OM NOM MYSTERIES

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

I'm back! Hurray! I'll get to posting with Raz sometime tonight, so if anyone wants to hang out with a wannabe heroic gogglehead tonight, that'll be great.

However, I'm going to put off introducing Neuro until Friday, simply because I need to figure out his rooming assignment, and also because I want to gather up enough responses for this post. That's right, kids... It's one of these posts again!

As a few of you might know, Neuro is a demon that devours mysteries for food. And like how humans can smell delicious food, Neuro can detect delicious mysteries! So basically, if one of your characters is in any way involved in a mystery or secret of any kind, please post about it here!

Now a few things:

1) It can be any kind of mystery or secret - anything from "I go by this pseudonym on the bulletin board" to "I killed So-and-So."

1) Neuro can in no way determine the role of your character in the mystery. He'll need to figure it out himself through interrogation and sleuthing, like any other detective.

2) I'm looking more for mysteries that happened at Landel's than mysteries that are a part of your regular canon, unless it's somehow solvable here. While Neuro would probably be able to detect them, he'll file them under "Still Stewing" and not bother with them. Still, go ahead and mention them if you want, if you just want Neuro to acknowledge that your character is generally drenched in mysteries (like Shinichi, or to use a less detective-y example, Lelouch).

3) While Neuro can't directly tell what kind of mystery or secret it is, murder mysteries in general smell more delicious, and he's more likely to go after mysteries that smell delicious. Here's a list of things that'll affect how delicious the secret or mystery is:

- It’s a secret that the person will deny firsthand. (+5)
- It’s a secret that the person will deny even if you had evidence, so you’ll need to find other ways to make him talk. (+5)
- The mystery involves hateful feelings of any kind. (+5)
- The mystery happened in the past two days, and thus it’s fresh. (+5)
- The secret involves some kind of trick – think over-complicated murder traps, as one example. (+5)
- The mystery involves murder. (+10)
- If the person admits to being the culprit, and the mystery is a dark, hateful, and/or potentially murderous one, but he or she feels completely guiltless about it – and thus some kind of torture is needed for him or her to feel ‘defeated.’. (+10)
- One or more other people already know the solution. (-5)

EDIT: FYI, the way Neuro eats a mystery is that once he solves it, he'll confront the culprit/secret keeper and accuse him/her. Once that person finally admits it and feels defeated one way or another, Neuro will eat the mystery from that person. This won't affect your character in any way, but it'll give Neuro demon energy that he can use to do demon-y things.

Aaaand that's it, I think! I'm sure I could have clarified somethings more, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask! 8D

- Frankenollies (Raz and Neuro)

Comments

[tadity.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. Well, let's see.

Homura: has actually killed someone (Callisto) in damned, just last NS (44). No bad feelings aside from maybe a twinge of guilt, but more about what had to happen than actually killing. Also uncomplicated, as it was a straight up revenge killing. Kenren and Okita are the only ones who know who he killed specifically. He also has his whole secret plans for trying to ultimately prevent the destruction of the Institute so he can figure out just how they bring back the dead and keep them alive. No guilt at all here, and no real hate or anything, but he's wholeheartedly determined to see this one through. Also, he knows Okita is dying, which is a big secret that he wishes he could somehow prevent, and he hates the Institute for making it happen. He's not about to tell anyone about it, per Okita's wishes. Kenren, Kenshin, and Yuffie know about it, I believe. Oh! And that Sen is really Ayumu who Homura is using to spy on Lelouch. Though several people know she's a spy now, thank you rl event. But not Lelouch. Which is what counts.

Kakashi: HIS FACE IS A MYSTERY. Seriously, he wears a mask all the time, and Dias is the only one in Landel's who has seen what he looks like as an adult, including canonmates. And no, the mask will not come off.

Okay, seriously. Right now the two biggest mysteries for him are not telling Artemis that he killed Haku (though again, no hate, no real guilt, and it's not something he'll deny if Artemis finds out, though he's avoiding telling him--though canonmates and Schuldig already know), and the truth behind Itachi in Naruto canon, which just recently came to light for Sasuke and Kakashi in damned. These are pretty major spoilers for Naruto, so if you don't know the canon, let me know and I'll elaborate.

Terry McGinnis: He is Batman! So he's drenched in mystery. He also keeps his secret identity a mystery, along with his real name. He introduces himself to everyone as Alex Matthews, and only a few people know this isn't true.

Am I doing it right? :D

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

*fistshake at Kakashi's mask*

[chocomancer.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting one. Wonka's sort of purposefully developed an air of mystery in his home canon, mainly by secluding himself for almost a decade while mysteriously churning out products without a factory staff, and certainly has his share of secrets - the Oompa-Loompas, his recipes, etc - attached to that. To him, these are all incredibly important secrets. But from an objective point of view, they're 1) not based in Landel's, and 2) stuff that, due to the popularity of his canon, is known by at least some of the other patients (and not even thought by those who know to be a secret at all).

