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01. Official Post
02. Table of Contents
03. Jun'a
04. History
05. Vesale
06. Family
07. Friends & Enemies
08. Companions
09. Belongings
10. Home
11. Occupation
12. Timeline
13. Art
14. Music
15. Credits

Jun'a is the second child of three, flanked by two sisters. His Sleeping mother never left their hometown in her life, working as a housekeeper for the local Judge, while his Dreaming father became a soldier as a youth and traveled around the island with his company of the Rinkoku army; the three children were born during their father's service. Jun'a spent the first few years of his life clinging to his mother's skirts, learning to play quietly with dolls or geometrical toys while she cleaned; as he grew older, he went to work in the local fields, helping the farmers with the lighter work.

When Jun'a turned nine, however, his father returned home, retiring from the army due to his declining vigor and eyesight. While at first the boy was a little hesitant about this man he barely knew, Nan'a made great efforts to bond with his son, and soon Jun'a came to deeply like and admire this toughened yet still gentle veteran whose stories of service and patriotism for the Empire filled him with inspiration. Consequently, Jun'a decided he would like to become a soldier as well, fighting to protect the innocent and weak, and upon receiving the Name of Wood joined the army in Rinkoku to begin training.

Jun'a excelled; tall and strong, he would have made a good spearman, but he ended up a specialist in archery due to his steady hands and excellent distance vision. Furthermore, he quickly earned the trust of his peers and superiors, for despite having the appearance of being stoic and unfriendly, he was, in fact, a very dutiful and obedient soldier and a helpful, caring friend to the other trainees. However, as the years passed and Jun'a began to realize that being an archer in the army does not simply require strength and accuracy in drawing a bow, but the willingness to someday shoot someone with that bow, he began, secretly, to have doubts. For though Jun'a could shoot down birds when hunting, true, and did indeed care about serving his country, he was not sure that he was capable of killing another intelligent, Fired, thinking and feeling being even if it was outside the range of empathy. For it was not the prospect of his own suffering that bothered him, but rather the horror of having to extinguish another life...

For many years, he dismissed or held off those thoughts, believing that as he trained, he would come to have a soldier's courage and conviction. But in 720, when he realized that only only one year of training remained -- soldiers in Rinkoku enter regular service when they are legally 16 -- and his doubts were only growing, he knew he would have to make a decision.

Morning practice was interrupted that day by their superior calling Jun'a's squad of eight aside for a special assignment, one that made him seem very grave, even anxious, emotions the young trainees had never seen him show before. Their job, he explained, was to investigate a magical phenomenon, carrying out specific orders which had been distributed through the army by the Imperial Scholars. It sounded to the soldiers like a simple task -- some sort of magical portal had appeared, and while four of the soldiers held it open with enchanted spears, a fifth would carry a device through and activate it. Yet despite this seeming simplicity, the expression on their commander's face disturbed them, and fears simmered within the group as they traveled with him to the site.

There, visible through the window in the air, they saw an eerily abandoned street lined by houses in an unfamiliar style, lit by a morning sun. The commander unwrapped the four enchanted spears, then paused, taking stock of his eight charges -- seven anxious faces, but one calm and alert as usual, that of his most reliable student, Jun'a. Thus he handed out the spears to four of the group and then a strange little brass box, with a finger-shaped depression on the top and something jangling and rattling inside like a broken bell, to Jun'a.

The idea of killing another Porcelain terrified Jun'a; the idea of disturbing or offending someone worried him. But his own death or injury in the service of the Empire did not bother Jun'a at all -- that, he could face with tranquil courage. So, even as his comrades fretted, Jun'a was able to calmly step through, avoiding the hooked ends of the modified spears, and place the box on the ground as ordered. To activate it, he was to place his thumb in the depression and focus his Wood magic there, another easy task for him -- and as he did so, it emitted a soft, brief chime, as if that action had repaired that broken bell and coaxed it into ringing.

But at that moment, there was a cry behind him -- turning his head, he saw that the portal had suddenly scrunched closed, though unable to shut completely with the four hooks thrust through it. He heard the anxious cries of his comrades, the authoritative projections of his commander trying to drown out their panic and instruct them on what to do, but they were still only able to hold the window open a moment longer; it then squeezed itself shut, slicing off the ends of the hook-spears, which dropped to the street with a clatter, their enchantment destroyed.

... Calmly, rationally, Jun'a looked up, peering at the abandoned buildings and feral trees. It seemed that, though not dead, he was lost; so the next step is...

Mother: Koujun, Sleeping Earth
To whom Jun'a is grateful for caring for him, though they do not have a deep relationship due to the difference in their Lucidities
Father: Nan'a, Dreaming Fire
Whom he has come to respect, even idolize for his courage and dutifulness in service of the Empire
Elder sister: Hakujun, Sleeping Wood
Whom Jun'a was close with in his childhood, but has not spoken with much since his Naming.
Younger sister: Kanjun, still unnamed
Who writes Jun'a occasionally; as she is a bright girl, he has high hopes for her




Vesale: A feline shapeshifter that discovered Jun'a whilst searching for potion ingredients, after following him back to the Porcelaintown to find no one, the man offered him a bunk at his home. With no where else to turn Jun'a accepted his offer and now sees Vesale as his guide to this new world.