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October OOC Intro/CR Meme

Welcome aboard, newcomers! And welcome back to those who have stuck around! It's the time of the month when we add newbies to our ranks. So here is a new Intro/CR Meme in order to get you set for the coming month.
What do you need to do? Simple! Fill in the handy form provided with as much or as little information as you want to and reply here. New players or old players bringing in new characters should respond specifically to the 'Newbies' thread. Then, go about responding to other people's introductions as well. It's that easy!
Ket!
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Hobbies: Music (singing, violin), RenFaire stuff, cooking, outdoorsy things, photography, studying languages, traveling whenever possible, hanging out with the best wife ever!
Fandoms: A pretty wide assortment of anime, live action sci-fi, video games, sci-fi and fantasy books, stage plays and musicals... it'd be a lot to list. Basically, if it's got a decent balance of action scenes and characters I can care about enough to cry about, I'm a happy camper, bonus points for magic, metaphors, and/or space. Some of the prominent ones include Discworld,
samurai feelings Hella number of Shinsengumi and other historical Japanese fandoms, Mononoke, Firefly, CLAMP fandoms, old-ass anime like Cowboy Bebop and Utena and Evangelion, the Devil is a Part-Timer!, Tolkien fandom, Steven Universe, Star Wars (mostly but not exclusively the original trilogy and the new material from the last couple of years), tabletop RPGsCharacter: Toshizou Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane)
About: Hijikata is a big, tough, chain-smoking, stoic, serious, not-to-be-crossed type who used to be one of the leaders of a military unit, and spent his mortal life clawing his way up from the farming class to eventually be made into a proper samurai.
Don't let that throw you off, though. Underneath all that, he's actually quite protective and caring, the sort of person to consciously take on the burden of always being Strong and Pragmatic so other people don't have to. He's also surprisingly idealistic on the inside, a big old poetry nerd, and rather more open in his moments of kindness and sentimentality than he used to be, since he's already been through losing pretty much he cared for and regretting the things he didn't say to them early enough. (Woe still betide anyone who hurts the people he cares about, though...)
tl;dr, he's a grump, but also a big protective teddy bear who's been hurt a lot and just wants to take care of everyone.
God/Shinki: God - Hachiman, a Japanese god of warriors, archery, and protection. Basically the god of Ideal Samurai-ness.
Plans: Hijikata has one shinki right now, and is content, but could totally be open to having more if someone else needed him. Plans for the month include: an open log involving reflecting on the trajectory of Japanese history since his death, introducing him to modern fashion (he's not sure if he's intrigued or appalled), whatever game events are going on, continuing to try and deal with the whole "feelings for my shinki" situation. Longer-term and more general plans include building more CR, doing lots of prayers and ayakashi-fighting, and working on learning more about the heavens and their history and internal politics!
Wanted CR:
-Friends in general! Most of his are dead, so like, he could use more.
-Cheerful or weird people who will drive him up a wall! Frankly, this tends to overlap with "friends," even if he doesn't want to admit it.
-Some kind of "my shinki forgot me and we were Kind Of A Thing, what do?" support group??
-Proteges! Hijikata ended up as something of a Father to his Men sort of figure, and he misses his men, so anyone he could be a mentor / guide figure to, hit me up c:
-Smoking and/or grumping buddies! Come on, fellow old men shouting at clouds, I know you're out there.
-Negative CR! He can be blunt, abrasive, pessimistic, and short-tempered, so there are plenty of reasons someone might not take to him, and that is a-okay with me. On his end, he can't freaking stand people who value class over Good Honest Hard Work or self-important people, and if he suspects you are a Bad Person to the point of being a threat to what he wants to protect, he'll fight you forever.
-Fellow plotty-scheme-y types! Help him investigate all the mysteries around the heavens and build an intelligence network? Get involved in a tense, months-long strategic standoff against each other? Some weird combination of the above? hmu!
Unwanted CR: None, but romantic CR is unlikely to be a feasible thing, since he's in an It's Complicated (My Shinki Doesn't Remember That We're Basically Married With A Kid)
Anything Else?: This fandom has far too few gifs, so have this completely out of context screencap.
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Training log sometime soon? Maybe with a side thread for talking and getting to know each other after training or during a break?
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BUT ANYWAY hi i want Jennifer and Hijikata to talk more again. I really liked their thread together and she needs a mentor or 5 that aren't crazy-crazy so uh
also > modern fashion. i wish i had a character for this but i just want hijikta in hawaiian shirts and socks w/sandals
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Yes, they should definitely talk more! He's unsure how to deal with her exactly, but she seems like she could use a little bit of no-excuses mentoring, anyway, right?
Hijikata refuses, re: Hawaiian shirts.
It's totally normal to wear zori or geta with socks, though, so he might need to be taught about the socks and sandals rule in Western fashion :| ;;no subject
and yeah basically...... I'll be honest at first she might just go through the motions of saying things that she'd think he wants to hear because she's more afraid of making him upset than she is Actually Believing It or w/e but that would probably just. make him more...angry...
She'll learn, okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HAWAIIAN SHIRTS ARE IN, HIJIKATA.. i want people to somehow convince hijikata of some terrible fashion faux paus that he thinks is legit
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He'll probably be confused and upset when he catches on, but we'll see how it all goes! :D
Sadly for comedy itself, Hijikata's not that easy to trick. /snickers (You could probably get him on something a little less obviously garish, though.)
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SHE'S SORRY MR. HIJIKATA... SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HER....
god. I clearly need to app someone in who'd be awful enough to try this tbh.
Re: Ket!
One day I'll get real poem CR with you and Yukine...!