seiju shikibu // character information
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Dolls
Canon Format: manga
Character's Name: Seiju Shikibu
Character's Age: 23
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a
What form will your character's NV take? Seiju's NV will take the form of the high-tech non-flip phone he uses in his canon. It will, however, have additional features for hologram and video, the camera will be upgraded, and it will have lots of storage space for various functions. His phone can be seen here..
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Seiju has no superhuman or magical powers, but he is a very, very good fighter, proficient with the use of most types of guns, as well as a very well-honed ability with the use of cutting wire. Using cutting wire is his preferred method of fighting. Also, being from a future that has at least slightly advanced technology and with his position as an investigator, he will likely also be quite proficient at hacking.
If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Seiju lacks any superhuman abilities, so he will be given the ability of a passive 'healing aura.' Basically, being in his presence will give anyone other than himself (the ability does not work on Seiju himself) a boost to the speed of their healing. The ability is tied to his emotions - the more he cares about someone or is invested in them, the more powerful it will be and the faster that person will heal. Additionally, it is amplified by touch, but only skin to skin touch, and only at the area that Seiju is touching.
For example, if Seiju stands close to someone he doesn't care about much, that person's injuries will heal slightly faster than usual. If Seiju stands close to someone he cares about a lot, their injuries will heal twice as fast. If Seiju loves someone, and touches their skin at the site of an injury, the injury will heal within a few minutes.
Seiju's ability will not work on diseases or allow him to attach missing limbs - only injuries. It won't work on himself, and will be effective immediately when he enters Siren's Port as a passive and subconsciously used ability. However, it will be mild and barely noticeable at first, and take time to build up in power, especially since it will take time for him to develop closeness with people. He can't control it consciously or turn it off, and it has the drawback of making his own healing significantly slower, especially when he's put out a lot of healing energy.
Weapons: Seiju will arrive with one Desert Eagle pistol and a significant amount of cutting wire on his person.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Seiju comes from the 3rd Toutoh Empire, set in the future (after World War Three) in which excessive immigration has led to a surge in the crime rate. In order to deal with the overpopulation in prisons, a law called the Rationalization of Trials was put in place, which allowed the court system to try people in absence, especially serious crimes like multiple murder. To carry out the sentences, generally sentences of death, a special police unit called the Tokubetsu Shikeishikkou Keimukan Butai (Official Unit for Punishment and Special Executions), generally shortened to Tokkei and perjoratively called 'Dolls' was put in place. The Tokkei generally investigate and hunt down the convicted criminals, and when they find them, carry out their death sentences with efficient brutality. Obviously, not all of society accepted the Tokkei easily, and a terrorist group called Doll Hunters was organized, whose sole task was hunting and killing the Tokkei.
Shikibu Seiju was born into a decently well-off family, with his father and mother married and happy. It was a happy family, and Seiju was very close to both his parents, sharing little stories and an almost uncommon closeness for modern families. This all changed when Seiju was about 8 years old, and he saw both of his parents shot to death in the street. This was the definitive point of Seiju's young life, that put him on the path he would later follow as an adult.
After his parents died, Seiju lost the ability to speak for a while due to the trauma of seeing his parents murdered, and was placed into a Children's Shelter. It's uncertain whether Seiju grew up in a shelter, or whether he was adopted by a new family, but either way, his parents were gone and murdered. When the Tokkei were put in place, Seiju joined their ranks and went through training, prepared to put the taste for justice to work in their ranks. Having seen his own parents murdered, he wanted to dole out justice and absolution for the families of other such victims. Having experienced it himself gave him the determination that it took to take on the sort of jobs the Tokkei would give him. He moved up the ranks well, and did good enough to be assigned to the First Brigade - the best brigade of the Tokkei, a three-man unit that had two openings. He joined Shouta, a man who was known for his record amount of years at the top of the Tokkei and who had been forced to kill his own mentor when said mentor went crazy and started taking out other Tokkei members. Shouta and Seiju grew to be close as they worked together, and managed to uphold the First Brigade's 100% success rate, even with one empty spot.
The chemistry of their team changed when a stoic fresh-from-training new member was added to fill the final empty spot in the First Brigade. A young man named Usaki who very nearly fit the stereotype of the Tokkei as Dolls joined - an emotionless, cold young man who follows the rules to the book. After proving himself in the first few missions the newly-complete team took on, Seiju and Shouta welcomed him to their ranks, and Seiju started to care for Usaki as well. They even took to giving him a teasing nickname - Usagi. The group went through a few missions that developed their relationships and honed their skills as a team.
Some notable missions that affected Seiju particularly were the mission involving an art museum that Seiju frequented on his day off, being a big fan of fine art. An artist who had several exhibitions at the gallery ended up being someone who'd murdered 8 women in order to use them as 'models' for his paintings. The man, Horiguchi, was tried in his absence and when the 46th Brigade failed to catch him, the First Brigade was given the job. During the investigation, Seiju was able to speak to the curator of the museum, Hasebe, who he was a big fan of, finding out that Hasebe had been coerced by the killer to bring in victims for him to paint. Hasebe pleaded for help and lead Seiju to an underground bunker from World War Three, where Seiju discovered that Horiguchi was hiding there and had requested Seiju as his next model/victim for a new painting. A worse discovery came when he realized Horiguchi was long since dead and rotted, and Hasebe was hallucinating the commands, meaning Hasebe, who Seiju had admired, was the one doing the killing and making the paintings. This knowledge caused Seiju to snap, and he attacked Hasebe, blowing off his hand by destroying his gun with cutting wire, and intending to kill him when his teammates intervened and managed to talk him out of it, stopping him finally by snapping his wire with a gunshot. Seiju recovered, gained his closure by burning the body of Horiguchi, and moved on.
Another major story arc involved a case where a condemned murderer was holding a young boy hostage. Seiju took the case on as usual, with his teammates, and went in. After telling the boy to cover his eyes, he took out the criminal and brought the boy back to headquarters to look after. Upon finding out that the boy was apparently unable to speak due to trauma, a situation that mimicked Seiju's own past, he took a liking to the boy and when it was decided the boy, Kei, would be sent to a shelter until his parents were found, Seiju took him. Upon seeing the boy's distaste for the shelter, Seiju opted to take him home with him instead, and took over the investigation into who his parents might be. During the investigation, at one point, Seiju was ambushed by some Doll Hunters, and after fighting them off, Seiju missed several calls from Tokkei Intelligence as they tried to inform him that the boy turned out to be the son of a married couple who were part of the Doll Hunter organization and taken down by Seiju six months prior. At Seiju's home Kei drugged Seiju's sleeping pills in an attempt to take him out, and Seiju was ambushed again by Doll Hunters that Kei had lead to his apartment, seeking revenge. After Seiju took out the Doll Hunters, he confronted Kei, admitting that he'd known about the drugged sleeping pills and only pretended to take them - he'd known since the first Doll Hunter ambush what Kei's plan was. After revealing this, and hearing Kei say that Seiju had killed his parents, he offered the boy his loaded gun and told him that if he wanted to take his revenge, he could. The boy couldn't do it in the end, and Seiju hugged him, congratulated him for understanding the importance of a human life, and took him back to a shelter so he could arrange for him to be taken in by a new family.
After this incident, Seiju admitted when the Intelligence officer asked him what he would have done if the boy had pulled the trigger, that he'd been feeling for a while that he wanted to just sleep and never think of anything ever again. When it was pointed out that this sounded like death, Seiju simply said that if that was what it took, he'd be alright with that. When reminded that his suicide would make the First Brigade and all his Tokkei workmates sad, Seiju looked surprised for a moment, and then accepted it.
It will be on the ride home from this incident, in the car, that Seiju is pulled into Siren's Port by the Core.
Point in Canon: The end of chapter 9 of the manga, immediately after he has confessed to the head of intel that he had considered committing suicide, or that he wouldn't mind dying.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality: Seiju is a character who has very distinct 'dark' and 'light' sides to his personality. While he is charming, cheerful, compassionate, and outgoing, he is also someone who kills for a living and suffers from depression. Though Seiju obviously favours his cheerful and compassionate side, he shows no desire to leave his job with the Tokkei, despite the dark nature of it and how it exposes him to the harsh realities of the worst of human nature.
The side of Seiju's personality that is most often shown and that he prefers to present is his more positive side. Seiju is cheerful and expressive, almost to an excess sometimes. He likes animals, and actually sparkled at the thought of calling a teammate Usagi because it means "rabbit." His cheerful nature can actually, at times, make him look like a ditz, though he's nothing of the sort in reality. However, though he does harbour a darker and more sombre nature underneath his cheerfulness, the cheerfulness isn't at all fake, but rather a personality trait he holds onto in order to keep himself upbeat. Seiju is also an incredibly compassionate person. He cares for other people, whether they're his teammates and colleagues, or people he only recently met. He empathizes well with others, and is always willing to lend a hand to people who are in need - he's done everything from taking care of a teammate who overworks to taking home a traumatized child from work. He also has a great deal of passion for everything he does, doing everything to the best of his ability from work to his own personal hobbies, such as art. Finally, Seiju has a very strong sense of personal morality and justice, something that helps him a great deal in his work, but sometimes gets him in trouble - he strives to do what he feels is right in any given situation, and sometimes this can lead him to doing things (or at least trying to do things) that are against the rules.
