Chrome Dokuro

Fic - Building on the last one

2013-04-05T07:21:36Z

( Few things are as tenacious as a teenage boy told he can't do something. )

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Fic - After Nagi disappeared

2013-04-05T06:21:54Z

( Her mother was a terrible person. )

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Maison Changes

2013-03-28T00:24:45Z

• Chrome now HAS ALL OF HER ORGANS AND HER EYE BACK. Her scars are still hidden under illusions.
• She is followed around by a translucent coyote covered in porcupine quills that are about a foot long each.
• She is generally wearing one of Mukuro's coats.
• Her hair, like Mukuro's, has been taken out of it's pineapple.
• She has a pair of trousers that she wears when it's cold!
• She has a telepathic bond with Gokudera.
• She is learning to cook!
Currently known foods:
From The Spine:
pancakes and fruit crepes
a basic roast (beef or pork or chicken, whatevs on hand)
not to mention making stews outta the leftovers
all manner of little lunch style sandwiches and soups
most of it's stuff that's quick to make, doesn't take a lot of ingredients so no matter what kitchen she's in she can make something
not to mention cookies because everyone needs to know how to make cookies.
From Spade:
basic italian; bread, seafood, with the small kitchen there probably some of the pasta recipes that're easier to pull together without anything unusual (ragu and carbonara, Spade used to be sort of regional but he…hasn't been for a while), roasted potatoes and veggies
• She is getting lessons in illusions from Loki

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Lets talk

2013-03-24T04:25:53Z

( Floooof. )

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Fic

2013-03-21T06:11:51Z

( Bonding )

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Maison Link List

2013-03-19T11:05:40Z

Maison Application
Maison Permissions
Maison CR - Dislike
Maison CR - Neutral
Maison CR - Like
Headcanon
Maison Changes

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Building on Bakerstreet

2013-03-19T09:58:16Z

( For I am a meme whore~ )

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The First Killing

2013-03-19T03:30:38Z

Musing based on a random scenero posited by kchikusa

( Even dismantling a mafia is a dark job... )

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Meme preferences

2013-03-05T08:24:17Z

• Bitty does not do smut. She may do FTB with people in her age-range (13-16).
• Fluffy romance is always welcome.
• M/F or F/F is fine.
• Cross-canon stuff is fine.
• In-canon stuff is fine.
• I'm happy to run negative-CR threads (fights, hate, etc.)
• I hate hurt/comfort. It's an OOC quirk of mine.
• Pretty much all gen options are A-OK by me (exception above).
• I don't mind setting scenes if that's preferable.
• Mukuros are always welcome to define the limits/overtones of the connection, I will take my lead from you. Just because I 'ship it, doesn't mean I can't play without it.

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Pern AU Fic because Bakerstreet yes. >.>

2013-02-27T04:24:28Z

( /o/ /o/ /o/ )

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Maison CR - Neutral - Current to April 12

2013-02-06T12:41:57Z

( Silver, Gabriel Samedi, Bella, Enzan, Itsuki Minami, Agent Phil Coulson, Ienzo/Zexion, Jamie, Soma, Jeff, Maes Hughes, Shouichi, Kaworu, Sammie, Arthur Kipps, Heather Mason, Fazia, Annette, Maurice, Lind/Gazelle, Joseph, Kanon, Gokudera (2), Matt Donovan, Liz Sherman )

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cherished_avatar @ 2013-01-27T17:02:00

2013-01-28T01:32:18Z

Ken had taken a bath. On his own, without anyone pushing him into it. He hadn't said anything, but his hair was wet and his face was obviously much cleaner than it had been several hours earlier.

Chrome didn't say anything. She noticed, of course, but she didn't say a word. She just disappeared when he was involved in his game and Chikusa was engrossed in a book.

There were very few rats in Kokuyo. Ken had them properly scared off. Chrome persevered, though, and over the next several hours she came to one strong conclusion: they hadn't given Ken nearly enough credit for how hard he worked to feed them.

By the time she got home she was covered in dust. Her hair was half fallen from it's crest, her clothing was a mess, she had scrapes on her palms and her knees, and at some point she'd managed to break the strap on her eye-patch, so that was tucked into her coat. She was victorious, however, and upon finding Ken she presented him with a dead rat, silently and without mentioning the bath.

