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I am down for everything, up to and including death of my character. The only things I have no interest in playing are pedophilia, vomit/scat, and bestiality.
Appearance:
Sha Gojyo is 6'1" tall and about 150 pounds of bone, hair, and muscle. His blood-red hair and eyes mark him as a "child of taboo", a half-human, half-youkai bastard. Carved deep across his left cheekbone are two slightly curving scars - a memento from age twelve, when his stepmother attacked him with an ax. As ashamed as he is of his scars and coloring, he's proud of the rest of his body, and takes great pleasure in showing it off, wearing tight pants and frequently going without a shirt at all. Topless, his ribs and collarbone are even more prominent, but he wears his scrawniness well... and he's got a good layer of hard-won muscle over all the rest. He's been fighting for his life for over ten years, and it shows, not only in his muscles and bony ribs, but in a thousand little scars, from scrapes, cuts, bites... you name it. Obvious scars include the two on his cheek, a human bite mark on his left forearm, a bullet hole right over his heart, and about fifteen thumbprint-sized round scars scattered all over his front, most with matching holes in the back (shoulder, knee, ribs, etc). Here is a shot of him in his standard outfit (along with Goku):
But on top of it all, he's smiling. Even when he's angry he's smiling - boy never shuts his mouth for a minute. He's very touchy-feely, too, and can't go very long without human contact - an arm around a friend's shoulder, or a cute girl's waist, a hand mussing a kid's hair.
His typical outfit consists of worn leather workboots, black jeans or leather pants, a white wifebeater, and a wide bandanna pulled low across his forehead.
Background:
In an alternate version of now (or, more specifically, an alternate version of the 1970's), there was a war in Heaven. On Earth, humans and youkai, or demons, lived together peacefully until the youkai king Gyuumaoh (or "Ox King") went on a rampage, killing and maiming and generally being hugely destructive. As taking a life is not permitted in Heaven, a "dirty" creature was sent down to stop Gyuumoah. This "dirty" or "taboo" creature was the War Prince Nataku... who was also, for all intents and purposes, a seven-year-old boy. Four people objected to Nataku being used in this manner - a general, a field marshal, a bureaucrat, and another "taboo" creature named Son Goku. Major shit went down. Four people against an army rarely ends well, but they caused enough destruction before being killed (or, in Son Goku's case, locked in a cage on top of a mountain) that Heaven was still talking about it five hundred years later.
And five hundred years later was when the general, the field marshal, and the bureaucrat were reincarnated as Sha Gojyo, Cho Hakkai, and the boy Kouryuu, who grew up to be the high priest Genjyo Sanzo, the 31st of China. Someone out west in India has begun an effort to awaken Gyuumaoh, and the technique they are using, a forbidden mixture of science and magic, has created a kind of plague. This plague, the Minus Wave, is sweeping the planet, driving all the youkai mad and giving them a taste for human flesh. So the gods, under the direction of Hir Mercy Kanzeon Bosatsu, the boddhisatva of compassion, have ordered Sanzo and the others to travel to India and stop the resurrection.
Sha Gojyo was born to a youkai father and a human mother. His father was married to a youkai woman, and they had a son, Jien, who was about three years old when Dad fell in love with a human girl and abandoned his family to live with her. Shortly thereafter Gojyo was born, a forbidden, taboo mix of human and youkai blood. This taboo is clearly displayed in his blood-red hair and eyes. Karma loves parallels, so when Gojyo was three, he also lost his family. His father and mother committed suicide, and Gojyo was taken to live with his stepmother and brother.
It was not a happy situation. Gojyo's mother had gone somewhat crazy when her husband left, and being saddled with his halfbreed bastard was more than she could handle. She abused the boy, beating him regularly, and just seeing him made her cry. The hatred she gave Gojyo was mirrored in the love she lavished on his brother Jien, and when Jien was twelve or thirteen years old, that relationship became a sexual one, imprinting on Gojyo forever that love and sex were the same thing.
But even Jien's attentions couldn't keep Mama Sha away from little Gojyo, and she finally snapped, going after the boy with an ax and leaving two deep scars carved on the left side of his face. She would have hacked him to bits had not Jien intervened, killing his own mother with a sword, then, tearfully, abandoning little Gojyo to fend for himself. Whether he fled to keep the stain of matricide off Gojyo's head, or because he was only 19 himself and terrified, is unclear. Whatever the reason, Gojyo found himself alone at the age of twelve.
The next several years he lived how he could, fighting, gambling, and all the other ways street kids survive. He met a thief named Banri, and they moved in together, running jobs for the local gangs until Banri vanished, chased out of town by an angry husband. Gojyo continued to live out in that little house on the edge of the woods, winning enough at the poker table to buy food and smokes and pay his rent, and, in his own words, "living was so easy you could puke". And then he stumbled across a half-dead man in the middle of the road, his belly sliced open and guts hanging out. Instead of calling the doctor, or moving on, Gojyo took the wounded man home and patched him up.
