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Thusia App
Character Name: Rikugou Tokidoki
Canon: Amatsuki
AU/OC/Previous Game: N/A
Age: 17-ish? (high school age, anyway)
Appearance: Though he was just your typical high school student, Tokidoki has gone through a lot of stuff in the Virtual Reality world of the Edo period. He has dyed light brown hair and a pair of mismatched eyes--the left one appearing red as the pigment is all but gone from it as it was blinded by the Nue; the right one is dark brown. He also frequently wears bandages wrapped around his neck, primarily to cover the bite marks left by the inugami (Dog God).
Cause of Death: Tokidoki will not remember it! His last memory is of himself and Kon accessing a computer terminal to get past a curtain-door while in the Gate of Hell to get to Edo castle.
Impact of Death: It will hit pretty hard! Toki had promised not just to himself, but to Kuchiha and Kanzou and everyone else that he would find a way to save Kuchiha and bring her back. Not only that, but there is not only war happening between the shogun government and the imperial rebels, but also war brewing between the ayakashi that are gaining strength and the humans. Finally, Toki died while still in the Virtual Reality world and thus he will find it difficult to know whether or not he himself is really and truly dead (as in reality) or if it’s just his mind. All of these things he will probably try not to let others know about and instead will try to adapt to the place he is in. Likely, he’ll still pursue a way to get out of Thusia.
References Link: Wiki Article
Character Info:
Tokidoki was your average normal kid of Japan. He was sent off to boarding school in the city at a very young age to ensure he would get the best education available, often only communicating with his parents through a television screen. It’s because of this and the lack of being able to connect with really anything in this world that Toki ends up running away. It’s thanks to this event, however, that he runs into a person that would change his life, Kuwata Suou. Learning Important Life Lessons that young Toki wouldn’t fully grasp until much later, Toki grows very attached to the obviously former delinquent Suou. It’s here that Toki learns how to be nice and care for others while his pseudo-guardian tried to impart to him how important reality can be against something fake or simulated.
That is, until Suou died in a traffic accident.
Thereafter, Toki ended up being yet again, the typical disenchanted and detached Japanese youth who did not feel attached to anything or anyone. Listless and bored and often thinking a fake, virtual world would be better than the one he idly lived in, Toki still made friends with all of his classmates--that is, until they went to different classes or schools. After enough time, Toki forgets people’s faces and names, a self-defense mechanism put into place as he knew that people would just constantly leave and it was better to start in new classes and new school fresh.
Being terrible at history, Toki ends up flunking the class in high school and is forced to go to a virtual reality simulation tour of Old Edo, Japan. While idly making his way through the fake-city, Toki is attacked by a demonic creature called a Nue which is under the control of an entity called the Yakou. The attack leaves Toki with his left eye injured and a busted set of VR goggles. However, somehow he does not need them see the simulation anymore--instead, he appears to be stuck very firmly in the VR simulation’s setting itself.
Seen as special in this world, Toki is often called “The Unwritten Page” and supposedly has the ability on par of the world’s god Teiten and thus should be able to change fate itself to stop the on-coming wars from destroying the world. However, while Toki himself does want to stop this world from being destroyed, he does not want to be the one to be its god once Teiten has been defeated. Instead, he works with humans, ayakashi, and everyone in between and tries to break them out of the fate that Teiten has woven for them in Heaven’s Net.
Toki manages to make quite a few friends along the way. It’s largely through them and their shared experiences that Toki actually comes to appreciate those lessons and pieces of advice that Suou had tried to tell him as a child. In truth, Toki comes a long way from the idle teenager who was frightened of being alone and even more frightened of having friends and then losing them. While Toki still views himself as an idiot, someone not very intelligent and still wholly selfish in a lot of ways, he has acknowledged his own determination to ensure that the people he cares about are safe.
Sadly, even virtual reality is cruel and not only is his friend Shinonome Kon’s memories supposedly overwritten by Teiten, but his other close friend Kuchiha is taken by the demons down into a dark pit where he could not reach her. The bitter loss and then the terrible injury from having a dog god biting onto his neck leaves Toki with a lot of free time on his hands, wherein he not only contemplates the situation they are all in and how to fix it, but also becomes closer friends with a mismatched group of demons and humans working together against Teiten. With wars on multiple fronts on their way, your enemy’s enemy is your friend, basically. And so Toki begins to learn how to unleash his abilities to manipulate and change the threads of fate in this world as the Unwritten Page.
Overall, as a person, Tokidoki is someone who is wholly insecure but hides it beneath a very convincing mask of a smile and oblivious cheerfulness. Often, he uses these mannerisms and annoying antics to call the attention off of himself when he can. That’s not to say it’s all fake--he honestly does want to do good by others--it’s just that he also wants to shield himself from the potential of loss, which is why he can be friends with everyone and yet ends up forgetting most of his classmates after a period of time. Flirting is another thing that Toki uses almost as a weapon, able to woe most girls and even some guys with simple words and acts of kindness that he claims he learned simply by mimicking the behaviors and expectations of others. More often, he would (before the virtural reality trip) ask girls out just to hang out with them--accidental heartbreaker.