And with plans to take one of her own.

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Fanbook profiles

2012-12-18T17:05:07Z

In English!

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Headcanon!

2012-11-30T02:11:38Z

1) The cat that Nagi chased was a stray, not her own.
2) She LOVES cats because they are independent, self-reliant, and still loving. She admires them and always wanted one.
3) Her mother didn't let her have any kind of pet, so she took whatever extra money she had and bought cat food to feed the strays on her way to and from school. She spent as much time as she could with them without getting fur on her uniform.
4) Her mother believed in children being "seen but not heard". She was so into the appearances of things that if she couldn't have a "model child" in the child-prodigy kind of way she'd at least have one that was polite and stayed in the background.
5) Her mother was an actress, someone whose life would have been impacted by surgery scarring.
6) She was a decent student but not top-of-the-class.
7) She wanted to be a veterinarian and worked hardest in classes that would lead towards that.
8) Chrome can't cook. There were servants when she was growing up who made all the food. She can heat things up in a microwave, and cook "whatever Ken caught, on a stick". (In Maison, The Spine is teaching her to cook!)
9) Chrome is demisexual. This means she is only capable of feeling lust with people she's in love with.
10) She doesn't care about being someone's One True Love, but she wants to be Part Of Mukuro's Lovelife.
11) Sometimes, when the boys aren't around, she plays dress-up with Mukurou. Poor box weapon.
12) She's not very good with language, but very very determined.
13) Her mother's name was Uta.
14) As Nagi she became a very, very good Kumihimo weaver, with her own takadai. In Kokuyo she made a little cardboard loom for herself and did that quietly, but she'd love a new takadai so that she could make elaborate ropes again.
15) She's lactose intolerant.
16) Her favourite non-chocolate food is just a good udon soup.
17) While she doesn't think of herself as "near vegetarian", she eats very little meat when possible, she just prefers vegetarian food if the option is there.
18) Likewise, she prefers good food to fancy. If she can afford it she'll get organic food, or go to places that serve only fresh things. She doesn't like the chemically taste of processed foods.
19) Chrome's father's family: Arranged marriage that eventually settled into love. Affair was very early in it, probably the first 6-8 months. Two brothers, one just a couple months older than her and one three or four years younger. Both of 'em take after her father, so they even look like they should be her siblings (whole family has the purple eyes). Finding out about Nagi put a strain on the family, several months where the wife and boys kicked him out of the house before forgiving him. They've got a bitty grave/shrine set up with the rest of the family's dead for "Mori Nagi" at this point, and the older brother is pulling an "after-school detective" trying to figure out where Nagi's body is. The boys have decided that Uta probably smothered Nagi and got rid of the body.

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Permissions Post!

2012-09-24T21:04:58Z

CHARACTER NAME: CHROME DOKURO/NAGI
CHARACTER SERIES: KHR!

[OOC]

Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: No, please
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Scatological humour, rape.

[IC]

Hugging this character: Yes - but she will be awkward about it.
Kissing this character: Yes - but she will be freaked out by it.
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Up to but not including death.
Killing this character: No
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes

Warnings:
•Bitty illusionist is ~~very~~ much less shy but will still flail madly about many things.
•Chrome has issues with adult men and telepaths. You can use telepathy on her (as above) but it will upset her greatly. (Unless your name is Mukuro.) She's getting better about men.
• Sometimes Chrome has Daemon Spade with her. Mun does not play Spade. If Spade is around he'll either be chiming in via telepathy with Chrome, or as an owl.
• (altered from Mukuro's permissions:)IF SPADE IS WITH HER: There is a tiny, gold-and-metal firefly, masked from sight/normal senses by illusions so that it won't even be seen/heard/smelled/etc.. The firefly blocks all sensory abilities; in effect, if you have any ability to sense anything, the area around Chrome/Spade-the-Owl is a dead zone, with NOTHING. If Spade-Owl is anywhere fairly close to Chrome, she is still within the radius, although if Spade flies away - across the room or something - the firefly will go with him. This also applies to outside detection of their mental links; if Chrome/Spade talk to Mukuro over the mental link when Spade is with Chrome, you might sense Mukuro. Spade can give permission to allow contact, but that is basically the only way around the firefly - Spade allowing it.
• Chrome is always accompanied by a type of monster seen only on Night 015: Much smaller than the deer, they resemble strange coyotes, nearly translucent. Any who manage to get close will find that the creatures are covered in sharp spines, much like a porcupine, and are quite capable of dislodging some of those spines into those who attempt to capture them. While the creature is non-aggressive to most people, it does tend to adopt Chrome's feelings about other people.
•Medic made Mukuro's mini-minion's mass magnify! (She has her organs back.) This includes her eye but I'm not going through and photoshoping her eye back in.

