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Character
Name: Jun Manjoume
(Western name order despite how he would usually use Eastern (Manjoume Jun) because that's what people seemed to be using. He will insist on usage of his family name of Manjoume unless he’s around his brothers or Asuka. …Well, he’s also likely to insist on Manjoume Thunder, but.)
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Timeline: Just after episode 105. To summarize what this means for him:
- His third year at Duel Academy is just about to start.
- He is the victor of the Genex Tournament, therefore allowed to move back to Obelisk Blue, but he has decided to continue to stay in Osiris Red for the time being.
- While he is aware that the school will be hosting international students in the coming semester, he does not know who they are.
Canon Resource Links: Here
Affiliation: Trainer, definitely, though he will most likely strive to eventually become Champion.
Personality: Manjoume is a very arrogant person. He’s toned down considerably over the years, but he is well aware of his abilities and is very proud of them. He’s also very ambitious and determined when he sets his mind on something - if there is one thing that is experiences in his first year taught him, it is that when you get knocked down, you push yourself back up and try again, and you keep doing that until you succeed. He used to think that weaklings were worthless, but after his experiences he’s learned that even the weakest of creatures can be very powerful when you give them a chance and figure out where their potential lies. (Not that he doesn’t get frustrated with said weaklings that he inevitably ends up working with anyway - he’s just willing to look for their strengths, rather than discard them immediately.) And if he’s working with a weaker creature (by his own choice or not, usually the latter) and someone insults his charge, he will get quite angry at that person - no one is allowed to insult his weaklings except him.
Underneath that exterior, outside of battle and among those he would consider to be friends, Manjoume is a good person, really. Though he keeps himself aloof from others, and gets easily frustrated when things happen that he doesn’t like (or when the Ojamas talk), he is friendly enough with anyone who gets close enough to him. He can even be somewhat of a dork, if you catch him in the right mood, and is easy to embarrass, freak out, or cause to overreact, especially when he’s either upset or exceptionally passionate about something, and he has a particular charisma to him when he’s particularly interested in something - when he wants to, he can easily get people to follow him in any cause he decides to take up.
When he’s won a particularly exciting duel, or occasionally in other situations when he’s exceptionally enthusiastic about something, Manjoume has a catch phrase that he will call out: "Ichi, Jyuu, Hyaku, Sen, Manjoume Thunder!" This is a pun on his name: the ‘man’ in Manjoume is written with the kanji that means ‘ten-thousand’, so his catch phrase precedes his dueling title with each power of ten. And the ‘Thunder’ portion comes from the fact that he has been known, with certain people (mostly just Judai these days, though if people call him by his given name without permission or otherwise annoy him they will get this at least once as well), to insist upon the use of the suffix ‘-san’ with his name. Of course, ‘-san da’, which is how this would be stated in Japanese, sounds a lot like ‘Thunder’, hence his title. (This may or may not apply to Pokemon battles as well - it depends on the context, really.)
He likes the color black - it calms him down - while he holds a bit of distaste toward the color white. He also doesn’t like carrots. He doesn’t mind a little dirt, and in fact prefers it over being pristinely clean, really.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Manjoume is quite skilled at the trading card game Duel Monsters - one of the top students in his class, in fact. Naturally, this particular skill doesn’t really matter much in a world where card games don’t matter and Pokemon do, but his skill at Duel Monsters can be applied to other things in terms of strategizing, particularly when it comes to working with what one is dealt, regardless of strength or lack thereof.
He’s physically healthy for a teenage human male, and has been known to successfully climb glaciers and swim in freezing water without becoming hypothermic. Nothing spectacular or anything, but he’s fit enough. He’s also naturally charismatic and has little difficulty getting people to sign onto a cause he’s passionate about, when he feels like it. His tenacity is also a strength, in a way - if he doesn’t succeed at something that he wants to do the first time, he picks himself up and tries again, no matter how many tries it takes.
