APP POST
Character: Rikugou Tokidoki (Toki)
Series: Amatsuki
Age: 15-16
Canon: In Amatsuki, your failing grades can make you a savior. At least, that's how it is for high schooler Rikugou Tokidoki. Sent to a virtual simulation exhibit of Edo for a make-up history assignment, Toki had a not-so-random encounter with a creature that broke his VR goggles and ripped out his left eye. Game over? Not quite. Now he's stuck in this alternate version of his country's past, in which everyone has a predetermined fate written by the head god in a web called "Heaven's Net." As an non-native to this Edo, however, Toki is still unknown to Heaven's Net. This gives him a unique power: the power to free others from their fate and re-write the future. The details are still largely a mystery, but in life-threatening situations he's been shown capable of banishing demons and making objects materialize out of nowhere.
Toki comes off as a fairly normal teenager who's generally easygoing and adaptable, while still easily embarrassed and prone to spazzing when things go from weird to weirder. He can also be either very charming or prone to speaking before he thinks -- or both, simultaneously. Although a failure at history, he has a good knowledge of science that occasionally comes in handy: he once shackled an angry demon by thinking of the elemental properties of metals. Still, Toki doesn't know what to make of the strange new power that turned these thoughts into reality ... only that he wants to use it to help anyone who needs him. Which unfortunately can be problematic when help is sought from two opposing sides, with the fate of the world at stake.
(Note: Nihonbashi is the Edo district where Toki is currently staying on business.)
Sample Post:
Ah, excuse me, sir! You wouldn't happen to know how to get to Nihonbashi from here, would y -- OW! Hey, what's the big idea? Since when is a simple question like that an invitation to kick someone in the leg?! I said Nihonbashi, not knee-bash me! What are you, half-deaf or something?!
... Oh. Um. You are. Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! Obviously you would be, with that "missing one ear" thing you have going. And speaking as someone who knows facial asymmetry, I've gotta admit it's a great look for you! I was just too caught up in your overall unique, glowing skin-tone and complexion to notice it at first. You still don't know where Nihonbashi is, though, huh? Oh well, can't say I'm too surprised. I can already tell I'm pretty lost. This place is starting to look less like Edo and more like ... like something I might've wound up in if I'd failed field biology instead of Japanese history. I can imagine the assignment: Spend a day here and write an essay entitled "What's Wrong With This Picture?"
But wait, that essay would be too easy. Take this tree, for starters. This tree's doing it all wrong, anyone could see that. Rubber does come from trees, of course, but it doesn't grow on them. It comes from the sap, which is tapped from the bark and taken through complicated chemical processing. So why is this tree growing it fully synthesized? And as if that weren't wrong enough, it's not just any rubber. It's growing ... those. Nature's supposed to aid in animal reproduction, not prevent -- well, you know what I mean! The point is, scientifically, nothing about this is natural.
Then again, I guess if I put myself in the tree's shoes -- er, roots -- it'd make sense to wish it were that simple. I mean, that business of having your bark pierced and your essence drained so humans can profit ... Yeah, I've gotta to say that if I were a tree, rubber or no rubber, I wouldn't want anyone tapping me. I'd want to be able to make something like this, so I could give people what they need, without the need for violation.
Okay, I take it back. This tree's doing it right. But that doesn't explain how it's doing it ... Unless! Maybe it wasn't ... the tree ...
Oh, no way. Look, just because I made a huge metal clamp appear out of thin air one time just by thinking about it, that doesn't mean this is also -- I wasn't even thinking about -- Just, please tell me I'm not connected to this phenomenon. Because seriously? When I can't even find my way home, subconsciously willing tree-condoms into existence is a power I do not need!!!
-- Ah, s-sir! Y-you're still listening? You ... you heard all of that this time, didn't you ... A-hahaha! E-excuse me again! I. I have to go. And. Dunk my head in the nearest source of cold water.