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Maison application

2012-09-23T05:11:20Z

Player's Name: Madb
Contact info: plurk madbkitty, AIM twintailmadb
DW: madb.dreamwidth.org

Character: Chrome Dokuro
Canon: Reborn!
Version: N/A
Canon Point:
Age: 13
Gender: Female

History:
Nagi was an unwanted child. She had a hard time connecting with other people, not even her parents cared about her. When she was hit by a car in an attempt to save the life of a cat and hospitalized near death, her mother refused to even consider the idea of undergoing surgery in order to save the life of her child, stating that nobody wanted Nagi to live anyway. Nagi's life was sufficiently grim and hopeless that her own reaction was one of relief.

Enter Rodoku Mukuro. He walked into her mind and offered her hope, perhaps the first hope that she had ever had. He offered her a life; “Nagi, Nagi...I have need of you”. For the first time she was given the opportunity to be someone to someone else. Mukuro tells her that he thinks they might be the same kind of person.

Battle for the Rings Arc
Chrome enters the Battle for the Rings as Mukuro's vessel, having managed in what could not have been more than a few weeks, to have learned enough from him that she had a chance of defeating Mammon, one of the Arcobaleno babies. The other guardians flipped out over her appearance, requiring her to convince Tsuna to allow her to fight. Being given permission to do so, Chrome manages to hold her own against Mammon for a relatively long time, even gaining the upper hand more than once. When she was finally defeated her thoughts were only of Mukuro, stating that she only wanted to help him. Left behind when she fainted, she nonetheless did not take any comfort from Tsuna, but rather ran off to find the others who followed Mukuro.

Chrome was seen around the fringes of the next battle, staying out of the way of the other guardians but present anyway, along with Ken and Chikusa. She got confused and they saved her from an explosion, showing that however they felt about her they were not going to let her get killed off.

Like the others, Chrome was poisoned during the Sky battle, she was saved by Yamamoto and Gokudera although they lost their rings. Mukuro told her that “someone was coming” in time for Lancia to come and keep everyone from getting killed off.

Future Arc
Chrome appears relatively late in the arc, showing up unexpectedly in the future Kokuyo Land alone. The Mist Ring which she was wearing was frozen to her finger, but before she had any real chance to think about the reasons for that Glo Xinia showed up to fight her. He taunted her by telling her that he had defeated Mukuro, and ran her ragged around the area.

Chrome fought him well, but without Mukuro she was at a disadvantage. One which disappeared when Mukuro's voice started to give her instructions and led her into creating her very first “real illusions”; those of Mukuro, Ken, and Chikusa. This allowed Mukuro to be “there” to fight for her alongside her. She was eventually rescued by the future-Ryohei and brought back to the base where the others have been dwelling, in critical condition as her organs have disappeared due to things happening with the Future-Mukuro elsewhere. Tsuna told her that she could not die, however it was Hibari who drew out the power of the Vongola ring and made Chrome support herself with it, bringing her out of critical danger, although she was still very gravely ill.

Chrome and Tsuna shared a dream about a large machine prior to the core group of guardians infiltrating the Merone base. Chrome came to assist later, along with some of the other side-characters. She had the owl that Mukuro had possessed on her shoulder. Despite her illness she ran illusions enough to get everyone inside the base. During Hibari's fight with Genshiki she managed to see through the other man's illusions, warning Hibari of what was coming.

