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YOUR NAME: Rachel
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YOUR NAME: Rachel
18+?: y
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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Hanatarou Yamada
AGE: Unknown; likely 70–110 as of canon epilogue
CANON: BLEACH
NAME: Hanatarou Yamada
AGE: Unknown; likely 70–110 as of canon epilogue
CANON: BLEACH
CANON HISTORY: Bleach wiki
CANON PERSONALITY: Meek and nervous to the extreme, Hanatarou is easy to intimidate, never stands up for himself, and almost always does as he's told. These traits, along with his small stature, flimsy constitution, and jumpiness, have made him a prime target for bullies of all kinds all his life. (He's part of the Gotei 13's 4th division, where receiving threats and various kinds of abuse from the combat-loving 11th division is normal for everyone--but Hanatarou is the only one who is also regularly picked on by other members of 4th division.) He's gullible, clumsy, sometimes painfully clueless, and has a tendency to completely space out; he regularly overworks and uses energy supplements to take the place of sleep, so he's tired most of the time too.
He's also gentle, sweet, and far more passionate than most people would suspect. Typical airhead mode aside, he's extremely serious and competent when in his element, and is occasionally impressively subtle and sneaky (he leads Ichigo and Ganju through a network of underground passageways that he knows their pursuers can't navigate, steals a spare key to Rukia's cell, and uses a tranquilizing medicine to incapacitate a guard so he can get to Rukia without needing to fight). Of course, he often totally whiffs it, too; he has an unfortunate habit of getting separated from whatever group he's with, either because they moved too quickly or because he wasn't paying attention, and when that happens he usually ends up needing to be rescued himself.
He's submissive and selfless to a fault. Much of his self-effacement and deflection of anything like thanks or praise is a product of the fact that these are the appropriate and polite things for a person of his status (and culture) to do, but he does take it to an extreme, and the feelings behind it are pretty genuine.
Until Ichigo and his comrades shook things up and defied the Proper Way of Things so spectacularly by busting into Soul Society and stopping Rukia's execution, it had never really occurred to Hanatarou that it was possible for him to matter, or for things to be better than they were--and that doing all he could to make them that way was not only okay, but was the right thing to do. Watching Ichigo fight against opponents that he should reasonably have been no match for--not because he was certain of victory, or because he needed to preserve his own life, but because he had to in order to save Rukia--taught Hanatarou more about real courage than he had learned in countless years of service. And watching Ichigo win those impossible fights and keep all his promises taught Hanatarou more about hope than he had ever learned over a lifetime in a rigidly stratified, stagnant, and seemingly immutable society. Even though it was a subtle change outwardly, it meant everything to him. Without it, he couldn't have faced down his very real, very legitimate fear and gone past it to find the incredible courage he'd never known he possessed. Since then, he hasn't stopped being scared of stuff, and almost nothing about his behaviour has actually changed, but everything is better.
By default, Hanatarou expects to be treated badly, scolded, and/or disregarded entirely. As a result, he's not only very pleasantly surprised when someone is actually kind to or considerate of him, he's also entirely unprepared for it and doesn't quite know how to react. (It can end up pretty awkward, but it's a good awkward! ... for him, at least!) This same basic principle means that all someone has to do is be genuinely (or convincingly!) nice to him a couple of times, and he'll pretty much walk into hell for them without ever expecting anything in return. (Seriously, he won't expect anything. They don't even have to keep being nice to him.) Luckily for him, sort of, it also means he doesn't get depressed over things like unrequited love or mismatched levels of affection, since... well, he never really considered the possibility of his feelings being reciprocated to begin with.
