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Name: Shouta Mikoshiba
Age: 24
Gender: male
Fandom: DOLLS (manga by NakedApe)
Timeline: Chapter 27, volume 5 of the manga. Timeskip or death do not apply.
History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolls_(manga) The wiki will suffice I hope? Otherwise I can elaborate as needed.
Character Personality:
Shouta Mikoshiba is a fairly complex individual.
The first thing shown of him in canon is how efficiently and ruthlessly he works. For five years he has been hunting down and killing criminals who were sentenced to death, and he has not failed a single time. Furthermore, to get into this job he needed several years of training. What drove him to choose this has yet to be revealed, but no teenager would put forth that much effort to graduate at the top of the class without any kind of incentive. Whether it is his sense of justice or he's looking for revenge or atonement would be pure speculation on my part.
In spite of his occupation which requires some emotional detachment, Shouta dislikes the Tokkei's reputation as being emotionless dolls. It is not something he wants to embody, and it is not a stereotype he wants anybody to prove right, continuously encouraging and always looking for a human side to his co-workers, while making it very clear that he will not work with dolls. Of course he allows himself to feel as well. And he's not a shining display of maturity either, seeing as he insists on calling some people by nicknames and gets into an arguement over having to pay for his own uniform being repaired. He bickers with superior officers and invokes "head captain's privileges" to assign his brigade specific missions or to carry non standard issue weapons, and he is not above acting immature and irresponsible to fool an enemy.
At the same time, Shouta acts and speaks with confidence. He knows what he can get away with and he knows when there's no time for fooling around, and he takes his job as the head captain of the Tokkei very seriously, even if it doesn't always show.
While he's not a soft or kind person, exactly, he cares about people. He cares about his colleagues, and yells at them if they carelessly endanger themselves. But it's not just people he's close to. He does not want to needlessly endanger, hurt, or traumatize anyone. Likely because he understands people well, again emphasizing on the human side of the Tokkei. And with all that, he still does his job to perfection. While he by no means sees the world in black and white, to him there is a very clear line between lives worth protecting and criminals that need to be put down.
Outside of work relations there is only one person Shouta is close to, which is Tamao Hasui. It's never explained just how they met, but it's clear they were on good terms. It's also clear that Tamao never knew Shouta joined the Tokkei, and Shouta keeps this a secret to this day. This makes him a habitual liar, but at least he still has some ties to his pre-tokkei life.
Shouta generally does not talk about his past. When he first joined the Tokkei he worked with the first head captain, Tokio Sakurazawa, who eventually became a danger to everyone around him. How exactly this went down has yet to be covered canonically, but it's clear that it hurt Shouta deeply, especially since he ended up having to kill Sakurazawa. He dislikes having the incident brought up in general, but one upside to Shibusen will be having nobody around who knows of it.
Character Abilities:
For starters, Shouta is an ordinary human being. This luckily saves me the time to elaborate on any supernatural abilities he wouldn't be keeping either way! However, he's a rather well trained human being (no matter how I word it it still sounds wrong in several ways). Being a Tokkei, he is in top shape physically. He has been trained in handling just about any sort of weapon, and I assume unarmed combat as well. He's an undeniably good shot and has been shown to weild a sword with skill. Despite the strain he is able to weild one gun in each hand, as common as it may be in fiction, this actually takes a lot of strength.
Another thing that's worth mentioning is that he has considerable deductive ability. The Tokkei do a lot of investigating, and as such they can easily infiltrate most any group, organization or place. They all know what to look for on a crime scene, and have to be intelligent enough to draw their own conclusions quickly as well as act efficiently. At any given point in time they are required to be aware of their surroundings. Traps, cameras, escape routes, potential threats, it's necessary for them to keep an eye on all these things at all times. Tokkei also always work in groups of three. Shouta is a bit of an exception here, having worked with just one partner for a while as well as all on his own, but he knows how to coordinate a team none the less.
He graduated the training academy at the top of his class. As such there are a few things that set him apart from other Tokkei. For one thing, he puts forth a lot of effort- simple talent isn't enough to make it to the top of anything. Then, at this point experience is definitely worth mentioning, because nobody does any job to perfection for all of five years without gaining some. He's become very quick at drawing his conclusions over the years, and he's generally right- which brings me to the final point. I suppose I could call it instinct? Possibly it ties in with his experience, but when on the job he tends to say the right things and make the right decisions at the right time, such as, in chapter 27, asking Usaki to look after Shikibu in his absence, without really giving away why, simply stating Shikibu is "forgetful". In the following chapter, Shikibu decides to attempt their mission all on his own because Usaki has fallen asleep, and nearly gets himself killed in the process. Usaki saves him just in time, remembering the captain's cryptic seeming request.
Tokkei related things aside, Shouta has fairly good people skills. He sees through people easily, and while he isn't an expert in phychology, he is aware of his co-workers' issues and usually says the right thing to help them through. (Usually, because he's still human and by no means a mind-reader, and has been known to put his foot in his mouth around some people canonically.)
Character Weaknesses:
His key weakness is having difficulty opening up. Shouta can appear friendly and certainly is one of the more socially capable people in his canon, but there are plenty of burried issues he simply does not speak about, nor does he appreciate others bringing them up in his presense, to the point where he loses his composure and lifts them up to eye level by their collar. He will be at an advantage here because for the time being there is noone around Shibusen who would be familiar with his history, but it means that he will likely have trouble resonating with any weapon so long as he doesn't learn.
Shouta is also a workaholic. Skill and instinct alone isn't enough to stay Head Captain of the Tokkei for five years. Shouta likes to be well-informed about everything, but this means a lot of research and work for him, to the point where his personal life would be pretty much nonexistent if it weren't for his friend Tamao Hasui who made up his mind to move in with him. Tamao appears to be the only person he has any contact to outside of work relations. Thus, Shouta will at first feel largely out of place without his work- and then likely throw himself into this new line of work. This ties in with the first key issue as well- so long as he keeps himself occupied, he won't have to deal with his own past, at least not the parts he hasn't entirely come to terms with. That, and he's a habitual liar. A habitual and convincing liar. To this day, the one person he lives with knows nothing about his actual ocupation, taking him for a simple government worker (which is probably a good thing anyway because Tamao hates the Tokkei with a passion). He lies about what he does, he lies about how much he works, he lies about what he's thinking or feeling. Not generally or all the time, but the troubling thing is that most people would not know the difference.
While he certainly has a temper, it's not strong or violent or explosive enough to be too much of a hindrance.
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Why your character should be a Meister:
I think Shouta would be chosen to be a Meister because he is a good leader. It's not that he can not take orders - that is what his job consists of after all. He knows how to work in a team, but he works best in a team if he's the one making the decisions, and he would feel very out of place without that kind of responsibility. (That, and since he actually has been trained to weild a variety of weapons, it would make a lot of sense.)
Meister Ability:
Soul Tracking: Meister uses Soul Energy to get a basic feeling of where an individual is located by feeling out their soul. Effectiveness depends on how well he knows the individual.
[ SOUL INFORMATION ]
Soul Description:
caring, cunning, confident, protective, mischeiveous, proud
Soul Appearance:
Shouta's soul will be a tan/beige colour, showing the bangs that almost fall into his eyes and it'll usually have a calm or indifferent expression- though I assume the soul always mimics the person's feelings, so this one will have plenty of expressions, from an outright trollface to rage to surprise or happiness.