She stopped Tsuna from destroying the machine that they had seen in their dream, which turned out to be a good thing since the future forms of all of them were inside it. Chrome was treated well by the girls, Kyoko, Haru, and I-pin, becoming friends with them slowly over the time that the Vongola were training. It was a slow thing, because she wasn't used to anyone showing care or concern. The boys pretty much ignored her, as they do. It's made obvious that Chrome had no way of dealing with the sort of kindnesses that the girls were giving her, from I-pin's sharing of the hot bun to the way that the other girls touched her when they found her cleaning up after the party.

The Vongola were split up into groups in order to train, Chrome was left to a program left behind by Mammon and did not actually have a tutor of her own, although it appeared that I-pin and perhaps Bianchi were training alongside her. Asked if the Vongola could trust her, Chrome said; "I want to return to the past to be with the people most important to me. I...I want to become...a stronger person..."

Chrome showed her loyalty to the girls who had decided to accept her as one of them by joining in with their housework strike when the boys refuse to explain what was really going on. She simply, quietly, makes it clear that she will also be refusing to work until the boys come clean.

During the final battle stage of the arc, Chrome brought the Vongola box to Mukuro, however she was stopped on the way there by a jealous M-M who called her pitiful and ugly, and claimed that Mukuro belonged to her (M-M). When nearly hit by a bolt of energy Chrome was saved by the future Mukuro and the two of them share a bit of a moment where he touches her face and she smiled at him before passing out on his chest with the comment that she is “so happy”.

Chrome was not seen again until everyone is getting ready to go. M-M cornered her to tell her that Mukuro is just using her and has no feelings towards her at all. Chrome began to say something, but was cut off by Ken. A blushing Chrome exchanged a rather meaningful look with Mukuro.

Inheritance Ceremony Arc
Chrome was shown purchasing snacks and Julie was shown watching her. He apparently has done so before because he states that she's “only buying chocolate snacks again”. Later we learn that Julie has been leaving bags of food for Chrome (although Ken is the one shown eating). Later Julie approached Chrome and asks her to go on a date with him after the ceremony. Chrome turned him down and hurried off.

Yamamoto was attacked and brought to the hospital, and Chrome goes along with everyone else to find out what had happened and to provide backup for Tsuna, who was taking it very badly.

She was asked to provide an illusion of Yamamoto so that only the people who attacked him would know that he was not present. Despite needing to function as herself at the same time she creates an illusion that almost everyone is taken in by, although Dino and Squalo both see through it due to Chrome's answering a question slightly wrongly, and offer their help if such help is needed. Mammon assured Chrome, when she was worrying that others would see through it, that someone would have to be an expert to see through them and to have some confidence.

It turned out that the Simon family attacked Yamamoto and during the ensuing fight Chrome is rendered unconscious and kidnapped by Julie. She awakened in Julie's room after the first incident of memory sharing post Sky/Earth ring battle and saw a silhouette looked rather like Mukuro's leaning in a door. She only made the mistake for a split second, however, before realising that it wasn't Mukuro. The figure turned out to be Julie and he continued to hit on her.

When Julie left, Chrome attempted to escape, however she was caught by Julie in the middle of it and he showed that he knew about her special relationship with Mukuro. This lead up to Chrome finding out that Julie is holding her organs together, and that Mukuro is blocked from her. She refuted this, stating “This is the body that Mukuro-sama gave to me”. Julie proved that he was the one holding her life in his hand, and told her that her body was important.

Chrome rejected him, because Mukuro is the person most important to her, even over her own life. She didn't want him, she didn't want the organs he made. Julie informed her that he was the person responsible for the entire series of battles and that Julie was actually being possessed by Daemon Spade, the first Mist Guardian. Even knowing that she refused to give in to him.

She was put under mind-control and forced to call him “master” and to “cuddle” with him. She was forced to pick Tsuna (“boss”) out as the “number one bad guy”. She was forced to offer her body and Mukuro to Daemon. However when Daemon was stabbed she did not attack the person who does so.

Daemon made her set up a mist barrier when it appears that they are going to get into another fight, and he told the others that if the barrier was broken that Chrome would die. Under mind control she put her body between Daemon and the people fighting him, although he told her to step down when she did.

She was taken out of mind-control when Daemon was confident that the Vongola were going to be destroyed, immediately she began screaming and attempting to find a way out of her situation. When her organs are removed and she is left to die she uses the connection with Mukuro to tell him not to come and to leave her to die.

