NAME: Ket CHARACTERS: Toshizou Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane edition) TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Hijikata is from 1864. He's a big, scowly, chain-smoking, intimidating not-actually-a-samurai who clawed his way to the top with a combination of ruthless pragmatism and a plotty, scheme-y sort of intelligence, and he's not about to let the circumstances in Ryslig keep him from his goals if he can help it... But don't be fooled. Under all that, he's kind of a teddy bear. He wants to keep people safe (by whatever means necessary), and enjoys tea, writing terrible poetry, and spending time with his boo and his friends. WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: Hijikata owns a 24-hour general store in Bavan, but he's leaving that to his employees a lot for the moment. The main thing he's doing right now is working on shoring up the defenses of the fortress he got from Tikbalang, and scoping out who has what loyalties, god-wise. He's actively (if very carefully) seeking neutrals to form alliances with. He has two spies reporting to him on Fourth God follower goings-on, and would love to get a set of eyes inside the Fog God's camp as well... Basically, the plotting-and-scheming habit dies hard. SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: -Young and/or energetic and/or obnoxious people: Bother him! He will glare and grump and make increasingly distraught "why me?" faces, it's fun. -Other quiet intellectual types: quiet bonding time with tea and books? -Avowedly neutral parties: HIJIKATA WANTS YOU to secretly build up resources for protecting and providing for other neutrals and/or plot against the gods! He's not getting too aggressive yet, focusing for now on defense and trying to create a coordinated, communicative, more efficient group of those who refuse to join the gods than on offense. -Fourth God followers: if you want Yamato or Horikawa to doxx you to Hijikata, let their players or me know! I will not assume he knows anything about anyone without their explicit permission, and nothing is likely to come of it too soon, since he's just gathering intelligence for now. -Fellow plotty, schemey, intelligence-focused types: A lot of possibilities here! Sharing information and collaborating on plans? Talking careful, half-coded circles around each other? Weird, mutually suspicious mind games? Some combination of the above? Hit me up! -I'm always a slut for fight scenes. (Note that while I'm okay with Hijikata losing and/or getting badly hurt, he is a trained, highly-skilled fighter who's comfortable with his monster powers and has a canonical tendency to do really well in no-holds-barred, to-the-death sorts of fights, so I'm unlikely to have him killed unless it involves being outnumbered, fighting someone very skilled, and/or a very clever trap. Talk to me, though, and we can always see!) -Conversely, I'm always a slut for weird friendship-focused slice of life. Souji's habit of adopting weird teenagers seems to have finally rubbed off on him. So I guess if you have a weird, probably-young person who could benefit from a grumpy mentor type or a couple of adoptive samurai-dads, Hijikata's your man! -People who are wrong on the internet. His lack of tolerance for fools and newness to computers can combine in some fun ways, negative-CR-wise. ANYTHING ELSE: Occasional trigger warnings for depression, terminal illness (tuberculosis), poorly-handled grief / survivor's guilt, violence, signs of PTSD, passing internal-monologue references to torture (just the once) and sexual violence (not against him personally), the slightly misogynistic dickery of his teenage years, and probably some other stuff. Most of it can be avoided if you let me know to, pretty much! Also, does smoking trigger anyone? He... he does that a lot.
The only trigger I'd ask people to avoid when threading with me is animal abuse. I can handle the rest.
EST time zone (New York time), and a fairly normal sleep schedule! No job right now, so tagging gets done fairly randomly throughout the day and evening.
If you want to plot anything or just chat, I'm always happy to add people at cognitiveleague.
There aren't enough silly gifs of him from the anime, so please enjoy one of the stage play version getting his drink on with his friends:
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CHARACTERS: Toshizou Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane edition)
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Hijikata is from 1864. He's a big, scowly, chain-smoking, intimidating not-actually-a-samurai who clawed his way to the top with a combination of ruthless pragmatism and a plotty, scheme-y sort of intelligence, and he's not about to let the circumstances in Ryslig keep him from his goals if he can help it... But don't be fooled. Under all that, he's kind of a teddy bear. He wants to keep people safe (by whatever means necessary), and enjoys tea, writing terrible poetry, and spending time with his boo and his friends.
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: Hijikata owns a 24-hour general store in Bavan, but he's leaving that to his employees a lot for the moment. The main thing he's doing right now is working on shoring up the defenses of the fortress he got from Tikbalang, and scoping out who has what loyalties, god-wise. He's actively (if very carefully) seeking neutrals to form alliances with. He has two spies reporting to him on Fourth God follower goings-on, and would love to get a set of eyes inside the Fog God's camp as well... Basically, the plotting-and-scheming habit dies hard.
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
-Young and/or energetic and/or obnoxious people: Bother him! He will glare and grump and make increasingly distraught "why me?" faces, it's fun.
-Other quiet intellectual types: quiet bonding time with tea and books?
-Avowedly neutral parties: HIJIKATA WANTS YOU to secretly build up resources for protecting and providing for other neutrals and/or plot against the gods! He's not getting too aggressive yet, focusing for now on defense and trying to create a coordinated, communicative, more efficient group of those who refuse to join the gods than on offense.
-Fourth God followers: if you want Yamato or Horikawa to doxx you to Hijikata, let their players or me know! I will not assume he knows anything about anyone without their explicit permission, and nothing is likely to come of it too soon, since he's just gathering intelligence for now.
-Fellow plotty, schemey, intelligence-focused types: A lot of possibilities here! Sharing information and collaborating on plans? Talking careful, half-coded circles around each other? Weird, mutually suspicious mind games? Some combination of the above? Hit me up!
-I'm always a slut for fight scenes. (Note that while I'm okay with Hijikata losing and/or getting badly hurt, he is a trained, highly-skilled fighter who's comfortable with his monster powers and has a canonical tendency to do really well in no-holds-barred, to-the-death sorts of fights, so I'm unlikely to have him killed unless it involves being outnumbered, fighting someone very skilled, and/or a very clever trap. Talk to me, though, and we can always see!)
-Conversely, I'm always a slut for weird friendship-focused slice of life. Souji's habit of adopting weird teenagers seems to have finally rubbed off on him. So I guess if you have a weird, probably-young person who could benefit from a grumpy mentor type or a couple of adoptive samurai-dads, Hijikata's your man!
-People who are wrong on the internet. His lack of tolerance for fools and newness to computers can combine in some fun ways, negative-CR-wise.
ANYTHING ELSE: Occasional trigger warnings for depression, terminal illness (tuberculosis), poorly-handled grief / survivor's guilt, violence, signs of PTSD, passing internal-monologue references to torture (just the once) and sexual violence (not against him personally), the slightly misogynistic dickery of his teenage years, and probably some other stuff. Most of it can be avoided if you let me know to, pretty much! Also, does smoking trigger anyone? He... he does that a lot.
The only trigger I'd ask people to avoid when threading with me is animal abuse. I can handle the rest.
EST time zone (New York time), and a fairly normal sleep schedule! No job right now, so tagging gets done fairly randomly throughout the day and evening.
If you want to plot anything or just chat, I'm always happy to add people at
There aren't enough silly gifs of him from the anime, so please enjoy one of the stage play version getting his drink on with his friends: