Contact: This journal or schmoechen#2732 on Discord! Character Name: Toshirou Hijikata Canon: Gintama Info: He's a mayonnaise-obsessed samurai policeman with a short fuse, from an Edo that was conquered and rapidly modernised by aliens in the 19th century. Gintama is a mix of comedy/parody, action and drama, so he knows how to roll with a lot of mood whiplash!
Magics & Familiar: Elemental/Death & Crow Tengu (Arashi) Desired CR: I'm always up for anything, but seeing how knights can now appoint squires and deputies Hijikata is game for that!! That said he's already got his hands full with his ghost patrol, so I'll most likely limit his capacities to two squires for the time being. Shoto is first in line since Hijikata already offered to train him, and the other slot will preferentially be given to someone with death magic (to be Hijikata's stand-in with the ghosts). He'll also be going on most knight's quests from next month on and drag his squire(s) or other aspiring knights along for practice!
Known Plans: In terms of TDM prompts I decided to give Hijikata the short end of the stick this time: on the Life Alerts front he'll meet the basilisk and get petrified on the far side of the river (since he's still living across the Bridge of the Pure of Heart), so he won't be able to help search for the cure... but he will be available to be graffiti'd and eventually rescued, if someone wants to smear nimbus flower paste on him. Once the sleep paralysis hits the expedition at night he, who already had plenty of opportunities to face his fears and regrets, will be available to enter people's dreams through the cognitive mages' ritual and try to help them out of their nightmares!
Out of the Going Viral prompts he's slightly less likely to get involved with the lava floor, and to the relief of probably everybody he also won't try to clone his mayonnaise since he already has his bottomless mug supplying him, and he'll be careful to wear a mask once he hears of the flu going around... so once again he's an ideal candidate to help others with their doppelgangers, endlessly multiplying and/or hungry food, and magical sneezes!
On the quest front he's available for the Dragon Quest if anybody is missing a third person! He'll want to slay it, though. After what it's done he's not in the mood for negotiations. Instead of giving out alms he'll set out to kill the fear gorta, taking them for zombies (I'll likely just tag out for this one), and he'll only help with the lettuces if someone asks him to (he's here for more gritty stuff than guarding delicacies)! He'll most likely stay away from this month's dark web quests as well since they either sound like bad news, aren't battle-heavy enough for his skillset, or seem like a lot of work for a dubious quest-giver.
Otherwise I think it's about time something went wrong with Hijikata's ghost patrol, so a few of his spectral subordinates will conspire to replace him as the commander, and some shit will go down... I'm still figuring out the details, but I'm thinking one of them will possess Hijikata and go around acting like a jackass, trying to incite the other ghosts to also possess people and take over (this will ultimately be localised to just one area of Camelot during the night and likely be over come morning).
Other: Gintama had a crossover event with Granblue Fantasy last month; it was really nice from what I saw! Here's Hijikata with his workmate Okita.
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Character Name: Toshirou Hijikata
Canon: Gintama
Info: He's a mayonnaise-obsessed samurai policeman with a short fuse, from an Edo that was conquered and rapidly modernised by aliens in the 19th century. Gintama is a mix of comedy/parody, action and drama, so he knows how to roll with a lot of mood whiplash!
Magics & Familiar: Elemental/Death & Crow Tengu (Arashi)
Desired CR: I'm always up for anything, but seeing how knights can now appoint squires and deputies Hijikata is game for that!! That said he's already got his hands full with his ghost patrol, so I'll most likely limit his capacities to two squires for the time being. Shoto is first in line since Hijikata already offered to train him, and the other slot will preferentially be given to someone with death magic (to be Hijikata's stand-in with the ghosts). He'll also be going on most knight's quests from next month on and drag his squire(s) or other aspiring knights along for practice!
Known Plans: In terms of TDM prompts I decided to give Hijikata the short end of the stick this time: on the Life Alerts front he'll meet the basilisk and get petrified on the far side of the river (since he's still living across the Bridge of the Pure of Heart), so he won't be able to help search for the cure... but he will be available to be
graffiti'd andeventually rescued, if someone wants to smear nimbus flower paste on him. Once the sleep paralysis hits the expedition at night he, who already had plenty of opportunities to face his fears and regrets, will be available to enter people's dreams through the cognitive mages' ritual and try to help them out of their nightmares!Out of the Going Viral prompts he's slightly less likely to get involved with the lava floor, and to the relief of probably everybody he also won't try to clone his mayonnaise since he already has his bottomless mug supplying him, and he'll be careful to wear a mask once he hears of the flu going around... so once again he's an ideal candidate to help others with their doppelgangers, endlessly multiplying and/or hungry food, and magical sneezes!
On the quest front he's available for the Dragon Quest if anybody is missing a third person! He'll want to slay it, though. After what it's done he's not in the mood for negotiations. Instead of giving out alms he'll set out to kill the fear gorta, taking them for zombies (I'll likely just tag out for this one), and he'll only help with the lettuces if someone asks him to (he's here for more gritty stuff than guarding delicacies)! He'll most likely stay away from this month's dark web quests as well since they either sound like bad news, aren't battle-heavy enough for his skillset, or seem like a lot of work for a dubious quest-giver.
Otherwise I think it's about time something went wrong with Hijikata's ghost patrol, so a few of his spectral subordinates will conspire to replace him as the commander, and some shit will go down... I'm still figuring out the details, but I'm thinking one of them will possess Hijikata and go around acting like a jackass, trying to incite the other ghosts to also possess people and take over (this will ultimately be localised to just one area of Camelot during the night and likely be over come morning).
Other: Gintama had a crossover event with Granblue Fantasy last month; it was really nice from what I saw! Here's Hijikata with his workmate Okita.