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PLAYER
NAME: Jennifer/Fru
AGE: nearly 24 (b. 1986)
JOURNAL: rizumu_sakusha
IM: compuscouts
E-MAIL: compuscouts@yahoo.com
RETURNING: n/a
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sha Gojyo
FANDOM: Manga/Anime - Saiyuki (Gensomaden Saiyuki/Saiyuki Reload/Saiyuki Reload Gunlock) by Minekura Kazuya
CHRONOLOGY: Between acts 33 & 34 aka The Even A Worm arc parts 20 & 21 (Saiyuki Reload Gunlock); Sanzo has abandoned his three traveling companions (recovering from the Seiten Taisei versus Youkai-Hakkai battle) to travel with Hazel and Gato. It's completely Manga-verse -- no Homura arc or Movie, as they were anime-only. :( Gojyo is not physically injured, but suffered emotional damage detailed below.
BACKGROUND:
Sha Gojyo was born to a human mother and a youkai* father, but his mother wasn't his father's wife. Somehow, probably after both blood parents died, Gojyo found himself in the "care" of the woman he came to call Mom - his father's legal wife, a youkai, and mother to his older half-brother. Even though she beat him, yelled at him, and could only be comforted by his older brother, Jien, he wanted to make her happy. One day, Mom tried to kill Gojyo, and Jien made the desperate decision to stop her by killing her instead. To the present day, Gojyo carries two scars on his left cheek from where his mother scratched him. The brothers parted ways and didn't see each other for approximately 15 years.
*Youkai live longer than humans, tend to have elemental powers, and are marked physically by a small tattoo somewhere on their body, elongated ears, and fangs. In Gojyo's case, the element is water because he is a "kappa", or water demon.
This next interim period of the series - after Gojyo lost his mother but before the Ikkou (traveling party) begin their journey in the main series - is known as the "Burial arc". The only part of this detailed in the first series (Gensomaden Saiyuki) is how the four met, explained later. Anyway, in the Burial arc we learn that Gojyo wandered the streets and learned, probably with the help of a youkai named Banri, how to play cards, rack up a beer tab, and become quite the lady's man. Gojyo himself is a "taboo child** ", but most humans don't realize this while most demons do. Thus, Gojyo has lived among humans for most of his life and feels more comfortable in their culture.
**Taboo children are half-youkai and so-called because it is a social taboo for the two races to fornicate. They are marked physically by blood-red hair and eyes; apparently possess no elemental powers; and yet they do have some measure of extraordinary strength, speed, and life expectancy.
Gojyo is particularly close to one of his companions, Hakkai, because they met each other a few months before meeting the other two. Hakkai was "Cho Gonou" then and nearly dead, lying face down in the rain when Gojyo took Gonou back to his house and had a doctor look at the turned-youkai. Eventually Gonou recovered and was just about to leave Gojyo's company when a buddhist priest (Genjyo-sanzo) showed up at his door with a monkey-like boy (Son Goku) and demanded the "mass murderer" be turned over. Long story short, Gonou was not sentenced to death and took on the new name Hakkai to begin his penitence, but he and Gojyo are still best friends to this day as a result of the mess.
Gojyo wields a staff-like weapon with a crescent blade at the top and a chained spade at the bottom, summoning it with his youki -- the magical powers youkai possess and use in a variety of ways. In the show, it is called a 'shakujou', but is closer to the "cresecent-moon-toothed spade" (yueyachan) that Chinese Buddhist priests used as both a traveling staff (with clanging rings) and a shovel to dig graves. The story of how he acquired his weapon is this: Gojyo and Goku knocked over two urns where sacred weapons were being contained, and when the urns cracked open, the weapons claimed new owners. The "staff" claimed Gojyo and the only way to separate them would have been for Gojyo to die - an option, it's worth noting, Sanzo was openly in favor of.
Three years after the four men met, Gojyo's destiny caught up with him. He was summoned to journey with Genjyo-sanzo - among the highest ranking of Buddhist priests but without the shaved head or abstinence from killing, drinking, or smoking - to India to stop a "Minus Wave" from turning all youkai into ravenous, mindless beasts. His other traveling companions include the legendary Son Goku - the Sage Equaling Heaven - and Cho Hakkai, a human cursed for killing 1000 youkai by being himself changed into a youkai. This is the rag-tag group that Gojyo travels with for a year and a half at the time he is pulled from.
In Gensomaden Saiyuki (the first series published), the Sanzo Party fought against a youkai prince, Kougaiji, and his team (Jien among them, now called Dokugakuji) to keep Sanzo's sutra in his possession. It was during this time that the team first caught a glimpse of Goku's berserk "Seiten Taisei" form - the "Great Sage Equaling Heaven". Only through the intervention of Kanzeon Bosatsu (Merciful Goddess) was Goku calmed. What drove Goku berserk was seeing Sanzo nearly die of blood loss from a gaping hole in his stomach. Kanzeon Bosatsu replaced Sanzo's lost blood with some of Gojyo's - she acquired it through a kiss - but it left Gojyo so weak he fell to his knees. It should be noted that Kanzeon Bosatsu thought it would actually knock him unconscious.
In Saiyuki Reload, they continued their journey westward, fighting a variety of youkai along the way and finally going up against Kami-sama - a man who called himself "God" and stole Sanzo's sutra. During the struggle, all four Ikkou (traveling party) members nearly died, but it also forced them to learn more about each other's fighting styles and unite them more as a team as well as friends. All of this happened over a game of mahjongg, a game they played often during the trip because it requires 3-4 people.
Most recently, they encountered a man by the name of Hazel and his attendant called Gato. This whole portion is the 'Even a Worm' arc, but appears in Saiyuki Reload: Gunlock in the anime versus Saiyuki Reload in the manga. Hazel is a Christian (?) bishop with the power to trap youkai souls in his pendant (with the Star of David on it), then release them into the dead bodies of humans, seemingly bringing the dead back to life. But they've changed - the biggest difference is that their eyes become yellow and they despise youkai, going crazy at the sight of them and chanting "Kill Youkai" while attempting to do just that with their own hands. Hazel 'revives' humans who fall in youkai attacks, because he desires to kill all youkai and make a world exclusively for humans. He thinks that he and Sanzo have identical goals and therefore seriously questions why Sanzo travels with "monsters". Naturally, this does not sit well with Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo. The way that Gojyo deals with it is by mocking Hazel's accent, which is translated as a southern accent.
In the last battle, Gojyo was reminded of how powerless he was in comparison to his fellow travelers. Goku was ambushed with a nearly fatal attack that left Sanzo so distraught he ran off to confront who he supposed to be Goku's ambusher. This left Hakkai and Gojyo to deal with the problem, which they did by choosing to remove Goku's limiter***, thereby transforming Goku into his insanely powerful form - Seiten Taisei, The "Great Sage Equalling Heaven" - that could heal himself and survive the attack. The bad thing about that is that Goku's STTS form is completely berserk - he doesn't distinguish between friend & foe and lives only for himself; Gojyo and Hakkai knew that when they removed Goku's limiter, but it was the only way to keep Goku alive. To stop Goku from going on a killing spree, Hakkai removed his limiters as well to combat Goku. Hakkai's Youkai form is not much better than Goku's STTS form, but Hakkai has a stronger personal will, so he has a greater chance of coming back to his senses while still transformed. Unfortunately, Gojyo had to actually stop Youkai-Hakkai from killing Goku, and Gojyo nearly got his head chopped off by Hakkai in the process. Goku was finally knocked unconscious after a cooperative effort by Hakkai with Gato to elotrocute Goku, after which Gojyo placed the limiter back on Goku's head. However, he still had to help tend to Hakkai's wounds and stopped Hazel from stealing his best friend's soul, screaming, "He's not dead, damnit!" Bearing the weight of both Goku and Hakkai - Goku under his right arm and Hakkai leaning on his left shoulder - Gojyo left the town to find Hakuryu**** and take them to a safe place where they could rest and recover. On his way out, he scorned Sanzo for abandoning Goku when Goku needed Sanzo the most. "Sorry, dick. I've got my hands full. So I can't beat you senseless right now."
***Edit: Limiters in Saiyuki canon are the name of small metal objects, usually a kind of jewelry because we've seen earrings, a bracelet, and a headband among others. A limiter does two things for youkai: 1) dampens their power levels by varying amounts and 2) magically creates a facade that makes the youkai appear human. Goku and Hakkai both require limiters to not only stay sane but protect them from the Minus Wave; Gojyo, being only half-youkai, doesn't require a limiter and can slip into most human settlements with ease.
