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deathcough) wrote2013-04-08 03:58 pm
deathcough) wrote2013-04-08 03:58 pm
Save the Earth: Application
OOC Information:
Name: Kalyn
Are you over 15? Yeepp
Contact: PM this journal, email at ocean.queen.kai@gmail.com
IC Information:
Name: Souji Okita; Reincarnated Name: Souji Sasaoki
Canon: Hakuouki
Age: 19. Preincarnated he's closer to like 23 or something
Preincarnation Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/WaiUPpl.jpg
Any differences: He'll look closer to his western style, with the short hair
Preincarnated History: http://hakuouki.wikia.com/wiki/Okita_Souji
It basically goes like this: Souji's parents died when he was young, forcing his older sister and her husband to take him in. Unable to support another mouth to feed, it wasn't long before Souji was passed onto a dojo to live and work there. He was bullied and beat up relentlessly and he refuted any help Kondou tried to give him. Kondou didn't give up, however, and continued to worm himself into Souji's heart.
Along the way Souji became fiercely protective of Kondou, almost creepily so, to the point of killing (or attempting to, or at least threatening to) anyone who made a slight against Kondou or the Shinsengumi.
Chizuru entering the picture didn't change that much--he frequently and casually drops an "I'll kill you" and is fiercely loyal to the Shinsengumi even though in his route he gradually comes to fall in love with her and through her find a way to live apart from killing.
Reincarnated History: Souji's early life were much like his preincarnated early life. When he was about 7 or 8 his parents died in a car crash leaving him under the care of his 18 year old older sister. It was discovered by a doctor that he had tuberculosis, and this was treated quickly. He grew up troubled, a bully who was constantly in and out of trouble and enjoyed picking fights. He met Hajime early on his in school career and against all odds the two became best friends. To be honest, Hajime is probably Souji's only friend up until high school where he met and managed to befriend Chizuru.
Despite his delinquency, Souji is a good student who always made good grades--honestly he could probably rival Hajime and would be praised a genius if it wasn't for his lack of caring and his disinterest. So he makes good enough grades to keep his friends and sister off his back.
When he turned 18 he moved out of his sister and her new husband's place to take up an apartment and start living on his own. His sister pays his rent and Souji works hard at several part-time jobs to pay for his bills. He attends the college with Chizuru and Hajime, though he doesn't have a declared major and seems more interested in becoming a professional student--or marrying a rich old lady, whichever happens first.
First Echo: About two months prior during Hajime's birthday party, the two started up a fake swordfight with wrapping paper tubes. When Hajime switched hands and started to wallop on Souji, he got him across the neck, forcing Souji to double over and start coughing. Later he came to find out his tuberculosis from his youth had relapsed.
Preincarnation Personality: Souji is, without a doubt, an asshole. This is not an exaggeration or a joke: he’s a heavily sarcastic man who frequently makes terrible comments (such as threatening to kill Chizuru) with a cheerful smile. If reprimanded he gives a shrug and says that he was only joking, can’t anyone take a joke around here? Make no doubt though, that he is perfectly willing and capable of killing anyone who might get in the Shinsengumi’s way. He actually spends most of the beginning part of the game voting to kill the main character in order to keep the secrets of the Shinsengumi safe. For him, he doesn’t really see people as people, unless they are directly in/around his life and personal space.
He likes to tease and play jokes on his fellow members, though some of them can be cruel in nature (such as stealing Hijikata’s poetry books to read them out loud and make fun of them), he really does care for them all. Even Hijikata, to whom he spends a better part of his time being antagonistic towards, he will lay down his life to protect, and would do the same for any of them. For him they are the closest to a real family he’s had.
His supreme and undying loyalty is a big marker of his character, especially towards Kondou, to whom he idolizes and hero worships, to the point of even wearing his hair like his, up until he gets it cut near the end of his route. He loves Kondou more than anyone and will follow his orders until he dies; unfortunately this comes into conflict when Souji is diagnosed with tuberculosis, forcing him to be put onto bed rest. The tuberculosis slowly robs him of his strength and health, leaving him unfit and unable to take up his sword in the name of Kondou’s dreams and ideals. It’s a devastating blow to his ego and sense of self. He firmly believed that his life was his sword, and without it then he was useless and his life not worth living. On Okita’s end it’s more than a desire to prove himself to Kondou or make Kondou proud of him; it’s almost an obsession that the swordsman has with the Shinsengumi commander.
It’s this guilt of feeling useless that drives him to drink the Water of Life and become essentially a vampire in the hopes it would cure his tuberculosis (though all it really does is seem to slow down its progress greatly) and so he could pick up the sword once more. His desire to be useful often drives him into risky and dangerous behaviors, and he even keeps his tuberculosis hidden for as long as he can so as to avoid being put on the sidelines sooner then he has to be. If Souji had his way, he would keep fighting regardless of his illness, until he literally dropped dead.
Any differences: Honestly? Not much. Souji is still an asshole, a genius, and all around fairly insufferable. However without Kondou around to guide him, Souji feels lost. Outwardly he seems lazy, content to drift through life and just scrape by. He doesn't know what he wants to do with himself and in reality that feeling of having no purpose scares him. What is he going to do? What job is he going to get, when is he going to make something of himself?
He sees Hajime and Chizuru getting by, discovering their talents and figuring out what they're going to do in life, and Souji regards himself as talentless and a waste of space. Deep down he's really self-hating for his inability to figure out his life or why he feels so aimless. The only talents he considers himself to have is fighting, which he is very good at, and does often when he's feeling in a particularly sour mood. The joke is that Hajime walks Souji home from work on most nights not to protect Souji from the world, but to protect the world from Souji and this is largely true as Souji will often go start fights just to feel the rush of battle and to work out his anger. Booze is also the go-to 'medicine' of choice despite being underage.
Due to his tuberculosis coming back, Soujis' become more stressed about the future, finding himself unwilling to call his sister and let her know his troubles. Not wanting to bother anyone with his own problems, Souji hides behind a wall of sarcasm and cruelty (which isn't to say he isn't naturally cruel and sarcastic-- he is, but he uses it as a shield as well) and works hard to make the money he needs to get the medicine to manage his tuberculosis.
Abilities: --Exceptionally skilled in swordsmanship; routinely cited as having been a genius with a sword
-- Has been turned into a ‘rasetsu’; this is basically like a vampire. Weakness to sun, with superhuman strength, speed, and advanced healing of wounds. However, like a vampire, he gets a bloodlust that grows stronger as time goes on with a weakening resistance. The bloodlust is easily triggered whenever he can see or smell blood, but usually his control is strong enough to just suffer through it and wait for the bloodlust to pass.
--Also has a weakness to silver; it won’t kill him, but it will severely impede on the healing process
The worst side-effect is that tapping into the rasetsu uses up person’s remaining life; it’s literally sucking up the time Souji would have been living. Once that source is tapped out, the person turns to dust. For the sake of being able to play for more than a couple weeks and then him dying, I was wondering if it’d be okay for the Mist to put a damper on some of the side-effects--namely allowing Souji to go into the sun for a more extended period of time to give him a stabilized sleeping schedule (and so he can actually interact with people), and for the bloodlust and process of using up life force is slowed to allow him to live longer.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
http://scorched-logs.dreamwidth.org/421092.html#cutid1 scorched log I'm too lazy for html rn
Roleplay Sample - Network:
http://scorched.dreamwidth.org/1104929.html again scorched sob...
Any Questions?
Name: Kalyn
Are you over 15? Yeepp
Contact: PM this journal, email at ocean.queen.kai@gmail.com
IC Information:
Name: Souji Okita; Reincarnated Name: Souji Sasaoki
Canon: Hakuouki
Age: 19. Preincarnated he's closer to like 23 or something
Preincarnation Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/WaiUPpl.jpg
Any differences: He'll look closer to his western style, with the short hair
Preincarnated History: http://hakuouki.wikia.com/wiki/Okita_Souji
It basically goes like this: Souji's parents died when he was young, forcing his older sister and her husband to take him in. Unable to support another mouth to feed, it wasn't long before Souji was passed onto a dojo to live and work there. He was bullied and beat up relentlessly and he refuted any help Kondou tried to give him. Kondou didn't give up, however, and continued to worm himself into Souji's heart.
Along the way Souji became fiercely protective of Kondou, almost creepily so, to the point of killing (or attempting to, or at least threatening to) anyone who made a slight against Kondou or the Shinsengumi.
Chizuru entering the picture didn't change that much--he frequently and casually drops an "I'll kill you" and is fiercely loyal to the Shinsengumi even though in his route he gradually comes to fall in love with her and through her find a way to live apart from killing.
Reincarnated History: Souji's early life were much like his preincarnated early life. When he was about 7 or 8 his parents died in a car crash leaving him under the care of his 18 year old older sister. It was discovered by a doctor that he had tuberculosis, and this was treated quickly. He grew up troubled, a bully who was constantly in and out of trouble and enjoyed picking fights. He met Hajime early on his in school career and against all odds the two became best friends. To be honest, Hajime is probably Souji's only friend up until high school where he met and managed to befriend Chizuru.
Despite his delinquency, Souji is a good student who always made good grades--honestly he could probably rival Hajime and would be praised a genius if it wasn't for his lack of caring and his disinterest. So he makes good enough grades to keep his friends and sister off his back.
When he turned 18 he moved out of his sister and her new husband's place to take up an apartment and start living on his own. His sister pays his rent and Souji works hard at several part-time jobs to pay for his bills. He attends the college with Chizuru and Hajime, though he doesn't have a declared major and seems more interested in becoming a professional student--or marrying a rich old lady, whichever happens first.
First Echo: About two months prior during Hajime's birthday party, the two started up a fake swordfight with wrapping paper tubes. When Hajime switched hands and started to wallop on Souji, he got him across the neck, forcing Souji to double over and start coughing. Later he came to find out his tuberculosis from his youth had relapsed.
