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part 2

PERSONALITY:
Gino's personality is greatly structured by the loss he's experienced over the years, and the strict regiment he forces upon himself.

Gino is obviously an intelligent, capable and professional man. He was top in his class at school and has excelled in all areas of study, completing qualifications in Garden Design, Dog Therapy and his legal requirements in order to be an Inspector. In the MWPSB he is required to fulfil the tasks set to him by his Chief and also to handle the personnel on his team, and does so effectively. He is an excellent detective capable of understanding and observing human behaviour to his advantage but falls short as he relies more on data than intuition, which leaves him coming off somewhat rigid compared to the others on his team.

The most obvious part of Gino's personality is the bitterness he holds in his heart over the demotions of his father and best friend, as he sees them as personal betrayals of some kind, leaving him feeling abandoned and let down as they seem to settle with their lot. He agonizes over what happened to them, but instead of hating the system that made them outcasts he only leans more heavily on it. Gino's determined faith in the Sibyl System (fuelled, presumably, by the fear of doubting the system and having it doubt him back, like what happened to his father) and his conservative persona stunt him from feeling how he truly feels and allowing him to be happy.

In a flashback to when Sasayama was alive, Gino is shown to still be rather tight-laced, but is much more friendly than the man we see in the present. Following Kogami's demotion to an Enforcer Gino begins to distance himself from his team and refuses to form attachments with his Enforcers. When Tsunemori joins their ranks as a rookie Inspector, he tells her to not think of the Enforcers as humans but rather as 'hounds' or hunting dogs; inhuman creatures used for a purpose, not to be made friends with. He tells her this as he fears for the state of her mind around those who have already fallen into darkness, and doesn't want to see the same happen to her. Gino is afraid of being disappointed by those he cares about again, so he refuses to care for anyone; he forces himself to think of the Enforcers as inhuman because if he doesn't see them as humans, he won't care, and therefore won't be hurt by them.

In theory, at least. The reality of the situation is that Ginoza does care, a lot. He has a tender heart and is very emotional. He is seen to be visibly upset when Tsunemori undergoes her memory scoop, to the point where he ignores the success of the procedure to make sure she's alright. Prior to this he had been rather unkind to her; forcibly telling her not to make friends with her subordinates, calling her a child when she lets her emotions guide her choices, insisting that she isn't cut out for her job... but it's all because he cares about her well-being. Akane is blessed with a determinedly clear Psycho-Pass no matter what she experiences, and once Gino realises that and once Akane understands that he only lashes out because he doesn't know how to show he cares, the two gain a mutual understanding of one another and begin to trust each other as equals.

Gino can also be quite immature, which is evidence to the fact that he never really had a decent childhood, and forced himself to grow up much too fast. He's incredibly self conscious which is why he wears glasses - he doesn't need them, he just dislikes the way his face looks, especially his eyes because they're so similar to his fathers, and is self-conscious of how he's obviously lacking in muscle. He's often seen to be jealous over the way Kogami and Masaoka seem to get on better than Gino and his father ever have as he hasn't had a relationship with his father since he was 9 years old and secretly, desperately, craves one. He's also very quick to shout and lash out, and very rarely listens to reason if he's sure that he's right.

That said, Gino will not deny respect where respect is due, and he holds a reasonably amount of it for Kogami; going so far as to apologise for being too harsh, and looking to him for ideas in difficult cases, willingly admitting that Kogami is a much better detective than he ever was.

Ultimately, Gino cares very deeply, but his anxiety over his own personal and mental state and the way the world perceives him and his issues regarding betrayal and rejection stunt him, making him cold and brash and difficult to deal with on the exterior.

POWER: 
Gino doesn't have powers in his canon, but in Mask or Menace he will be capable of Reactive Empathy. Gino will be able to sense and literally experience the strong emotions of those around him. For example, if a girl close by had just broken up with her boyfriend he would be able to feel her heartbreak and anger as if it were his own, just as real and just as intense. In tandem with this, he will also be able to sense strong emotional signatures from long distances, particularly if he's already familiar with the person in question and can recognise their aura/signature.

Gino will also be capable of, at close distances, taking strong emotions onto himself to give the person a respite of clarity; soaking them up like an emotion sponge, acid meeting alkali, resetting manic or blue moods back to 0. He can't do this a lot, however, as it exhausts him.

His powers will start off messy to the point where he won't be able to control them very well and will be overwhelmed with the amount of feelings he experiences and soaks up, but eventually he'll be able to fine tune it and make it more precise given practice.

These powers will, of course, require permission in a permissions post that will be posted to Gino's journal.

<big>〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉</big>
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: 
[ The feed opens to Ginoza sitting at a desk he's already meticulously organised despite not having very much on the desk to organise, and he clears his throat by way of greeting. ]

This is Inspector Ginoza Nobuchika of CID Division 1, requesting that any members of the MWPSB get in immediate contact with me. [ He pauses then, still not making eye contact, choosing instead to look somewhere off to the right as though he's speaking to someone just behind the camera. ] As I'm aware the officials here are at least aware of my reality, so I assume someone from my world has passed through here at some point. They wouldn't give me any tangible information, no names or even confirmation, so I'm resorting to other methods to get the answers I need.

[ He does that thing with his glasses. Y'know the thing, the smart anime guy thing. Where he kind of shifts his glasses a little on his face and they flash in the glare of the light. ]

And if anyone has any experience with the law of this world, I'd be very interested in picking your brains.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
<a href=http://etcelsior.dreamwidth.org/38749.html?thread=26718813#cmt26718813>test drive thread</a>

FINAL NOTES: insert witty comment about tsundere megane here

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