Edensphere Application v1.5
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inthecenterfoldNAME: Jennifer
AGE: 22 (b. 1986)
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Ohio/EST
CONTACT: kaokappa (AIM), compuscouts[AT]yahoo[DOT]com
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CHARACTER NAME: Sha Gojyo
SERIES: Saiyuki (Gensomaden Saiyuki/Saiyuki Reload/Saiyuki Reload Gunlock)
RESERVED: Y
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY: Gojyo is best described as a playboy with a heart of gold. His favorite things in life are cigarettes, booze, and sex. While on his own, he used booze & games with strangers to get through the day and love with strangers to get through the night. All the while, feeling like his hanyou status (half human, half youkai) would not allow him to enjoy life because neither human nor youkai wanted him. By remaining with the humans, Gojyo stood a chance at hiding the nature of his birth. To earn money, he became an excellent gambler - playing cards and mah-jongg - and something like a petty thief along with Banri.
After meeting Hakkai, Sanzo, and Goku, Gojyo was confronted with the idea that "there are other things in the world that are red". Basically, that he can enjoy life in spite of his "taboo" birth. He becomes a raucous brother-figure to Goku, a best friend to Hakkai, and a pain in Sanzo's side, regularly stopping the journey to do "good deeds" that Sanzo would have otherwise looked over. For example, two brothers were being deceived by a man called "Kami-sama" and Gojyo in fact left his companions (who at first continued on their journey without him) to try to help the brothers, nearly dying in the process. Hakkai also says to Gojyo at one point, "you make a terrible villain". While Sanzo and Goku both accuse Gojyo of being "lecherous", it is nearly always harmless flirting. In fact, the girls he hits on will often indulge his advances and it is only then that Gojyo "gets in trouble" -- being smacked with a paper fan by Sanzo and teased verbally by Goku. In essence, while he enjoys sex, he can actually restrain himself, and is actually more interested in love, which he has never experienced and has said before that he'd "like to experience it at least once".
Because Gojyo is arguably the weakest member of the team in terms of youki, he often makes up for it in personality. He cracks jokes, he teases mercilessly, he is tenacious to a fault, and quite the charmer canonically to ladies, but often uses the word "bijin" (beautiful person) instead of "bijou" (beautiful lady), leading one to wonder if he had ever - in his earlier years - been intimate with a man. Often this is blamed on Banri, but they were as much room-mates then as Hakkai was Gojyo's room-mate for the three years before the Sanzo Party set out for India.
By the point at which I have pulled him from, Gojyo has also discovered a streak of intense loyalty to his traveling companions - the people he considers to be truly friends - and occasionally steps up to a fierce battle for nothing more than to keep the group together. Each time, Gojyo becomes quite frustrated because he actually has very little in the way of extraordinary abilities. He has some increased strength, a great deal more endurance, and some improved speed and dexterity, allowing him to jump and swing his bladed staff. Despite all that, his fighting style remains crude - mainly tavern-brawling, including punches and kicks - and his only "magical" ability is his power to summon his weapon. Some extraordinary talents - ability to hold his breath for long periods of time, impressive charisma, as well as the strength/endurance/speed/dexterity - are often blamed on his heritage as a half-water-youkai, only vaguely remeniscient of the kappa of Japanese myth that he is often called as a nickname.
BACKGROUND: Sha Gojyo was born to a human mother and a youkai* father, but his mother wasn't his father's wife. Somehow, probably after both blood parents died, Gojyo found himself in the "care" of the woman he came to call Mom - his father's legal wife, a youkai, and mother to his older half-brother - even though she beat him, yelled at him, and could only be comforted by his older brother, Jien. One day, Mom tried to kill Gojyo, and Jien made the desperate decision to stop her by killing her instead. To the present day, Gojyo carries two scars on his left cheek from where his mother scratched him. The brothers parted ways and didn't see each other for approximately 15 years.
