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 Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:28 am
Questor Information Username: Sayuri_Nitta Mule SN's: IoDM Newbie? (Y/N): Y Serum: Blue Tang Fish CODE for your quest banner(s):[url=http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=2524428][img]http://www.geocities.com/zzapperr01/Jilly/iodmbanner.jpg[/img][/url] Seal of Approval given!
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:30 am
The Subject Name: Sayuri Satoharu
Age: 20
Appearance: Sayuri is 5'3", and a average Japanese build (veering on curvaceous). Her hair is done up in the maiko hairstyle wareshinobu, and has been that way for 5 years as she has never quite managed to make it to become a Geisha. She is always seen in the full makeup, and wearing an elaborate furisoda (swinging sleeve) kimono with trailing obi. Her hair is black, her eyes brown, and she looks unremarkable normally, but has an infectious grin which lights her plain face up. She has ragged nails from nail biting.
Personality:
Sayuri has never quite lived up to either of her given Geisha names ( Sayuri is a zodiac symbol coupled with understanding, Satoharu means 'wise and light'. Sayuri is neither of those things. At times foolish, clumsy and exceedingly naive, she believes a great deal of what she is told, and tends to be somewhat of a disaster area.
However, she does have an uncomplicated mind, and is often considered endearing because she likes to believe that everyone is her friend, and that life is worth living, and enjoying. However this is possibly somewhat of a mask, for deep down she has a inkling that things tend to go wrong, and that she is somewhat of a disappointment to her okiya, and okasan (house mother).
Her nails are ragged because she has a terrible habit of biting them, another less then wanted habit for an elegant Geisha to be. Because of her nature, despite being clumsy, and not being a shining example of the qualities needed for her intended profession, she doesnt yet want to give up, and wears the hairstyle, makeup and kimono religiously, hoping that if she does this long enough it will somehow outweigh her personality defects and the 'geisha within' will blossom!
Personal History:
Sayuri comes from a long line of successful, elegant Geisha..and her dream as a little girl was to grow up and go out dressed up like her mother did, entertaining priveleged and wealthy gentleman. Sayuri's mother has often despaired of Sayuri's inability to learn the simplest of things, and her persistent clumsiness. She has gone from the barest of patience with her bumbling daughter, to an almost hostility and ill concealed contempt.
Sayuri was not a graceful child; she got into scrapes through her naive acceptance of everything she was told. She often got lost in the streets of the hanamachi (flower town or Geisha district), and was almost taken on as the servant in a brothel as she was mistaken for a gutter child in her dishevelled state, an incident that causes her okiya much embarrassment when she was finally located.
She was persistent though, attending the kaburenjo for lessons, the teachers there trying to hammer the basics into her sieve like mind. Sayuri would learn something one day, seem to have a handle of the moves of a dance for example, and the next she would once more possess two left feet.
She often got embarrassed when she was taken to teahouses to listen, watch and learn from Geisha, the men would make fun of her clumsiness, teasing when she tripped on the hem of her kimono, or liken her head to a melon gourd behind her back. She did however become a favourite of the more elderly customers who were old enough to be patient with her, which allowed her pleasant nature to come through, and for her smile to shine.
As it is now, she is presently still struggling to come to a point where her skills are sufficient for her to move on from being a maiko, becoming more then a prettily attired ornament. But she might not have the luxury of this path for much longer, her okasan, and her birth mother have become tired of paying for the house klutz, and would like to find a way for the young woman to become someone elses problem.
How Sayuri gets to the Island:
She needs to become someone else's problem...
Sayuri had little idea that she was going to be packed off to the Island. But, her 'dear' mother had been approached with an interesting proposition...
Sayuri had been noticed during a tea party, hosted by a very wealthy business man, and attended by several other men of equal standing, including a senior from Feral Labs.
She had caught the gentleman's eye during the revelries, a condom had been procured, and the poor girl was told it was a novelty balloon, and was tasked with blowing it up. Sayuri's naive belief that she was a part of the joke, as opposed to the butt of it, then her clumsiness which resulted in the 'balloon' bursting and sticking to her lacquered hair made her a prime candidate in the gentleman from Feral lab's mind. Even more so after discrete inquiries into the girl's chequered history.
Through the mistress of the teahouse, intial contact was made with Sayuri's mother, who obviously was at first a little sceptical about being approached by such an obviously well off man about her most worthless daughter. But, after a few meetings, and some displays of the man's wealth, her mother agreed that he would become Sayuri's patron. She was swayed mostly by the fact that he would take on her financial burdens, which were many...Sayuri had by that time managed to accidently set alight three of their kimono collection, which were in themselves very costly.
