[application for Reims//potential trigger warning in history]
( fandom student application )
PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Hedge
AGE: 26
CONTACT: taoofcrime@aol.com
PERSONAL LJ: tsunderrorism
CHARACTERS PLAYED: -
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Shinichi Okazaki
CANON: NANA
CANON REFERENCE:
AGE: 15
GENDER: M
YEAR IN SCHOOL: HS-2
ENROLLMENT: Musical scholarship
APPEARANCE: http://images.wikia.com/nanamanga/images/2/23/Shinichi.jpg
PERSONALITY: Shin is a very easygoing, friendly boy. Drifting from place to place and person to person, he's at home in chaotic circumstances.
There's something about him that makes him seem a little lost. It tends to set off maternal instincts (no doubt this is one of the things his clients find appealing about him). This isn't entirely a wrong impression. Unlike most teenagers, who affect a kindof above-it-all coolness, Shin really has seen a lot and really is rather jaded. On the other hand, he has moments of childishness, such as literally jumping for joy if you buy him sushi. He can also be remarkably lazy about things he isn't passionate about (that being almost everything that's not punk, music, sushi or Reira).
To those who know Shin well, he's a complete brat. He borrows without asking, eats your food and passes out on your couch after mercilessly beating you at majong. And he knows he can get away with it because he's cute. To those who don't know him, he's a charming, honest boy. It's not that he's intentionally trying to deceive strangers. He's just developed a sophisticated, semi-conscious mental calculus of how much he can get away with with his friends. Yet being his friend's not all bad. He's a loyal personality and will stick up for the people he's close to no matter what (for instance when he throws a drink in the face of a member of one of his favorite bands for hurting Hachi).
Shin's tomcat ways make him wary of romantic relationships. He's had clients profess love for him before, something he finds both embarrassing and uncomfortable, seeing as he can't return their feelings. It's not that he's incapable of them (as Reira in the series shows) but he will take some convincing, like a stray cat you gradually coax into your house. On the other hand, he ends up counseling his friends on their own relationship troubles quite a bit. Despite how bubbly and attention-seeking he is, he's also a good listener.
Ryoko's "education" has given him weird, skewed ideas about sex. Put simply, he's a bit of a gold digger he ain't messing with no broke OL. He has difficulty separating the process of gaining something from sex, mainly because noone has taught him any better. Although he's quite good at it, he views it as something rather mundane. He won't do it for free with someone unless business has been unusually slow or he feels a real connection to them. These psychosexual hangups are not, however, unfixable. With a caring lover or a good therapist, he may mature.
He's passionate about music, with a tendency to fanboy over bands he likes. It is for this reason that he feels a connection to England, birthplace of punk, above and beyond it being his childhood home.
Shin's politics tend towards the kind of lazy, undeveloped anarchism common in much punk rock. He really has no idea about the term's political origins, knowing only that there is The System and it is a Bad Thing and in general to be rebellious. In fact, his education has been woefully deficient period, and only Yasu's forcing him to cram allowed him to succesfully fake being a real sophomore. He's also uneducated about many quintessentially Japanese things. For instance he doesn't know what one does on Tanabata or how to use chopsticks.
COMPUTER APTITUDE: Fair. He can browse the web, run antivirus software and download apps for his iphone.
AU HISTORY: As NANA is set in modern day, mundane Tokyo, much of his history will not have to be altered at all. However i'd like to ask for permission to retcon some details if he receives castmates, to be more in line with their histories.
Shin was born in Sweden. He never knew his mother, since she committed suicide shortly after giving birth to him. He passed into the care of his father, a man who never loved him. When he was a toddler, the family moved to England. His father was cold to him, never showing the boy affection, and while they weren't all bad, his older siblings by a different mother never seemed to consider him one of them.
As a boy, he acted out in order to get the attention he craved, and although he would be perfunctorily slapped, spanked and/or sent to his room, it did not have the desired result. He discovered punk with the hope of taking that plan a step further, ripping up his clothes and piercing his own ears. That didn't work either, but in the subculture he found something he actually enjoyed and a diverse group that accepted him.
It was as a young, budding, still rather innocent punker that Shin met Ryoko Kawashigi, fellow overseas Japanese, new neighbor and flight attendant. The woman completely corrupted him, teaching him "bad things" and planting in him the idea of running away. Shin wasn't the first boy she'd done this to, but he was the only one she'd end up having a continuing, if distant, relationship with. Being a flight attendant, she kept lovers in several cities around the world, several of them being male prostitutes who made their money off of travelers like herself and tourists. Shin was her first protege though. This decision of hers was motivated both by the genuine desire to give him a skill he could make a living from and a perverse desire to see the last of his innocence soiled. Although Shin speaks of her in affectionate tones, her decision to introduce a fourteen year old to prostitution, no matter how mature for his age, speaks to psychological damage and/or Ephebophilia that is beyond the scope of this application. Shin, for his part, did not have the grounding in healthy relationships to understand the sickness of her actions.
