September OOC Intro/CR Meme!

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Welcome Lost Souls! And also, welcome to this round's group of new players!

Want to jump right in? This month's Substories are posted here!. As for what's been going on...

Tanabata, and the opening of Sai no Kawara in the Underground, ended in a terrible (but still mild by the way things in this game go) incident where the rebellious daughter of the ultra wealthy Finance Wolf Kaberou Kannazaki and OH BOY is that a huge bounty for her return!

With the stakes high (and personal, at least in the case of the Shuten Clan), each faction is going to be making their own attempts to Save The Girl and Get The Prize, with the Iron Bear and his clan of (possibly Haniyasu worshipping) scavengers standing between them and victory.

SO! What this means is this first month will be focus on setting the stage for a race through the wasteland, and the big event next month will focus on that, as well as which faction will ultimately succeed. SO YEAH THERE'S STUFF HAPPENING.

All the while, with spook season coming, things almost seem too normal in the city, all Iron Bear kidnapping rock star prodigal daughters aside. Surely that means nothing...

Use the form below and get a kickstart on your planning for the next month!

<b>Player Name:</b> Whatever you want us to call you. <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you! <b>Pronouns:</b> Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are. <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Character Height:</b> look, we know, trust us, someone needs this information. <b>Faction:</b> <b>Brief Rundown:</b> Give folks the skinny on what this character's deal is <b>Initial Ideas:</b> If you're fresh to the game, don't feel too pressured to jump in TOO fully. Just list what ideas you have for your character's first month in the game. We'll do a more thorough plotting post when the event post is closer along. <b>CR Desires:</b> What kind of CR are you after? Friends, enemies, frienemies, lovers, one night stands, co-workers, so on and so forth? Invite people to fill that dance card! <b>Anything else:</b> Permissions, opt-outs, shitposting, etc.

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eski | hizen tadahiro 🗡️ touken ranbu | shuten

[harimaya]

Player Name: eski
Contact: yosakoi | eski#9874 | PM
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself:

I'm a tired Korean-American teaching English in Japan which explains my weird tag hours. My main fandoms are Fire Emblem and Touken Ranbu but I dabble a bit in Genshin and FGO. The plurk I linked above is my RP plurk though so it's all RP-related-- tag plurks, rp memes, some plotting plurks, and the occasional character babble. Feel free to add me there!

Character Name: Hizen Tadahiro
Canon: Touken Ranbu
Character Age: 500+ but he looks like he could be 18-20. Is he an edgy teen or a moody young adult? You decide.
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown:

Hizen is tsukumogami-- a sword spirit. He's tired, prickly, direct, very rough around the edges, and in general not a very pleasant person. He's only had a human form and feelings for a short amount of time so he's kind of emotionally stunted. Hizen regards himself as more of a tool than an actual person but... he's learning.

His master used to be one of Japan's most famous assassins, Okada Izo, so he specializes in assassinations and dirty work which he kind of hates. All sword boys are good boys but because of certain self-esteem issues, he's convinced no one would ever believe him if he tried to be good. He's highly food motivated and gets weak whenever someone acknowledges him with basic human compassion and respect.

Initial Ideas:

He's a partial lieutenant in the Shuten clan. That means he has two stars (⭐⭐) but he doesn't really fuss when it comes to rank. Right now, he's using his rank to assist at the Shuten armory under Jiro. The armory is at the arena where Hizen also fights (mostly with swords) to earn extra cash and keep his skills sharp (heh).

★ He's pretty prickly but if any newbies would like help settling into faction things, I'm here to offer Hizen in anyway I can! If you're a Shuten that wants to talk about how to get promotions or clan culture or whatever, we can do that! If you're a non-Shuten that just wants CR with a ranked member in another faction, I'm here!!!
★ I'm usually down for a couple of fight threads a month if you want to run into him at the arena. I'm also happy to have him teach people how to use a sword if you don't mind a kind of mean teacher
★ He can help people get weapons. He can't give things away for free and the good stuff is still going to cost a bit but he can definitely help people get started.

He recently regained Konnosuke, a fox spirit that basically functions as an assistant for him. He's a very polite and good fox. He sometimes shares Konnosuke with the other sword boys in game (Norimune and Otegine). But in general, I want to use Konnosuke to help make Hizen a little more approachable because Hizen is a tsundere hedgehog but Konnosuke is friendly and good.

He shares an apartment with Kazuma (karumic) and Skylark (inspiteful). They're going to be working on getting a bigger place and moving this month! If you have CR with any of those characters and want to overlap our circles, I'm down.

He earned the ability to travel through shadows. This isn't a canon ability so he's stumbling through his new power. Expect shenanigans there. I have plans to have him basically trip into his shadow and suddenly crash into random places. He's going to be falling into rivers and accidentally entering wrong apartments and he's going to hate everything. Anyway, this is a pretty good way to start CR because I can literally just have him ~bump into someone~ this month.

Hizen has a tiny lead related to the Wasteland that he wants to pursue. He doesn't consider himself to be very smart and he knows he's missing a lot of information still so I'm happy to have him share/collaborate with anyone who might want to pursue more leads here.

It's been a good run but it's time for Hizen to fuck up and get drunk and OOC for a night. I plan on having him drink too much at the Shuten welcome party. Hizen's personality will change slightly for the night― he's going to be confident, assertive, talkative, down to fight, and a total gremlin. Don't worry, he'll go back to being depressed the next day and he's going to act like nothing happened. He might not even remember the entire night to be honest.

CR Desires:

✧ Food, drinking, and fight buddies. Because this is the kind of person he is.
✧ People who will help him learn how to act like a decent/basic person and not a gremlin spirit. Look, ya boy doesn't even know how to process certain emotions without shutting down.
✧ Fellow nonhumans who will probably be able to relate to Hizen on the whole "I'm not human and will never be human and I will always be at least slightly off because of it" aspect of who he is
✧ Friends. He's still learning that he needs them and he's learning how to be one. He's gotten a lot better over the months but he's still tripping over himself.
✧ Honestly, I'm open to anything. Positive, negative, complicated, silly, etc.

Anything else:

He's well-fed in game but every time you feed him it's like +1 point in your favor.

[chevaliered]

drinking and fighting you say

[harimaya]

The only things he's good at (in his opinion) are fighting, drinking, and eating so... yes.

[chevaliered]

these are good things for cr basis honestly. have a fight and have a drink. win/win

[passthrough]

time to rotate the fox around the cast like a kid staying with the grandparents 🏃

We gotta do cast meet up sometime, so I'll go grab doji and dm you guys about that, but I am always up for them sparring to keep the blades sharp and to not have to engage in the art of being Perceived. Ote can go get them food afterwards.

[harimaya]

Konnosuke will enjoy it. It'll be fine.

And you say that like I didn't just immediately throw our group DM together haha.

[passthrough]

How dare you type faster than me in the past

Thank you to hizen for giving him reports once nori just dumps captain on him......... good waki...... u_u

[inspiteful]

I'm so ready for the drunken misadventures back to the apartment after the Shuten welcome party

[harimaya]

Lark, forget the Hizen you will meet that night please.

[inspiteful]

Do you want him to forget if it means him not calling you Brother Hizen

[littleshield]

drunk Hizen sounds like an amazing disaster, LMAO
if they get into a fight or something, it's all good here. i'm all up for anything

[harimaya]

HE'S GOING TO BE SUCH A DISASTER

and the next morning he'll forget half of it and pretend the other half never happened sdfghjkl;'

[littleshield]

LFMSKLDGH:AKM...the life and times of drunk mistakes.

[afflatusexarch]

Hizen and Baku when

[harimaya]

PLEASE... they would both be terrible together. I have a catchall with some open prompts if any of them jump at you!!

[peninhand]

does that mean if Monika send him cakes every day after a while she'll have enough affection points to unlock the boyfriend route

[harimaya]

i wonder how many cakes that would take.............. but in theory, yes.

[hiryugaeshi]

I just offered to have Kojirou kick Izo's ass so I feel like the offer has to extend here.

[harimaya]

HELLO.... hizen will avenge izo's honor. he'll kick kojirou's ass!!!

if i remember right, he's also assassin class, isn't he?

[hiryugaeshi]

He is, but he's the worst Assassin in the world because he just blocks people's paths and challenges to them fights

[medicative]

i want hizen....i want human moments with him. soft things

[harimaya]

HE LEARNED A LOT LAST MONTH... and he's still learning. Maybe they can get lunch together or something... something normal and have a nice human talk.

[earnedmystripes]

shuten newbie here!! i would love for this old man to get a faction senpai. meanwhile he's also def the type who lowkey wants to mentor at everyone so like, i could def see him being someone to offer encouragement/support when hizen's feeling down on himself?

he also makes for a fun drinking buddy/sparring partner

[sleepinglyra]

I already plan to tag into your catchall with Hizen falling into the river but does Hizen play chess?

Sheliak got a special chess set from his Tanabata wish, which Hizen helped him with, and he would want to show his gratitude. I'm fine with continuing the Tanabata thread or we can handwave any lore you wanted to share if that's easier for you.

[frogmarched]

Eiichi does know Kazuma and Skylark so like. I guess weird little Shuten social circle let's go?? (he's not helping you guys move)

......also help him get a knife (weaponized) because Minato won't let him have one and he's lame.