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Player: Hotaru
Contact: hailingjavelin 
Age: 27
Current Characters: Yukihina (Code:Breaker)


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Character: Yukimura Sanada
Age: 37
Canon: Samurai Deeper Kyo
Canon Point: Chapter 212, right at the start of his fight with Kyo

Background: wikia, wikipedia, mal

Personality: Yukimura is a cheerful person that doesn't take much seriously. In the first place he has always been a very cheerful person filled with energy, but he has a tendency to exaggerate the cheerful attitude, for various reasons. Sometimes he does it to get people that are sad or upset in any way to think about other things, by making them either laugh at his antics, or make them angry over them, and sometimes he does it when he doesn’t want to think about heavy, depressing things. Because he comes from the Warring States Period in Japan, he grew up in a nation filled with discord, and he has lost many people dear to him. To conceal his wounds, he keeps smiling and laughing.

He’s a huge flirt that has pretty much no preferences. He likes both men and women and anything inbetween, and he has his own opinion of what makes a person cute. He’s a person that can call just about anyone ever cute or pretty, either because their appearance or their personality or both appeals to him. So he flirts with anyone, really, and sometimes he has a tendency to be unable to keep his hands to himself. But he has no actual interest in romance. Sex and adopting people into his little odd family of misfits and people that doesn’t have anywhere to go is one thing but actually forming a romantic connection with someone is a completely different one. This is because the girl that he loved, Mizuki, was killed during a night raid and died in front of his eyes, and he has been unable to love anyone romantically ever since. He loves the way a parent or a sibling does, with all his heart, but not like a lover loves.

It’s only when people that he loves or cares about get hurt or seriously threatened that he stops acting silly. When that happens, all pretense and real cheer goes out the window and he turns into a deadly monster that oozes murder. Nobody hurts those that he cares about and gets away with it, and only death awaits if someone does harm any one of them. In an instant he goes from friendly and annoying to someone that you really don’t want to mess around with. He doesn’t want to ever lose someone important to him again, so he will protect them at any cost, much to the distress of his closest friends, the Ten Braves. He has a Body Double and she’s technically supposed to take his place in any dangerous situation but he doesn’t want her to protect him at the cost of her life.

On the other hand, while he doesn’t like discord and war, he does love to fight against strong opponents. Being very strong himself, there are a lot of people that can’t even come close to his level, but those that do are great to be around, because the samurai blood in him boils for a good challenge. He wants to grow stronger constantly, and he’s always willing to put in an effort. Fighting strong opponents help with that but when he fights he also feels the great thrill of the danger and the joy of feeling so very alive. He feels really alive when he has fun with his precious people as well, but he feels alive in a completely different way when he fights someone really strong. His favorite opponent if Demon Eyes Kyo, a notorious murderer. Although in actuality Kyo’s name was used by another person to kill people and plenty of those murders were not committed by him, but he is still insanely strong, and pretty much the only person that has actually defeated Yukimura in a proper fight.

He has the tendency to wander, and often uses an alias (Genjiro, most commonly) while he roams the country. In reality he is supposed to be in exile and stay at Mt. Kudo, but he doesn’t care. His precious Braves takes turns for him to make it appear as if he’s still there (mainly this is Kousuke’s job, since she looks like a genderbent version of Yukimura) and he is thus free to be a wanderer all he wants. He even takes part in tournaments and tries to assassinate the shogun at one point, because it was because of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, that Mizuki died and he can’t forgive him for that. Because of his relationship towards the current shogun he has become a bit of an anarchist and he has no problem with bashing Ieyasu openly, like calling him "that swine Tokugawa", even in front of Tokugawa's own son (even if said son pretends like he's not related to Ieyasu).

He’s a mischief maker and a person that enjoys teasing others, but he is also very clever and it’s not odd that the shogun fears his prowess as a general. Because Yukimura can be both manipulative and sly, and there are many things that he can do to reach his goals, even if he has to do something dirty. But to be fair, he has killed so many people on the battle field and in fights that he has lost count, so he’s not entirely bothered by doing filthy things. He infiltrates the Mibu Clan to learn their secrets and gain the upper hand in the future, and twists his way all the way to befriending the people at the top to save a friend, besides the information gathering. The Mibu Clan are people that have, for generations, controlled the country from the shadows, and they tend to be very hard to manipulate, yet he is able to maneuver withing their politics perfectly fine, even while (or possibly because) he acts as silly as normal. His ridiculous attitude is convenient for a lot of things.

Because he’s a loving, caring person that sincerely cares about people, no matter who they might be or where they come from, he is very popular. Because he is very clever and a great strategist and commander (another side that tends to be hidden) he is feared by his enemies and people are hesitant to anger him. Because he is an insanely strong warrior, he is both admired and feared. He has climbed his way up among the renowned generals during the turbulent era that he calls home among hundreds of generals, and is one of the most well known out there.

Abilities: He is an expert swordsman with incredible, godly/demonic skill. He can use anything to kill a person with, and not only with a sword. He has even used a fishing pole to strike bandits in half with one strike. He can let out a large amount of killing intent if he wants to, he just generally doesn't. He also has great willpower, is very strong physically, and has a great a mount of speed and dexterity and sense of balance. He can use telepathy, although he tends to only use it to talk to those that are closest to him. It's due to the special bond that they share. He has an ability called Sekireigan and one called Double Sekireigan, which boosts his speed to an impossible level (which is why it's called Godspeed) and seem to give him some minor control over time (fore example it can appear as if he has been struck with a killing blow, but he has not) he can create illusions of himself to confuse the eye and his presence is imbued in these illusions. The Duplex doubles these abilities. He has been warned from using it more than five times a day, because it's not a technique actually fit for humans. If he overuses it, he might die. He also has a technique called Shirasagi no Hana, which is also Godspeed and used in aprt for blocking. It's not fully explored or explained; Sekireigan is not fully explained either, but Shirasagi is less so.

Alignment: Faimonia, for his joy of living, for his joy of having comrades that he loves and call family, and for his grief over the loss of people he hold dear, his grief over the suffering he sees in ths world.

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Player Info
Name: Hotaru
Age: 23
Contact: hailingjavelin

Character Info
Name: Yukimura Sanada
Canon: Samurai Deeper Kyo
Age: 40
Canon Point: Post canon
History: wikia, wikipedia, mal
Personality: Yukimura is a sexual deviant. Well, not really, but he does love things like sex and physical contact. He's very loving and likes to show it by touching people at the most inappropriate times, to the grief of some of his subordinates. He will keep his hands off underage people (15, in his time period), but men and women above 17 are all potential candidates for flirting with. He does like good looking people but he also has a preference for guys with muscles or funny people that can make him laugh. Honestly though, he’s not that picky, he can still go for any kind of person.

Most of the time, he's unable to stay serious. He loves to drink, and he loves to fool around. He's the biggest joker of a big canon with many characters, and has the ability to annoy people pretty easily, most of all when he puts his mind to being childish. But he’s incredibly cheerful, having decided not to think too much of that past, because that will only hurt, and he doesn’t like feeling depressed or sad. He also doesn’t like seeing others unhappy, and acting stupid is one way to help people pull out of their moping, even if it means that they try to hit him in the face or cut him with a sword. He’ll just dance to the side and avoid any blows.

He’s actually really smart though you would not be able to tell most of the time, since he loves joking around so much. But he’s actually a genius general that is feared by the most powerful man in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu made sure Yukimura was sent into exile on Mt. Kudo to get him out of the way, but Yukimura being Yukimura and unable to be still in one place and even more unable to listen to what people tells him to do, goes wandering off all over the country without worrying about the consequences, like assassins. He’s really strong, anyway, and is an extremely skilled swordsman, being one of the most reknowned samurai, and doesn’t even have to get serious most of the time. But he does love to fight agaisnt strong opponents because in a fight, he likes to take it seriously from time to time. Weak opponents are just not as interesting to fight, and most people tend to be weaker than him. He’s not the type to brag or gloat about it though, and he doesn’t kick those who are down.

