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First batch! Apps are open until 6 AM EST tomorrow, so keep sending 'em! As a reminder, if you can't finish your app tonight, don't worry -- the next round opens up on June 8th. Also, please don't send .rtf or .doc files as always.
In other news, apps have only been open for two and a half hours and we already have 43 of them. sob.
eta: I have successfully made unicode my bitch. >:( CARRY ON.
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Now VOTE. c-closin' this before I fall asleep and the appers in this batch strangle me
Character: Dino
Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Age: Appears to be in his late teens
Canon: Guess who's in your anime, terrorizing your shounen? The mafia, of course; they've finally managed to sneak their way out of mysterious background plot holes and into the limelight with the series Reborn, which follows the making of a teenaged mafia boss. The road to becoming a great boss is a tough one when your tutor's a seasoned one-year-old assassin, but Bucking Horse Dino, the current boss of the Cavallone family, is living proof that it's possible. With superb whip handling skills that'd make a lion tamer jealous and a loyal family of 5000 men, it's easy to guess why Dino and the Cavallone family are one of the top families.
As a man who cares deeply and honestly for his mafia family, Dino strives to do his best in order to honor them well. He's thoughtful of others, unfalteringly kind, and can keep a cool head even in the most dangerous of situations. Unfortunately, he's also a natural klutz who can't take two steps without critical injury to himself and any innocent passerby. When he's in the presence of his family, Dino's able to pull himself together and becomes quite the adversary, but without them his physical capabilities are as incompetent as they come.
Sample Post:
Don Morto, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. She is a charming woman and her dress beautifully compliments her exotic skin tone. Her husband looks like a good man too; he seems to have a good head on his shoulders. It's a rental? Looks like he's already capable of making some good decisions then.
May their first child be born without gangrene.
... Well then, who would have expected one of our families to be out in a place like this? The scenery’s nice for a wedding of certain tastes, but as far as hideouts go, it doesn't seem very reasonable. Just getting here gave me and the escorts some problems; sharing the same territory as your rival family is a bad move. Their guys in the purple suits almost caught us on the way in and I've heard the Manesco family is the sort to use cruel and unusual methods of torture on their enemies. I don't know many of the details, but considering their family motto is "no touch is a bad touch" I'd bet they're pretty bad.
I can't say the family name Ciefudi rings any bells either, but it'd be rude not to acknowledge a family for a reason like that. Even if the family name doesn't ring any bells, they've got a few well known people with them. Twelve Finger Eddie and Three Legs Morelli are a notorious pair, but I never realized just how literal their names were. They might have taken mine a little too literally, so I had to excuse myself when they started to talk about horseback riding.
They look like they're a good family though. It's not often you see family members willing to give to the community, especially to the extent that they do. I'm not sure which is more surprising: the ability to exchange body parts in this community or the fact that there is a constant demand for them. How they're able to detach and reattach limbs like that must be a secret technique of the Morto family.
Anyway, it looks like it's time for the reception to star-- ... Gwah!! I'm sorry! I tripped over my feet, but also tripping a bride on her wedding day is unacceptable. You have my most sincere apologies and please, allow me to pay for the dress and the surgery to reattach your leg. ... Are you sure it's fine like that? You should at least remove the garter so you can throw it later.
You'll just toss the whole thing? Well... if you insist. I think I'll have to excuse myself from that event.
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Name: Mikura "Kazu" Kazuma
Series: Air Gear
Character Age: 15
Canon: Air Gear is the story of skater boys, babes, and badass motherfuckers who WOULD be normal, except they wear rocket powered rollerblades to soar through the sky, set the ground on fire, STOP TIME, or kick oncoming semi trucks in the FACE. Street punks called Storm Riders who wear Air Treck™ (A-T) form teams to compete in an underground air-ninja gang war, fighting to gain territory and street cred while honing their skills. Our Hero Ikki takes the A-T world by storm with his upstart team of true idiots, and Kazu is his most loyal teammate. Kazu is a punk and a delinquent, a rambunctious skater boy obsessed with A-T. But despite his loud behavior he's a skinny, unobtrusive, puppylike sidekick in an hat and a hoodie, who mostly acts tough and crazy because he's emulating Ikki while living permanently in his shadow. He gets tons of unwanted abuse for looking and acting like an extra.
