[OOC] CHARACTER INFORMATION;
Character name: Sho Minamimoto [referred to as Dr. Pin]
Fandom: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Minamimoto is taken from the chapter Another Day, canon's alternate universe unlocked after completing the game with its own story. As far as the story from Another Day, he's being taken from after the Tin Pin timeline.
Age: 18
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Unlike his OU self, this Minamimoto possesses no supernatural abilities (he still is quite capable of defending himself) and is more or less a typical human being. However, he does have several noteworthy traits.
• Minamimoto is a bit of an inventor, creating pins (referred to as pin fiddling ) for the children’s game Tin Pin Slammer. His pins are duds; good for only one big slam and then get crushed. Later on in the plot, he creates the Solid Slammer Omega (a red metal brace) for Shooter that he created by building off of his father’s plans. Because of the rather dramatic change in appearance, the reactions from others, and the implications of a lab explosion, this can be inferred as a great success. His pin fiddling, as improved somewhat since.
• Much like his other self, Dr. Pin is a mathematical genius, capable of calculating ridiculous amounts and solving equations almost instantly.
• Being the son not only of one of the creators of Tin Pin Slammer but the also the owner of Ramen Don, Sho knows how to cook ramen. He knows all his father’s recipes and can execute them very well.
Appearance: Going by appearance alone, Dr. Pin is not the kind of guy you'd want to run into in an alleyway (or park underpass) at night. Or even during the day. Seriously. He's roughly about 5'10" with a dark tan and slender, athletic build. His looks are almost something feral with amber eyes, wild teased silvery/grayish-brown hair, fang-y teeth, and black tattoos that make him look like a mix between a gang member and a cat. His attire, of course, consists of mostly black--black cap, black jacket, black pants, black cowboy boots--and a red bandanna.
Background/Personality:
In this universe, Sho Minamimoto is the son of Ken Doi, the creator of Tin Pin Slammer-why however they share different surnames is unknown (I am going to go with the idea of adoption). Because of this, he was exposed to Tin Pin from its early beginnings. He was quickly drawn to it, the simplicity of the game and, of course, and all the mathematical applications with the more mechanical components of the game as well as the game itself. The company never had much faith in Doi’s team, though the original model was a great success. The corporate businessmen got increasingly more involved as it came time to design a successor for the Solid Slammer, cutting the budget as they got more involved. The new Solid Slammers ended being worse than the originals, and rather than sacrificing the quality of his work, Doi canceled the entire project and was forced to resign. Doi left the Tin Pin industry for good and opened up a Ramen shop in Dogenzaka.
Sho, still enchanted by the game, planned to surpass his father and become the greatest pin-fiddler eve; he knew he had the smarts to do it. Doi, however; had little faith in his son, doubted his abilities. Doi’s disenchantment with the world of Tin Pin caused a deep rift between the harsh realities of commerce faced by the adoptive father and the idealistic dream of the son. Claiming his father’s former title as Dr. Pin, Sho went out into the streets of Shibuya, in attempt to make a name for him.
After the pin thefts at the Tin Pin Tournament at Molco, Sho offered his assistance to Shooter and the crayon warriors Kindred Spirits. Revealing first that Neku still had his pins, he suggested a plan to the group of teens: play tin pin, win, and lure out the Skullers. He even offered his own pins, but his father disproved their worth and exposed them as duds.
This only further drove Sho’s desire to surpass his father. Taking Doi’s plans, he built upon them and in some sort of crazy lab explosion, created the Solid Slammer Omega. He quickly went off to Miyashita park where the Kindred Spirits were facing off with the Skullers and gave his newest stroke of brilliance to Shooter, which he uses to slam against Higashizawa, one of the former members of Doi’s Tin Pin design team. After defeat, Higashizawa proclaimed Sho the future of Tin Pin, but the teen realizes he can’t do so alone and asked for the assistance of both Higashizawa and his father and they agreed to go back to use the Ramen Shop as a base for Tin Pin development. (AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.)
Sho may give off the appearance of a nasty thug quite ready to steal one’s wallet, but he’s a pretty decent guy overall. Like nearly everyone in Another Day, he shares a deep love of Tin Pin Slammer. He’s a rather flamboyant, yet likable nerd. Though brash, he can be quite helpful when it involves his interests.
The former rift between him and his father has left him with a bit of a complex. He feels as if h is living in Doi’s shadow-he IS the father of Tin Pin, after all-and feels the need to surpass him in development.
This version of Minamimoto is quite a bit different from his main continuity self in several ways, considering he sides with and allies the protagonists in Another Day. Firstly, he does not have nearly as many sociopathic tendencies and is not nearly as dissocial. He is also quite capable of building and maintaining relationships. Though not the best (as he influences the use of Neku as bait for the Skullers), he has a better sense of morals and is much more cooperative.
