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[27 Jan 2011|10:38pm] |
AIM (if you have one): dajyd
Character Name: Hajime
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight): 6'2, slender and fit.
Age: 17/711
PB: (If using one.) : Tak Sakaguchi - http://www.hollow-art.com/base/tak-sakaguchi
Powers:
Between the rigorous discipline of the kenku, learning spiritual focus and meditation, and an etreme amount of experience for his apparent age, Hajime possesses a nearly inhuman degree of willpower, and is highly resistant to mind control and other types of influence. Through this same discipline, he is capable of pushing himself to extremes, such as remaining conscious when badly injured, and continuing to act when he should be incapacitated by pain.
Also thanks to the kenku, he knows the speech of corvids. He cannot control ravens and crows, but he can understand them and speak to them, and corvids tend to be very well disposed towards him.
He normally has a raven named Karasu accompanying him that will sometimes act as a scout, extra pair of eyes, etc. for him in exchange for food and shiny baubles, but is not under any kind of compulsion and may wander off at times or get distracted.
Weapons:
Hajime possesses his family katana, one of the legendary Masmune blades.
Skills:
Due to his training with the kenku, Hajime is one of the greatest swordsmen and martial artists on Earth. He technically knows dozens of styles of swordsmanship, and several martial arts forms, but has had them taught to him combined to form one extremely versatile style.
He is also trained in the arts a samurai was expected to be able to perform: he can write haiku, paint, ride a horse, fire a bow, handle a falcon, handle himself with courtly manners, plays two instruments, can tell a story, survive in the wild and mix tea.
Weaknesses:
Anachronism: For all that, in his time, he was a young paragon of the samurai and kensai traditions, there were a lot of things that just weren't around in the early 1300's. Hajime cannot drive a car, use a computer, operate a cel-phone, etc. without instruction, and will have difficulty grasping the uses of modern technology.
He is also behind the times in conventions - in his time and at his station, bathing was communal and usually attended by servants. As such, in "appropriate" surroundings, he has no nudity taboo or the like - which isn't to say that he wouldn't be embarassed to be, for example, caught naked in the living room - its just the embarassment would be because its an improper location and time, not because he's naked.
There are other prohibitions and expectations of behavior, of course - that's just one of the more potentially problematic.
Finally, he is a strict adherent of the code of bushido, an honor code that can be used against him, and may eventually cause problems with the modern government.
Character location/Home: Mobile
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Relatives (living/dead?): None living
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