However, as previously mentioned, despite this positivity, Seiju has a very distinct dark side. He's made it to the top brigade out of 47 brigades of the Tokkei, an organization that exists solely to carry out executions of convicted criminals (most often multiple murderers) for a reason. His brigade has a 100% success rate, and this is partially because of Seiju's skills. He's an expert fighter with cutting wire, and can use a gun. When he's on missions, he shows no mercy to the sentenced criminals he kills (though he still shows compassion to any bystanders) and his face is very serious, sometimes to the point of being scary, in a fight, his whole mind set on the task at hand. His sense of justice allows no empathy for the condemned - he does what he does in order to bring closure and justice to the family members of victims, and he's very committed to this cause, partially because his own parents were killed when he was young. Despite his dedication to his job, it does get to him, in part because of his compassion and empathy. Between that and memories of his parents' death, he frequently has bouts of insomnia that he medicates for with sleeping pills, and occasionally has nightmares. In Chapter 9, he actually admits to a co-worker that he would commit suicide in order to just sleep and never think again. This depression is quite well-hidden, though people who've come to know him can tell just how deep his past and present traumas hit him.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: Seiju will be trying to find a way home and attempting to avoid getting too tied in with either of the factions. I plan to have him take a job as a Greeter, and to talk and make friends with people through this job. He may take on bounty hunting on the side, and he may end up trying to do something about the injustices done by each faction - he would be very disapproving of the less humane aspects of the City.
Appearance/PB: Seiju stands at 5'10" and has very long black hair in a hime cut, violet eyes, and a slender build with broad shoulders. His face is quite effeminate.
[reference 1]
[reference 2]
He will be arriving in civilian clothing, which can be seen here.
General
Canon Source: Dolls
Canon Format: manga
Character's Name: Seiju Shikibu
Character's Age: 23
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a
What form will your character's NV take? Seiju's NV will take the form of the high-tech non-flip phone he uses in his canon. It will, however, have additional features for hologram and video, the camera will be upgraded, and it will have lots of storage space for various functions. His phone can be seen here..
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Seiju has no superhuman or magical powers, but he is a very, very good fighter, proficient with the use of most types of guns, as well as a very well-honed ability with the use of cutting wire. Using cutting wire is his preferred method of fighting. Also, being from a future that has at least slightly advanced technology and with his position as an investigator, he will likely also be quite proficient at hacking.
If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Seiju lacks any superhuman abilities, so he will be given the ability of a passive 'healing aura.' Basically, being in his presence will give anyone other than himself (the ability does not work on Seiju himself) a boost to the speed of their healing. The ability is tied to his emotions - the more he cares about someone or is invested in them, the more powerful it will be and the faster that person will heal. Additionally, it is amplified by touch, but only skin to skin touch, and only at the area that Seiju is touching.
For example, if Seiju stands close to someone he doesn't care about much, that person's injuries will heal slightly faster than usual. If Seiju stands close to someone he cares about a lot, their injuries will heal twice as fast. If Seiju loves someone, and touches their skin at the site of an injury, the injury will heal within a few minutes.
Seiju's ability will not work on diseases or allow him to attach missing limbs - only injuries. It won't work on himself, and will be effective immediately when he enters Siren's Port as a passive and subconsciously used ability. However, it will be mild and barely noticeable at first, and take time to build up in power, especially since it will take time for him to develop closeness with people. He can't control it consciously or turn it off, and it has the drawback of making his own healing significantly slower, especially when he's put out a lot of healing energy.