In the interim, Gojyo wandered the streets and learned, probably with the help of a youkai named Banri, how to play cards, rack up a beer tab, and become quite the lady's man. Gojyo himself is a "taboo child* ", but most humans seem to not realize this while most demons do. Thus, Gojyo lived among and feels more comfortable with humans. He wields a staff-like weapon with a crescent blade at the top and a chained spade at the bottom, summoning it with his youki -- the magical powers youkai possess and use in a variety of ways. In the show, it is called a 'shakujou', but is closer to the "cresecent-moon-toothed spade" (yueyachan) that Chinese Buddhist priests used as both a traveling staff (with clanging rings) and a shovel to dig graves.
Gojyo is particularly close to one of his companions, Hakkai, because they met each other a few months before meeting the other two. Hakkai was "Cho Gonou" then and nearly dead, lying face down in the rain when Gojyo took Gonou back to his house and had a doctor look at the turned-youkai. Eventually Gonou recovered and was just about to leave Gojyo's company when a buddhist priest (Genjyo-sanzo) showed up at his door with a monkey-like boy (Son Goku) and demanded the "mass murderer" be turned over. Long story short, Gonou was not sentenced to death and took on the new name Hakkai, but he and Gojyo are still best friends as a result of the mess. Three years later, Gojyo's destiny caught up with him.
He was summoned to journey with Genjyo-sanzo - among the highest ranking of Buddhist priests but without the shaved head or abstinence from killing, drinking, or smoking - to India to stop a "Minus Wave" from turning all youkai into ravenous, mindless beasts. His other traveling companions included the legendary Son Goku - the Sage Equaling Heaven - and Cho Hakkai, a human cursed for killing 1000 youkai by being himself changed into a youkai. This is the rag-tag group that Gojyo travels with for a year and a half at the time he is pulled from.
In Gensomaden Saiyuki, the Sanzo Party fought against a youkai prince, Kougaiji, and his team (Jien among them, now called Dokugakuji) to keep Sanzo's sutra in his possession. In Saiyuki Reload, they continued their journey westward, fighting a variety of youkai along the way and finally going up against Kami-sama - a man who called himself "God" and stole Sanzo's sutra - which nearly resulted in the death of all four Sanzo Party members, but also forced them to learn more about each other's fighting styles and unite them more as a team as well as friends.
Most recently, they encountered a man by the name of Hazel and his attendant called Gato. Hazel is a Christian (?) bishop with the power to trap youkai souls in his pendant (with the Star of David on it), then release them into the dead bodies of humans, effectively reviving them. The biggest difference is that their eyes become yellow and they despise youkai. Hazel does this because he desires to kill all youkai and make a world exclusively for humans. He thinks that he and Sanzo have identical goals and therefore questions severely why Sanzo travels with "monsters". Naturally, this does not sit well with Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo. The way that Gojyo deals with it is by mocking Hazel's accent, which is translated as a southern accent.
In the last battle, Gojyo was reminded of how powerless he was among his fellow travelers. Goku was ambushed with a nearly fatal attack that left Sanzo so distraught he ran off to confront who he supposed to be Goku's abusher. This left Hakkai and Gojyo to deal with the problem, which they did by choosing to remove Goku's limiter, thereby transforming into his insanely powerful Seiten Taisei ("Great Sage Equalling Heaven"). To stop Goku from going on a killing spree, Hakkai removes his limiters as well to combat Goku while Gojyo is left in charge of stopping Youkai-Hakkai from killing Goku, which Gojyo ends up having to do and nearly gets his head chopped off by Hakkai in the process. Goku is finally knocked on conscious after a cooperative effort by Hakkai with Gato to elotrocute Goku, after-which Gojyo placed the limiter back on Goku's head. However, he still had to help tend to Hakkai's wounds and stopped Hazel from stealing his best friend's soul, claiming, "He's not dead, damnit!" Bearing the weight of both Goku and Hakkai, Gojyo leaves the town to find Hakuryu and take them to a safe place to rest and recover. On his way out, he scorns Sanzo for abandoning Goku when Goku needed Sanzo the most.