Kazu has accepted he'll never be on the same level as Truly Strong people, but that doesn't mean he doesn't do his best - in fact he trains harder than anyone on the team out of sheer love for A-T and desire to push himself. He's actually incredibly skilled thanks to this and can move faster than a speeding bullet, but he's oblivious to his progress, so his friends continue to tease him for having a weak existence. Despite that, his everyday antics include building secret bases on train tracks, cursing out and attacking inanimate objects like the ground to take out frustration, dorkily shouting out random videogame/anime-style attacks like "Super Painful A-T Nipple Friction Attack!" and declaring damage done while roughhousing, and trying to teach his wussy chihuahua to attack people. Being the most laid-back boy on the team REALLY doesn't count for much when said team spends its downtime using their deadliest attacks during pillow fights.
Sample Post:
Son of a bitch, I know what's going on here. I'm all alone scoping out the enemy team's territory, the atmosphere is getting darker, shadows are closing in and I'm hearing strange noises. If you look at it from any perspective but mine, this is the opening scene where the insignificant side character goes on ahead to check things out, only to end up sucked into the blackness of the woods! In the next scene he's found swinging from a tree branch as a sacrificial warning to the others, right?! Ikki you jackass, you did this on purpose! If my body gets mailed back home in twelve separate boxes, I'm cursing you for a thousand and fifty-two generations, you hear me?!
That goes for you too, Camp Fuck You Die! Can you really call this a territorial advantage if nobody can ride well in most of this terrain? I can deal with the leaves in my hair, the mud up my back and the sludge in my mouth, but it's going to take forever to clean the muck out of my A-T! Just thinking about what's probably gunking up the hydraulics is like some kind of nightmare, and I had to yank out a - a stick very cleverly disguised as a bone that was jamming the wheels! Who around here is going to make up for our violated chastity, huh?! Give my A-T's virginity back!
Shit, where did you even get the budget for props like this? And I've seen some hardcore psychological warfare, but what kind of team spends its time planting fake body parts around their territory instead of training? This is what you call taking things too far, you sickos. You even rigged up the trees! That's right, I'm calling you out, you DAMN TREES! You think you're so tough just because you move like you're alive, casting all these ominous shadows like being a tree means you own this forest?! Take my Kazu Fucking Hates This Swamp Spiteful Kick Of Rage! You take 9999 damage and - s-still moving? Too bad, these weak branches need two hundred years of growth before they can catch me!
That's right, I won't run - further than this strategical distance. There's no way I'd be able to show my face if I crawled back home now like a coward. It won't go according to script, Camp Fuck You Die! This insignificant side character, Mikura Kazuma of Kogarasumaru, will hold his own against you by himself!
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Character: Sado "Chad" Yasutora
Series: Bleach
Character Age: 15
Canon: Bleach. A typical shounen series in which 90% of the cast is busy showing off their shounen cocks and/or arguing over whose is the biggest. (Hint: It's Ichigo's.) Chad, however, does not have a shounen cock. No, he's been blessed with the fabled Fists of Shounen which he uses in place of the phallic weapons the rest of the cast adores.
... Anyway! Chad is an example of the kinder, gentler side of Bleach. He loves small animals, other cute things, and doesn't mind helping out. Of course, seeing as this is a shounen series, helping out can sometimes mean catching steel beams on his back or ripping telephone posts out of the ground. Still, despite his normally docile nature, he wouldn't be truly shounen if he were above breaking some teeth for the right cause. (Hint: It's Ichigo again.) Aside from being the token muscle of the muscle of the series, Chad's also surprisingly observant and intelligent; it's just easy to miss between his tendency towards random pauses and overall quiet nature. He's well known for maintaining a calm, nearly unshakable front in the face of just about anything and his extremely blunt way of speaking; he's not one to waste words when he can just tell you plainly that yes, your retard is showing.
Note: Chad is being apped pre-Arrancar rape.
Sample Post:
...
Strange place. There are a lot of...not-hollows here. Zombies. I didn't think people could keep living like that. ... Or with missing parts. I met one this morning that told me someone stole his kidneys. He didn't think it was that strange. Isn't that taking it too lightly?
That zombie runs a cattle ranch; asked me to help bring in one of the bulls for tagging. ... I didn't expect robots. I thought they would be cuter. I said it was weird, but he told me automated milking was easier with the mechanics built in. Said something about helping with the gas crisis. He just repeated himself...when I told him he was doing it wrong.
After that, we went to the bull's field. It was harder to catch than I thought. The rocket boosters were surprising... It was hard, but I grabbed it when it was passing by and-- I hope the rancher didn't mind all the dents. The broken tractor too...
He must not have been very mad about it. Invited me for dinner. He wanted me to meet his wife. The tentacles... I tried not to stare. They seem to make a good couple. Very affectionate, even during dinner. ... Especially at dinner.
...
I never saw salad tossed like that before.
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Character: Milly Ashford
Series: Code Geass
Character Age: Middle-aged man 18
Canon: One minute, you're nursing a sore head, having been whacked with a rolled up stack of papers; the next, you're tied to a chair so your fellow students can deck you in full cat attire-meow~. Take a break for lunch and come back to find yourself in the middle of Tokyo's largest and most open school festival; I hope you didn't stuff yourself too full, because here there'll be the world's largest pizza. Oh... are we getting tired? What better way to relax than to spend time in a warm bath with na~ked~ friends, one of whom has a penchant for slight noncon? But don't get too comfortable-- it's a cat, and a school-wide game of chase! Catch it before anybody else if you value the sanctity of your first kiss. You get all this and more in the company of Milly Ashford, Code Geass's resident student council president, aficionado of the female form and source of great and noble antics.
Friendly, enthusiastic, enterprising and intuitive, Milly believes in keeping her friends close and her enemies nonexistent. She lives in a nearly constant state of energy, competitive drive, creative motion and curiosity, and sees to it that those around her are happy and fulfilled. Sometimes maternal, sometimes physical, sometimes dark, sometimes a tease and sometimes a little on the perverse side, Milly always likes to be the center of attention-- in spite of signs pointing to her being a closeted shy girl.
Note: To avoid [SPOILERing] the existing Geass cast right up the [SPOILER] with a [SPOILERed SPOILER], Milly is being taken from the end of episode 21.
Sample Post:
Everyone, hello-vroom!~ This is Milly Ashford, here to stand in for your previous white van. Hey, how's my driving? Do I look both alluring and foreboding? Eh? Well that's a cute way to react, but I thought my allure would definitely stand out more. Zombies, please help your wives, sisters and mothers back down from those trees and tell me, what if I pose like this, hmm? A-ahh, that's more like it and your enthusiasm is great, but that wasn't an invitation to explore my luxurious interior or try to see if your hands fit into my glove compartment...
All right, all right, enough of this; attention, everyone! You look far too depressed a group for being in a place advertised as the happiest on Earth, and that's not all: quite a few of you look pretty famished. It's almost as if you're trapped in the second dimension, but I guess it could be an effect of your lake's toxic emissions. Either way, it's clear enough that some good food and maybe a solid scare will jumpstart the fun, so leave it up to me! I'll throw together the most exciting haunted bonfire banquet the world has seen!
Zombies, you have now been cast as the victims of terrible, inhuman genetic experimentation, with salvation only through terrifying hapless campers as they feast, or making chilling noises from the shadows with these megaphones. Gorillas, you're on clean-up duty-- don't look at me like that, you should have listened the fifth time I asked you to stop abusing my exhaust pipe. And, ah, the gentleman who looks oddly like a bunch of squirrels wrapped in tweed, please work with the kitchen staff on a menu. Think disturbing but tasty, like... seafood salad mixed with red food coloring, and with crumbled goat cheese pus!
As for everyone else, come seek me out where the lake slips coyly between your most risqué trees so I can give you your assignments in person. To those bearing torches in anticipation, you'll have to find someone else to extinguish your flaming desires; the bonfire is crucial, so I am going to be taking care of it, okay?
Sorry, sorry, but I don't have time to deal with objections about any of that right now! My menus have arrived -- that was quick! -- and while a 34-page pictorial on what happens when five goats converge on a narrow tentacle is definitely disturbing, it looks like I'll have to come up with something more traditional myself. Tonight we're to dine in hell, not awkward silence!~
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Name: Abe no Masahiro
Series: Shounen Onmyouji
Age: 13
Canon: Poor Masahiro. It's not easy having a famous grandfather, especially when said grandfather is the onmyouji Abe no Seimei. Everyone--from nobles to other onmyouji to even the ayakashi he's trying to exorcise--compares him to Seimei. So it's really no wonder that he's developed something of a complex revolving around his grandfather. Masahiro is determined to become the best onmyouji ever and surpass Seimei.
Though he tends to throw some pretty spectacular tantrums relating to his grandfather, he leaves the room-destroying fits for when he's alone or with his shikigami, Mokkun. Most of the time Masahiro is polite. Too polite. He's also rather naive, and is determined to believe the best in everyone. He's actually a pretty powerful onmyouji as well--it's been said that he has more raw power than even Seimei, which he uses to save others, usually at his own expense. Basically, the title of the show should probably be "Shounen Retard Onmyouji."