However, Sho shares his other self’s brilliant mind, eccentric behavior, arrogance, and obsessive behavior, not to mention almost as irritable. As previously stated, he is a genius, and lets everyone know it. He is quite conceited, and self-assured--although much more humbled by the end of the Tin Pin plot, in which is asks the assistance of his father and former coworker--which slowed his progress as a pin fiddler. He refused to believe his pins were duds until he had physical proof and at one point, states that the only thing that mattered were the beauty of his creations--this admiration of beauty he’s created is yet another shared trait. His two obsessions are mathematics and Tin Pin. He speaks in a strange mix of Japanese and mathematics and can hardly resist from cracking a math-related joke or adding some form of calculation in a conversation; however these conversations are likely to contain something of Tin Pin.
1st person sample:
This is some crazy noodle-induced dream or I've just been sucked through a wormhole. Either way, I guess it's finally happened. Pops got too experimental with the ramen. Nothing like meteorite ramen to cause undefined variables.
So, you radians, where am I? A space ship? A space station?
[...]
I'm not some human experiment for a set of alien scientists, am I? I swear I will pound any inverse idiot who tries to probe me, alien or not. Then again, if I was an experiment... I'd probably be bound to some dissection table or something, right?
Anyway, someone better explain. FOIL: First, Outer, Inner, Last. I want to know in detail what's going on.
3rd person sample:
The last thing Sho Minamimoto remembered before ending up on this ship was the most excruciating pain he had ever felt, but the feeling of potential loss hurt almost as much. Never again would he walk the familiar streets of Shibuya, skulk around the Miyashita park underpass. Pops and Higashizawa, his development team, his father, both gone almost instantly. They had only made up recently after fighting for quite some time. He wondered if any of those kids he’d helped recently-they’d helped him quite a bit too-managed to survive.
A ‘hmph.’ It would do |0| good to continuously dwell on it. Besides, he survived and he knew he had potential. He was the future of Tin Pin, after all. If that didn’t mean anything (he really hoped it didn’t come to that), he still had his mathematical genius and his father’s ramen recipes-even the more experimental flavors.
Minamimoto looked around aimlessly, a bit puzzled by his surroundings.e he rather peculiar theories of quantum physic-multiple worlds, time travel-were of nothing new to the teen. Whilst not immersing himself in the development of Tin Pin, he was pouring over some mathematically related book or another. He just always considered them theories, probable yet never expected them to become reality. Yet here he was on another world with people from other worlds and realities. All of them were survivors. It was so strange (but at the same time, he couldn’t help but admit, so zetta cool).
Fandom: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Minamimoto is taken from the chapter Another Day, canon's alternate universe unlocked after completing the game with its own story. As far as the story from Another Day, he's being taken from after the Tin Pin timeline.
Age: 18
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Unlike his OU self, this Minamimoto possesses no supernatural abilities (he still is quite capable of defending himself) and is more or less a typical human being. However, he does have several noteworthy traits.
• Minamimoto is a bit of an inventor, creating pins (referred to as pin fiddling ) for the children’s game Tin Pin Slammer. His pins are duds; good for only one big slam and then get crushed. Later on in the plot, he creates the Solid Slammer Omega (a red metal brace) for Shooter that he created by building off of his father’s plans. Because of the rather dramatic change in appearance, the reactions from others, and the implications of a lab explosion, this can be inferred as a great success. His pin fiddling, as improved somewhat since.
• Much like his other self, Dr. Pin is a mathematical genius, capable of calculating ridiculous amounts and solving equations almost instantly.
• Being the son not only of one of the creators of Tin Pin Slammer but the also the owner of Ramen Don, Sho knows how to cook ramen. He knows all his father’s recipes and can execute them very well.
Appearance: Going by appearance alone, Dr. Pin is not the kind of guy you'd want to run into in an alleyway (or park underpass) at night. Or even during the day. Seriously. He's roughly about 5'10" with a dark tan and slender, athletic build. His looks are almost something feral with amber eyes, wild teased silvery/grayish-brown hair, fang-y teeth, and black tattoos that make him look like a mix between a gang member and a cat. His attire, of course, consists of mostly black--black cap, black jacket, black pants, black cowboy boots--and a red bandanna.
Background/Personality:
In this universe, Sho Minamimoto is the son of Ken Doi, the creator of Tin Pin Slammer-why however they share different surnames is unknown (I am going to go with the idea of adoption). Because of this, he was exposed to Tin Pin from its early beginnings. He was quickly drawn to it, the simplicity of the game and, of course, and all the mathematical applications with the more mechanical components of the game as well as the game itself. The company never had much faith in Doi’s team, though the original model was a great success. The corporate businessmen got increasingly more involved as it came time to design a successor for the Solid Slammer, cutting the budget as they got more involved. The new Solid Slammers ended being worse than the originals, and rather than sacrificing the quality of his work, Doi canceled the entire project and was forced to resign. Doi left the Tin Pin industry for good and opened up a Ramen shop in Dogenzaka.
