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Legend of Lunaria Captain
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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 10:28 pm
❀ Name: Yuudai
❀ Gender: Male
❀ Alliance: Nobles
❀ Path: [WAR] Warrior
❀ Stage: Fighter
❀ Guardian: derivative
This journal belongs to derivative and is not to be posted in without her permission.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:25 am
 ✿ Staff Post✿ ToC✿ Updates✿ Koga Yuudai✿ Personality✿ Family✿ History✿ Alliance✿ Relationships✿ Growth Requirements✿ Roleplay Logs✿ Photo Album✿ Koga Inn✿ Credits
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:40 am
 6/9/10Making Yuu's journal pretty with graphics!5/31/10Setting up Yuu's journal!
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:43 am
Name: Koga Yuudai From Japanese 雄 (yuu) "hero, manly" and 大 (dai) "large, great".
His father is a very slight, nearly effeminate man, and his mother is a delicate, waif-like woman. So, his parents hoped to bless their first (and only, it turns out) son with a name that would inspire him to... well, be big in spirit, if not in body.Age: 19Gender: Male Allegiance: Noble Path: WarriorWeapon: TonfaHobbies: ✿ Cooking ✿ A love he inherited from his father. Strangely, Yuudai's mother can barely throw together a passable meal, but his father is very talented in the kitchen, and it was a bonding point for the two of them when he was growing up. He sincerely enjoys cooking, and is responsible for the daily lunchboxes for his sisters. He also tends to make lunch for his friends, and gets very offended if they would rather have someone else make their lunch. Though he rarely gets to work in the kitchen at the inn, being far inferior to the chefs employed, he takes great pride in his culinary endeavors and is always working to improve them.✿ Flower Pressing ✿ Yuudai is only mildly embarrassed by this. He will tell anyone who asks, defensively, that he has four sisters and they like pretty things -- not to mention, the family has a business to run, and they offer pressed flower greeting cards! He has a good eye for arranging the flowers, and it soothes him to take time to himself and just make something pretty. When he doesn't want to socialize, or he needs time to think, he will often slip away to his room to press flowers. It is a simple, calming exercise for him.✿ Dress-up ✿ Again, something that he is only mildly embarrassed about. His sisters often asked him to help hold up hair, pin it, grab their make-up, etc., and the more he did it, the more interested in the art he became. He enjoys a pleasing face and figure, and likes to improve beauty where he sees it. Soon enough, he was shoving his sisters and/or mother aside, fixing their make-up himself, providing suggestions for what would look better. At first, he was teased mercilessly for it, but when they saw how attentive he was to the task, they relented and abuse his love of beauty mercilessly. He will often be in charge of doing the entire house's hair and make-up for festivals, and his mother even makes him dress his father at times.✿ Matchmaking ✿ He is only all right with his friends pairing off if he's the one to suggest the match. Just like he enjoys pretty, pleasing things, he likes to see couples paired nicely. Because he is always only looking out his friends, he tends to grill them relentlessly until they tell him what kind of person they would be interested in, and then he sets out to find them. He arranges dates at the inn, where he can spy on them and see how things go. He hates having his friends taken away from him, but it's somehow easier to swallow if he's the one who has proposed the match.
None of this applies to his sisters yet, however. He does not think there is anyone in the world good enough for them. Suitors, please line up in front of him so that he can dismiss you in an orderly fashion.
No one he has ever matched has stayed together longer than a few months. He is pretty offended by this, actually. He doesn't seem to realize he is just not good at matchmaking.✿ Sparring ✿ Yuudai will regularly go grab his best friend, Saito Ran, and engage in rigorous and spirited sparring with him. This is both to keep in shape as well as avoid his family from time to time, because even though Yuudai loves them dearly, he sometimes does feel a bit suffocated being surrounded by women. His mother approves of this, if only because she figures his aggression and impatience need an outlet somewhere, and he certainly isn't getting that through flower pressing and doing hair.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:44 am
Reciprocative: Yuudai puts much more worth and care into the emotional ties he has to others than the physical manifestations of such bonds, and so, he is eager and willing to share what he has. He grew up in a family that demanded each member help the others out, and because he was raised to depend on others just as much as he provided for them, when he sees an inequality, he seeks to fix it. If he finds someone sitting outside the family inn, hungry but unable to pay, he will take his dinner outside on a break and split it with them. If a friend comes calling, needing an extra pair of hands to repair the roof of their home, he will shuffle aside his leisure activities to lend them his strength and time. If he has something and he is not using it, be it a tangible thing or otherwise, and you need it, he won't hesitate to help.
At the same time, as generous as he is, he expects a certain amount of reciprocation from others. His friends he expects to treat him precisely the same way he treats them, and if they take advantage of his generosity often enough, he will get angry and shove them out of his life and away from his family. Once or twice is fine, but if someone makes a habit of coming around only when they need him and then not being there for him or those he cares for, he will not tolerate it.
In short, Yuudai will give you the shirt off his back if you need it, but in return, if he comes calling on you in his time of need, you had better step up to the plate. There's nothing that will turn him against someone faster than selfishness.Motherly: Please don't describe it as motherly. Yuudai will be very embarrassed if you do.
Still, the trait can be nothing but: to his family and friends, he can be nearly comically caring, always looking out for their health and well-being. If he decides to take you under his wing, he will keep a watchful eye on you whenever he can, making certain that you're eating right, tending your wounds regularly, and not pushing yourself past your limits. If asked where this trait came from, he couldn't tell you; he's the middle child, with older sisters and both parents fully capable of minding the brood, but since he was small he has had a powerful urge to take care of everyone around him. If he can take your punches, he will, and if you let him, he will be the one to hold you and soothe your broken heart, put a bandage on your bloody knee, or tuck you into bed at the end of a long day.
Just don't speak of it, please. Please. Just because he can't seem to help himself when it comes to worrying about and fussing over people he loves doesn't mean he wants it broadcasted to the world at large. Yuudai would much prefer that anything tender and personal between himself and his family/friends be kept exactly there - between himself and the person in question.
He will give aid to an enemy after the battle if it is thoroughly understood that the battle is over. He knows he should not be doing this, probably, so he is told -- but he follows the calling of his own conscience. If he does not have to kill you, he won't. If he does not have to leave you bleeding, he won't. Protective: When you are his, he will do whatever he can to keep you from harm. When it comes to his sisters, it doesn't matter if they are older than him or younger: he will be their meatshield, he will be their emotional punching bag, he will stand between them and anything that might even think about hurting them. If you have a cross word to say about someone in his family, he will be in your face in an instant, calmly demanding that you apologize to them right now, please. Though he knows that he should allow his friends to stand on their own two feet and protect themselves, if they're in a bad situation, his first instinct is to step between them and whatever is bothering them and redirect all the bad attention to himself.
He is often told that he takes this particular trait to excess, even though it is well meant. Yuudai cares, and he wants nothing to hurt the people he loves, but he had not quite been able to grasp that by always involving himself, he can make the people around him grow to resent him. Worse, that he is enabling them to not take care of themselves or solve their own problems; his philosophy is that they should not need to solve their own problems if he is there, because he will do it for them. He's babied his little sisters to the point that it's ridiculous, and Natsuko is growing further away from him as she gets older, because he chases away the boys and treats her like she's a child still, when she is very much coming into her own as a woman.
This extends to his friends as well, though to a lesser extent than his family. It will also range toward other Nobles; if he is your friend and your ally on the battlefield, chances are, he will keep one eye on you and the other on his own fight, resulting in him getting his a** kicked more thoroughly than it needs to be. He will get hurt on your behalf if he sees an opening, and he does not care how many times you tell him not to do it. He will do it anyway. It's because he loves you, and he would rather see himself hurt than you, don't you see that?Jealous: Yuudai puts a lot of care and attention into the people that he calls friend, and moreso into his family. He really hates it to see someone else take a favored person's time away from him, and he will be quite petty and nasty about it. He wants to be your best friend -- your only best friend -- even though he has at least five best friends himself. If you turn him down to spend time with someone else, it will send him into a foul mood, and he'll grow to resent the other person for stealing away someone he cares for. It's even worse if it's two friends of his own: suddenly, he has to decide which one he covets more, and the other one has to deal with his temper and possessiveness.
