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PLAYER
YOUR NAME: Hotaru
18+?: Yes
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] hailingjavelin
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Koutarou Takamura (Bungou to Alchemist)
RESERVATION LINK: here

CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Gon
AGE: The exact number is unknown, but at least a hundred.
CANON: Hoozuki no Reitetsu

CANON HISTORY: Here
CANON PERSONALITY:
Gon is the type of person who isn’t fond of making an effort. He’s lazy, and prefers to just sleep if he can. He doesn’t have any goals in life, beyond one that he’s had ever since he was a little fox: he wants to get rich easily. Basically, he wants to win a whole lot of money by gambling, or to win the lottery. That’s the Dream. And it’s what causes him to be addicted to gambling. While he is a kitsune, and thus a shapeshifter, he thinks that shapeshifting is a great effort, and rarely does it. He prefers to just stay in his humanoid appearance as much as he’s able to. This trait has caused his close friend Koban to say that rather than a kitsune, he’s more like a tanuki. And when the second-most important demon in Hell describes you as a lackadaisical and sloppy person to a random pheasant, you know that there is just something special about how lazy you are. Even if the demon who described you is a workaholic.

Which, by the way? Don’t. It’s a huge insult to kitsune to be compared with tanuki, because of their natural dislike for each other. It’s an equally big insult to a tanuki to be compared to a kitsune. Tanuki are considered lazy no-good-doers, while kitsune are considered sly and scheming (and no-good-doers). Either way, being compared to tanuki is something that can really irritate Gon, just as it would irritate any kitsune. Things that angers him is things that puts him in Dakki’s bad graces, because Gon works for Dakki, and he has at least some sense of self-preservation. And Dakki is a very dangerous youkai that nobody would want to anger. But Gon’s sense of self-preservation doesn’t extend much further than Dakki related issues. There is that general sense of fleeing from more dangerous people that he’s borrowed money from, but he’s at the same time not afraid to antagonize those people. He would never antagonize Dakki.

Speaking of money, his desire for it shows that he has a bit of a greedy streak. In the end though, his love for food wins over his love for money. A lot of times, he uses the money he gets his paws on to buy food. He also, not rarely, sneakily steals food, and sometimes steals it without even hiding it, if it’s from his friends. Food bought with money that he earned (read “won”) taste the best though. He does take his job seriously - for self-preservation with Dakki, and so he won’t get his salary gutted by her. Lazy or not, there are just some things that you need to do sometimes. Still, he doesn’t want to do the hard, grueling sort of jobs. Because of this, he doesn’t want to work as a minion for Hell. It’s in his nature to not want to do anything too taxing, and because of it - though it’s also partially a natural trait of a kitsune - he sometimes acts like a con-man, and tries to con people out of their money. If he wasn’t as lazy as he is, he would con way more people than he usually does. He’s the type of glutton who even named the hosts at the club he was in charge of after food, such as Goya and Tortilla.

But he’s all in all a very friendly guy. He generally gets along with people, and can pretty easily brush off violence or threats of violence. Maybe when you’re used to Dakki’s threats of being eaten, things like randomly being strangled a bit or having an iron club thrown at you seems pretty mild in comparison. A lot of people find him pretty easy to talk to, and because of it most people call him Gon-chan, or just Gon, rather than by any more polite honorifics. In turn he generally uses polite speech and honorifics, but he prefers not being treated with too much formality. He’s a genuinely nice guy who likes talking to people, and who likes getting to know them. He’s also not very easily offended, though he’s not impossible to annoy.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Kitsune = True form is that of a fox. Spends most of his time in a humanoid form.
Shape shifting = As a kitsune, he can shape shift into any form he wants to.
Illusions = He's no big-time kitsune so he's more restricted to low-level illusions, but he can du suck things as make leaves appear as money, and things of that sort.
Mundane skills = Various traditional instruments. Cooking. Sex. Math.

CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Kiyoshi Nanashima
AU AGE: 41
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: No fox-like features, no marks on his forehead. Brown eyes instead of yellow.

