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Age: 41
Invited by: Mish, ages ago
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CHARACTER INFO
Character: Shin Asakura
Canon: Sakamoto Days, Chapter 221
Age: 21
Background Information:
* Shin was born to a man named Tasuku Ando, a researcher at the Al-Kamar Orphanage that was run by the Japanese Assassin Association (JAA). For no clear reason, he decided not to enrol Shin into the orphanage, but rather to give him to a researcher friend named Asakura when he was a baby.
* Shin would grow up in a lab with Asakura and many other researchers, and when he was six years old he would wake up one night and drink what he thought was water, but was actually an experiment, granting him his telepathic powers.
* It wouldn't take long for the others to begin to ostracize him for his abilities, but he had faith in Asakura's research, but when the other started talking about changing him back, Shin got frustrated and ran away from home at nine years old.
* This would begin a long search for Ando, that led to him skulking about criminal organizations, among other places related to assassins. Shin was caught when he was thirteen which set him up for a meeting with the Taro Sakamoto in his prime. When Sakamoto extracts information from someone and admits his target is Ando, Shin attempts to manipulate him for a chance to meet his father.
* Turned down, Shin uses his own smarts to get on board a ship to confront Ando and is promptly thrown overboard, only to be rescued by Sakamoto. This leads to the pair working together to corner Ando and avoid being killed in the process, which demonstrates to Sakamoto his value.
* Ando proves he's both, not a good man by holding a whole ship of civilians hostage and blames Shin for the fact the JAA has a bounty on his head. Allowing Shin to escape the orphanage put him in their crosshairs. He concludes this revelation by calling Shin his biggest regret and pulls a gun on him. The tides change when someone crashes the party and Shin gets his hands on the gun and holds Ando at gunpoint instead. When he's startled, he accidentally pulls the trigger, giving Ando a fatal wound.
* Shin prioritizes saving people on the ship with Sakamoto when Ando gives him the locations of the bombs to spending his father's last breaths with him. His dying wish was for Shin to live.
* Shin trained with Sakamoto for the next year to focus his assassination skills and began working as a contractor for the JAA, to earn a somewhat steady income.
* At age 20, after Sakamoto has retired, Shin is sent to confront him and ask him to return to the JAA. Sakamoto's refusal for the reason of his family and ordinary life touch Shin and he offers up his life in exchange for letting him go. They agree, but as he can read thoughts, he knew they were lying. Sakamoto arrives in time to help Shin make his escape and offers him a job at his convenience store, effectively adopting him into the Sakamoto family.
* For some months he spends time just living an ordinary life, playing with Sakamoto's daughter and minding the store, fending off assassins that are coming for Sakamoto's head, which works out as their family grows through Lu an ex-Triad, and Heisuke another ex-assassin join the team.
* A lead on who set the bounty on Sakamoto sends the pair of them to the JCC entrance exam. (JCC is basically assassin university) Shin asks Sakamoto to avoid helping him so he can hone and test his skills, while keeping to his no killing policy, it's the family's number one rule. Shin scores first place out of all of the applicants.
* His school life begins and he spends it trying to go through all the manga tropes at first intentionally, cutting class, smoking in the bathroom, that's all well and good until they realize an assassin killer has kidnapped one of the other applicants, Mafuyu when his brother Natsuki gets a wordless call. Natsuki is primarily a weaponsmith and he outfits Shin with a glove that would only work if someone could read the future. He promises to Natsuki that he will bring his brother back.
* Their first attempt was a failure, but a second contact with Mafuyu at a museum exhibit pits Shin up against some tough opponents, and gets Sakamoto and two other members of a secret Order spun off from the JAA are blacklisted and now the JAA is not a safe place to be. With the brothers reunited, Shin knows he needs to get stronger. It's recommended to him that he seek out the JAA's fortune teller. She resides in the basement of a lawless prison full of assassins.
* Shin and Heisuke turn themselves in and get sentenced to ten years for their parts in the museum assault, which doesn't concern him because he plans on leaving after meeting her. On B-2 he encounters a man named Tenkyu, someone who grew up in the orphanage and without attachment to anything was planning on killing Sakamoto's wife and daughter. Shin snaps completely, deciding to quit his job right then and there and declaring himself an assassin after all.
