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Character
Name: Sai Fujiwara
Series: Hikaru no Go
Timeline: post-series, but his last regular appearance is Chapter 125
Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia Hikago website: summaries Hikago website: Sai
Affiliation: Trainer
Personality: Sai is a genius prodigy at the game of Go and it has molded his life and afterlife for over 1000 years. Sai was a noble in the Heian court, and it reflects on his personality and actions even in the modern day. He’s very polite and despises rudeness, and his speech can get very elaborate if he’s on a roll. Honor and loyalty are extremely important to Sai, and the thought of being disgraced is enough to make him commit suicide. Of course, being kept from his passion (playing and teaching Go) also helped lead to that act.
Sai is very intelligent, perceptive, and kind to just about everyone. Though he is far from a fighter, he will do his best to defend people who have been wronged and bullied (usually by challenging them to a game of Go. It’s his thing.) and seeing any kind of injustice is sure to arouse his passion to stop it. Sai is also intensely emotional. When he’s depressed, he’s depressed and when he’s happy he’ll exclaim with glee and bounce around like a hyper five-year-old (just, a very articulate one). He also has a tendency to switch between emotional extremes at the drop of a hat, and isn’t above a few crocodile tears if it will get him a game of Go.
However, when he’s serious, his intensity and focus can’t be beat and he’s described as being intense to the point of being scary. This, however, is usually limited to Go or trying to stop injustice. Though he is kind, he can be very selfish when it comes to Go. His obsession with the game has kept him a ghost for a 1000 years and he’s let it endanger his relationship with his closest friend a time or two. He always feels bad about this later, but in the heat of the moment his obsession with the game clouds his judgment.
Sai is also a natural and gifted teacher. He sincerely loves helping his students grow and carefully nurtures them as well as he can. When his students suffer he feels their pain right with them, and when they achieve he feels as proud as if he’d done it himself.
He’s also very tactile, especially when he’s happy, though being a ghost has thwarted him from expressing this much. He is also keenly aware of social norms and would be somewhat more reserved with most people in a physical body.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Sai is intelligent, well-spoken, well-educated (for his time-period), and well-mannered. He’s a Go prodigy, and it’s been said that he’s the best player ever in Hikago canon. He’s inquisitive and empathizes well with people and their troubles. He’s got a well-defined sense of honor and is unshakably loyal. As a Heian noble, he’s been trained in various arts such as music and poetry, though his best skill has always been Go.
Weaknesses: He’s obsessed with Go, and when something is Go related, he can be incredibly selfish about it (though he has gotten much better about the selfishness. Mostly). He doesn’t think about the consequences of pursuing his obsession before he acts, though he’s usually good about thinking before he speaks. Technology baffles him completely and while he might figure out how to use devices he’ll never be really good at anything tech-related. He’s also really emotional about things. His sense of honor will probably get him in over his head, since he’ll be prone to challenge people without considering whether or not he can actually take them.
Lastly, he’s been a ghost for 1000 years. Being in a physical body again is going to throw him for a loop. He’s liable to be very overwhelmed, and might do things like forgetting to eat. He’s also a noble and not physically strong, so travel will wear him out really fast.
Oh, and he has a terrible phobia of frogs and toads.
Pokemon
Starter: Dratini
Password: Salmon Riceballs
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Voice] --is this? It’s a little like one of those phone contraptions. Oh~ I wonder if I can talk to people with it...
[A sudden switch to video, with Sai poking at his ‘gear curiously. The view spins and focuses on the ground and then the sky before Sai breaks out into a bright smile.]
I see now. It has a screen, like those boxes we can watch and play Go games in! Goodness, it’s so small~ I don’t care what Hikaru says, it must be magic. I wonder if I can play Go in it. I want to play a game!
[He notices the recording light blinking and pokes at it.] What’s this?
Third Person Sample:
Sai woke up. That was strange in and of itself, because he hadn’t slept since he’d died. Waking up so terribly hungry had been even stranger! Ghosts didn’t eat; they didn’t need to! It was so very strange that Sai didn’t realize right away that he was able to touch the world around him.
He found out by stubbing his toe, but the pain was secondary to the joyful realization. He was alive! “Thank god! Thank you so much! I’m alive! This is so wonderful!”
Sai wept tears of pure joy as he made his way down the stairs. He resolved to go to the shrine and give the greatest, best offering of thanks he could for this miracle and was so busy thinking about what he would give that he didn’t notice the woman at first. “Pardon me, ma’am,” he chirped, “I didn’t mean to intrude...”
She brushed off his apology with a smile, but her words confused him terribly. His mother had been dead for a very long time and looked nothing like this woman besides. She didn’t pay any attention to his questions and pushed a bag into his arms. It was like the bag Hikaru stored his schoolbooks in. Was he meant to go to school? There was much he could learn, of course, but Sai thought he was a little old for schools. He had a career already anyway, he thought. All he had to do was take the pro test and then he could play Go happily for the rest of his new life! How exciting. He would play Hikaru first, of course, and see how much he’d grown. And then he could play all of the other title holders as himself with no need to hide behind those boxes or Hikaru. What joy! He was already relishing the thought of playing against Touya-meijin again. Oh the heights they could reach together--
“No time for daydreaming, dear. You’re already late. Today’s your big day.” The strange woman said, beaming, as she pushed him out the door. Sai tried to ask her what this ‘big day’ was but found the door closed and locked. He tried knocking but got no answer.
Well, there was nothing else he could do. He just needed to ask someone else,;surely they would know! With a cheerful bounce in his step and a blissful smile on his face, Sai approached the closest person. “Excuse me. Could you tell me where the nearest Go salon is?”
Finding out about the ‘big day’ could wait after all. He wanted to play a game!