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[lcpdragonslayer]

Mun Info

Name: LCP
Age: 18
Personal lj: lcpdragonslayer
Contact:
E-mail: lzha224@aucklanduni.ac.nz
AIM: ScytheHooded
MSN: scythey@hotmail.com
YIM: lcpdragonslayer
G!Talk: schizophrenicpsycho@gmail.com

Character Info

Name: Jin
Canon: Samurai Champloo
Class: Blacker than black, so. Lower than low?

Personality: Jin is a quiet, calm, collected and unusually stoic man, unfazed even when he is faced by strong adversaries. Highly intelligent, he is the kind of person who looks before he leaps; a strategic planner and tactician, leading him to be extraordinarily good at games like shogi even if he seems to be lacking in other areas.

Jin is a competent combatant and is never afraid to risk his life for what he believes in. He may be of low class and seem to have nothing to lose, but he has his dignity and honour to protect and uphold. Earning his trust will not be easy - but if and/or when you do, Jin will become a valuable asset and a loyal friend.

Living by strict moral codes is important to Jin, and even though he is disadvantaged in this society, he makes what he can of his life. Although he would like to think that there are certain things he would not be willing to do, Jin is well aware that he will constantly have to bring himself to new lows if he is to survive in this place.

Background: Jin was born as a nameless child in a nameless part of the slums in Ceres - nothing extraordinary, nothing special. He was going to end up being just another mongrel, like everyone else in the slums did; with a meaningless life constantly endangered by reckless violence that was rife in the slums. Even though he was gifted with intelligence and extraordinary skill with knives and blades, it was worth nothing if Jin did not want to use his skills in a world governed by brute force and survival of the fittest.

To his parents, Jin was just another mouth to feed. Despite peer pressure, despite what people wanted of him, Jin would never join a gang, nor would he resort to bullying others and tearing families apart to get his way. With his family struggling to support themselves, desperate times called for desperate measures, and it came down to either abandoning Jin on the streets, or killing him.

Not wanting their son to suffer the immoralities and pains of the slums, they decided to end his life. Jin was only a child, sleeping soundly on the floor when he felt his father’s fingers curl around his neck that night. He woke abruptly and did what he had to in self-defence - and wide eyes watched as the man he once called ‘father’ lay motionless on the ground.

Not bothering to take anything, Jin got to his feet and ran away. He ran, for as long as he could, as fast as he could, out of the apartment and onto the streets. He knew the network of streets on the slums like the back of his hand, but that night he had no particular place to go.

When Jin was younger, the kinds of things he did to survive were limited to rummaging through garbage and taking what scraps people could spare him. He could have easily joined a gang, which would have provided for him, or he could have stolen from others, but... Jin would sooner die than succumb to the darkness and temptations that were rampant in the slums.

As he grew a little older, he picked up a few odd skills - fixing motor vehicles, computers, electronic equipment and the like. Jin knew he would have better opportunities to find work in Midas, and so he managed to get out of the slums and into the infamous ‘Sin city’. Like all the other Ceres mongrels who tried to leave, though, Jin was faced with discrimination and disappointment. Life fell to a new low in Mistral, and Jin moved back to Ceres after a few years. At the age of 16, he found a semi-permanent place to live when an employer whom he did odd jobs for offered him a small place to stay.

As he grew older, Jin had become more mature and knew that sometimes, he would have to resort to stealing, violence or... doing certain things he did not particularly want to do, if he wanted to get by in this world. It was hardly fair, but Jin never complained. Life was never meant to be a walk in the park, after all.