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Sep 19, 2010 23:08

Character: Ichiyou
Series: Haigakura
Character Age: 20ish
Canon: So, what do you do when your country loses a couple a million gods? Train kids to sing and dance in order to retrieve them, what else? Called kashi, they learn the art of mikagura, a ritual performance of dance and song designed to lure and capture these rogue gods. Most of these gods are relatively weak and unrefined, more like demons or spirits, but some-the Lesser Gods-are stronger and more intelligent. An exceptional kashi can capture and train these Lesser Gods to work for them, to do any sort of job, from farming to fighting, controlling them with their sai, a special string of rosary beads which all kashi possess.

Cue the most useless kashi ever, Ichiyou. Yet despite having earned such a title, he somehow has two Lesser Gods in his service, Kaka and Tenkou, the latter of whom is almost always by Ichiyou's side, and winds up being his personal punching bag more often than not. Ichiyou is not only mildly abusive and belligerent, he's also tone-deaf, although what he lacks in singing ability, he makes up in dance ability and raw power. However, because he has little interest in being a proper kashi, he rarely does his job- and thus rarely has any money. His sense of morality is dubious at best, showing no shame in taking advantage of other people's good will, be they strangers or friends. It's a wonder he even has friends, with his abrasive personality and a tendency to start fights on occasion. Whatever faint glimmer of care or consideration he might have for others is entirely obscured by his somewhat scary demeanor and aggressive tendencies.

Sample Post:

Oh come on, you can't be serious... I came all the way out here for this? I was lied to, there's no actual god here! You can't just take a big old octopus, give it a cute girl's name- what kind of weird name is "Marcy" anyway?- put it in your shrine, and call it a god! That's not how it works, and that's not even what a shrine's supposed to look like. You didn't honestly think you'd fake me out, did you? If it's really that much of a pest, you shouldn't have put it there to begin with. You're not going to swindle me out of my time and effort just because you're too lazy to deal with your own problems.

Well then, that's just great. They told me this camp place had a problem, but they didn't tell me that problem was being boring and a dead end. What am I supposed to do now? If there's nothing here, I might as well just head back home and start over again. Oi, Tenkou! Get over here, we're- Wait, where the hell did he go? Lost again? I guess I can wait a while, and see if anything worthwhile shows up, or at least find someone worth talking to who can tell me what's going on here, with all the weird creatures. They're obviously not gods, or anything like that. More fakes! Why not just go with regular earth animals? Right now, it seems like someone's just trying too hard to be impressive.

Maybe I shouldn't be so surprised, even the people here are something special. I haven't seen so many undead who can't even keep it together. Literally! Leaving hands in weird places to be creepy is fine, and detaching your head to terrorize people is one thing, but letting it roll into the pond? Don't expect anything from me, I'm not going to get it for you! You're on your own. But hey, I'll pray for you to have better luck next time, how's that? Maybe you'll be a little less clumsy that way. Ehh, not that I can do much real praying without a proper shrine. So can we make it an IOU?

I'll have to take incoherent gurgling as a yes, so now that that's settled... Damn, am I starving. After all that disappointment, I guess I worked up an appetite. Maybe I should find out what this "Tuesday Special" at the cafeteria is.

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