*Youkai live longer than humans, tend to have elemental powers, and are marked physically by a small tattoo somewhere on their body, elongated ears, and fangs. In Gojyo's case, the element is water because he is a "kappa", or water demon.
**Taboo children are half-youkai and so-called because it is a social taboo for the two races to fornicate. They are marked physically by blood-red hair and eyes; apparently possess no elemental powers; and yet they do have some measure of extraordinary strength, speed, and life expectancy.
TIMELINE: Even A Worm arc (Saiyuki Reload Gunlock); Sanzo has abandoned the other three (recovering from the Seiten Taisei versus Youkai-Hakkai battle) to travel with Hazel and Gato. It's completely Manga-verse -- no Homura arc or Movie, as they were anime-only. :(
DREAM: "Red, red, red... Taboo child!" The shine of a blade and then there was darkness, a warmth spreading over him until he opened his eyes to discover he was covered in blood. A weight in his arms had him nearly falling over - but hadn't he been sitting just then? Hadn't he been a small child? How could a child bear the weight of a grown man?
But there he was, a grown man now holding another grown man. It began to rain but as it cleared, the sun came out again, bright and radiant. It occurred to him that if that energy could be bottled into a voice, it could command him to do just about anything, but could also scold him like a parent... spank him or hit him... The rain had washed away the blood now, but the sun was so bright he could barely see. The weight was being lifted out of his arms... no, the man was disappearing! Dissolving like dust, or so it felt to him since he couldn't see. Smoke was the last thing he saw of the man, clouding up the sky to temper the sun's rays.
Then a monkey on a mountain-top beckoned to him and he tried to follow the creature, but it was always stronger, faster, more powerful than he was. It made him jealous. Somehow, he knew he'd never achieve that level of power. His only comforting thought was 'At least I'm not powerless, either.' The monkey attacked him from a low branch and latched onto his arm - he'd need to bandage that wound later - but when he didn't react to the pain, the monkey let go and smiled up at him. Now, it would be a loyal friend, a respect born from two outcasts.
A mirror shattered in front of him, grazing his cheek and letting him get small glimpses of himself. Tanned skin, red eyes, red hair, red blood, red, red, red... Why was there so much red?
"You lech!" A strong smell of food and sweat.
"Pervert!" A dull ache on his head, a different kind of smoke stench.
"Now, now..." A... nothing. That was a comfort because he could tell now that someone hated him. A lot. He'd done something taboo, been something taboo... Actually, he got the feeling a lot of someones hated him.
"Che, I'll keep living then, just t' piss 'em all off."
As he said that, a bottle of alcohol, a pack of cigarettes, a bit of food, and a magazine appeared on a low table with a cushion. Three sets of clothes he knew he should recognize were drenched in blood off to the side, leaving him free to wander naked.
Was this some kind of reward?
He reached for the cigarettes first, his favorite kind, and reclined on the cushion, feeling all of those worries drift off like the smoke from the stick in his mouth.
EDENSPHERE NAME:Taboo Red Smoke
BIRTHDAY LOG: The mind is a dangerous thing. :-) Yes.
JOURNAL SAMPLE: So, first thing I need t' know is where t' find some cigarettes. Lots of 'em. There's this kind I really like but I just can't remember what it's called, so I'm gonna' wanna' browse fer awhile.
An' why th' hell d'we hafta' wear clothes? I got yelled at fer runnin' around without 'em on, but I kinda' like it. Anybody else? Is that a rule?
Oh an' cards. Or mahjongg. I love card games an' just sittin' around chattin', so anybody plannin' a get-together some night, I'd really appreciate an invite.
Th' grass an' trees are kinda' neat, tho. Real cozy feel t' th' place. Can't say why, a'course, but eh, I'll live. I get this feeling I'm s'possed t' be headin' somewhere, but this place is so nice I bet I could just hang around awhile an' forget allllll about it.
NOTE: I fully intend to respect all rules regarding broaching sexual content with minors; most of Gojyo's antics are harmless flirting and he does respect an age line in-character as much as I plan to respect out-of-character. I also intend to intro the character after I return from a week-long vacation, not before.