The wounded man had been Cho Gonou, and he was wanted for the murder of five hundred humans and a thousand youkai, all over the kidnapping of his sister. When the authorities (in the form of Genjyo Sanzo and Son Goku) arrived at his door looking for the killer, Gojyo defended the man, fighting off the priest and giving Cho a chance to escape.
A lot happened after this point, but the short version is this: Cho Gonou was declared dead, and returned as Cho Hakkai. He immediately moved back in with Gojyo, and they spent three happy years running errands of a violent and not always legal nature for the local temple and the temple's head monk, Genjyo Sanzo, until the call came down from Heaven that they had to go to India to stop a demon king from being revived. And so they jumped in the jeep and headed west.
Currently, they've fought their way through a crazed monk with a crush on Sanzo, a ghost of Hakkai's past named Chin Yisou, have seen two times what happens when a force of nature is unleashed in the form of a boy, fought a god, fought themselves, fought the son of the youkai king, and most recently, a village full of zombies. For those familiar with canon, Gojyo is coming from Reload 7, after the bridge scene and right before Goku is attacked.
Personality:
From the intro in the manga:
Gojyo is a lecherous kappa (water youkai). His behavior might seem vulgar and rough at first glance (and it is), but to his friends he's like a dependable older brother. He and Goku are sparring partners, he and Hakkai are best friends, and he and Sanzo are bad friends (ha ha!). Sometimes his love for the ladies gets him into trouble.
Gojyo has a soft spot for kids and hard-luck cases (having been both himself), and he'll do anything for a kid or a girl in trouble. For all his braggart posing, he doesn't think very highly of himself, and he's quick to deflect the conversation away from himself the second it gets too serious.
However, all of this soft candy center is covered in a brash, prickly exterior. Gojyo's a punk - he's a foul-mouthed, hard drinking card shark who has no problem getting into a fistfight when he's called out for cheating (or really, just because!). And the ladies love a bad boy - especially a bad boy with a heart of gold, who will treat them like they're made of glass - but for the past several years Gojyo's flirting around has been just that. That's not to say that he won't be interested in spending some quality time with a lovely lady or three, but he's more flash and less substance in that department since meeting his soul mate the group he's saving the world with.
Abilities/Strengths:
As a half-youkai, Gojyo has slightly better hearing, vision, and stamina than a normal person (and by "slightly better" I mean "seriously impressive"). He can take abullet and keep moving, and gets back up after blows that would knock a normal human unconscious. He also has a magical summon weapon, a modified monk's spade, or shakujyo. It's about six feet long with a mounted spade-shaped blade on one end, and a sickle blade on the other. The sickle blade detaches, and can be thrown and whipped around in crazy loops on a never-ending length of chain. Example image. Second example image. It comes when called, materializing in his left hand.
He can also drink you under the table, smoke four or five packs of cigarettes a day and not die, and his pickup lines are the worst, yet they somehow succeed. Sometimes.
On the less physical end, Gojyo is the heart of his team, and loves people in a way that even he doesn't quite understand. He will do anything for a friend, a lady, or a kid in danger, and once he's thrown in with someone, he's on their side forever. Even if they betray him and try to have him killed, he's still loyal.
Weaknesses:
Gojyo has never been one to think things through before acting. This, combined with his low self-esteem and how highly he holds his friends, ends up with Gojyo jumping head-first into situation after situation that would kill a lesser man... and he almost dies more than once himself. A "friend" asks him to be a hostage in the "friend's" place, when it's obvious to everyone that the "friend" is going to bail - Gojyo agrees. A pair of kids are killed by a god - Gojyo leaves his friends and responsibilities for a suicidal mission to teach that god a lesson. Hakkai's limiters come off, and he's bloodthirsty and out of control - Gojyo steps up, unarmed, to stop him. ...Hey, nobody ever accused him of being the smart one.
Sexuality:
I'm mostly interested in playing out dark scenes. Rape, torture (physical and psychological), death... that kind of thing. If this is not your cup of tea, that's totally fine! Dark scenes are not the only things I'm willing to play - they're just my preference.
Non-human:
If your character has the ability to detect magic, demons, or otherworldy odd things, they may notice some things about Gojyo. Feel free to pick from any (or all!) of the following:
-he is not human
-he is part demon/monster
-he smells vaguely of fish/cucumbers (he doesn't, actually, but he is a kappa, and kappa are river creatures who love cucumbers, so some characters may detect his non-human nature as a slight fishy smell)
Any questions? Just ask!
