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Kinjo Nodaka; An ass who's not an ass
Topic Started: Sep 15 2016, 02:41 PM (249 Views)
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Giraffe Man! Is he a giraffe? or is he a man? who knows! (he doesn't!)
Name: Kinjo Nodaka
Gender: Male
Age: 20

Class: Reitaku graduate

Occupation: Youth Refuge Social Worker


Personality: Kinjo used to be an abrasive, taciturn, and acidic young man. He was rash and aggressive, and didn’t like wasting time with what he would consider “bullshit” - which, in retrospect, was a lot of things. Not that he was a bad kid, but… Anger issues got him somewhere in life that isn’t totally optimal, that’s for sure. School was one of his pet peeves. So was society in general - mediocrity is overrated, as is anonymity, and the masses are aiming for that? No thanks. Authority figures got a double bird flip.

Needless to say, Kinjo was part of the countercurrent of “I don’t give a rat’s ass about your shit, leave me alone” thinkers. A philosophy of rough “laissez-faire” that looked like (and was, if Kinjo had to be honest about it) delinquency, and made it hard for outsiders to come in and socialize, maybe by fear, or disgust. Or maybe pity.

Except Kinjo isn’t all that, now. He’s still some of it, of course - it’s hard to take away your core being, such as it is - but he’s evolved into something more.

Over the years, the kid got smart, a bit more laidback - walking around blowing hot air like a hairdryer and being constantly pissed at insubstantial things (like society) made his blood boil about as dangerously as stomach acid, and that’s not a good life to live. Sure, he might still get pissed from time to time, and over stupid things too, but nowadays, Kinjo doesn’t punch people for what they represent, be it a rich bitch, authority figures in name only, or something else he’d have his crosshairs on. He’ll punch you for legitimately BEING or ACTING like one, though.

So there’s that.

Kinjo also knows that it’s important to respect “community”, and the power that a close-knit village has over the good mood of its inhabitants. Sadly, Nagashima is no village - in fact, it’s a bit of a barren wasteland, community wise - crowds of parallel-walking sheep, more than a pack - which is why Kinjo does his best to fill in that void, and help out the little guy.

His current job allows him to do that - with the supervision of his boss, he’s been working with the kids that come in and stay so that they have a good time, and are treated with respect. It’s the least he can do, he feels: after all, you have to give back to the community after being a bit of an ass to it, right?

Because down inside, Kinjo feels like he’s been one really huge asshole when he was younger, starting fights, getting into trouble, almost being expelled once… There’s a rumor going around that he punched a teacher, and he won’t deny it. So maybe there’s a bit of guilt going on in his motivation to help out.

But it’s also true that Kinjo wants to work social for legitimately good reasons - if he can’t go around town fighting the Big Man physically, or even being an ass to it, he’ll at the very least try and cleanse the wounds “society” gives to kids who don’t know how to treat themselves. And he’ll do it because there’s a Little Guy who needs some help, that’s all. He’s all about helping the underdog grow and alchemize himself into something stronger and better.

All in all, Kinjo’s still a bit distant, a bit rough on the edges, and a bit easy to annoy - but he’s more laidback, looks more confident about himself. He’s all grown up now. Don’t get him wrong, though: Kinjo will still slap you in the back of the neck for saying something stupid, but it’s rough, brotherly love, right?

Other Fun Facts:
- Kinjo is the happy master of a 3-months old kitten named Gomi, that he found in a garbage can one night. It was a very cute and/or dramatic night. He’s a trooper!
- Kinjo also owns a shiba inu that he’s called Doggu. He is the fluffiest. He is named in honor of Doge - it’s Kinjo’s tentative pronunciation.
- The reason he called his inu like that is because he’s actually somewhat fluent in english and spanish, and frequents the occidental side of the interwebs.
- While he doesn’t read many comics, Kinjo IS a fan of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Expect jojokes eventually. Also personas are standsonas.
- His middle name is José. Kinjo José. Do I need to spell out how he got hooked or is it already clear enough?
- Kinjo can play moderately good hispanic style guitar.
- He is also a very good cook. Something something family working in a restaurant something learning from them.
- Kinjo doesn’t smoke (consider the current drawing where he does to be a draft’s mistake), but he HAS taken the habit of eating lollipops. If he’s doing the groceries, he’ll take a moment to stack up with different flavored lollies. He also keeps them around to eat when he’s nervous.
- Kinjo owns a food truck - well technically the church owns it, but he IS the main driver and cook in it. He uses it to drive around town, offering home-cooked food to the homeless for the beautiful price of 0 yen - this whole operation is part of a charity fund at the church.
- He also owns an old fashioned, but very stylish Bosozoku Motorcycle. It's not what people woulc consider outlandish - the passenger's seat doesn't rise that high, and the colors are a sharp red and powerful, reflective black, but it's got the bullet nose and everything. He keeps it in tiptop shape in the back garage of the Youth Refuge building, and sometimes drives around when he's got the time for it.
- While he GRADUATED out of Reitaku, he probably knows some of his underclassmen and classmates - who may now be in the University as of now. Who knows? Let’s build on that.
- Kinjo has earned the nickname of Mexico (-san, -sempai, -aniki, etc), mostly due to his familial (and very visual) heritage. He doesn't mind at all as long as you don't mind being called Japan-San back.

