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Out of Character Information

player name: Kalyn
player journal: lighteningflames
playing here: Mio Amakura, Chrome Dokuro
where did you find us? n/a
are you 16 years of age or older?: yep!

In Character Information

character name: Souji Okita
Fandom: Hakuouki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom
Timeline: Near the end of the game, after leaving Hijikata.
character's age: Around 25 or 26

powers, skills, pets and equipment: --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.

Also not a power, but Souji also has tuberculosis which will have a negative impact on his health and strength.

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.

why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Souji kicks ass and doesn’t afraid of anything--more or less. In his world he’s a nearly unmatched swordsman known for his speed and his ruthlessness in battle; he’s fought against demons and humans alike, and it’d take a lot to shake him up. He’d find the Anatole interesting and probably fun, to be honest.