OOC:Name: Ant
Are you over 16?: Yes
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Characters already in the game: Aragaki Shinjiro, Guy Cecil, Van Hohenheim, Kuwabara Kazuma
How did you find us?: I've been here for a year
IC:Character name: Shimura Shinpachi
Fandom: Gintama
Timeline: Post Benizakura arc
Age: 16
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: He's a rather competent swordsman and samurai, as well as has the amazing ability to not get noticed, save for his glasses.
How would they use their abilities?: He would use them to defend the honor of all otaku, and upstanding people everywhere.
Appearance: GLASSES. The plainest character in the entire series, Shinpachi’s most notable feature is his glasses. Other than that, he is a very ordinary Japanese youth. He wears dark blue, or occasionally light blue hakama, and a gray or white gi with blue trim that matches the color of his hakama. He wears traditional tabi socks and waraji as well.
Background/Personality: Shinpachi was born into a family of samurai. Canonly, there is no mention of his mother, but his father died when he was very young, leaving him and his older sister to inherit their dojo. Unfortunately, as Shinpachi is quite bitter about, their father also left them with many debts. The dojo could not sustain itself, as it had no students thanks to the sword ban placed upon Edo by the Amanto, and as such, Shinpachi and his sister Tae were forced to work just to keep their dojo. The dojo is their pride, and even though samurai are considered to be extinct in their world, Shinpachi and his sister both feel pride in their upbringing. Shinpachi still aspires to be a samurai, and comes under the employ of Sakata Gintoki, a jack-of-all trades. It is through him, and Gintoki’s friends, that Shinpachi begins to develop into his own samurai.
Personality wise, Shinpachi is the most down to earth of the entire cast. He is quick to point out everyone’s flaws, outwardly states when people are being nonsensical or ridiculous, and is more often than not, the straight man, played off of by almost everyone. He is often the voice of reason and is also most often ignored when he tries to voice that sense of reason. As such, he gets dragged around, thrown around, and generally manhandled and mistreated by practically everything in the entire series. On many occasions, the characters often speak to just his glasses, disregarding him completely. This usually results, like many other situations where his castmates are acting foolish, unruly, or absurd, in him screaming, flailing, howling, and generally making a huge scene on the spot. In fact, Shinpachi likes to think that he's the most rational one of the bunch, but the truth is that he's just as loud, obnoxious, and completely insane as everyone else, though his insanity is more of an effect of theirs. Other than that, he is susceptible to many of the other woes that befall teenage boys. He has girl problems (in the sense that he has no girls and an overabundance of problems), he constantly feels inadequate (because his friends and family constantly remind him that he's ranked 8th in the character popularity polls no matter what he does), and he's always low on cash (because Gintoki never pays him). However, he wants to grow stronger, and though he’ll never outwardly admit it, he looks up to Gintoki as a mentor, and Kagura as a sister. He gets frustrated with, and fights with them both constantly, but when push comes to shove, he considers them family. The same could be said for the rest of the cast of Gintama, as all of the characters congregate around Gintoki, Shinpachi has found himself amongst a hodgepodge of people and other alien races. These people have helped him to grow, and even though he outwardly complains about their presence, he's happy that his life seems all the wealthier for the people in it.
As a swordsman, however, Shinpachi has shown that he can compete with the some of the series best. He might not have the experience that Gintoki and Katsura have, but in true shounen fashion, he has the determination and skill, both of which are recognized by Gintoki. At the onset of the Benizakura arc, Gintoki battles Nizou, one of the arcs antagonists and a blind samurai and assassin that he had fought previously in an earlier arc, while Shinpachi watches. During the fight, Nizou uses the demon sword Benizakura to not only shatter Gintoki's bokuto, but slice him deeply across the chest. With a follow up strike, he stabs Gintoki in the side and pins him to the wall, where he says that Gintoki can no longer be a samurai without a sword. Gintoki responds by seizing Nizou's arm and saying that "He has one more sword, just in case. But he can't draw it." A moment later, Shinpachi leaps into the fight and cleanly slices off Nizou's arm. In fact, Shinpachi often times exhibits great strength and skill under great duress and has defeated several opponents with tremendous blows that were believed to be impossible for someone like him.
Having been on the Thor before, Shinpachi will retain all of his memories from the brief time he was here. His reason for leaving was that he was called through a wormhole to the Jump offices with the offer of renegotiating his contract, getting a bigger salary, and a proper training arc. However, he was stuck in the waiting room for the entire duration of his disappearance, and was promptly booted back out through the wormhole and back into arrivals when it was discovered that "some asshole left their glasses in the waiting room."
Have you read up on how the game works?: The plug-in is Flamingferret, and the ways he could earn money are through odd jobs, going into business for himself, or mooching it off of people.
1st person sample: O-Oi! Oi! Is this thing on? Hello? What the hell is going on here?! What happened to Edo?! Is this an Amanto ship?! What’s going on?! WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY EVEN THINKING?! “DON’T PANIC?!” HOW COULD I NOT PANIC?! THEY SAID THE PLANET WAS DESTROYED!!
O-OI!! GIN-SAAAAAAN!! KAGURA-CHAAAAAAN! ANE-UEEEEEE?!
I-I can’t be the only one that survived right? Right?
Oh! I’m in space! Maybe…
SAKAMOTO-SAAAAAN?! MUTSU-SAAAAAAAAN?! ARE YOU OUT THERE?!
Is anyone out there…? C-Come on guys, this isn’t funny. Where is everyone?! IS THIS HOW YOU WANTED IT TO END, SORACHI-SAN?! I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE A TERRIBLE WRITER BUT THIS IS THE WORST! YOU CAN’T JUST GIVE THE SERIES AN IDEON ENDING AND EXPECT EVERYONE TO BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!!
3rd person sample:Shinpachi wandered the corridors, clutching his guide to his chest. He was used to seeing aliens, but what he wasn’t used to was where he was. The world couldn’t have been destroyed, right? He wasn’t here all alone, right? He walked slowly, adjusting his glasses and scanned the line of new refugees. A silver perm, a purple parasol, a giant, white dog, someone keeling over about bad egg dishes, or even an oversized duck following behind someone parading around as a space captain would be a welcome sight right now.
Anything.He called out their names one after another, in hopes that maybe he’d hear some shout back. A complaint, or the sound of people calling each other names, or even the sound of a retarded brawl over soba would make him rush over. But no one answered. Not yet anyway. He looked down at the cold, steel floor. He thought of asking a passing alien, describing his friends to him, but when he tried, he was just shoved aside. Stomping his foot in frustration, he turned to leave. To hell with this, he thought. He wasn’t going to take that.
He never thought he’d miss the constant fighting. The explosions of bombs detonating, the complaints of old men and the berating of a girl who acted like she was well beyond her time. He never thought he’d miss the preposterous sight of a creepy duck and the backwards ramblings of a man who had an entire soap opera channel in his head but always seemed to be getting bad reception.
They had better come and get him, otherwise who was he going to follow behind now?
Questions?: NOPE
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