[OOC] Midnight Illusion Agency: An Urban Fantasy RP

[Karkinos]

Will also take some time today to work on my nekomata 👹

[Seirei No Hai]

Lieutenant Detective

"You want a case solved? Wait till I finish my coffee break."

Name: Jinkotekina Musuko

Age: 30 years old

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Personality:

"Another missing person? I'm just one cop, stop burning my ass."

Musuko can come off as a rude man. The guy that plays the bad cop in the interrogation room and occasionally threatens delinquents of all ages with the gun inside in the pockets of his clothing. Yes, he might not be the best person to meet on the sidewalk when you plan on littering because you're too lazy to throw it in the garbage can but he does public service for the safety of your day-to-day life. Because of his most recent promotion, he started to act cranky towards those with "supernatural" cases. His fellow comrades in the force believe them to be the work of an excellent criminal mind, one who plans and leaves no trace but considering his own status as a mage and the family line that flows through his veins he finds that highly unlikely. It is also because of this that he leaves most cases unfinished, he is one man and would need help even if he denies it in front of those who volunteer.

"The hell are you? Why do you have ears? A tail? Horns?! Stay back, you hear me?!"

Despite his special gift in the affinity for Metal spellcasting and all other sorts of weird, mysterious anomalies happening around Minazawa and his status as a brave police detective of the station in said city, he is quite terrified no- bewildered of most Youkai, especially those that aren't human-like in appearance? You ever hear a Kappa beast gargle water in the night during his solo patrols? Yeah, to him it sounds like he's choking on his meat with hisses and gasps not unlike something eating meat pie.

While this does hinder his work ethic considering that a lot of his cases consist of "Youkai involvement" at least from his judgement of things. If Youkai are hostile he will not hesitate to hold back and attempt to get rid of them, he is fighting people with extra body parts, talents and abilities so he will do so even if he screams like a girl.

Abilities:

Metal Affinity

Reconstruction/Modification - Musuko is able to reconstruct or modify certain structures, objects and vehicles to better fit the current situation. You want an underground spy lair with gadgets and all? Well... maybe not with gadgets just the lair itself, then leave it to him. Do you want to stalk people in a suspiciously parked van with a fake commercial company sign plastered to it but really, it's a mobile command center for sting operations? Musuko is your man. Find it hard to carry guns out in public and you want your BB gun to be a real nine millimeter pistol? Wait no... Musuko won't allow that. Laws are laws.

He could also do other stuff as well, like tricking out your property so it looks cool... although that's probably a waste of mana.

Projection/Reinforcement - Musuko can project any man-made item available in this era. Whether it be smartphones, walkie-talkies, guns, swords, axes, medieval armor, that awesome Lamborghini he wants to buy legally but is constantly tempted to just make one out of thin air? Uhh... ignore that. He can basically create any tool on the spot and reinforce them if he has to. Examples of these are wire cutters, garden shears, keys, lockpicks, a golden watch that is actually a grappling ho- No... no... don't give them any ideas.

Skills:

Musuko is trained in the use of firearms, whether it be small guns, long guns or specialized weaponry. The young detective knows how to use all of them.

He is also an excellent driver, add in the P.I.T maneuver that all policemen should know during a car chase and it's done. He could go through a car chase without so much as getting a scratch... on the person not the car.

Musuko is also an adept at close quarters combat, sure it isn't as fancy and graceful as karate but that's one of the requirements of being a law enforcer.

Equipment:

- Police Badge and I.D

- Station-issued Glock Pistol

- Dark Blue-coated Honda Civic with detachable authority lights and sirens

Brief Backstory:

The Jinkotekina Magus line is a branch of an existing magus family line in the Western Countries. They are one of the Japanese clans that do not resort to the Onmyouji culture and believe that to further increase their knowledge, they try to practice foreign magic. It took quite a bit of decades to actually get the hang of it and soon after the Jinkotekina count themselves among the Eastern families that know of it. Normally everyone in the family would have an affinity relation to nature, whether it be Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. Musuko, the newly-born son on the other hand has an affinity for Metal which is quite unusual among their own family. Of course this lead to some bullying with his sister and cousins, which might have contributed to the cranky cop that people see today. His parents on the other hand try to nurture this great power, see if it could be used for something.

During his childhood and teenage years, he would often be tricked into doing tasks for mischievous yokai, while he got the rewards that come with it, it wasn't exactly what he had in mind. He was a naive little boy then and in the future, a cold man who distrusts the company of Youkai. It was his fault for thinking he could ever befriend the wrong kind of Youkai.

Not long after his education did he become a Police Officer, climbing in ranks until he hit Lieutenant and was in charge of the seemingly unsolvable missing persons' cases in Minazawa.

@VitaVitaAR

[VitaVitaAR]

@Seirei No Hai: I really don't want to sound nitpicky, but a mage becoming a cop admittedly feels a little weird in terms of this setting. ^^; This may be in part because we already have a police officer as well.

Additionally, I'm not sure I feel entirely comfortable with massive modifications to existing structures on the fly like that as an ability.