When Mukuro left her body after fighting with Daemon her first words were a demand to know where he was, and she was very unhappy at learning that he was stuck in the body of Mukurou (the owl). She placed herself between the others and Daemon, not for Daemon's sake but because if they attacked the first Guardian it would harm Mukuro's body and she doesn't want him damaged. Mukuro actually has to fly at her with talons extended to get her to back down. When they are reminded that Daemon is an illusionist, Chrome considered jumping into a fight that is extremely high-powered.

Tsuna and Enma came up with a possible way to defeat Daemon, however doing so would kill Enma. This is when, despite Mukuro's protest, Chrome jumps in with her mist barrier. It isn't strong enough, so Mukuro added his power to it, and Chrome reacted by worrying about him...instead of about the possibility that she could die. Also, for the first and only time, Chrome called Tsuna “Tsuna-kun”.

Rainbow Arc
Chrome was thrown out of Mukuro's gang due to the fact that she was refusing his illusionary organs and therefor dying slowly. She was sent to Tsuna's class, and Reborn was given money to help her get set up in a place to live. Being thrown out of the gang caused her to cry on Kyoko's shoulders during class. Reborn decided to throw a welcoming party for Chrome that included a mimicry competition which did cheer her up slightly.

Without her organs Chrome gets sick, and became sicker. She and Mukuro meet and have a rather stilted conversation where he attempted to push her into beginning to fight in the rainbow battles. It turned out that he was taking time out of a battle to come and talk to her, and he told her that is she didn't tell him what was wrong she would die within three days.

She remained sick, finally getting hospitalized. Even being on life-support, however, did not stop her from asking Tsuna to add her to the battle time. While Tsuna turned her down, Reborn asked her what she wanted from Mukuro. This led to her showing up at one of the battles wearing a battler watch, dressed in her Kokuyo uniform. Despite being pale enough that even Verde asked if she was alright, Chrome insisted upon battling.

Reborn explained that; "Until then (when Mukuro was freed) Chrome was able to communicate with Mukuro, that was asleep in that faraway prison, and could let him use her body. On the other hand Mukuro was the only person that could create illusionary organs to replace the ones she lost in the accident. In other words, they were closely supporting each other." Tsuna saying; "I see...now that Mukuro got his actual body he doesn't need Chrome anymore and Chrome is sorry for that so she stopped accepting his illusion." and Reborn continuing; "That's also part of the reason of course. I think the problem is mostly due to her feelings changing. Now that Mukuro has his own body again they don't share the same destiny anymore. He's a flawless young boy that can live his life normally even without her. Mukuro is not part of her anymore...and she's not part of him either. For the first time she saw Mukuro outside of her and that led her to feel that from now on she also wants to be see...as a single person."

Chrome explained to everyone that “I like Mukuro-sama, and I also like what he likes. I want to be someone that can protect all that. I want to protect Mukuro-sama forever.” and her resolution flared highly enough that she was able to create her own organs and assist Mukuro.

Personality:
Reborn says this about the Guardian of the Mist: "Creating something from nothing, and nothing from something; thus bewildering the enemy. Rendering the family's true form intangible with visions of deceit." Mukuro is Guardian, but Chrome is also the Guardian and that changeability must therefore describe both of them. She is not, cannot be, read only on the surface.

Chrome appears in the background a lot, rather than taking centre stage, as shown above.

When we first see Chrome she is a silhouette behind Ken and Chiksua, laughing Mukuro's laugh. She is bold, there, because she knows that she is going to do something that she can do; she throws her coat and, in Italian, she declares her name (Lo nego, Il mio nome e' Chrome. Chrome Dokuro.) and we see her with a confident smile on her face. She's wearing revealing clothing, when compared to the rest of the female cast, and she looks perfectly comfortable with it, and with her trident. This contrasts with who she was when she was Nagi, being shown on the cover of chapter 210 which shows a shy-looking Nagi in a sailor's suit contrasted with a vibrant Chrome. The tag line is "The lonely me no longer exists for now I have people around me".