I am down for everything, up to and including death of my character. The only things I have no interest in playing are pedophilia, vomit/scat, and bestiality.
Appearance:
Sha Gojyo is 6'1" tall and about 150 pounds of bone, hair, and muscle. His blood-red hair and eyes mark him as a "child of taboo", a half-human, half-youkai bastard. Carved deep across his left cheekbone are two slightly curving scars - a memento from age twelve, when his stepmother attacked him with an ax. As ashamed as he is of his scars and coloring, he's proud of the rest of his body, and takes great pleasure in showing it off, wearing tight pants and frequently going without a shirt at all. Topless, his ribs and collarbone are even more prominent, but he wears his scrawniness well... and he's got a good layer of hard-won muscle over all the rest. He's been fighting for his life for over ten years, and it shows, not only in his muscles and bony ribs, but in a thousand little scars, from scrapes, cuts, bites... you name it. Obvious scars include the two on his cheek, a human bite mark on his left forearm, a bullet hole right over his heart, and about fifteen thumbprint-sized round scars scattered all over his front, most with matching holes in the back (shoulder, knee, ribs, etc). Here is a shot of him in his standard outfit (along with Goku):
But on top of it all, he's smiling. Even when he's angry he's smiling - boy never shuts his mouth for a minute. He's very touchy-feely, too, and can't go very long without human contact - an arm around a friend's shoulder, or a cute girl's waist, a hand mussing a kid's hair.
His typical outfit consists of worn leather workboots, black jeans or leather pants, a white wifebeater, and a wide bandanna pulled low across his forehead.
Background:
In an alternate version of now (or, more specifically, an alternate version of the 1970's), there was a war in Heaven. On Earth, humans and youkai, or demons, lived together peacefully until the youkai king Gyuumaoh (or "Ox King") went on a rampage, killing and maiming and generally being hugely destructive. As taking a life is not permitted in Heaven, a "dirty" creature was sent down to stop Gyuumoah. This "dirty" or "taboo" creature was the War Prince Nataku... who was also, for all intents and purposes, a seven-year-old boy. Four people objected to Nataku being used in this manner - a general, a field marshal, a bureaucrat, and another "taboo" creature named Son Goku. Major shit went down. Four people against an army rarely ends well, but they caused enough destruction before being killed (or, in Son Goku's case, locked in a cage on top of a mountain) that Heaven was still talking about it five hundred years later.
And five hundred years later was when the general, the field marshal, and the bureaucrat were reincarnated as Sha Gojyo, Cho Hakkai, and the boy Kouryuu, who grew up to be the high priest Genjyo Sanzo, the 31st of China. Someone out west in India has begun an effort to awaken Gyuumaoh, and the technique they are using, a forbidden mixture of science and magic, has created a kind of plague. This plague, the Minus Wave, is sweeping the planet, driving all the youkai mad and giving them a taste for human flesh. So the gods, under the direction of Hir Mercy Kanzeon Bosatsu, the boddhisatva of compassion, have ordered Sanzo and the others to travel to India and stop the resurrection.
Sha Gojyo was born to a youkai father and a human mother. His father was married to a youkai woman, and they had a son, Jien, who was about three years old when Dad fell in love with a human girl and abandoned his family to live with her. Shortly thereafter Gojyo was born, a forbidden, taboo mix of human and youkai blood. This taboo is clearly displayed in his blood-red hair and eyes. Karma loves parallels, so when Gojyo was three, he also lost his family. His father and mother committed suicide, and Gojyo was taken to live with his stepmother and brother.
It was not a happy situation. Gojyo's mother had gone somewhat crazy when her husband left, and being saddled with his halfbreed bastard was more than she could handle. She abused the boy, beating him regularly, and just seeing him made her cry. The hatred she gave Gojyo was mirrored in the love she lavished on his brother Jien, and when Jien was twelve or thirteen years old, that relationship became a sexual one, imprinting on Gojyo forever that love and sex were the same thing.
But even Jien's attentions couldn't keep Mama Sha away from little Gojyo, and she finally snapped, going after the boy with an ax and leaving two deep scars carved on the left side of his face. She would have hacked him to bits had not Jien intervened, killing his own mother with a sword, then, tearfully, abandoning little Gojyo to fend for himself. Whether he fled to keep the stain of matricide off Gojyo's head, or because he was only 19 himself and terrified, is unclear. Whatever the reason, Gojyo found himself alone at the age of twelve.
The next several years he lived how he could, fighting, gambling, and all the other ways street kids survive. He met a thief named Banri, and they moved in together, running jobs for the local gangs until Banri vanished, chased out of town by an angry husband. Gojyo continued to live out in that little house on the edge of the woods, winning enough at the poker table to buy food and smokes and pay his rent, and, in his own words, "living was so easy you could puke". And then he stumbled across a half-dead man in the middle of the road, his belly sliced open and guts hanging out. Instead of calling the doctor, or moving on, Gojyo took the wounded man home and patched him up.
