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PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Coffee
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER?: Yep, 26
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CURRENT CHARACTERS: England/Arthur Kirkland
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Asato Tsuzuki
CANON: Yami no Matsuei
CANON POINT: End of the Kyoto arc (Volume 8)
CHARACTER AGE: 98, appears early 20s
HISTORY: LINK!
PERSONALITY: To most people, Tsuzuki is an impulsive, lazy, and happy idiot. He's a creature of simple pleasures, whether it be drink and sweets, physical contact, or praise from others (which is often rather short in supply). Quick to temper in the right occasions or with certain people (Terazuma, Muraki), he has to tendency to act without thinking and this has gotten him in hot water before due to the path of destruction he's capable of leaving behind. For example, a simple bit of bickering between him and another shinigami, Terazuma, ended in the destruction of the brand new underworld library.
But far stronger than his temper is the amount that he cares, and the guilt that he carries. All shinigami were once humans who died with some sort of regret and attachment to the human world, which is what gets them chosen. And while it's never specifically said what happened, Tsuzuki carries a great amount of guilt for a tragedy in his life, potentially the deaths of more than one person. I headcanon this to include his sister, who is referred to as teaching him a great many things. Between that event and his death, Tsuzuki goes insane and is institutionalized, attempting suicide many times until he succeeds after eight years. These memories are sealed away at one point before the series, perhaps to preserve what sanity he had left, but are broken open when he is possessed by a demon general in the Devil's Trill Arc. The only thing that saves him from being swallowed up by them is the love of the young violinist, Hijiri, who they were trying to protect on that assignment.
The main antagonist in the series, Kazutaka Muraki, also uses Tsuzuki's guilt against him. As the grandson of the doctor who treated Tsuzuki when he was alive, he had his grandfather's old files on Tsuzuki, which detailed the inhuman traits that he displayed even before he became a shinigami. His purple eyes, which had gotten him branded as a demon as a child, and the fact that in his eight years of care, he hadn't eaten, drank, or slept, and yet healed from wounds and continued on living. Muraki even claimed to have tested an old tissue sample and found it not to be human, which is an idea that has always weighed heavily on Tsuzuki. When Muraki starts killing people specifically to draw Tsuzuki out, Tsuzuki takes the blame for this on himself. The culmination of this in the Kyoto Arc results in his attempt to kill himself again, asking it of Touda, one of his own shiki, with the idea to die and take Muraki down with him. Only Hisoka's act of going to him and promising to never leave him, and Tatsumi's shadow powers to protect them both, saves him from himself.
Even though he is a shinigami, a god or guardian of death as it's translated as in the manga, Tsuzuki hates taking life. In his first case in the series, he manages to "lose" the court summons for a girl whose name had shown up in their book of deaths, but was still living. She'd been trying to commit suicide because of her own guilt over the death of her cousin, but through the course of the case finds the will to live again. And in the times that he has to explain what he is to mortals involved in their cases, it's always with guilt, the mood being that he's essentially a monster. His friends and those who come to care for him often have to try and change his mind.
Which brings me to the the strongest part of Tsuzuki's personality. How much he cares. Tsuzuki is fiercely loyal to those he's decided to protect, whether they're fellow shinigami like his partner Hisoka, humans he's been assigned to save like Hijiri, or people he's just met in the course of an investigation. He wants everyone to be safe and happy, even at his own expense when needed, or at least when he sees it as needed. When Muraki had kidnapped a girl they were guarding, he threatened her safety to make Tsuzuki go with him (which was where Muraki strengthened the idea that he wasn't human). In fact, very early in his partnership with Hisoka, Muraki uses the other shinigami as bait to make Tsuzuki come to him. Even though their partnership was somewhat rocky at this point, Tsuzuki doesn't hesitate.
But he also just wants people to be happy, letting Tatsumi walk away from their partnership (and relationship), and was willing to let Hisoka do the same for his benefit. Thankfully for Tsuzuki, Hisoka had seen enough of him that he decided not to, the pair becoming a steadying rock for each other. Tsuzuki's always ready to offer comfort for his partner, like when they left the cruise ship after Hisoka had had to shoot another victim of Muraki's because it was more merciful than letting her die slowly, and earlier when Hisoka got his memories of when Muraki had raped and cursed him to death three years before his own death, the doctor having sealed them after the act so Hisoka could never reveal what he'd done. For those Tsuzuki considers friends, there's nothing he won't do.
ABILITIES: Tsuzuki is a shinigami, and as such can heal from any wound that doesn't completely destroy his body (which of course would be scaled back for the game), fly, turn invisible, and interact with spirits. He's an expert with ofuda, paper spells, used for warding, attack, and illusions. It's shown that he's a decent archer, particularly when there's competition, and has contracts with twelve shikigami, powerful spirits that he can summon to fight with him. Since the shiki are characters in their own right, I'll be having that connection cut off unless one apps in. He's also shown to be able to breathe life into paper birds that serve as messengers.
SINS & VIRTUES: Sloth, wrath, gluttony
SAMPLES
Sample 1
If there was one thing that Tsuzuki liked about this place other than the lack of paperwork, it was the meals. The manor cooks had good reason to be proud of themselves, even if they didn't let him in the kitchen much after he'd offered to make a big dish of spaghetti for the dinner (it'd broken his heart a little to see it tossed as soon as they'd taken a whiff). But the food was delicious and there was lots of it! Especially the desserts.
Shoving a forkful of pie into his mouth, he gave a beaming smile to the person sitting next to him. "Have you tried any of this? It's really good." Simple pleasures to make a bad situation a little better, right?
Sample 2
Tsuzuki was a shinigami. This was not the first time he'd been charged with settling restless spirits and helping them move on. He carefully laid out his spell papers, stopping to stare at the salt writings. A sad smile crossed his lips even as he tried to be cheerful for the spirits. "I understand, thank you for your warnings," he said, laying down the last fuda to make an oval encircling the table area where he'd felt their energy concentrated.
The dead man pushed his power into the encircling papers quietly. "Go and be at peace, my friends."
NAME: Coffee
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER?: Yep, 26
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: England/Arthur Kirkland
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Asato Tsuzuki
CANON: Yami no Matsuei
CANON POINT: End of the Kyoto arc (Volume 8)
CHARACTER AGE: 98, appears early 20s
HISTORY: LINK!
PERSONALITY: To most people, Tsuzuki is an impulsive, lazy, and happy idiot. He's a creature of simple pleasures, whether it be drink and sweets, physical contact, or praise from others (which is often rather short in supply). Quick to temper in the right occasions or with certain people (Terazuma, Muraki), he has to tendency to act without thinking and this has gotten him in hot water before due to the path of destruction he's capable of leaving behind. For example, a simple bit of bickering between him and another shinigami, Terazuma, ended in the destruction of the brand new underworld library.
But far stronger than his temper is the amount that he cares, and the guilt that he carries. All shinigami were once humans who died with some sort of regret and attachment to the human world, which is what gets them chosen. And while it's never specifically said what happened, Tsuzuki carries a great amount of guilt for a tragedy in his life, potentially the deaths of more than one person. I headcanon this to include his sister, who is referred to as teaching him a great many things. Between that event and his death, Tsuzuki goes insane and is institutionalized, attempting suicide many times until he succeeds after eight years. These memories are sealed away at one point before the series, perhaps to preserve what sanity he had left, but are broken open when he is possessed by a demon general in the Devil's Trill Arc. The only thing that saves him from being swallowed up by them is the love of the young violinist, Hijiri, who they were trying to protect on that assignment.
The main antagonist in the series, Kazutaka Muraki, also uses Tsuzuki's guilt against him. As the grandson of the doctor who treated Tsuzuki when he was alive, he had his grandfather's old files on Tsuzuki, which detailed the inhuman traits that he displayed even before he became a shinigami. His purple eyes, which had gotten him branded as a demon as a child, and the fact that in his eight years of care, he hadn't eaten, drank, or slept, and yet healed from wounds and continued on living. Muraki even claimed to have tested an old tissue sample and found it not to be human, which is an idea that has always weighed heavily on Tsuzuki. When Muraki starts killing people specifically to draw Tsuzuki out, Tsuzuki takes the blame for this on himself. The culmination of this in the Kyoto Arc results in his attempt to kill himself again, asking it of Touda, one of his own shiki, with the idea to die and take Muraki down with him. Only Hisoka's act of going to him and promising to never leave him, and Tatsumi's shadow powers to protect them both, saves him from himself.
Even though he is a shinigami, a god or guardian of death as it's translated as in the manga, Tsuzuki hates taking life. In his first case in the series, he manages to "lose" the court summons for a girl whose name had shown up in their book of deaths, but was still living. She'd been trying to commit suicide because of her own guilt over the death of her cousin, but through the course of the case finds the will to live again. And in the times that he has to explain what he is to mortals involved in their cases, it's always with guilt, the mood being that he's essentially a monster. His friends and those who come to care for him often have to try and change his mind.
Which brings me to the the strongest part of Tsuzuki's personality. How much he cares. Tsuzuki is fiercely loyal to those he's decided to protect, whether they're fellow shinigami like his partner Hisoka, humans he's been assigned to save like Hijiri, or people he's just met in the course of an investigation. He wants everyone to be safe and happy, even at his own expense when needed, or at least when he sees it as needed. When Muraki had kidnapped a girl they were guarding, he threatened her safety to make Tsuzuki go with him (which was where Muraki strengthened the idea that he wasn't human). In fact, very early in his partnership with Hisoka, Muraki uses the other shinigami as bait to make Tsuzuki come to him. Even though their partnership was somewhat rocky at this point, Tsuzuki doesn't hesitate.
But he also just wants people to be happy, letting Tatsumi walk away from their partnership (and relationship), and was willing to let Hisoka do the same for his benefit. Thankfully for Tsuzuki, Hisoka had seen enough of him that he decided not to, the pair becoming a steadying rock for each other. Tsuzuki's always ready to offer comfort for his partner, like when they left the cruise ship after Hisoka had had to shoot another victim of Muraki's because it was more merciful than letting her die slowly, and earlier when Hisoka got his memories of when Muraki had raped and cursed him to death three years before his own death, the doctor having sealed them after the act so Hisoka could never reveal what he'd done. For those Tsuzuki considers friends, there's nothing he won't do.
ABILITIES: Tsuzuki is a shinigami, and as such can heal from any wound that doesn't completely destroy his body (which of course would be scaled back for the game), fly, turn invisible, and interact with spirits. He's an expert with ofuda, paper spells, used for warding, attack, and illusions. It's shown that he's a decent archer, particularly when there's competition, and has contracts with twelve shikigami, powerful spirits that he can summon to fight with him. Since the shiki are characters in their own right, I'll be having that connection cut off unless one apps in. He's also shown to be able to breathe life into paper birds that serve as messengers.
SINS & VIRTUES: Sloth, wrath, gluttony
SAMPLES
Sample 1
If there was one thing that Tsuzuki liked about this place other than the lack of paperwork, it was the meals. The manor cooks had good reason to be proud of themselves, even if they didn't let him in the kitchen much after he'd offered to make a big dish of spaghetti for the dinner (it'd broken his heart a little to see it tossed as soon as they'd taken a whiff). But the food was delicious and there was lots of it! Especially the desserts.
Shoving a forkful of pie into his mouth, he gave a beaming smile to the person sitting next to him. "Have you tried any of this? It's really good." Simple pleasures to make a bad situation a little better, right?
Sample 2
Tsuzuki was a shinigami. This was not the first time he'd been charged with settling restless spirits and helping them move on. He carefully laid out his spell papers, stopping to stare at the salt writings. A sad smile crossed his lips even as he tried to be cheerful for the spirits. "I understand, thank you for your warnings," he said, laying down the last fuda to make an oval encircling the table area where he'd felt their energy concentrated.
The dead man pushed his power into the encircling papers quietly. "Go and be at peace, my friends."