Preincarnation Personality: Souji is, without a doubt, an asshole. This is not an exaggeration or a joke: he’s a heavily sarcastic man who frequently makes terrible comments (such as threatening to kill Chizuru) with a cheerful smile. If reprimanded he gives a shrug and says that he was only joking, can’t anyone take a joke around here? Make no doubt though, that he is perfectly willing and capable of killing anyone who might get in the Shinsengumi’s way. He actually spends most of the beginning part of the game voting to kill the main character in order to keep the secrets of the Shinsengumi safe. For him, he doesn’t really see people as people, unless they are directly in/around his life and personal space.
He likes to tease and play jokes on his fellow members, though some of them can be cruel in nature (such as stealing Hijikata’s poetry books to read them out loud and make fun of them), he really does care for them all. Even Hijikata, to whom he spends a better part of his time being antagonistic towards, he will lay down his life to protect, and would do the same for any of them. For him they are the closest to a real family he’s had.
His supreme and undying loyalty is a big marker of his character, especially towards Kondou, to whom he idolizes and hero worships, to the point of even wearing his hair like his, up until he gets it cut near the end of his route. He loves Kondou more than anyone and will follow his orders until he dies; unfortunately this comes into conflict when Souji is diagnosed with tuberculosis, forcing him to be put onto bed rest. The tuberculosis slowly robs him of his strength and health, leaving him unfit and unable to take up his sword in the name of Kondou’s dreams and ideals. It’s a devastating blow to his ego and sense of self. He firmly believed that his life was his sword, and without it then he was useless and his life not worth living. On Okita’s end it’s more than a desire to prove himself to Kondou or make Kondou proud of him; it’s almost an obsession that the swordsman has with the Shinsengumi commander.
It’s this guilt of feeling useless that drives him to drink the Water of Life and become essentially a vampire in the hopes it would cure his tuberculosis (though all it really does is seem to slow down its progress greatly) and so he could pick up the sword once more. His desire to be useful often drives him into risky and dangerous behaviors, and he even keeps his tuberculosis hidden for as long as he can so as to avoid being put on the sidelines sooner then he has to be. If Souji had his way, he would keep fighting regardless of his illness, until he literally dropped dead.
Any differences: Honestly? Not much. Souji is still an asshole, a genius, and all around fairly insufferable. However without Kondou around to guide him, Souji feels lost. Outwardly he seems lazy, content to drift through life and just scrape by. He doesn't know what he wants to do with himself and in reality that feeling of having no purpose scares him. What is he going to do? What job is he going to get, when is he going to make something of himself?
He sees Hajime and Chizuru getting by, discovering their talents and figuring out what they're going to do in life, and Souji regards himself as talentless and a waste of space. Deep down he's really self-hating for his inability to figure out his life or why he feels so aimless. The only talents he considers himself to have is fighting, which he is very good at, and does often when he's feeling in a particularly sour mood. The joke is that Hajime walks Souji home from work on most nights not to protect Souji from the world, but to protect the world from Souji and this is largely true as Souji will often go start fights just to feel the rush of battle and to work out his anger. Booze is also the go-to 'medicine' of choice despite being underage.
Due to his tuberculosis coming back, Soujis' become more stressed about the future, finding himself unwilling to call his sister and let her know his troubles. Not wanting to bother anyone with his own problems, Souji hides behind a wall of sarcasm and cruelty (which isn't to say he isn't naturally cruel and sarcastic-- he is, but he uses it as a shield as well) and works hard to make the money he needs to get the medicine to manage his tuberculosis.
Abilities: --Exceptionally skilled in swordsmanship; routinely cited as having been a genius with a sword
-- Has been turned into a ‘rasetsu’; this is basically like a vampire. Weakness to sun, with superhuman strength, speed, and advanced healing of wounds. However, like a vampire, he gets a bloodlust that grows stronger as time goes on with a weakening resistance. The bloodlust is easily triggered whenever he can see or smell blood, but usually his control is strong enough to just suffer through it and wait for the bloodlust to pass.
--Also has a weakness to silver; it won’t kill him, but it will severely impede on the healing process
The worst side-effect is that tapping into the rasetsu uses up person’s remaining life; it’s literally sucking up the time Souji would have been living. Once that source is tapped out, the person turns to dust. For the sake of being able to play for more than a couple weeks and then him dying, I was wondering if it’d be okay for the Mist to put a damper on some of the side-effects--namely allowing Souji to go into the sun for a more extended period of time to give him a stabilized sleeping schedule (and so he can actually interact with people), and for the bloodlust and process of using up life force is slowed to allow him to live longer.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
http://scorched-logs.dreamwidth.org/421092.html#cutid1 scorched log I'm too lazy for html rn
Roleplay Sample - Network:
http://scorched.dreamwidth.org/1104929.html again scorched sob...
Any Questions?