Sample Post:
Dear Racoon Geezer Honored Grandfather,
I humbly request that you please stop addressing your letters to me as "Abe no Seimei's Cute Grandson." I seem to have developed a twitch where the letters unfortunately end up in a tree somewhere. For the sake of the local squirrel population, please cease and desist.
Not to question your... impeccable judgment or anything--I'd never think of that--but are you entirely certain that you sent me to the right location? I realize that the ayakashi you sent me after is very rare and good at hiding, as you spent a good hour explaining that at length. But I haven't felt any trace of its aura, nor heard anything of it at all. Are all "snipes" this difficult to find?
Continuing snipe hunt aside, while I'm still unsure of why you've requested me to represent you in an exchange of spells with the locals, things are proceeding, um, smoothly. Their reluctance to share anything went away completely when they realized that our type of magic uses gestures and other motions, as theirs does as well. So far, they've taught me one that goes as follows: you put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about...
Well. I won't bore you with the details, assuming you're even bothering to read this. You could have come yourself if you'd wanted them. In any case, I hope you weren't lying when you said I could come right home after all this is over. I did say that the locals were being cooperative, but, uh, some of them are being a little... too cooperative. They say that they would like to keep me in someplace called... a "Shouta Dungeon," I think. Where they will love me and hug me and call me George.
I keep telling them that my name isn't George.
Your Obedient Grandson,
Masahiro
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Character: Touda/Mokkun/Guren
Series: Shounen Onmyouji
Character Age: Physically 19/20 in his true form
Canon: Abe no Seimei was a famous historical Onmyouji, said to be able to control the Twelve Heavenly Generals. However, Shounen Onmyouji isn't about Seimei: it's about his grandson, Abe no Masahiro. Masahiro's goal is to become a more powerful onmyouji than his grandfather, and he's helped on his quest by the first Heavenly General, the traitor Touda.
Touda, an incredibly powerful fire elemental shikigami, usually presents himself as the deformed bunny rabbit, (or, as Masahiro says, "the mononoke Mokkun") only visible to those with the ability to see spirits. Though he hides a heart of emo gold, he's most commonly seen being goofy and abrasive. Despite spending most of his time in Heian Japan's court, he refuses to speak politely to anyone; in fact, he enjoys mocking and teasing people who can't see him just as much as people who can. In between having staring contests and dancing on people's shoulders, Mokkun mother hens both Masahiro and Seimei, has a side job in exposition, and is utterly topped by small children.
Note: this Touda is a separate entity from Yami no Matsuei's Touda and is being apped with mod approval.
Sample Post:
Ohhh, that's a strange costume you're wearing! It must be because I'm not in Japan anymore. Have you ever been to Japan before? Of course not, you're far too poor; I can tell by your hygiene. Even a peasant should really work on that, shouldn't they? Not that you can hear me. Ahhh, it must be so troublesome to go through life looking like you. You're really more like a malevolent spirit than a human with all that gunk covering your limbs. Too bad you can't hear me, I could give you some advice. . .
. . .So you can hear me! It's pretty hard to tell when you've got no spiritual power at all. Weak, weak.
Ahhh, someone should get these flesh-eating ghosts cleaned up, and I don't mean bathed. Actually, a bath might help, too -- it's pathetic when the only danger a spirit presents is the overwhelming aura of filth. Really, they should be begging for my advice on how to be true demons. First of all, what's up with the picky eating routine? I haven't seen such whining over meals since Seimei's grandson was tiny and cute -- well. Tinier. Brains, brains, brains, I heard them the first time! Maybe they'd be a little less hungry if they were willing to change their meal of choice to "manflesh." I hear that one's pretty popular these days, and there's plenty of it to go around.
Of course, if they try to take a bite, I'll still have to incinerate them, but them's the breaks.
So, let's see. Once I've "burninated the countryside" and "burninated the peasants" -- very colorful phrasing there, by the way; that's just the kind of poetry they need in court -- I can "take in the sights and peaceful sounds of nature." Weeeell, I'd agree that peace and quiet and birdsong are my just reward considering how many flesh-eating ghosts I've taken out, but the sounds of two cans mating isn't very easy on my sensitive and very dignified ears. Oooooi, who wants to guess how many flames it'll take to make the pinging stop~?