The wounded man had been Cho Gonou, and he was wanted for the murder of five hundred humans and a thousand youkai, all over the kidnapping of his sister. When the authorities (in the form of Genjyo Sanzo and Son Goku) arrived at his door looking for the killer, Gojyo defended the man, fighting off the priest and giving Cho a chance to escape.
A lot happened after this point, but the short version is this: Cho Gonou was declared dead, and returned as Cho Hakkai. He immediately moved back in with Gojyo, and they spent three happy years running errands of a violent and not always legal nature for the local temple and the temple's head monk, Genjyo Sanzo, until the call came down from Heaven that they had to go to India to stop a demon king from being revived. And so they jumped in the jeep and headed west.
Currently, they've fought their way through a crazed monk with a crush on Sanzo, a ghost of Hakkai's past named Chin Yisou, have seen two times what happens when a force of nature is unleashed in the form of a boy, fought a god, fought themselves, fought the son of the youkai king, and most recently, a village full of zombies. For those familiar with canon, Gojyo is coming from Reload 7, after the bridge scene and right before Goku is attacked.
Personality:
From the intro in the manga:
Gojyo is a lecherous kappa (water youkai). His behavior might seem vulgar and rough at first glance (and it is), but to his friends he's like a dependable older brother. He and Goku are sparring partners, he and Hakkai are best friends, and he and Sanzo are bad friends (ha ha!). Sometimes his love for the ladies gets him into trouble.
Gojyo has a soft spot for kids and hard-luck cases (having been both himself), and he'll do anything for a kid or a girl in trouble. For all his braggart posing, he doesn't think very highly of himself, and he's quick to deflect the conversation away from himself the second it gets too serious.
However, all of this soft candy center is covered in a brash, prickly exterior. Gojyo's a punk - he's a foul-mouthed, hard drinking card shark who has no problem getting into a fistfight when he's called out for cheating (or really, just because!). And the ladies love a bad boy - especially a bad boy with a heart of gold, who will treat them like they're made of glass - but for the past several years Gojyo's flirting around has been just that. That's not to say that he won't be interested in spending some quality time with a lovely lady or three, but he's more flash and less substance in that department since meeting his soul mate the group he's saving the world with.
Abilities/Strengths:
As a half-youkai, Gojyo has slightly better hearing, vision, and stamina than a normal person (and by "slightly better" I mean "seriously impressive"). He can take abullet and keep moving, and gets back up after blows that would knock a normal human unconscious. He also has a magical summon weapon, a modified monk's spade, or shakujyo. It's about six feet long with a mounted spade-shaped blade on one end, and a sickle blade on the other. The sickle blade detaches, and can be thrown and whipped around in crazy loops on a never-ending length of chain. Example image. Second example image. It comes when called, materializing in his left hand.
He can also drink you under the table, smoke four or five packs of cigarettes a day and not die, and his pickup lines are the worst, yet they somehow succeed. Sometimes.
On the less physical end, Gojyo is the heart of his team, and loves people in a way that even he doesn't quite understand. He will do anything for a friend, a lady, or a kid in danger, and once he's thrown in with someone, he's on their side forever. Even if they betray him and try to have him killed, he's still loyal.
Weaknesses:
Gojyo has never been one to think things through before acting. This, combined with his low self-esteem and how highly he holds his friends, ends up with Gojyo jumping head-first into situation after situation that would kill a lesser man... and he almost dies more than once himself. A "friend" asks him to be a hostage in the "friend's" place, when it's obvious to everyone that the "friend" is going to bail - Gojyo agrees. A pair of kids are killed by a god - Gojyo leaves his friends and responsibilities for a suicidal mission to teach that god a lesson. Hakkai's limiters come off, and he's bloodthirsty and out of control - Gojyo steps up, unarmed, to stop him. ...Hey, nobody ever accused him of being the smart one.
Sexuality:
I'm mostly interested in playing out dark scenes. Rape, torture (physical and psychological), death... that kind of thing. If this is not your cup of tea, that's totally fine! Dark scenes are not the only things I'm willing to play - they're just my preference.
Non-human:
If your character has the ability to detect magic, demons, or otherworldy odd things, they may notice some things about Gojyo. Feel free to pick from any (or all!) of the following:
-he is not human
-he is part demon/monster
-he smells vaguely of fish/cucumbers (he doesn't, actually, but he is a kappa, and kappa are river creatures who love cucumbers, so some characters may detect his non-human nature as a slight fishy smell)
Any questions? Just ask!