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Character: Sawa Rakan
Series: Silver Diamond
Age: 17
Canon: Silver Diamond is one of those epic, "the fate of the world is on your shoulders" stories that involve a small but ever growing band of friends who set out to save a cast of thousands!!1 from unmitigated evil, and somehow uncover the truth about their own troubled pasts along the way. It's a modern reality/romantic fantasy story with plenty of interesting characters of all shapes and sizes to spice things up. So if you know your manga history. . . it's Fushigi Yuugi without the girls.
Sawa Rakan is the protagonist, a well-meaning "normal" boy who is thrown into another world. There he learns that he's what's known as a Sanome: someone with the ability to make otherworld plants grow to their full size and strength. This is a more useful ability than it might seem, because all complex technology is actually derived from simple plants, not to mention that the land has recently become a total desert plagued with life-sucking monsters. So even the regular flowers and trees need some help. Powers aside, he's a decent boy with a deep sense of right and wrong but an almost overly trusting heart. He's determined and passionate in the face of injustice, but left to his own devices he'd much rather do household work and take care of his friends than fight. Sometimes he finds new experiences a little bit exciting, but too much and he goes into "total escapist mode," rejecting your reality and substituting his own dull lists of chores until he can cope again.
Sample:
At the age of seventeen I've already become a world traveler, and very literally too. You'd think that in my situation questions like "where am I?" would become so commonplace that I'd stop stressing about them... but I think I'm allowed to worry when I'm suddenly moved from a desert into a jungle with no warning! Even though I know this really shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Once you've accepted the fact that there's a whole new world and that's where you'll be (if you fall through a magic portal), it can't be hard to believe there could be more than two connected places.
Anyway I'm definitely not back home again. If anything, this place has too many plants. Even the water's green! And my Japan doesn't have such interesting trees. Some of these are growing clothing. Would it be alright to call the stockings "garden hose"? Maybe that's too punny... I wonder if there are people here, or if I'm all alone in a strange world that just happens to have flowers that look like underwear. Oh finally, here's someone at last.
No, wait, that's a giant purple monkey.
Giant purple monkey? No, I should calm down, it doesn't seem dangerous. Actually, it's not even interested in me. It looks like all it wanted was to lie down in the shade. It must be hot even in winter with all that fur. And I guess that answers the question about where a two-ton gorilla sits, doesn't it? No, don't shake the tree, Purple-san. There's no fruit for you here! Unless you wanted the underwear.. to wear... I-is this pollination? Well whatever it is it's is obviously a very private moment, so I'll leave now!
Augh, I think the images have been burned into my retinas. I need a distraction, so I'll go gather supplies! I'll need those if I'm going to be here for a while. Fortunately, there ought to be plenty of edible things here, and I'm by myself this time so I don't need that much food. I could probably eat a peach for hours. Plus if I gather wood, I can make a nice big fire. Then I'll boil the water before I drink it and use it to cook too! The further I walk the more this looks like swampland, which is good. There ought to be lily pads, if I saute them for long enough the whole plant should be edible. And maybe there's crayfish or something in the water, and I can fry some of them too. I don't want to waste anything, so maybe I can put them both together in their own broth?
I'll call it two-saute soup. It should be delicious!
[ VOTED IN @ 98%]
Series: Silver Diamond
Age: 17
Canon: Silver Diamond is one of those epic, "the fate of the world is on your shoulders" stories that involve a small but ever growing band of friends who set out to save a cast of thousands!!1 from unmitigated evil, and somehow uncover the truth about their own troubled pasts along the way. It's a modern reality/romantic fantasy story with plenty of interesting characters of all shapes and sizes to spice things up. So if you know your manga history. . . it's Fushigi Yuugi without the girls.
Sawa Rakan is the protagonist, a well-meaning "normal" boy who is thrown into another world. There he learns that he's what's known as a Sanome: someone with the ability to make otherworld plants grow to their full size and strength. This is a more useful ability than it might seem, because all complex technology is actually derived from simple plants, not to mention that the land has recently become a total desert plagued with life-sucking monsters. So even the regular flowers and trees need some help. Powers aside, he's a decent boy with a deep sense of right and wrong but an almost overly trusting heart. He's determined and passionate in the face of injustice, but left to his own devices he'd much rather do household work and take care of his friends than fight. Sometimes he finds new experiences a little bit exciting, but too much and he goes into "total escapist mode," rejecting your reality and substituting his own dull lists of chores until he can cope again.
Sample:
At the age of seventeen I've already become a world traveler, and very literally too. You'd think that in my situation questions like "where am I?" would become so commonplace that I'd stop stressing about them... but I think I'm allowed to worry when I'm suddenly moved from a desert into a jungle with no warning! Even though I know this really shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Once you've accepted the fact that there's a whole new world and that's where you'll be (if you fall through a magic portal), it can't be hard to believe there could be more than two connected places.
Anyway I'm definitely not back home again. If anything, this place has too many plants. Even the water's green! And my Japan doesn't have such interesting trees. Some of these are growing clothing. Would it be alright to call the stockings "garden hose"? Maybe that's too punny... I wonder if there are people here, or if I'm all alone in a strange world that just happens to have flowers that look like underwear. Oh finally, here's someone at last.
No, wait, that's a giant purple monkey.
Giant purple monkey? No, I should calm down, it doesn't seem dangerous. Actually, it's not even interested in me. It looks like all it wanted was to lie down in the shade. It must be hot even in winter with all that fur. And I guess that answers the question about where a two-ton gorilla sits, doesn't it? No, don't shake the tree, Purple-san. There's no fruit for you here! Unless you wanted the underwear.. to wear... I-is this pollination? Well whatever it is it's is obviously a very private moment, so I'll leave now!
Augh, I think the images have been burned into my retinas. I need a distraction, so I'll go gather supplies! I'll need those if I'm going to be here for a while. Fortunately, there ought to be plenty of edible things here, and I'm by myself this time so I don't need that much food. I could probably eat a peach for hours. Plus if I gather wood, I can make a nice big fire. Then I'll boil the water before I drink it and use it to cook too! The further I walk the more this looks like swampland, which is good. There ought to be lily pads, if I saute them for long enough the whole plant should be edible. And maybe there's crayfish or something in the water, and I can fry some of them too. I don't want to waste anything, so maybe I can put them both together in their own broth?
I'll call it two-saute soup. It should be delicious!
[ VOTED IN @ 98%]