With her help, he escaped to Japan. His father was completely uninterested in his disappearance and did not pursue the matter.
In Tokyo, he stayed with Ryoko for a couple months while he found a market for the musical talents he'd honed overseas, becoming acquianted with the punk scene there. Responding to a flyer, he tried out for a position in BLAST (BlackStones), an up and coming indie punk band that had impressed him shortly after he landed at Narita. His new career as a prostitute allowed him to buy a top of the line bass for his tryout and he was given the position of bassist, a position formerly held by Ren Honjou, a musician he much admired and secretly the ex boyfriend of BLAST's lead singer. Within a few short months BLAST's fame had grown despite their indie status. Gaia Records approached the band with an offer of a contract, and all leaped at the chance, Shin especially. His career had caused some minor friction in the band, with the other three members all expressing mild discomfort with it, Nana out of concern for the band's reputation if anyone found out (at least that's what she says, anyway), Yasu out of big brotherly concern and Nobu simply because despite his piercings and dyed hair, he's still a very sheltered boy. Shin managed to keep it under wraps, even when the lonely vocalist of Trapnest became one of his clients.
However there was one catch: Gaia wouldn't sign a boy who hadn't yet graduated high school. Disappointed, Shin was ready to quit the band to enable them to get their big break. However Nana Osaki, ever the fierce oneesan, practically dragged him onto a plane and told him that the band would wait for him, with the agreement of the other two members.
Touched (and terrified) by her loyalty and force of will, Shin found himself at Reims, determined to prove that friendship not misplaced.
SAMPLES
INTRANET/1ST PERSON SAMPLE: Hello everyone. I've got some good news. BLAST will be playing our first overseas date at L'Contre-Amaril, right here on Reims island.
The date's Friday night, starting at eight. Watch us friggin' blow everyone away!
[Private to band members]
Alright, hope you're all as pumped for this as I am. Except you, Renne. You seemed kinda nervous at today's practice. You really ought to relax more. I've got some stuff that can help you with that if you want.
LOG/3RD PERSON SAMPLE:
http://reimsapplicants.livejournal.com/418.html?thread=549538#t549538
The second thread was written before I found out that he was actually raised in England (information only found in the latter chapters of the manga).
HAVE YOU READ THE FAQ? He will play wack-a-wombat with his bass
PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Hedge
AGE: 26
CONTACT: taoofcrime@aol.com
PERSONAL LJ: tsunderrorism
CHARACTERS PLAYED: -
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Shinichi Okazaki
CANON: NANA
CANON REFERENCE:
AGE: 15
GENDER: M
YEAR IN SCHOOL: HS-2
ENROLLMENT: Musical scholarship
APPEARANCE: http://images.wikia.com/nanamanga/images/2/23/Shinichi.jpg
PERSONALITY: Shin is a very easygoing, friendly boy. Drifting from place to place and person to person, he's at home in chaotic circumstances.
There's something about him that makes him seem a little lost. It tends to set off maternal instincts (no doubt this is one of the things his clients find appealing about him). This isn't entirely a wrong impression. Unlike most teenagers, who affect a kindof above-it-all coolness, Shin really has seen a lot and really is rather jaded. On the other hand, he has moments of childishness, such as literally jumping for joy if you buy him sushi. He can also be remarkably lazy about things he isn't passionate about (that being almost everything that's not punk, music, sushi or Reira).
To those who know Shin well, he's a complete brat. He borrows without asking, eats your food and passes out on your couch after mercilessly beating you at majong. And he knows he can get away with it because he's cute. To those who don't know him, he's a charming, honest boy. It's not that he's intentionally trying to deceive strangers. He's just developed a sophisticated, semi-conscious mental calculus of how much he can get away with with his friends. Yet being his friend's not all bad. He's a loyal personality and will stick up for the people he's close to no matter what (for instance when he throws a drink in the face of a member of one of his favorite bands for hurting Hachi).
Shin's tomcat ways make him wary of romantic relationships. He's had clients profess love for him before, something he finds both embarrassing and uncomfortable, seeing as he can't return their feelings. It's not that he's incapable of them (as Reira in the series shows) but he will take some convincing, like a stray cat you gradually coax into your house. On the other hand, he ends up counseling his friends on their own relationship troubles quite a bit. Despite how bubbly and attention-seeking he is, he's also a good listener.
Ryoko's "education" has given him weird, skewed ideas about sex. Put simply, he's a bit of a gold digger he ain't messing with no broke OL. He has difficulty separating the process of gaining something from sex, mainly because noone has taught him any better. Although he's quite good at it, he views it as something rather mundane. He won't do it for free with someone unless business has been unusually slow or he feels a real connection to them. These psychosexual hangups are not, however, unfixable. With a caring lover or a good therapist, he may mature.
He's passionate about music, with a tendency to fanboy over bands he likes. It is for this reason that he feels a connection to England, birthplace of punk, above and beyond it being his childhood home.
Shin's politics tend towards the kind of lazy, undeveloped anarchism common in much punk rock. He really has no idea about the term's political origins, knowing only that there is The System and it is a Bad Thing and in general to be rebellious. In fact, his education has been woefully deficient period, and only Yasu's forcing him to cram allowed him to succesfully fake being a real sophomore. He's also uneducated about many quintessentially Japanese things. For instance he doesn't know what one does on Tanabata or how to use chopsticks.
COMPUTER APTITUDE: Fair. He can browse the web, run antivirus software and download apps for his iphone.
AU HISTORY: As NANA is set in modern day, mundane Tokyo, much of his history will not have to be altered at all. However i'd like to ask for permission to retcon some details if he receives castmates, to be more in line with their histories.
Shin was born in Sweden. He never knew his mother, since she committed suicide shortly after giving birth to him. He passed into the care of his father, a man who never loved him. When he was a toddler, the family moved to England. His father was cold to him, never showing the boy affection, and while they weren't all bad, his older siblings by a different mother never seemed to consider him one of them.
As a boy, he acted out in order to get the attention he craved, and although he would be perfunctorily slapped, spanked and/or sent to his room, it did not have the desired result. He discovered punk with the hope of taking that plan a step further, ripping up his clothes and piercing his own ears. That didn't work either, but in the subculture he found something he actually enjoyed and a diverse group that accepted him.
It was as a young, budding, still rather innocent punker that Shin met Ryoko Kawashigi, fellow overseas Japanese, new neighbor and flight attendant. The woman completely corrupted him, teaching him "bad things" and planting in him the idea of running away. Shin wasn't the first boy she'd done this to, but he was the only one she'd end up having a continuing, if distant, relationship with. Being a flight attendant, she kept lovers in several cities around the world, several of them being male prostitutes who made their money off of travelers like herself and tourists. Shin was her first protege though. This decision of hers was motivated both by the genuine desire to give him a skill he could make a living from and a perverse desire to see the last of his innocence soiled. Although Shin speaks of her in affectionate tones, her decision to introduce a fourteen year old to prostitution, no matter how mature for his age, speaks to psychological damage and/or Ephebophilia that is beyond the scope of this application. Shin, for his part, did not have the grounding in healthy relationships to understand the sickness of her actions.
With her help, he escaped to Japan. His father was completely uninterested in his disappearance and did not pursue the matter.
In Tokyo, he stayed with Ryoko for a couple months while he found a market for the musical talents he'd honed overseas, becoming acquianted with the punk scene there. Responding to a flyer, he tried out for a position in BLAST (BlackStones), an up and coming indie punk band that had impressed him shortly after he landed at Narita. His new career as a prostitute allowed him to buy a top of the line bass for his tryout and he was given the position of bassist, a position formerly held by Ren Honjou, a musician he much admired and secretly the ex boyfriend of BLAST's lead singer. Within a few short months BLAST's fame had grown despite their indie status. Gaia Records approached the band with an offer of a contract, and all leaped at the chance, Shin especially. His career had caused some minor friction in the band, with the other three members all expressing mild discomfort with it, Nana out of concern for the band's reputation if anyone found out (at least that's what she says, anyway), Yasu out of big brotherly concern and Nobu simply because despite his piercings and dyed hair, he's still a very sheltered boy. Shin managed to keep it under wraps, even when the lonely vocalist of Trapnest became one of his clients.
However there was one catch: Gaia wouldn't sign a boy who hadn't yet graduated high school. Disappointed, Shin was ready to quit the band to enable them to get their big break. However Nana Osaki, ever the fierce oneesan, practically dragged him onto a plane and told him that the band would wait for him, with the agreement of the other two members.
Touched (and terrified) by her loyalty and force of will, Shin found himself at Reims, determined to prove that friendship not misplaced.
SAMPLES
INTRANET/1ST PERSON SAMPLE: Hello everyone. I've got some good news. BLAST will be playing our first overseas date at L'Contre-Amaril, right here on Reims island.
The date's Friday night, starting at eight. Watch us friggin' blow everyone away!
[Private to band members]
Alright, hope you're all as pumped for this as I am. Except you, Renne. You seemed kinda nervous at today's practice. You really ought to relax more. I've got some stuff that can help you with that if you want.
LOG/3RD PERSON SAMPLE:
http://reimsapplicants.livejournal.com/418.html?thread=549538#t549538
The second thread was written before I found out that he was actually raised in England (information only found in the latter chapters of the manga).
HAVE YOU READ THE FAQ? He will play wack-a-wombat with his bass