What this suggests is that while Chrome was once as shy and retiring as she always appeared, the very fact of having other people to care about caused her to grow and find within herself a reason to be more than just a wallflower. She shows a fine hand in many places, layering commentary and actions in such a way as to make herself look weaker or less important than she actually is; throughout the entire discussion where the guardians are objecting to Chrome and asserting that she must be possessed by Mukuro her actions are those of a confident young woman; to the point where she actually kisses Tsuna when he backs her up. She doesn't allow the actions of the others to put her off balance. In the face of action, she knows who she is and what she wants. Even when Gokudera yells at her she's calm ("What the hell do you think you're doing?!" "Greeting") Ken and Chikusa get angry on Chrome/Mukuro's behalf at the way Gokudera yells at her, and Chrome steps up; telling them that it isn't "something for you to decide" and turns to Tsuna.

What she says there is very revealing; she asks "Is it that I'm not worthy of the position as Guardian of Mist?" On one level this could come across as a very uncertain question, but on the other it's putting Tsuna on the spot. She's asking a teenage boy to tell a teenage girl that she's "unworthy", a calculated gamble that he'd be unwilling to shame her like that. She follows that up by calling him "boss", reinforcing the fact that he's in charge and affirming that she wants to battle; she wants to be worthy.

It's a classic example of leading someone to the conclusion that you want them to come to by framing your desire in a way that corners them in.

She consistently shows relief when she is allowed to fight, implying that she sees herself as a soldier more than as a girl. She shows honest relief, to the point of sighing, when Tsuna allows her to fight for the Mist ring, if she were truly as shy and retiring as she seems later on it would be hard to accept her eagerness to fight.

Whenever she fights she shows little or no hesitation. She always begins strong and only falters if she is backed entirely into a corner, even then it generally only takes a word from Mukuro for her to gather up extra reserves and push herself even more. It parallels the way that Reborn constantly pushes Tsuna, in some ways.

Chrome shows hints of humour, especially in the first fight with Mammon. "Who are you talking to?" she asks Mammon as the caught Chrome turns out to be basketballs "Over here...".

Even when she is trapped utterly, by Mammon, by Glo Xiniea, by Daemon, her reaction is one of defiance. She is only shown passive when she is poisoned during the Sky battle. "No matter who you are" she says to Mammon "I won't lose." and she goes back to attacking instead of falling back and defending. In fact it is Chrome's very strength of illusion powers that is her downfall in the fight with Mammon; "The stronger the illusionist's abilities, the more complete the infiltration. Their illusion's rate of success is also heightened and it's hold over reality stronger. Thus, in the illusionist's case, if their illusion is successfully countered with illusion it means that control of their own perception will be completely snatched away."

Chrome only shows fear for herself when her life is in danger, although even that isn't 100% certain, she is shown as perfectly willing to sacrifice herself over and over; fighting in the future when she is in critical condition, denying Daemon Spade's attempt to lure Mukuro to her, determining to fight without organs during the Arcobaleno battles.

Mukuro is the centre of Chrome's existence. Literally and metaphorically without him she is empty. Mukuro gave Chrome life literally by giving her illusory organs that function in place of the ones she's missing, he also gave her life by giving her a reason to live. He may very well be the first friend that she has ever had. What she does for Mukuro she does for herself, what she does for herself she does for Mukuro.

She doesn't seem terribly interested in making more friends, either, until much later. During the Ring Arc she keeps her distance from the Vongola. At the cloud battle she is shown in the same general area as Ken and Chikusa, but seated apart from them. This may symbolize her desire to be close to those Mukuro is close to, while still not being accepted by them. Regardless, she is certainly not shown anywhere near the rest of the guardians.

She shows herself able to take the anger of others in stride, without losing her calm outer shell, giving the appearance of utterly ignoring the anger. Considering her past, however, it is very likely that she internalizes all of the things she is told.

Chrome is, after all, a child of abusive neglect. This can lead to any number of disorders, ranging from suicidal levels of depression to the incapability to react appropriately to social situations. Chrome appears to be dealing with them fairly well, to an extent. Many children of such houses are over-critical of themselves and end up depending on other people for a sense of validation and self-worth. Given no external care, they see themselves as worthless. Chrome gives these indications. The way that Chrome creeps around the background of all of the social situations shown in the series makes her appear not unlike a stray cat in many ways.