* Before he can take Tenkyu's life, Sakamoto arrives in the nick of time to stop him and though he pleads his case that he is not fit to be part of their family, Sakamoto reminds him that he knows exactly the kind of man he is, and that he tries to be a good person and that's enough.
* Despite their best efforts, the man going by X manages to stage a coup d'etat and his first act to get rid of these assassins is to give each citizen a gun with three bullets, and grant them permission to kill anyone they want. Shin runs around, swiping people's guns to save them from themselves and even gets Asakura's help to brainwash people into using up their guns and disarming them, while Natsuki deactivates them.
* This brings down all of the bad guys on Shin because he was being so public and while he fights and struggles, Sakamoto rushes in and kicks him out of the fight, prepared to die. He nearly does, but Shin refuses to let that happen, he grabs everyone he can to mount a rescue. Since Sakamoto is down, he takes it upon himself to protect everyone in his place.
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them.
Shin is fundamentally soft-hearted, easily swayed by people who need his help or who make arguments that he thinks are reasonable, especially when it comes to civilians. He's taken the rule not to disturb them to heart and he tends to behave very carefully, as well as to rescue them should they find themselves in harm's way. He comes across as friendly, now that he's in with Sakamoto, encouraging others to give up assassinating and just resolving things without killing. He can be very unassuming to his opponents, but if they know about him, they do have some trepidation. He's strong, both physically and mentally, and he tends to move to the beat of his own drum. He doesn't care for the most part that people find him creepy or strange. He likes who he is.
He can be playful and mischievous, he's open to teasing people about their thoughts which can make him seem a little on the obnoxious side, but he also comes across as clever, and the more time he spends with Sakamoto, the more his skills evolve. He's trustworthy and incredibly loyal and people know they can count on him. He has a reputation that precedes him, and people often think he is clairvoyant, which is a misnomer to his abilities as his clairvoyance is severely restricted. It's just enough to make people nervous.
Because he can read people's motivations so well, he comes across as very trusting. He has pretty thick skin, but being rejected outright for his abilities is something that still stings. When he encounters someone he can't get a read on, he is incredibly guarded because he sees their ability to stop him as a failing, with the exception of Natsuki.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
For a long time, Shin was driven into finding his father, but after killing him he was somewhat aimless and lost. He killed people to make a living and get by, but he didn't exactly push for anything more. It's not an uncommon mindset among assassins, he also has little to tie himself to his life, but in meeting Sakamoto again and giving into a retirement of sorts, he's found meaning in the little things - family dinners, protecting the store, working for minimum wage, a room with people around him and now he fights to protect this. He wants Sakamoto to have his happy ending, which is why it was significant when he nearly threw it all away in the name of protecting them. He's doing things with his life that most people do in their childhood and loving every minute of it, he wouldn't give up this opportunity even though he feels he's not worth it. This type of lifestyle tends to him living for whatever days he has, and he doesn't necessarily expect much out of life. Every day he survives is a good one and he expects one day, likely sooner rather than later, he'll be the one to die.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
Shin can be very invasive, and he's not apologetic about it, but at the same time he seems to know when to push those buttons and when not to. He gets angry with people who reject him on the premise of his abilities alone, like when Lu blurted out that he was so uncomfortable to be around. She hadn't meant it like he took it, but he carries that burden from his past. He also has a tendency to gloat a little bit when it comes to his telepathy. He can also be off putting when he's reading people's minds and they don't know he can do that.
He's not someone who stews in regret very much, and a lot of that is due to his upbringing. He could regret killing his father, but aside from his distress in the moment, he hasn't brought it up since. Shin tends to live for the now, and that means he sheds his mistakes in the past. He did almost slip up and go back to killing, and he does regret losing his head over that. He botched his assassination of Sakamoto, but that he doesn't regret, not for a single moment.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
Until his acceptance to JCC, he never attended school and in fact, flitted around a homeless runaway from the age of nine well into his teens.
Abilities & Inventory:
Inventory: The notable item is his weapon of choice, dubbed the power glove, it was made by Natsuki and it allows him to shut down the limiter in his brain to use 100% of his potential. There is a minimum 0.5 second delay on his actions, meaning Shin must be able to read the future to use it. The longer the delay, the more powerful the attack, giving him super strength. The drawback is that his arm gets wrecked if he uses it too much.