AU HISTORY: Any PC’s mentioned in his history, are all included with permission from the players.
  • Kiyoshi is from Kansai, Japan, his full name is Kiyoshi Nanashima. He is an illegitimate son of a lawyer who doubled as the legal advisor to a yakuza family, and an ikebana master. Both his parents have legitimate children with their respective spouses.
  • When he was four years old his mother married and her husband didn’t want anything to do with Kiyoshi, and she was done with yakuza relations, so she abandoned Kiyoshi with his father.
  • His father took care of him until he was seven but because his wife hated Kiyoshi, he left Kiyoshi with one of his mistresses, who became the person Kiyoshi considers his real mom. He rarely met his father but went to the same school as some of his father’s other illegitimate children.
  • His new mom, a geisha with illegitimate children of her own, taught him how to play the shamisen and the koto, and traditional dancing. He also learned how to cook while he lived with her. He worked as a host and musician at her workplace, when he wasn’t at school (where he did poorly) or was hooking up with pretty men and women, to whom he most often lied about his age. He has more than one illegitimate child of his own (both in Japan and the US), some of which he does not know about.
  • When he was 17 he accidentally saw his biological mother and some of her legitimate children, and followed them out of curiosity. She found out and told his father to make him stay away from her and her family. To keep a closer eye on him, his father brought him into the yakuza family and had him work as a dealer at one of their casinos. After he joined the the family he started getting an irezumi of a geisha on his back. He left Japan before it was finished.
  • He got into fights with members of both his and other yakuza families, and generally lost. At one point a wakagashira lost a huge sum at Kiyoshi’s table, and he started being targeted by that wakagashira and the wakagashira’s subordinates. He ended up in the hospital several times.
  • When he was 29, Kiyoshi’s father sent him to the US on a one-way ticket and with the identity of Kiyoshi Aihara. He traveled around the US by hitchhiking, and he generally repaid with sex.
  • He ended up in Recollé at 33, where he had both some good customers, and a nephew by the name of Shinpachi Kuramoto (Shinpachi Nagakura), and a half-sister, Shinpachi’s mother, in town. At first he stayed with people he had previously had sex for money or for the hitchhiking, but four months into his stay he got a job at a tea house and a while later he got his own apartment. He started a food blog that’s gained some popularity. 12 years ago at most, one of his illegitimate children were dropped on his doorstep and he’s been caring for that child since then.
  • Several years ago he met drifter Saif Essa (Al-Azraq) and started letting him randomly crash on his couch. He has also adopted two cats and a dog from the animal shelter. He’s had his cat Radish the longest.
  • He has dated both Hizashi Yamada, and Robin Nikolaev (Nico Robin), but they are broken up and are now good friends.
  • A few years ago his cousin Mikazuki Chikamune (Mikazuki Munechika) moved to Recollé to work as a doctor. 8~10 months ago his niece Kouran Yamazaki (Kouran) moved in with him after she came to Recollé. His nephew Yanagi Taira (Yagen Toushirou) and nieces Akinobu Taira (Nobunaga Oda), and Tsuyu Asui, also lives in town.
  • About two months ago, he found out that he has a 19 year old son, Natsume Sakasaki, and the two of them are getting to know each other.

AU PERSONALITY:
Kiyoshi is pretty different from Gon. While he’s still friendly and cheerful and still loves food and to smoke and a good nap, he isn’t a lazy no-good-doer. He’s a former no-good-doer, but he tries. Kiyoshi does his job well, and does his best to be a good dad, and he loves his children and the family that he gets along with. He earns his money legally, he doesn’t have any interest in getting involved with the underworld again. He enjoys gossip but not to the same extent as Gon does, and he isn’t a gambling addict. He goes to play at the arcade once in a while, but it’s really just playing, not an investment in a future plan he’ll never fulfill.