Weapons: Seiju will arrive with one Desert Eagle pistol and a significant amount of cutting wire on his person.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Seiju comes from the 3rd Toutoh Empire, set in the future (after World War Three) in which excessive immigration has led to a surge in the crime rate. In order to deal with the overpopulation in prisons, a law called the Rationalization of Trials was put in place, which allowed the court system to try people in absence, especially serious crimes like multiple murder. To carry out the sentences, generally sentences of death, a special police unit called the Tokubetsu Shikeishikkou Keimukan Butai (Official Unit for Punishment and Special Executions), generally shortened to Tokkei and perjoratively called 'Dolls' was put in place. The Tokkei generally investigate and hunt down the convicted criminals, and when they find them, carry out their death sentences with efficient brutality. Obviously, not all of society accepted the Tokkei easily, and a terrorist group called Doll Hunters was organized, whose sole task was hunting and killing the Tokkei.
Shikibu Seiju was born into a decently well-off family, with his father and mother married and happy. It was a happy family, and Seiju was very close to both his parents, sharing little stories and an almost uncommon closeness for modern families. This all changed when Seiju was about 8 years old, and he saw both of his parents shot to death in the street. This was the definitive point of Seiju's young life, that put him on the path he would later follow as an adult.
After his parents died, Seiju lost the ability to speak for a while due to the trauma of seeing his parents murdered, and was placed into a Children's Shelter. It's uncertain whether Seiju grew up in a shelter, or whether he was adopted by a new family, but either way, his parents were gone and murdered. When the Tokkei were put in place, Seiju joined their ranks and went through training, prepared to put the taste for justice to work in their ranks. Having seen his own parents murdered, he wanted to dole out justice and absolution for the families of other such victims. Having experienced it himself gave him the determination that it took to take on the sort of jobs the Tokkei would give him. He moved up the ranks well, and did good enough to be assigned to the First Brigade - the best brigade of the Tokkei, a three-man unit that had two openings. He joined Shouta, a man who was known for his record amount of years at the top of the Tokkei and who had been forced to kill his own mentor when said mentor went crazy and started taking out other Tokkei members. Shouta and Seiju grew to be close as they worked together, and managed to uphold the First Brigade's 100% success rate, even with one empty spot.
The chemistry of their team changed when a stoic fresh-from-training new member was added to fill the final empty spot in the First Brigade. A young man named Usaki who very nearly fit the stereotype of the Tokkei as Dolls joined - an emotionless, cold young man who follows the rules to the book. After proving himself in the first few missions the newly-complete team took on, Seiju and Shouta welcomed him to their ranks, and Seiju started to care for Usaki as well. They even took to giving him a teasing nickname - Usagi. The group went through a few missions that developed their relationships and honed their skills as a team.
Some notable missions that affected Seiju particularly were the mission involving an art museum that Seiju frequented on his day off, being a big fan of fine art. An artist who had several exhibitions at the gallery ended up being someone who'd murdered 8 women in order to use them as 'models' for his paintings. The man, Horiguchi, was tried in his absence and when the 46th Brigade failed to catch him, the First Brigade was given the job. During the investigation, Seiju was able to speak to the curator of the museum, Hasebe, who he was a big fan of, finding out that Hasebe had been coerced by the killer to bring in victims for him to paint. Hasebe pleaded for help and lead Seiju to an underground bunker from World War Three, where Seiju discovered that Horiguchi was hiding there and had requested Seiju as his next model/victim for a new painting. A worse discovery came when he realized Horiguchi was long since dead and rotted, and Hasebe was hallucinating the commands, meaning Hasebe, who Seiju had admired, was the one doing the killing and making the paintings. This knowledge caused Seiju to snap, and he attacked Hasebe, blowing off his hand by destroying his gun with cutting wire, and intending to kill him when his teammates intervened and managed to talk him out of it, stopping him finally by snapping his wire with a gunshot. Seiju recovered, gained his closure by burning the body of Horiguchi, and moved on.
Another major story arc involved a case where a condemned murderer was holding a young boy hostage. Seiju took the case on as usual, with his teammates, and went in. After telling the boy to cover his eyes, he took out the criminal and brought the boy back to headquarters to look after. Upon finding out that the boy was apparently unable to speak due to trauma, a situation that mimicked Seiju's own past, he took a liking to the boy and when it was decided the boy, Kei, would be sent to a shelter until his parents were found, Seiju took him. Upon seeing the boy's distaste for the shelter, Seiju opted to take him home with him instead, and took over the investigation into who his parents might be. During the investigation, at one point, Seiju was ambushed by some Doll Hunters, and after fighting them off, Seiju missed several calls from Tokkei Intelligence as they tried to inform him that the boy turned out to be the son of a married couple who were part of the Doll Hunter organization and taken down by Seiju six months prior. At Seiju's home Kei drugged Seiju's sleeping pills in an attempt to take him out, and Seiju was ambushed again by Doll Hunters that Kei had lead to his apartment, seeking revenge. After Seiju took out the Doll Hunters, he confronted Kei, admitting that he'd known about the drugged sleeping pills and only pretended to take them - he'd known since the first Doll Hunter ambush what Kei's plan was. After revealing this, and hearing Kei say that Seiju had killed his parents, he offered the boy his loaded gun and told him that if he wanted to take his revenge, he could. The boy couldn't do it in the end, and Seiju hugged him, congratulated him for understanding the importance of a human life, and took him back to a shelter so he could arrange for him to be taken in by a new family.