Sho, still enchanted by the game, planned to surpass his father and become the greatest pin-fiddler eve; he knew he had the smarts to do it. Doi, however; had little faith in his son, doubted his abilities. Doi’s disenchantment with the world of Tin Pin caused a deep rift between the harsh realities of commerce faced by the adoptive father and the idealistic dream of the son. Claiming his father’s former title as Dr. Pin, Sho went out into the streets of Shibuya, in attempt to make a name for him.
After the pin thefts at the Tin Pin Tournament at Molco, Sho offered his assistance to Shooter and the crayon warriors Kindred Spirits. Revealing first that Neku still had his pins, he suggested a plan to the group of teens: play tin pin, win, and lure out the Skullers. He even offered his own pins, but his father disproved their worth and exposed them as duds.
This only further drove Sho’s desire to surpass his father. Taking Doi’s plans, he built upon them and in some sort of crazy lab explosion, created the Solid Slammer Omega. He quickly went off to Miyashita park where the Kindred Spirits were facing off with the Skullers and gave his newest stroke of brilliance to Shooter, which he uses to slam against Higashizawa, one of the former members of Doi’s Tin Pin design team. After defeat, Higashizawa proclaimed Sho the future of Tin Pin, but the teen realizes he can’t do so alone and asked for the assistance of both Higashizawa and his father and they agreed to go back to use the Ramen Shop as a base for Tin Pin development. (AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.)
Sho may give off the appearance of a nasty thug quite ready to steal one’s wallet, but he’s a pretty decent guy overall. Like nearly everyone in Another Day, he shares a deep love of Tin Pin Slammer. He’s a rather flamboyant, yet likable nerd. Though brash, he can be quite helpful when it involves his interests.
The former rift between him and his father has left him with a bit of a complex. He feels as if h is living in Doi’s shadow-he IS the father of Tin Pin, after all-and feels the need to surpass him in development.
This version of Minamimoto is quite a bit different from his main continuity self in several ways, considering he sides with and allies the protagonists in Another Day. Firstly, he does not have nearly as many sociopathic tendencies and is not nearly as dissocial. He is also quite capable of building and maintaining relationships. Though not the best (as he influences the use of Neku as bait for the Skullers), he has a better sense of morals and is much more cooperative.
However, Sho shares his other self’s brilliant mind, eccentric behavior, arrogance, and obsessive behavior, not to mention almost as irritable. As previously stated, he is a genius, and lets everyone know it. He is quite conceited, and self-assured--although much more humbled by the end of the Tin Pin plot, in which is asks the assistance of his father and former coworker--which slowed his progress as a pin fiddler. He refused to believe his pins were duds until he had physical proof and at one point, states that the only thing that mattered were the beauty of his creations--this admiration of beauty he’s created is yet another shared trait. His two obsessions are mathematics and Tin Pin. He speaks in a strange mix of Japanese and mathematics and can hardly resist from cracking a math-related joke or adding some form of calculation in a conversation; however these conversations are likely to contain something of Tin Pin.
1st person sample:
This is some crazy noodle-induced dream or I've just been sucked through a wormhole. Either way, I guess it's finally happened. Pops got too experimental with the ramen. Nothing like meteorite ramen to cause undefined variables.
So, you radians, where am I? A space ship? A space station?
[...]
I'm not some human experiment for a set of alien scientists, am I? I swear I will pound any inverse idiot who tries to probe me, alien or not. Then again, if I was an experiment... I'd probably be bound to some dissection table or something, right?
Anyway, someone better explain. FOIL: First, Outer, Inner, Last. I want to know in detail what's going on.
3rd person sample:
The last thing Sho Minamimoto remembered before ending up on this ship was the most excruciating pain he had ever felt, but the feeling of potential loss hurt almost as much. Never again would he walk the familiar streets of Shibuya, skulk around the Miyashita park underpass. Pops and Higashizawa, his development team, his father, both gone almost instantly. They had only made up recently after fighting for quite some time. He wondered if any of those kids he’d helped recently-they’d helped him quite a bit too-managed to survive.
A ‘hmph.’ It would do |0| good to continuously dwell on it. Besides, he survived and he knew he had potential. He was the future of Tin Pin, after all. If that didn’t mean anything (he really hoped it didn’t come to that), he still had his mathematical genius and his father’s ramen recipes-even the more experimental flavors.
Minamimoto looked around aimlessly, a bit puzzled by his surroundings.e he rather peculiar theories of quantum physic-multiple worlds, time travel-were of nothing new to the teen. Whilst not immersing himself in the development of Tin Pin, he was pouring over some mathematically related book or another. He just always considered them theories, probable yet never expected them to become reality. Yet here he was on another world with people from other worlds and realities. All of them were survivors. It was so strange (but at the same time, he couldn’t help but admit, so zetta cool).