Finally, I will be honest and say I'm not sure if that surname is real. ^^; If it is, fair enough. My mistake.

[Seirei No Hai]

I'm not gonna lie about the surname, I just made it up by combining Japanese words. XP

If you're looking for specifications, I guess I could tone down the reconstruction to smaller buildings like cottages and two-floor houses if you wish, of course for larger, more complex structures will take some time. I should edit some small tidbits about that.

As for the last one, I was going with the detective shtick but I guess that's not going to cut it now especially with him being a mage and stuff like that. I thought it was a cool gimmick.

Hm. Might just make a new one altogether now that I think about it.

[vietmyke]

Oh, so is Haccho good to go?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Seirei No Hai: To be fair, a detective does work, it's just joining a police force officially that seemed a bit strange to me.

@vietmyke: He is.

[Feyblue]

@Seirei No HaiYeah, I was actually going to comment. Not sure if "Musuko" can even be used as a name either, since it would be like a person just being named "Son," and "Jinkouteki na" is just the adjective form of "artificial." It seems less like a name and more like the result of a google translate query... ^^;

Although, there are plenty of simple name forms that are literally just written as "eldest son" (Taro) "second son" (Jiro) etc. And a better surname, if you're planning on making it meaningful to his magecraft like I assume you meant to, might be something like "Hagane" (written as "White Steel") or "Kaji" (written as "Blacksmith").

Hope this helps.

[Eisenhorn]

Meanwhile, I totally didn't choose a foreign exchange type fellow just to avoid the naming conventions. Nope, not at all.

[Seirei No Hai]

@Seirei No Hai: To be fair, a detective does work, it's just joining a police force officially that seemed a bit strange to me.

@vietmyke: He is.

@VitaVitaAR

You mean a standalone detective? If so, I should edit a few bits and pieces of that.

@Seirei No HaiYeah, I was actually going to comment. Not sure if "Musuko" can even be used as a name either, since it would be like a person just being named "Son," and "Jinkouteki na" is just the adjective form of "artificial." It seems less like a name and more like the result of a google translate query... ^^;

Although, there are plenty of simple name forms that are literally just written as "eldest son" (Taro) "second son" (Jiro) etc. And a better surname, if you're planning on making it meaningful to his magecraft like I assume you meant to, might be something like "Hagane" (written as "White Steel") or "Kaji" (written as "Blacksmith").

Hope this helps.

@Feyblue

I'll take your advice and change up the name.

[Raineh Daze]

@Eisenhorn Meanwhile I started looking up genealogical records to find correct personal names for the Nara period.

Pretty certain that name thus is more Chinese pronunciation than anything, or at least how it ended up in the Japanese imperial court at that point, but I am not a linguist. xD

[Eisenhorn]

@Raineh Daze Hah, at one point I knew the actual meaning behind my fellow's name, but I am drawing a blank at the moment! I could look into it real quick like.

[vietmyke]

@Seirei No Hai I mean, detectives are police technically- more responsibilities, more work, about the same amount of pay. Though I guess private investigators pop up everywhere.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Seirei No Hai: That's how I meant it.

Also being able to change whole buildings is a bit extreme. ^^;

[ERode]

Motorcycle Riding Camper-Delinquent with Fists of Steel

Name: Kamogawa Rokkaku
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Race: Human (Delinquent)
Appearance: At the relatively unimposing height of 5’6, Rokkaku doesn’t look like much of a tough guy, his long brown hair and his small eyes making him out more like an unhygienic teen rather than the baddest bad boy in the neighborhood. Then he flexes, and his entire body turns into a monolith of unmoving steel. Then he glares, and the intensity in his dark red eyes could quite possibly cause salarymen to scamper away. And then, one may note the countless scars that riddle Rokkaku’s body, and perhaps they wouldn’t be wrong in believing him to be a yakuza enforcer or a former child soldier. But those are all just outer impressions, the impression of people who don’t know him.

Personality: Not that they’re all that far off. Rokkaku does love the taste of youthful rebellion, and he certainly has no qualms with cracking heads open with his iron fist. His death glare is indeed something that causes lesser men to cower and the yakuza to flinch, while his body is most definitely reaching the apex of physical prowess. His neutral expression is an ‘irritated frown’, while his smile is aggressive and vicious even without meaning to be. Heck, if treated like the delinquent punk he is, Rokkaku’s more than willing to play into their expectations of him, revving up his motorcycle obnoxiously and driving 30mph above the speed limit while throwing the middle finger at the cops.

But the sense of justice in his heart remains strong, and as a red-blooded rebel, he hates bullies, snobs, and assholes that impose their will upon the unwilling, whether through might, mind, or money. He also has no time for bureaucratic bullshit, thinks that sugary sweet girls are all just manipulative Jezebels, and thinks that the best way to get past obstacles is to go STRAIGHT THROUGH. Rokkaku’s the manly dumbass that doesn’t get feelings and emotions and all that icky stuff, but who’s still going to run twice the length of Minagawa and punch a fat, ugly bastard if he catches wind of whatever nefarious plot they’re planning.

