Application to cerealia

Applicant Info

◎ Name: Hotaru
◎ Journal: gekifire
◎ Contact: hailingjavelin@plurk

Character Info

◎ Character's Name: Shihoudou
◎ Character's Canon: Samurai Deeper Kyo
◎ Character's Age: Some hundreds
◎ Canon Point: Post Canon
◎ Background/History: here
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? No and yes

◎ Personality:

Shihoudou is the Poop Queen. Just ask her, she'll tell you so. Anyway, Shihoudou is a crude and vulgar old lady with a shitty sense of humor. She loves poop jokes and dirty jokes and puns. She can create clouds in different shapes with her sword, and she can make any shape, although the similarity to what she tries to make an image of can be questioned. The only things she can actually make look real are poop and things like meat. But most of all poop. Rabbits looks like pigs and flowers like mushrooms. She insults people both if she's fond of them or if she dislikes them. Nicknames are often insults, like calling Sasuke a little rat. She calls everyone she's fond of nicknames, and for example, she calls her best friend a piece of dick cheese or a spew bucket. But in general, if she has no specific nickname for anyone, or if there are more people around, the word she use happens to be turds.

 

She loves joking around and is rarely serious, even shen she should be. She hides her emotions behind a silly smile and pretends to be less dramatic than she actually is. Because she's old, she has seen a lot of things. She doesn't often talk about those things, though, and she might hide them. She knows that it's important to remember, though, no matter how painful, and that's why she will never forget. To forget is the same as being dead, according to her. Just giving information all upside-down is boring, and if someone tells her to give them information, she might stick her tongue out at them and tell them they're yucky. A condition to get help can be to wound her in battle, or even to simply catch her (1000 ton heavy) hat.

 

She doesn’t show her serious side that often, but when she does, it’s without doubt (most times) and vit conviction. Like when she told Tokito that Tokito's father wasn't former clan elder Muramasa, but current elder Fubuki. She is a determined woman, who lead Muramasa and Kyo out of Mibu despite knowing the consequences that she would suffer. She took the beating that left her immobile for three months, without ever regretting her decision. After all, Muramasa thought Kyo to be the hope of the Mibu, and to make him grow, he needs to leave Mibu's territory and go out into the world. And she trusted Muramasa, so she decided to take a chance, for the same of Mibu and the Former Blood Red King.

 

She is impulsive but thinks of her clan. After all, she once was the first Taishirou (the four clan elders and body guards to the Blood Red King) of the Mibu Clan, and she does love the Mibu. She was in love with the Former Blood Red King, but she was unable to face those feelings, and still has troubles with it, even after the king's death. She greatly respected his power and what kindness and loneliness he hides away. After the Former King asked her to kill him, she hid away in the underground for years, crying out of regret, because she didn't want to keep that promise to him, even though she knew he would want her to. When she finally went to fulfill this, she was even more filled with regret, but she also was determined to do it, because she disliked how he changed into a tyrannic, ruthless king as time passed, and felt sad over how he had forgotten to smile.

 

She is an incredibly passionate woman, who never would abandon someone that she cares about even the slightest. She memorized all the failures in the underground dungeon and built graves for every single one of them. She covered the ground around the graves with mushroom-shaped clouds to honor and remember them, and she protects those graves, caring for them with great love. She can help a complete stranger if she felt like it or if she decide she likes them. If she decides to do something, she will do it, even if it means she will get hurt. She’s not exactly scared of pain anyway. She will always keep her deals.

 

She is a very strong woman, who is experienced in battle. As a descendant of the Mibu clan’s Battle Dolls, she has the desire for battle in her blood, and she loves to fight, even if not many can compare to her. But at the same time, she likes times to be peaceful. But really, she's the strongest Taishirou, as well as the oldest, and almost no one can best her in battle. She's fast and agile and she is irregular and unpredictable in her movements, just as her weird attitude towards anything in general. She plays around during battle, unless the situation calls for seriousness, and can laugh stupidly in her opponents face to throw them off, or say something completely unexpected, for the exact same reason. She likes to have fun, anyway, and would rather not fight at all. She also knows that she’s freakishly strong, and she thinks it's hilarious that a little boy not bigger than a pile of bird poop attacked her, the first clan elder, when she said she'd let the boy go if Muramasa gave her his head. Not that she actually wanted his head, she was just joking around.

