[ooc: application]
OOC Information
Player Name: Shini!
Personal LJ: botling
E-mail: tamabotchi AT gmail.com
AIM/MSN/YIM/ICQ: Eien no Sama (AIM), denshi_drug (YIM)
IC Information
Name: Byakuran
Age: 26
Occupation: CEO
What company do they work for?: Millefiore
Any changes to your character's appearance?: No crazy white uniforms and space boots. Think more in terms of flashback!Byakuran for his general day-to-day wear.
History:
It had always been expected that Byakuran would eventually lead the newly formed Gesso & Sons. The small publishing company that had been created at the deaths of its larger parent company had been lined up to fall neatly into his lap by a father who knew best and was determined to let him know that. It had a small catalogue of loyal and reasonably well-known writers and it survived on their names and the steady acquisition of new writers who were attracted by Gesso & Sons' workable deadlines and consistent publishing quality.
But the small business ethics that the elder Gessos had founded the company on were discarded as the company passed into Byakuran's hands. The young man, who had stepped into the family's publishing scene early, wasted little time in using and abusing his family's connections. He hinted at the idea of selling out his father's company to some higher rolling companies to establish close personal ties with them, only to abuse those ties for his own benefit in drawing employees and titles onto the Gesso's line from those same companies.
He moved quickly and by the time Byakuran had completely taken Gesso & Sons from his father after what was whispered to be a death caused by foul play after a string of firings of some employees that had grown dissatisfied with the younger Gesso's recent work had come to his father's attention, the company had tripled in size.
Byakuran was moving quickly, keeping those who shared his tactical talent close at hand, although never too close to mind. He accomplished his work with such speed that it wasn't even noticed by the publishing world as a whole until the crowning point of his achievements, the merger with the long-established Giglio Nero Inc. was already more than underway. The details of the merger were never made entirely clear to the public. Rumors of under-the-table dealings and betrayal ran rampant and Byakuran made little move to squelch them, preferring to keep his employees on their toes and set rival companies on the edge.
With the money and power that he obtained in the acquisition of the Giglio Nero, Byakuran was able to expand his growing publishing empire, now Millefiore & Co., to levels previously unreachable. He acquired a crack team of lawyers, many neatly relieved from their positions in other, more prominent publishing companies and began to fill any and all positions of power with those he felt most capable and least connected to the Giglio Nero. Through fast thinking and a few legal loopholes, he was able to completely dominate the eBook market, setting up a few smaller child companies to mask his complete monopoly of it.
Right now he's set his sights on some of the Vongola & Associates' fiction lines, but that's just the start of his vision for Millefiore & CO.
Sample Third Person Post:
It was rare for Byakuran to hold lunchtime meetings. The CEO of Millefiore & Co. was well-known for his laid-back nature, someone who enjoyed long lunches and always seemed to be in a good mood. But the men at the table knew that pleasant smile masked a far nastier mind. Even as Byakuran congenially went on about the pasta they were having that afternoon,-- and he was ever fond of Italian dishes, something he'd credit to his father with a laugh that unsettled some of the Gesso's oldest employees, the ones that had known his father's dislike of them --the fear that filled the room was palpable.
Pleasantries before business. He claimed it was a business policy, something to set others at ease, but it was easy to tell that the longer he went on, the more nervous the men around him would be, and the more cheerful Byakuran would get, as if feeding off their tension.
The men at the table were, of course, responsible for a recently failed line of children's books. A project many of them suspected that they had been placed on simply because it was so precarious of a venture, something Byakuran had acquired in a buy-out of a smaller Japanese company. They all had been served lunch, but very few were eating it as Byakuran wrapped up his more casual talk, leaning on his palm.
"Ah, but we're really here to talk numbers, aren't we, gentlemen?" he continued, just as comfortably and impersonally as he had spoken on the dish in front of them, "The failure, was it? Of your complete line."
All eyes were on him. He smiled.
Sample Journal Entry:
It has been busy lately, hasn't it? I've hardly had time to relax with business being as it is. Meetings are all so boring and having a schedule full of them? How troublesome, indeed.
Uni, I hope you don't mind if I plan on taking the day off tomorrow. I'm sure you'll have everything completely under control. You are my most trusted partner, after all.