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In other news, apps have only been open for two and a half hours and we already have 43 of them. sob.
eta: I have successfully made unicode my bitch. >:( CARRY ON.
Remember!
- Applicants, respond anonymously.
- If you're going to do the whole "ask me if I voted you out!" thing, please state who you voted out.
- No speculating about the identity of the applicants!
Now VOTE. c-closin' this before I fall asleep and the appers in this batch strangle me
Character: Dino
Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Age: Appears to be in his late teens
Canon: Guess who's in your anime, terrorizing your shounen? The mafia, of course; they've finally managed to sneak their way out of mysterious background plot holes and into the limelight with the series Reborn, which follows the making of a teenaged mafia boss. The road to becoming a great boss is a tough one when your tutor's a seasoned one-year-old assassin, but Bucking Horse Dino, the current boss of the Cavallone family, is living proof that it's possible. With superb whip handling skills that'd make a lion tamer jealous and a loyal family of 5000 men, it's easy to guess why Dino and the Cavallone family are one of the top families.
As a man who cares deeply and honestly for his mafia family, Dino strives to do his best in order to honor them well. He's thoughtful of others, unfalteringly kind, and can keep a cool head even in the most dangerous of situations. Unfortunately, he's also a natural klutz who can't take two steps without critical injury to himself and any innocent passerby. When he's in the presence of his family, Dino's able to pull himself together and becomes quite the adversary, but without them his physical capabilities are as incompetent as they come.
Sample Post:
Don Morto, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. She is a charming woman and her dress beautifully compliments her exotic skin tone. Her husband looks like a good man too; he seems to have a good head on his shoulders. It's a rental? Looks like he's already capable of making some good decisions then.
May their first child be born without gangrene.
... Well then, who would have expected one of our families to be out in a place like this? The scenery’s nice for a wedding of certain tastes, but as far as hideouts go, it doesn't seem very reasonable. Just getting here gave me and the escorts some problems; sharing the same territory as your rival family is a bad move. Their guys in the purple suits almost caught us on the way in and I've heard the Manesco family is the sort to use cruel and unusual methods of torture on their enemies. I don't know many of the details, but considering their family motto is "no touch is a bad touch" I'd bet they're pretty bad.
I can't say the family name Ciefudi rings any bells either, but it'd be rude not to acknowledge a family for a reason like that. Even if the family name doesn't ring any bells, they've got a few well known people with them. Twelve Finger Eddie and Three Legs Morelli are a notorious pair, but I never realized just how literal their names were. They might have taken mine a little too literally, so I had to excuse myself when they started to talk about horseback riding.
They look like they're a good family though. It's not often you see family members willing to give to the community, especially to the extent that they do. I'm not sure which is more surprising: the ability to exchange body parts in this community or the fact that there is a constant demand for them. How they're able to detach and reattach limbs like that must be a secret technique of the Morto family.
Anyway, it looks like it's time for the reception to star-- ... Gwah!! I'm sorry! I tripped over my feet, but also tripping a bride on her wedding day is unacceptable. You have my most sincere apologies and please, allow me to pay for the dress and the surgery to reattach your leg. ... Are you sure it's fine like that? You should at least remove the garter so you can throw it later.
You'll just toss the whole thing? Well... if you insist. I think I'll have to excuse myself from that event.
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Name: Mikura "Kazu" Kazuma
Series: Air Gear
Character Age: 15
Canon: Air Gear is the story of skater boys, babes, and badass motherfuckers who WOULD be normal, except they wear rocket powered rollerblades to soar through the sky, set the ground on fire, STOP TIME, or kick oncoming semi trucks in the FACE. Street punks called Storm Riders who wear Air Treck™ (A-T) form teams to compete in an underground air-ninja gang war, fighting to gain territory and street cred while honing their skills. Our Hero Ikki takes the A-T world by storm with his upstart team of true idiots, and Kazu is his most loyal teammate. Kazu is a punk and a delinquent, a rambunctious skater boy obsessed with A-T. But despite his loud behavior he's a skinny, unobtrusive, puppylike sidekick in an hat and a hoodie, who mostly acts tough and crazy because he's emulating Ikki while living permanently in his shadow. He gets tons of unwanted abuse for looking and acting like an extra.