Thinking of himself as someone who is potentially important in any way--whose feelings and actions have relevance, even significance, and maybe even to people other than himself--is something pretty new for him. But for the sake of those who care about him (and hey, who would have guessed that anyone cared about him?), it's something he's sort of more or less trying to work on.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
-Powerful healing abilities based around spiritual energy
-Expert knowledge of emergency treatment and surgery (with similar techniques but different technology from what's used in the modern real world)
-Probably okay at mid-level destructive and defensive kidou/spells
-Decent enough at basic swordsmanship to have passed Sword Class at the shinigami academy
-With his zanpakutou (soul-cutting blade), can ferry the spirits of the dead to the afterlife (by using the blade to purify a Hollow/corrupted soul, or the hilt to perform a Soul Burial on a normal soul)
-His zanpakutou, Hisagomaru, reabsorbs and heals any wounds it inflicts (and can seemingly heal scars as well); when Hanatarou performs shikai (first release), all the destructive energy from the absorbed wounds is released as a single massive attack, and the sword transforms from a katana to a scalpel. In this smaller form, it can inflict damage without immediately healing it, but it's, you know, a scalpel. (Basically, it's possible to put Hisagomaru's abilities to good use in a real fight, but it takes strategy and luck to pull off.)
CANON PERSONALITY: Meek and nervous to the extreme, Hanatarou is easy to intimidate, never stands up for himself, and almost always does as he's told. These traits, along with his small stature, flimsy constitution, and jumpiness, have made him a prime target for bullies of all kinds all his life. (He's part of the Gotei 13's 4th division, where receiving threats and various kinds of abuse from the combat-loving 11th division is normal for everyone--but Hanatarou is the only one who is also regularly picked on by other members of 4th division.) He's gullible, clumsy, sometimes painfully clueless, and has a tendency to completely space out; he regularly overworks and uses energy supplements to take the place of sleep, so he's tired most of the time too.
He's also gentle, sweet, and far more passionate than most people would suspect. Typical airhead mode aside, he's extremely serious and competent when in his element, and is occasionally impressively subtle and sneaky (he leads Ichigo and Ganju through a network of underground passageways that he knows their pursuers can't navigate, steals a spare key to Rukia's cell, and uses a tranquilizing medicine to incapacitate a guard so he can get to Rukia without needing to fight). Of course, he often totally whiffs it, too; he has an unfortunate habit of getting separated from whatever group he's with, either because they moved too quickly or because he wasn't paying attention, and when that happens he usually ends up needing to be rescued himself.
He's submissive and selfless to a fault. Much of his self-effacement and deflection of anything like thanks or praise is a product of the fact that these are the appropriate and polite things for a person of his status (and culture) to do, but he does take it to an extreme, and the feelings behind it are pretty genuine.
Until Ichigo and his comrades shook things up and defied the Proper Way of Things so spectacularly by busting into Soul Society and stopping Rukia's execution, it had never really occurred to Hanatarou that it was possible for him to matter, or for things to be better than they were--and that doing all he could to make them that way was not only okay, but was the right thing to do. Watching Ichigo fight against opponents that he should reasonably have been no match for--not because he was certain of victory, or because he needed to preserve his own life, but because he had to in order to save Rukia--taught Hanatarou more about real courage than he had learned in countless years of service. And watching Ichigo win those impossible fights and keep all his promises taught Hanatarou more about hope than he had ever learned over a lifetime in a rigidly stratified, stagnant, and seemingly immutable society. Even though it was a subtle change outwardly, it meant everything to him. Without it, he couldn't have faced down his very real, very legitimate fear and gone past it to find the incredible courage he'd never known he possessed. Since then, he hasn't stopped being scared of stuff, and almost nothing about his behaviour has actually changed, but everything is better.
By default, Hanatarou expects to be treated badly, scolded, and/or disregarded entirely. As a result, he's not only very pleasantly surprised when someone is actually kind to or considerate of him, he's also entirely unprepared for it and doesn't quite know how to react. (It can end up pretty awkward, but it's a good awkward! ... for him, at least!) This same basic principle means that all someone has to do is be genuinely (or convincingly!) nice to him a couple of times, and he'll pretty much walk into hell for them without ever expecting anything in return. (Seriously, he won't expect anything. They don't even have to keep being nice to him.) Luckily for him, sort of, it also means he doesn't get depressed over things like unrequited love or mismatched levels of affection, since... well, he never really considered the possibility of his feelings being reciprocated to begin with.
Thinking of himself as someone who is potentially important in any way--whose feelings and actions have relevance, even significance, and maybe even to people other than himself--is something pretty new for him. But for the sake of those who care about him (and hey, who would have guessed that anyone cared about him?), it's something he's sort of more or less trying to work on.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
-Powerful healing abilities based around spiritual energy
-Expert knowledge of emergency treatment and surgery (with similar techniques but different technology from what's used in the modern real world)
-Probably okay at mid-level destructive and defensive kidou/spells
-Decent enough at basic swordsmanship to have passed Sword Class at the shinigami academy
-With his zanpakutou (soul-cutting blade), can ferry the spirits of the dead to the afterlife (by using the blade to purify a Hollow/corrupted soul, or the hilt to perform a Soul Burial on a normal soul)
-His zanpakutou, Hisagomaru, reabsorbs and heals any wounds it inflicts (and can seemingly heal scars as well); when Hanatarou performs shikai (first release), all the destructive energy from the absorbed wounds is released as a single massive attack, and the sword transforms from a katana to a scalpel. In this smaller form, it can inflict damage without immediately healing it, but it's, you know, a scalpel. (Basically, it's possible to put Hisagomaru's abilities to good use in a real fight, but it takes strategy and luck to pull off.)
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Jamie Doh
AU AGE: 20
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Instead of blue, his eyes are brown.
AU NAME: Jamie Doh
AU AGE: 20
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Instead of blue, his eyes are brown.
AU HISTORY: Jamie's parents were first-generation Japanese immigrants who relocated to the United States along with their older (and at the time only) son and his maternal grandmother; Jamie was born a few years later. When Jamie was still quite young, his father lost his job (and with it his eligibility for permanent lawful residency). With no readily available prospects for employment at a similar level, Mr. Doh chose to return to Japan; Mrs. Doh remained in the South Bay area with her mother and sons. However, the couple never divorced, and while they saw each other only once or twice a year, they still got along just fine, as evidenced by the birth of Jamie's younger sister when he was seven.
Because he and his siblings were born so far apart--his older brother was already out of high school by the time his younger sister was born--Jamie never had a classic middle-child experience; instead, he was a younger sibling who eventually happened to become an older sibling. His home life was free of any major strife, though his mother's and grandmother's work schedules meant he was often alone (or looking after his sister).
Jamie made good grades in school (but tended to simply achieve rather than overachieve) and usually had a loose-knit circle of friends. He became a target for bullying starting in middle school; this ranged in intensity from "not great" to "really bad" and lasted until he transferred to a magnet school in tenth grade. That's also around when he started working as a barista at that one huge national chain (and when he discovered the magic of self-medicating with espresso).
He earned a partial scholarship to Recollé U and moved to the city by himself after high school. Currently he lives off campus and is in his third year as a premed sociology major. He's still a barista and still hitting the caffeine (and the books--the MCAT's coming up!) pretty hard. He's also a certified medical marijuana cardholder! (It's to treat insomnia and anxiety, but also for fun and friendship.) (But he's not a stoner or anything; he doesn't want to jeopardize his job or his academics, and he doesn't have the spare time for it anyway.) (Also, until he turns 21, he'll never deliberately drink alcohol. That's illegal!!)
AU PERSONALITY:
The main difference between Jamie and his preincarnation is one of degree; he has the same basic traits, but they're all somewhat toned down, and somewhat more malleable.
He's still a compassionate person who tends to put others before himself, but he's never been pushed to the limits of his courage, inspired by feats of hot-blooded passion, or placed in a situation where he felt his only option was to give up his life in order to save another, so... he's less inclined to acts of martyrdom, his demeanor in general is a little more low-key, and his moral convictions are more unexamined.
Unlike his preincarnation, who spent decades upon decades in a narrowly prescribed role within a hidebound organization in a seemingly changeless and eternal society, Jamie's lived just twenty years of a more or less normal human life. So, for one thing, inner growth and change come more easily to him and feel more natural, and for another, his outlook never had to undergo a seismic shift from quiet, frozen fatalism to a fiercely held hope and belief in a better world. That, in turn, means he's emotionally healthier and more resilient overall--but he's also never experienced a soul-deep revelation that transformed the world around him into a brighter and more beautiful place in a thousand tiny ways, and some people are into that kind of thing.
He still gets attached to people easily and can be deeply moved by relatively minor acts of kindness (and deeply impressed by likewise minor feats of brilliance), but he's, like, cool about it?? Similarly, his self-confidence isn't the best, but he only hates himself in a casual way, and he can take a compliment (or apologize for a mistake) without turning it into a huge, miserable ordeal for everyone involved.
While in general Jamie's life has been way more chill than his preincarnation's, there are also a few things he's dealt with that his previous self didn't. Chief among these are the issues, feelings, and experiences that go along with growing up as a second-gen Asian immigrant in the United States. And though his ethnic heritage is 100% Japanese, due to his prominent double eyelid and American-ness, he's frequently mistaken for hāfu when he visits Japan (and sometimes even by others of Asian descent in America). This isn't exactly a huge deal, but it does give him weird feelings that he doesn't quite know how to process!
Because he and his siblings were born so far apart--his older brother was already out of high school by the time his younger sister was born--Jamie never had a classic middle-child experience; instead, he was a younger sibling who eventually happened to become an older sibling. His home life was free of any major strife, though his mother's and grandmother's work schedules meant he was often alone (or looking after his sister).
Jamie made good grades in school (but tended to simply achieve rather than overachieve) and usually had a loose-knit circle of friends. He became a target for bullying starting in middle school; this ranged in intensity from "not great" to "really bad" and lasted until he transferred to a magnet school in tenth grade. That's also around when he started working as a barista at that one huge national chain (and when he discovered the magic of self-medicating with espresso).
He earned a partial scholarship to Recollé U and moved to the city by himself after high school. Currently he lives off campus and is in his third year as a premed sociology major. He's still a barista and still hitting the caffeine (and the books--the MCAT's coming up!) pretty hard. He's also a certified medical marijuana cardholder! (It's to treat insomnia and anxiety, but also for fun and friendship.) (But he's not a stoner or anything; he doesn't want to jeopardize his job or his academics, and he doesn't have the spare time for it anyway.) (Also, until he turns 21, he'll never deliberately drink alcohol. That's illegal!!)
AU PERSONALITY:
The main difference between Jamie and his preincarnation is one of degree; he has the same basic traits, but they're all somewhat toned down, and somewhat more malleable.
He's still a compassionate person who tends to put others before himself, but he's never been pushed to the limits of his courage, inspired by feats of hot-blooded passion, or placed in a situation where he felt his only option was to give up his life in order to save another, so... he's less inclined to acts of martyrdom, his demeanor in general is a little more low-key, and his moral convictions are more unexamined.
Unlike his preincarnation, who spent decades upon decades in a narrowly prescribed role within a hidebound organization in a seemingly changeless and eternal society, Jamie's lived just twenty years of a more or less normal human life. So, for one thing, inner growth and change come more easily to him and feel more natural, and for another, his outlook never had to undergo a seismic shift from quiet, frozen fatalism to a fiercely held hope and belief in a better world. That, in turn, means he's emotionally healthier and more resilient overall--but he's also never experienced a soul-deep revelation that transformed the world around him into a brighter and more beautiful place in a thousand tiny ways, and some people are into that kind of thing.
He still gets attached to people easily and can be deeply moved by relatively minor acts of kindness (and deeply impressed by likewise minor feats of brilliance), but he's, like, cool about it?? Similarly, his self-confidence isn't the best, but he only hates himself in a casual way, and he can take a compliment (or apologize for a mistake) without turning it into a huge, miserable ordeal for everyone involved.
While in general Jamie's life has been way more chill than his preincarnation's, there are also a few things he's dealt with that his previous self didn't. Chief among these are the issues, feelings, and experiences that go along with growing up as a second-gen Asian immigrant in the United States. And though his ethnic heritage is 100% Japanese, due to his prominent double eyelid and American-ness, he's frequently mistaken for hāfu when he visits Japan (and sometimes even by others of Asian descent in America). This isn't exactly a huge deal, but it does give him weird feelings that he doesn't quite know how to process!