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Name: Fujiwara no Sai
Age: Estimated at early to mid-twenties before his death.
Series: Hikaru no Go.
Occupation: Dedicated Go Advisor~!
Canon: Once upon a time in the Heian era of Japan, where it was seen as cultured for grown men to dress effeminately and cry woefully into their sleeves like little girls, a renowned teacher and player of Go, Fujiwara no Sai, decided to jump into a river and end his life after losing a game in which he had been shamed before the Emporer, his prime student, and thus lost everything. Boo. A small thing like suicide could never stop Sai from achieving the goal of his life, however. Even in death, Sai was too determined to achieve his dream of the Hand of God to move beyond the mortal realm, choosing instead to become an earth-bound spirit that would eventually find its way to playing Go through first a prodigy named Hon'inbo Shusaku, then later Shindou Hikaru. The rest is Go spoiler history.
Highlight for spoilers: Hikaru soon became so intent on playing his own Go that the games Sai had previously been allowed to direct became non-existant. Sai was upset over Hikaru's refusal to let him play, and with good reason -- more and more, Sai was feeling that God was tired of his selfish desire stay on this earth to play Go, and would soon be pulling him into the true afterlife, Hand of God be damned. Hikaru and Sai continued to be selfish "meanies" at each other until Sai realized the ultimate reason why he had been allowed to stay: he was there to teach Hikaru, and Hikaru was there to succeed where Sai never could. Purpose complete, he disappeared from Hikaru's side without a trace... and thus traumatizing the boy, ergo Sai kind of fails for thinking that was the appropriate teacher response.
Sai has a temper, whines, cries, and reacts with disparingly good cheer whenever he bothers someone into letting him have his way, but the man truly ♥ Go. Sure, everyone in HnG sports a giant boner ♥ for Go, but Sai was the original ♥ ♥ ♥ Must Share Go With The World It Will Fuel Our Hearts ♥ ♥ ♥ king. So for him, after turning Hikaru into a veritable game gate-crasher, a chance to make the Go world hear the true him one last time is all he needs... and perhaps to move beyond the Hand of God, as Sai wants nothing more than to share his love for Go through his students again.
Sample Post:
The afterlife... is it really supposed to be so muddy and decrepit? Which is to say, God, that I do not wish to seem ungrateful - because I am very thankful that I may again have a chance to play Go! With all my heart! But I would still very, very much like to know just where in the afterlife the gods have seen fit to place me. I really never did picture the afterlife to be so desolate, and with not a single Go salon in sight. Nor a Go institute, nor any clubs, nor any interested players... no, no, this does not bode well at all. I surely can't have just been dropped into... never, never. I'm being silly! Go could never belong down there, so surely not~ ♥
Though I do worry that I will be punished for my selfish deeds. I know that I was being a wretched teacher, I've realized that now. How much I inadvertantly tried to keep Hikaru from growing his own Go, and failed to keep his best interests at heart... oooh, but he just could not understand how much I needed to play! It felt so terrible to be separated from what I loved. Sniff. It left me heartbroken and tortured with an afterlife crisis, which was beyond unfair. Existence has just conspired against my play so thoroughly that whenever there is a single hope, I cannot help but tenaciously hold on to the chance to -
I said "hope," fellow departed being, not - no, I am quite sure I do not know what a pope has to do - I will thank you to leave my sensible fashion out of this!
... ah, what I mean, dear Heaven above, is that I have learned my place and am more than willing to do what is needed of my abilities this time, if this is still not the afterlife. Though foresight would have saved us all a bit of heartache the last time, really. Poor young Hikaru... Just let me find a way to play my Go to my heart's content, as well as teach whatever lesson must be exacted on yet another generation of players, if that is what I must do here! I will prove that I have been humbled and give myself a - a twenty stone handicap in each game that I play~! Constant daring turnabouts! And I shall serve even the crude fellow spirits that surround me in this dreary place, or the beasts that I... already hear howling in the woods, oh my. At least I no longer have a body for them to harm, if that is possible?
But let the students come! Bring me the ruffians, the delinquent, the uncivil, and whomever else that could be infinitely worse than dear Hikaru. My Go will not fail to serve them and give these children their own purpose in life, as it has done for myself - did for myself, whatever God chooses. I will take things slow! No more rushing them into tournaments and matches they are not ready for. It will be... age-appropriate, if I am using the term right. ♥ See? Like this!
I would teach them in this swamp,
I would teach them by that lake.
I would teach them in those cabins,
I would teach them in the trees, I would teach them anywhere as long as Go is involved, oh higher deities, please.
... and if the Go stones and goban were kept from harm around this dirty place as well, because really. Some things will always be sacred.