History: Kinjo’s family immigrated twice through the 20th century. The first time was in 1903, when Mexico invited the japanese to move out to work in their french-owned coffee farms in exchange of papers and an actually decent pay (for the time). Instead of that, Kinjo's great-grandparents (and their daughter) found themselves under fire under the Mexican Revolution. It’s there that the girl met her husband, an ex-rebelde for whom she cared for very much, and nursed back to health after he was hospitalized. Together, they had a son.

After the Second World war, though, the Nodaka family moved back to Japan, once again crossing the pacific ocean to go back in their native country, in order to help and take care of the extended family that had stayed back in their native country. once in japan, the boy, now a grown man, married a pure blooded japanese woman.

They met one sunday in Nagashima’s small catholic church - he’d been born a christian under his father’s guidance, and she’d been from a lineage of converted japanese who managed to survive the feudal purges, her brother owning the church. The marriage had been expected, and took place one year later: They then used the Goshuki (or gift money) to start a small restaurant, where they still offer mexican and japanese food.

Kinjo, who was born from this union, had a bit of a rough childhood because of his own tantrums and temperamental issues. Getting into fights with kids in the playground, questioning - and sometimes actively resisting - authority since his first year in kindergarten, and general bad grades. Turns out young Kinjo was a bit of an asshole!

Papa Nodaka didn’t take it the wrong way, because what he saw in Kinjo was the same person he was he was young: brash, unfiltered, and a bit of an alpha stallion with a “check my shit out” attitude. All he needed was purpose and time - where Papa Nodaka found food and a wonderful woman, Kinjo would find something else. All he needed was to find it.

Turns out what the kid was onto something when, during second grade in elementary school, he punched a bully in the teeth for pulling one of his friends’ ponytails in front of a laughing crowd of kids. Of course, the teachers didn’t really appreciate his violent solution (even if the PE teacher congratulated his efficient straight punch), but Kinjo had found something that made him feel good about himself in some way - helping the little guy.

Hell, she even gave him a little kiss on the cheek for that!

He would usually evolve into schoolyard fight tide-turner, aiming his kiddy punches of justice towards any form of bullying session he could. Some kids started looking up to him because of that - before, he was just “the weird, violent kid who’s also a foreigner or something”. But now he was actually a useful member of the school’s kid politics - the justiciar of the bullied! This may have boosted his ego a bit. Just a tad.

Ok, let’s be honest for a moment: he was joyful as all hell about it - and for a while, Kinjo thought that he could take care of any problem or help anybody in trouble with his fists.

Which, well, got him suspended after he managed to give a teacher a black eye after he saw (whilst snooping around the faculty room for exam answers) that the older man was a class-A asshole - our golden boy found him crossing the fine line between discipline and physical abuse with a student. The whole thing was covered up, of course: all hush-hush. Kinjo had only beaten up a teacher because he was a dirty little delinquent, that’s all. When questioned about the alleged complaints of physical violence, the other student remained silent, and ultimately denied everything.

So that was that.

After that little incident, Kinjo’s life kind of went downhill: the whole “retook a whole year” thing wasn’t good on his resume, his less-than-stellar grades sucked, and that, combined with his history for violence and his taciturn behaviour immediately took him away from the road to Tayoutono high school. Not that he cared: for him, it was a school for the bourgeois, and he wanted very little to do with people who were born with a silver spoon, or this so-called “talent” that he apparently lacked.

So, Reitaku High it was. And it was ok. For a while.

Kinjo had cooled down a bit, after the incident with that teacher. No more getting into stupid fights, no more rushing into trouble like a dumbass, no more bullying the bully. Nah, he got smart - preventing the symptom was fine at first, sure, but it was a kid’s dream: it only worked if you could be just about everywhere at the same time. Too many bad things happened behind closed doors, too - bullying, depression… The kids turned into teens, and got complicated. He was one man and they were a hurricane. What was there to do?

