Player nickname: Johnny Player LJ:kilraaj Way to contact you: Email: kilraaj@gmail.com AIM: kokiaru Are you at least 15?: Y
Character: Kenji Ohgami Fandom: Bloody Roar Character Notes: Kenji was being brainwashed by Tylon when the company was suddenly attacked. Though the brainwashing stopped with the labs' destruction, it had already done substantial damage to Kenji's psyche; Yugo Ohgami found the young boy wandering around the fiery wreckage with no memory and little self-awareness. The teenager took in the boy, adopting him as a younger brother, and under his care Kenji gradually recovered until at the end of five years he acted almost like a normal child in spite of his amnesia. However, at age 14 he was kidnapped by a former Tylon scientist, Busuzima, who completed the brainwashing and turned the boy into an assassin who used the alias "Bakuryu". Yugo helped rescue and snap him out of it, but Kenji suffers from guilt about the people he murdered under Busuzima's orders. He now pretends to be a normal student while working for the World of Co-Existence, a group led by his adoptive brother with the goal of improving human-zoanthrope relationships.
Prompt: Childhood.
Kenji hated certain assignments in his language arts class. Not poetry--poetry was wonderful, and he didn't understand why his other classmates grumbled about it so much. Creating a phrase that held the essence of an emotion or image (often both) did take considerable effort, but the results were worth it. But since his friend Uriko grumbled along with the rest of the class whenever the students were assigned to write a poem, he kept his thoughts private.
No, the ones he hated were the annual favorites, writing prompts about "childhood": "Your favorite childhood memory" and "what did you do as a child" and "what was your first home like" and that sort of garbage. Most of the time he couldn't remember what the correct answer to the question would be, and even on the rare occasions when he did he usually couldn't put it down because he was supposed to be Kenji, the second son of Yuji, and not Bakuryu, a boy raised to be a killer. So he made up elaborate stories about a false childhood. Finding a time and location was easy; he could recite the houses and vacations and notable occasions of the Ohgami family from Yuji's birth onwards, having studied them hard in case someone asked personal questions. But the feelings--those were harder. Just as putting feelings into words took time, so did weaving emotions and sensations out of whole cloth and fitting them for a family that was fake, a family whose father had never known he had a second son. The results were not nearly as satisfying as a well-constructed poem, though, because while poetry explored the truth, all that the falsehoods of a childhood seemed to do was mock Kenji about how he could never be quite normal--or completely honest.
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Player LJ:
Way to contact you:
Email: kilraaj@gmail.com
AIM: kokiaru
Are you at least 15?: Y
Character: Kenji Ohgami
Fandom: Bloody Roar
Character Notes: Kenji was being brainwashed by Tylon when the company was suddenly attacked. Though the brainwashing stopped with the labs' destruction, it had already done substantial damage to Kenji's psyche; Yugo Ohgami found the young boy wandering around the fiery wreckage with no memory and little self-awareness. The teenager took in the boy, adopting him as a younger brother, and under his care Kenji gradually recovered until at the end of five years he acted almost like a normal child in spite of his amnesia. However, at age 14 he was kidnapped by a former Tylon scientist, Busuzima, who completed the brainwashing and turned the boy into an assassin who used the alias "Bakuryu". Yugo helped rescue and snap him out of it, but Kenji suffers from guilt about the people he murdered under Busuzima's orders. He now pretends to be a normal student while working for the World of Co-Existence, a group led by his adoptive brother with the goal of improving human-zoanthrope relationships.
Prompt: Childhood.
Kenji hated certain assignments in his language arts class. Not poetry--poetry was wonderful, and he didn't understand why his other classmates grumbled about it so much. Creating a phrase that held the essence of an emotion or image (often both) did take considerable effort, but the results were worth it. But since his friend Uriko grumbled along with the rest of the class whenever the students were assigned to write a poem, he kept his thoughts private.
No, the ones he hated were the annual favorites, writing prompts about "childhood": "Your favorite childhood memory" and "what did you do as a child" and "what was your first home like" and that sort of garbage. Most of the time he couldn't remember what the correct answer to the question would be, and even on the rare occasions when he did he usually couldn't put it down because he was supposed to be Kenji, the second son of Yuji, and not Bakuryu, a boy raised to be a killer. So he made up elaborate stories about a false childhood. Finding a time and location was easy; he could recite the houses and vacations and notable occasions of the Ohgami family from Yuji's birth onwards, having studied them hard in case someone asked personal questions. But the feelings--those were harder. Just as putting feelings into words took time, so did weaving emotions and sensations out of whole cloth and fitting them for a family that was fake, a family whose father had never known he had a second son. The results were not nearly as satisfying as a well-constructed poem, though, because while poetry explored the truth, all that the falsehoods of a childhood seemed to do was mock Kenji about how he could never be quite normal--or completely honest.