Votan went here @ 97.9% HOLY WHAT
Series: Amatsuki
Age: 15-16
Canon: In Amatsuki, your failing grades can make you a savior. At least, that's how it is for high schooler Rikugou Tokidoki. Sent to a virtual simulation exhibit of Edo for a make-up history assignment, Toki had a not-so-random encounter with a creature that broke his VR goggles and ripped out his left eye. Game over? Not quite. Now he's stuck in this alternate version of his country's past, in which everyone has a predetermined fate written by the head god in a web called "Heaven's Net." As an non-native to this Edo, however, Toki is still unknown to Heaven's Net. This gives him a unique power: the power to free others from their fate and re-write the future. The details are still largely a mystery, but in life-threatening situations he's been shown capable of banishing demons and making objects materialize out of nowhere.
Toki comes off as a fairly normal teenager who's generally easygoing and adaptable, while still easily embarrassed and prone to spazzing when things go from weird to weirder. He can also be either very charming or prone to speaking before he thinks -- or both, simultaneously. Although a failure at history, he has a good knowledge of science that occasionally comes in handy: he once shackled an angry demon by thinking of the elemental properties of metals. Still, Toki doesn't know what to make of the strange new power that turned these thoughts into reality ... only that he wants to use it to help anyone who needs him. Which unfortunately can be problematic when help is sought from two opposing sides, with the fate of the world at stake.
(Note: Nihonbashi is the Edo district where Toki is currently staying on business.)
Sample Post:
Ah, excuse me, sir! You wouldn't happen to know how to get to Nihonbashi from here, would y -- OW! Hey, what's the big idea? Since when is a simple question like that an invitation to kick someone in the leg?! I said Nihonbashi, not knee-bash me! What are you, half-deaf or something?!
... Oh. Um. You are. Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! Obviously you would be, with that "missing one ear" thing you have going. And speaking as someone who knows facial asymmetry, I've gotta admit it's a great look for you! I was just too caught up in your overall unique, glowing skin-tone and complexion to notice it at first. You still don't know where Nihonbashi is, though, huh? Oh well, can't say I'm too surprised. I can already tell I'm pretty lost. This place is starting to look less like Edo and more like ... like something I might've wound up in if I'd failed field biology instead of Japanese history. I can imagine the assignment: Spend a day here and write an essay entitled "What's Wrong With This Picture?"
But wait, that essay would be too easy. Take this tree, for starters. This tree's doing it all wrong, anyone could see that. Rubber does come from trees, of course, but it doesn't grow on them. It comes from the sap, which is tapped from the bark and taken through complicated chemical processing. So why is this tree growing it fully synthesized? And as if that weren't wrong enough, it's not just any rubber. It's growing ... those. Nature's supposed to aid in animal reproduction, not prevent -- well, you know what I mean! The point is, scientifically, nothing about this is natural.
Then again, I guess if I put myself in the tree's shoes -- er, roots -- it'd make sense to wish it were that simple. I mean, that business of having your bark pierced and your essence drained so humans can profit ... Yeah, I've gotta to say that if I were a tree, rubber or no rubber, I wouldn't want anyone tapping me. I'd want to be able to make something like this, so I could give people what they need, without the need for violation.
Okay, I take it back. This tree's doing it right. But that doesn't explain how it's doing it ... Unless! Maybe it wasn't ... the tree ...
Oh, no way. Look, just because I made a huge metal clamp appear out of thin air one time just by thinking about it, that doesn't mean this is also -- I wasn't even thinking about -- Just, please tell me I'm not connected to this phenomenon. Because seriously? When I can't even find my way home, subconsciously willing tree-condoms into existence is a power I do not need!!!
-- Ah, s-sir! Y-you're still listening? You ... you heard all of that this time, didn't you ... A-hahaha! E-excuse me again! I. I have to go. And. Dunk my head in the nearest source of cold water.
Votan went here @ 97.9% HOLY WHAT