@vancexentanI would hope not. Gotta hype up the baddies anime style. Haha.

I’ve never read Kenshin, but can I join in regardless? I’m pretty good at rp combat.

@ShiyonichiIf you want to sure but u recommend watching an episode or 2 of the anime first

Alright, I’ll do that at home.

Dropping the rp. Thanks for having me.

well that was anti-climatic whatever doesn't really effect all that much, and good luck to Atomicnut in his future roleplays. I'm feel pretty shitty so I'll make the IC when I feel better be it after a good night sleep or whenever.

Sorry for the delay on my character. I'm trying to decide on his sword style.

No issue you have time

I am not quite sure how well this character would fit, since I watched a few episodes of Samurai Champloo before this making this so I might have made a character better suited for that universe, as well as creating a character that was specifically undisciplined to contrast with the other characters. Meaning I took a few keys from Mugen.

Speaking of which I did watch the first episode of Kenshin, while I can’t say it’s bad, you could definitely feel it’s age.

@ShiyonichiI'll accept it its not exactly what I was looking for but there's nothing wrong with it. And Kenshin's show mainly peeks towards the end in the Kyoto Arc, and or the Oni-waban group arc. Namely fights like Saito vs. Kenshin.

I just realized my post could literally be one of Yoshikage Kira’s monologues.

I mean if it works I don't watch Jojo's so I don't know too much. The most I've seen is the first season, and parts of Stardust.

Name: Toki Yamato
Nicknames: The Bastard of Yamato, Dishonest Mutt
Age: 32
Gender: male
Rank: Assassin
Specializations: Firearms, ambushes

Appearance: Toki stands at 5'7, He seems almost scrawny, but it's clear he is quite fit even despite his looks. His cheeks are a bit gaunt and his nose has broken at least twice. Toki keeps his hair cut short in the style of the foreigners and has decided to go for a mostly shaven look - leaving his thin mustache however. Under his haori he wears foreign clothes - black pants, a thick belt with a sort of bandolier for the shells of his coach gun, riding boots and an officer's coat - he had to pay quite a price for the coat and it is now one of his most prized possessions. He openly carries his foreign weapons on his hip - the coach gun having it's own specially made holster.

Personality: Despite his seeming dishonesty and other less savory antics Toki is quite jovial - lacking the traditional training of etiquette due to his illegitimacy he has no trouble conversing with people from all around the society - from the lowliest peasant to the highest of nobles, or the foreigners for that matter.

Biography: Toki is the youngest - and illegitimate - son of the Yamato Clan - a little clan formerly from the north of Shikoku, now fallen on hard times. He was never quite interested in the 'traditional arts', preferring sake dens and gunsmiths over calligraphy and swordsmanship. He got interested in firearms at a young age - quickly devouring every piece of information about them, the more technical the better! When the black ship arrived he began associating as much as possible with the foreigners - becoming quite adept in their language in the process and managing to make few contacts - contacts he would later use to outfit a squad of men with if not the most modern tools of killing at least with something that would get the job done.

For a while the group Toki gathered were little more than glorified bandits, skirting on the edge of the law and more or less causing trouble and being more a nuisance than any kind of a threat to the Imperial - and by extension to the Shogunates - forces. A change to this came when they openly disrespected an officer - an imperial captain. The captain challenged the crew into a duel on the spot, something Toki felt was plainly idiotic. It was 5 against one and the 5 were armed with coach guns and swords whereas the captain was only armed with his sword. Still, a 'duel' they had. It ended in less than 3 seconds with the captain's body riddled with shot. This action hardly gained them any love from the imperial forces and the men quickly found themselves having to flee their home province.

Now more more or less criminals in the eyes of the imperial forces Toki threw his lot in with the Shogunate properly. The crew 'enlisted' to the Shogunate cause and managed to prove their worth to at least few of the commanders - even though the proper samurai leading them still saw the men as little more than crass and dishonorable fools, their use of tactics more fitting to a peasant rather than samurai was still proving to be very effective. Thus Toki and his little group had gotten - if not an outright pardon, then at least a stay of execution.

When the Shinsengumi was formed Toki managed to get himself aquainted with the group - mostly by cashing in a favour from one of the samurai he had served under, with the caveat that he literally never ask any favours from the fellow ever again. His dishonest and dishonourable creed of 'quick victory, at any cost' may not have made him many friends, but it has made his 'crew'- as he calls the little group of four compatriots he hangs around with, the group he armed before joining the Shinsengumi - a quite effective fighting force.

Fighting Style: Toki's fighting style is quite... Dishonorable to say the least. He never fights alone if he can avoid it and utilizes his squads marksmanship ability as much as possible. If he has to fight alone he will take full advantage of every dishonest trick in the book - be it sand in the eyes or just blasting his opponent from close range with his revolver or coach gun. His defenses consist of him staying quick on his feet and remaining out of sword reach as much as possible, or just simply legging it - often to goad his enemies in to following him to a prepared ambush.

Preferred Weapon(s): Colt Army Model 1860 revolver, a short barreled coach gun without the stock and modified to empty both barrels with the pull of only one trigger, wakizashi for close combat

This roleplay is meant to follow the the squad 15 at this point we've settled on that he'd need to be deranked to corporal, investigator, or assassin. More over while you say he quickly rose through the ranks of the Shinsengumi it doesn't explain how so especially since its relatively new. The current captains are either decorated Samurai, or highly skilled ronin. More details would probably be for the best.@Marcus XVI

Well, technically speaking Toki is a Ronin, since he is a member of a samurai clan - illegitimate one, yes, but still a member - who doesn't serve a lord.

I can lower his rank though and do some rewrites if ya feel it is needed.

I do question if he is fit for the Shinsengumi who are traditional samurai. More over they are police his attitude seems to clash with standard samurai conduct.

Perhaps he could sort of... learn from the example of others and eventually try to become a proper samurai?

He can but at the same time why would he want to join a police force in the first place? That essentially is what the Shinsengumi are. Samurai who work for, and serve the shogunate to hunt down traitors, rogue ronin, and other miscreants.

Because the way he sees it the imperials are hounding him due to the stupidity of a single man challenging his whole damn group to a duel. As in for a stupid reason - and as he sees it for a 'dishonourable' reason. Toki may fight underhandedly, but he has his own sort of code of honour after all, the fight may not have been 'fair' for the captain, but the fellow shouldn't have challenged all of them on the spot.

Besides, police work pays better than banditry and might be better on his health. Getting to let the air out of imperials - who deserve it - is a sort of a nice bonus to that.

Also since he has now worked under few samurai Toki has come to the conclusion that it is better to have someone to actually direct their guns to the 'correct' direction rather than leaving himself and his crew to their own devices.

Alright I'll lighten up and allow him but I think he should be at the base grade of Assassin. I don't think his personality would've earned him any favors in a Shinsengumi hierarchy personally.