After this incident, Seiju admitted when the Intelligence officer asked him what he would have done if the boy had pulled the trigger, that he'd been feeling for a while that he wanted to just sleep and never think of anything ever again. When it was pointed out that this sounded like death, Seiju simply said that if that was what it took, he'd be alright with that. When reminded that his suicide would make the First Brigade and all his Tokkei workmates sad, Seiju looked surprised for a moment, and then accepted it.
It will be on the ride home from this incident, in the car, that Seiju is pulled into Siren's Port by the Core.
Point in Canon: The end of chapter 9 of the manga, immediately after he has confessed to the head of intel that he had considered committing suicide, or that he wouldn't mind dying.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality: Seiju is a character who has very distinct 'dark' and 'light' sides to his personality. While he is charming, cheerful, compassionate, and outgoing, he is also someone who kills for a living and suffers from depression. Though Seiju obviously favours his cheerful and compassionate side, he shows no desire to leave his job with the Tokkei, despite the dark nature of it and how it exposes him to the harsh realities of the worst of human nature.
The side of Seiju's personality that is most often shown and that he prefers to present is his more positive side. Seiju is cheerful and expressive, almost to an excess sometimes. He likes animals, and actually sparkled at the thought of calling a teammate Usagi because it means "rabbit." His cheerful nature can actually, at times, make him look like a ditz, though he's nothing of the sort in reality. However, though he does harbour a darker and more sombre nature underneath his cheerfulness, the cheerfulness isn't at all fake, but rather a personality trait he holds onto in order to keep himself upbeat. Seiju is also an incredibly compassionate person. He cares for other people, whether they're his teammates and colleagues, or people he only recently met. He empathizes well with others, and is always willing to lend a hand to people who are in need - he's done everything from taking care of a teammate who overworks to taking home a traumatized child from work. He also has a great deal of passion for everything he does, doing everything to the best of his ability from work to his own personal hobbies, such as art. Finally, Seiju has a very strong sense of personal morality and justice, something that helps him a great deal in his work, but sometimes gets him in trouble - he strives to do what he feels is right in any given situation, and sometimes this can lead him to doing things (or at least trying to do things) that are against the rules.
However, as previously mentioned, despite this positivity, Seiju has a very distinct dark side. He's made it to the top brigade out of 47 brigades of the Tokkei, an organization that exists solely to carry out executions of convicted criminals (most often multiple murderers) for a reason. His brigade has a 100% success rate, and this is partially because of Seiju's skills. He's an expert fighter with cutting wire, and can use a gun. When he's on missions, he shows no mercy to the sentenced criminals he kills (though he still shows compassion to any bystanders) and his face is very serious, sometimes to the point of being scary, in a fight, his whole mind set on the task at hand. His sense of justice allows no empathy for the condemned - he does what he does in order to bring closure and justice to the family members of victims, and he's very committed to this cause, partially because his own parents were killed when he was young. Despite his dedication to his job, it does get to him, in part because of his compassion and empathy. Between that and memories of his parents' death, he frequently has bouts of insomnia that he medicates for with sleeping pills, and occasionally has nightmares. In Chapter 9, he actually admits to a co-worker that he would commit suicide in order to just sleep and never think again. This depression is quite well-hidden, though people who've come to know him can tell just how deep his past and present traumas hit him.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: Seiju will be trying to find a way home and attempting to avoid getting too tied in with either of the factions. I plan to have him take a job as a Greeter, and to talk and make friends with people through this job. He may take on bounty hunting on the side, and he may end up trying to do something about the injustices done by each faction - he would be very disapproving of the less humane aspects of the City.
Appearance/PB: Seiju stands at 5'10" and has very long black hair in a hime cut, violet eyes, and a slender build with broad shoulders. His face is quite effeminate.
[reference 1]
[reference 2]
He will be arriving in civilian clothing, which can be seen here.