She wants to be loved, and she wants to love. The only person that she can trust, though, is Mukuro and at current canon spot she has just barely come out of believing that is she is not being his avatar she is of no use whatsoever. That entire incident, where she refuses to allow him to keep her alive, is proof that she still doesn't value herself as an individual rather than as a weapon in Mukuro's arsenal. Even her eventual resolution to be strong is centred around Mukuro rather than herself; “I like Mukuro-sama, and I also like what he likes. I want to be someone that can protect all that. I want to protect Mukuro-sama forever.”

Chrome only acts decisively when someone else is at stake and her list of priorities is very strictly outlined. It goes Mukuro → Mukuro's people → the girls → Tsuna and company. She never argues with anyone overtly, instead allowing people to hold onto their opinions without argument.

Avoidance of argument is another sign of how she grew up. To be tolerated she had to be silent, a ghost, and that leaves a mark on a child. Her life before Mukuro was one of making as few waves as possible and fading into the background until she had no life to speak of. Her life after Mukuro came to her was one of being his body and his door to the world.

Chrome is naturally shy, we see that on the cover of 210, however she uses that shyness as a guard against other people coming too close. If they assume that she's shy, they won't pay attention to her; an assumption which is born out again and again. In the Arcobaleno arc Tsuna even admits that he didn't even notice when she didn't come to class. Acting shyer than she actually is, however, gives her the opportunity to watch everyone more closely for Mukuro's sake. Based on the clothing she wears, probably at Mukuro's suggestion, she has obviously blossomed to a point where being noticed doesn't bother her nearly as much as it would have when she was Nagi.

That change is also very significant. Over what could only have been a matter of weeks, with Mukuro's encouragement, “Nagi” becomes “Chrome” and allows herself to be dressed in a manner far more revealing than that of Kyoko and Haru, or even Bianchi. Her micro-mini, her stomach-bearing coat, the ostentatious skulls on her boots and her eyepatch that reflect her name...she's found a purpose and that purpose is allowing her to stretch beyond what she would have done alone.

Chrome shows her attachment to Mukuro in words now and then, but in her physical reaction to him even more. Every time he appears in a way that she gets to interact with him, she blushes. It is the same reaction of many a thirteen year old girl confronted with someone that she has a crush on, or loves in a romantic way. She doesn't think of Mukuro as “hers”, however, she only thinks of herself as his.

With one exception in the entire series to date, Chrome calls Tsuna “boss” and never actually addresses any of the other guardians by name. She keeps herself withdrawn from these people that Mukuro has not completely vetted, while fighting alongside them and protecting them with all that she has. She becomes far closer to the girls over a short period of time than she is with the boys over a much longer one. This cannot be out of a simple gender-lined reaction, however, as she remains stating that Ken and Chikusa are important to her along with Mukuro.

Chrome accepts the neglect of Ken and Chikusa as her due. Even though she is supposed to be Mukuro's avatar, she does not ask them for even a hint of concern and would most likely be shocked if someone suggested that they do so. To Chrome, she is not important.

Even when the girls do begin to make friends with Chrome, they are forced to make all of the movements. She stays reserved and within herself until the five-year-old I-pin actively comes to bother her. When shown with the girls, she is almost never shown as speaking; she is with them, but not a part of them.

She is “with, but not a part of” every group that she is engaged with. With Mukuro's gang, but not accepted by them. With Tsuna's guardians, but never spoken to after the first battle. With the girls, but never speaking. Chrome is the eternal outsider, and she appears to be content as such.

Chrome's reactions to Julie/Daemon's attempts to court her also show her low self-esteem. She doesn't dismiss him in a confident matter, she turns him down and runs from him. She backs away from him, she attempts to disappear.

She refuses to depend on other people, as shown by her attempt to escape when captured by Daemon Spade. In the middle of enemy territory she begins seeking a way out without even attempting to call out to Mukuro to come and save her. It is not, after all, his job to care for her...it is hers to be there for him.

Mukuro is so important to Chrome's own sense of self that when she is told that someone else (Daemon) is holding her organs together she violently rejects it. She does not want organs that Mukuro has not created, and she would rather die than not be Mukuro's Chrome...and when Daemon removes her organs and leaves her to die Chrome's reaction is to ask Mukuro not to come. She would rather die than have him be caught.