****Edit: Hakuryu is the name of the small white dragon that travels with the party, usually in the capacity of their transportation because Hakuryu can transform into a jeep. Since, "Jeep" or "Jiipu" was copyrighted, they had to change the name for the anime, but it's a lot easier to distinguish between Hakuryu's forms by using both names - Hakuryu for his dragon form, and Jeep for his vehicle form. Hakuryu is essentially Hakkai's pet and thus I did not request Hakuryu coming to the game along with Gojyo.
PERSONALITY:
Gojyo is best described as a playboy with a heart of gold. His favorite things in life are cigarettes, booze, and sex. While on his own, he used booze & games with strangers to get through the day and love with strangers to get through the night. All the while, feeling like his hanyou status (half human, half youkai) would not allow him to enjoy life because neither human nor youkai wanted him. By remaining with the humans, Gojyo stood a chance at hiding the nature of his birth. To earn money, he became an excellent gambler - playing cards and mah-jongg - and something like a petty thief along with Banri.
After meeting Hakkai, Sanzo, and Goku, Gojyo was confronted with the idea that "there are other things in the world that are red". Basically, that he can enjoy life in spite of his "taboo" birth. He becomes a raucous brother-figure to Goku, a best friend to Hakkai, and a pain in Sanzo's side, regularly stopping the journey to do "good deeds" that Sanzo would have otherwise looked over. For example, two brothers were being deceived by a man called "Kami-sama" and Gojyo in fact left his companions (who at first continued on their journey without him) to try to help the brothers, nearly dying in the process. Hakkai also says to Gojyo at one point, "you make a terrible villain". While Sanzo and Goku both accuse Gojyo of being "lecherous", it is nearly always harmless flirting. In fact, the girls he hits on will often indulge his advances and it is only then that Gojyo "gets in trouble" -- being smacked with a paper fan by Sanzo and teased verbally by Goku. In essence, while he enjoys sex, he can actually restrain himself, and is actually more interested in love, which he has never experienced and has said before that he'd "like to experience it at least once".
Because Gojyo is arguably the weakest member of the team in terms of youki, he often makes up for it in personality. He cracks jokes, he teases mercilessly, he is tenacious to a fault, and quite the charmer canonically to ladies, but often uses the word "bijin" (beautiful person) instead of "bijou" (beautiful lady), leading one to wonder if he had ever - in his earlier years - been intimate with a man. Often this is blamed on Banri, but they were as much room-mates then as Hakkai was Gojyo's room-mate for the three years before the Sanzo Party set out for India.
By the point at which I have pulled him from, Gojyo has also discovered a streak of intense loyalty to his traveling companions - the people he considers to be truly friends - and occasionally steps up to a fierce battle for nothing more than to keep the group together. Each time, Gojyo becomes quite frustrated because he actually has very little in the way of extraordinary abilities. He has some increased strength, a great deal more endurance, and some improved speed and dexterity, allowing him to jump and swing his bladed staff. Despite all that, his fighting style remains crude - mainly tavern-brawling, including punches and kicks - and his only "magical" ability is his power to summon his weapon. Some extraordinary talents - ability to hold his breath for long periods of time, impressive charisma, as well as the strength/endurance/speed/dexterity - are often blamed on his heritage as a half-water-youkai, only vaguely remeniscient of the kappa of Japanese myth that he is often called as a nickname.
CLASS: Hero - he'll probably get into it pretty heavily since he wasn't "allowed" to do good deeds in canon, but he'll also want to help others grow stronger to protect themselves and be more independent as well.
SUPERHERO NAME: Crescent Charmer
ALTER EGO: Sha Gojyo [family-given]; potential job opportunities: professional gambler, bouncer/bodyguard, model, chauffeur, bartender, bar owner. He draws the line at drug-dealer and prostitute, due to his history, but he's not above petty theft for a good cause.
POWER(S):
-- Canon powers: heightened strength, speed, and jumping :: this is of an 'extraordinary' level, i.e. better than humans but not up to "super" status. He'll never beat Speed in a foot race, he'll never jump tall buildings in a single bound, and he'll never bench-press a bus. This is just a bit watered down from "shounen series physics" like you see pulled in Bleach or Naruto.