Abilities:
Enhanced Strength/Super Strength: Because of training alone, Shin was already going toe to toe with some of the toughest enemies he could encounter, with men who were bigger and stronger than him without a lot of difficulty. The glove removes the limiter in his brain and allows him to get even stronger, enough to cause serious damage.
Enhanced Speed: Shin has excellent reflexes, but he's strongly helped with his ability to read his opponents thoughts and moves, which allows him to move and duck around without taking blows, making him seem faster than he is, at normal levels.
Telepathy: Shin can read people's minds. He can read and find people in a 400 meter radius, and then he describes tuning into specific people as turning a radio dial. He can also read their emotional states. People who can overwhelm him, or have disordered thinking can perplex him completely. He can be dissuaded if he can't understand their thoughts. This extends to animals who he finds equally easy to read, despite the fact they think in concepts rather than words. He can also see people's memories if they're recollecting them at the time like a movie, as well as their fantasies, such as when Sakamoto glares at him with killing intent. Anyone who wants to opt-out of this, it will be assumed that for whatever reason, he just can't get a read on them.
Precognition: Shin can read people's muscle movements in the split second the brain signal is sent to their limbs, allowing him to literally see the future, at least to some degree of about a second. He has a five minutes a day limit to using this ability if he doesn't want to die. The longer he tries, the worse he feels. Using this ability for longer than a few moments knocks out all of his other abilities for a time, including some of his other senses if he pushes it hard enough.
Mind Control: Shin can overwrite people's thoughts and force them to comply to a single command, as far as he knows, once in his life, per person. He can use it on as many people as an entire town at once. However, Shin can mind control himself as much as he wants, there's no limit. He can do things like open up his processing so everything moves at a crawl, move when he can no longer move anymore and as he found out, he can command someone's heart to beat, to save their lives.
Canon: Sakamoto Days, Chapter 221
Age: 21
Background Information:
* Shin was born to a man named Tasuku Ando, a researcher at the Al-Kamar Orphanage that was run by the Japanese Assassin Association (JAA). For no clear reason, he decided not to enrol Shin into the orphanage, but rather to give him to a researcher friend named Asakura when he was a baby.
* Shin would grow up in a lab with Asakura and many other researchers, and when he was six years old he would wake up one night and drink what he thought was water, but was actually an experiment, granting him his telepathic powers.
* It wouldn't take long for the others to begin to ostracize him for his abilities, but he had faith in Asakura's research, but when the other started talking about changing him back, Shin got frustrated and ran away from home at nine years old.
* This would begin a long search for Ando, that led to him skulking about criminal organizations, among other places related to assassins. Shin was caught when he was thirteen which set him up for a meeting with the Taro Sakamoto in his prime. When Sakamoto extracts information from someone and admits his target is Ando, Shin attempts to manipulate him for a chance to meet his father.
* Turned down, Shin uses his own smarts to get on board a ship to confront Ando and is promptly thrown overboard, only to be rescued by Sakamoto. This leads to the pair working together to corner Ando and avoid being killed in the process, which demonstrates to Sakamoto his value.
* Ando proves he's both, not a good man by holding a whole ship of civilians hostage and blames Shin for the fact the JAA has a bounty on his head. Allowing Shin to escape the orphanage put him in their crosshairs. He concludes this revelation by calling Shin his biggest regret and pulls a gun on him. The tides change when someone crashes the party and Shin gets his hands on the gun and holds Ando at gunpoint instead. When he's startled, he accidentally pulls the trigger, giving Ando a fatal wound.
* Shin prioritizes saving people on the ship with Sakamoto when Ando gives him the locations of the bombs to spending his father's last breaths with him. His dying wish was for Shin to live.
* Shin trained with Sakamoto for the next year to focus his assassination skills and began working as a contractor for the JAA, to earn a somewhat steady income.
* At age 20, after Sakamoto has retired, Shin is sent to confront him and ask him to return to the JAA. Sakamoto's refusal for the reason of his family and ordinary life touch Shin and he offers up his life in exchange for letting him go. They agree, but as he can read thoughts, he knew they were lying. Sakamoto arrives in time to help Shin make his escape and offers him a job at his convenience store, effectively adopting him into the Sakamoto family.
* For some months he spends time just living an ordinary life, playing with Sakamoto's daughter and minding the store, fending off assassins that are coming for Sakamoto's head, which works out as their family grows through Lu an ex-Triad, and Heisuke another ex-assassin join the team.
* A lead on who set the bounty on Sakamoto sends the pair of them to the JCC entrance exam. (JCC is basically assassin university) Shin asks Sakamoto to avoid helping him so he can hone and test his skills, while keeping to his no killing policy, it's the family's number one rule. Shin scores first place out of all of the applicants.
* His school life begins and he spends it trying to go through all the manga tropes at first intentionally, cutting class, smoking in the bathroom, that's all well and good until they realize an assassin killer has kidnapped one of the other applicants, Mafuyu when his brother Natsuki gets a wordless call. Natsuki is primarily a weaponsmith and he outfits Shin with a glove that would only work if someone could read the future. He promises to Natsuki that he will bring his brother back.
* Their first attempt was a failure, but a second contact with Mafuyu at a museum exhibit pits Shin up against some tough opponents, and gets Sakamoto and two other members of a secret Order spun off from the JAA are blacklisted and now the JAA is not a safe place to be. With the brothers reunited, Shin knows he needs to get stronger. It's recommended to him that he seek out the JAA's fortune teller. She resides in the basement of a lawless prison full of assassins.
* Shin and Heisuke turn themselves in and get sentenced to ten years for their parts in the museum assault, which doesn't concern him because he plans on leaving after meeting her. On B-2 he encounters a man named Tenkyu, someone who grew up in the orphanage and without attachment to anything was planning on killing Sakamoto's wife and daughter. Shin snaps completely, deciding to quit his job right then and there and declaring himself an assassin after all.
* Before he can take Tenkyu's life, Sakamoto arrives in the nick of time to stop him and though he pleads his case that he is not fit to be part of their family, Sakamoto reminds him that he knows exactly the kind of man he is, and that he tries to be a good person and that's enough.
* Despite their best efforts, the man going by X manages to stage a coup d'etat and his first act to get rid of these assassins is to give each citizen a gun with three bullets, and grant them permission to kill anyone they want. Shin runs around, swiping people's guns to save them from themselves and even gets Asakura's help to brainwash people into using up their guns and disarming them, while Natsuki deactivates them.
* This brings down all of the bad guys on Shin because he was being so public and while he fights and struggles, Sakamoto rushes in and kicks him out of the fight, prepared to die. He nearly does, but Shin refuses to let that happen, he grabs everyone he can to mount a rescue. Since Sakamoto is down, he takes it upon himself to protect everyone in his place.
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them.
Shin is fundamentally soft-hearted, easily swayed by people who need his help or who make arguments that he thinks are reasonable, especially when it comes to civilians. He's taken the rule not to disturb them to heart and he tends to behave very carefully, as well as to rescue them should they find themselves in harm's way. He comes across as friendly, now that he's in with Sakamoto, encouraging others to give up assassinating and just resolving things without killing. He can be very unassuming to his opponents, but if they know about him, they do have some trepidation. He's strong, both physically and mentally, and he tends to move to the beat of his own drum. He doesn't care for the most part that people find him creepy or strange. He likes who he is.
He can be playful and mischievous, he's open to teasing people about their thoughts which can make him seem a little on the obnoxious side, but he also comes across as clever, and the more time he spends with Sakamoto, the more his skills evolve. He's trustworthy and incredibly loyal and people know they can count on him. He has a reputation that precedes him, and people often think he is clairvoyant, which is a misnomer to his abilities as his clairvoyance is severely restricted. It's just enough to make people nervous.
Because he can read people's motivations so well, he comes across as very trusting. He has pretty thick skin, but being rejected outright for his abilities is something that still stings. When he encounters someone he can't get a read on, he is incredibly guarded because he sees their ability to stop him as a failing, with the exception of Natsuki.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
For a long time, Shin was driven into finding his father, but after killing him he was somewhat aimless and lost. He killed people to make a living and get by, but he didn't exactly push for anything more. It's not an uncommon mindset among assassins, he also has little to tie himself to his life, but in meeting Sakamoto again and giving into a retirement of sorts, he's found meaning in the little things - family dinners, protecting the store, working for minimum wage, a room with people around him and now he fights to protect this. He wants Sakamoto to have his happy ending, which is why it was significant when he nearly threw it all away in the name of protecting them. He's doing things with his life that most people do in their childhood and loving every minute of it, he wouldn't give up this opportunity even though he feels he's not worth it. This type of lifestyle tends to him living for whatever days he has, and he doesn't necessarily expect much out of life. Every day he survives is a good one and he expects one day, likely sooner rather than later, he'll be the one to die.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
Shin can be very invasive, and he's not apologetic about it, but at the same time he seems to know when to push those buttons and when not to. He gets angry with people who reject him on the premise of his abilities alone, like when Lu blurted out that he was so uncomfortable to be around. She hadn't meant it like he took it, but he carries that burden from his past. He also has a tendency to gloat a little bit when it comes to his telepathy. He can also be off putting when he's reading people's minds and they don't know he can do that.
He's not someone who stews in regret very much, and a lot of that is due to his upbringing. He could regret killing his father, but aside from his distress in the moment, he hasn't brought it up since. Shin tends to live for the now, and that means he sheds his mistakes in the past. He did almost slip up and go back to killing, and he does regret losing his head over that. He botched his assassination of Sakamoto, but that he doesn't regret, not for a single moment.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
Until his acceptance to JCC, he never attended school and in fact, flitted around a homeless runaway from the age of nine well into his teens.
Abilities & Inventory:
Inventory: The notable item is his weapon of choice, dubbed the power glove, it was made by Natsuki and it allows him to shut down the limiter in his brain to use 100% of his potential. There is a minimum 0.5 second delay on his actions, meaning Shin must be able to read the future to use it. The longer the delay, the more powerful the attack, giving him super strength. The drawback is that his arm gets wrecked if he uses it too much.
Abilities:
Enhanced Strength/Super Strength: Because of training alone, Shin was already going toe to toe with some of the toughest enemies he could encounter, with men who were bigger and stronger than him without a lot of difficulty. The glove removes the limiter in his brain and allows him to get even stronger, enough to cause serious damage.
Enhanced Speed: Shin has excellent reflexes, but he's strongly helped with his ability to read his opponents thoughts and moves, which allows him to move and duck around without taking blows, making him seem faster than he is, at normal levels.
Telepathy: Shin can read people's minds. He can read and find people in a 400 meter radius, and then he describes tuning into specific people as turning a radio dial. He can also read their emotional states. People who can overwhelm him, or have disordered thinking can perplex him completely. He can be dissuaded if he can't understand their thoughts. This extends to animals who he finds equally easy to read, despite the fact they think in concepts rather than words. He can also see people's memories if they're recollecting them at the time like a movie, as well as their fantasies, such as when Sakamoto glares at him with killing intent. Anyone who wants to opt-out of this, it will be assumed that for whatever reason, he just can't get a read on them.
Precognition: Shin can read people's muscle movements in the split second the brain signal is sent to their limbs, allowing him to literally see the future, at least to some degree of about a second. He has a five minutes a day limit to using this ability if he doesn't want to die. The longer he tries, the worse he feels. Using this ability for longer than a few moments knocks out all of his other abilities for a time, including some of his other senses if he pushes it hard enough.
Mind Control: Shin can overwrite people's thoughts and force them to comply to a single command, as far as he knows, once in his life, per person. He can use it on as many people as an entire town at once. However, Shin can mind control himself as much as he wants, there's no limit. He can do things like open up his processing so everything moves at a crawl, move when he can no longer move anymore and as he found out, he can command someone's heart to beat, to save their lives.
ARMADA SELECTION
Shin has never been one to follow the crowd, so he'd likely make a much better Corsair than anything. He's a man who seldom knows how to behave in an expected manner, he has no interest in laws or authority, considering how he consistently bucks those trends - even when he was arrested it was on his own terms so he could meet someone, and then promptly he escaped jail. In Sakamoto's family he's found salvation, but he's also found freedom and that's something he would like to continue to explore. He is looking for places to belong, and he's not interested in a rigid structure to do that.
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