After the fight with Daemon Spade, when Mukuro is set free, Chrome has her entire world turned upside down. She isn't Mukuro's cherished avatar any more, she's just a weak, broken little girl who used to be helpful to him. To her, the fights that she got in, the struggles that she underwent, were nothing compared to being useful to Mukuro. She believes in her own uselessness so much that she begins to reject Mukuro, disallowing him from keeping her alive even as she is longing for him to remain close to her.

She doesn't know how to react to him on a human-to-human level, she doesn't know how to justify her own feelings towards him. He may be showing her that he still cares, but she can't accept it because she cannot think of any reason why he should care about her when he's free, and strong, and healthy.

This, however, is something of a blessing in disguise. It leads her to want to be seen as a whole person in and of herself; as someone who is worth something. She wants to be worth Mukuro's time, but without having anything to give back she is, to her mind, simply a drain on his resources. Due to this she reaches deep inside herself for the resolution to keep herself alive...so that she can be helpful to Mukuro.

Fears:
Chrome fears being worthless, helpless, and useless. She fears being left alone to deal with life without others to base her sense of self-worth on, and having to figure out a way to survive without outside assistance.

Chrome is afraid of being severely damaged again. Although it led to the only good things in her life, she is well aware of just how fragile she is and the fact that she is literally walking the edge of losing her organs at all times.

She's afraid of losing Mukuro. Belonging to him makes her feel safe, and losing him would be the ultimate in loss of comfort. Emotionally and in a present-in-her-life way, the concept of not having him in her life is a crippling one.

Weaknesses:
Her organs are illusion. She's physically frail. She has an extremely low sense of self-worth which is all tied up in external influences. She is likely to push herself far past her own reserves without paying attention to the very real possibility that she will hurt herself, or worse.

Mundane Strengths/Abilities:
Chrome is an incredibly resolute person who will push herself without hesitation for anything that she believes in. She is extremely, perhaps even neurotically, loyal to Mukuro (first) and anyone who gives her acceptance and understanding. Chrome is good at playing weaker and more retiring than she actually is, and giving the impression of being a whispy nothing of a person when she is actually far more competent and strong than she gives herself credit for being. She is incredibly observant, paying attention to everything around her. Chrome is a mistress of using the fewest possible words to get her point across in her own way. She is patient and willing to let other people talk themselves out before putting in her own two cents.

Sensitivity/Magical Ability:
Chrome is an exceptional illusionist, managing to go toe-to-toe with the Arcobelano Mammon for several rounds. She has shown herself capable of creating “real illusions”, first with Mukuro's help and later on her own. She is also shown as being able to create illusions under extreme stress, such as when missing her internal organs. She has a small ability with Mukuro's Path of Beasts.

Supply List:
Spear, uniform, eye-patch

Game Transfers: N/A

Sample RP post:
She had just taken control of her destiny, the flames of her resolution burning around herself and her internal organs reforming under her own power. She had, in fact, just finished informing Mukuro that she wanted to protect him, forever.

And then she was somewhere else. That was completely unexpected. The last time she went from one place to another she was thrown ten years into the future, into a world she didn't understand...but she was at least in a familiar place. This, however, was nothing like anything that she had ever seen.

Her eye wide she took in the décor of the place, eventually moving out of the entryway and deeper into the house with cautious steps. Due to past experience she didn't call out, didn't draw attention to herself. In the world she was used to, the world of Mukuro and the Mafia, unusual generally meant dangerous.

Something about the parlor disturbed her, perhaps the very comfort that it exuded combined with the lack of personal touches. She found her breath growing shallow and rapid as she crossed the room, skirting around the silently staring Photographer within. Some small, animalistic part of her caused her to instinctively shrink from his sight.

She crept along the edge of the room until she reached the first door on the left, creeping out into the hallway and staring at the marble and plaster within it. Again taking the first door that she saw she found herself in the library, which felt...somewhat less dangerous. Far less than the hallway had, at any rate, and she wandered amongst the shelving for a while before finding the corner of children's books and taking a deep breath.

Carefully she reached in that way she couldn't explain, deep inside and out at the same time, in an attempt to contact Mukuro...if he were here. If he weren't being blocked again. If he were willing to accept her.

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