AGE: 22 (b. 1986)
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Ohio/EST
CONTACT: kaokappa (AIM), compuscouts[AT]yahoo[DOT]com
LJ:
rizumu_sakushaCHARACTER NAME: Sha Gojyo
SERIES: Saiyuki (Gensomaden Saiyuki/Saiyuki Reload/Saiyuki Reload Gunlock)
RESERVED: Y
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY: Gojyo is best described as a playboy with a heart of gold. His favorite things in life are cigarettes, booze, and sex. While on his own, he used booze & games with strangers to get through the day and love with strangers to get through the night. All the while, feeling like his hanyou status (half human, half youkai) would not allow him to enjoy life because neither human nor youkai wanted him. By remaining with the humans, Gojyo stood a chance at hiding the nature of his birth. To earn money, he became an excellent gambler - playing cards and mah-jongg - and something like a petty thief along with Banri.
After meeting Hakkai, Sanzo, and Goku, Gojyo was confronted with the idea that "there are other things in the world that are red". Basically, that he can enjoy life in spite of his "taboo" birth. He becomes a raucous brother-figure to Goku, a best friend to Hakkai, and a pain in Sanzo's side, regularly stopping the journey to do "good deeds" that Sanzo would have otherwise looked over. For example, two brothers were being deceived by a man called "Kami-sama" and Gojyo in fact left his companions (who at first continued on their journey without him) to try to help the brothers, nearly dying in the process. Hakkai also says to Gojyo at one point, "you make a terrible villain". While Sanzo and Goku both accuse Gojyo of being "lecherous", it is nearly always harmless flirting. In fact, the girls he hits on will often indulge his advances and it is only then that Gojyo "gets in trouble" -- being smacked with a paper fan by Sanzo and teased verbally by Goku. In essence, while he enjoys sex, he can actually restrain himself, and is actually more interested in love, which he has never experienced and has said before that he'd "like to experience it at least once".
Because Gojyo is arguably the weakest member of the team in terms of youki, he often makes up for it in personality. He cracks jokes, he teases mercilessly, he is tenacious to a fault, and quite the charmer canonically to ladies, but often uses the word "bijin" (beautiful person) instead of "bijou" (beautiful lady), leading one to wonder if he had ever - in his earlier years - been intimate with a man. Often this is blamed on Banri, but they were as much room-mates then as Hakkai was Gojyo's room-mate for the three years before the Sanzo Party set out for India.
By the point at which I have pulled him from, Gojyo has also discovered a streak of intense loyalty to his traveling companions - the people he considers to be truly friends - and occasionally steps up to a fierce battle for nothing more than to keep the group together. Each time, Gojyo becomes quite frustrated because he actually has very little in the way of extraordinary abilities. He has some increased strength, a great deal more endurance, and some improved speed and dexterity, allowing him to jump and swing his bladed staff. Despite all that, his fighting style remains crude - mainly tavern-brawling, including punches and kicks - and his only "magical" ability is his power to summon his weapon. Some extraordinary talents - ability to hold his breath for long periods of time, impressive charisma, as well as the strength/endurance/speed/dexterity - are often blamed on his heritage as a half-water-youkai, only vaguely remeniscient of the kappa of Japanese myth that he is often called as a nickname.
BACKGROUND: Sha Gojyo was born to a human mother and a youkai* father, but his mother wasn't his father's wife. Somehow, probably after both blood parents died, Gojyo found himself in the "care" of the woman he came to call Mom - his father's legal wife, a youkai, and mother to his older half-brother - even though she beat him, yelled at him, and could only be comforted by his older brother, Jien. One day, Mom tried to kill Gojyo, and Jien made the desperate decision to stop her by killing her instead. To the present day, Gojyo carries two scars on his left cheek from where his mother scratched him. The brothers parted ways and didn't see each other for approximately 15 years.