-- Boosted powers: summon weapon (usually "staff", see description above) and telekinetic control of the weapon's chain. In his canon, this is an ability of the weapon itself powered by Gojyo's youki energies. In C&C, this is an ability of Gojyo himself; he can summon his 'shakujou'/staff if he's at full power, a sword if he's low on energy, down to a dagger if he's really desperate. All would be of normal metallic quality, and if any have 'elongated' parts like the chain on his 'staff', he can control that telekinetically - this only works so long as a portion of the weapon is in at least one of his hands, so he can't do it at a distance and can't throw heat-seeking daggers.
-- New Power: super endurance - Gojyo does not tire from battle, running, sex, sleep-deprivation, etc., all in spite of smoking
-- New Power: silver tongue/incredibly charming - between his physical appearance and force of personality, anyone in close proximity to Gojyo experience a heightened sexual desire for him and/or trust him more than they might normally. This would make most NPCs immediately friendly towards him and tone down any hostile moods to roughly neutral. He also has that aura of someone you'd never expect to hurt a fly.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
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Sha Gojyo
Where is the nearest bar? Where do you get smokes around here? Do you get lessons for this thing?
[audio feed]
THERE we go! Man, that took forever to figure out. Hey hey there everyone, my name is Sha Gojyo and I'm new here in town, looking for an escort to show me all the fun places adults hang out. You know, dancing, booze, cards, pool - anywhere there's a party or enough people to get a party going. I don't mind a leisurely stroll since I've spent the better part of a year walking long miles at least 2-5 times a month. Don't worry - I have showered since I got here!
But that aside... this place looks pretty cool. I haven't been in a city this big since we left Chang'an and Sanzo drug me halfway to India in the backseat of a jeep. It looks kinda different from anywhere I've seen in China though... I can read the street signs, so that's enough for me, I guess.
And they called me a 'hero'? That's pretty cool - I figure there's gotta be an expectation that comes along with that, huh? Well don't worry, I am an expert at fending off any youkai that go berserk around here. Or stopping petty crimes, I can do that too. I can fight with and without a weapon, so no training needed here! But if anyone's not nearly as lucky as me to have shown up here knowing how to defend yourself without any 'powers' you've got, I can spar with ya and get that up to snuff too. That'll keep everyone safe, right? I realize I'm no teacher, but practice makes perfect~
[typed]
Later! ♥
THIRD PERSON:
Gojyo lit up a cigarette and replaced the lighter in his pocket like it was the most natural thing in the world. After that, he got up and found his heavy coat to go out for the night. It had been exactly 10 days since he'd arrived in the city, and he was starting to worry. He'd gotten to the point where he couldn't pace in his room anymore, so he always went down to the streets to stretch his legs and think things through at the same time. Plus he could see if there was a party going on at the nearest bar.
On the one hand, this was his greatest dream come true - he wasn't stuck in the back of a jeep anymore, he didn't have to sleep on the floor every since night, and he didn't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to get started on the road again. The food was decent and there were all the amenities of a big city that a tiny town didn't have. Number one on that list for Gojyo was condoms, which meant he could actually take someone home for some casual sex - something he hadn't enjoyed in far too long. The close sleeping quarters, the lack of personal income, and the threat that unprotected sex presented... well it all meant that Gojyo was rather irritable for one more reason every single day he was stuck in that damn jeep.
On the other hand, he didn't have his friends around anymore. After what had just happened between Hakkai and Goku, and with that damn priest abandoning all three of them, Gojyo had been the only uninjured one to take care of his best friend and the kid. If they were attacked by youkai now... they were practically sitting ducks.
Not like you'd be much better off than the two of them at half-dead power-level, a small voice said. No better than a wimpy human.
"Shut the fuck up," the hanyou cursed aloud. He spat out his cigarette and crushed it beneath his feet. "Hakkai wouldn't have depended on me if he didn't trust me."
It was your face - he hoped he'd recognize you as a friend, but he never expected you to be able to kill him while he was transformed.
"Hakkai's different from Goku - he can come back."
Bullshit Gonou's any different from that berserk heretic.
"He's Hakkai now, and he's my friend-" Gojyo looked up at the street sign and realized he'd just passed the bar. Muttering a bit more, he went inside and ordered his usual from the bartender, chatting the guy up in hopes of getting a job there. It would suit his lifestyle, after all - sleep all day, have fun all night, never have to actually do any work unless a brawl broke out, and chat up all kinds of interesting and attractive people. Plus hear good music. That was always a bonus.