Unless they hurt someone that he really loves. Those he loves the most are his "Ten Braves", his servants that are his family and even closer to him than his father and his brother. He would do anything to keep them safe and to protect them. He would even turn the whole country, no, the whole world, against him, if it meant that his beloved Braves would be safe. This, despite how they keep insisting that it’s them who are supposed to protect him and they who are the ones who should lay down their lives for him. He won’t listen to that, because they’re too important to him, and he does not want to lose any more people that he loves, like he lost Mizuki and the first Sasuke.

But he's also scared of getting in too deep with someone. Actual emotionally deep relationships is something he is wary of getting into, because when he was a teenager, he was deeply in love with a girl named Mizuki from his father's castle town, and she was killed when Tokugawa troops attacked them. He will always love her and he has sworn never to forget her.

He absolutely hates Tokugawa Ieyasu, the person currently controlling the country. Most of all because Ieyasu has caused the death of so many people that he cared about - in particular, he won’t ever forgive the killing of Mizuki. He also hates people who use others as pawns, more than he hates anything, and he will stop at nothing to stop someone who has done so. He is not exactly afraid of killing people, in fact, he has probably killed too many. He does not like needless slaughter though he does not regret fighting and killing to save the lives of others.
Abilities/Powers: He is an expert swordsman who can use anything as a sweord and can let out great killing intent if he wants to, but he hides the killing intent most of the time. He also has great willpower, and he can use telepathy, although he tends to only use it to talk to those that are closest to him. He has an ability called Sekireigan and one called Double Sekireigan, as well as one called Shirasagi no Hana.
Weaknesses: He can't let anyone who suffers be left alone, and he will pretect people that he cares about at the cost of his own life (even when said people that he protect are supposed to be protecting him with their lives) and he is frivolous and tends to piss some people off with how easygoing he is. While he can use Sekireigan many times a day, he has been told not to use it more than five times a day, as it can cause death. The Sekireigan has also caused the sight in his left eye to get bad, although Yukimura doesn't let this show. The more he uses the Sekireigan, the worse the sight in his left eye will become.
Network Sample: One bracket link.
Now I don't know about you, but I do love getting to know others so how about we play a little game. Like.... [ He's tapping his cheek as he pauses thoughtfully. ] A word association game! Or shiritori! You can learn so much about a person's character just by exchanging a few words, and since we we might need to work together, it could be good to get a general grasp of it, right? So! Who's with me?
Prose Sample: Yukimura was unnecessarily excited, to be honest. He has no clue what is going on except that he's been kidnapped, and no idea what the metal can they arrived with is besides it being some sort of ship, from what he has heard. But new experiences and new places to see for someone with a wanderlust from a small island kingdom like Japan had got to be worthwhile. Not that he knew if it would or not, but just meeting new people and seeing new places were enough for him. That and maybe some alcohol and to get laid once in a while, he supposed.

So! He simply had to set off exploring, and he's a nimble and fast man, so he moves around the forest (and the ship) easily, climbing every tree and sometimes trying to catch animals even though some might be different. But he grabbed a stick, so he should be fine, he is certain of it. Besides, he is able to defeat heavily armored men with only a fishing pole, he knows fully well that it's the use of the weapon and not the quality that matters the most.

He really should stop sneaking up on people (or wild animals), though.

Or flirt with them, for that matter. The people, not the animals. But he can flirt with anyone, man or woman doesn't matter, nor does appearance. He just does love talking to people and he isn't bothered even if he's treated as if he's a bother. Honestly, angry reactions could be just s entertainign as smooth or playful ones. That was what was so interesting about people! They were all so very different, and he loved that!
Misc: He's a pain in the ass.