Post by Nobushige on May 17, 2015 0:40:43 GMT -5
Character Name: Azai Nobuyori
Title Name: None
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Birthday: The 9th of September
Birthplace: Nagahama, Omi Province.
Clan: Azai
Year: Second
Track: Politician
School Clubs: Ceremony Club, Sailing Club.
Dorm: Owari
Weapon: Naginata
Hair: Medium length dark hair colored blond.
Eyes: Light Brown
Build: Average with a small bit of pudge
Voice: slightly deep and serious.
Height: 174 cm or 5 feet 7 inches
Weight: 65 kg, or 143 lbs.
Casual Clothing/appearance: Nobuyori's casual gear consists of black pants, some nice black loafers, and a nice blue and white shirt with golden sparrows etched into it and the Azai clan symbol on the back. Over his outfit he usually wears a long, colored, light blue jacket with a golden Azai family crest on the back of the jacket and golden trim around the edges to demonstrate what family he belongs too.
Combat Clothing/appearance: Nobu's battle gear consists of a long blue overcoat with a gold Azai clan crest on the back of it. under the coat is a blue and white hakama folded over a white breast plate on top of a normal white shirt. At hands, wrists, and forearms, are also a pair of blue and white arm guards mostly hidden by the long blue overcoat. He wears hakama bottoms and steel inserted boots. The Hakama pants have armored shin guards of blue and white. The jacket also had lightly armored shoulders.
Inventory/accessories: Phone, Wallet, wrist charm made of three gold rings on top of each other tied with brown string.
Personality: Nobuyori can come across as a serious person. He takes his studies and combat practice very serious. Though, despite how serious he takes his studies, his abilities and tactics are mostly designed to defend and save his allies.
Despite saying he doesn't have time for others, he actually trains in order to protect those around him. For a long time that descendants of the Azai have believed that protecting your allies is by far the top priority in battle, and life in general.
In what rare free time he gives himself Nobuyori can be found either sitting on the roof to get a good view point of the area, or out at sea on a school boat practicing naval tactics.
Nobuyori personally feels that since he comes from a clan destroyed by Oda Nobunaga and only revived through the shogun's mercy he has to do his best to show that in modern times his clan is still strong
Likes: Being on a boat or being near water, tea ceremony, classical music, cute trinkets and stuffed animals, mochi, Suishoku, onmyoudo, atrology, bird watching.
Dislikes: Dishonest people, classes, disrespecting of the Azai clan.
Ambitions/Goals: Become a better head of the clan than his father and show that the Azai deserve a place in the world.
Habits/Mannerisms: - Often spends his free time resting on top of the school looking out at the city.
- Crosses arms and rapidly taps foot due to lack of patience.
Strengths: (3 to 5 things your character is good at. Must have equal weaknesses.)
- Naval Training - Having lake Biwa right next door Nobu has fair training with naval combat and how to operate a ship.
- Defensive Fighting - Nobu isn't particularly skilled with offensive combat, and the naginata is a defensive weapon to begin with. However, he is able to block, parry, and counter attack well.
- Weather Prediction - Due to studying Onmyoudo and astrology Nobuyori is fairy well versed at telling the weather and predicting natural conditions in an area or battlefield. It is a useful skill in both land and naval combat.
- Azai Pride - Nobuyori will not tolerate any insults to his clan and is able to get easily taunted and angered by such words.
- Low Strength - Nobuyori has never been much for physical labor and isn't good with lifting, pushing, or striking.
- Safe Conditions - Nobu is used to being brought up in a noble household and having an entire group to look out for him. Because of this adverse weather conditions and spotting traps aren't really his thing. Wouldn't do well in a trapped area such as a rigged house or a mine field.
(You have 54 points. The limit to one stat is 13. You must have at least 1 point in every stat. Please assign them as you will. Your grade from F-A will be calculated by a staff member upon approval. For more on stats check the guidebook. Keep in mind the stat points aren't a deciding factor in RP but are for you to better understand your character.)
HP: D
SP: B
ST: D
Soul: A
Endurance: C
Agility: E
Speed: D
Luck: C
Original Owner: Azai Nagamasa
Clan: Azai
History: At a young age Nagamasa convinced a number of his father's retainers to politely ask his father to step down and let Nagamasa become lord of the province.
Upon becoming lord of his province Nagamasa became married to the younger sister of Oda Nobunaga, Oichi. The two of them had three famous daughters know for their beauty who ended up marrying three famous generals.
Eventually, however, due to Nobunaga attacking the Azai's allies the Asakura, Nagamasa went to war with the Oda. As the Oda surrounded his castle Nagamasa sent Oichi and the three daughters out to the Oda clan before dying in his castle as it burned to the ground.
Nagamasa went down in history as being famous for his love of Oichi and being a lord well loved by his people.
Sacred Item: Paper Talismans: A series of paper talismans created by the Azai clan. The Azai had always taken ceremony and ritual to be very important. Thus, magical charms and prayers have always been a key part of their clan.
Activate Ability 1: Shikigami: Nobu throws a single talisman that folds into a bird, charged with spiritual energy, at an enemy. Upon contact the energy in the talisman bursts outwards causing a small bit of damage and also blinding them for about 1 second before the talisman floats back into Nobuyori's jacket.
Activate Ability 2: Healing Talisman: Nobuyori throws a talisman that attaches to an injured person and they find their health being recovered. Heals medium damage but doesn't work on life threatening wounds.