NAME: Jennifer/Fru
AGE: nearly 24 (b. 1986)
JOURNAL: rizumu_sakusha
IM: compuscouts
E-MAIL: compuscouts@yahoo.com
RETURNING: n/a
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Sha Gojyo
FANDOM: Manga/Anime - Saiyuki (Gensomaden Saiyuki/Saiyuki Reload/Saiyuki Reload Gunlock) by Minekura Kazuya
CHRONOLOGY: Between acts 33 & 34 aka The Even A Worm arc parts 20 & 21 (Saiyuki Reload Gunlock); Sanzo has abandoned his three traveling companions (recovering from the Seiten Taisei versus Youkai-Hakkai battle) to travel with Hazel and Gato. It's completely Manga-verse -- no Homura arc or Movie, as they were anime-only. :( Gojyo is not physically injured, but suffered emotional damage detailed below.
BACKGROUND:
Sha Gojyo was born to a human mother and a youkai* father, but his mother wasn't his father's wife. Somehow, probably after both blood parents died, Gojyo found himself in the "care" of the woman he came to call Mom - his father's legal wife, a youkai, and mother to his older half-brother. Even though she beat him, yelled at him, and could only be comforted by his older brother, Jien, he wanted to make her happy. One day, Mom tried to kill Gojyo, and Jien made the desperate decision to stop her by killing her instead. To the present day, Gojyo carries two scars on his left cheek from where his mother scratched him. The brothers parted ways and didn't see each other for approximately 15 years.
*Youkai live longer than humans, tend to have elemental powers, and are marked physically by a small tattoo somewhere on their body, elongated ears, and fangs. In Gojyo's case, the element is water because he is a "kappa", or water demon.
This next interim period of the series - after Gojyo lost his mother but before the Ikkou (traveling party) begin their journey in the main series - is known as the "Burial arc". The only part of this detailed in the first series (Gensomaden Saiyuki) is how the four met, explained later. Anyway, in the Burial arc we learn that Gojyo wandered the streets and learned, probably with the help of a youkai named Banri, how to play cards, rack up a beer tab, and become quite the lady's man. Gojyo himself is a "taboo child** ", but most humans don't realize this while most demons do. Thus, Gojyo has lived among humans for most of his life and feels more comfortable in their culture.
**Taboo children are half-youkai and so-called because it is a social taboo for the two races to fornicate. They are marked physically by blood-red hair and eyes; apparently possess no elemental powers; and yet they do have some measure of extraordinary strength, speed, and life expectancy.
Gojyo is particularly close to one of his companions, Hakkai, because they met each other a few months before meeting the other two. Hakkai was "Cho Gonou" then and nearly dead, lying face down in the rain when Gojyo took Gonou back to his house and had a doctor look at the turned-youkai. Eventually Gonou recovered and was just about to leave Gojyo's company when a buddhist priest (Genjyo-sanzo) showed up at his door with a monkey-like boy (Son Goku) and demanded the "mass murderer" be turned over. Long story short, Gonou was not sentenced to death and took on the new name Hakkai to begin his penitence, but he and Gojyo are still best friends to this day as a result of the mess.
Gojyo wields a staff-like weapon with a crescent blade at the top and a chained spade at the bottom, summoning it with his youki -- the magical powers youkai possess and use in a variety of ways. In the show, it is called a 'shakujou', but is closer to the "cresecent-moon-toothed spade" (yueyachan) that Chinese Buddhist priests used as both a traveling staff (with clanging rings) and a shovel to dig graves. The story of how he acquired his weapon is this: Gojyo and Goku knocked over two urns where sacred weapons were being contained, and when the urns cracked open, the weapons claimed new owners. The "staff" claimed Gojyo and the only way to separate them would have been for Gojyo to die - an option, it's worth noting, Sanzo was openly in favor of.
Three years after the four men met, Gojyo's destiny caught up with him. He was summoned to journey with Genjyo-sanzo - among the highest ranking of Buddhist priests but without the shaved head or abstinence from killing, drinking, or smoking - to India to stop a "Minus Wave" from turning all youkai into ravenous, mindless beasts. His other traveling companions include the legendary Son Goku - the Sage Equaling Heaven - and Cho Hakkai, a human cursed for killing 1000 youkai by being himself changed into a youkai. This is the rag-tag group that Gojyo travels with for a year and a half at the time he is pulled from.
In Gensomaden Saiyuki (the first series published), the Sanzo Party fought against a youkai prince, Kougaiji, and his team (Jien among them, now called Dokugakuji) to keep Sanzo's sutra in his possession. It was during this time that the team first caught a glimpse of Goku's berserk "Seiten Taisei" form - the "Great Sage Equaling Heaven". Only through the intervention of Kanzeon Bosatsu (Merciful Goddess) was Goku calmed. What drove Goku berserk was seeing Sanzo nearly die of blood loss from a gaping hole in his stomach. Kanzeon Bosatsu replaced Sanzo's lost blood with some of Gojyo's - she acquired it through a kiss - but it left Gojyo so weak he fell to his knees. It should be noted that Kanzeon Bosatsu thought it would actually knock him unconscious.
In Saiyuki Reload, they continued their journey westward, fighting a variety of youkai along the way and finally going up against Kami-sama - a man who called himself "God" and stole Sanzo's sutra. During the struggle, all four Ikkou (traveling party) members nearly died, but it also forced them to learn more about each other's fighting styles and unite them more as a team as well as friends. All of this happened over a game of mahjongg, a game they played often during the trip because it requires 3-4 people.
Most recently, they encountered a man by the name of Hazel and his attendant called Gato. This whole portion is the 'Even a Worm' arc, but appears in Saiyuki Reload: Gunlock in the anime versus Saiyuki Reload in the manga. Hazel is a Christian (?) bishop with the power to trap youkai souls in his pendant (with the Star of David on it), then release them into the dead bodies of humans, seemingly bringing the dead back to life. But they've changed - the biggest difference is that their eyes become yellow and they despise youkai, going crazy at the sight of them and chanting "Kill Youkai" while attempting to do just that with their own hands. Hazel 'revives' humans who fall in youkai attacks, because he desires to kill all youkai and make a world exclusively for humans. He thinks that he and Sanzo have identical goals and therefore seriously questions why Sanzo travels with "monsters". Naturally, this does not sit well with Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo. The way that Gojyo deals with it is by mocking Hazel's accent, which is translated as a southern accent.
In the last battle, Gojyo was reminded of how powerless he was in comparison to his fellow travelers. Goku was ambushed with a nearly fatal attack that left Sanzo so distraught he ran off to confront who he supposed to be Goku's ambusher. This left Hakkai and Gojyo to deal with the problem, which they did by choosing to remove Goku's limiter***, thereby transforming Goku into his insanely powerful form - Seiten Taisei, The "Great Sage Equalling Heaven" - that could heal himself and survive the attack. The bad thing about that is that Goku's STTS form is completely berserk - he doesn't distinguish between friend & foe and lives only for himself; Gojyo and Hakkai knew that when they removed Goku's limiter, but it was the only way to keep Goku alive. To stop Goku from going on a killing spree, Hakkai removed his limiters as well to combat Goku. Hakkai's Youkai form is not much better than Goku's STTS form, but Hakkai has a stronger personal will, so he has a greater chance of coming back to his senses while still transformed. Unfortunately, Gojyo had to actually stop Youkai-Hakkai from killing Goku, and Gojyo nearly got his head chopped off by Hakkai in the process. Goku was finally knocked unconscious after a cooperative effort by Hakkai with Gato to elotrocute Goku, after which Gojyo placed the limiter back on Goku's head. However, he still had to help tend to Hakkai's wounds and stopped Hazel from stealing his best friend's soul, screaming, "He's not dead, damnit!" Bearing the weight of both Goku and Hakkai - Goku under his right arm and Hakkai leaning on his left shoulder - Gojyo left the town to find Hakuryu**** and take them to a safe place where they could rest and recover. On his way out, he scorned Sanzo for abandoning Goku when Goku needed Sanzo the most. "Sorry, dick. I've got my hands full. So I can't beat you senseless right now."
***Edit: Limiters in Saiyuki canon are the name of small metal objects, usually a kind of jewelry because we've seen earrings, a bracelet, and a headband among others. A limiter does two things for youkai: 1) dampens their power levels by varying amounts and 2) magically creates a facade that makes the youkai appear human. Goku and Hakkai both require limiters to not only stay sane but protect them from the Minus Wave; Gojyo, being only half-youkai, doesn't require a limiter and can slip into most human settlements with ease.
