Coba app

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OOC
NAME/HANDLE: Jill
AGE: 28
CONTACT: minkhollow at gmail, setecastronomy
TIMEZONE: Eastern US

CHARACTER INFO:
NAME: Kanji Tatsumi
CANON: Persona 4
CR/AU/PSL: amatomnes CRAU

HISTORY: Punk-ass teenager with a heart of gold under all that scariness. Got kidnapped, yelled at by his repressed desires for acceptance from his peer group, and mixed up in solving a serial murder mystery, all before he turned 16; the case finally ended with the group beating the tar out of a death goddess (she killed them all, but they got better). And then he spent a few months on Fuck Or Die Island, sharing a house with a bunch of his friends, finally untangling his sexuality crisis (they have kind of a polyamorous tangle going), and coming to an understanding with said death goddess.

SETTING: Modern rural Japan. The shopping district’s seen better days, no thanks to Junes, but it’s still hanging in there (Kanji’s family’s textile shop in particular). The textile shop is just visible in the back of this picture, past the shrine (here’s a closer look, and the inside); there’s a liquor shop across the street. The building at the foreground of the first picture is Aiya, only the best Chinese restaurant you can find. There’s also a bookstore, a tofu shop, and a gas station (but who knows why you’d want to hang out there).

PERSONALITY: Kanji’s bark is worse than his bite – but don’t take that to mean he has no bite at all. He beat the shit out of a biker gang, by himself, in middle school. Cross him at your peril. The easiest ways to do that, now that he’s gotten his head on straight, are to make life difficult for his ma, insult his friends (especially his Naoto), or put down his hobbies (HE LOVES STUPID CUTE SHIT). He really does have a squishy center under all that noise, though. He hates hospitals, doesn’t get along with cops (but never lies to them), and undercuts his own intelligence all the time.

Somehow, he’s come out of Atia the most well-adjusted of the Investigation Team. He had a job doing what he loves, he was living with his friends, and he took his sexuality crisis into his own hands before a curse could force the matter (answer: guys aren’t so bad, especially if it’s Souji. Or Naoto. It’s complicated). Even he’s not really sure how he pulled this off, especially in Fuck Or Die Island of all places. And, well… after a while he and Naoto didn’t want to leave, not if it meant giving up versions of their friends that weren’t total assholes. You want a hook to keep him coming back to Coba, you got it.

SAMPLES:

3. Survey option:
* What is your most vivid childhood memory? Why do you think you remember it so well?
Third grade. The principal came into my class an’ called me out. Thought I was in some kinda trouble at first, but… then she said Dad was in the hospital. He was in and outta there for about a year, mostly in, before he…

Hospitals only take people away. And it’s always when you’re not lookin’. It says a lot I managed t’stay there all night when Nanako-chan was on thin ice.

* What are you passionate about? What makes you passionate about it? When did you first come to like it?
You try growin’ up in a textile shop and not come out of it liking art. Dad taught me to knit when I was four – I fuckin’ sucked at first, Naoto’s got the five-legged rabbit around somewhere to prove it, but I like it. I’m good at it. It’s one’a the last ties I have to Dad. It makes Ma proud of me. Anyone who doesn’t get that can go get bent.

* Are you afraid of dying?
Tch. Been there, done that. I don’t recommend it, and I really don’t think Izanami’d bring us back a second time. Or be real pleased t’see us on the clock any time soon. Not afraid, no, but I ain’t in any hurry to do it again.

* What is your ideal job?
Workin’ at Enchanted was great and all. You know, when the damn island wasn’t in two pieces and I could actually get there. But I really just wanna have my family’s shop, make Ma and Dad proud. Maybe… maybe teach some craft classes on the side. That one before Fuck Or Die Island went over well enough, I could probably swing others.

* What is your favorite color, like, for a nice apartment?
…well, that depends on what all’s goin’ on in this apartment. What’s the building’s aesthetic? Hardwood floor, carpet, tile, tatami, what? How light or dark’s the furniture? I mean, you don’t want the walls too dark either way, that just makes everything feel all cramped an’ depressing. Especially if it’s the bedroom – what room’re we decorating here, anyway? Western or Japanese style? Am I gonna get in there and find out some idiot put up ugly-ass wallpaper in the ‘70s and the glue’s never comin’ off?

* Do you like free pizza?
Hell yeah! Who wouldn’t like free pizza? You ever seen how damn much it costs in Japan? ‘sides, the only place in Inaba that serves pizza’s Junes, and that ain’t exactly stellar food quality. Free pizza’s right up there with cheap watermelon.