Activate Ability 3: Azai Barrier: Nobuyori spreads three talismans in front of himself that then form an energy barrier in the shape of the Azai clan crest in order to block incoming attacks. Meant to only be used for one turn, but can be held up for a maximum of three rounds. Each extra round it is kept up adds to it's cooldown time.
Passive 1: Talisman Laced weapon: The Naginata itself has some of Nobu's talismans on the shaft. This causes the blade to glow with a supernatural light as well as deal damage with the energy from Nobu's sacred item and not just the blade itself. (Naginata hits with D soul in place of ST)
Passive 2: Talisman Laced Jacket: Since the talismans are held within Nobu's jacket they give Nobu powerful protection against sacred item and non-human attacks. (Auto-guard barrier (C level soul power) can be broken.)
OverburstColor: Light Green
Overburst Power: Cloud of Sparrows: All of the talismans in Nobu's jacket fly out, turning into about twenty to twenty-five paper sparrows all glowing with green energy. The Sparrows then dive at whatever targets Nobu designates like homing missiles. Upon impact each paper sparrow bursts with magical energy. Can be used to sweep a large crowd or devastate a single target.
Due to all of the talismans using their energy Nobu's passives and actives are all down for the rest of the thread.
Support: Azai Kazuki: Nobuyori's father. A man who is a descendant of an Azai branch family. His grandfather decided to revive the Azai name. In truth their bloodline is fairly muddled.
Azai Tomiko: Nobuyori's mother. The lady Azai often rules over Oumi while her husband is away. Despite being a noble woman she has an obvious tan and tough skin. She firmly believes that simply ordering people around accomplishes nothing and true achievements are done with one's own hands.
Azai Kaori: Nobuyori's little sister. She goes to a normal school and shows no interest in things like military and government. She is a middle schooler with short brown hair and dark brown eyes. Tanned skin and a bright smile, she is one of the main people Nobuyori fights for.
History:
The Azai clan is a clan trying to prove it's worth. During the sengoku era the Azai clan was crushed after betraying the Oda clan. Azai Nagamasa took his own life, and his daughters became the wives of famous leaders during the sengoku era. Now, skip forward 300 years. Azai Nobuyori's great grandfather, Azai Tsukemasa, decides to ask the Tokugawa family to resurrect the Azai clan after the clan placed in charge of governing Oumi do a terrible job for decades on end. The Tokugawa grant his request and the Azai clan is restored and placed in charge of the province. The Azai had also been given the official title of guardians of Lake Biwa and told to help the shogunate conduct naval training on the large inland lake. Thus the Azai clan have served as a naval family for the past three generations going from Nobuyori's great grandfather, and to his father, and someday himself.
Nobuyori, being the son of a daimyo, grew up extremely privileged. Everywhere he or his sister Kaori went they had two armed samurai following them and driving them. On top of that many people bowd in respect when their family entered a building or festival. This caused Nobu to have a large chip on his shoulder when it came to his sense of self worth, even though his mother who was born a commoner and strongly believed in self reliance tried teaching him otherwise. Even though he went to public school with the other kids from Oumi his bodyguards hung around the school, and in class he was given special attention. He was also given tutors whenever needed. Due to this he managed to get through public schooling fairly easy, though he made no actual friends while doing so. The children found him too rude and demanding, and so while Kaori got along with people and made plenty of friends, Nobu never really had any. During class while others conversed with each other he would often look outside watching the birds.
Around the end of middle school Nobuyori was also given a gift from his father. It was a set of paper talismans that had been made by the Azai clan during the sengoku era. Over all the talismans had no real value. It was simple a symbolic heirloom. However, upon holding them Nobu felt something click with them, and the talismans began glowing. It was soon discovered Nobuyori was able to bond with his sacred item. The gift given from his mother, wasn't as spectacular sadly. The naginata was mostly considered a weapon used by females, however since Nobuyori wasn't particularly physically strong and his father was usually away doing naval operations for the shogun, his mother taught both him and Kaori how to use the weapon.
Eventually Nobuyori found himself, like the children of all provincial lords, sent to Edo Bugei in Osaka. It is the school his father went to, and thus he had too. Kaori being a girl and second child, was exempt. At Edo bugei Nobuyori went from being a one of a kind lord's son that everyone had to bow too to being just like everyone else. He quickly found that what made him special was now worthless, and that many lord's children looked down upon the Azai because they felt that what had been resurrected wasn't the actual Azai clan and that Nobu's name was worthless. It also didn't help that he preferred using the naginata, a weapon many considered to be a female's weapon. This caused him to get both upset and lonely, making him even more isolated. Eventually, however, he found solace on the rooftop of the school and often spend time up on the roof instead of in class. After all the book work itself wasn't difficult, but he disliked the ridicule. While on the roof he tended to rest, and practice with his sacred item.
While doing training missions though, he found that even though they made fun of him, much like the people back home Nobu didn't wish to others to suffer. On top of that his sacred item turned out to be well geared for protecting and healing others. Taking this to mind Nobu asked a lot about the guardian path in school. However, due to being a future clan lord was put in the politician track instead. Even so he still tried to do guardian training and missions when people. Through his time on the roof, and missions, he became particularly close to a fellow student and made his first real friend. A girl named Suishoku Yuubae. Coming from a common background but having a sacred item she was the first person to actual treat Nobu not like a prince but like a normal person. The two quickly forged a strong bond between them and rumors began to fly about the two of them being a couple. Through his time spent with her Nobu has started outwardly expressing his desire to protect others, instead of simply feeling it internally. With Suishoku's help he also began doing healing and protecting missions in order to get promoted with her to a second year.
Now with year two starting it is time for him to further develop his abilities and show the school exactly what it means to be Azai.
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