Kazu has accepted he'll never be on the same level as Truly Strong people, but that doesn't mean he doesn't do his best - in fact he trains harder than anyone on the team out of sheer love for A-T and desire to push himself. He's actually incredibly skilled thanks to this and can move faster than a speeding bullet, but he's oblivious to his progress, so his friends continue to tease him for having a weak existence. Despite that, his everyday antics include building secret bases on train tracks, cursing out and attacking inanimate objects like the ground to take out frustration, dorkily shouting out random videogame/anime-style attacks like "Super Painful A-T Nipple Friction Attack!" and declaring damage done while roughhousing, and trying to teach his wussy chihuahua to attack people. Being the most laid-back boy on the team REALLY doesn't count for much when said team spends its downtime using their deadliest attacks during pillow fights.
Sample Post:
Son of a bitch, I know what's going on here. I'm all alone scoping out the enemy team's territory, the atmosphere is getting darker, shadows are closing in and I'm hearing strange noises. If you look at it from any perspective but mine, this is the opening scene where the insignificant side character goes on ahead to check things out, only to end up sucked into the blackness of the woods! In the next scene he's found swinging from a tree branch as a sacrificial warning to the others, right?! Ikki you jackass, you did this on purpose! If my body gets mailed back home in twelve separate boxes, I'm cursing you for a thousand and fifty-two generations, you hear me?!
That goes for you too, Camp Fuck You Die! Can you really call this a territorial advantage if nobody can ride well in most of this terrain? I can deal with the leaves in my hair, the mud up my back and the sludge in my mouth, but it's going to take forever to clean the muck out of my A-T! Just thinking about what's probably gunking up the hydraulics is like some kind of nightmare, and I had to yank out a - a stick very cleverly disguised as a bone that was jamming the wheels! Who around here is going to make up for our violated chastity, huh?! Give my A-T's virginity back!
Shit, where did you even get the budget for props like this? And I've seen some hardcore psychological warfare, but what kind of team spends its time planting fake body parts around their territory instead of training? This is what you call taking things too far, you sickos. You even rigged up the trees! That's right, I'm calling you out, you DAMN TREES! You think you're so tough just because you move like you're alive, casting all these ominous shadows like being a tree means you own this forest?! Take my Kazu Fucking Hates This Swamp Spiteful Kick Of Rage! You take 9999 damage and - s-still moving? Too bad, these weak branches need two hundred years of growth before they can catch me!
That's right, I won't run - further than this strategical distance. There's no way I'd be able to show my face if I crawled back home now like a coward. It won't go according to script, Camp Fuck You Die! This insignificant side character, Mikura Kazuma of Kogarasumaru, will hold his own against you by himself!
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Character: Sado "Chad" Yasutora
Series: Bleach
Character Age: 15
Canon: Bleach. A typical shounen series in which 90% of the cast is busy showing off their shounen cocks and/or arguing over whose is the biggest. (Hint: It's Ichigo's.) Chad, however, does not have a shounen cock. No, he's been blessed with the fabled Fists of Shounen which he uses in place of the phallic weapons the rest of the cast adores.
... Anyway! Chad is an example of the kinder, gentler side of Bleach. He loves small animals, other cute things, and doesn't mind helping out. Of course, seeing as this is a shounen series, helping out can sometimes mean catching steel beams on his back or ripping telephone posts out of the ground. Still, despite his normally docile nature, he wouldn't be truly shounen if he were above breaking some teeth for the right cause. (Hint: It's Ichigo again.) Aside from being the token muscle of the muscle of the series, Chad's also surprisingly observant and intelligent; it's just easy to miss between his tendency towards random pauses and overall quiet nature. He's well known for maintaining a calm, nearly unshakable front in the face of just about anything and his extremely blunt way of speaking; he's not one to waste words when he can just tell you plainly that yes, your retard is showing.
Note: Chad is being apped pre-Arrancar rape.
Sample Post:
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Strange place. There are a lot of...not-hollows here. Zombies. I didn't think people could keep living like that. ... Or with missing parts. I met one this morning that told me someone stole his kidneys. He didn't think it was that strange. Isn't that taking it too lightly?
That zombie runs a cattle ranch; asked me to help bring in one of the bulls for tagging. ... I didn't expect robots. I thought they would be cuter. I said it was weird, but he told me automated milking was easier with the mechanics built in. Said something about helping with the gas crisis. He just repeated himself...when I told him he was doing it wrong.
After that, we went to the bull's field. It was harder to catch than I thought. The rocket boosters were surprising... It was hard, but I grabbed it when it was passing by and-- I hope the rancher didn't mind all the dents. The broken tractor too...