It was explained to Sayuri's mother that because of the nature of his business he spent much time away, and sometimes overseas, so a place would be brought where Sayuri would need to move to. Her mother readily agreed to this also, it wasnt unknown for patrons to set up houses for the Geisha they sponsored, and as the girl would no longer be a burden, she believed that she had done her duties by her daughter.
Sayuri was of course given no say in any of this, and as she believed herself to be finally becoming a proper Geisha, happy that she had found a patron who would help finance her schooling, her kimonos and any performances that she would put on, accepted it all with very few protests.
Sayuri was packed up..her belongings crated up, and she went ahead of them to meet her future patron, believing that her belongings were to be sent along after her...
Whether she received them after arriving at the Island is unknown - the rest after that is yet to come!
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:09 am
Possible Stage Change Visuals
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:08 pm
The Blue Tang (taken from Wikipedia);
The blue tang or palette surgeonfish, regal tang, Indo-Pacific tang, blue surgeonfish is a marine aquarium favorite. It has a royal blue body, yellow tail and black 'palette' design. It grows to a maximum of generally 12.25 inches and is mostly vegetarian. It ranges varies widely and can be around the reefs of East Africa, Japan, Samoa, New Caledonia, and the The Great Barrier Reef. A blue tang co-starred as Dory in Pixar's Finding Nemo.
Scientific Classification;
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Acanthuridae
Genus: Paracanthurus
Bleeker, 1863
Species: P. hepatus
Binomial name
Paracanthurus hepatus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:09 pm
Quest Tracker In case anyone is wondering, I have been an avid lurker of the IoDM breedable pretty much since it was opened. In fact I entered the first prompt sale, but with a completely different serum in mind (snow leopard as it happens). I didnt win a serum (obviously XP), and got busy with other stuff and sort of drifted away.
I came back and started to post again, more and more round about sometime before the idea was tossed around to get an old bully of Moreau's/cop character onto the Island. I was initially interested, but once again time commitments made me pull back from entering, and I even considered giving up on trying for a serum altogether.
I'm not sure what changed my mind...but a little lightbulb kind of switched on one day. I'm a major Dory from Finding Nemo fan, which anyone who has a passing acquiantance with me will be aware of. From that, the idea of getting a character who had been injected with a Blue Tang serum became a real idea, leading to me nailing down a quest char.
I was originally going to use the char I had developed that was inspired by Sayuri from Memoirs of a Geisha, but I soon decided that although I would keep the name Sayuri, the character would be the antithesis of Geisha chic (or iki as its known), and be a complete clutz, completely guileless and naive.
And so Sayuri Satoharu was born, her character, background and the how/why of the arriving on the Island was hammered out with help mostly from Kamiki who was very helpful in being my sounding board, and then approval was given after a few revisions by a staff member and I got the hoped for Seal of Approval...
So now I'm just waiting - hoping for an event I'm lucky enough to win in, and diligently saving for a distant auction.
So far I've managed to land a 20k prize in the scholarship fund contests to pay for a flatsale if they should happen again, was a runner-up in the Metaplot event and entered the flatsale following that for a mystery serum.
I am hopeful mostly...but I'm only human and sometimes knockbacks bring me down, but I am trying to get Sayuri on the Island!Quest Funds 20k for a Flatsale won in Scholarship Fund contest (not held by myself) Auction Funds; 450k pure Kiki Kitty (31.5k) Pandy Pack (4.6k) Wind Security Blanket (15k) Winter Fox Mink (5.9k) Ice Tiara (4.2k) Mochi the Puppy (7.85k) Parisian Blue Fan ( ?k ) 1 x Jan 06 (7.5k) 2 x Feb 06 (27.2k) 1 x Mar 06 (9k) 1 x May 06 (7.6k) = 570.35k (approx - mid TEH uninflated prices as of 13/07)
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:11 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:21 pm
People may post if they like...just wipe your feet k? XD
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:24 pm
*wipes feet and hands too*
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:15 am
*looks at appendage ends* What's wrong with my hands and feet? eek
((j/k))
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:24 pm
*tuts*
Slime on the tatami mats XD
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:47 pm
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:53 pm
Slowly filling in more posts - I will get on the Island some day!
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:48 pm
More stuff filled in heart
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:02 am
Sayuri_Nitta Slowly filling in more posts - I will get on the Island some day! You WILL! *cheers*
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:24 am
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