While he generally likes people, he tends to have a bit of a problem with lawyers, thanks to his dad. He is also not the biggest fan of ikebana but at least that’s not as much in your face in the US as it can be in Japan. Sometimes, he also meddles in other people’s businesses. If he doesn’t like someone he generally is either sarcastic without any hint of joking or fondness, and the worst way he knows to treat someone is to completely ignore them. After all, that’s how his biological mother treated him most of the time, even before she abandoned him. His father did a lot of that, too. He hates bullying because his father’s wife could be very cruel to him, and very vicious with her words. He would never tell anyone, even if he absolutely loathes them, that he wishes that they never had been born or that they’d die in a horrible, painful way.

He doesn’t like to talk about his past in Japan (besides about his foster mom, he loves her and still is in touch with her) to people, though he’s not entirely uncomfortable talking about it with people he trusts, like his closest friends or family. Retrospec is sure going to be fun when the app uses “Nanashima” instead of “Aihara” for his name. That’s going to be fun to explain if people ask. He’ll make vague talk about adoption and try to change the subject.

Well, anyway, he's a generally easy-going person who still manages to be a hard worker, and a person who doesn't have much difficulties with befriending people.

Because Kiyoshi worked as a dealer at a casino and was involved in a fair bit of rigging games and the sorts there, he is averse to gambling, unlike Gon, who is an addict. Because he was often neglected until he was left with his foster mother, he likes attention and to be around people. Besides that he's a generally social creature. But the neglect from his biological parents, he enjoys being in groups of friends or to be with one or two friends, but he hates being alone. Because both of his biological parents abandoned him, he is afraid of being abandoned again, be it by friends or by family. As a former drifter, he sympathizes with other homeless people and when he can he spares them some change, help with food, let someone crash on his couch. He wants to help people, because it's important to him.

yakan: (446)
PLAYER
Name: Hotaru
Contact: hailingjavelin@plurk
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Gon
Age: Some centuries
Species: Yakan kitsune (hell fox)
Canon: Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Canon Point: chapter ?? (the one where Dakki is about to eat him, gotta look that up)
Character Info: tba
Personality: As a kitsune fox, Gon is a bit of a trickster. He's not as bad as some, but he most definitely is a trickster none the less. But most of the time, he doesn't bother with the trickster part, he just does things the way that he wants to, and acts silly on purpose. One thing is by giving people nicknames – Koban is KobanNyan, and then they go in similar fashion – and sometimes calls people above him in status (but only if he respects them) nii-san, or mister, depending on the person. He also has a talent in blowing figures out of smoke, like kitsune, hearts, and various animals. These shapes sometimes depend on the circumstances and relationships between the people around him, if not his own feelings at times.

He's lazy, and would rather not work at all. He would much rather just sleep through all days. Some would even call him “the worst type” and Koban, who happens to be one of his closest friends, says that he's more like a tanuki (ie, a raccoon dog) than a fox, because he finds transforming is just too bothersome. He doesn't have any real life goals, because he doesn't want any and doesn't want to do anything but laze around all the time. Because of this, he was entrusted the host club Kitsune no Mukouire by Dakki, who runs the most popular hostess bar in Hell.

But for a lazy guy, he's a greedy kind, who loves to gamble. Unfortunately, he really sucks at it, and thus he is pretty much always broke. And to feed that habit, he borrows money from people without bothering to return it. If people (like the nekomata cat demon Koban) ask him to return what he's borrowed, he makes up some silly lie or give them leaves or something. He also takes part in various business, like selling food at festivals, just for the sake of earning money. So he's a little bit like a handy-man, without actually being a handy-man.

He's a great glutton, and loves food incredibly much. Even to the degree of naming the kitsune that works in the shop he manages for Dakki (formerly a host club, now a kitsune cafe) after various kinds of food like Goya and Tortilla. He also has the tendency to steal food from just about anyone, shamlessly just taking them without even caring about repercussions.

He's also a bit of a pervert, but not as big as some. He likes to feel good, in whatever way that means, and if he wasn't so lazy, he would probably much more often turn into different shapes to get what he wants. He still does it sometimes, but not all that very often at all. He is a shapeshifter, after all, and can turn into appearing in whatever shape his partner (or whoever he wants to trick) likes the most. Appearing appealing is a big part in a kitsune's lies.

