Contact: This account or schmoechen#2732 on Discord! Character Name: Toshirou Hijikata Canon: Gintama Info: He's a samurai policeman (based on a historical person from the 19th century)! His organisation, the Shinsengumi, operates under direct orders of the shogunate back home in Edo. Hijikata is the vice-commander, so he can be pretty authoritative and is used to taking charge. He's easy to rile up and piss off, but also a bit of an oddball with a mayonnaise obsession, a weakness for strange mascots and cute animals, and a secret otaku side. He's a Prismatica CRAU, and his canon itself has plenty of wacky hijinks, thus he tends to take strange occurrences well in stride! I have more information on him here. Magics & Familiar: Elemental & Death | Crow Tengu (Arashi)
Desired CR: I know this is the usual answer, but I really am up for anything!! Be it friends, enemies, frenemies, quest buddies, mentors, mentees, or whatever else, I appreciate all and any CR for him (including the fantastic ones he already has)!
Known Plans: Hijikata got himself knighted at the end of last month, so he's going to get serious about improving his magic skills. He'll finally properly branch out into more elements besides fire (wind and electricity will come easier to him, but he'll struggle terribly with earth and water), and after the incident with the ghosts from the Forest of the Felled he's very driven to learn how to counter possessions and spirit attacks in general. He'll also want to get himself a horse and armour (yeah, he's that serious about the knight stuff - he's the kind of person who completely lives for his work). Additionally he'll be looking into enchanting his sword to be effective against ghosts and other supernatural creatures! Of course he'll be happy for help with any of the above, all the more if it benefits both characters.
As for TDM prompts, he'll be at the carnival for some Fun in the Sun to cool down with cold treats (he'll be up for the margarita challenge when he isn't on the job, too!). I'm waffling between which aquatic mount to have him ride later on - by himself he'd probably go for the deinosuchus, but it'll depend on who he's with. Once the chaos with the cleaning utensils breaks out he may get a little too trigger-happy with his fire magic! So when the Land of Rot Returns he'll be wiser and therefore not cause any burning zombies, instead he'll use his death magic and his sword to fight the undead. Did anyone ever dream of being swallowed by a giant worm with Hijikata? Here's a good opportunity! Or else one party can be left behind until they reunite in that mystery bog...
Regarding this month's quests I'll have him catch the Summer Fever so someone else can complete that quest by helping him. Once he feels better he'll actively try his hand at Spotted Dicklivery (the trip with the dragonlets and the mining expedition in spring were pretty difficult, but the third time's the charm, right?) and Lavaft Behind (what could possibly go wrong with an aggressive lava-temperature geode slime when Hijikata's strongest element is fire?).
While Hijikata didn't lead many dark web quests awry (he only did that with the dullahan head delivery a few months ago, otherwise he merely reacted to any havoc after it was already wreaked) I still decided to have him banned from the dark web since he's now officially aligned with the local authorities. As such I'm offering him as a victim for Sickly Sweets, Let's Play, and Misery Loves Company! I'm up for getting gritty with those (and mind, the tables can turn on the evildoer too, if that's how we want to play it!), or more comedically/light-heartedly. If the questing character disguises their identity somehow we can totally have some bad shit go down without them having to deal with a pissy cop all the time from then on out, too!
Other: Seriously, someone please stop him from "upgrading" his sword to look like this.
Schmittchen | Toshirou Hijikata
Character Name: Toshirou Hijikata
Canon: Gintama
Info: He's a samurai policeman (based on a historical person from the 19th century)! His organisation, the Shinsengumi, operates under direct orders of the shogunate back home in Edo. Hijikata is the vice-commander, so he can be pretty authoritative and is used to taking charge. He's easy to rile up and piss off, but also a bit of an oddball with a mayonnaise obsession, a weakness for strange mascots and cute animals, and a secret otaku side. He's a Prismatica CRAU, and his canon itself has plenty of wacky hijinks, thus he tends to take strange occurrences well in stride! I have more information on him here.
Magics & Familiar: Elemental & Death | Crow Tengu (Arashi)
Desired CR: I know this is the usual answer, but I really am up for anything!! Be it friends, enemies, frenemies, quest buddies, mentors, mentees, or whatever else, I appreciate all and any CR for him (including the fantastic ones he already has)!
Known Plans: Hijikata got himself knighted at the end of last month, so he's going to get serious about improving his magic skills. He'll finally properly branch out into more elements besides fire (wind and electricity will come easier to him, but he'll struggle terribly with earth and water), and after the incident with the ghosts from the Forest of the Felled he's very driven to learn how to counter possessions and spirit attacks in general. He'll also want to get himself a horse and armour (yeah, he's that serious about the knight stuff - he's the kind of person who completely lives for his work). Additionally he'll be looking into enchanting his sword to be effective against ghosts and other supernatural creatures! Of course he'll be happy for help with any of the above, all the more if it benefits both characters.
As for TDM prompts, he'll be at the carnival for some Fun in the Sun to cool down with cold treats (he'll be up for the margarita challenge when he isn't on the job, too!). I'm waffling between which aquatic mount to have him ride later on - by himself he'd probably go for the deinosuchus, but it'll depend on who he's with. Once the chaos with the cleaning utensils breaks out he may get a little too trigger-happy with his fire magic! So when the Land of Rot Returns he'll be wiser and therefore not cause any burning zombies, instead he'll use his death magic and his sword to fight the undead. Did anyone ever dream of being swallowed by a giant worm with Hijikata? Here's a good opportunity! Or else one party can be left behind until they reunite in that mystery bog...
Regarding this month's quests I'll have him catch the Summer Fever so someone else can complete that quest by helping him. Once he feels better he'll actively try his hand at Spotted Dicklivery (the trip with the dragonlets and the mining expedition in spring were pretty difficult, but the third time's the charm, right?) and Lavaft Behind (what could possibly go wrong with an aggressive lava-temperature geode slime when Hijikata's strongest element is fire?).
While Hijikata didn't lead many dark web quests awry (he only did that with the dullahan head delivery a few months ago, otherwise he merely reacted to any havoc after it was already wreaked) I still decided to have him banned from the dark web since he's now officially aligned with the local authorities. As such I'm offering him as a victim for Sickly Sweets, Let's Play, and Misery Loves Company! I'm up for getting gritty with those (and mind, the tables can turn on the evildoer too, if that's how we want to play it!), or more comedically/light-heartedly. If the questing character disguises their identity somehow we can totally have some bad shit go down without them having to deal with a pissy cop all the time from then on out, too!
Other: Seriously, someone please stop him from "upgrading" his sword to look like this.