceptable! There's no way I'll be able to support all my outrageously expensive hobbies on this budget.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Living in the MAC, Kululu thought, had its ups and downs. It was a private space, which was nice. And plenty of room for computers, assuming he ever managed to find some kind of extra income to buy computer parts with. Plus--and on this point he snickered out loud to himself--there were enough weirdos around that he would have plenty of fodder for experiments. In fact, thinking about that would be a lot more fun than wallowing in depression over the state of his bank account, so why not go on a tangent. Maybe he would even jot a few notes down for further use.
Flopping onto his back and crossing his legs, a leering grin appeared on Kululu's face as he plotted internally. He could turn on his cloaking device, leave the door cracked and call for help from inside. Surely some goodie-goodie would come to investigate and then he would have them in his froggy little hands. Or no! He would save up his money and buy the components for an elaborate trap that would pull any schlup who made the mistake of walking past his apartment into his waiting makeshift laboratory, and soon through gratuitous and mostly unnecessary human experimentation he would have the means to conquer Pekopon!! Except...
What was the point in that? There was no Keron to honor by conquering planets and enslaving races. No Sarge, Giroro or Tamama to torment. No accolades to receive for enslaving the Pekoponians. After all, he was just the nerdy tech guy, right? He wanted to build things and torture people and let somebody else deal with the actual work.
Kululu leapt up suddenly and clutched his head while staggering around the living room of his apartment. What was he thinking? This was a perfect opportunity for a vacation! Forget his friends and his cushy life in the Hinata household. He could make this work and he would. Resolute, he whipped out his communicator and browsed to eBay. It was time to get to work on being the best (or at least the most annoying) frog he could possibly be!
FINAL NOTES:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? Inventory, status of health, etc? This field is optional.