Hell, when he thought about it more, he’d spent all of his elementary years being a mean son of a bitch to just about any other mean son of a bitch around. The fact that they deserved it didn’t make it any better. A victim is a victim.

Besides school though, Kinjo started doing charity work, as proposed by parents, family and friends - working for people, and not for yourself, would help him, they said. And they were right, it did help: Kinjo did some cleaning up and cooking at the local church’s “Youth Refuge” mission - the church’s old convent turned housing and “safe house” for kids with a reason to stay out of home, or needing a safe place for the night. He helped the kids out best he could, talked them through their anger or depression, because he’d been, or was still, walking down that alley, and he found it easy to relate.

One sunday, Kinjo walked into church, depressed, deflated, and out of his usual energy, no motivation… The local father (his uncle, actually) saw how bad it was going: he’d seen little Kinjo grow up, happily talk about how he white knighted the innocent, saw him falter with the “incident”, and then the rest of his beliefs break down through high school…

Uncle talked to Kinjo for a while. He said he hated seeing him like that, downtrodden and weak, and how he’d been shinier before. So that’s when he offered Kinjo a job: “You know, kid, you’re smarter than you think, and you’ve been through a lot of - pardon the term - ‘shit’. Why don’t you work at the youth refuge? I know you like helping out the kids we’re keeping out of the street, and I’ve heard you talk to them. You already do it voluntarily, but I always thought you… Needed a raise, so to speak. So if you finish high school, I’ll give you a full-time job here, what do you think?”

Whoa, game changer!

Kinjo was a new man after that. His motivation went through the roof. He finished school - not with flying colors or anything flashy, just the bare minimum, but it was enough. He moved into one of the empty rooms at the top floors in the convent-turned-social-housing, made it his own, and started working straight away, completely ignoring the summer break. He’s been at it for a year and a half now - and Kinjo’s regained his usual colors, to his family’s and friend’s relief.

Appearance: Kinjo is of relatively average-to-tall height - about five foot ten - for a japanese/mexican guy (considering the average size of both countries of about 5ft7, this is a bit surprising). He is athletic and top-heavy, with bigger shoulders and a thin waist, and long legs which pack a surprising punch. Below is a drafty draft of his facial features that I will have to upgrade later. Ignore the cigarette smoke, and consider the following: lollipop.
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Current Weapon/Combat Skill: Kinjo is one lean, mean, street fighting machine. He still trains and keeps himself in shape (his room in the Youth Refuge has a punching bag and a stationary bike), giving him a bit of an edge when it comes to exchanging blows - nothing game changing, but an asset for sure. Since he’s very confident with his kicks, it’s no stretch that his favorite weapons would be reinforced boots or greaves of some sort. He also carries around a short folding knife - Kinjo never thought about fighting with it against something, instead using it for box cutting or rope handling. That may change soon, though.

Mask:
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Persona:
~Name: El Santo
~Description: Takes the form of a tall and very large man, with ebony, wood-textured skin. His head is a blue, pink and yellow sugar skull, and even if he’s shirtless, tattoos or markings of the same color cover every inch of skin possible, with wonderful floral patterns and skull imagery. He wears army pants (with a studded belt that’s also covered in medals, sigils, chains, beads, and the like) and iron spike studded construction boots, and dons a gigantic wrestling champ’s belt on one shoulder - which he uses to bludgeon fools with.
~Backstory: El Santo is an icon. Don’t let anybody tell you any different. One of the, if not THE, most iconic mexican wrestlers in history, his exploits and high-tensions matches sculpted and refined the “Luchador” wrestling. Over his 50 or so years of work, he has appeared in wrestling matches, movies, comic books, and managed to turn into a living legend and folk hero, protecting the innocent and the poor. The legend was unmasked during his last formal appearance on television, and he mysteriously died a week later, but he lives on as a figure of good for the little folk.
~Arcana: Chariot

~Drain: -
~Weak: Ice
~Null: -
~Reflect: -
~Resist: Fire

~Skills: Bash, Agi, Tarukaja

~Wishlist:Crowd Pleaser*
-Crowd Pleaser is a Physical attack that does bonus damage based on what, and how many, -Kaja or buffing skills Kinjo and El Santo are currently under. El Santo points at an invisible crowd, who start singing his name, and then he runs in and does a tremor-inducing suplex (or other violent wrestling move) to the poor sod. And it’s awesome, and the invisible crowd cheers.


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Edited by ElTipi, Apr 21 2017, 11:33 PM.
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Talk to FF or Wands about the custom skill, approving those are on the admins.

Otherwise, looks good, reads much better too with some polish.

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