While Toki has become a lot more honest a person thanks to the many days he spent in Edo, he still remains an insecure and fearful person who struggles to find the courage within himself to act, not simply let life pass him by like a jellyfish on the tide. This, along with the fiery passion of his vow to rescue Kuchiha (with a heated rivalry with a boy named Kanzou) and lessons of the history of people he has met in this place--namely of Bonten and Ginshu’s past, has given Toki a lot more drive and maturity. Though he still manages to be a complete idiot in most things he does.
Abilities (after Powercap): None whatsoever! He is very normal human and doesn’t have any abilities since this... may or may not be the VR world where he is uber special.
Items Brought In: 1 jellyfish that supposedly represents his soul and 1 pair of cloth underwear (courtesy of a priest by the name Shamon)
Samples:
You must do one of any of the following four:
Third person sample on the subject of your choice.
They often say that you don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it. This was proving to be more and more accurate the longer he stayed in this place. Moreso now with a cityscape of modern Japan sprawling out in front of him.
There were people. So many people, all of them oblivious to each other, carrying on with their lives without a care. The world he once knew where people didn’t face the same kind of troubles that he now experienced, taking for granted what he once did and now cherished. In spite of how he had felt before coming to this place--wouldn’t a virtual world be better than the one that he lived in?--Toki couldn’t help but feel intensely homesick.
It was confusing and disorientating. Going from the world of Old Edo and being faced with the Modern Tokyo was almost unreal. Like something out of a dream made reality--only it was hard to say which was the dream and which was the reality. It was as if he could hear the Yakou back after the Nue attacked: “So, Child, what is this thing we call 'reality'? What is this thing we call 'death'? What is this thing we call 'life'?”
All good questions that he never quite knew the answer to. Little did he know that such questions would continue to become more and more relevant. Since this was the last thing Rikugou Tokidoki would remember upon his arrival in a supposed afterlife called Thusia. Standing with Kon who was even more flabbergasted than Toki himself was, staring out at the bustling city, a smile crept onto his face without thought. A moment’s disbelief turned to sheer delight as he went racing forward.
Perhaps if he had listened a bit more closely, he would have heard the song from the crosswalk.
Canon: Amatsuki
AU/OC/Previous Game: N/A
Age: 17-ish? (high school age, anyway)
Appearance: Though he was just your typical high school student, Tokidoki has gone through a lot of stuff in the Virtual Reality world of the Edo period. He has dyed light brown hair and a pair of mismatched eyes--the left one appearing red as the pigment is all but gone from it as it was blinded by the Nue; the right one is dark brown. He also frequently wears bandages wrapped around his neck, primarily to cover the bite marks left by the inugami (Dog God).
Cause of Death: Tokidoki will not remember it! His last memory is of himself and Kon accessing a computer terminal to get past a curtain-door while in the Gate of Hell to get to Edo castle.
Impact of Death: It will hit pretty hard! Toki had promised not just to himself, but to Kuchiha and Kanzou and everyone else that he would find a way to save Kuchiha and bring her back. Not only that, but there is not only war happening between the shogun government and the imperial rebels, but also war brewing between the ayakashi that are gaining strength and the humans. Finally, Toki died while still in the Virtual Reality world and thus he will find it difficult to know whether or not he himself is really and truly dead (as in reality) or if it’s just his mind. All of these things he will probably try not to let others know about and instead will try to adapt to the place he is in. Likely, he’ll still pursue a way to get out of Thusia.
References Link: Wiki Article
Character Info:
Tokidoki was your average normal kid of Japan. He was sent off to boarding school in the city at a very young age to ensure he would get the best education available, often only communicating with his parents through a television screen. It’s because of this and the lack of being able to connect with really anything in this world that Toki ends up running away. It’s thanks to this event, however, that he runs into a person that would change his life, Kuwata Suou. Learning Important Life Lessons that young Toki wouldn’t fully grasp until much later, Toki grows very attached to the obviously former delinquent Suou. It’s here that Toki learns how to be nice and care for others while his pseudo-guardian tried to impart to him how important reality can be against something fake or simulated.
That is, until Suou died in a traffic accident.
Thereafter, Toki ended up being yet again, the typical disenchanted and detached Japanese youth who did not feel attached to anything or anyone. Listless and bored and often thinking a fake, virtual world would be better than the one he idly lived in, Toki still made friends with all of his classmates--that is, until they went to different classes or schools. After enough time, Toki forgets people’s faces and names, a self-defense mechanism put into place as he knew that people would just constantly leave and it was better to start in new classes and new school fresh.