He must not have been very mad about it. Invited me for dinner. He wanted me to meet his wife. The tentacles... I tried not to stare. They seem to make a good couple. Very affectionate, even during dinner. ... Especially at dinner.
...
I never saw salad tossed like that before.
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Character: Milly Ashford
Series: Code Geass
Character Age: Middle-aged man 18
Canon: One minute, you're nursing a sore head, having been whacked with a rolled up stack of papers; the next, you're tied to a chair so your fellow students can deck you in full cat attire-meow~. Take a break for lunch and come back to find yourself in the middle of Tokyo's largest and most open school festival; I hope you didn't stuff yourself too full, because here there'll be the world's largest pizza. Oh... are we getting tired? What better way to relax than to spend time in a warm bath with na~ked~ friends, one of whom has a penchant for slight noncon? But don't get too comfortable-- it's a cat, and a school-wide game of chase! Catch it before anybody else if you value the sanctity of your first kiss. You get all this and more in the company of Milly Ashford, Code Geass's resident student council president, aficionado of the female form and source of great and noble antics.
Friendly, enthusiastic, enterprising and intuitive, Milly believes in keeping her friends close and her enemies nonexistent. She lives in a nearly constant state of energy, competitive drive, creative motion and curiosity, and sees to it that those around her are happy and fulfilled. Sometimes maternal, sometimes physical, sometimes dark, sometimes a tease and sometimes a little on the perverse side, Milly always likes to be the center of attention-- in spite of signs pointing to her being a closeted shy girl.
Note: To avoid [SPOILERing] the existing Geass cast right up the [SPOILER] with a [SPOILERed SPOILER], Milly is being taken from the end of episode 21.
Sample Post:
Everyone, hello-vroom!~ This is Milly Ashford, here to stand in for your previous white van. Hey, how's my driving? Do I look both alluring and foreboding? Eh? Well that's a cute way to react, but I thought my allure would definitely stand out more. Zombies, please help your wives, sisters and mothers back down from those trees and tell me, what if I pose like this, hmm? A-ahh, that's more like it and your enthusiasm is great, but that wasn't an invitation to explore my luxurious interior or try to see if your hands fit into my glove compartment...
All right, all right, enough of this; attention, everyone! You look far too depressed a group for being in a place advertised as the happiest on Earth, and that's not all: quite a few of you look pretty famished. It's almost as if you're trapped in the second dimension, but I guess it could be an effect of your lake's toxic emissions. Either way, it's clear enough that some good food and maybe a solid scare will jumpstart the fun, so leave it up to me! I'll throw together the most exciting haunted bonfire banquet the world has seen!
Zombies, you have now been cast as the victims of terrible, inhuman genetic experimentation, with salvation only through terrifying hapless campers as they feast, or making chilling noises from the shadows with these megaphones. Gorillas, you're on clean-up duty-- don't look at me like that, you should have listened the fifth time I asked you to stop abusing my exhaust pipe. And, ah, the gentleman who looks oddly like a bunch of squirrels wrapped in tweed, please work with the kitchen staff on a menu. Think disturbing but tasty, like... seafood salad mixed with red food coloring, and with crumbled goat cheese pus!
As for everyone else, come seek me out where the lake slips coyly between your most risqué trees so I can give you your assignments in person. To those bearing torches in anticipation, you'll have to find someone else to extinguish your flaming desires; the bonfire is crucial, so I am going to be taking care of it, okay?
Sorry, sorry, but I don't have time to deal with objections about any of that right now! My menus have arrived -- that was quick! -- and while a 34-page pictorial on what happens when five goats converge on a narrow tentacle is definitely disturbing, it looks like I'll have to come up with something more traditional myself. Tonight we're to dine in hell, not awkward silence!~
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Name: Abe no Masahiro
Series: Shounen Onmyouji
Age: 13
Canon: Poor Masahiro. It's not easy having a famous grandfather, especially when said grandfather is the onmyouji Abe no Seimei. Everyone--from nobles to other onmyouji to even the ayakashi he's trying to exorcise--compares him to Seimei. So it's really no wonder that he's developed something of a complex revolving around his grandfather. Masahiro is determined to become the best onmyouji ever and surpass Seimei.
Though he tends to throw some pretty spectacular tantrums relating to his grandfather, he leaves the room-destroying fits for when he's alone or with his shikigami, Mokkun. Most of the time Masahiro is polite. Too polite. He's also rather naive, and is determined to believe the best in everyone. He's actually a pretty powerful onmyouji as well--it's been said that he has more raw power than even Seimei, which he uses to save others, usually at his own expense. Basically, the title of the show should probably be "Shounen Retard Onmyouji."