So, yeah, up to you as to whether this has any effect or not.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah, Neuro probably isn't going to care about Wonka's stupid human food recipes, sorry. XD

[kingside]

o shi OKAY SO, regarding Landel's only mysteries, Lelouch has... a few. For one, Lelouch Lamperouge is a pseudonym. His real name is Lelouch vi Britannia. I think only three other people know that at the moment. That's a fairly minor one, but anyway. The whole Zero thing is solvable here, but I'd really rather you didn't, SO. Here's something else:

On his second night here, Lelouch used Geass on Dean Winchester. Sam found out, confronted them, and Lelouch ordered Dean to kill him. Won't go into too much detail 'cause it would take forever, but well, I'll just go over the criteria you listed one by one next.

Lelouch will deny the event (+5) even if you have evidence (+5). This is because, well, there isn't really any evidence apart from Sam, Suzaku, and Lelouch's testimonies. Dean does not remember a goddamn thing because of the Geass's effects, and all three of the others I listed above ain't going to talk for various reasons. There are no hateful feelings involved, though, and it happened more than two days ago. Um, I guess you could say that Geass counts as a trick, but it's not really all that complicated? It is, however, something that Lelouch is keeping secret in Damned and has lied about using/the full extent of its power, so. That might be a +5? I'm not sure what attempted murder counts as, either, so like... yeah. Attempted to have Dean murder-- well, not even murder, just kill-- Sam. Interpret that as you will. ... As for the torture thing, I don't think Lelouch will admit to it even if you torture him, but Idk. Uhhh, and potentially murderous yeah, so that's... maybe a +10 because he's totally guiltless about it? Well, okay, he might feel some guilt about it, but not... really. It's complicated. He's complicated. And a -5 because, as I said, Sam and Suzaku also know.

So, I guess that leaves it at about a 20. Sortakinda. Might be less or more depending on how you look at it. Er, feel free to ask for more details if you like.

OH, and Lelouch has been lying about the fact that he's a student, but that kinda goes back to the whole canon-secret-thing. ... then again, it's entirely possible to find out more about the canon secrets (more specifically, Geass and Zero) because of the above thing with Geass and the fact that Lelouch now has his Zero outfit sitting in his closet. BUT IDK, STUFF. ... IF YOU DO GO FOR THAT, THOUGH, we'd really need to talk about it, because yeah, it's kind of a massive thing that might lead somewhere really, really, really, really bad if not handled properly. Like really. Contact me if you're going to be pursuing any of this.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

I should added in my post that if Neuro finds out a person's dark dirty secret that'll make everything not go JUST AS PLANNED when revealed, he's probably not going to parade around telling everyone that secret. In general, he'll solve a mystery, devour it, and go on to the next mystery without further delay. And if people ask him about the solution, he'll kindly tell them to GTFO and go find out themselves.

...now that I think of it, though, Neuro might use the whole Zero thing to sometimes manipulate Lelouch into doing tasks for him and such. So yeah, it's okay if you still don't want him finding out.

With that said, let's see how Lelouch stacks up:

Lelouch
- Real Name: Worthless, unless Lelouch will vehemently deny it to the end.
- Geassing Dean: 20 pts. Geass counts as a trick because it isn't obvious. And I didn't add the 10 points for murder because no one actually got killed.

But yeah. If you want to talk more about this, go ahead and contact me on AIM or through PMs. I know this kind of thing would be terrifying for a guy like Lelouch. >_>

[kindalikedit]

Huh, now that I think about it, Dean's been actually on pretty decent behavior - he has been lying a lot about who he is, his name, and his job, but it's nothing particularly earth-shattering. Like Lina said, Dean did get Geassed but he doesn't remember any of it, and instead believes he got possessed by a demon to account for the blank spot in his memory, so he could kind of keep that on the downlow. Prior to coming to Landels, he did sell his soul and he was working to keep Sam in the dark, but with next DS, it won't be the secret he thought he was keeping (plus dur, he doesn't know Sam already knows). Dean's SOP in Landels is to keep lying about who he is and undersell himself since he'd rather be underestimated.

Mostly he doesn't have any crazy mysteries in game, so pretty much anything hardcore he'd not talk about even with evidence is canon-stuff. Sam and him tried to torch Harry Osborn's corpse in Landels.

As for murder, it's kind of a gray area because Dean's killed plenty of monsters and creatures, and he's killed several human hosts when they were possessed by demons. I think he thinks it needs to be done but they kind of established in the show that his guilt over it is pretty much not really there when he brings it up, although he expressed doubt once Lenore's vampires came up. He hasn't killed anything in Landels - closest he came was trying to slit Sam's throat.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

I think Neuro will be able to detect a mystery from Dean, regarding the Geass one. Everything else is either unsolvable or not much of a mystery, though. Thanks anyway!

[tightsofmight]

Peter Parker is Spider-Man.

......................................................................

Lots of people know this already.

He will, however, try to deny it as much as possible and use fake names (he's been fourth-walled already, so now he knows he has to). And he would never kill anyone, ever. BOY SCOUTS FOR LIFE. *bumps fist with Superman*

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

H'okay then!

Peter Parker
I'M SPIDER-MAN: 5 pts.

[leaute.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun!

Aerith Gainsborough is only half human! I'm not sure if you're familiar with her canon or not, but her mother was a Cetra, a humanoid race of people that held the ability to talk to the planet where Aerith comes from. Though this is something from her original canon, it somewhat affects her at Landel's because there will be certain people she doesn't want to know this. Aerith yearns to be considered normal, so she loves to pretend she is as much as possible. Also worth noting is the fact that, before she woke up at Landel's, she was dead! This will be something she'll probably want to hide from canonmates (who don't already know, of course) and new people she meets as well. Again with the wanting very much to normal thing. However, while both of these things are very important secrets to her, most characters from her canon present already know about them. So, while they're a big deal to her since she's meeting so many new people, the fact that some people know no doubt detracts from the om nom nom factor.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm not sure if these secrets will be worth anything, since everyone seems to know them anyway. At most, he'll detect some mystery from her and choose to ignore it.

[high-prosecutor.livejournal.com]

Well.

Miles Edgeworth is from Ace Attorney. That means he's involved in all kinds of murder mysteries. (Including one at Landel's; the fact his former mentor made an attempt on his life.)

Endrance isn't going by his real name, but he's not really hiding that?

Euphemia: Geass spoilers; they're in her journal (euphemise).

Furude Rika: She's from Higurashi. That means she's seen a whole lot of murder, something she won't want to share with anyone.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Okay so, Endrance seems generally mystery-free, in that he isn't holding or involved in any terrible secret that would be kind of bad if anyone knows. For Euphemia and Rika, I think Neuro will pick up the scent of mystery from them, but since none of their cases are really solvable here, he won't actively pursue them.

And kind of off-topic, but seeing that Edgeworth has started a mystery club of sorts, expect Neuro to want some contact with him.

[boyking]

O-oh my God, Sam. OKAY. Some are technically secrets in canon, but because Dean - the main person Sam is hiding all this from - is here, I figure they operate as current secrets in Landel's as well? Gonna put this in a separate post of his own 'cause. It's long.

(ALSO, SPOILERS, but that's...kind of unavoidable. Sorry. D: )

Sam Winchester:

1) Dean is a) two years behind Sam's own timeline and b) is currently supposed to be dead/in hell. Sam has not told Dean this and has no intention to, out of...guilt and trying to protect Dean from the truth and. It's complicated. ;; Peter, his roommate, knows the truth. (+10)

2) Ruby is a demon, though she is posing as a human. Sam's been practicing his powers with her through drinking her blood in canon, but will be continued on in Landel's. No one at Damned knows except for the two of them. Originally, he did it to enact revenge on Lilith (the collector of Dean's soul), but in Damned will be doing it so he can better keep his brother safe after the incident with Lelouch (see #4). (+15)

>> 2-a) He also has a sexual relationship/a strange kind of hunting partnership with her. While he'd rather no one know about the sex part, he won't deny it if he's caught out since it's not the biggest secret of his relationship with Ruby. So. 0?

3) Sam has demon-blood, and not just from what he's been taking from Ruby. Azazel infected him with it when he was an infant (the source of his later discovered psychic powers), after killing his mother. Azazel knows, but he's dead. Ruby also presumably knows. (+20)

4) Dean was brainwashed the night Lelouch Geassed him and tried to kill Sam. Sam's lied about a) who was involved and b) that Dean was brainwashed (Sam told him he was possessed instead) in an attempt to protect Dean. Are we sensing a theme here. (+15) ...or +20 if an attempted murder counts as murder?

5) Sam has already died once (and been resurrected when Dean sells his soul). This led to him killing the man (Jake) who killed Sam which thereby led to Dean selling his soul, a.k.a. he harboured some pent-up >:| at Jake for indirectly causing Dean's later death. This is the only time he's killed a human being who wasn't possessed by a demon. He won't tell anyone this largely because it happened after the point where Dean is taken from, so Dean doesn't know. (+25)

6) Sam will almost never give out his last name. Occasionally, he goes by an alias. He will also never let on that Dean is his brother if he can help it. Sam will never mention specifically that he and Dean are hunters, though he may let on about his paranormal knowledge by pretending he's just a geek for it/somehow knows. Most of the time, Sam pretends to be the average, harmless college kid/random passing guy. If caught, though, he won't deny it. He just tries to avoid having to give out the truth where he can. (0)

7) Azazel is dead, killed by Dean. Again, something that happened after Dean's timeline, so he won't tell for that reason. (+5) or +10 but IDK if killing a demon counts as murder.

-> With the exception of #6 which is par for the course for him, Sam feels guilty over all of the above (not necessarily always for events themselves - he doesn't feel bad about Azazel's death, for instance - but for keeping it from Dean) but does not regret it. As in, he'd do it all over again because he can't see any other way at this point.

UM. There's actually a couple more but. That's about the gist of it. His feelings and motivations for all of this are a lot more complicated than what's covered SO IF YOU NEED MORE DETAILS or if any of this is totally WTF confusing, let me know. 8D;;

ETA: A lot of this is directly related to some heavy CR going on with Dean (and Ruby starting next DS) right now which depends on these things remaining secrets, especially the parts about Dean not being from Sam's time and Sam using his demon powers deliberately, so if you're planning to look specifically into these things to any major degree, ALSO LET ME KNOW AND. we can try to work something out since. Yes.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That's... a lot. XD

I already talked about the Geass event with Lelouch-mun, but yeah. A lot of this seems kind of unsolvable because it would require Neuro to know a lot about Sam's world to get a lead on anything, so don't worry about him finding out about almost any of this. Still, he might stick around just because Sam smells good.

[kanara.livejournal.com]

This is a bit hard to answer for my characters, but feel free to ask me clarifying questions. I have a lot of characters, so I'll go through them one by one.

Hinamori Momo - Momo is one of the characters that have been around the longest out of the current cast, so she knows quite a bit. She is shinigami and she has been involved in murder, both having killed another and being present when a close friend was murdered. While at Doyleton, she was attacked by the best friend that had been murdered, brought back as a very dangerous zombie. She had to kill this friend, but was the only one present and is actively hiding the fact that the even occurred at all from those the friend was also close to. She knows almost all of the mysteries of the basement, again something she is keeping from all but one or two select people and even they don't know it all.

Beatrix Kiddo - The Bride is actively hiding her real name, going by 'Arlene'. Two others know her real name, but only because they are psychic. She is also an ex-assassin involved in the basement mysteries. The last NS (night 44), she killed Ophelia, a former comrade in a manner not even those present could figure out what happened. She was also one of the patients that 'died' on NS 43.

Falis - Falis is also going by a name that is not her own - Princess Alita Forland. She constantly hides the fact that the body she is currently in is not her original body, a victim of soul switching. She is also hunting vampires and knows the identity of at least one of them and is involved in the mystery of Fai's color-changing eye. She has moments where she will go berserk and one occurred at Doyleton, leading to the death of Armand.

Sheena Fujibayashi - Sheena is ninja, so everything from her true name to the technique she makes her spell cards in Damned are a mystery. She is also a summoner and is plotting the form a summoning pact with another, powerful, patient. She sometimes uses a anonymous male-like handwriting on the board. She was on special counseling a few days back and only recalls bits and pieces of it.

Junpei Iori - Junpei 'died' on NS 43 and has been killed before in his canon, but was revived. He was infected at Doyleton and hid that fact from even his close friends. He is currently hiding that he knows Evangeline is a vampire and that she bit him, afraid that she'll use him as her servant because of the bite.

Teresa - Teresa is involved in the mystery that is Lelouch and his Geass. She doesn't know as much as the rest, but she is aware of what he did to Euphemia back in the Code Geass canon, which involved a massacre by a pacifistic girl that was mystically controlled by Lelouch's Geass.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've got a few questions for some of your characters.

Hinamori: Could you give a little more detail about the murders she have been involved in? Or at least tell me when did this all happen so I can look it up?

Beatrix: If confronted about it, will she deny killing Ophelia? Even if Neuro (somehow) presented evidence? Also, just out of curiosity, how did she kill Ophelia?

Falis: Similar question: how much will she deny this happening?

[ninelivesonce]

Sangamon Taylor has absolutely no secrets, as far as I can remember. Canonly or Landel's-ly. He's very what-you-see-is-what-you-get, though if someone asks him to keep a secret he will. The only confidential knowledge bits he has are 1) Peter Parker's identity, 2) several people's M-U side effects. Those he won't divulge without good reason.

Taura is even more painfully honest, but will keep other people's secrets as well. She saw Homura splashed with human blood that wasn't his on NS 44, and knows the History Club has a key to a certain locked door, but that's about it. Those she wouldn't divulge without permission from Homura. She's not far enough in her own canon to know Miles Vorkosigan's real identity, or that the one she knows him under is false. She knows a few covert ops passphrases/etc from her work as a mercenary, but those aren't mysteries, just operational security.

[tightsofmight]

lol Like Peter's identity is confidential anymore.

[slipperymagic.livejournal.com]

All I have are canon-related things, but they're potentially solvable in-game. Anyway, I'll be brief. XD

Howl gave his heart to a fire demon, both to save its life and to gain huge amounts of magical power. If he doesn't find a way to reverse it, he'll slowly become evil and twisted. One of the rules of the contract is that he can't actually tell anyone about it. Therefore, he has to deny any and all accusations unless they're spot on. Sophie, who spends most of the book theoretically trying to find out the details of the contract, is now in the game and still doesn't know what's up with him. Howl is also really noncommittal, lies frequently and typically avoids answering anything fully even when he is being honest.

Kaworu isn't human. He's an Angel, but that's really just a codename for another potential human evolutionary path. He spent his whole life very seriously planning to wipe out all of humanity, and almost did it. But at the last minute he changed his mind and made Shinji kill him. Shinji and Otacon both know this, but Kaworu wouldn't bring it up independently. However, he doesn't feel guilty about his intentions or actions.

[tasteslikechaos.livejournal.com]

Okay, so then:

Howl
- Howl's Heart: 10 pts.

Kaworu
- Being an Angel: 10 pts. (Assuming he'll admit to it if seriously pushed)

Tsubasa/Dr Who spoilers

[contentincloset.livejournal.com]

... kay, so you're making me realize just how painfully blunt honest all my characters are in this place. I've got two that I can think of that you could go with.

Kurogane doesn't go by his real name (or what is assumed to be his real name. There hasn't been an actual confirmation on if it is his name or a title given him, however, it is a name he should go by, but doesn't) His name is You-ou, but good luck getting that out of him.

Donna... is not necessarily a mystery, however she has an aura of being "special" (according to cannon). Donna has a string of coincidence following her because something has to happen to her/with her/because of her... whatever. It's hard to explain, but the point is that it's there. Donna doesn't know about it though. The Doctor, on the other hand...

The ones I can't think of mysteries for are Brook and Sokka. They're both good-natured and unfortunately speak their minds far too often. I would say that Brook is a skeleton normally, but he isn't here, so that can be, uh, mysterious? XD He won't deny it though...

Re: Tsubasa/Dr Who spoilers

[contentincloset.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, things characters will deny... I'm not so sure if some count as mysteries though, so you can figure out what gets points or not!

Kurogane (currently RL'd, but he'll be back soon):
Will deny having another name
Will deny having died before (during the event night)
Will deny having given Fai CPR/kissing him
Will deny that his left arm (M-U attached) belonged to his father

... and now that I think about it, that last one's probably a mystery. Kuro's left arm was frozen off one NS, then when he got MU, the arm from his father (darker skinned and tattoed) was attached in it's place. He REALLY will not talk about how it happened, however.

Donna:
Will deny being anything but normal/average

[offduty.livejournal.com]

Reno: Has no real secrets. XD; He doesn't go around telling people he's a Turk or that his job is basically to assassinate people, but if he's poked and prodded, he'll let on some generalization about it, like say he's a bodyguard/protects a pansy-ass President, etc.

Innn other words, a lot of stuff, he won't bring up on his own or outright mention it, but he doesn't specifically hide it, either. This is mostly because he's used to everyone knowing - the Turks are no secret in his world and a lot of people in his canon know perfectly well he's the one who dropped the Sector 7 plate.

Otherwise, he's pretty shameless about himself, so.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Evangeline and Reinforce are both keeping their exact natures a secret.

Evangeline is only hiding that she's a vampire and she's not doing a very good job so I think she scores a big fat zero.

Reinforce might be a little more interesting since she's trying to keep pretty much her whole past under wraps. And it involved plenty of death and destruction. Still, kind of bland stuff in a Landel's context.

[little-serenity.livejournal.com]

Oh man... UM...

Artemis Fowl II - byname_bynature

plays things extremely close to the vest. He doesn't bring up things about his personal life if at all possible. Everything he tells someone is on a strictly Need-to-Know basis or not exactly the whole truth.

trying to keep his relationship with Haku a secret (especially from Zabuza if we ever get another one)

keeping it a secret that Mello stabbed him in the chest a few NSs ago.

trying to keep his possession of magic VERY secret since his MU.

Hattori Heiji - osakapwnzu

he and Shinichi (meitantei) are investigating Genjyou Sanzo's murder. They've been instructed to keep the investigation under wraps.

Kurt Wagner - fuzzy_diablo

is Nightcrawler of the X-Men. He doesn't keep this too secret, but he's trying to keep his 'normal-looking' persona and 'mutant' persona separate. Essentially he's trying to keep 'Kurt' separate from 'Nightcrawler'.

is sort-of hiding the fact that he ditched all of the X-Men prior to when he was taken to Landel's. Mostly because he doesn't know if Kitty (goesthruphases) knows whether or not he did it/has forgiven him.

Kinomoto Touya - guardiancomplex

is keeping his relationship with Yukito (winged_moon) a secret from his sister Sakura (giftofstars), mostly because he doesn't want to scar her with lovey-dovey him and Yuki. XD

knows what's going on concerning Sakura's collecting of Clow Cards/magic/etc., but pretends that he doesn't have clue one.

Pavel A. Chekov - sewenteen_sir

is kind of an open book. XD I'll update if he gets anymore secrets.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

I really can't think of much that Sora is keeping a secret, to be honest. He's killed a few Organization XIII members and he doesn't go about advertising it, but it's not the sort of thing he would deny, either. Umm... so yeah, he isn't really the secretive type.

Guy keeps the reasons for his phobia (spoiler, let me know if you need more info?) a secret in general, though most of his canonmates know about it. He also harbored a strong hate for Luke, but he's admitted that to him, so... not much of a secret anymore. He doesn't really tell other people, though. Oh, and he'll be forced to keep all of the Coliseum events a secret since anyone involved has a block where they can't tell other people about it.

Peter Petrelli is keeping some of Sam's secrets, such as the fact that Dean died and the fact that Sam has the power to exorcise demons. He witnessed a murder (Sylar killing Elle -- this happened in the institute), but he would gladly tell people about this if they came asking. 8D

Pretty much everything involved with Harvey's injuries is a secret since he is not planning to tell anyone in the institute about it and no one knows the truth since he's the only character here from Dark Knight canon. He's kind of hiding his identity in general since he doesn't want certain Gothamites to know he's here yet... that might be blowing up soon, though? Uhh, he isn't too outspoken about his coin shtick since he's pretty sure most people here wouldn't appreciate his set of morals. He's also hiding that he got his hands on a gun here at Landel's, kinda. UHH, and he's killed 3 people (before Landel's) and he doesn't advertise that much either. GOSH, HARVEY.

[zack-fair.livejournal.com]

Some of the things I could think of that Zack might want to keep to himself is the fact that he was experimented on (as was Cloud), and maybe even the fact that he died, depending on the circumstances. These might come out pretty early on to others, though. He might have kept secrets for Shin-Ra in the past, but he really won't be doing much of that anymore, unless the situation calls for it.

[lawful_perfect]

Let's see... besides the obvious mysteries in von Karma's canon? X3 Well, as Jen said, he did kind of, you know, try to kill Miles Edgeworth and then hurled death threats at both him and Phoenix Wright when no one else was in the hallway. >:3 As it is, there are three material witnesses: Edgeworth, Wright, and Javert (to a much lesser extent). Also, his daughter, Franziska, is actively investigating this murder attempt and has gotten Scruffy Gumshoe involved. Not to mention the other characters that Edgeworth and Wright may have told of this murder attempt. So, not a terribly huge secret, except that it hasn't yet been proved beyond reasonable doubt. And, of course, vK is going to try to deny it as much as humanly possible at least until Dear Daughter presents a perfectly fingerprinted baseball bat to him...

More recently, he's undergone an M-U trial (NS 44) that has rendered his memory defective. Furthermore, he was also subjected to the "real life" event of Day 45. While these don't involve murder per se, he really doesn't want anyone to find out about these artificially-induced mental weaknesses and will seek to vanquish them on his own. Oh, and to make sure that Martin Landel pays for them, although that's hardly a secret of any kind. X3

[hadr0n.livejournal.com]

Cliff, once he's got the hang of the place, will likely be interested in manipulating the institute's technology to restore his own universe, which has been deleted as far as he knows (it's actually fine). He won't deny it if confronted directly, but he would be extremely evasive about it for as long as possible due to obvious complications. It's pretty safe to say he absolutely hates Luther, who's responsible for said universe destruction. (+5!) He's not really spreading around the fact he's a computer program from a simulated world either, but that's not something that's provable in damned.

Badou has no real secrets in damned. He sometimes disguises his handwriting on the bulletin but mostly he doesn't bother. He almost tried to kill Artemis a couple of times too, out of pure malice, but they were kind of special circumstances. It's only really a secret from Haku, who would murder him if he knew.

Nataku is secretly...conspiring to draw a penis on Homura's face. :|b

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

UM...

Sai isn't Sai's real name, and his real name is so secret that even I don't know it! He also has a cursed seal placed on his tongue that keeps him from giving out any important information in regards to Danzo, the head of Root (and Hokage, or leader of the village, in current canon that comes after the point I took him from).

Leon doesn't really have any secrets.

Heat is a demon that devours other demons. He and the other Embryon haven't really been spreading this fact around, though some know. His demon self, Agni, was also a nightshift monster (and I'll be trying to get him as one again) and he might be in some trouble if people made the connection.

Cloud has the cells of a dead alien in his body, but I don't think he'd keep it all that secret. In fact, he's pretty open about anything.

[ryuuzaki]

L is generally drenched in mysteries.

So far, around Landel's, he's mostly obscured his identity: not many people know that "Ryuuzaki," the weird guy who seems smart, thoughtful, intense, tactless, and maybe a bit creepy (depending who he's talking to and how they react), is The Greatest Detective in His Canon The World, really named L. Because he was there before (with a different player), more existing characters may be aware of his identity than I know about.

He and Lunge are sending messages to each other on the bulletin board, always addressed to Lars.

To some extent, he will deny these things. Lunge knows the most about them. Mello knows about his identity, but not about the Lars pseudonym.

In terms of investigation, he hasn't really been around long enough to get personally involved enough with people in a way that would cause him to investigate anything on a smaller scale. His current interests are the big-picture, broad-scale details of the Institute.

Back in canon-land, he has been involved in nothing but mysteries from the age of eight, has solved over 3,000 difficult ones, and is currently investigating a murder case involving thousands of victims and an over-complicated trick which he's only just beginning to understand. At this point he is relatively certain of the culprit and probably quietly loathes him. The mystery is not fresh, and probably not of that much interest to Neuro, except that I'm guessing L will absolutely reek of the kind of intrigue Neuro's looking for in a general sense. Apart from his identity and the bit below, the secrets involved in it aren't really his.

Also possibly relevant: If he is sure of a suspect's guilt, and regular interrogation isn't working, he will have them "mildly" tortured. Only he, his handler, the suspect, and four Japanese police officers are aware of this. It may be known by other law enforcement officials back at home, but there's no way of knowing; all we really know is that he has kind of a scary reputation among people who were aware of his existence before the Kira case began: he's known as infallibly effective, but also aggressive and vengeful. So, this one is his own secret, rather than just his knowledge of someone else's and his involvement in a mystery that someone else instigated.

[tiny-chef.livejournal.com]

Oof. I should have put this under L's, but rather than edit again, I'll just give Remy his own post for convenience.

Remy is a rat passing as human.

This will be fresh until it comes out, I guess, and I don't know when that will be. No hateful feelings or anything are involved. He won't like the Institute but he will like the side effect of being trapped in a human body.

[kitty-nakoji.livejournal.com]

LET'S SEE...

Luxord doesn't actually have any secrets, be it canon or otherwise (I say this because while Organization XIII likes to mystify itself, Luxord's hardly involved in anything like that. Sons of bitches need to start letting him in on shit, goddamn). :( He's pretty honest.

He's about a 0.

Venom has a few secrets, but most are canon-related. He's the head of the Assassin's Guild and, while he'll tell you this if you ask nicely, he will not tell you anything about, say, the Guild's personal files, who ordered what, who carried out what orders, what was a hit or not (those things can get pretty fucking elaborate), who got assassinated, who put in the hit, and things of that nature. He also won't speak much of his personal life to anyone (I'm not even sure he's told his own Guild their old leader is dead, considering Zato had been missing a pretty big chunk of time before he actually died and even the goddamn Big Brother of the game doesn't seem to really know if the man's actually alive or not), but that's probably not hugely interesting.

In Landel's, the only two secrets I can think of is his "death" on NS43 (only two people know about it, and they haven't squealed), and his knowledge about Edward being a vampire.

He's about a 15.

Dahlia on the other hand... lololol oh man, here we go. Dahlia is directly responsible for the deaths of three people in canon (four by the end of the game), attempting to murder two others (three by the end of the game), basically creating a false persona of herself in order to hide how much of a hateful bitch she is, playing anyone and everyone in her path to use them, and will not tell you a damn thing about any of this. While her case of murdering those three people was already solved in her world, she's pretty much gotten off free in Landel's, meaning you'd have to drag the truth out of her again (meaning she won't tell the truth even with evidence. You seriously need to repetitively beat it out of her and give her no other option than to confess. It was seriously a "say you did it" or "poison yourself" choice she was given) if anyone wants to prove just how much of an evil bitch she really is.

Since coming to Landel's, she's also assisted in playing a group of four other people into a death trap, two of which actually died. She will deny it firsthand, she will deny with evidence, she's pretty fucking hateful (though not so much about the in-Landel's stuff. She was just playing along with Sync to eventually use the hell out of him), one happened yesterday, most of her murders involved setting other people up with elaborate fake evidence and alibis, most all involve murders, and, even if you make her admit she did it, she doesn't feel a goddamn shred of guilt for anything.

So she's a goddamn 45 on the radar. GG, Dahlia. ♥

[kitty-nakoji.livejournal.com]

OH NO WAIT, LUXORD DOES HAVE A SECRET \o/

He's been reset and, since talking to Edgar, he kind of has the feeling that the weird occurrence of someone coming up to him and acting like they know him isn't going to be a one-time thing. Because of this and the fact that he thinks it's fun, he's keeping it a secret that he has no idea who the hell any of these people are. He's just bluffing and playing along for as long as he can before someone figures that out.

So maybe a 5.

[tyki-pon.livejournal.com]

Scar longlivetehking
Scar would like certain things to be a secret, such as him murdering his older brother and attempting to murder his nephew in order to become King. But his fourth wall has also been torn down, so he knows that other people might know. Once confronted, he'll attempt to justify it instead of denying it, and it's not something he'd begin talking about on his own. If there will ever be canonmates, it will be incredibly troublesome if they'd find out. What he will keep a secret is his birthname (Taka) and the circumstances of his namesake; he'll only remain very vague about it.

Tyki tyki_pon
Tyki's...complicated HE'S ALWAYS COMPLICATED. Anyway. Uhm. During the day he passes for a normal human vagabond (white), during the night he is a Noah (black). The key to maintaining both is to keep both lives separate, so to a certain extend this is a secret and he'll avoid talking about his black side while he's white and vice versa, even if he doesn't do anything in his power to keep it separate (not using a different name, sometimes making references, using the same nicknames he gives to people - both are still one person). He also won't freely tell someone that white and black are the same person. He'll be vague when forced to answer and change the subject. Only one person knows that "both Tyki's" are the same person, but he doesn't know any details or even that black!Tyki is a sadist. Some canonmates know, but they are not present or they don't know. In Landels, he has killed one person while being his black self, and heavily injured another, something he will only avoid talking about while he's white (other than mentioning he had been 'playing a game'), but has no qualms admitting when he's black. Same goes for Noah-related stuff. SO. I guess the secrecy in that regard depends on when you meet him? I HOPE THAT MADE SENSE? :D

Yakushiji Tenzen should_be_dead
Tenzen wants to keep his ability of healing and resurrection a secret in this place, mainly because he's a ninja, and it's more effective that way (who'd expect someone you have just killed to come back anyway?). It's source is a parasite-like creature living in him. He will only use it as a way to taunt his enemy before killing them off, so in order to find out they have to kill him first and then survive a future ambush. It has been weakened to the point that he can only resurrect, but he won't go around telling that either. To a certain extend he'll also keep his ninja clan a secret, but he won't go to great lengths to do so. Only one other person knows about the ninja clan, no one does about his ability other than fellow clansman which aren't here. He has other secrets, but they are canon-related.

[darwinism]

Sylar, a serial killer in his canon, has so far murdered two people during his stay at Landel's (Zolf J. Kimbley (Night 33) and Elle Bishop (Night 37)). Although Peter Petrelli was witness to Elle's death, the only person who knows that Sylar killed Kimbley is no longer at the Institute. Sylar himself also goes to great lengths to cover up his true identity, often using the pseudonyms "Zachary Blaine" (his institute name) or "Gabriel Gray" (his original name) and generally, only Heroes canonmates or people he's attacked before (Tyki Mikk) know that he has a darker side at all. Although Peter has attempted to oust him on the bulletin board and thus the name "Sylar" has been publicized as well as his being a killer, Sylar himself is still maneuvering around the Institute relatively under-the-radar in terms of being recognized. Right now the person he's most deliberately fooling is probably Wally West, although he's also got deceptive CR going with Spock (his roommate) and Faize Sheifah Beleth; he also generally plays nice-guy with everyone he talks to and is constantly looking for ways to manipulate people to his advantage.

Sylar would definitely deny his crimes firsthand if questioned about them by an outside party, but so long as he wasn't in the company of anyone he wanted to keep fooled, he'd probably own up to his crimes pretty quickly and drop his act of niceness if confronted with evidence or by someone who was already convinced of his guilt. However, as a sociopath, he does feel completely guiltless about every murder he commits, and generally he needs to be humiliated in some horrible way to feel truly defeated. (i.e. Peter's ordering him to undo his own murder of Claire Bennet; Tyki Mikk's kicking his ass while he relived his mom's death at his own hands). As far as "murder traps", Sylar's murders themselves are fairly crude and obvious, but the way he manipulates people leading up to those murders usually involves some heavy, sometimes long-term deception.

tl;dr Sylar is a duplicitous sadist who psychologically tortures acquaintances for fun and regularly murders people to gain superpowers.

[scarletspeedstr.livejournal.com]

WAT. ZACK IS SYLAR?! DDDDDDDD:

HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? I THOUGHT IT MEANT SOMETHING TO YOU. T________T

tsubasa/twewy spoilers

[not-rly-fai.livejournal.com]

Fai - Since canon ones/unsolvable ones don't matter much here, I'll just say that he'd be pretty drenched in the murder mystery stuff from before involving the death of his twin brother and the slaughter of nearly an entire nation. ^^;;;
As for secrets and mysteries at Landel's? He hides pretty much everything, whether it's necessary to or not. But here's the list of stuff he wouldn't be admitting to:
- He worked with/for Homura's group at one time.
- Using his magic makes him weaker and hurts him physically.
- It is happening because of the medication he's on and he is well aware of it.
- He wants to believe in his fake life.

Neku - He just got here, but before he did, he was murdered. The murderer and another suspect are present, so that may or may not count? But it's about 3 weeks old, though he only came back to life about a day and a half ago. He'd deny it at first, it does evoke some angry feelings, and there was no trick to the murder, but there were plenty afterward? When Neku was more or less manipulated into doing whatever his murderer told him to do. ^^;; However, 3 people aside from Neku already know the solution and are present at Landel's. ^^;

Kagura- Is only hiding the fact that she is under a curse from the Chinese Zodiac legend and will turn into a pig/boar thing when hugged by a member of the opposite sex. But it's kind of a huge deal to her/her family, so she'd not be admitting to it unless someone saw it happen.

Honey - the only mystery is why an 18-year-old boy still looks and acts like an elementary school students.

Sakura - Not really, no. She likes to solve mysteries though and is something of a know-it-all. The only secret she's denying is the fact that she likes watching a little guy-on-guy action, especially it involves her current crush and someone else equal or nearly as good looking. :|