Being terrible at history, Toki ends up flunking the class in high school and is forced to go to a virtual reality simulation tour of Old Edo, Japan. While idly making his way through the fake-city, Toki is attacked by a demonic creature called a Nue which is under the control of an entity called the Yakou. The attack leaves Toki with his left eye injured and a busted set of VR goggles. However, somehow he does not need them see the simulation anymore--instead, he appears to be stuck very firmly in the VR simulation’s setting itself.
Seen as special in this world, Toki is often called “The Unwritten Page” and supposedly has the ability on par of the world’s god Teiten and thus should be able to change fate itself to stop the on-coming wars from destroying the world. However, while Toki himself does want to stop this world from being destroyed, he does not want to be the one to be its god once Teiten has been defeated. Instead, he works with humans, ayakashi, and everyone in between and tries to break them out of the fate that Teiten has woven for them in Heaven’s Net.
Toki manages to make quite a few friends along the way. It’s largely through them and their shared experiences that Toki actually comes to appreciate those lessons and pieces of advice that Suou had tried to tell him as a child. In truth, Toki comes a long way from the idle teenager who was frightened of being alone and even more frightened of having friends and then losing them. While Toki still views himself as an idiot, someone not very intelligent and still wholly selfish in a lot of ways, he has acknowledged his own determination to ensure that the people he cares about are safe.
Sadly, even virtual reality is cruel and not only is his friend Shinonome Kon’s memories supposedly overwritten by Teiten, but his other close friend Kuchiha is taken by the demons down into a dark pit where he could not reach her. The bitter loss and then the terrible injury from having a dog god biting onto his neck leaves Toki with a lot of free time on his hands, wherein he not only contemplates the situation they are all in and how to fix it, but also becomes closer friends with a mismatched group of demons and humans working together against Teiten. With wars on multiple fronts on their way, your enemy’s enemy is your friend, basically. And so Toki begins to learn how to unleash his abilities to manipulate and change the threads of fate in this world as the Unwritten Page.
Overall, as a person, Tokidoki is someone who is wholly insecure but hides it beneath a very convincing mask of a smile and oblivious cheerfulness. Often, he uses these mannerisms and annoying antics to call the attention off of himself when he can. That’s not to say it’s all fake--he honestly does want to do good by others--it’s just that he also wants to shield himself from the potential of loss, which is why he can be friends with everyone and yet ends up forgetting most of his classmates after a period of time. Flirting is another thing that Toki uses almost as a weapon, able to woe most girls and even some guys with simple words and acts of kindness that he claims he learned simply by mimicking the behaviors and expectations of others. More often, he would (before the virtural reality trip) ask girls out just to hang out with them--accidental heartbreaker.
While Toki has become a lot more honest a person thanks to the many days he spent in Edo, he still remains an insecure and fearful person who struggles to find the courage within himself to act, not simply let life pass him by like a jellyfish on the tide. This, along with the fiery passion of his vow to rescue Kuchiha (with a heated rivalry with a boy named Kanzou) and lessons of the history of people he has met in this place--namely of Bonten and Ginshu’s past, has given Toki a lot more drive and maturity. Though he still manages to be a complete idiot in most things he does.
Abilities (after Powercap): None whatsoever! He is very normal human and doesn’t have any abilities since this... may or may not be the VR world where he is uber special.
Items Brought In: 1 jellyfish that supposedly represents his soul and 1 pair of cloth underwear (courtesy of a priest by the name Shamon)
Samples:
You must do one of any of the following four:
Third person sample on the subject of your choice.
They often say that you don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it. This was proving to be more and more accurate the longer he stayed in this place. Moreso now with a cityscape of modern Japan sprawling out in front of him.
There were people. So many people, all of them oblivious to each other, carrying on with their lives without a care. The world he once knew where people didn’t face the same kind of troubles that he now experienced, taking for granted what he once did and now cherished. In spite of how he had felt before coming to this place--wouldn’t a virtual world be better than the one that he lived in?--Toki couldn’t help but feel intensely homesick.
It was confusing and disorientating. Going from the world of Old Edo and being faced with the Modern Tokyo was almost unreal. Like something out of a dream made reality--only it was hard to say which was the dream and which was the reality. It was as if he could hear the Yakou back after the Nue attacked: “So, Child, what is this thing we call 'reality'? What is this thing we call 'death'? What is this thing we call 'life'?”
All good questions that he never quite knew the answer to. Little did he know that such questions would continue to become more and more relevant. Since this was the last thing Rikugou Tokidoki would remember upon his arrival in a supposed afterlife called Thusia. Standing with Kon who was even more flabbergasted than Toki himself was, staring out at the bustling city, a smile crept onto his face without thought. A moment’s disbelief turned to sheer delight as he went racing forward.
Perhaps if he had listened a bit more closely, he would have heard the song from the crosswalk.