 

If it’s necessary, she knows how to cheer people up and motivate people. Like when she tells Tokito, who has lost all hope, that Tokito is their hope. Her living is their way to salvation. Her favorite method of cheering someone up is to tease them or mess with them a bit, however. She invades people’s personal space in a heartbeat, and she just keeps on moving around. She might move around so much she looks like more than one of her, and might hug a person. Sometimes she hugs only their head, with her entire body, like she did to Kyo.

 

Since she’s lived alone for so long in the underground, she has taken up the habit of talking to skulls. She likes to talk to people, after all, and while she doesn’t dislike being alone, she much more enjoys being around people. She also likes high places, and to take naps. She’s a lazy woman who just rolls around and smokes, reads or sleeps, if she gets the chance or is left alone for a long time. Or if she gets bored with whoever she’s talking to. The she might decide to ignore that they’re even around.

◎ Powers/Abilities: Shihoudo has mastered the sword she owns, Kusanagi (one of Shinto's three sacred treasures, in which the Yamata no Orochi lives), and with it she is able to manipulate and create clouds. She is incredibly strong, and can spin her hat, which weights about 1000 tons, on one finger. Her sword swings are sharp and fast, and she's agile, fast and unpredictable in battle. A technique she can use with Kusanagi is Ame no Murakumo, which is a giant cloud monster that can devour anything. She also, just like all Mibu, have Red Eyes, though they only glow red when she wants them to. They appear with her calling out the power in her Mibu blood, and gives her a great boost in power. She can feel when people important to her dies, and she can feel spirits of swords. She can even make people talk to the spirits of their swords, and make them talk out their problems, etc.

◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory: The Sword of Kusanagi, her 1000 ton heavy sandogasa hat, kiseru, a book on Confucius or someting like that, and what little clothes she wears.

CEREALIA-Specific

◎ Element: Air
◎ Sense: I'll say sight, if you consider the Red Eyes.
◎ Seven Character Traits: Crude, Passionate, Impulsive, Experienced, Determined, Joker, Caring.

Samples

◎ First-Person Sample:
Hiya, old poopy granny Shihoudou here speaking to you all! I think, at least, you know, these future things are so confusing, I'm totally clueless. LOL!

[ She indeed just said "lol" and why is an "old granny" even picking up internet slang? But she seems very amused. ]

All you little turds, listen up! I have something important to tell you, alright? You listening, little turdies? Good!

Now, remember to remember! If you don't remember, you won't be you, got it? Your memories defines you, as a person and as cute little piles of gooey shit.

◎ Third-Person Sample:

This world was filled with mysteries, it really was. But Shihoudou had never been afraid of experiencing new things, and she wanted to kick butt. She is an old granny though, and she might be a bit stuck in the past, so those funny machines? They're just so funny! She's totally amused and she wants to poke them.

 

Another thing she wants to poke are these people. She wants to find out stuff about them and she wants to get to know them. She wants to push their buttons and she wants to play pranks on them.

 

She wants to get back to the underground and the Labyrinth below the Mibu's capital, of course. She wants to get back to guarding and protecting all the graves among her mushrooms.

 

But people! She loves messing with people, and there is no one around to stop her. Or, there are certainly those that can try to stop her, but they are oh so unlikely to succeed. No one can stop Shihoudou in her pranks, sans the Former Blood Red King, and he was dead. So he couldn't stop her, that goofy dork with fluffy red hair and big, round bottle glasses and such nearsightedness that he mistakes pillars for people.

 

Sadly, her best friend and partner in crime, that old shit-bucket of a blacksmith, Julia, wasn't around here either, and she missed his company. Hanging in his house, with his wife and all his kids, had been such good times. (And the kids had become so big, and the second oldest was even a Taishirou! How time flies! She can remember when he want around in bad-smelling diapers, tottering around his mother's feet and clinging on to his father's cape.

 

Either way, she had plans to make. Not too detailed, perhaps, she didn't care for making too difficult plans. Instead, she just made a whole bunch of things out of clouds, using the power of Kusanagi. Most of all piles of poop. It was fun, and they even felt realistic!

 

Former Elder Shidoudou of the Mibu leaned over the edge of the building she was sitting on, and, watching intently, waited for a target to approach. When a person, unsuspecting and so innocent, came close enough, she just picked up a pile of cloud poop, and dumped it on top of the poor person's head. She leaned back, watching over the edge, but making sure she's not visible, and muffled a laugh behind her hands as she heard disgusted and displeased sounds coming from below.

 

Oooooh, such fun~!!

◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? no