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「 shigeru ( 茂 ) 」
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[attr="class","ping-long]full name,
ōkura shigeru (大倉茂)
[attr="class","ping-small]nickname,
ru, shi-shi
[attr="class","ping-info-side"]age,
eighteen
[attr="class","ping-info-mid"]gender,
cis male
[attr="class","ping-info-side"]pronouns,
he + him
[attr="class","ping-info-long"]preferences,
homosexual / homoromantic
[attr="class","ping-long]occupation,
entertainer, escort, sugar bunny @ vice visceral
[attr="class","ping-small]social status,
lower class
[attr="class","ping-info-long"]family,
mother - ōkura izanami (49)
[break]father - ōkura atsushi (53)
[attr="class","ping-info-side"]nationality,
kirigakure
[attr="class","ping-info-mid"]loyalty,
vajrakīlaya (三合會)
[attr="class","ping-info-side"]rank,
non-shinobi
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positive traits,
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curious
coquettish
perceptive
exuberant
plucky
loyal
curious
coquettish
perceptive
exuberant
plucky
loyal
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negative traits,
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messy
dramatic
pedantic
manipulative
lazy
indecisive
messy
dramatic
pedantic
manipulative
lazy
indecisive
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scent enhancement
stealth
puppetry
「 proficiencies 」
scent enhancement
your father smells rotten.
[break][break]your mother smells indifferent.
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you cannot be certain how many times it has saved your life, or at least your general well-being, but you are certain it is the only good thing to come from your father. the only survival tool he has given you, though unwittingly and begrudgingly, to protect you from him.
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you use it well, yet it remains your best guarded secret, because you’ve learned how useless it can be if your opponent knows you possess it. you remember the way your father managed to twist that acrid smell of stale alcohol always clinging to him into something lighter, something pleasant, only to await him round the corner, ready to choke the happiness out of him.
stealth
( level: apprentice ) it goes hand in hand with your heightened sense of smell, you learn. hiding in dank, fusty places and holding your breath for what feels like forever; walking around light and quiet, stone floors suddenly grass under your careful feet; slowing your heart beat down from pure panic until it nearly stills, because even your pulse can be picked up in deafening silence.
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you have yet to master your skill, hone it to the point where even those trained in the art of stealth might have trouble detecting you; but you have gotten lazy since joining vajrakilaya, because for the first time in your life, you do not have to sneak around. it is eerily easy to give into the comfort and protection it provides. eerily easy to start counting on others instead of yourself.
puppetry
( level: rookie ) your newest skill, and one you’re still impossibly clumsy at, but it keeps you busy at the kisaeng house when you’re off work (not that it happens often, but still). taught by one of the vajrakilaya puppeteers who — surprisingly enough — tolerates your presence and exercises unprecedented amounts of patience whenever something minor distracts you for a while. you are aware, too, that there are others more immediately useful skills you could learn from the shinobi you are surrounded with, but there is something about puppetry that draws you in; the uncanniness of it all, perhaps.
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hotaru is a small cat puppet made of stuffed fabric, dull brown in color except a few pink accents — because it’s yours, and you can’t help yourself — whose paws can be detached to reveal four smaller-than-average kunai at your disposal.
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you are a happy child.
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too happy, your father says.
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your three older brothers are ever sour-faced, the spitting images of him, and they think that’s what life is, in its entirety. carrying on the legacy steel hand terror, eager to welcome their own bitter descendants into the world. and if they are not born bitter, they will make them so, without a doubt.
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your mother pretends she enjoys it, the muggy atmosphere that hangs around the house, because she is too content to kick start change. she bears old scars and an omnipresent collection of bruises, yet she turns a blind eye the moment you start accruing your own. for being too happy, too loud, not boyish enough — too effeminate, too weak, too skinny.
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he hopes his aggression will elicit your own, but he is wrong. it only makes you softer, more colorful, more loudly you.
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you are 14 when you escape that musty prison. everyone knows — including you — that the land of kirigakure is anything but safe for a scrawny boy wandering around it aimlessly, alone, but anything is better than staying at home.
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even getting kidnapped by a bored pirate.
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it’s sheer, dumb luck that he isn’t a shinobi; if he were, you would have been dead by now, or still rotting somewhere on his ship, permanently dizzy from the overwhelming fishy odor. he is not, however, and he likes to drink — that acrid smell of liquor evokes stomach-churning flashbacks, but you push through and take advantage of it some months into your confinement.
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then, a stroke of what seems to be incredibly bad luck—
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out of the frying pan into the fire, as you seem to fall out of that ship and right into vajrakilaya’s open arms. you have heard rumors of them, nothing more, but word of mouth is enough to make your knees shake and your forehead to break out in a sweat at the mere prospect of what they could do to you.
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bad luck morphs into good — amazing, even — because four years later, you’re still alive and working for them in their kisaeng house. you have everything you could ever want and more, at a price that seems inconsequential at this point. you have always been an entertainer, after all; always enjoyed all sorts of attention and praise.
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you get plenty of that here,
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「 summary 」
you are a happy child.
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too happy, your father says.
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your three older brothers are ever sour-faced, the spitting images of him, and they think that’s what life is, in its entirety. carrying on the legacy steel hand terror, eager to welcome their own bitter descendants into the world. and if they are not born bitter, they will make them so, without a doubt.
[break][break]
your mother pretends she enjoys it, the muggy atmosphere that hangs around the house, because she is too content to kick start change. she bears old scars and an omnipresent collection of bruises, yet she turns a blind eye the moment you start accruing your own. for being too happy, too loud, not boyish enough — too effeminate, too weak, too skinny.
[break][break]
he hopes his aggression will elicit your own, but he is wrong. it only makes you softer, more colorful, more loudly you.
[break][break]
you are 14 when you escape that musty prison. everyone knows — including you — that the land of kirigakure is anything but safe for a scrawny boy wandering around it aimlessly, alone, but anything is better than staying at home.
[break][break]
even getting kidnapped by a bored pirate.
[break][break]
it’s sheer, dumb luck that he isn’t a shinobi; if he were, you would have been dead by now, or still rotting somewhere on his ship, permanently dizzy from the overwhelming fishy odor. he is not, however, and he likes to drink — that acrid smell of liquor evokes stomach-churning flashbacks, but you push through and take advantage of it some months into your confinement.
[break][break]
then, a stroke of what seems to be incredibly bad luck—
[break][break]
out of the frying pan into the fire, as you seem to fall out of that ship and right into vajrakilaya’s open arms. you have heard rumors of them, nothing more, but word of mouth is enough to make your knees shake and your forehead to break out in a sweat at the mere prospect of what they could do to you.
[break][break]
bad luck morphs into good — amazing, even — because four years later, you’re still alive and working for them in their kisaeng house. you have everything you could ever want and more, at a price that seems inconsequential at this point. you have always been an entertainer, after all; always enjoyed all sorts of attention and praise.
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you get plenty of that here,
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all while being yourself.
[attr="class","ping-face"]hypnosis mic[break]shigeru ōkura looks like ramuda amemura.
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