Abilities & Skills

Magic Trait ; All Stand Equal Under the Fist of the War God
Though he despises it, the blood of his mother still flows through his veins, and as a scion of the Kamogawa family, Rokkaku holds a Magic Trait that turns his body into a spiritual weapon capable of punching the unpunchable. Whether it be intangible ghosts or magical attacks or conceptual curses, his body is capable of physically interacting with them like any other ordinary object, and thus, he’s capable of smacking them away, tearing them off, or sending them flying with a well-placed uppercut. As long as he can perceive it, Rokkaku can punch it. A nonsense ability that’s perfect for a dumbass, essentially.

It was said that his ancestors were capable of bypassing the concepts of time and space, as well as flat-out ignoring any durability or magical resistance with their punches, but in the modern era, the bloodline of the Kamogawa family has thinned out, and it is unlikely that their Magic Trait will reach the heights it once stood at.

Kamogawa Magic Style ; Iron Flesh Script
Though he’s fairly inept at regular onmyouji, simply because he skipped or slept through all the lessons before basically disowning his entire family and striking it out on his own, Rokkaku still benefits from the Iron Flesh Script that all members of the Kamogawa family go through when they reach thirteen years of age. The countless small scars on his body are actually the same sort of inscription one would find on ofuda, the wounds opened up with a blessed tanto before being filled in with a special mixture of metal dust. Through these marks, Rokkaku is able to channel his mana internally and grant himself varying degrees of superhuman strength, speed, perception, and durability, all dependent on how many marks he decides to activate.

Kamogawa Martial Arts ; Punch ‘em Dead
Once upon a time, Rokkaku earnestly practiced his family’s martial arts, a style of fighting that involved parries, counters, and precision strikes to immobilize one’s opponents before finally unleashing one of the 107 different Certain Kill Techniques that the Martial Art has to finish them off. Unfortunately, Rokkaku now doesn’t care, and just spams those Certain Kill Techniques all the time, until they’ve regresses from legendary secret arts to just a rushdown of regular attacks. Really though, he’s not all that skillful. He’s just hard-headed.

Riding B+ ; Ride or Die
Rokkaku rides a motorcycle. He likes his motorcycle a lot. He knows how to fix it up and he rates it as one of his top 3 worldly possessions. Though he’s capable of outrunning his motorcycle, the sensation of gliding through long, empty roads simply can’t be captured when you’re covering 500 ft per step. And though one may argue that effort does not always equate results, Rokkaku is still a skilled rider, capable of pulling off dangerous feats without dying or crashing.

Camping Boi ; Cheaper than Apartment Rent
Rokkaku likes camping. Or maybe he doesn’t, but it’s way easier to camp in a park rather than having to convince a landlord that yes, he is definitely capable of paying off the monthly rent, and no, he won’t use this room as a party room for his hypothetical delinquent friends. Though it doesn’t really do wonders for his hygiene, public baths exist and this camping delinquent enjoys the buzz of nature more than the convenience of a room, after all. And isn’t it totally wild and rebellious, living in forests and mountains when there’s ‘No Camping’ signs? Hell yeah it is!

Equipment: Rokkaku has three sets of clothing, a wallet, a first aid kit that he doesn’t use all that often, a can of tuna in case he meets a stray cat, his motorcycle, his sleeping bag, and his all-season tent. Travel light, and you’ll never have to complain about sore shoulders.

Brief Backstory: The Kamogawa family owns a shrine on the mountain while moonlighting as youkai exterminators. The eldest son, Rokkaku was supposed to succeed the family in that regard, but while he enjoyed all the lessons in how to punch youkai dead as a child, as he grew up, he realized he didn’t care for being a mercenary or a hitman or whatever. No, what he wanted was adventure, and, with the confidence that facing off monsters gave him, Rokkaku got into a big, nasty argument with his mom and promptly left the home, permanently borrowing his dad’s motorcycle while he was at it.

Riding far, far east, the dumbass delinquent eventually ran out of New Year’s allowance for gyudon and settled down in the city of Minagawa to find part-time work and stock up on more money for his next trip. Apparently, his rebellious attitude was totally ‘rock’ in the eyes of the owner of Live House Thunderblood, located on the western side of Downtown Minagawa, and that’s where Rokkaku occasionally works now, as the surly security dude that’s there to throw disruptive punks out during live events.

It works out, anyways, as long as no police officers ask why such a young lad is out and about during school hours.

[VitaVitaAR]

@ERode: Accepted.

[Seirei No Hai]

Might just make a new one. Thanks anyway.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Seirei No Hai: Um, if that's the case, please ask any questions you like. I'm willing to help out however I can.

[vietmyke]

Moved Haccho over to the Character tab, I will find a suitable illustrated image in a bit and update it.

[VitaVitaAR]

Hey everyone, we'll probably be starting this weekend!

[Rin]

Hey everyone, we'll probably be starting this weekend!

@VitaVitaAR

Oh no.

A deadline. D: