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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...

Just like the TDM set up, Jigokucho is in recovery mode after the dissipation of a curse that befell the city. It was a full-on horror apocalypse.

The curse is gone, there are rumors stirring that the turf war has ended, and the Kappa are all going back down to work on building… something. It’s all pretty hush-hush, but anyone that’s not in the Department can ask freely about it. The Enma has bigger things to be concerned with already anyway (namely the newly named cause of the curse: Haniyasu).

So what does that mean for the next two months? Well, between whatever it is being cooked up in the Underground and everything else, the theme of these two months is Tanabata! How that celebration takes shape in a place like Jigokucho will be revealed as the month goes on, so stay tuned to find out more!

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Minato "Minakami" Suizenji | Hashihime of the Old Book Town | Shuten

[watermemory]

Player Name: Van
Contact: plurk: piratopteryx | pm this account
Pronouns: they/them
Tell us about yourself: [extended dial tone noise]

Character Name: Minato "Minakami" Suizenji
Canon: Hashihime of the Old Book Town
Character Age: 22 (literally had his birthday pass ingame, RIP)
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown: Minato is from 1920's Japan, and the focal point of the murder mystery in his canon -- he's a mild-mannered bookworm who exudes Just Some Guy energy, which is an impressive feat from someone who inherited spiritual powers from a yokai that was passed down through his family for generations, and lost said powers jumping through time to save someone. He also remembers his myriad past lives, at least one of which was as a samurai from which he inherited his combat abilities. It's a whole thing. He is just a normal university student come closer.

Initial Ideas:

- As of this point, some of the Just Some Guy facade has cracked, but he's going to pretend it hasn't. He's also actively hiding from the goddamn Sutoku reporters chasing soundbites about the tower mission, because he will not be perceived thank u.
OOCly, him hiding translates into me taking it easy this month. That said:

- Substories: tanabata............. real.................
Besides actually having fun for once with the festival (he's a little baffled that it's being held this month instead of August like he's used to) (Actually, speaking of festival dates, I'm pretty sure it'd be Bon this month where he's from, so he's gonna be homesick about that,,,), it's also very on-brand for Minato to fall afoul of a haunted watch when earnestly trying to find its actual owner.
His flat burned down along with some other Shuten apartments during curse month though he has been living with Tama this whole time instead so him and his friends are looking for a new apartment. I imagine it won't be hard to work in the cursed watch or naked dancer substories into IKEA/househunting/moving stuff??

- Canonmate stuff: His buddy Eiichi Segawa (a.k.a. Kawase) has shown up in hell. I might make another open substory duo-log with the two of them because they have a lifelong It's Complicated that is. going to be worked out. somehow. and it's going to be everyone's problem. I'm Sorry.

- Following up on Kaigou no Bou: Minato has the camera recordings of the tower mission. He doesn't know what to do with them, but the glimpse of the "mastermind" (supposedly Haniyasu according to the Enma's public statement) is too important not to do something about. There's the linked plotting post about the efforts to clean up the footage (Minato is merely a Taisho-era country mouse, what is modern tech), but it's not just open to techies; any Lost Soul who has a vested interest in wanting to see and analyze the footage should have an easy time finding him, since the tower team's identities are on public record. This is an investigation that's on a slow cooker, so no hurry. This will get folded into a catchall log post.

- Player-run business: This is also a slow cooker thing (probably like, August depending on what the game plot looks like?), but given Shuten spearheading the reconstruction efforts in the tdm, I'm thinking of having Minato find an izakaya that got completely trashed during the curse month, and when using his rank influence to help get it back up and running, kinda... inadvertently takes it over. This is partly a way to justify him getting any future ranks at all given he's not very yakuza...y, and partly an interest check to see who's interested in getting a sake bar off the ground. (technically he should only employ other shutens but. what does he look like. some kind of narc.)
also I do not know how to name businesses when it isn't a bad pun so I am open to suggestions.

CR Desires:

generally I just wave my hands vaguely here because CR just happens when it happens but like
1. is there a time-travellers club yet
2. is there a cursed-eye/stolen-eye club yet (Minato's eyes are normal now but he's an honorary member given it's his family curse)
3. is there a turn of the century/early-1900s-or-earlier club also
4. there should be
5. hmu pls

Anything else:


opt-out (His canon is a minefield of content warnings, and Minato himself has issues that may be of concern, even though they should not come up in 99% of threads, at least without prior discussion.)
permissions/info
inbox

[pathofsacrifice]

I do still love the shenanigans that the three got up to, and love to continue it. :D

[watermemory]

GOD THAT WHOLE DISCUSSION ABOUT HANIWA JUST GOT REALLY TRAGICALLY HILARIOUS HUH I spent the whole event thinking it was a criminal crime there isn't a Danko in this game

NGL the unlucky watch substory as the sequel to that thread would be really funny, either that or collecting stardust. Ironically/sadly Mina might be a little less receptive to the idea of a substance cropping up mysteriously being benign this time......

[pathofsacrifice]

IT GOT REAL TRAGICALLY HILARIOUS. I'm only sorry that the month got so wacky that I wasn't able to properly have Artemy respond to it. (sad trombone)

But I do think that the watch substory would be very funny follow-up on that; they can talk about the horrific things they saw in the blood rain and Artemy still saying that he doesn't think these things are "evil." ... Oh sweet Artemy.

[baofeng]

chiming in again to indicate my interest in looking at/ineffectively editing the tower team footage! i really want to make that cain knightley fancam happen somehow

let me know when the log goes up! o/

[watermemory]

\o

can you imagine. yizhi leaks the cain knightley fancam onto yamatube. minato has no concept of what "going viral" even is. this is fine

[baofeng]

Yizhi would probably contact Cain to ask for permission (I need to hit cain-mun about that too), which I’m looking forward to as an excuse for new CR. Fingers crossed Cain says yes, because then Yizhi can put it straight on the network like “yas king hero of Jigoku-cho! follow him on his socials everyone!”

[frogmarched]

but are we gonna do Two Grown Men Stuck In Handcuffs For A Day Because A Certain Idiot Lost The Key

[watermemory]

I GENUINELY
DO NOT KNOW
I BELIEVE IN MY HEART IN "KAWASE AND MINAKAMI GOT CUFFED TOGETHER AND EVERYONE HAS TO JUST DEAL WITH THAT FOR THE SUBSTORY PROMPTS" BUT I CONTINUE TO STARE AT THE TDM THREAD IN FEAR AND ANXIETY

[frogmarched]

listen
listen



we can't take this away from us

[medicative]

if minakami runs into the clinic to hide from the reporters emily will tell them off for him. be ethical, guys

[watermemory]

thank you emily you are a real one

in return he will try and stop people from eating the sky candy

[medicative]

people are just eating anything they find on the ground these days

[worldbent]

I kind of want Matoba to get roped into helping him out of the cursed watch situation..........

[watermemory]

like a huge forgetful idiot who plays someone literally incapable of forgetting anything, I neglected to include the cat "regain" in the original post, but you are aware of cat, so it all works out

anyway all I can think of is his goddamn cat stealing the watch and both of them having to chase it down

[worldbent]

Benny Hill theme plays as Matoba's shiki trip over each other and tumble around trying to catch a cat

[psionicmolotov]

kimmuriel being vaguely normal for once and helping him move is tempting since like almost all of their encounters have been some comedy looney tunes shit

(he will also help confiscate sky candy drugs if it comes to that)

[watermemory]

god I feel like moving after hellmonth has to be like

on one hand, the starter flats are physically not big enough for you to accumulate much stuff that needs moving
on the other hand, none of them have cars and will be carrying boxes across public transport, like PEASANTS
on the gripping hand, the blood rain will have ruined enough shit that they'd be throwing out as much stuff as taking it, and by "they" I mean "kawase"

I'd almost suggest "moving being disrupted by sky candy rain", like idk, traffic is being held up because some idiots are trying to collect starfall in the road, but that's just "normal day-to-day life thread grimly ticking back into looney tunes shit". I'm not opposed but also sorry Kimmuriel for all this

[psionicmolotov]

IF THIS IS WHAT IT'S FATED TO BE THEN SO BE IT

[inspiteful]

Is there a "doesn't seem like they should be in Shuten yet here they are" club since that seems to be growing

[watermemory]

Minato is not the ringleader (I think that crown goes to Kamui) but he is certainly a prominent member. regardless, welcome to the club,,,,,

I did a skim over Skylark's cr post and in a weird way, I think he'd remind Minato a little of his younger cousin?? Naoshi has much more overt "don't you want to go apeshit" energy than Skylark seems to and also, you know. not a solar exalt. the mental image of naoshi's group of hellion friends as a solar circle. minato would die., but still. Mina has no idea how the hell he got a star rank but he would definitely feel obligated to look out for younger Shutens!

[inspiteful]

I consider Lark reminding anyone of any kind of vague younger relative as a success, so this is a good start. Some day the "don't you want to go apeshit" energy will only become more obvious because being stuck in hell was not the development he was expecting. also no one deserves to have a solar circle in their lives so thank god for Minato He also met Eiichi in the TDM and might have been low-key a little rude to him so this is also great,,,

Honestly I hope he just gets to see the Hashihime cast interact with each other if only because he has enough ability to perceive that a part of him would just internally popcorn, a little.

[harimaya]

Tell Hizen where Tama lives so Hizen can teach him a lesson.

[watermemory]

ABSOLUTELY NOT, GOHAN-SAN

immediately contradicts myself because I did see in your cr post that hizen is in the market for a new apartment. the hashi boys are moving because three adults and one cat is too much for one shitty flat. if you wish it they could end up neighbours and tama's sins may finally catch up to him.

[harimaya]

Hizen pointing at Tama in the house like "why is here" because he isn't Shuten but he isn't going to say shit bc Hizen's no snitch.