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Character: Sanada Akihiko
Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Age: 17
Canon: Ordinary (if rather dysfunctional) high-schoolers by day; humanity's last defenders against the strangely Jungian evil of the Shadows by night. These are the heroes of Persona 3. During the secret "Dark Hour" every midnight, they kick ass using the manifestation of their innermost souls, called their Persona, and during the day at school they take names while building up their relationships. It's 50% RPG, 50% dating sim, and 100% weird mythopsychological symbolism.
Akihiko is one of the original members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad dedicated to combating the Shadow menace. He is intense and driven, but in a very one-track way. He only passes as normal if you don't look too closely. He grew up an orphan, with only his little sister and his friend Shinjiro as family, and when he couldn't save his sister from dying in a fire, it kind of broke him. Since then, he's been entirely devoted to getting stronger so that he can protect people. In other words, he decided to pour his angst out through his fists and become a badass.
Unfortunately, this means he's neglected most other aspects of a well-rounded personality. He's completely inept socially; some mistake him for the strong silent type, but really he's the clueless silent type. He's a total sucker for anyone weaker and more vulnerable than him in distress. And the best (and sometimes only) way to get him to care about something other than his physical training is to make a competition of it.
Sample Post:
I have to know. What the hell's wrong with this place?
Yeah, I said I was going to stop by the dojo before dropping my things off at the cabins. It's been a long day, and I wanted to get some training in before I got too tired. Look, just because you're at camp doesn't mean you can let up on your training. They only call it summer vacation to trick you into letting down your guard! But I couldn't even get to the dojo.
A guy at the entrance pointed me in the right direction. But when I started down the path, I ran right into a bunch of...I don't know, but they looked like they could use some training themselves. Training in "not losing bits of themselves"...do they have a remedial class for that or something? I told them I just wanted to get to the dojo, but they kept grabbing at me and mumbling about brains...I told them that if they were looking for the brains of the group, it was Mitsuru they wanted, but they weren't interested. So I was gonna just go around them.
But that doesn't really explain why my gloves look like this, does it? All right, all right. I'll get to that. I was going to just go around them, like I said. But I heard something...a little whine or scuffle, I guess. So I looked closer...and the reason they were all there? They'd cornered this poor puppy. He couldn't fight back or anything...I mean, he was so small. I didn't know what they wanted from him, but it couldn't be good. The little guy looked scared. I just...I couldn't leave him there!
So then I beat the hell out of those people.
What else was I supposed to do? I warned them to leave the dog alone first, and they wouldn't listen. So I made them listen. Tch...I guess they couldn't actually listen after that, since they'd mostly fallen apart. Disgusting. The mess they made on my good boxing gloves...I definitely wasn't going to go into the dojo like that.
I wasn't going to give up on my training for the night, though. What is it they say? Where there's a will, there's a way? Well, I agree. Those people, whatever they were...they gave me a pretty good workout. I figured that while I looked for the puppy's owner, I'd keep an eye out for more of them. Let them know what their friends were doing to a defenseless little dog. Turns out, they didn't even care. Pretty much all they cared about was brains. Mine. But that wasn't so bad, because I got to train more.
I never did find the dog's owner. That's why I brought him back here to the cabins. He's over there--I'll look some more for his owner tomorrow, after I've done my morning exercises and unpacked. And if I can't find anyone...I'm sure Shinji will take the little guy in. I don't have time to care for him myself. Like I said. I've got a schedule to follow.
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Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Age: 17
Canon: Ordinary (if rather dysfunctional) high-schoolers by day; humanity's last defenders against the strangely Jungian evil of the Shadows by night. These are the heroes of Persona 3. During the secret "Dark Hour" every midnight, they kick ass using the manifestation of their innermost souls, called their Persona, and during the day at school they take names while building up their relationships. It's 50% RPG, 50% dating sim, and 100% weird mythopsychological symbolism.
Akihiko is one of the original members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad dedicated to combating the Shadow menace. He is intense and driven, but in a very one-track way. He only passes as normal if you don't look too closely. He grew up an orphan, with only his little sister and his friend Shinjiro as family, and when he couldn't save his sister from dying in a fire, it kind of broke him. Since then, he's been entirely devoted to getting stronger so that he can protect people. In other words, he decided to pour his angst out through his fists and become a badass.
Unfortunately, this means he's neglected most other aspects of a well-rounded personality. He's completely inept socially; some mistake him for the strong silent type, but really he's the clueless silent type. He's a total sucker for anyone weaker and more vulnerable than him in distress. And the best (and sometimes only) way to get him to care about something other than his physical training is to make a competition of it.
Sample Post:
I have to know. What the hell's wrong with this place?
Yeah, I said I was going to stop by the dojo before dropping my things off at the cabins. It's been a long day, and I wanted to get some training in before I got too tired. Look, just because you're at camp doesn't mean you can let up on your training. They only call it summer vacation to trick you into letting down your guard! But I couldn't even get to the dojo.
A guy at the entrance pointed me in the right direction. But when I started down the path, I ran right into a bunch of...I don't know, but they looked like they could use some training themselves. Training in "not losing bits of themselves"...do they have a remedial class for that or something? I told them I just wanted to get to the dojo, but they kept grabbing at me and mumbling about brains...I told them that if they were looking for the brains of the group, it was Mitsuru they wanted, but they weren't interested. So I was gonna just go around them.
But that doesn't really explain why my gloves look like this, does it? All right, all right. I'll get to that. I was going to just go around them, like I said. But I heard something...a little whine or scuffle, I guess. So I looked closer...and the reason they were all there? They'd cornered this poor puppy. He couldn't fight back or anything...I mean, he was so small. I didn't know what they wanted from him, but it couldn't be good. The little guy looked scared. I just...I couldn't leave him there!
So then I beat the hell out of those people.
What else was I supposed to do? I warned them to leave the dog alone first, and they wouldn't listen. So I made them listen. Tch...I guess they couldn't actually listen after that, since they'd mostly fallen apart. Disgusting. The mess they made on my good boxing gloves...I definitely wasn't going to go into the dojo like that.
I wasn't going to give up on my training for the night, though. What is it they say? Where there's a will, there's a way? Well, I agree. Those people, whatever they were...they gave me a pretty good workout. I figured that while I looked for the puppy's owner, I'd keep an eye out for more of them. Let them know what their friends were doing to a defenseless little dog. Turns out, they didn't even care. Pretty much all they cared about was brains. Mine. But that wasn't so bad, because I got to train more.
I never did find the dog's owner. That's why I brought him back here to the cabins. He's over there--I'll look some more for his owner tomorrow, after I've done my morning exercises and unpacked. And if I can't find anyone...I'm sure Shinji will take the little guy in. I don't have time to care for him myself. Like I said. I've got a schedule to follow.
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