****Edit: Hakuryu is the name of the small white dragon that travels with the party, usually in the capacity of their transportation because Hakuryu can transform into a jeep. Since, "Jeep" or "Jiipu" was copyrighted, they had to change the name for the anime, but it's a lot easier to distinguish between Hakuryu's forms by using both names - Hakuryu for his dragon form, and Jeep for his vehicle form. Hakuryu is essentially Hakkai's pet and thus I did not request Hakuryu coming to the game along with Gojyo.
PERSONALITY:
Gojyo is best described as a playboy with a heart of gold. His favorite things in life are cigarettes, booze, and sex. While on his own, he used booze & games with strangers to get through the day and love with strangers to get through the night. All the while, feeling like his hanyou status (half human, half youkai) would not allow him to enjoy life because neither human nor youkai wanted him. By remaining with the humans, Gojyo stood a chance at hiding the nature of his birth. To earn money, he became an excellent gambler - playing cards and mah-jongg - and something like a petty thief along with Banri.
After meeting Hakkai, Sanzo, and Goku, Gojyo was confronted with the idea that "there are other things in the world that are red". Basically, that he can enjoy life in spite of his "taboo" birth. He becomes a raucous brother-figure to Goku, a best friend to Hakkai, and a pain in Sanzo's side, regularly stopping the journey to do "good deeds" that Sanzo would have otherwise looked over. For example, two brothers were being deceived by a man called "Kami-sama" and Gojyo in fact left his companions (who at first continued on their journey without him) to try to help the brothers, nearly dying in the process. Hakkai also says to Gojyo at one point, "you make a terrible villain". While Sanzo and Goku both accuse Gojyo of being "lecherous", it is nearly always harmless flirting. In fact, the girls he hits on will often indulge his advances and it is only then that Gojyo "gets in trouble" -- being smacked with a paper fan by Sanzo and teased verbally by Goku. In essence, while he enjoys sex, he can actually restrain himself, and is actually more interested in love, which he has never experienced and has said before that he'd "like to experience it at least once".
Because Gojyo is arguably the weakest member of the team in terms of youki, he often makes up for it in personality. He cracks jokes, he teases mercilessly, he is tenacious to a fault, and quite the charmer canonically to ladies, but often uses the word "bijin" (beautiful person) instead of "bijou" (beautiful lady), leading one to wonder if he had ever - in his earlier years - been intimate with a man. Often this is blamed on Banri, but they were as much room-mates then as Hakkai was Gojyo's room-mate for the three years before the Sanzo Party set out for India.
By the point at which I have pulled him from, Gojyo has also discovered a streak of intense loyalty to his traveling companions - the people he considers to be truly friends - and occasionally steps up to a fierce battle for nothing more than to keep the group together. Each time, Gojyo becomes quite frustrated because he actually has very little in the way of extraordinary abilities. He has some increased strength, a great deal more endurance, and some improved speed and dexterity, allowing him to jump and swing his bladed staff. Despite all that, his fighting style remains crude - mainly tavern-brawling, including punches and kicks - and his only "magical" ability is his power to summon his weapon. Some extraordinary talents - ability to hold his breath for long periods of time, impressive charisma, as well as the strength/endurance/speed/dexterity - are often blamed on his heritage as a half-water-youkai, only vaguely remeniscient of the kappa of Japanese myth that he is often called as a nickname.
CLASS: Hero - he'll probably get into it pretty heavily since he wasn't "allowed" to do good deeds in canon, but he'll also want to help others grow stronger to protect themselves and be more independent as well.
SUPERHERO NAME: Crescent Charmer
ALTER EGO: Sha Gojyo [family-given]; potential job opportunities: professional gambler, bouncer/bodyguard, model, chauffeur, bartender, bar owner. He draws the line at drug-dealer and prostitute, due to his history, but he's not above petty theft for a good cause.
POWER(S):
-- Canon powers: heightened strength, speed, and jumping :: this is of an 'extraordinary' level, i.e. better than humans but not up to "super" status. He'll never beat Speed in a foot race, he'll never jump tall buildings in a single bound, and he'll never bench-press a bus. This is just a bit watered down from "shounen series physics" like you see pulled in Bleach or Naruto.