In the interim, Gojyo wandered the streets and learned, probably with the help of a youkai named Banri, how to play cards, rack up a beer tab, and become quite the lady's man. Gojyo himself is a "taboo child* ", but most humans seem to not realize this while most demons do. Thus, Gojyo lived among and feels more comfortable with humans. He wields a staff-like weapon with a crescent blade at the top and a chained spade at the bottom, summoning it with his youki -- the magical powers youkai possess and use in a variety of ways. In the show, it is called a 'shakujou', but is closer to the "cresecent-moon-toothed spade" (yueyachan) that Chinese Buddhist priests used as both a traveling staff (with clanging rings) and a shovel to dig graves.
Gojyo is particularly close to one of his companions, Hakkai, because they met each other a few months before meeting the other two. Hakkai was "Cho Gonou" then and nearly dead, lying face down in the rain when Gojyo took Gonou back to his house and had a doctor look at the turned-youkai. Eventually Gonou recovered and was just about to leave Gojyo's company when a buddhist priest (Genjyo-sanzo) showed up at his door with a monkey-like boy (Son Goku) and demanded the "mass murderer" be turned over. Long story short, Gonou was not sentenced to death and took on the new name Hakkai, but he and Gojyo are still best friends as a result of the mess. Three years later, Gojyo's destiny caught up with him.
He was summoned to journey with Genjyo-sanzo - among the highest ranking of Buddhist priests but without the shaved head or abstinence from killing, drinking, or smoking - to India to stop a "Minus Wave" from turning all youkai into ravenous, mindless beasts. His other traveling companions included the legendary Son Goku - the Sage Equaling Heaven - and Cho Hakkai, a human cursed for killing 1000 youkai by being himself changed into a youkai. This is the rag-tag group that Gojyo travels with for a year and a half at the time he is pulled from.
In Gensomaden Saiyuki, the Sanzo Party fought against a youkai prince, Kougaiji, and his team (Jien among them, now called Dokugakuji) to keep Sanzo's sutra in his possession. In Saiyuki Reload, they continued their journey westward, fighting a variety of youkai along the way and finally going up against Kami-sama - a man who called himself "God" and stole Sanzo's sutra - which nearly resulted in the death of all four Sanzo Party members, but also forced them to learn more about each other's fighting styles and unite them more as a team as well as friends.
Most recently, they encountered a man by the name of Hazel and his attendant called Gato. Hazel is a Christian (?) bishop with the power to trap youkai souls in his pendant (with the Star of David on it), then release them into the dead bodies of humans, effectively reviving them. The biggest difference is that their eyes become yellow and they despise youkai. Hazel does this because he desires to kill all youkai and make a world exclusively for humans. He thinks that he and Sanzo have identical goals and therefore questions severely why Sanzo travels with "monsters". Naturally, this does not sit well with Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo. The way that Gojyo deals with it is by mocking Hazel's accent, which is translated as a southern accent.
In the last battle, Gojyo was reminded of how powerless he was among his fellow travelers. Goku was ambushed with a nearly fatal attack that left Sanzo so distraught he ran off to confront who he supposed to be Goku's abusher. This left Hakkai and Gojyo to deal with the problem, which they did by choosing to remove Goku's limiter, thereby transforming into his insanely powerful Seiten Taisei ("Great Sage Equalling Heaven"). To stop Goku from going on a killing spree, Hakkai removes his limiters as well to combat Goku while Gojyo is left in charge of stopping Youkai-Hakkai from killing Goku, which Gojyo ends up having to do and nearly gets his head chopped off by Hakkai in the process. Goku is finally knocked on conscious after a cooperative effort by Hakkai with Gato to elotrocute Goku, after-which Gojyo placed the limiter back on Goku's head. However, he still had to help tend to Hakkai's wounds and stopped Hazel from stealing his best friend's soul, claiming, "He's not dead, damnit!" Bearing the weight of both Goku and Hakkai, Gojyo leaves the town to find Hakuryu and take them to a safe place to rest and recover. On his way out, he scorns Sanzo for abandoning Goku when Goku needed Sanzo the most.
*Youkai live longer than humans, tend to have elemental powers, and are marked physically by a small tattoo somewhere on their body, elongated ears, and fangs. In Gojyo's case, the element is water because he is a "kappa", or water demon.
**Taboo children are half-youkai and so-called because it is a social taboo for the two races to fornicate. They are marked physically by blood-red hair and eyes; apparently possess no elemental powers; and yet they do have some measure of extraordinary strength, speed, and life expectancy.
TIMELINE: Even A Worm arc (Saiyuki Reload Gunlock); Sanzo has abandoned the other three (recovering from the Seiten Taisei versus Youkai-Hakkai battle) to travel with Hazel and Gato. It's completely Manga-verse -- no Homura arc or Movie, as they were anime-only. :(
DREAM: "Red, red, red... Taboo child!" The shine of a blade and then there was darkness, a warmth spreading over him until he opened his eyes to discover he was covered in blood. A weight in his arms had him nearly falling over - but hadn't he been sitting just then? Hadn't he been a small child? How could a child bear the weight of a grown man?
But there he was, a grown man now holding another grown man. It began to rain but as it cleared, the sun came out again, bright and radiant. It occurred to him that if that energy could be bottled into a voice, it could command him to do just about anything, but could also scold him like a parent... spank him or hit him... The rain had washed away the blood now, but the sun was so bright he could barely see. The weight was being lifted out of his arms... no, the man was disappearing! Dissolving like dust, or so it felt to him since he couldn't see. Smoke was the last thing he saw of the man, clouding up the sky to temper the sun's rays.
Then a monkey on a mountain-top beckoned to him and he tried to follow the creature, but it was always stronger, faster, more powerful than he was. It made him jealous. Somehow, he knew he'd never achieve that level of power. His only comforting thought was 'At least I'm not powerless, either.' The monkey attacked him from a low branch and latched onto his arm - he'd need to bandage that wound later - but when he didn't react to the pain, the monkey let go and smiled up at him. Now, it would be a loyal friend, a respect born from two outcasts.
A mirror shattered in front of him, grazing his cheek and letting him get small glimpses of himself. Tanned skin, red eyes, red hair, red blood, red, red, red... Why was there so much red?
"You lech!" A strong smell of food and sweat.
"Pervert!" A dull ache on his head, a different kind of smoke stench.
"Now, now..." A... nothing. That was a comfort because he could tell now that someone hated him. A lot. He'd done something taboo, been something taboo... Actually, he got the feeling a lot of someones hated him.
"Che, I'll keep living then, just t' piss 'em all off."
As he said that, a bottle of alcohol, a pack of cigarettes, a bit of food, and a magazine appeared on a low table with a cushion. Three sets of clothes he knew he should recognize were drenched in blood off to the side, leaving him free to wander naked.
Was this some kind of reward?
He reached for the cigarettes first, his favorite kind, and reclined on the cushion, feeling all of those worries drift off like the smoke from the stick in his mouth.
EDENSPHERE NAME:
BIRTHDAY LOG: The mind is a dangerous thing. :-) Yes.
JOURNAL SAMPLE: So, first thing I need t' know is where t' find some cigarettes. Lots of 'em. There's this kind I really like but I just can't remember what it's called, so I'm gonna' wanna' browse fer awhile.
An' why th' hell d'we hafta' wear clothes? I got yelled at fer runnin' around without 'em on, but I kinda' like it. Anybody else? Is that a rule?
Oh an' cards. Or mahjongg. I love card games an' just sittin' around chattin', so anybody plannin' a get-together some night, I'd really appreciate an invite.
Th' grass an' trees are kinda' neat, tho. Real cozy feel t' th' place. Can't say why, a'course, but eh, I'll live. I get this feeling I'm s'possed t' be headin' somewhere, but this place is so nice I bet I could just hang around awhile an' forget allllll about it.
NOTE: I fully intend to respect all rules regarding broaching sexual content with minors; most of Gojyo's antics are harmless flirting and he does respect an age line in-character as much as I plan to respect out-of-character. I also intend to intro the character after I return from a week-long vacation, not before.