Sample Post:
Dear Racoon Geezer Honored Grandfather,
I humbly request that you please stop addressing your letters to me as "Abe no Seimei's Cute Grandson." I seem to have developed a twitch where the letters unfortunately end up in a tree somewhere. For the sake of the local squirrel population, please cease and desist.
Not to question your... impeccable judgment or anything--I'd never think of that--but are you entirely certain that you sent me to the right location? I realize that the ayakashi you sent me after is very rare and good at hiding, as you spent a good hour explaining that at length. But I haven't felt any trace of its aura, nor heard anything of it at all. Are all "snipes" this difficult to find?
Continuing snipe hunt aside, while I'm still unsure of why you've requested me to represent you in an exchange of spells with the locals, things are proceeding, um, smoothly. Their reluctance to share anything went away completely when they realized that our type of magic uses gestures and other motions, as theirs does as well. So far, they've taught me one that goes as follows: you put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about...
Well. I won't bore you with the details, assuming you're even bothering to read this. You could have come yourself if you'd wanted them. In any case, I hope you weren't lying when you said I could come right home after all this is over. I did say that the locals were being cooperative, but, uh, some of them are being a little... too cooperative. They say that they would like to keep me in someplace called... a "Shouta Dungeon," I think. Where they will love me and hug me and call me George.
I keep telling them that my name isn't George.
Your Obedient Grandson,
Masahiro
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Character: Touda/Mokkun/Guren
Series: Shounen Onmyouji
Character Age: Physically 19/20 in his true form
Canon: Abe no Seimei was a famous historical Onmyouji, said to be able to control the Twelve Heavenly Generals. However, Shounen Onmyouji isn't about Seimei: it's about his grandson, Abe no Masahiro. Masahiro's goal is to become a more powerful onmyouji than his grandfather, and he's helped on his quest by the first Heavenly General, the traitor Touda.
Touda, an incredibly powerful fire elemental shikigami, usually presents himself as the deformed bunny rabbit, (or, as Masahiro says, "the mononoke Mokkun") only visible to those with the ability to see spirits. Though he hides a heart of emo gold, he's most commonly seen being goofy and abrasive. Despite spending most of his time in Heian Japan's court, he refuses to speak politely to anyone; in fact, he enjoys mocking and teasing people who can't see him just as much as people who can. In between having staring contests and dancing on people's shoulders, Mokkun mother hens both Masahiro and Seimei, has a side job in exposition, and is utterly topped by small children.
Note: this Touda is a separate entity from Yami no Matsuei's Touda and is being apped with mod approval.
Sample Post:
Ohhh, that's a strange costume you're wearing! It must be because I'm not in Japan anymore. Have you ever been to Japan before? Of course not, you're far too poor; I can tell by your hygiene. Even a peasant should really work on that, shouldn't they? Not that you can hear me. Ahhh, it must be so troublesome to go through life looking like you. You're really more like a malevolent spirit than a human with all that gunk covering your limbs. Too bad you can't hear me, I could give you some advice. . .
. . .So you can hear me! It's pretty hard to tell when you've got no spiritual power at all. Weak, weak.
Ahhh, someone should get these flesh-eating ghosts cleaned up, and I don't mean bathed. Actually, a bath might help, too -- it's pathetic when the only danger a spirit presents is the overwhelming aura of filth. Really, they should be begging for my advice on how to be true demons. First of all, what's up with the picky eating routine? I haven't seen such whining over meals since Seimei's grandson was tiny and cute -- well. Tinier. Brains, brains, brains, I heard them the first time! Maybe they'd be a little less hungry if they were willing to change their meal of choice to "manflesh." I hear that one's pretty popular these days, and there's plenty of it to go around.
Of course, if they try to take a bite, I'll still have to incinerate them, but them's the breaks.
So, let's see. Once I've "burninated the countryside" and "burninated the peasants" -- very colorful phrasing there, by the way; that's just the kind of poetry they need in court -- I can "take in the sights and peaceful sounds of nature." Weeeell, I'd agree that peace and quiet and birdsong are my just reward considering how many flesh-eating ghosts I've taken out, but the sounds of two cans mating isn't very easy on my sensitive and very dignified ears. Oooooi, who wants to guess how many flames it'll take to make the pinging stop~?
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