-- Boosted powers: summon weapon (usually "staff", see description above) and telekinetic control of the weapon's chain. In his canon, this is an ability of the weapon itself powered by Gojyo's youki energies. In C&C, this is an ability of Gojyo himself; he can summon his 'shakujou'/staff if he's at full power, a sword if he's low on energy, down to a dagger if he's really desperate. All would be of normal metallic quality, and if any have 'elongated' parts like the chain on his 'staff', he can control that telekinetically - this only works so long as a portion of the weapon is in at least one of his hands, so he can't do it at a distance and can't throw heat-seeking daggers.
-- New Power: super endurance - Gojyo does not tire from battle, running, sex, sleep-deprivation, etc., all in spite of smoking
-- New Power: silver tongue/incredibly charming - between his physical appearance and force of personality, anyone in close proximity to Gojyo experience a heightened sexual desire for him and/or trust him more than they might normally. This would make most NPCs immediately friendly towards him and tone down any hostile moods to roughly neutral. He also has that aura of someone you'd never expect to hurt a fly.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
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Sha Gojyo
Where is the nearest bar? Where do you get smokes around here? Do you get lessons for this thing?
[audio feed]
THERE we go! Man, that took forever to figure out. Hey hey there everyone, my name is Sha Gojyo and I'm new here in town, looking for an escort to show me all the fun places adults hang out. You know, dancing, booze, cards, pool - anywhere there's a party or enough people to get a party going. I don't mind a leisurely stroll since I've spent the better part of a year walking long miles at least 2-5 times a month. Don't worry - I have showered since I got here!
But that aside... this place looks pretty cool. I haven't been in a city this big since we left Chang'an and Sanzo drug me halfway to India in the backseat of a jeep. It looks kinda different from anywhere I've seen in China though... I can read the street signs, so that's enough for me, I guess.
And they called me a 'hero'? That's pretty cool - I figure there's gotta be an expectation that comes along with that, huh? Well don't worry, I am an expert at fending off any youkai that go berserk around here. Or stopping petty crimes, I can do that too. I can fight with and without a weapon, so no training needed here! But if anyone's not nearly as lucky as me to have shown up here knowing how to defend yourself without any 'powers' you've got, I can spar with ya and get that up to snuff too. That'll keep everyone safe, right? I realize I'm no teacher, but practice makes perfect~
[typed]
Later! ♥
THIRD PERSON:
Gojyo lit up a cigarette and replaced the lighter in his pocket like it was the most natural thing in the world. After that, he got up and found his heavy coat to go out for the night. It had been exactly 10 days since he'd arrived in the city, and he was starting to worry. He'd gotten to the point where he couldn't pace in his room anymore, so he always went down to the streets to stretch his legs and think things through at the same time. Plus he could see if there was a party going on at the nearest bar.
On the one hand, this was his greatest dream come true - he wasn't stuck in the back of a jeep anymore, he didn't have to sleep on the floor every since night, and he didn't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to get started on the road again. The food was decent and there were all the amenities of a big city that a tiny town didn't have. Number one on that list for Gojyo was condoms, which meant he could actually take someone home for some casual sex - something he hadn't enjoyed in far too long. The close sleeping quarters, the lack of personal income, and the threat that unprotected sex presented... well it all meant that Gojyo was rather irritable for one more reason every single day he was stuck in that damn jeep.
On the other hand, he didn't have his friends around anymore. After what had just happened between Hakkai and Goku, and with that damn priest abandoning all three of them, Gojyo had been the only uninjured one to take care of his best friend and the kid. If they were attacked by youkai now... they were practically sitting ducks.
Not like you'd be much better off than the two of them at half-dead power-level, a small voice said. No better than a wimpy human.
"Shut the fuck up," the hanyou cursed aloud. He spat out his cigarette and crushed it beneath his feet. "Hakkai wouldn't have depended on me if he didn't trust me."
It was your face - he hoped he'd recognize you as a friend, but he never expected you to be able to kill him while he was transformed.
"Hakkai's different from Goku - he can come back."
Bullshit Gonou's any different from that berserk heretic.
"He's Hakkai now, and he's my friend-" Gojyo looked up at the street sign and realized he'd just passed the bar. Muttering a bit more, he went inside and ordered his usual from the bartender, chatting the guy up in hopes of getting a job there. It would suit his lifestyle, after all - sleep all day, have fun all night, never have to actually do any work unless a brawl broke out, and chat up all kinds of interesting and attractive people. Plus hear good music. That was always a bonus.