Despite everything though, he is a nice guy, who easily gets along with others. He also easily brush off insults and attacks on his person, because he's not easily offended. But maybe that's just because he is too lazy to care. He also disregards when people say that they're not this or that (for example when Hoozuki strangles him and says "I'm not a sadist") it's just laughed off cheerfully.
Abilities: As a kitsune, he has the ability to shapeshift to take any shape that he wants. He can also play the shamisen, can dance and knows how to do a proper tea ceremony, among other skills he has as a taikomochi (male geisha).
On another note, the purple smoke from the kiseru pipe that he carries with him can take the form to reflect the relationships and state-of-affairs between those close by, or his own feelings. Like if he's talking about money, it might take the shape of koban coins.

CARNIVAL
Soul Colour: Purple.
Ideal Jobs: Game operator, sometimes with concessions. Shill.
Relevant Experience: He has on several occasions run stalls during festivals, and he is the one in charge of a host-club-turned-kitsune-cafe, which he gets costumers for off the street.
Carnival History: He's been at the carnival for two years, starting on his third, having just renewed his contract.

Since he arrived when trying to escape Dakki-sama as she tried to eat him, he was relieved to end up in a place where she wasn't. Never mind that it was an unfamiliar place, he's from Japanese Hell and is used to way more peculiar things than what he saw as he explored. For entrence fee he left some coins, and he started to try the different games, mainly those that he was unfamiliar with. Japanese demons loves festivals you see, and games are a great part of it. Soon he ran out of money though, and to be able to continue playing (because he really didn't want to go back to Hell yet, not with the threat of becoming nine-tails lunch) he accepted a bet which he promptly lost, and thus his first year of service started. He didn't mind though, with a job at the carnival he gets to meet a lot of interesting people from different places without having to put in the effort to travel, he got a place to crash, and he got food. And a place to hide from Dakki-sama. It's all great, really, and the job he ended up with was as a game operator. He didn't have to walk around, he didn't have any difficult tasks, and he liked it.

This was right around the time of the Universe's Got Talent competition, during which time he was quickly adapting and realizing that he had ended up with a pretty amusing bunch of people. He never was shy about telling people that he's a fox born and raised in Japanese Hell, or that he doesn't mind ending up with a debt because his scary Mistress, Dakki-sama, had turned into her huge fox form and was about to eat him.

During the first couple months, he started to notice changes that he definitely wasn't responsible for. He didn't notice the color of his eyes turning purple before it was pointed out by someone else, a while after it had happened, but he did notice when his tongue became forked. At first it made him lisp an awful lot but after a while he got used to it and he speaks without a lisp again.

Existing Contract: Debt incurred.
Details: When he first came across the carnival, he played some games and anded up losing all his money, but being told that he could win more money by participating in a particular game, he participated and subsequently lost. Even though he really should know better, because he has tricked people that way, too. Not that he midns beign stuck at the carnival, not at all.

Existing Contract: Better luck in exchange for a second year.
Details: It's not a secret that he stays because he likes it at the carnival, transformations aside. It's also not a secret that he wants to avoid getting eaten by Dakki-sama, which is why he asked for better luck. Maybe then he'll be able to placate her more easily (and get better at gambling). He doesn't mind if he only gets better luck when he ends up leaving the carnival, really, as long as he has it when he is confronted by Dakki-sama again.

Existing Contract: __ for third year.
Details: This year has just started but he's mainly in it for the fun these days. And he's still totally avoiding his Mistress.



Current Changes: All things applies in any shape he might take.
[COMMON] Abnormal eye color. Purple.
[COMMON] Forked tongue.
[COMMON] No shadow.
[COMMON] Elongated fingers.
[COMMON] Bioluminescent spots or stripes.
[COMMON] Faintly glow-in-the-dark claws and teeth. So basically any bone showing.
[COMMON] Fae Marks around throat....or somewhere..
[UNCOMMON] Purple, glowing blood.
[UNCOMMON] Gems growing from parts of his body.
[RARE] The ability to breathe fire, and to have fire naturally burn from places on body.

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