Oh, and he can see spirits, which is a rare ability where he comes from. Mostly the spirits of Duel Monsters cards - it’s unknown if this applies to other kinds or not, though my assumption has always been that it does. But that doesn’t really matter here, I suppose, considering that everyone can see Ghost-type Pokemon anyway.
Weaknesses: Though he’s gotten better about it over the years, Manjoume is arrogant, and he sometimes lets his pride get the better of him. Pander to his pride, and he’s easily manipulated (especially if he doesn’t have reason to suspect ulterior motives in play). He also has few mental defenses in terms of hypnosis/brainwashing/what have you, and while this is Pokemon, there are some little monsters that can do that, so yeah.
He is an ordinary human, subject to all biological flaws that a teenage human male would have. He isn’t trained in any form of martial arts or self-defense or anything, and it’s not like he can fight with Duel Monsters cards here. Sure, he’ll have his Pokemon, but if they’re out of commission for some reason, he wouldn’t be able to defend himself very well.
He’s easily frustrated when things don’t go his way. He’s learned to pick himself up over the years when he fails, but that doesn’t stop him from getting frustrated when it happens, and heaven help anyone who crosses him at that point. When frustrated, he has been known to leap before he looks, which gets him into trouble.
Pokemon
Starter: A Gastly who will make it his job to fill the role that, were he back home, the Ojamas would fill in Manjoume’s life. Much to Manjoume’s chagrin, of course - in fact, he will probably eventually decide to nickname it ‘Ojama Purple’.
Samples
First Person Sample: [He sighs with frustration as he walks through the tall grass, deciding to complain at no one in particular.] Why did I have to be brought here, wherever here is? I’d much rather be back at Duel Academy and going to class than traveling through this field right now, thanks. At least anything weird that happens there is relevant to what I want to do with the rest of my life.
Whatever the hell brought me here should have brought Judai instead. I’m sure he would love it here. Or Kenzan - he could go make friends with a dragon-type or something.
[He pauses his walking briefly to look around.] Great, the sun is setting and I’m just as surrounded by wilderness as I was this morning without passing even the smallest hint of civilization anywhere. Guess I’ll be sleeping outside again, huh. Not like I’m not used to that by now.
Third Person Sample: They had to be kidding him. Pokemon? Obviously he’d heard of them - Duel Monsters, while the most popular game in the world, was certainly not the only one in existence, and he’d even had a copy of one of the Pokemon games when he was about eight or so, though he’d never quite liked video games as much as he had trading cards, and he’d honestly never gotten into Pokemon as much. But that was what it was - a video game. A fictional video game. The monsters weren’t supposed to be real.
…Then again, arguments could be made that Duel Monsters weren’t supposed to be real either, and he’d had enough arguments with the spirits of his deck to prove otherwise. But still.
He groaned in frustration and leaned backward on the bench he was sitting on, looking up at the sky. It wasn’t enough to not be able to remember much of his second year because of being brainwashed into starting a stupid cult or whatever (not that he particularly wanted to remember anything about that). No, the universe had to throw Pokemon at him now. At least the Ojamas weren’t around to be annoying right now, but that didn’t really help, especially in the face of everything else.
“Well, might as well see what I’m dealing with,” he muttered to no one in particular, and as he pushed himself back to his feet, he grabbed the Pokeball he had found on his person when he woke up and tossed it into the air. Out of the ball came what he could only describe as a purple blob of gas with a face, which said something like ‘Gas’ as it looked at him with a big grin.
“A Gastly,” he stated, just to confirm with himself. That ghost type. Of course he would be stuck with a ghost. Why not.
Well, it could have been worse, anyway, he decided after a moment, and he addressed his new… partner, or at least he couldn’t come up with a better term for it off-hand. With less enthusiasm than one might have considered especially polite, but. “Well, Gastly, I guess we’ll be working together, huh.”
Name: Katie
Livejournal Username: bridgitkiido
E-mail: bridgitkiido@yahoo.com
AIM: bridgitkiido
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: None
Character
Name: Jun Manjoume
(Western name order despite how he would usually use Eastern (Manjoume Jun) because that's what people seemed to be using. He will insist on usage of his family name of Manjoume unless he’s around his brothers or Asuka. …Well, he’s also likely to insist on Manjoume Thunder, but.)
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Timeline: Just after episode 105. To summarize what this means for him:
- His third year at Duel Academy is just about to start.
- He is the victor of the Genex Tournament, therefore allowed to move back to Obelisk Blue, but he has decided to continue to stay in Osiris Red for the time being.
- While he is aware that the school will be hosting international students in the coming semester, he does not know who they are.
Canon Resource Links: Here
Affiliation: Trainer, definitely, though he will most likely strive to eventually become Champion.
Personality: Manjoume is a very arrogant person. He’s toned down considerably over the years, but he is well aware of his abilities and is very proud of them. He’s also very ambitious and determined when he sets his mind on something - if there is one thing that is experiences in his first year taught him, it is that when you get knocked down, you push yourself back up and try again, and you keep doing that until you succeed. He used to think that weaklings were worthless, but after his experiences he’s learned that even the weakest of creatures can be very powerful when you give them a chance and figure out where their potential lies. (Not that he doesn’t get frustrated with said weaklings that he inevitably ends up working with anyway - he’s just willing to look for their strengths, rather than discard them immediately.) And if he’s working with a weaker creature (by his own choice or not, usually the latter) and someone insults his charge, he will get quite angry at that person - no one is allowed to insult his weaklings except him.
Underneath that exterior, outside of battle and among those he would consider to be friends, Manjoume is a good person, really. Though he keeps himself aloof from others, and gets easily frustrated when things happen that he doesn’t like (or when the Ojamas talk), he is friendly enough with anyone who gets close enough to him. He can even be somewhat of a dork, if you catch him in the right mood, and is easy to embarrass, freak out, or cause to overreact, especially when he’s either upset or exceptionally passionate about something, and he has a particular charisma to him when he’s particularly interested in something - when he wants to, he can easily get people to follow him in any cause he decides to take up.
When he’s won a particularly exciting duel, or occasionally in other situations when he’s exceptionally enthusiastic about something, Manjoume has a catch phrase that he will call out: "Ichi, Jyuu, Hyaku, Sen, Manjoume Thunder!" This is a pun on his name: the ‘man’ in Manjoume is written with the kanji that means ‘ten-thousand’, so his catch phrase precedes his dueling title with each power of ten. And the ‘Thunder’ portion comes from the fact that he has been known, with certain people (mostly just Judai these days, though if people call him by his given name without permission or otherwise annoy him they will get this at least once as well), to insist upon the use of the suffix ‘-san’ with his name. Of course, ‘-san da’, which is how this would be stated in Japanese, sounds a lot like ‘Thunder’, hence his title. (This may or may not apply to Pokemon battles as well - it depends on the context, really.)
He likes the color black - it calms him down - while he holds a bit of distaste toward the color white. He also doesn’t like carrots. He doesn’t mind a little dirt, and in fact prefers it over being pristinely clean, really.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Manjoume is quite skilled at the trading card game Duel Monsters - one of the top students in his class, in fact. Naturally, this particular skill doesn’t really matter much in a world where card games don’t matter and Pokemon do, but his skill at Duel Monsters can be applied to other things in terms of strategizing, particularly when it comes to working with what one is dealt, regardless of strength or lack thereof.
He’s physically healthy for a teenage human male, and has been known to successfully climb glaciers and swim in freezing water without becoming hypothermic. Nothing spectacular or anything, but he’s fit enough. He’s also naturally charismatic and has little difficulty getting people to sign onto a cause he’s passionate about, when he feels like it. His tenacity is also a strength, in a way - if he doesn’t succeed at something that he wants to do the first time, he picks himself up and tries again, no matter how many tries it takes.
Oh, and he can see spirits, which is a rare ability where he comes from. Mostly the spirits of Duel Monsters cards - it’s unknown if this applies to other kinds or not, though my assumption has always been that it does. But that doesn’t really matter here, I suppose, considering that everyone can see Ghost-type Pokemon anyway.
Weaknesses: Though he’s gotten better about it over the years, Manjoume is arrogant, and he sometimes lets his pride get the better of him. Pander to his pride, and he’s easily manipulated (especially if he doesn’t have reason to suspect ulterior motives in play). He also has few mental defenses in terms of hypnosis/brainwashing/what have you, and while this is Pokemon, there are some little monsters that can do that, so yeah.
He is an ordinary human, subject to all biological flaws that a teenage human male would have. He isn’t trained in any form of martial arts or self-defense or anything, and it’s not like he can fight with Duel Monsters cards here. Sure, he’ll have his Pokemon, but if they’re out of commission for some reason, he wouldn’t be able to defend himself very well.
He’s easily frustrated when things don’t go his way. He’s learned to pick himself up over the years when he fails, but that doesn’t stop him from getting frustrated when it happens, and heaven help anyone who crosses him at that point. When frustrated, he has been known to leap before he looks, which gets him into trouble.
Pokemon
Starter: A Gastly who will make it his job to fill the role that, were he back home, the Ojamas would fill in Manjoume’s life. Much to Manjoume’s chagrin, of course - in fact, he will probably eventually decide to nickname it ‘Ojama Purple’.
Samples
First Person Sample: [He sighs with frustration as he walks through the tall grass, deciding to complain at no one in particular.] Why did I have to be brought here, wherever here is? I’d much rather be back at Duel Academy and going to class than traveling through this field right now, thanks. At least anything weird that happens there is relevant to what I want to do with the rest of my life.
Whatever the hell brought me here should have brought Judai instead. I’m sure he would love it here. Or Kenzan - he could go make friends with a dragon-type or something.
[He pauses his walking briefly to look around.] Great, the sun is setting and I’m just as surrounded by wilderness as I was this morning without passing even the smallest hint of civilization anywhere. Guess I’ll be sleeping outside again, huh. Not like I’m not used to that by now.
Third Person Sample: They had to be kidding him. Pokemon? Obviously he’d heard of them - Duel Monsters, while the most popular game in the world, was certainly not the only one in existence, and he’d even had a copy of one of the Pokemon games when he was about eight or so, though he’d never quite liked video games as much as he had trading cards, and he’d honestly never gotten into Pokemon as much. But that was what it was - a video game. A fictional video game. The monsters weren’t supposed to be real.
…Then again, arguments could be made that Duel Monsters weren’t supposed to be real either, and he’d had enough arguments with the spirits of his deck to prove otherwise. But still.
He groaned in frustration and leaned backward on the bench he was sitting on, looking up at the sky. It wasn’t enough to not be able to remember much of his second year because of being brainwashed into starting a stupid cult or whatever (not that he particularly wanted to remember anything about that). No, the universe had to throw Pokemon at him now. At least the Ojamas weren’t around to be annoying right now, but that didn’t really help, especially in the face of everything else.
“Well, might as well see what I’m dealing with,” he muttered to no one in particular, and as he pushed himself back to his feet, he grabbed the Pokeball he had found on his person when he woke up and tossed it into the air. Out of the ball came what he could only describe as a purple blob of gas with a face, which said something like ‘Gas’ as it looked at him with a big grin.
“A Gastly,” he stated, just to confirm with himself. That ghost type. Of course he would be stuck with a ghost. Why not.
Well, it could have been worse, anyway, he decided after a moment, and he addressed his new… partner, or at least he couldn’t come up with a better term for it off-hand. With less enthusiasm than one might have considered especially polite, but. “Well, Gastly, I guess we’ll be working together, huh.”