Age: Estimated at early to mid-twenties before his death.
Series: Hikaru no Go.
Occupation: Dedicated Go Advisor~!
Canon: Once upon a time in the Heian era of Japan, where it was seen as cultured for grown men to dress effeminately and cry woefully into their sleeves like little girls, a renowned teacher and player of Go, Fujiwara no Sai, decided to jump into a river and end his life after losing a game in which he had been shamed before the Emporer, his prime student, and thus lost everything. Boo. A small thing like suicide could never stop Sai from achieving the goal of his life, however. Even in death, Sai was too determined to achieve his dream of the Hand of God to move beyond the mortal realm, choosing instead to become an earth-bound spirit that would eventually find its way to playing Go through first a prodigy named Hon'inbo Shusaku, then later Shindou Hikaru. The rest is Go spoiler history.
Highlight for spoilers: Hikaru soon became so intent on playing his own Go that the games Sai had previously been allowed to direct became non-existant. Sai was upset over Hikaru's refusal to let him play, and with good reason -- more and more, Sai was feeling that God was tired of his selfish desire stay on this earth to play Go, and would soon be pulling him into the true afterlife, Hand of God be damned. Hikaru and Sai continued to be selfish "meanies" at each other until Sai realized the ultimate reason why he had been allowed to stay: he was there to teach Hikaru, and Hikaru was there to succeed where Sai never could. Purpose complete, he disappeared from Hikaru's side without a trace... and thus traumatizing the boy, ergo Sai kind of fails for thinking that was the appropriate teacher response.
Sai has a temper, whines, cries, and reacts with disparingly good cheer whenever he bothers someone into letting him have his way, but the man truly ♥ Go. Sure, everyone in HnG sports a giant boner ♥ for Go, but Sai was the original ♥ ♥ ♥ Must Share Go With The World It Will Fuel Our Hearts ♥ ♥ ♥ king. So for him, after turning Hikaru into a veritable game gate-crasher, a chance to make the Go world hear the true him one last time is all he needs... and perhaps to move beyond the Hand of God, as Sai wants nothing more than to share his love for Go through his students again.
Sample Post:
The afterlife... is it really supposed to be so muddy and decrepit? Which is to say, God, that I do not wish to seem ungrateful - because I am very thankful that I may again have a chance to play Go! With all my heart! But I would still very, very much like to know just where in the afterlife the gods have seen fit to place me. I really never did picture the afterlife to be so desolate, and with not a single Go salon in sight. Nor a Go institute, nor any clubs, nor any interested players... no, no, this does not bode well at all. I surely can't have just been dropped into... never, never. I'm being silly! Go could never belong down there, so surely not~ ♥
Though I do worry that I will be punished for my selfish deeds. I know that I was being a wretched teacher, I've realized that now. How much I inadvertantly tried to keep Hikaru from growing his own Go, and failed to keep his best interests at heart... oooh, but he just could not understand how much I needed to play! It felt so terrible to be separated from what I loved. Sniff. It left me heartbroken and tortured with an afterlife crisis, which was beyond unfair. Existence has just conspired against my play so thoroughly that whenever there is a single hope, I cannot help but tenaciously hold on to the chance to -
I said "hope," fellow departed being, not - no, I am quite sure I do not know what a pope has to do - I will thank you to leave my sensible fashion out of this!
... ah, what I mean, dear Heaven above, is that I have learned my place and am more than willing to do what is needed of my abilities this time, if this is still not the afterlife. Though foresight would have saved us all a bit of heartache the last time, really. Poor young Hikaru... Just let me find a way to play my Go to my heart's content, as well as teach whatever lesson must be exacted on yet another generation of players, if that is what I must do here! I will prove that I have been humbled and give myself a - a twenty stone handicap in each game that I play~! Constant daring turnabouts! And I shall serve even the crude fellow spirits that surround me in this dreary place, or the beasts that I... already hear howling in the woods, oh my. At least I no longer have a body for them to harm, if that is possible?
But let the students come! Bring me the ruffians, the delinquent, the uncivil, and whomever else that could be infinitely worse than dear Hikaru. My Go will not fail to serve them and give these children their own purpose in life, as it has done for myself - did for myself, whatever God chooses. I will take things slow! No more rushing them into tournaments and matches they are not ready for. It will be... age-appropriate, if I am using the term right. ♥ See? Like this!
I would teach them in this swamp,
I would teach them by that lake.
I would teach them in those cabins,
I would teach them in the trees, I would teach them anywhere as long as Go is involved, oh higher deities, please.
... and if the Go stones and goban were kept from harm around this dirty place as well, because really. Some things will always be sacred.