He is incredibly hypocritical about this. If he already has plans, he's sorry! He's really sorry! But he'll make plans to spend time with you later, all right? If you try this number on him, he'll suddenly want to know what is so important? Is it a secret you're keeping from him? Ah, do you have some kind of illicit relationship with this person? He'll stew on it, thrash it around in his head, and come to all sorts of wild conclusions if you don't simply tell him what's going on. He always wants to know what's going on.
If he thinks you like someone better than him, he will do everything he can to undermine that other person in your eyes. He's lost friends because of this before. He will lose more because of this in the future, no doubt.Domineering: He has a way of doing things, and he does them that way because he knows what is best. As long as you go along with his plans, let him mother you and feed you, agree to meet with him when it's convenient to his schedule, et cetera, et cetera, things will be fine. He is only doing what is best for you, really. Stop arguing. Because I said so.
His little sisters want to choke him for how often they have heard because I said so. It is almost never spoken from his parents, who are much more mild-mannered (and, in Yuudai's opinion, amazing parents, and he loves them very much, but much too soft on the girls!) and the girls resent him for it.
This gets him in trouble in both his personal life and his professional life. People only like to be pushed around to a certain extent, after all, and he's gone head-to-head with individuals more than once on what is best for them. (Yuudai does not often think you know what is best for you.) When it comes down to a mission, if he thinks that you are being sent to do something unnecessarily dangerous, he will step in and argue until he is blue in the face with his superior. He gets in trouble. He gets the shittiest missions because of this. He is lucky to get a mission because of this sometimes, because he is lippy and doesn't often get the message when you tell him to back off and shut up.
Most of the time, this would not be the case, but if Yuudai thinks someone is being put in unnecessary danger and there is a better way to do this, he will say so. If you tell him not to do it, and he still believes in his heart that his path is the right one, he will do it anyway.
Just for clarification: he is generally not a rogue, and will generally not go against orders. This is only when he feels there is extreme unnecessary danger, as his protective streak kicks in. For example, someone is being sent on a near-suicide mission and while they might accept it, if there's a less risky alternative, he will fight for the latter, even if they don't want him to.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:46 am
Chouko: Mother, 45. A very slight, delicate looking woman. Do not be deceived by her; the husband may be the head of the household, but as they say, the wife is the neck that turns the head. Though neither Chouko nor Noboru has ever been immensely strict with their children, she is more of a disciplinarian than he is. She is immensely proud of how sensitive her son is. It embarrasses him to no end.Noboru: Father, 43. A soft-spoken, gentle man. He spends most of his time in the kitchen, leaving his wife to handle the majority of the business aspect of their inn. He is by no means spineless, but will often defer to his wife to keep the peace. He is soft on all of his children, and was certainly not the main disciplinarian when they were growing up. He stands behind his wife when she doles out the punishment, but rarely initiates it.Junko: Sister, 22. Bossy and headstrong, Junko and Yuudai get along reasonably well most of the time, but butt heads when one or the other wants to take control. She is the least likely of all the children to be at home at any given time, and feels stifled by the family business, but doesn't feel that she can admit as much. Yuudai suspects she has crazy dreams that are going to take her far away, and he worries.Masami: Sister, 20. Much quieter and more peaceful than her elder sister, Masami nevertheless has a sly, sneaky disposition. She will manipulate before she will order you around, which results in her getting her way much more often than Junko does. She dotes on Yuudai, and always has. She also works full-time at the inn, and seems to have no great desire to do anything but that for the rest of her life.Natsuko: Sister, 16. A hopeless romantic, Natsuko makes Yuudai's life miserable by pining over a new boy every week. The two of them have been known to get in screaming matches (though most of the screaming is on her side, Yuudai will sometimes raise his voice simply to be heard) over the topic of males, and he swears she is never going to grow up. She does appreciate that her brother cares, somewhere deep down, but she finds him very annoying for always shoving into her personal life. She works part-time at the inn, and has on more than one occasion broken a dish by flinging it at her brother.Shizuka: Sister, 12. The baby of the family, and she knows it. Everyone dotes on her, but Yuudai especially. She is his princess, his favorite sister, the person he would literally die in place of if the question ever came up. She hero worships him, deferring to him in nearly every respect, which only serves to convince him that he is doing the right thing by attempting to micromanage his sisters' love lives. Yuudai and Shizuka are nearly inseparable when he is home; she will often trail after him like a puppy, cook at his elbow, press flowers while he styles her hair. Anything to be close to her big bro!
They live in the Koga Inn. There is a section on the ground floor reserved for family, including a small family bath and modest living quarters. Family and friends are welcome to come around the back for visits, though this means you have to walk through the garden to get there.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:47 am
The Koga family has been good friends with the Saito family for many years, and because they had three sons and a daughter, Yuudai was often shipped over to play with the boys. They wanted their son to grow up strong and manly, after all, though things don't always go according to plan. Though Yuudai was friendly with the other boys, he only became close to Saito Ran, a friendship that has lasted into his adulthood. Yuudai preferred to be around his sisters more than he did the other boys, because after all, how could he watch over them if he wasn't there?
He resents being lumped in with his sisters, and is certainly comfortable and proud of his sex, but he is a sensitive, caring individual who enjoys pretty things. Growing up surrounded by women and a soft-spoken father, he has a healthy respect for the fairer sex. On top of that, his family firmly enforced the rule of helping one another and their neighbors; Yuudai has always pitched a hand where it is needed, and is never afraid to carry his own weight and then some, be it working at the inn or on the battlefield.
He is not a fighter by nature, but his protective instincts as well as his desire to see the world change prompted him to pick up arms on the side of the Nobles. His best friend, too, despite his family's wishes, has joined the Nobles, and they spar together regularly to keep in shape.
At present, he works full-time at the inn, and if he is not found there, generally he can be located either with Ran or his family. Oftentimes, Yuudai will help with the herb garden, or he'll be delivering meals as repayment for the Koga family's check-ups or some other medical service rendered.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:48 am
✿ Why Noble? ✿ Things are never as simple as they appear, but for Yuudai, the choice was not that difficult. The future requires change; it always has, or a thing will shrivel and die. He wants the best and brightest future for his family, and he hopes that with a revolution, the world will begin to change to become a better place for everyone in it. He is fiercely protective of his family, and doesn't encourage any of his sisters to run out and take up arms, but he wants to live in a world where no one bats an eye at a young woman pursuing her dreams, even if they contradict what has always been considered a woman's station.
If that weren't enough of a reason, his closest friends have joined ranks with the Nobles, and his parents approve as well. It was never really a question to him, though it should have been, and he will struggle a little bit with himself for making up his mind so quickly. However, when he learned his family was behind the cause and his friends were also joining ranks, he couldn't possibly side with the Emperor. Who would look out for his friends? Who would protect his family? How could he turn his back on what they had decided?✿ What will he contribute? ✿ As an individual, he is protective and brave, and won't hesitate to enter into a battle for the cause. He will need to be taken in hand when he disagrees with his superiors, and he will from time to time, but for the most part, you can count on him to get the job done and try to minimize casualties along the way. (He will, however, also do his best not to kill the enemy.)
In a broader sense, his family also supports the cause, and the inn is open to Nobles who need to recuperate/hold meetings/just need a roof over their heads. They can't set aside many rooms for this, and it ought to be only under dire circumstances, but his connection to his family and their prosperous inn will be a valuable one. Obviously the family won't want to broadcast it to the world at large, because they still have a business to run and they serve Legion and Noble alike, but anyone who is an ally of Yuudai's is welcome in the inn, and will be given the best care they can manage without question.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:49 am
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:50 am
Fighter0/1 Roleplay with an Upstanding Noble
0/10 Battles
0/6 Regular Roleplays
0/8 Journal Entries
Captain
3x Roleplays with Mizuki
15x Battles
1x Metaplot Participation
12x Regular Roleplays
20 Journal Entries
Tenryujin
There is no stage beyond that of the Tenryujin.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:51 am
✿ Regular Roleplays ✿ ❀ [PRP] Lullaby for a Stormy Night » [Yuudai/Bataar] [C]xxxxx Yuudai finds Bataar in an alleyway, starving half to death. He feeds and bathes him, which isn't the best idea all around.❀ [PRP] Wild, Wild, But Innocent » [Yuudai/Jianyu] [C]xxxxx Tattoos, runaway sisters, and Yuudai really has a habit of talking too much.❀ [PRP] No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. » [Yuudai/Kiran] [C]xxxxx The docks. Haggling for fish is always fun, right? Riiiight.❀ [PRP] Wait! What is THAT? » [Jianyu/Bataar/Yuudai] [C]xxxxx In which Bataar willingly takes a bath, Yuudai makes a surprising (and horrifying) discovery, and Jianyu is stuck in the middle of a lot of arguing.❀ [PRP] She Says, Days Go By » [Yuudai/Shin-mu] [A]xxxxx Main street. There are musicians performing! Who wouldn't stop to listen?❀ [PRP] Freedom is Being Alone » [Yuudai/Kyung][A]xxxxx Whilst searching for Bataar, Yuudai makes a new friend! ... "Friend."❀ [PRP] I'll Look After You » [Yuudai/Bataar] [C]xxxxx Bataar wanders to the ryokan after he has been viciously bathed, and Yuudai takes care of him.❀ [PRP] Whispers in the Dark » [Yuudai/Huang-fu] [C]xxxxx Mistaking Huang-fu for the man who has been causing trouble outside the inn, Yuudai confronts him.❀ [PRP] Failure to Communicate » [Yuudai/Zhong Xiàn] [C]xxxxx There's been a mix-up with the inn's tea order, and Yuudai is sent to fix it.❀ [PRP] Because Shut Up, That's Why » [Yuudai/Miaoyin] [A]xxxxx Miao and Yuudai are on dishes duty, and Yuudai's being pissy for exactly no good reason.❀ [PRP] Cooking Is Fun, Right? » [Yuudai/Kiran] [A]xxxxx The Koga Inn. Yuudai tries to teach Kiran how to cook. Will he succeed?❀ [PRP] Bringing Sexy Back » [Yuudai/Bataar] [A]xxxxx Bataar comes to show off... well, he comes to show off.❀ [PRP] Where is the Love? » [Yuudai/Ran] [C]xxxxx The boys kiss and make up after a fight. Except not really.❀ [PRP] They Did WHAT?! » [Yuudai/Jianyu] [C]xxxxx Both Jianyu and Yuudai wake up one morning to find out some truly disturbing news...and some truly horrifying consequences.❀ [PRP] It's Just Not Manly » [Yuudai/Sakngea] [A]xxxxx Following his fight with Jianyu, Yuudai heads out to buy some fish and gets babied. fjkdlsfas.❀ [PRP] The Only Exception » [Yuudai/Jianyu] [A]xxxxx Yuudai goes to return Jianyu's sash and tries to make friendly with him.❀ [PRP] Hello Again, Friend of a Friend » [Yuudai/Kiran]xxxxx After some time apart, Kiran and Yuudai meet up again and make up for lost time.✿ Battle Roleplays ✿ ❀ [PRP] Yuudai vs Zhongxian » [LEGION VICTORY] [A]xxxxx A battle over integrity and tea!❀ [PRP] Yuudai vs Huang-fu » [LEGION VICTORY] [C]xxxxx They have penises so they're fighting.❀ [PRP] Yuudai vs Ran » [NOBLE VICTORY] [C]xxxxx The only way Ran and Yuudai know how to make up.❀ [PRP] Yuudai vs Jianyu » [LEGION VICTORY] [C]xxxxx After their siblings elope, Jianyu and Yuudai beat the hell out of each other.❀ [SOL] Yuudai vs Village Man » [NOBLE VICTORY] [C]xxxxx Yuudai kicks the crap out of a guy for hitting on his sister.❀ [SOL] Yuudai vs Ran's Father » [NOBLE VICTORY] [C]xxxxx Yuudai battles his best friend's father as a rite of passage.
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:53 am
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:54 am
 
Ryokan are Japanese-style inns with an emphasis on tradition and relaxation, and the Koga Inn is situated around a hot spring. Guests are personally attended to, often being given meals in their private rooms in the case of this ryokan, as it is a smaller and more intimate establishment. Despite its size, however, much care has been put into the decor and maintenance of the ryokan over the years.
Yuudai often works as an attendant, which means he's responsible for cleaning rooms, checking in guests, seeing to their meals and other needs, and generally making himself available if needed. When he's not specifically attending a customer, he'll likely be cleaning somewhere in the inn, or helping out in the kitchen (very rare; if he's lucky, they'll let him in and he won't be doing dishes).
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:55 am
Concept & Story © Zephuu & Prial
Art & Design of Yuudai © Zephuu
Koga Yuudai's character © derivative
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